text:
Posts from 21st July 2002
HAVE YOU SEEN MY DIGNITY? Oxes – Oxxxes
David • FT • Essays • 2 comments • 2,730 views
The lecture theatre is off warm, a faint scent of natural gas pitched on the air. Some students doodling matrices of multiple Xs or stickmen sex on their note pads, some scripting every single word the lecturer says. On the black board are forgotten Shimura variations, faded Fullerine formula, and 'The Russian Futurists' in foot-high block capitals. The room is quiet out of a tacit fear of rejection, of looking like an idiot if you are actually to question what the lecturer is saying. In the middle of the hall, the middle of the lecture, a boy stands up and tears his shirt off, full-on Superman rip, on his chest is inscribed 'Have you seen my dignity?' He begins to shout: 'Equal rights does not include nudity! You are risking your life! Inhibitions? No! Exhibitions? Yes!' He looks an incredible fool. Standing up in the middle of the conforming mediocre shouting like a mug. Rowdy and lairy – mentally crossed-off the list of all the boys' Prospective Best Men lists: ostracised.
In order to avoid the uncomfortable sit of fiction in a music review I have to tell you that this happened. In Baltimore. Some of the facts are loose – this is to protect my right of not doing proper research. However the substantive gist of the account is true. It should be apparent now that I'm sketching the backstop for a metaphor.
Aim, release, flow through points one and two then connect. Not yet – hold, bide, don't go to sleep on the possibilities here.
Alternative rock covets the scabrous; Andy Gill, guitar as shards of split electricity sound. Witness the ascendancy of the Albini sound: the dirt and scree of scraped string and clipped chords. His name is almost ubiquitous in alt.rock circles [blame In Utero]. Indeed, it is arguable that the rutting guitar-rape of Steve Albini's Shellac of North America, avatars for the crunchy stopanstart fretlove of modern alt.rock, is the apotheothis of this bent. Listen to the records, though, and it's hard to think of anything less structurally messy. Sure the sounds are itchy and corrupted but they're all placed just so. Left a bit, right a bit, there.
Tell them about the scrawny kid in the faded Battle of the Bands: 1981 tee-shirt and Don't Mess With Texas badge shouting up the place with his crazy slogans?
Now, the Oxes: studied insouciance. In a genre characterised by its own dour po-faced guitar-seriousness they are conspicuous. They're Will Smith at Carlton's private school in the Fresh Prince. All coquettish cheek and blank irreverence towards formally accepted structures and institutions. The opening riff of "Boss Kitty" churns like a palm-muted buzzsaw – I can see them in black spandex suits, tongues thrust spastically deep under their bottom lip, heads high. [On their boxes.] The structures of the songs are phenomenal – the engineered cascade of momentum perfectly judged. The only equivalent reference point structurally may be the Delgados' The Great Eastern – though the Delgados' deconstruction of Conventional Song is not nearly as extreme.
The lengths to which the Oxes push this disembodiment are obscene. If you completely disembowel the song then you re-cast structure – you can obliterate verse chorus verse. The first Oxes album achieved this annihilation but ironically it had no focus. It sprawled and songs chewed into others, grafts of guitar here, there etc. Say, for analogy, album X is full of conventional songs (song A, B, C, etc) and A is made up of 1a, 2a, 3a; B of 1b, 2b, 3b etc. Where this Oxes album achieves over its prequel is in its ability to successfully cheatsteal 1a, 2b, 4d, and 5n+1 for its song A. Little fragments of rock, glimpses and gasps of heavy metal grafted onto percussion – to make one heaving tapestry of all out spizzazz.
At this point I lost my thread and was unable to write a further paragraph. So I passed the computer to my girlfriend. This is what she wrote:
Oxxxes is generally a great album; see above. However, although it is mostly killer, there is that tiny element of filler in the middle section of the album. And does it have an "And Giraffe Natural Enemies"? You decide.
Which is fair. The almost stringent adherence to non-repetition means that the songs can be disparate and disjointed, each section a different rhythm, riff, and momentum. The result being that, as they're unable to hit a 100% great phrase rate, they inevitably stumble upon a rubbish theme.
Now's the time to shade the light you've cast. Show them their relationship to other rock bands. Follow through. Now.
They're starkly contrasted with Shellac – they play the same music, differently, from a different philosophy and, unlike Albini, they are punk as fuck. They're unique, their sound taking its structures and riffs from math.rock and heavy metal. It's an injustice that I must explicate them by way of comparison and contrast to other bands within their field. But they are utterly indefinable by way of positive definition hence my requirement of negative demarcation. Not just another rock band having fun. A rock band that in their hyper self-conscious genre aren't afraid to breach their dignity, to stand on boxes, to stalk through the crowd (wireless instruments are the fourth member of the band) rocking, 'Excuse me, I'm in a band,' to wear illuminous camouflage cargo pants and strip mid-stage. Why do I love the Oxes? They make me want to talk to strangers in the street, make friends with them; to look the idiot, ask the idiot question. They make me aware that I am risking my life.
David Howie
SANDY & JUNIOR – Love Never Fails
Victor • FT + New York London Paris Munich • Pop • Post a comment • 784 views
PAULINA RUBIO – Don't Say Goodbye
So, next round of Latin American superstars trying to get all the fame and money (but moslty fame) out of the US market, but probably this time neither of them will manage to do it since to "breakthrough with the gringos" a amazing single is needed. And these are not amazing singles. Love Never Fails starts simple to the point of boredom, kicking off with the catchy chorus, its corny but corny is whats expected from Sandy & Junior. Some acoustic guitars, a ok beat and a verse i cant even remeber how it goes, but there is a very small pearl on this song wich makes up for it. Near the end a cheesy guitar solo attempts to ruin the whole thing but the whole beat drops, the instruments go away and Junior shuts up. Huge strings kick in and Sandy starts to sing the beautiful C part, it only lasts for about 8 seconds but its the heart of the song, Junior strums the guitar and the chorus start again but after that C part the chorus is different now it makes sense and you think "yeah, this is a okay song". Its good, it will probably wont make it big in the US but just listen to the C part. Wonderful.
Now Paulina Rubio's single fill me with pure attacks of rage. They just take away the current chart-pop singer with the best voice(a motherfuckin sexy voice that has a adjective that i dont know the english name) that released a kick-ass album to put on some trance shitty producer that besides making a trance song filter and alter her voice so she doesnt actually sound like anything at all singing this dumb song. This is what happens when you take Estefano out of the album and puts some anglo assholes to write the songs. grrr…
Pop World Cup 2018: Group A Match 1
17 Jun 2018 It's here! The opening game of the Pop World Cup finds the four teams of Group A raising the curtain on the tournament. Pop football veterans Russia and Uruguay meet two Arab states – Egypt and Saudi Arabia – with less of a record at this level. Who will prevail? You decide. Spotify playlist and […]
Rage vs X-Factor: Winners and Losers
21 Dec 2009 Well, that's that: the machine has been given a good beating and we can look forward to "Bulls On Parade" on the festive Argos ad next year. I will admit I didn't think the RATM crew could do it: I was wrong. But as the dust settles on this most fractious and increasingly entertaining Christmas […]
I Want To Know What Love Is – Eighties Revisionism
2 Jan 2001 On Skykicking last week, Tim touched, popwise, on the continuing cultural battle over what the eighties were or are or mean or meant. The story of mainstream rock and politics in the 1990s was among other things the story of a similar battle, that time over the sixties. On the one hand you had the […]
HIDDEN LANDSCAPES: THE PODCAST
8 May 2018 Eight episodes are now up: Hazel Southwell and Mark Sinker talking through the story of the UK music press from two very different angles (bcz I am old and she is not), to help start the conversation around my upcoming book. pod 1: the pilot! pod 2: uh merry memories of the nme! pod 3: […]
MICHAEL JACKSON – "Billie Jean"
18 May 2009 #516, 5th March 1983 Michael Jackson came to the title "King of Pop" in the style of a medieval ruler, carving out his realm piece by piece across a hard year of campaigning. He won some of his new subjects when he performed this song as part of a Motown anniversary special: others when he […]
The People's Pop Poll: Starts 5th May
4 May 2020 Below the cut is a very geeky process-oriented post about THE PEOPLE'S POP POLL, which starts tomorrow on Twitter (@tomewing). The main thing, though, is that over 100 people have nominated the songs which will fight it out in this poll, and donated over £2100 for Refuge (the fundraiser is still open!). They are amazing […]
Resisting Entropy – Mars Planets and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (Food Science Day 2007 Experiment #1)
3 Sep 2007 Mars Planets: the atomisation of the Mars Bar. An entropic dis-integration, the tendency of all things to become more chaotic, in confectionery form. I'm trying to resist the impulse to tie this stuff up to no-such-thing-as-Society atomisation because that's not how we do things, right? And Mars Planets are better to share than a proper big […]
The Freaky Trigger Readers' Poll 2018: #40-#31
5 Jan 2019 "Greetings! It's me, 90's summer dance craze The Macarena. I've never really gone away, as you must surely know: the muscle memory of hand flips and hip wiggles is ingrained into the very fabric of your DNA, to be passed down to your heirs and their heirs for many centuries hence, waxing on and waxing […]
Which of these Number One hits of 1979 would you have given 6 or more to?
Village People - "YMCA"
Ian Dury And The Blockheads - "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick"
Blondie - "Heart Of Glass"
The Bee Gees - "Tragedy"
Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive"
Art Garfunkel - "Bright Eyes"
Blondie - "Sunday Girl"
Anita Ward - "Ring My Bell"
Tubeway Army - "Are 'Friends' Electric?"
The Boomtown Rats - "I Don't Like Mondays"
Cliff Richard - "We Don't Talk Anymore"
Gary Numan - "Cars"
The Police - "Message In A Bottle"
Buggles - "Video Killed The Radio Star"
Lena Martell - "One Day At A Time"
Dr Hook - "When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman"
The Police - "Walking On The Moon"
Pink Floyd - "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)"
None of them!!


text:
Your Bookshelf
Famous Quotes -
The Quotations Page
Alexandre Dumas: Twenty Years After
22. Saint Denis.
The day had begun to break when Athos arose and dressed himself. It was plain, by a paleness still greater than usual, and by those traces which loss of sleep leaves on the face, that he must have passed almost the whole of the night without sleeping. Contrary to the custom of a man so firm and decided, there was this morning in his personal appearance something tardy and irresolute.
He was occupied with the preparations for Raoul's departure and was seeking to gain time. In the first place he himself furbished a sword, which he drew from its perfumed leather sheath; he examined it to see if its hilt was well guarded and if the blade was firmly attached to the hilt. Then he placed at the bottom of the valise belonging to the young man a small bag of louis, called Olivain, the lackey who had followed him from Blois, and made him pack the valise under his own eyes, watchful to see that everything should be put in which might be useful to a young man entering on his first campaign.
At length, after occupying about an hour in these preparations, he opened the door of the room in which the vicomte slept, and entered.
The sun, already high, penetrated into the room through the window, the curtains of which Raoul had neglected to close on the previous evening. He was still sleeping, his head gracefully reposing on his arm.
Athos approached and hung over the youth in an attitude full of tender melancholy; he looked long on this young man, whose smiling mouth and half closed eyes bespoke soft dreams and lightest slumber, as if his guardian angel watched over him with solicitude and affection. By degrees Athos gave himself up to the charms of his reverie in the proximity of youth, so pure, so fresh. His own youth seemed to reappear, bringing with it all those savoury remembrances, which are like perfumes more than thoughts. Between the past and the present was an ineffable abyss. But imagination has the wings of an angel of light and travels safely through or over the seas where we have been almost shipwrecked, the darkness in which our illusions are lost, the precipice whence our happiness has been hurled and swallowed up. He remembered that all the first part of his life had been embittered by a woman and he thought with alarm of the influence love might assume over so fine, and at the same time so vigorous an organization as that of Raoul.
Previous: Chapter 21 (continued) Next: Chapter 22 (continued)
This is page 218 of 841. [Mark this Page]
Mark any page to add this title to Your Bookshelf. (0 / 10 books on shelf)
Buy a copy of Twenty Years After at Amazon.com
Customize text appearance:
Color: A A A A A Font: Aa Aa Size: 1 2 3 4 5 Defaults
(c) 2003-2012 LiteraturePage.com and Michael Moncur. All rights reserved.
For information about public domain texts appearing here, read the copyright information and disclaimer.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Because some of us were born with loud minds and quiet voices.
1. The first day of anything is EXTRA daunting for us.
Okay but my names on the register, so WHY do I need to repeat it???
2. Remember when people used to come to your house.
There was legit nothing scarier than speaking to your mum's cousin's best friend's brother.
Thank goodness for online ordering, amirite?!
4. Remember five years ago when you did that really dumb thing?
Your brain: WOWWW! That was dumb, wasn't it?! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?
Everyone else: Has no recollection of it.
6. Remember all those times you had hilarious and witty banter to contribute to a conversation?
You tried, so it's got to count for something right?
It's okay because on the inside you stood up to them REAL GOOD.
8. Seeing people you knew in public was always delightful.
"Sorry GTG" you whispered into the night as you disappeared, never to be seen or heard from ever again.
9. Your mum tried to be cruel to be kind way too often.
#GrowingUpShy Mum: "go and ask yourself you need to build your confidence for when you're in the real world"
Me: "Okay mum but today is not that day"
10. You've probably lost count of the amount of times that you've heard this.
#GrowingUpShy if I had a dollar for every time someone told me "you're so quiet"
There are millions of words you could've used to describe me, but you just HAD TO pick the word 'shy' or 'quiet'... thanks!
PSA: Please email or text next time, thank you kindly.


text:
May 20, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:43 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Brexit, constitution, Corbyn, Ecuador, Huawei, lawlessness, NHS, Skripal, Sweden, tech transfer, Wikileaks
Rembrandt van Rijn Diana Bathing with her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto 1634
• China Forced Tech Transfer Problem Is Growing – EU Business Group (R.)
• US Ban Won't Derail Huawei's European 5G Rollout (AT)
• Google Starts To Cut Ties With Huawei (AFP)
• Huawei Stockpiles 12 Months Of Parts Ahead Of US Ban (Nikkei)
• US Prosecutors To 'Help Themselves' To Julian Assange's Possessions (PA)
• Swedish Prosecutors Ask To Detain Assange Over Rape Investigation (Ind.)
• Skripal Poisoning Suspects Received Mystery Phone Call Following Attack (G.)
• Rich White Men Rule America. How Much Longer Will We Tolerate That For? (G.)
• Theresa May Prepares 'Bold' Last-Ditch Offer To MPs On Brexit Bill (G.)
• Corbyn Defends Labour's Bid For Both Leavers And Remainers (G.)
• NHS England Loses 6,000 Mental Health Nurses In 10 Years (G.)
Europe's politicians are slow to take this up.
Cases of European firms forced to transfer technology in China are increasing despite Beijing saying the problem does not exist, a European business lobby said, adding that its outlook on the country's regulatory environment is "bleak". China's trading partners have long complained that their companies are often compelled to hand over prized technology in exchange for access to the world's second-largest economy. Demands by the United States that China address the problem are central to the two countries' ongoing trade war, which has seen both sides pile tariffs on billions of dollars of each other's goods. The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China said on Monday that results from its annual survey showed 20% of members reported being compelled to transfer technology for market access, up from 10% two years ago.
Nearly a quarter of those who reported such transfers said the practice was currently ongoing, while another 39% said the transfers had occurred less than two years ago. "Unfortunately, our members have reported that compelled technology transfers not only persist, but that they happen at double the rate of two years ago," European Chamber Vice President Charlotte Roule said at a news briefing on the survey. "It might be due to a number of reasons… Either way, it is unacceptable that this practice continues in a market as mature and innovative as China," Roule said. In certain "cutting edge" industries the incidence of reported transfers was higher, such as 30% in chemicals and petroleum, 28% in medical devices, and 27% in pharmaceuticals, she added.
China's top Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily, said on Saturday that Washington's complaints on the issue were "fabricated from thin air". Amid the escalating U.S.-China trade war, Beijing has put pressure on the EU to stand with it against U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policies, though the world's largest trade bloc has largely rebuffed those efforts. The EU has also become increasingly frustrated by what it sees as the slow pace of economic opening in China, even after years of granting China almost unfettered access to EU markets for trade and investment. However, European officials say publicly that they do not support the use of tariffs as a solution.
"So intertwined were the activities of Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia in European telecom infrastructure that it is impossible to ban the sale of parts to one of them without affecting the others.."
Two high-ranking European government officials told Asia Times in background discussions that a US ban on sales of electronic components to Huawei Technologies wouldn't stop the Chinese telecom firm from rolling out 5G mobile networks in Europe. Europe doesn't really have a choice in the matter, the officials emphasized in background briefings, because the United States doesn't offer a competing product, and Huawei's competitors – Ericsson and Nokia – don't have the capacity or the knowledge to replace the Chinese giant. The two Scandinavian firms don't offer serious competition to Huawei, but rather work in close cooperation with the much larger Chinese firm.
Huawei's research and development budget is roughly double that of Ericsson and Nokia combined, according to public sources. So intertwined were the activities of Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia in European telecom infrastructure that it is impossible to ban the sale of parts to one of them without affecting the others, an official explained. The official, who oversees telecom policy for one of the Group of 10 economies, doubted that Washington's action would have much impact. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told reporters Thursday that they would not ban the Chinese firm, adding that policies were in place to safeguard their security. French President Macron told a technology conference Friday that France's "perspective is not to block Huawei or any other company. France and Europe are pragmatic and realistic." Macron stressed that France would balance security with access to good technology.
What technology will Google use?
US internet giant Google, whose Android mobile operating system powers most of the world's smartphones, said Sunday it was beginning to cut ties with China's Huawei, which Washington considers a national security threat. In the midst of a trade war with Beijing, President Donald Trump has barred US companies from engaging in telecommunications trade with foreign companies said to threaten American national security. The measure targets Huawei, a Chinese telecoms giant in Washington's sights that is listed by the Commerce Department among firms with which American companies can only engage in trade after obtaining the green light from the authorities.
The ban includes technology sharing. "We are complying with the order and reviewing the implications," a Google spokesperson told AFP. The move could have dramatic implications since Google, like all tech companies, must collaborate with smartphone makers to ensure its systems are compatible with their devices. Google will have to halt business activities with Huawei that involve transfer of hardware, software and technical services that are not publicly available — meaning Huawei will only be able to use the open source version of Android, a source close to the matter told AFP. Huawei will no longer have access to Google's proprietary apps and services, such as the Gmail email service.
"How do the Chinese think they can win a trade war
when Xi isn't even on Twitter.
Huawei Technologies told global suppliers six months ago it wanted to build up a year of crucial components to prepare for trade war uncertainties, even as it moved to secure new sources and become more self reliant, sources familiar with the plans told the Nikkei Asian Review. Meanwhile, concerns are mounting in Huawei's Asian tech supply chain about collateral damage from the U.S. government's move to potentially block American and even foreign companies from doing business with the world's leading telecom equipment maker, whose global procurement totals around $67 billion a year. Shares in companies whose fortunes depend in part on Huawei business sold off Thursday.
The reaction followed a statement Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Commerce that it was placing the company on a export control list. The listing, once in effect, means that all of Huawei's American suppliers will require U.S. government approval to sell to the Chinese company. The lack of detail in the statement creates uncertainty for Asian manufacturers. Many important Huawei suppliers in the region including Sony and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. — the world's largest contract chipmaker — have held internal meetings to assess the implications, multiple sources told Nikkei.
Multiple sources said that Huawei's preparations for a worst-case scenario – a U.S. ban on business with key suppliers – started more than six months ago and were not limited to chips but spanned a wide range of electronics, including passive components and optical parts. For some components that are subject to higher risks of export controls, Huawei has stockpiled six months' to more than a year's worth of supply, while holding at least three months' worth of less crucial ones, the sources said.
The world's second-largest smartphone vendor also started at the beginning of this year to certify more suppliers of chips, optical components, camera-related technologies and other parts in places outside the U.S., people familiar with the matter said. "Previously, Huawei would only use the world's top one or two suppliers for electronic components, but this year it assigned the team to extend the reach to three to four suppliers for each component," said a source with direct knowledge of the plan. "The most important goal is to avoid the worst case that Huawei's products in smartphone, servers, and telecom equipment could not be delivered because of a U.S. ban or other trade war uncertainties."
WikiLeaks: "Ecuador to hand over Assange's entire legal defence to the United States."
Laws are now meaningless.
Julian Assange's belongings from his time living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London will be handed over to US prosecutors on Monday, according to WikiLeaks. Ecuadorian officials are travelling to London to allow US prosecutors to "help themselves" to items including legal papers, medical records and electronic equipment, it was claimed. WikiLeaks said UN officials and Assange's lawyers were being stopped from being present. Lawyers said it was an illegal seizure of property, which has been requested by the US authorities. The material is said to include two of Assange's manuscripts.
Assange was dragged out of the embassy last month and is serving a 50-week prison sentence for bail violations. He faces an extradition request from the US next month. Kristinn Hrafnsson, the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, said: "On Monday, Ecuador will perform a puppet show at the embassy of Ecuador in London for their masters in Washington, just in time to expand their extradition case before the UK deadline on 14 June. The Trump administration is inducing its allies to behave like it's the wild west."
Baltasar Garzón, the international legal coordinator for the defence of Assange and WikiLeaks, said: "It is extremely worrying that Ecuador has proceeded with the search and seizure of property, documents, information and other material belonging to the defence of Julian Assange, which Ecuador arbitrarily confiscated, so that these can be handed over to the the agent of political persecution against him, the United States. "It is an unprecedented attack on the rights of the defence, freedom of expression and access to information exposing massive human rights abuses and corruption. We call on international protection institutions to intervene to put a stop to this persecution."
And if laws are meaningless, lies become the truth.
Swedish prosecutors have filed a request for the detention of Julian Assange over a rape allegation. The warrant, if granted, would be the first step in a process to have the Wikileaks founder extradited from the UK, where he is serving a 50-week sentence for breach of bail conditions. Sweden reopened an investigation into the rape allegation, first made in 2010, earlier this month. The probe was shelved in 2017 because Assange was holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he took refuge in 2012 to avoid extradition. The 47-year-old was arrested after police stormed the embassy in April following Ecuador's withdrawal of asylum. The US subsequently requested his extradition to face charges in relation to the leak of government secrets. Swedish prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson said she would issue a European Arrest Warrant for Assange if a court granted her request for his detention "on probable cause suspected for rape".
The leaked OPCW files show the Douma gas attack to be a false flag. That raises very serious questions about the Skripal case at the same time, because of the OPCW's involvement. So Britain brings out the Guardian's Luke Harding to divert attention. Harding and the Guardian still never retracted the fake Assange-Manafort article.
The Russian men suspected of poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury received a phone call after returning to London on the day of the alleged attack, raising the possibility that a backup team played a role in the operation. One theory being considered by investigators is whether the call, which has not been disclosed before, was a signal to tip them off that the operation had been a success. Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism unit said the inquiry into the poisoning was ongoing and detectives would not be drawn on any specifics. But it is understood that investigators are sifting other pieces of evidence which suggest that the suspects – Anatoliy Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin – may not have been acting alone.
Chepiga and Mishkin flew from Moscow to London on Friday 2 March last year, using the names Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. The pair travelled to Salisbury the following day and returned to the city again on Sunday 4 March. Detectives say they applied the lethal nerve agent novichok to the door handle of Skripal's home and caught the train back to London. The Guardian has been told they then returned to their hotel in Bow, east London. It was there they received an unexplained phone call, a source said. Shortly after the call, they travelled to Heathrow airport for a 10.30pm flight back to Moscow. "One theory is that the two waited to hear whether the attack had been a success, and the phone call was the signal to say it had been," said a source. "It could have been the confirmation that led them to head for the airport."
"A Constitution written by slaveholders is being interpreted by a tiny room full of elites who have been given no meaningful popular approval…"
White men have never made up the majority of the United States population, and yet from the country's beginnings they have made up most of its political decision-makers. The Constitution itself is an outrageously undemocratic document. People today are bound by a set of procedural rules that were made without the input of women, African Americans, or native people. The Framers quite deliberately constructed a system that would prevent what they called "tyranny of the majority" but what is more accurately called "popular democracy." That set of rules has been very effective at keeping the American populace from exercising power. James Madison was explicit about the function of the United States Senate—it was "to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority."
Indeed, that's precisely what it does. As Jamelle Bouie points out, the Senate has "an affluent membership composed mostly of white men, who are about 30% of the population but hold 71 of the seats" out of 100. Though popular opinion may overwhelmingly favor universal healthcare and more progressive taxation, these policies are said to be "politically impossible" because the millionaires who populate Congress do not favor them. [..] The supreme court is the highest branch of government, in that it can overturn the decisions of the other two branches. It consists of just nine people, all of whom went to Harvard or Yale, and two-thirds of whom are men. Ian Samuel has pointed out the remarkable fact that, thanks to the way the senate is structured, the senators who voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the court received represent 38 million fewer people than the senators who voted against him.
The implications here are extreme. It simply doesn't matter where the people of the United States stand on union dues, campaign finance reform, or abortion. What matters is the opinion of nine elites, in many cases appointed by presidents who did not win the popular vote. A Constitution written by slaveholders is being interpreted by a tiny room full of elites who have been given no meaningful popular approval. When you step back and look at the situation objectively, it's utterly farcical to call the United States government democratic.
Sure. Waste some more time. What difference does it make anymore?
Theresa May will ask her cabinet to sign off a package of Brexit concessions this week, as she gears up for one last bid to win over MPs and salvage something concrete from her troubled premiership. With the Conservatives on course for a drubbing in Thursday's European elections, the prime minister hopes the results will focus the minds of her own MPs and persuade them to support the long-awaited withdrawal agreement bill (WAB). Despite the collapse of cross-party talks with Labour, ministers hope some of the measures discussed can still be bolted on to the bill, as part of what May has called a "new, bold offer to MPs across the House of Commons".
The Brexit secretary, Steve Barclay, told Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday: "We've been in talks with the Labour party, we've been exploring issues around workers' rights, environmental standards, what commitments can be given to parliament in terms of the next phase of negotiations." The development secretary, Rory Stewart, told the BBC the two sides in the talks had been "half an inch apart", and added "the issue of trading with Europe" to the list of areas where MPs should expect to see movement. Proposals are expected to include separate legislation to ensure parliament is given a vote on whether to adopt any improvements to workers' rights introduced by the EU27 in future – though that would fall short of Jeremy Corbyn's call for changes to be automatically adopted.
He makes SOME sense, but is that enough?
Jeremy Corbyn has given a robust defence of Labour's decision to try to appeal to both leavers and remainers in this Thursday's European elections. With an Observer poll suggesting Labour could be squeezed into third position behind Nigel Farage's Brexit party and the pro-remain Liberal Democrats, Corbyn said he still wanted to bring the two sides of the Brexit divide together. "Labour supporters voted both leave and remain, and every other party in this European election is appealing to either one side or the other, defining everybody on 2016. We're not. We're defining people as hopefully supporters of us – but also, people who have common problems, however they voted.
"The levels of poverty in remain and leave areas are very similar; the levels of child poverty. I think we have to be responsible about this, and appeal to people across those views." Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr, the Labour leader added: "If I may say so, it's yourself and the British media that are obsessed with defining everybody about how they voted three years ago." He also rejected the Birmingham Yardley MP Jess Phillips'scall for Labour to decide whether it is a party that backs Brexit, or opposes it. "She's not right, because she fought the last general election, just like I did, on a manifesto that said we would respect the result of the referendum." However, Corbyn appeared to soften his stance on a second referendum, saying Labour would try to win a majority for its Brexit plan, "and if we can get that through parliament, the proposal we've put, then I think it would be reasonable to have a public vote to decide on that in the future".
As dementia spreads like wildfire.
The number of mental health nurses in England has slumped by more than a tenth over the past decade, new figures have revealed. This is despite commitments from both Theresa May and her predecessor, David Cameron, to boost resources for mental health services, which many medical professionals say are now in crisis. The total mental health nursing workforce has decreased by 10.6% since 2009, according to the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). While numbers of mental health nurses have grown in some areas, such as community care, they have fallen elsewhere. Numbers are down by a quarter (25.9%) in acute care and inpatient care – where the number of mental health nurses has fallen by more than 6,000 over the decade.
Donna Kinnair, appointed as RCN chief executive and general secretary last month, will use a speech to the group's annual congress on Monday to call on ministers to address England's 40,000 nursing vacancies, and point out the new figures on the reduction in specialist mental health nurses. "Thousands of experienced professionals have been lost in recent years as the investment failed to match the rhetoric," she will say. "The shortage of beds, too, leaves vulnerable people often sent hundreds of miles from home and their loved ones for the care they need. As a country and a health service, we are letting down people who must be able to rely on us most. We must draw a line under this and allocate serious resources to mental health care, including the right number of staff."
Happy birthday brother Malcolm.
Arguably the most powerful eulogy ever given was Ossie Davis speaking on the life of the world changing, Malcolm X. Happy birthday brother Malcolm. #MalcolmX pic.twitter.com/PAmnfpBI1T
— Frederick Joseph (@FredTJoseph) May 19, 2019
This topic contains 8 replies, has 4 voices, and was last updated by barnaby33 1 month, 3 weeks ago.
Rembrandt van Rijn Diana Bathing with her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto 1634 • China Forced Tech Transfer Problem Is Growing – EU Business G
YES! I was going to address his absence in the other thread about MLK.
Malcolm X AND the Black Panthers; Fred Hampton's cold blooded murder in Chicago by the U.S. government!
Edy Conway; a Black Panther, excon, and a producer at TRNN…
As great as they are; they have one very serious problem; they're BLACK;
in the U.S.; as a result of a white, nationalist, majority…
Many questions with damn few answers…
Unless you accept the obvious…
Well, I got lost in the weeds above.
The worst thing you can be in the U.S. is BLACK!
Racism, on steroids, is alive and thriving in the U.S..
And it's mostly aimed at black Usians…
I didn't include Malcolm in the Assange/MLK article because I wanted to focus on peaceful resistance.
May 20, 2019 at 12:00 pm #47473
V. Compared to what? Is it 1960? Do we have segregated buses, schools, businesses, military? Are there separate laws? In fact, is there both private and government support and incentives for racially-based hiring? Are there black Mayors, Congressmen, Senators, Supreme Court Judges, billionaire businessmen, anchors, media stars, Presidents?
People act like it's 1959, since that's what the media drums on, erroneously, day after day. And since we have all those things, have had them for decades, all those people are supported, were voted in by sizable majorities, I can only say it will never, ever end, and there is nothing, ever, any American can do, no person, no election, no demonstration, that will ever allow us not to be called vile overwhelming racists that still have slavery and lynchings coast to coast, in every state, every month, in public.
Nope. No progress here! Might as well not bother. The 1 in 10 white guys killed in the Civil war fixing the 1789 compromise? Shouldn't have bothered. The white Republicans, next to MLK taking it in the teeth, getting arrested and beaten to fix Civil Rights in 1969? Should have stayed home. White guys running the ACLU? Don't exist. Yup, because none of that or all the years since ever mattered. No credit, nothing ever changed. It's still 1801, and it always will be. Just ask CNN and The Guardian™, who would never lie!
"their companies are often compelled to hand over prized technology"
I'm not a genius or anything, but: don't do it? Don't go to China and give away all your patents and manufacturing processes? Stay at home in control of your company and employing your people, the workers you grew up with?
And they say it can't be done, but if everybody did it…
Dum dum dum dum…
By the way, if they are stealing "prized technology", not enforcing patent rights, and the "regulatory environment is "bleak" perhaps you would like to tell them instead of surrendering? You know, even have a trade war if necessary? But no, "We shall surrender on the beaches, we shall surrender in the air. We shall always, always surrender" because standing up for yourself might be hard.
"stop the Chinese telecom firm from rolling out 5G mobile networks in Europe."
I would like to know what the 5G thing is, because it sure ain't technological. It's expensive, it stinks, and we almost certainly don't need it. It's faster? We already stream full video on our phones – how much faster do we need? As far as I can tell, its only purpose is to track and surveil whistleblowing reporters down to 6 feet, and to cause fires and cancer…for astronomical cost and complexity. So…discuss?
"US internet giant Google, whose Android mobile operating system powers most of the world's smartphones"
Speaking of surveillance, these guys have no security at all, and a centralized point of information, where a claimed "private" company, has info on every Congressman, Senator, Judge, and Mayor worldwide. …But they're unaccountable billionaires, I'm sure they'd never MIS-use that data, right?
"Ecuador to hand over Assange's entire legal defence to the United States."
Is this anything like search and seizure of a person's LAWYER'S whole office, in search of a crime? I mean, 1,000 years of law, blahblah, I can't hear you over the sound of my ego and ambition, endofwesterncivilization, blah.
Nope, no rule of law. And money…and therefore power, always moves to where it is protected, and there ARE rules, and protections. This is the single indicator of prosperity worldwide, over all time. Japan: super-poor, no real assets = wealthiest. Congo: ultra-rich in every thing, land, minerals, gold, diamonds, labor, no rules = poorest. But hey, have it your way. They won't learn until they are in the sty, eating with the pigs, dreaming if only they could go home again. To the Enlightenment, and a rule of law and not men.
Otoh, Assange hasn't been murdered yet, so that's a wonder. Because any day now either Benjamin or Tommy will be.
"Swedish Prosecutors Ask to Detain Assange over Rape Investigation (Ind.)"
Excuse my ignorance here, but a FOREIGNER, an Australian, who is in ANOTHER country, England, is being asked to be detained over an INVESTIGATION, not even a legal charge? What's Swedish for 'Go f—yourself?'
(Excuse my candor as for the moment we still have a 1st Amendment here.)
Skripals: "the call, which has not been disclosed before"
I'm not even going to use my 1st Amendment right to discredit this. It discredits itself, and the Guardian, and the Independent, and England, and Europe, and the Trump Administration who repeated it.
"Rich White Men Rule America. How Much Longer Will We Tolerate That For? (G.)"
Wow, what excellent racists. We now determine who can rule based on the color of their skin. Heinrich Himmler much? I could write a paper, indeed a book refuting the Guardian, but it's been covered in every history book written before 1990, and they already refuted all credibility in the article, above. So when The Guardian's England, has candidates that are ALSO not from Westminster, they openly slander them, remove their speech, openly incite violence, and cheer on their public murders, because The Guardian™ will not tolerate their own white men being unseated, even a tiny. Little. Bit. Not even in British Parliament, which has power, even if they won't use it, but as Reps of the totally toothless, student government, EU parliament. And they still can't handle it.
PS, as I know you can't read, listen to "Hamilton", cartoon version, and tell me what you think about the racist, slaveholding founders.
"Theresa May Prepares 'Bold' Last-Ditch Offer To MPs On Brexit Bill (G.)"
Speaking of Westminster insiders with no imagination, completely controlled, against the people, May prepares a 'Bold' offer, to take the exact same offer she already gave, that was voted down by a 1,000-year record majority, or else. …Or else she doesn't have any other ideas at all, and also no leverage to make anyone do anything.
BTW, now she's cooperating with Labour, which is itself history, as people hate Westminster so much BOTH Labour AND Conservatives effectively cease to exist as viable parties, in one short year.
"NHS England Loses 6,000 Mental Health Nurses In 10 Years (G.)"
Is this because National Health always collapses when they run out of other people's money? "Government is FIRE. It is FORCE." It is not a nice, caring uncle who will pay for and gently take care of everyone. It's literally the OPPOSITE of that and, historically the WORST provider of ANY service in EVERY country, over all time. As if our "War on Poverty" and "War on Drugs" didn't clue you.
And gosh, I was in a good mood before the news today, too.
Separate laws? Sure there are. Blacks are shot on sight, in the back mostly, it seems.
Black presidents? You mean that lieing, murdering, oreo cookie, Obama?
Anyhoo; I'll not go through the litany of the black reality on the ground in the USA.
If you're happy with the racial realities of the U.S., fine.
1960? No, I'd say it's worse in 2019.
Bottom line: Equality/morality cannot be legislated, ever. Racism in the U.S. has been finely crafted over the last 240+ years and there is no end in sight…and I'll not be an apologist for the ongoing racism rampant in the U.S., ever…
Neither Malcolm X or the Black Panthers espoused violence; however, they did claim their right to self defense against violence perpetrated against them. I personally affirm their right of self defense.
I also greatly respect MLK's pacifist actions…
True pacifism must rank as one of the highest of human achievements possible, IMO…
MLK proved beyond doubt he was faithful to his convictions…
barnaby33
The articles and the comments, this place is becoming more a pro Russian troll farm every day.


VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Dec. 16, 2009) - GREAT PANTHER RESOURCES LIMITED (TSX:GPR) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has acquired a 100% interest in the "La Prieta" concession in the Topia District. The 94 hectare claim hosts two previously mined silver-gold-lead-zinc-quartz vein structures and is situated approximately two kilometres south of the principal veins presently being mined by the Company, and within the Company's overall land package (see claim map on website). As such, it is within easy hauling distance to Great Panther's plant in Topia. La Prieta was acquired for US$330,000.
The main La Prieta vein has been intermittently mined over a 400 metre strike length and 100 to 150 metres vertically. Where exposed, it is noted to be 0.15 to 0.5 metres thick and is open to depth and along strike. The vein is similar to the Recompensa vein in that it is richer in gold than most others in the Topia District. In fact, La Prieta may continue the southward gold-rich trend that has been observed at the veins currently being mined at Topia. Mineralogy comprises quartz, pyrite, sphalerite and galena.
There are no historical production records for La Prieta, and it has never been drilled, but preliminary underground channel sampling by the Company ranges from 131g/t silver, 1.4g/t gold, 0.52% lead, and 0.33% zinc across a 0.15 metre width to 600g/t silver, 9.82g/t gold, 2.1% lead, and 5.7% zinc across a 0.5 metres width. The vein is oriented ENE-WSW with a steep north dip.
The La Prieta vein will be drill tested during the upcoming spring 2010 surface drilling program at the Topia Mine. Plans for mine development will then be prepared leading to a production decision by the third quarter of 2010. The acquisition of La Prieta is anticipated to provide additional millfeed for the Topia operation in coming years and demonstrates the Company's commitment to the region.
Mine development samples from Topia are assayed in the on-site laboratory for gold, silver, lead, zinc, and iron. Monthly, a random set of approximately 5% of the pulps are assayed by SGS at the Company's Guanajuato Mine site laboratory as duplicate quality control. All Topia Mine surface sampling and drill core samples are assayed by SGS at the Company's Guanajuato Mine site laboratory. Robert F. Brown, P. Eng and Vice President of Exploration for the Company, is the Qualified Person for the Topia Mine Project, under the meaning of NI43-101, and has reviewed these results. The Company's QA/QC program includes the regular insertion of blanks and standards into the sample shipments.
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and forward-looking information within the meaning of the Securities Act (Ontario) (together, "forward-looking statements"). Such forward-looking statements may include but are not limited to the Company's plans for production at its Guanajuato and Topia Mines in Mexico, exploring its other properties in Mexico, the overall economic potential of its properties, the availability of adequate financing and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements to be materially different. Such factors include, among others, risks and uncertainties relating to potential political risks involving the Company's operations in a foreign jurisdiction, uncertainty of production and cost estimates and the potential for unexpected costs and expenses, physical risks inherent in mining operations, currency fluctuations, fluctuations in the price of silver, gold and base metals, completion of economic evaluations, changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined, the inability or failure to obtain adequate financing on a timely basis, and other risks and uncertainties, including those described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2008 and reports on Form 6-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available at www.sec.gov and Material Change Reports filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators and available at www.sedar.com.


The Huskies are off the field following their Tuesday practice, which included the most substantive scrimmage of the season.
No new injuries, always the best news for the coaches.
Also, UW coach Steve Sarkisian said that Quinton Richardson has been diagnosed with a high ankle sprain and could miss the opener against Eastern but shouldn't be out too long — weeks rather than months, as he said Monday night, as well.
And DT Alameda Ta'amu returned to play the first two series with his hand in a case.
Kasen Williams worked with the starting offense, alongside Jermaine Kearse and Kevin Smith, with Devin Aguilar going with the second unit, in what appeared to be the only real significant personnel move. And no new word yet on the three ineligible players. Sarkisian said it should come any day but hasn't come yet.
— And a 2-yard run by Jesse Callier.
And what might have been the best play of the day didn't officially count as Williams leaped high over Travis Feeney for a 10-yard TD in the back of the end zone. Coaches, however, blew the play dead on a touch sack right before Montana threw the ball.
I'll have more stats and notes and quotes later.


So that we can offer you the best service possible, we need to collect some information from you when you order from us; however, we recognise that the privacy of our customers' personal information is very important, and we are committed to maintaining it.
We do not collect any personal information about you on our website unless you choose to provide it to us voluntarily. If you decide to place an order with us, there is certain personal information that we will require from you in order to process your order.
If you call us on the phone, we may record the call for staff training and monitoring purposes.
To provide you with the requested goods and/or services including but not limited to processing and fulfilling your order.
To process your payment for requested goods and/or services.
For the purposes of administering promotions such as competitions and prize draws.
To monitor and improve our services and our website.
To manage your marketing preferences, including opting out entirely.
To contact you if there is a query regarding your order.
In the event that you purchase goods on our website, you may be sent an email requesting whether you would like to review the service you received.
In certain circumstances in order to process your order and to verify your identity, we may call the telephone number you have provided to perform security checks and to request that you verify certain information.
To enable us to comply with any legal or regulatory requirements.
In the detection and prevention of fraud or other crimes.
To assist with any of your customer queries.
To provide an e-Receipt for a store purchase.
To register the sale of products carrying a manufacturer's warranty with the manufacturer.
For research, analysis, risk management, legal, accounting, administrative, testing, monitoring and for our business operations.
We manage the sending of emails to this list ourselves and do not share subscribers' details with third parties.
We use a service called TrustPilot to gather customer reviews of our service so that new customers can buy from us in confidence. After you make a purchase from us, you may receive an email from TrustPilot inviting you to leave a review of the service you received, but you are under no obligation to respond. Your data will only be used in the first instance to generate an automated email containing a unique link for you to leave a review.
We endeavour to protect the information you provide and have various security procedures in place. Any payment transactions are handled entirely by our secure payment partners and are encrypted using Secure Socket Layer technology. This protects your data while being sent over the internet from being intercepted and misused by third parties.
All customer information entered via this website is stored on our secure servers, where it can only be accessed by authorised personnel for the purposes of processing customer orders. Trade account customers may also have access to some of their account details via this Website. If you have requested an online ordering account, you will be given a randomly-generated password when your account is created, but will be prompted to change this to something more memorable and secure upon your first login. You are responsible for keeping this password confidential; we ask you not to share a password with anyone.
We have also installed a mechanism that uses digital server identities so that you can be sure that the website you access is our Website. This is done using one of the internet Trusted Certification Authorities. If you access any secure pages of our Website, your browser will be provided with an electronic certificate confirming that you have accessed our Website and all communications will encrypted. Firewalls are used to block unauthorised traffic to the servers and the actual servers are located in a secure location which can only be accessed by authorised personnel.
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files for the purposes of analysing the way users interact with our site. The information contained in these logs may include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as BT or Virgin Media), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the type of device used (mobile, tablet or desktop), the time you visited our site and which pages you viewed throughout your visit. It does not include any personally identifiable information – we can't tell who you are, only what you did while on our site. We use this information, in aggregate, to determine how many people visit our site, when, how they found us and if they experienced any problems on the site.
In addition to our own server logging, we use a 3rd party service provided by Google Analytics to anonymously track user behaviour and report on how the site is being used.
As of October 2018, we are also working with trade partners Cloud IQ and PayPal for a temporary period of three months, who will collect information on our behalf for analytical purposes.
We may use visitors' IP addresses to determine if they are accessing our site from a registered business IP address. This information may then be used to connect to that business (although not the individual) for sales and marketing purposes, through the use of Lead Forensics website tracking technology.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies also allow web applications to respond to you as an individual; the website can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use 3rd party traffic log cookies, provided by Google, to identify which pages on our site are being used and which may have problems. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and to detect performance issues with the site.
Cookies also enable our website to 'remember' your basket as you move from one page to another and to allow account holders to login to their accounts. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by remembering your shopping basket, allowing access to user accounts and enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
If any of the personal data that you have provided to us changes, please provide us with the correct details by sending an e-mail entitled "Change of details" to enquiries@frjonesandson.co.uk.
Should you wish to access the personal information that we hold about you please email us or write to us at the above address. You will need to include a brief description about the information you require to enable it to be located and proof of identification. We will respond to you as soon as possible, within one (1) month of the date of your request.
If we change our Policy, we will post the changes on this page and we may also place notices on other pages of the Website, so that you can check our current policy at any time. If we make any changes that might significantly affect the way we deal with your information, we may also email you to notify you of the proposed changes, so that you may have your details removed from our records if you do not agree with the changes.
www.frjonesandson.co.uk is owned and operated by FR Jones and Son Ltd, Unit B4 Trade City, Bell Green Retail Park, Sydenham, London, SE26 4PR.


Texas Democrat Julian Castro formally launched his White House bid on Saturday, entering as a dark horse candidate in a likely crowded field vying to challenge US president Donald Trump in the November 2020 election.
Mr Castro (44) is a former San Antonio mayor and top US housing official. He is the grandson of a Mexican immigrant and would be the first Hispanic elected president. He served as secretary of housing and urban development under former president Barack Obama and has long been viewed as a rising star in the party. He will seek to position himself as a political outsider with liberal credentials.
One of Mr Castro's first stops as a candidate will take place on Monday in Puerto Rico, where he will attend an event hosted by the liberal Latino Victory Fund.
In summarising his political positions, Castro endorsed "Medicare for all", which would in effect create a national healthcare plan by allowing anyone to join the public healthcare system. That policy point is likely to divide Democrats in the primary, with more moderate candidates favouring a less drastic approach.
He used his launch to repeat support of the Black Lives Matter movement and also spoke of the pressing need to address climate change.
Mr Castro, whose grandmother was born in Mexico, has sought to use his family's personal story to criticise Mr Trump's border policies – including railing against the president by name in his launch speech.
"Yes, we must have border security, but there is a smart and humane way to do it. And there is no way in hell that caging children is keeping us safe," he said.
Mr Castro is the second candidate to formally launch a campaign. Former US congressman John Delaney has been running for more than a year. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has formed an exploratory committee and congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard said on Friday that she will run for the White House.
More than a dozen potential Democratic candidates are exploring a possible run in 2020. Moderates and progressives in the party have been debating about how to best challenge Mr Trump, the likely Republican nominee.
Some Democrats believe an establishment figure who can appeal to centrist voters is the way to win back the White House. Others contend a fresh face is needed to energise the party's increasingly left-leaning base.
Mr Castro has been out of the political spotlight for the past two years, at a time when politics has become all-consuming across America. He was considered on the short list to be Hillary Clinton's running mate in the 2016 election.


text:
Q: Convert Survey Results into 3-Dimension Table in Excel I'm attempting to convert a table of raw data into a table of summarised results with three fields in the simplest way.
The data is taken from a survey where the participant will note their location, and then answer multiple choice questions each with three possible answers.
The columns of the raw table look something like:
    AREA   | Q1   | Q2   | Q3   |...| Q10
    Area 1   Op1    Op1    Op3        Op2
    Area 2   Op1    Op2    Op1        Op3
    Area 1   Op1    Op3    Op1        Op3
    Area 3   Op3    Op1    Op2        Op1

Where the questions can be answered with multiple choice options 1 to 3, and areas can be repeated (ie, survey participant one is in Australia, participant two is in New Zealand, and participant three is also in Australia).
I'd like the output table to look something like:
            Question One    | Question 2      | Question 3      |...| Question 10
            Op1 | Op2 | Op3 | Op1 | Op2 | Op3 | Op1 | Op2 | Op3 |...| Op1 | Op2 | Op3 |
    Area 1   #     3     #     #     #     #     #     #     #    #     #     #    #
    Area 2   #     #     #     #     #     #     #     #     #    #     #     #    #
    Area 3   #     #     #     #     #     #     #     #     #    #     #     #    #

So that the count for each response in relation to each area, question, and option is shown. For instance if three participants in area 1 answered Q1 with option 2, I'd want the value in the table to be 3, as shown above.
I've attempted to manipulate pivot tables so far, but I've not had much luck using three criteria. Without resorting to manual sorting or writing a macro to do the work for me, I'm not sure of the most efficient way to convert this data into the desired format and any advice would be appreciated.

A: When I've had to do this before, I've avoided the built-in Pivot Tables and done the following:
From this data

Concatenate the three pieces of data together in a new sheet. If, for eaxmple, I call the sheet with the original data in DataIn, I would put the following formula in a new sheet:
=DataIn!B$1&DataIn!$A2&DataIn!B2

This produces data like this:
q1Area 1Op1
Copy this formula across and down to get all the data in this new format.
I call this sheet Calculations.

In a new sheet, put the headings
     Op1 Op2 Op3 Op1 Op2 Op3 Op1 Op2 Op3 etc

     q1  q1  q1  q2  q2  q2  q3  q3  q3 etc

Area 1

Area 2

Area 3

etc

Finally, enter the following formula in the cells:
=COUNTIF(Calculations!$A:$J,Output!B$2&Output!$A3&Output!B$1)

This uses the headings in the table to re-create the three codes with the previous table and counts them.

Finally if you want different headings (to make it look nice), create this in another sheet and just copy the data over from the previous sheet using =B3 etc

A: You need to unpivot your data. If you've got the PowerQuery add-in installed (or have Excel 2016 or Excel/Office 365 subscription) then you can use PowerQuery to do this. Google "PowerQuery" and "Unpivot" and you'll turn up a whole heap of videos.
Otherwise you can use VBA such as my Unpivot routine I've previously blogged about at http://dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2013/11/21/unpivot-shootout/

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange