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Q: Difference between Role and GrantedAuthority in Spring Security There are concepts and implementations in Spring Security, such as the GrantedAuthority interface to get an authority to authorize/control an access.
I would like that to permissible operations, such as createSubUsers, or deleteAccounts, which I would allow to an admin (with role ROLE_ADMIN).
I am getting confused as the tutorials/demos I see online. I try to connect what I read, but I think we treat the two interchangeably.
I see hasRole consuming a GrantedAuthority string? I most definitely am doing it wrong in understanding. What are these conceptually in Spring Security?
How do I store the role of a user, separate from the authorities for that role?
I'm also looking at the org.springframework.security.core.userdetails.UserDetails interface which is used in the authentication-provider referenced DAO, which consumes a User (note last GrantedAuthority):
public User(String username,
            String password,
            boolean enabled,
            boolean accountNonExpired,
            boolean credentialsNonExpired,
            boolean accountNonLocked,
            Collection<? extends GrantedAuthority> authorities)

Or is there any other way to differentiate the other two? Or is it not supported and we have to make our own?

A: Like others have mentioned, I think of roles as containers for more granular permissions.
Although I found the Hierarchy Role implementation to be lacking fine control of these granular permission.
So I created a library to manage the relationships and inject the permissions as granted authorities in the security context.
I may have a set of permissions in the app, something like CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE, that are then associated with the user's Role.
Or more specific permissions like READ_POST, READ_PUBLISHED_POST, CREATE_POST, PUBLISH_POST
These permissions are relatively static, but the relationship of roles to them may be dynamic.
Example -
@Autowired
RolePermissionsRepository repository;

public void setup(){
  String roleName = "ROLE_ADMIN";
  List<String> permissions = new ArrayList<String>();
  permissions.add("CREATE");
  permissions.add("READ");
  permissions.add("UPDATE");
  permissions.add("DELETE");
  repository.save(new RolePermissions(roleName, permissions));
}

You may create APIs to manage the relationship of these permissions to a role.
I don't want to copy/paste another answer, so here's the link to a more complete explanation on SO.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/60251931/1308685
To re-use my implementation, I created a repo. Please feel free to contribute!
https://github.com/savantly-net/spring-role-permissions

A: Think of a GrantedAuthority as being a "permission" or a "right". Those "permissions" are (normally) expressed as strings (with the getAuthority() method). Those strings let you identify the permissions and let your voters decide if they grant access to something.
You can grant different GrantedAuthoritys (permissions) to users by putting them into the security context. You normally do that by implementing your own UserDetailsService that returns a UserDetails implementation that returns the needed GrantedAuthorities.
Roles (as they are used in many examples) are just "permissions" with a naming convention that says that a role is a GrantedAuthority that starts with the prefix ROLE_. There's nothing more. A role is just a GrantedAuthority - a "permission" - a "right". You see a lot of places in spring security where the role with its ROLE_ prefix is handled specially as e.g. in the RoleVoter, where the ROLE_ prefix is used as a default. This allows you to provide the role names withtout the ROLE_ prefix. Prior to Spring security 4, this special handling of "roles" has not been followed very consistently and authorities and roles were often treated the same (as you e.g. can see in the implementation of the hasAuthority() method in SecurityExpressionRoot - which simply calls hasRole()). With Spring Security 4, the treatment of roles is more consistent and code that deals with "roles" (like the RoleVoter, the hasRole expression etc.) always adds the ROLE_ prefix for you. So hasAuthority('ROLE_ADMIN') means the the same as hasRole('ADMIN') because the ROLE_ prefix gets added automatically. See the spring security 3 to 4 migration guide for futher information.
But still: a role is just an authority with a special ROLE_ prefix. So in Spring security 3 @PreAuthorize("hasRole('ROLE_XYZ')") is the same as @PreAuthorize("hasAuthority('ROLE_XYZ')") and in Spring security 4 @PreAuthorize("hasRole('XYZ')") is the same as @PreAuthorize("hasAuthority('ROLE_XYZ')").
Regarding your use case:

Users have roles and roles can perform certain operations.

You could end up in GrantedAuthorities for the roles a user belongs to and the operations a role can perform. The GrantedAuthorities for the roles have the prefix ROLE_ and the operations have the prefix OP_. An example for operation authorities could be OP_DELETE_ACCOUNT, OP_CREATE_USER, OP_RUN_BATCH_JOBetc. Roles can be ROLE_ADMIN, ROLE_USER, ROLE_OWNER etc.
You could end up having your entities implement GrantedAuthority like in this (pseudo-code) example:
@Entity
class Role implements GrantedAuthority {
    @Id
    private String id;

    @ManyToMany
    private final List<Operation> allowedOperations = new ArrayList<>();

    @Override
    public String getAuthority() {
        return id;
    }

    public Collection<GrantedAuthority> getAllowedOperations() {
        return allowedOperations;
    }
}

@Entity
class User {
    @Id
    private String id;

    @ManyToMany
    private final List<Role> roles = new ArrayList<>();

    public Collection<Role> getRoles() {
        return roles;
    }
}

@Entity
class Operation implements GrantedAuthority {
    @Id
    private String id;

    @Override
    public String getAuthority() {
        return id;
    }
}

The ids of the roles and operations you create in your database would be the GrantedAuthority representation, e.g. ROLE_ADMIN, OP_DELETE_ACCOUNT etc. When a user is authenticated, make sure that all GrantedAuthorities of all its roles and the corresponding operations are returned from the UserDetails.getAuthorities() method.
Example:
The admin role with id ROLE_ADMIN has the operations OP_DELETE_ACCOUNT, OP_READ_ACCOUNT, OP_RUN_BATCH_JOB assigned to it.
The user role with id ROLE_USER has the operation OP_READ_ACCOUNT.
If an admin logs in the resulting security context will have the GrantedAuthorities:
ROLE_ADMIN, OP_DELETE_ACCOUNT, OP_READ_ACCOUNT, OP_RUN_BATCH_JOB
If a user logs it, it will have:
ROLE_USER, OP_READ_ACCOUNT
The UserDetailsService would take care to collect all roles and all operations of those roles and make them available by the method getAuthorities() in the returned UserDetails instance.

A: AFAIK GrantedAuthority and roles are same in spring security. GrantedAuthority's getAuthority() string is the role (as per default implementation SimpleGrantedAuthority).
For your case may be you can use Hierarchical Roles
<bean id="roleVoter" class="org.springframework.security.access.vote.RoleHierarchyVoter">
    <constructor-arg ref="roleHierarchy" />
</bean>
<bean id="roleHierarchy"
        class="org.springframework.security.access.hierarchicalroles.RoleHierarchyImpl">
    <property name="hierarchy">
        <value>
            ROLE_ADMIN > ROLE_createSubUsers
            ROLE_ADMIN > ROLE_deleteAccounts
            ROLE_USER > ROLE_viewAccounts
        </value>
    </property>
</bean>

Not the exact sol you looking for, but hope it helps
Edit: Reply to your comment
Role is like a permission in spring-security. using intercept-url with hasRole provides a very fine grained control of what operation is allowed for which role/permission.
The way we handle in our application is, we define permission (i.e. role) for each operation (or rest url) for e.g. view_account, delete_account, add_account etc. Then we create logical profiles for each user like admin, guest_user, normal_user. The profiles are just logical grouping of permissions, independent of spring-security.
When a new user is added, a profile is assigned to it (having all permissible permissions). Now when ever user try to perform some action, permission/role for that action is checked against user grantedAuthorities.
Also the defaultn RoleVoter uses prefix ROLE_, so any authority starting with ROLE_ is considered as role, you can change this default behavior by using a custom RolePrefix in role voter and using it in spring security.

A: Another way to understand the relationship between these concepts is to interpret a ROLE as a container of Authorities.
Authorities are fine-grained permissions targeting a specific action coupled sometimes with specific data scope or context. For instance, Read, Write, Manage, can represent various levels of permissions to a given scope of information.
Also, authorities are enforced deep in the processing flow of a request while ROLE are filtered by request filter way before reaching the Controller. Best practices prescribe implementing the authorities enforcement past the Controller in the business layer.
On the other hand, ROLES are coarse grained representation of an set of permissions. A ROLE_READER would only have Read or View authority while a ROLE_EDITOR would have both Read and Write. Roles are mainly used for a first screening at the outskirt of the request processing such as
http.
  ...
 .antMatcher(...).hasRole(ROLE_MANAGER)
The Authorities being enforced deep in the request's process flow allows a finer grained application of the permission. For instance, a user may have Read Write permission to first level a resource but only Read to a sub-resource. Having a ROLE_READER would restrain his right to edit the first level resource as he needs the Write permission to edit this resource but a @PreAuthorize interceptor could block his tentative to edit the sub-resource.
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Molly Haskell
My Brother My Sister: Story of a Transformation
Haskell has produced a cultural map of not only her sister's experience, but of gender roles and transsexualism in a world increasingly governed by notions of individual identity. My Brother My Sister is tender, honest, informed, and at times a humorous must-read for anyone who has ever struggled to discover who they really are.
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"Holding My Own in No Man's Land: Women and Men and Film and Feminists"
Essays and interviews, ranging from interviews with Hollywood legends such as Gloria Swanson and John Wayne, to celebrations of the comic verve of Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett, to ruminations on literary figures such as Truman Capote and his Holly Golightly and Jane Austen's Emma.
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A 'Law and Order' Addict Tells All
Molly's personal take on the hit tv show.
"High-Wire Artist"
A book review of "Burt Lancaster: An American Life," by Kate Buford.
"Battle of the Sexes"
A unique view of the confrontations between men and women, the darker side of men, and how both sexes react to these differences.
"He Drives Me Crazy"
Celebrated New York Times humor piece about Molly's husband's driving, men's driving in general, and the misconceptions about women drivers.
On a visit to New York, the brother of well-known film critic Molly Haskell dropped a bombshell: Nearing sixty, married with children, Chevey revealed he was transsexual and would begin to live openly as a woman. Despite her longstanding liberal views, Haskell was dumbfounded.
In My Brother My Sister: Story of a Transformation, she recounts the steps in Chevey's transition, while candidly exploring her own emotional journey, from shock and bewilderment after the initial announcement to a place of acceptance, empathy, and love for her sister Ellen. Throughout the book Haskell turns her critic's eye on herself, but also broadens her lens to include psychoanalytical and scientific research, meditations on sexual anomalies in art and mythology as well as previously published memoirs such as Jan Morris's classic Conundrum.
This is a memoir that pulls no punches in its exploration of a controversial, delicate subject. Through Chevey's transformation into Ellen, Haskell has produced a cultural map of not only her sister's experience, but of gender roles and transsexualism in a world increasingly governed by notions of individual identity. My Brother My Sister is tender, honest, informed, and at times a humorous must-read for anyone who has ever struggled to discover who they really are.
Praise from James Wolcott, The Wolcott Blog, Vanity Fair, September 7, 2013
Click here to order online!
Read Molly Haskell's list of TCM appearances on "The Essentials"
'The Entertainer' and 'The Noir Forties' | New York Times Book Review | December 14, 2012
'Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney' by Marion Meade | Wall Street Journal - Book Review | March 18, 2010
San Francisco Chronicle review of "Frankly, My Dear"
New York Times Book Review of "Frankly, My Dear"
WSJ article on Five Movie Star Memoirs
Article on Meryl Streep in Film Comment


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Black Pastor Drops Epic Truth Bomb About Charleston (Video)
Monday, June 22, 2015 23:02
By: Voice of Reason
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In the video below, the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson discusses the Charleston church shooting, and in that discussion he says some things that will surely be looked on with disfavor within the liberal community. When I refer to the "liberal community," I am referring to every fool that is incessantly pushing the narrative that a racial divide exists in this county among ordinary and sane Americans as if racial hatred is the topic of conversation at every dinner table in America. In the video, the Reverend BEGINS by calling out President Obama and the Department of Injustice, calling them race hustlers, and saying that if the races of the shooter and victims had been different, the incident would have received little to no attention from the media. Check it out:
What I find so disturbing are the things no one is talking about. Why is no one talking about mental health in this country? Why is it that Obama and the rest of the race hustlers tell us that we cannot judge the entire religion of Islam by the actions of a few fanatics, but it's okay to judge all conservatives and all gun owners by the actions of an obvious lunatic?
I for one am SICK of the double standard. Why is no one talking about the fact it was DEMOCRATS, not Republicans, who fought to uphold slavery? Why is no one talking about the fact it was DEMOCRATS, not Republicans, that fought to uphold literacy tests required to vote in an attempt to push down blacks? This is the same DEMOCRAT party that had among its ranks a KKK leader in the United States Senate until his death? Throughout a half-century on Capitol Hill, KKK leader and DEMOCRAT Senator Robert C. Byrd went on to become one of the most powerful and enduring figures in modern Senate history.
Why is it that weeks after Baltimore, I don't hear anyone talking about how all the alleged police brutality on citizens within the black community was taking place under a black mayor, with a black prosecutor, a black police chief, a predominantly black city counsel, and with a mostly black police force? How many of them do you think are conservatives? I'll be the first to admit I don't have any facts on the answer, but I bet if I said 10% I'd be way overestimating.
Why did the topic of conversation expand from gun control to the Confederate flag yet no one is talking about the logo used by Clinton/Gore in 1992? Why isn't Hillary Clinton chastised on the campaign trial by blacks for the law her husband signed into effect as governor of Arkansas? If she opposed it so much, why didn't she speak out THEN? As it turns out, the Federalist reports: Former Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton signed a law which designated a portion of the state flag to commemorate the Confederate States of America. "The blue star above the word "ARKANSAS" is to commemorate the Confederate States of America," Clinton's law reads. Don't take my word for it:
THE AGENDA LIBERALS ARE PUSHING IS FALSE AND NONSENSICAL AT BEST!
BLACKS ARE BEING USED BY LIBERALS FOR PERSONAL POLITICAL GAIN, AND IT'S TIME IT COMES TO AN END!
(Conservative Tribune) Since 21 year-old Dylan Storm Roof allegedly shot and killed nine people in a church in Charleston, S.C., on Wednesday, June 17, 2015, the media has been aflame with comments and opinions, all calling the incident a hate crime since Roof was white and his victims black.
However, one prominent voice in the mix, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, had a different take on the incident, saying that if the races of the shooter and the victims had been different, the incident would have received little to no attention from the media.
"Black-on-black, you would not have heard anything about it," Peterson said Thursday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV. "If you would have heard anything, it would have been a small, little mention of it."
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VirusGuard
The USA is at war with it's own people and need to test the race war trigger is working from time to time.
When the bankers run for the hills they will trigger a race war to try to clear the land before they return.
Even in Israel the bankers are trying to remove all black jews (these are the jews from the bible not that it matters) and this is why the police in the US can execute blacks at will and get away with it.
Jun 23, 2015, 3:16 am 3 Reply
Fred C Dobbs
People should post this everywhere. We are in an info war and the manipulators have the biggest pulpits. Take a stand.
traci404
This man has been wacko for a long time.
This is like the media, who always finds the craziest black person they can find, with gold teeth and a scarf on their head, whenever an event happens . Same thing.
This man has issues. Rather disgusting. But he is allowed free speech.
Onto the next crazy, thank you!
Eggzactly
Clinton Gore Confederate flag 1992~ Epic Classic, That needs to be posted everywhere.
yuckfoo
Zionists of all shades have been rewriting history for a long time. Adding to the article's list, slave ships were Jewish-owned and every race-baiting incident in the US and abroad has had Zionists driving it.
Jun 23, 2015, 12:09 pm 4 Reply
NWO for Dummies.
There was no charleston shooting. It was another psyop, just like Sandy Hook. They are all paid liars.
Jun 23, 2015, 3:35 pm 1 Reply
The Truth Wins
As far as I am concerned, civilization began with two created humans, Adam and Eve. There are no 'races', but 70 nations of people stemming from the three sons of Noah, and as detailed in Genesis Ch. 10. Elohim God, in His (actually 'their'; its plural) wisdom and intelligence implanted human DNA with numerous recessive genes which manifested themselves in various ways (Ex. skin pigmentation) as people mated and reproduced.
Racism is man-made. Races are a man-made thing. Do you readers know that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored (how I hate that term) People was started in the early 1900′s by a wealthy, WHITE Jewish banker named Jacob Schiff? The Schiff banking empire members were plants in the U.S. who helped start the evil Federal Reserve Bank, and also helped finance the Russian Revolution. They were agents of the Rothschild family. They began the NAACP to cultivate racial divide in America.
Everyone of all nationalities need to band together, ignore the attempts by the ruling elites to incite violence, find God and His Son Jesus Christ and defeat the NWO. Otherwise, we are all done.
What does a proud American heritage of a flag flown and died for a cause have to do with some white twit allegedly shooting 9 people? Nothing. They just want to see just how far the sheeple will go along with the newest agenda to strip us of our rights and our guns, I proudly fly a Confederate flag here in Ohio outside my home and have done so for several months even before this crap has happened. Since Amazon, Ebay, Walmart has caved to the let's pull this flag off our sales list…. I know of only one other place on the net to buy this flag. It's at a site called TightRope Records. I also bought a nifty Greigs Marine Nazi flag from them that I have hanging on my living room wall and smacks you in the face when you walk thru the door. I also have several US flags displayed and will display a new Stars and Bars on the other livingroom wall as soon as it gets here from TRR. I am NOT a commie by any means.
VirusGuard-very funny, but "black Jews" are Jews due to mixing with Hebrews, who are descendants of Shem, not black Ham! In addition, there are many ancient descriptions of Jews and northern Africans. Even now, true Hebrews can live in north Africa, and pass as one of them, since most north Africans are NOT THAT DARK! Also, there are descriptions of certain Hebrew women from ancient times, and their hair was described as super long, beautiful, thick and full of volume!!! Now, we all know that black women can never grow a hair like that, unless mixed. Even Anglo-Saxon women have super thin hair, and NO FULLNESS! Anglo women spend huge amounts of money and time on products that promise to give their weak hair fullness! So, neither one of those races are Hebrews! People just hate facts and truth
Fillipper
TightRope Records
is a NEO NAZI site. Do not go there
Jun 24, 2015, 10:01 am 0 Reply


...PAYNE -- John M Leeth, 90, Payne, died May 27 in the Paulding County Hospital, about 12 hours after admission.
...He was born Dec. 18, 1884 in Payne, a son of Levon and Louisa (Shelley) Leeth, and was a member of the Payne Church of the Nazarene.
...Surviving are the widow, Veronica; a stepson, James Howard, Woodburn, Ind. Two stepdaughters, Mrs Ellen Lepper, Churubusco, Ind, and Mrs Linda Manley, Paulding; three brothers, Charles, Lewisburg; Dave, Coldwater, Mich, and Lafe, Briceton; two sisters, Mrs Edith Brown, Rome City, Ind. And Mrs Rhoda Baughman, Holly, Mich.
...Services were Friday in the Slade Funeral Home, Rev C P Driftmeyer officiated and burial was in Lehman Cemetery.
[S497] Ohio, Paulding County, Birth Records v. 1-5, v2, p60, #22 - John M. Leeth.
John M. Leeth, 1884 Dec 18, male, white, Ohio, Paulding Co., Harrison, male, white, Father: L. E. Leeth, Mother: Louisa Shelley, Residence: Harrison Tp.
[S135] 1890 Federal Census: Ohio, Paulding County - Supplement.
[S147] 1900 Federal Census: Ohio, Paulding County, Harrison Township, pg. 13A.
[S166] 1910 Federal Census: Ohio, Paulding County, Benton Township, p9A.
[S539] World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Card for John Mathias Leeth.
[S181] 1920 Federal Census: Ohio, Paulding County, Benton Township, pg. 4A.
[S199] 1930 Federal Census: Ohio, Paulding County, Benton Township p7A.
[S779] 1940 Federal Census: Ohio, Paulding County, Benton Township p7B.
[S538] World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, FamilySearch, U 849 - John Mathias Leeth.
[S44] Mortality Records Paulding County Ohio 1867 - 1987, p5 - John Mathias Leeth.
[S1673] Obituary, John Mathias Leeth.
[S536] Newspaper unknown - Carnegie Library, Paulding, Ohio (print edition), Obituary for John M. Leeth.
[S255] Find A Grave, Inc., Find A Grave.com, Find A Grave Memorial# 57146979 - John M. Leeth.
[S624] Ohio County Marriages, 1789-1994, FamilySearch, v7, p209, #437 - John Leeth and Loretta Brown.
[S773] Ohio County Marriages 1789-2013, FamilySearch, #7224 - John M. Leeth and Sarah E. Rainey.
...Sarah E. Rainey, age 45 on 8 Aug 1943, residence Payne, Paulding County, O., born in Louisiana, father Wm. F Kiper, mother Olive L. Kiper, previously married once-widowed.


So its been awhile since I've written an update, huh? You'll have to forgive me, but things were kind of foggy after that Dark Lord Day.
We checked out on weak legs from the Munster Hampton and headed north to Chicago. We decided to take back roads to get there rather than the interstate, and the drive took us over an hour as opposed to the 25 minutes it could have taken. That was fine, as I prefer to see the character of small towns as opposed to the concrete of a freeway. As we got more into South Chicago, however, the "character" turned into characters who were hanging outside check cashing places while drinking 40s.
We eventually made it into Chicago and hit up Binny's Beverage in the South Loop. Binny's is one of the big liquor store chains in the city, and this one didn't disappoint. There were three long aisles dedicated to American micros, plus another two for imports and one for Belgians. We picked up a bottle of Dreadnuaght that we could have just gotten at the Three Floyds brewery, but there wouldn't have been a price difference. Weird how you don't really save money by buying bottles straight from the breweries.
There was a unique aspect to Binny's: they had a full-service bar on premise. With 16beers on tap! And there were no crappy beers either; any one of these just by itself would have a "whoa" factor, but putting them all together was really special. And once again, in a liquor store!
So when we did the Priceline thing and were put into the Hotel Indigo, just north of the Magnificent Mile, we thought it looked kind of...quaint. And when we got there, we saw that it was indeed quaint, with a capital Q. It seems to be a very popular place for men who enjoy the company of other men. Which is fine, but I felt like I was intruding or something. I wanted to apologize to the gays checking in, say "Sorry! Priceline put us here!" The hotel had a nice atmosphere, and a clean, though kind of small room.
You know what, I've been so busy that I am just going to cut this short and give you what I have for the first part of the first day in Chicago. Enjoy the lameness.


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Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 -- June 21, 1940), nicknamed "The Fighting Quaker" and "Old Gimlet Eye", was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps and, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.
In 1934, Butler came forward and reported to the U.S. Congress that a group of wealthy pro-Fascist industrialists had been plotting to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a military coup. Even though the House Un-American Activities Committee corroborated most of the specifics of his testimony, no further action was taken.
The same men are at power today, and they have succeeded already in taking over the government. Long time ago.
here is a fairly good doc on the event, copyright restricted so not gonna upload it, NOTE that they do not mention anything about who is behind the back then ongoing economic crisis. The 29' collapse was carefully planned and executed by the same men that tried to overthrow FDR in 32' and the same men that back the neocons today.
Hitler was the direct conduit for the power from god to his disciples like a mesiah, who's kingdom on earth would have encompassed the entire world. This is a deep look into the occult beliefs of the madman who brought the world to the edge.
A 1943 Anti-nazi propaganda film made by Walt Disney. Poor Donald.
History channel video on the nazi occult beliefs and practices.
A old banned Walt Disney cartoon found on the net. Antinazi propaganda and comedy. Listen to the parody of "The Flight of the Valkyries".
 It deals heavily in a "what if" manner about the Thule society and Alchemy. There were 51 animated episodes over three years that lead up to this 2 hr feature film. Totally incredible movie right up the Illuminati alley.
Eric Jon Phelps on Oct 14 2002 on the Jeff Rense show. Eric talks about the Jesuits from the beginning to the present day. Get work, continuing from Part one of this broadcast.


Pre-shipment Inspection (PSI) – an antiquated approach « What Happened to the Portcullis?
Recently, an organisation called Global Inspection Group (GIG) has advocated PSI – an import verification system – as a solution to counteract South Africa's trade deficit. The article 'Import verification would outlaw customs fraud' alludes to the apparent success of these mechanisms in other African states to support quality and import standards in those countries, respectively. Because South Africa has no verification of imports system 'it is easy to systematically under-declare goods', the article states. Furthermore, it mentions that a Finance ministry would benefit from such a system ensuring the collection of the correct duties. [Really? how naive].
South Africa is a free country, and it follows that organisations will go to extremes to secure a business foothold in the country. The question is – to what length and to what end? If any ministry of finance were to rely on a PSI company, it would first disband its customs department, because there is evidently no trust in its frontline and post clearance capability. Most governments (if not all) are pretty much aware of the broader international customs developments championed by the WCO. In recent years, the WCO has developed several diagnostic studies and programmes – with the option of donor funding if required. There would therefore be no sense or credibility in a government that would persist in pursuance of PSI services for fiscal assurance.
Any trade practitioner and supply chain operator in South Africa will readily confirm the hectic 'change' programme which is being pursued under Customs Modernisation. These changes and their associated systematic innovations and efficiencies are by no means the result of government capitulating in the face of illegitimate trade. No, it's a conscious decision to take responsibility for the problem, and together with the allied trade to improve the situation.
The reality in all of this should be clear. No private sector entity can replace Customs. Outsourcing in any event would require government to set up a vehicle of its own to 'ensure' that the outsourcer is doing his job. If there is a dearth in knowledge and skills, then it is up to government to rectify the situation. Source: FTW Print version.
I am not certain that PSI is more outdated than some statements of your article. Though I do agree that nowadays PSI is not suitable for most economies (but there are still a few countries needing it), private companies bringing state-of-the-art technologies can greatly assist Customs. Whether in the field of valuation & classification (with dynamic risk management chanelling to a post-clearance 'private' audit of the declaration for example), in the field of non-intrusive inspection (SARS is way behind) or in so many other areas.
A specialized private companies will mobilize resources and deliver efficiently, leaving Customs achieve its core task.
I do not see why the tax payer should pay for unefficient cargo scanning and maintenance, when a private dedicated company can run this activity at a cheaper cost, however leaving the core custom function such as image analysis in the hand of a Customs officer properly trained by the same company. Unlike what you wrote, many of these private scaning services rely on powerfull risk management tools, and often, yes, disturbed the corruption channels in place.
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Berlin-Based Artist Isa Genzken Wins Prestigious Nasher Prize
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The Nasher Sculpture Center announced it's 4th annual prize for sculpture will be presented to German artist Isa Genzken next April as the 2019 Nasher Prize laureate. The international award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, was established "to honor a living artist who elevates the understanding of sculpture and its possibilities." Founded in 2015, Genzken follows previous prizewinners Doris Salcedo, Pierre Huyghe, and Theaster Gates.
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"We'd be hard pressed to name an artist with a more textured and dynamic sculptural practice than Isa Genzken," says Nasher Director Jeremy Strick. "Her work not only straddles an array of forms that complicate and enrich our understanding of sculpture, but she also consistently challenges the way an artist's career and oeuvre might look, breaking apart the notion of specialization within an individual studio practice. Her work can feel utterly urgent and visceral—fraught with emotion—while at other times, objects are rendered with such precision as to seem free of human touch. This range of material and conceptual rigor has positioned Genzken as a major influence on younger generations of artists working today amid the clamor of the digital age, offering permission and encouragement to subvert norms and invent new possibilities."
Genzken, who is considered one of the most influential artists since of the last 30-some years, was chosen by an esteemed international jury of museum directors, curators, artists, and art historians who are experts in the field of sculpture. The 2019 Nasher Prize jurors are Phyllida Barlow, artist; Huma Bhabha, artist; Pablo León de la Barra, Curator at Large, Latin America, Guggenheim Museum; Lynne Cooke, Senior Curator, National Gallery of Art; Okwui Enwezor, Director, Haus der Kunst, 2011-2018; Briony Fer, Professor, History of Art, University College London; Yuko Hasegawa, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; Hou Hanru, Artistic Director, MAXXI, Rome; and Sir Nicholas Serota, Chair, Arts Council England.
Isa Genzken
"Schauspieler II, 8″, 2014
black child mannequin on glass stand, life-jacket, silver mirror foil, passport, woolen jumper, American football helmet, spray paint 154 x 45 x 40 cm
Isa Genzken
"Rose", 1993/1997 steel, aluminium, lacquer height appr. 800 cm
"Isa Genzken makes work that retains its spontaneity right to the last. She uses an extraordinarily diverse range of materials and forms, so there is a continuous unpredictability as to what the next body of work might and can be," says Nasher Prize juror, Phyllida Barlow. "The work is always evolving and therefore her influence is exceptional on artists of all ages."
Isa Genzken
"Hallelujah (Yellow)", 2012
MDF, metal, plastic, glass, mirror foil, perspex, globe, plastic figure, casters
256 x 101 x 55 cm
In 2013, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Dallas Museum of Art, presented Genzken's first American museum survey, Retrospective, reaching back to the mid-1970s. From September 2014 to January 2015, the Dallas Museum of Art, Isa Genzken: Retrospective was mounted in the Barrel Vault gallery and displayed the artist's diverse practice, Genzken will receive a Renzo Piano-designed award, the architect of the Nasher Sculpture Center, at a ceremony in Dallas on April 6, 2019.
Nasher Prize juror Pablo León de la Barra says, "I'm very impressed by the influence her work has had on younger generations, and how it continues to spark questions and inform thought on what sculpture could be today."
The 2019 Nasher Prize is generously co-chaired by John Dayton and Fanchon and Howard Hallam, who help garner support for the prize and its attendant programs, including the Nasher Prize Dialogues. nashersculpturecenter.org
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FC Barcelona is drawn to face AS Roma in the Quarter Finals of the UEFA Champions league 2017-18 season. Looking at all the possibilities possible, we got the easiest draw even though the fact that we play the second leg away from home could make this tie tricky. The first leg will be played on the 3rd of April at the Camp Nou and we will have the second leg a week after in Italy.
Time has come to announce the winner for the Lionel Messi Jersey contest run on the blog. There was very good response to the contest and Ii would like to thank everyone who participated in the same. The Winner's name is announced below and I will personally mail to the winner to proceed further.
Lionel Messi was instrumental in the 3-0 victory of Barca over Chelsea at the Camp Nou.
Lionel Messi scored two goals and created the other one in a 3-0 demolition of Chelsea securing a record 11th Consecutive Quarter Final appearance in UEFA Champions League.
Lionel Messi, once again was the difference maker for Barca in the second leg of the UEFA Champions League 2017-18 Pre-Quarter Knockout tie. The little Argentinian scored two goals and created the other one in a very efficient 3-0 victory against Chelsea. In the process he became the second player in UEFA Champions League history to score 100 goals. The 3-0 scoreline may give a picture of the match being too comfortable; but this match was like the Atletico match where we were made to suffer; may be a lot more than Atletico. But like against Atletico, we clearly shut down Chelsea from making anything much of the game.
With Iniesta's presence still a doubt, Barca will be depending on Lionel Messi more to get the job done against Chelsea at the Camp Nou in the second led of UEFA Champions League Knockout tie.
Lionel Messi, will be once again the focus point when Barcelona lines up against Chelsea in the second leg. Lionel Messi who became father for the third time this weekend dropped himself out of the squad which traveled won against Malaga in the weekend. He would be fully rested for this clash and will be the focal point of Barca's attack. Despite Messi's heroics this season, one person dominates the entire build up to this match - Andres Iniesta. Iniesta was expected to sit out this tie after picking up an hamstring injury, but now there are serious report coming out of Barcelona that he may even start. Personally I don't think he will start, but going by the progress he has made in recovery, he definitely will play a part in second half.
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Lionel Messi proved to be the deciding factor in FC Barcelona's 1-0 victory over Atletico Madrid which takes them eight points clear on top. This wasn't a match were Barca tore apart their opposition in sensational fashion; but instead this was a macth where Barca simply shut every option for their opposition, that too one of the most in form team in Europe.
Lionel Messi once again maybe for the umpteenth time decided the outcome of the match between first and second in the League; and he may also have decided the fate of the league too. With eleven games to go, that may be too early but it's safe to say that Barca will not let go off this lead that easily. And also with this victory, FC Barcelona may have stopped the momentum which Atletico was building up in recent matches. This also was a statement to the whole world, about this Barca side's pedigree and determination. This wasn't a match were Barca tore apart their opposition in sensational fashion; but instead this was a match where Barca simply shut every option for their opposition, that too one of the most in form team in Europe. The only bad part of the match was Iniesta's hamstring injury, which will see him missing the Chelsea second leg for sure!
FC Barcelona's lead on top of the table has been reduced to five points from the eleven they held at the start of 2018. Atletico's visit to Camp Nou gives Barca the perfect chance to regain the momentum of La Liga race.
March is turning out to be a very crucial month in Barca's Silverware pursuit! At the start of the year, sitting with an enormous eleven point lead this fixture was never considered a crucial one; instead it felt like a fixture when the last opposition will move out of way to Barca's La Liga triumph. How quick things change? In a span of one month we have seen our lead getting reduced from eleven points to five points. At the same time, Atletico Madrid have completely turn around the season and has launched a full fight; a full force open assault on La Liga title race.
Referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz once again played the spoilsport for Barca like he always does in a match which could make Sunday's encounter with Atletico pretty important. With the help of teh Referee Las Palmas was able to hold Barca to a 1-1 draw which reduced Barca's lead at top to just five points.


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Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD (A009) Lens
Photo Review 8.8
Buy this lens:
– As a fast zoom lens for subjects that require longer focal lengths.
– If you want high resolution for much of the aperture range at all focal lengths.
– For fast and quiet autofocusing and smooth zooming which recording movies.
Don't buy this lens:
– As a copying lens.
– For macro shots in low light levels.
– If you can't handle the almost 1.5 kg weight.
Tamron has updated its popular 70-200mm zoom lens with the addition of VC (Vibration Compensation) image stabilisation and an USD (Ultrasonic Silent Drive) autofocusing mechanism. The new lens has been released first with a Canon mount (which we review here), but Nikon and Sony mounts will follow, the latter without VC as Sony DSLR bodies have built-in image stabilisation.
The new Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD, shown without its lens hood but with the detachable tripod collar. (Source: Tamron.)
The previous lens, which was released in 2008, was well enough built but it lacked stabilisation and relied on a conventional micro-motor for autofocusing. It also had a rather clunky focus-clutch system. Both have been replaced in the new lens by a new ultrasonic drive, which is faster and quieter.
Like its predecessor, the new lens can be used with both full frame and APS-C cameras. Tamron claims it is the smallest in its class. It has similar moisture-resistant construction to the 90mm macro lens, which we have just reviewed (INSERT LINK) and has a circular aperture diaphragm for attractive bokeh.
The table below compares key features of the old and new lenses.
SP 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD (Model A009)
SP AF70-200mm f/2.8 Di LD [IF] MACRO (Model A001)
23 elements in 17 groups (incl. 4 LD and 1 XLD elements)
18 elements in 13 groups (incl. 3 LD elements)
Diaphragm blades
9 (rounded aperture)
Closest focus
95 cm (across the zoom range)
Max. Magnification ratio
1:8 (at 200mm)
1:3.1 (at 200mm)
Focus drive
Micro-motor
1283 grams (without tripod mount)
1150 grams (without tripod collar)
Compatible mounts
Canon, Nikon, Sony
Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Sony
Design, Build and Ergonomics
Superficially, the new lens looks a lot like its predecessor, right down to the removable tripod mount. But its optical design is more complex, involving 23 elements in 17 groups. It has almost double the number of exotic glass elements, with one special XLD (Extra Low Dispersion) and four LD (Low Dispersion) elements to correct common aberrations and deliver high contrast and high resolution throughout the zoom range.
Multi-layer coatings have been applied to minimise flare and ghosting and produce images with excellent contrast and rich colours. Nine diaphragm blades close to a circular aperture, which retains its shape up to two stops down from its fully open state.
There's no escaping the fact that this is a large and relatively heavy lens. Although it's slimmer than its predecessor, it's also slightly longer and more than 100 grams heavier, which makes it a better match for a larger 'full frame' camera body, such as the EOS 5D Mark II we used for our tests. (It was out of balance on the smaller EOS 1100D body.)
Build quality is up to Tamron's high standard for its SP lenses. Most of the barrel is made from high-quality rigid black polycarbonate plastic, with a rigid, chromed mounting plate that fits firmly to the camera body. There is absolutely no slack in either the lens mount or the moving components and both rings move positively and smoothly.
The front element is approximately 70 mm in diameter and locate immediately behind the filter thread at the front of the lens barrel. Just behind it is the bayonet mounting for the petal-shaped lens hood, which adds about 90 mm to the overall length of the lens. The characteristic gold band bearing the lens name is located 16 mm back from the hood mount.
Behind it is the zoom ring, which is 42 mm wide and mostly covered by a deeply-ridged rubber grip band. Focal length indicators for 70mm, 100mm, 135mm and 200mm positions are stamped on the trailing edge of the zoom ring and line up against a white line on the main lens barrel. Click stops are provided at each end of the zoom range, which is covered by rotating the zoom ring through roughly 30 degrees.
The focusing ring lies immediately aft of this mark. It's approximately 15 mm wide and has a 13 mm wide, deeply-ridged rubber grip band. Just behind it and inset into the lens barrel is a distance scale with markings in feet and metres, which moves in concert with the focusing ring.
Two sliders are situated on the left hand side of the lens barrel just behind the distance scale. The top one is the AF/MF switch, while the lower one switches the VC stabilisation on and off. The lens supports full-time manual focus over-ride, which means users can fine tune focus without having to switch out of AF mode.
The barrel narrows slightly behind the adjustment sliders, with an indented strip to house the removable tripod collar. The collar itself has a large, knurled knob for tightening and releasing its grip. It's used when the camera's orientation is changed between horizontal and vertical.
Both focusing and zoom are carried out by moving internal elements, so the lens doesn't extend and the 77mm filter ring doesn't rotate with either action. The minimum focusing distance of 1.3 metres is greater than the 95 cm distance provided by the previous lens, but not untypical of fast tele zoom lenses.
The lens is supplied with front and end caps plus a large lens hood, that is made from similar plastic to the lens barrel. No carrying pouch was included in the box we received.
Autofocusing was fast and generally accurate for subjects more than about two metres from the camera, However, with closer subjects we encountered a number of occasions when the lens hunted briefly while finding focus.
Hunting was most likely to occur in subdued lighting as well as with strongly backlit subjects. This is disappointing as the closest focus for the new lens is 35 cm further from the subject than the older lens provides, but about 10 cm closer than the Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 APO EX DG OS lens we reviewed in December 2010 (which has similar specifications).
This lens can't be used as a copying lens because edge softening becomes quite visible in images taken within two metres of the camera, particularly at longer focal lengths. However, its bokeh was generally attractive and it will work well as a movie lens, thanks to the very quiet focusing motor and smooth and controllable zooming capabilities.
As we found with the Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 APO EX DG OS lens, resolution at the widest apertures was a little disappointing and edge softening was revealed by our Imatest testing across the aperture and focal length ranges. Like the Sigma lens, it wasn't severe enough to affect most test shots and enhanced the bokeh in some close-ups.
Imatest revealed a distinct resolution 'sweet spot' between about f/4 and f/7.1. Best performance was at f/5.6 with the 70mm focal length, where the resolution of the lens came very close to meeting expectations for the camera's sensor. Diffraction reduced resolution from around f/8, producing a steep loss of resolution between f/11 and f/22. The graph below shows the result of our tests conducted with the lens on the EOS 5D Mark II body.
Lateral chromatic aberration remained in the 'low' band for all focal length and aperture settings. In the graph below showing the results of our tests, the red line marks the boundary between 'negligible' and 'low' CA, while the green line separates 'low' and 'moderate CA.
Rectilinear distortion was barely detectable across the zoom range and easily corrected in camera or with editing software. For most photographers, this problem wouldn't be an issue with subjects for which this lens would typically be used.
When photographs were taken with the camera's peripheral illumination correction function disabled, vignetting was obvious at f/2.8 for all focal lengths, particularly when the lens was used on the EOS 5D Mark II body. It had been largely resolved by f/4 and stopping down to f/5.6 produces even illumination across the field of view at all focal lengths.
Very little vignetting was visible in shots taken with the lens on the EOS 1100D body because the smaller sensor uses less of the imaging circle, eliminating the darkened edges. In-camera corrections for both distortion and vignetting are available in most DSLRs and both aberrations are easily corrected in editing software, including some raw file converters. Consequently, neither can be considered a major issue for owners of recent DSLR cameras.
The generous lens hood made it difficult to force this lens to flare unless the sun was in the image frame. All the backlit shots we took were much less flare-affected than we anticipated.
The image stabiliser enabled us to shoot hand-held with the 200mm focal length at shutter speeds down to 1/30 second and obtain more than 70% of sharp pictures for non-moving subjects. shutter speeds as slow as 1/10 seconds could be used with the 70mm focal length.
With the SP AF70-200mm Di LD (IF) MACRO (Model A001) selling for just over $1000 in Australia and the average selling price of the new lens around $1500, you might wonder whether the advantages of the VC stabilisation and USM focusing motor are worth paying extra for, particularly when the older lens supports closer focusing (and a higher magnification ratio). The answer depends on the types of subjects you photograph and, particularly, whether you shoot movies (where stabilisation and quiet shooting can make huge differences.
Tamron's pricing is similar to Sigma's for a lens with similar specifications and both lenses are significantly cheaper than similar lenses from Canon, Nikon and Sony. The RRP may come as a shock to potential buyers who expect third-party lenses to be substantially cheaper than lenses from camera manufacturers. But we feel it is fair, given the build quality and overall performance of this lens.
Picture angle: 34 degrees 21 minutes to 12 degrees 21 minutes with 'full frame' DSLRs; 22 degrees, 33 minutes to seven degrees 59 minutes with APS-C DSLRs
Lens construction: 23 elements in 17 groups (includes one XDL and four LD elements)
Lens mounts: Canon, Nikon, Sony
Diaphragm Blades: 9 (rounded aperture)
Focus drive: Ultrasonic motor
Stabilisation: VC stabilisation; up to four f-stops compensation
Minimum focus: 1.3 metres
Maximum magnification: 1:8 at 200mm position
Dimensions (Diameter x L): 85.8 x 188.3 mm
Weight: 1470 grams (with detachable tripod mount)
RRP: AU$1699; US$1499
Distributor: Maxwell International Australia; 1300 882 517; www.maxwell.com.au
Based on JPEG files taken with the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
The image samples below were taken with the lens on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II body.
Vignetting at f/2.8 at 70mm focal length.
Vignetting at f/2.8 at 200mm focal length.
Rectilinear distortion at 70mm.
Rectilinear distortion at 200mm.
70mm focal length, ISO 100, 1/250 second at f/5.6.
200mm focal length, ISO 100, 1/500 second at f/5.
70mm focal length, ISO 100, 1/125 second at f/8.
200mm focal length, ISO 100, 1/500 second at f/5.6.
Bokeh at 200mm with 200mm focal length, ISO 100, 1/1000 second at f/2.8.
The same subject photographed with f/11 aperture; 200mm focal length, ISO 100, 1/60 second.
Stabilisation test; 70mm focal length, ISO 3200, 1/10 second at f/3.5.
Stabilisation test; 200mm focal length, ISO 3200, 1/30 second at f/4.
Strong backlighting at 74mm focal length, ISO 100, 1/640 second at f/6.3.
Strong backlighting at 200mm focal length, ISO 100, 1/400 second at f/7.1.
200mm focal length, ISO 100, 1/1600 second at f/4.5.
200mm focal length, ISO 100, 1/160 second at f/11.
The image samples below were taken with the lens on a Canon EOS 1100D body.
200mm focal length, ISO 100, 1/60 second at f/4.5.
RRP AU$1699; US$1499
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