Abstract: - A model for virtual entity representation in mixed reality is proposed. Virtual entities are actors in this model, which enable real, virtual, natural and artificial objects to interact according to a common ontology. The first part of the paper deals with architectural issues, including a three layer stack for semantic, middleware and physical interaction protocols. It also discusses some management mechanisms to allow entities to be created and perform semantic cooperation. The second part discusses a virtual entity FIPA agent implementation, which has been carried out by means of the JADE platform. Finally, as a case study on interactions between tourists and artifacts in a heritage site, the paper discusses a simple spot of a HAREM application design.
Augmented Reality (AR) can be considered the key paradigm of ubiquitous computing. Its effectiveness can actually help the transition from the today vision of internet information society to one built on pervasive computing.
AR introduces a new life style which need to be aware of the surrounding environment as something richer than the old natural reality. Even if AR should not stand as something artificial, it is difficult to be unaware of today reality as a relation space in which interactions may be artificial. We can guess that in a few years, many of things we can see or touch will have some artificial logic attached.
An AR system has to manage two basic classes of resources: physical and logical. Physical resources can be natural beings or things, as well as digital devices working in a real landscape; logical resources are software objects within a hidden network [WONT 2002] and interact according to some distributed paradigm.
Physical and virtual resources can be part of autonomous entities which live in augmented reality and interact, cooperate, join groups, fund societies. Groups, societies, and whatever else aggregation instance become autonomous entities as well, which in turn can interact with other entities.
According to a traditional vision of reality, AR entities could therefore be natural, artificial, real, virtual, or mixed. However, when two entities interact in AR, they need to use some common ontology and a peer to peer protocol. This is really hard to arrange when entities are heterogeneous: Consider a visitor who is looking at a statue. The visitor is a complex entity which uses its eyes to look at a physical statue. This way, the actual interaction is performed on a homogeneous physical layer. What the visitor perceives of the statue is a result of some process running in a higher layer organ of the visitor entity. In practice, visitor and statue cannot use a peer to peer protocol to interact between them directly. In our case the visitor uses some internal vertical protocol to get a service from its eyes.
We want to use this approach to design virtual entities in mixed reality (MR) systems, thus letting real physical beings or things be parts of virtual entities.
When dealing with AR software systems, entities are software frames [BAKER 1998] to be implemented according to some functional stack in which software objects always are one layer higher than physical objects at least.
Mixed reality has been investigated in last years with the main goal of achieving interaction rules among real and artificial objects involved in some computer application. Some contributions are available dealing with the hypermedia paradigm. [ROMERO 2003] proposes an object-oriented framework on a hypertext Reference Model [HALASZ 1994] and a hypermedia data model in which information data are represented by atomic components. The aim of the hypermedia model there is to integrate the physical world and virtual documents and worlds. In [Grønbæk 2003] a tagging system is proposed based on three main categories: object, collectional and tool. This allows the authors to discuss empirical studies on collectional artifacts to be used in a specific work setting of landscape architects. Mixed reality is often investigated in museum applications. In [HALL 2002] the SHAPE consortium in Sweden is presented mostly dealing with disappearing hardware and augmented reality topics. The authors discuss how a virtual archaeologist can explore a museum along with virtual history outdoors and hybrid physical-digital artifacts.
Most of mixed reality system are based on some location awareness model as in [Duri 2001] and in the Cyberguide project [LONG 1996]. Among others the Archeoguide project [VLAHAKIS 2001] needs to be mentioned as an augmented reality application with the aim of a VRML reconstruction of Olympia archaeological sites in Greece.
There is also a wide literature to be read on ubiquitous computing starting from the first vision of Mark Weiser [WEISER 91] to the proceedings of the recent Ubicomp2003 conference in which some attractive advanced augmented reality applications were presented.
Differently to the above mentioned projects, the HAREM model faces the mixed reality problem from an ontological point of view. All objects in augmented reality are parts of virtual entities whose semantic abstractions wrap physical and virtual resources. An object in AR is not only what can be read of it in a vocabulary; an object can become what other entities need to perceive of it, including semantic contents and actions not naturally belonging to that object.
- a physical projection for physical interaction and physical resource management.
Semantic and middleware projections are the non-visible part of an AR entity. This includes a knowledge base and a collection of methods, along with an overall execution logic which implements knowledge processing and method activation.
Physical projection accounts for physical resource management in AR visible part. It acts through a sequence of exposition - perception cycles and allows an entity to interact with physical projections of other entities by means of multimedia devices.
Each projection layer was conceived to work in a multithread execution environment, thus letting entity multi-projections interact with many other entities at a time.
Survival: knowledge, rules an methods dealing with security and fault tolerance issues.
I nstinct: default reaction behavior of an entity, to be called by the sub-layer selection logic.
First time, after its creation, sub-layers are started according to a top-down schedule. Next sub-layer selection depends on incoming messages types. In some cases a sub-layers can call another sub-layer directly; in other cases vocation sub-layer provides the correct schedule according to the mission to be pursued.
Any middleware platform could be used to implement the HAREM structure (Fig. 2). Nevertheless, semantic projection was conceived having in mind the FIPA standard and its intelligent agent internal structure. As it will be discussed in the implementation notes, the HAREM code is being developed using Java within the JADE platform. HAREM is therefore FIPA compliant. Its internal structure can be considered as an extension of the FIPA agent.
Generally speaking, the implementation of the middleware projection gives rise to some grid computing functionalities for complex distributed service providing.
Physical interaction between entities in AR is performed at the lowest layer, where I/O device drivers and physical interaction logic take place.
We suppose AR resources are to be shared among entities. Therefore, an entity can be created without a full set of knowledge and methods, if these can be supplied by other entities somewhere in AR. Entities can even be conceived, whose logical resources are pure knowledge made up of a simple rule and no methods. We call these entities semantic cells. A semantic cell is unable to activate procedural executions itself, since it is not provided with any method. Nevertheless, when a procedural execution is required for task accomplishment, a semantic cell can invoke a cooperation mechanism to ask for help from other entities.
An entity or a semantic cell which cannot find a resource in its semantic projection, is said to show a semantic gap which needs to be filled.
In the following we discuss a cooperation mechanism to discovery and share knowledge and methods among entities. The mechanism must be efficient, fault tolerant, and capable of dynamically adapting itself to AR environment changes. This mechanism must also include a strategy for resource discovery, thus allowing entities, semantic cells, and methods to be bound in a semantic process. This also ensures AR redundancy reduction.
1) the expansion rules and methods are not available in the whole AR system.
2) the expansion rules and methods are owned by other entities.
, which allows unexpanded predicates to be linked to entities which are expected to contain expansion rules for them. However, AR environments are strongly dynamic: entity knowledge and methods may change over time. This implies that an LE may have a reference to an FE which is expected to contain expansion rules for some predicates, but actually does not. Once the FE has recognized such an occurrence, it recursively behaves as an LE, and exhibits a semantic gap.
The opposite situation may occur as well: an LE may not contain a reference to an FE because this FE acquired knowledge and methods only after the LE FET setup. In this case knowledge and method should be looked up across the whole AR system.
An FE can update an LE FET by adding a couple, with its own name. This way, the FE becomes available for direct cooperation with the LE. This solution appears to be the most simple and immediate. However it may bring some bottleneck effect, because an FE could be invoked for cooperation by a large number of LE.
n FE can update an LE by providing the requested knowledge and methods. This solution overcomes the bottleneck effect, but it can entail some overload due to LE update. Moreover, the same update may be needed on a large number of LE, thus resulting in system redundancy. Finally, some delay also occurs in cooperation due to update completion time.
An FE can generate a new entity which will be equipped with the requested knowledge and methods. After that the LE FET has to be updated by an entry with the new created entity name. This way a new entity becomes available for direct cooperation with the LE. This last approach increases system efficiency, but it requires a creation mechanism by which an entity (creator) can generate another entity. In order to overcome security drawbacks, initial knowledge and methods of the created entity are arranged as a subset of those of the creator entity. After that, created entities can grow independently from their creators.
We are developing a mobile agent middleware system by which an LE can delegate a resource look up agent to search a missing resource.
HAREM virtual entities are software agents capable of pursuing goals through their autonomous decisions, actions and social relationships. Similarly to a FIPA agent [FIPA 2002A], each role is a collection of complex behaviours performed by tasks. Actually, a HAREM entity may be mapped on a FIPA agent, by suitably enriching its structure. More precisely, some functional blocks should be added in the UML functional description of a FIPA agent, which account for vocation, survival and instinct.
Vocation aims at generating a context driven execution path among the role tasks, and manage their execution priority.
Survival aims at activating basic high-priority functionalities, which can be undertaken for security and preservation ends.
Instinct aims at activating simple reactive task, which are undertaken without any semantic elaboration.
An HAREM entity is arranged as a FIPA agent with five specialized roles: a receiver role, a vocation role, an ability role, a survival role, an instinct role (Fig. 4).
Further application specific operating roles are also included. Diagram in Fig. 5 describes the HAREM role interaction protocol according to the representation proposed by [ODELL 2001]. Each request addressed to the HAREM entity is first processed by receiver, which forwards it to survival and to vocation. Survival mainly deals with security issues: when some danger is detected, it alerts vocation. If no danger is detected, vocation selects the application specific operating roles to comply with the request. Communication between vocation and operating roles takes place according to the FIPA specifications on Agent Interaction Protocols [FIPA 2001] and to communicative act semantics in [FIPA 2002B].
Each operating role may send a request to ability for external resource lookup. This is performed by a request sent by the ability to other HAREM agents.
Finally, instinct is a default operating role. Vocation sends the request to instinct only if no other operating role can comply with it.
We are currently setting up a HAREM based application for service providing in cultural heritage environments. The project aims at turning a cultural heritage site into augmented reality for tourist service providing. For example, if a visitor is near some interesting object (e.g. a sculpture, a painting, some ruins), he should be automatically provided with information and facilities about it. In AR this is accomplished by interaction between the visitor and the surrounding environment. Similarly to other projects, our approach requires that visitors are provided with some mobile device (e.g. a PDA or a cellular phone with suitable connectivity features).
A Site Positioning System (SPS), which is currently based on Bluetooth and Infrared technologies, accomplishes position tracking of each visitor and stores 2 or 3 fixed coordinates of each interesting physical object in the environment, thus allowing proximity detection for context aware service providing.
Here we show a simple example from our application. As hinted in introduction, suppose that a statue is placed in some point of our site. Some spotlights (S1,S2 and S3) and a remote display are placed next to the statue.
1) when some visitor gets near the statue, a brief presentation of the statue is showed on the remote display.
2) when some visitor near the statue shows interest in some detail or explanation about the statue, required information is presented on the remote display.
3) when there is no visitor around, all the spotlights and the remote display are switched off.
4) when someone gets too near to the statue, an alarm system is activated.


The House of Commons has been criticised for launching an investigation into the source of a Sun story showing an MP playing Candy Crush during a meeting.
The Sun published pictures of Tory Nigel Mills enjoying the hit computer game during a Work and Pensions Committee evidence session.
A source said they had seen the Amber Valley MP playing the game over a period of two and a half hours.
Mills told the newspaper: "It was a long meeting on pension reforms, which is an important issue that I take very seriously.
"There was a bit of the meeting that I wasn't focusing on and I probably had a game or two.
A Commons spokesman said the photograph broke strict parliamentary rules.
Taking such unauthorised images can lead to individuals being barred from the estate.
"This was a breach of the filming rules for House of Commons Committee Rooms, and will be investigated by the Serjeant at Arms," a spokesman said.
The committee met last Monday and was discussing pensions and the insurance industry ahead of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement announcement.
Commons rules state that: "No one should photograph, film or sketch or have their voice recorded anywhere within the Parliamentary Estate without permission.
"Anyone who attempts to do so, or to market, publish or transmit such material will be referred to Black Rod or the Serjeant at Arms.
"This could prejudice their future admission to the Houses of Parliament."
Journalists and others have criticised the decision to investigate the leak on Twitter.
Sun managing editor Stig Abell said: "Sun runs good story about MP playing Candy Crush. Parliamentary response: hunt the whistleblower. What is wrong with these people?"


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1. Students must submit a letter to the Deans of Faculty Office within 10 calendar days of the date in which the incident or the complaint occurred. In the case of a final grade discrepancy, the letter should be submitted within 15 calendar days of the release of grades. In the written complaint, the student should describe his or her concerns, the events that led to those concerns, and provide any supporting documentation.
2. The Dean may choose to meet with both the student and the faculty member involved in an attempt to resolve the issue. If the issue is not resolved, the Dean will convene the Academic Grievance Committee.
3. The Academic Grievance Committee will review the written grievance and all documentation. The Committee may or may not interview both the student and the faculty member. A member of the Committee will notify the student in writing of the Committee's decision within 5 working days.
4. If the student remains unsatisfied with the decision issued by the Academic Grievance Committee, the student may make a final appeal to the Vice President for Academic Affairs. This appeal must be in writing and submitted no later than 5 working days from the date of the decision issued by the Academic Grievance Committee. The appeal must specify in detail why the decision of the Academic Grievance Committee was unsatisfactory and must be supported with compelling justification, such as a procedural error (someone was involved who should not have been, a timeline was not met, or substantiated bias) or evidence that was previously unknown or unavailable. Within 10 working days of receipt of the student appeal the Vice President for Academic Affairs will issue a decision regarding the appeal. This decision will either uphold the decision of the Student Academic Appeals Committee or will issue other remedies as the Vice President for Academic Affairs deems appropriate. The decision of the Vice President for Academic Affairs is final.
In the case where a complaint is levied against any member of the Academic Grievance Committee, the Vice President for Academic Affairs will appoint a substitute.
Except as otherwise specified, an appeal of an application of College policy or College decision must be made within one year. Policy determinations or results of decisions are considered to be final without opportunity for appeal at the one-year point.

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A new ring road has been built around Aberdeen without any provision for cyclists and one particular intersection is now more treacherous for cyclists than it was before. People using the Deeside Way must navigate a dangerous intersection to cross the B979 to rejoin the pathway. The problem is due to a missing pavement which hasn't been completed and it's not clear whose responsibility it is to complete.
The Deeside Way is an old converted train line which is completely traffic-free and popular with cyclists, walkers, joggers, and even horses. The AWPR goes straight past the Deeside cycleway and could have provided a fast and direct route for cyclists to get to the airport and beaches to the north of Aberdeen, had they included a segregated cycleway in the design. Instead cyclists will be banned from using the road. Ironically, an event has been planned for the weekend of September 8 and 9 for cyclists and pedestrians to celebrate, among other things, active travel.
The people of Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire think it's unacceptable in the 21st Century for new roads to completely ignore the needs of cyclists and other modes of active travel. The cyclists and pedestrians of Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire are gathering for a demonstration outside Marischal College on Sunday 9th September at 12 noon to demand better provision for active travel. A lot of money has been spent building the new AWPR but cyclists were not considered in the design and its construction has made conditions worse for cyclists.
The fencing and lack of a pavement mean that cyclists and pedestrians are forced to perform this dangerous manoeuvre if they want to use the Deeside way.
We want all road projects – including new builds and maintenance works – to incorporate active travel in the design phase.
If you want to join Rachel and the Aberdeen Cycle Forum you can sign up to the Facebook event here – and if you want to take things further Aberdeen Cycle Forum are jointly hosting a Walk Cycle Vote Campaigners' Day in Aberdeen at the end of the month.


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'WOW, Comey is a leaker!': Trump knocks ex-FBI director after testimony
Yahoo News• June 9, 2017
President Trump took to Twitter early Friday to declare victory in his war of words with James Comey, denouncing the FBI director he fired as a liar and a "leaker" based on Comey's damaging testimony about their interactions.
But, in a leap of logic that left observers puzzled, he also claimed "vindication" on the basis of the same testimony.
"Despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication…and WOW, Comey is a leaker!" Trump tweeted.
Trump's claim of vindication contrasts sharply with most legal analysts' takeaway from the testimony. Both the New York Times and Washington Post ran front-page stories Friday raising the prospect of an obstruction of justice investigation.
Related slideshow: James Comey testifies at Senate hearing >>>
Comey said during his testimony to the Senate that as FBI director he drafted — and shared with his senior staff — memos about his interactions with Trump that left him uneasy. According to Comey, the president asked him to "go easy" in his investigation of fired national security adviser Michael Flynn, an unprecedented request from a president to the head of the FBI. Last month after he was fired, Comey said a threatening Trump tweet prompted him to ask a friend to share the content of the memos with the press — presumably the basis for Trump's charge that he was a "leaker."
It wasn't clear from Trump's tweet what he was accusing Comey of lying about, but the president's personal lawyer issued a statement following the testimony disputing several key points. His lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, denied that Trump pressured the FBI regarding the Flynn investigation or demanded "loyalty" from Comey.
"The president never, in form or substance, directed or suggested that Mr. Comey stop investigating anyone," Kasowitz said.
President Trump; James Comey (Photos: Evan Vucci/AP; Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
For his part, Comey was much clearer during his testimony on what he accused Trump's administration of spreading "lies" about.
"Although the law required no reason at all to fire an FBI director, the administration then chose to defame me, and more importantly, the FBI, by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly led, that the workforce had lost confidence in its leader," Comey said Thursday. "Those were lies, plain and simple. And I am so sorry that the FBI workforce had to hear them, and I am so sorry that the American people were told them."
After Trump abruptly fired Comey last month, the White House released a bewildering and continually evolving explanation for the dismissal. The administration initially accused Comey's FBI of being mismanaged and said he was fired for publicly bungling his investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server.
Related slideshow: Comey and cocktails: People in bars and restaurants watch ex-FBI director's testimony >>>
Trump himself quickly dismissed that explanation, however, saying Comey was terminated for being a "showboat." He reportedly told top Russian diplomats that the firing relieved pressure from the FBI's investigation into whether any Trump campaign associates colluded with the Kremlin to influence the 2016 election.
During his testimony, Comey said Trump pushed him to lift the "cloud" of the Russia probe. As for his firing, he said he took the president's word that it was prompted by the investigation.
Comey said he was confident that the Justice Department's special counsel on the Russia investigation, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, would uncover the truth.
Read more from Yahoo News:
James Comey on Trump meeting: 'Lordy, I hope there are tapes'
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Comey asked Columbia Law professor to leak memos to reporter
Comey: 'I take the president at his word that I was fired because of the Russian investigation''
Photos: James Comey testifies at Senate hearing


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Flirting With Disaster (1996)
Ben Stiller as Mel Coplin
Tea Leoni as Tina Kalb
George Segal as Mr. Coplin
Mary Tyler Moore as Mrs. Coplin
Patricia Arquette as Nancy Coplin
Comedy, Indie, Romance
Rated R For Language, Sexuality and A Comic Drug Scene
"Flirting with Disaster'' is a comedy about a subject usually handled more seriously: an adopted man's search for his birth parents. What triggers this quest for Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) is the birth of his first son. He tells his wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) that unless he knows who he really is, he doesn't feel able to name his son.
They enlist the aid of Tina (Tea Leoni), an official at the adoption agency, who wants to tag along and videotape their search for "research.'' Tina is obviously going to be trouble. She's a former dancer, lithe and shapely, and she comes along just as Mel and Nancy are experiencing a post-partum sexual crisis.
Mel's search is not as simple as first it seems. The three fly to San Diego for a rendezvous with his natural mother Valerie (Celia Weston), who, like everyone in this film, seems rotated a few degrees from normal. She makes the crucial mistake of thinking Tina is his wife and Nancy is the nanny. He meets his new twin sisters, beach volleyball bimbos. In a progression of events that seems logical at the time but is tricky to explain afterward, Mel and Tina begin by trying to fix a video camera, and end in an Indian wrestling match that knocks over the mother's china cabinet. And then it turns out Valerie is not the real mother after all. She wants to get paid for that broken china.
The movie, it becomes clear, is using the search for roots as an excuse to introduce a series of strange and eccentric characters, and the more of them we meet, the funnier it gets. The writer and director is David O. Russell, whose first feature, the independently produced "Spanking the Monkey," as yet unseen by me, won him the financing for this more ambitious and very funny film. He seems to have used a lot of his budget on the cast, assembling a large group of mostly familiar faces, who project that special joy actors emanate when they know they have a great line coming up.
Mary Tyler Moore and George Segal play Mel's adoptive parents, who hover on the edge of hysteria. During a side trip to a frozen urban setting in Michigan, we meet another prospective parent, a semi-truck driver (David Patrick Kelly), who lets his "son" drive his big rig before revealing that his former wife ran off with Mel's real father. Mel manages to steer the big rig into a small U.S. Post Office, destroying it, and leading to his arrest by two agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (Richard Jenkins and Josh Brolin).
The agents, who are lovers, volunteer to tag along on the last leg of the journey, to Antelope Springs, N.M., where Mel at last meets his real natural parents (Alan Alda and Lily Tomlin), and discovers that they gave him up for adoption because they were sentenced to prison for manufacturing "a very small amount, relatively," of LSD.
All of this is not nearly complicated enough, and so Russell stirs in their younger son (Glenn Fitzgerald), an angry punk hipster who has a quail recipe that involves LSD. Meanwhile, the sexual tension between Mel and Tina heats up, while one of the gay federal agents decides he is bisexual after all, and is attracted to Nancy.
Screwball comedy is the most difficult of all genres, I wrote just the other week (in reviewing "Two Much," which proved abundantly just how difficult).
"Flirting with Disaster'' has the sort of headlong confidence the genre requires. Russell finds the strong central line all screwball begins with, the seemingly serious mission or quest, and then throws darts at a map of the United States as he creates his characters. He is also wise enough to know that all the characters don't have to be funny all the time; there is a quiet pathos in the character of Nancy, and Patricia Arquette does a subtle job of establishing her feelings: She's a new mother who should be the center of attention, and has been blindsided by this manic quest and by the allure of Tina. "She may be attractive, but she's got a screw loose,'' Nancy warns her husband.
Among the other pleasures of "Flirting with Disaster" is the way we cannot predict the movie's next turn. There are conventions in this sort of story, and Russell seems to violate most of them. He allows the peculiarities of his characters to lead them away from the plot line and into perplexities of their own. To watch that happening is a lot of fun.
Mary Tyler Moore 1936-2017
by Susan Wloszczyna
The Huckabees Harangues


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Jack the Ripper and British Attitudes to Sex and Murder: Conclusion
As this four-part series has demonstrated, the lure of Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel murders allows us to examine society's fascination with sex and murder. Murders, firstly, allow people to feel the excitement of knowing that life is short while still remaining safe in their homes. The constant sense of mystery about Jack the Ripper has also added to society's interest with its ability to pique people's curiosity. Furthermore, due to the fact that he was never caught, there was never any "closure" or any way to know why he did it, leaving us with only our imaginations to try to find the answer (For the full post discussing people's interest in murder and mystery Click Here).
Where the murders took place is also important, it could be linked to much of the messaging that social investigators such as Henry Mayhew, philanthropists concerned with morality and those concerned with sanitation were promoting. The press highlighted many of the issues that these groups were talking about; pointing out that the overcrowding and dark streets were a large reason why things were so dire in this part of London. On the other hand, the fact that the murders were limited to Whitechapel allowed middle class readers to feel comforted by the fact that these dangers were far away from them, allowing them to watch the events from a distance (for more information about the role of Whitechapel with the fascination with Jack the Ripper Click Here).
Presenting these women as common prostitutes, or "unfortunates", allowed, not only for readers to be further distanced from such brutality but also for commentators to make a point about the immorality of the area and the dangers of sexual deviation. Yet when the press and investigators looked into these women's lives it was often found that this was not accurate, out of the canonical five, only Elizabeth Stride and Mary Jane Kelly were the only ones who had any connection to prostitution. Even then, Elizabeth Stride, in particular, was found to mostly work as a charwoman, people who knew said that she only resorted to prostitution "when driven to extremities" and, furthermore, rather than having a reputation as a hardened prostitute, she was well liked by those who knew her and remembered her as a quiet person.[1] These murders demonstrate the ways that Victorians navigated around the question of sex and sexual behaviour; as a topic that was required to be discussed in rather indirect ways, the press used language in ways to navigate around taboo words in order to provide the reading public with as much detail and sexual intrigue as possible (for more information about the role of sex and sexual behaviour and the fascination with the Whitechapel Murders Click Here).
Through the Whitechapel Murders, it is possible to see how the Victorian press linked the reputation of the area with the reputation of prostitutes; the prostitutes found working in Whitechapel were thought to be the lowest members of society and connected to the criminal underworld also thought to preside there. The fact that women who were labelled as prostitutes were killed in an area that was viewed as their geographical equivalent appears as a symbolic connection and as some of the theories as to who was Jack the Ripper show, it appeared to be treated as such. The search and determination to find a Jewish Jack demonstrates how the linking of different "outcasts" within the "outcast" area of London as a way to comprehend the mutilations and violence of the Whitechapel Murders (for more information about how stereotypes and prejudice had a role in the fascination with the Whitechapel Murders Click Here).
[1] "The Whitechapel Murders: Rewards Offered: Inquest on Elizabeth Stride," Birmingham Daily Post, (Birmingham, Tuesday 2 October 1888), Issue 9444.
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Zion's (Mad) Dogs of War Unleashed Again?
By Sid Walker
July 14, 2006 in Political Debates
Peter McGuire
Dear Mark:
I have read through the exchange that happened on this forum with Michael Piper and to say I am not impressed by the conduct of some of the researchers here is an understatement.
"Final Judgment" does an excellent job of showing how the Lansky crime syndicate fits in with a lot of the research that is already out there. At the very least , you finally understand who Jack Rubenstein really is.
Until Final Judgment, most people also were not aware of Kennedys conflict with Ben Gurion. And rather than going over, ad nauseum , all the details of the execution day , Final Judgment finally looks at the big picture.
Angleton seems to be the link to the Mossad which makes it a combined CIA/Mossad operation. And the proposed motive is very clear; State Survival.
In any event, with the shut down of protection that day, it is very clear that it was an "inside job". While Johnson was covered by his bodyguards the moment shots were fired, Greer and Kellerman just looked at Kennedy and waited over 6 seconds until he was good and dead. All the other Agents were ordered not to do anything by Agent Emory P Roberts. The world was led to believe Hill actually tried to do something. All he did was cover Kennedys dead body after Jackie picked up her husbands brains. ( Off the BACK of the car) From the shot from the FRONT!
Edited August 10, 2006 by Peter McGuire
Owen Parsons
Norman Finkelstein's site has posted a very interesting August 3rd speech from Hassan Nasrallah.
An excerpt:
I reach the last part which pertains to the political part. I say this: I would like to confirm to our Lebanese people and the peoples of our nation as well as the world. I want to be very clear. The killings, massacres, destruction, atrocities and barbarism that have taken place since the first day of the war and continue to be, Bush and his US administration are the first ones to be blamed. In our opinion, Olmert and his government are mere executive tools of this war. I want to stress on this meaning and say that the blood of the women and children in Qana as well as the blood of all the old people and innocent civilians whose blood was shed in Lebanon are tainting the faces of Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney and this US administration. This administration is the assassin, murderer and assailant. Until now, this administration has been thwarting all attempts to stop the aggression and it is designing the terms and trying to dictate these terms. This issue must be clear to each Lebanese, each Moslem and Christian, and each noble person in this world. We are explaining this issue to eliminate any confusion.
Looks like I'm not the only who thinks the power of the Lobby is over-hyped.
Mark Stapleton
In any event, with the shut down of protection that day, it is very clear that it was an "inside job". While Johnson was covered by his bodyguards in a heartbeat, Kennedy was left to die.
Yes, it's true that the welcome afforded to Michael Piper by some on the Forum was less than couteous. It is, of course, a very sensitive subject.
While this topic would be more suited to the assassination section of the Forum, I will briefly say that I agree with your comments about Ruby and Angleton. Angleton's connection to Israel is rarely discussed, even though he ran the CIA's 'Israel desk' for many years. He spent most of his career accusing almost everyone of being a Russian spy, never missing an opportunity to fan the flames of US/Soviet mistrust. Piper claims that his CIA Mossad liason desk were central to the CIA's deep cover alliances with the Lansky crime syndicate, a claim I find quite plausible. In the photo section of the 6th edition of 'Final Judgement' there is a photograph of a monument, erected in Israel in honor of Angleton, inscribed 'in memory of a dear friend James J Angleton 1917-1987'. Piper claims it is the only known photograph of this monument ever to be published.
Sid Walker
Location:near Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Angleton also had connections to the 'Soviet' spy-ring in British 'Intelligence' (Philby, Brugess, Maclean and Blunt).
Recently, there has been some speculation that Victor Rothschild was the legendary 'fifth man'.
Lord Victor Rothschild a Soviet mole? It seems improbable to me - although he may have cut occasional deals with Moscow while operating deep inside the heart of the British capitalist beast.
More likely that Rothschild's primary national allegiance was to the fledgling State of Israel - although it may well have been useful to him to conceal this from both the Brits/Americans and the Russians.
Edited August 10, 2006 by Sid Walker
Owen,
Try as I might, I couldn't get your link to the article to come up, but it doesn't matter--I get the gist. Fiery anti-US rhetoric indeed, but where does Nasrullah explicitly state that, in his opinion, the power of the Israeli lobby in the US is over-hyped? I believe this is your conclusion, not his.
Does anyone not remember Scott Ritter? Yes, the former weapons inspector who resigned in 1998, claiming that Iraq had no WMDs. He has just written a piece about the current war in Lebanon ("Grave consequences of supporting war in Lebanon") which I believe is a very sobering wake-up call for all US citizens. Here's an excerpt, dealing with Hezbollah:
Contrary to popular opinion, Hezbollah is not an "international terrorist organisation". It has not been linked to any acts of terror outside the borders of Lebanon (the current shelling of Israel notwithstanding, Hezbollah claims these are legitimate military actions in response to Israeli aggression). The US and Israel often speak of Hezbollah terror attacks outside of Lebanon but in the end cannot trace these attacks to Hezbollah with anything stronger than circumstance and rhetoric. The reality of Hezbollah is that it is a decidedly nationalistic organisation that has gone on record condemning the September 2001 attacks on the US, rejecting Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda as well as any killing of innocent civilians in the name of Islam. If it were not for the Israeli angle, the irony is that Hezbollah actually represents the kind of home grown political party the US should be supporting.
Hezbollah is very much a political reality. It is woven into the lives of Lebanese Shi'a, providing medical and education support to impoverished citizens who otherwise would have to go without. Hezbollah has participated in the legitimate political processes of the Lebanese democracy, winning over a dozen seats in the Lebanese Parliament and holding several Cabinet level positions. The Lebanese Government itself recognises the unique character of Hezbollah, rejecting the notion that it is an illegitimate militia, but rather a legitimate national resistance movement that will continue to exist until Israel stops meddling in Lebanese affairs.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/40033/
Edited August 10, 2006 by Mark Stapleton
Of course Nasrallah isn't directly adressing the Israel Lobby, but by saying that the Bush regime is to blame and that Olmert and his thugs are just puppets ("mere executive tools"), he makes it pretty clear who he thinks is the dominant partner in this relationship. From that it follows that he would probably not put much stock in the notion that U.S. Foreign Policy is run by the Israel Lobby.
Also, I checked the link again and it works fine.
Edit: Here's another link for the Nasrallah speech. It has a transcript and video footage.
Edited August 11, 2006 by Owen Parsons
Blaming the USA - or its substandard, illegitimately-elected President - for the latest Lebanon debacle, is a predictable but unconvincing ploy.
Of course the USA shares culpability for what has happened. The USA funds and uncritically supports the terrorist State of Israel. It therefore shares culpability for its actions. But to suggest that Israel's Government was pushed unwillingly by Washington into assaulting The Lebanon, as various Zionist apologists now claim, is once again to falsify history in an attempt to deceive and gain current advantage.
Veteran British journalist Alan Hart gave a superb speech to the at International Institute of Strategic Studies, New Civilisation debate, on Thursday, August 10, 2006. I rarely post the full text of a reference when a link will do, but in this case, I believe it is merited. The speech is of interest for its insightful historical analysis as well as its contemporary significance.
Hart explains to his audicence "I'm not a politician or, any more, a working journalist and broadcaster who must write and speak in way that doesn't offend very powerful vested interests. I am a reasonably well informed human being who cares and who is free to say what he really thinks. (Which probably makes me a member of a very small club!)"
How true! If Hart is correct, the very future of humanity may depend on how quickly that small club can swell its ranks - and how effectively it can perform its essential role of honest explication to the confused, frightened, misled and manipulated populace.
The Hart transcipt follows:
THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE ZIONIST STATE OF ISRAEL?
Alan Hart at International Institute of Strategic Studies, New Civilisation debate, on Thursday, August 10, 2006.
I'm going to suggest to you that what we might now be witnessing is the long beginning of the end of the Zionist state of Israel. In the next 10 minutes or so I will talk my way to an explanation of why I think so; and then I'll address the question of what the most likely consequences would be. I can see two  One State of Palestine for All and real, lasting peace, or Catastrophe for All… and by "All" I don't just mean Israeli Jews and the Arabs of the region, I mean all of us, everywhere.
I thought I would be the first to give voice in public to the idea that Israel might be planting in Lebanon the final seeds of its own destruction, but while I was working on my text for this evening, I came across an interview given by Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Carter's National Security Adviser. He said: "Eventually, if neo-con policies continue to be pursued, the United States will be expelled from the region and that will be the beginning of the end for Israel as well."
As Israel's bombardment of Lebanon unfolded, a great deal of nonsense was written and spoken by pundits and policymakers throughout the mainly Gentile Judeo-Christian world about why it was happening. The main thrust of the nonsense was that Hizbullah started the war and that Israel was merely defending itself. I think the truth about Hizbullah's role in triggering the war can be summarised as follows  bearing in mind that the border incident of 12 July was one of many since Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000, and which more often than not, according to UN monitors, were provoked by Israeli actions and/or Israeli violations of agreements. By engaging an IDF border patrol, killing three Israeli soldiers and taking two hostages, and firing a few rockets to create a diversion for that operation, Hizbullah gave Israel's generals and those politicians who rubber-stamp their demands the PRETEXT they wanted and needed to go to war  a war they had planned for months.
I was reminded of what was said to me on the second of the six days of the 1967 war when I was a very young ITN correspondent reporting from Israel. One of my sources was Major General Chaim Herzog. He was one of the founding fathers of Israel's Directorate of Military Intelligence. On the second day of that war he said to me in private conversation: "If Nasser had not been stupid enough to give us a PRETEXT for war now, we would have created one in the coming year to 18 months."
Hizbullah's purpose in taking Israeli prisoners/hostages was to have them as bargaining chips - to secure the return of Lebanese prisoners Israel had refused to release in a previous prisoner exchange. As former President Carter implied in an article for The Washington Post on I August, it was not unreasonable for Hizbullah to assume that an exchange would be possible because "the assumption was based on a number of such trades in the past."But on 12 July 2006 the government of Israel was not interested in trades. It did not give a single moment to diplomacy or negotiations of any kind. It did not even consider a local retaliation to make a point. Israel rushed to war. As Defence Minister Amir Peretz put it: "We're skipping the stage of threats and going straight to the action."On the subject of Hizbullah's rockets, (which are hit-and-miss low tech weapons when compared with Israel's state of the art firepower), it is right to ask  Why, really, were they there? What, really, explains Hizbullah's stock-piling and its bunkering down? The honest answer, which has its context in the whole history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and Zionism's demonstrated designs on Southern Lebanon in particular, is this: Hizbullah was strengthening itself militarily for the same reason as Eygpt did when President Nasser, with great reluctance after America had refused to supply him, accepted weapons from the Soviet Union. Nasser did NOT upgrade Eygpt's military capabilities to make war on Israel. He wanted to be able to demonstrate to Israel that attacking Eygpt to impose Zionism's will on it was not a cost-free option. In other words, Hizbullah had been improving its military capability to deter Israeli incursions and attacks, which was something the Lebanese army was incapable of doing. Am I suggesting that Hizbullah would NOT have let loose its rockets if Israel had not gone for the war option? YES! The notion that, on 12 July 2006, Hizbullah was joined in conspiracy with Iran and Syria to wipe Israel off the face of the earth is nothing but Zionist and neo-con propaganda nonsense  to justify Israel's latest war of aggression and also, perhaps, to justify, in advance of it happening, war on Iran.
It's true that the rhetoric of Iran's President gave and gives a degree of apparent credibility to Zionist and neo-con spin  but only to those who are unaware of, or don't want to know, the difference between the facts and documented truth of the real history of the Arab-Israeli conflict (as in my book) and Zionism's version of it.
To those who really want to understand why the Zionist state of Israel behaves in the way it does, and is (as described in a recent article courageously carried by The Independent) "a terrorist state like no other", I say not only read my book, but give special attention to page 485 of Volume One. On it I quote what was said behind closed doors in May 1955 by Moshe Dayan, Israel's one-eyed warlord and master of deception. He was in conversation with Israel's ambassadors to Washington, London and Paris. At the time the Eisenhower administration was pressing Israel to abandon its policy of reprisal attacks.
Eisenhower was aware that Nasser did not want war with Israel, and that he would, when he could, make an accommodation with it. Eisenhower also knew that Israel's reprisal attacks were making it impossible for Nasser to prepare the ground on his side for peace with Israel.
In conversation with Israel's three most important ambassadors to the West, Dayan explained why he was totally opposed - whatever the pressure from the West - to the idea that Israel should abandon its policy of reprisal attacks. They were, he said, "a life drug." What he meant, he also explained, was that reprisal attacks enabled the Israeli government "to maintain a high degree of tension in the country and the army." What, really, did that mean?Israel's standing or full-time army was (as it still is and must be) relatively small, not more than about 23,000 souls in all. The other quarter of a million fighting men and women who could be mobilised in 48 hours were reservists from every walk of Israel's civil society. The real point? Without Israeli reprisal attacks and all that they implied  that the Zionist state was in constant danger of being annihilated - there was a possibility that some and perhaps many reservists would not be motivated enough to respond to Zionism's calls to arms.Put another way, what Dayan really feared was the TRUTH. He knew, as all of Israel's leaders knew, that Israel's existence was NOT in danger from any combination of Arab forces. And that was the truth which had to be kept from the Jews of Israel. Dayan's fear was that if they became aware of it, they might insist on peace on terms the Arab regimes could accept but which were not acceptable to Zionism. Among those present when Dayan explained the need for Israeli reprisal attacks as a "life drug" was the Foreign Ministry's Gideon Rafael. He reported what Dayan told the ambassadors to Prime Minister Moshe Sharret  in my view, and with the arguable exception of Yitzhak Rabin, the only completely rational prime minister Israel has ever had. And we know from Sharret's diaries what Rafael then said to him: "This is how fascism began in Italy and Germany!"
Ladies and gentlemen, I think future historians may say that was how fascism began in the Zionist state of Israel.
The idea of Israel as a fully functioning democracy is a seriously flawed one. It's true that Israeli Jews are free to speak their minds (in a way that most Jews of the world are frightened to do), and to that extent it can be said that Israel has the appearance of a vibrant democracy... But in reality, and especially since the countdown to the 1967 war, it's Israel's generals who call most of the policy shots, even when one of them is not prime minister.
In June 1967 Israel's prime minister of the time, the much maligned Levi Eshkol, did NOT want to take his country to war. It, war, was imposed upon him by the generals, led by Dayan. As I explain in Volume Two of my book, what really happened in Israel in the final countdown to that war was something very close to a military coup in all but name.
And that's where we are today  the generals effectively calling the shots in Israel, to the applause of the neo-cons.Why, really, did Israel's generals want to make war on Lebanon? There was obviously much more to it than the collective punishment of a whole people as part and parcel of a stated objective  the destruction of Hizbullah as a Moslem David which could hit and hurt the Zionist Goliath.I think there were two main reasons.The first was that Israel's generals believed they should and could restore the "deterrent power" of the IDF (Israel's war machine). They believed, correctly, that it had been seriously damaged by Hizbullah's success in not only confronting the IDF following Sharon's invasion of Lebanon in 1982, but eventually forcing it to withdraw, effectively defeated and humiliated… I think it is more than reasonable to presume that for most if not all of the past six years, Israel's generals were itching to make war on Lebanon to repair that damage  to restore the IDF's deterrent power. Put another way, it was time, Israel's generals believed, to give the Arabs (all Arabs, not just Hizbullah) another lesson in who the master was.
The second main reason for the insistence of Israel's generals on 12 July this year that war was the only option…?I think it's also more than reasonable to presume that they saw the opportunity to ethnically cleanse Lebanon up to the Litani River, with a view, eventually, to occupying and then annexing the ethnically cleansed territory. For Zionism this would be the fulfilment of the vision of modern Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurion - a Zionist state within "natural" borders, those borders being the Jordan River in the East and the Litani River of Lebanon in the north. Israel gained control of the Jordan River border in its 1967 war of expansion, but prior to its rush to war on 12 July, all of its attempts to establish the Litani border had failed. Since 1982 because of Hizbullah's ability to cause the occupying IDF forces more casualties than Israeli public opinion was prepared to tolerate.According to those currently calling the policy shots - Israel's generals and politicians, the neo-cons in and around the Bush administration and their associate in Downing Street - the name of the game is creating a "new Middle East". It IS happening. A new Middle East is being created.
But what kind of new Middle East will it actually be? In my analysis it will be one in which the Zionist state of Israel, having rejected a number of opportunities to make peace with the Palestinians and all the Arab states, will become increasingly vulnerable and, at a point, actually for the first time ever in its shortish history, could face the possibility of defeat.In my view the seeds of that possible defeat have just been sewn in Lebanon. The fact is that Israel's latest military adventure has been totally counter-productive in that has caused Hizbullah to be admired by the angry and humiliated masses of the Arab and wider Moslem world. That being so, would it really be surprising if, in growing numbers, Arabs and Moslems everywhere begin to entertain  if they are not already entertaining  something like the following thought: "If 3,000 Hizbullah guerrillas can stand up to mighty Israel for weeks and give it a seriously bloody nose, what would happen if we all joined the fight?" (Do I hear the sound of pro-Western Arab regimes being toppled? Yes, I think so). I imagine that even the thought of Israel being defeated one day will bring joy to very many Arabs and other Moslems. But there ought to be no place for joy because there's no mystery about what would happen in the event of Israel actually being on the brink of defeat. I want to quote to you now from one of my Panorama interviews with Golda Meir. (It can be found, this quote, on the second page Volume One of my book, in the Prologue which is titled Waiting for the Apocalypse).
At a point I interrupted her to say: "Prime Minister I want to be sure I understand what you're saying… You are saying that if ever Israel was in danger of being defeated on the battlefield, it would be prepared to take the region and the whole world down with it?" Without the shortest of pauses for reflection, Golda replied: "Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying." In those days Panorama went on-air at 8 o'clock on Monday evenings. Shortly after the transmission of that interview The Times had a new lead editorial. It quoted what Golda had said to me and added its view that "We had better believe her." How, actually, would the Zionist state of Israel take at least the region down with it? It would arm its nuclear missiles, target Arab capitals, then fire the missiles. Such an End-Game to the Arab-Israeli conflict, if it happened, and which I would describe as a self-fulfilled Zionist prophesy of doom, would probably take many years to play out. But the countdown to such a catastrophe would be speeded up if, as Brzezinski put it, "neo-con policies continue to be pursued." If they are, and if Iran is attacked, I think that a Clash of Civilisations, Judeo-Christian v Islamic, would become unstoppable.Is there no way to stop the madness and create a "new Middle East" worth having? Yes, of course, there is, but it requires the agenda of the neo-cons and their associates to be thrown into the dustbin of history, in order for there to be a resolution of the Palestine problem, which I describe as the cancer at the heart of international affairs.Unfortunately, and because of the facts Zionism has been allowed to create on the ground in Israel/Palestine, it's already much too late for a genuine two-state solution, one which would see Israel back behind more or less its pre-1967 borders with Jerusalem an open city and the capital of two states.The conclusion which I think is invited is this: If the countdown to catastrophe for all is to be stopped, the only possible solution to the Palestine problem is One State for All. That would, of course, be the end of Zionism's colonial enterprise and of Zionism itself. But in my view that's what has to happen if there's to be a "new Middle East" in which there can be security and peace for all, Arabs and Jews..Ladies and gentlemen: I'm not a politician or, any more, a working journalist and broadcaster who must write and speak in way that doesn't offend very powerful vested interests. I am a reasonably well informed human being who cares and who is free to say what he really thinks. (Which probably makes me a member of a very small club!) And in summary of all that I've said this evening, what I really think comes down to this: The equation is a very simple one: No justice for the Palestinians = no peace for any of us.
And it seems Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the organization with which Israel is at war, has fallen for this "unconvincing ploy." In reality, the only things that are "unconvincing" are these superficial analyses of the Israel Lobby which ignore some rather important evidence, as I have outlined elsewhere. Its all very convenient for the United States government, as most of the people who write this stuff go out of their way to portray the U.S. as an innocent lamb whose primary interest is fostering and protecting democracy. If only it weren't for the Israel Lobby, which has hijacked this magnificent institution. People here may not subscribe to this viewpoint when they endorse the "Israel Lobby controls the U.S." thesis, but that is what is being pushed.
Nowhere do I assert that Israel was "pushed unwillingly by Washington." What I am asserting is that the United States is the primary mover. In fact, it appears as if Israel had enough power of its own to reject the Bush administration's urging for an attack on Syria.
Some good articles by Robert Parry of Consortium News on the subject:
- Bush Wants Wider War
- A 'Pretext' War in Lebanon
- Israeli Leaders Fault Bush on War
Also, I don't think you are in any position to accuse others of "falsify[ing] history."
Quintessential Israel Shamir, hot off the keyboard...
Russia Hesitates
By Israel Shamir, from Moscow
Israel and the US, the terrible Siamese twins conjoined by their Jewish communities, are on the warpath. The usually knowledgeable Uzi Mahanaimi wrote in the Sunday Times that the plans have been laid out, and preparations are being completed for the resumption of the war on Syria and Iran temporarily stopped by the Hezbullah fighters in the mountains of Southern Lebanon. President Bush hopes to improve his sagging popularity by the war, says Alex Cockburn. A condemnation of Iran by the Security Council is all he needs before the attack at dawn. Until now, such resolutions were produced after a short period of haggling. Now there is a chance Russia will use its veto, and then the US plans would be shelved and the assault on Iran cancelled.
Before 1990, such a vote would be certain. In those days of the much-maligned Soviet Union, the Russians advanced many causes of which we still enjoy the fruits: together with their Cuban allies they stopped the apartheid tanks in Angola and brought about Mandela's release and the creation of a more egalitarian South Africa. The Russians supported European trade unions and Communist parties, preventing the onslaught of privatisation, outsourcing and globalisation. If you had it better before 1990, and you probably did, it was due to this Russian influence. The Russians supplied the enemies of the Empire with their cheap and good weapons, and they blocked the Empire's attempts to legitimise its aggressions via UN resolutions. Their planes and their ground-to-air missiles helped the Vietnamese and the Koreans to win the war. Their influence and abilities were limited: the Russians never could compete on an equal footing with the immense power of the West harnessed by Washington. But they could spike the wheels of the American Juggernaut, and so they did. The Empire hated them and wished them dead, and many Western intellectuals supported this wish.
My friend, Russian maverick poet Edward Limonov, wrote a short story in the 1980s: what would happen if Russia were to disappear altogether from the face of Earth? The US would intervene all over the world on massive scale, and capitalism and imperialism would regain ground lost since 1917 with a vengeance, he prophesied; and so it has happened: Panama, Nicaragua, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan were invaded. The rich grew richer, the middle class shrank, freedoms were undone on the pretext of a "War on Terror."
The Western Left contributed a lot to this unhappy development, for Soviet Russia was undone by double perfidy. In the end, their elites betrayed their masses and privatised the wealth created by the Soviet people. But before that, we, the Western Left, had internalized the Evil Empire cliché and repeated every slogan manufactured by the enemy. We chanted Let My People Go, and demanded an extra privilege for Jews, the right to emigrate. We did not care that the Palestinians had no right to return to their homes, while the Russian Jews wanted to move into settlements in occupied Palestine. We supported Russian dissidents, though they hated all we stood for and considered Pinochet 'a soft leftist'. We accused Russians of their long-gone Gulag, and brought in Abu Ghraib. We condemned Russians too much, and contributed to their feeling of isolation, and to the second, fatal betrayal by their elites.
We, good and sincere people, were misled and tricked by the media machine into an outburst of condemnation against our only mighty ally. The Western Left did not survive the collapse: it went into self-destruct mode, and what remains is represented by the likes of Tony Blair. All over the Western world, the elites celebrate their unlimited wealth and luxury, while ordinary people are worse and worse off. Not only industrial workers: unless you are a CEO you live worse than you did, and your chances to improve your lot are worse than they ever were.
But luckily Russia did not disappear forever, though it was a close call. Boris Yeltsin sold its resources to his cronies and to Western companies, shelled the Parliament and transferred media and oil into the hands of Jewish oligarchs. Yeltsin installed Vladimir Putin, an ex-KGB officer and would-be Pinochet, with orders to keep the stolen property in the hands of thieves and the country in the Western grip. Now it appears that the enemies of Russia miscalculated with this man. Instead of doing a Pinochet on behalf of the oligarchs, Putin broke the oligarchs' grip; he exiled and jailed some crooked tycoons, and restored a semblance of law and order in the country. He returned the main TV channels to the people. My wealthy Jewish acquaintances in Russia tell me that money does not rule in the country anymore. One can buy comforts, but not the power.
The oil revenues began to flow into the country, not only to private coffers in Swiss banks. This revitalised the economy. The infrastructure ruined by Gorbachev and Yeltsin is being restored and improved; housing is being built in vast amounts; the once-degraded army is receiving new hardware; main streets shine with bright new shops; new and repaired highways with millions of cars connect villages and cities. The Chechen war is over; that republic has been reintegrated into Russia, and its dwellers enjoy full civil rights. Russian ballet again captures eyes and hearts. After the total collapse of the film industry in the 1990s, Russians are again making many movies, even blockbusters with mass appeal (like The Night Guard) as well as "festival art". Obsessive, guilt-ridden lamentation has given way to new prose and poetry. Thousands of churches have been refurbished and their onion domes gilded; all the churches are full on Sundays. Historically a country of Orthodox Christianity and Sunni Islam, Russia preserves this tradition, and here the Christians and Muslims live in relative harmony despite the efforts of pro-American forces to inject Islamophobia into Russian hearts. The state TV, taken away from Jewish oligarchs and freed from PC tyranny, shows a lot of footage of the venerable grey-bearded Patriarch (the Russian Pope) and the nimble karate-fighter of a President enforcing the faith-and-authority tradition of Russia.
A mammoth 1500-page-long novel by the Russian painter Maxim Kantor, The Drawing Textbook , le dernier cri of Russian literature, has been received by many readers as a proclamation of volte-face: Russia's ideological subservience to the Mammonite West is over! Kantor does not stop at condemning comprador capitalists: they were preceded by comprador intellectuals. Kantor defends Christ from the humanist assaults: Christianity was betrayed by humanists, in his view. Kantor is not fond of the new Russian regime: he regrets that Russia gave up its socialism, and considers 20 years of capitalist development as a flop: "barracks' socialism was replaced by barracks' capitalism". With this book, a modern War and Peace, Russia's re-invention is officially on the way, and this great country with its great people may yet turn the tide of history.
It is doubtful whether Russia will turn leftwards anytime soon. But the international activism of adventure-seeking Americans is not acceptable to any independent Russian state. Russians are not happy with the American military bases surrounding Russia, with the aggressive push of NATO, or with politically motivated limitations on Russian companies. The Russians feel that they were cheated 20 years ago, when the West proclaimed its desire to reach full peace and harmony, and to respect the independence of nations. Believing this bull, the Russian troops left East Europe, but American troops still lounge in Germany, Italy, Japan; they advanced into Poland and this summer tried to land in Crimea, next to the Russian fleet's home base. The Russians left Vietnam, but the Americans still occupy Okinawa.
Russia's leaders feel unsafe: since the Soviet Union's demise, leaders of independent sovereign states – Noriega, Saddam Hussein, Milosevic - have been snatched and imprisoned for denying the will of Washington. Neither is Russian wealth safe: Russia, like many nations, is obliged to keep its savings in the bottomless pit of the American economy, but nobody can collect on these investments yet. Norway invested all its oil income in the US stock market, and lost all of it; Swedish pension funds went the same way. If this is the case with the best friends of the US, what will happen to its enemies? Iran, Iraq, Palestine lost all their savings by decisions of the US administration. Moreover, its legal system allows the US to sue foreign states for unlimited amounts. Thus, the families of victims of the Lockerbie crash received from besieged Libya a cool ten million dollars per passenger, although the American courts authorise ten thousand times smaller sums for the victims of American bombings – if indeed they receive anything at all.
Russia feels unsafe, for the US has invaded other sovereign countries more often and with greater impunity than Hitler ever did. This feeling is shared by a less vocal China. "The great issue that divides the U.N. is no longer Communism versus capitalism, as it once was; it is sovereignty", preached the New York Times. Its scribe, James Traub, lists many countries that "abuse their citizens under protection of sovereignty". In vain will you look there for the name of Israel, though the Jews killed over a thousand people in Lebanon, and over 200 civilians last month in Gaza alone.
The great divisive issue of our times is actually somewhat different: whether the US and Israel are the only sovereign countries, while others have a limited "demo" version. Why does Israel get away with aggression (and now with its sea and air blockade of a sovereign UN member state, Lebanon) while peaceful Iran must be censured? Why has Israel been able to reject all pertinent UN resolutions and yet never had sanctions applied against it, while Iran is about to be bombed? Are non-Jews less valuable than Jews? The case of Iran provides a good opportunity for Russia and China to present a case for sovereignty and non-interference.
Some of better Soviet policies were embedded in the Christian ethos of Russia, and the tradition of helping the downtrodden and the weak, of resisting aggressor is one of them. Post-Soviet Russia inherited these traditions. But in this case practical need coincides with the call of compassion. Unless President Putin views with equanimity the possibility of being snatched and brought to some American kangaroo court himself, he may want to contemplate stopping this orgy of invasions. Iran is a case of one invasion too far. Iran is a sovereign country; it did not break international law. Its decision to enrich uranium is fully within its rights according to the NPT. Whether they worship Allah or Jehovah is entirely their internal affair. And by applying its right of veto, Russia would signal that interference in internal affairs of sovereign states will not be tolerated and legitimised in the UN. Russia won't be alone – China, equally unhappy with US interference, may support it with its own veto.
The alternative is too much to consider: even if the UN resolution doesn't refer to sanctions, the US is famous for its cavalier way of interpreting UN text. Any condemnation (even a soft one) will be used as carte blanche for nuking Iran and taking it over; then the US chain of military bases will run continuously around the south flank of Russia and China, through Turkey, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan. "Rebellious" Ahmadinejad will be brought to Tel Aviv in iron chains, while the US takes over the oil resources of Iran, and by using Iran and Iraq oil, undermines the Russian position in the world economy. Afterwards, under this or some other pretext, they may confiscate Russia's assets, threaten Putin with Ahmadinejad's fate and return Russia to its miserable position of Yeltsin's days. Thus, using their veto in the Security Council would be a very prudent and wise step for both Russia and China, especially if it were accompanied by granting Iran full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The results of a Russian veto would be greater than just postponement of the US assault on Iran: it would send a strong signal that the end of Pax Americana is nigh. The "Old" Europe may take it as a cue and regain its independence, even demanding to remove those vestiges of WWII, US military bases, from Europe. The "New" Europe may understand it is out of step, and curtail its pro-American and anti-Russian partisanship. Japan could demand an end to the occupation of Okinawa. The Law of Nations will rule the world again, instead of the will of the Pentagon.
And then the time for a new American independence drive will come, independence of America from its Jewish Lobby. Such a drive took place in the revolutionary Russia of the 1920s, when Russian Communists argued about whether they should go for world revolution, as Trotsky demanded, or for creating socialism in their own country, as proposed by Stalin and Bukharin. If their militant activism is rejected, Americans may discard their neo-Trotskyites, both Republicans and Democrats keen on spreading their "world democratic revolution", in favour of isolationists who prefer building to spreading. Supporters of spreading – from George W. Bush to Hilary Clinton – are great friends of Israel. The bipartisan support of Israel within the US political elites means also their subservience to the Jewish Lobby. Rejection of the Lobby may become the single slogan of a new American revolution, of a new American political party of independence and non-interference on the way to creating a United States the world can live with.
Edited September 9, 2006 by Sid Walker


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Help Cure Ana Maria: A Song, Really?
Have you ever heard a song that stopped you in your tracks? Made you think... that's my life he's singing about... how does he know what I went through and am going through? God is capable of bringing us comfort in ways we never could imagine.
The song you hear playing is a song I heard a year or so ago that stopped me in my tracks. I was amazed at the lyrics... thankful for them... for a song that gives comfort to me and others going through similar situations.
Then my name was called and I was taken to a small office with a desk and three chairs. I sat in one... a lady came in and introduced herself as a genetic counselor and sat in the chair at the desk... the other chair remained empty... I was alone... or so I thought. You see, God was there... waiting to protect His unborn baby... waiting to work in Ana's life before we ever knew her. The genetic counselor recommended a couple more test to confirm the results of the ultrasound... a blood test and an amniocentesis... I consented to the blood test and for some unknown reason at the time (I now know God orchestrated this...) declined the amnio... she then said that if the results confirmed the thought diagnosis, Cytomegalovirus, termination of the pregnancy would be the best option. The whole interview took my breath away... how could this be happening... the blood was drawn and I was sent home with a follow-up appointment the next week.
When the dreaded day came, I was sat in the same room and was given the results... CMV positive... I had Cytomegalovirus and it was "definitely" harming the baby. I was then told the baby would not make it to term and if she did she would be deaf & blind or even worse... brain dead. The counselor asked me if I wanted to set up an appointment to terminate the pregnancy... I knew right then that I couldn't... I knew there was a God... though I didn't have a personal relationship with him... I knew there was a Creator and that it wasn't me... I knew it was the Creator's decision and not mine to make. I declined the termination. I was 18 weeks pregnant by this time, but I knew life began at conception... I knew a baby was a baby whether in the womb or out of the womb... I knew abortion was murder.
All I could think is... "I want to give her the world... I want to hold her hand... I want to be her mom for as long as I can.... I want to live every moment until that day comes... I want to show her what it means to be loved!"
I remember the last ultrasound. The room was dark... the technician was quiet... After a few minutes she told me she needed to get the doctor... I was 36 weeks at this time. The doctor came in and took a look and some measurements and said my fluid was very low and it was time to deliver. He offered to check lung maturity but warned me that CMV usually prevents the lungs from maturing. The amniocentesis confirmed his suspicion... Ana's lungs were not mature and delivery was unavoidable. I refused to let the perinatologist deliver (another moment clearly orchestrated by the Creator Himself!) and was sent back to my OB/GYN. My OB and I had a respect for one another and he agreed to talk with the perinatologist. My OB decided the longest he could give me was 10 days. See Ana's lungs were not just immature... they were abnormally immature for a 36 week old fetus. The perinatologist said her lungs would not mature.
God gave Ana 10 days because He knew how and when He wanted to bring her into the world. He knew which doctor He wanted... which hospital... which day... He knew the time. God said to Jeremiah, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..." God knows us before we are formed in the womb! God's timing is perfect.
God brought Ana into the world screaming! Her lungs were fully mature! She could see and hear! She even tested negative for CMV. I know now that God didn't want me to know right away what her diagnosis was. He wanted to use her "undiagnosed" state to bring me to Himself. Ana wasn't diagnosed until she was 3 years old, 6 months after I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior. God knew Ana had Mitochondrial Disease... He knew she would be dependent on a feeding tube... He knew she would be smart... He knew her before she was formed in the womb... and He loved me enough to give her to me that through her life I might come to know Him.
I love this song and the memories that come flooding back when I hear it.
P.S. I am no longer on any social media websites, so feel free to share Ana's blog and let people know I am blogging again! Thanks!
Oh how similar our stories are! I remember the day when I was 36 weeks pregnant when our doctors told us our daughter had been affected by CMV. Blessings to you!
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ROSEMONT, Ill. – The game was a microcosm of his career. Salim Stoudamire spent four years bouncing back and forth between Lute Olson's doghouse to college basketball's penthouse; and last night, from disappearing to dominating all in the same game. In the final seconds, he chose dominating.
The guard got a screen from Channing Frye, crossed over on Daniel Bobik, and hit a left-wing fade – with Bobik and Terrence Crawford in his face, and just two seconds on the clock – to give Arizona a come-from-behind 79-78 win over Oklahoma State and a bid in tomorrow's Chicago Regional final against Illinois.
Second-seeded OSU (26-7) lead 76-72 with just two minutes left, but Stoudamire – who finished with 19 despite quiet stretches in the second half – drilled a left-wing 3-pointer. Then, after an OSU miss, Channing Frye (15 points and nine boards) hit a baseline jumper to give the Wildcats a last-minute lead.
Joey Graham – who had a game-high 26 points and was brilliant in the second half – worked on Ivan Radenovic and got a bounce for a 78-77 lead. That's when Stoudamire hit a clutch shot with :02.8 that would make older cousin Damon jealous, putting third-seeded Arizona (30-6) one step away from St. Louis.
It was the latest chapter in his relationship with Olson. After a scoreless outing against Utah, Olson thought he was sulking. He kicked the senior guard out of practice and suspended him for the next game against Marquette on Dec. 18. Since then, he's averaged 20 ppg and become the country's deadliest shooter.
Hassan Adams added 19 points and 10 boards to kill 69-year-old Eddie Sutton's title quest yet again.


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New study reveals increasing public support for airport expansion in UK
A recent survey has revealed that the UK Government has increased public support for airport expansion.
According the study, people who live near Heathrow, Gatwick, Luton, London City and Stansted airports are more likely to be in favour of expansion at their local facility than they were in 2010.
The survey is in line with a poll from market research company Populus, which showed that Heathrow residents were 25% more likely to vote for a councillor if they supported expansion at the airport.
"This independent study confirms that support for airport expansion is growing."
According to the survey, approximately 48% of participants supported plans for a third runway at Heathrow, while 57% responded positively towards the airport.
Heathrow Airport CEO John Holland-Kaye said: "This independent study confirms that support for airport expansion is growing. More people understand the benefits of a third runway to local communities including the creation of 50,000 more jobs, improved public transport and thriving local businesses.
"Since 2010, we have listened to local residents and developed a new approach to a third runway at Heathrow that delivers the benefits of growth but with less impact for local people."
According to the survey in 2010, roughly 41% of the respondents were in favour for the airport expansion. However, the recent survey shows that this number has now gone up to 47%.
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Directed by Jack Smight
Out from Second Sight on DVD March 10
1970s gothic television nostalgia.
You have to wonder about the reasoning behind calling any fiction a 'true' story. Yet here we have the 1973 two-part miniseries, Frankenstein: The True Story – the latest, at the time, in a long line of adaptations of Mary Shelley's original classic novel. And it wouldn't be the last, the most recent being I, Frankenstein, which also played fast and loose with the source material.
In a very abrupt first scene, we're introduced to Victor Frankenstein (Romeo and Juliet's Leonard Whiting) and his fiancée Elizabeth (Nicola Pagett from Upstairs, Downstairs), who both witness the sudden drowning of Victor's brother. Thus begins his search for a way to bring the dead back to life, which brings him into the orbit of Dr Henry Clerval (erstwhile Man from U.N.C.L.E. David McCallum) who has been using solar energy to do exactly that.
When a mining accident presents them with enough body parts, they set to work creating a new Adam in the form of Michael Sarrazin's monster – who looks anything but, and is even given Clerval's brain after that man's death. Victor's attempts to integrate his creation into society fall short, however, when the process starts to reverse itself. And poking about in his business is Dr Polidori (the wonderful James Mason, here channelling Dr No with those fake hands), who Clerval stole the process from in the first place. You should know the drill by now, and although there are a few diversions along the way, the ultimate outcome in the snow is no less tragic.
The host of famous names lending support – including Jane Seymour (as a barking mad Eve to Sarrazin's Adam), Tom Baker, Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud – in addition to lavish production designs, do take the edge off the slow unfurling of the plot (altogether, this is 181 minutes long) and the silly effects; check out the lightning strike on the ship. Plus there's an introduction included from Mason, where he visits Mary Shelley's grave. It's just a shame the epilogue from the script wasn't included, which hinted at the monster surviving, as the ending is just as abrupt as the beginning. It's of its time, definitely, but I guess that's part of its charm – and it is at least trying to do something different with the legend.
Verdict: True lies. 7/10
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Biografia
Era il figlio primogenito di Horatio Walpole, II conte di Orford, e di sua moglie, Sophia Churchill, figlia di Charles Churchill e di sua moglie Lady Mary Walpole, figlia di Robert Walpole, I conte di Orford dalla sua amante, in seguito sua moglie Maria Skerett.

Carriera politica
Orford succedette a suo padre come deputato al Parlamento per King's Lynn (1809-1822). Nel 1822 successe a suo padre nella contea e entrò nella Camera dei lord.

Matrimonio
Sposò, il 23 luglio 1812, Mary Fawkener (1788-4 febbraio 1860), figlia di William Fawkener. Ebbero cinque figli:

 Horatio Walpole, IV conte di Orford (18 aprile 1813-7 dicembre 1894);
 Henry Walpole (1 maggio 1818-6 novembre 1876), sposò Cecilia Elizabeth Macalister, non ebbero figli;
 Lady Rachel Katherine Walpole (?-21 giugno 1854), sposò John Savile, IV conte di Mexborough, ebbero un figlio;
 Frederick Walpole (18 settembre 1822-1 aprile 1876), sposò Laura Walpole, ebbero tre figli;
 Lady Dorothy Fanny Walpole (1 aprile 1826-24 marzo 1913), sposò Reginald Henry Nevill, ebbero quattro figli.

Morte
Morì il 29 dicembre 1858, all'età di 75 anni, e gli succedette il figlio maggiore, Horatio.

Ascendenza

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Horatio Walpole, 03 conte di Orford
Horatio Walpole, 03 conte di Orford

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Just from a creative standpoint there are just entire genres that I'm locked out of, being Asian, because of historical reality. You know, like the cowboy picture (laughs). Basically you're doing immigrants, smaller immigrant roles. And if you're doing bigger roles, you're doing modern tales. That is to say, contemporary stories. And you can do futuristic stories. So I guess I've done those.
What I'm locked out of is American history. There just aren't roles written for Asians in stories that revolve around American history. So you're dealing with that handicap off the bat.