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Gennadi Nikolajewitsch Timtschenko (; ; ; * 9. November 1952 in Leninakan, Armenische SSR, Sowjetunion) ist ein russisch-finnischer Oligarch und Rohstoffhändler. Er gründete und besitzt die private luxemburgische Holding Volga Group. Zuvor war er Miteigentümer der zypriotischen  Gunvor Group.
Er ist, wie auch die Gebrüder Boris und Arkadi Rotenberg, ein jahrzehntelanger Weggefährte, Geschäftspartner und enger Freund von Präsident Wladimir Putin.

Seit 20. März 2014 steht er auf der Sanktionsliste der USA, seit Ende Februar 2022 wurde er von der britische Regierung und der Europäische Union mit Sanktionen belegt. Im Zusammenhang mit dem Überfall Russlands auf die Ukraine wurde sein Vermögen im Zugriffsbereich dieser Staaten eingefroren. Sein Vermögen schätzte Forbes 2022 auf über 12,7 Milliarden US-Dollar.

Herkunft und Ausbildung
Gennadi Timtschenko wurde 1952 in Leninakan in der Armenischen SSR geboren. Sein Vater war sowjetischer Armeeangehöriger, der mehrmals versetzt wurde. 1959 zog die Familie in die DDR, Timtschenko war sechs Jahre alt. Während seines Aufenthalts in Ostdeutschland erwarb Timtschenkos seine Deutschkenntnisse. Etwa sieben Jahre später zog die Familie in die Ukraine. Timtschenko studierte am Mechanischen Institut von Sankt Petersburg und beendete sein Studium 1977. Danach soll er als Werkstattleiter in der Maschinenbaufabrik Ischorski Sawod gearbeitet haben. Wegen seiner Deutschkenntnisse habe er ins Exportgeschäft gewechselt.

Werdegang
Timtschenko gehört zum Kreis der Putin-Vertrauten, die mit ihm in den neunziger Jahren in St. Petersburg zusammenarbeiteten. Von 1987 bis 1994 war er für das russische Unternehmen Kirischineftechimexport tätig. 1989 oder 1990 hatte er, nach eigener Darstellung, ein erstes Treffen mit Wladimir Putin. Später übernahm er eine leitende Funktion beim Handelsunternehmen Urals-Finland Oy.1991 verlegte er dafür seinen Wohnsitz nach Finnland und wurde 1999 finnischer Staatsbürger. Bereits Anfang der neunziger Jahre war Timtschenko als Ölhändler tätig und erhielt durch den damaligen Vizebürgermeister Wladimir Putin Zugriff auf das Ölterminal von St. Petersburg. 1997 gründete Timtschenko mit dem Schweden Torbjörn Törnqvist die Ölhandelsfirma Gunvor.
Timtschenko profitierte im großen Stil von Putins Machtübernahme im Jahr 2000, als dieser begann, den Ölkonzern Yukos des Oligarchen Michail Chodorkowski zu zerschlagen. 2007 gründete Timtschenko die Volga Group mit Sitz in Luxemburg. Über sie erwarb er zunächst fünf Prozent am russischen Unternehmen Novatek und erhöhte seinen Anteil durch Zukäufe bis Mai 2009 zunächst auf 13 Prozent und bis 2012 wurde er mit 20,77 Prozent Großaktionär.

Mittels Beteiligungen an der Volga Group sowie an Gunvor sollen laut westlichen Geheimdiensten Milliarden ins Ausland geflossen sein, mit und für Wladimir Putin. Die Vermutung entbehre jeder Grundlage, heißt es dagegen von Gunvor. Timtschenko ist Großaktionär des 2003 gegründeten Eisenbahnunternehmen Transoil, einem der größten Eisenbahntransporteure von Öl und Ölprodukten in Russland mit Sitz in Sankt Petersburg. Transoil betreibt 34.000 Kesselwagen und 36 Lokomotiven. Darüber hinaus hält er Anteile am Petrochemie-Konzern Sibur, der von Putins Ex-Schwiegersohn Kirill  Schamalow geleitet wird.

Auch an wichtigen russischen Baufirmen ist Timtschenko beteiligt. Er profitierte von großen staatlichen Bauprojekten wie der Fussballweltmeisterschaft sowie den Olympischen Spielen, vor allem aber auch als Mehrheitsaktionär beim Baukonzern Stroitransgas, der für Gazprom Pipelines verlegt. Der staatlich kontrollierte größte russische Konzern und weltgrößte Energielieferant Gazprom wird von  Alexej Miller geleitet, Putins früherem Assistenten in Sankt Petersburg. 2009 erwarb Timtschenko über Volga Resources Anteile an der Schwarzmeer und Ostsee Versicherungs-Aktiengesellschaft (SOVAG) in Hamburg. Nach Angaben des US-amerikanischen Forbes Magazine gehört Timtschenko zu den reichsten Russen. Um weniger Steuern zahlen zu müssen, verlegte er 2001 seinen Wohnsitz in die Schweiz.

Geschäftliche Aktivitäten

Gunvor International
Timtschenko ist (gemeinsam mit Torbjörn Törnqvist) Mitbegründer von Gunvor, einem in Zypern eingetragenen Unternehmen mit Tätigkeitsschwerpunkt Handel und Logistik in Verbindung mit dem internationalen Energiemarkt.

Gunvors Hauptgeschäftssitz befindet sich in Genf, Schweiz. Es verfügt außerdem über Geschäftssitze in Singapur, auf den Bahamas und in Dubai sowie über ein Netzwerk von Vertretungen auf der ganzen Welt. Das Unternehmen ist mit Handel, Transport, Lagerung und Optimierung von Petroleum und anderen Energieprodukten beschäftigt und verfügt außerdem über Investitionen an Ölterminals und Hafenanlagen. Seine Unternehmungen bestehen aus Sicherung vorgelagerten Rohöls und seinem Transport auf den Markt mit Pipelines und Tankern.
Das Unternehmen ist der weltweit viertgrößte Rohölhändler hinter Glencore, Vitol und Trafigura. Gunvors Gewinn betrug 2016 315 Mio. US$.

Gunvors russisches Ölhandelsgeschäft beläuft sich auf etwa ein Drittel des gesamten Handelsvolumens, und Gunvor bezieht Rohöl aus mehr als 35 Ländern in aller Welt.
Gunvors Handelspartner und Kunden umfassen acht der Top 10 und 17 der Top 20 der weltweit größten Öl- und Energieunternehmen. Gunvor arbeitet außerdem mit mehr als 50 höchstrangigen Finanzinstituten überall auf der Welt zusammen. Außerdem verfügt Gunvor mit der Clearlake Shipping Ltd über seine eigene Reederei, die laut Angaben von Unternehmensvertretern zu seiner führenden Stellung beim Ölhandel beiträgt.

Im Mai 2008 behauptete er öffentlich, dass seine "mehr als zwanzigjährige Karriere in der Ölindustrie nicht auf Gefallen oder politischen Verbindungen aufgebaut worden" sei.

Ende Juli 2009 entschuldigte sich das britische Wirtschaftsmagazin The Economist in einem Artikel bei Timtschenko bezüglich der Anschuldigungen zu Bestechungsgeldern, die zuvor im November 2008 in dem Artikel Grease my palm über die "neue Korruption" in Russland gemacht worden waren. Die Redaktion des Economist wies ausdrücklich darauf hin, dass diese Anschuldigungen sich nicht auf Gunvor und Timtschenko beziehen würden und dass die Redaktion jedes Missverständnis in dieser Hinsicht bedaure.
Im Gegenzug zog Timtschenko seine Klage vor einem britischen Gericht zurück, die er gegen den Economist eingereicht hatte. Sein britischer Rechtsanwalt Michael Prescott, der Timtschenko in dieser Sache vertrat, hatte zuvor im März 2009 dem Guardian gegenüber formuliert, Timtschenko sei es satt, dass über ihn und Gunvor ständig unwahre Geschichten verbreitet würden und dass man der Verhandlung gelassen entgegensehe.

Angesichts angekündigter westlicher Sanktionen aufgrund der völkerrechtswidrigen Annexion der Krim durch Russland verkaufte Timtschenko im März 2014 seinen Anteil an seinen Partner Torbjörn Törnqvist, der somit 87 % der Anteile hält.

Volga Resources Group
Die Volga Group verwaltet die Vermögenswerte von Timtschenko und Familie. Sie tätigt Investitionen in den Bereichen Finanzdienstleistungen, Industrie, Bauwesen, Handel und Logistik, Konsumgüter und Energie. Die Holding wurde 2007 in Luxemburg gegründet.

Zweck der Holding ist "in übertragbare Wertpapiere sowie andere Vermögenswerte und Finanzinstrumente zu investieren (...), um den Teilhabern langfristiges Kapitalwachstum zu ermöglichen". 2013 stellte er beim Internationalen Wirtschaftsforum in St. Petersburg seine neue Investmentgruppe Volga Group vor, die seine Beteiligungen und Management zusammenfasst, sowie seine Managementgesellschaft Volga Advisors, welche die Unternehmen in der Volga Group überwachen und unterstützen wird. Gennadi Timtschenko hat mehrere Interviews gegeben, in denen er über die Strategie dieser Unternehmen sprach. Er bemerkte, dass sich seine Gruppe in den nächsten Jahren auf die Entwicklung von Infrastrukturprojekten in Russland konzentrieren wird. Der Unternehmer glaubt, dass es derzeit einen Investitionsmangel auf diesem Sektor gibt und dass die Investition Dividenden abwerfen wird.

Novatek
Im Oktober 2008 kündigte Timtschenko an, dass Volga Resources 5 % der Anteile an der Gasfördergesellschaft Novatek für geschätzt 500 Millionen US$ erworben habe. Im Mai 2009 gab Volga Resources bekannt, dass sie dem Erwerb von 13,13 % an Novatek zugestimmt habe und dass Timtschenko in den Vorstand von Novatek gewählt worden sei. Er besitzt nun einen Anteil von 23,5 % an der Gesellschaft.

Stroitransgas
Timtschenkos Familie besitzt mindestens fünfzig Prozent des Baukonzerns Stroitransgas, der international Großprojekte abwickelt, insbesondere den Bau von Pipelines, Stromnetzen, Autobahnen und Stadien. Aufträge bekommt er von Gazprom. Beim Bau der verpolitisierten Grossprojekte von Gazprom konnte Timtschenko gute Erträge generieren.

Vermögen
Laut Forbes Magazine gehört Timtschenko zu den reichsten Menschen in Russland und der Welt:

Laut einer Publikation des russischen Medienkonzerns RBK belief sich Timtschenkos Vermögen 2012 auf 24,6 Mrd. US$.

Neben seinem Geschäftsvermögen verfügt Timtschenko laut Medienberichten auch über Grundbesitz in Genf in der Schweiz, der sich auf etwas über 1 ha Land und eine Innenfläche von 341 m² beläuft. Laut Katasteramt Genf betrug der Kaufpreis des Grundbesitzes 8,4 Mio. SFR (zum Zeitpunkt des Kaufs 2001 etwa 11 Mio. US$).

Sein Einkommen hat sich laut der finnischen Finanzbehörden von 1999 bis 2001 verzehnfacht. 2001 gab er ein Einkommen von 4,9 Mio. € an. Wegen seiner hohen Steuerbelastung zog Gennadi Timtschenko 2002 in die Schweiz.

Sanktionen
Am 20. März 2014 wurde Timtschenko im Zuge der völkerrechtswidrigen Annexion der Krim durch Russland und den russischen Krieg in der Ukraine und seiner Nähe zu Präsident Putin auf die Sanktionsliste der USA gesetzt. Im April 2014 setzte die US-amerikanische Regierung Timtschenko auf eine Sanktionsliste infolge der Ukraine-Krise, die Timtschenko die Einreise in die Vereinigten Staaten verbietet.

Ende Februar 2022, nachdem Putin die Krise in der Ukraine eskalierte, verhängte die britische Regierung Sanktionen gegen Timtschenkov. Sein Vermögen in Großbritannien wurde eingefroren und es wurde ihm die Einreise untersagt. Am 28. Februar 2022 setzte die Europäische Union ihn im Zusammenhang mit dem Überfall Russlands auf die Ukraine 2022 auf die schwarze Liste und ließ sein Vermögen einfrieren. Timtschenkos Yacht Lena wurde von italienischen Behörden im Zuge der Sanktionen in Sanremo beschlagnahmt.

Persönliches und Privates

Familie
Timtschenko ist verheiratet und hat mit seiner Ehefrau Jelena drei Kinder. Die Familie lebt bzw. lebte in Cologny bei Genf. Sie bewohnten dort eine im Jahr 2014 auf 18 Millionen Franken geschätzte Villa. Zudem kaufte die Familie mehrere Ferienhäuser und Hotels in Frankreich. Zu ihrem Lebensstil gehörte auch eine Privatjet-Flotte, die seit 2014 vom amerikanischen Hersteller nicht mehr gewartet wird. Laut Forbes soll Timtschenko heute (2022) seinen Wohnsitz in Moskau haben. 2021 wurde er noch vom Wirtschaftsmagazin Bilanz in der Liste der reichsten Schweizer geführt.

Staatsbürgerschaft
Seit März 2014 lebt Timchenko in Moskau, während seine Familie in der Schweiz lebt. Die internationale Ausgabe der finnischen Zeitung Helsingin Sanomat berichtete 2004, dass Timtschenko die finnische Staatsbürgerschaft erworben habe, jedoch seit 2001 in Cologny bei Genf lebe. 1999 habe er die russische Staatsbürgerschaft aufgegeben und sei finnischer Staatsbürger geworden, sagte Timtschenko in einem Interview. Er habe nie ein Geheimnis aus seiner Doppelstaatsbürgerschaft gemacht und alles sei im Rahmen geltender Gesetze abgelaufen (Interview mit der russischen Nachrichtenagentur TASS 2014). Die Bedingungen für Reisende mit russischem Pass seien in den 1990er Jahren schwierig gewesen, so Timchenko.

Gesellschaftliches Engagement
Durch sein Vermögen ist Timtschenko in der Lage, sich als Philanthrop zu betätigen. Das Ehepaar Timtschenko hat sich in der Vergangenheit in verschiedenen, von ihnen kontrollierten wohltätigen Projekten engagiert. So gründete er 2008 gemeinsam mit seiner Ehefrau in Genf die Neva-Stiftung zur Förderung kultureller Projekte in der Schweiz und in Russland. Im Jahr 2010 gründete das Ehepaar die Ladoga-Stiftung, die sich der Förderung älterer Menschen sowie kulturellem Erbe widmet. Diese Stiftung wurde später in Jelena und Gennadi Timtschenko-Stiftung umbenannt.

Seit 2011 ist er Präsident des Eishockeyklubs SKA Sankt Petersburg. Timtschenko ist eng mit dem russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin befreundet.
Im Juli 2012 wurde Timtschenko zum Vorsitzenden des Verwaltungsrates (Board of Directors) der supranationalen Kontinentalen Hockey-Liga gewählt. In der Schweiz zählte er zu den Gönnern des Grand Théâtre de Genève und des Eishockeyclubs Servette. 2013 erhielt er in Frankreich den Orden der Ehrenlegion.

Darüber hinaus ist Timtschenko seit 2012 Mitglied im Kuratorium des Jüdischen Museums und Zentrums für Toleranz in Moskau.

Weblinks

 Forbes Magazine: Gennadi Timtschenko
 Guardian:Russian billionaire drops libel case against Economist

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Santander plans to use the fund to become more involved in FinTech; an area which it claims has traditionally only accounted for 10% of all bank investments.
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The Chat: Trevor Corkum Interviews Vivek Shraya
author: Trevor Corkum, Trevor Corkum
appSaturday, June 11th, 2016
Vivek Shraya's first collection of poems, even this page is white, is a bold, powerful work of art, addressing questions of racism, whiteness, and marginalization in social, creative, political, and intimate spaces.
Praising the collection, Shani Mootoo says, "this brave and very contemporary lyrical collection dares to ask the unspoken yet screaming questions, to finish the sentence that hurts, that reveals, that provokes, that celebrates. Like a Durga goddess, Shraya juggles with deft hands the multiple aspects of desire, race, gender, queerness, and contemporary pop culture."
The Toronto Arts Council says, "Shraya's voice is valuable to the future of poetry in Canada because of her undeniable strength, honesty, perception, and innovation."
Vivek Shraya is a Toronto-based artist whose body of work includes several albums, films, and books. She is also one half of the music duo Too Attached and the Associate Editor of Heartbeats, a website that features racialized artists and stories. Her first novel, She of the Mountains, was named one of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2014. Vivek is a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, a 2015 Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award finalist, and a 2015 recipient of the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize Honour of Distinction.
Vivek's first children's picture book, The Boy & the Bindi, will be published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2016. Her book on recording artist M.I.A. will be published in 2017 by ECW Press, as part of their Pop Classics series.
THE CHAT WITH VIVEK SHRAYA
Trevor Corkum: This is your first collection of poetry. How did even this page is white come into being?
Vivek Shraya: In 2015, I began writing what I believed to be my next novel. The concept was an allegorical and futuristic story that centered on race and racism. But I found the process to be quite challenging. At first, I assumed this was just because I was learning to write again, getting my feet wet.
But after several months, I wondered if allegory, and more broadly, fiction, was the right fit for what I wanted to get across. I parcelled through the writing, highlighting words and sections that I thought were the strongest, and ended up with fragments that felt exciting and more effective. These fragments were the beginnings of what would become the poems in even this page is white.
TC: This is a strong, challenging collection, asking the reader to confront his/her/their own relationship to race and racism and the dominant tropes of whiteness in our culture. You balance pathos and confrontation, poetry and polemic, and, as in all your work, seek to peel back the layers of subterfuge to get right into the heart of the matter. Can you talk about the importance of addressing race and racism so directly and explicitly in this work?
VS: One of the reasons I struggled with employing allegory to discuss racism is that it felt easy. Not to write, but easy for a reader, a white reader, not to have to engage or personalize. This is already the case with racism, where most people don't think they are racist nor have racist biases. Being direct, through the bareness of poetry, felt like a more necessary and needed approach. If we are going to talk about racism, let's talk about racism!
TC: One of the sections I cherished most in the book is the sequence origins of skin. The third poem in that section, in particular, speaks to our changing awareness and relationship to skin colour, self-worth, and desire, from childhood through to adulthood. Here's an excerpt:
three/adolescence
before skin
you only looked
at each other
with purest love
raw hands pressed
over your rib
cage in case
your heart tried
to jump out
what was that like?
Can you talk about what this sequence means to you, and your experience writing it?
VS: I am often struggling with connection, or rather, feelings of disconnection. Humans are full of longing and yet we don't always know how to connect. Often this is because of a fear of difference, a history of violence, or envy.
In this section, I was trying to imagine a time (not unlike adolescence) when humans were in complete awe with each other. Maybe we require this kind of admiration to break the barriers and prejudices between us.
TC: You're also clear in the collection to name and address both anti-black racism and settler colonialism, with regards to Canada's indigenous people. How and why was this important to you, both as an artist and as an individual?
VS: Blaming white people or being angry at white people for racism only goes so far. For me, the hardest part of writing this book was thinking about my own complicity.
What are ways that my actions and opinions feed into white supremacy? Is it hypocritical for me to write a book about racism while being a settler on stolen land?
Asking myself these kinds of questions feel like basic and necessary steps in regards to unpacking my own privilege and wanting to work in solidarity with Indigenous and Black people.
TC: In addition to your writing, you're a prolific visual artist, musician, performer, to name just a few of your hats. How do the various genres in which you work speak to one another? Can you give us a little insight into some of the projects you're working on currently?
VS: Each medium has different strengths and different limitations. Working in various media sometimes allows me to work through a feeling or theme in a different way. Every copy of even this page is white comes with a link to a new song called "white dreams," but the book also features a poem called "white dreams." The foundations for both works are similar, but each have different functions, and will be (hopefully!) consumed through different formats.
Other times, working in various mediums allows me to have a break from certain projects, especially projects as weighted as even this page is white. This spring, I am also playing my first shows with my new band Too Attached (with my brother), and this offers me the opportunity to be a little more playful. So does my forthcoming children's picture book, The Boy & the Bindi, which Arsenal Pulp Press is publishing in the fall.
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Cooperate with Quality Assurance, in maintaining all aspects of internal Quality Management System and similar quality efforts as they relate to the Warehouse.
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Comprehend and comply with federal, state, and local warehousing, hazmat, material handling, and shipping requirements.
Safeguard distribution center operations and contents by establishing and monitoring security procedures and protocols.
Prioritize, schedule and delegate work assignments, and directly supervise and motivate your team to ensure the best possible service to the customer.
Communicate resource issues in a timely manner to both the Site Management Team & Operations Manager EMEA to ensure on time delivery to our customers.
Prioritize, schedule and delegate work assignments, and directly supervise and motivate the Distribution staff to ensure the best possible service to the customer.
Monitor the work of distribution center employees to ensure the accuracy of the work and timeliness of shipments by initiating, coordinating, and enforce policies and procedures.
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One of the foremost reasons you should be marketing via this unique and popular website can be summed up in a simple statement: YouTube recently surpassed internet giant Yahoo and became the 2nd most popular search engine in the world (hot on the heels of its parent company, Google). You could stop there and would have justification enough to tap into this marvelous resource.
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When internet users are thinking of a product, service, or field of interest, YouTube is often the first place they look. Think about the potential that fact represents for you as a webmaster and business owner: for free, you can place your product in front of the mass market online. That's big!
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Create a business presence on every major social network, like Google+, facebook and twitter. Obviously, you should promote your YouTube videos daily on these networks by posting links with a strong headline. And, if you can afford to, you may even want to consider paid marketing and advertising for your videos.
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The Power of the Blog: Obama Responds to Yoani
Committee to Protect Journalists -- Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez was astounded this week by President Barack Obama's decision to respond a written questionnaire Sánchez submitted to the White House. Still recovering from bruises left by a recent vicious attack by state security agents, she told CPJ from her home in Havana: "This is the best way to get better."
The blogger said that she had tried for months to reach the U.S. president through different channels. Sánchez said she had sent written questions to Obama through a wide range of different people before the White House responded. On her blog Generación Y, where she has posted Obama's answers to her seven questions, Sánchez explained that the questions were based on issues "that keep me from sleeping," and were born from her personal experience.
"It was a very pleasant surprise," Sánchez said, acknowledging that the chances that Obama would reply were minimal. Before responding to the questions, Obama thanked Sánchez for the opportunity to exchange views with her and her readers in Cuba, and congratulated her for receiving Columbia's University Maria Moors Cabot Award for excellence in Latin American reporting.
"Your blog provides the world a unique window into the realities of daily life in Cuba," Obama wrote. "It is telling that the Internet has provided you and other courageous Cuban bloggers with an outlet to express yourself so freely, and I applaud your collective efforts to empower fellow Cubans to express themselves through the use of technology. The government and people of the United States join all of you in looking forward to the day all Cubans can freely express themselves in public without fear and without reprisals."
See my post today on the Enterprise Blog about Yoani Sanchez, where I conclude that:
When the history of Cuba's freedom movement is written, it's likely that Yoani Sanchez will be recognized as a national hero and freedom fighter, the equivalent of Lech Walesa in Poland and Vaclav Klaus in the Czech Republic. Yoani Sanchez demonstrates that we should never underestimate the power of one courageous individual with a computer, a blog, and intermittent access to the Internet, or the individual's power to change the world in the Information Age, especially with a message of freedom and individual liberty. The fact that the president of the United States, who is often recognized as the most powerful person in the world, has praised Yoani Sanchez's blog and responded to her questions is a remarkable and historical event. Intellectual figures like Milton Friedman, Friedrich von Hayek, and Thomas Jefferson would be proud of Yoani Sanchez and her powerful message of individual freedom in one of the few remaining regimes of totalitarianism left in the world.
At 11/20/2009 5:15 PM, KO said...
So in Iran where people are being arrested, tortured, and killed, it's up to them to deal with. But Cuba, well no problem standing up for a voice of opposition.
Pretty easy standing up to a country that can't do anything versus a country that can shut the Strait of Hormuz and spike oil prices.
At 11/20/2009 5:24 PM, Pingry said...
Shame on you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How could you invoke Thomas Jefferson's name as if he truly cared about individual freedom, when, in fact, Jefferson was a man who paid lip service to ideas of liberty and justice for he was a slave-owner himself, like so many of the other "founding fathers" and "patriots".
Jefferson knew that what he was doing was not only morally reprehensible, but entirely against everything for which he was fighting, and yet he still held these people as slaves!
Jefferson liked freedom and liberty only for people like himself.....but if you happened to be a black, then it was okay for him and his ilk to own you.
To be clear, Thomas Jefferson was a hypocrite who talked a big game about liberty and justice, but was an abject failure because he lacked the courage to follow his passionate convictions. He was a pure coward.
Libertarians like you have some serious explaining to do when you look to Thomas Jefferson as some example of moral superiority.
So next time you criticize some non-libertarians in a holier-than-thou manner for conveniently sweeping facts under the rug, perhaps you should get your act together.
--Pingry
At 11/20/2009 7:13 PM, Anonymous said...
Jefferson was a realist. He knew there would be no country if slavery was to be ended at its founding. While many founding fathers had salves, many also freed them.
Trying to turn a section of society 180 degrees in thought overnight is just being silly.
At 11/20/2009 7:39 PM, gettingrational said...
Pingry, Yes Jefferson owned slaves or what he might call them, servants. By his request five members of the Hemmings family were freed after his death.
Some of the ideas that Jefferson highly influenced were in Virgina's consttution before the U.S. Constitution were: Complete Religious freedom and a system of government for an independent judiciary, bicameral legislature and weak executive called an administrator. These are ideas that endure in the U.S. and more so every day around the world -- except for the regretable strenghtening of the executive.
Jefferson's leadership in continually debating and regenerating democratic institutions are enduring and world changing. He should have disavowed slavery but he set a foundation that even the descendants of slavery can be grateful for.
How could you invoke Thomas Jefferson's name as if he truly cared about individual freedom, when, in fact, Jefferson was a man who paid lip service to ideas of liberty and justice for he was a slave-owner himself ...
Spare us the leftist drivel. Slavery was an ancient and established institution, encompassing every corner of the globe in Jefferson's world. He inherited not only slaves, but huge debts which would have made it impossible for him to free his slaves since they would have had to have been sold to extinguish those debts.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the document that gave voice to individual liberty and the truth that man's rights are invested by God and are not the gift of other men. He despised the institution of slavery and foresaw the Civil War, predicting that institutionalized slavery would eventually tear the country apart.
Jefferson, and the rest of the Founding Fathers, set in motion a system of government and economics that has resulted in the greatest advancement of human liberty and material enrichment the world has ever known. The true human slaveholders have been the socialists who have enslaved entire nations, killing tens of millions and denying the potential of hundreds of millions more.
The only coward in this discussion is you.
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At 11/21/2009 12:52 AM, Anonymous said...
To hold 18th century figures to the current environment is less than fair. Recall that to end slavery in the US took between 618000 and 700000 killed out of a population of 30 million, a rate of 2.6% of the population.
Practically also it was the British abolition of slavery in 1833 that did the institution in. It also ended the deadliest form of slavery the sugar plantation slavery which literally worked slaves to death. It was this movement that prevented Britain from following its economic interest and backing the south, since a lot of British industry depended on Southern American Cotton at the time.
Jefferson was not perfect in our eyes, but then he was not perfect for different reasons to his contemporaries. He unleashed ideas that are still evolving and growing in ways he could not have predicted, but then often one can not see the long term consequences of his actions. Sure one could call him a hypocrite, but who is not one in one sense or another? If want wants to rail against Jefferson's original intent talk about women who were also unpersons at the time.
A former State Department official and his wife admitted in federal court Friday that they spied for Cuba over the past three decades, receiving coded instructions over a shortwave radio and passing along information to intelligence operatives in "dead drops" and "hand-to-hand" passes.
Walter K. Myers, 72, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit espionage and wire fraud. His wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71, pleaded guilty to conspiring to gather and transmit national defense information.
The couple's attorney, Bradford Berenson, said in a statement after the hearing that the Myerses were not motivated by greed but spied "out of conscience and personal commitment."
Over the years, Myers memorized secret documents or borrowed them from work and then gave copies to Cuban agents, authorities said. The couple also met their handlers during overseas trips. In 1995, they visited Cuba using false names and spent an evening with Castro, court papers allege.
Under the plea deal, the couple agreed to forfeit $1.7 million, the total of Myers's salary over the years, in cash and property to the U.S. government. That includes a prized 37-foot Malo sailboat.
While Yoani risks beatings, prison or worse, this POS was working overtime for Castro and Raul, making sure that their boot remained firmly planted on the necks of the Cuban people.
At 11/21/2009 9:52 PM, AMATI said...
Amo te Yoani Sanchez. ¡No! Yo no soy tu hermano, pero yo soy tu hermano auxiliar, y yo te amo. Usted debe escuchar. Yoani debe escuchar a la voz callada dentro de ella. Escuche a la voz de mil hermanos y cien padres. La voz dice "Ella debe desistir ahora". Yoani nos permitirá ahora terminar tu trabajo. Ésta no es la Bahía de Cerdo. Éste no es otro fracaso. Éste es el corte final, la huelga firme de muerte contra el tirano. Nosotros hemos puesto sus patos en una formación de pavos agonizantes.
Siéntese tranquilo. Relaje. Mire el juego de una gran distancia. El drama de muerte será tan breve como la espada del matador que encuentra su destino rápidamente. El golpe de relámpago será más rápido que el ojo de Yoani..
Usted debe desaparecer. Mueva lejos de las armas. Mueva lejos de las computadoras. Evite el peligro.
Evite la muerte, Yoani Sanchez. Permanezca para nosotros. Usted es nuestro espíritu, Jeanne d'Arc
At 11/21/2009 11:08 PM, QT said...
Thought you might like a translation of the previous post:
I love you Yoani Sanchez. Not! I am not your brother, but I am your auxiliary brother, and I love you. You must listen. Yoani must listen to the voice kept silent inside her. Listen to the voice of thousand brothers and hundred fathers. The voice says " She must desist now ". Yoani will allow us now to finish your work. This is not the Bay of Pig. This is not another defeat. This is the final court, the firm strike of death against the tyrant. We have put his ducks in a formation of agonizing turkeys.
Feel calmly. Relax. Look at the game of a big distance. The drama of death will be so brief as the sword of the killer who finds his destination rapidly. The blow of lightning will be more rapid than the eye of Yoani..
You must disappear. Move far from the weapon. Move far from the computers. Avoid the danger.
Avoid the death, Yoani Sanchez. Remain for us. You are our spirit, Jeanne d'Arc
What is missed here is the answers of Barrack Obama. What of them...are they so platitudinous that Thomas Jefferson becomes the hot topic of conversation? Last time, I looked Tom wasn't running the most powerful nation in the world and making a dog's dinner of U.S. foreign policy.
I like history as well as the next man but shouldn't we be discussing either the situation in Cuba or President Obama's posturing.
You are our spirit, Jeanne d'Arc
~~QT~
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But most of all QT means kindness.
Grazia, QT
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At 11/26/2009 6:41 AM, Johnny10 said...
"the equivalent of Lech Walesa in Poland and Vaclav Klaus in the Czech Republic."
you probably mean Vaclav Havel, the first president of the Czech. Rep. Vaclav Klaus is the current president of Czech Rep. he is the only leader in EU who is against the global warming hystery. respect to him. but he had nothing to do with the velvet revolution.
anyway, thank you for this amazing blog Mike!!!
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Historical things happen and then years later you're left only to read about them in a history book with your imagination filling in the blanks. That's what's so neat about this one spot in Wyoming. You can actually see, feel and experience what it was like to travel along this famous trail. History definitely left a tangible mark at this one fascinating spot in Wyoming.
The Oregon Trail Ruts is a preserved section of one of the most significant trails in history. This section is located along the south side of the North Platte River 1/2 mile south of the town of Guernsey.
The Oregon Trail in this area winds up towards South Pass. This particular route was chosen to avoid the marshy ground along the North Platte River.
This route was first used in 1812 when Robert Stuart and six others passed through here returning to the east from the Columbia River. In the years that followed, many trappers, traders and missionaries took this route as well.
The Bartleson-Bidwell party was the first wagon train of settlers to use the trail. Their party was known to have traveled through here in 1841.
The next two years saw a lot of traffic along the trail. In 1842, 125 people used the trail and in 1843, 900 people traveled along the trail.
The Oregon, Mormon, California and Pony Express Trails all followed the same route from Fort Laramie to South Pass.
The Oregon Trail became a well defined and widely used trail. The trail became forever etched into this part of the state.
The ruts resulted from years of wear and tear by the wagon wheels.
The use of the overland trail leading to the Pacific rapidly declined after the completion of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1869. Sections of the trail were used locally many years later.
The trail ruts are a 1/2 mile long and are worn 2 to 6 feet deep into the sandstone ridge. The half mile stretch is the best preserved ruts of anywhere on the trail.
Emigrants had 3 options of camp sites in the Guernsey area when traveling along the trail. These included Register Cliff, Warm Springs or Cold Springs.
This site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966. This State Historic Site is located within Guernsey State Park.
It's a very moving experience to see physical evidence of the route taken by hundreds of thousands of emigrants heading West.
There's nothing like physically seeing and actually touching a site that has been walked on and touched by ancestors from 200 years ago. These individuals played such an important role in shaping the history of our country.
For other historical landmarks that will leave a profound impact, check out 10 Historical Landmarks You Absolutely Must Visit In Wyoming.
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When you say out of hand: Point Nemo myth and reality of the remotest point of the globe
by Renzo Crovo 18 March 2021
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If the news of the Vendée Globe at some point got us caught up, a few months ago, we have learned that in that moment the competing yachts were sailing to transit the point on the earth globe closer to the orbiting space station than any mainland on earth.
Well, said like that sounds a bit strange and certainly picturesque however it is the reality: Point Nemo is situated in a point of the South Pacific Ocean, officially named as "oceanic pole of inaccessibility".
Well, if the daily routine stress makes us look for the remotest point on Earth, and we have a good sea foot, the solution to our dilemma is nothing but Point Nemo.
Since the official title was a little too pompous (and not excessively friendly, as a matter of fact) it has been nicknamed Point Nemo, after Jules Verne anti-hero, Captain Nemo. The name means "nobody" in Latin, which fits such a little frequented place.
Point Nemo is located more than 1,600 km equidistant from the coasts of three islands. Ducie Island (one of the Pitcairn isles) is located at north, Motu Nui (of the Easter Island archipelago) is at northeast and the Maher Island (off the coast of Antarctica) is at south. It is a quite particular place.
In the past, the experts have long discussed about the geographic enigma of finding the centre of the ocean, but to provide a complete solution they needed modern technology. The survey engineer Hvroje Lukatela officially discovered the oceanic pole of inaccessibility only in 1992.
Instead of launching an expedition, Lukatela stayed comfortably seated in his lab on mainland and calculated the position of the point using a specialized computer software. Instead of putting only one pin in a flat projection of the Earth, the software incorporated the ellipsoidal shape of the planet for maximum precision.
Seems like the experts will not question the primacy of this singular place in the next few years, since they believe it unlikely that the point may move significantly in the next future.
The position of three equilateral points is rather unique and there are no other points on the earth's surface that could plausibly replace any of these; it is possible that better measurements, or coastal erosion, could move the Point Nemo position, but – as expected – only in the order of meters. I therefore do not think it is appropriate to be fussy.
Point Nemo is so far from mainland that the closest human beings are often are astronauts. The International Space Station orbits around the Earth at a maximum of 258 miles; meanwhile the nearest inhabited continental mass to Point Nemo is over 1,670 miles away.
In fact, space agencies know very well the entire region around Point Nemo. Space agencies officially know the area, because it is the point on the planet with the least number of human inhabitants and the least trafficked shipping routes.
People think that a hundred abandoned spacecraft occupy now this "spacecraft graveyard", from satellites to the dead space station MIR. They usually are not entire wrecks but parts or, more often, fragments scattered on the bottom of the ocean. Spacecraft, indeed, don't survive re-entry into the atmosphere, most of them burn. The most common components to survive are the fuel tanks and the pressure circuits, which are part of the power system. The latter are generally made of titanium or stainless steel, often enclosed in complex fibre boxes made of carbon, heat-resistant.
As in all shipwrecks, also these wrecks create habitats that anything living in that depths will colonize; and unless there is residual fuel escaping, it shouldn't be any danger for aquatic life.
However, what could live at Point Nemo?
Although he wrote 66 years before its discovery, the dark fantasy author Howard Philips Lovecraft chose a site strangely close to the oceanic pole of inaccessibility for R'lyeh, home of his legendary sprawling-faced creature Cthulhu.
In 1997, oceanographers recorded a mysterious noise less than 2,000 km east of Point Nemo. This led to great excitement and quite a bit of trepidation. The sound, named "The Bloop", was stronger than even a blue whale, also leading to the hypothesis that an unknown sea monster produced it. However, later USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed that the Bloop is the sound of ice when big icebergs break and crack, producing powerful sounds at ultra-low frequency. Later recordings of some earthquakes showed similarities to the Bloop. So, if Point Nemo is not the home of a dragon-man-octopus, what lives there exactly? According to oceanographers not much.
This is because the oceanic point of inaccessibility is located within the South Pacific Gyre, a massive rotating oceanic current, bounded to the east and west by the continents of South America and Australia, north from the equator and south from the strong Antarctic circumpolar current. The waters inside the vortex are stable; at Point Nemo, according to NASA, the surface temperature settles to 5,8 C; the rotating current prevents fresher and rich in nutrients water from getting in. In addition to that, since the region is so isolated from the landmasses, the wind does not carry much organic matter.
Consequently, there is little to eat and probably nobody to feed. Without material falling from above like "sea snow", even the seabed is lifeless; and experts describe the area as "the least biologically active region of the world ocean".
Nonetheless, there are few exceptional points in which unique creatures might survive. Point Nemo is close to the southern end of the East Pacific Rise, a submarine line of volcanic activity that extends to the Gulf of California. Marks the boundary of the Pacific and Nazca tectonic plates, which are gradually moving away. Magma flows into the space between the plates, creating hydrothermal air intakes that emit hot and mineral water
It is an extreme environment but bacteria thrive, drawing their energy from the chemicals released by the eruptions. In turn, the bacteria maintain bigger creatures. These include the "hoff crab", which was first observed in 2005 and so named for its hairy appearance.
There is still a lot to discover in these depths, but its remoteness makes Point Nemo an expensive and challenging destination for research. Many of us would not even hear about it if it weren't for the Vendee Globe and tourists are pretty much absent. This means that we need a lot of imagination.
Poor descriptions talk about a surface of the sea light cornflower blue, with a purple tone due to scarcity of particulate matter and living material. Or it would be, if it weren't for the trash.
A study published in 2013 confirmed that there is a trash zone in the South Pacific Gyre. The largest accumulation of waste occurred at the centre of the affected area, about 1,550 miles (2.500 km) northeast of Point Nemo.
The trash is mainly plastic trash such as such as polystyrene, films, fishing lines, fragments and pellets from vessels and coasts. The rotating current traps the trash, breaking it down into small pieces and grouping it into a sort of "floating islands". Biologists think that the trash could unbalance the ecosystem and on this topic, it is that again: even in the remotest point of the planet, it looks like we can't escape the bad habits of civilized humanity.
Fair wind everybody, see you at Point Nem…ah no, see you at sea.
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Ohio Payday Lending Overhaul Examined As A National Model
By M.L. Schultze • Nov 13, 2018
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Ohio's overhaul of its payday lending laws will be fully implemented in April. At a conference in Washington Monday, it was applauded as a national model that ensures the short-term loans will continue to be offered without gouging consumers.
During the discussion organized by the Pew Charitable Trusts, advocates for the overhaul said they battled more than three-dozen lobbyists for the payday lending industry who wanted to maintain the status quo, including interest rates and fees that averaged nearly 600 percent.
A Bipartisan Group of Ohio Lawmakers Says it Will Try to Address Redistricting
By Karen Kasler • Sep 25, 2017
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Republican state legislative leaders say they're putting together a bipartisan group to come up with a new way to draw Congressional districts.
Statehouse correspondent Karen Kasler reports this comes as a citizens' group frustrated with inaction on the issue is planning its own proposal to present to voters.


Recently I was talking with colleagues about how in a relatively short amount of time Cisco has established a market-leading position that was, in part, reflected by the number of industry awards we received. My colleagues were excited about winning (I was too), but what's more important than the awards is what they represent: the success of our customers.
We have a long-standing (some would say obsessive) tradition of measuring our customers' satisfaction. We benchmark this quarterly and use the findings to fine-tune everything we do. From product development and support, to acquisitions and corporate strategy. So when leading industry institutions – Gartner, Piper Jaffrey, Frost & Sullivan, to name a few – call out Cisco's strength in security, we feel good about the validation. But we feel great that these accolades mean: that we are achieving our mission of helping customers keep their networks safe, secure and protected. And helping our partners grow their security practice with a highly regarded, award-winning portfolio.
Collectively, our customers are blocking nearly 20 billion threats every day. And they're detecting these threats much faster. What used to take about 100 days, they're now doing in less than one. We're making this happen. OUR PARTNERS are making this happen. Together we are protecting networks, keeping people and businesses safe and secure, and winning together.
This is made possible by our security team. Our game-changing architectural approach, where all the security elements integrate and work together, help improve our customers' security effectiveness and drives cost and complexity out of their environment. In today's hyper-connected digital environment, this architectural approach provides unprecedented protection from the network to the cloud, across all of the attack vectors and across the entire attack continuum – before, during, and after.
One of my favorite movie lines is from Jerry Maguire when Jerry, as the consummate sports agent, pleads with his star NFL client "Help me help you." This kind of sums of how I look at our success. We go to great lengths to hear from our customers so that we can help them be successful. Winning awards and being recognized in the industry are solid indicators that we're listening.
Congratulations to Cisco's security team for creating industry-leading solutions that win awards.
Thank you to our partners for building your security practices with our portfolio and protecting our customers. And thank you to our customers for your trust and confidence in Cisco and our partners. Please keep the feedback coming.
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This morning, North Korea state-run media actually broadcast the warning that "America is on the knife's edge of death" and unless we surrender and accept them as a nuclear state, they will send us "presents" (nuclear bombs) and "keep sending them." Yes, they actually said this HERE .
Moreover, it is well known that North Korea has already sent sleeper cells, who arrived in the US bearing either China Passports, or forged South Korean Passports. They're living among us, in peace for now. But their orders are to attack our infrastructure - electric grids, water supplies, railroads, highway bridges.
But there's a darker problem: These North Korea sleeper cells likely have WEAPONIZED SMALLPOX virus, to release here in America. If they perpetrate such a biological weapons attack, entire towns may have to go under QUARANTINE for a month or more to halt the spread of this deadly disease, since we stopped vaccinating Americans in the 1970's.
YOU CANNOT GET VACCINATED EVEN IF YOU OFFER TO PAY FOR IT YOURSELF, BECAUSE A VACCINATED PERSON "SOUGHS OFF ACTIVE VIRUS" WHICH COULD SPREAD TO PEOPLE WITH COMPROMISED IMMUNE SYSTEMS. SO GOV'T REFUSES TO VACCINATE ANYONE BUT THEIR OWN WORKERS!
So those of us born prior to the 1970's have our vaccination, but all our kids do not. Therefore, if the North Koreans actually unleash such an attack upon us, no family in their right mind is going to allow their un-vaccinated kids out. You'd better have food stored-up for this type of problem.
North Korea began to develop its own chemical industry and chemical weapon (CW) program in 1954, immediately following the end of the Korean War. However, substantial progress was not made until the 1960s, when Kim Il-sung "issued a 'Declaration for Chemicalization' whose aim was to further develop an independent chemical industry capable of supporting various sectors of its economy, as well as support chemical weapons production" and established the North Korea's Nuclear and Chemical Defense Bureau.
While the world might be worried about all things North Korea—especially its growing nuclear weapons arsenal—Pyongyang very likely has other nasty weapons of mass destruction that, given the right conditions, could be just as lethal.
What most refer to as biological weapons—stuff right out central casting that always make those 'end of the world' movies all so good—might just be North Korea's real weapon of war to fear.
While they certainly don't get as much attention as atomic bombs or chemical weapons such as Sarin, biological weapons can kill hundreds of thousands of people, and maybe even millions if deployed over a wide enough area. While exact facts and figures aren't perfect, there is strong evidence to suggest Pyongyang could possess anthrax weapons as well as possibly cholera, plague and even smallpox. And now that North Korea's missile arsenal is becoming ever more sophisticated by the day . . . well, you get the idea.
"The Republic of Korea Ministry of Defense asserts that "[t]he North may also dare to launch a secret attack in the rear through its SOF[special operations forces] troops armed with biological weapons." Even a kilogram of many types of biological weapons could disrupt most military targets if delivered properly, and this quantity could easily be delivered by special operations forces. Missiles and aircraft could also deliver this quantity of biological weapons.
"North Korea could use biological weapons against a variety of military and civilian targets in South Korea. Biological weapons would likely be delivered as an aerosol of some kind that would be dispersed and then carried by the wind. Many people downwind of the release location would be exposed unless they wore some form of protection or were physically located in a place that protected them from exposure.
This is particularly true if the attacker creates a line source by spraying, for example, the BW agent while driving along a road perpendicular to the wind. According to one source, 1 kilogram of anthrax could spread lethal effects over 0.2 to 2.6 square kilometers, depending on wind and weather conditions.
Biological weapons combined with chemical and nuclear weapons attached to long-range missiles would give Kim Jong-un the devastating military tools needed to kill millions of people—and hit the U.S. homeland. Food for thought every time the world's attention turns to the Korean peninsula.


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INTERVIEW: Dan Gordon on 'Frank Carson: Rebel Without a Pause'
Frank Carson was a true comedic genius. Having penned the iconic catchphrases 'It's a cracker' and 'It's the way I tell 'em', the Belfast born comic had a career spanning decades, and didn't retire until he was into his 80s as he loved performing so much.
Now his life and legacy is celebrity in Dan Gordon's acclaimed one man show, 'Frank Carson: Rebel Without a Pause' which arrives at the Millennium Forum on Thursday 7th February.
The award winning actor, director and playwright, who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of the character Red Hand Luke in the BBC NI sitcom Give My Head Peace, now turns his attention to his autobiographical homage to the late great comedian Frank Carson.
We caught up with Dan to find out about his show, and he began by explaining how the production came about. "I spent three years putting it together" revealed Dan. "I met Tony Carson, Frank's son, in London when I was doing a play about my own dad called The Boat Factory. Tony saw it and we got talking afterwards and he asked could I write a play about his dad.
"I went away and thought about it. I grew up watching Frank Carson on television, just like a lot of us did because he was on TV from 1960 right through until around 2010. I went back and said yes, I'd have a go.
"I thought I knew Frank Carson from all the TV shows, but when I started to delve into it, he never actually revealed anything personal about himself. There was so much to learn about Frank Carson the man."
And did this make it harder to research? I asked. "It was and it wasn't" reflected Dan. "He started to write a book a few times with different ghost writers. The first one was with a woman who taped him. She was an English woman and she didn't understand what Frank was like. He just wandered around telling stories, and then she'd say to him, 'is that true' and he'd say 'no'. He left ten tapes in total but two were lost. Tapes one and two are gone which is a pity, but I have tapes three to ten and they have lots of great stuff from his life. Some of it is made up, but there's lots of gold nuggets in there.
Frank Carson - A Rebel Without A Pause
"The things which stood out were the poverty which he grew up in and he was physically beaten by his father and his grandfather. I have a line in the play, 'everyone was beat in them days, it's just my father was really good at it'.
"He grew in the docks, a Catholic with no means of employment. He loved school and he loved to sing. He had his mates, Ducksy McCrudden who waddled when he talked, Cash Register McCabe always checking his pockets for money, Overcoat O'Hanlon who put a brick through Burtons shop window and stole a coat that was too small for him, and then he was Snowball Carson because he had blond hair as a kid so someone christened him Snowball" laughed the Belfast actor.
Revealing the stories which came to light following the discovery of the Frank Carson tapes, it was clear that Dan had a lot of incredible material to work from, some of which never before told. A rags to riches story, celebrity mates and a long career in the biz, Dan revealed story after story, all shared with great enthusiasm, his admiration and even astonishment clearly evident.
"He grew up in Little Italy on the Docks in Belfast" continued Dan, "and there would be stampedes of sheep and cattle going from the docks to the abattoir and there'd be times when a lamb would disappear as they went up the street. A front door would open and they'd pull it in and that would feed them for two weeks. There's all those extraordinary stories about his Belfast childhood. Even if half of what I discovered were true, it would be amazing.
"He lost his brother Johnny who was a Merchant seaman at aged 16 when he was torpedoed 60 miles off the Irish coast. Frank, who was only 14 at the time found out when someone told him that it was in the paper that Johnny Carson was dead. They already knew that Johnny Carson was missing because they had received a telegram, but his dad was also called Johnny Carson as well, so they didn't know if the dad was missing, or the son was missing. Then after a week Frank discovered it was his brother. What a way to find out. Frank said he cried like a baby all the way home.
"Because he was a Catholic and couldn't get a job, the services offered a way out at that time so he joined the British Army. He went to Ballykinler and there they were asked who would like to volunteer to become a Paratrooper. 240 men put their hands up, twelve passed the test and they were then sent to the Isle of Wight. Out of the twelve who went out, only three finally passed and Frank was one of them.
"That gave Frank a university education and he was able to travel the world. He spent three and a half years in the regiment, two and half of those in Palestine.
"When Menachem Begin was part of an attack that Frank was involved in, Frank swore that it was him who was at the wheel of a lorry which tried to run him over in Jerusalem. Menachem Begin at the time was part of the Likud freedom fighters and later went on to become Prime Minister of Israel.
"During his tour Frank was shot and wounded through the thigh, he shot back and killed a guy. It's quite tragic, Frank later said, 'I shot at him, he shot at me, I was lucky and he wasn't and sometimes I dream about him'."
Dan revealed that from an early age Frank had wanted to entertain. "When he was a kid he went to the talent shows at the Troxy Cinema in Belfast. The Troxy was between the Falls and the Shankill, so as to stop trouble, management split the week between the two.
"Monday and Wednesday was Catholic night, Tuesday and Thursday was neutral, Wednesday and Saturday was Protestant night and on Sundays it was shut. Frank went along as a ten-year-old and sang. He said that when they introduced him as being from Corporation Street, the audience took a sharp breath in like they all sat down on a cold toilet seat. He got the night wrong, he was there on Protestant night.
"He sang and came second and won half a crown. He came second to a singing dog who won ten shillings. A guy played he mouth organ and the dog howled along to the tune. Everyone voted for the dog over Frank and he said that the only reason he didn't win, was because it was a Protestant dog" laughed Dan.
"But he then went on to do other talent shows and even began hosting talent shows as well.
"In the sixties he was approached by a priest from Derry who asked if he would be interested in being a comedian at his Sunday night shows, it was Father Daly. So from '62 to '69 Frank performed in St.Columb's Hall. He said 'I did 150 shows and five pantomimes for him' someone asked was that a record? Frank said 'no, it's me speaking'.
"He stopped in 1969 but it wasn't because of the Troubles, Frank's career had taken off and he had moved to England.
"I think that one of things that really scared him and made Frank such a private man though was Bloody Sunday. Frank loved Derry dearly, absolutely adored it. Bishop Daly gave the oration at Frank's funeral. He called him Eddy, he was one of his best friends.
"Bishop Daly was instrumental in getting Frank his Papal Knighthood from Pope John Paul II, who he taught to say 'It's a cracker'. He was also with the Pope for 17 minutes, Ronald Reagan got 11 minutes, it was probably just because they couldn't get Frank out the door" laughed Dan.
"When Bloody Sunday happened, Frank just couldn't believe it. He had been in the Middle East, he had seen what it was to have a front line regiment trying to police civilian unrest and the danger and damage it could do. He had been there and seen what can happen. He felt it was the Middle East all over again and he was horrified.
"I think that was one of the main things that clammed him up and stopped him from talking about his life. He was very proud of his background in that regiment, but he was terribly conflicted. That's just me reading between the lines and my interpretation of events, by looking at his writings and looking at how he didn't talk about stuff that he had previously celebrated in a big way and wanted to tell people about.
"But he had a great life. He loved his family, he loved his celebrity buddies, he loved raising money for charity, he loved Ireland. Although he lived in Blackpool most of his life, he was always drawn back to Ireland. He loved nothing better than walking around Belfast and seeing people.
"I've only scratched the surface and I haven't stopped talking.That's why I'm playing Frank because I can't stop. Just point me in the direction and off I go" laughed Dan
"In the show I tried to give a flavour of what happened to Frank throughout his life" finished the Belfast actor.
You can catch Dan Gordon's one man show, Frank Carson: Rebel Without a Pause at the Millennium Forum on Thursday 7th February. Tickets here