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"The Shit We're In . . ."
Donald Trump, the American People, and the Mainstream Media Performances
Mark Ruhala, Author / mcruhala@msn.com
The "spectacle", to use Marxist Guy Debord's term, of the 2016 presidential campaign is a complex, simplistic, paradoxical dance of the stars, with hidden agendas, shadow powers, and media matters that expose the "shit we're in". (Self) As presidential races of recent memory continue down the slippery slope of spectacle, along with the virtual world that encloses in on us daily, these races are beginning to look a lot like wrestling; pro wrestling, the make believe, full-of-shit kind – not amateur wrestling where honest competition resides. To survive is to comprehend this mania and live up to it, at least as far as one can take it without being suffocated by the noxious fumes or knocked out by the onslaught of garbage that is thrown about as if it were important. To thrive in this race is to not only comprehend the madness, but to live out the spectacle to its fullness, to know what the American people want, even if they themselves haven't a clue. The Sanders, Clintons, Cruzes and the other gofers of the power elite, the collective corporatacracy of America (Perkins) are running in circles as they remain stuck in the nostalgia of an earlier America that exhibited more respect, integrity, and dignity, at least in front of the cameras; that era too had its spectacle shit, but the candidates mostly hid it from view. But out in front, leading the race, trumping the naiveté of those holding onto the past, is billionaire, real estate mogul, reality TV star, pro wrestling supporter and participant, and Miss America lover, Mr. Donald Trump, aka "The Donald" who promises to "make America great again".
In his reclamation, Trump constructs a performance of nostalgia for the earlier "great" America. He does so by constructing a performance of being disgusted and fed-up with soft America and portrays a hard stance of every country for himself as he constructs a performance of the guy who can get the job done. Trump appoints himself as the man who knows how to broker a deal – the great deal-maker – and constructs his presentation as an intractable billionaire who can sidestep the political gridlock and move mountains. He constructs a recital of, I say whatever I want because nobody can stop me, I can say what I please because no one controls me; I am the quintessential independent man. His performance is archetypically chauvinistic – treasuring the prize of a beautiful trophy woman and yet keeping them one step behind the male dominance of this enduring patriarchal society. In short, Trump is the guy of the hour because the time is ripe for an anti-establishment fighter who can take on the political wrestlers in Washington. The people want it and the media abhors it yet is seduced by it – they can't help but court and cover him. Together, the performance is complete: the hero/villain is cheered/ridiculed and the conflict sets the stage for a heightened faux drama perfectly fit for our reality TV age.
The fact that golden-haired Trump seems to be hallowed in America while the media pulls its hair out is an amusing, if not terrifying, "spectacle of society" which French Marxist, Guy Debord, penned at the rise of the military-industrial complex, shortly after Dwight D ominously warned the citizens of the United States to beware their grandchildren and "the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage". (Eisenhower) The predated punksters of the French avant-garde group, Situationist International, were led by Debord, whose theory of spectacle was formulated as "the moment when the commodity has achieved the total occupation of life". This was the bankrupt intellectual epoch that left the new generation two steps behind nature and afoot to the intoxicating, addictive economic theory of "more": postmodern capitalism. In this epic bereft shift, Trumps and Obamas are ripe to "rise up" in Hamiltonian (Hamilton) "hope and change" making "America great again" while at the same time physicists the world over are contemplating the universe as conscious (Sahtouris) and even as a simulated reality: an honest-to-God virtual reality. (Campbell) Eisenhower foresaw in 1961, the virtual creeping into our lives and displacing the intellect: "For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers". Debord, in 1967 argued that through computers, capitalism "controlled the very conditions of existence". Eisenhower precisely presaged, and cautioned,
. . . the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. (Eisenhower)
Mr. Trump, although a product of this spectacle is also sounding off alarm bells regarding the spectacle; he is turning the spectacle against itself in appealing to the American people that he will indeed make America great again, i.e. prior to this shit. Trump is reclaiming America of old- the heyday and golden age of America, when America was unarguably the leader of the world in economics, technology, standard of living, entertainment, innovation, job security, and military prowess.
Main Media Streaming
Meanwhile, maintaining the Washington mockery of democracy is the media "cartel" that missed the boat, did not take a Trump run seriously, just as South Park presciently animated in the fall of 2015:
We thought it was funny. Nobody really thought he'd ever be president. It was a joke! But we just let the joke go on for too long. He kept gaining momentum, and by the time we were ready to say, OK, let's get serious now, who should really be president? he was already being sworn into office. (South Park)
South Park found a solution that, unfortunately, the GOP finds un-PC – they have Trump raped to death. Meanwhile the haters are on a fast track to plan B. (Stern) Monopoly, in the media, has become more than a game, as Pulitzer Prize journalist Ben Bagdikian documents, there are "five media giants as a "cartel" that wield enough influence to change U.S. politics and define social values." (Bagdikian) And boy are they wielding, shielding, dealing, and appealing to the public with a "Never Trump" scare attack, building on the GOP super PAC "Our Principles", that portrays The Donald as a "dangerous charlatan". (Cassidy) Truth is, the status quo is supported full-out by the republican elephant in the room as much as the jackass democratic donkey; if ever anyone needed to see the continuum of these party animals to know how embedded and in bed they are, this election offers full-on sights of establishment unity that belies the taunted division the parties bring to their public game face.
Politainment Wrestling Politics
These are the professional wrestlers of politics; they hate each other in front of the cameras but behind the cameras they drink as friends before going to their other friend's banks to cash their checks. "Wrestling is not a sport, it is a spectacle"; the real sport, according to semiotician Roland Barthes is wrongly called amateur wrestling. (Barthes) "The mythological fight between good and evil" is the game and the signs are of "a purely moral concept: that of justice" – each side proclaims their goodness and portrays the other side as evil. Is it any wonder each successive generation suffers more and more from "politainment"? Conley and Schultz called it in 2000: the twenty-first century admixture of politics/entertainment/infomercials will come from the "ubiquitous, anonymous, symbiotic, syncretic, profane and magical" world of the "adcult" – where the likes of Jesse Ventura will rise from their "commodity of persona". In the end, the talk show celebrity will logically become our future president. Trump is timely. Trump is a product of this twenty-first century celebrity culture. Trump is the trickster, the enfant terrible, the terror of the beltway, and ultimately, Barthes' hero wrestler who holds the power, with his game, of "transmutation" – the commonality of spectacle and religion. But not if the establishment media can help it . . .
The media money megaliths are simply fighting in conjunction with the Eisenhower one-time "free university" to push along the left-wing socialist agenda that will allow the corporatacracy to continue to rule governments from the shadows. This masked media constructs a performance of knowledgeable insiders who know how bad Trump is, by creating a character that portrays that they are smarter than Trump and his "uneducated" base of followers. Like the Mexican drug cartels, the mainstream media cartel will go to all lengths to stop a Trump presidency. The fact that they naively forgot to take him seriously, and are desperately searching for a viable plan B, as they watch Trump out-wit their indulgences, makes one wonder what the final outcome will be? Will it be a tragic ending of the hero's death, literal or figurative, that will further erode the culture, sending it into a tailspin of martial law? Does the dimwitted media, concentrating on their corporate coliseum of wrestlers and their colossal globalization efforts to power-walk the world into a faceless melting pot, forget how colloquially disenchanted the American people are? This would be a devastating turn of events. Media matters are serious business today.
The Disenfranchised Americans
But 2016 is showing that disenfranchised Americans see from their own experience that the corrupt mainstream media news is not telling the truth. Hence, the historic low confidence in the media and the rise of alternative sources for truth. (Chalabi) The disenfranchised public is performing as rebels who want change; change beyond the hollow "hope and change" of another color. Americans are "disenchanted", tired and worn-out from being a "cog in the machine" of capitalism – their "iron cage" is closing in but the iron is rusting. Perhaps Mr. Trump will emerge as one of Max Weber's "entirely new prophets" that will arise and in so doing will bring Weber's "great rebirth of old ideas and ideals" as Trump truly "makes America great again". (Weber) Only history will tell, for now there is no certainty and no conversation that moves anyone anywhere other than toeing-the-party-line on both sides. The American public is unable to hold a dialectic discourse in this politainment culture and so Americans remain entrenched in their already formed political ideas – the liberals stay "liberal" and the conservatives stay "conservative"; the public's performance in this regard is one of a "true believer" (Hoffer) – fear mongering at its best: Trump's promoting fear of the same ol' "bought" establishment and business as usual that will allow the snake (bad immigrant people) to bite with impunity (USA Today), and the establishment's fear of "independent" Trump who resembles Hitler and will take us to tyranny. This is, in essence, what Weber's capitalism would end like – postmodern bureaucratic, rational-legal authoritarian power of the zweckrational (goal-oriented action) of Protestant efficiency. (Smith and Riley) Salvation is now the carrot held out by Mr. Trump, who refuses, and in so doing, demonstrates that he, and he alone seemingly, can, refuse to be PC. Everyone is getting fired today for their un-PC behavior, while Trump grows in popularity.
Trump is the penultimate postmodern politician yet he paradoxically embodies the postmodern enemy; he hates the roots of his own politainment postmodern culture – the "heterogeneity or diversity of the public . . . the relativism of values . . . the blurring of the line between public and private life . . . the (chaotic) multiplicity of roles . . . and consumerism and the commodification of knowledge". (Conley and Schultz) Trump wants his traditional cake and to sell (consume) it too. The people get this, they like the super-power of the man, the guy who says what he please, who doesn't pretend to be non-violent, who gestures with his fists, and who really wants to bring Americans to a new version of the golden-age of America. The white house portrays itself to be non-violent while droning beautiful little children and loving moms, of an "other" culture, to death. But if executed in a politically expedient manner, the white house can, and does, get away with murder. Most Americans see the hypocrisy; a current "humanitarian" foreign policy that resembles Trump's violence. Ironically, Trump wants to get out of the messy wars the Obamas and Bushes love to fight; he is not the conventional American war-monger of DC, Trump wants to leave the foreigners alone and refocus the resources on domestic issues.
The Global Presstitute
Trump brings a whole new slant to foreign policy; yet the presstitute media conveys the message that Trump has no substantial foreign policy. (Presstitute) Trump believes that America has lost its vitality and power by allowing other countries to take advantage of America's goodness, generosity, and greatness of culture by making decades of trade agreements that destroy America's superior position, by outsourcing the jobs of Americans to other countries, and by paying for other countries share in NATO, the UN and other international organizations – in other words paying far more than America's fair share to police and care for the world. Trump is emphatic: enough! Pay your fair share or get no support from the land of the free, you'll be on your own. In other words, future president Trump, acting as father to the world, would take a hard line against the strongest allies America has (children to be cared for), and demand they ante-up, play fair, and understand that a bankrupt nation like the US, trillions of dollars in the hole, cannot possibly continue to allow these wards of the state to rely on American hospitality any longer – the Marshall Plan is long over, it is time for America first. Globalization, collectivization, world communism, or whatever one calls the ubiquitous State intervention and capitalization of the globe, has destroyed American greatness. In the effort to make the world in America's image, the empire has eschewed its capitalistic heritage for a Marxist foreign policy of socialistic cradling, or, one might call it bribery, of its once defeated enemies – Germany, Japan, China, et. al. Add to that Trump's worst nightmare, a one-hundred and fifty billion dollar blood-money gift to our current nemesis Iran. Marx posited that capitalism would ultimately fail, but did he have a clue that the capitalistic capital of North America would lose its star, be knocked off the stage, by expanding its reach too far, repeating the Roman error, while setting up the need to fulfill the elite's agenda for a world government performance?
Trump takes the world government on, like David against Goliath. Trump is asking for fairness. Trump understands that the so called free trade" policy of the United States is actually a push toward world government as anyone who reads history can already see. NAFTA has stripped America of her jobs. Even the Council for Foreign Relations states:
Twenty years after its implementation, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, has helped boost intraregional trade between Canada, Mexico, and the United States, but has fallen short of generating the jobs and the deeper regional economic integration its advocates promised decades ago. (CFR)
NAFTA's performance is sub-par. Further, the newer TPP pact will allow corporations to sue the United States in a manner unheard of in US history that would unhinge American sovereignty. The Atlantic magazine questioned its constitutional impact:
Thus, challenges based upon TPP to our duly enacted laws and other regulatory actions would be decided by three individuals who are not government officials and need not be American citizens. And they would have the final word as to whether the federal government will be compelled to pay damages, because there is no judicial review in any U.S. court of the merits of these arbitral rulings. (Atlantic)
Ironically, Obama's TPP allows corporations to sue the US, but when the shoe is on the other foot, Obama shows no regard, as he is currently deciding on policy for American families' rights to sue foreign countries for their role in 9/11 and is performing as guardian of sovereignty in this instance. Obama says, "If we open up the possibility that individuals and the United States can routinely start suing other governments, then we are also opening up the United States to being continually sued by individuals in other countries." (AP) These trade agreements, which people do not necessarily read, but rather get the official sound bite from their favorite media, are Baudrillardian representations of "free trade", they "feign" a boost for America when in fact they are virtual power usurpers of American control. As Baudrillard posited, these postmodern media mediums construct reality. (Auslander) Trump is not beholden to corporations; he has made his own billions, and has does not appear to have secrets that would keep his mouth shut out of fear; Trump speaks his mind freely and with his heart on his sleeve because he is independent, a rare commodity in postmodern politics and culture. His performance is fresh in this way and has caught the fat-cat establishment by surprise. They had no idea they had an enemy in their lurk who will take them on.
Anglo-American International Elite
Trump is not afraid of the Anglo-American international elite establishment. (Quigley) The secret societies of this clan are well-known to Mr. Trump – they are part of the world of finance after all, Mr. Trump's specialty. Yet in our historical narrative, one can miss the connecting dots; we do not use a metahistorical perspective that would ask for self-conscious reflection. (Auslander) Instead we drink the Kool-Aid and salute the propaganda of our seventh-inning stretch, if we can put our beer down fast enough. Trump seems to understand the American populous doesn't really want to dig into the issues, they want someone they can trust, but they do want their leader to know the issues, so they can go to the movies and rest assure that the world is okay. Trump directs his performance thereof. Heady issues of foreign policy and economic theory are above the heads of most Americans who still believe the Federal Reserve is actually a government entity and have no idea that the Fed, who makes America's money and monetary policy, is privately owned, which logically means they look out for their own self-interest first. The Fed gave trillions of dollars to foreign banks during the recent financial crisis. (Forbes) This fact alone demonstrates the incestuous relationships of the world banks which Trump wants to rein in in his effort to make America great again. As the political outsider, Trump can perform to his own tune, so the established men must resort to base tactics.
Ad Hominen Everywhere
To take Trump on as a real candidate, as a true qualified person for the presidency would credit Mr. Trump with more than the media can stomach; it may upset them so much because they cannot control the outcomes of such an unscripted narrative. Instead of taking the guy seriously, the media resorts to attacks of ad hominen fallacy while accusing Trump of the same behavior. Trump's performance is successful in many ways because he reverses the usual, standard protocol and the American people love watching the reversal. Trump is not a nice guy in public, he is real (although Trump is currently playing with performance and flirting with changing its script; what the future will bring of his performance is anyone's guess). The only time we get to see this kind of real performance from "true" politicians is when they mistakenly forget their microphone is still on. The Donald may be captain of his own ship, flippant as he likes, a true believer like everyone else in this narcissistic culture-of-me, and about as independent as one can get and still succeed in politics, yet he is cut from the same cloth as the rest; he is, without any question, an American product. Few take the time to discover the obvious root connections of Trump and the political machine.
Roots connect us to our earlier developments; we all come from a root and grow into what we become. Trump was asked by Obama to be a guest at the white house, even after his birther comments, because Trump has been viewed and rooted as an establishment guy, at least up until this campaign performance. Yet Trump knows better than to run with and for the establishment, instead he turns to his independent roots.
Yet, as Deleuze and Guattari explain, the rhizome may be a much more productive way to understand our connectedness. Roots place one in the vertical structure of arborescent thought and are endemic to American ways of seeing. But if we shift to a rhizome view, a crabgrass view if you will, we lose the hierarchical thinking that politics loves. The world of governments love the individual tree analogy because it allows for an erect order that can easily blame and point fingers rather than understanding that when one points a finger outward there are almost always three other fingers pointing back in reflection of one's actual interconnectedness. Journalists like John McMurtry use a more rhizomic method to view Trump and connect dots that others overlook. In this instance McMurtry connects the "silent" dots:
Trump is a shameless opportunist, no doubt. Yet we continue to revolve within an ad hominem circle until we go deeper than the establishment morality tale of the evil of the stigma object – the oldest propaganda trick in the book. The major money interests that are really at stake in the conflict between Trump and the political-economic establishment remain unconnected and blocked out. "Who will stop Trump" is not only now asked across America, but the world's media in China too. But nothing is less talked about than the globally powerful interests he has promised to rein back from the public troughs bleeding the country's capacities to build for and to employ its people. On this topic, there is only silence or abusive distortion frothing from the mouth. (Counterpunch)
Jonathan Chait also takes a look into the horizontal relationships of Trump and the conservative establishment who want to paint him into an alien corner, even leftist to the core, titling his article for New York magazine, "Trump's Barbarians Were Inside the Conservative Castle All Along". (New York) Perhaps Deleuze and Guattari's theory needs to be adapted more fully for a more comprehensive understanding of the Trump mania. But then that would require a whole other kind of media – one interested in performing real, old-school journalism that wasn't bought and wasn't concerned with being so politically correct. Trump is an outgrowth of this fake, reigned-in journalism that exposes nothing more that the ego fighting of subjects and institutions. This kind of junk-journalism is only fueling Trump's performance; the lack of objective reporting leads the vertical scaling of power that common folks resent and see-through and search thereof, for an alternative source, which generally will be just as vertical but more aligned with common core values of the recipient. In essence people want to be saved from the terror of the "other side"; the extreme PC of the left that is intolerant of other religious or narrow views, and the extreme right that could care less about PC values. Both sides are looking for a savior to rescue them to utopia.
Savior Trump
For the right, Trump is playing the Savior, as all politicians do while running for office. But Trump is performing in a special way that connects with Americans who are fed-up and disenchanted with the American political system and its corrupt practitioners. Trump performs the savior role with gusto, clearly letting his people know he can get the job done. Trump is a deal maker that has brokered the almighty dollar successfully over decades, proving his credibility in the capitalistic American universe; people trust a man who can make his fortune without corruption, scandal, and mafia or government alliance. Trump clearly isn't part of the American political system and constructs his performance squarely regarding his being an outsider (although he now is teasing that he will change this – who knows). Unlike politicians who get stuck in the bi-partisan halls of congress, Trump is a guy that can build a Taj Mahal, make himself the ultimate reality TV star, marry gorgeous exotic women, and have fun, positivity, and a huge grin all the while. This is the postmodern American Dream. "America the free" doesn't feel so free any more but Trump reminds folks what freedom looks like.
PC Culture of Offense
Freedom, increasingly for the left, is a romp through an "anything goes" attitude accompanied by a "don't offend me" stance of "social justice warriors" (Observer) that pretty much defies logic for most persons. Offending is a once counter-cultural, now mainstream, way of living. MLB superstar Curt Shilling exposes this bent in his personal opinion blog "The hunt to be defended . . .". (Shilling) And in the new PC era he was fired from ESPN for his "offensive" manner: the coporatacracy cannot afford any understanding; the bottom line requires zero-tolerance in this sensitive period of America finding out what is what. Otherwise ESPN will be indicted by the PC actors and will lose its center stage of the sports world.
Gender theorist Judith Butler may persuade some folks in the academy that there is no binary of gender, but most folks see through the lunacy of this denial of nature. (Auslander) Trump helps people stay grounded in the fact that men have dicks and women have pussies. This is the way the majority of Americans think, and these are the voters. It wasn't that long ago that gays were excluded from marriage rights, and it is easy to view Obama's abrupt turn-around on the issue to be simple political expediency. And not so long prior to that, people were considered mentally unstable who made up or identified their gender as opposite of their natural endowment. Butler and the left-leaning academy may reject identity politics, or even identity itself, but the vast majority of Americans, on both sides of the party line, still believe a man has a penis.
It is a patriarchic society after all, in spite of how much the new PC offendees want to change that. Hollywood, that great American, capitalist art form that helped spread profit-making democracy around the world, may not be out of the closet and open enough for the new PC crowd, but it represents views that sell billions of dollars worth of tickets. Actress Gena Davis' gender studies of different film industries, show that "people in this industry, remain unaware" of the gender bias of the industry which features men over women. (Chemaly)
The media is on a mission, and even when trying to understand, rather than reinforce their bias, pop culture celebs like Samantha Bee of Full Frontal can't seem to remain objective long enough to assimilate another view. Instead, fun is made, mockery enforces stereotypes, and the liberals retain their hold on truth and justice. In a discussion with college-educated Trump supporters, Ms. Bee cannot understand what "context" means to these supporters, or even that Trump jokes and pokes fun, for that matter. (Gabillet) In this manner of trying to understand, it is absolutely impossible for left-wingers to make more than a mockery of Trump's national border wall. Yet nobody states how effective walls have been historically to keep people out of restricted places. Walls have worked for ages to keep people out. The only question journalists seem to ask is how to pay for it; they do not seem to question the logic and rational solution it provides. Israel has had successful walls to keep out terrorists and Africans, but this is just one of many examples that get overlooked and omitted from the conversation. (Levi)
The "anything goes" mentality of the "new and heretofore undescribed planet" filling up and expanding its base of "transnational, multinational and subnational bodies", as James Traub puts it, is the polarity and birthing center that spawned Donald Trump's performance and his supporters. (Schechner) Add to this list the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Two-spirited, Queer ,Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Ally, Pansexual, Agender, Gender Queer, Bigender, Gender Variant, Pangender, or LGBTQ+, and one can see how fast and furiously the planet is changing and how hard it is for most persons to keep up with these changes as they are so specialized and so globalized that it can make the head spin. (OK2BMe)
For confused citizens, Trump is like a breath of fresh air, a grounding in the paradigm they grew up with, providing a sense of security and stableness. He calms and inspires his audience. But stableness is not what a ruler wants from his people; stable societies create cohesion, and cohesiveness between people can spell trouble for the ruling elite if the masses unify. Unstableness, like the kind America has brought to the Middle East, allows powers that be to exploit the divisiveness and take control, be it control of a nation, a region, or an ill-informed, chaotic body politic of us vs. them, liberal/conservative dichotomy. Trump threatens this power base who likes to divide and conquer, and brings rational, old-fashioned common sense performance to these issues; people are unified behind his easy-to-understand rhetoric.
The global colonies of the United States' imperialistic march over the past hundred years or so have created what Homi K. Bhabha calls "colonial mimicry", where "colonized persons adopt in part or wholesale the culture of their colonizers". (Schechner) America is no longer uniquely great and exceptional, no matter if Obama wants people to believe or not. America is mimicked the world over and often times the aping performance is a better representation of American values than the original. China, although not fully colonized, has usurped American capitalism and has helped make the United States an inferior debtor nation while China sits atop the creditor nations of value. Japan had its glorious performance of American ingenuity and work ethic, but is now, just like America, in deep debt. Trump wants a distinction between American exceptionalism and the rest of the world. He wants America to rise up, reclaim its superiority of old, and lead the way once again, on its own – not in the hodgepodge mix of multiculturalism. And Trump plays the director he wants to become, directing his own performance like an auteur.
Trump recognizes that true multiculturalism is inherent in our global community, and one can see that forced multiculturalism is homogenizing the world and often creating more conflict, not less, while not preserving radically different cultures as is purported. A UNESCO paper states clearly, "The transformation of multi-ethnic, demographically multicultural societies has created a major challenge for policy makers seeking to manage ethnic diversity without exacerbating violence and conflict and in a manner beneficial to all." (UNESCO) Even as the paper argues for a multiculturalism solution, it nonetheless exposes the problem that has arisen. Trump would prefer to keep nations separate and distinct while focusing on "America first"; that is very appealing to many voters who are tired of watching the rest of the world take American jobs and money, mimic the very fundamental values of America all the while Americans make less, have less opportunity to work in well paid jobs, and are struggling with the inevitable conflicts of the expanding have/have-not split. Trump is convincingly portraying himself as the American savior of traditional values. And let us not forget that America was founded by deeply valued racist, elitist and misogynist attitudes.
The spirit and performance of "The Donald" – Mr. Trump, and the American people, in tandem with the mainstream media, are a perfect fit for this postmodern, capitalistic, democracy-on-the-verge-of-socialism/communism/fascism 2016 presidential campaign spectacle. Filling out its government interventionist, bureaucratic halls of Congress, corporatacracy, America is primed and ready for real change. People are sick and disgusted at the likeness of democratic/republican policy that equates with being "qualified as presidential". Americans see through the thin performance veneer of bipartisanship to see that when the shit hits the fan, both parties are at the ready to bail-out, or bail-in as the future will see, the American military/industrial, corporate establishment. Trump portrays himself as The Great Savior, the people parade themselves as rejecting the same ol' DC politics, and the media presents a crass effort, desperate by most standards, to destroy The Donald. Liking it or not, Trump is here to stay and The Donald has outflanked his adversaries with an exact recipe for the American maladies of division and propaganda: one the American people resonate with. It is a most remarkable and historic performance. Will America be "great again" as Trump's mantra affirms, or will the establishment finally find a solution to the ever-growing, near insanity of appeal the man has for the disenfranchised Americans who were left behind in the thirty years war on the middle-class?
Only history will tell, and that supposes that historians will be truthful. In the meantime, this unique presidential campaign season is a laboratory of politainment. Be it The Donald or Bono, the Kerdashians or Kaitlin Jenner, one of these days our White House will house a "President Camacho" who will show the idiocracy of America as the ultimate spectacle. (Idiocracy)
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Truth About Serge Benhayon in MEDIA ARCHIVE October 19, 2012 May 8, 2021 180 Words
Without Love the World is a Very Unpleasant Place
by Eva Rygg, Oslo, Norway.
It is absolutely horrendous to hear about what is happening with media attacks as well as internet and personal attacks on our fellow students and friends in Australia. Don't think for a second that because we're on the other side of the world we are not equally affected.
The latest attack on the Esoteric Medicine presentation, with unbelievable deception and lies to get access to the stage, as well as filming without permission, made me feel like I had been asleep and woken up in a different time and age, where haunting innocent people was part of 'law and order'.
Thank you Serge Benhayon for your 'naivety' and inviting this person in; after all, it was your wide open heart that inspired all of us to start to make the change where we take responsibility for our own choices and the way we live our lives.
If anything, these happenings have strongly reminded me that without Love the world is a very unpleasant place, and never before have I been more certain in my choice.
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We need loving people in the world to speak the truth, otherwise how do we see how our standards have slipped or be inspired to raise our standards? Being confronted with the truth is not always easy, we can react, or we can see that there is something greater for us all to live together.
I welcome the day that love is the foundation of our world.
It is horrendous how love gets retaliated by lovelessness when in fact such thing does not even exist only but in the form of denying that which does exist.
Love is sharing what True Power is, and that a Loving path of return shall always deepen the connection for those who have made the most Love-Full-Ness choice to be re-connected with their essence.
No one can ever save anyone and if someone thinks they can, it only exposes their investment in looking a certain way and ignorance in the energetic truth that we only heal ourselves.
We are all equally powerful and all knowing.
The fact that horrendous behaviors which reminds us of a not too glorious past may still happen, shows us the extent to which we have to focus on energy and not on time.
Yes, it seems that their plan to 'save' us from the supposed cult just confirmed the lack of love, the imposition and the manipulation that has been taken as normal in the world. It confirmed for many of us that we have been part and parcel of that manipulation and the importance of recognising where it lies within our lives to be able to let it go once and for all.
Without love we are lost and seeing our world this is deeply clear for much of how we are and what we do is not love, and we know this. Thank God for those such as Universal Medicine who show what love is and inspire many to live their own love as a result.
We do live in a very loveless world and we distract ourselves to not having to feel it. What we need to understand is that it is our own doing and that everybody's actions either contribute to the love we have or not have in this world.
This is so true, and very sad, 'We do live in a very loveless world and we distract ourselves to not having to feel it.'
The Hobbesian world we live in is a very difficult playground we have ventured in by free will. It invites us to be prepared for what may come and to walk in the expectation that something bad will come our way. If we drop into the heart instead, we can certainly feel the extent to which it is all there for us to walk it. If we all do this, the Hobbesian world will cease to exist.
Thank goodness for Serge Benhayon who always opens his heart to all of humanity, he encourages us to be the love we truly are, and through his presentations the world gets to understand the power of love.
I am inspired by the way Serge Benhayon lives constantly. One of the many beautiful learnings I have taken from the way Serge and the Benhayon family handled this situation and now years of media and internet attacks and bullying is how they have never dropped the care, love, honouring and integrity they have for themselves and others… they have just continued to live, expand, present and love unconditionally every step of the way.
That has really inspired me as well. I have seen that if you know who you are and your purpose in life then anything anyone says does not change how you feel about yourself. This is key to being at ease in your own body. You may have things to look at but your sense of self comes from your livingness not from people outside telling you who you are.
A world without love is definitely an unpleasant place to be in for love is a quality that is both nourishing and beholding – and ironically for it to be true love it is a quality to be lived without emotion.
Lovelessness trying to attack love already indicates that there is love first to begin with – otherwise there's nothing for it to be to deny.
Eva it's great that such an attack by the media inspired you to a deeper certainty of the importance of love in your life. Too often we feel hurt and withdraw etc, when deepening our love is the only true way to go.
Beautifully said Eva . . . and without those who have graced us over the ages who are open hearted like Serge Benhayon where would we be today?
Well said Eve. Every day each and every one of us are witness to the unpleasantries, conflict and abuse of a world that operates without love. A world where such lovelessness is becoming accepted as normal yet our bodies, health and well-being as a society are reflecting a far greater truth. Lovelessness is not our normal way of being. Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the student of The Way of The Livingness stand in the face of lovelessness, representing a way of living where love is the foundation that allows us to return to live with the self-responsibility we all hold, guided by the truth we all innately know within, honouring the equalness of all, so we can together begin to live the great potential we are all here to live.
Dear Carola, a beautiful comment including "Lovelessness is not our normal way of being." And yes, it's very true, our bodies reflect the truth of this statement.
"without Love the world is a very unpleasant place," and this reverberates around the world. So this is the message of Serge Benhayon that we all have a responsibility to offer true love to the world so that love is the vibration felt by all.
Well said Eva, and yes, 'Without Love the World is a Very Unpleasant Place'.
Spot on Eva, everybody is desperately seeking love so it is beautiful that many have embraced the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom and the powerful effect this has had on their lives and then there are others who do everything they can to ridicule, ignore or destroy this true love.
For sure Eva, we have been 'outed' or, better still, Love is back!
It is a true test of one's foundations, to be met by such lovelessness as was displayed on the evening of David Millikan's media circus/abusive tirade towards Serge Benhayon and students of Universal Medicine – and not respond with 'like aggression'.
I saw no-one present respond with aggression – firmness at times, but no aggression. Could there be any greater testimony to the quality of community here that was so baselessly vilified?
Absolutely Victoria! I wasn't present at this presentation, but what I have also observed is how there has been no blame or being a victim. This is something you don't see a lot of in society.
What it seemed to bring up – and I was not there either – was shock that someone could come in with such aggression and put on such an unpleasant, targeted performance. For someone who was supposedly trying to save people from a cult, that was a bizarre and incredibly unloving way to do it!
If our concern is innately for our fellow brother, can there be anything but love as our foundation stone for life?
It was indeed a harsh reminder of what is possible in a world that does not move first from love… and at the same time inspiring in that it confirmed me in my commitment to choose wisely so to never be capable of treating others like that.
Thank you Samantha. You have reminded us all that we cannot change the way another behaves but we can certainly do something about how we behave.
Felix Kremer says:
Unity can be where people care for themselves. To be able to hurt others or to be rude or violent there must be a strong momentum of disregard and lack of self-care.
Thank you Eva for sharing how we need to remain open no matter what is going on.
"Without Love the world is a very unpleasant place." Eva for me your statement is true for ever – we just have to be open to what is happening in the world right now.
I love your take on life Eva, when ugly and unpleasant things happen they do certainly remind us how love and truth are the most important things in the world.
Felix Schumacher says:
Eva, I love how you thank Serge Benhayon for making his choices as he made them and how you thereby not buy into the right-wrong-thinking illusion.
The continuing attacks and harassment is a clear demonstration of those who reject the truth and love that is offered by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. A jealousy from those who choose to reject and deny their own love so attempt to stop others who have found what they are not willing to feel.
"If anything, these happenings have strongly reminded me that without Love the world is a very unpleasant place, and never before have I been more certain in my choice." Me too Eva. We all have a choice – to harm ( as Millikan tried to do) or to heal – and our choices affect everyone.
Michael Kremer says:
Love is what makes the difference. Without love we make it just about ourselves, with love we see that we are all one humanity.
One more voice saying it how it is (Y)
In our modern time people – at least in the Western World – are not publicly haunted, murdered or burned, but on a deeper level we are not so far away from the dark ages. We allow cyberabuse, defamation and much more and by that become abusers ourselves.
Our modern society is so keen on scandal and distraction that we often do not realize that what we watch so keenly is very abusive. – let alone realising that by watching it , we even support the abuse.
Beautifully said Eva, the world is an unpleasant place without love, thankfully Serge Benhayon truly loves and cares about humanity and inspires us to live this everyday.
Serge Benhayon's love has indeed inspired people all over the world to be more loving themselves. Something I celebrate and confirm by commenting on these testimonials of truth.
Without love the World is indeed an unpleasant place, Eva. On the internet – seemingly protected by anonymity – anything seems possible and love often is rare and instead the exact opposite is lived and shared. But to what gain? What is the benifit of false accusations and cyber bullying and cruelties of all sorts? Why do only a few stand up against this whilst it does effect everybody?
Sometimes a situation where we clearly can see and feel what horrors a life void of love and understanding can bring can be a strong inspiration to remember what life truly is about and to stand up for the truth of what we feel.
Love is the basis for true interaction and connection. If we make our lives about love, we can truly make a difference in this world.
Without love the world indeed is an unpleasant place. Living a loving live is but a choice – our choice. The basis to make these choices from is honesty and responsibility.
Love is what lets us see what really matters. Living out of love will mean living for far more than our own gain. Truly caring for our selves and others, not by numbing ourselves with material good, but by living a life that supports us in living more lovingly and honest every day.
Modern society seems to be hungry for sensations and scandal. The example you describe in your Blog Eva does show, that this hunger for sensations leads those who wish to publish them to become liars and intruders and those who are the subject of them will suddenly find themselves at the center of a smear and hate campaign, for example just because they did attend a public presentation. Where has our society arrived, that we tolerate and even support such behaviour by listening to or purchasing these media?
Re-reading this article makes me aware of the fact that there is no right or wrong in opening the stage for David Millikan or anything we say yes to. There is always a bigger picture behind the actual scene of unfoldings that allows us to grow and wake up.
Without love the world indeed feels like an empty place because we feel lonely. Love is what in depth connects us all equally. If we cannot feel the love we cannot feel the enormity of this connection.
It is heartwarming to see how people all across the globe come together in love and support when needed.
Beautifully expressed, Eva. It was love that was attacked and a lack of love in the media that was exposed, however love cannot be defeated.
"If anything, these happenings have strongly reminded me that without Love the world is a very unpleasant place, and never before have I been more certain in my choice" – this is one power-full expression of your commitment to Love. Totally inspiring, Eva. Thank you.
Beautiful blog Eva and thank you for reminding us all 'that without Love the world is a very unpleasant place'.
arieljoymuntelwit says:
That's so sweet to show your care from the other side of the world. It just proves as people we are all connected and we can feel what's going on elsewhere in the world, thank you for honouring that and sharing that in a blog.
Without love the world is a truly unpleasant place. Well said Eva! Reading it, the Dark Ages came to mind. How far are we really from it?
Thank you Eva for your blog, and the power of the choices we make, wherein we can choose love.
Hi Eva, it does confirm for us all about the power of the choices we make and I too choose love above all else.
Absolutely beautiful Eva!
Beautifully said Eva.
Eva this was just beautiful to read. Thank you for expressing your deeply felt appreciation of Serge for what he lives and has inspired in us.
esteraltmiks says:
Loving Eva may I join you???? Yes lets bring back the love and lets make the world a pleasant one again.
Thank you Eva for so simply but profoundly expressing the shock we felt wherever we were in the world. It does feel like we have regressed to another age but we have been inspired to stand together and not be cowed by these bullying tactics despite their relentlessness over the last 2 and a half years.
This article is still very relevant two and a half years after its initial posting. Without love the world is a very unpleasant place!
Eva Rygg says:
True Rachel – and in spite of a two and a half years relentless hate campaign based on lies, more lies and then some more lies, Serge Benhayon is not holding back his love for humanity, on the contrary, it keeps pouring out.
Absolutely Eva, Serge is such an inspiration to us all.
marikacominos says:
Yes it truly is sad to see where humanity is at and how sold out many are… thank God for the inspiration of people like Serge Benhayon.
Beautifully put, Eva.
Hi Eva, this is beautiful. Thank you!
Gayle Cue says:
I just want to express my appreciation for what you've expressed Eva.
Gina Dunlop says:
This is so beautiful Eva to help us realise how much the world has moved away from love and the absolute need to bring more love. These attacking individuals are free to not choose love but it has to be love which stands up to say no to their aggressive actions and to make them accountable for these actions. That way, this love gives them an opportunity to see what they are doing and maybe a chance for change.
Amina Tumi, UK says:
Very well said Eva, and Yes it is totally right that Serge let him in as it confirms the state the world is in that someone would act in this manner with no feeling of remorse whatsoever.
Floris van der Schot says:
Thank you Eva, a strong felt dedication to love. Wow! And reading it feels like a reflection of what I felt when I heard about it. There hasn't been a stronger Y E S up to now.
Spot on, beautiful Eva! It does effect us all and whether we are directly attacked or not, this is an attack on true Love and all of us who attempt to make Love our every expression. And as you say, "Thank you Serge Benhayon for your 'naivety' and inviting this person in" because it is Serge's open and trusting heart that has exposed the deceit whose sole intention is to undermine everything UM stands for – freedom of choice, connection to self, love, harmony, relationship and commitment to life – and I too claim that I have never been more certain of my choices and my allegiance.
Katrin Schäffer says:
Thank you Eva. Absolutely to the point. I agree 100 %.
Lorraine Harris says:
Thank you Eva for your heartfelt words. Love is the way!
esosandra says:
Well said, Eva – Thank you so much. LOVE!
Thank you so much Eva for expressing this absolute truth.
Zofia Sharman, London says:
Thank you Eva for your simple, powerful and heart-felt expression here.
Dr Rachel Hall says:
The more open we are with one another, the more understanding and love we grow for ourselves and those around us. My heart remains wide open.
nicolettehoyle says:
To the point and so beautifully expressed …. Serge's "wide open heart" is an understatement! What a reflection he is for us all and now we, in turn, offer a reflection to each other, our families, friends, work colleagues and the wider community. How great is that? True love is very power-full indeed ….
I wholeheartedly agree – open heart, open door – open to anyone who feels that Love in the world is the way to be.
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eunice minford says:
So true Eva. Agree 100%
tonisteenson says:
Beautifully said Eva and Helen
Helen Simkins says:
Here here Eva – open heart, open door! It is the way to expose what is going on everywhere in the world today and to offer an alternative…
Wow, Eva, I don't remember last time I read 4 short paragraphs that summed it all up and said so much!
I too feel that David and the distractors are shooting themselves in the foot here – their atrocious and socially completely unacceptable behaviours are having adverse effect on me and many I know including you and your heartfelt statement – "…never before have I been more certain in my choice." ABSOLUTELY.

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Deland rushed Rocky to their family veterinarian, while Ernest notified the rest of the family. The veterinarian recognized the wounds and determined it was a rattlesnake attack. Because of Rocky's dire condition, he advised the family to take Rocky to the Veterinary Specialty Hospital of San Diego for emergency treatment. Ernest's wife had arrived on scene just before the diagnosis and loaded Rocky into her car and hurried him to the specialists, who had been notified of Rocky's condition.
The specialists worked quickly to save Rocky's life, treating him with anti-venom and giving him fluids. Eventually, the veterinary team was able to stabilize Rocky, but informed the family that he was going to have a long recovery. Over the next few days, Rocky needed to be treated with anti-venom two more times and remained under constant observation.
Rocky is now at full strength and back to being the watchful leader of his pack. Ernest and the Gee family are thrilled with Rocky's recovery and are grateful for all the support they received.
As the most unusual claim submitted in March, Rocky will be in the running for the 2015 VPI Hambone Award. Rocky's incident was one of more than 109,000 claims received in the month of March by VPI, and was selected by VPI employees as the most unusual of them all. Honorable mentions in March included a miniature Schnauzer who ate a cigar, a Pomeranian who was shocked after chewing on an electrical cord and a Labrador retriever who drank diesel fuel. All pets considered for the VPI Hambone Award have made full recoveries and received insurance reimbursements for eligible expenses.
Note to editors: Digital images of Rocky are available upon request. Please send requests to rwhittington@petinsurance.com.


The Centre's Youth Team took part in the University of Technology Sydney's (UTS) Perfect Match: Volunteer Speed Networking event on Friday, 9 August. The event was a cross between O'Day and speed dating.
This month's Networking Event on Tuesday 17 September will feature Dr Christopher Roffey from the University of Western Sydney, who will be discussing Corporate partnerships and how to get them.
On Thursday 9 August Mark Tippett, Manager of the School of Volunteer Management, attended the graduation for 12 volunteers from the Resourceful Australian Indian Network (RAIN) at Hurstville Seniors Centre.
The volunteers, who undertook the Certificate I in Active Volunteering, are all actively involved within the Indian Community in Sydney's South. Among the volunteering activities they undertake, the network prepares Indian vegetarian meals regularly for the local Meals on Wheels. RAIN was formed seven years ago to provide support services for the elderly in the Indian community. The event, which coincided with RAIN's weekly support group meeting, included a celebration of traditional Hindi singing and dancing, culminating in a delicious home-cooked lunch. The volunteers of RAIN make you feel so welcome.
Funding for the training was supported by The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Volunteer Grants program for 2012.
The publisher of a new social conscience magazine aimed at wealthy donors says it's time to rethink the effectiveness of some charities in Australia.
For more information and to nominate, http://www.westpac.com.au/business-banking/community-not-for-profit/community-leaders-awards/.


Whenever companies undergo a major transformation there are always challenges, Project Management Institute's Stephen Townsend says.
bluenotes recently sat down with the Director for Network Programs to discuss agile ways of working, steady states of technology and the importance of change management.
Townsend says there are three key challenges for organisations wanting to move to agile.
He also says change management is key to ensuring staff stay engaged as they change at different paces.
Townsend explains agile starts with putting the customer at the center of everything – including your internal customers.
"It could be the customer who is coming to your bank for business transactions but it could also be an internal business unit customer who needs the same type of service and focus," he says.
Traditional, top-down management styles make it difficult to change how people think about how they work.
"The mindset has to be one that focuses enabling collaborative work… and [coming] together in different ways to focus on the customer and deliver results," Townsend says.
It's easy to create an effective, collaborative environment when your whole company is co-located so there is a challenge to develop new ways to help people collaborate and communicate across borders to deliver results.
While agile may be the hot topic at the moment, there will always be something else coming down the pipeline later.
"How do we make sure we're focused on helping our team members continue to build and invest in developing new skills capabilities, new ways of approaching problems and challenges, and new ways of collaborating across the organisation?" Townsend says.
Townsend says organisations need to be mindful that there is no such thing as steady state any more.
Watch the video above to hear the full conversation.


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The relationship between trust and identity
The organisations best placed to provide consumers with digital identities are regulated institutions that have already established the trust of their customers, says David Birch, an internationally-recognised thought leader in digital identity and digital money.
He says that digital identities which consumers trust will be crucial as more transactions move into the virtual world.
"This is why people – not just Australia Post – are focusing on digital identity as the platform for the sort of evolution of the new interconnected world," he says.
"Without that identity platform, it means we can't have the trust that we need to make transactions take place."
Birch, a director of UK-based Consult Hyperion, the secure electronic transactions consultancy, was a guest speaker at a recent series of talks and workshops on digital identity hosted by Australia Post.
In the past digital identity was as a "top-down thing", that is, something managed and handed out by the government, like passports, he says.
However, experience has shown that Australians are suspicious of any sort of national identity card from the government, which leaves it to other institutions to provide identity solutions.
"You've got people who I personally think should be providing digital identity services on a large scale which is people like the post, the banks, regulated institutions."
"Remember, people at the post and the banks, they already do identity – know your customer or whatever on quite a large scale," Birch says.
Choosing your own 'brand' of identity
"They're a regulated institution. They know about security. I trust them. If they break the law, they'll get in trouble. I don't want to look after my sensitive personal data. I don't want that responsibility."
These trusted digital identities could be used to access a range of other private sector services as well as government services, says Birch.
He envisages a system where it would be possible to "white label" identities, that is where an identity solutions provider facilitates the underlying digital identity and the consumers choose which "brand" of identity they use. They might choose to use their football club membership, for instance.
"Aussie Post has a head-start in this space because, for one thing, there's post offices everywhere and most people in Australia go into a post office at least once a year," Birch says.
"If you had to go to the post office and sign up for your 'Aussie Post ID' because you want to redirect mail or some other reason, then why wouldn't you use that?" he says.
Birch says he would prefer a structure for digital identity provision where the government sets up the regulatory framework, but the actual provision of digital identities is provided by other organisations.
"People should be able to choose which identities they want to use. And then, hopefully, people like Aussie Post will provide mass market convenient identities which a lot of people want to use, and that provides a reasonable line of business for them," he says.
Birch says that in some instances, government regulations will have to catch up to allow people to use their digital identities where up until now more traditional forms of identity are required.
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Home Web Content Spammers Help Push Google to Dubious Milestone
Spammers Help Push Google to Dubious Milestone
By Richard Adhikari | January 07, 2009
Google has moved up to Number Three on The Spamhaus Project's list of the world's worst spam problem networks. Last month, the search giant hit the top 10 list for the first time in last place.
Spamhaus' list shows Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has 31 unresolved abuse-related issues, including various types of fraud and hosting known as spam gangs.
A Google spokesperson told InternetNews.com by e-mail that Google is working with Spamhaus in connection with the report. "The relevant accounts indicated in this report have already been disabled," the spokesperson said. "Spam is an issue that we take seriously at Google."
Spamhaus is an international non-profit organization that tracks spammers on the Internet to provide real time anti-spam protection, works with law enforcement agencies to identify and pursue spammers worldwide and lobbies governments for more effective anti-spam legislation.
Richard D.G. Cox, chief information officer (CIO) at Spamhaus, said Google first made its list a month ago at Number 10 and kept bobbing in and out as other networks had been cleaned up or got worse.
The problems, according to the Spamhaus list, include lottery fraud; mule fraud (where victims are tempted by Internet money-making schemes); hosting known spam gangs; and having the docs.google.com site used by spammers to redirect people to Web sites hosting malware.
According to Cox, his organization had been trying unsuccessfully to work with Google for the past year or so. "Some of these issues have been outstanding for over a year," he said. "If there's malware and Google is routing the traffic, they should be able to shut it down within an hour, not a year."
Google docs aren't all good
Spammers began using the Google Docs site to lure visitors to their tainted Web sites earlier this year. These documents are hosted at docs.google.com, and Spamhaus blocks any message whose URL includes docs.google.com.
Google is addressing the Google Docs problem. "We're aware of this issue, and we have already implemented improvements to minimize the impact," the company's spokesperson said. "We're actively working on more features to limit the potential for misuse."
One reason Google is a spammer's favorite is that its Gmail service is free and there is no meaningful account validation, Randy Abrams, director of technical education at antivirus vendor ESET told InternetNews.com. "If the name isn't taken by Disney, you can open a Gmail account like mickeymouse@gmail.com," he explained.
Also, Gmail users tend to use weak passwords so hijacking their accounts is relatively easy, Abrams said.
However, these charges can also be leveled at other providers of free Web-based e-mail services. Sarah Palin's account, for example, was hacked using Yahoo's forgotten password feature which asks users simple questions. The hacker, Tennessee college student David Kernell, found those answers by looking up personal information publicly available about Palin.
Cox of Spamhaus thinks Google can do more to fight spammers. "Google is a company with enormous resources and some very clever people, so there's no reason why they could not deploy the technology that we use to identify abuse and then mitigate it automatically," he said.


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Texas Central HSR (Houston - DFW Dallas Fort Worth)
General discussion of passenger rail proposals and systems not otherwise covered in the specific forums in this category, including high speed rail.
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Re: Texas Central HSR (Houston - DFW Dallas Fort Worth)
Judge Nora Longoria issued the appellate ruling. She's quite infamous in Texas...
https://noralongoria.com/
And... she's a Democrat, which may be important here as they don't tend to be originalists. It would be interesting to know how many of her rulings have been upheld by SCOTX...
Studies, funding, etc. are all great, but as of today, TCR isn't FRA approved, thus not a railroad. Once they pass regulatory review, there's an argument to be made they will be operating in the future. Right now, it's still a speculative real estate venture.
by electricron
eolesen wrote: ↑Tue Oct 19, 2021 8:27 pm Studies, funding, etc. are all great, but as of today, TCR isn't FRA approved, thus not a railroad. Once they pass regulatory review, there's an argument to be made they will be operating in the future. Right now, it's still a speculative real estate venture.
I did not think a plain reading of the text as written arises with a different meaning depending upon party affiliation. "Jack and Jill went up the hill" means exactly the same thing to a Republican, Democrat, or Independent. So whatever party the judge belongs to is really immaterial.
FRA has approved Texas Central.
https://www.texascentral.com/posts/texa ... ilestones/
Your Texas High-Speed Train is two steps closer to construction as the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has released the pre-publication version of the final Rule of Particular Applicability (RPA) and the Record of Decision (ROD), marking major achievements for this historic project.
The RPA provides the regulatory framework for Texas Central Railroad, establishing a comprehensive set of safety requirements that will govern the high-speed train system's signal and trainset control, track, rolling stock, operating rules and practices, system qualifications, and maintenance. This RPA is based on a systems approach to safety which incorporates accident avoidance measures that are significantly more stringent than those required for conventional U.S. rail operations.
The ROD completes the FRA's environmental review process that began in 2014 as required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and culminated with the publication of the 10,000+ page Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) that was released on May 29, 2020. The ROD also formally selects the alignment that Texas Central Railroad will follow between Dallas and Houston.
Both the RPA and ROD were released by the USDOT and the FRA on September 10, 2021.
I'm assuming Texas Central will eventually have to display proper operations and maintenance for the tracks, signals, trains, and operators before being allowed to carry passengers on any trains, but before they can actually do that they have to build it first.
electricron
Seems like the ROD establishes it as a RR. Maybe TC can just lay a 100 foot section of track ?
electricron wrote: I did not think a plain reading of the text as written arises with a different meaning depending upon party affiliation. "Jack and Jill went up the hill" means exactly the same thing to a Republican, Democrat, or Independent. So whatever party the judge belongs to is really immaterial.
If that were truly the case, nobody would ever object to a specific individual being nominated as a justice by a sitting President... And yet the past four years saw violent opposition to multiple individuals based solely on assumed party affiliation.
Like it or not, there are differences.
by Scalziand
Are there any dinky shortlines or disused charters that TC could buy to cut the gordian knot of whether they are a railroad company or not?
Scalziand
Yeah, that's not the roadblock. It's more about the money right now.
"FRA does not grant any kind of construction approval or permit. Neither does this final rule, by itself, grant any permission or authority for TCRR [Texas Central] to operate."
– excerpt from FRA's pre-published final RPA and ROD, page 15
STB ultimately has to rule the owners fit to operate a railroad, which means adequate financing in place, and that's still questionable and part of the claim over whether or not the railroad can exercise eminent domain powers.
Buying up a short line to try and win one ruling now would simply eat up money they need elsewhere.
by ziggyzack1234
eolesen wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 1:34 pm Yeah, that's not the roadblock. It's more about the money right now.
That's my theory as to why their STB application has not yet been submitted, they need to have all the money lined up in order to submit and get approval. Should it get submitted, and more importantly pass, then its status as a railroad would be much more concrete.
For all we know, the financing could come through before the next session of the eminent domain case, which would be something to see for sure.
ziggyzack1234
by Silverliner5
Guys this might be the end of TCRR
https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/hi ... -the-line/
Silverliner5
It's an interesting twist. Condemnation powers granted to interurban railroads were given because they would arguably provide a local public service and good. Same thing with state roads and interstate highways that have exits every couple miles... the people giving up their land derive some benefit from having it available.
There is no local good being provided by a railroad that doesn't stop and only benefits three communities along the 200+ mile run.
The thing about local good is the need for resources to make it happen. Given the low density and strength of the opposition, adding a few stations along the way would be both burdensome on the RRs budget and useless to most of the few people living there. Now NIMBYs have changed their mind in the case of Brightline, but the opposition in Texas is much more solid in their position. Giving them a station won't change a thing.
I think there could be a few station additions, first and foremost near Cypress where 99 meets 290, capture the crowd from the west and coming along the loop highway, but the very rural areas would be expensive ventures for the company.
The locals don't want the train service. What they want is a fair value for their land, as opposed to condemnation.
by RandallW
Condemnation does have to compensate with fair value for the land. (I say this having sat on a jury that had to determine the fair value of land in a condemnation proceeding where the original owner and the condemner could not agree on the fair value.)
RandallW
Herndon VA
Use the NJ method. condemn, take possession and pay later + interest.
RandallW wrote: Condemnation does have to compensate with fair value for the land. (I say this having sat on a jury that had to determine the fair value of land in a condemnation proceeding where the original owner and the condemner could not agree on the fair value.)
That's the crux of the problem. Land owners don't want uninterested third parties determining what the land is worth. This is private for-profit development that wont improve the area values for a hundred miles in either direction. Owners should be able to name their price.
by scratchyX1
This is what, farmland for animal grazing? With a lot of viaducts, so the actual land lost for feeding, not much.
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There is so much buzz around the need for stronger relationships, the importance of collaboration, the value to be achieved through partnering. Business today demands personnel who deliver these qualities and who welcome diversity, the use of judgment, the eradication of prejudice.
So why is it that a major professional association would allow its publications to refer to Sales as 'the dark side'? Continuing to encourage procurement professionals to perceive suppliers as 'the evil enemy' undermines everything that our society is trying to achieve. It assumes innate opportunism, dishonesty, lack of moral concern – and in so doing, mimics the precise behaviours it claims to despise. Further, it demonstrates a fundamental ignorance of business and economics – in the commercial world, procurement jobs exist only because of successful sales people.
In the public sector, far too many failed programs and wasted opportunities can be at least in part traced back to these confrontational techniques by procurement staff. They lead to a culture where suppliers are dismissed as readily replaceable and the buyer denies responsibility for outcomes. In these situations – sadly still too common – low price and risk transfer is the mantra of success.
Any function or group that creates barriers of this sort destroys the potential for achieving value. Today, the levels of interdependency between organizations are greater than ever. This 'old school' procurement is outdated and – quite honestly – unacceptable. It is also fast becoming irrelevant.
Looking at the amazing growth of an organization like IACCM, it owes its success to its inclusiveness and the fact that it focuses on shared integrity, not adversarial compliance. Yes, members challenge each other, but that is healthy and contributes to self-realization. Every professional or specialist group benefits from a dose of reality. But they benefit even more when they work together, operating to shared standards and in an environment of respect. That's what happens when they undertake IACCM training, participate in research or attend IACCM events.
Our world is one of enlightenment. Let's eradicate the dark side!


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Trump's WHO Attack Accelerates Breakdown in Global Cooperation
By David Wainer and Nick Wadhams
U.S.-China rivalry for leadership in post-virus world at stake
China's virus donations criticized, while U.S. hoards supplies
President Donald Trump's broadside against the World Health Organization is another blow to international institutions designed to help nations confront global crises -- and may leave countries even less prepared for the next one.
Trump's move on Tuesday to suspend WHO funding amid a pandemic that has cost at least 130,000 lives is the latest salvo in a broader struggle between the U.S. and China over global leadership. Both countries are courting other nations and public opinion as they cover up their own shortcomings in the pandemic and position themselves for the post-virus world.
China -- widely criticized for missteps early in the outbreak -- has ramped up efforts to send medical supplies to hard-hit nations, even as reports emerged that much of that gear was faulty or expired. The U.S., meanwhile, announced $300 million in aid to countries fighting the virus but rebuffed requests for the most essential gear while receiving donations from the governments of Egypt, Taiwan and Vietnam among others.
WATCH: President Donald Trump says he instructed his administration to temporarily halt funding to the World Health Organization.
Source: Bloomberg)
That scenario, in which the world's richest country hoards items to fight the pandemic at home, while China falters in trying to inherit the leadership role, reflects a grim reality in the months since Covid-19 was identified. There's no global leader in the fight against the virus, and countries that would normally look to Washington or Beijing for help are finding they have no one to rely on. Both sides are falling short.
"The Trump administration can royally screw up on this, and so can China," said Jude Blanchette, Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "There's going to be a reckoning" for both countries, he added.
China Blasts Trump's Move to Pull WHO Funding, Pledges Support
Trump's move against the WHO -- which the White House accused of "parroting" early claims by China that the virus wasn't transmitted between humans -- could cost thousands of lives if it limits the organization's ability to help vulnerable populations in places like Libya and Syria, according to an internal State Department assessment.
China denounced the action against the health organization, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian saying it "will weaken the WHO's capabilities and undermine international cooperation."
Trump has chafed at the WHO's early opposition to travel restrictions -- a move he made to limit flights from China in late January -- as well as Beijing's refusal to allow U.S. scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention early access to Wuhan, where the virus emerged.
Read more: Trump's WHO Funding Halt Adds Obstacle to Pandemic Fight
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that it obtained internal documents showing Chinese officials waited six days in January before President Xi Jinping warned the public of the dangers of the coronavirus outbreak. The delay let millions of people travel from the epicenter in the city of Wuhan elsewhere in the country and the world, according to the report.
While China's Zhao said he hadn't seen the report, he added that Beijing updated the WHO in a "timely" manner and called accusations the government wasn't transparent "unfair."
But Trump's decision also underscores the pressures facing global bodies, from NATO and the World Trade Organization to the United Nations and European Union. And many of those pressures are increasingly fueled by the rivalry between the U.S. and China.
"The last time the world faced a crisis, which was not of the same dimension, but also a very tough crisis, was the financial crisis in 2008," Germany's ambassador to the United Nations, Christoph Heusgen, told the Security Council. "At that time there was both the leadership and the power to bring about a united response to this crisis. And here we do not have it. We do not have leadership and power coming together."
UN's Inaction
The UN Security Council has been unable for weeksto respond to the coronavirus pandemic, in contrast to previous efforts to provide a unified response to Ebola outbreaks. Part of the dispute this time centered around U.S. efforts to refer to the disease as the "Wuhan virus" and a Chinese official's discredited claim that Americans may have helped introduce the disease in China.
The U.S.-China feud extends throughout the international system built in the aftermath of World War II. Just as the Covid-19 outbreak was building, the two nations were contesting leadership of the World Intellectual Property Organization, and last year they had a similar feud over the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization.
"The Trump administration has long been pulling back from international institutions but then grumbling that the Chinese have gained too much influence," said Richard Gowan, the United Nations director at the International Crisis Group. "Chinese and U.S. tensions are gradually poisoning a lot of different multilateral institutions and I don't see how you go back to the status quo ante.
The tensions aren't always consistent. U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, who spent weeks referring to the "Wuhan virus" in his public appearances, scaled that back after Trump and Xi spoke by phone late last month. On Wednesday he spoke with Yang Jiechi, a senior Chinese diplomat, praising Beijing's efforts to expedite sales of medical equipment to the U.S.
"The secretary stressed the need for full transparency and information sharing to combat the Covid-19 pandemic and prevent future outbreaks," State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement. "He also noted the aid the American people delivered to the people of China in January – and continue to offer – and the high importance we attach to China's facilitation of medical supply exports to meet critical demand in the United States."
Despite some cooperation, Trump has repeatedly cited the U.S. role as the biggest contributor to the WHO as one reason he's so frustrated by China's influence in the organization, a line of argument that echoes his complaints about the UN and organizations such as NATO, which he's long said rely too much on American funding.
'U.S. Disinterest'
While diplomats and experts acknowledge that China has gained clout within many international organizations, analysts say that trend has been reinforced by a lack of U.S. interest in investing its resources in these organizations.
"The big thing the Chinese have going for them is U.S. disinterest and hostility toward the idea of global leadership," said Derek Scissors, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
The longer-term damage to international cooperation may extend beyond viral outbreaks, hobbling the response to acts of terrorism, nuclear proliferation and climate change, among other threats, experts say.
"The currents of populism are so great now that leaders are no longer inclined or rewarded for behaving in terms of international cooperation," said Stewart Patrick, senior fellow on Global Governance and Multilateralism at the Council on Foreign Relations. "There is a growing risk that these organizations could weaken and atrophy. There just aren't enough leaders out there taking an enlightened view of the international interest."
--With assistance from Hugo Miller.
To contact the reporters on this story:
David Wainer in New York at dwainer3@bloomberg.net;
Nick Wadhams in Washington at nwadhams@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story:
Bill Faries at wfaries@bloomberg.net
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> > The transmitter is in the "waiting for Tx to end" state.
> > The 'tulip-diag' program will tell us more.
time of the hang as well as the output from tulip-diag.
eth0: N-Way autonegotiation status 40a1d0cc, 10baseT.
eth0: PNIC-2 link status changed, CSR5/12/14 40a1d0cc e4669000, ffffffff.
eth0: N-Way autonegotiation status 40a1d0cc, 100baseTx-FDX.
eth0: Using NWay-set 100baseTx-FDX media, csr12 40a1d0cc.
eth0: Tx hung, 79075 vs. 78809.
eth0: Out-of-sync dirty pointer, 78811 vs. 79075, full=1.
eth0: Out-of-sync dirty pointer, 78828 vs. 79075, full=1.
eth0: Out-of-sync dirty pointer, 78845 vs. 79075, full=1.
eth0: Out-of-sync dirty pointer, 78863 vs. 79075, full=1.
eth0: Out-of-sync dirty pointer, 78880 vs. 79075, full=1.
eth0: Out-of-sync dirty pointer, 78898 vs. 79075, full=1.
eth0: Out-of-sync dirty pointer, 78916 vs. 79075, full=1.
eth0: Out-of-sync dirty pointer, 78934 vs. 79075, full=1.
eth0: Out-of-sync dirty pointer, 78951 vs. 79075, full=1.
eth0: Out-of-sync dirty pointer, 79347 vs. 79364, full=1.
Index #1: Found a Lite-On PNIC-II adapter at 0xe000.
Port selection is N-Way autonegotiation, half-duplex.
Transmit stopped, Receive stopped, half-duplex.
The Rx process state is 'Stopped'.
The Tx process state is 'Stopped'.
The transmit threshold is 72.
The NWay status register is 40a1d0cc.
The current PNIC-II MAC address is 00:a0:cc:e3:96:92 (a000a000 e3cc9296).
The current PNIC-II WOL address is 00:a0:cc:e3:96:92.
EEPROM 64 words, 6 address bits.
Ethernet MAC Station Address 00:a0:cc:e3:96:92.
ID block CRC 0xe3 (vs. 00).
Full contents CRC 0x401f (read as 0x401f).
Internal autonegotiation state is 'Negotiation complete'.