I received several cogent comments on my post A.J. Jacobs Cousin Connections - Um, Not Really (10 September 2014) - even one from A.J. himself!
1) Geoff Trowbridge noted: "Via the ever-resourceful E. Randol Schoenberg, it turns out that both you and A.J. are descended from King David, at least according to tradition.
"So there is a common bloodline, albeit not one that is easily verifiable. ;-)"
2) Ashley Odell offered: "I still don't get why people are surprised that it's been difficult to get him directly connected to most celebrities. Jacobs is Jewish. He connects as a direct, even rather close cousin to many Ashkenazi Geni users -- users who happen to be one of the most thriving, vibrant parts of the userbase -- but of course he's not going to be very close to people tracing our Mormon and Mayflower ancestry. Were people expecting that?
"3) instead of blog after blog making this same post over and over, why doesn't someone take a constructive approach and propose a better way Jacobs can communicate his idea about connection in a way that doesn't irritate genealogists so much? He's still writing the book. He has an e-mail address. He replies. Make a difference if you want. Now is the time. Maybe I'll even co-sign whatever thoughtful correspondence you post here. But this argument without advisement is becoming white noise. You're a smart guy, Randy. Solve the problem."
3) A.J. Jacobs commented: "Hey Cousin Randy! Thanks for the post. And thanks for the positivity (e.g. that the Global Family Reunion will be fun -- it will!) as well as the skepticism about whether we are truly 'cousins' with these historical figures. You make a good point.
"I know we're using the word 'cousin' in a pretty broad sense of the word. But if you Google the word 'cousin,' the second definition, right after 'a child of one's uncle or aunt' is this: 'A person belonging to the same extended family.' In that sense, I think it's fair to say that these folks are all cousins, even the ones who don't share a bloodline that we can identify yet. As Ashley says, we want to show connections.
"I suppose I like the expansive definition of family -- that it should include marriages as well as DNA. I consider my brother-in-law family (and he'd be quite annoyed if I didn't).
"Plus, as we all know, we DO share the same bloodline if you go back far enough -- to mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam.
"Part of my hope with the Global Family Reunion (along with raising money for Alzheimer's and getting more people hooked on genealogy) is to make people realize that we are, in the broadest sense, part of the Human Family. That we share 99.9 percent of our DNA. So that's my long-winded answer as to why we use the term 'cousin' broadly.
"I think of your project as worldwide mishpocha. Maybe that concept is lost on people used to insular genealogy, where research is conducted through specific surname societies and reunions involve an admission fee.
"My Old New England WASP family reunions involve handshakes, Robert's Rules, and the rigid, clinical definition of 'cousin.' My mixed-race West Indian family reunions involve hugging, all fun and no business, and everyone addressing each other as 'cuz' regardless of relationship. I think the genealogy community needs to remember that a majority of Americans fall into that second category when it comes to thinking about family. Applying the Anglocentric concept to everyone is a losing battle. Time to accept a shift in definition and thinking."
I have several responses to the commenters.
1) I appreciate the discussion content and tone. Thank you to Geoff, Ashley and A.J. for their comments, and for not calling me names.
2) I was not aware that A.J. is Jewish and has an extensive Jewish ancestry, and that this really restricted his family tree and his links to non-Jewish cousins.
"A cousin is a relative with whom a person shares one or more common ancestors. In the general sense, cousins are two or more generations away from any common ancestor, thus distinguishing a cousin from an ancestor, descendant, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, or nephew."
4) It was from that understanding, as Ashley pointed out, that I based my blog post.
"In anthropology, kinship refers to the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of most humans in most societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated. "
"Broadly, kinship patterns may be considered to include people related by both descent (one's social relations during development), and by marriage. Human kinship relations through marriage are commonly called "affinity" in contrast to the relationships that arise in one's group of origin, which may be called one's descent group. In some cultures, kinship relationships may be considered to extend out to people an individual has economic or political relationships with, or other forms of social connections. Within a culture, some descent groups may be considered to lead back to gods or animal ancestors (totems). This may be conceived of on a more or less literal basis."
6) I think that A.J.'s "Global Family Reunion" is a Kinship event. The way he describes it in his comment to me is a classic example, I think, that meets the Kinship definition well.
7) It's great for A.J. to highlight his kinship to other individuals (I do it too!) - but I would prefer that he call them "Kinship Connections" instead of "Cousin Connections."
8) I'm always amazed at how diverse the USA is. We can only follow the threads back in time and connect to ancestral homelands and distant cousins in those places, and marvel at the relationships. As A.J. notes, we are all related - the mystery is when and where. For A.J. and me, the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) is probably back in medieval Europe or even the Dark Ages.
9) Actually, Geoff's comment indicates that A.J. and I do share at least one common ancestor: King David from Biblical times.
I can vouch that my line back to Deborah Bachiler is correct, but I don't know about the other 80-some generations.
So King David is A.J.'s 114th great-grandfather.
My thanks to E. Randol Schoenberg for finding the King David link for both of us.
That makes A.J. and me probably 92nd cousins 23 times removed?
A skeptic would ask why is there a big difference in the number of generations? One answer might be that folks in his line married younger and had children younger. But 23 generations? The right answer is probably that the genealogy research before 1600 or so is suspect - one or both of the lines may have missing ancestors or phantom ancestors. As Geoff noted in his comment - "So there is a common bloodline, albeit not one that is easily verifiable."
There are about 3,000 years between the putative birth of King David and myself. At 4 generations per century (a birth every 25 years on average), that works out to 120 generations. If you look closely at the birth dates of persons in each descent from David, you'll see gaps in birth dates, and many estimated dates. But then, I expect that because there probably aren't birth records for any of them before about 1800.
The relationship charts above are from Geni.com. I don't know, and haven't really investigated, if the pre-1600 information on Geni is from the published and authoritative royal and noble works for non-Jewish families. I have no clue about the Jewish ancestries - perhaps a reader can comment on them.
The bottom line for me is that A.J. Jacobs is throwing a "Global Family Reunion" on 6 June 2015 in New York City and we're all invited, and we should enjoy our kinship. I'm looking forward to it! Party on!
Showing a connection to King David today is mere hearsay. It is impossible for a Jewish individual (or anyone) to trace back to David directly. There are many families who believe they are of Davidic descent. There is even a society for such families. Unfortunately DNA evidence does not exist, and every family history for David has essential gaps; I have seen some of the best and there are still gaps. It is a lovely romantic notion of being descended from him, handed down in some families as tradition and family lore, but it simply cannot be proven by anyone today, despite the claims of some. Sorry, Randy!
Thanks Randy! I love the terms 'kin' and 'kinship.' I was going to name the Global Family Reunion something like "The Great Kinnection", but I decided it was too punny.


the food served and eaten especially at one of the customary, regular occasions for taking food during the day, as breakfast, lunch, or supper.
a coarse, unsifted powder ground from the edible seeds of any grain: wheat meal; cornmeal.
any ground or powdery substance, as of nuts or seeds, resembling this.
a native English combining form, now unproductive, denoting a fixed measure at a time: piecemeal.
Yet we keep doing the cleanses, buying the meal replacement bars, and joining Weight Watchers.
What better way to bring up a serious issue without commandeering the meal?
Every meal is included, including desserts and yes, even wedding cakes.
The company makes money by adding a 15 percent surcharge to the price of the meal.
This is all that was said between them on the subject, and, immediately the meal was over, they retired to their rooms.
He would have liked bread and salt, but was in no mood to grumble over his meal.
The time has now arrived for your own meal, and make the most of it.
He was no less delighted to see the boys than Aunt Lucy had been, and the meal was a merry one.
"food; time for eating," c.1200 (perhaps late Old English), mel "appointed time for eating," also "a meal, feast," from Old English mæl "fixed time, occasion, a meal," from Proto-Germanic *mæla- (cf. Old Frisian mel "time;" Middle Dutch mael, Dutch maal "time, meal;" Old Norse mal "measure, time, meal;" German Mal "time," Mahl "meal;" Gothic mel "time, hour"), from PIE *me-lo-, from root *me- "to measure" (see meter (n.2)). Original sense of "time" is preserved in piecemeal. Meals-on-wheels attested from 1961. Meal ticket first attested 1870 in literal sense of "ticket of admission to a dining hall;" figurative sense of "source of income or livelihood" is from 1899.
"edible ground grain," Old English melu "meal, flour," from West Germanic *melwan "grind" (cf. Old Frisian mele "meal," Old Saxon melo, Middle Dutch mele, Dutch meel, Old High German melo, German Mehl, Old Norse mjöl "meal;" Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic malan "to grind," German mahlen), from PIE root *mele- "to grind" (see mallet).


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Opposition to Zohydro, the powerful new opiate some critics are calling "heroin in a pill," continues to build, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is strongly defending the agency's approval of the drug, saying its benefits to pain patients outweigh the potential negative consequences.
Since its approval by the FDA last October, Zohydro has come under fire from members of Congress, state attorneys general, doctors and addiction specialists who have worked to block the pill from being sold in the U.S., according to this article. Critics want the agency to rescind its approval of Zohydro, citing the alleged danger of the drug as well as the growing abuse of prescription drugs nationwide, but the FDA says that instead of blocking the sale of Zohydro based on a fear of abuse and addiction, providers should screen patients before they prescribe the drug and while they are on it, the article says.
In Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick issued a ban on Zohydro in March, declaring a public health emergency in response to the state's growing opioid addiction epidemic. But in April, a federal judge struck down the ban, saying the state lacked the authority to override the FDA's approval of the painkiller.
Hydrocodone consistently ranks as one of the most popular drugs among Americans who abuse prescription painkillers.
Zohydro's maker, Zogenix, has said it will introduce a non-crushable version of Zohydro in three years and plans to closely monitor prescription abuse, claiming that millions legitimately need the drug.
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Fussy burgers are burgers that have a lot of fussing over behind them. You wouldn't call McD's fare fussy, and I don't mean that in a snide way. The meat is inspected, sent through a grinder, made into patties in a machine, tested by technicians and shipped. It's then grilled and served with standard toppings. It's all very straightforward.
But what about a burger that uses hand-trimmed, aged and handformed burgers that you'll find in gourmet restaurants? Here's what I call fussy, and thankfully so.
Black Label Burger at Minetta Tavern.
This burger is beautifully fussy. The ungodly beauty of the Black Label burger lies in the prime dry-aged beef which is carefully chosen by the chefs, aged for six or seven weeks, and seasoned. Then it is seared on a plancha with clarified butter, so it develops the most glorious crust. It's then slipped into a sesame brioche bun, along with caramelized onions and fries. It's juicy, well-seasoned, and truly makes you forget the world. It will set you back by $30.
If you thought a $6 burger in a small red brick diner couldn't possibly be fussy, you have to try the burger at Louis' Lunch. This is possibly the restaurant that 'invented' the burger, I don't know. But the meat here is cooked on vertical grills, so that the fat drips off it. It is then served on white toasted bread, like it used to be a century ago. If you ask for cheese, you might be offered some Cheese Whiz spread, though the meat is so good the diner sneers at additions. And if you ask for ketchup, they'll hand you a bottle of red thread. Now if that's not fussy to the point of ketchup-hating bigotry, I don't know what is! The meat is some of the best I've had in a burger of this price, though.
The Man's Man Burger at Romer's Burger Bar.
The Man's Man burger from one of Vancouver's top burger joints has maple smoked bacon, vine ripened tomatoes, crispy onion strings, amber ale cheddar and smoked alder salts. The fussy ultra-gourmet ingredients work really well together. Though the naming is a mystery to me.
The Whiskey Burger at Augustine.
If you've ever craved whiskey with your burger, you have to try the New Age dinner option of Whiskey Burger at this new New York restaurant. The $27 offering is built on a 7 ounce brisket blend from Pat LaFrieda. The patty is seared on a flattop and then finished on the grill. This makes it slightly smoky. The caramelized onions are braised and deglazed in single malt scotch, and reminds you of campfire cooking. The whiskey brings out the sweetness of the onions, while making it slightly acidic. This perfectly undercuts the meat. The Comte cheese adds a perfect creamy tang to the burger. I'm totally backing the fuss on this burger.
Mother Flipper is quite fussy about the flavors in the Candy Bacon Burger. The sweet, crispy candied bacon is teamed with a tangy, vinegary ketchup, juicy beef, pickles for tang, mustard for a kick, and tender sesame bun. The flavors are melded carefully. The tomato is omitted for a reason, to avoid watering down the texture.
No, I didn't miss the 'i'. That's how Matt's Bar spells Juicy Lucy, and claims any other Minneapolis burger with the same name is a ripoff. Whatever they call it, the deceptively simple $7.25 burger is made only with high quality beef. The beef is hand-formed after being freshly ground. The first bite of the burger will send a spillage of molten cheese into all your happy tastebuds. This is probably the best inside-out burger to come out of Minneapolis and notoriously difficult to make.
Are there fussy burgers you'd like to add to this list?


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School-voucher, initiative bills spur Gov. Doug Ducey recall effort
An effort is afoot to recall Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey over his support of controversial legislation expanding school-vouchers and making it more difficult for citizens to advance initiatives.
School-voucher, initiative bills spur Gov. Doug Ducey recall effort An effort is afoot to recall Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey over his support of controversial legislation expanding school-vouchers and making it more difficult for citizens to advance initiatives. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/2pmGlLI
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 1:05 p.m. MT April 10, 2017 | Updated 4:00 p.m. MT April 10, 2017
An effort is afoot to recall Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey in response to his signing legislation that expands the state's school-voucher program and a separate measure adding hurdles to the citizen-initiative process.
Leonard Clark, a gadfly and fixture at the state Capitol, filed paperwork for what is sure to be a long-shot recall effort with the Secretary of State's Office on Friday.
"This time, he's gone too far in trying to alter Democratic process that our founders set up," Clark said Monday. "You don't tamper with the initiative process. On the education front, the way he did it, he arm-twisted people, and it was rushed through. He didn't just con the Legislature, he's conning the people who voted for him. I'm just really frustrated."
Organizers of the "Con of Cons Doug Ducey AZ Gov. Recall Committee" would need to collect 376,604 signatures by Aug. 5 to ask voters if they want to unseat Ducey, who is up for re-election next year. Ducey's spokesman declined to comment on the effort.
The recall effort will almost certainly be hampered by a lack of money, especially given Ducey's access to funding from the business community and "dark money" groups inside Arizona and across the nation.
But it also comes as the governor has taken heat from critics who say his efforts to fund public schools fall far short of what is needed.
Some of these critics argue last week's passage of a huge expansion of the Empowerment Scholarship Account program — which Ducey helped ensure with behind-the-scenes work and a late-night signing of the bill — will further sap public schools' financial resources. The program directs tax dollars that would otherwise go to public districts to scholarships that can be used at private and religious schools.
In his recall application, Clark cited Ducey's late-night signing of legislation Senate Bill 1431, which makes all K-12 students eligible to receive public funding for private school tuition, curriculum and educational-related expenses such as therapies. The legislation caps enrollment of the program at 30,000 in 2022.
Hours before Ducey signed the legislation, the Goldwater Institute's chief executive officer wrote in an email blast that the enrollment cap would be removed. "We will get it lifted," Darcy Olsen wrote on behalf of the institute, which is one of the architects of the legislation.
Clark also cites Ducey's support of House Bill 2404, which was promoted as a way to fight fraud in petition-signature gathering by banning the paying of circulators per signature. Instead, they would most likely earn an hourly wage. Critics denounce the measure as an attempt to throttle the citizen-initiative process.
Clark, of Phoenix, wrote in his application that Ducey "has violated the very spirit of Arizona's Progressive and Democratic constitution by his signing of h.b. 2404 into law an anti-Democracy initiative measure which takes away the will of the people. He has therefore shown complete and utter disdain for our founders and its western Democratic traditions.
"Gov. Ducey has also arm twisted the Legislature into passing a theocratic measure which would use our public tax dollars to indoctrinate favored religions into school children and therefore violate certain provisions of the U.S. constitution such as the 14th amend. and Establishment clauses. Doug Ducey this is your indictment by the people of AZ!"
Follow the reporter on Twitter @yvonnewingett and reach her at yvonne.wingett@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-4712.
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Today is the 150th anniversary of the shelling of Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor–the first guns of the Civil War.
How appropriate then that we should wake up this morning to find a newspaper report telling us that under Virginia law it is legal for people to carry guns in houses of worship–for their self-protection.
I am trying to remember the last time I felt sufficiently in danger for my life, or the lives of others, in church, that a firearm seemed necessary. I sometimes go to synagogue with Jonathan, and I am having a hard time remembering a time when I felt that threatened there either. But it must happen. Why else would this be legal?
I have only been to a Muslim service once–in California, not Virginia–and surely with everyone on their knees, and often their hands and heads on the floor, I felt no danger. Maybe it is the Buddhists who need this? Or practitioners of Hinduism?
At any rate, I am relieved to know that the next time a preacher gets too wound up for God someone can calm her or him down by brandishing their weapon of choice.
I am sure you feel safer, too.


Today the wind broke a branch of tangerine sage which I only planted a few days ago. In order to make use of this fragrant herb, I went to EatingWell's website and found a recipe by searching for sage. The only ingredient I didn't have handy was the turkey for Turkey Cutlets with Sage & Lemon. I also made some Oven Sweet Potato Fries (not shown). This was a super easy and fast recipe that tasted great too. I love it when that happens!


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courtesy Door County Visitors Bureau
Weekend Wonders of the Midwest
Nebraska City, Nebraska
Nebraska City is about an hour's drive south of Omaha, and much of its tourism revolves around trees.
"Arbor Day is a big deal in Nebraska City," said Amy Allgood, executive director of Nebraska City Tourism and Commerce.
That's because J. Sterling Morton founded Arbor Day there; it's estimated that nearly a million trees were planted in Nebraska on the first Arbor Day in April 1872. The 72-acre Arbor Lodge State Historical Park is Morton's original estate, and costumed docents guide groups through the historic 52-room mansion, which includes a bowling alley in the basement.
Arbor Day Farm covers 260 acres and includes the 140-room Lied Lodge and Conference Center, both owned by the Arbor Day Foundation. The farm's Tree Adventure includes interpretive trails, a 50-foot-high treehouse and a trip to the greenhouse to get a free tree. The Discovery Ride is an hourlong, tractor-pulled tram tour that takes guests past orchards and vineyards, over bridges and through the woods.
At the farm's Apple House Market, visitors can buy jams, jellies, pies, apple cider and vinegar; most can't pass up the famous apple slushies, which come with a scoop of ice cream and caramel drizzle, Allgood said. At Kimmel Orchard and Vineyard or Union Orchard, visitors can pick all kinds of fruit, eat apple doughnuts and sample wines.
With wood-beam ceilings and stacked-stone walls, Lied Lodge looks historic, but it opened in 1993. On-site exhibits educate guests about the property's sustainability efforts, including the woodchip-powered biomass system.
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Duluth sits on the far western tip of Lake Superior, and "it's stunning," said Kim Kervina, sales manager with Visit Duluth. "It's a city with a resort feel."
The hub of the city's lake-related activities, Canal Park, is in the revitalized warehouse district that's now home to restaurants, boutiques and breweries.
Groups can tour the free Lake Superior Maritime Visitor Center to learn about Lake Superior's history, which includes the iron ore business and the Soo Locks system that allows ships to travel to the lower Great Lakes. It's also a popular spot to watch ships enter the harbor and pass beneath the iconic Aerial Lift Bridge, and the museum even offers a mobile app so visitors can track vessels as they come and go.
A couple of blocks from the visitors center, groups can tour the permanently docked 1937 SS William A. Irvin ore boat museum.
Canal Park is also a midpoint on the four-mile-long Duluth Lakewalk, a paved recreation path that follows the lakeshore and fronts downtown Duluth. Lakewalk is a popular spot for bicyclists, pedicabs, Segway tours and carriage rides. Along the way, visitors can enjoy the Waterfront Sculpture Park.
Vista Fleet offers narrated sightseeing and dinner cruises on the Vista Star, which can hold up to 300 people, and the smaller, 75-passenger Vista Queen. Groups can also explore the lake by land during a trip on the North Shore Scenic Railroad.
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Former Clarksville-Montgomery County Schools assistant principal to face trial on rape charges
Craig Shoup
A trial date has been set for a former Clarksville-Montgomery athletics director and assistant principal charged in connection with the rape of a 17-year-old.
Garry Chadwell is scheduled for a two-day trial starting March 27. The trial date was set after he appeared in Montgomery County Court Friday.
Chadwell was suspended without pay from Kenwood High School on April 19. He was since fired by the district.
Previous Coverage:Judge to determine Clarksville-Montgomery County school employee's fate in July 8 settlement hearing
He is charged with one count of rape and one count of aggravated rape, according to Montgomery County Court records.
Clarksville attorney Justin Sensing, of Grimes, Sensing & Clemons PLLC, is representing Chadwell. The firm has declined to comment on Chadwell's case.
The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System was notified by the Clarksville Police Department on March 31 of an investigation involving Chadwell on a criminal matter that allegedly took place off school system property, according to district spokesperson Anthony Johnson.
Previous Coverage:Kenwood High School assistant principal, athletic director arrested, charged in connection with rape in Clarksville
According to his personnel file, Chadwell was initially hired as principal of Northeast High School and has been employed by CMCSS since 2014.
In April 2016, Chadwell requested an administrative transfer to Kenwood High as an assistant principal, receiving a pay cut of roughly $9,550 for the position.
Chadwell's personnel file does not provide an explanation for the transfer or contain any other documentation as to why he requested it.
Chadwell is due in court Feb. 24 for a conference to prepare for trial.
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Q: Differences in print output/format New to python and trying to figure out why the following 2 lists generate different output formats
n=5
mylist = "*" * n
print(mylist)
mylist = ["\*", "\*", "\*", "\*", "\*"]
print(mylist)

Output:
*****
['\*', '\*', '\*', '\*', '\*']

A: "*" * 5 gives you a string of length 5.
["*"] * 5 gives you a list of five strings of length 1.
In both of these cases, the result has the same type as the "input," just five times longer.

A: Your first variable is a string and the second is a list.
When you do "*" and multiply it by n you multiply that character n times and it returns a string.
The second one you declared as a list and is thus, printed as a list.

A: In Python when using a multiplication operator (*) with a string this string is repeated according to the number, for example

str = "-" * 6 # output : ------

NOTE : This operation returns a string and not a list
The second output is simply a list with elements and its output is as expected
I hope I have helped

A: My output is
*****
['\\*', '\\*', '\\*', '\\*', '\\*']

Obviously,"*" * n is a string,["\*", "\*", "\*", "\*", "\*"] is a list. If you want to create a list, please set a list first.

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Home » News » Well leak discovered 5 km from Alaska Highway south of Fort Nelson
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Well leak discovered 5 km from Alaska Highway south of Fort Nelson
by Grace Giesbrecht July 19, 2022 Updated August 2, 2022
FORT NELSON, B.C. – A fluid or gas leak from a well was discovered 65 km south of Fort Nelson and 5 km from the Alaska Highway.
The B.C. Oil and Gas Commission is monitoring the leak, which was announced through the Commission's Twitter account at 12:05 p.m. on Tuesday.
The company handling the pipeline has halted the flow of fluids and will be conducting further work on the site.
The commission advised the public to avoid the area while work is done to mitigate the leak.
Grace Giesbrecht
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At the age of 13 I was introduced by a school friend, alas name long since forgotten, to the delights of Buddy Holly http://www.buddyhollyonline.com/ and, much as his music had influenced Lennon & McCartney some 15 years earlier (...hey, if you're going to make a specious comparison, make it a big one.....) so I too never looked back.
A year later, and possibly my most shameful admission, a visit to Boots record department, acting as the stooge on look out and diversion for a thieving school friend, saw me own my first album, his slightly scratched copy of Lou Reed's "Berlin", our (well, mostly his, m'lud) illegal actions providing him with a replacement mint copy. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20213002,00.html How cool it is to be able to report that as the first album I owned? I'll confess though that I failed to love it much then, appreciating none of its references to depression and drug addiction, though it went on to become an important part of a significant collection of albums by junkies and dope-fiends alike.
My first real passion was 10CC's "Sheet Music" http://www.minestrone.org/zigzag44.htm which I was given on pre-recorded cassette for my 14th birthday in August 1974, and which I listened to on permanent repeat for the best part of a year. I remember every word to at least half a dozen of the tracks, and will never tire of listening to this innately clever pop masterpiece.
Following the time frame, you'll have worked out that it was the glorious year of 1977 when life took a moderately interesting turn, setting in motion a series of events, experiences and encounters, some of which I'll deign to share through this blog. I'll apologise in avance for what might seem like a bunch of (wholly essential) name dropping, as I ofttimes lead my life vicariously through the action and adventures of others - it might just be fun.


As an avid fan of the show Dr Who, [Adam Sifounakis] saw a model for a laser-cut TARDIS that piqued his curiosity that eventually grew into a multi-week project involving multiple setbacks, missteps, revamps and — finally — gratification. Behold, his sound activated TARDIS.
First and foremost, assembling and painting the model was a fun puzzle — despite a few trips to the store — with a little backtracking on the painting due to impatience. Next, the creation of a pulsing soft white LED circuit timed with an audio clip to really sell the image of a mini-TARDIS proved to be a tedious ordeal, paying off in the end with a satisfying glow through the vellum-diffused windows on the model.
How to trigger the lights? [Sifounakis] initially wanted a capacitive sensor to trigger the sound effects, but that way lay dragons — and madness — so he went with snap-activated effect to activate the TARDIS like the Doctor himself. After struggling with building his own microphone setup, he switched to an electret mic with adjustable gain which worked like a charm. Setting up this TARDIS' Adafruit Pro Trinket brain involved a snag or two, and after that it was smooth sailing!
Until he hit another hitch with the power circuit too, that is. Luckily enough, adding a capacitor to give the circuit a bit more juice on boot solved the issue. All that was left to do was dismantle and rebuild his circuit after all this troubleshooting and substitutions, and — finally — install it in his model.
With much satisfaction and a final rework of the LED pulsing effect, it was done. Check it out!
Be it in the shape of an infrasonic subwoofer, a motion-sensing alarm, or topping Christmas trees, the TARDIS never fails to amaze.
Ok, this one is a bit bizarre, but in perfect keeping with the subject matter: a talking toilet ripped from the pages of the Captain Underpants children's books. Hackaday.io user [hamblin.joe]'s county fair has a toilet decorating contest and at the suggestion of their neighbour's son, [hamblin.joe] hatched a plan to automate the toilet using an Arduino in the fashion of the hero's foes.
Two Arduinos make up this toilet's brains, an Adafruit Wave Shield imbues it with sound capabilities, and a sonic wave sensor will trigger the toilet's performance routine when someone approaches. A windshield wiper motor actuates the toilet bowl lid via a piece of flat iron bar connected to a punched angle bracket. Installing the motor's mount was a little tricky, since it had to be precisely cut so it wouldn't shift while in the toilet bowl. A similar setup opens the toilet tank's lid, but to get it working properly was slightly more involved. Once that was taken care of there was enough room left over for a pair of 12V batteries and a speaker. Oh, and a pair of spooky eyes and some vicious looking teeth.
If you have a limited number of bathrooms at home or at work, some signage would be useful to know when it's free and how dangerous it is to enter.
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Once you have a track and a kart to race on it, what's missing? A lap counter that can give your lap times in hardcopy, obviously! That's what led [the_anykey] to create the Arduino-based Lap Timer to help him and his kids trim those precious seconds off their runs, complete with thermal printer for the results.
The hardware uses an infrared break-beam sensor module (a Velleman PEM10D) to detect when a kart passes by. This module is similar to a scaled-up IR reflective object sensor; it combines an IR emitter and receiver on one end, and is pointed at a reflector placed across the track, up to 10 meters away. When a kart breaks the beam, the module reports the event to the rest of the hardware. Only needing electronics on one side allows the unit to be self-contained.
An obvious shortcoming of this system is the inability to differentiate between multiple karts, but for timing a single driver's performance it does the trick. What's great about this project is it showcases how accessible hardware is today; a device like this is possible to put together with what are essentially off-the-shelf components available to any hobbyist, using an Arduino as the glue to hold it together. We'd only comment that a red-tinted piece of plastic as an overlay for the red display (and a grey-tinted one for the green) would make the LED displays much easier to read. Still, this is a very clean and well-documented build. See it in action in the video embedded below.
If race timing that can handle multiple vehicles is more your speed, we've previously seen DIY lap counters intended for drone racing.
Infinity mirrors are some far-out table mods and make a great centerpiece. Instructables user [bongoboy23] took a couple steps beyond infinity when designing this incredible table tailor-made for our modern age.
Poplar and pine wood make up the framing, and red oak — stained and engraved — make for a chic exterior. Programmed with Arduino and run on a Teensy 3.1, the tabletop has 960 LEDs in forty sections. There are, four USB ports hidden behind sliding panels, as well as a two-port AC outlet and an inductive charging pad and circuit. A hidden Adafruit TFT touchscreen display allows the user to control the table's functions. Control is limited to changing lighting functions, but Pac-Man, Snake, and text features are still to come!
Weighing in at $850, it's not a cheap build, but it looks amazing.
This is one of the most extensive Instructables you may happen across, containing dozens of pictures, CAD files, diagrams, appendices, and a change log, with tips besides; if you want one just like this at home, you are in good hands, here. Or try an easier build, we won't judge. However, maker beware — you may be stepping through a portal that's difficult to return from.
These eight boards stand out for their advanced specs, built-in offerings, and, in some cases, their innovative interface options.
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Who on Earth Needs a Ninja Timer?
John Edgar Park builds a giant 7-segment display timer for a Ninja obstacle course.
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Did you forget about Valentine's Day? Do you need a quick project to get ready for Valentine's Day? [Becky Stern] has you covered. She's whipped up a neat Internet-enabled Valentine project which should be pretty quick to put together.
At its heart (pun intended) is an ESP8266 microcontroller, in this case an Adafruit Feather Huzzah. Several layers of tissue paper heart are stitched together and cut out into a heart shape and then attached to a spring. A vibrating pager motor is used to shake the it when a signal comes in. Two buttons are used to send the message and a red LED is used to light the heart up. The whole thing is enclosed in a shadow box. [Becky] also put together another controller with a similar setup in a plastic enclosure. When the buttons are pressed on either controller, the other gets a signal and the heart shakes and lights up.
These projects send and receive Valentines, but they could be programmed to send whatever information you'd like. If you're looking for a quick Valentine's Day project, this is a great one, and you might have all you need already in your component drawer. Break out the soldering iron and send your Valentine a message! If you're still looking for a quick Valentine's Day project, check out this animated heart or this PCB Valentine.
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Indian Army and the need for technological support to the tactical edge
The triad that exists to ensure the success of troops being launched into any conflict is based on technology, tactics and training.
There is no doubt that warfare in future needs the latest technology and technical oriented personnel to manage the complex systems be it missiles, tanks, guns, aircraft and ships. (Photo source: AP)
By Maj Gen Jagatbir Singh
The triad that exists to ensure the success of troops being launched into any conflict is based on technology, tactics and training. Many years ago Richard Simpkin in his famous book ' Race to the Swift' talked about the fifty-year cycle when a decisive weapon or technology changed the nature of the battlefield and led to transformative changes in tactics and ushered in a revolution in military affairs. It has happened since the beginning of the conflict and recent weapons can be the machine guns, tanks, aircraft and helicopters all that led to victories for the armies that were able to adapt to the then-emerging technologies.
Indian Army gets ready for future wars! Embraces new, disruptive techs with drones' display on Army Day
300-400 Pak-trained terrorists ready to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir: Army chief General Naravane
MEA Jaishankar holds talks with Nepalese counterpart Gyawali
Today this change is in the form of nuclear weapons which are used mainly as a deterrent and the need to grasp the changes taking place in Space-based assets, 5G technologies and AI in combating the enemy. The book ' Unrestricted Warfare' by the two Chinese Colonels talks of conflicts taking place in arenas and manners not visualized earlier and their words while introducing the book that "the only rule in unrestricted warfare is that there are no rules" are telling to say the least. Warfare is going to transcend all boundaries and aspects of society.
The truth is that today there are a large number of analysts who feel that the Indian Army is not grasping the emerging technologies and is more focused on infantry in spite of the reassurances by both the CDS and Army Chief regarding the future of warfare and technology. And that technology will become the key driver for future conflicts. There is no doubt that warfare in future needs the latest technology and technical oriented personnel to manage the complex systems be it missiles, tanks, guns, aircraft and ships. There is also no doubt that the cycle of fifty years is fast reducing and obsolesce in technologies are taking place faster. At the other end, you have to have access to this technology and finally the money to buy it. So, to simply say that we as an Army are not focused on technology is untrue. Moreover, having been part of a Project handling the induction of new technology while in Service, the issues of availability of commercial technology and the same being ruggedised and adapted to function effectively across all terrains with adequate secrecy was always a challenge.
There are areas where we are very advanced as far as induction of weapons with the latest technologies are concerned, a case in point is the development of missiles by the DRDO, however, there is no hiding the fact that their success has not been as spectacular in other fields to namely the Arjun tank and nether was HAL able to deliver the LCA in the given time frame. With the ushering in of Atnamnirbhar, there is a need to have greater accountability and reducing the gap between expectations and delivery of technologies and at the same time we need to involve both our Universities and the Private Sector to a greater degree. This is an opportunity that needs to be seized and they need to exploit emerging technologies to enable long term and holistic solutions to our security requirements.
As far as imports are concerned there is no doubt that induction of new equipment is often caught up in procedural delays, no Artillery guns were upgraded for over thirty years due to the fallout of Bofors and the infantry is yet to get delivery of the new carbines. The induction of the Rafale has also been witness to many delays. Unless you have the weapons and systems in place you cannot train on them and unless you train on them you will be found wanting especially when faced with a peer enemy.
At the same time, everything cannot be adaptive, innovative, modernized and transformative. While there is an increasing age and obsolesce in some of our core equipment, it is imperative to examine specific areas such as all-weather surveillance and targeting, drone and counter-drone technologies, night fighting capabilities and communication technologies to include battlefield management systems.
There is also a hubris that needs to be overcome, which exists in most armies; the presumption that tactical competency will overcome technical proficiency. This is a dangerous assumption.
(The author is an Indian Army Veteran. Views are personal)
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It was extremely windy today. After work at the beach store, I snuggled in my cozy camper to rest and study. I am learning Italian for a 2018 trip to Sicily and studying specific massage techniques for myofascial release and fibromyalgia.
On a very brief venture outside I spied some other creatures sharing my headlands hillside. Their spot opposite mine is open and sunny yet sheltered from the wind.
Here is a photo with my regular lens.
I dove back indoors for the telephoto lens. Look at the difference.
PS. The little one lying down has the button beginnings of antlers. Can you see them?
What a difference that lenses makes. I have a 70-300 on order. I can't wait to try it.
So precious, I just love pictures of deer. The little guy is adorable. Great pictures. How smart they are all together protected from the wind and dangers.
What exquisite creatures! I still can't fathom anyone wanting to kill and eat one, but that's just me.


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The demise of the dollar has been wildly exaggerated
The month that changed the USA
Countries that sponsor terrorism
Invite president Hassan Rouhani
The USA is a banana republic
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(december 2015) The End of the USA
There have been many predictions about the demise of the USA as a world power. All of them have been proven wrong over and over again. At one point the USA, having lost the Vietnam war, was described as agonizing while the Soviet Union was viewed as dominating. That didn't even last 15 years because the Soviet Union disintegrated. Then analysts were quick to predict the Japanese takeover of the USA, based on the fact that Japan's economy was growing at a much faster pace and Japan had just bought the Rockefeller Center in New York. That one didn't even last two years because Japan entered an economic stagnation that has now lasted a quarter of a century. Then in 1999 the European Union introduced the euro, creating the eurozone, an economic union rivaling the USA, and the euro rapidly gained over the dollar. That threat didn't last more than a decade and now the eurozone is mostly known for the eurocrisis. Then came the threat of China, another country whose economy was growing by leaps and bounds, catching up with the USA, and a much bigger country than Japan. Read my 2012 article China is a colony of the USA for my view of this other "tiger paper". More recently economists worldwide have been predicting a collapse of the dollar. See my article The demise of the dollar has been wildly exaggerated for the reality. The USA has had little to worry about all these predictions. External forces have never seriously threatened the social order (let alone the physical borders) of the USA.
However, this time it might be real. The National Rifle Association, which is de facto a terrorist organization bent on killing as many US citizens as possible (see, for example, Congratulations NRA: another successful massacre! and its 2015 revision Congratulations NRA on another well-executed massacre), has achieved its goal. Imagine an age in which Al Qaeda or ISIS or Boko Haram is legal in the USA, has its headquarters in the USA, can buy advertising on TV and newspapers, can even bribe politicians to pass terrorism-friendly laws and has thousands of members who are perfectly free to be members of a terrorist organization. That's precisely what the National Rifle Association is, and it is way bigger and better funded than any of those Islamic terrorist organizations. Thanks to its operations, the USA is rapidly becoming a country (the only one in the world) in which there are more guns than people, and legally so. There are 88.8 privately owned guns per 100 people in the USA while there are only 0.6 per 100 people in Japan where the murder rate is 40 times lower.
The NRA has basically won. Now that the USA is terrorized by literally hundreds of mass shootings (300 so far in 2015) we have reached the tipping point when gun control does not make sense anymore. Asking people to walk around unarmed is rapidly becoming the equivalent of asking them to commit suicide. When everybody in your neighborhood is armed and you are not, you feel like a sitting duck. You will need to carry a gun to go and pick up your children at their primary school, or risk being gunned down in the parking lot. You will need to carry a gun when you mow your lawn or risk being gunned down by a drive-by shooter. You will need to carry a gun and a bullet-proof vest to go shopping because there will be snipers on the roofs of the nearby buildings.
It has now become unthinkable to carry out in the USA the kind of mass confiscation of guns that Australia successfully carried out in 1996 (and that lowered their gun-violence rate to world-record levels).
There are two tipping points in gun violence. The first one is when everybody has to get a gun because everybody else already has one. This tipping point causes gun violence to increase exponentially, as it is happening in 2015. The second tipping point happens when gun violence makes the country so dangerous that it basically enters a state of civil war, and the economy tanks because both domestic and international investors flee the country. That is what will happen next in the USA. That is how the USA will end. Not because of a military adversary like the Soviet Union, not because of an economic challenger like China, and certainly not because of the pacific invasion of illegal immigrants, but because of the legal spread of deadly weapons that will turn the USA into a place where nobody wants to do business.
The next flood of destitute refugees towards Europe may come from the USA, not from Syria. The next surge of illegal immigrants may come from US citizens crossing the border into Mexico to flee the civil war at home.
P.S. Lots of false data being circulated on the Internet. FBI data on the homicide rate in the USA: this summary. World Bank dada on homicide rates in various countries of the world: this summary. Most discussions use sources that are not reliables or wildly distorted figures.
(november 2015) Why not Polygamy?
Three women got married in Brazil. The union is not recognized by the state, but they wanted to make a statement that they intend to live together for the rest of their lives (see for example this article). As more and more countries decide to broaden the definition of "marriage" to homosexual couples, an obvious question is: if marriage is NOT reserved to a man and a woman, why is it reserved to two people? Why is it illegal to marry more than one person? All the arguments in defense of homosexual marriage seem to apply (in even stronger versions) to polygamy. Think of the "they just love each other" argument. Well, isn't it good if three people love each other instead of just two? Isn't it good if ten people love each other so much to swear eternal union to each other instead of just two? Shouldn't society actually reward the bigger union over the smaller one instead of criminalizing any group of spouses that is greater than two? The limit to two people had a very simple biological explanation: a man and a woman can have children. But now that the definition of marriage does not depend anymore on that biological fact, what makes it unethical and even illegal to have multiple spouses?
Polygamy has been pervasive in ancient times, and it is among most mammal species. It is perfectly legal to be a single mother or single father, but it is not legal to have a marriage among three people. Abraham, considered a prophet by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, had three wives (Sarah, Hagar and Keturah): was he a criminal? The Bible is full of cases of polygamy and never refers to them as amoral. Mohammed, the founder of Islam, had five wives.
To me it looks much more natural for a group of two men and three women to raise children (as it was in most ancestral societies) than for a same-sex couple to do so (something for which i find no precedents in ancestral societies). A family without a man or without a woman goes against biology, and may have consequences for which the entire society will have to pay. It may make more sense to have two mothers or two fathers than to have no mother or no father. (No, i don't take into any consideration the anti-gay propaganda of Mark Regnerus, Paul Sullins, and other "scholars". I am fully aware that their studies were biased, and i am fully aware that almost all the studies collected on the Columbia Law School's website show no problems in children raised by gay parents, but i am also aware that any study showing differences would have a much more difficult time being accepted by a scientific journal, and, more importantly, that we just don't have enough cases to study: gay couples raising children are a very recent phenomenon).
In 2008 i published an article titled Why i voted against "gay" marriage and readers accused me of being a bigot and of hating gays. I was just being rational and pointing out that society was opening a can of worms. TM, ®, Copyright © 2015 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.
(october 2015) Congratulations NRA on another well-executed massacre.
A deranged man, Chris Mercer, has killed nine people in Oregon. People like him kill simply because they can: gun-friendly law make it easy for them to arm themselves to the teeth. The fact that some of them go on a rampage and kill a few innocent bypassers or schoolchildren comes as no surprise to the rest of the world: put 100 million guns in any nation of the world, and you'll have the same outcome. A 2015 study showed that life expectancy in the USA is lower than in most Western countries before of gun-related deaths .
Imagine an age in which Al Qaeda or ISIS or Boko Haram is legal in the USA, has its headquarters in the USA, can buy advertising on TV and newspapers, can even bribe politicians to pass terrorism-friendly laws and has thousands of members who are perfectly free to be members of a terrorist organization. That's precisely what the National Rifle Association is, and it is way bigger and better funded than any of those Islamic terrorist organizations. What do you suggest we do if Al Qaeda or ISIS establishes a basis in the USA? What should we do to the politicians that allow it to happen?
During the negotiations with Iran on the nuclear issue, a few Republican politicians showed their disgust at the idea that the USA was negotiating with a country guilty of killing US soldiers. Iran never killed a US soldier, but armed the Shiite militias in Iraq that did kill US soldiers. The Republican politicians who think that funding killers makes Iran a killer should apply the same logic to the National Rifle Association, that has armed many more killers who have killed many more US citizens than Iran or anyone else ever dreamed of doing. If it's ok to bomb Iran for arming our enemies, what should we do to the NRA for arming people who killed many more US citizens?
See this article. I am tired of writing the same article over and over again.
(september 2015) The demise of the dollar has been wildly exaggerated.
Not long ago economists were fond of writing articles like this one ("Why the Dollar's Reign Is Near an End", Barry Eichengreen, Wall Street Journal, 2011). Quote: "There will soon be two viable alternatives, in the form of the euro and China's yuan." Since then the euro has collapsed from 1.4 to almost parity with the dollar (1.1). The Chinese currency was devalued by its government in August 2015, and even before that it hadn't exactly skyrocket: it had improved from 0.15 to 0.16, i.e. 1%, in five years. The Russian rouble has collapsed: it is worth literally half of what it was worth in January 2009. Since 2012 the Japanese yen has lost nearly a third of its value. The Canadian dollar has fallen to a six-year low. The Australian dollar has been plunging so fast that some predict it will soon be worth half of what it was at the peak a few years ago. You can find historical data at Oanda. I travel all over the world and i have never seen any currency trader displaying the value of the Chinese yuan other than in countries neighboring China. Long-term it is hard to predict anything, but given the instability in the eurozone and the instability in East Asia, it is hard to see which would be the political or economic drivers that would cause a worldwide divestment from the dollar.
Political and economic commentators have a short memory, and none of them seems to remember that a few years ago they were predicting massive unemployment and very high inflation in the USA because of the huge national debt and of the Federal Reserve printing money: "your dollars will be worthless" as a popular Fox News evening commentator shouted at his "liberal" guest. Lo and behold, in August 2015 the unemployment rate has fallen to 5.3% while inflation still remains stubbornly below the official target of 2%. Those who followed Fox News' recommendations to get rid of their dollars are now contemplating their worthless foreign currencies and gold savings.
I remember headlines such as "The Collapse of the Dollar and How To Profit From It". All over the web these "experts" are frantically trying to remove their articles, interviews and videos that predicted a catastrophic collapse of the dollar and a catastrophic rise in inflation. The modest regime of Zimbabwe, certainly not a welcome guest at the White House, used common sense and, instead, in June 2015 decided to withdraw of its own currency and simply adopt the US dollar. Apparently ageing African dictators know better than young exuberant Western economists. TM, ®, Copyright © 2015 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.
(july 2015) The month that changed the USA.
One after the other, two Supreme Court decisions, the one that upheld "Obamacare" (i.e. socialist medicine) and the one that upheld same-sex marriage, reshaped the USA. One madman who carried out a massacre in the South also contributed to reshaping the USA because the aftermath consisted mostly in the South burying once and forever every vestige of the Civil War (that was fought, ostensibly, over slavery). Some called it "the final surrender". At the same time, the USA and Cuba normalized their relations after more than 50 years of hostilities, and the president of Vietnam's Communist Party visited Obama in Washington: the Cold War is officially over. At the same time, less publicized but no less important in the long term, the Republican-controlled Congress did precisely what it had promised not to do: it granted Obama fast-track trade authority. The Trans-Pacific Partnership signals not only the end of any hope by the US proletariat to ever matter again in national politics but also a true shift from Europe to Asia (the "Asian pivot" that Obama prophesized).
Of course, between the lines one can see that little has changed: "Obamacare" (the Affordable Care Act) is a mess and far from providing universal coverage; same-sex marriage is not a big deal compared with the process of disintegration of the traditional family that has been going on since the 1960s; slavery would not have existed without the Northern capitalism that made money out of its agricultural exports and that Northern capitalism is alive and kicking and simply exploiting other forms of inequality (and in any case the real issue behind the recent massacre was guns and not slavery); the "Asian pivot" has been underway since Obama became president; and Cuba began to change course with the economic reforms of 2010.
If you think that Obama has more critics than supporters in foreign policy, think again. The polls might show it that way, but a president who embraced the "energetic" foreign policy of past presidents would be buried in the polls. That is another transformation that has been going on mostly unnoticed: the USA got out of the spirit of World War II, the spirit of the liberator and of the defender of freedom. The voters may consider Obama a weak president in foreign policy, but they would not vote for a "hawk": from now on the USA wants a weak president in foreign policy. For the foreseeable future Obama's motto "Don't do Stupid Stuff" is likely to become the winning motto of any future president, Democrat or Republican. Any Republican who runs for president by promising to bomb Iran or invade Syria is certain to be defeated. Heisenhower staged the coup in Iran that ended Iran's democracy and installed the shah, with the only result of creating the premises for the revolution that created the USA's #1 enemy in the Middle East. Kennedy tacitly approved the "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba which, failing, laid the foundations for 50 years of hostility between Cuba and the USA, including the closest we have ever come to nuclear war (the Cuban missile crisis of 1962). In 1964 Johnson invaded Vietnam using the fabricated Tonkin incident with the sole result of losing a war (the first war lost by the USA in its entire history). Nixon bombed Cambodia, killing tens of thousands of civilians, and in 1973 approved a coup in Chile to oust the democratically elected president, Allende; both events that created two genocidal evils (the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and Pinochet's fascist regime in Chile). Reagan invaded Lebanon, only to be kicked out in 1984 (and Osama bin Laden learned from this episode), funded the Islamic fundamentalists willing to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan (some of which joined Osama bin Laden to start Al Qaeda) and in 1980 supported Saddam Hussein against Iran, the same Saddam Hussein against whom the USA would end up fighting two costly wars in 1991 and 2003. George W Bush epitomized the dangers of interventionism with the wars he started (and didn't finish) in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003), while supporting Israeli wars in Lebanon (2006) and Gaza (2008). The USA is unlikely to go back to doing "stupid stuff". Bill Clinton was guilty of inaction in Rwanda, Bosnia and Chechnya, and Obama has been guilty of inaction in Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and Libya; and the voters like it that way. The world will have to find itself a new policeman.
Add to this that the legalization of light drugs like marijuana has been happening without any major rebellion. And lurking ahead is climate change: 67% of US citizens now agree that global warming is real (Pew Poll 2014). Hispanic immigrants are slowly but steadily turning the USA into a Catholic country; and, last but not least, for the first time in the history of the USA, a woman (Hillary Clinton) is leading in the polls to become the next president.
The question is, if this is a revolution, "who has been defeated?" The short answer is: older male white conservatives. On all of these issues that is the category that tends to side on the opposite side. For liberals, minorities, millennials (young people) and women this is not a revolution but a mere adjustment to the reality of the 21st century. At the 2012 presidential election, 71% of Latinos voted for Barack Obama, 73% of Asian-Americans also voted Democrat, along with 93% of African-Americans, 66% of millennials and 67% of unmarried women. On the other hand, 59% of white voters (including 51% of white women) voted for Obama's Republican opponent, the older white male conservative Mitt Romney. A breakdown of that 59% shows a peak over the age of 30: Romney would have won the popular vote if only people over 30 had voted.
Republicans such as Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum will keep preaching to these white conservatives and they will keep getting a share of the national vote that will justify their career (and their various book and television deals) until they retire, but the Republican party itself has probably moved on. It is now officially pointless to run on a platform on Obamacare repeal, Christian values, southern nostalgia, etc. When young folks study Quantum Mechanics and Evolutionary Biology, and go on to work in scientific labs or biotech startups, they are much less likely to go to a Christian (or, for that matter, Muslim) church where the Republican candidate is promoted for free. Republicans are now officially out of touch with the times. Jeb Bush famously quipped that "Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay..." But that's precisely what Republicans have been. The winner of the Republican primaries will be much more likely to campaign on infrastructure than on health care; and on city crime than on same-sex marriage; etc. I wouldn't be surprised if the Republican candidate, after lambasting Obamacare as "socialist", would go on to propose some kind of subsidies for education, whose skyrocketing cost is one thing that definitely irks the traditional family; and i wouldn't be surprised if the Republican candidate (this time or next time) were someone from Silicon Valley. I wouldn't be surprised if the Republican candidate, after depicting "climate change" as an anti-capitalist witch-hunt, were the first one to propose stricter limits on carbon emission.
The Republican Party needs to get away from its "WASP" image. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) are no longer dominant. In fact, the ethnic revolution was already visible for those who wanted to see it in the 2012 elections: a black man (Barack Obama) and a Catholic (Joe Biden) faced a Mormon (Mitt Romney) and another Catholic (Paul Ryan). For the first time there was no WASP on either ticket. Both the old and new speakers of the House of Representatives are Catholics: Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner. The majority leader of the Senate was a Mormon (Harry Reid) until 2014 (when he was replaced by a WASP, Mitch McConnell). Since 2010 none of the nine judges of the Supreme Court has been a WASP: they are six Catholics (Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor) and three Jews (Stephen Breyer, Ruth Ginsburg, Elena Kagan).
Because of the weird law used to elect a president (in theory he is elected by an "electoral college", not by the people), what matters in the USA is not the popular vote but the "electoral" vote. Some states consistently vote for the Democratic Party candidate, and they constitute what some call the "Democratic Blue Wall": California (55), Connecticut (7), Delaware (3), Hawaii (4), Illinois (20), Maine (4), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (11), Michigan (16), Minnesota (10), New Jersey (14), New York (29), Oregon (7), Pennsylvania (20), Rhode Island (4), Vermont (3), Washington (12), Washington DC (3), Wisconsin (10). The total number of electoral votes from these states is very close to the magic number of 270: you become president if you win 271.
Reagan invented an unlikely coalition of Christian conservatives, foreign-policy hawks and capitalists. Obama invented an unlikely coalition of minorities, millennials, workers and unmarried women. Hillary Clinton's coalition could prove to be even more formidable than the Obama coalition because she is likely to get the majority of votes among white women of all ages. The color of her skin matters: being white instead of black, she will attract the votes of white women who didn't like Obama's skin color, and she might even attract more male white voters than Obama.
The Republican Party certainly knows all of this without reading it here. They know that the mid-term elections of 2014 was not"the latest manifestation of a resurgent Republican coalition" (as John Judis famously wrote) but a weird side-effect of district gerrymandering: the Republicans lost on pretty much every social issue that was presented to the voters in "propositions" (referendums) even if they won both houses of Congress. It won't last, and they know it, unless the Republican Party accepts that the USA is a different country from the one that was founded and ruled by white male conservatives. TM, ®, Copyright © 2015 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.
(june 2015) Countries that sponsor terrorism.
The USA finally removed Cuba from the list of "state sponsors of terror". People all over the world roll their eyes when they are told that Cuba was officially considered for decades a state sponsor of terrorism by the USA. What terrorism was Cuba sponsoring? Nobody has the answer, but some corrupt politicians win votes in the USA if they show this kind of, frankly, terrorizing behavior towards Cuba.
On the other hand, there is little doubt that Pakistan has supported and is supporting several terrorist organizations, including the one (Lashkar-e-Taiba) that killed 164 people in Mumbai in 2008 (Pakistan just released Zakiur Lakhvi, despite overwhelming evidence that he masterminded those attacks) and including the Taliban in Afghanistan.
There is also little doubt that Saudi Arabia has been helping all sorts of terrorist groups over the years, starting with Al Qaeda (that carried out the 2001 attacks in the USA). It is telling that Saudi Arabia is bombing the Houthi rebels in Yemen, rebels who have not harmed civilians but simply overthrown a corrupt and inefficient government (that both Saudi Arabia and the USA calls "the legitimate government of Yemen" even though is was neither democratically elected nor loved by the people); while at the same time Saudi Arabia is not bombing Al Qaeda, a terrorist group which controls an increasing region of southern Yemen.
And, in case you wonder where ISIS' passion for beheading comes from, check out what the government of Saudi Arabia did to Siti Zainab, an Indonesian maid who revolted against the rich Saudi "employer" who enslaved her. Beheadings have been routine in the kingdom founded by Abdul al-Aziz ibn Saud, who had 20 wives and actively supported the puritanical Wahabi order (the Islamic order that inspired the Taliban, Al Qaeda, ISIS, Al Shahab and Boko Haram).
Finally, there is little doubt that Israel has killed more than 1,000 civilians in Gaza and a similar number in Lebanon in two senseless wars.
There is enough damning evidence to show that Putin orchestrated terrorist attacks in Russia and then blamed them on Chechen terrorists. Putin and his friends physically own Russia and live above the law: Russia is de facto ruled by gangsters armed with nuclear weapons, thanks to Western banks that launder their money. (See Comparing Russia's and Western Europe's Kleptocracies).
Turkey still denies the Armenian genocide of a century ago, and tacitly supported ISIS during its rapid expansion.
Japan still doesn't recognize the rape of Nanjing and many other atrocities committed during World War II in Asia.
The organization that can pride itself on having killed the highest number of US citizens is the National Rifle Organization, based in the USA: its money buys the votes of politicians to pass legislation that makes it easy to own a gun and shoot citizens.
However, the USA maintained Cuba, and none of these countries, on the list of states sponsoring terrorism, which only proves how out of touch the US Congress is: these parochial senators and representatives are totally clueless about what goes on in the world. The Roman Empire had a similarly corrupt and idiotic Senate, but at least those Roman senators did know something about the world. TM, ®, Copyright © 2015 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.
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(january 2015) Invite president Hassan Rouhani .
The US Congress has invited "congenital liar" Benjamin Netanyahu to give a speech in Washington. (Why "congenital liar"? See What Netanyahu and Putin have in common and The art of inventing inexistent wars). That is a honor rarely bestowed on foreign leaders. It is clearly intended to influence the public opinion of the USA and justify spending more billions of taxpayers dollars to launch some other war in Israel's interest. The excuse is the usual one: Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. And never mind that the excuse doesn't work anymore: Iraq has fair and free elections, and Turkey has been a democracy for even longer (Egypt is not a democracy because Israel and the USA supported the overthrow of the democratically elected president, otherwise it would be). If you don't like the results of an election, it doesn't make the election "undemocratic": it makes you a sore loser. There have been various kinds of elections throughout the Middle East and i am not even sure that the Israeli ones are the most democratic ones (Arab citizens are treated like second-class citizens and the occupied West Bank is not allowed to vote at all).
Netanyahu doesn't really care how many people get killed in Syria or Libya. He is coming to Washington to repeat his obsession with Iran. He views Iran as the biggest threat to Israel, and he is right. But not because of the nuclear weapons (Israel has them, why shouldn't Iran be allowed to have them?) The real reason why Netanyahu is paranoid about Iran is what would happen to Israel in a world in which the USA and Iran are friends.
Since 2001 it has been obvious to any external objective observer that the USA and Iran have enemies in common: Iran was the only country to fight the Taliban before 2001 and Iran was the country that fought a long and bloody war against Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. When the USA attacked those two, the USA was simply following in the footsteps of Iran. No wonder therefore that Iran became the main beneficiary of George W Bush's wars. Bush removed Iran's most dangerous neighbor (Saddam Hussein) and Iran's most serious long-term threat (the Taliban, another Sunni fanatical movement that views Shiites as mortal enemies). No wonder that eventually Iran, under a new president, decided to sit down with the USA and try to negotiate some kind of agreement about its nuclear program. Netanyahu might be honestly worried about Iran's nuclear program (and of course he avoids mentioning that Iran must be worried about Israel's much more advanced nuclear program) but he is probably also worried about the possibility that the USA and Iran become buddies again. Before the revolution that ousted the shah and installed the current Shiite theocracy, Iran was the USA's most reliable ally in the region. When Iran fell, Israel took its place. Israel has made a fortune out of that 1979 revolution in Iran.
The bottom line is that Netanyahu is willing to do anything to disrupt any reapproachment between the USA and Iran. The first beneficiary has been ISIS (See ISIS thanks Turkey and Israel). Anybody could write the speech that Netanyahu will give to the US Congress: a long litany against "terrorism" (omitting that his government has killed more civilians in Gaza than all terrorists combined in the West) and the warning that Iran is about to build its first nuclear bomb, thereby subliminally associating Islamist terrorism and a nuclear Iran (and never mind that all known Islamist groups ferociously massacre Shiites, and that Iran is the main Shiite state). It would be interesting, though, to hear Iran's version of the facts too. It would be interesting to hear how Iran would respond to Netanyahu, to hear Iran's view of the world (and Iran's view of Israel). It is not only Iran that thinks Israel has been fooling the USA, pretending to be a staunch ally while de facto sabotaging the reputation of the USA. The whole Middle East thinks that Israel is the USA's worst enemy in the region. The whole Middle East thinks that all problems start with the Palestinian issue, and Israel consistently does everything it can to make sure that no peace deal can be achieved, i.e. that the issue remains open. It would not hurt if the public opinion of the USA heard this other version of the facts.
China is rolling its eyes: China keeps warning the USA about North Korea's nuclear program, both because that regime is unreliable and because it has missiles that could hit South Korea, Japan, and, lo and behold, the USA. (See for example this article). Why is the USA so obsessed with distant Iran and not with much closer North Korea? China must be truly puzzled that both the foreign and domestic policies of the USA are dictated by a small country like Israel.
The previous president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was indeed a bit deranged (although he too had some valid points, which he gladly made whenever a US television channel offered to interview him, even on Fox News), but the new president, Hassan Rouhani, earned a PhD in Constitutional Law from a British university. Yes, he also led Iran's nuclear program, and, personally, i tend to believe that he repeatedly outsmarted the West and greatly advanced that program. Whether he is sincere in negotiating with the USA i cannot know. What i do know is that the Republicans are going out of their way to make sure that his voice is never heard in the USA: why not invite Hassan Rouhani too to give a speech to the US Congress? If not him, at least the king of Jordan, a country that is fighting ISIS directly and risking retaliation for offering its bases to the USA? What are the Republicans afraid of? Why are they so keen on making sure that the US public hears ONLY the Israeli version of the facts? Why are they so keen on making the US public think about the Iranian nuclear bombs (that don't exist yet and couldn't hit the USA anyway) and not about the North Korean nuclear bombs (that do exist and that could hit the USA)?
A few readers emailed me asking me basically the same question "How can we invite to Washington the president of a country that just instituted a context for the best "holocaust denier drawing"?
1. It is not the president of Iran that has organized that context, it is an obscure "Iran's House of Cartoon and the Sarcheshmeh Cultural Complex" or, better, its director Masud Shojaei-Tabatabaii.
2. There are many many many psychos in every Western country. The list would be too long. We also have our own holocaust deniers See "Measuring Holocaust Denial In The United States" (Harvard University, 2010), and much worse people (suprematists who want to exterminate all blacks, for example) not too mention all sorts of ridiculous conspiracy theories. If we decided not to invite the presidents of all the countries that have at least one psycho doing something ridiculous, we would not allow our own president to speak.
3. Perhaps the reason that so many people in the Islamic world are ready to doubt the Holocaust is precisely that it has become a dogma. Let's have the conference on the Holocaust that Ahmadinejad wanted to organize, with scholars from both the Western and Islamic world to talk about it. I suspect it will help dispel the conspiracy theories. But there will always be people who deny the Holocaust just like in Italy an impressive % of the population believes that Neil Armstrong never landed on the Moon and that Bush put bombs in the World Trade Center.
4. Note that the cartoons are about making fun of an event that (in their opinion) did not happen. The cartoons are not about making fun of people exterminated in that event (that they think never happened). So technically speaking the cartoons are not even anti-Semitic, but anti-Western-propaganda (what they perceive as being Western propaganda).
5. Anyway, it would be interesting to have the president of Iran speak at the US Congress so the hardcore Israeli supporters can ask him the simple question: "Do you believe that the Holocaust happened"? And many other questions.
6. Denying the Holocaust does not kill people. Netanyahu's lies have killed people. TM, ®, Copyright © 2015 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.
(january 2015) The USA is a banana republic..
When in 1981 Ronald Reagan struck military sanctions against Israel, guilty of bombing Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor without the approval of the USA (Reagan was half a fan of Saddam Hussein, who was fighting a war against Iran), Israel's prime minister Begin is said to have reminded the USA that Israel was not a "banana republic" but an independent sovereign state.
We wish the USA could tell Israel the same in 2015: that the USA is not a banana republic. Israel's prime minister does what he wants in the USA, and tells the USA what to do in the world. This banana republic with capital in Washington is largely run by a corrupt and idiotic Republican Party (not even remotely related to the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan), whose members are willing to do anything in exchange for money that will help them get reelected. These highly-paid prostitutes of the Republican Party would even invite a terrorist to Washington, if the sum was big enough. In fact, they may have just invited one of the most dangerous of all terrorists, a man who would not hesitate to destroy the USA if it served his political career in Israel: Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The USA should stop talking about bombing Iran and start seriously talking about bombing Israel before Israel topples the government of the USA. Israel's prime minister likes to say that Israel, surrounded by enemies, is fighting for its survival. It is time that the USA too, cornered by a deadly enemy (Israel), starts fighting for its survival. Instead of the pathetic sight of US lawmakers (alas, elected by us) giving regular standing ovations to the condescending speech of a charlatan and megalomaniac it would be nice to see US lawmakers grant the president of the USA the authority to strike Israel whenever this little Mussolini threatens the interests of the USA. It would also be nice to see the Israeli people throw out this man who keeps embarrassing their country. The US is being naive in trusting Israel, that is fundamentally untrustworthy. TM, ®, Copyright © 2015 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.


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