Cold frames are still widely used in Britain as a half way house between a greenhouse and a planting out. When you have reared your seedlings in the greenhouse, if you plant them straight into the garden in April May or June time, they will be be shocked by the cold particularly at night and this will literally stunt their growth. They may not grow at all for weeks after such a shock and that is why cold frames are used in conjunctio with your greenhouse. The purpose of a cold frame is to create shelter s that you can harden-off¹ your plants.
First place them in the cold frame with the lids closed, then day by day have the vents more and more open in the day (replace or close at night)until eventually, you remove the lids completely for the last day or two. Hardening off should take 7-10 days for best results. Polycarbonate cold frames are cheap and lightweight so easy to move about the garden (but vulnerable to wind - do make sure you anchor them or weigh them down) But nothing beats a glass cold frame (preferably with toughened glass).
The best sort have lids that both prop open and or slide across and be removable for flexibility.


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Many things change with the publicist. Technology. Social media. Changing attitudes toward communications. These forces have all changed the way public relations, as an industry, operates, and they're probably the biggest deciding factors in how public relations operates today, compared to yesterday. What does the evolution of public relations and the publicist look like?
The act of faxing out (or even mailing) news/press releases is just about as obsolete as taking pictures with a film camera. It's an inefficient process that nobody uses anymore. Instead, PR professionals are using mediums that are virtually free, like email and social media. PR firms don't have to pass these extra costs for time along to clients. This enables them to offer their services more efficiently. PR firms no longer have to account for lag time in sending out information. In the digital age, information goes out and connects with the intended audience immediately. Journalists are adept at using their social media tools to spread the word quickly. There is no more waiting for the morning edition of the newspaper to come out – they're getting it out to their audiences as quickly as they can type it. An added benefit: social media tools are trackable.
The divide between journalists and the publicist is narrowing. Years ago, journalists who "jumped ship" and took a job with a PR firm would often be referred to as having joined the "dark side." That's not the case any longer. There is now greater interaction between journalists and PR personnel. They each watch what the other has to say on Twitter and work symbiotically. PR strategies involve multiple avenues to send a targeted message which are very quick avenues. There are many places online where the traditional news/press release can get good play. PR pros are also reaching out to bloggers, as well as journalists. Releases are getting out on social media sites, and are followed up by opportunities to interact with the audience, share in conversation and glean information that can affect PR campaigns immediately.
The migration to smart phones has had a big impact on the publicist, and has also helped the industry evolve. The phone is definitely not just for making calls anymore. PR professionals use mobile devices to connect to a vast audience that is constantly checking their emails and social media sites. The mobile devices are also being used by this audience to retweet, reply to and forward information they find interesting. Connecting to them in this way is a part of almost every public relations strategy. Many public relations strategies today involve writing regular blogs that fill the same space. Blogs that create content, but are written by PR firms, go a long way in driving traffic and resonating with a wider audience. This is also a much more interactive means of communicating with the audience; they have a chance to weigh in on topics and feel a connection with the brand.


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Q: Use libertine math font just for the complexity package I'm currrently using the complexity package, where I have defined a lot of new commands for complexity classes, and I'm writing my document using the libertine font. I want to use the regular math font for everything except for the commands rendered by the complexity package... That is, I want the commands defined by the complexity package to use the math font libertinust1math while the rest of the math should be rendered in the usual math font.
I imagine there must be a simple command to change the font of specific commands, but I don't know that it is.

A: The following does what was requested in the question (tested with pdflatex). I leave it up to the author to choose matching fonts.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}     % for instance
\usepackage{amsmath}     % only for stuff in the last formula
\usepackage{amsfonts}    % ditto
\usepackage{complexity}

\makeatletter
% Define math alphabet \mathsfliti using LibertinusT1Math (adapted from
% libertinust1math.sty)
\unless\ifdefined\iflibus@sansmath
  \newif\iflibus@sansmath
\fi

\DeclareFontEncoding{LS1}{}{}
\DeclareFontSubstitution{LS1}{libertinust1math}{m}{n}
\DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathsfliti}{LS1}{libertinust1mathsf}{m}{n}

% Adapted from complexity.sty: use \mathsfliti for everything in complexity.sty
\renewcommand{\complexity@fontcommand}{\mathsfliti}
\renewcommand{\lang}[1]{{\ensuremath{\mathsfliti{#1}}}}
\renewcommand{\func}[1]{{\ensuremath{\mathsfliti{#1}}}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

% \showoutput % Uncomment to verify which font is used for which glyph
\[
   \begin{array}{l}
     \P \subseteq \NP\\
     \CVP \leq_m \SAT\\
     \polylog \in O(\poly)\\
     \PSPACE \subseteq \EXP\\
     \SAT \leq_T \MaxSAT\\
     \polylog \in \Omega(\llog)
   \end{array}
\]

\newcommand{\diff}{\mathop{}\!d}% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/84308/73317
\[
  \forall z\in \mathbb{C},
    \Bigl(
      \Re(z) > 0 \implies \Gamma(z) =
        \int_{0}^{+\infty} x^{z-1} e^{-x} \diff x
    \Bigr)
\]
\end{document}

A: The acmart class uses Linux Libertine fonts for text and does
\RequirePackage[libertine]{newtxmath}

If you do the same (with \usepackage, of course), you'll get what you want and avoid mixing visually incompatible fonts.
Using the code provided by frougon
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage[libertine]{newtxmath}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{complexity}

\begin{document}

\[
   \begin{array}{l}
     \P \subseteq \NP\\
     \CVP \leq_m \SAT\\
     \polylog \in O(\poly)\\
     \PSPACE \subseteq \EXP\\
     \SAT \leq_T \MaxSAT\\
     \polylog \in \Omega(\llog)
   \end{array}
\]

\newcommand{\diff}{\mathop{}\!d}% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/84308/73317
\[
  \forall z\in \mathbb{C},
    \Bigl(
      \Re(z) > 0 \implies \Gamma(z) =
        \int_{0}^{+\infty} x^{z-1} e^{-x} \diff x
    \Bigr)
\]
\end{document}

This will use Linux Biolinum for the sans serif. If you want the sans serif used by libertinust1math, then you can do
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage[libertine]{newtxmath}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{complexity}

\DeclareFontEncoding{LS1}{}{}
\DeclareFontSubstitution{LS1}{libertinust1mathsf}{m}{n}
\DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathsf}{LS1}{libertinust1mathsf}{m}{n}
\SetMathAlphabet{\mathsf}{bold}{LS1}{libertinust1mathsf}{b}{n}

\begin{document}

\[
   \begin{array}{l}
     \P \subseteq \NP\\
     \CVP \leq_m \SAT\\
     \polylog \in O(\poly)\\
     \PSPACE \subseteq \EXP\\
     \SAT \leq_T \MaxSAT\\
     \polylog \in \Omega(\llog)
   \end{array}
\]

\newcommand{\diff}{\mathop{}\!d}% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/84308/73317
\[
  \forall z\in \mathbb{C},
    \Bigl(
      \Re(z) > 0 \implies \Gamma(z) =
        \int_{0}^{+\infty} x^{z-1} e^{-x} \diff x
    \Bigr)
\]
\end{document}

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Omate TrueSmart Watch Makes Calls All By Itself
The Omate TrueSmart watch promises to have a built-in microSIM card slot, so you can make calls and get text messages without tethering to your smartphone.
By Jared Newman @OneJaredNewmanAug. 21, 2013
It's tough to keep track of all the Kickstarter campaigns, smartwatches and Kickstarter campaigns for smartwatches these days, but here's something novel: The Omate TrueSmart watch promises to have a built-in microSIM card slot, so you can make calls and get text messages without tethering to your smartphone.
The TrueSmart has some other fancy specs too, like a dual-core processor, a 1.54-inch color touchscreen, a 5-megapixel camera, GPS and vibration alerts. The microSIM slot supports 2G and 3G networks, but no 4G LTE, unfortunately.
The Kickstarter campaign is taking pledges now, starting at $179 to $189 to secure yourself a watch (or $199 after the early bird specials are gone). Omate estimates that it'll ship in November, but given the track record of other Kickstarter projects we can pretty much assume that's not going to happen.
In any case, the Omate TrueSmart will have some microSIM-equipped company later this year, albeit at higher prices. The $335 Neptune Pine watch is estimated to ship in December, and the 389-Euro Berg 17 was supposed to launch in July, though it doesn't seem to be available yet. Samsung was reportedly going to include direct phone calling capabilities in its upcoming smartwatch, but those rumors have been debunked.
Just one problem will all these watches: The way wireless plans work in the United States, you'd have to pay for a separate plan to enable voice, text and data on your watch. Unless you're ready to have your watch replace your phone entirely, it might be best to stick with Bluetooth tethering after all.

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From Ania Haie's 'Twister' Collection, is this stunning Gold Swirl Necklace. This collection was created to give a feminine twist on an everyday look. These chic, contemporary styles are perfect for layering.
This Ania Haie Gold Swirl Necklace features a classic chain with a twisted ring pendant. This simplistic piece taps into the latest trends, and would be perfect for layering with other Gold necklaces. This necklace would be a perfect gift for her.
This Ania Haie necklace is crafted from 925 Sterling Silver and Yellow Gold plating.


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Celtics take Game 1 of East finals, beating Cavaliers 108-83
By: Scott Grodsky Facebook | Twitter
Posted: May 13, 2018 5:16 PM CDT
BOSTON (AP) — Jaylen Brown had 23 points and eight rebounds, Marcus Morris added 21 points and 10 boards, and the Boston Celtics opened a 21-point, first-quarter lead and beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 108-83 on Sunday in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals.
Al Horford scored 20 points for the Celtics, who ran off 17 consecutive points in the first quarter to pull away.
Game 2 is Tuesday night.
Kevin Love had 17 points and eight rebounds, and LeBron James finished with 15 points, nine assists and seven boards. The Cavaliers missed their first 14 3-point attempts of the game and shot just 32 percent in the first half.
By that time, Boston led 61-35 — the biggest halftime playoff deficit in James' career.
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Freeman, Fried power scorching hot Braves past Brewers, 4-2


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Buhari Mourns Former Military Gov, Ndubuidi Kanu
Enioluwa Adeniyi
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday expressed sadness over the death of former military administrator of Lagos and Imo States, Rear Admiral Ndubuidi Kanu (retd.).
Buhari in condolence statement released by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said Kanu's service to Nigeria will continue to inspire younger generations on patriotism.
The statement was titled, 'President Buhari condoles with family of the former military administrator of Lagos, Imo States, Ndubuisi Kanu'.
He further stated that the services of Kanu remain commendable.
The statement read, "President Muhammadu Buhari commiserates with family and friends of the former military administrator of Lagos and Imo States, Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, 77, praying for God's covering over all his loved ones."
"The President condoles with all professional colleagues of the gallant military officer, who distinguished himself in all positions and responsibilities during service, taking up more daunting, but historically rewarding challenges like speaking up for the weak and vulnerable, and the struggle for the country's return to democratic government."
"President Buhari believes late Rear Admiral Kanu's credentials in serving the nation, as a career military officer and as an activist with NADECO in actualising the June 12, 1993 mandate, remains commendable and will continue to inspire younger generations on patriotism."
"The President prays for the repose of the soul of the elder statesman."
Naija News had earlier reported that Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Godwin Kanu who served as a military governor of Imo State during the General Olusegun Obasanjo military regime, has died.
Kanu's death was confirmed by his close ally, Mrs Joe Okei-Odumakin on Wednesday, January 13.
Although the cause of his death is yet to be revealed, the retired military officer is said to have died at the age of 78.
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How NEDC's Impactful Interventions Are Improving Services in PHCCs, Tertiary Hospitals
11 months ago .
Since the onset of its operation as the foremost federal government intervention agency in the war-torn Northeast Nigeria, Northeast Development Commission (NEDC) has executed critical projects that have so far transformed many healthcare delivery centres in the subregion.
Under the administrative leadership of its Managing Director, Goni Alkali, there seemed to be no dull moments for NEDC in the two years.
This was not known by many Nigerians until recently when The Humanitarian Times editorial team carried out some independent assessment of the activities of the Commission since 2020 when it began full operation.
In line with the known niche of The Humanitarian Times, a critical look at the NEDC intervention in the healthcare sector was one of the areas we beamed our light of appraisal in line with goal number-4 of the SDG which emphasised the need to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
Burns Center in Yola, donated by NEDC
In the years under review, the Goni Alkali-led team has made a significant impact in the Primary Healthcare Sector in all the six states that define NEDC's core areas of responsibility.
This is in addition to the general supply of assorted drugs and medical consumables across many of the health facilities in the states.
Primary HealthCare Interventions
According to our independent findings, the NEDC has so far established, renovated and equipped at least two primary healthcare, or a tertiary health centres in each of the six states.
In Borno state, the Commission had established a PHCC at Kwaya Kusar and Shani local government areas that are currently serving and addressing the needs of the communities.
Two PHCCs were renovated in two separate communities under the Funakaye local government area of the state. To meet with the yearnings of the people, NEDC had also, in Gombe state upgraded, equipped and furnished a former PHCC to a full-fledged General hospital located at Boh village in Shongom local government area.
Another four sets of PHCCs were renovated in four different communities within Nafada local government area to address the gross inadequacy of health care in those remote rural areas.
These were also replicated in the four other states of Bauchi, Adamawa, Taraba and Yobe.
Tertiary Health Interventions
To boost adequate delivery of health care and in line with goal 17 of the SDG, the Goni Alkali-led team at NEDC had carried out unprecedented interventions in virtually all the tertiary health institutions across the subregion.
The Humanitarian Times investigations had discovered that NEDC did not only construct but also fully equip a state of the earth Polio-Safety Level 2 Virology Laboratory at the Federal Medical Center in Jalingo, Taraba state.
A primary health Center before it was completed in Borno by NEDC
A state-of-the-art Burns Center was built and equipped with facilities and 500kVA generators at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and the Federal University of Technology, Yola.
A solar power installation project was executed at the Gombe General hospital to address the constant electricity needs of patients and medical personnel there.
A modern triange rehabilitation centre was built at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) in Bauchi state, as well as the equipping of eye care centre, and the equipping of Ophthalmology Center at Federal Medical Centre, Azare.
The Humanitarian Times reporting crew has also visited the Ningi on a tour of the facility at the National Obstetrics and Fistula Center where NEDC carried out a full rehabilitation of a skills acquisition centre meant for survivors of VVF.
Bauchi Infectious Diseases Lab, built, equipped by NEDC
In line with goal-17 of the SDG, the NEDC in its sustained policy of a collaborative approach to solving the basic societal problems had donated a 500KVA power generator, a sophisticated X-ray machine as well as ultrasound scanning machine to the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Maiduguri support the state in providing sustainable medical service to folks with mental health challenges.
Giving a background to the motivations driving NEDC's policy direction of healthcare delivery, the MD of the Commission, Goni Alkali, said "the 13 years of Boko Haram has brought about several health challenges to the people."
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Kubica Is Still Glad He Decided To Make An F1 Comeback
The returning Robert Kubica has said that he does not regret his decision to take a full-time Formula 1 seat with Williams, even though the team is showing no signs of rising from its current slump
by James Eagles 20th March 2019
The Australian Grand Prix marked the first time Kubica had competed in a grand prix for more than eight years after a recreational rally crash in February 2011 left his career - and life - in danger. The season so far has not gone to plan for Williams, with the troublesome FW42 making it three days late to winter testing in Barcelona and lagging well behind the field at Albert Park.
Kubica finished 17th and last of the classified finishers, one lap down on team-mate George Russell and three laps down on race winner Valtteri 'Beardy' Bottas. Qualifying was also a struggle, with the fastest Williams hypothetically managing to qualify just third on the 2016 grid.
(c) Williams
Speaking to Motorsport.com, Kubica rejected the suspicion that he holds regrets over the decision to return to F1, but admitted that he did not expect Williams to be so under-prepared in Melbourne:
"[I have no regrets], in the end I took the decision after thinking for more than six weeks last year. I knew it would be an extremely difficult challenge for me to be back in such a competitive sport and being on the grid, and I knew it might be difficult for Williams. But I didn't expect to come to Australia so unprepared.
"Not from a physical point of view, but from a lack of driving. For me, before testing, Barcelona would be the most important days of the last eight years as a driver, although not as a person when I was half in hospital and couldn't walk!
"As a driver, there haven't been in my life more important test days from the driver point of view as Barcelona. Unfortunately Barcelona didn't work out at all. So it put me into the difficult position, but somehow I have to go through them here, in Bahrain, and probably for a couple more races."
Kubica said he was only "20 per cent" prepared after a difficult winter testing period. (c) Pirelli
"But I hope and, from what I can see, I think I cannot regret. Even if I struggled here [in Australia], I still enjoyed it, which is a big difference compared to long time ago. A big difference! It is probably because I know where I am coming from. I am not an emotional guy but in the end after the race, for me, it felt like a great achievement."
Having driven in competitive rallying in his immediate return from injury, Kubica walked away from the ByKolles WEC project in 2017 after a disastrous prologue session for the team at Monza - where the car spent more time in the company of a fire extinguisher than its competition. That car was also late to the test - ring any bells?
The Pole still believes that he has made the right choice to return to F1 instead of racing elsewhere - in order to quieten the naysayers and to prove to himself that he could do it.
"In the end because of my limitation, I have to show always more than the others because people are putting always question mark doubts. The only thing I can do is try to do my job the best I can, and try to leave all the grands prix with positives and negatives. I don't believe that there can be 100 per cent positive things. You can always do better things. Even if you are winning races, you can always improve.
"Knowing how F1 has changed, I think I am honest enough with myself to judge properly and correctly what I have to learn, where I have to learn and where I have to improve. Otherwise for me it would have been much easier six years ago to accept opportunities I have in GT3 or DTM. [I could] enjoy [it], have even less stress, and probably have more fun with driving because I will be probably fighting definitely for better positions.
"But somehow there is a reason why I am here. And it might be that at the end of the year I will regret something, but one thing I will not regret is to try. Very simple."
What, if anything, can Kubica do this year? Or will it be unfair to judge him given his flawed machinery?
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Life with Lesley: Another COTT Victory!
This week Elaine Marie Cooper takes the crown over at Clash of the Titles. The category was Most Romantic Moment and the excerpt was from her novel The Road to Deer Run. She beat out her competitor Lorna Seilstad with a 54% to 46% vote.
I am shouting for joy that my submission has been accepted! Thank you so much!! I am very honored to be a COTT contender!
I'm so excited for this opportunity, Michelle and again, I so appreciate having my excerpt chosen. Thank you.
It's a thrill to be here at COTT!
It's a thrill to have you! Elaine's energy infused the entire two weeks of the Clash with excitement and fun. It ended up being one of the most commented-on clashes, for both contenders.
This sounds wonderful. I love reading about the revolutionary war and I like your cover!
Way to go, Elaine! Find out more about Elaine in her COTT interview here.
Christian, Wife, Mother, Grammie to triplets, Registered Nurse, Novelist, Blog Writer for Reflections in Hindsight reflectionsinhindsight.wordpress.com and The Barn Door www.thebarndoor.net , Magazine Freelance writer, Newspaper columnist.
Make sure to come take part in our next Clash on Monday: Emotional Intensity from our waiting-to-be-published authors.


These sausages are an old family favourite. I used to make them as a pre-lunch snack at our traditional Boxing Day, extended family get together.
They are now very popular with the next generation who usually enjoy them served warm with a good dollop of tomato sauce.


very cool wallpaper! i like those.. "mirror-"-style, yeah.
awesome thing - but, at some parts of the hair, its very... "Pixelized".. a lil bit blur at those parts would be nice.
Very nice, clean, like the colours you used. Awesome job, just curious what does the title mean?
Anyway.. This wallpapers is cool!


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Владѝмир Степа̀нович Нестеро̀вич () е съветски офицер и разузнавач.

Роден е през 1895 година. Първоначално работи в железниците в Гомел, а след началото на Първата световна война е мобилизиран, завършва военно училище и получава офицерско звание. През 1917 година се присъединява към болшевиките и по време на Гражданската война служи в Червената армия, достигайки до командир на дивизия. През август 1924 година е прехвърлен във военното разузнаване и е изпратен под името Мечислав Ярославски във Виена, откъдето координира и работата на Военната организация на Българската комунистическа партия. Шокиран от Атентата в църквата "Света Неделя" през април 1925 година, той дезертира и заминава за Германия.

Владимир Нестерович е отровен от агенти на съветското разузнаване през август 1925 година в Майнц.

Бележки

Съветски офицери
Съветски военни разузнавачи
Беларуси
Руски военни дейци от Първата световна война
Членове на КПСС
Гражданска война в Русия
Организатори на атентата в църквата "Света Неделя"
Жертви на убийства

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We're Going To Need A Wall on the Canadian Border!
Maybe most people are too young to remember the days of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The wall came down for all practical purposes on November 9, 1989, when the doors that separated East Berlin from the west were thrown open. That was almost 28 years ago so assuming some people start paying attention to things at age 12 then you would have to be over 40 to remember that day.
Even less I figure would have been around at the time the Soviets began construction on it back in August 1961. It remained standing for 28 years. Its purpose was to keep people from fleeing from East Berlin to the freedom of the West. Once that fell the imprisoned Eastern Europeans saw their border open up and many felt the taste of freedom for the first time. Who would ever think people would want to flee America? Or, we would try to keep them here.
The West represented freedom; the East the repression of the Soviets. Almost no one went east. Those given the choice flocked to the west. Russia experienced a short-lived democracy which has again disappeared as democracy is wont to do in Russia. It now has a president for life who is duly elected without opposition and has been for 17 years.
We in America were proud that we had no walls keeping people from leaving here. If someone wanted to leave to wherever they wanted to go they were welcome to do so. We were a liberal democracy that believed in individual rights. Sadly, under D.Trump, we are no longer the beacon of freedom in the world and are one crisis away from becoming a totalitarian state.
How can one not be shocked when they read of the people fleeing this country because of their fear of D. Trump? These are not criminals. They are people who have escaped oppression in other parts of the world to come here. They now fear that in this land that used to welcome refugees and which thrived because of them they will be apprehended and sent back to the country from which they fled and enmeshed again in the arms of brutes.
Even more shocking is the idea that we are trying to prevent these people from fleeing. That is why I suggest that we need a wall on the Canadian border under our present regime. We can prevent people who came here seeking freedom from leaving our country and enjoying it in another country while causing them to live in the same sort of fear they did in the country from which they fled.
I hope you have seen the story of the eight people including four children from Sudan who lived in Delaware for two years. The other day they fled to Canada. The U.S. Border agents tried to stop them. They seized their luggage. They wanted to arrest them for being in the U.S. illegally.
These eight are just a drop in the bucket of the numbers of people from Africa and other places who came to America seeking a new life for themselves and their families. Many are now are fleeing or planning to flee our country into Canada. We for some strange reason are trying to stop them. Soon D.Trump and friends will realize we need a wall.
What a shame for the United States to be in this position of making the lives of these people who only seek to have a better life by living and working in America so afraid that they risk life and limb to flee to Canada. This is a great stain on America.
Read this story here and here and tell me how proud you are to be an American who would treat these poor people in such a shoddy manner that they flee across the snow-covered grounds to find safety from the horrors of D.Trump.
In 1895 John Fitzgerald a Congressman from Boston fought in "opposition to a bill that would have required new immigrants to be able to read the Constitution as part of a qualification test. When the bill was quashed, he was confronted by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge: "Impudent young man… Do you think Jews or Italians have any right in this country?" "As much as your father or mine," Fitzgerald replied. "It's only a difference of a few ships."
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Mexico refuses to accept Central American deportees from the US. Most Hispanic illegal immigrants are not Mexican. Glorious Leader, and, Dixie Midget, will have to go on a prison building splurge to accommodate all the non-deport-able aliens from Central America. There's Cubans still in migra custody from the Mariel Boat-lift. Some have never been convicted of anything. Others, who have committed crimes, and, completed their sentences, remain in custody, because, Cuba won't take them back. They're doing what amounts to life in migra prisons. US tax-payers foot the bill. It costs better than 30k each, a year, to house illegals in the Federal system.
hutch says:
Would NC freeze the waiting list and allow those who are taking the legal path to get here be halted or would he allow those in the process to complete it?
If Mexico complains, why not highlight their draconian immigration laws?
Are "progressive" Liberals (the rest of us lefties are just regressive, I guess} responsible for fear-mongering that leads to families freezing in the snows of Idaho?
Private prison companies invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Donald Trump's presidential campaign and today they got their reward: the Trump administration reversed the Obama administration's directive to reduce the Justice Department's use of private prisons," Sanders said in a statement. "At a time when we already have more people behind bars than any other country, Trump just opened the floodgates for private prisons to make huge profits by building more prisons and keeping even more Americans in jail."
More basic training for the revolution. Thank you Glorious Leader. The git-back will be fearsome.
Self deportation is good. America has no need for a 19th century policy to fill and secure a near empty continent in the 21st century when there is an ample population. The government is for the American people, not the rest of the world.
The issue is "illegal" immigration. NYT spins the issue as one of Immigration only. Please read the Heritage report cited above.
Sorry, Bill, It's the conservative Heritage Foundation that's doing the spinning.
The column in the New York Times cited below does a pretty good job of summarizing the pros and cons of immigration. It relies mainly on a National Academy of Sciences report on the economic impact of immigration. There's ammunition for both sides, but on balance, immigration does more good than harm, as it has throughout our history.
Unrelated question for my conservative brothers and sisters: Should right-wing rock star/role model Milo Yiannopoulos be kicked out of the country? I mean, the man is an alien. Being liberal and all, I'm for letting him stay. But maybe you want him gone , pronto? Just curious.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/opinion/campaign-stops/what-does-immigration-actually-cost-us.html?_r=0
Whats coming to change everything, is coming from outside.
I strike my "save the sob story" comment. But . . . . for every truly sad story about an illegal immigrant or refugee, there are equally sad stories about American lives being destroyed by illegal drugs from Mexico or the actions of illegal criminal immigrants (ex. the Kate Steinle case).
Marcus Antonius:
And Caesar's spirit, raging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
Julius Caesar Act 3, scene 1, 270–275
Wa-llahi! Why no Richard Engel "eye-witness" report from the eastern front ?!!?!!? Media attention seems largely devoted to Glorious Leader's domestic hi-jinks. There don't appear to be any reporters embedded with US units participating in the Mosul attack. Is the public being kept in the dark?
The butcher's bill can no longer be satisfied with cheaply bought foreign lives, the devil's only taking American. Pricey times, ahead.
In war, truth is the first casualty.
Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC)
U.S. troops have come "under fire" and have "returned fire" in and around Mosul as allied forces try to retake the city from ISIS, a U.S. military spokesperson said on Wednesday.
"When someone is shooting at you, that is combat," said Col. John Dorrian, the Baghdad-based spokesman, to Pentagon reporters.
While Dorrian said U.S. troops are operating "very close" to the front lines, he also added they do their best to avoid it, although circumstances can change where exactly the front lines are.
A separate U.S. defense official told Fox News that U.S. troops fighting in Mosul have been wounded in recent fighting, but declined to say how many, or when the incidents occurred.
The official told Fox News some were airlifted by helicopter for treatment, but declined to describe the wounds in any detail.
The news comes days after the U.S. commander of American and allied forces in Iraq and Syria told Fox News' Jennifer Griffin and other traveling press in Baghdad that U.S. troops were operating closer than ever to the front lines.
Matt:
Economists, like sociologists, psychologists, lawyers, politicians and ordinary folks disagree about many things, and immigration is one of them.
Illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers. Some reports say in excess of $100 billion annually or about $1,000 per taxpayer. Low estimates are $50 billion or about $500 per taxpayer. How much more should we pay? (I've seen absurd estimates and Politifact says every estimate is "mostly false" without offering any estimate of its own. The "fact-checkers" are politicized and afraid to estimate. )
In 2013, the Heritage Foundation explored the costs: http://www.heritage.org/immigration/report/the-fiscal-cost-unlawful-immigrants-and-amnesty-the-us-taxpayer
Obama took in 100,000 refugees. (less than 0.1% of the World's 20 million-plus refugees; Was he cruel?)Trump realistically reduced that annual number to 50,000 refugees. World Relief wants to increase the U.S. number to 200,000.) All recognize we have limited resources.
Under Trump we will continue to issue a million annual Green Cards and tens of millions of annual Visas (business, academics, students, tourists) to foreign born. But let's study the Green Card and Visa programs to see if modifications may be in America's best interests.
Most illegal immigrants and refugees come without skills and take jobs from poorer native Americans. Most illegals and refugees drain already strained resources, and as the Heritage Study shows, they do so over the course of a lifetime and over the course of generations.
2. Want to change the Immigration Laws? Petition Congress! Suggest Amendments.
3. People say, "Deportations separate parents from children." Whenever you jail or imprison parents you separate them from their children. That's no "reason" not to enforce the laws.
4. Enforce the Immigration Laws: Deport Criminal Illegals; Deport gang members; Deport repeat Immigration offenders; Deport recent arrivals. A policy of No Amnesty will deter future illegal immigration. Those approaches sound reasonable to me.
5. Today, >13% of U.S. residents are foreign born; we are approaching the historic high of 15% foreign born. How many more immigrants should we admit?
6. Want to help decrease refugees? Prevent wars! Decrease U.S./NATO military interventionism worldwide. Set up refugee resettlement areas in the Middle East and East Africa.
7. Save the sob stories for the soap operas. Do you know how many families have been broken up by the free flow of narcotics and other drugs from Mexico? Reason enough for a Wall and stricter border enforcement.
I agree with N.C. Well said!
will add more below:
In 1986 our best president gave an amnesty to three million illegals as part of a deal to stop all non legal immigration. Half of that bargain was fulfilled the other part ignored. In the last thirty years more than 30 million legals and about 12 million illegals have come to America. Is almost 50 million new immigrants too much or too little? Do we need time to assimilate and absorb them? 2. All illegals who are gang members, drug dealers or criminals should be deported. All law abiding illegals should be permitted to stay provided they get a RED social security card. An E Verify system would require all employers to hire only SS card holders. The ones with Red cards would pay $ 100 a month more in payroll taxes each month. This would be the penalty for breaking our laws. There would be no amnesty or citizenship for any illegals. If you fail to register for a Red card you would be subject to deportation. 3. Having taken in fifty million new people a pause in immigration for a few years would be required. A great part of America is it is free and you can vote with your feet. Anyone who desires to is free to go. No exit visas required.
Iraqi police officials say the country's militarized federal police forces have entered Mosul International Airport, taking over the runway amid fierce clashes with the Islamic State group.
Thursday's advance is part of a major assault that started five days ago to drive IS militants from the western half of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.
Two police officers say the airport buildings are now under fire from the Iraqi police forces. They would not provide more details but said troops from the U.S.-led coalition are with the advancing forces, though they didn't specify the nationalities of the foreign forces.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to reporters.
–Qassim Abdul-Zahra in Baghdad.
"…they didn't specify the nationalities of the foreign forces."
Nice post, Matt. Good to see you bring some passion to your writing.
Bill Fitzgerald says:
Let the "Exit" door swing open easily. Let's try following established laws rather than ignoring them and never return to this mess that refusing to enforce law has created. That has been what has caused the great stain on America.
In 1890, John Boyle O'Reilly, editor of The Piiot, wrote about Democrats and limited government, the trust in the wisdom of the people to decide and provide for their own interests (please refer to elections of 2016)…worth considering today:
The Pilot is a Democratic paper. We say so without
reservation, exclusion, or exception. The
principles of Democracy as laid down by Jefferson
are to us the changeless basis of sound politics
and^ healthy republicanism. We are not Democratic
simply as being partisan ; but we are partisan
because we are Democratic. We would abide by
Jeffersonian Democracy if there were no Democratic
party in existence. Democracy means to us the
least government for the people, instead of more
or most. It means that every atom of paternal
power not needed for the safety of the Union and
the intercourse of the population should be taken
from the Federal Government and kept and guarded
by the States and the people. It means the
spreading and preserving of doubt, distrust, and
dislike of all sumptuary and impertinent laws.
It means that law shall only be drawn at disorder,
and that all affairs that can be managed without
disorder should be managed without law. It means
that all laws not called for by public disorder are
an offense, a nuisance, and a danger. It means
watchfulness against Federal legislation for such
State questions as education, temperance,
irrigation, and all other questions that may arise
and are sure to arise in the future. It means the
teaching of absolute trust in the people of the
States to understand and piovide for their own
interests. It means home rule in every community
right through our system, from the township up to
the State Legislature ; and above that, utter
loyalty to the Union. It means antagonism to all
men, classes and parties that throw dis trust and
discredit on the working or common people, and who
insinu ate or declare that there is a higher,
nobler, or safer patriotism among 348 JOHN
BOYLE O REILLY. the wealthy and more booklearned
classes than the common people possess or
appreciate. It means that Democratic principles
must be followed by individual citizens as well as
by the aggregated party, that they must oppose the
petty boss in their own caucuses, and the arrogant
majority in their own town, when these attempt to
coerce the rights of the masses or change the
selfgoverning principle of the free town.


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Johnny Foreigner
Macron vows to renegotiate Calais treaty with Britain
That's nice of him.
Do we get it back then?
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Agammamon April 28, 2017 at 8:09 am
Do you want it? It comes with 6,000 ME immigrants.
Dongguan John April 28, 2017 at 8:10 am
I don't see how returning the border to Dover is going to shift the camps. It's not like the migrants are going to magic themselves across the channel once the border switches, is it? They'd still have to sneak on a boat or take their chances in the tunnel.
What I don't get is they manage to cross the Med in a rickety old boat but can't manage the English Channel. Could buy a dinghy and paddle across.
NDReader April 28, 2017 at 8:15 am
"Could buy a dinghy and paddle across."
The Channel is full of bad weather, tides, traffic, radar, coastguard and possibly Navy and Police.
More chance of getting run over than getting across.
Bloke in North Dorset April 28, 2017 at 8:26 am
Also a higher probability of the people smugglers being caught, so the price would have to rise higher than the migrants can afford.
JuliaM April 28, 2017 at 8:39 am
Hasn't there been a few attempts already? I'm sure I read about something recently.
Ok, good points.
Anyway, what's the argument from the Frogs/Europhiles that if the border switches then the camps will dissapear with the migrants supposedly getting to the UK? How do they invisage these migrants suddenly being able to make it across? It's not like the ferry companies are going to sell them tickets and let them on, is it?
Doug April 28, 2017 at 8:58 am
If I was being deeply cynical…
In two years time the French (along with their EU Brethren) could be looking to engineer a reason to 'close' their borders with the UK at any time, the sooner the better for Brussels.
Hhhhhm
Julia,
Yes, a few have made it (a google, seems about 10), but we don't know how many didn't, if you go under one of those supertankers there's nothing left and nobody will know. I suspect word has got out about how dangerous it is.
And here's a good idea of how busy it is and how likely you are to go under a boat: http://www.shipais.co.uk/currentmap.php?map=folkstone
(At the time of linking its fairly quiet)
Those big boys have difficulty seeing us WAFIs with our sails up, there's no chance of them seeing a dinghy.
Mr Ecks April 28, 2017 at 9:04 am
If we had a government that wasn't BluLabour shite pretending that they aren't this would be a good opportunity to tear into Mr "Get used to (MONA) terrorism you Proles" Macron.
He almost seems to be some black-magic homunculus , born in a sealed vessel of the French and EU leftscum.
Macmillan's quote still likely stands but this time they betray themselves as well.
Rob April 28, 2017 at 9:08 am
Not to scale, presumably.
And here's a good idea of how busy it is and how likely you are to go under a boat:
What do they do when someone wants to swim it? Legitimately I mean, not a migrant chancing it.
Pat April 28, 2017 at 9:13 am
Seems to me the Eurocrats (and Macron is only nominally French) are grabbing every straw to continue project fear.
If the French want the port of Calais disabled the that is up to them.
Though I'd have thought they have enough problems to be going on with.
Charlie Suet April 28, 2017 at 9:17 am
Maquereau's inevitable failure in the face of striking unions and a failed coalition is going to be quite sweet.
The Meissen Bison April 28, 2017 at 9:23 am
I think the original Mr "Get used to (MONA) terrorism you Proles" was Manuel Valls (the French prime minister, not the German sausage magnate) rather than the weird and vacuous child-groom Macron.
Pure pendantry, I know, and to be sure Macron's copper-bottomed all-round loathsomeness is beyond question.
Bloke In Italy April 28, 2017 at 9:27 am
As any fule kno' the calais treaty is as much in the frogs' favour as ours – nobody will take the migrants to the uk as they wouild be kicked out and sent back as soon as, and create chaos for everybody.
And they don't sail across the med, they are ferried across by our expensively maintained navies aided and abetted by various NGO CM scum ((c) Mr Ecks) having fished them out of the water just outside Tripoli fucking harbour.
It is beyond mental.
TMB: That just shows that Macron is not even original in his arseholery but is a cheap reprint of Gallic scum who have gone before.
No Bloke in Italy. It isn't mental.
It is deliberate and calculated. The scum know exactly what they are doing.
Which why they must ultimately hang.
Theophrastus April 28, 2017 at 9:40 am
"It's not like the ferry companies are going to sell them tickets and let them on, is it?"
Yes, it is. The French state will probably pay their fare discreetly, possibly via a 'charity'. Much as the Italians were (are?) exporting migrants to France.
Never under-estimate the resentment that graduates of École nationale d'administration (ENA) feel for Perfidious Albion. The defeat of Napoleon and the humiliation of the Fashoda Incident loom large in the ENA's outlook.
Hallowed Be April 28, 2017 at 9:41 am
Uh, interesting how the instinct is slow to adjust. I went through a couple of minutes of huffing at this before I realised i don't have to care anymore.
Raffles April 28, 2017 at 10:05 am
I see the Swedish solution applying.
ID checked upon arrival in the country. Transport company fined (IIRC ca. £3000] for every illegal traveler.
Fixed the immigration to SE from DK pretty sharpish. (It was a bitch on the trains for a while though)
Bloke in North Dorset April 28, 2017 at 10:06 am
They have support boats with AIS transmitters and other electronics.
When I'm crossing I have an AIS receiver and can see where those boats are and an App that calculates closes point of approach and time to it. If I'm worried I give the a call on the emegerncy channel of its their duty to avoid me, of its my duty to avoid them I make a manoeuvre that is obvious that I am aware and taking action.
It may not be to scale now but given the growth in the size of those boats it won't be long until it is.
Dongguan John April 28, 2017 at 10:18 am
Can't see that working, the ferry companies would get serious fines for each illegal traveller just as planes do these days. I can't really see much difference other than the ferries having to pay for the security currently provided by the UK and French governments.
Jason Lynch April 28, 2017 at 10:37 am
BiND,
I've had officers of the watch tell me that the English Channel is more stressful than the Straits of Hormuz for a night transit…
Rob April 28, 2017 at 10:53 am
The solution which was applied after the Swedish government said "Come in, all of you!" and then about 5 minutes later said "Fuck…".
Theophrastus April 28, 2017 at 11:01 am
I hope you're right. But I can see migrants, fares funded by a French 'charity' and travelling on fake passports, turning up at the UK border and claiming asylum. The Tunnel and ferries will say they can't detect false passports….
If they could get decent fake passports wouldn't they be doing that already?
jgh April 28, 2017 at 11:24 am
Is France really such an inhumane god-forsaken shithole that people really have legitimate claims to flee from there and seek asylum elsewhere?
Witchie April 28, 2017 at 12:06 pm
jgh: yes, it's full of Muslims …
Tractor Gent April 28, 2017 at 12:43 pm
I'm currently down in Paignton and there is a regular procession of ships dropping off or picking up pilots from Brixham to take them through the Channel. I dunno what the rules are about having to have a pilot. Perhaps it's a company thing. A lot of them are vehicle carrier ships, with (I guess) lots of shiny Mercs & Audis on board.
Martin April 28, 2017 at 1:39 pm
The French flee France – ever noticed how many French live in London?
Dennis the Peasant April 28, 2017 at 1:55 pm
Christ, we have a bunch of the smelly bastards here in Central Ohio. France must be a boatload of fun these days… When Froggies decide living in Obetz beats living in Paris, something isn't adding up.
NielsR April 28, 2017 at 2:02 pm
Theo, not sure the fake passports make a difference. They embarked in France, we can argue they should have sought asylum there.
Unless they can make the case that France isn't safe for them, I don't see that they can get anything other than tourist entry.
Andrew M April 28, 2017 at 3:20 pm
This gives me an idea for an aid agency: Motorboats for Migrants. Instead of giving food and tents (and Shakespearean theatre) to the migrants of Calais, why not just give them motorboats?
Theophrastus April 28, 2017 at 3:21 pm
NielsR:
I fear the French will simply refuse to take them back, saying that the migrants will only head back to Calais. The migrants will wail about their ooman rites…
With no UK border control based in France, fake passports are unlikely to be detected before embarcation. If, post-brexit, hauliers, ferries and Eurotunnel tighten up security to prevent stowaways, and the French keep on clearing away the camps, migrants may well resort to fake passports. The desire to reach the UK is immensely strong in the minds of many low-IQ, rapey sub-saharans.
Alex April 28, 2017 at 3:36 pm
@Raffles
It does already. The reason for the treaty is to stop Eurostar going bust. Macron will soon hear this from Eurostar and the ferry companies. We dont put our border controls in France to widen the horizons of our border staff, and the French dont let them in out of the kindness of their hearts.
DocBud April 28, 2017 at 3:37 pm
We have somewhere to hold them before processing and rejecting their asylum applications:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts
Pat April 28, 2017 at 4:07 pm
DB is of course right in principle, we do need to accommodate asylum seekers, especially undocumented ones, whilst their cases are being sorted out. Just letting them in and trusting them to be cooperative doesn't work.
But even at black hole of Calcutta density his proposed accommodation is too small. May I suggest At. Helena, or maybe Ascension island, or South Georgia?
Richard April 28, 2017 at 4:19 pm
DocBud, are you suggesting a treaty with Sealand to take them in?
PF April 28, 2017 at 4:48 pm
we do need to accommodate asylum seekers
Some of you are not very welcoming.
I would suggest, whilst applications are being considered, a fully paid for luxury cruise? To take in some interesting sights?
First stop could be say somewhere down in the Med. Places like Algiers can be very attractive, and have fascinating histories?
bloke in spain April 28, 2017 at 5:29 pm
"As any fule kno' the calais treaty is as much in the frogs' favour as ours "
Beats me which fules believe that.
The reason the French have a problem at Calais is that any of the enrichment hanging around there believe, with good reason, the other side of La Manche is Fat City. With good reason because the UK policy to deal with migrants is duck-down soft. And the border control the other side of the Channel is non-existent.
The current treaty serves to dump the problems on the French whilst enabling their neighbours across the way to continue posturing about their wunnerful 'uman rights record. If they'd had any sense they would have abrogated the treaty a dozen years ago & left the Brits to sort out their own immigration mess.
Worth remembering, the arrangement is supposed to be reciprocal. The UK border's in France. The French border's in Dover. Anyone who's experienced the UK's reciprocal defence of the French frontier will know it's fucking pantomime. As a white unaccompanied, middle aged male commuting on the ferries twice a week I was getting pulled for a security check every crossing. Because WUMAM's present no problems to Border Control jobsworths. Cars full of swarthy Middle-Easterners with a couple of brats in tow, however, might actually require said jobworths to do their jobs. So breeze through without a second glance in their direction
To add to the above:
When I say security pantomime I do mean security pantomime. What is supposed to achieved by requiring the occupants of a car to get out of the vehicle, empty their clothes of all metallic items, pass through a metal detector & then get back in a car that throughout the procedure has been totally ignored is a complete mystery. Once you get used to it, you've already taken off your watch, emptied your change etc conveniently onto the passenger seat before you get pulled over. Presumably you could do the same with your RPG or portable nuclear weapon & leave them in the care of the trio of ISIL terrorists concealed under the travel rug on the back seat.
Bloke In Italy April 28, 2017 at 6:00 pm
BIS – of course I agree with you about security theatre it is all utter bollocks.
However you imply the frogs are therefore doing us a favour by the Calais treaty.
As any fule kno' the frogs never do us favours ergo it is as much for their convenience as ours, and that is why the obnoxious twat macron will be unsuccessful at renogotiating it.
What is supposed to achieved by requiring the occupants of a car to get out of the vehicle, empty their clothes of all metallic items, pass through a metal detector & then get back in a car that throughout the procedure has been totally ignored is a complete mystery.
LOL… I've never yet encountered that, which does sound bizarre!
Perhaps (re the frequency) you just look a bit dodgy..:)
Re those hiding under the travel rug, I was under the impression (though could be wrong) that there are infra red detectors at the security checks. Ie 3 people ostensibly in the car, then expect 3 to have shown up on the sensors? Or is that FUD?
There is certainly enough technical gadgetry as you pass through – all of it theatre or does some of it work?
Nautical Nick April 28, 2017 at 6:06 pm
Of course, we should just say we can't possibly discuss anything until the allow us free access to EU markets.
And then say "non".
We haven't had 40 years in Europe without learning at least something.
The Inimitable Steve April 28, 2017 at 7:54 pm
This is exactly why Brexit was necessary if not sufficient to secure the future of our country.
It is absolutely insane that the Calais invasion barracks are allowed to exist in the first place. We have these awesome things called planes, trains and automobiles now, which allow for the rapid removal of unwanted kebab.
Any self-respecting country would have long ago sent in the gendarmes to round them up, beat the shit out of any resistance, and sent them on their not-so-merry way back to Whogivesafuckistan. This isn't like putting men on the Moon or digging the bloody Suez Canal, it's a simple policing job that can be done with nothing more sophisticated than a fleet of buses and some truncheons.
We need a sea change in our political culture to rid us of the kind of people who think it's a good idea to import hordes of knife-wielding, benefits-snaffling 28-year-old "children" from the scrofulous armpits of the Third World.
Brexit is a small, but hugely important step towards sanity, for no longer will our pols be able to hide behind the EU and its cuckold-fetish-inspired demographic suicide schemes.
bloke in france April 28, 2017 at 8:24 pm
You seem to have missed the events. The frogs often send in the gendarmes, CRS etc to beat the shit out of the migrants, then bus them to some other shithole in France.
Back they come. Continue their civil war (burning their own camps down).
England must be great!
@PF
Put a space blanket over someone & they won't show IR much different from the ambient. Why those up to a bit of skullduggery use them to fox IR detectors protecting buildings.
Eventually a hot-spot will penetrate the metallised plastic but it's viable for short term use. Like getting through a security check
IR – makes sense..
tomsmith April 28, 2017 at 9:42 pm
"The desire to reach the UK is immensely strong in the minds of many low-IQ, rapey sub-Saharans"
Need to make it much more shit. And deport undecided cases to the Falklands, unless they decide to own up to somewhere they would prefer to be delivered.
Brexit is a small, but hugely important step towards sanity, for no longer will our pols be able to hide behind the EU and its cuckold-fetish-inspired demographic suicide schemes"
It is a tiny step towards sanity, but it really needs to be followed up with much more because, for some bizarre reason, we are still importing terrorists and child rapists from Pakistan and other vibrant destinations.
And I am not sure it will be a simple job to fortify the borders and protect against mass 3rd world invasion, given rapidly declining/aging populations in the West, and the massive demographic bulge currently being felt from the Islamic world, to be followed by the mother of all demographic tidal waves from Africa. We might simply be swept away in the face of it, especially when we are so self hating and unable to act.
Bloke in North Dorset April 28, 2017 at 10:00 pm
BiS,
"When I say security pantomime I do mean security pantomime. "
Indeed. All airports use the same equipment, processes and procedures. All it needs is for a terrorist group to find a hole in one of the,m and a simultaneous arrack will cause absolut mayhem.
bloke in spain April 28, 2017 at 10:23 pm
If you've ever done a bottle of arrack…. yep. Mayhem. Absolut's not bad though.
Mr Ecks April 28, 2017 at 11:48 pm
Tomsmith: "It is a tiny step towards sanity, but it really needs to be followed up with much more because, for some bizarre reason, we are still importing terrorists and child rapists from Pakistan and other vibrant destinations. "
The "we(e)" you refer to is the scum of the middle class left. Before the RoP can be scotched the left must be smashed good and proper.
Mohave Greenie April 29, 2017 at 6:00 am
@Witchie
jgh: yes, and it's full of Muslims …


text:
Taps into the poetic and cerebral aspects of its source, serving as both companion piece – and examination of – Citizen Kane.
Orson Welles' 1941 film Citizen Kane, which some have called the greatest film of all-time, is not one that's easy to grasp. A quasi-biographical account of the rise and fall of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, the movie shows how the titular Kane, once the most powerful man in America, ultimately succumbs to his own self-sensationalism and thus desensitization of the media, to the point where the public could no longer tell exaggeration from the truth.
Citizen Kane, in the end, becomes a metaphor for defining Kane's legacy as it devolves from mythology into little more than the shallowness of his worldly possessions, a futility beautifully summed up by the film's most famous – and poignant – deathbed utterance.
But David Fincher's Mank isn't about Orson Welles. Not really. In fact, the iconic filmmaker is only in a handful of scenes. Mank is about Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman), the screenwriter for Citizen Kane. However, the film doesn't stray far from its progenitor. With some parallels, both obvious and subtle, Mank utilizes its source as contrast just as much as it does for inspiration.
Like Welles' film, Mank has much to unpack and isn't one you can fully absorb upon initial viewing. Deep diving into the ins and outs of 1940s Hollywood, and the gubernatorial race in California at the time, the story jumps back and forth between the title character working on the script for Citizen Kane in 1940 and what led to his outcast from Hollywood in the decade prior.
Fincher took a script written by his late father, Jack, in the 1990s, which follows Mankiewicz, purported as actually the sole screenwriter of Citizen Kane, despite sharing screen credit with Welles. Film critic Pauline Kael once wrote an essay (on which Jack Fincher's original script was inspired by), nearly 20 years after Mankiewicz' death, accusing Welles of stealing authorship of the script. David Fincher never really takes a definitive side regarding the case. While his father's screenplay was originally more anti-Welles, those sentiments have been reworked and toned down for the final movie.
David Fincher isn't someone who necessarily has this cerebral understanding of the emotional capabilities of cinema, someone like Sam Mendes or Ang Lee, and at times that shows. And admittedly he's not the guy you would pin to direct this movie about the Golden Age of Hollywood. But Fincher is a technical filmmaker with a knack for unique narratives, much like Welles himself, and when you really think about it, is just the kind of director a Citizen Kane semi-biopic needs.
At the time of Citizen Kane's conception in 1940, American movies were still consumed with linearity, afraid of the unorthodox, not only on a directorial level but within their foundation. Mankiewicz, in the sunset of his career, was hired by Welles, a young and upcoming theater and radio producer who was given full creative control by RKO, to pen his first picture. Mank, who had recently suffered injuries in an automobile accident, is given just 60 days to come up with a script, dictated to his secretary, Rita Alexander (Lily Collins), who later transcribes it on a typewriter.
Unlike most biopics where we learn about a subject perhaps for the first time ever, Mank isn't for those unfamiliar with the source; having seen Citizen Kane prior to watching this film isn't just required, but essential to fully appreciate what Mank is attempting.
It's critical to have seen Citizen Kane prior to watching this film to better understand what's going on. It also helps to be familiar with the context of 1930s Hollywood in order to fully appreciate what this complex story is trying to do, especially as its flooded with in-jokes and Easter eggs for film fans and historians alike. For better or worse, the movie's nuance lies on its surface, which makes it much more esoteric for the common audience. Moreover, Fincher doesn't take the time to explain things that don't matter to him, even though it only ends up distancing his film from a big chunk of its viewers.
From Mank's retreat house in 1940 where he's working on his script, we're sent back to the early '30s during the days of the writer's tenure at Paramount Studios where he was very much a valued asset.
We leap back and forth between 1940 and the previous decade, taken through Mankiewicz' career and his relationships with various producers and higher-ups, ultimately leading to his demise.
It's only natural to compare Mank's story with the titular Kane's. The screenwriter's relationship with Hearst drives the plot more than any other as Hearst, who at one time took a great liking to Mank, ultimately serves as the epitome of everything Mank hates about the industry. Mankiewicz slowly begins to uncover a smear campaign by MGM, funded by Hearst, against Upton Sinclair, one of the candidates for governor.
Strangely enough, Fincher is also able to draw parallels between the strange case of Kael's "Raising Kane" essay and the political elements of the film. When arguments in the media are constantly being spun and sympathy is being cultivated in the most unlikely of places, and the public is constantly being used as a pawn in a game of trickery versus integrity, you never know who to believe. When film–a medium built around skewing perspectives and evoking emotion–comes in and slyly forces opinions on those willing to view it (aka everyone) by masking them as facts, finding the truth can be downright impossible, especially during the Great Depression when promise of opportunity and protection were too valuable to risk.
In an industry full of phonies, Herman Mankiewicz is a man who sees through all the BS. By the time he gets the opportunity to write Citizen Kane, Mank decides that Hearst has had enough control over who wins and loses, deciding to put his own spin on things.
Mank, together with Citizen Kane, is the perfect example of life imitating art, or anti-mimesis. Oscar Wilde once postulated that this idea "results not merely from Life's imitative instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may realise that energy." A large part of the enigma of Mankiewicz and Welles' film all those years ago is how gray it made the line between fantasy and reality; what's real and what's fake, using the invention, or at the very least the widespread popularity, of sensationalism by Hearst to treat its subject in the very same way.
Here in Fincher's picture it's used once again, but in a slightly tangential way. What's even stranger is that in a world where we yearn to sensationalize every story – defining them, if you will – we only come to realize, if we're lucky, that we had the answers the whole time, if only we stopped for a minute to think for ourselves.
Oldman nails the emotion behind his role for all intents and purposes, but the performance doesn't always feel consistent within itself. It's difficult to pin down Mank's personality, which might be the more realistic take, but also not one that necessarily lends itself well to a story of this breadth. Unfortunately, much like Citizen Kane (strangely enough), one of the film's biggest weaknesses is how the fluidity of and pacing behind the development of our title character doesn't quite match the depth created for him and the investment that's been built up for us. We connect to Mankiewicz, but there is just so much here to digest that we begin viewing the movie on an intellectual level rather than an emotional one.
Everyone around Oldman is superb and the strength of the acting is somehow found in the supporting cast. Charles Dance is so precise as Hearst, the stone-faced alpha, that his eyes provide us with both fear and comfort at the very same time. Amanda Seyfried finds her stride immediately as Hearst's lover, Marion Davies, the naive young starlet who just might be wiser than she comes off.
In fact, everyone in this film is incredibly wise and witty. Jack Fincher's screenplay is flooded with jazzy repartee and characters who alway know the most clever thing to say at any given moment. It's almost written like a movie from the '40s. However, Mank can often be difficult to follow. Not only is the content frustratingly arcane at times, but Fincher's turn of phrase can be relentlessly confusing, almost as though he prides himself on the shop talk.
Accompanying the black and white cinematography by Erik Messerschmidt (an artistic decision that prevented Fincher from getting this movie made in the '90s) is a sound design that seems to mic up the actors as though they're filming a movie in the 1940s. The director also inserts some fun allusions to Citizen Kane, such as the bottle rolling out of Mank's hand as he lies unconscious in bed, symbolizing the famous snow globe, no doubt. Or the light coming through the horizontal blinds shining on the men's faces in the boardroom. And then there's the incessant use of low angles.
Perhaps the most interesting part of the film is the counterpoint between Mank and Hearst, summed up brilliantly in a masterful soliloquy by Oldman comparing the infamous tycoon to Don Quixote. Hearst lived his life valuing power over people, lusting for them to love him so he can gain his power. He surrounded himself with people who pretended they loved him for the sake of his approval, which, ultimately, proved futile since those who feigned their love knew deep down who Heart was, leading to his demise.
Citizen Kane sympathizes with Hearst a great deal, and Mank almost gets there too, but stops short. After all, this is a film about a man who refused to play the game because he couldn't care less about the approval of others. He was ostracized from this industry, if not for his antithetical political beliefs, than for his belligerent alcoholism and sharp tongue. However, in the end, he got the ultimate approval. The reward was much smaller, but so were his ambitions. He wasn't necessarily a happy man, content with his life, but compared to Hearst even at his highest point, Herman Mankiewicz was Jiminy Cricket.
It took a man shunned by an entire industry, hired by another who had full creative control and the ballsiness to do such a thing, to make Hollywood's Greatest Film, unhinged by standards and changing cinema forever. Fincher's Mank is almost too deep at times, practically requiring multiple viewings to appreciate fully. However, you can do so with the joy knowing you'll always notice something new the next time around – much like its progenitor. The dynamics set into play, along with its technical prowess, not only allow this film to stand on its own as a beautiful piece of cinema, but evolve it into a companion piece to Citizen Kane as well.
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Beauty On The Desert
April 9, 1950 by The San Bernardino County Sun
This is exciting trek through the Joshua tree desert region offers motorists and inspiring picture of grotesque plant formations, breathtaking vistas, old mines, got a palm tree awaits us and even a rustlers' secret valley. Most striking is the areas natural, unsophisticated beauty which makes it truly a desert lovers delight.
Gateway to the Mohave Desert is the Cajon Pass which, from at Summit, commands a magnificent view over mountains, deserts, orchards and vineyards. Lucerne Valley (center photo) is devoted to recreation on horseback with dozens of dude ranches, ranging from a few cabins among the mesquite to swanky establishments adjoining landing strips and swimming pools, visible from the highway.
Morongo Valley, Yucca Valley in Joshua Tree are growing settlements of health seekers and desert lovers. North of Yucca Valley four miles is Pioneertown (lower photo), A man-made replica of an old Western town. It is used periodically as a movie set for cowboy films.
The actual oasis says I'm 29 palms, now reduced in numbers, is that northernmost palm away oasis in the country. It was once selected by a group of doctors as the nations most helpful and comfortable haven for me to parading veterans and has since developed into a modern, attractive desert community.
I was from 29 palms leading into the desert in all directions, minds, dunes, formations, salt works, dry lake's, vistas and into Joshua Tree National Monument (top photo). This area was established in 1936, by presidential proclamation, to pay tribute to California's famed Joshua tree forest. Nearby, at salt you, is one of the most sweeping desert scenes in the world. On a clear day, one can see Signal Mountain across the Mexican border.
In Joshua Tree National Monuments also is an ancient rustlers' secret haven, now known as hidden Valley. This hideaway can only be reached via traveling by hands and knees through rocky tunnels.
The Beaumont-Banning area is noted for its almond and cherry orchards. In June, the renowned Cherry Festival will be held in Banning.
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Are we seeing a shift in global geo-politics?
By Keith Best, Former Executive Chair, WFM/IGP
Apart from the size of its conventional forces and formidable nuclear arsenal, let alone its chemical and biological weapons (which might in themselves be adequate cause for concern) why should we really fear Putin's Russia? The first, tactically, is the way in which Russia sees little step change in the deployment of weapons of mass destruction from use of conventional weapons. That means that there are far fewer constraints on Russia (not least because it sees war as obviating any obligations under international treaties to limit or prohibit the use of such weapons such as those mentioned or cluster bombs, mines etc) to use such weapons than on the West.
The second is a total difference in perception of the situation between the two sides. The West sees an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country contrary to the rule of international law and a war crime of aggression; it is desperately seeking to avert a wider conflict involving the whole of NATO and an escalation to nuclear war. As far as Putin is concerned, however, he is already at war with the West. Having never recognised the right of Ukraine to exist his explanation that this is a policing intervention rather than an invasion is plausible as, for him, Western involvement and a democratic government in Ukraine represents itself an invasion by the West into what should be regarded as part of the Russian empire which was never relinquished by consent. In effect, in his mind, he has entered on to historic Russian territory to expel an alien government and its Western co-conspirators. It is only this interpretation which can give meaning to Sergei Lavrov's contention that Russia has not invaded Ukraine and the banning of the description of "war" or "invasion" among the Russian people on pain of up to fifteen years' imprisonment. Otherwise, his words at best are risible or wholly uninformed – which is not what you would expect from the country's Foreign Minister for the last eighteen years and one of the principal architects of the war.
It is clear, also, that we must be prepared in the 21st century to see total war waged brutally and indiscriminately against civilian targets, hospitals and ambulances without any of the constraints of the last two hundred years set out in the Geneva Conventions and other humanitarian instruments, more reminiscent of mediaeval warfare with all its attendance horrors of rape, murder and destruction. It seems apparent that there are no ethical or moral standards for Putin. That in itself, once this terrible tragedy is over (and, of course, it will end at some stage), means that the international community must look again at the effectiveness of the rules of war and how they can be enforced. There is no doubt in my mind that extending the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court to cover all such eventualities represents the only possible deterrence and route to justice.
Perhaps what is most dangerous of all is that Putin is a caged animal, feeling surrounded by inimical forces that want to see the destruction of Mother Russia and having seen over thirty years its shrinkage as first the former Warsaw Pact countries not only left the Soviet hegemony but then joined the EU and, for him most provocatively and menacingly, became part of NATO and then the Commonwealth of Independent States (or "Stans") became autonomous to a greater or lesser extent (with Uzbekistan hosting a major US airbase). Unlike China with its growing economy and increasing global influence and confidence Russia is in decline. It feels not only encircled and embattled with its future in doubt from a West that wishes to crush it but also recognises that, economically, although rich with natural resources, these are largely fossil fuels (as well as valuable minerals such a nickel) that will not sustain it in the future. Moreover, it cannot be happy to have seen the degree of cultural permeation from the West and the spirit of openness that has infiltrated from the West, especially among the younger generation – its future population.
There is a chilling comparison with the lead-up to the First World War. A student of this time will have read the excellent book The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark which is a definitive history of how nations that were trading openly with one another with no thought of going to war were sucked into a sequence of events that led to the worst conflict in history.A significant component was the naval race between Britain and Germany which the Germans could foresee they would lose in a few years' time. That, combined with the paranoia and instability of the German Kaiser (not dissimilar to that of Putin), persuaded the German High Command that they needed to strike early in order to prevent the inevitable humiliation. Has Putin come to the same conclusion in terms of waning Russian influence? When Germany marched into the neutral Low Countries a generation later they achieved rapid success, the blitzkrieg, which took the Allies by surprise and took the initiative. If Putin was seeking to emulate that he has already failed – the Ukrainian war even after only less than a month is messy and bogged down with only slow progress, not least due to the unexpected opposition and solidarity of the Ukrainian people defending their homeland.
It is always dangerous to be an armchair military tactician but the Russian military tactics we see in Ukraine have not changed much from those of the Soviets in the Second World War: a massive concentration of artillery fire (e.g. "Stalin's organs": the multi-barrelled rocket launchers that instilled such psychological fear in those on the receiving end), seeking to pound the opposition into submission and encirclement to cut off re-supply. This was exemplified by the pincer movements in the Second World War isolating German troops and forcing their surrender (e.g. the capture of about 265,000 Germans under Field Marshal Paulus at Stalingrad).These tactics put an enormous strain on both personnel and logistics and it seems that Russia did not calculate correctly for either. That is even before any successful occupation which will require several hundred thousand troops to hold down an unwilling and resistant population. Will Putin emulate Hitler's mistake of opening up a second front if Ukraine develops into a stalemate? It was Operation Barbarossa, tying up millions of men, that hastened the end of the Nazi aggression. We shall know more when we see (already beginning to happen) Russia calling up its reserves. Putin has neither the reserves nor the supplies to sustain a second diversionary attack, say, in Finland especially against a backdrop of Russia's economic decline through sanctions and drying up of oil and gas revenues as Europe finds alternative sources.
What is being demonstrated is that a career in the KGB/FSB is no substitute for military knowledge or proper planning. Stalin executed many of his generals during the Great Purge before the Second World War and another 17 were shot in 1942 – the Soviet military effectiveness suffered as a result. It was only Zhukov who really saved them and then after the war he was dumped! Will Putin lash out in the same way if things continue to go wrong and introduce a reign of terror? It may already have started with the house arrest of two FSB agents. One thing is certain, just as with Stalin, it will be everyone else to blame except Putin himself. That is when the mafia-style, thuggish political cancer inside the Russian state will start to eat away and may commence its crumbling. We have to hope that this will happen soon enough not only to save brave Ukraine but also the rest of the world from a new global conflagration.
This may well end up with a very different looking world. It is to be hoped that Putin's fall (whenever and however it happens) will be swift and will convince Russia that it needs a new dialogue with the West and not just a confrontation. A new Glasnost and Perestroika could bring the means for a rapprochement so long as the West is prepared to acknowledge and exercise it away from the hawks that want to see Russia totally destroyed. That means engagement and building of mutual trust (the sort of thing that British nuclear scientists like the late Frank Barnaby and I were seeking to do in the 1980s at the behest of the Soviet Academy of Scientists in mutual observation of nuclear tests). It will be a hard call made no easier by what has happened in Ukraine – it is clear that Ukraine at least will never trust Russia again.
There does need to be assurances about NATO not being seen as a threat to an already paranoid state – again, perhaps, with a return to mutual observation of military exercises. People's memories are short. Lord George Robertson, the former Labour defence secretary who was NATO's Secretary-General 1999-2003 said that Putin made it clear at their first meeting that he wanted Russia to be part of Western Europe. "They wanted to be part of that secure, stable prosperous west that Russia was out of at the time," he said, as reported in The Guardian. He recalled an early meeting with Putin, who became Russian president in 2000, when "Putin said: 'When are you going to invite us to join NATO?'" We do not know how serious that was or the manner in which it was said but we should not rule out, in a different political climate in Moscow, that possibility. Putin himself told the late David Frost in a BBC interview shortly before he was first inaugurated as Russian president more than 21 years ago that he would not rule out joining NATO "if and when Russia's views are taken into account as those of an equal partner". He told Frost it was hard for him to visualise NATO as an enemy. "Russia is part of the European culture. And I cannot imagine my own country in isolation from Europe and what we often call the civilised world." The West does have to accept part of the blame for such a complete reversal of his earlier attitude but it is never to late to try to build bridges – although those with Putin have now been burned.
China, for obvious reasons, would resist such a rapprochement but the outcome would depend more on whether Moscow saw its security and economic future in safer hands in co-operation with the West rather than with an autocracy which, itself, could crumble one day. Geographically, so much of Russia is European. Peter the Great realised the importance of modernising his country along European lines which he did, sometimes with severe brutality, to the extent that from that time Russia has always been an important part of Europe. What we must now seek to do is to ensure that it is part of a peaceful one.