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Krzysztof Sak, Agronom Berries:
"Hydroponics help us guarantee constant soft fruit supply"
Only a couple of years ago the team with Agronom Berries, one of Poland's biggest soft fruit growers, started growing strawberries hydroponically instead of in the open field. "We thought we'd better start learning since we believe that it would become a necessity within the next decade", says Krzysztof Sak with Agronom Berries. "But the industry developed much more rapidly than we expected."
Agronom Berries is situated in eastern Poland, Lublin Province. Ever since the early nineties the company has been active in growing soft fruit. First mainly for the frozen market, but nowadays 99% of the company's produce goes to the fresh market. "Poland was a big market for processed fruit. This is now slowly changing because the price for that type of produce is lowered thanks to new markets with lower costs, like Ukraine. It is the same as happened to Germany before, where growers moved into the fresh market years ago since Poland took over the processing market."
Growing for the fresh market demands the quality of the produce to be higher and of constant quality – something Agronom Berries takes their part in by investing in their cultivation methods. More and more crops are grown hydroponically inside multispan tunnels. Agronom Berries is the biggest supplier to the Polish supermarkets and also exports their products. They have a close relationship with these partners. "When we talk about harvesting next week, the supermarkets expect our harvest next week. They are dependent on our supply and need to be certain that we can deliver"
So here's the remarkable part of the story. Even though the business of Agronom Berries is growing consistently, their cultivation acreage is not. The reason? Thanks to switching to hydroponic growth, their yields per meter are higher. "Yield goes up in substrate, so we'll be growing on a smaller area. First we tried growing hydroponically with half a hectare strawberries, just to learn," says Krzysztof. Now they grow in different ways. "Our way of growing depends on the cultivar," says Krzysztof. "We currently grow raspberries only in tunnels in substrate. We don't think that it's possible to achieve good quality raspberries in open field. Our main reason for this is the fact that raspberries are a very soft fruit, so rain can do a lot of damage; in the tunnel this is not an issue. On top of that we have light, sandy soil here, which is not good for raspberries. In the tunnels there is also less chance at disease, a rainy climate can cause botrytis to take root in raspberry crops. Most importantly, in the tunnel we and our customer are sure that we can supply the fruit. I can't call my client to say we can't harvest, that would be the last conversation I have with that client."
At Agronom all hydroponic growing is done in cocopeat substrate. "In the past we used the substrate for two years for the strawberries," says Krzysztof. "Since we switched to Botanicoir PPU we want to try a third year with the same product. It is very good and even after two years with the current batch we don't see much lower yield, so we decided to check for one more year. We will see how it goes. In general, the substrate looks nice, the structure still looks like new."
The company is slowly shifting more and more to hydroponic growth, raspberries are already fully grown in substrate in tunnels and slowly but surely strawberries are also being shifted to substrate growing. According to Krzysztof this is because the quality of crops when grown in substrate in tunnels is much more consistent. And this consistency is key, especially due to the changing market in Poland.
Strawberries are still grown in the open field, but slowly more and more of the strawberry production is shifting to substrate as well. According to Krzysztof the main problem that Agronom ran into with the growing of Strawberries in the open field was labour. "Labour is especially difficult when you combine it with the second problem: the weather," he says. "Last year during June, harvest time, had very high temperatures. Because of the high temperatures all fruits, all varieties even, matured in the same period. In those situations, it's very difficult to find enough people to harvest all fruits on time. That's why a few years ago we started growing in tunnels in substrate. Harvest is much faster and it's easier for the picker. There's no need to bend the knees when the produce is elevated on tables."
"So each year we have less and less open field strawberries," says Krzysztof. "From 80 hectares to 50 and now 40 and next season maybe we will go down to 25/30. This endeavour is quite a big investment, but we have no choice. Yield goes up in substrate, a smaller acreage is still economically viable because of the bigger yield, so we'll be growing on a smaller area." At Agronom Berries they grow hydroponically inside multispan tunnels. Krzysztof says that they do not disinfect the substrate in between use. "I think in substrate production if you have good quality plant roots, then disease is not a problem," he says. They use fertilizer and biological crop protection to keep the crops healthy during cultivation.
According to Krzysztof, Agronom Berries currently employs around 200 to 300 people. "For now that is enough," he says. "But every year labour is becoming a bigger problem, and not just here – it's a global problem.
Besides being Krzysztof's favourite fruit, blueberries are also the biggest crop of Agronom Berries production. "We have around 100 hectares of blueberries, he says. "In opposition to the other fruits these are still grown in open field, but that will change in the upcoming years. We want to shift because it allows us to harvest earlier and grow them for a longer period of time. It will be mostly the late varieties that will be grown in the tunnels. Specifically, also because the late varieties are often subject to worse weather due to growing into autumn, when the weather takes a turn for the worse. More rain means more reason to put the produce under covers."
For them the goal is to be able to supply Polish supermarkets year-round – from spring until autumn, with fresh fruit. "Currently in the winter in Poland we still import fruit from Chile, Spain and Greece," says Krzysztof. "Growing in Poland in the winter is much too expensive because heating costs are high. The temperatures can drop to -20 or -25 degrees, so it is hard to keep the greenhouses warm enough for cultivation without spending a lot of money on heating."
In Poland Agronom Berries sell directly to supermarkets, in other countries they sell via retailers. "There is a demand for constant production and consistent quality," says Krzysztof. "This is quite different from two or three years ago. Back then Polish supermarkets were just looking for the lowest price, because people didn't know berries. They thought berries were similar to apples or potatoes, that is now changing. Fresh high-quality berries have moved from street vendors to supermarket shelves. The price is similar to other western countries, but so is the quality. The most important factors now are shelf life and that the produce looks good. The next important factor will probably become taste."
Agronom Berries delivers mostly to supermarkets, and they have a very direct relationship with these sellers. "When we talk about harvesting next week, the supermarkets expect our harvest next week. They are dependent on our supply and need to be certain that we can deliver. We are the biggest supplier to Polish supermarkets. Everybody wants to buy from us because we grow our own supplies and we can check the quality ourselves. So we can always deliver a high quality product.
Agronom Berries
Zienki 14, 21-230 Sosnowica
zienki@agronom.com.pl
www.agronomberries.pl
Publication date: Tue 10 Dec 2019
Author: Arlette Sijmonsma
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Робърт Уилям Гари Мур () е британски китарист. Роден е на 4 април 1952 под името Робърт Уилям Гари Мур в град Белфаст, столицата на Северна Ирландия. Почива от инфаркт, на 58-годишна възраст в ранните часове на 6 февруари 2011 г., докато е на почивка в хотел в испанския град Естепона.

В кариерата си, започнала през 60-те години, Гари Мур свири с различни музиканти, включително Фил Лайнът и Брайън Дауни през тийнейджърските си години, а след това става член на Тин Лизи. Мур свири на една сцена с блус и рок величия като Б.Б. Кинг, Албърт Кинг, Джордж Харисън, Скид Роу (ирландска група), Колосиъм II и Грег Лейк, а освен това има и успешна солова кариера.

Първи години и начало на музикалната кариера
Започва да свири на ранна възраст, като едва на осем години се сдобива с първата си акустична китара, която е леко очукана. На 14 години става притежател на първата си качествена китара и се научава да свири като десняк, въпреки че е левичар. Мести се в Дъблин през 1968 г., когато е едва на 16. Ранните му музикални влияния включват Албърт Кинг, Елвис Пресли, The Shadows и Бийтълс. По-късно, когато чува Джими Хендрикс и Джон Мейол и Блусбрейкърс развива стила си към блус рок звученето, което доминира през цялата му кариера.

В тези първи дни най-голямо влияние върху Мур оказва Питър Грийн, който става ментор на Мур, докато той е в Дъблин. За продължителното му влияние Мур му се отплаща по-късно чрез албума "Blues For Greeny", който съдържа само песни на Грийн. В този албум Мур свири на китарата на Грийн Гибсън Лес Пол Стандарт от 1959, която последният му подарява след напускането на Флийтуд Мак.

Въпреки ниската си популярност в САЩ, Мур добива широко признание и успех в Европа. Той е считан за основно влияние от много китаристи, включително Виван Кембъл, Патрик Рондат, Джон Норъм, Пол Гилбърт, Джо Бонамаса, Ейдриън Смит, Зак Уайлд, Ранди Роудс, Джон Сайкс и Кърк Хамет.

Мур си сътрудничи с редица музиканти, сред които Джордж Харисън, Колосиъм II, Трилок Гурту, Dr. Strangely Strange, Албърт Колинс, Джими Нейл, Мо Фостър, Джинджър Бейкър, Джак Брус, Джим Капалди, Б.Б. Кинг, Боб Дилън, Вики Браун, Кози Пауъл, Бийч Бойс, Ози Озбърн, Пол Роджърс, Traveling Wilburys, Кийт Емерсън, Роджър Долтри, Албърт Кинг и с Колосиъм II и Андрю Лойд Уебър при написването на "Variations" през 1978 г. Експериментира в различни жанрове, включително рок, джаз, блус, кънтри, електрически блус, хардрок и хевиметъл.

През 1968 г., на 16-годишна възраст, Мур се мести в Дъблин, за да се присъедини към Скид Роу с Ноел Бриджман и Брендан "Буш" Шийлс. С тази група той си спечелва репутация в музикалната индустрия и започва съвместната му работа с Фил Лайнът.

Солова кариера
Мур издава първия си солов албум през 1973 г., "Grinding Stone" под името "the Gary Moore Band". Той печели наградата на радио KTAC-FM за най-добър албум на годината. През 1978 г., Мур продължава соловата си кариера с помощта на Фил Лайнът. Комбинацията от блус китарата на Мур и гласът на Лайнът създават "Parisienne Walkways", която влиза в класацията топ 10 на синглите във Великобритания през април 1979 г., а през същата година албума на Тин Лизи "Black Rose: A Rock Legend" достига второ място в класацията на албумите във Великобритания. Мур участва в клиповете на "Waiting for an Alibi" и "Do Anything You Want To".

През 1987 г., той свири по солото в песента "Let it be" като част от благотворителна кампания за набиране на средства за оцелелите от инцидента с кораба MS Herald of Free Enterprise.

След поредица рок албуми, Мур се завръща към блуса със "Still Got the Blues", в който участие взимат Албърт Кинг, Албърт Колинс и Джордж Харисън. Мур се задържа в блус звученето до 1997 г., когато решава да експериментира с модерния тогава денс бийт в албума "Dark Days in Paradise", което обърква много от феновете му и музикалната преса. Освен това Мур свири в албума на Ричард Блекууд "You'll Love to Hate This".

С "Back to the Blues" Мур се завръща към изпитания блус формат. Последващите "Power of the Blues" (2004), "Old New Ballads Blues" (2006), "Close As You Get" (2007) и "Bad For You Baby" (2008) притежават същото звучене.

През януари 2005 г., Мур се присъединява към One World Project, който записва песен за оцелелите от цунамито в Азия през 2004 г. В групата участват още Ръсел Уотсън, Бой Джордж, Стив Уинууд, Бари Гиб, Робин Гиб, Брайън Уилсън, Клиф Ричард и др. Песента, наречена "Grief Never Grows Old", е издадена през февруари 2005 г. и достига четвърто място в класацията на синглите във Великобритания.

В изказване определено като "смело и принципно" Мур заявява подкрепата си за културен бойкот на Израел. На пресконференция в Русия той обявява, че няма да посети "престъпният" Изреал заради "расистката политика по отношение на палестинския народ".

Освен това Мур участва в комедиен скеч озаглавен "The Easy Guitar Book Sketch" с комика Роуанд Риврън и музикантите Марк Нопфлер, Леми Килмистър от Моторхед, Марк Кинг от Левъл 42 и Дейвид Гилмор.

Солова дискография
 Grinding Stone (1973)
 Back on the Streets (1978)
 G-Force (1980)
 Corridors of Power (1982)
 Dirty Fingers (1984)
 Victims of the Future (1984)
 Run for Cover (1985)
 Wild Frontier (1987)
 After the War (1989)
 Still Got the Blues (1990)
 After Hours (1992)
 Blues for Greeny (1995)
 Dark Days in Paradise (1997)
 A Different Beat (1999)
 Back to the Blues (2001)
 Scars (2002)
 Power of the Blues (2004)
 Old New Ballads Blues (2006)
 Close As You Get (2007)
 Bad for You Baby (2008)

Трибют:
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Have you ever driven down the road and spotted a really cool looking car? Angela is the co-owner of Zilla Wraps in Ft. Worth, and they specialize in making your car turn heads. It's not everyday you see a woman in the car industry, but design is more than fashion and home interiors. You will love her graphics, and the cars are pretty awesome too.
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I'm 38 years old, have been married my husband, Scott, 4 years. We have a 16 year old daughter and two dogs. Our family loves spending time at home. We don't like crowds and would rather have a quiet home cooked meal than go out. We like to spend time together playing in our swimming pool during the summer. I don't have much free time now-a-days, but when I do, I like to work on web design and graphic design.
Why did you decide to start a car wrap business?
We were ready to own something and have the freedom that owning a business represents. Since we got married, we had talked about starting our own business and went through many different business ideas. We finally decided to start a car wrap business because Scott has over 12 years of experience managing an established vehicle wrap company. He knew and loved the business. A car wrap business also allows me to do what I love – be creative and design things. I designed our website. I do the majority of our vehicle wrap designs as well as managing the back end processes like accounting and payroll. In addition to those things, cars are cool. We get to be around really cool vehicles all the time!
What is has been your favorite design so far?
My favorite design so far was a boat wrap design that made the boat look like a military tank. This is Jimmy McDavid's boat and he loved the wrap. I spent a lot of time on this one, it has a lot of detail and up close it really looks like rusty metal. The vinyl was laminated with matte laminate so it has a metal look to it and isn't shiny.
What is the best/worst part of owing a business?
The best part of owning your own business is the total satisfaction of knowing you call all the shots. All your success is because of the decisions and actions you've taken so when things go well, it can really put you on top of the world! When you're successful, you reap all the benefits instead of having your hard work go to line someone else's pocket. The worst part of owning a business is knowing that if you make the wrong decision or if things go south, it's all your responsibility and there's the very real risk of losing it all if the worst happens. The stress that comes when business is slow or not going very well, really affects you because it affects your pocket book and your livelihood. It affects whether or not you can stay in business and also if you have employees, it could affect their livelihood as well.
Do you have any advice for those that may be thinking of starting a business with her spouse?
My husband and I are lucky because our strengths compliment each other. He's great at sales, customer relationships, managing a business and is fine with taking calculated risks. I'm the organizer, detail-oriented, analytic person who likes to play it safe. My advice is to make sure you discuss and agree on the roles each of you will take with the business and don't step on each other's toes. Trust your spouse to take care of his part of things and don't try to manage him or question his decisions. Expect him to give you the same respect and freedom to do your part. Major decisions need to be discussed and decided together, but allow each other freedom to make small to medium decisions alone and get things done without interference. This will free you each up to focus on what you need to do and have peace of mind that your spouse is taking care of his part.
When you start a small business you are responsible for EVERYTHING. There are a lot of balls to juggle. Accounting, bill paying, answering phones, paying taxes, payroll, getting all applicable permits, website design and maintenance, social media, and so on. In the beginning, be prepared to work a lot of hours and not have a lot of personal time. Since we started the business in January, Scott and I average about 60-70 hours of work a week and sometimes more. When we do sit down and stop working, we are so tired we usually just fall asleep. But all the effort is worth it!
Thank you, Angela for taking the time to answer some questions. Zilla Wraps is offering a special, so go check it out!
So, would you go into business with your spouse?


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The Observer's weekly column in the November 24 2016 CE edition of the Arkansas Times
The Observer's grandfather on our mother's side was a crackerjack fella. Grew up in the sandy hills north of Conway. County boy, through and through. During hog-killing time in December 1941, the story in our family goes, when word of Pearl Harbor reached his little community, he and his friends loaded into his T-model truck and made the rough journey to the first speck of civilization that included an Army recruiting office, where they all enlisted. By the time my grandfather got to the office where he would sign on with Uncle Sam, the story goes, his truck was so squatted with the weight of young men who had hitched a ride to save democracy that he had to crawl along in low gear.
And now, 75 short years later, we have elected as the president of the United States of America a man who is busily surrounding himself with racists, xenophobes, war-mongers and scape-goaters, the whole operation cheered on by white supremacists who have skulked forth again from the dustbin of history. My grandfather and those boys he rode with to Conway in the winter of '41 would come to be quite familiar with the aims and attitudes of men of similar ilk in the years after coming down from the hills, as they were blasted into manhood or out of this world all over Europe and the Pacific.
The Observer never knew our grandfather. He died of a rare cancer before The Observer was born, possibly the result of being some of the first American boots on the ground in Nagasaki after V-J Day. Yours Truly doesn't know what his politics were, but his grandson has a hard time believing the country boy who loved this country so much that he was willing to drop his hog-killing knife and sprint for his duffel bag when Lady Liberty called would be in support of installing a proud white supremacist as a "strategist" two doors down from the office where FDR once sat, composing letters to American mothers.
We read in the New York Times that last Saturday in Washington, D.C., in a building named for Ronald Reagan, an outfit called the National Policy Institute held themselves a good ol' fashioned rally. Speeches against Jews, part of the keynote address in the original German, and finally a rousing Nazi salute as those assembled cried, "Heil!" Look it up if you don't believe me. Then, if you've got a relative who fought in The Big One, ask yourself: Where is thy ghost, grandfather?
And another thing: This is not, by the way, "sour grapes." We've heard that a lot from conservatives recently, most of whom are so busy cheering because Team Red caught the most Pokemon that they can't grasp that what has happened in this election is not, in any way, normal. What they can't seem to understand is it's not the election that has people marching in the streets and depressed at the thought of the next four years. It's the man who was elected. Believe this or not, but The Observer can say with a 100 percent money-back guarantee that if a miracle Electoral College write-in vote were to flip the presidency from Trump to Mitt Romney in mid-December, the news of four years of President Romney would be greeted with tearful huzzahs and shirtless, drunken waving of Old Glory on the lawn of The Observatory. Why? Because we can be fairly certain that Mitt wouldn't say or do something before lunch on his first day as president that might start World War III, crater the American economy so deep we all have to go back to horse and buggy, or make constitutional law professors start communicating solely by carrier pigeon about their plans to bury cherished books under the toolshed. Dorito, not so much.
Then again, what does The Observer know? We feel so often these days like Cassandra, the daughter of the King of Troy. The Greek god Apollo gave her the gift of being able to see the future, but when she rebuffed his advances, he cursed her by making it so no one would ever believe her. And so she was forced to live the horrors that befell her people twice: once as prophecy, and again at that which she could not convince her countrymen to stop. That's half this country now, watching as the other half dances a celebratory jig to beat the band.
http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/cassandra/Content?oid=4718156
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Mike Nunn on November 29, 2016 at 1:46 pm
It is so sad that those of us who had grandfathers who fought in virtually every conflict this nation has endured now have a legacy that has been so tarnished that is beyond belief. Those of us who have lost family members feel sad that we have sunk to this point in our history. They deserved better.


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1994-04-08T23:05:12-04:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/Capitol_default-image.jpgJapanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa announced his resignation at a news conference. Recently, Mr. Hosokawa came under attack from the opposition Liberal Democratic Party over his financial affairs. The prime minister said he was forced to step down because the investigation into the allegations prevented approval of his government's budget. He resigned following allegations that a 100,000,000 yen loan from a Japanese trucking agency was used to fund his election campaign. Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa is the first prime minister in 38 years who was not a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He quit the LDP last year to form the Japan New Party.
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Understanding Trump's Popularity Through the Lens of Tiger King
Posted by faustusnotes under Crime Fiction, Movies, Reviews | Tags: politics, Tiger King, USA!USA!USA! |
I have just had a knee reconstruction and have spent the last 6 days wallowing in self-pity in a hospital bed in Tokyo, completing the last (I hope) uglinesses of three months of body horror (report to come). With little else to do I have resorted to Netflix, and of course I have watched Tiger King. So far I have just finished episode 5 (I was distracted by The Innocence Files, which I strongly recommend), but by the end of Episode 5 I was convinced that the main character of Tiger King, Joe Exotic, is very similar to Trump, and his public and political reception in America is an example of why Trump was not an isolated phenomenon. Americans, I think, have a problem with people with narcissistic personality disorders – too many Americans admire them – and are way too easily fooled by conmen. Here, I will explain why I think Joe Exotic is similar to Trump and what his public reception says about Trump's rise.
First some basic background. Tiger King is a documentary about these super weird Americans who keep big cats as pets and money-machines, in these weird and horribly shitty rural zoos that should be closed down with extreme prejudice. The story is that it was meant to be a doco about one particularly weird and flamboyant member of this strange society, Joe Exotic, but during the making of the doco Joe tried to get a rival killed and so the whole thing spiraled out of control. I haven't got to that bit yet, but everything leading up to is pretty disturbing. The main character is Joe Exotic, a gay gun-toting zoo owner from Oklahoma who has two husbands (not legally I guess?), both of whom are straight, and has a menagerie of something like 220 lions and tigers that he shows off to the public in flamboyant performances. He makes a lot of his money from cub petting, in which he takes newborn cubs (before the mother can lick them!) and allows customers to snuggle and play with them, until they reach about 12 weeks old, after which he dumps them in the zoo with the rest of the adults, where they become mostly just a financial burden (so he killed them or trafficked them). His opponent is a woman called Carole Baskin who runs a (rather dubious looking!) animal sanctuary for abused big cats, and has spent years trying to shut down Joe's operation, including using a sneaky (according to the doco!) copyright trick to force him massively into debt. Rumour has it that Baskin killed her first husband and fed him to a tiger, information the doco does very little to dispute even though it seems pretty obvious that her husband was up to something shonky in Costa Rica and probably got himself killed down there. There are a few other tiger owners – one called Antle who has a sex cult and another who is a dodgy former criminal – and there is a ragtag crew of people who work for Joe Exotic and go to enormous lengths for him (one of these, who apparently was misgendered in the doco, lost an arm to a tiger and kept working for Joe). In his little menagerie-kingdom Joe keeps a lot of guns and explosives (he is clearly not one of those super-rare "responsible gun owners" that his libertarian political campaign manager would have us believe is the norm), meth and pot, and a lot of boys toys. In general Joe treats the tigers badly, and his relationship with his cats is emotionally very hot and cold and is basically transactional. They make him money, and he plays with them, but he doesn't trust them and he doesn't particularly seem to respect them.
It should be added that this documentary is really not very objective and although it's great viewing, as a documentary it's shit. It obviously has taken Joe Exotic's side (at least in the first 5 episodes) and doesn't show much objectivity about its subject at all.
So how is Joe like Trump? Let us count the ways:
He has the same personality disorders: He obviously has narcissistic, antisocial and borderline personality disorders, just like Trump, or as some might put it he has the Dark Triad. His relationships are entirely transactional (he basically buys his straight boyfriend with meth) and everything is all about him. This is most clearly seen at the funeral for his second husband, which he makes all about himself, and the subsequent marriage to his new boyfriend within two months, which he uses to humiliate and break his dead husband's mother. It's visible in the way he treats his animals, his insatiable need for fame, the way he treats his staff, and the way every emotion he ever shows is clearly and obviously a performance. He can never be wrong, nothing is ever his fault, and the whole world is out to get him.
He is deeply misogynist: The videos he makes of Carole Baskin are really shocking, and he cannot control himself when he is talking about her. Even when he is running a political campaign he is making campaign videos calling her a bitch and a whore, and on his youtube channel he put videos of her as a sex doll being face-fucked with dildos, and being fed to his cats. He has the same reaction to a woman challenging him as Trump does to female journalists.
He is messy and disorganized and terrible with money: Just like Trump, he is incapable of running or organizing anything, and only gets anything done because a group of strangely loyal misfits jump at his every order and do everything he wants, even when everything he wants is constantly contradictory and changing. He also obviously can barely keep the farm afloat, where a better manager would turn it into a cash-making machine. Whatever money he does get he squanders on bullshit, like meth and trucks for his straight husbands or guns and ammo. This is no clearer than in the stupid brace he wears on his knee for much of the series – he obviously has not got health insurance and hasn't paid for it for his staff (likely the real reason Saffer chose to have his damaged arm amputated – with no health insurance he could not pay for the reconstruction surgery). He would rather flamboyantly suffer than buy one less truck a year for one of his husbands and pay for health insurance for himself, let alone his crew.
He has dodgy mob connections: He obviously has access to a regular supply of meth, and is able to traffick lions and tigers however he wants, and in the first (?) episode we see him cozying up to a drug dealer who is so shady it's hard to believe. Not only does he have these dodgy criminal connections, but he also obviously admires them – and they obviously see him as an easy mark.
He is an easy mark: Like most of the senior figures in the GOP, while he is running a long con on his friends, associates and supporters, Joe Exotic is also easily being conned by others. He got done like a dinner by the Kirkham guy, and when Jeff Lowe gets to him he is so easily tricked into giving up control of everything. Trump is the same – this is why he is owned by Russia. The biggest con-artists are also the biggest marks.
He has no interest in truth: He is a classic bullshitter, just like Trump. Whatever he says is true, and if he contradicts himself two days in a row it doesn't matter because he does not recognize the difference between truth and lies. Words don't work for him as they do for us.
So of course, just like Trump he runs for political office. First of all he tries the presidential campaign but then failing that he runs for Governor of Oklahoma, with a libertarian (idiot) for a campaign manager and a platform of low regulation. His platform and campaign imagery are so Trumpian – there's even a scene where he tells some shlubb that if he is elected there will be "someone as broke as you" in charge, trying to market himself as a man of the people. Unlike Trump he doesn't win, but he does get 18% of the vote. And when people are interviewed about why they will vote for him they give exactly the same reasons as people give for Trump: he's just like us, he tells it as it is, he's not politically correct and that's good, etc. The interviews with his supporters could have just as easily have been at a Trump rally.
Furthermore, his chief enemy (in business, not politics) is so obviously identifiable as a Hillary Clinton-like figure: an older white woman with a real set of goals, who is methodical and prepared and speaks clearly and with intent, who every single media outlet seems to have described with the same adjectives as Clinton – desperate to be liked, unlikable, untrustworthy, etc.
This is the enduring puzzle of American politics. How could an obvious fraud, grifter, gangster, womanizing rapist psychopath like Trump be popular in America? We see the same thing with Joe Exotic: in a Morning Consult poll of 400 viewers of the show he had the second-highest favorability ratings and Carole Baskin had the lowest, and her husband the second lowest – below a libertard gun nut, a tiger-killing narcissist, his meth-head husband, another tiger trader with five "wives" in a sex cult, a rich fraud from Vegas who uses tigers to fuck models (or at least put their pictures on instagram), and another tiger trader who wishes he could learn how to "control women" the way the sex cult dude does. How do Americans judge older white women on a mission to be at the bottom of this pile?
I previously described the Trump campaign as similar to WWF, a giant fraud that all its fans know is a fraud but love anyway. Tiger King is another insight into this strange cultural phenomenon that seems to be unique to America, where people fall easily for frauds and gangsters and love them even after their obvious shonkiness is revealed. There is nothing authentic or real about Joe Exotic – he is a narcissistic, manipulative and vicious bastard who uses people for his own ends, and has never shown a true part of himself in his life – but despite the rest of the world watching this doco and recognizing this immediately, somehow to Americans he is authentic and serious in a way that a softly-spoken older white woman can never be.
America has a problem with grifters, psychopaths and narcissistic frauds. Too many Americans cannot understand when they're being taken for a ride, and too many Americans enjoy being fleeced. This is the essence of Republican politics – it's a giant con job played on people who are eager to be fleeced by men the rest of the world would not consider fit to lick our boots. It's terrifying, and if Americans can't break out of this strange fugue state and start understanding the way they're being conned, their country is done for.


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Friedrich Wilhelm Baedeker (* 3. August 1823 in Witten/Ruhr; † 9. Oktober 1906 in Weston-super-Mare) war ein in Deutschland geborener, von England aus operierender Evangelist, Erweckungsprediger und Missionar, der vor allem in Russland wirkte, wo er sowohl am Zarenhof als auch in vielen Gefängnissen predigte. In Deutschland war er maßgeblich an der Verbreitung der Heiligungsbewegung beteiligt und prägend in der Frühphase der Evangelischen Allianz.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Baedeker war eines von sechs Kindern des Wittener Apothekers und Ornithologen Friedrich Wilhelm Justus Baedeker (1788–1865). Er besuchte das Gymnasium und begann 1829 eine kaufmännische Lehre in Dortmund, wo die Eltern seiner Mutter lebten. Es folgte ein zweijähriger Militärdienst in Köln. Anschließend nahm Baedeker ein Philosophiestudium in Bonn auf, das er in Freiburg fortsetzte und erst viel später mit der Promotion abschloss.

Im Juni 1851 heiratete Baedeker Auguste Jacobi, die jedoch schon drei Monate später starb. Der frühe Tod seiner Frau löste bei Baedeker eine schwere Lebenskrise aus. Rastlos bereiste er zunächst ganz Deutschland, dann 1854 London und schließlich zwei Jahre lang Australien, wo er sich als Lehrer für Deutsch und Französisch betätigte. 1858 vorübergehend nach Witten zurückgekehrt, reiste er bereits im Sommer 1859 erneut nach England, wo er sich in Weston-super-Mare an der Westküste niederließ und zusammen mit Henry Girdlestone (1833–1904) eine "Höhere Knabenschule" gründete. Er nahm die britische Staatsbürgerschaft an. 1862 heiratete er erneut, und zwar die Mutter eines seiner ersten Schüler, die Witwe eines Kapitäns der britischen Flotte.

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1866 besuchte Baedeker auf Drängen eines Bekannten die Vorträge des Evangelisten Lord Radstock (1833–1913) in Weston-super-Mare. Von Radstock persönlich angesprochen, fand er in einem seelsorglichen Gespräch in einem Nebenzimmer zur Bekehrung. Er kommentierte diese Erfahrung mit dem Satz: "Ich ging hinein als ein stolzer, deutscher Ungläubiger und kam heraus als ein gedemütigter, gläubiger Jünger des Herrn." Auch seine Frau fand kurz darauf zum Glauben an Jesus Christus.

Eine wesentliche Besserung seiner Herz- und Lungenschwäche bald nach seiner Bekehrung erlaubte es Baedeker, für den zuletzt selbst Spaziergänge zu anstrengend gewesen waren, auch wieder längere Reisen zu unternehmen. Diese Reisen in viele Länder wurden in der Folge zum Markenzeichen Baedekers und brachten ihm die Bezeichnung "Weltreisender Gottes" ein.

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Richtungsweisend für Baedekers Glauben und Dienst wurde die Begegnung mit dem ebenfalls deutschstämmigen Waisenhausvater Georg Müller in Bristol. Durch seinen Einfluss schloss sich Baedeker den Open Brethren (Offenen Brüdern) an. Für viele Jahrzehnte hatte diese freikirchliche Bewegung eine Versammlungsstätte in Baedekers Haus in Westen-super-Mare. Durch seine vielen Missionsreisen gilt Baedeker als der Gründer der offenen Brüderbewegung in West- und Osteuropa. Darüber hinaus hatte Baedeker auch maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Gründung anderer freikirchlicher Gemeinden weltweit.

Erste Missionstätigkeit in Witten
1867 begann Baedeker in seiner deutschen Heimat und besonders in Witten evangelistisch zu arbeiten. Bei einem Vortrag über die Weltstadt London ließ er auch ein Bekenntnis seines Glaubens einfließen. Einige Zuhörer waren darauf aufmerksam geworden und trafen sich mit Baedeker am Weihnachtsmorgen in einem Konfirmandensaal für weitere Gespräche. Aus diesem Treffen entwickelte und verbreitete sich eine kleine Erweckung. In regelmäßigen Treffen zu Gebet und Bibelgespräch trug Baedeker die Grundlinien der Bibel vor und sorgte so für ein geistliches Fundament bei den Neubekehrten. Der Kreis blieb auch nach Baedekers Rückkehr nach England zusammen. August Dörnemann, der mit seinem Bruder Fritz zu den Initiatoren des Kreises gehört hatte, war 1889 ein Mitbegründer und später langjähriger Ältester der auf Initiative von Friedrich Fries gegründeten Freien evangelischen Gemeinde Witten.

Obwohl Baedeker auch den Kontakt zu landeskirchlichen Pfarrern suchte, war er der Volkskirche gegenüber kritisch eingestellt. Besonders in Bezug auf die Tauflehre vertrat er die Ansicht, dass die in den Volkskirchen übliche Säuglingstaufe zu einem toten Christentum führe, weil sie jeglichen Ruf zur Bekehrung abtöte und somit sogar die freie Gnade Gottes missachte. Entsprechend favorisierte Baedeker die Glaubenstaufe.

Heiligungsbewegung
Nach 1870 entstand eine Erweckungsbewegung, die von der neuen Art der Evangelisation durch Dwight L. Moody und der maßgeblich durch Robert Pearsall Smith verbreiteten Heiligungsbewegung geprägt war. Im April und Mai 1875 bereiste Smith für eine fünfwöchige Vortragsreise Deutschland und die Schweiz, wo er großen Zulauf fand, aber vor allem in den Landeskirchen auch für Aufregung sorgte. In Berlin wurden die Vortragsveranstaltungen mit Tausenden von Zuhörern in der alten Garnisonskirche durchgeführt. Smith wurde dabei von Baedeker übersetzt, offensichtlich so erfolgreich, dass Baedeker gebeten wurde, auch in Basel, Stuttgart, Frankfurt und im Wuppertal die Rolle des Übersetzers zu übernehmen. Dieser Einsatz machte Baedeker in den erweckten Kreisen in Deutschland und der Schweiz weithin bekannt.

Bei einer eigenen Vortragsreihe Baedekers in Berlin erlebte die Großnichte des preußischen Generalfeldmarschalls von Blücher, Toni von Blücher (1836–1906), eine Bekehrung. Die von ihr ins Leben gerufene "Christliche Gemeinschaft" entwickelte sich, auch durch Baedekers Einfluss, im Sinne der "offenen Brüderbewegung". 1905 entstand auf seine Anregung hin eine überkonfessionelle Allianz-Bibelschule, die später nach Bergneustadt-Wiedenest übersiedelte und heute unter dem Namen Forum Wiedenest ein Zentrum der theologischen Ausbildung und Missionsarbeit ist, das weiterhin der Brüderbewegung nahesteht.

Auch in Düsseldorf wurde Smith von Baedeker übersetzt. Es entstand eine Versammlung von Erweckten um den Geschäftsmann und Evangelisten Theophil Wilms (1832–1896). 1880 gab Baedeker während eines einjährigen Aufenthalts in Düsseldorf den entscheidenden Anstoß, dass sich aus dieser Versammlung schließlich, nach langem Zögern von Wilms und anderen Verantwortlichen, eine freie Gemeinde bildete. Baedeker hatte maßgeblich an der "Ordnung der Freien evangelischen Gemeinde in Düsseldorf" mitgearbeitet.

Missionstätigkeit in Russland und weltweit

1876 reiste Baedeker erstmals nach Russland, wo er auf Vermittlung von Lord Radstock Zugang in die Häuser einflussreicher Familien der Aristokratie in Sankt Petersburg bekam. Unter anderem durch Lord Radstock und den Einfluss der Heiligungsbewegung war in adligen Kreisen zuvor eine Erweckung ausgebrochen, die bis an den Hof des Zaren wirkte und den "Stundismus" in Russland förderte sowie zur Bildung freikirchlicher Gemeinden außerhalb der russisch-orthodoxen Kirche führte. 1877 zog Baedeker mit seiner Frau und Adoptivtochter nach Russland, um vor allem in den westlichen und südlichen Provinzen missionarisch zu wirken. Während sein Schwerpunkt zunächst auf der Arbeit unter der deutschsprachigen Bevölkerung lag, wandte er sich auf Einladung auch immer wieder russischen Kreisen zu. Zusätzlich unternahm Baedeker häufige Reisen in andere Länder, um dort ebenfalls missionarisch tätig zu werden. So bereiste er Böhmen, Mähren, die Slowakei, Ungarn, Galizien, Polen, Armenien, die Türkei, Griechenland, Schweden, Finnland, Japan, China und Indien. Er reiste per Kutsche, Schlitten, Dampfschiff, Eisenbahn oder auch zu Fuß, predigte selbst in Englisch, Deutsch oder Französisch und beschäftigte Dolmetscher, die simultan in die jeweilige Landessprache übersetzten. Baedeker lebte von Spenden, um die er aber dem Prinzip der seinerzeit populären Glaubensmissionen entsprechend nicht warb.

Auf Vermittlung einer einflussreichen Gräfin erhielt Baedeker vom Leiter des russischen Gefängniswesens die Erlaubnis zum Besuch der russischen Gefängnisse und zum Verteilen von Bibeln an die Strafgefangenen. Dieses Recht nahm er 18 Jahre lang unermüdlich wahr und besuchte in ganz Russland die Gefängnisse und Strafkolonien, wo er viele Tausend Bibeln verteilte, die ihm von der British and Foreign Bible Society zur Verfügung gestellt wurden. 1887 begegnete er in dem Zusammenhang der jungen Finnin Mathilda Wrede (1864–1928), die als "Engel der Gefangenen" bekannt wurde.

1891 wandelte sich die Tätigkeit Baedekers in den Gefängnissen und Straflagern, da erweckte Christen durch Gegenreaktionen der russisch-orthodoxen Kirche auf die Erweckungsbewegung und den Stundismus zunehmend Verhaftung und Verbannung erlitten. Der Staat bestrafte in Zusammenarbeit mit der Kirche Kirchenaustritt, Predigen oder die Verbreitung "ketzerischer oder sektiererischer Lehren" mit dem Verlust der Bürgerrechte. Baedeker wandte sich nun besonders dem Dienst unter den "verbannten Brüdern" zu.

Förderung der Allianz-Bewegung
Eine wesentliche Rolle spielte Baedeker mit seinen vielfältigen internationalen Kontakten auch in der Entwicklung der Allianz-Bewegung. Häufig war er bei den Düsseldorfer Geschäftsleuten Theophil Wilms und August Rudersdorf zu Gast, durch die sich ein reger Austausch zwischen deutschen und englischen Glaubensgeschwistern ergab. Alle drei besuchten u. a. die von Baron Julius von Gemmingen (1838–1912) initiierten Heiligungsversammlungen in Gernsbach.

Baedeker regte für Deutschland jährliche Glaubenskonferenzen nach dem Vorbild der englischen Keswick Conventions an. Diese Idee wurde von Anna Thekla von Weling (1837–1900) aufgegriffen, die 1886 zu einem ersten Allianz-Treffen nach Bad Blankenburg einlud, aus dem sich die jährlichen Allianz-Konferenzen entwickelten, die zu einer Keimzelle der Deutschen Evangelischen Allianz wurden. Während zu diesen Konferenzen alle bedeutenden Vertreter der Erweckungs- und Heiligungsbewegung als Redner eingeladen wurden, leitete Baedeker meist die morgendlichen Gebetsversammlungen, die zum Teil tiefen Eindruck hinterließen. Über viele Jahre stand Baedeker dem Komitee der Blankenburger Konferenzen vor. Ihm ist es auch zu verdanken, dass in der Entwicklung der deutschen Allianz von Anfang an den Freikirchen ein Platz neben den zahlenmäßig übergewichtigen Landeskirchen eingeräumt wurde.

Tod
Am 9. Oktober 1906 starb Friedrich Wilhelm Baedeker mit 83 Jahren an seinem Wohnort Weston-super-Mare an den Folgen einer Lungenentzündung.

Literatur
 Daniel Herm: Friedrich Wilhelm Baedeker. In: Die Botschaft. 113, 1972, S. 110–113; PDF online auf bruederbewegung.de

 Ulrich Bister, Stephan Holthaus (Hrsg.): Friedrich Wilhelm Baedeker. Leben und Werk eines Russlandmissionars. Jota, Hammerbrücke 2006, ISBN 9783935707404
 Hartmut Weyel: Friedrich Wilhelm Baedeker (1823–1906). In: Wolfgang Heinrichs, Michael Schröder, Hartmut Weyel: Zukunft braucht Herkunft. Biografische Porträts aus der Geschichte und Vorgeschichte Freier evangelischer Gemeinden. Bd. 2, Bundes-Verlag, Witten 2010, ISBN 978-3-933660-03-9

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I was given an early birthday present yesterday from my entire family – a Nikon Coolpix L340 digital camera – which is something that I wanted so that I could take quality photos. These I can then hope to use to accompany articles when I am submitting them.
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Geography Lessons
From The New Criterion. February 28, 2019.
Barbarossa in fake gold
Will he lead us to truth's promised land?
During the closing months of the old year, as I saw article after article in the old media, especially The New York Times, attacking the new media, especially Facebook, I couldn't help wondering if there were not a certain overconfidence behind their offensive. Perhaps some editor at the paper, mindful of the rise in on-line subscriptions to the Times and other avowedly anti-Trump organs and full of rosy if still uncertain expectations of a damning report forthcoming from Robert Mueller, had persuaded the powers that be that their campaign against the president was all but won and they could turn to a new enemy before having quite subdued the old one.
Could this be the Times's own Operation Barbarossa? That, as you will remember, was the code name given to the German invasion of Russia in 1941 when Adolf Hitler, having grown drunk with power and the confidence born of previous successes, made the catastrophic mistake of opening a second front in his war for global domination before defeating a still dangerous Britain, and her Empire, and her potential American allies, in his rear. In the case of Facebook and other so-called "social media," the temptation for conservatives must be to take Henry Kissinger's view of the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s and hope that somehow both sides in this new struggle can lose, but it might be more realistic for embattled Trumpsters to take Churchill's approach and welcome the devil himself as an ally against the ideological totalitarians of the established media, who are the more immediate threat.
Unfortunately, Facebook etc. are unlikely to want or need any allies in what increasingly appears to be an unequal struggle against the media establishment they are in the process of replacing. Not not only are the new media hardly more sympathetic to conservatives, let alone the Trump-ites, than The New York Times or CNN, they have less to fear from the waning power of the old media than Republicans, who have grown so accustomed to cringing before their onslaughts that it has become second nature to them. That's why Mr Trump came as such a rude shock to them: he was the only Republican who fought back. Moreover, although the ostensible casus belli in the attacks on social media is the elite's firm conviction that Facebook's cooperation with Cambridge Analytica in 2016 helped to elect the hated Mr Trump, the antagonism between old and new media, especially on the old media side, has much deeper roots — and much greater potential for harm for the established media and the larger establishment of which they are a part.
In a 10,000 word article for The London Review of Books before Christmas, James Meek set out the origins of this antagonism.
There were high hopes that [The Guardian's] extraordinary expansion in readership around the world, particularly in America, would lead to a corresponding boom in US advertising: that being able to market millions of readers to advertisers, rather than the hundreds of thousands who read it in the pre-internet days, would compensate financially for the loss of income from plummeting print circulation and its refusal to put up a paywall. But just when the Guardian seemed poised to take advantage of its new reach, the digital advertising market got swallowed up by Facebook and Google, internet phenomena that weren't so much websites as technology platforms created to profit from the content of others. The era of programmatic advertising arrived. It's hard to convey the strangeness of programmatic advertising. As Carl Miller describes it in The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab, 'You do not buy space in a particular publication; you buy space in front of a particular kind of person, wherever they happen to go on the internet.' . . . In the mid-2010s big news publishers that had just begun to think they might have righted the ship found themselves obliged to run Google or Facebook advertising scripts on their sites which, after the giants took their cut, left them with a pittance. In 2017, the duopoly took 63.1 per cent of the total digital ad spend in the US; the figures in Britain are believed to be comparable. More recent figures show a dent in the Google-Facebook rise, but only to the benefit of other internet giants like Amazon and Snapchat.
When you add to the new media's greater appeal to advertisers their lower costs and greater maneuverability as aggregators rather than originators of content you can see why the great lumbering beasts of the legacy media with their comparatively enormous overheads would regard the new media as existential threats.
Yet for all the acuteness of his analysis of media economics, Mr Meek suffers from a typical case of blindness on the part of the media to their own part in driving away potential customers. He comes close to a juster view of the subject when he writes, possibly paraphrasing David Kolbusz, that "Open journalism was based on the idea that non-journalists would help news organisations navigate their way to an objective truth, when the world we're actually in is one where different sets of people subscribe to different geographies of truth altogether." Like most media-folk, however, he seems to regard his own position on the truth-map as the only true one. This is basically that of the privileged class represented by The Guardian's readership, identified by himself as "the hundreds of millions of university-educated, left-leaning, avowedly tolerant, socially concerned people around the world — global liberaldom, for want of a better expression."
His idea of "geographies of truth" seems to correspond to what I wrote about in this space last year (see "Constituting Truth" in The New Criterion of September, 2018) as "constituencies of truth" or what Michel Foucault, who was more kindly disposed toward them than I am, called "régimes of truth." Under any name, you would think that the idea must represent at least the glimmering of an understanding that at some point the media are going to have to come to terms with the fact that it is not only Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables," a vicious minority written off as beyond redemption anyway, who don't take it for granted that the media are automatically to be considered the arbiters of truth tout court. Such, however, appears not to be the case. Elsewhere, Mr Meek's flickerings go out, as when he cites "the Russian election interference scandal in the US and the Cambridge Analytica affair in the UK" and sounds the usual media notes of outrage.
It's a familiar posture among good-faith left-wingers who try to write with a modicum of honesty, rather than strict ideology, about our changing political landscape. Elsewhere, in the Guardian itself and at about the same time Mr Meek was writing, William Davies managed to get through almost 6000 words of a "Long Reads" article on declining trust in "elites" without so much as a word of criticism against his own bit of the elite, the academic and journalistic one. He was willing to go so far as to admit that "There are copious explanations for Trump, Brexit and so on, but insufficient attention to what populists are actually saying, which focuses relentlessly on the idea of self-serving 'elites' maintaining a status quo that primarily benefits them." This is news to Guardian readers, apparently. Yet in taking the populist objections seriously, he somehow never sees himself or his friends in the media as being among these "self-serving 'elites'" — which are kept safely at a distance from reality as well as from himself by quotation marks.
The elites he is willing to condemn include social media, crooked politicians, security forces, bankers, big business and even p.c. politicians who allow criminal behavior to go on for fear of being called "racists" (see "The irony of p.c." in The New Criterion of March, 2015). But among journalists, only a now-shuttered (and Murdoch-owned) tabloid newspaper and, in one instance, the BBC are said to have besmirched the good name of the elite — and these were exposed by the more respectable sort of journalists. There is a noticeable dearth of criticism directed at "university educated, left-leaning, avowedly tolerant, socially concerned people" like, say, Mr Davies and other members of an academic elite which prides itself on its rhetorical anti-elitism. Self-criticism, like paying taxes in the view of Leona Helmsley, is only for the little people. Why, even Jill Abramson appeared, at least for a moment, to have been able to recognize the damage her former employers at The New York Times have done to their and its credibility by being so "unmistakably anti-Trump" in their reporting and analyzing of the news — not that she is any more mistakably anti-Trump herself. As Howard Kurtz reported at Fox News after seeing an advance copy of Ms Abramson's book, Merchants of Truth:
Abramson defends the Times in some ways but offers some harsh words for her successor, Dean Baquet. . ."Though Baquet said publicly he didn't want the Times to be the opposition party, his news pages were unmistakably anti-Trump," Abramson writes, adding that she believes the same is true of the Washington Post. "Some headlines contained raw opinion, as did some of the stories that were labeled as news analysis." What's more, she says, citing legendary 20th century publisher Adolph Ochs, "the more anti-Trump the Times was perceived to be, the more it was mistrusted for being biased. Ochs's vow to cover the news without fear or favor sounded like an impossible promise in such a polarized environment." Abramson describes a generational split at the Times, with younger staffers, many of them in digital jobs, favoring an unrestrained assault on the presidency. "The more 'woke' staff thought that urgent times called for urgent measures; the dangers of Trump's presidency obviated the old standards," she writes. Trump claims he is keeping the "failing" Times in business — an obvious exaggeration — but the former editor acknowledges a "Trump bump" that saw digital subscriptions during his first six months in office jump by 600,000, to more than 2 million.
All this would hardly count as news in a sane media environment, as the truth of it has long been obvious to the meanest intelligence which is still unencumbered by the ideological blinders worn by pretty much everybody in the news business these days. The words quoted by Mr Kurtz above may amount to the most sustained piece of honesty Ms Abramson has been guilty of in her lifetime — and yet she couldn't hightail it fast enough to Politico in order to disavow it all:
Former New York Times editor Jill Abramson says Fox News host Howard Kurtz took her forthcoming book, Merchants of Truth, "totally out of context" in his Wednesday report headlined, "Former NY Times editor rips Trump coverage as biased". . . "His article is an attempt to Foxify my book, which is full of praise for The Times and The Washington Post and their coverage of Trump" [Ms Abramson said.]
With the clever coinage "Foxify" Ms Abramson of course alludes to the obligatory left-wing axiom that anything said on the Fox network is not to be trusted because it is not in harmony with what is being said on all the other networks, but it is also a reiteration of the equally axiomatic but insanely arrogant proposition that anything said by those — like herself — who are so in harmony is to be trusted implicitly, even if it is blatantly self-contradictory or obviously false.
A similar arrogance was apparent in The Washington Post's granting a forum to a transparent bit of self-puffery from the incoming junior senator from Utah, Mitt Romney, publicly to thank his Mormon God that he is not as the particular sinner now sitting in the White House — where, by the way, he should have been instead. Of course it was all just grist to the media's Trump-discrediting mills, but how drunk with self-importance do you have to be to imagine that people can't see through this kind of thing and take it all at face value, as if the Post expected former Trump supporters all over the country to be saying, "I never thought of it before, but now that that nice Mr Romney mentions it, I do think someone like him would have made a better president"?
Or consider the New York Times report by Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman and Alexander Burns on the reactions among Republicans to Senator-elect Romney's op-ed:
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, viewing Mr. Romney's offensive as an opening to nurture his ties with the media-obsessed Mr. Trump, scheduled an afternoon conference call with reporters to target his soon-to-be colleague. "I just don't think the president deserves to have a new senator coming in attacking his character," said Mr. Paul, accusing Mr. Romney of acting "holier than thou."
Of course the Times, like the Post, was trying to get the maximum possible ink out of Mr Romney's attack on the president — as Mr Romney must have been smart enough to know they would. But look at that curious explanation of Senator Paul's attack on Senator Romney's attack "as an opening to nurture his ties with the media-obsessed Mr Trump." Grammatically, "his ties" must refer to Mr Romney's ties, but this makes no sense. How could Mr Romney be nurturing his ties — ignoring for the moment the fact that "ties" are not among the things in nature that can be nurtured — to the president by attacking him? What the writers must mean, though they haven't said it, is either that the "ties with the media-obsessed Mr. Trump" to be nurtured are Senator Paul's ties or, as I believe, that Mr Martin (or Ms Haberman or Mr Burns) originally wrote not "the media-obsessed Mr. Trump" but "the Trump-obsessed media" — and then Ms Haberman (or Mr Martin or Mr Burns) changed it, sacrificing accuracy and even sense to the media's pretense that they are not themselves involved in this squabble between Republicans but are merely silent observers of it.
Such denials of the obvious began with the media's denials of their own biases and have now spread to much worse things than mere bias. They have also spread to other branches of the elite, the loss of trust in which Mr Davies laments. When Chief Justice Roberts rebuked the president merely for stating so obvious a fact as that the judiciary in our time has been politicized — what did he think the lately-concluded Kavanaugh hearings were all about? — and then stuck so firmly to his absurd contention that we don't have Democrat or Republican judges, even to the point of rewriting the Constitution to limit the powers of a Republican president, you have to feel something close to despair that the public's trust in their rulers, official or unofficial, can ever be restored. I'm inclined to believe that the only way we can all be brought together again, as Mr Romney claimed to want, is by ceding all political authority to those whose motto, it is said, used to be: "Don't be evil." It is at least as possible to believe that they won't be as that the media will start telling the ungeographized truth again, or that judges will cease being political.


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Angelina Jolie's Personal New Film Has a Special Place for Son Maddox
Caroline Olney July 24, 2015 at 2:36 PM
Bless the Jolie-Pitts. Bless them. Angelina Jolie announced that she's releasing a movie on Netflix with the help of her son Maddox. It would be based on Loung Ung's memoir called First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers about a child's experience with war in Cambodia.
This is great and wonderful news for, like, 3 billion different reasons.
First, the book itself tells the very true story of a young girl who had to live through the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia -- a period of time in the 1970s where 25 percent of the Cambodian population died under one dictator's rule.
So having a celebrity of Angelina's caliber stand up and draw attention to this story is incredible on its own, but the fact that she's bringing Maddox into the production makes it so much more valuable.
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With all of their adopted children, Brad and Angie have always been really good about teaching them about the culture they were born into and taking them back to where they were born. Maddox, who's 13 now, was born in Cambodia, which explains why this memoir in particular struck so deep a chord with Angelina. So of course she's including him in the project -- it just feels so natural and genuine.
To make this even better, Angie is cowriting the script with Loung Ung, the original author of the memoir. And for a producer, she chose Cambodian-born Rithy Panh, who created the Oscar-nominated foreign-language film The Missing Picture.
Thanks to Netflix, the film is going to be released in Khmer, the native language in Cambodia, as well as in English. It sounds like Angelina chose Netflix because of their massive global reach -- something she couldn't get with a standard Hollywood film.
So add this to the massive list of all the amazing humanitarian work Angie chips down at every week. She's a goddess. BLESS.
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