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The Electoral Choice from Hell
March 11, 2016 • 50 Comments
The prospect of a Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump general election is nightmarish for Americans who see Clinton as a warmonger and Trump as a demagogue, but William Blum sees Trump as the lesser danger.
By William Blum
If the American presidential election winds up with Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump, and my passport is confiscated, and I'm somehow FORCED to choose one or the other, or I'm PAID to do so, paid well … I would vote for Trump.
My main concern is foreign policy. American foreign policy is the greatest threat to world peace, prosperity, and the environment. And when it comes to foreign policy, Hillary Clinton is an unholy disaster. From Iraq and Syria to Libya and Honduras the world is a much worse place because of her; so much so that I'd call her a war criminal who should be prosecuted.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
And not much better can be expected on domestic issues from this woman who was paid $675,000 by Goldman Sachs – one of the most reactionary, anti-social corporations in this sad world – for three speeches and even more than that in political donations in recent years. Add to that Hillary's willingness to serve for six years on the board of Walmart while her husband was governor of Arkansas. Can we expect to change corporate behavior by taking their money?
The Los Angeles Times ran an editorial the day after the multiple primary elections of March 1 which began: "Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States," and then declared: "The reality is that Trump has no experience whatsoever in government."
When I need to have my car fixed I look for a mechanic with experience with my type of auto. When I have a medical problem I prefer a doctor who specializes in the part of my body that's ill. But when it comes to politicians, experience means nothing. The only thing that counts is the person's ideology.
Who would you sooner vote for, a person with 30 years in Congress who doesn't share your political and social views at all, is even hostile to them, or someone who has never held public office before but is an ideological comrade on every important issue? Clinton's 12 years in high government positions carries no weight with me.
The Times continued about Trump: "He has shamefully little knowledge of the issues facing the country and the world."
Again, knowledge is trumped (no pun intended) by ideology. As Secretary of State (January 2009-February 2013), with great access to knowledge, Clinton played a key role in the 2011 destruction of Libya's modern and secular welfare state, sending it crashing in utter chaos into a failed state, leading to the widespread dispersal throughout North African and Middle East hotspots of the gigantic arsenal of weaponry that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had accumulated. Libya is now a haven for terrorists, from al Qaeda to ISIS, whereas Gaddafi had been a leading foe of terrorists.
What good did Secretary of State Clinton's knowledge do? It was enough for her to know that Gaddafi's Libya, for several reasons, would never be a properly obedient client state of Washington. Thus it was that the United States, along with NATO, bombed the people of Libya almost daily for more than six months, giving as an excuse that Gaddafi was about to invade Benghazi, the Libyan center of his opponents, and so the United States was thus saving the people of that city from a massacre.
The American people and the American media of course swallowed this story, though no convincing evidence of the alleged impending massacre has ever been presented. (The nearest thing to an official U.S. government account of the matter – a Congressional Research Service report on events in Libya for the period – makes no mention at all of the threatened massacre.) ["Libya: Transition and U.S. Policy", updated March 4, 2016]
The Western intervention in Libya was one that the New York Times said Clinton had "championed", convincing Obama in "what was arguably her moment of greatest influence as secretary of state."
All the knowledge she was privy to did not keep her from this disastrous mistake in Libya. And the same can be said about her support of placing regime change in Syria ahead of supporting the Syrian government in its struggle against ISIS and other terrorist groups. Even more disastrous was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq which she as a senator supported. Both policies were of course clear violations of international law and the UN Charter.
Another foreign-policy "success" of Mrs. Clinton, which her swooning followers will ignore, the few that even know about it, is the coup ousting the moderately progressive Manuel Zelaya of Honduras in June, 2009. A tale told many times in Latin America.
The downtrodden masses finally put into power a leader committed to reversing the status quo, determined to try to put an end to up to two centuries of oppression … and before long the military overthrows the democratically-elected government, while the United States – if not the mastermind behind the coup – does nothing to prevent it or to punish the coup regime, as only the United States can punish; meanwhile Washington officials pretend to be very upset over this "affront to democracy". (See Mark Weisbrot's "Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side The United States Government is On With Regard to the Military Coup in Honduras".)
In her 2014 memoir, Hard Choices, Clinton reveals just how unconcerned she was about restoring Zelaya to his rightful office: "In the subsequent days [after the coup] I spoke with my counterparts around the hemisphere … We strategized on a plan to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot."
The question of Zelaya was anything but moot. Latin American leaders, the United Nations General Assembly, and other international bodies vehemently demanded his immediate return to office. Washington, however, quickly resumed normal diplomatic relations with the new right-wing police state, and Honduras has since become a major impetus for the child migrants currently pouring into the United States.
The headline from Time magazine's report on Honduras at the close of that year (December 3, 2009) summed it up as follows: "Obama's Latin America Policy Looks Like Bush's".
And Hillary Clinton looks like a conservative. And has for many years; going back to at least the 1980s, while the wife of the Arkansas governor, when she strongly supported the death-squad torturers known as the Contras, who were the empire's proxy army in Nicaragua. [See Roger Morris, former member of the National Security Council, Partners in Power (1996), p.415. For a comprehensive look at Hillary Clinton, see the new book by Diane Johnstone, Queen of Chaos.]
Then, during the 2007 presidential primary, America's venerable conservative magazine, William Buckley's National Review, ran an editorial by Bruce Bartlett. Bartlett was a policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan, a treasury official under President George H.W. Bush, and a fellow at two of the leading conservative think-tanks, the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute – You get the picture?
Bartlett tells his readers that it's almost certain that the Democrats will win the White House in 2008. So what to do? Support the most conservative Democrat. He writes: "To right-wingers willing to look beneath what probably sounds to them like the same identical views of the Democratic candidates, it is pretty clear that Hillary Clinton is the most conservative."
During the same primary we also heard from America's leading magazine for the corporate wealthy, Fortune, with a cover featuring a picture of Mrs. Clinton and the headline: "Business Loves Hillary".
And what do we have in 2016? Fully 116 members of the Republican Party's national security community, many of them veterans of Bush administrations, have signed an open letter threatening that, if Trump is nominated, they will all desert, and some will defect – to Hillary Clinton!
"Hillary is the lesser evil, by a large margin," says Eliot Cohen of the Bush II State Department. Cohen helped line up neocons to sign the "Dump-Trump" manifesto. Another signer, foreign-policy ultra-conservative author Robert Kagan, declared: "The only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton."
The only choice? What's wrong with Bernie Sanders or Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate? … Oh, I see, not conservative enough.
And Mr. Trump? Much more a critic of U.S. foreign policy than Hillary or Bernie. He speaks of Russia and Vladimir Putin as positive forces and allies, and would be much less likely to go to war against Moscow than Clinton would. He declares that he would be "evenhanded" when it comes to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (as opposed to Clinton's boundless support of Israel). He's opposed to calling Senator John McCain a "hero", because he was captured. (What other politician would dare say a thing like that?)
He calls Iraq "a complete disaster", condemning not only George W. Bush but the neocons who surrounded him. "They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction and there were none. And they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction." He even questions the idea that "Bush kept us safe", and adds that "Whether you like Saddam or not, he used to kill terrorists."
Yes, he's personally obnoxious. I'd have a very hard time being his friend. Who cares?
William Blum is an author, historian, and renowned critic of U.S. foreign policy. He is the author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II and Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, among others. [This article originally appeared at the Anti-Empire Report, http://williamblum.org/ .]
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50 comments for "The Electoral Choice from Hell"
Robert W Motzel
An Australians point of view. You can do all the coulda, woulda shoulda, about the past and who was right and who was wrong, BUT, my overview (for what it is worth) of what is happening in America at the moment is pretty much the same that seams to be happening world wide. People have had enough of the political entrenched, that have been running the world for hundreds of years. The dominant Global, Political, financial Paradigm that has been running the world, can be put into a clear plastic bag and looked at, to see, that it is rotting and fermenting. It needs to be put in the rubbish bin, if we want to save the planet and all that live on it.
I was at first was shocked by Donald Trump and his behaviour, but now I think I know why he has become so popular. He is a clean skin in politics, He is not tainted with the intrigue and dirty dealings of past political events.
Mr Trump is a bit of a loose canon, But I truly think he is the best choice America and the world has at the moment.
Wm. Boyce
"He is a clean skin in politics."
But not in business. His bankruptcies, and other shenanigans will be fodder for Democratic party attack ads.
The thing I'm thinking about is not this election but the next one, or the one after that. An authoritarian candidate, a la Trump, may emerge from Latino or other places. The message will be similar, i.e., our borders are endangered, we need to control immigrants, but the message is control, fascism. In a dying and confused empire, such as we have, many messages may come to control.
Kelly K
What part of "bomb the hell out of ISIS" and "with the terrorists you have to take out their families, too" do you not understand? Ridiculous to think that Trump would be benign when it comes to foreign policy.
Donald Trump's budget plan alone is enough to prevent me from ever voting for him. Tax breaks heavily weighted towards the wealthy and corporations — that would cost us about $10 trillion over the next decade. And of course offers nothing in the way of explaining how he could possibly ever begin to pay for any of this. Add to that his desire to increase defense spending, we're talking Reaganomics on steroids. But he is also a climate denier — at a time when we urgently need someone to show leadership on this issue.– and has even spoken about eliminating the EPA. And I shudder to think what the human costs might be should he ever come close to acting out on his immigration fantasies.
But aside from all this, he's no prize when it comes to foreign policy either. He opposes the Iran deal. He wants to "bomb the shit out of ISIS" and is once again advocating committing more troops to the Middle East and is openly advocating torture — showing, in the process, total contempt for international law — and disregard for the consequences of involving the U.S.in yet another major military undertaking. Sure, he may not be the neocon Hillary is — but from my POV it's a bit like "out of the frying pan, into the fire." We'd just be trading one set of disastrous policies for another — (although, I have to admit, the long term consequences of following the neocon line carries with it greater risk of ultimate disaster.)
I nominate Hillary, if she got in and followed the neocon line as we might expect based on past performance — and continued with the encirclement and confrontation of Russia — for most likely to get us destroyed from without.
And Trump, for his senseless, prodigal ways and divisive rhetoric/policies — as most likely to get us destroyed from within.
Name your poison.
I myself, think Bernie is the only one in the running who makes economic sense, and while I'd like to see him articulate more clearly what his vision for foreign policy is — he has at least come out against regime change — and we know he's no neocon. And I would trust him to be restrained by international law — whereas the others, not so much.
If Bernie doesn't get the nomination, I'd be personally inclined to vote for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. I would say though, that considering the utter and certain disaster a Trump presidency would be, IMHO, that I would consider voting strategically in a contested state — that is, vote the lesser of evils — and cast my vote for Clinton. And just hope that past isn't always prologue and she may, once in office, stake out a more independent approach to foreign policy. It's a gamble, but one I'd feel compelled to take. Luckily, I live in a solid Blue state (CA) and I should be spared the agony of making that decision — and should be free to vote my conscience. But a Clinton/Trump contest would truly be "the electoral choice from hell." And I have to say, at this point I'm not very optimistic about the future of this country or the world. (I'm still hoping Bernie has a shot though — he's our best hope at this point.)
One other slight glimmer of hope, if it does turn out we get the choice from hell this time around, and we manage to somehow survive the tpp/corporate rule/neocon onslaught long enough to make it to another election — the next time around the millenials will be an even bigger part of the electorate — and they tend to be more progressive than any other segment of the population.
RE: ".. the next time around the millenials will be an even bigger part of the electorate — and they tend to be more progressive than any other segment of the population."
I hope you're right about the millennials. Unfortunately, that sounds a lot what I used to believe in the 1960's/70's about us baby-boomers. There was (eventually) SO much anti-militarism and at least lip-service to progressive ideas (a few of which initially came to fruition) back then, but — it seems to me (and some authors I've read) — that once that 'engine of dissent' the Vietnam War was over, too many (i.e.; not ALL, but enough to elect Reagan twice and the Bushes 3 times) of the boomers gravitated back to moderate/conservative values. In the 1970s I thought we wouldn't see aggressive wars by the US again, at least in my generation, due to the Vietnam horror. But there's no need to go into the detail of that disappointment. Too many boomers turned-out to be ok with militarism and war, as long as they or their close circle of family/friends weren't directly endangered. Even all the 1970's self-assured stoner-talk about weed being legalized became an Orwellian joke with the 'War on Drugs', though it is now slowly starting to be realized only after 100's of thousands of lives were ruined.
I think maybe the internet plays a role as to why millennials tend to be progressive. They tend to get their information from sources other than the MSM. And I think maybe you put your finger on another factor when you wrote: "Too many boomers turned-out to be ok with militarism and war, as long as they or their close circle of family/friends weren't directly endangered." — well, I think millennials are directly endangered by climate change, economic inequality, declining middle class, over sized influence of money in politics, etc… It's their future at stake here.
Arby
William Blum makes a mistake in attributing to Trump some sort of independent, rational streak. On Putin, Israel etc, I think Trump can not be counted on to do the right thing. Counting on that monster to be honest or to do the right thing is unwise. Trump likes attention. Blum's, and other lefties, willingness to take him on his astonishing word in regard to those subjects is proof that Trump knows how to get attention.
While Bill Blum makes some interesting points about Trump here, I think an important thing to remember is that — as he says in his opening setup: "…and I'm somehow FORCED to choose one or the other, or I'm PAID to do so, paid well … I would vote for Trump" — he's talking about conjectural, fantasy scenarios (i.e.; a de facto 'Sophie's choice' or a huge bribe) before he would actually vote for Trump, NOT actually voting for Trump of his own, un-coerced free-will.
If it does come down to a Clinton/Trump race, we actually do have a progressive/liberal choices, notably Jill Stein of The Greens party and there's undoubtedly a Socialist Party candidate also. I think too often many of the prog/lib sites I read tend to spend too much time hand-wringing over the obviously negative mainstream candidates (Clinton) or crank/crackpots (Trump) and not enough time mentioning plausible desirable alternatives like Ms Stein. Yeah, she's not going to win this time, but political party leaders are pragmatic enough that IF they see a sizable vote going to another party, they'll eventually try to co-opt or capture that vote if the voting is close.
Joe Tedesky
Eric Zuesse has an article suggesting that the moveon.org protesters are really being funded by George Soros and Hillary Clinton.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/03/credible-account-says-clinton-behind-violent-protests-trump-rallies.html
As much as this confrontational rally stuff may upset many of us, I can only imagine how much TV advertising exec's love this open display of political emotion. The best American revolution would be for every American to turn off their TV.
Geoffrey Levens
This makes sense to a point but his encouraging violence against protestors, which he continues to do and defend even after it has gotten to the point of actual, physical violence and death threats, does not bode well for America under a Trump presidency.
I'd agree with Mr. Blum's assessment of HC's record, but Trump is a charlatan. He may be stating what he thinks about some issues, but he's a man who will say anything to get elected. His overt racism and scary endorsement of violence at his rallies smack of fascism. I don't think anyone has any idea of what we'd get with a Trump Administration, and I'd be hard-pressed to believe that he wouldn't continue the government's operation on behalf of the 1 percent. Unfortunately, HC is still the lesser of evils.
Mark Thomason
I agree. Hillary makes Trump look like a lesser evil. We may suspect Trump of many things, but we KNOW what Hillary actually did, and that she'd keep doing it. Wars, trade agreements, Wall Street, globalization used against American workers, no sharing of productivity gains with those doing the producing, she is the perfect storm of bad policy. Trump could hardly do worse, even if we don't know he'd do any better.
Hillary supporters often say that Bernie supporters will need to hold their noses and vote Hillary. Actually, they need to hold their noses and vote against Hillary.
People are far too consumed with the U.S. Presidential election. These same people have almost no idea what is going on around them, especially at the state and local levels of government. The presidential election is the "sexy" election of which everyone wants a piece. And it's nothing more than a diversion. Vote or don't vote for president. It won't make a difference. The middle and working classes of this country will continue to be hollowed out. These classes ceased to matter decades ago when neoliberalism took the helm. They are obsolete. No matter who is elected president, unless you exist within the realm of the corporate "big leagues," life will not change for the better. At this very moment, ALEC is working covertly to restock state and local governments with Republican candidates accommodating to the cause of rewriting state laws. They are working tirelessly to redistrict every state. The simpletons calling shame on MoveOn.org are basically penny wise and pound foolish with their idignation. MoveOn are chumps. They have done relatively little to redirect national ideology in comparison to ALEC. MoveOn has tried their benign online petitions calling for the IRS to investigate ALEC or for certain corporations to stop supporting ALEC. These efforts have had no discernable effect on the activities of ALEC or their corporate sponsors. That well funded organization continues its covert activities with the major effect being the furtherance of a fascist corporatist agenda and the destruction of democracy throughout this land. Meanwhile people use Facebook to organize inconsequential protests at a presidential campaign rally. Yeah. Good luck with that.
Abbybwood
What you are saying about ALEC is very true.
Why don't the Democrats have a highly financed ALEC of their own fighting against it??!
J'hon Doe II
The DLC fights against progressive democrats such as Sanders.
The DLC is in apposition to Trump in many respects.
Hillary and Trump are opposite-sides-of-the-same-coin.
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People who think "progressive" is a unified solution misunderstand the history of progressivism in the United States and how that ideology set up the framework for interventionism and the globalization of capitalism in the late 19th early 20th century and continuing in the modern day. In the context of neoliberalism and centre-left interventionists like the former DLC and the New Democrats, Hillary Clinton is right to lay claim to the title of "most progressive candidate" in this presidential election. It is not correct to view that as a positive step for humanity.
What is a progressive Democrat? Is that something like a progressive Nazi? Or a progressive mobster? Or a progressive killer?
Just so you know, Arby, "progressives" are the 'Leftist' antithesis to Hillary's DLC (Right Wing-Corporate) faction of the Democratic Party.
The Progressive Democrats of America formed out of the presidential campaigns of Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich as well as with outside / independent involvement from peace and justice activists.
PDA was founded during the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Massachusetts by Tim Carpenter, Steve Cobble, Kevin Spidel, Mimi Kennedy, Laura Bonham, Joe Libertelli, Bruce Taub, and about two dozen other former staffers and supporters of the Dennis Kucinich for President Campaign—as well as Joel Segal, and other progressive activists who helped organize delegates and activists concerned with >> the centrist and right leaning trends << in the Democratic Party. Currently PDA consists of "a large group of progressive grassroots activists from across the country who want to support progressive grassroots activities both locally and nationally."
PDA's mission is to strengthen the voice of progressive ideas inside and outside the Democratic Party by using "inside/outside" and "grassroots fusion" models of working both in the Democratic Party as well as working with other progressive organizations both inside and outside the Party.
Priorities:
Ending wars and occupation
The Progressive Democrats of America opposes wars and occupations. PDA believes that "Since 2001, terrorism and instability have increased wherever the U.S. has intervened militarily. We call on the President and Congress to rethink the false premises of an ever-expanding "global war on terror" in which Western-led alliances of absolute monarchs, corrupt governments and proxy forces fight endlessly proliferating enemies in more and more countries."
PDA supports, "political and diplomatic initiatives to genuinely promote peace, disarmament and the rule of international law, and to treat terrorism primarily as a crime, not as a pretext for war and global military expansion. Cut the US military budget to its 1998 level and beyond, and bring our troops home to their families. Redirect wasteful military spending to meet real human needs, create jobs and reinvest in America. From nuclear weapons to climate change, the challenges facing the world today are too serious to be sacrificed to the strategic ambitions of any one country, including our own."
The End Wars and Occupations Team is part of PDA's "Fund Human Needs / Cut Pentagon Waste platform" and works on the following issues: Complete US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Diplomacy to prevent war and end sanctions on Iran, End CIA/JSOC operations against Syria and recommit to June 2012 Geneva peace agreement, End drone strikes, and all other "targeted killing" operations, Recommit to peace and to the rule of constitutional and international law, Reduce the record US military budget, bring troops home and reinvest in America."
PDA launched the Healthcare Not Warfare campaign to emphasize these policy positions.
Health care is a human right
Progressive Democrats of America believes, "It is a moral outrage for a country as wealthy as ours to leave 60 million people with no reliable access to health care and tens of millions more with inadequate or overly expensive coverage. In addition, despite spending nearly twice as much as other developed nations on health care, our system performs poorly, because the private U.S. insurance bureaucracy soaks up as much as one-third of all the money and pharmaceutical interests overburden America by avoiding price competition."
PDA supports establishing an expanded, improved Medicare for All National Healthcare Program, moving toward a single-payer health care system. PDA advocates passage of H.R. 676 the United States National Health Care Act, which would provide enhanced Medicare for all by establishing a streamlined, nonprofit national health program under which care would be publicly financed and privately delivered. PDA also supports H.R. 1200 the American Health Security Act which would enable states to establish their own health care programs to move toward publicly financed systems.
The Progressive Democrats of America believe "The enormous wealth disparity between the top 1% and the rest of America is an unsustainable economic and social injustice." They are committed to supporing "an economic recovery that employs all those willing and able, that houses all those needing shelter, and that imposes the cost based on the ability to pay." PDA supports an agenda of progressive taxation and fair trade. PDA advocates for "We the People NOT We the Corporations," and calls for "Taxing Wall Street to create jobs and fund human needs." PDA works to advance the following objectives: Living Wage Jobs, Taxing Wall Street (Financial Transaction Tax aka Robin Hood Tax), as well as Affordable Housing, Mortgage Relief and Homeowner Protection.
PDA has worked to get the United States Congress to roll back President George W. Bush's tax cuts, and to enact progressive taxation policies including H.R. 1579 the Inclusive Prosperity Act which would impose a micro tax on certain speculative securities transactions. PDA also supports full employment legislation including H.R. 1000 the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act which would establish the National Full Employment Trust Fund to create employment opportunities for the unemployed.
PDA supports Fair Trade (Not 'Free Trade'), which it asserts would protect consumers' and workers' rights as well as the environment, while opposing free trade agreements that it believes tend to let multinational corporations exploit labor worldwide. PDA is opposing renewal of fast track authority that allows the White House to enact trade deals without Congressional amendment or full oversight. This especially as regards the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping agreement which PDA believes would "ave substantial negative impact on millions of people in the 12 nations holding talks, including the United States."
PDA supports the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it easier for workers to organize unions.
Clean, fair and transparent elections
The Progressive Democrats of America support federal legislation including constitutional amendments that would increase fairness and transparency in U.S. elections. PDA asserts that "Big-money interests dominate U.S. politics in ways unknown in other industrialized countries, with social and environmental progress often blocked by officials who cater to big donors to insure re-election funds. Incumbents are unfairly insulated by district gerrymandering and rules, which obstruct independent candidates and parties. In recent years, voters themselves have faced political and even racial obstacles in casting votes and in getting their votes counted."
PDA seeks a nationwide ban on "all-digital voting systems and internet voting [because] such systems are vulnerable to error and manipulation and defy public verification of results." PDA concludes, "An auditable paper ballot must protect our right to vote."
PDA supports comprehensive election reform at the state and national level, including: Voter Access/Voter Protection, Comprehensive Campaign Finance Reform, Elimination of Electronic Voting Machines/Return to Verifiable Paper Ballots, Mandatory Audits of Election Results, Restoration of Voting Rights to former convicts who've served their time, Public Finance of Elections with Free TV Time for Candidates, and Instant Runoff Elections.
PDA has endorsed and worked to gain support for the following legislation: H.R. 12 / S. 123 the Voter Empowerment Act, H.R. 280 the Same Day Registration Act, H.R. 281 the Voter Access Protection Act, H.R. 1537 the End Prison Gerrymandering Act i.e. For Census purposes, the place of residence is last address prior to incarceration, and H.J. Res. 44 to establish voting as a Constitutional Right.
Stop global warming and environmental protection
The Progressive Democrats of America believes "No issue reveals more clearly the flaws of the U.S. political-economic system than global warming. Greed and corporate power dominate the public good, and impose nearsighted focus on short-term profits instead of serving our long-term needs and the welfare of future generations."
PDA explains, "Stop Global Warming is part of PDA's Protect the Earth platform. The team works on the following issues: Stopping Climate Change, Supporting a Carbon Tax and Green Energy (solar/wind), while Ending Fracking and Nuclear Power."
PDA supports the following legislation: S. 1135 the FRAC Act aka Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act "To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to repeal a certain exemption for hydraulic fracturing, and for other purposes.", H.R. 1175 the FRESHER Act aka Focused Reduction of Effluence and Stormwater runoff through Hydrofracking Environmental Regulation Act "To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study with respect to stormwater runoff from oil and gas operations,", H.R. 1154 the BREATHE Act aka Bringing Reductions to Energy's Airborne Toxic Health Effects Act "To amend the Clean Air Act to eliminate the exemption for aggregation of emissions from oil and gas sources,", and H.R. 2825 the CLEANER Act aka Closing Loopholes and Ending Arbitrary and Needless Evasion of Regulations Act "To require regulation of wastes associated with the exploration, development, or production of crude oil, natural gas, or geothermal energy under the Solid Waste Disposal Act."
PDA seeks to reduce America's dependence on oil and fossil fuels by raising auto fuel economy and imposing taxation on carbon dioxide while investing in public transportation, energy conservation technologies, and alternative energy development.
Stop voter suppression/Democracy Restoration Act
The Progressive Democrats of America is "dedicated to passing the Democracy Restoration Act and ending Voter Suppression. The Democracy Restoration Act will restore voting rights in federal elections to nearly four million Americans who are out of prison and living in the community; ensure that people on probation never lose their right to vote in federal elections; and notify people about their right to vote in federal elections when they are leaving prison, sentenced to probation, or convicted of a misdemeanor. Ending voter suppression will guarantee that every citizen that wants to vote will have the opportunity to cast their ballot for the person of their choice. Voting will again be a right that is not abridged because of age, race, address or economic standing."
PDA supports legislation including constitutional amendments to protect voting rights, and opposes court decisions, legislation and other efforts to roll back the Voting Rights Act, to impose onerous, unfair burdens and costs on voters.
End mass criminalization
The Progressive Democrats of America asserts, "In America one out of every 100 citizens is behind bars and most of them are minorities. The United States has 5 percent of the world's population but holds one-quarter of the world's prisoners. The prison industrial complex has a vested interest in keeping people locked up. A prison record affects the ability to find employment. In Virginia, Florida, Kentucky and Iowa, a felony conviction results in the permanent loss of voting privileges unless individually restored by the governor."
The End Mass Criminalization Issue Team works on the following related issues, including: Mass Incarceration, Prison Industrial Complex/Privatization of Prisons, School to Prison Pipeline, Restoration of Voting Rights, Voter Suppression by Incarceration, Stop and Frisk, Harm Reduction, Criminalization of Poverty, Mandatory Minimum Sentences, Criminal Justice System, War on Drugs, Solitary Confinement.
You are so correct.
( this all remind you of Our Donald? )
This militant medic, whom his opponents accused of being "the Luther of physicians", engaged in a life-long battle against academic doctors who learnt their medicine from dusty tomes rather than practical experience. Paracelsus had nothing but bile for these men: "Nor one of you will survive, even in the most distant corner where even the dogs will not piss. I shall be monarch and mine will be the monarchy . . . the stubble on my chin knows more than you and all your scribes." His book of medical alchemy, Archidoxa ("Arch-Wisdom"), is a "physician's cookbook of remedies". In it he moves towards modern chemotherapy, using chemicals to treat illness rather than attempting to rebalance the body's humours according to ancient and defunct Galenic principles. He was, says Ball, "the most influential proponent of the idea" and helped to direct the future course of medical science.
For Paracelsus, alchemy was not merely about the creation of gold, but was a medical and mystical philosophy that explained the functioning of the body (the transformation of food into flesh, blood and excrement) as well as the more general principles that revealed the mysteries of the earth. "Alchemy becomes so powerful and so beautiful in Paracelsus's hands," writes Ball, "because it is a part of a greater system: a magical vision of the universe distilled in the overheated alembic of a feverishly imaginative mind." Paracelsus saw the "great art of transformation" – alchemy – as the key to understanding man and nature. It was "a reflection of the natural art that makes a flower grow, that stores up metals in the earth, and brings wind and rain. By taking alchemy out of the smoky laboratory and setting it free in wild nature, Paracelsus stakes his claim to genius."
Ball's Paracelsus is a complex amalgam of contradictions: "a humble braggart, a puerile sage, invincible loser, courageous coward, pious heretic, honest charlatan, fuelled by profound love and by spiteful hate, dining with princes and sleeping in the ditch, both personifying and challenging the madness of his world". He was an intellectual vagabond: a pacifist who always carried a great broadsword by his side, even in bed, and a footloose intellectual who travelled from Ireland to Moscow, and from Algiers to Uppsala. His writings were often "verbose, undisciplined and ungrammatical". Yet writers from Blake to Borges have been captivated by his words, and he has become "a cipher for arcane and occult knowledge". Paracelsus even crops up in the Harry Potter books. According to Ball, "legend marks his every step". Some people said Satan gave him a white horse which he stabled in Transylvania; others claimed he possessed the secret of eternal life and carried with him the Philosopher's Stone which could turn base metal into gold. "His work begins and ends in magic", concludes Ball who, unlike previous biographers, resists the temptation to depict him as a proto-scientist: "Paracelsus did not do science." The real man and his philosophy are more complex and much more interesting than this.
Many of the facts of Paracelsus's extraordinary, protean life are hidden in the fog of legend and myth. Ball does an excellent job of filling in the gaps and recreating this strange and wonderful age, with its wandering wizards like Agrippa von Nettesheim ("the archetypal Renaissance magus") and its magical worldview. Today Paracelsianism is "a kaleidoscopic mixture, sometimes beautiful, sometimes grotesque or terrifying or inchoate, always profoundly human". It is a deeply personal, idiosyncratic vision of life and the universe, a vision that only truly made sense to Paracelsus himself. Ball succeeds in convincing us that, despite his arcane ideas, his vision of the "strangeness and the beauty of the magical universe" remains both inspiring and important. As Paracelsus himself wrote, "it is a divine gift to investigate in the light of Nature".
· PD Smith's illustrated biography of Einstein is published by Haus
Marilyn Potter
I totally agree and also would choose Trump over Hillary. I would hope this is widely read because ours is a poorly informed, under-informed electorate and the media silence on Hillary's history is deafening.
A LITERARY PORTRAIT OF DONALD TRUMP… Please Enjoy
The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
by Philip Ball
435pp, Heinemann, £20
One day in 1527, Paracelsus let it be known that he would reveal the greatest secret of medicine to the inhabitants of Basle. The esteemed doctors and academics of the university, dressed in their rich robes and fur hats, gathered to hear his words of wisdom. Secretly they hoped the roving physician and alchemist would make a fool of himself; already they could feel the warm glow of Schadenfreude. When Paracelsus appeared he was dressed, as usual, not in the costly clothes of a respected academic, but "in the plain smock of an artisan, stained and smeared with the residues of the chemistry laboratory". In his hands he bore the great secret – a dish which he held aloft for all the learned company to see. It contained "steaming human excrement". As the outraged audience hurried away in disgust, Paracelsus's words echoed after them: "If you will not hear the mysteries of putrefactive fermentation, you are unworthy of the name of physicians!" He did indeed believe that the essential truth of alchemy was expressed in the axiom "decay is the beginning of all birth". Confronting his enemies with "a bowl of shit" carried a less esoteric but equally eloquent message.
This memorable anecdote is told by Philip Ball in his wonderfully rich biography, and it is revealing of both Paracelsus's character and his ideas. His stay in Basle had started out well. Many students had attended his unofficial courses. He told them that doctors didn't need "eloquence or knowledge of language and books", but "profound knowledge of Nature and her works". His own wisdom was, he told them, based "upon the foundation of experience, the supreme teacher of all things". But wherever he lived, it was not long before this fiery iconoclast began ruffling feathers. According to Carl Jung, "Paracelsus was a little too sure that he had his enemy in front of him, and did not notice that it was lodged in his own bosom". This profound thinker was wholly lacking in tact or prudence. So often, as Ball says, he seemed like "a man running headlong towards a precipice".
To his enemies, Paracelsus was the "forest-ass of Einsiedeln". Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim was born in 1493 in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, and died in Salzburg in 1541. Afterwards the rumour persisted that he had risen from the dead. His father had been a physician from Swabia in Germany. Theophrastus's experiences at universities such as Freiburg and Heidelberg taught him that he was not born to live in an ivory tower. How is it, he asked, that "the higher colleges managed to produce so many high asses"? His assumed name means beyond (para) Celsus. Aurelius Cornelius Celsus was the Roman writer who collected the medical knowledge of his day in De re medicina, which had been rediscovered by the humanists in 1428. Indeed, medicine in the early Renaissance had advanced little since Roman times. For instance, physicians did not think it necessary to examine patients, relying instead on a urine sample for diagnosis. "All they can do is to gaze at piss," said Paracelsus scornfully. He accused them of "villainy and knavery" and said that if people realised how they were being deceived, medics would be stoned in the street. They, in turn, accused him of drunkenness, and it's true that Paracelsus did prefer to expound his wisdom in taverns than in university lecture halls.
His written works, most of which were only published posthumously, could be "paranoid, repetitive, vain and self-aggrandising". But beneath the bluster and posturing were genuine insights. Giordano Bruno said of him: "Seeing how much this inebriate knew, what should I think he might have discovered had he been sober?" Paracelsus turned his back on Aristotle and Galen and embraced experience as his mentor. He taught that "every land is a leaf of the Codex of Nature, and he who would explore her must tread her books with his feet". Paracelsus brought "a new, questing spirit" to natural philosophy. He investigated the plague at considerable risk to himself, devised a "chemical diagnosis of madness" and, although celibate, wrote about "the diseases of women" at a time when medics turned a blind eye to their suffering. "If a woman die in childbed," wrote his contemporary, Luther, "that does no harm. It is what they were made for."
Cicily Corbett
Here is another group that called for a protest at Chicago's Trump rally yesterday:
And I notice that John Oliver's "Drumpf"? meme from his hate-filled tirade toward Trump from a week or two ago has caught on.
If all this isn't nipped in the bud by ALL the candidates, it will be one of the longest, hottest summers in U.S. history.
The candidates need to engage their supporters to fight a peaceful campaign using our words in civil discourse so we don't have to start the body counts instead.
Who gained most from the riot in Chicago? — Donald Trump!
This is a public relations Bonanza for his campaign… .
You got that right. My neighbor (whom I love) is sticking by his guy Trump, and swearing against these basement dwellers for interrupting the Donald's scheduled event. All that this counter rally accomplished, was that it makes the Trump people circle their wagons a little tighter to ward off the cry baby lefties. So, you are right on J'hon Doe II, Trump just got a bump. If people want to protest Donald Trump, then just turn off their TV. That will show him.
Howz about just not voting for the guy?
Pick your candidate and go volunteer for him/her. Send donations to the maximum level you can afford. Slap a sticker on your car. Put a yard sign on your front lawn.
But what Moveon.org did (in the name of Bernie Sanders) was undemocratic and dangerous.
Regardless of what Donald Trump is "saying" at his rallies or the tone he uses or even the language, the way you defeat a candidate like that is to show your disdain with intelligence and class.
All the Moveon.org supporters would have gained much more respect and done much more toward their cause of trying to see Sanders win the Democrat nomination if they got thousands of their members to go to any Trump rally and hold simple signs and just all stand with their backs to the event silently with their spokesman denouncing Trump's positions and policies.
Instead they boneheadedly decided to put people's lives at risk and possibly the lives of children. This is inexcusable. If Trump does get a "bump" from this it's no wonder!
Shame on Moveon.org.
And shame on them for endorsing a war criminal and pathological liar for president in July when Sanders "loses" the nomination (especially if the "Super Delegates" are brought into play to win it for her).
We need to move on from Moveon.org.
KB Gloria
This is not an accurate description of protester/MoveOn action in Chicago–Trump has been encouraging attacks with inciteful language for quite a while now, and at a rally in St. Louis he called for "consequences" rather than "politically correct" handling of protesters. He is attempting to victimize himself for whatever reason–a fairly typical conservative tactic form what I have seen since W.
Anthony Shaker
I agree with the assessment of Trump.
As far as the political establishment (both Republican and Democrat) is concerned, Donald Trump is a wild card. No one really controls him, so they fear him. As outlandish as he sounds, this may be the only way to break the Neocons' grip on power. His foreign policy is not predesigned, and his ridicule of what their reign has brought Americans unsettles them.
All this puts Clinton in a bad light. She is 100% establishment, and worse: she is the establishment lusting for revenge at a moment in history when the United States has no chance of remaining the world's policeman for long. The US trying to make a comeback at everyone else's expense could spell disaster for everyone. it may well push the globe to the brink.
In a word, Clinton is a walking disaster; whereas Trump is only a product of the walking disaster that America has become, with its failed domestic policiesm constant bellicosity around the world, and rampage around the Middle East.
This opinion piece appeared just this morning in The New York Times:
"The Neocons vs. Donald Trump," By JACOB HEILBRUNN (MARCH 10, 2016)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/opinion/sunday/the-neocons-vs-donald-trump.html?emc=edit_th_20160313&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=7831283&_r=1
Apparently Neocons Republicans are prepared to support Hillary Clinton if Trump is voted GOP chief. That should teach every concerned American something about where the foreign loyalties of Neocons lie. The Neocons' beef with Trump is in foreign policy. Neoncons are not that interested in domestic policy except when it affects the political alliances in Congress, at the state level, and anywhere else they have infiltrated. For decades, they have been forging these alliances with the single purpose of pushing for the most bellicose, Israel-centered policies in American history. They really do fear Trump.
Hillary Clinton would be a good savior. She could continue the neocon fair tale, which incidentally has the potential of utterly removing the United States as a credible world power. They may succeed where the Communist Menace (the old Cold War Era bogey man) failed.
I distinctly dislike "right-wing" demagogues, but why is it that "left-wing" demagogues keep pushing us toward war. Democrats have been playing this role for decades. And overseas new left-wing failures like France's Socialist Hollandes and Greece's "Socialist" Tspiris keep hatching.
tjoe
Who got us into the Iraq war?
A List of prominent Jewish Neocons and their role in getting the U.S. into Iraq
http://hugequestions.com/Eric/TFC/FromOthers/list-of-neocons-for-Iraq-war.htm
Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Michael Ledeen, Scooter Libby, Charles Krauthammer, Stephen Bryen, David Frum, Robert Kagan, David Wurmser, Dov Zakheim, Henry Kissenger, Norman Podhoretz, John Podhoretz, Elliot Abrams, Frederick Kagan, Donald Kagan, Alan Dershowtiz, Daniel Pipes, Eliot Cohen, Bill Kristol, Irving Kristol, Max Boot, James Schlesinger, Marc Grossman, Joshua Bolten
Now cross reference that with the following:
Open Letter on Donald Trump from GOP National Security Leaders
The fine print….."The statement above was coordinated by Dr. Eliot A. Cohen, former Counselor of the Department of State (2007–8) and Bryan McGrath, Managing Director of The FerryBridge Group, a defense consultancy."
Andrew Nichols
I agree with this wholeheartedly. At the moment I liken the USA to a dying star. Such bodies incinerate all in the vicinity then implode into a Black hole destroying everything. The massive debt of the USA, it's uber patriotism mixed with an increasingly belligerent even murderous geostrategy lashing out against anyone that gets in its way is a toxic destabilising brew that wont end well. Sanders with all his faults is probably the only chance for the world to avoid catastrophe.
Peter Loeb
NEVER!!!!
As I wrote in comment to Lawrence Davidson's article of March 10
(today's Consortium), it is much too early to know what Trump would
do if elected President. I know (unfortunately) what Hillary Clinton
would do.
Because of his racism and violence-provoking shows (Trump's
campaign), I could never support him for President.
What I can do is once a new US President has been elected
(and a new Congress), to continue criticism as appropriate.
At this point, both would be disasters as President from
my perspective.
—–Peter Loeb, Boston, MA, USA
Regarding the fiasco tonight (Friday) in Chicago at a Trump rally (that had to be cancelled due to the threats of violence), there is no one to blame except Bernie Sanders.
Regardless of "what" Trump has "said" regarding "some" Mexicans coming into the United States illegally then committing rapes and murders, or that "there should be a temporary pause" in allowing Muslims into the United States until it is clear they can be fully vetted as to their intentions (San Bernardino) etc. Trump is currently the leading candidate running for president in the Republican party. He has every right to hold rallies and give whatever speeches he likes. He is trying to win votes for his policies and agenda. His policy and agenda may be abhorrent to Democrats (and obviously to Establishment Republicans/Neocons), but the fact remains that he still has a right to continue his campaign without threats of violence and agitators attending his rallies for the sole purpose of disrupting and causing potential riots, mayhem and even injuries and death!
Moveon.org has admitted to their supporters via emails that they organized the protests there and that includes hundreds of their "agitators" who gained entrance to the event and clearly caused a riot where there was plenty of shouting and screaming and shoving and acting out "against racism" etc.
Moveon.org overwhelmingly endorsed Bernie Sanders for president and now it is ALL ON SANDERS to denounce Moveon.org for possibly inciting violence that may have easily ended in the death of one or more of those involved on either side of the equation.
I am currently a Sanders supporter, but if he does NOT denounce the actions of Moveon.org I will easily change my support to Donald Trump as any of Trump's arch Neocon running mates, nor the arch Neocon hawk Hillary Clinton are options.
Sanders is already skating on thin ice with his promised endorsement of a known war criminal and pathological liar who is currently in danger of being charged with espionage. Yes, espionage. When one studies her email fiasco and starts connecting the "legal dots", that is the picture that starts to emerge.
The FBI, State Department and Justice Department may not have the courage of their supposed convictions to bring criminal charges against her, but believe me, out of the hundreds involved in the current investigation there will be ONE person to come forward and whistle blow the truth to the American people.
The ice is also thinning regarding Sanders reticence to call Hillary Clinton out on her multiple war crimes and abject refusal to release the transcripts of her speeches to Goldman Sachs, not to mention the continuous lying she does right in his face during debates. There is even photographic evidence (and witnesses) to Hillary Clinton "cheating" at the last debate according to DNC rules by meeting with her campaign staff during a break in the debate. But Sanders won't say a word.
Seriously folks. I am a reasonable American and I try very hard to pay attention to current events and particularly political events.
I hope Sanders has the guts to step forward and call out Moveon.org. The organization that will surely endorse a war criminal and pathological liar if Sanders does not win the nomination by the July Democrat convention in Philadelphia.
Abbybwood, if what you say about moveon.org is true, then I agree with you. I like you am a Sanders supporter. I like you also wish he would take his gloves off, but would he hold up against Hillary's corporate media punditry class? I sometimes wonder if Bernie is stepping his way through a mine field, and picking his way through very carefully to avoid getting himself blown up. Although, getting back to your point about Bernie denouncing moveon.org creating such a disturbance at this Trump rally, makes perfect sense, and it would be the right thing for Sanders to do if he did scold his masses.
Of course HuffPo, MSDNC and the Clinton News Network are completely blaming Trump for all this.
It will be very interesting to watch the various news cycles tomorrow to see how badly Moveon.org gets called out for their undemocratic actions.
I think it is fine and dandy to "protest" an event. Go there, take your signs, say what you will, but to go INTO the event for the sole purpose of inciting a riot where children are attending and actual injuries or death could occur due to the agitation and provocation, that is where I draw the line.
My feeling is that if Moveon.org wanted to protest the WORST candidate in the race, they would be going to all the Clinton events with their signs/verbal assaults! She has actually already committed the war crimes and lies!
I went on moveon.org, and although moveon is calling out to protest against Trump rallies, I didn't see anything requesting people to directly protest this particular Chicago rally. You will need to go to moveon.org site for yourself, and read how they are phrasing their complaint about these Trump events. What moveon is saying is wrong from a first amendment point of view, and moveon should think twice before making the plead they are making towards their readership. I know this, there is a procedure for counter rallies (such as when the KKK comes to a town), and that is to keep each rally separated by some safe distance. Again, if moveon did suggest, or organize this counter protest, then shame on moveon. I surely hope that Bernie picks up on this, and further goes on to denounce this kind of support. Such a counter rally protest will not look good for the candidates name who is invoked.
Yawnzee
Trump has every right to hold his rallies and say what he pleases. Just as those who find what he's saying revolting have every right to show up and express their disdain towards him and his message. He is spewing hateful rhetoric. Hate promotes violence, so it should come as no surprise when there is violence between Trump supporters and those they have been told to hate.
You made an exceptionally poor attempt at masquerading as a supporter of one particular candidate. It is blatantly clear who you support. Just state your opinions and cast your vote, stop trying to be manipulative.
Regarding protestors at Trump events, you only have to look at Elliott Abrams, back room guy in the rubio/Bush camp. Paid provacatours with Bernie signs stirring up a crowd of angy urban poor. Any echos of third world regime change. The interview with Rubio on GPS this morning was very telling, comparing this to what you see in Latin Am., how certain he is that he will win FL, a Bush controlled voter fraud state, and predicting that someone is about to get hurt. Anyone remember Robert Kennedy! Divide the anti-establishment into two angry groups and neutralize the revolution. Sanders is the force to be reckoned with and the Clinton/Bush cartel sharpens their knives.
CM Brown
Some good information from Politico Magazine about Friday's protest from a reporter who was there–apparently, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) students organized to protest their University hosting Trump. These protesters were inside as well as out on the street protesting.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/donald-trump-chicago-protest-213728
I'm in the same boat as you. Sanders' failure to call out the provocateurs who try to stifle free speech in his name is a failure of leadership. The kerfuffle about ex-Klansman David Duke supporting Trump is trivial by comparison. It's not like Duke is sending white supremacists to disrupt Sanders or Clinton rallies. Nobody on the racist Right is stooping to the level of what Black Lives Matter and MoveOn.org are doing. If they were, we would surely be hearing no end of it through the MSM.
Both Sanders and Trump are making a big mistake in not reaching out to each other's supporters. They have the commonality of being opposed to oligarchic control of the political system and the economic policies that enrich a tiny elite at the expense of virtually everyone else. Trump's opposition is a little more robust than Sanders' because he is not paralyzed by interest groups within his own party in confronting one of the most important issues of economic exploitation, the semi-official open border policy. For that Trump gets smeared as "racist" when working class blacks and Hispanics are among those most damaged by what Trump is advocating against. If Trump would start going after Hillary's record as a warmonger and tool of the financial class that is sucking the blood out of American workers, that would be a great thing. It might even help Sanders' chances.
Although I am not quite ready to vote for Trump, I will never cast a ballot for Hillary. Bill and Hillary stole the Democratic party's once socialized platforms intended to help the little people, and traded them in for their profitable support of big business. Hillary gives me the impression that her primary goal is, is to show the good ole boys back at the CFR how she will be the one to conquer the world. George W. Bush may have had something to prove by overshadowing his dad when it came to his invading Iraq, but will we vote in yet another president who may have insecurity issues enough to start more wars in order to substantiate her hedonistic position amongst her peers? If interested to learn more by all means read Diania Johnstone's 'Queen of Chaos: the Misadventures of Hillary Clinton'. Lastly, to keep it simple for now vote for Bernie Sanders in the primaries and keep Hillary out…when the general election comes about do what you must, but keep Hillary out!
Talking about silver, I read in a Philip Giraldi piece that Clintons, when leaving the White House after the Bill's two terms, took with them the White House silverware, which came as a bit of shock to the White House service staff and security. No-one objected, of course, but who knows what would disappear after a Hillary mandate, or God forbid, two. Carpets, chandeliers …
Well argued. If you care about people in other nations, very hard to see how you can vote for Clinton. If you care about Americans, hard to see how you can vote for either candidate. But if you add the two considerations up, it looks like Mr. Blum's logic works. Depressingly enough.
Grekko
Hey, the world is depressing. It should be enough that the ship of state might be slowed down by Trump. I'm not expecting miracles (he still has to deal with Congress), but his foreign policy appears sound. When you are hurdling towards the abyss, I'd think that slowing down is a good start. Those who follow him can turn this behemoth safely after it has been slowed. I don't believe that 100 years of history can be turned on a dime.
I agree with both comments and the article.
If it came down to Hillary vs a Devil, , I would not vote for Hillary the liar and, warmonger,
. If Trump was the Devil I'd vote Trump
I am a total outsider here but I think Trump could learn and adjust if he is elected, while Clinton would not.
Vivek Jain
Not only are you a "total outsider" you have no idea how power or politics work.
Do you have any idea of how softminded and brainwashed the public has been? The public doesn't realize that there is a ruling class, that the two parties and the WH and the Beltway media serve that ruling class, or that the ruling class wants WW3. The public is kept in the dark about the most important fact: it is social movements, not voting, which are responsible for the modest protections and improvements in living and working conditions (which too many in the US take for granted).
The conscience of a people is its power.
– Dryden
Bart Gruzalski
The devil you know–Hillary Clinton–is a warmongering interventionist who supports the military-banking-complex.
At least Trump has said some good thinks that are much to the left of Hillary and even good common sense. OF course
the neocons won't like him. They are supporting Hillary.
Hey, dummy. The average civilian does not exercise her/his political power by casting ballots. Civilians need to un-enshrine voting as a "duty" and to learn to see voting and the "election" to be what it is: an act of self-disempowerment for the working class. Elections and campaigns are mechanisms by which the ruling class fools just enough of the public to give the ruling class the legitimacy and false cover of public sanction that the ruling class seeks. Elections are mechanisms by which the ruling class perpetuates itself and advances its fascist agenda. Over the years, how have elections affected public power? The anti-democratic, ruling class operatives who are installed in office have assaulted the rights of people here and abroad. Presidents aren't public servants. They're the foremost, highest profile guardians of the ruling class, which wants to (and needs to) devour and oppress you and everyone you know.
Social movements are the only means by which ordinary people can improve our living and working conditions. Elections are designed to deplete valuable time, energy, resources (including psychological energy) that should otherwise be focused on destroying the Empire and overthrowing capitalism.
So again, it's not a choice at all. The ruling class is foisting its operatives on us. The right wing Democrats are fearmongering with the bogeyman of Donald Trump, and downplaying the fact that the Democratic Barack Obama has advanced fascism to an unprecedented stage in the US — seizing more and more illegal power, exercising illegitimately the power to murder anyone anywhere for undisclosed secret reasons — in order to scare civilians in the US to participate in the fraud of the Election and thus become active participants in our own disempowerment.
It is no accident that the fake-Left Sanders doesn't make war resistance a topmost priority. It's no oversight that he doesn't call for tax resistance, to starve the Beast of its necessary revenue stream. It's no glitch that Sanders' positions on foreign policy is an endorsement for the big lie (that the US wages wars to "fight terror" [when in fact what the US ruling class is doing is seeking world domination but hiding this agenda from the public through the false posturing about 'national security']).
"The result of having our history dominated by presidents and generals, and other 'important' people, is to create a passive citizenry; not knowing its own powers, always waiting for some savior on high, God or the next president, to bring peace and justice."
– Howard Zinn (1922-2010)


Multifaceted personality, renowned musicologist, performer, music educator and vaggyekara (Hindustani-composer) Pandit Vinaya Chandra Maudgalya was the Founder Principal of the 'Gandharva Mahavidyalaya' and Director of the 'Gandharva Choir'. Born on 2nd April, 1918, he had his early music training at the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Lahore (now in Pakistan) and was later trained at Pune under the eminent musician, late Pandit Vinayak Rao Patwardhan, a disciple of late Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar.
Pandit Maudgalya had been an advisor and music composer of songs for the 'N.C.E.R.T, a member of Board of studies, an examiner in Music at several Universities and a member of the Audition Board at 'All India Radio'. He was one of the National Conductors and a member of the Programme Advisory Committee. He was the Chairman of the 'Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal, Mumbai' and Director of the Saraswati Samaj, New Delhi.
He contributed articles and biographies in news-persons, magazines and journals and was a writer in the field of Indian Music; he was the associate editor of two journals "The Indian Music Journal and Sangeet Kala Vihar". His monograph "Pandit Omkar Nath Thakur" (biography) was published by the Central Sangeet Natak Akademi (1966) and the book "Sangeet Bacchon Ke liye" published by the Publications Division of the Government of India (1987). "Geet Manjari" is the collection of his over 100 selected classical compositions with notations (1990); another publication 'Gunjan' contains 20 songs on various themes to be sung by children of different age groups. His several compositions for choral singing are available in books and with the A.I.R. archives.
He made pioneering efforts for propagation of music amongst general masses. To benefit the students and scholars he had been organizing music soirees, work-shops, conferences and symposia on Indian music.
Philippines (1981), Hungary and Poland (1984). Sponsored by the I.C.C.R. he conducted a lecture demonstration tour to France, Holland, Austria and U.K. in 1988 and China in July 1990.
For his contributions in various aspects of Music he won several prestigious honours: Padmashri Award (1984), Sahitya Kala Parishad Samman (Delhi Administration) (1987), Ustad Hafiz Ali- Memorial Society Samman (1994), besides the Rotary Club Award (1993), Delhi Citizen Council Award (1990), Raja Ram Mohan Roy Teachers Award (1987) and amongst many others.


The kiddies are all back to school and so far so good! I have learnt from previous years that I am inclined to turn 'headless chicken' in September, and have planned and prepped to within an inch of my life! Without consciously choosing to, I'm also finding myself shifting towards calming and supportive poses in my yoga practice – such as forward folding poses. Forward folds don't come naturally to me, they challenge my ego and patience, but they are deeply therapeutic and soothing, and my intuition brings me to them when I need them. I'm also finding comfort in familiarity by spending extra time in some of the basic poses of yoga. When the world around you is spinning fast, it feels lovely to do the complete opposite on your mat and simplify your practice to its utmost essence.
This sequence focuses on keeping it simple and playing around with as many of the familiar poses of yoga as possible. When you encounter a pose that feels perfect to you, either in finding your strength or finding ease, pause for some extra breaths and enjoy the sensations that arise. Scan through your body from your toes to the tips of your crown and look for feedback.
Notice the effects different types of movements have on you. When you flow you will notice a calming, meditative trance, as you link movement with breath. In deep stretching poses you will feel a calm introspective quietning of the mind. Alternatively the more muscular strengthening poses will bring you into the body, and the present moment, with nowhere to hide! In order to feel the cumulative benefits of this sequence, and get a sense of serenity in familiarity, practice this same sequence for 2-3 weeks. If practicing everyday is daunting for you, start with aiming for a 2-3 days a week, for 10-15 mins, and let it naturally build it up from there.
Adho Mukha Svanasana/Downward Dogs is probably one of the more widely known yoga poses. But we often use it as a transition and not give it enough time to explore. Relook at how you approach your Adho Mukha Svanasana/Downward Dogs and see is it one, or can it become one, of your familiar comforting poses.
Hands shoulder width apart, feet hip width apart, press into all five knuckles of your hands and lightly though the pads of your fingers, fingers spread.
Roll your biceps forward, broaden the collarbones, back of the neck long, firm your shoulder blades against your back, head in line with your ears.
Pelvis tips forward, lift your sit bones up, stretch your heels towards the ground, draw your hips up and back.
Top of the thighs pressing back, roll your inner thighs back. Hug your outer hips to the midline, gaze to the ground under your pelvis.
Draw your navel towards your spine to support the internal organs.
Look for symmetry of the whole body between right and left side joining at the midline.


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Raphe to Riches
A Most Unlikely Duke (Diamonds in the Rough #1)
Raphe has struggled with his sisters in the slums for fifteen years, turning to the punishing sport of boxing to support them. But as fortune would have it, he's now the sole contender for the title of Duke of Huntley (thanks to some deaths in the family!). Lady Gabriella's new neighbours are in desperate need of her help to enter polite society and she's happy to help, though she really should spend more time with the man she's supposed to marry...
Yep, I've got some catching up to so, so I jumped to the beginning of the series. An excellent decision! I instantly adored Raphe and wanted him to one-up the ton. Gabriella was a sympathetic, extremely likeable character who made me want to yell at everyone who had ever derided her hobby. I just find the books in this series so incredibly fascinating, because of the different aspects Barnes chooses to explore. In A Most Unlikely Duke, you get slums, boxing, what happens to a woman without her family's support, and scandal is unavoidable. And really, who can pass up a rags-to-riches story?

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PennHIP .35/.36. These are very good distraction indices. Mags has very little risk of ever developing hip dysplasia. Matching these scores with a lean body and a very fit little girl, her risk of hip problems down the road is very low. Mags' sire, Buster, was OFA Excellent at 8 years of age. Of all of the dogs closely related to him that have also had their hips evaluated, all have had consistently good hips. With that 'depth' of pedigree in the hip department, Buster's genetics countered the loose hips from Ember, and produced these hips. One of Mags' littermates also has hips with similar DIs.
PennHIP distraction view of Mags's hips. You can see that her hips are both pretty tight, with the balls still well-seated in the sockets even under tension. As a comparison - to the right are Ember's hips under the same tension. They aren't nearly as tightly fit.
PennHIP extended view of Mags's hips. You can see how tight her hip joints are. The ball is well-seated in the socket, and the shadow of the socket almost completely covers the ball. This is the view used by OFA. I did not have an OFA evaluation of her hips done. She was just one year old when I had the x-rays done, and OFA requires that they be a full 24 months old for an official reading.
PennHIP compression view of Mags's hips. This view shows how well the ball and socket really fit together. Mags's ball and socket are almost perfectly congruent.


Serious Seeds have developed the aptly-named Serious Happiness strain by crossing two of their most popular varieties to create this stable F1 hybrid. The legendary Warlock was used to pollinate Serious Seeds' famous AK47 mother - even the genetic pedigree puts a smile on the face of the knowing connoisseur - true happiness awaits. When Serious Seeds grew Serious Happiness out in the legal climate of their facilities in Amsterdam, they found that the strain grows large, dense buds with several side branches that make the strain very easy to manage and train. Flowering times were found to be a standard 60-70 days and yields a consistent 400-500gr/m2. The hybrid pedigree and balanced Sativa/Indica genetics lend Serious Happiness the best of both worlds in terms of taste and effect: Serious Happiness is sweet and fruity with spicy undertones and a candy taste that lingers on the lips. Although there is a very noticable body stone, Serious Happiness also conveys a soaring head high from the Sativa side of the genetics. All in all, the breeders were so impressed, they couldn't think of a more fitting name.


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Curr Opin Plant Biol. 2001 Aug;4(4):309-14.
Genetic dissection of systemic acquired resistance.
Dong X1.
Developmental, Cell and Molecular Biology Group, Department of Biology, LSRC Building, P. O. Box 91000, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-1000, USA. xdong@duke.edu
Significant progress has been made in the past year in understanding the mechanism of systemic acquired resistance. Mitogen-activated protein kinase cascades have been implicated as negative regulators of salicyclic acid accumulation and the induction of resistance. The salicylic acid signal is transduced through NPR1, a nuclear-localized protein that interacts with transcription factors that are involved in regulating salicylic-acid-mediated gene expression. Both promoter analyses and genetic studies have shown that gene expression in systemic acquired resistance requires not only the activation of a transcriptional activator(s) but also inhibition of a transcriptional repressor(s). Microarray experiments have been performed to search for those genes whose expression is transcriptionally regulated during systemic acquired resistance and to identify common promoter elements that control these genes.
Anti-Infective Agents/metabolism
Antiviral Agents/metabolism
Cyclopentanes/metabolism
Ethylenes/metabolism
Fungal Proteins/genetics
Fungal Proteins/physiology
Gene Expression Regulation, Plant*
Genes, Plant*
Immunity, Innate/genetics*
Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors
Oxylipins
Plant Diseases/genetics*
Plant Growth Regulators/metabolism
Plant Proteins/genetics
Plant Proteins/metabolism
Protein Kinases*
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins*
Salicylic Acid/metabolism
Signal Transduction*
Transcriptional Activation
Anti-Infective Agents
CA-SRI protein, Clerodendrum aculeatum
Cyclopentanes
Ethylenes
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
NPR1 protein, S cerevisiae
jasmonic acid
Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases
ETHYLENE - Hazardous Substances Data Bank
SALICYLIC ACID - Hazardous Substances Data Bank


Yea Carol, I thought the same thing. He looks like he took a cool off dip. Was he in the lake? He is just so handsome. Happy Max Monday.....sure hope it cools off here.
Happy Max Monday everyone. Max looks like a happy boy. always good to start off my week with a smile seeing Max.
Sweet Max. He looks sooooo Happy.


One of Australia's most loved summer festival FOMO returns this January, announcing a mega line-up of artists leading in both hip-hop and electronic music, all with one stage and zero timetable clashes.
The one and only Nicki Minaj will be headlining for her first Aussie festival tour, following the release of her latest album, Queen. Widely regarded as one of the most technically skilled rappers working today, Minaj is the rare star whose commercial success hasn't stunted her critical appreciation.
After selling out all dates in 2018, FOMO, the one-stage event returns in 2019 for their biggest tour to date, and for the first time offers a full-day instalment on Saturday January 5, the FOMO touR kick's off where it all began at Brisbane's Riverstage, before heading down south to Adelaide's Elder Park on Sunday January 6. The festival will then venture across to Parramatta Park's natural amphitheatre on Saturday January 12, ahead of a spectacular inaugural closing date in Melbourne, seeing ticket-holders grace the outdoor Flemington Racecourse on Sunday, January 13.
Local talent will also be on show with Melbourne DJ Mimi and Zimbabwean-Aussie rapper Carmouflage Rose.
The festival will again partner with arts organisation Heaps Decent to donate $1 from each ticket sale to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre.


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Q: Python Extract Access Token From Key Analytics Embed API I haven't really used Python before but it's the only example Google gives you...
I have tested my JS/HTML code to display an Analytics dashboard to clients on our site using a temporary token from the OAuth 2.0 playground. Everything works fine, but of course the token only lasts an hour.
The Python script they give you to extract a key is:
# service-account.py

import json
from oauth2client.client import SignedJwtAssertionCredentials

# The scope for the OAuth2 request.
SCOPE = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly'

# The location of the key file with the key data.
KEY_FILEPATH = 'path/to/json-key.json'

# Load the key file's private data.
with open(KEY_FILEPATH) as key_file:
  _key_data = json.load(key_file)

# Construct a credentials objects from the key data and OAuth2 scope.
_credentials = SignedJwtAssertionCredentials(
    _key_data['client_email'], _key_data['private_key'], SCOPE)

# Defines a method to get an access token from the credentials object.
# The access token is automatically refreshed if it has expired.
def get_access_token():
  return _credentials.get_access_token().access_token

I have changed the file path of the json key to the location of the file and I have installed the required python client for the Analytics API and have checked it's installed.
When I go to the python script in a browser I get an internal server error, which is understandable but how to I get the key into my HTML/PHP page? Or is there an alternative PHP script than can extract the key?
The code they give you for the front end (where the key is supposed to go) is:
gapi.analytics.ready(function() {

  /**
   * Authorize the user with an access token obtained server side.
   */
  gapi.analytics.auth.authorize({
    'serverAuth': {
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    }
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Call for Abstracts/Essays: Food and Feasting in Post-1700 Outlaw Narratives
We are soliciting abstracts for a proposed collection on food and feasting in post-1700 outlaw narratives.
While outlawry has its formal origins in the Middle Ages, the outlaw is a figure and trope present in many modern, post-1700 texts, especially American, Native American, African American, and Australian outlaw narratives. Food, its preparation, and its consumption are presented in outlaw narratives as central points of human interaction, community, and fellowship, providing readers with opportunities to examine and analyze agricultural practices as well as trade, economics, and the social standing of its producers and consumers. Feast scenes perform a wide variety of functions, serving as a cultural repository of manners and behaviors, a catalyst for the adventure, or a moment of regrouping and redirecting the narrative, for instance.
This collection will consider the presence and function of food and feast in outlaw narratives, with an eye to considering whether and how instances of food preparation and eating in these tales can be said to display, to develop, or to subvert the conventional ideas of community and fellowship most commonly associated with foods and feasts in literature. This collection is unique in a number of ways. It builds upon a growing body of scholarship on outlaw studies and food studies, which in recent years has seen a number of important analyses from such scholars as Allison Carruth, Stephen Knight, Susan Leonardi, Anita Mannur, Thomas Ohlgren, and Helen Phillips. Indeed, some twenty-five years after Leonardi's landmark 1989 PMLA article, "Recipes for Reading: Summer Pasta, Lobster à la Riseholme, and Key Lime Pie," scholars are less ambivalent about the status of food studies. It seems that now is the opportune time for an examination of the transgressive world of outlaws within the context of one of life's basic necessities, food.
A publisher has expressed interest in the collection. We ask that 300-500 word abstracts and brief biographies be sent, by July 1, 2016, to Alex Kaufman (akaufman@aum.edu) and Penny Vlagopoulos (pennyvlag@yahoo.com).
Essays for accepted abstracts will be due by December 1, 2016, and should be 6,000-8,000 words in Chicago style.
Labels: African American literature, American literature, Australian literature, collections of essays, European literature, feast, food, Native American literature, outlaws, post-medieval
Call for Abstracts/Essays: Food and Feasting in Po...


WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House adviser Kellyanne Conway On Sunday said she did not believe President Donald Trump had advance knowledge that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was going to be arrested by the British police and charged by U.S. prosecutors.
"Not to my knowledge," Conway told NBC's "Meet the Press" show, when asked if Trump knew ahead of time about Assange, who last Thursday was hauled out of the Ecuador's embassy in London where he had taken refuge since 2012 to avoid extradition.
U.S. prosecutors subsequently announced charges on Thursday and accused Assange of conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to a government computer as part of one of the largest compromises of classified information in U.S. history.
Wathc the full interview as Conway goes toe-to-toe with Todd below.
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Cet article dresse la liste des planètes mineures (astéroïdes, centaures, objets transneptuniens et assimilés) non numérotées découvertes en 2018 dans l'ordre de leur découverte.

Au ,  des  mineures répertoriées par le  ne sont pas encore numérotées, soit 32,79 %.

Rappel concernant la désignation provisoire
La désignation provisoire indique l'ordre de découverte de ces objets. En effet, cette désignation est composée de l'année de découverte (par exemple 2018) suivie de la quinzaine (demi-mois) de découverte (p.e. A = 1-) puis de l'ordre de découverte dans cette quinzaine. Cet ordre est indiqué par une lettre et éventuellement un chiffre comme suit : A pour la première découverte, B pour la deuxième, ..., Z pour la 25e (le I n'est pas utilisé pour éviter la confusion avec 1), A1 pour la 26e, B1 pour la 27e, etc. , Z1 pour la 50e, A2 pour la 51e, B2 pour la 52e, etc. L'ordre de la numérotation ne suit donc pas l'ordre alphanumérique.  suit ainsi  et précède .

Liste

Du  au 15 janvier 2018

Du 16 au 31 janvier 2018

Du  au 15 février 2018

Du  au 15 mars 2018

Du  au 15 avril 2018

Du 16 au 30 avril 2018

Du  au 15 mai 2018

Du  au 15 juin 2018
 2018 LA

Du 16 au 30 juin 2018

Du  au 15 juillet 2018

Du 16 au 31 juillet 2018

Du  au 15 août 2018

Du 16 au 31 août 2018

Du  au 15 septembre 2018

Du 16 au 30 septembre 2018

Du  au 15 octobre 2018

Du 16 au 31 octobre 2018

Du  au 15 novembre 2018

Du 16 au 30 novembre 2018

Du  au 15 décembre 2018

Du 16 au 31 décembre 2018

Notes et références

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A few weeks ago, S made some gorgeous abstract art.
Ooooh, it's so pretty right?
And when we made it, I just couldn't stop taking pictures.
As S sprinkled the colors down, they would explode upon the paper. It was a beautiful swirling rainbow of color!
Wondering how she made these beautiful works of art?
Alright, alright, I'll tell ya. Kool Aid . Yep. We took pieces of watercolor paper and thoroughly sprayed them down with water (if you don't have a spray bottle, I'm sure painting the paper with water would work just as well). Once the paper was good and wet, S sprinkled bits of each color of Kool Aid powder in various spots. As soon as the powder hit the paper it would explode, sending out tendrils of color and the air would fill with the scent of each flavor. It was so beautiful to watch and so yummy to smell!
Here's one of the dried pieces of artwork. We did this about 2 weeks ago and it's keeping great. Kool Aid powder doesn't have any sugar, so it hasn't molded or done anything else weird. It still smells AWESOME, too.
I introduced all the colored powder at once with S because she's pretty methodical and likes to take her time with art. If you have a younger child or one who likes to create quickly, you could always introduce one powder packet at a time. I am so in love with S's beautiful, delicious-smelling abstract art masterpieces!
What a fun process! I bet it did smell great.
Thank you, Shaunna! It was so much fun (and yes, smelled soooo lovely!)!
Great idea. I will do this later for sure. So pretty too.
Hi Meri Cherry! Thank you!!! I hope you all enjoy it as much as we did!!
Thank you, Kate! Oh, that's so hilarious. I love it! What a clever wool shop!
Wow! I love this, Asia. it must have smelled incredible! And it's so gorgeous!
Thank you, Jackie!!! It did smell sooooo lovely - and amazingly it still does!!!
What a fantastic idea. We had a LOT of fun doing the milk art-science project this week - the one where you add drops of food coloring to milk and then add dish soap. The results are similar - lovely abstract images and dramatic swirling of colors (http://www.broogly.com/project/milk-art-science). But you can't keep that art - just the photos you take. So this would be a great activity to do next. Love the fact that it smells good too - would be fun to make birthday cards out of them - the recipient would have the aroma as well as the art!
LOVE the idea of making a birthday card out of the Kool Aid art!!!! Brilliant!!!


A widely disseminated exploit kit popular with hackers has been updated to take advantage of a recently discovered Java vulnerability. Researchers at Microsoft reported last week that it had observed this vulnerability being exploited in the wild. The Java exploit allows attackers to bypass the Java Runtime Environment's sandbox platform to install malicious code remotely.
The malicious Java applet is loaded from an obfuscated HTML file. The Java applet contains two Java class files one Java class file triggers the vulnerability and the other one is a loader class used for loading.
Named CVE-20120-0507, the flaw essentially allows hackers to bypass the Java sandbox, which is a mechanism designed to blunt attacks from malicious code. For its part, the BlackHole exploit kit, available underground, allows users armed with only basic computer knowledge to set up malicious websites to target vulnerable computers through the web browser.


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began with considerations of outcomes of redefining poetry as the dynamic system it already was (and continues to be), without being perceived (or having to be perceived) that way, understandings of things being especially flexible and configurable when forked.
In this Limited Fork audio training poam, Forks and ladders, those interacting with it are asked to map content onto a moving structure, such as a system of rotating ladders as an iteration of a fork (or growing, changing, interacting, for instance) system.
as aquisition and shedding of dimension help shape how content connects and how content is shaped as a result of attempted connection behaviors, some of which succeed in various ways. Something happens on some scale, in some location, for some duration of time, and the limited fork inquiry seeks to find out what happens under various sets of circumstances which themselves are outcomes of interactions and connection behviors.
Remember that three-dimenional forms can be expressed in two-dimensional ways for approximation on flat hosts such as surfaces of conventional paper; the nets of platonic and archimedean solids are 2D depictions of 3D forms such as cubes and tetrahedrons.
Using such solids, it becomes easier to conceive of and to construct, whether for a flat or a more dimensioned residency, a 3D sonnet or villanelle or sestina or story or essay, for instance, not just mapping the words onto such forms, but givng shape to the idea system words attempt to represent. A kind of origami of idea and realities as a form of connectible and/or connecting origami of idea galleries. A form of extreme and splendid origami.
In a 3D understanding of the dress is red, for instance, those words may be placed more like a constellation, each word (or components of words) not on the same plane at all, the relationship perceived as a function of the breakdown of depth perception at such distances --relatively no depth at all, and yet constellations exist, inspire, assign to us meanings of personality and identity, based on inspiring and useful illusion of perception.
Pop-up books restore some of dimensionality of flat surface hosting and representation through systems of folding and unfolding: accordion and pleated systems.
Wannabe Hoochie Mama GALLERY OF REALITIES Red Dress Code.


I hope you are all doing well and are having an amazing week so far - yay for the weekend! If you have been reading my blog for a while then you will know that I am such a huge lipstick, lip gloss or liquid lipstick fan and I honestly think that you can never have too many. I just love how a lip product can instantly transform any makeup look and ultimately change the way you feel. So, when Lancôme sent me a selection of their new L'Absolu Roses Lip Glosses I couldn't contain my excitement.
A little while ago Lancôme's iconic L'Absolu Rouge lipstick line turned 25 and with the newly appointed Lisa Eldridge on board the collection went through a reinvention. A whole new 86 shades to be exact, coming in three different variations and formula's; Sheer, Cream and Matte. A few months ago Lancôme announced it's latest additions to the L'Absolu Rouge family - L'Absolu Roses Lip Glosses. Let's take a closer look at the shades.
L'Absolu Gloss Sheer in #317 Pourquoi Pas?
Pink to make the boys wink! This is a gorgeous sublet pink shade which Lancôme describes to be the 'demure ingénue' of the collection. A beautiful rose with a shine, Pourquoi Pas? which means 'Why Not?' once translated captures all the freshness of pink in it's fizzy brightness. One easy stroke and your lips are pouting, scintillating and naughtily irresistible. It's one I've been reaching for a lot recently. I love layering it over a a dusty mauve lip liner.
If you are looking for a shade in-between Pourquoi Pas? and Caprice then Graffiti is the one for you and a signature colour from Lancôme. It is a vibrant medium pink with subtle yellow undertones that give it the perfect kiss of coral. One swipe leaves a glossy finish to the lips that is perfect for day and night - it's an all round shade and I love it!
A red for everyday, a red for big nights out - Caprice is a bright and luminous shade. The perfect true red that you would expect to see in the 1920s - a classic. Once applied it adds a satiny shine to the lips and the pigmentation is just right. I remember I used to feel so scared wearing red lip shades because I never thought they suited me but now I absolutely love them and wear them frequently. As Patrick Starrr would say... "Makeup is a one size fits all" so play around with colour and have fun!
The packaging is simply stunning with it's transparent bottle and black lacquered lid stamped with a golden rose - it just screams luxury. Once opened, it's precise applicator will win you over almost instantly. It is the perfect size and shape to hug your lip line and fill in your lips with ease. You will have a dreamy application every single time.
Overall, I absolutely adore the new L'Absolu Roses Lip Glosses and it's great to see that there are 14 delicious pink-infused shades in this collection which are available in the three different finishes. Sheer for glossy lips which are lightly coloured and sparkling. Cream to dress the lips with a veil of intense colour and a silky finish. Lastly, but certainly not least, Matte for a deep colour and velvety-feeling lips. It's great to see such a wide variety which all offer easy application, a fabulous non-sticky formula which leave the lips feeling and looking good all day. There is something for everyone in this collection.
Lancôme L'Absolu Roses Lip Glosses are £21 and available in stores nationwide.
What do you think of the collection? Do you have a favourite shade?


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While most hosting distributors employ the ready-made cPanel as a basis of their web hosting platforms, we decided to create the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel. The principal benefit of this Control Panel is that it offers billing, website and domain name management possibilities. This will spare you the effort of signing in to different administrative interfaces to manage the things that belong to you. With the Hepsia Control Panel, you will exert full control over all aspects of your online presence and will be able to administer all your web sites and domains from one single location.
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This workshop will share practical examples of how to identify and quantify where, and how, you can improve business and individual performance. It's about knowing your people, what they move towards, what makes them tick and so how to motivate them and reduce effort in the delivery of great experiences.


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