Architect of Bee? The Human Price of Technology, introduction by Frances O'Grady (Spokesman Press 2015), 200pp.
'A bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. At the end of every labour-process, we get a result that already existed in the imagination of the labourer at its commencement.
Karl Marx Capital, vol. 1, ch. 7.
These 'pie-in-the-sky jobs' are exactly what Cooley discusses in his book, which was first published in 1980 and has recently been republished with an introduction by Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of TUC. What would the skilled and creative defence workers wish to provide if they had the choice? If they were given the opportunity to be 'architects' and not just 'bees'. Surely it would not be weapons of mass destruction.
The workers at Lucas Aerospace were forced to answer that question in the 1970s when they were faced with the threat of structural unemployment. Similar to the defence workers in Scotland, they were also producing products that society did not want. From this realisation the idea of a campaign for the right to work on products that society genuinely needed and wanted evolved.
'It seemed absurd to us that we had all this skill and knowledge and facilities at the same time as society urgently needed equipment and services which we could provide, and yet the market economy seemed incapable of linking the two' (p.117).
The workers sent a letter to various organisations and institutions asking a simple question: 'What could a work force with these facilities be making that would be in the interests of the community at large?' (p.118) The result was a range of products valued for their use and not merely for their exchange value. After a visit to a centre for children with spina bifida, a vehicle was designed to help children with this condition to be independently mobile. Some members at another plant developed a light-weight portable life-support system which could be taken in an ambulance after realising that 30% of people who die of heart attacks die before they reach the intensive-care unit. Many other similarly useful products were designed. Sadly, not all were manufactured due to their incompatibility with the objectives of the market economy.
Cooley argues that if we are going to move from merrily producing commodities to producing goods that people need and want, we must change our attitude towards technology. The technology used today evolved from the concept of the division of labour. In a capitalist system in which the maximisation of profit is the sole objective and people are regarded as units of labour-power, the division of labour and fragmentation of skills is absolutely rational and scientific. However, the consequence is the deskilling of workers and alienation from reality. A division between theory and practice is created with a bias towards theoretical knowledge. The skill and practical knowledge of the worker is despised.
This growing separation between theory and practice generates confusion between linguistic ability and intelligence. If a student cannot explain how they did something, it must mean they do not understand. There is something called 'tactic knowledge' which our society disregards. Tactic knowledge is acquired through doing or attending to things. Cooley argues that due to our over dependency on computerised equipment we have lost the feel for the physical world around us. Work has become abstracted from the real world. Cooley is a strong believer that work is vitally important for human beings, but not the grotesque, alienated form that we see in a production line. Work is vital for human beings when it links hand and brain in a meaningful and creative process, balancing the manual and intellectual.
Cooley questions whether technology developed under a capitalist mode of production can be used to develop flexibility and creativity. Computer-aided design programmes could be used to democratise the decision-making process in architectural design. However, when these programmes are appropriated by the owners of the means of production, they are used to further alienate the designer, leading to a fragmentation of the design skills and a loss of the panoramic view of the design activity.
The designer becomes subordinate to the machine. The objective decision of the system, which is quantifiable, dominates the subjective value judgement of the designer, which cannot be quantified. According to Cooley 'we still have the time and indeed the responsibility to question the linear drive forward of this technology' (p.72). It would be interesting to know if in the thirty-four years since the book was first published whether we have managed to save any of this technology from that linear drive.
'the possibility of building socialism depends exactly on our success in combining the Soviet Power and the Soviet Organisation of Industry with the up-to-date achievements of capitalism. We must organise in Russia the study and teaching of the Taylor system [maximising workers' productivity through time and motion studies], and systematically try it out and adapt it to our ends' (p.94).
Lenin's view could be argued to be uncritical towards technology, but the context of the new soviet state's extreme vulnerability to western imperialist intervention, and the depth of the economic crisis due to World War I, put severe limits on the revolutionary government's options.
'Socialism, if it is to mean anything, must mean more freedom rather than less. If workers are constrained through Taylorism at the point of production, it is inconceivable that they will develop the self-confidence and the range of skills, abilities and talents which will make it possible for them to play a vigorous and creative part in society as a whole' (p.94).
In part, this point is contradicted by Cooley's own story, as the Lucas Aerospace workers were precisely able to demonstrate the 'self-confidence and the range of skills' to imagine, like Marx's architect, 'a vigorous and creative part in society as a while' in practical ways. Yet, to make their consciously imagined plans a reality, we must indeed struggle for a socialism that can design and organise technology for the benefit of all human lives, and not just for the production of commodities for profit.


This is an excellent and fairly lengthy biographical account of Johnston's exploits in Texas prior to his death at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, April 6, 1862, while commanding the Confederate forces with the rank of general. Thus, in the full bloom of his manhood, the greatest soldier of the Confederacy died. He belongs to that group of American heroes, Washington, Jackson, and Lee. At the moment of victory the hand of death snatched him from the field of triumph and the cause of the Confederacy was lost. He died as he wished, serving his country on the field of battle in a cause which he believed was right.
The reign, fall and execution of the Archduke Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico has furnished writers and casuists with two interesting themes of argument and speculation. Was the shooting of the helpless Emperor by his captors unwarranted murder, or was it a just retribution to a usurper necessary to the welfare of Mexico. Would Maximilian have succeeded and his empire lasted had he accepted the services of an army of Confederate soldiers who offered to join him after the collapse of the Confederacy?
Maximilian was born in 1832 and was the younger brother of the late Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. He married Princess Charlotte, the beautiful daughter of the late King Leopold I, of the Belgians. It was a love match and Maximilian and his bride started life under the happiest auspices. Both of them were related to half the reigning sovereigns of Europe and they lived happily in a castle at Miramar, near Trieste, on the beautiful Adriatic Sea. The young couple, it appears, were not content with wealth and happiness, but were ambitious to wear a crown and maintain a court of their own. Thus begins the sad tale told in this excellent account.
I am not so old but what I can remember when we got that train in West Texas. And I can remember when dresses were dresses, and the sight of a girl's ankle was as rare as a democratic victory.
I can remember when there wasn't an ice factory west of Fort Worth, and there wasn't any ice except in winter, I can remember when houses were not screened, and I had to fan the flies away from pa while he took an afternoon nap. Every day at dinner one of us kids had to mind the flies off the table while the grownups ate. We had breakfast before day, and ate supper by a lamp light, in those days.
Living memory of the Indians' massacre of the Whitlock family at Packsaddle Mountain in Burnet County and the lifelong search for a boy kidnapped by the red men, was erased in the death of Mrs. Mary McQueen, at London, Texas, sister of the slain Mrs. Whitlock. This is a brief account of the pioneer woman.
IN 1867, WHILE temporarily sojourning in the city of San Antonio, I had a severe attack of fever, from the effects of which I recovered but slowly. Thinking that fresh air and exercise would aid me in regaining my health and strength, I mounted my horse one fine morning in the latter part of October, and set out for the "ranch" of my old messmate and compadre, "Big-Foot Wallace," who held an uncertain tenure upon a tract of pasture land, situated on the Chacon, one of the headwaters of the Attascosa. I say, uncertain, for his right to and possession of the same was constantly disputed and ignored by predatory bands of savages, and Mexicans, and horse thieves of all color, grades, and nations.
Toward sundown, from the top of a, considerable hill, I came in sight of Wallace's little ranch, snugly ensconced at the bottom of a valley, near the margin of a small lake, and protected from the northern blasts by a beautiful grove of spreading live-oaks. As I rode up I discovered Wallace under one of these trees, engaged in the characteristic occupation of skinning a deer, which was hanging head downward, suspended from one of its lower branches. Wallace did not recognize me at first, for it was many years since we had last met; but, as soon as I made myself known to him, he gave me a cordial shake of the hand, and invited me into his ranch, where, in a short time, he prepared a supper, to which I sat down, "nothing loath," for my appetite was sharpened by my long day's ride.
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Scores of Texas towns and villages sprang up and flourished for a time then were abandoned and fell into decay. Some never outgrew the village class, but others were at one time places of 5,000 to 10,000 inhabitants. This is the story of some of those at one time, great cities.
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Tucked down in a corner of Lavaca County, about 100 miles east of San Antonio, dozing under the shade of great spreading live-oaks lies the sleepy little settlement of Old Moulton. It is now practically a deserted village, but at one time it was a thriving community center for all the rich farming country around a gathering place for many of the first-families of pioneer days in Texas; a city of wonders in the childhood memories of many of the prominent citizens of today.
The little settlement was first named about the year 1852.
The Winters family came out to Texas in 1834. It took them two months to come from Mississippi-because they walked all the way. In 1852, Uncle Jim Winters came on from East Texas and set up a store. He called the place Moulton because a man came along from Alabama. and suggested the name. One of the Winters girls, Sally, became "Grandma" Crouch of Texaswide fame. She lived to be 96 years old, and left a long line of descendants scattered all over Texas.
Many a pioneer family, seeking a new home in Texas after the war between the states swept away their fortunes, stopped when they reached the beautiful hills of Lavaca County, and made camp under the post oaks and black jacks, and decided they could find no better place to build their homes. They planted their broad acres of cotton and corn, and looked around for a place to build their churches and schools. They thought "Uncle Jim" had found a likely place on the tree-covered knoll at" the crossroads, so they decided on Moulton. They built a Methodist church, a Baptist, and a Hardshell church. There was a postoffice, a blacksmith shop, and a Masonic hall; and then came the school that dominated the community for a quarter of a century, and sent out its hundreds of well educated men and women to bless our great state.
Mr. Baylor offers first-hand account of experiences as County Commissioner and later Sheriff of Uvalde County in early days.
J. R. Pettitt, subject of this sketch was born on Peach Creek, Gonzales County, Texas, January 11, 1863, the town of Rackfort. being the postoffice. Later the family moved to San Marcos, Hays County, where they resided for two years, moving from there in 1872 to Kerr County, locating on the Guadalupe river no great distance from the present site of Kerrville. While the family lived in Kerr County Mr. Pettitt states he had occasion to receive his first scare of the Indians which at that time made monthly visits to some portions of the state. Here, from neighbors living not a great way off, the Indians stole two boys, carrying them out of the country. Jash Welch, Andy Wilson and George Nickels and others followed the Indians with a view to recovering the stolen boys, but their efforts were of no avail. Moving from Kerr County, the Pettitt family located not far from where Vance now stands, and at the foot of Bullhead Mountain.
NOW HERE, IN THIS BRIEF ACCOUNT, IS SOME GOOD EARLY JUNCTION, AND KIMBLE COUNTY, TX HISTORY!
New York. Indian survivors of Custer's battle on the Little Big Horn have been found among a band of Wapeton Sioux in central Saskatchewan by an expedition from the Cambrige University museum and the British museum. This is the account.
Mentions: The expedition, led by an American, Donald A. Cadzow * Robert Rymill of England and John Rymill of South Australia * The old chief, Four Stars * "Che-nmold-men" or "Long knives," * Salteaux Indians * chief named Nippy, north short of the Saskatchewan River and there it settled., is still alive, and they all call Americans after the name long ago given to American cavalrymen who carried sabers.


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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Ursula von der Leyen has clinched the presidency of the European Commission with a razor-thin margin of nine votes. It's a win for the national governments that backed her, a loss for the European Parliament that dreamed of putting forward one of its own — and a sign of some very tough tussles ahead for the 28-member bloc.When pulling a rabbit out of a hat, it helps to not show the audience the secret compartment underneath. The nomination earlier this month of von der Leyen, the former defense minister of Germany, to the helm of the European Union's executive arm, involved very little magic. As a compromise pick intended to settle differences between Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron, she was ideal. But for the new European Parliament, which had fielded better-known candidates who actually campaigned for the job, she was a mean trick.The memory of this vote may fade, but the institutional power struggle it reignites will live on. Deciding who gets to run the European Commission has historically been the preserve of national governments (a fact apparently lost on euroskeptic Brexiters like Nigel Farage, who painted von der Leyen as the symbol of an undemocratic superstate). But the European Parliament has long wanted more influence, and in 2014 its squabbling factions found enough common ground to field their own candidates — one of whom, Jean-Claude Juncker, won. With von der Leyen, the pendulum has already swung back.As an indicator of effective policy making in the EU, Tuesday's vote was not reassuring. The European elections in May failed to produce a populist wave, but they did usher in a set of far more fragmented political factions, as traditional left and right power blocs lost their majority. The new politics were on show in the awkward coalition building that went on ahead of the vote. Von der Leyen's lightning-quick campaign was packed with goodies that seemed incongruous for a center-right politician — including a $1.1 trillion "green deal," a carbon tax, a minimum wage, an unemployment-benefit scheme, mechanisms to bolster the rule of law, and a stronger border force. That wasn't enough to sway the Greens, and the Socialists endorsed her only at the 11th hour.It still pays not to underestimate the European Parliament — which approves big agreements like trade deals and Brexit — even if this time around it didn't carry out its threats to send member states back to the drawing board. The Parliament will vote on von der Leyen's Commission, too, when she gets it assembled, so she'll have to be serious about keeping her promises.Nevertheless, national interests have won this time around. Macron and Merkel's scheme went to plan — if just barely. And considering that the Parliament couldn't unify enough to protect its own interests, it will be hard to claim this outcome was undemocratic.To contact the author of this story: Lionel Laurent at llaurent2@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Mary Duenwald at mduenwald@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Lionel Laurent is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Brussels. He previously worked at Reuters and Forbes.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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Yet Japan's police "see no evil" when it suits them. According to the Asahi in 2015, the sites were being inundated with hate emails "slandering" Japan's Zainichi generational Korean community. Immigration suddenly realized that false leads from trolls were a waste of time. Yep, we told you so more than a decade ago. Glad it sunk in.
This year showed us that 2015 was not a fluke. In 2015, multiethnic American-Japanese Ariana Miyamoto won the Miss Universe Japan competition as Japan's first biracial national beauty queen. In 2016, Indian-Japanese Priyanka Yoshikawa was elected to represent Japan despite protests about whether she is a "real" Japanese. Although these events are cheer-worthy because they demonstrate that "Japaneseness" is not purely a matter of looks, they're more important because the women's stories of being "different" have highlighted their struggles for acceptance. When the domestic media bothers to report them, that is.
The discussion has mostly been a shallow one about "looks." Sadly, this is par for the course. As I said to ABC NewsRadio Australia, "Why do we keep doing these 19th-century rituals? Demeaning women by putting them on a stage, making them do debasing things, and then saying, 'This is a standard of beauty that is or is not Japanese?' How about we just call it what it is: incitement to superficial judgment of people not as individuals but by physical appearance?" Progress made, yes, but the real progress will be when beauty pageants stop entirely.
Similarly, Japan's athletes have long been scrutinized for their "foreignness." If they are "half" or even naturalized, their "foreignness" becomes a factor no matter what.
If they do badly, "It's the foreigners' fault." As seen when Japan's men's rugby team lost in 2011 and the nation's rugby union criticized coach John Kirwan for using "too many foreign players" (including naturalized former NJ). The team was then ethnically cleansed. When multiethnic Japanese figure skaters Chris and Cathy Reed underperformed in 2014, Tokyo 2020 Olympics Chair Yoshiro Mori essentially labeled them leftovers, bashing them (mistakenly) as "naturalized citizens" who couldn't make the U.S. Team.
But if they do well, they get celebrated. Remember October 2015, when Brave Blossoms, the men's rugby team, scored an upset over South Africa, and their players' enhanced physical strength was attributed to their multiethnicity? Suddenly the fact that many players didn't "look Japanese" (11 were even born outside Japan) was no problem.
Same when Japanese athletes did well in Rio last year. Prominent performances by multiethnic Japanese, including Mashu Baker (Gold in Judo); members of Japan's Rugby Sevens (the men's team came in fourth); other members of Japan's soccer, basketball and athletics teams; and most prominently, runner Asuka Cambridge (who missed out on Gold only to Usain Bolt) made it clear that hybrid Japanese help Japan in sports. If only people would stop putting up the extra hurdle of attributing success or failure to race.
After years of tired leftist politics with stale or uninspiring leaders, last September the main opposition Democratic Party made young and dynamic Taiwanese-Japanese politician Renho Murata its leader. It was the first time a multiethnic Japanese has ever helmed a major party, and immediately there were full-throated doubts about her loyalties. Media and politicos brought up Renho's alleged ties to untrustworthy China (even though Taiwan and China are different countries; even the Ministry of Justice said that Taiwanese in Japan are not under PRC law), or that she had technically naturalized (Renho was born before Japanese citizenship could legally pass through her mother) but had not renounced her dual citizenship, which wasn't an issue when she was a Cabinet member, nor when former Peruvian President and dual citizen Alberto Fujimori ran for a Diet seat in 2007 (Zeit Gist, May 5, 2009).
Whatever. Renho has proven herself a charismatic leader with an acerbic wit, ready to ask difficult and pointed questions of decision makers. She famously did so in 2009, during deliberations to fund the "world's most powerful computer,' when she asked, "What's wrong with being number two?" The project still passed, but demanding potential boondoggles justify themselves is an important job. The fact that Renho is not cowed by tough questions herself is good for a country, which with 680,000 Japanese dual citizens deserves fresh unfettered talent with international backgrounds.
This has made the JBC annual Top 10 several times, because it's a test case of accountability when NJ die in official custody. In 2010, Ghanaian visa overstayer Abubakar Awudu Suraj was so "brutally" (according to this newspaper) restrained during deportation that he was asphyxiated. Suraj's widow, unsuccessfully seeking justice through Japan's criminal justice system, won civil damages from the Immigration Bureau in a 2014 Tokyo District Court decision. However, last January, the Tokyo High Court overturned this, deciding that the lethal level of physical force was "not illegal" — it was even "necessary" — and concluded that the authorities were "not culpable." Suraj's widow took it to the Supreme Court, but the appeal was rejected last November.
Conclusion: Life is cheap in Japan's Immigration detention systems (Reuters last year reported more NJ deaths in custody due to official negligence). And now our judiciary has spoken: If NJ suffer from a lethal level of force — sorry, are killed by police — nobody is responsible.
Past JBC columns on Japan's right-wing swing anticipated that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would capitalize on the left's disarray and take Japan's imagined community back to an imagined past. Sure enough, winning the Upper House elections last July and solidifying a majority in both houses of Parliament, he accomplished this hat trick. Since then, Abe's popular support, according to the Asahi, remains at near record-highs (here and here). There's even talk of changing the rules so he can be PM beyond his mandated five-year term.
Making Japan "great" again, similar to what's happening in the United States under President-elect Donald Trump, has been going on for the past four years. With no signs of it abating.
In April 2013, Japan's Labor Contracts Law was amended to state that companies, after five years of continuous contract renewals, must hire their temporary workers as "regular employees" (seishain). Meant to stop employers from hiring people perpetually on insecure contract jobs ("insecure" because employees are easily fired by contract nonrenewal), it is having the opposite effect: Companies are inserting five-year caps in contracts to avoid hiring people for real. Last November, The Japan Times reported on the "Tohoku University job massacre," where 3,200 contract workers are slated to be fired en masse in 2017.
JBC sees this as yet another "Gaijin as Guinea Pig" scenario (ZG, July 8, 2008). This happened in Japanese academia for generations: Known as "Academic Apartheid," foreign full-time scholars received perpetual contract employment while Japanese full-time scholars received permanent uncontracted tenure from day one. This unequal status resulted in the "Great Gaijin Massacre" of 1992-4, where the Ministry of Education (MOE) told National and Public Universities not to renew the contracts of foreigners over the age of 35 as a cost-cutting measure. Then from 1997, the MOE encouraged contract employment be expanded to Japanese full-time educators. From 2018, it will be expanded to the nonacademic private sector. It's a classic case of Martin Niemoller's "First they came …" poem: Denying equal rights to part of the population eventually got normalized and applied to everyone.
Japan has been suddenly cognizant of "foreigner discrimination" this year. Not "racial discrimination," of course, but baby steps. The Asahi kicked things off in January by reporting that 42 percent of foreign residents in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward encountered some form of discrimination, and nearly 52 percent of that was in finding apartments. Glad to have the stats, albeit localized.
Then the Ministry of Justice's Bureau of Human Rights conducted its first-ever nationwide survey of discrimination toward longer-term NJ residents by mailing them a detailed multilingual survey (available at www.debito.org/?p=14298), asking questions specifically about unequal treatment in housing, employment, education, social situations, etc. It even mentioned the establishment of "laws and regulations prohibiting discrimination against foreigners" (not a law against discrimination by race, natch).
Although this survey is well-intentioned, it still has two big blind spots: It depicted discrimination as 1) due to extranationality, not physical appearance, and 2) done by Japanese people, not the government through systemic racism embedded in Japan's laws and systems (see my book "Embedded Racism" for more). As such, the survey won't resolve the root problems fundamental to Japan's very identity as an ethnostate.
Yet foreigners are a necessary evil. Japan still needs them to do its dirty work in the construction, manufacturing, agriculture, fishery and nursing sectors. So this year the foreign "trainee" work program was expanded, along with measures against abuses. About time — bad things, including NJ slavery and child labor have been happening for decades, with the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry acknowledging that about 70 percent of employers hiring "trainees" engage in illegal labor practices. Omotenashi has been counterweighted by government-sponsored exploitation of NJ, and now with the upcoming 2020 Olympics, there's plenty more dirty work out there.
Japan's first law protecting "foreigners" from group denigration in public was passed nationwide in May. JBC (Feb. 1) heralded it as a step in the right direction. Critics quickly pointed out its shortcomings: It doesn't actually ban hate speech, or have penalties for violators, and it only covers people of overseas origin "who live legally in Japan" (meaning "foreigners," but not all of them). Plus it skirts the issue of racial discrimination, natch.
However, it has had important effects. The law offered a working definition of hate speech and silenced people claiming the "Western construct" of hate speech didn't exist in Japan. It also gave Japan's bureaucrats the power to curtail haters. The Mainichi Shimbun reported that this year's xenophobic rallies, once daily on average somewhere in Japan, had decreased. Rallies also reportedly softened their hateful invective. Since Japan's outdoor public gatherings need police and community approval (ZG March 4, 2003), even an official frown on hatred can be powerful.
Official frowning spread. The National Police Agency advised prefectural police departments to respond to hate speech demos. A court banned a rally in a Korean area of Kawasaki for "illegal actions that infringe upon the personal rights for leading a personal life." Another court ordered hate group Zaitokukai to compensate a Zainichi Korean for public slurs against her. Both judges cited the United Nations Convention on Racial Discrimination, which has been ignored in lawsuits against "Japanese only" establishments.
These are remarkable new outcomes in a society loath to call "No Foreigners Allowed" signs discriminatory, let alone order police to take them down. Progress to build upon.
11 Population of registered NJ residents reaches record 2.23 million despite significant decreases in recent years.
12 "Special economic zones" expand to the aging agriculture sector, and want "skilled foreigners" with college degrees and Japanese-language ability to till fields on three-year visas. Seriously.
13 The Nankai Line train conductor who apologized to passengers for "too many foreigners" on an airport-bound train is officially reprimanded, not ignored.
14 Osaka sushi restaurant Ichibazushi, which was bullying foreign customers by deliberately adding too much wasabi, is forced by social media to publicly apologize.
15 Debito.org's archive of human rights issues in Japan celebrates its 20th Anniversary.
Congratulations on twenty years. Great work, I love reading it, and it makes our lives better. Thanks!
Laughable to see apologist Ken Yasumoto Nicholson in the comments section complaining about anti-hate speech legislation!
Yeah, I'm a bit confused by his remark. Persons actually following the news will remember the pamphlet released by the LDP (you know, the political party controlling most of the government) in which some human rights were determined to be "minor" (and consequently dispensable), as well as the known position of 日本会議 (you know, the maniacal right-wing group that the PM belongs to) whereby human rights are precisely such–"a Western concept." I'll support them when they discard their air conditioners in mid-July, as they are a Western concept too.
Back to the point, these are examples of Dr. Arudō's point that I suppose Ken believes we ought hand-feed him, as he is apparently incapable of researching the issue himself. The concession of the basically toothless hate speech law is a tiny silver speckle on a dark storm cloud of swelling right-wing fervor in the national government. Dr. Arudō has written about "human rights" issues–I suppose persons as ignorant as Ken interpret that to mean exclusively NJ rights issues, but the reality is the threat of war, increased media censorship, heightened taxes, and a reverting to archaic, sexist, classist policies affects EVERYONE in Japanese society. The move to abolish laws restricting overtime is but one example that comes to mind. I guess Ken missed that one while he had his hands clamped over his ears, screaming "I can't hear you" on the playground.
I suppose it's Dr. Arudō's fault that Ken is completely unaware of the bigger picture, leading to his confusion and inability to reconcile the content of the article with his very limited perspective.
Ken is too fixated on slamming Dr. Debito to consider that Dr. Debito could be referring to things that benefit (or are to the detriment of) both Japanese and NJ alike. It's a kind of myopia that prevents proper understanding whilst (thankfully) exposing his bias.
Maybe he should find out 'what Japan thinks' about losing its inalienable human rights, before slamming NJ for talking about it (since he refuses to accept that Dr. Debito is Japanese, which is kind of ironic for a guy born in Scotland who changed his name to 'Yasumoto' and considers himself to be Japanese).
I disagree with you on your last statement. Debito has no obligation to fix his problems(e.g., cognitive dissonance, habitual contrarianism) in the first place. One commenter made a quick response to YN, chiding him for ignorance and cluelessness.
Training Phillipina's to have 'humility' before they are allowed to work as maids in Japan, the program is run by Persona (who's president WAS the minister who introduced the idea of allowing NJ maids into Japan), a guy who says he's 'not going to let them (NJ) flood in'.
As an addendum to my post about maids, what annoys me (I think) is that it seems the recruitment company run by former Minister (Persona) is trying to force the idea of master/servant style relationships like something out of Downton Abbey, rather than the kind of 'maid' we had when I was a kid; a woman in her 50's who came over for a few hours a couple of times a week to help my Mom with the housework, cooking, and babysit me. She used to talk to my mother like a colleague not a servant.
The article about Pasona doesnt seem to address where theses maids are going to stay in Japan. Nor how much they will be paid, which speaks volumes.
I dont think they will come flooding in though, as cultural and religious differences in Japan make multicultural Hong Kong and Singapore more attractive destinations to English speaking Filipinas, and these places have churches and support networks already in place.
Once again, Japan seems a masochistic choice to work in comparison, unless the pay is much better, which is quite doubtful given Japan's track record of exploiting foreign labor.
This would be a vast improvement to Hong Kong, where employers think they "own" the live in maids 24/7 and there is a temptation to ask them to do everything just because they are around, even on their days off. And this leads to disputes over lifestyle choices, like not allowing the maid to party in her own time, go out at night etc.
So although the attitude of the Pasona president is somewhat paternalistic (agree with JIm here) , at least the maids SHOULD be living away from the families so presumably this allows for some freedom.
Though knowing Japan, they might stick them in a dorm with a strict curfew. Rules, rules, rules.
And knowing Japan, they will try to do it on the cheap (Oh how the mighty have fallen since the 80s when Japanese companies used to reject offers because "price doesnt matter, quality does").
Ps. While typing this, the PC autocorrects "and" to "Abe" several times. Is there a sublime connection the machines know about?
I agree, 26 'immigrant workers' is hardly a lot to shout about; 26 new tax payers, and 26 housewives liberated from home keeping to return to the workforce on minimum wage temporary contracts, is not going to make up for the governments huge shortfall in tax revenues due to demographics.
1. The minister who set up the law to allow this scheme is now the president of the company that will make economic gain from said law.
3. As the article explained, these maid applicants are getting fired from training for not being servile and humble enough. That is to say, Persona (and by extension the J-Gov) is creating this business model that is based on a fantasy TV English period drama depiction of what 'maids' were in stately manors 150 years ago! It was an abusive system them, and should not be emulated now (after all, to see how social attitudes have changed in the west, look at how the relationship between Bruce Wayne and his butler Alfred is depicted: a modern audience would not be sympathetic to a Bruce Wayne who fired Alfred for not bowing and scraping enough. This is of course fiction, but fiction is the mirror of our reality). Now, contrast that with how Japan wants to force hierarchy on these maids. I would love be to seee a copy of a contract of employment.
@JIm, Japan trying to own, dominate and lord it over Filipinas and other Asian women is a darker, but relevant interpretation. There are also several Filipina bars that are vehemently "Japanese (men) only".
(Yet, walk with a Japanese woman and they dont bat an eyelid, go figure).
Abe is a revanchist nationalist, a descendant of a war criminal. Abe is rooted in the past, a nostalgia for pre war imperial Japan.
Trump is a businessman. He could care less about foreign adventures (e.g. Japan v Korea, "good luck with that"). He says he would withdraw if allies don't pay their share. "MAGA" is about cuting costs (e.g. Airforce One) and the (misguided?) belief that certain allies are taking the US for a ride.
Which is what Abe would like to do- drag the US into a war of Japan's making.
Their only similarity is ironically their anti immigrant stance, except that Abe pretends he isn't. At least Trump calls a spade a spade.
I think Abe fears Trump. That is why he hurriedly went to meet him. He is deeply afraid of losing American tacit support for his regime and his agenda. Thus all the hopeful spin PR after their meeting of :"I think Abe will become a very good friend of Mr Trump".
Re; attitudes to Filipino ladies.
I guess, its this world view of hierarchical relationships that is so prevalent in Japan. It's 'bad enough' that you 'don't know your place', but the assumption is that you will enjoy Japan and go home. However, giving 'subordinates' 'ideas above their station' before you leave is too disturbing to their world view?


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Senatorial candidate Nancy Binay continues to make the headlines in Philippine media outlets, both offline and online due to various reasons. One, she is among the Senatorial candidates who are leading in the official tallies by the Comelec. And two, a lot of people are not pleased that she is among the top vote-getters. Thus the huge negative chatter about her online. Netizens, especially those on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are bashing her 24/7. And of course, there's the rise of Nancy Binay jokes. Jokes that poke fun on her lack of experience, her surname and even her skin color.
Some are saying Nancy Binay is the next Erap. If you can remember, when Erap became Philippine President, he was the subject of ridicule by hundreds of "Erap jokes". We are seeing the same trend with Nancy Binay. And it's going to get worse once she gets proclaimed and takes her oath as a Philippine Senator. She might even get a bashing that's worse compared to the ridicule that Erap got. In Erap's time, the jokes only spread through text messages and traditional conversations. Today, there's Facebook and Twitter and dozens of other social media sites. Things can easily go viral on these sites.
Nancy Binay has a way out of this though. And there's only one way. And that is to prove to the people that she can be a useful Senator. She needs to get the respect of the people. She must prove to her critics that they are wrong. And she has full 6 years to do so. Well, good luck to her.


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The setppriv() function sets or changes the process privilege set. The op argument specifies the operation and can be one of PRIV_OFF, PRIV_ON or PRIV_SET. The which argument specifies the name of the privilege set. The set argument specifies the set.
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All operations that attempt to add privileges that are already present are permitted.
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MGT has established a strategic joint-venture with Lincoln Property Company to deliver this Millennial Cities strategy. The joint-venture combines the commercial and residential development experience and skills of Lincoln Property Company, one of the largest full-service real estate companies in the United States, with the pan-European investment experience and strategic focus of MGT. The partnership is called Lincoln MGT.
The JV's strategic objective is to develop, and manage over the long-term, a portfolio of purpose-built rental residential assets in and around London and other key cities in Europe. Our strategy is research driven, specifically focusing on property opportunities arising in cities, which are most affected by the lifestyle choices of the millennial generation. The primary cities of focus for us are London and Berlin.
The joint-venture will undertake large-scale, residential-led mixed-use projects which combine both commercial and residential with public amenity. We will prioritise opportunities that have been granted outline planning consent, or similar.
The partnership has a skilled and well-resourced team to deliver on all aspects of the strategy from site identification, feasibility studies, entitlement, design, construction, leasing and operation to management and capital structuring in the longer term. The partners bring complementary skill sets to the joint-venture with MGT leading on acquisition and investment management, and Lincoln leading on development, construction, leasing and property management.
By 2020, millennials will account for 50% of the European working population, making them the single most important economic group. The generation faces significant challenges in finding affordable places to live. Home ownership is beyond the reach of many, so renting offers a flexible, attractive alternative. Our research predicts that certain European city markets, which we have identified as 'Millennial Cities', will significantly outperform the wider market as hubs of innovation and creativity.
Our Millennial Cities strategy is underpinned by the thesis that lifestyle preferences of people born between 1980 and 2000 – the so-called "millennials" – will drive a long-term supply and demand imbalance in certain sectors within selected European cities. Hence, creating opportunity for income growth and capital appreciation.


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Ticket prices, concerts announced for Chicago Street Race
NASCAR announced Wednesday the general admission ticket sale dates and prices and the concert lineup for the inaugural Chicago Street Race weekend July 1-2.
Two-day general admission tickets will go on sale at 11 a.m. ET on Feb. 2. General admission tickets start at $269.
On sale now are two-day reserved tickets starting at $465. Tickets include access to Saturday's Xfinity Series race, Sunday's Cup Series race and all concerts.
Miranda Lambert, The Chainsmokers, The Black Crowes and Charley Crockett have been scheduled for concerts during the race weekend.
"The Chicago Street Race is truly a first-of-its-kind two-day sports and entertainment venue in the 75-year history of NASCAR," said Chicago Street Race President Julie Giese in a statement released by NASCAR. "We are proud to welcome superstars The Chainsmokers, Miranda Lambert, The Black Crowes and Charley Crockett as we reimagine the NASCAR experience in the heart of downtown Chicago over Fourth of July weekend."
Activities will begin July 1 with Xfinity and Cup practice and qualifying, followed by a concert by The Black Crowes. After the Xfinity race, The Chainsmokers will perform.
On July 2, Crockett will open the day's festivities before Lambert's full-length concert in advance of the first Cup Series street race.
For ticket information, visit NASCARChicago.com.
Helio Castroneves rules out Daytona 500
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Helio Castroneves might be at the 2023 Daytona 500, but the four-time Indy 500 winner won't be in a race car.
During a news conference Thursday at Daytona International Speedway, Castroneves confirmed in response to a question from NBC Sports that he essentially has ruled out attempting to make his NASCAR Cup Series debut in the Feb. 19 season opener.
As recently as last Thursday at Rolex 24 Media Day, Castroneves, 47, said he still was working on trying to piece together a deal.
The Brazilian had been negotiating with the Cup team co-owned by boxer Floyd Mayweather and would have been in an "open" entry that lacked guaranteed entry to the Great American Race. That potentially would leave him in the precarious position of needing to make the race on qualifying speed or a qualifying race finish (as action sports star Travis Pastrana likely might need in his Cup debut).
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"Unfortunately for me, lack of experience, no testing," Castroneves said. "A lot of things. I believe it would be a little bit tough throwing myself in such a short notice, and to go in a place that you've got to race yourself into it. So as of right now, yes, it's not going to happen.
"But we did have an opportunity. We just got to elaborate a little bit more to give me a little more experience on that. So there is more things to come ahead of us, but as of right now, I want to focus on the IndyCar program as well and (the Rolex 24 at Daytona)."
Castroneves, who has a residence in Key Biscayne, said he still might attend the Daytona 500
"I might just come and see and watch it and continue to take a look and see what's going to be in the future," he said.
During a @Rolex24Hours availability, i asked @h3lio if he still is working on a Daytona 500 debut next month.
Helio says he has ruled out the #nascar season opener for 2023, but he still wants to race here in the future and might attend in February just to watch. pic.twitter.com/4J5clZ09hi
— Nate Ryan (@nateryan) January 26, 2023
Castroneves enters Saturday's Rolex 24 at Daytona having won the event the past two years. He made his signature fence-climb after winning last year with Meyer Shank Racing, which he will be driving for full time in the NTT IndyCar Series this year. He became the fourth four-time Indy 500 winner in history in his 2021 debut with Meyer Shank Racing.
The 2020 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar champion also has indicated an interest in Trackhouse Racing's Project 91 car that aims to place international drivers in a Cup ride (such as Kimi Raikkonen at Watkins Glen International last year). Team co-owner Justin Marks recently tweeted Trackhouse wouldn't field the Project 91 car at the Daytona 500.
After winning the 2022 Superstar Racing Experience opener, SRX CEO Don Hawk had promised he would help secure a Daytona 500 ride for Castroneves.
Castroneves has been angling for a NASCAR ride for years, dating to when he drove for Team Penske from 2000-20. After winning the Rolex 24 last year, he said he had been lobbying Ray Evernham and Tony Stewart for help with getting in a Cup car.
Though Castroneves is out, Sports Business Journal's Adam Stern reported that Mayweather's The Money Team Racing still is considering IndyCar driver Conor Daly for its seat.


VOX magazine's editor Ruth Garvey-Williams reflects on her personal connection with Nepal in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake on Saturday 25 April, which has claimed more than 5,500 lives.
My first memories are of Katmandu. From the age of two, I lived in the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, while my parents worked with the Leprosy Mission (a charity founded by an Irishman in 1874). My father was an accountant - taking care of the finances for leprosy hospitals based in Nepal and across the Indian sub-continent.
It was the early 70s and outside Nepal's thriving capital city, mud roads were frequently filled with pot holes or blocked by rock slides. Our Landrover once ended up in a paddy (rice) field when the mud road gave way after heavy monsoon rains.
My childhood memories are rose-coloured - endless sunshine, idyllic walks along mountain paths, delicious dahl and chapatis for lunch and hot jalebis (sweets) bought from the roadside stalls. I remember church picnics with fragrant curry and rice served up on banana leaves. And a trip to Pokhara, in the back of a van, along switchback mountain roads.
Of course, life wasn't idyllic for the Nepali people, the majority of whom lived in abject poverty. And yet my memories are of their smiles, not their tears! Since returning to England in 1974, I have never gone back. Yet, Nepal has shaped who I am.
Today, a terrible earthquake has destroyed so much of the beautiful country of my childhood. It has flattened villages and cut off hope and help from dozens of settlements, accessible only by the winding mountain roads.
VOX magazine is compiling a roundup of news and updates from Christian aid agencies working in Nepal. Please take time to read and respond. A proud, beautiful people are asking for our help!


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One of our most talked-about author interviews, in recent years, was our 2012 conversation with former-Amish writer Saloma Furlong. A shortened version of her story was featured in the PBS American Experience documentary The Amish, which was both gorgeous and absolutely fascinating in its exploration of Amish life in America.
PBS WEBSITE: This American Experience website for the film includes a preview video, background materials, plus information about the series' broadcast schedule, other upcoming films and some "bonus videos" related to Shunned.
The truth is—as PBS's American Experience series already has shown in its earlier documentary on The Amish: "The truth isn't plain—or simple." Like traditionalist Jews, Muslims, Hindus—and adherents of a host of other centuries-old global cultures—the Amish enforce rigid rules that leave many young Amish men and women sorely torn. Education—even a high school diploma—is strongly discouraged if not outright forbidden. Women are expected to play submissive roles. Everyone is expected to follow the Amish commitment to pacifism to the point of even forgiving extreme abuse within the community. Yes, many Amish families live very satisfying, faith-filled lives of love and grace and hard work.
Well, this new documentary is about the many former Amish men and women who have weighed their experience with Amish life and have finally said: "But—this is not for me." The documentary shows us how the strict Amish code of community then cuts off these wayward souls. In fact, in one story included in this new film, a family that spent years hoping to join the Amish community finds itself painfully shunned. That comes after the family has labored mightily to prove itself a part of Amish culture—yet is never able to properly measure up to the core traditions of the group.
This is a movie about painfully torn relationships and one of the leading figures in the film—and one of the most sympathetic figures overall—is Saloma Furlong herself. In my home as I previewed this film one evening for this ReadTheSpirit review, I found my wife absolutely fascinated, as well. She watched every minute of this film with me. We kept talking about the issues raised, long after the movie had ended.
You likely will find yourself captivated, as well.
Care to read more about the Amish?
REVIEW OF PBS's THE AMISH: As Editor of ReadTheSpirit, I also reviewed the earlier American Experience documentary, calling that movie, "by far, the best film I have seen about Amish life in America." That assessment still stands. I am also highly recommending this new sequel to the first film, but Shunned is limited to one aspect of Amish life. The first film is a broad overview, so I continue to rate that first film even higher than this one.
MEET THE LEADING EXPERTS: This new documentary features Amish voices and the true stories of a few men and women who have left the Amish community. But this whole approach to careful, balanced media coverage of the Amish has been shaped by the leading experts in Amish studies. We featured this in-depth interview in 2011.
AMISH NOVELS AND MOVIES ARE POPULAR! We have interviewed Vannetta Chapman, one of the leading novelists writing best-selling tales of Amish life. We post movie reviews, occasionally, of new Amish-themed movies like this one that was broadcast by Hallmark. And, to help point out some of the better Amish movies, we published this overview of lesser-known movies that "get it right" in portraying aspects of Amish life.
READ MORE BY SALOMA FURLONG: Our earlier interview with Saloma Furlong was published when Saloma only had one volume of her memoirs. Watch Saloma's own website for updates on her new volume, debuting in February, which continues her story past that first book.


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The backups of ESXi blades in one blade center run on average 100GB/hr. While the blades in the other blade center run on average 20GB/hr. (Throughput calculated by total data backed up divided by total duration of backup) Networking configurations on EXSi and Cisco infrastructure is all identical.
My network admin and I have already discussed LAN limitations but that doesn't appear to be an issue (one of the slow hosts asked for more bandwidth and received it). None of the ESXi hosts are CPU or memory limited.
I would appreciate any ideas on what I can check to identify bottlenecks.
Do you perform NBD (network) or SAN backups of the ESXi datastores? Another possible root cause could be the originating disk subsystem used by ESXi or just the Data Protector configuration itself. I usually see even more throughput for a single VM backed up using NBD transport in a VEPA session. (to LTO3-5 or disk) How many VMs are backed up at once? What about concurrency on the drive and how many drives are used at once? If the ESXi storage is fast, your SDLT drive could be the bottleneck. If it is as old as your MSL5000 then I would recommend to backup to a null device on the media agent. If the throughput is much higher, your drive is just to slow.


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Without You I'm Nothing è un singolo del gruppo rock britannico Placebo, pubblicato nel 1999 come singolo estratto dal loro secondo album, l'omonimo Without You I'm Nothing. La versione pubblicata come singolo si avvale della partecipazione vocale di David Bowie.

Video musicale
Nel video ufficiale del brano, diretto da Russel Thomas, i Placebo e David Bowie eseguono il brano dal vivo durante un concerto.

Tracce
Testi di Brian Molko, musiche dei Placebo.
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Ein mystery mit Rock 'n' Roll-Soundtrack: Vier Mitglieder der Band »Pearl Harbor« sterben unter mysteriösen Umständen. Nur der Back-up-Schlagzeuger bleibt verschont. Doch wer ist der geheimnisvolle Koma-Patient, der vierzig Jahre später in einer Brüsseler Klinik landet?
Berlin, 1967: Alle vier Mitglieder der englischen Rockband »Pearl Harbor« werden innerhalb weniger Tage tot aufgefunden. Die Polizei findet keine Hinweise auf einen Zusammenhang und legt die Todesfälle als natürliche Tode zu den Akten. Ein irischer Journalist kann das nicht glauben und ermittelt im Rockmusik- und Drogenmilieu der Swinging Sixties in London und Berlin.
Jimmy's a brimming composer. younger and black British, he learns much from girls; black girls train, white ladies train it a section another way. yet prior to attending to all that, a model of the Black Panthers was once in Seventies England. the line forward glance reliable. yet hypocrites lurked. Now too many signposts are naked: they can certainly use a brand new coat of paint.
«Si ricordi che qui lavoriamo coi secondi, capisce, coi secondi! Arrivederci, aggiunge». «Una rotazione completa del tamburo rotante della betoniera intorno al suo asse: su questa unità di pace è tarato lorologio degli umani e dei flussi relativi; o viceversa, in fondo los angeles cosa ha poca importanza: animali, vegetali, persone, sentimenti, pensieri, ovvero merci e flussi di merci, e in definitiva tutto ciò che si muove in e in keeping with questo territorio, si regola sullo stesso metronomo, 'lavora con gli stessi secondi, o meglio, nel caso umano, ne ha limpressione; ma negli interstizi, nelle pieghe, nei bordi, negli spazi residui, abbandonati, ai margini, fuori dal flusso, un altro pace lavora e così in ogni caso moriamo.
What brings an 18th century prostitute to that darkest of areas the place she is prepared to exchange her frail human existence for the reward of immortality as a vampire? Constance Delaware, wrongly accused of homicide, is sentenced to loss of life. She grasps on the likelihood for all times provided by way of a stunning lady with remarkable skills.
During this epic coming of age tale, we meet Ivan Thompson. A vibrant, gentle mannered, good cultured and exclusive child who eventually involves phrases with an ongoing factor. With lots of humor, enjoyable, love, a few romance, laughter, and uncensored hand handy strive against, the tale talks approximately bullying. The rewards one reaps after they take a stand and chase away.


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Start with two Palestinians
On October 15, 2010 June 29, 2020 By Martin Kramer
In an interview in February 2003, Edward Said said this:
An outrageous Israeli, Martin Kramer, uses his Web site to attack everybody who says anything he doesn't like. For example, he has described Columbia as "the Bir Zeit [university] on the Hudson," because there are two Palestinians teaching here. Two Palestinians teaching in a faculty of 8,000 people! If you have two Palestinians, it makes you a kind of terrorist hideout. This is part of the atmosphere of intimidation that is McCarthyite.
Flash forward seven years later, to last week's formal inauguration of the new Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. From its website:
Founded in January 2010, the Center for Palestine Studies is the first such center to be established in an academic institution in the United States. Columbia University is currently the professional home to a unique concentration of distinguished scholars on Palestine and Palestinians, as well as to award-winning supporting faculty in a variety of disciplines.
So how did Columbia go so rapidly from "two Palestinians teaching in a faculty of 8,000 people!" to "a unique concentration of distinguished scholars on Palestine and the Palestinians"? Don't be shocked, but Edward Said was out to deceive in that 2003 interview. Obviously there were more than two Palestinians back then. But I didn't invent the nickname Bir Zeit-on-Hudson because of their number. It was meant to evoke precisely the atmosphere of intimidation—anti-Israel intimidation—that would later come to light in the "Columbia Unbecoming" affair.
Now that Columbia boasts of being home to "a unique concentration of distinguished scholars on Palestine" (who "will have a national and global reach"), Bir Zeit-on-Hudson hardly sounds far-fetched. By that, I don't mean a "terrorist hideout"—those were Said's words, not mine—but a redoubt of militant Palestinian nationalism in the guise of scholarship. And I mean militant: the affiliates of the new center aren't only engaged in the positive affirmation of Palestinian identity, but are activists in the campaign to negate Israel. This is obviously the case in regard to Joseph Massad and Nadia Abu al-Haj—their field isn't Palestine studies, it's anti-Israel studies—but it's increasingly true of the new center's co-director, Rashid Khalidi, Columbia's Edward Said Professor, an enthusiastic spokesman for the PLO in its terrorist phase and a severe critic of the same leadership in its present phase.
For now, Khalidi is cleverly doing what Said did with his "two Palestinians" shtick. "We have absolutely no money," Khalidi said at the launch (attended by an overflow crowd). "What our little modest center will be able to do may be some narrow, specific things," he reassured a journalist from the Jewish Forward. I'm not buying it, and I think that the moniker Bir Zeit-on-Hudson is too modest to convey the scope of the ambition behind this project. So I'm working on an alternative. For a preview, click on the thumbnail or here.
Why I'm (still) grateful to Columbia
This is how I opened my lecture on U.S. Middle East policy to the Columbia University International Relations Forum on November 16.
As some of you may know, I've been a long-time and often sharp critic of certain decisions made by Columbia University. There's a saying, that honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. In other words, it doesn't much matter, but for what it's worth, my criticism hasn't been that of a stranger. I've commented as a professional academic, as a Columbia alumnus, and as a Columbia University Press author, who remembers this great university as a place of diverse approaches and the highest standards.
The standards I recall were personified by the late J.C. Hurewitz, with whom I studied here almost thirty-five years ago. For the younger of you in this audience, that name will mean very little, perhaps nothing. But for many years, Hurewitz dominated the teaching of the Middle East at Columbia, for which he set a very high bar. I took my first course with Hurewitz along with fellow student Lisa Anderson, who later succeeded him as director of the Middle East Institute and went on to serve as dean of the School of International and Public Affairs. She precisely and elegantly described Hurewitz in these words:
The motif in J.C. Hurewitz's professional life has been a belief in the possibility and desirability of fairness.… His commitment to an abstract notion of fairness as a value, both moral and pragmatic, was particularly striking in worlds—Middle Eastern politics, academics, government—where the primacy of personal bias or political inclination has been far more common.… There were, of course, those who believed the effort to be misguided, who said and continue to say that objectivity is impossible and dispassion irresponsible. Hurewitz did not say he was trying to be objective in any absolute or scientific sense, however: indeed, epistemological questions are of no interest to him and he has great respect for the passions of others. He strove to be fair.
This is not the occasion to ask whether Columbia still elevates those who strive to be fair. I do want to take the opportunity to note that my best recollections of Columbia are the moments when J.C. Hurewitz seemingly floated above partisanship to achieve a higher insight on some highly contentious issue. This is a standard that's not easy to maintain, and I sometimes fail to maintain it myself. But I learned enough here to know that partisanship, while sometimes a personal imperative, is never a scholarly virtue, and certainly should never be mistaken for scholarship. For that distinction, learned at a different Columbia at a different time, I'm still grateful.
Coming to Columbia
On November 13, 2009 June 29, 2020 By Martin Kramer
For those who have Columbia University ID's, I will be lecturing on Monday evening, November 16, on "How Not to Fix the Middle East" at the invitation of the Columbia University International Relations Forum (CUIRF). The lecture will take place at the Roone Arledge Lerner Cinema on the Columbia campus, 2920 Broadway, at 8pm. It's to be preceded by a reception at 7:15pm.
In the CUIRF web announcement, I was surprised to see it suggested that I and Prof. Jack Snyder, my moderator, "may also discuss his [Kramer's] critique of the MEALAC program at Columbia." At the Columbia Bwog, this grows larger in the telling: "Martin Kramer will also most likely be discussing the Joseph Massad tenure, and his critique of other MEALAC Professors at Columbia."
It is not likely. I intend to adhere to my lecture topic.
Update: Here is a rough-and-ready summary of my appearance at Columbia, from the Columbia Spectator. My thesis, a bit muddled here, is that Obama's Middle East policy is plagued by a contradiction. The administration undercuts its own ambitious agenda, by its own ambivalence about U.S. dominance. (Obama: "No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.") If the Mideast thinks U.S. power is waning, no one will comply. And they haven't.


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President Jacob Zuma was to meet Semenya and the two other South African medalists, men's 800-meter champion Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and men's long jump runner-up Kgotso Mokoena at the presidential guest house in Pretoria. According to a statement from his office Monday, Zuma wants "to congratulate them on their sterling performance in Berlin."
COSATU, the country's main trade union federation, said Tuesday's welcome would be for the whole team, but "especially Caster, who has been the victim of such a despicable campaign by international athletics officials to discredit her magnificent achievement by maliciously raising unfounded questions about her gender."
Semenya's family and friends say there is no doubt she is a woman. But it is not always easy to get a clear-cut answer from scientists on the question in some cases.
The IAAF, track and field's governing body, will decide Semenya's case according to whether her "conditions ... accord no advantage over other females" after consulting a gynecologist, an endocrinologist, a psychologist, an internal medicine specialist and a gender expert. Her genes and physiology as well as how she sees herself and how she is seen by her community could play a role in their determination.
South Africans have been outraged not just that questions have been raised, but that they have been made public.
On Sunday, Lamine Diack, the IAAF president, said the affair was handled badly.
"I deeply regret that confidentiality was breached in this case and that the IAAF were forced into a position of having to confirm that gender testing was being carried out on this young athlete," Diack told reporters in Berlin. "It is a regrettable matter and I have requested an internal inquiry to ensure that procedures are tightened up and this never happens again."


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