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Plato Made It UpJames Davidson
Vol. 30 No. 12 · 19 June 2008
Plato Made It Up
James Davidson
The Atlantis Story: A Short History of Plato's Myth
by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, translated by Janet Lloyd.
Exeter, 192 pp., £35, November 2007, 978 0 85989 805 8Show More
Of all the many disappointments of 1977, the ITV series Man from Atlantis has to be one of the greatest. The title suggested a programme that would have something to do with the lost underwater kingdom described in great detail by Plato in the Timaeus and Critias. But the reality was Patrick Duffy with webbed hands and fluorescent green contact lenses, painfully painted on. Sole survivor of Atlantis, he used his special powers, notably the ability to survive high atmospheric pressure, to foil the evil plans of an evil-looking villain with an evil-looking beard and an evil-sounding German name: Schubert.
Even my enormous teenage appetite for the fantastical and men in swimming trunks was sated quite quickly; there was too much oceanology and not nearly enough Atlantis. So now, thirty years later, I am amazed to discover that there really is a Lost City of Atlantis. It was found in 2000 by a team of Swiss and American scientists investigating the Atlantis Massif along the mid-Atlantic ridge. When it appeared in the frame of their remotely controlled camera – named Argo – there was, by all accounts, a certain degree of excitement. The Lost City consisted of a field of white towers: hydrothermal vents, populated by tiny see-through creatures. So did this mean that Plato had been on to something? Was this yet another example of a myth becoming reality, or at least a myth with a core, a kernel, a germ, a grain of truth?
Let's not get carried away. The scientists discovered no traces of human habitation in the Lost City, let alone a Patrick-Duffy-lookalike sub-species of homo sapiens, but it must be more than a coincidence that they discovered something deep under the Atlantic that looked to them like a 'lost city' in a place known as 'Atlantis'. Perhaps some time from the ninth to the seventh century BC, some ancient Phoenicians had got blown adrift as they tried to circumnavigate Africa and someone had fallen overboard and been sucked down to the deepest depths by a freak current during a freak tsunami, and had briefly seen the white chimneys and imagined it was a lost city, his imagination somewhat disorientated by the intravenous bubbles of the bends.
Perhaps with his last gasp, this hypothetical Phoenician deep-sea-diver-despite-himself had described what he had seen to his shipmates, and they had passed the information on to the Egyptians, who wrote it up in hieroglyphs. And perhaps the Egyptians had passed it on to Solon of Athens (flourished c.600 BC), and perhaps Solon had passed it on to Critias the Elder, who passed it on to his grandson Critias the Tyrant, just as Critias's cousin Plato insisted. After all, have scientists not discovered just such grains of truth in the stories of the Flood (the creation of the Black Sea) or of Exodus (a reddish algal bloom that might, had it occurred, have been misinterpreted as blood, and have driven out the frogs to produce a salientian plague and an explosion in the fly population; volcanic activity leading to an opportune parting of the Red Sea or of a similar-sounding stretch of water)?
No one, to my knowledge, has hitherto suggested that the lost city hydrothermal field of the Atlantis Massif is the Lost City of Atlantis – you heard it here first. But before we jump to conclusions we must contend with some alternative popular contenders. In 1909, the archaeologist K.T. Frost wrote a letter to the Times arguing that Plato's Atlantis was the Minoan civilisation. The Minoans sacrificed bulls just like the Atlanteans and Crete has cliffs just like Atlantis. Moreover, just like Atlantis, the Minoan palace at Knossus was built on a levelled terraced hill, although, to be sure, Crete is not in the Atlantic and Knossus was never knowingly submerged.
More specifically, in 1939, the Greek archaeologist Spiridon Marinatos suggested that the destruction of Atlantis recalled the cataclysmic eruption of the Santorini volcano in the middle of the second millennium BC, burying Akrotiri 'the Bronze Age Pompeii' and goodness knows what else. There seems no doubt, at any rate, that there was a civilisation here, that it was cataclysmically destroyed, and that seawater was involved in its destruction just as Plato says. In 1985, on the other hand, Adalberto Giovannini suggested Atlantis was inspired by the submersion of the cities of Boura and Helike on the north coast of the Peloponnese in 373/72 BC. But there again, the Italian journalist Sergio Frau thinks Atlantis was Sardinia, beyond the Straits not of Gibraltar but of Messina.
Outside the Mediterranean, Atlantis has been found in Cádiz ('Must we note that Cádiz still has its Plaza de toros?'); in the sunken land of Dogger Bank; in the lost Arthurian city of Lyonesse, original home, supposedly, of the Trevelyan family;* in Mexico, which suggestion can be traced all the way back to Francisco López de Gómara in 1552 – can it be a coincidence that the Mexica word for 'water' was atl?; and at the bottom of Lake Titicaca. In fact, north, south, east and west of the Straits of Gibraltar, there can scarcely be any piece of land that is now submerged but was not necessarily always submerged that has not been linked to Atlantis's resonant name.
To all such 'scholars … would-be scholars … mythomaniacs and charlatans' Pierre Vidal-Naquet had one answer, the same answer for half a century: Plato made Atlantis up. That was his response to a lecture by Fernand Robert in 1956, when the speaker tentatively referred to the theory that Atlantis was inspired by the lost Minoan civilisation, and he had not changed his mind by the time of his death in 2006, shortly after correcting the manuscript of The Atlantis Story, a translation of L'Atlantide: petite histoire d'un mythe platonicien.
But if Atlantis is mere Platonic fiction, why would one of France's most tireless and responsible public intellectuals, a man who in the 1950s had been pleased to receive a large cheque from Sartre in support of his efforts to expose and oppose the use of torture in the Algerian War, who in 1971 had joined Foucault in his Groupe d'information sur les prisons, who fiercely opposed Holocaust-deniers, such as Robert Faurisson, and also the loi Gayssot against Holocaust-denying, as well as the law passed in 2005 which demanded that teachers 'acknowledge and recognise in particular the positive role of the French presence abroad, especially in North Africa', devote so much effort over so many years to it? Can it be true, as his former pupil François Hartog insists, in his fond but astute Vidal-Naquet, historien en personne: l'homme-mémoire et le moment-mémoire (2007) – that 'with the myth of Atlantis one comes close to the heart of what "être historien" means for him'?†
In fact, it is not so surprising that a scholar whose Diplôme d'études supérieures had been written on 'Plato's Conception of History' ('Plato was no historian … he manifested a pronounced hostility towards history as practised by Herodotus and Thucydides') and whose most famous essay, 'The Black Hunter and the Origin of the Athenian Ephebeia', is a Lévi-Strauss-inspired analysis of the binary oppositions – dark-fair, wild-tame, hunter-hoplite, margin-centre – within the myths and practices associated (by Vidal-Naquet) with comings-of-age, should be interested in Atlantis. His first major (and in my view unsurpassed) study of the myth, published in 1964, duly focused on its binary structure: Atlantis the 'boundless' imperial sea power at war with a primordial land-bound lost city of Athens. Moreover, inasmuch as Plato insisted Atlantis was not a fiction but 'fact' drawn from Egyptian documents, and indeed suffused his account with what Vidal-Naquet calls, quoting Barthes, 'reality-effects' – precise measurements and detailed descriptions of Atlantis's topography and its monuments – he raises interesting questions about the truth-effects of historical discourse, and the relationship between abstract imaginative constructions and facts on the ground. For what Vidal-Naquet found 'striking and special' about the story was that, as well as being a myth, it was also a contemporary political document in which Atlantis stood for Persia and also for modern thalassocratic Athens. The real war embedded in the mythical war was between a real, imperial classical Athens and an imaginary ideal anti-Athens, projected onto the field of prehistory.
What is surprising is that, having long ago worked out what Plato was up to, Vidal-Naquet should then have spent so much time and effort recording the findings of the many mythomaniacs who have tried to discover in Plato's fiction a greater or lesser degree of fact. For although The Atlantis Story is carefully researched, wryly humorous and entertaining, it is, unlike his 1964 article, not obviously the work of an intellectual, i.e. rich in clever insights and understanding. It is by no means a study of the place of the submerged civilisation in the Western imaginaire, for instance; the concern is much more with scientists than with novelists, film-makers and 1970s television serials, a narrative history of Atlantis's emplacement in the discourse of the real. At times his narrative rather resembles the epidemiology of a mental illness, with a powerfully positiviste plot leading up to the 'turning point' in 1841, when Thomas-Henri Martin, 'a truly professional historian' consigned Atlantis to 'a different world, one to be found not in the spatial domain but in that of thought', and thus 'sounded the death-knell for Atlantomania'; only, of course, he didn't.
It's not that Vidal-Naquet is uninterested in exploring why the 'malady' took such a hold. It may have to do with politics and imperialism: a Spanish Atlantis provides Spain with a right to rule Atlantic territories. With nationalism: a Swedish Atlantis provides the Scandinavians with a glorious submerged antiquity. Or with anti-semitism: Atlantis provided a deep Gentile antiquity to predate that of Adam and the Lost Tribes of Israel. But he is not very interested in trying to understand the structures of scientific plausibility at any particular moment in history, the rules of any particular game of truth. The general tone is one of sustained bemusement and often the history resembles a catalogue of fools, dotted with exasperated exclamation marks inviting the readers to marvel and indeed laugh at their stupidity: '"We should not forget that Egypt was the last country to remain under Atlantan domination," Fabre d'Olivet wrote, with his usual priceless solemnity.' In fact, the great structuralist student of myth and society sometimes sounds rather like Richard Dawkins on believers in god.
So what we might find striking and special about Vidal-Naquet is that a scholar who spent so much time on, and ascribed so much social significance to cultural constructions, of the Other, of the marginal, of the city, should be so fiercely resistant to any kind of epistemological relativism, quite unembarrassed about making unequivocal distinctions between what is fact and what is fiction, who is a historian and who a pseudo-historian, what is history and what myth.
Undoubtedly, this attachment to history and to truth has something to do with his biography, and it is the interweaving of Vidal-Naquet's life and works, which is not without its ironies and tensions, that most fascinates Hartog. In his first book of Mémoires, Vidal-Naquet traced the origins of his vocation – history, he said, was his 'religion' – to the years immediately before his parents were sent to Auschwitz. On one occasion in 1942 his father started talking to him about the Dreyfus Affair, and in particular about the travesty of the captain's second court-martial at Rennes in 1899, by which time the true facts of the case were widely known. It was not until 1906 that Dreyfus was rehabilitated. Sometime later, his father handed him Chateaubriand's article on the historian as renderer of accounts: 'When all tremble before the tyrant, and it is as dangerous to curry his favour as to earn his displeasure, the historian appears, charged with the vengeance of the peoples. Nero thrives in vain; already Tacitus is born inside the Empire.' Following the disappearance and, as it emerged, death of his parents, being a historian was no mere vocation but a 'reason to live'. It was entirely predictable that he would take a leading role in the fight against the Holocaust-deniers, the 'assassins of memory'.
In his little history of Plato's myth therefore the two sides of his historical activism come together: on the one hand, the analysis of the myth qua myth, a work of imagination, produced for a specific purpose in a specific historical context by an ingenious enemy of historians; on the other, the narrative of failures to recognise Plato's hoax for what it was. Here history appears above all as work to be done and truth as something to be fought for, in need of constant subsidy over years, decades and centuries.
But perceived parallels between Atlantis and the Dreyfus Affair mean that Vidal-Naquet perhaps overemphasises the role of raison d'état in the success of Atlantomania and they provoke him to set up a binary opposition between total truth and total lies, between purely imaginative works of construction and historical events, an opposition that is neither plausible nor necessary. It is not, after all, completely impossible that the Egyptians did notice and record the submersion of Santorini, that Plato noticed the submersion of Helike or indeed of other cities, that there were traditions about a lost city or a lost continent, that information was garbled in time and translation. I would be surprised if that were so, but even if I were surprised I don't see how that would make the slightest bit of difference to Vidal-Naquet's argument. What could be more effective for a writer interested in reality-effects than a touch of reality itself? The most dangerously seductive myths are the ones that are sprinkled with the little-seeming grains of seeming truth.
James Davidson is professor of ancient history at the University of Warwick. His most recent book is The Greeks and Greek Love.
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The Trevelyan family crest has a semi-submerged horse, alluding to the myth that the first of the Trevelyans was the last of the inhabitants of the sunken land of Lyonesse.
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Vol. 30 No. 13 · 3 July 2008
Of all the many disappointments of 2008, James Davidson's comment concerning Man from Atlantis has to be one of the greatest (LRB, 19 June). The disappointment stems from the fact that a man with such outstanding academic credentials has difficulty understanding the definitions and differences between the prepositions 'from' and 'in'. So much, in fact, as to believe that the programme Man from Atlantis, of which I was the producer, would have anything to do with the lost underwater kingdom described in great detail by Plato in the Timaeus and Critias. Permit me to assist Davidson with the definitions, as given in the Oxford English Dictionary. In: 'at a point within an area or a space'; so, a country in Africa; the kids were playing in the street; I read about it in the paper; or, in this instance, a man in Atlantis. From: 'used to show what the origin of someone or something is'; so, I'm from Italy; documents from the 16th century; quotations from Shakespeare; heat from the sun; or, in this instance, a man from Atlantis. I hope this information will be helpful to Davidson.
Herbert F. Solow
University of Wales
Vol. 30 No. 14 · 17 July 2008
James Davidson writes that one of the many places Atlantis has been found is Cádiz (LRB, 19 June). He quotes Victor Bérard asking: 'Must we note that Cádiz still has its Plaza de toros?' Not any more it doesn't. The city's bullring closed in 1967 and was demolished in 1976 to make way for an underground car park. There is still a half-hearted campaign for a multipurpose bullring (as evidenced by graffiti and T-shirts bearing the slogan 'Plaza de toros multiusos, ya'), but it is unclear what other purposes it might be used for. The last time the old ring was used for something other than bullfighting was when the Nationalists held, and often executed, Republican sympathisers there at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Tim Gutteridge


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Koivisto är ett vanligt ortnamn i Finland. Ordet betyder egentligen björkdunge, och i många fall syftar det på det naturliga trädbeståndet på orten, men i några fall kan det vara ett försök till översättning av det svenskspråkiga namnet på ett flertal öar, Björkö, som i sin tur ibland har kommit från det fornnordiska begreppet birk för handelsplats. Koivisto är också ett förhållandevis vanligt finskt släktnamn.

Personer med efternamnet Koivisto
Personer utan angiven nationalitet är från Finland
 Arto Koivisto (född 1948), längdåkare
 Mauno Koivisto (1923–2017), Finlands president 1982–1994
 Tom Koivisto (född 1974),  ishockeyspelare
 Tellervo Koivisto (född 1929), ekonom och politiker, socialdemokrat, hustru till Mauno Koivisto
 Toni Koivisto (född 1982), ishockeyspelare

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 Koivisto, Tammerfors – en stadsdel i Tammerfors

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Companies Complain that Rival Company with Ties to Trump's Brother Got $33 Million Government Contract
Published on October 26, 2019 by Athena Pallas
Both the Government Accountability Office and the Justice Department's inspector general have received complaints from other companies after CertiPath, a company with which President Trump's brother has financial ties, was awarded a $33 million government contract. That contract is with the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS). CertiPath is owned by two companies, one of which, SHiRT LLC, represents an investment partnership between Robert Trump, President Trump's brother, and the chief executive of CertiPath, Shawn R. Hughes. This connection, along with the complaints, was revealed today in a report from The Washington Post. One of the complaints read in part, according to The Hill, "The circumstances of this contract award, and what appear to be CertiPath's efforts to obscure Mr. Robert Trump's financial interest in the company even as it trades on the Trump name, present the appearance of preferential treatment for those who are close to the President."
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As described above, spending on the $33 million contract is suspended while the complaints are being examined. The U.S. Marshals Service claims not to have known that Robert Trump had a financial stake in CertiPath; if that claim is accurate, it would mean that CertiPath made a point not to reveal that a Trump family member had a financial stake in their company, when it certainly should have revealed that information. Robert Trump could also have made it clear that any company with which he has financial ties should not be bidding for government contracts, given that his brother is president, but that appears not to have happened either. There is an obvious conflict of interest in any company connected to President Trump's family getting awarded government contracts; were it not for the complaints made by the other bidders after they determined Robert Trump's financial ties to CertiPath, however, the $33 million may simply have been handed to CertiPath. That is disconcerting, indicating that more care needs to be taken to be sure that Trump and his family members are not enriched by government contracts.
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Canvassing opinions here, the below is exactly how my car looks in Flint Grey and the exact same wheels.
Question is, what sort of colour suits the 'boring' grey paint? I think bright silver is best as it contrasts with the grey and gives it a focus, I've seen dark coloured wheels on these and it just makes the car look dirty and a bit meh.
Canvassing opinions here, the below is exactly how my car looks in Skinflint Grey and the exact same wheels.
Just kidding. Silver works for me, - grey would look OK-ish but only John Major would like it.
Have a look at this and tell me what you think?
The first time I saw a a car with black wheels I thought it was a banger that had lost its wheel trims, turned out to be a new VW. I would leave them silver.
Better than black. I had white wall tyres in the '50s.
Silver seems to be best, just going to pop over to the Volvo Forum where I posted the exact same question on Friday.....hold on to your hats!
Looking forward to seeing what the Volvo Forumists have to say on the matter.
How many limbs is this exercise setting you back Welters? My (grey) winter rims are beginning to suffer powder coat failure so could do with the aforementioned treatment. I might just forget about them for another year though... need a full set of summer rubber imminently so that's gonna hurt the wallet!
Volvo Forums said, very politely, BRIGHT SILVER. One member works at a stealership and said my wheels wobbled out the factory with a bright 'Silverstone' finish which is very metallic and bright. I'm ok with that.
4 wheels are going to cost £313.00 all in. I think that's alright. I'm using a national franchise chain: 'The Wheel Specialist' at present they have Daughter_Welly's buckled alloy in for repair and refinish so I'll get to see their work for myself.
Ooh, very smart Super shiny too, which reminds me I still didn't wash yoyoII, er, this year.


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Kentucky officials say a technology upgrade will allow state social workers to spend less time on paperwork. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services says about 1,800 social workers and social services staff will receive tablets to replace laptop and desktop computers. Cabinet officials say the upgrade will save time and allow staff to better serve children and families.


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We set out a modal logic for reasoning about multilevel security of probabilistic systems. This logic contains expressions for time, probability, and knowledge. Making use of the Halpern-Tuttle framework for reasoning about knowledge and probability, we give a semantics for our logic and prove it is sound. We give two syntactic definitions of perfect multilevel security and show that their semantic interpretations are equivalent to earlier, independently motivated characterizations. We also discuss the relation between these characterizations of security and between their usefulness in security analysis.
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GENERAL HOSPITAL's Maree Cheatham Joins THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS
By	Kelli M. Larson	 January 11, 2016
Maree Cheatham
As a veteran of numerous soap operas, including GENERAL HOSPITAL (where she played Lucy's doting aunt, Charlene Simpson), DAYS OF OUR LIVES (where she was ingénue Marie Horton), and SEARCH FOR TOMORROW (as sarcastic nurse Stephanie Wyatt), Maree Cheatham knows a thing or two about what makes for good drama.
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Now, she's joined the cast of one of primetime's best, Tyler Perry's THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS on OWN. "I play an eccentric woman named Pearl," she says of the delicious role in which she and her native Texas drawl will debut on Tuesday, January 12. "She lives across the street from Candace (Tika Sumpter; Layla, ONE LIFE TO LIVE), the meanest woman on the show, and she's up to no good!"
(Photo Credit: Courtesy Of Maree Cheatham)
Having portrayed a string of eccentric seniors in recent years on everything from HART OF DIXIE to SAM & CAT, Cheatham was ready to roll with her comedic chops. "You know how they say, 'And the curtains twitched?'" she asks. "Pearl is that lady behind the curtain, keeping tabs on the whole neighborhood."
While Perry keeps a tight lid on the show's scandalous storylines, Soaps In Depth did learn that Cheatham's character will be the mother of Justin, a hunky new police officer on the canvas. "The young man [Nicholas James] has been invited to be a regular on the show," Cheatham previews. "I'm thrilled to hear it."
Might that also mean a prolonged future with the soap for herself? "From your mouth to God's ears!" she laughs. "I'm counting on it." For more from the popular actress, look for her Catching Up feature in CBS Soaps In Depth, on sale Monday, February 8.
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Could not help but notice this storefront down the block from the center where I had my spine procedure Thursday. I took pause for a moment, wondering if anyone truly had the ability to see into the future, and would it even serve me to have such information? Quickly I took a photo and moved on. While prepped and waiting, I thought more about the concept of future, and conjured up the quotation (above). A certain calm came over me at this point.
Sending everyone gratitude and appreciation for all the wonderful wishes, and wise comments shared on my blog post Wednesday. They really gave me a much-needed lift. I so appreciate the exceptional sense community we share here!
As an update, I did well with the procedure (barring a few moans and screams) and will know how effective it was over the next several days. If it works, my family will need to hide my roller blades :).
In the meantime…still moving in the direction of hope and faith, and paying attention to those thoughts and feelings I'm inviting into my experience right now!


Protecting loved ones from nursing home neglect in Alabama | The Sapp Law Firm, L.L.C.
On behalf of The Sapp Law Firm, L.L.C. posted in Nursing Home Neglect on Wednesday, September 24, 2014.
Many families in Alabama, and elsewhere, make the decision to admit their loved ones to nursing homes and other assisted living facilities. Often, this is because those loved ones require a level of care they cannot receive at home. Unfortunately, however, there are some situations in which nursing home staff members abuse or neglect the elderly and disabled people who they have been entrusted to care for. The National Center on Elder Abuse reports that, of the 2,000 nursing home residents who were polled in one study, 44 percent said that they themselves had been the victims of nursing home abuse. In these cases, there are steps that family members, or other concerned people, can take in order to prevent the continued abuse of their loved ones, or the future abuse of others.
In watching out for nursing home neglect, the first thing that families can do is to listen to their loved ones, especially if they express concerns over their treatment. Additionally, it can be important to monitor for possible signs of abuse. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Administration on Aging, signs that could indicate possible abuse include abrasions, broken bones, bruises and burns, as well as unexplained withdrawal or mood changes. Additionally, poor hygiene, bedsores or any unusual weight loss can be an indication of nursing home neglect.
When people are concerned that their loved ones have been, or are currently, the victims of nursing home abuse or neglect, it can be important for them to report their suspicions to the Adult Protective Services Division of the Alabama Department of Human Resources, if there is no immediate danger. If the danger is immediate and requires urgent assistance, people should instead call 911 or local law enforcement.
Once suspicions of nursing home abuse have been reported, according to the AOA, APS will determine if the state's elder abuse laws have potentially been violated. If so, a caseworker is generally assigned to conduct an investigation. Depending on the circumstances, APS will often work in conjunction with other agencies and offices, including prosecuting attorneys, law enforcement and long-term care ombudsman, in order to obtain the necessary services for the victim and, in some cases, to take legal action or file criminal charges against the alleged abuser.


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Q: How to show only the id of one table and not to duplicate with other tables? I have 6 tables and 3 of them is what I need to show in my table and the other 3 is what I needed to hide in the same table.
Report:
id    name    branch    comp_id    start_date    end_date
100    A        001       011      2022-08-14    2022-08-14
200    B        002       012      2022-08-14    2022-08-14

Report Details:
id    product_id    product_code   price   deliveries
100    01           11             20.00    10
100    01           11             20.00    10
200    01           11             20.00    20
200    02           12             25.00    20

Products:
id    code   name
01     11      Prod 1
02     12      Prod 2

Product Details:
id    code   name     Desc
01     11    Prod 1   Desc 1
02     12    Prod 2   Desc 2

Branches:
id    code   name
001    021    Branch 1
002    022    Branch 2

Companies:
id    name        branch
011   Company 1   021
012   Company 2   022

I want the output to be like this:
id: will come from reports  table
branch_name: will come from branches table using the branch in report table
company_name: will come company using the comp_id in report table
product_name: will come from products table using product_id in report details table
description: will come from product_details table using product_code in report details table
start_date: will come from report table
end_date: will come from report table
id    branch_name    company_name    product_name    description    start_date    end_date
100    branch 1        Company 1     Prod 1          Desc 1         2022-08-14    2022-08-14
200    branch 2        Company 2     Prod 1          Desc 1         2022-08-14    2022-08-14
200    branch 2        Company 2     Prod 2          Desc 2         2022-08-14    2022-08-14

I have this sql and it all shows the id in report details table:
SELECT *, `acc`.`name` AS `cname`, `out`.`name` AS `outname`, `pro`.`name` AS `pname`, `prod`.`name` AS `sname`
FROM `report` AS `rep`
JOIN `companies` AS `acc` ON `rep`.`account_id`=`acc`.`code`
JOIN `branches` AS `out` ON `rep`.`outlet_id`=`out`.`code`
JOIN `report_details` AS `red` ON `rep`.`report_id`=`red`.`report_id`
JOIN `products` AS `pro` ON `red`.`product_id`=`pro`.`id`
JOIN `product_details` AS `prod` ON `red`.`sku_id`=`prod`.`id`

A: Try this:
SELECT R.id, B.name AS branch_name, C.name AS company_name, PD.product_name AS product_name, PD.Desc AS description, R.start_date
FROM Report R
LEFT JOIN report_details RD ON R.id = R.id
LEFT JOIN products P ON RD.product_id = P.id
LEFT JOIN product_details PD ON PD.product_id = PD.id
LEFT JOIN branches B ON R.branch = B.id
LEFT JOIN companies C ON R.comp_id = C.id
GROUP BY R.id, B.name, C.name, PD.product_name, PD.Desc, R.start_date

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NIO Stock Surges as China's Mobile Market Grows
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Age is only a number. We've heard that axiom before, maybe even said it ourselves as we reach another birthday milestone.
But Larry and Nanette Erickson and Charlotte Morrow, all of whom live on The North Shore of the Lake of the Ozarks, know it's true. They are spry, lively septuagenarians who are avid water skiers when time, weather conditions and Lake conditions permit.
Larry and Nanette, who live in Jackson Branch Cove at about the 3-mile marker, cast hopeful glances to the sky on a recent overcast, sometimes-rainy day. Their hope was by early the next morning conditions would be right to uncover their 2000 Malibu Sunsetter, don their wetsuits and take to the water.
They are daily skiers, almost always in the early morning while the Lake surface is calm — and never on weekends. Locals, especially water skiers, know that in-season weekends are pretty much reserved for our visitors and residents whose boats can handle the large and sometimes dangerous waves.
As the water warms toward early June, Larry and Nanette shed their wetsuits, which help deter the cold early spring water, and enjoy their sport even more. That's the biggest challenge they say in water skiing at 71 and 70 respectively – getting up out of the water with a wetsuit full of water. They're both slim and in shape by any measure, certainly unique for people their age.
If the Lake is especially calm, Larry and Nanette will take turns skiing to the dam, roughly three miles away.
Age isn't a deterrent, they say, but they admit they're sore the first couple of days after they start in the spring.
Nanette's dad sold a business in St. Louis in the 1950s and relocated his family to the Lake where they bought 160 acres in 1959 and built Rainey's North Shore Resort. Nanette has been skiing ever since and taught many a guest the thrill of water skiing.
The Ericksons met as teenagers at Bethany Lutheran Church in Eldon. Larry, (a graduate of Eldon High School), and Nanette (a graduate of School of the Osage) both completed college at University of Missouri – Rolla. They then moved to the Kansas City area for job opportunities but continued their water skiing hobby with a couple of tournament water skiing clubs while they were in their 20s and 30s. They performed in jump, trick and slalom competition on Lake Olathe, and on what Larry describes as large ponds. The members of the tournament clubs would put on ski shows for various chambers, holiday events or grand openings in surrounding states to earn money to compete in tournaments. It wasn't unusual for them to sleep in their van to save money.
In April 1975, Nanette had her first child. Two months later she competed in a tournament – no trophy for jump that time.
"We were never good enough to go on to national tournaments," Larry recalled. "But we still had fun."
At the ripe old age of 32, Nanette won the "senior" women's jump competition at Raintree Lake near Lees Summit. Today, she laughs, the senior division is for women in their 50s and 60s.
One caveat Larry offers, recalling a humorous moment in their competitive years, is the importance of wearing glasses (or contacts) when approaching a ramp for a jump if you have poor eyesight. Nanette didn't, and belly-flopped on the ramp and into the water. Lesson learned.
The Ericksons' children learned to water ski at an early age as well. In fact, their five-year-old son, Jason, was photographed by Lake-area photographer George Denny and then featured in The Lake of the Ozarks Vacation Guide. Denny, himself once a competitive slalom and barefoot skier, took photos of the Ericksons for this feature.
And even today, it's a family affair as the Erickson's children (Jason and Shelley) and now grandchildren (Nathan, Sierra, Lyla and Dylan) come to the Lake in June for a family get-together of skiing, reminiscing and celebrating their family.
Oh. What do Larry and Nanette do in the winter months? Well, of course, they go snow skiing in Colorado several times.
So, yes, age is a merely a number for the Ericksons. Another number they point to proudly is the celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary this past June.
A well-deserved "congratulations" on all fronts.
Skiing for fun
Many athletes dream of winning some type of championship. Charlotte Morrow took that to the ultimate level at the age of 12, winning the junior girls' national water skiing championship in Austin, Texas.
Now a resident of The North Shore near the 1-mile marker, Charlotte, at 71, still water skis a handful of times a year. She started skiing at the age of six under the guidance of her dad, Charles Bruner of Lake Ozark, and has a portfolio of articles, photos and brochures touting her accomplishments. She and others from the Lake of the Ozarks were part of water ski shows and tournaments when the Lake was less crowded.
Summers were busy for the young ski team. They competed In Omaha, Neb., Corpus Christi, Texas, and finally Austin.
Charlotte was her dad's first student, and over the years he taught dozens of youngsters to water ski. By the time she was seven, Charlotte was skiing backward on one ski. During her first year of professional skiing, she was invited by the Lake Tapawingo Ski Club to appear before an audience of more than 5,000 at the Prairie Lee Lake Ski Pageant near Kansas City.
After winning the national championship, she retired from tournament competition. She went on to graduate from the School of the Osage in 1966 and then entered college at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield (now Missouri State University).
She just couldn't give up the sport that had given her so much enjoyment – and trophies – and in 1968 she was accepted into the Cypress Gardens Water Ski Show in Winter Haven, Fla., based solely on her accomplishments. After two years of skiing for the show, she came home. Charlotte was a physical fitness buff and joined the Lodge of Four Seasons as an exercise instructor when it first opened its spa. About that time she met another young physical fitness buff and graduated chiropractor who was manager of the spa – her now-husband Harold Morrow. He hired Charlotte and they married in 1971 at the Lake. He now owns Morrow Chiropractic in Lake Ozark with his son, Marshal, and Charlotte who is on duty as needed.
Charlotte, like so many young skiers at the time, was part of water ski shows at the Lake. She skied in the Ozark Water Ski Pageant and later the Fort Osage Water Ski Show.
"I basically ski for fun now," Charlotte said. "I go early in the day when it's calmer, but I still slalom. I get up pretty easily but I don't have the stamina I used to."
Still today, she could ski from the 1.5-mile marker near her home to about the 6-mile marker and back.
Her daughter, Heather – also a water skier — quickly pointed out that her mom is still a pretty good "cutter" on the slalom.
Charlotte and Harold own a 1996 Ski Nautique, bought from a world wake board champion from Lake St. Louis. It sits in their two-well dock next to their tritoon, a casual respite from the constant tug of water skiing.
It's been a good run for Charlotte and what evolved from a hobby to a profession. Not only has she collected multiple trophies over the years, her skiing prowess has been captured by numerous photographers and her photos adorn several pamphlets, brochures and magazines.


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December 16, 2019 By Colin Ryan
Speed is expensive, which is why our top 10 fastest SUVs all come from the luxury bracket. But for those who can afford it, a high-performance SUV can be the best of several worlds. It will transport a family comfortably and safely, provide a classy environment with high-tech features and stunning audio systems, then leave most of the motoring world in its dust.
Not many SUVs and crossovers are good on the track. Yet several of these 10 fastest SUVs will keep up with low-slung sports cars — not just on the straights but also around the corners, since they have sophisticated suspensions and uprated brakes to match the volcanic power beneath their hoods. Go big, go fast, and then go home. Let's check them out.
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There's something special about Alfa Romeo vehicles that adds another layer of attraction over what is already an alluring machine. In the Alfa Romeo Stelvio, factors like styling, sounds, handling, and heritage all seem to blend in a wonderful way.
Into this mix, add a 2.9-liter V6 that's twin-turbocharged to develop 505 horsepower and 443 lb-ft of torque. This provides the motivation for a 60-mph sprint of 3.6 seconds and a top speed of 176 mph. The Quadrifoglio can keep up with or in some cases outrun rivals with more cylinders. And it's the least expensive of our 10 fastest SUVs, from around $80,500. For the traditionalist who loves their Italian cars red, the Stelvio Quadrifoglio comes in a gorgeous Rosso Competizione.
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2020 Bentley Bentayga Speed
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Bentley gave 26 more horses to the twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter W12 in the Bentayga Speed (compared with the non-Speed version) for a total of 626 hp, in an effort to make this the world's fastest SUV. With the ability to fire off a zero-to-60 mph run of 3.8 seconds, the Bentayga Speed is undeniably speedy.
The performance figures of our other top 10 fastest SUVs, however, show that this Bentayga shares the maximum-velocity honors of 190 mph with the Lamborghini Urus. That 60-mph sprint, meanwhile, is 1.1 seconds slower than the Tesla Model X. But this is a Bentley: 5,500 pounds of plushness, leather, wood, and brawn — priced at $237,700. To accelerate at such a lick is phenomenal.
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2020 BMW X5 M Competition
Anyone who says life isn't a competition has no chance of winning. That might be the philosophy of a potential buyer of the BMW X5 M Competition. It takes the usual amazing X5 M and gives it a greater advantage.
Boosting the turbocharged 4.4-liter V8 to 617 hp enables this Competition version of the X5 M to zip from standstill to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds and reach 177 mph. Priced from $115,095, the X5 M Competition also includes an M Sport exhaust system, plus staggered-width alloy wheels with 21-inch rims up front and 22-inch versions at the back. That's on top of all the other equipment of its non-Competition counterpart, like an adaptive M suspension and a head-up display.
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2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk
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The Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk is not just one of the top 10 fastest SUVs, but also the most powerful, thanks to an insane supercharged 6.2-liter V8 generating a mighty 707 hp and 645 lb-ft of torque. It's the same engine in the Dodge Challenger Hellcat and propels the Trackhawk from standstill to 60 mph in just 3.5 seconds before hitting a top speed of 180 mph.
At $88,395, the 2020 Grand Cherokee Trackhawk is among the least expensive of our top 10 fastest SUVs. But go for the optional Pirelli P Zero summer tires to make the most of the Trackhawk's superb handling abilities. We're also happy to see Brembo brakes as standard on this model, along with driver aids like adaptive cruise control, automated emergency braking, and blind-spot monitoring.
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2020 Lamborghini Urus
Lamborghini has expanded from making supercars to super-SUVs. The seriously fast, seriously desirable Urus catapults from zero to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds and doesn't stop accelerating until 190 mph. That's the joy of a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 sending 641 hp and 626 lb-ft of torque to the road through an intelligent all-wheel drive system.
A cutting-edge adaptive suspension makes the Urus not just quick on normal roads. It will also shred a race track. And any well-heeled desert racer will find it an ideal choice over the dunes. At around $200,000, the Urus is only out-priced by the Bentley Bentayga Speed, but it is the least-expensive new Lamborghini.
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Even though the Range Rover Sport SVR is the slowest of our top 10 fastest SUVs, it's worth including because it's still amazing. That's because it retains its credentials as an SUV.
So even though it can blitz to 60 mph in 4.3 seconds and top out at 176 mph — thanks to a supercharged 5.0-liter V8 kicking out 575 hp and 516 lb-ft of torque — it can also go off-road and tackle mud, rocks, sand, and snow like every other creation out of the Land Rover stable. It's just that it can blast around a track as well. The 2020 Range Rover Sport SVR starts at $115,795 and has virtually all the right equipment as standard.
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2020 Maserati Levante Trofeo
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Imagine if Ferrari built a crossover suv. The Maserati Levante Trofeo has a turbocharged 3.8-liter V8 engine sourced from Ferrari making 590 hp and 538 lb-ft of torque. That's sufficient muscle to complete the sprint from niente to 60 mph in a mere 3.7 secondi and hit a massima velocità of 187 mph.
Since Maserati is a performance marque in its own right, there's plenty of other hardware for hard driving. This range-topping Trofeo version of Maserati's elegant crossover also has a Corsa (track) driving mode that includes a launch control to achieve optimum acceleration. At $172,995, the Trofeo is pricey, but it does include carbon fiber shift paddles and a glorious Bowers & Wilkins audio system.
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2020 Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 S Coupe
Whoever had the idea of putting a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 into the engine bay of a compact crossover suv is a genius. It transforms the perfectly nice GLC-Class (revamped for 2020) into a 503-hp beast.
One little hiccup: The maximum-performance Mercedes-AMG GLC 63 S is only available in the "Coupe" version of the GLC, which still has four doors but has a more sloping roofline than the standard model. But anyone who wants to corral 516 lb-ft of torque and blast from standstill to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds before hitting a top speed of 174 mph probably isn't too much of a stickler for practicality. Given the vehicle's exclusivity, arguable beauty, and measurable thrust, the price of $85,095 makes this almost a bargain.
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2020 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S E-Hybrid
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The Porsche Cayenne is the only plug-in hybrid among our top 10 fastest SUVs. It's good to keep emissions down, save a bit of gas, and run some miles purely on battery power, but Porsche has also put the electric motor into service to create some great performance numbers.
Because electric motors can deliver virtually all their thrust from standstill, they help the Cayenne Turbo S E-Hybrid achieve a zero-to-60 mph time of 3.6 seconds before hitting 183 mph. The total output from a drivetrain that includes a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 is a truly awesome 670 hp and 663 lb-ft of torque. Starting at $163,150, this Cayenne model also comes with a lot of equipment, such as all-wheel steering and carbon-ceramic brakes.
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This is the most rapid of our top 10 fastest SUVs — from standstill to 60 mph, at least. The 518-hp Performance version of the Tesla Model X with Ludicrous mode enables that meaningful sprint in a mere 2.7 seconds. Top speed is limited electronically to 155 mph.
Yet this vehicle also has three rows of seating and the trick "Falcon Wing" side doors, and it runs solely on electricity with a range of up to 305 miles.
The floor-mounted battery pack does a lot to keep the overall center of gravity low, which enhances the handling. So even though the Model X has no overtly sporting tendencies, it's still tidy through the curves. The 2020 Model X Performance starts at $106,190 before any applicable federal or state incentives.
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2021 Audi RS Q8 (bonus addition)
This is the first-ever SUV to receive Audi's RS high-performance treater. The Q8 is a sleeker, five-seat version of the Q7. The RS process begins with a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V8 generating 592 hp and 590 lb-ft of torque. Naturally, there are modifications to the suspension, steering, and brakes to complement this power.
Audi claims the RS Q8 will be the fastest production SUV around the daunting 14.2-mile North Loop of Germany's Nürburbring, with an impressive time of 7 minutes, 42.2 seconds. A rear differential provides torque vectoring for efficient, fast, and stable cornering — an absolute must on the Nürburgring. The sprint to 62 mph takes 3.8 seconds and top speed is 189.5 mph (with optional carbon-ceramic brakes).
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Tapton Secondary School is a secondary school with academy status located in Crosspool, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is sited next to another secondary, King Edward VII School, and near to Lydgate Junior School, Lydgate Infant School and Notre Dame High School. Tapton School has over 1,700 pupils, aged between 11 and 18 years old. Tapton officially opened in 1960, however in 2000, the school was rebuilt under the Private Finance Initiative. Students and faculties officially moved to the new building in September 2001.
Tapton Secondary School opened in 1960 with 660 pupils. The pupils came from three local schools who lost their senior school to provide the pupils. These three schools, Springfield County, Nethergreen, and Crookes Endowed became Junior schools.
The original 1950s school was knocked down and replaced by new premises under the private Finance Initiative in 2001 and is rented from its landlords, Interserve PLC.
After April 2011 the school was affected by changes in the funding of 6th formers and the removal of specialist school status from all schools. As a result of this funding change, Tapton governors sought academy status, which was approved, the changeover date being August 2011.
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Q: Escape a double-quote in .vimrc I'd want to add this mapping:
map <C-K> "_dd

How do I escape that double quote so it won't be interpreted as a comment?

A: I think you'll be fine.
From the manual:
                                                        *:quote*
'"' at the start of a line causes the whole line to be ignored.  '"'
after a command causes the rest of the line to be ignored.  This can be used
to add comments.  Example: >
        :set ai         "set 'autoindent' option
It is not possible to add a comment to a shell command ":!cmd" or to the
":map" command and friends, because they see the '"' as part of their
argument.

Notice how it says after a command — unfortunately, it can be difficult to tell what exactly is meant by the end of the command. Some commands (:edit) take only one argument, while others (:map, :help), can consume everything on the line.
In other words, using " after a :map should work fine without any special treatment, and I would stick to that as a guideline. If you find that it treats the " as the beginning of a comment, just use a backslash: \".

A: Just a guess. The issue is probably not with the mapping of a double-quote but the fact that <C-K> is noremapped somewhere else. Run the command :map and see if <C-K> is mapped elsewhere? If it cannot be remapped it will have an asterix.
I know minibufexplor.vim uses <C-K> so that could be your problem?
Hope this helps.


Comment: It could be construed from the way this author writes that he has a problem with any and all Jews. It should be noted however that the real source of the problem the world faces today are in fact the Khazarian Zionists, the Luciferians who hide within Jewry using Judaism as cover, that are the problem.
"This is not an isolated fact. The Jew has emancipated himself in a Jewish manner, not only because he has acquired financial power, but also because…money has become a world power and the practical Jewish spirit has become the practical spirit of the Christian nations." Marx had the Rothschilds in mind when he wrote this.
He went on to say that the only solution to the problem is for society to abolish "the empirical essence of Judaism," and only then will "the Jew…become impossible" in fomenting subversive activity.
Heine saw this as dangerous. Marx saw it too. The "new materialist religion" was Mammon, which came in the form of capitalism.
Within the next three years, anti-Jewish resistance led again to a bloody war that took the lives of thousands of Jews, and caused many others to move to places like the Netherlands, Bohemia, Austria, Italy, and Hungary.
Wherever they went, however, they took the study of the Talmud with them, bearing the same attitudes towards Gentiles.
Yet despite all of that, historian Israel Abrahams declares that for Jews in the Middle Ages "to cheat a non-Jew was a double crime: it was an act of robbery, and it involved a profanation of God's holiness. The prices that they charged their co-religionists were higher than the prices they charged Gentiles.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Since Abrahams cannot support this historically or Talmudically, it is almost certainly for ideological purposes that he presented these views.
If he actually believed the statement above, then Abrahams loses whatever credibility he had as a reputable historian – though he quotes the Talmud extensively, he avoids passages which specifically deal with the goyim. History contains too many instances of usury for us to be able to believe the assertions of one man.
In the seventeenth century, capitalism fell in the hands of the Jews. French historian Fernand Braudel called this "the 'age' of great Jewish merchants," during which they were involved in "lucrative areas of commerce" such as piracy "in which these Jewish merchants specialized.
By the time that the Rothschilds came on the political scene, much of Europe found itself under the guiding principle of the Khazarian Bankster Cult.
The Rothschilds ended up making a fortune during the Napoleonic Wars.
Wilson later argued that their clandestine ways were justifiable since they feared that they would be misrepresented by the press; whether Wilson is right is hard to justify.
The simple questions is this: Is the Khazarian Bankster Cult still with us? Are the people in this cult still trying to manipulate the economy and political affairs? Are they still trying to buy politicians for their own political gain? Are they still trying to magically create money out of thin air?
Are they still trying to destroy countries in the Middle East so that they can extra oil and suppress the people? Are they still trying to use US politicians as pawns? Are they still trying to destroy countries like Syria for Israel?
Take some time off and try to wrestle with the answers to those questions. The answers themselves may surprise you.
False and rigged economy: The economy is no longer based on education, hard work, and free market principles – the pricing and accountability that real free markets impose.
Instead, the economy is based on the manipulation of prices, speculative control of commodities, support of the dollar by Washington's puppet states, manipulated and falsified official statistics, propaganda from the financial media, and inactivity by countries, such as Russia and China, who are directly harmed, both economically and politically by the US-dollar payments system.
The 'hidden powers that be' dictate policies and events on behalf of the House of Rothschild that control the global financial system; they have accumulated their power and wealth by theft and exploitation. Their whole system is based on a gigantic fraud because there is no money, as people perceive it.
The money you've earned is backed by nothing. The value is only the value that people can be persuaded it has. They are worthless pieces of paper and metal coins, or numbers on a computer screen that people are tricked into taking seriously.
Money is brought into circulation through what is called 'credit' from money, which is the belief that is upheld. Banks are not lending anything, but people are paying fortunes to borrow.
The Rothschilds have controlled banking and governments for centuries, and they have been able to dictate laws for the financial system and introduce 'fractional reserve lending'.
This allows the banks to lend ten times what they have on deposit. In other words, they lend 'money' they don't have and that doesn't exist – called credit – while charging interest on it. So the banking system is a fantastic business, they lend money they don't have and charge the borrower interest on it. Invented by Mayer Amschel Rothschild.
Mr. Rothschild loaned promissory notes – which are worthless – to governments and individuals. When the economy became buoyant, then he made money scarce, by tightening the control of the system, and collecting the collateral through the obligation of contracts.
On their decision this cycle was repeated – by applying pressure to ignite a war, as recently in Syria and the Ukraine. Then they control the availability of currency to determine which side will win the war. The governments, which agree to give them control of their economic system, are supported. Collection is guaranteed by economic aid to the enemy of the debtor.
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There is another vital aspect to be understood about interest on money; when a loan is taken out, the bank creates the money but not the interest with which all loans must be paid back.
The created money therefore excludes the amount owed in interest. This means there is never enough money in circulation to pay back all the outstanding loans plus interest.
This is a fatal flaw with regard to human freedom and it has been done purposely to ensure that bankruptcy and loss of property and possessions in favour of the banks is built into the system.
It is all part of the Rothschilds energy-construct that flows the wealth and energy of the people in their direction. A fantastic amount of taxpayers' money goes straight to private banks to pay back interest on the money that the government could create itself, interest free.
'Privatisation' is the selling of state assets in response to bank-created debt. The world's poorest countries are handing over control of their land and resources to the Rothschild banks when they are unable to pay back loans made specifically to ensnare them into this situation.
Third World debt was created to replace physical occupation of resource-rich or strategically situated countries with today's financial occupation.
The Rothschild's modus operandi is always the same: create chaos, preferably in the form of war – this is most profitable for them. Their purpose is to create major headaches for governments and people. The next step is to "offer solutions" to end the chaos.
Their solutions always entail gaining more control as part of the cost for the "rescue". In short the standard method is: create the problem, wait for the reaction, and then offer the solution to be implemented as originally envisioned.
For the same reason 9/11 was created with the subsequent war on terror to get the Home Security Office founded, with the sole purpose of controlling the movement of people, and commencing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
What the public in general doesn't understand is that the force covertly behind the manufactured problem is the same force offering the solutions, which just happens to advance the agenda of the centralisation of power and control.
All Presidents except for Lincoln and Kennedy – both were killed in office – were ultimately under the control of this secret cabal.
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When their orders were disobeyed, a fatal accident occurred to make place for the desired change of power. The same people for example ultimately controlled Bush and Obama, as with all the presidents of the Central Banks, meaning it doesn't matter who the Frontman is in the Whitehouse or Brussels.
By controlling the issuance of money through credit, the Rothschilds control the entire world economy. They can expand it or crash it at will. The depression that began in 2008 is yet another Rothschild creation to further their agenda of centralised global finance and to introduce the long-planned world central bank.
They have been engineering booms and busts for centuries to advance their goals. Simple to do once you receive interest on money and control the creation of money. The difference between a boom and bust is the amount of money in circulation and its perceived value. They dictate both.
They decide how much money will be issued and circulated through their control of banks and governments. Stimulating a boom by making credit easy – more money in circulation, and this stimulates the population to become deeply indebted during economic good times. Then the economy is crashed, by finding an excuse to take money out of circulation, making credit harder to get.
Businesses and people cannot repay their loans because there is not enough money in circulation to generate economic activity, and the Rothschilds take the rewards, seizing all the collateral that was pledged when the loans were taken out. That reduces the number of businesses dramatically.
Their products and markets are taken over by Rothschild corporations to further centralise their global economic power. The same occurs with governments, when a depression decimates government revenues they seek still more loans to maintain spending, while the Rothschild control of government continues to expand.
The recent Boom and Bust followed by the crash of 2008 with the subsequent credit crunch was all the work of the Rothschilds and their henchmen like Greenspan, Bernanke, and now Yellen.
The Rothschilds have engineered these cycles for hundreds of years, including the crash of 1929 and the great depression of the 1930s.
Most economist have no idea what really is going on, they suggest that booms and busts are all part of economic cycles, which they are not. It is purely systematic manipulation to steal the real wealth from the people.
It concluded that the US government represents not the interests of the majority of citizens but those of the rich and powerful (the cabal). The resulting data empirically verifies that the economic elite determines US policies.
… Economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence," says the peer-reviewed study.


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