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This morning I read this tweet from Fairfax journo Ross Gittins:
Australians used to care that people were starving. Why did we stop? https://t.co/3xRxVikEXD via @smh
— Ross Gittins (@1RossGittins) April 16, 2017
My first thought was, a new kind of human being has emerged. One without empathy. This is why we don't care anymore. Our species is devolving.
For someone who only yesterday re-watched Luchino Visconti's The Damned, my first thought rather remarkably disregarded history. Visconti's film charts the moral and physical decline of a wealthy German steel manufacturing family between 1933 and 1934, contiguous with the Nazi party's rise to power. It is an unrelievedly dark work that plumbs the deeps of most depravities, and it left me needing an afternoon ocean swim for the cleansing properties of sea water and sunlight.
Visconti's film is hailed as an outstanding examination of moral decadence, sexual neurosis, narcissistic self-centredness and political opportunism, a string of descriptors that can be well applied to the US President and his Republican Party, and to not a few of our own politicians.
(If you don't think the desire to control women's reproductive health is symptomatic of sexual neurosis, think again.)
The movie put me in mind of the Trumps, and the current White House battles for power and position, the best analysis of which (so far) is to be found here at Vanity Fair. The immediate difference is at the moment we can still sneer in mocking disbelief at the Trump tribe's incompetence and stupidity, whereas nobody in their right mind would sneer at the Von Essenbecks and the Nazi party. It is, however, perfectly imaginable that at the time, such people were regarded as idiots by those who would later suffer immeasurably at their hands.
Trump is still largely seen as a buffoon rather than something far more sinister, however, he is a buffoon with the ability to unleash nuclear weapons, and he appears to have willingly conceded unfettered power to his military hawks. They don't have to ask him before they blow stuff up.
Thinking of the differences and similarities between the Von Essenbeck family and the Trumps leads me to speculate that as well as having lost much of our ability to appreciate the beauty of compassion and concern (that human talent being derogated by the neo-fascists as "elitist") we have also become diminished in our capacity to identify and acknowledge the corroding powers on the human spirit of darkness and terminal decay. It's likely impossible to become desensitised to horror without incurring an equal desensitisation to the sublime.
I think my reaction to Mr Gittens' tweet was wrong. A new kind of human being has not emerged. The human being without empathy has always existed. The narcissistic, self- centred, sexually neurotic, morally decadent political opportunist has been in existence for as long as human civilisation. To think otherwise is to disregard history, and to disregard history is to ensure its repetition.
It is true that we used to care if people were starving, and now perhaps we do not care as much. It's also true that before we cared there were periods when we didn't care, and this periodic lack of care for others is nothing new. That doesn't excuse it. There is no excusing it. However, it's worth remembering this cyclical nature of compassion because we have, more than once, got ourselves out of not caring and back into caring again, and we probably need to remember how we did that, so we can have some hope of doing it again before it's too late.
The most alarming difference between the Nazi Party and present day Republicans is nuclear weapons, from which there is, for most victims including the planet, no coming back. Once they are unleashed, we are most of us damned.
By the way, I note that the Trump family portrait bears an uncanny resemblance to the Von Essenbecks' excesses of style.
Tags: Donald Trump, Ross Gittens, The Damned, Visconti, White House
Categories Society
Trump isn't ironic about women, & neither is Turnbull
The announcement by US President Donald Trump that the month of April is national sexual assault awareness and prevention month was greeted with hollow mirth by many, and described by some as "ironic."
There's nothing ironic about this announcement. It is a calculated display of contempt for women, particularly women who endure sexual assault. It's the most powerful man in the western world demonstrating to the women of his country that he can toy with them, as and when he chooses, in case they haven't already worked that out.
Contempt isn't irony. It's far more dangerous, and we're seriously underestimating the danger if we misread it.
Trump's announcement is similar to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's campaign aimed at encouraging men to "respect" women as a means of preventing sexual and other violences perpetrated upon us. However, Turnbull simultaneously ripped federal funding from community legal centres, and frontline services such as refuges and crisis counselling.
The "irony" of Turnbull's scathing indictment of men who abuse women, and his own abuse of us by withdrawing resources we need when we are attacked, apparently escaped the PM. Except that it wasn't irony: it was reckless disregard, born from contempt, for the safety of women and children under threat.
Turnbull acts from the same deep-seated contempt for women as does Trump: he is better at disguising it, or rather, Trump doesn't care about disguising his contempt, while Turnbull needs to maintain at least the appearance of interest and concern to preserve both his self-image, and votes.
Yesterday I read this account of how Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee forced a prisoner to give birth while her hands were shackled. When during her labour she needed to go to the toilet, her ankles were also shackled. She was not permitted to move into positions that eased her pain or aided the delivery of her child. Her baby died at birth. It is customary in Clarke's jail, for pregnant women to be shackled.
Last week I read many accounts of former politician Mark Latham's attacks on women, enabled by much Australian media, up until he called a young man who spoke about feminism "gay." For gay, in this instance read feminised, and therefore a suitable target for Latham's misogyny.
It is no coincidence that misogyny and homophobia go hand in hand. For Latham, obviously a proponent of hydraulic male sexuality, the most toe-curling aspect of love between men is the assumption he makes that somebody has to be "the woman."
There's barely a day without attempted or successful attacks on women's reproductive rights somewhere in the world. In Queensland and NSW abortion is still a crime for both women and doctors. Male politicians, such as former Prime Minister Tony Abbott and right wing senator Cory Bernardi, continue to imply that women who seek abortions are morally corrupt. Bernardi describes abortion as "an abhorrent form of birth control"
Just yesterday in Iowa, legislation that could force women to continue a pregnancy to term after the foetus has died, was passed.
Women's access to contraception is continually under attack.
There is no irony to be found in any of this. There is unrelenting hatred and fear of women, expressed in… let me count the ways.
That our governments, state and federal will not, and it is will not, it isn't cannot, provide adequate frontline services for women and children fleeing violence tells us everything we need to know about the contempt in which women are held in this country.
The contempt for us is so great that state and federal governments enable violence against us by refusing practical options that will give us an escape route, while at the same time launching ludicrous campaigns to "raise awareness" of that violence. This is not irony. This is full-fledged misogyny, and it is murderous.
So next time you think feminism is about female CEOs, or the choice to enlarge your breasts, or more women in parliament, remember that your governments hate you so much they will not provide a refuge for you and your children, they will not provide accessible legal assistance for you, they will not ensure you have housing if your home is too dangerous.
More female CEOs has not changed this. More women in parliament has not changed this. It's difficult to see how becoming part of the system can ever change the system. Feminism's ambition used to be to destroy an abusive system, not to be subsumed by it.
Where it actually matters and where it actually counts, governments have turned their backs on women, while engaging in expensive and useless campaigns to convince us otherwise.
Hatred of us is normalised. And now it's so normal we're calling it "irony."
Tags: domestic violence, Donald Trump, Feminism, Malcolm Turnbull, Mark Latham
Categories Politics, Society
There's honour even amongst morality's dregs? Milo & the alt-right
Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart editor, intellectual featherweight and fascist star turn adored by the alternate right who till yesterday saw him as a warrior king in their battle against "political correctness" and perceived left-wing censorship, has finally come spectacularly undone.
To the point where his followers (amongst them the likes of Rita Pahini, Chris Kenny and Andrew Bolt in this country) who have thus far endorsed his foul outbursts against Muslims, Jews, women and transgender people as an exercise of the right to free speech, have found themselves in unlikely and uncomfortable moral confusion over Milo's positive attitude towards pedophilia, and overt sympathy for perpetrating catholic priests.
Yiannopoulos was to have given the keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference later this month, and yesterday (a bad day for Milo) organisers felt compelled to withdraw their invitation.
Breitbart News, whose former editor-in-chief Steve Bannon is now President Donald Trump's lead strategist, is reportedly considering dumping Milo. At least we now know the alt-right's bottom line: slander anyone on grounds of race, ethnicity, sexual preference and gender, but don't publicly advocate pedophilia. There's honour even amongst morality's dregs, apparently.
Publishing house Simon and Schuster yesterday dropped Milo, terminating their contract to publish his forthcoming book. They stood by him while he slandered Jews, Muslims, women and transgender people for money and spectacle, but apparently a line was crossed with his sympathetic stance towards pedophilia.
It's gratifying to witness the extreme right writhe in unaccustomed moral anguish when confronted with speech even they cannot accept. Who knew there was such a thing?
Yiannopoulos attempted to defend himself: "My book has been canceled" he wailed on Facebook (Twitter having banned him some time ago) in baffled outrage, getting the spelling wrong in his time of extremity as anyone might.
Wikileaks' Julian Assange then rushed to Milo's defence from his lounge room in the Ecuadorean Embassy, tweeting that poor Milo is the victim of "politics disguised as morality" and, god help us, he's been censored!
Well, Assange is wrong: Milo hasn't been censored. Any publisher can publish him, he can self-publish, and any organisation is free to extend him an invitation to keynote. If they choose to ignore him that is not censorship, you'd think Assange, of all people, would understand that.
What Milo is experiencing are the consequences of free speech. He remains free to say whatever he wants, in the US at least. Others have equal freedom to decline to listen and disseminate his speech. Refusing to listen and disseminate is not censorship, it's exercising the agency and the right to decline to listen and disseminate.
Many among us have experienced the refusal to listen, and to disseminate our points of view, not a few of us from the very groups Milo has singled out for discrimination and contempt. He's had a good run. Now his masters are done with him. You can't go round advocating the rape and molestation of young boys, even amongst the alt-right, it seems. Who knew they had standards?
Update: Milo resigns from Breitbart:
Milo's resignation letter to Breitbart, translated for decent human beings: pic.twitter.com/kQeZCujSKi
— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) February 21, 2017
And this is just for fun:
Imagine being owned so bad that even children's book publishers are coming for you on the internet pic.twitter.com/MPR3BVftLR
— Alan White (@aljwhite) February 21, 2017
Tags: Alt-right, Breitbart, Donald Trump, Julian Assange, Milo Yiannopoulos, Simon & Schuster, Steve Bannon
Categories Media, Politics, Society
Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope
In one of those serendipitous moments I treasure, such as when a book that contains much of what I need to know about a topic practically falls off the library shelves into my lap without me consciously looking for it, the new President of the United States was elected around the same time as the release of the latest Star Wars movie, Rogue One. This co-incidence provoked a popular association of Trump with the leader of the dark side in that epic cosmic narrative, Darth Vader.
One of the problems for me in this analogy (and there are several, not least of which is that Vader has a presence Trump could never in a million light years muster) is that Darth Vader, like Lucifer, was once an angel, or as we Star Wars aficionados like to call such beings, a Jedi knight. Vader lost his way and chose the dark side, a decision that precipitated him right out of the good graces of heaven, or, if you'd rather, the select community of Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Force.
In other words, Vader began his career as a good guy and stumbled. I can find no evidence anywhere of Donald Trump ever having been a good guy, or ever having been in a state of grace from which to fall.
There are early signs that the Force is beginning to rebel against the evil Trumpian empire in the form of the US judiciary. On Friday judges in two states, Washington and California, issued temporary restraining orders against the continuing enactment of Trump's Executive Orders on immigration, otherwise known as the "Muslim ban." Here is the text of one of those orders. Quite a startling read: how often is one likely to see restraining orders against the President of the United States? Perhaps frequently, in this administration.
Oh, my lord. Serendipity (or the Force) strikes again. My auto correct changed the United States into the Untied States. WTAF.
Trump has responded relatively mildly on Twitter, which is where presidential business, foreign and domestic, is conducted in these times:
What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 4, 2017
We quite rightly mocked former President George W Bush for reducing complex affairs to a simplistic binary of good and evil. We argued for nuance, for the moral significance of detail, and against the immature demands of "you're either with us, or against us." Back then in the good old days, the Force still had wriggle room.
However, one of the more unfortunate changes rung by the ascension to power of Empire Trump is the successful diminishment of nuance to the status of complete irrelevance, rendering useless our arguments against simplistic perspectives. Nobody in power gives a wookie's butt about the details of anything, and nuance is for losers:
Because the ban was lifted by a judge, many very bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country. A terrible decision
Trump has (temporarily one hopes) achieved Bush's goal: to divide the world into those for us and those against us, and to embed those divisions into implacable concepts of good and evil. We are now living in a Star Wars movie. The Empire has struck back, and it has knocked us silly.
The other disturbing difference between Vader and Trump is that in Vader one always senses the possibility, however small, of redemption. One senses no such possibility in Trump.
There's a scarcity of Jedi knights, the Force is fading, and I can't find my light sabres. (This is not a metaphor. There were two in this house, and they've vanished.) A woman's place is in the Resistance, and the Princess's words resonate as never before:
Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope!
Tags: Darth Vader, Donald Trump, Rogue One, Star Wars, Travel bans
In which Turnbull is thoroughly played by Trump
Towards the end of the Obama administration, a classified "deal" was made between the then President and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, to send an undisclosed number of refugees from detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru to the US for resettlement. In return, Australia agreed to accept refugees from Costa Rica.
The classified nature of the deal infuriated Republicans, who after the election of President Trump called for details to be released, claiming the agreement covered the resettlement of an estimated 2,400 refugees, some from countries already on Obama's list of "countries of concern."
It was on the basis of Obama's list that Trump formed his own list of seven predominantly Muslim countries from which entry into the US is now forbidden for ninety days, with refugees refused resettlement for one hundred and twenty days.
Both Obama and Turnbull were likely confident of a Clinton win when the agreement was reached, though Turnbull did express confidence that if elected, Trump would honour the agreement.
It was and remains, an unholy deal. The US is the last of a number of countries successive Australian governments have attempted to persuade to take refugees who legally sought asylum in Australia, and were incarcerated in off-shore camps for exercising those legal rights. Both the LNP and ALP have engaged in increasingly desperate efforts to wash their hands of the refugees, and both parties were relieved and enthused by the US "deal."
It's been revealed today through leaks to the Washington Post, that Trump exploded at Turnbull during a phone call over the weekend, telling him it was the worst deal he'd ever heard of, and why did he, Turnbull, expect that Trump would agree to importing the next Boston Bomber. Trump later tweeted this:
Do you believe it? The Obama Administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia. Why? I will study this dumb deal!
The clue as to what is actually going on here is in the tweet, and to understand it, you need to know some context.
In 2011, Trump's attacks on President Obama's origins were at their height, the so-called "Birther" controversy. At the White House Correspondents' Association dinner that year, Obama, who was guest speaker, took the opportunity to thoroughly trash Donald Trump, who was also present. Witnesses to this trashing claim Trump's humiliation and rage were palpable, and many have since commented that this was the moment that determined Trump to enter the presidential race, and in victory avenge himself, lay his humiliation to rest, and assume power over every Obama initiative instigated during his administration, with the aim of dismantling as many of them as possible.
Much as in our own country, Tony Abbott set about dismantling every Labor government initiative of any note, regardless of its value, simply because it was a Labor initiative, and he could demonstrate his power to be greater than the ALP's through this destructive rampage.
Trump misses no opportunity to denigrate Obama, either overtly or covertly. This "dumb deal" of Obama's is being used by Trump to demonstrate to the American people that his predecessor was reckless enough to enter into a secret deal that allowed refugees from "countries of concern" into the US, and in so doing, risk the safety and security of Americans. Trump's message is that he is better than this. He knows a dumb deal from the Obama administration when he sees one, and he's not going to just go along with it.
Turnbull and the refugees are collateral damage. Turnbull deserves it. The refugees do not.
Trump personally loathes and fears Muslims. He is also no doubt genuinely irritated at having to negotiate his way through this "deal" which, should he decide to honour it (and he may yet, the man is mercurial and entirely unpredictable) will cause him considerable embarrassment, given his hardline stance towards countries that are also the homelands of many of those whose fate is in limbo. Politcially, Trump allegedly said to Turnbull, I'll get killed by it. I don't want these people.
The future of the refugees is still as uncertain as it has been for years. At the very best, Trump might agree to "extreme vetting:" a process very few are likely to survive, given their homelands, the involvement of many in protests against their ill-treatment, and their demonised reputations, for which Australia is entirely responsible, having cast them as "criminals" and "illegals" in order to win political favour with the ignorant.
It is with increasing incredulity we now watch as Turnbull and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton attempt to rebrand those they've slandered as criminals and illegals, into "genuine"refugees worthy of resettlement in the USA. As we are wont to observe on social media, you could not make this shit up.
Turnbull continues to insist that Trump has agreed to honour the "deal." However, neither he nor the media are particularly honest in their explanations of this deal: it is not a deal to accept anyone. The terms are such that the US can refuse to take even one refugee, and still honour the agreement. This has been known by the government for some time:
A reminder: regardless of the personal relationship between Trump and Turnbull, the "deal" does not require the US to accept a single person pic.twitter.com/otCX3RZ8fz
— Nick McKim (@NickMcKim) February 2, 2017
Our politicians seem not to have caught up with events. Trump is feral. He'll do what he wants. He has no regard for diplomacy, checks and balances, time-honoured channels, or the right way of doing things. We're in an entirely new political landscape. Documentary film maker Michael Moore claims there's a coup underway even as we speak, a coup in which a handful of men destroy the US state via the transference of executive power to a small, tight inner circle, over-ruling any efforts by relevant agencies to intervene in their power grab.
The only certainties we can have about Trump is that he will act in ways that benefit and gratify his personal goals, and that his thirst for revenge is a legendary driving force.
Turnbull is in a pickle, and one he richly deserves. This is the karma bus coming to call.
However, he has an opportunity to redeem himself, at least as a human being, if not as a politician. I fear that latter ship has sailed. He could, however, recognise that there is nothing left to do but bring the refugees here, and attend to it without further ado.
At the moment he continues to insist, like a petulant and disappointed child, that Trump "promised" to keep the agreement, and he won't stop believing he will. Unfortunately, Turnbull doesn't seem to realise yet that keeping the agreement does not mean the US accepting any refugees.
Meanwhile, those on Manus and Nauru continue to suffer. Pawns in successive Australian governments' pandering to xenophobia, fear and ignorance. Well done, both major parties. Now let's see you get out of this mess.
Tags: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Malcolm Turnbull, Manus Island, Nauru, Peter Dutton, refugees
Trump's Chief Strategist: I want to bring everything crashing down
In a revealing 2013 interview with The Daily Beast, US President Donald Trump's Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor, Steve Bannon, gives insight into his long-term goals:
He never called himself a "populist" or an "American nationalist," as so many think of him today. "I'm a Leninist," Bannon proudly proclaimed. Shocked, I asked him what he meant.
"Lenin," he answered, "wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today's establishment." Bannon was employing Lenin's strategy for Tea Party populist goals. He included in that group the Republican and Democratic Parties, as well as the traditional conservative press…
His goal was to bring down the entire establishment including the leaders of the Republican Party in Congress.
The relationship between Donald Trump and Steve Bannon is an unholy alliance, in which the shared goal is the destruction of institutions, and the undermining of the authority of traditional agents of governance and administration in the US. Their actions thus far have led to the country to the brink of a constitutional crisis, provoked by the refusal of the executive to honour the rule of law when Customs and Border Protection agents refused lawyers access to illegally detained travellers from Trump's List of Seven countries, in spite of a federal judge determining that they must be permitted to enter the US.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement undertaking to both obey the President's Executive Orders, and judicial orders, which led to reminders that employees of the agency swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, not to support the President of the day.
After less than a week, Bannon and Trump have thrown the country into chaos, using executive orders that have bypassed all consultation with relevant departments.
Trump has now granted Bannon regular access to meetings of the National Security Council, where matters of security are discussed at the highest level. Trump has ousted generals from their regular seats on the Council.
Bannon could not be in a better position to "bring everything crashing down" and not only in the US. The global repercussions of Trump's Muslim travel ban have included causing Emirates to entirely reschedule its staffing to avoid employees from Trump's List of Seven arriving as flight crew on US-bound aircraft, and being forbidden to enter the country for their regular stop overs.
Far more serious are the hundreds of stories emerging of the distress and confusion faced by those arriving in the US and being detained, and those being refused carriage to the US, separating them from homes, families and work. Dual citizens in many western countries have been affected by the bans. Bannon is causing chaos far beyond the shores of the US, and it's taken less than a week.
Today in Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, and former Immigration Minister Scott Morrison all supported Trump's actions against Muslims, with Turnbull suggesting that Trump is emulating Australian policies on border protection, and Morrison claiming Trump is following Australia's lead in these matters. Australia's politicians, along with Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, stand out in their support of Trump in an otherwise global condemnation of the President's actions.
The desire to "bring everything crashing down" is an apocalyptic fantasy that in psychoanalytic terms is an expression of narcissistic rage. It resembles the tantrums of young children when they are thwarted and hurt. It continues into adulthood in those who have been unable to mature beyond the desire to destroy anything or anyone perceived to be a threat or an obstacle. The perceived damage to self-worth and self-esteem results in cataclysmic acting out, the objective being revenge and empowerment, achieved through the destruction and mastery of others.
Both Bannon and Trump appear to display more than their fair share of these tendencies. One is the leader of the western world. The other is his most influential advisor. Between them, they have the power to bring not only the US system of governance crashing down, but, in the worst case scenario, as they have the nuclear codes, the world.
Our government has given them its wholehearted support, in so doing making this country a prime terrorist target, as one of the few allies of the US in this matter.
I can only imagine what it must be like to be Muslim in Australia today. Living in a country in which your own government has allied itself with Trump, and believes Trump's "Muslim ban" is merely a copycat version of what it has itself already achieved.
Tags: Donald Trump, Julie Bishop, Malcolm Turnbull, Netanyahu, Scott Morrison, Steve Bannon
Categories Politics
You want it darker? We kill the flame
Stephen Bannon, chairman of the fascist platform Breitbart News, has been appointed chief strategist in President-Elect Donald Trump's new administration.
In apparent response to fears that a darkness has fallen on the US since Trump's election, Bannon countered: "Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power."
(Here's a useful glimpse into the men Trump is considering as his most senior staff.)
The binaries dark and light, good and evil, have long dominated western political discourse. George W.Bush and his axis of evil; Tony Blair and his messianic conviction that the invasion of Iraq and the destruction of Saddam Hussein was a just and holy intervention: the bright light of democracy beamed into the abyss of despotic darkness by the forces of good.
There's no nuance in the narrative, no shades of grey, and the lack of hue hasn't changed with the ascension of Trump, it has merely been reversed. Trump doesn't pretend the light and the good are superior ideals to which we should aspire. Darkness is good. Evil is power. There's no longer any need to mask the dark with false light, as did Blair, Bush and sycophant John Howard. Trump has dragged us from those layered duplicities into his unmitigated and unmediated darkness. A million candles burning for the help that never came. You want it darker? We kill the flame.
I'm quoting from Leonard Cohen's final album, released just weeks before he died. As with all great work, it's both intensely personal and universal. I've been listening to it for days, not just because he's dead and I mourn his loss, but because the album seems to speak with uncanny prescience of our current transition into a Trumpian world.
At first blush the work is about Cohen's approaching death, but it is also about the dying of our irresponsible innocence, our smug carelessness, our neglect, our wilful blindness to how the Blairs, the Bushes and the Howards led us inevitably to Trump and Bannon, leaders of the killers of the flame, leaders of those who want it darker.
Trump's vision for the US (and necessarily the world) Fox News, 2014
You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you'll have a [chuckles], you know, you'll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.
Bannon, 2016 interview with the Daily Beast:
I'm a Leninist, Bannon proudly proclaimed.
Shocked, I asked him what he meant.
Lenin, he answered, wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today's establishment.
Meanwhile, at home, the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia found it necessary to release a press statement expressing concern over inflammatory remarks made by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on the subject of various "cohorts" and "nationalities" welcomed to Australia by former PM Malcolm Fraser. These refugees, Dutton asserts, may well be responsible for producing "terrorist" children and grandchildren. Fraser should have been more careful, Dutton (no doubt emboldened by Trump's success) claims.
And to top off an increasingly dark fortnight, the UN Human Rights Council has appointed the Saudi ambassador to oversee women's rights world-wide. The Ambassador will have the right to vote on, participate in and influence the following:
Elimination of discrimination against women
Equal participation [of women] in political and public affairs
Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women
The right to a nationality: women's equal nationality rights in law and in practice
Addressing the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence in the context of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls
Annual full day debate on women's rights
Annual half-day panel on the integration of a gender perspective
Saudi Arabia has among the worst, if not the worst, record on women's rights in the world.
What I'm seeing in our new picture is even less nuance than we had before, which wasn't all that much, we could have done with a bit more. Like an individual who decides to thoroughly trash his or her life as a means of effecting change, so Trump and Bannon see disaster and destruction on what could well be a global scale, as a legitimate method to correct perceived wrongs. We're post fact, post truth, and post nuance.
You want it darker?
Tags: Donald Trump, Fecca, George W Bush, John Howard, Leonard Cohen, Malcolm Fraser, Peter Dutton, Stephen Bannon, Tony Blair, UN Human Rights Council
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We picked each other up…
The pink Lampshade. And writing.
THIRTEEN: Revenge
TWELVE: The feeling of not feeling
ELEVEN: Days of words
Love: the struggle between the familiar and the unknowable
TEN: Songs of innocence and experience
NINE: Power
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Liz Truss endures local radio blitz and defends mini-budget despite market turmoil
The Prime Minister defended Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's measures, despite admitting the Government's decisions have been 'controversial'.
Updated Sep 29th 2022, 10:32 AM
LAST UPDATE | Sep 29th 2022, 10:32 AM
UK PRIME MINISTER Liz Truss faced a blitz of local radio stations this morning as she defended her Government's mini-budget, which has lead to massive turmoil in markets, saying that the measures will "get our economy moving".
The tax-slashing mini-budget, which was unveiled by new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng last Friday, has seen the pound drop significantly and forced the Bank of England into an emergency bond-buying programme to prevent borrowing costs from spiraling out of control.
The UK's central bank announced yesterday that it was stepping in to buy up to £65 billion worth of government bonds – known as gilts – at an "urgent pace" after fears over the Government's economic policies sent the pound tumbling and sparked a sell-off in the gilts market, which threatened to spark the collapse of some UK pension funds.
In her first interview this morning, Truss defended the actions of the Chancellor in the mini-budget, saying that the UK Government needed urgent action to start economic growth.
"We had to take urgent action to get our economy growing, get Britain moving and also deal with inflation," Truss told BBC Radio Leeds.
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"Of course that means taking controversial decision but I am prepared to do that as Prime Minister because what is important to me is that we get our economy moving, we make sure that people are able to get through this winter and we are prepared to do what it takes to make that happen."
However, she did say that the measures announced by Kwarteng would take time to be implemented.
"We are facing very difficult economic times. We are facing that on a global level," she said.
Of course lots of measures we have announced won't happen overnight. We won't see growth come through overnight.
"What is important is that we are putting this country on a better trajectory for the long term."
She said the mini-budget was the "right plan", in spite of mounting calls – including from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) – for a U-turn on some of the policies announced last Friday after the pound sunk to a record low against the US dollar on Monday.
When Truss was asked by BBC Radio Nottingham whether or not her mini-budget was a "reverse Robin Hood", she said it was "simply not true".
"The biggest part of the package we announced is the support on energy bills, making sure that people across this country are not facing energy bills of more than £2,500 and that businesses can get through this winter," said Truss.
"We were facing a situation where pubs were going to go out of business, where shops were going to go out of business.
"People were facing unaffordable energy bills and the package we presented in the energy statement, but also on the mini-budget last week – the biggest part of that is the help on energy."
BBC Radio Lancashire asked Truss about the UK Government's decision to lift the moratorium on fracking for shale gas, where fracking had previously taken place.
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"The UK has become dependent on global energy prices. We have seen through Vladimir Putin's appalling war in Ukraine how energy prices have shot up and Russia has used the fact that it produces gas as a way of exerting pressure on other countries.
"We simply don't want to be in that position so what I want to see is more home-grown energy in the UK."
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A man who ordered raw oysters at a Florida restaurant had no clue it would prove to be a fatal decision. Health officials said the man died after contracting an infection from the Vibrio vulnificus bacteria.
Authorities have yet to release the identity of the man. They only confirmed that he was 71 years old who ate the oysters on July 8 at a Sarasota restaurant and died two days later.
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Cave of Altamira
Infobox World Heritage Site
WHS = Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain
State Party = ESP
Type = Cultural
Criteria = i, iii
ID = 310
Region = Europe and North America
Session = 9th
Extension = 2008
Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/310
Altamira (Spanish for 'high view') is a cave in Spain famous for its Upper Paleolithic cave paintings featuring drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands. It is located near the town of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain, 30 km west of the city of Santander. The cave with its paintings has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
The cave is 296 meters long [http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9005917/Altamira] , and consists of a series of twisting passages and chambers. The main passage varies from two to six meters high. The cave was formed through collapses following early karstic phenomena in the calcerous rock of Mount Vispieres.
Archaeological excavations in the cave floor found rich deposits of Upper Solutrean (c. 18,500 years ago) and Lower Magdalenean (between c. 16,500 and 14,000 years ago) artifacts. These artifacts are part of the Paleolithic Age, or Old Stone Age. The cave was occupied only by wild animals in the long period between these two occupations. The site was well positioned to take advantage of the rich wildlife that grazed in the valleys of the surrounding mountains as well as permitting the occupants to supplement their diet with food from nearby coastal areas. Around 13,000 years ago a rockfall sealed the cave's entrance preserving its contents until its eventual discovery which was caused by a nearby tree falling and disturbing the fallen rocks.
Human occupation was limited to the cave mouth although paintings were created throughout the length of the cave. The artists used charcoal and ochre or haematite to create the images, often scratching or diluting these dyes to produce variances in intensity and creating an impression of chiaroscuro. They also exploited the natural contours in the cave walls to give a three-dimensional effect to their subjects. The "Polychrome Ceiling" is the most impressive feature showing a herd of bison in different poses, two horses, a large doe and a possible wild boar.
This art is dated to the Magdelenean occupation and as well as animal subjects also included abstract shapes. Solutrean images include images of horses, goats and handprints created from the artist placing his hand on the cave wall in spraying paint over it leaving a negative image of his palm. Numerous other caves in northern Spain contain Palaeolithic art but none is as advanced or well-populated as Altamira.
Discovery, excavation, scepticisms
In 1879, amateur archaeologist Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola was led by his nine year-old daughter to discover the cave's drawings. The cave was excavated by Sautuola and archaeologist Juan Vilanova y Piera from the University of Madrid, resulting in a much acclaimed publication in 1880 which interpreted the paintings as Paleolithic in origin. The French specialists, led by Gabriel de Mortillet and Emile Cartailhac, were particularly adamant in rejecting the hypothesis of Sautuola and Piera, and their findings were loudly ridiculed at the 1880 Prehistorical Congress in Lisbon. Due to the supreme artistic quality, and the exceptional state of conservation of the paintings, Sautuola was even accused of forgery. A fellow countryman maintained that the paintings had been produced by a contemporary artist, on Sautuola's orders.
It was not until 1902, when several other findings of prehistoric paintings had served to render the hypothesis of the extreme antiquity of the Altamira-paintings less offensive, that the scientific society retracted their opposition to the Spaniards. That year, Emile Cartailhac emphatically admitted his mistake in the famous article, "Mea culpa d'une sceptique", published in the journal "L'Anthropologie".
Further excavation work on the cave was done by Hermilio Alcalde del Río in 1902-04, the German Hugo Obermaier in 1924-25 and finally by Joaquín González Echegaray in 1981.
Visitors and replicas
During the 1960s and 1970s, the paintings were being damaged by the damp breath of large numbers of visitors. Altamira was completely closed to the public in 1977, and reopened to limited access in 1982. Very few visitors are allowed in per day, resulting in a three-year waiting list. A replica cave and museum were built nearby and completed in 2001 by Manuel Franquelo and Sven Nebel, reproducing the cave and its art.The replica allows a more comfortable view of the polychrome paintings of the main hall of the cave, as well as a selection of minor works. It also includes some sculptures of human faces that are not visitable in the real cave. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9904E6D61430F937A35752C1A9679C8B63 Travel Advisory; A Modern Copy Of Ancient Masters] , "The New York Times", 4 November 2001]
There are other replicas in the National Archaeological Museum of Spain (Madrid), in the Deutsche Museum in Munich (completed 1964), and in Japan (completed 1993).
Several painters were influenced by the Altamira cave paintings. After a visit, Picasso famously exclaimed "after Altamira, all is decadence".
Some of the polychrome paintings at Altamira Cave are well known in Spanish popular culture. The logo used by the autonomous government of Cantabria to promote tourism to the region is based on one of the bisons in this cave."Bisonte" (Spanish for 'Bison'), a Spanish brand of cigarettes of the 20th century, also used a Paleolithic style bison figure along with its logo.
The Spanish comic character and series Altamiro de la Cueva, created in 1965, are a clear consequence of the fame of Altamira Cave. The comic series depicts the adventures of a group of prehistoric cavemen, shown as modern people, but dressed in pieces of fur, a bit like the Flintstones.
The rock band Steely Dan wrote the song "The Caves of Altamira" for their 1976 album, "The Royal Scam." The chorus states, "'Before the fall, when they wrote it the wall, when there wasn't even any Hollywood; they heard the call and they wrote it on the wall, for you and me and we understood."
* Lascaux, Franco-Cantabric art
* Cave painting
* Cueva de La Pasiega
* Curtis, Gregory. "The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists". New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 (hardcover, ISBN 1-4000-4348-4)).
* Guthrie, R. Dale. "The Nature of Prehistoric Art". Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006 (hardcover, ISBN 0-226-31126-0).
* McNeill, William H. [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19435 "Secrets of the Cave Paintings"] , [http://www.nybooks.com/ "The New York Review of Books"] , Vol. 53, No. 16, October 19, 2006.
* [http://museodealtamira.mcu.es/ Altamira Cave National Museum] "In Spanish and English"
* [http://www.iberianature.com/material/altamira.html The story of Altamira]
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Altamira — /æltəˈmɪərə/ (say altuh mearruh) noun a cave in northern Spain, near the seaport of Santander; Old Stone Age colour drawings of animals … Australian English dictionary
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The Asian Business Aviation Association, (AsBAA) the region's non-for-profit representative trade body for business aviation hosted its first Singapore Committee meeting under the leadership of its new Board of Directors, AsBAA said in a statement.
The meeting saw around 25 industry leaders and guest speaker, LinkedIn gather to discuss issues and opportunities for the business and general aviation industry in Singapore and the wider Southeast Asian region, the statement said.
"Singapore is a good environment for Business Aviation, however there are challenges faced by all sectors of the industry here. Increasing AsBAA's visibility with the various Ministry departments, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and the Changhi Airport Group (CAG) will be crucial in ensuring that the contribution and value of business aviation is not overlooked" AsBAA Vice-Chairman, Gary Moran said.
"We plan to increase involvement and support from key business stakeholders and aircraft owners to make this possible. We are committed to rejuvenating and expanding the AsBAA membership in Southeast Asia to effectively represent the needs of our members here. With this, we will offer regular meetings, an enhanced programme of events, and support on pressing issues such as access, slots, and safety, particularly in relation to Seletar airport," Moran added.
AsBAA also invited LinkedIn to deliver a presentation on digital marketing at the meeting in an effort to diversify the services it offers to its members.
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Preview: Monster Musume no Oishasan Episode 7
If you're looking for your weekly waifu fix or simply looking for an anime that keeps its content simple yet funny, 'Monster Girl Doctor' perfectly fits the bill. Certainly not amongst the best offerings of this season but entertaining enough for you to stick around. With that said, here's everything you need to know about its next episode.
Monster Musume no Oishasan Episode 7 Release Date: When will it premiere?
The seventh episode of 'Monster Girl Doctor' is scheduled to release on August 23, 2020.
Where to Watch Monster Musume no Oishasan Episode 7 Online?
You can watch 'Monster Girl Doctor' on Crunchyroll with its original Japanese audio and English subtitles.
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Years ago a battle between humans and monsters had ensued. While the reason for this war remains unknown, legend says that many from both parties lost their lives during this hefty battle. The war went on for several years—even decades, perhaps—and it seemed like it would never end. But as time took a toll on the memories of the ones involved in it, the two parties started forgetting why they're battling in the first place. As a result, within no time, the war came to an abrupt conclusion with neither of the parties winning it. They simply winded things up by calling a truce and deciding to live in harmony. With each passing year, both parties further developed a sense of harmony and vowed to never wage a war against each other again. Among the human population live a doctor named Glenn Leitbeit who is fascinated monsters. And thus, he takes it upon himself to assist them with medical care in every possible way. Saphentite "Sapphee" Neikes is his assistant who also has a secret crush on him.
One fine day, the doctor is asked to conduct medical tests on monsters competing in the arena. That's when Tisalia Scythia, the only heir of Scythia Transportation, shows up at his clinic to get herself tested. She shows her concern towards her recent losing spree and within no time, the Doctor realizes what's wrong with her. While he's figuring out the cause of her losses, some of his charm brushes off on her and she starts flirting with him. Saphentite "Sapphee" Neikes watches them from a distance and feels jealous. After figuring things out, the Doctor informs her that she's been losing races because she never wears steel shoes to protect her feet. Due to this, her feet get imbalanced and she loses. Once he's done with her, the doctor wonder is he was being tested all this while.
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Home/Medical News/Study finds new clues to explain how Alzheimer's disease spreads in the brain
Case Western Reserve University researchers studying prions-;misfolded proteins that cause lethal incurable diseases-;have identified for the first time surface features of human prions responsible for their replication in the brain.
The ultimate goal of the research is to help design a strategy to stop prion disease in humans-;and, ultimately, to translate new approaches to work on Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Scientists have yet to discover the exact cause of Alzheimer's disease, but largely agree that protein issues play a role in its emergence and progression. Alzheimer's disease afflicts more than 6 million people in the U.S., and the Alzheimer's Association estimates that their care will cost an estimated $355 billion this year.
Research was done at the Safar Laboratory in the Department of Pathology and the Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and at Case Western Reserve's Center for Synchrotron Bioscience at Brookhaven Laboratories in New York. Jiri Safar, professor of pathology, neurology and neurosciences at the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, leads the work. The report, "Structurally distinct external domains drive replication of major human prions," was published in the June 17 issue of PLOS Pathogens.
Prions were first discovered in the late 1980s as a protein-containing biological agent that could replicate itself in living cells without nucleic acid. The public health impact of medically transmitted human prion diseases-;and also animal transmissions of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, "mad cow disease") prions-;dramatically accelerated the development of a new scientific concept of self-replicating protein.
Human prions can bind to neighboring normal proteins in the brain, and cause microscopic holes. In essence, they turn brains into sponge-like structures and lead to dementia and death. These discoveries led to the ongoing scientific debate on whether prion-like mechanisms may be involved in the origin and spread of other neurodegenerative disorders in humans.
Human prion diseases are conceivably the most heterogenous neurodegenerative disorders, and a growing body of research indicates that they are caused by distinct strains of human prions. However, the structural studies of human prions have lagged behind the recent progress in rodent laboratory prions, in part because of their complex molecular characteristics and prohibitive biosafety requirements necessary for investigating disease which is invariably fatal and has no treatment."
Jiri Safar, professor of pathology, neurology and neurosciences, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine
The researchers developed a new three-step process to study human prions:
Human brain-derived prions were first exposed to a high-intensity synchrotron X-ray beam. That beam created hydroxyl radical species which, with short bursts of light, selectively and progressively changed the prion's surface chemical composition. The unique properties of this type of light source include its enormous intensity; it can be millions of times brighter than light from the sun to the Earth.
The rapid chemical modifications of prions by short bursts of light were monitored with anti-prion antibodies. The antibodies recognize the prion surface features, and mass spectrometry that identifies exact sites of prion-specific, strain-based differences, providing an even more precise description of the prion's defects.
Illuminated prions were then allowed to replicate in a test tube. The progressive loss of their replication activity as the synchrotron modifies them helped identify key structural elements responsible for prions' replication and propagation in the brain.
"The work is a critical first step for identifying sites of structural importance that reflect differences between prions of different diagnosis and aggressiveness," said Mark Chance, vice dean for research at the School of Medicine and a co-investigator on the work. "Thus, we can now envision designing small molecules to bind to these sites of nucleation and replication and block progression of human prion disease in patients."
This structural approach, Chance said, also provides a template for how to identify structurally important sites on misfolded proteins in other diseases such as Alzheimer's, which involves protein propagation from cell to cell in a similar way to prions.
The Safar Laboratory at Case Western Reserve was established in 2008 and focuses on advancing understanding of neurodegenerative diseases, which is crucial for developing new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. Chance is also director of the Center for Synchrotron Biosciences and the Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics at the School of Medicine.
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Smashwords – About Chris Dolley, author of 'The Unpleasantness at Baskerville Hall', 'The Aunt Paradox', 'How Possession Can Help You Lose Weight', etc.
In 1981, he created Randomberry Games and wrote Necromancer, one of the first 3D first person perspective D&D computer games.
In 2004, his acclaimed novel, Resonance, was the first book plucked out of Baen's electronic slushpile.
Now he lives in rural France with his wife and a frightening number of animals. They grow their own food and solve their own crimes. The latter out of necessity when Chris's identity was stolen along with their life savings. Abandoned by the police forces of four countries who all insisted the crime originated in someone else's jurisdiction, he had to solve the crime himself. Which he did, and got a book out of it - the International bestseller, French Fried: One Man's Move to France With Too Many Animals And An Identity Thief.
He writes SF, Fantasy, Mystery, Humour and Memoir. His memoir, French Fried, is an NY Times bestseller. What Ho, Automaton! - the first of his Reeves and Worcester Steampunk Mysteries series - was a finalist for the 2012 WSFA Small Press Award.
HG Wells has a problem. His Aunt has borrowed his time machine and won't give it back. Now she's rewriting history! Reggie Worcester, gentleman's consulting detective, and his automaton valet, Reeves, are hired to retrieve the machine and put the timeline back together. But things get complicated. Dead bodies start piling up behind Reggie's sofa. This 100 page novella is the third in the series.
"I lost so much weight I could float above my bed!" - Lida Blair The hilarious new spoof diet book from New York Times bestselling author, Chris Dolley. This book covers everything from 'the science of possession' to 'Crapper Clinic's Demon Dating Service' that ensures clients are possessed by the demon most compatible with their slimming needs. Like Brick, this book is both short and funny.
New York Times Bestseller Tiere, die sich unmöglich benehmen, die Mißgeschicke anderer Leute und der bizarrste Kriminalfall, den es je gegeben hat. Der internationale Bestseller Französisch mit Spickzettel ist die—unglaubliche, aber wahre—Geschichte der ersten acht Monate, die Chris in Frankreich verbracht hat. Er wurde als 'ein Jahr in der Provence mit Miss Marple und Gerald Durrel' bezeichnet.
First Contact, Seventies Style! from NYT bestselling author. A fun short story where murder isn't the only mystery, and our detective's clothes are far from plain. 1940s Noir meets 1970s Glam. The story begins as a bizarre murder case in an unusual location, but nothing is as it seems. And the fate of an entire civilisation rests on a man with spiky red hair and six-inch platform shoes.
Guy Fawkes is back and this time it's a toss up who's going to be blown up first–Parliament or Reginald Worcester, gentleman consulting detective. Guy might not be the only regicide to have been dug up and reanimated. He might be a mere pawn in a plan of diabolical twistiness. Only a detective with a rare brain–and Reggie's is amongst the rarest–could possibly solve this five-cocktail problem.
Whenever the planet is in danger – be it from giant balls of wool or bands of renegade squirrels – only one group is guaranteed to answer the call. The International Kittens of Mystery! This is a journal of their stories. If you like a fun story with lots of cute pictures of kittens saving the planet, this is the book for you. It'll be the best 30 minutes you've spent this year.
Quirky murder mystery set in rural England. Peter Shand is a high-flying police administrator sent to a quiet rural CID team. On his second day he's thrust into a high-profile murder case. A body is discovered in an old stone circle – with another woman buried alive beneath her. The pressure on Shand is enormous. The case is baffling. And then another murder occurs, and had there been a third?
* NY Times bestseller * Animals behaving badly, other people's misfortunes and a bizarre true crime story. His identity stolen, life savings gone, and getting nowhere with the police, Chris decides to solve the crime himself. But unlike fictional detectives he has an 80 year-old mother-in-law and an excitable puppy who insist they come along if he's going anywhere interesting - like a stakeout.
Magical Crimes is a fun CSI with magic novelette that has everything – a locked room mystery, a forensic magician, and ... a psychic profiler with a two-foot long boinkwurst. Naturally this boinkwurst is used purely for the purposes God intended – humour and crimefighting – not for lustful titillation. Chris Dolley is a New York Times bestselling author.
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Amroha/Aligarh: In an apparent dig at BSP supremo Mayawati, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said those who did not have faith in Lord Ram and Lord Krishna were now taking refuge in 'Bajrang Bali'.
Mayawati had on Saturday said her party wanted both Ali and Bajrang Bali — particularly Bajrang Bali — as the deity was "linked with my own Dalit caste".
"Those who did not have faith in Shri Ram and Shri Krishna have now come to the refuge of Bajrang Bali," Adityanath said.
He also paid homage to Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar on his birth anniversary.
"The BJP government led by Narendra Modi, on the other hand, has always worked on the policy of development of all. It gave a befitting reply to terrorism, Naxalism and separatism," Adityanath said.
"Whether it was China's conspiracy in Doklam or terrorism funded by Pakistan, the Modi government has given a befitting reply to these countries. But the Congress does not like attacks on China and Pakistan, their manifesto has been prepared for anti-nationals," he alleged.
The Chief Minister also hit out at the SP-BSP-RLD opposition alliance.
"The flag of SP means the flag of goons, BSP's flag means the flag of corruption," he said.
Adityanath also urged people to question RLD chief Ajit Singh on whose side his party took when the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots broke out in the state.


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The Emperor's Children
By Claire Messud (Author), Neel Mukherjee (Contributor)
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With an introduction by Neel Mukherjee. In Manhattan, just after the century's turn, three thirty-year-old friends, Danielle, Marina and Julius, are seeking their fortunes. But the arrival of Marina's young cousin Bootie - fresh from the provinces and keen, too, to make his mark - forces them to confront their own desires and expectations. The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud is an American classic: a sweeping portrait of one of the most fascinating cities in the world, and a haunting illustration of how the events of a single day can change everything, for ever.
Claire Messud was educated at Yale and Cambridge. Her first novel, When the World Was Steady, and her book of novellas, The Hunters , were finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; her second novel, The Last Life , was a Publishers' Weekly Best Book of the Year; all three books were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship and the Straus Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with her husband and children.
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Renault boasted of two new electric cars
The company Renault has published a teaser of the two new electric cars. The first is in the status of a concept car, and the second is a series-ready hatchback Dacia Spring, which claims to be the most affordable electric car on the European market. The premiere of both new products will take place on October 15, 2020.
There are few details about the electric show car yet. It is known that it is based on the CMF-EV architecture and will be able to drive about 600 kilometers on a single battery charge. Earlier, Renault partially revealed the design of the concept – the picture showed a curved led strip at an acute angle, a decorative element located below, made in gold, and part of the false radiator grille.
According to the new teaser, another led strip will stretch across the entire width of the car's front.
The second video shows the Dacia Spring electric car ready for the series. It is a repurposed Renault City K-ZE, which is sold in China and in turn is a copy of the Renault Kwid. In length, the novelty reaches 3.73 meters, and the power reserve for the WLTP cycle is about 200 kilometers.
According to unofficial data, the electric car will be driven by the installation from City K-ZE: a 45-horsepower electric motor, which is powered by a battery with a capacity of 26.8 kilowatt-hours. Sales are scheduled to start in 2021. It is expected that the Dacia Spring will become the cheapest electric car in Europe.
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'Mr. Peabody & Sherman' went through time and beat the competition, to make it in to the first place spot for the weekend!
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2013), the sure fire animated classic that is based on the classic cartoon from the old, Rocky & Bullwinkle segment from the 50s & the 60s, and which stars: Ty Burrell (Dawn Of The Dead), Max Charles (The Amazing Spider-Man) & Ariel Winter (Modern Family) jumped through time and in to first place for its second weekend in the theaters, having pulled in a solid $21,200,000 in this weekend's box office!
At number 2 we have another historic movie that is in it's second week, with the movie, 300: Rise Of An Empire (2014). This movie which was the sequel to 2006's, 300 made it in to second place having pulled in $19,105,000 in the box office for the weekend!
And the next one up on the block is the big screen adaption of the classic video game, 'Need For Speed'… And with, Need For Speed having pulled in a respectable $17,808,000 for the weekend, this movie has made it in to third place for it's opening weekend! At number 4 we have the non-stop action packed sure fire high flying classic, Non-Stop (2014) which has continued to do respectably in the box office, having pulled in a solid $10,615,000 in this weekend's box office. And last but certainly not least we have, Tyler Perry's The Single Mom's Club (2014)… This movie did well having pulled in a decent $8,300,000 in this weekend's box office!
For it's opening weekend, 'Tyler Perry's Single Moms Club' managed to hang in there in the box office for the weekend, having pulled a 5th place ranking!
It looks like folks, in the world of the big screen this weekend… That the time traveling dog and his human companion are kings of the screen!


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Health Center Regulatory Issues
HRSA Completes Analysis of Scope Alignment Validation Submissions and Announces Next Steps
December 1, 2014 February 7, 2017 | by Susan Sumrell
In its Primary Health Care Digest dated November 19, 2014, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) announced that it had completed its analysis of the Scope Alignment Validation (SAV) submissions and is ready to take the next steps in the process to correct health centers' scope of project forms (Forms 5A and 5B), consistent with the health center's SAV submission and related comments. As noted in previous Policy Shop blog entries, this past June and July, HRSA conducted a SAV process – a one-time only opportunity for health centers to ensure that their updated scope forms accurately reflected the current services provided and the sites operated by the health center (and if not, to make limited updates and identify the need for additional changes). To assist health centers in understanding these next steps and in taking any actions required of the center, HRSA published a new document, "Scope Alignment Validation Follow-up Actions," which describes both key action steps and the associated timelines.
In particular, HRSA will be taking the following actions:
• By November 21, 2014, HRSA will delete from Form 5B sites that were identified by the health center as inactive or as duplicates of other sites already in scope.
• By December 5, 2014, HRSA will add or change the service delivery method for Required Services and delete Additional Services (including Specialty Services) from Form 5A, subject to the changes described below.
• In the coming months, HRSA will be making the following additional changes:
o Correct addresses that did not involve a physical location change.
o Update location types where there was a misunderstanding of the site definition.
NOTE: HRSA has stated that if a health center did not receive a targeted Electronic Handbook notification by November 21 regarding a specific site address or location type correction, the requested correction will not be made through this process; rather, the health center will be required to submit a Change in Scope (CIS) request.
Health centers will be required to address all other changes through the CIS process. These changes include:
• Form 5A: Services: (i) adding Additional Services (including Specialty Services) not currently reflected on Form 5A or adding services to Column I and/or II if currently only provided via Column III; and (ii) making any changes to services that are projected to begin at a future date.
• Form 5B: Service Sites: (i) adding or replacing sites (including physical location change); (ii) changing a site from an administrative-only site to a service delivery site; and (iii) changing data fields that were not SAV-related updates.
• Form 5C: Other Activities (changed via a Monitored CIS request): adding or moving an Other Activity to 5C that was incorrectly listed on Form 5A or 5B.
• Other changes: (i) changes needed in cases where HRSA was unable to determine what a health center was specifically requesting as part of its SAV submission comments; and (ii) changes identified after the SAV submission.
All health centers should review this new guidance document along with their scope forms to determine whether changes were made consistent with their SAV submissions and the guidance (and to identify areas where inconsistencies exist), as well as to determine whether additional actions must be taken by the health center.
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We took a country road towards the Lesotho mountains. TomTom was not pleased. Petrol Man explained that his car had run out of petrol. In parts of the Free State you get the feeling that you're driving from the middle of nowhere to the middle of nowhere. So we drove on. Eventually we came to a juncture. There was't even a tiny pin-prick of a suggestion of a village, but with nothing else to suggest we turned down the dust track. What materialised eventually was a twilight-zone-like-derelict-one-stop-hamlet consisting of a road, 6 dwellings, a couple of people and a petrol station!
Painted Lady was walking on the side of the road carrying a load on top of her head. She was wrapped in a traditional skirt and blanket and her face was painted with a reddish clay. Though we tried every language we knew, we could not make ourselves understood, so Hubby drove on and occasionally I looked back to give her a thumbs up. Her signal for us to stop was a tap on my shoulder.
Peace Corps Man was a friendly, chatty American with a rather scraggly beard and wearing hobo-hiker-like garb. He was going to Lesotho. He'd been living with the Basothos in a mud village for over a year with no refrigeration, no heat and no running water. He was teaching English. At the border control we discovered he already spoke quite good Sotho. There too, I was 'processed' and a warning stamped into my British passport – Act no.17 'Attempting to gain advantage by entering or leaving South Africa on another passport'.
The Gentleman in Tweed was my favourite. He quietly sat through our terrifying experience with the Transkei Taxi Mafia and shook our hands warmly after his 2 hour drive with us.
"Mama," said one "Can we have a lift?" I said yes and the two sizeable women and their bags climbed in, careful not to sit on my mother's ice-cream cones. A short lift up a steep hill and two happy women waved us goodbye. The only problem was that they had addressed me as 'mama'. 'Mama' is the respectful term for an older woman. Hmmm.
Handbag over her shoulder she stood against the hard shoulder with her thumb out. "To Soto," she said. Hubby tried out his Xhosa greetings. She giggled.
It was about 4pm. I left the Morgan Bay Hotel, a satisfied patron of the Stinkwood Spa. 4 women in blue uniforms waved at me and I stopped. "Could you take us up to the 'location'?" asked the spokesperson. "All of you? I'm not sure you'll fit." With that, the passenger door was opened and the sardine-stuffing operation began in earnest – toes tread on, bottoms squished, instructions given, skirts tugged, much laughter and the door slammed safely shut.
At the end of our holiday it began to rain. When it rains in Morgan Bay it rains for the whole of Africa. Mom, Hubby and I sat at Yellowwood Forest sipping cappuccinos and eating chocolate cake. When we drove home we took the scenic route. An elderly woman carrying baskets of beads and reeds and curios made slow progress up the hill. She wore a black bag over her clothes, which only partly kept her dry. How blessed I felt to be in a warm car and how lovely it was to share that blessing with her.
P.s. Have you noticed that when you disobey the TomTom's recommendations the voice actually seems to get shrill and irritated? "Turn around where possible!".
P.p.s. During the sardine-stuffing incident I was driving my Dad's car, a small 3 door Suzuki jeep. Suzuki would have loved to have that on video!
P.p.p.s. The warning in my passport was a matter of officious muscle-flexing. I was not doing anything illegal, just handed over the wrong passport by mistake. Consider me warned.
P.p.p.p.s. 'Location' is the term for an informal settlement or township.
P.p.p.p.p.s. Please note: we do not recommend hitching or giving lifts in South Africa – it's risky! We did it carefully and prayerfully. It was a unique and special experience to share briefly in the lives of these strangers.
Love it, your beautiful, kind soul shines through, mama.