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AN 'ALIEN' or 'FOREIGN' HA MAKOM in THE VALLEY OF HINNOM
These pictures show the location of the Valley of Hinnom with the sites of the True Ha Makom (in the City of David) and the Foreign ha makom (in Hinnom Valley) spoken of in Jeremiah 19, plus two pictures of Hinnom today.
In Jeremiah chapter 19, where was Jeremiah sent to deliver his message about the broken pot?
He was sent by the Lord (and instructed to take some of the elders of the people and elders of the priests with him) down into the Valley of Hinnom, at the southern end of the City of David, where all kinds of horrific worship of false gods was undertaken, including the sacrifice of
There, people had set up an alternate 'hamakom'. The true Ha MAKOM (The Place, as the Temple was known) was not far away, in the City of David, near the Gihon Spring, but the disobedient and rebellious had set up alternative arrangements in Hinnom.
The key to understanding this is verse 4 in which Jeremiah tells them they have made an alien or foreign hamakom in the Valley of Hinnom. The Hebrew can be read thus…
'…because they forsook me and are making an alien hamakom and are burning incense to other gods…'
The New King James translation says, 'they have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, (hamakom) because they have burned incense in it to other gods'.
Jeremiah goes on to speak of them offering their children to Baal. He then speaks judgement upon their alternative hamakom or place of worship...
'Therefore, the days come, saith the LORD, that this hamakom shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter'.
This makes explicit the respect in which the prophet held the true HaMakom. Then in verse 13, using Scripture4all for example, the alternative 'hamakom' becomes even more clear. Here it
'And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled
like hamakom of Topheth (in the Valley of Hinnom), because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.'
This being so, it is apparent that Jeremiah is enraged (as is Yahweh) at the travesty of the people being drawn after other gods and providing for themselves a new centre, an alternate and foreign hamakom wherein they can conduct their awful appeasement of Baal and Molech.
Following his denouncement of the false hamakom in Topheth (part of the Valley of Hinnom), Jeremiah returns to the court of the true Temple (verse 14) and declares that judgement is coming on the entire city because the people he has spoken to in Hinnom have 'stiffened their necks that they might not hear my words."
The existence of this alternate, foreign and false 'ha makom' and Jeremiah's use of that term confirms the existence of the true and real Ha Makom (of which the prophet speaks repeatedly througout the book bearing his name).
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Q: Can anyone explain the second reduction rule for ZF-expressions? [ e | v <- f:fs, q ] reduces to [ e | q ] [ v := f ] ++ [ e | v <- fs, q ]
The output of [ e | v <- f:fs, q ] should be a single list. What does it mean to put two lists together in the reduction? I mean you can't just put two lists together like this ["a"]["b"].
Also, is the symbol := the same as =?

A: Without knowing where you've seen this it's hard to know for certain what is meant.
[e | q][v := f] is not valid Haskell code (barring some creative use of language extensions).
What is probably meant is something more like
[e' | q'] ++ [e | v <- fs, q]

where e' is e with all instances of v in replaced with f, and q' is q with all instances of v replaced with f
So, for example if f was 5, e was v*2 and q was odd v we'd have
[v*2 | v <- 5:fs, odd v]

Which would reduce to
[5*2|odd 5] ++ [v*2 | v <- fs, odd v]

Since odd 5 reduces to True we end up with
[5*2] ++ [v*2 | f<- fs, odd v]

A: The notation you mention is not Haskell code, but a meta-notation for substitution which is frequently used in programming languages theory.
If e and t are Haskell expressions, and x is a Haskell variable, we write e [x := t] to denote the expression e where all the free occurrences of x have been replaced with t (and avoiding captures). For example
x [x := t]                       ===> t
x+3 [x := t]                     ===> t+3
f x + (\x -> x + 32) x [x := t]  ===> f t + (\x -> x + 32) t
[ f x y | y <- [1..x] ] [x := t] ===> [ f t y | y <- [1..t] ]

Again, this is not a Haskell operator, but a "mathematical" meta-level operator which takes as input Haskell code (syntax) and produces as output Haskell code (syntax).
It is usually exploited to define beta reduction on lambdas:
(\x -> e) t ---beta---> e [x := t]

Anyway, in the posted expression
[ e | q ] [ v := f ] ++ [ e | v <- fs, q ]

the first [...] and the last are Haskell list comprehensions, while [v := f] is the meta-notation for substitution. For instance, here's a fully evaluated example
[ f x y | x <- 1:2:[] , y <- [0..x] ]
===> definition of list comprehension
[ f x y | y <- [0..x] ] [x := 1] ++ [ f x y | x <- 2:[] , y <- [0..x] ]
===> substitution
[ f 1 y | y <- [0..1] ] ++ [ f x y | x <- 2:[] , y <- [0..x] ]
===> definition of list comprehension
[ f 1 y | y <- [0..1] ]
      ++ [ f x y | y <- [0..x] ] [x := 2]
      ++ [ f x y | x <- [] , y <- [0..x] ]
===> substitution
[ f 1 y | y <- [0..1] ] ++ [ f 2 y | y <- [0..2] ] ++ [ f x y | x <- [] , y <- [0..x] ]
===> definition of list comprehension
[ f 1 y | y <- [0..1] ] ++ [ f 2 y | y <- [0..2] ] ++ []
===> many other steps here
[ f 1 0, f 1 1 ] ++ [ f 2 0, f 2 1, f 2 2 ] ++ []
===> concatenation
[ f 1 0, f 1 1, f 2 0, f 2 1, f 2 2 ]

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I apologize if similar thread already exists but I wasn't able to find it.
When studying the English history of the time, I noticed that after Henry VII's accession to the throne there were several persons, who claimed to be Prince Richard, the most famous of them being Perkin Warbeck, but none who would claim to be Edward V (the elder brother).
As far as I know, the fate of both Princes was unknown, although later scholars agreed that both had been death by September of 1493. So why would imposters claim to be the younger brother? It seems illogical, for if one brother survived, than the other one could have survived as well, in which case the younger brother would have little claims to the Throne.
Is there any evidence or even rumour that could have suggested that the death of the elder brother was certain, whereas the demise of the younger brother was questionable?
I also wonder why Henry VII never issued some sort of an official version on the fate of Edward and Richard of York. Discrediting Richard III still further would only be in Henry's interest, so if Richard III were indeed guilty of the Princes' death, why didn't Henry let it be known?
And my final question; when Henry VIII's son succeeded his father under the name of King Edward VI, did that confirm in a way that Edward V was the rightful King (even for those 2 months after his father's death and before Titulus Regius)?
From what I remember reading about the princes Edward was seen as somewhat sickly or at least not as strong as his younger brother.
Because maybe he knew that Richard wasn't responsible?
Because he knew how well respected Richard was in the north and didn't want to cause resentment among northeners who had trouble accepting him as king anyway.
Because he didn't want to accuse his wife's uncle of killing her brothers - in other words he married into Richard's family.
All are suggestions that I have read at times and all make sense to me.
Edward had been proclaimed king and acknowledged by parliament until Titulus Regulus.
However, Edward VI's own grandfather had overturned Titulus Regulus to legimate his wife and thus making her an appropriate wife for the King. The main reason Henry VII married Elizabeth of York was because she was the daughter of Edward IV. There would be no reason to marry her if Titulus Regulus was in place as that would mean that she, along with her brothers, was illegitimate and thus no threat to his throne. Once Henry marries her and gets rid of Titulus Regulus then there had to be an acknowledgement of Edward V and Edward VI was the grandson of Edward V's sister so it would make sense that he formatlly acknolwedge that his great-uncle had been the lawful king.
That is a plausible explanation, however I believe there has to be some different reason. It just seems pointless to pretend to be the younger brother, when the older brother and rightful heir had just as many chances of surviving as the younger one.
I believe there is little doubt that the Tudor propaganda tried to portray Richard III considerably worse than he had been in reality. Most reliable sources contemporary to Richard present a completely different portrait, a portrait of a thoughtful, wise and able ruler, who could have been a great King, if it weren't the circumstances of his accession.
Your date of 1493 is either a misprint (which I suspect) or one that almost completly exonerates Richard as he died in 1485.
Richard had no need to mention the princes at all after his accession: to admit they were dead would allow his opponents to point the finger at him, to acknowledge them still being alive would have given his opponents a reason to 'free' the rightful king.
However, saying nothing about them left people assume either they were dead or not.
No one accused him during his lifetime of their deaths.
Henry VII, who would have gained many more supporters and guaranteed his success had he been able to say absolutely that they were dead didn't do so until a couple of years after Richard's death. Why not? I believe they were alive when Henry became king for the simply reason that with Titulus Regulus in place, no existing legitimate son for Richard within about 6 months of him becoming king and also known to be rather sickly. It wads therefore useful for Richard to keep the princes alive so have a Yorkist successor. Maybe a plan was in place to name one of them as his successor if he was unable to have a male heir. House considerations were important.
It was far more of benefit to Henry to announce their deaths before he invaded rather than wait until after Richard had been killed.
The first real accusations made against Richard aren't until after the princes and their sister are dead - conventient?
Of course we will never know what happened to them but it is interesting to speculate and try to apply some human emotion and logic to the situation - greedy Richard vs loving uncle and brother - which is the true Richard. For me the loving uncle and brother sums up his life for so long so why suddenly did he become a monster. Compare that to Henry who was quite ruthless throughout his life. Just on those grounds alone I believe Henry more likely to have killed the princes than Richard. Of course not knowing when they died doesn't help - they were last definitely alive in August 1483 as far as I can tell but that doesn't mean that they were killed then or even that they were ever killed by anyone. They may have been smuggled out of England and lived happy lives somewhere else without the downside of being kings and princes.
The date is a mistake - I meant September of 1483; most scholars agree that they were probably death by the time.
I couldn't agree more with your view of Richard. Most unbiased sources I have read indicate he was a loyal brother and a wise, thoughtful ruler. The historical Richard and the one created by the Tudors (with some help from Shakespeare) are two completely different people.
The other arguments in your post are also very impressive and I am inclined to agree with them.
Henry couldn't announce thier deaths because he had no idea where the bodies were, therefore he lived in fear that they may indeed have been at large somewhere, he could never prove they were dead. He also had to be careful as Elizabeths legitimacy was questioned by the titulus Regulus.
I used to be a defender of Richard, but now I think he was a subtly cruel man, responsible for the deaths of the princes.
The Act of Parliament (titulus regulus) which made the young princes illegitimate secured Richard's claim to the throne, so what would he have gained by killing them? Indeed, he allowed his nephew by an older brother to live, even though that child could not inherit because his father, the Duke of Clarence, was adjudged a traitor and executed for treason. But then Acts of Parliament could restore the nephew in the line of succession to the throne and restore the legitimacy of the young princes. However, it appears that the reputation of Richard prior to ascending the throne was a loyal and loving man.
No, my bet is on Henry as killing the young princes. He legitimized his wife, the young princes' sister, which would have legitimized them as well. He had everything to gain by their deaths and would he have risked the legitimising of his wife if they were still alive somewhere? Let us not forget that his line sprang from an initially illegitimate branch and he gained the throne by right of conquest and marriage to Elizabeth of York.
I quite agree with this part of your post: every single unbiased and contemporary report (I have read) about Richard before his accession to the Throne depicts him as a brave, loyal, kind and wise man. In all the lands under his administration, he earned a reputation of a fair and just man. He might have been a marvellous actor or had a complete change of character overnight, but somehow I doubt it.
Although it should be pointed out that while the Princes themselves wouldn't pose a direct threat to Richard, revolts could have been started in their names. Richard could probably overcome that particular obstacle by naming Prince Edward (Edward V) as his successor – quite possibly he intended to do so in time.
And I will always maintain that Richard was best suited for the role of a King: Edward was a minor and would most likely be under the heavy influence of his Woodville relatives (Lancastrians, who were equally hated by the Yorkists and the people for their arrogant ways). And with the War of Roses still too fresh in people's minds, I doubt they would want another boy King.
Henry does seem to be the one who benefitted most from the Princes' death. He also proved to be a ruthless ruler, quickly disposing of any other possible claimants to the Throne (including poor John of Gloucester, Richard's illegitimate son, John, Edmund and Richard de la Pole– the sons of Richard's elder sister Elizabeth) . However, there is one fact that speaks in his favour: the Princes were not seen in public after the September 1483, long before the Battle of Bosworth. If they were alive, why didn't Richard show them to public to dispel rumours of their assassination?
Of course, Henry could have hired someone to kill the Princes, he could have even ordered / asked the Duke of Buckingham to do it: I think the Duke of Buckingham switched sides at approximately the same time - and he had motives to kill the Princes as well, being a descendant of John of Gaunt himself. But those are just theories: in practice, Richard had the best opportunity to kill the Princes before the Battle of Bosworth.
One thing that speaks strongly against Henry is the lack of any sort of reaction to the death of the Princess after his accession: their fate was not as much as spoken about! Surely, it would have been a common curtsey to publish official version of the fate of his wife's brothers. And would also be another reason to blacken Richard's reputation by exposing him as a murderer: I can't think of any innocent reason why Henry would keep silent on this issue, unless it was against his interests.
By the way, is there a possibility that the Princes were not killed but died of natural causes? I seem to remember there was a plague in London in 1480's.
Excellent points. There seems to be evidence both for and against Richard and Henry in this affair. It certainly raises some interesting questions. Could both men have been deceived about the young princes' fate?
I believe there was an outbreak of "sweating sickness" in England in the 1480s which continued to occur up through the time of Elizabeth. Perhaps in the anxiety and panic surrounding the disease the bodies of the young princes were removed from the Tower and this led to the mystery of their whereabouts.
...why would imposters claim to be the younger brother? It seems illogical, for if one brother survived, than the other one could have survived as well, in which case the younger brother would have little claims to the Throne.
Probably not. The most likely reason is that Edward V, as heir to the throne and later King, was the better known of the two. More people were likely to have seen him (or a portrait of him) than to have seen his younger brother. Hence there was greater risk of a phoney being detected. Young Richard was the safer choice.
Probably because he simply didn't know. All he knew for certain was that the Princes had vanished, and that most probably Richard had "disappeared" them, but more than that he couldn't say.
Note that when Perkin Warbeck appeared a few years later, Henry sent agents scouring Europe to trace his real origins. Henry was clearly scared stiff that Warbeck might be the genuine article.
Well, Edward V had certainly been King between his father's death and his uncle's coronation, so was quite properly included in the numbering.
Titulus Regius wasn't enacted until Richard had already been on the throne about a year, so doesn't really come into the matter. It merely rubber stamped a change which had already taken place.
Seems Edward and Richard were the 15th century version of Anastasia. Why Richard never declared them dead, I agree with others that he just didn't know where the heck they were or what happened to them. He probably assumed like everyone else including their mother that they were dead but couldn't declare it officially cause he had no proof. Plus he was married to their sister and as a result close to the Prince's other relatives including their mother; why hurt them anymore than they already had been.
I have never noticed that all the impersonators claimed to be Richard and not Edward and that does strike me as odd. I personally don't completely buy the "Edward was more famous" theory because all they would need is someone who looked just slighty like a grown up Edward would look and he could pass. The Romanov impersonators had photos to contend with and they still fooled people. With Edward and Richard probably 75% of the population didnt know what they looked like and 98% would be fooled into thinking any man was an adult Richard or Edward.
If indeed Perkin Warbeck was an impersonator, and not actually young Richard himself... Edward V was taken away first, and later, Richard was sent to follow, to keep him 'company'. But would Elizabeth Woodville really send her now only claim to the throne into the hands of a man (Richard III) who at that time she didn't trust? A man who had already taken her oldest son into his care, and who had started all the questioning of their legitimacy in the first place?
Elizabeth was much more cunning than this, I think.
One thing I want to know, is why DNA testing has not been done on the two young bodies found in the tower.
If Perkin Warbeck was young Richard, does that mean his descendants have a more rightful claim to the throne than our current monarchy?
Good question. If you wanted to use DNA to prove that the bodies found in the tower were Edward V and Richard of York, you'd need to compare their DNA against a close family member such as Elizabeth of York. But I'm not sure there's enough interest to warrant the exhumation of three bodies to do the test.
Just a couple of thoughts. Elizabeth Woodville trusted Richard enough to give him custody of her only remaining son after he had taken Edward away. She was apparently extremely politically savvy, as well.
Something else to throw into the "pot," as it were. If memory serves me correctly, Richard's only son died at 10 years old the year prior to Henry's invasion. Also, at the time of his death, his beloved wife (I seem to remember that it turned into quite the love match ultimately) had died several months before Richard's fall.
One last thing, the marriage of Elizabeth Woodville was declared invalid prior to Richard assuming the throne. He began his reign the day after the claim of an invalid marriage was endorsed.
I think it would be interesting to jot all the pertinent facts that you could onto a timeline to see how they really followed each other.
Very true, but historians have done a lot more off a lot less interest. I hope they do it one day, as it is considered one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in British monarchy history.
I think Victoriastyles, that Richard III supporters use those exact reasonings to argue his innocence.
I don't think we will ever know, but I personally am more swayed towards Henry VII and his supporters, to whom Edward and Richard posed more a threat. Richard III certainly could have declared Edward his heir, although his own son was alive at that time, so I doubt he would have.
However, it still stands that Richard allowed his nephews to be declared illegitimate, and himself be crowned king. He knew the Woodvilles would rally around Edward V, and didn't want them in positions of power.
If he really had his nephews best interests at heart, and not his own, wouldn't he have done as Henry VI's uncle's did, and acted as regent?
A very good reason to not do that was the consequences of a minor as King - unrest and Civil War. Henry VI's reign was benighted by war throughout and a lot of the blame for that was put at the fact that he was a minor and different factions developed around him seeking power. They didn't want a repeat so having a respected strong adult King was a better proposition.
And a good portion of any potential unrest and those seeking power would be the Woodeville family, who already had great influence on the young princes. Richard would have had his hands full dealing with them if acting as regent for a young king.
I don't think it was a matter of trust as it was so much of fear. She was in sancturary at the time with her daughters, who loved their uncle, and my guess is that she was afraid of what would become of them once the rival King Henry landed from Brittany.
I also don't see how the deaths of his son and wife would have anything to do with the deaths of the little princes. If anything I would have thought that made him mad with grief (if he truly loved his wife) so striking the princes down would have been easy.
I'm not defending Henry here though. I am for York (or would have been had I been alive to see those times) and so I believe that Richard was the loving uncle that he is said to have been and Henry the ruthless cutthroat.
Now to the reason why neither of them really touched on the issue of the Princes in the Tower; I think it was more, like its been said, not knowing anything. Why stir the pot if there was nothing to prove your claim? If I have my history right, Dowager Duchess of Burgundy, Richards sister, Margaret demanded to the see the bodies if they were dead which is what Henry later proclaimed. And she was also the one who backed Perkins campaign through England to place a York on the throne once more.
I don't believe Richard wanted the throne. I believe it was forced upon him because of the invalidity of his brothers marriage to Elizabeth Woodville. But I've gotten off topic, haven't I?
Anything point I saw previous was something about why they chose young Richard as a rally point and not the little King Edward. I believe the response to that was correct. People would recognise Edward faster. Although, the only people that could recognise the princes were their immediate family (woodvilles and any remaining york members at court) and the servants nobility that interacted with them on a regualr basis. But at the same time, who would willingly admit that the young man claiming to be the rightful King of England against the current man who sits on the throne and can have your head for treason? No one. Certainly not his queen. It may not have been done until his son but Henry still could have had her head for treason and easily made an alliance to France or Burgundy.
I guess I'm gonna back up a bit and touch on another subject (I got to this conversation a little late, clealy) but why would Richard name Edward V his successor (with or without his own heir) after he claimed them to be illegitimate? I am for York, again, but it might be that I was wrong and he did want the throne for himself. He was young enough that he could have taken on another wife and produced many heirs, since the Yorks had no problem reproducing. His mother, Duchess Cecily of York had 13 children (3 having died before the age of 2) and his brother Edward had 7, so on and so on.
^ I don't think Elizabeth Woodville was scared for her children with Henry VII on his way... She arranged for her Elizabeth to marry him if he was successful. So she had nothing to fear.
I agree that Richard probably didn't want another child King, and one ruled by the Woodvilles, but I so still think he wanted the crown for himself.
Regardless of who killed the boys, Richard was responsible for their car, and he failed.


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Why did the former CEO of Nissan just get smuggled out of Japan?
Interpol is after Carlos Ghosn, but he probably wasn't smuggled out in a box.
Jonathan M. Gitlin - Jan 2, 2020 5:09 pm UTC
Enlarge / Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan and head of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, fled house arrest in Japan for Lebanon at the end of December 2019.
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The past few days have been filled with drama for one of the auto industry's most well-known executives. Carlos Ghosn used to run the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, a complicated partnership-not-a-merger between the three car makers that sells more metal than everyone other than Toyota and Volkswagen Group. But in November 2018, he was arrested by Japanese police on charges of financial misconduct and was replaced as the head of both Nissan and Mitsubishi.
However, Ghosn claimed that he was being set up by rivals at Nissan, who he said were behind claims that he pocketed payments to Middle Eastern car dealerships and hid income beyond his multimillion dollar annual salary. After spending more than three months in jail, Ghosn was released on bail—a hefty $9 million (1 billion yen)—but was kept under house arrest.
Rather than continuing to submit to the Japanese criminal justice system—which has a near-perfect conviction rate, sharing few of the same protections for suspects that exist in the US or Europe—Ghosn apparently decided a change of scenery was in order. Which is where it all gets a bit weird. Late on the night of December 29, he managed to flee the country for Lebanon; he holds Lebanese (as well as French and Brazilian) citizenship and is close with the Lebanese government, which does not have an extradition treaty with Japan.
On New Year's Eve, Ghosn issued a statement from Lebanon saying that he would "no longer be held hostage by a rigged Japanese justice system where guilt is presumed, discrimination is rampant, and basic human rights are denied, in flagrant disregard of Japan's legal obligations under international law and treaties it is bound to uphold."
The Japanese authorities are still trying to determine just how Ghosn managed to evade their surveillance. Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that Ghosn had two French passports, and the courts allowed him to keep one of them in a locked case rather than having it held by his lawyers (along with the Lebanese, Brazilian, and that other French passport). For their part, Lebanese authorities say he entered the country legally under a French passport.
Initial reports that he had been hiding in a box meant to contain musical instruments for a band that played at his house are apparently wide of the mark. Instead, it's more likely that he was smuggled onto a private cargo jet in Osaka, bound for Istanbul, Turkey. The Turks aren't particularly happy about being involved and have arrested four pilots, two ground handlers, and the operations manager of the cargo company for their involvement in the escape.
Now, Interpol has issued a "red notice" for Ghosn, who released a second statement on Thursday stating that his escape was all his doing and that neither his wife nor other family members were involved.
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We'll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here
Stalin famously told his mother that he was the new Czar, transmuting collectivist revolution into the egotistical authoritarianism of one man. Obama has managed the same trick.
3 Tammuz 5773 – June 10, 2013
Originally published at Sultan Knish.
Ever since FDR made it his campaign song in 1932 while running for office during the Great Depression, the unofficial anthem of the Democratic Party has been that Tin Pan Alley classic, "Happy Days are Here Again." But no matter how often the old Victor spun, it would not be until well after Roosevelt's death that happy days would be here again.
Like Hope and Change, Happy Days are Here Again was a blandly optimistic and non-specific promise that good times were coming. Someday the happy days would arrive, an appropriate enough sentiment for a song whose pivotal moment came in the movie "Chasing Rainbows" where it was sung to reassure a cuckolded husband who is threatening to kill himself. And in an even more appropriate bit of symbolism, the actual movie footage of that moment is as lost as the happy times.
No matter how often the Democratic Party cheats on the American people, it can always break out a new rendition of "Happy Days are Here Again" to win them back. And even if the happy days never seem to actually arrive, the promise of "So long sad times" and "Howdy gay times" where "your troubles and cares are gone" is always a winner.
While the American Democratic Party may not have an official anthem, the British Labour Party does and its anthem, "The Red Flag" would be entirely appropriate for the new Democratic Party that no longer has anything in common with Thomas Jefferson or Andrew Jackson.
It might be awkward to imagine Harry Reid or Joe Manchin trying to make it through verses like, "The people's flag is deepest red" and the sonorous chorus, "Then raise the scarlet standard high /Within its shade we live and die/Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer/We'll keep the red flag flying here."
They would probably look almost as awkward singing it as Labour Party leader Ed Milliband does, but you could easily imagine Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett belting it out. And that would be only right because while The Red Flag never gets around to mentioning Manchester, despite its popularity there, it does namecheck two cities. "In Moscow's vaults its hymns were sung/Chicago swells the surging throng."
These days red flag songs, once mandatory, are confined to all sorts of vaults in Moscow. The new Russian anthem is Putin's redress of the old Soviet one, with lyrics by the same composer. And the Soviet National Anthem, that secular hymn, has a familiar pedigree going back to the Anthem of the Bolshevik Party in 1938, which took its melody from "Life is better, Life is fun."
You might be forgiven for thinking that the Bolshevik Party had borrowed its melody from some Moscow musical, but that wasn't the case. "Life is better, Life is fun" was based on a statement by Stalin: "Life has become better, comrades. Life has become more fun." The year was 1935 and while it is impossible to know whether Comrade Stalin had decided to crib from the Democratic campaign of 1932, the theme was the same. So long sad times. Happy days were here again.
And just to remind everyone that happy days really were here again, Stalin began another round of brutal purges. A year earlier, Uncle Joe, as the Fireside Chatter liked to refer to one of the world's bloodiest mass murderers, had arranged for the murder of Sergei Kirov, who was everything that Stalin wasn't, and used the murder to begin a purge of anyone more popular than him, with the support of red flag wavers in Chicago, New York, London and Los Angeles.
Unlike Franklin, Stalin's idea of a campaign involved a lot of firing squads to properly soak the red flag in the deepest red, while the band played, "Life is better, Life is fun." After the purges were wrapped up, Stalin signed a pact with another red flag waver from Berlin. The Nazis and Communists might have disagreed on any number of things, but both of them had inherited the Jacobin fetish for painting a flag red with blood and then waving it while calling for more death.
While Moscow might have turned in its red card, Chicago's "surging throng" is still swelling the polls, and even though their shirts are purple, their fingers are red from the strain of repeat voting. If there is anywhere in the United States that the red flag has gone on flying, outside of Marin County, it's Chicago. In its shade, generations have lived and died, and now generations have begun living and dying in its shade across the country as the red flag keeps flying for another four years over D.C.
The red flags of the post-modern, post-American, post-British, post-everything revolutionaries aren't usually as obvious as a gang of wealthy politicians staggering to a microphone once a year and belting out, "We'll keep the red flag flying here". It usually sounds more like the parody of that anthem, known somewhat sarcastically as the "Battle Hymn of the New Socialist Party,"
"White collar workers stand and cheer/The Labour government is here/We'll change the country bit by bit/So nobody will notice it." A policy of changing the country bit by bit so none of the workers who want their benefits notices that everything else they value is being dragged away to the rubbish heap while they sleep may be sneered at by the real reds, but it's worked quite effectively.
Tony Blair did a masterful job of changing Britain, leaving behind Neil Kinnock's threats to take the workers into the streets if the election did not go his way. (It did not. He did not.) Kinnock proved good enough for Joe Biden to plagiarize his biography from, but the future rested with a sensible left. A New Labour that would talk like technocrats while importing unprecedented number of immigrants to change the electoral balance of the country, so that the red flag would go on flying here, even if it was green and had a crescent and a pair of crossed swords in the middle.
Instead of the flying red flag, Tony Blair's New Labour used D:ream's "Things can only get better" as its election anthem, which despite a title that made it sound like another, "Happy Days are Here" or "Life is better, Life is fun" was more of a love song to a Labour messiah promising to cure "prejudice and greed".
"Walk my path/Wear my shoes/Talk like me/I'll be an angel," New Labour voters were promised and they fell for it. The age of the Me Generation PM was here and the new egotism resounded in lyrics like "Things can only get better/Can only get better/Now I've found you/(That means me)" that took both self-help and self-involvement to a whole new level. But British voters probably should have paid more attention to warning lyrics like, "I sometimes lose myself in me".
Bill Clinton was America's Tony Blair, but with enough Good Old Boy charm to leaven the false earnestness that led so many to hate Blair. If Blair was a liar pretending to be an honest man, Clinton was a liar pretending to be an honest man pretending to be a liar, a rotten sandwich of a paradox that you have to be a politician or an observer of them to properly appreciate. Like Blair, Clinton worked to change the country bit by bit, appealing to white collar workers and leaving the red flag in the trunk next to the road flares and the dynamite.
It's Chicago time now and the red flag is back. Talk of changing the country bit by bit is done. Now the country is being changed aggressively, every change a finger poke in the eye of the people who don't notice right what is in front of their faces. The cuckolding is no longer subtle. It's more out in the open than ever and the country is being bankrupted and the middle class is being wiped out to a rousing chorus of "Happy Days are Here Again", when an entire generation has come of age never knowing a time when happy days prevailed.
Whatever faults Kinnock and old Labour had, losing himself in himself wasn't one of them. But the Baby Boomer and Generation X leaders had the narcissistic habit of doing just that. Clinton and Blair both lost themselves in themselves and since then never appear to have found themselves again. And Barack Obama never lost himself in himself because he never stepped out of himself to begin with.
Obama marries the red flag radicalism of the old left with generational egotism to show us the spoiled brat as leader, the tyke born with a set of silver spoons in his mouth who not only waves the red flag, but who mistakes his shamelessness for political genius. Where Clinton limited his shamelessness to his personal life, for his Democratic successor, in the tradition of both the hard left and the fellowship of mirror gazers, the personal has always been political. To the Hope and Changer, the man is the office, the state is the man, and the whim is the national agenda.
Stalin famously told his mother that he was the new Czar, transmuting collectivist revolution into the egotistical authoritarianism of one man. Obama has managed the same trick, merging revolutionary politics with his own brand until there is no longer a difference between the man and his revolution. FDR only promised happy days, but Obama has become the actual incarnation of hope, which may explain why there is no longer any hope to go around.
There is a flag flying over Washington and it's no longer the stars and stripes, but the same red flag that flies over Chicago. It's the red flag under whose shade misery and tyranny spreads while the band strikes up the same anthem over and over again. "Happy days are here again." Life is better, life is fun." "Things can only get better" and of course Obama's victory speech promise; "The best is yet to come."
It might have been more honest if he had instead admitted, "We'll keep the red flag flying here."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has more enemies than friends in DC. Surprisingly, her most vitriolic detractors come from her own party.
This news comes as no surprise for Conservatives. Because we know how petty Democrats can be first-hand. When they get passed over, Democrats show no mercy.
And the 29-year old upstart did more than pass over many Democrats who quietly waited their turn. She actually threatened the careers of colleagues, referring to many as "old school" when it comes to how things will now be done under her regime.
Ocasio-Cortez showcased the rift in the Democratic Party.
First, the old guard doesn't expect to work at getting elected. They believe themselves ordained.
Second, Ocasio-Cortez has no respect for the old guard as her win proved. She is like new gang members who couldn't care less about the "original gangsters" or the old guard rules. These new gangsters will take out the old guard as they would any other mark. Such is the case with Ocasio-Cortez, as the article suggests.
Interestingly, Ocasio-Cortez may do to the Democrats what President Trump did to Republicans.
The only difference being that President Trump strengthened the Republicans. Ocasio-Cortez weakens the Democrats. Moreover, she will likely send many scurrying to the side of Republicans, even if only temporarily.
One thing is certain: Ocasio-Cortez will showcase her ignorance over and over again. One only has to wait for the veneer to wear off, then some Leftists will pounce on her.
Frankly, I believe the Democrats will ultimately set her up. Get her to take some lobbyist money. Or perhaps they will lure her with some good-looking Latino Republican operative?
With chit in hand, that Democrat–likely Pelosi–will wrangle in the ingenue, then get Ocasio-Cortez to do her bidding. Because that's how things work in DC.
If Ocasio-Cortez has dirt, the Democrats will find it. If she's clean, Democrats will create it. Frankly, I'm anxious to see how this one plays out. Because I love watching nature shows where predators eat each other.


Experiment Farm: Stacey's is Closing!
Stacey's is closing. Nooooooooo… I mean, I've never exactly been the biggest cheerleader for independent booksellers after my first hand experience dealing with them in the late 90's. Too many of them had a chip on their shoulder somehow believing that the world owed them their existence and that adapting to the changing marketplace was somehow beneath them. Those stores all went out of business years ago. The ones that survived carved out niches and adapted.
I suppose though, in a world where Borders is on the verge of going under and so many companies are in trouble, how could Stacey's be expected to survive? It's a nice bookstore, and just a half block from my office. I bought Christmas presents there. Sure, it has its issues. The first time I walked in I thought the building had once been a Barnes & Noble that had closed and left all its fixtures behind. Seriously, I was very disoriented, but I got over it.
First Cody's closed back in June and now this. It's just sad really.
Wow, I don't think I had heard that Cody's had closed. And now Stacey's too.
Like you, I have never had much sympathy for independent booksellers, but that's too bad.
However, right now I am just hoping my local Borders stays afloat.
Yeah Cody's closed rather suddenly. They had just moved to a new space on Shattuck and then went kaput. I've added a link to an article about it in the body of the post.
I've heard that Borders isn't exactly a "blue" company politically, if you catchy my meaning, whereas B&N is supposedly much more progressive.
What you say about Borders may be true, but it's the only game in town here. And if they go under I just don't know where I will be able to buy Interweave Knits and F1 Racing magazines at the same place.


Victoria was commissioned this week to arrange the Darling Buds of May theme tune for string quartet. It was only when she arrived at the venue to perform it at the wedding, that the penny dropped.... it was the actual farm it was filmed at!
The girls of Lady Godivas had a great day and thoroughly enjoyed performing Victoria's new arrangement, not just for the entrance, but the exit of the bride too! They loved it THAT much!
Victoria's arrangements are available to buy. Just send an enquiry on her Contact page and she'll be happy to send you a list of what's currently available. She also takes commissions on request. POA.


nestled in the mountains of Santiago.
in the arms of the mighty Andes.
prisoners—to never return. This did not prevent them.
The birds have all gone.
ground and fled to mourn.
The country is so silent now.
I hold you in my hands.
Your cold feathers will be my shield.
Your chant will be my weapon.
and I will sing your songs forever.
the pampas and the deserts.
as the poverty of people filling my eyes.
to be able to learn how to be sufferers.


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New Uptown Restaurant Is Part Ministry
VIA CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
In the back of Jim Noble's beige Chevy Suburban, two of Charlotte's best young chefs – both Noble employees – page lustily through a catalog of restaurant equipment. They have their eye on one item in particular, a wood/electric cooker that can do dozens of ribs in one batch. Up front, Noble asks if it can handle a whole hog. He has his mind on barbecue.
He is driving north on Interstate 85, toward the city where he grew up, High Point, but also toward the barbecue joints he grew up with. Most of them smoked their pork shoulders slowly over hickory wood back then, but a vast majority of them have switched to gas, which is more affordable and less messy and, to Jim Noble, distressing.
He will not name these places. "I don't want to hurt anyone," he says, and this is in part because he's a kind man and in part because he knows his words carry heft in restaurant circles. Noble is one of North Carolina's renowned chefs, one of the first to emphasize locally grown products in his dishes, which he describes as "a Southerner's take on European cooking."
He also is one of Charlotte's busiest restaurateurs. This week, he will open his third in the city, a nonprofit uptown venture called King's Kitchen. Later this year, he'll launch an uptown version of the popular casual SouthPark restaurant Rooster's, and he wants to move the franchise, Noble's, to a new SouthPark or Myers Park location.
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Matthew Stafford Sports NFL football Professional football Football Brain cancer Cancer Diseases and conditions Health Tumors Celebrity Entertainment Arts and entertainment Wildlife health Wildlife Environment Environment and nature Animal health
Wife of Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford has brain tumor
FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2017, file photo, Kelly Stafford, wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, holds the couple's twins Sawyer, left, and Chandler during pre-game of an NFL football game against the Atlanta Falcons, in Detroit. Kelly Stafford plans to have surgery to remove a brain tumor. Stafford shared the details Wednesday, April 3, 2019, on her Instagram account. She says an MRI showed the tumor on cranial nerves after she had vertigo spells within the last year. (AP Photo/Rick Osentoski, File)
DETROIT (AP) — Kelly Stafford, the wife of Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, plans to have surgery to remove a brain tumor.
Stafford shared the details Wednesday on her Instagram account. She says an MRI showed the tumor on cranial nerves after she had vertigo spells within the last year.
Kelly and the Matthew Stafford have three daughters . They started dating at Georgia where she was a cheerleader and he was the star of the football team. He was the No. 1 pick in the 2009 NFL draft and has spent his entire career with the Lions.


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La Maschera Del Demonio / Black Sunday
Cani Arrabbiati
BIRDFLESH, DEVANGELIC, GUINEAPIG, ZIPPO
PRICE DROP!!
Choice Cuts from
La Maschera Del Demonio / Black Sunday Original Soundtrack - LP
The score to one of the most influential Horror Movies ever made, from Maestro Roberto Nicolosi, is available in its entirety on vinyl for the first time ever.
Remastered from the original master tapes at Toxic Basement Studio, cut at 45rpm and pressed on 180g audiophile vinyl, the album includes 20 unreleased tracks, liner notes from Lamberto Bava and is housed in a deluxe Gatefold sleeve with a die-cut slip-case featuring a stunning artwork by SoloMacello.
"LA MASCHERA DEL DEMONIO" Original Soundtrack is limited to 500 copies, available in two color variants:
- ASA'S REVENGE (Purple/Black vinyl) - limited to 100 copies + fold-out poster and an exclusive card (Spikerot.com Exclusive)
- KATIA'S CURSE (Bone vinyl) - limited to 400 copies
La Maschera Del Demonio / Black Sunday - T-Shirt
Exclusive "La Maschera Del Demonio" / "Black Sunday" inspired T-Shirt.
Spikerot.com exclusive, one time pressing.
I Vampiri Original Soundtrack - 2LP
Directed by Riccardo Freda and completed by the film's cinematographer, Mario Bava, "I Vampiri" is Italy's first horror film of the sound era.
We are very proud to release this gem composed by Maestro Roman Vlad for the first time ever on vinyl, Re-Mastered from the original tapes at Toxic Basement Studio and pressed on 2xLP set at 45 rpm on 180g vinyl for best sound quality.
Housed inside a Deluxe Gatefold Jacket with a stunning artwork by SoloMacello, " I VAMPIRI" comes in 2 color variants:
- 100x ETERNAL LIFE (Color in color - cyan blue inside ultra-clear w/ purple splatter) – Spikerot Exclusive
- 400x CASTLE FOG (Ultra-clear w/ black marble)
La Maschera Del Demonio / Black Sunday Original Soundtrack - LP + T-Shirt Bundle
The Bundle contains:
- "La Maschera Del Demonio" Original Soundtrack LP (Asa's Revenge - Purple/Black vinyl, limited to 100 copies + fold-out poster and exclusive card - Spikerot.com Exclusive)
- "La Maschera Del Demonio" exclusive inspired T-Shirt designed by SoloMacello
Choice Cuts from "PHILOSOPHY OF A KNIFE" OST - 2LP + CD
ANDREY ISKANOV & ALEXANDER SHEVCHENKO - CHOICE CUTS FROM PHILOSOPHY OF A KNIFE
- Finally available on vinyl the soundtrack to one of the most extreme and shocking movies of all time
- The most wicked industrial music meets flickering piano ballads and beautifully distressing soundscapes in this magnificient Opus.
- Mastered for viny.
- First time ever on vinyl with unreleased tracks, pressed on 2xLP plus a bonus CD
- Includes in-depth liner notes by director/composer Andrey Iskanov and composer Alexander Shevchenko
- Available in two variants:
- 400x "Risin Sun Flag" (Solid White)
- 100x "Unit 731" (Milky Clear w/ Red Splatter) - Spikerot Exclusive
- Artwork by SoloMacello
"Expect this to be a hit in the future among those who love to be shocked."
(Scream Horror Magazine)
Hobos - Nell'Era Dell'Apparenza - CD
Hobos is a Venice-based punk/metal five-piece and Spikerot Records is proud to release their new full-lenght entitled "Nell'Era Dell'Apparenza" (Italian for "In The Age Of Appearance").
The sophomore album contains 10 pieces of filthy street metallic punk in the best Hobos tradition, for fans of Blood Duster, Malignant Tumour and Disrupt.
Artwork designed by Lenny Lucchese.
Birdflesh - Night Of The Ultimate Mosh LP
The classic 2002 album from the swedish grindcore maniacs strikes again!
After a long time Sold Out "The Night Of The Ultimate Mosh" is available again on Vinyl
Nebula – Holy Shit - LP
22 years after their first release and 10 years after their last album, Nebula are back.
And you're thinking "Holy shit!" right now, you pretty much nailed it. Holy Shit is Nebula's first LP since 2009's Heavy Psych, and it quickly puts to rest the question that's loomed since guitarist/vocalist Eddie Glass, bassist Tom Davies and drummer Michael Amster announced the band's reformation in 2017.
Nebula are still Nebula.
* TRANSPARENT SPLATTER BLACK / PINK FLUO VINYL LIMITED TO 650 COPIES*
Nebula – Holy Shit - CD-Digi
Yawning Man – Macedonian Lines - LP
Yawning Man continue to establish their exceptionally unique approach to rock music on the bands latest album "Macedonian Lines" (Heavy Psych Sounds Records).
This follow up to the critically acclaimed "Revolt Against Tired Noises" shows a further maturing of melody, dynamics and emotion in the bands song writing.
Yawning Mans roots lay at the foundation of the desert rock and stoner rock sub genres however the music the band creates is truly organic and visceral, conjuring a flowing imagery and a emotional response.
On this release the band has a darker and massively heavier sound than past recordings as most of these tracks were developed in live performance and then fully realized in the studio.
*YELLOW SPLATTER LP LIMITED TO 500 COPIES*
Yawning Man – Macedonian Lines - CD-Digi
Gorilla - Treecreeper - LP
TREECREEPER - the first full length album by Gorilla since 2007's Rock Our Souls.
Preserving the classic Gorilla chest beatin', full throttle sound, Treecreeper's 9 (-count 'em!!!) slices of mind bending, sh*t storm rock combine elements of stoner, high energy, doom and heavy psych rock honed to razor sharp fuzz-toned perfection.
Recorded in good old fashioned analogue at Moles awesome North Downs Studio, Gorilla create a none stop, white knuckle, maximum riffin' HELL RIDE that will break your ears and loosen your rears! As one review of a recent show stated "Gorilla sound like Blue Cheer, Motorhead and St Vitus all playing in the same room at the same time"!
Gorilla are BACK to fuzz up your screams and rupture ya spleen in 2019!!
Gorilla - Treecreeper - CD-Digi
Prostitute Disfigurement – Prostitute Disfigurement - LP
Brand new Album of the mighty PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT!!!!
One of the Death Metal Highlights of the year, pure brutality!
Darkthrone – Old Star - LP Green
Darkthrone, the Norwegian Black Metal legends, marks its 2019 return with a sublime slab of relentless riffing in the true spirit of the underground.
Over the course of 30 years, Darkthrone has become a staple of the global Black Metal genre, forging a legacy as one of the most influential bands in its illustrious and often infamous history.
Old Star displays a mastery of the art of the riff, with its 6 epic tracks taking in the best of the old school of Heavy and Extreme Metal combined with a large dose of Doom channelled through the grime of the underground.
Aura Noir – Black Thrash Attack - LP
Norway's Aura Noir was formed in 1993 by Aggressor and Apollyon in pursuit of a more thrash-based form of black metal than much of what was coming out at the time - particularly in their homeland - citing bands such as Slayer, Sodom and Kreator as inspirations along with purveyors of the scene such as Venom, for a dirtier, stripped down, violent black/thrash metal sound.
'Black Thrash Attack' was Aura Noir's debut full length album, originally recorded & released in 1996, and was a continuation of the intense thrash riffing displayed on 'Dreams Like Deserts'.
This edition of 'Black Thrash Attack' has been newly re-mastered by the band in Oslo, and also includes an exclusive cover of the venom classic 'Heavens on Fire', from the cult 'Black Metal' album.
Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus Metallicus - LP
'Epicus Doomicus Metallicus' is a true classic.
Every track is undeniably strong - heavy metal riffs blended with almost neo-classical touches, plus some theatrical elements bringing to mind bands like Mercyful Fate (thought to be another influence).
This is one of the definitive Doom Metal releases, immortalising the band, alongside early developers of the style such as the US band, Pentagram.
'Epicus' was recorded at Thunderload Studios in 1986 and was released later that same year.
The vocals for this, their debut album, were handled by Johan Längqvist, before the iconic vocalist Messiah Marcolin became a solid fixture in the band until the early nineties.
Paradise Lost – Gothic - LP
Gothic, from 1991, was the genre-defining second album by Gothic Doom Metal progenitors, Paradise Lost.
Creating a more melancholy and sonically detailed form of Doom Metal, Paradise Lost offered distinctive lead guitar melodies and atmospheric arrangements that - along with fellow travellers Anathema and My Dying Bride - placed them at the forefront of the 1990s extreme Metal scene.
This edition of Gothic is available on 180gm black vinyl.
Darkthrone – Soulside Journey - LP
Darkthrone hail from Norway and for the past decade have been at the forefront of the infamous Black Metal movement - quite an achievement for a band who have only ever played a handful of live shows.
In 1986 they rose up from the darkness, brought to life by Gylve Nagell (drummer), Ted Skjellum (guitars/vocals), Ivar Enger (guitars) and Dag Nilsen (bass).
Under this line up the band released 3 demos, Land Of Frost, Thulcandra and Cromlech before signing to Peaceville Records in a 4-album deal.
Darkthrone's debut album 'Soulside Journey' (1991) was recorded at the much acclaimed Sunlight Studios in Sweden, and shows a major band at the beginning of a justly celebrated career of evil.
Darkthrone – A Blaze In The Northern Sky - LP
A Blaze In The Northern Sky, Darkthrone's second album, was originally issued in 1992 and was without question the blueprint release for the Black Metal scene.
An album that defined the now ubiquitous phrase 'True Norwegian Black Metal', it was hailed on release as an album of true scene shifting greatness.
The album saw a whole new blacker than black Darkthrone, new names, new sound and highly visual black and white artwork.
Fenriz claimed 'This is the new Darkthrone, the old Darkthrone is dead'.
Darkthrone – Transilvanian Hunger - LP
Simply one of the greatest Black Metal Albums of all time.
Darkthrone – Panzerfaust - LP
Panzerfaust, Darkthrone's fifth album was originally released in 1995 on the Norwegian label, Moonfog (the label previously owned by Satyr of Satyricon).
The album was recorded similarly to their previous release, Transilvanian Hunger, in that it was written and recorded solely by Fenriz at his home Necrohell studio, with Nocturno Culto later adding vocals.
Panzerfaust was largely inspired by the works of Celtic Frost, a long time favourite of the Darkthrone guys, and also includes a couple of fast songs in the Bathory style, a follow-on to the faster tempo of the tracks featured on Transilvanian Hunger.
With its feast of Frost-fuelled riffing, Panzerfaust is rightly hailed one of THE classic Darkthrone black metal albums. It also features lyrics written by Varg Vikernes of Burzum.
Darkthrone – Too Old Too Cold - LP
The Too Old Too Cold EP had its original release at the dawn of 2006 and acted as a precursor to the band's triumphant Peaceville comeback album, the revelatory black and roll release, The Cult is Alive.
As a showcase for this sleek new incarnation of Darkthrone, and with the band firmly back in control of their sound courtesy of their new Necrohell 2 Studio set-up, Too Old Too Cold showed that the band was here to stay, and lead the way.
Commenting back then, Fenriz defined the shift in style as "probably something like MOTORHEAD meeting HELLHAMMER on a CRUST PUNK/NECROTHRASH gig in '85".
Darkthrone – The Cult Is Alive - LP
Darkthrone – F.O.A.D. - LP
Writing began on 'FOAD' straight after the completion of last year's acclaimed 'The Cult is Alive'.
Recorded, mixed & all self-produced once again at the band's own Necrohell 2 studios throughout the first half of 2007, this labour of love (or is it hate') travels deep into the open seas of a rich musical heritage; a celebration of rock and metal; moving further from the pure primitive black metal they were once known for, but still embracing the roots of what made this tree grow so far and wide.
Yet still, Darkthrone only exist according to their OWN rules. Summarised perfectly by Fenriz, FOAD 'SOUNDS LIKE A WAR BETWEEN ATLANTIS AND THE REST OF PLANET!'.
Darkthrone – Soulside Journey - CD
Darkthrone – A Blaze In The Northern Sky - CD
Spike Rot
Depopulation Department reveal details about the debut 'Life Kills'
We are extremely proud to release it on CD and all major digital platforms.
New signing: NAGA
Spikerot Records is thrilled to announce the signing of the Italian Blackened Doom monster NAGA.
La Maschera Del Demonio / Black Sunday • Preorders are open
It's with great pride that we present our next Original Soundtrack Release. Roberto Nicolosi's score to Mario Bava's debut cult "La Maschera Del ...
Sedna signs to Spikerot Records
Spikerot Records is thrilled to announce the signing of the Italian Post Black Metal act Sedna.


A Mans Car made for Boys?
I was interested to read about the Electric Lotus Evora to be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show this month. It has acceleration unrivalled by its petrol sister. Just a little disappointed that Lotus should have developed a sound chip to make the whisper quiet electric car sound like it had an internal combustion engine. Lotus even programmed the electric motor to jolt when accelerating to make the driver feel that he is changing gear. I used to put scraps of cardboard in the spokes if my tricycle to make it sound as if it had an engine but I grew out of that when I was seven. Can you really imagine a grown man wanting his expensive electric car sounding like it had a petrol engine?


The parish of St Thomas Aquinas seeks to maintain a strong, joyful, welcoming community. We strive to deepen our faith and spirituality, as individuals and as a community. We will live our faith more fully by carrying the message of the Gospel to all.


The Italian magazine Amico Logico, which should be out today, contains a page of puzzles that I designed.
Amico Logico is probably the best logic puzzle magazine currently available in Italy. Its strength is variety: in 84 pages, it contains about 150 puzzles of more than 40 different kinds, and the editors strive to provide new kinds of puzzles in every issue.
If you want to print it out, open the PDF (it contains the solutions too).
The rule of the puzzle: draw a closed path that passes through every cell of the grid. The loop must not cross or touch itself.
This puzzle is very similar to Monorail by Glenn A. Iba. Effectively, it can be thought of as the dual: the difference is that Monorail tells you some segments where the path must pass, while my puzzle tells you segments where the path must not pass.
Do you like these puzzles? Would you like to play them on iPhone and iPad? Please let me know in the comments. Feedback will be crucial in the decision of whether or not to go ahead with the development of an app.


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The Québec Court of Appeal Orders the Minister of Health to put Remicade Back on the List
Fasken
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Intellectual Property Bulletin
The highest court in Québec recently rendered its decision in Janssen inc v. Ministre de la Santé et des Services sociaux,[1] reversing the Superior Court judgment and ordering the Minister of Health to reinstate Remicade on the list of drugs approved for reimbursement under Québec's public drug plan.
The Court of Appeal quashed the Minister's decision to remove Remicade from the reimbursed drug list, breaking with usual practice by the courts to defer to ministerial decisions. The Court's main basis for reversing the decision was that the Minister had not followed the principles of procedural fairness in his relations with Janssen.
Fasken (Julie Desrosiers, Christian Leblanc, Marie Lafleur and Patricia Hénault) represented Janssen in this landmark case.
Every province maintains and updates a list of drugs that are covered by the basic prescription drug insurance plan and for which reimbursement is provided by the province. If a drug is not on a provincial list, it is not reimbursed, and accordingly it is less likely to be prescribed.
In Québec, according to the Act respecting Prescription Drug Insurance of Québec ('the Act'), the Minister of Health is responsible for establishing, maintaining, and updating the List of drugs that are reimbursed by the Québec public drug plan ('the List'). This List is regularly updated by Regulation according to section 60 of the Act.
Remicade is a breakthrough drug that has been marketed by Janssen for over 20 years. It is particularly effective for patients with certain chronic inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease.
Remicade is approved by Health Canada and is prescribed Canada-wide. It is on numerous provincial reimbursement lists and had been on the Québec List since 2000.
In February 2017, the Minister of Health decided to remove Remicade from the Québec List, without consulting or advising Janssen and without providing any reasons for his decision. The Minister issued a notice on the RAMQ's website informing the public that Remicade would no longer be reimbursed for new patients.
Janssen successfully challenged this decision before the Québec Court of Appeal.
Administrative decision or regulatory decision?
A key issue in the case was whether the Minister's delisting decision was administrative or legislative in nature. Indeed, since the List is updated by regulation, does the decision to list or delist a drug amount to a Regulation? According to the Court of Appeal, the characterization has practical importance because, "issues of procedural fairness and reasonableness of the decision both hinge on that qualification."[2]
The Superior Court found that the Minister's decision was legislative in nature. The judgment thus set a questionable precedent: it allowed the Minister to make decisions with a substantial impact on both the patients being treated with the drug and the drug's manufacturer while holding the government to a lower standard of procedural fairness and reasonableness obligations.
The Court of Appeal explained that a legislative instrument like a statute or regulation is general and impersonal.[3] It is normally directed to an indeterminate number of persons, and therefore [translation] "should not, in principle, apply specifically to individuals or individual situations."[4] While exceptionally there are some regulations that apply only to one person due to factual circumstances, they are nonetheless written in general, normative terms.[5]
In the context of the List of drugs approved for reimbursement, even though the List is updated by regulation, that periodic update can be distinguished from "the Minister's individual decisions regarding the [specific] medications listed or removed" from the List.[6] Those individual decisions are made prior to the update, "one by one, on a case-by-case basis, according to each medication in question".[7]
The Court of Appeal therefore held that the Minister's decision was fundamentally an administrative decision. This in turn determined the framework within which the Minister must exercise his powers, both in terms of reasonableness and procedural fairness.
The Court of Appeal concluded that the Minister's decision to remove Remicade from the List of drugs approved for reimbursement in Québec was an administrative decision and that, as a result, the Minister had to respect the rules of procedural fairness.
After examining the applicable criteria established by the Supreme Court in the well-known Baker decision,[8] the Court of Appeal concluded that the Minister had an obligation to:
Give Janssen sufficient notice that he intended to remove its medication from the List of drugs approved for reimbursement in Québec;
Give Janssen an opportunity to make submissions relating to the decision; and
Give reasons for its decision. [9]
The Court of Appeal concluded that, in spite of the great deference that the courts must show for ministerial decisions,[10] the Minister had not met its procedural fairness obligations.
In the instance, Janssen had not received notice that Remicade was going to be removed from the list;[11] it had not been invited to a meeting with the Minister in order to disclose the reasons for the delisting and he did not give Janssen a chance to respond.[12] Moreover, the Minister did not provide any reasons for his decision.[13] The Court of Appeal therefore allowed the appeal, set aside the Minister's decision, and ordered that Remicade be reintroduced on the List of drugs approved for reimbursement in Québec.
Was the Minister's decision reasonable?
Having concluded that procedural fairness had not been respected, and having set the Minister's decision aside on that ground alone, the Court of Appeal did not rule as to the reasonableness of the decision. That question therefore remains open for future debate.
The decision in Janssen is reassuring, since it reaffirms the basic duty of procedural fairness that is owed to everyone who is subject to administrative action or who otherwise interacts with a ministry or government entity.
This decision reminds government bodies that they are bound by the rules of procedural fairness in the actions they take and the decisions they make.
More specifically, in the context of delisting decisions from public drug plans:
A party must be informed of the decision that the government intends to make;
It must have the opportunity to present its position and submit its arguments; and
In the event that the government nonetheless decides to make an unfavourable decision, sufficient reasons must be provided to support that decision.
[1] Janssen inc v. Ministre de la Santé et des Services sociaux, 2019 QCCA 39 [Janssen].
[2] Janssen, supra note 1 at para. 34 [translation].
[3] Janssen, supra note 1 at para. 49.
[4] Janssen, supra note 1 at paras. 39-40.
[6] Janssen, supra note 1 at para. 45 [translation]. This is the case not only for the decision at issue (i.e. to remove Remicade from the list), but also for a series of other decisions that may be made concerning drugs that are or are not added to the list, the manufacturers of the drugs, etc. (see paras. 46-48).
[9] Janssen, supra note 1, at para. 81.
[10] Janssen, supra note 1 at para. 80.
[11] Janssen, supra note 1 at paras. 84-85.
Julie Desrosiers Partner | LEADER, Intellectual Property Montréal, QC +1 514 397 7516
jdesrosiers@fasken.com
Patricia Hénault Associate Montréal, QC +1 514 397 7488
phenault@fasken.com