Constitution: Unalienable right given by the creator ? What does being a U.S citizen have to do with it. ?
1. The man does not know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
2. His "side" does not recognize the creator: they place their faith in the state. This is a common tactic to use our faith against us for their own goals.
There is no conflict between between this statement and national sovereignty. This is another common tactic of the other "side": the use of a straw man argument to make their point or to marginalize the issue through diversion.
The two "sides" in this country are both being manipulated by the political class, media and Communist/Islamist interests. Which side will prevail? Neither. Their goal is to divide the country in order to destroy it from within. And we know who will pick up the ashes.
We were warned about the consequences of domestic enemies by our founding fathers. They would have seen the plan to destroy us from within immediately and taken up arms to fight the true enemy.
I look forward to the time when we are able to have their prescience. If we have the time to recognize what needs to be done to save our country.
Is Obama and the Democrat Party nudging us closer and closer towards the global Caliphate being formed by the United Nations (UN), Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Muslim Brotherhood (MB), and the newly formed United States Muslim Brotherhood political party, the United States Council of the Muslim Organizations (USCMO)? The United States Council of the Muslim Organizations (USCMO) was established in March 2014, with strong support from the political activism by Muslim Brotherhood-linked operatives in our government, including the open support of the U.S. Department of State! Don't you think this deserves hearings in the House and Senate?
This is all about the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam!
ARTICLE 25: The Islamic Shari'ah is the only source of reference for the explanation or classification of any of the articles of this Declaration.
Did Obama violate his Oath of Office when he signed UN Resolution 16/18? It places Shariah/Islamic law above our First Amendment rights.
Well said! Let's hope we can recognize our mission.


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Bacevich: Get out of NATO, shut down combatant commands, responsiblestatecraft.org
Daniel Larison, former senior editor at The American Conservative magazine
The United States needs to make a major overhaul of its alliances and partnerships in the world, and it needs to rethink which of its existing commitments truly protect the vital interests of the United States.
In light of the devastating effects of the pandemic on the country, including the loss of more than 600,000 people, we cannot afford the conventional understanding of national security that has prevailed up till now. Above all, we have to shed the self-congratulatory and self-justifying notion of American exceptionalism that has so warped our thinking about our foreign policy.
These are just some of the provocative ideas that Quincy Institute President Andrew Bacevich proposes in his new book After the Apocalypse: America's Role in a World Transformed. […]
One of the big changes that Bacevich proposes is to end U.S. involvement in NATO. "NATO has become an exercise in nostalgia," as it tries to guard against threats that no longer exist while it is incapable of addressing contemporary problems that do not have a military solution. Our European allies have the means to provide for their own defense, but for decades the U.S. has actively discouraged them from building up their own security institutions for fear of undermining NATO. There is growing recognition on both sides of the Atlantic that the current arrangement makes no sense and European states need to assume more responsibility for their own defense. Continued U.S. membership in NATO is not only unnecessary, but it actually impedes European states' efforts to develop their own capabilities. In short, "U.S. security guarantees to Europe have today become redundant," and therefore Bacevich proposes that the U.S. should announce its intention to withdraw "within the next decade." Läs artikel
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PIKEVILLE — The Humane Society of the United States is offering $2,5000 rewards for information leading to the abusers of two dogs found Monday in Pike County.
One dog, a female Labrador retriever-German shepherd mix, was found by a roadside with two legs broken in a shotgun blast. She is in critical condition, according to a press release from the Humane Society. United Rescues of Kentucky is handling her care.
A male black Labrador retriever was found wandering the streets with an arrow through his chest. He survived, and his care is being handled by the Louisville-based Shamrock Foundation.
Last month, a terrier mix was found just north of Pikeville severely burned with hot grease, a broken jaw, gouged eye and cut tail. The Humane Society is also offering a reward in that case.


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Green Beret Recalls How He Earned Medal of Honor In A 'Difficult Situation'
One's true character is revealed in how one conducts oneself in difficult situations. War is the most extreme example of "difficult situations."
This is a story about one man's conduct in the midst of a terrible battle in Vietnam. His name is Sgt. 1st Class Melvin Morris.
Retired Sgt. 1st Class Morris was one of the first soldiers to become a Green Beret. He would ultimately serve two tours in Vietnam and be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest award our nation gives for uncommon courage under fire.
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Melvin Morris served as a Green Beret in the Vietnam War.
You will meet Sgt. 1st Class Morris in this video. He was asked to be the keynote speaker at an event that was held at the National Infantry Museum. The National Infantry Museum was opened in Columbus, Georgia in June 2009 and since then has seen over 2 million visitors come through its doors. This video is from that event.
Listen to Morris' own account of the events that took place during a day long battle during his first tour in Vietnam. The battle began mid-morning and would last, for him, until about 6 in the evening. During that time, he saved two of his fellow soldiers lives and single handedly knocked out the enemy force.
In his own humble words he says of that day, "My job was to step up."
Morris saved the lives of two soldiers while fighting wounded.
During the course of his actions in that fiercely contested battle, Morris was shot three times. He told his fellow team members that, if he went down they should not come out for him. As you will hear, Morris, though wounded, fought until his ammo ran out. He was awarded the DSC for his actions on that day. Within 30 days of receiving the DSC, Morris volunteered for a second tour in Vietnam.
50 years later, the records of 24 soldiers who had been awarded the DSC in Vietnam were reevaluated. Sgt. 1st Class Morris' records were among those reevaluated. On March 18, 2014 he was invited to the White House by President Barack Obama, along with the other 24 Army soldiers, to a ceremony where their DSCs were upgraded to Medals of Honor.
Injured and out of ammo, Morris never gave up on his mission.
Over the years since coming home from Vietnam, Morris has remained in touch with the two men whose lives he saved that day.
The Veterans Site sends it deepest thanks and respect to Sgt. 1st class Melvin Morris. In your actions that day in Vietnam, you revealed the true depth of your character and commitment to your brothers-in-arms and gave all who have followed you a model to be emulated. Hooah!


This year's Green Man festival located in the beautiful Brecon Beacons is only a few months away and tickets have unfortunately already sold out, however if your attending we've chosen some of the best acts for you to check out at the festival, some are veterans you may have already heard of before, others are new and upcoming bands you may have not but what they all have in common is that they will all put on unmissable sets you can't miss!
There's not much more I can say than what I've already covered in my glowing review from when The Shin's came to London earlier this year (review here) but I'll try, James Mercer and co. deliver easily one of the funniest and uplifting sets you'll see all summer, even in their most melancholic numbers you'll find yourself utterly gripped.
Latest album 'Heartworms' is nothing short of a return to form from the band, if your not instantly hooked by lead single 'Name For You' then I'm afraid you're simply not human, this of course is backed by decades of indie anthems such as 'Simple Song' and 'New Slang'.
This is one band you shouldn't miss!
By far one of the best live bands around, they make a rare headlining festival appearance in the UK for Green Man, oozing full of energy and propelled along by their erratic frontman Samuel Herring your bound to have a massive grin on your face as he dances across the stage.
Latest album 'The Far Field' takes the sounds of their breakout album 'Singles' and turns it all up a notch, lead single 'Ran' is going to be on of the highlights of the weekend that's for sure, their one headliner you don't want to miss.
Ryan Adams has a career that will seemingly never end, one of America's best singer songwriters and an incredible live artist, his debut album Heartbreaker to this day is still a fantastic piece of music from start to finish, containing absolute classics such as 'Come Pick Me Up' and 'Amy'. He's also incredibly versatile even releasing a track for track cover album of Taylor Swift's amazing 1989 a couple of years ago.
This year has seen him already release two albums, the astounding Prisoner and it's B Sides meaning your in for a fantastic set which is one of your very limited chances to see Ryan in the U.K.
She has two mercury prize winning albums to her name, 10 years apart however but that just shows how incredible of an artist she was and continues to be, not content with breaking boundaries and defying expectations just once, she has managed to continue doing this for decades.
Last year saw PJ Harvey release the fantastic 'Hope Six Demolition Project', it got a suitably high amount of acclaim, it's a rare sight to see PJ Harvey so yet again Green Man have pulled out another incredible coup it getting the stellar artist to headline this year's event, she's first on the line-up for a reason, make sure your there to witness it.
HFTFF have already released one of the best albums of the year so far with 'The Navigator', Alynda Segarra has a way of really capturing her anger and emotion with some truly brilliant punk and folk songs, her music has deep messages about humanity throughout, even more so on their fantastic latest album, 'Pa'Lante' is especially intense as it gives lost puerto ricans a much needed voice, this is one act that deserves your attention.
Last year I had the immense pleasure of getting to see Lift To Experience's first show back in 15 years when they were reunited by elbow's Guy Garvey for his Meltdown Festival, since then they've seemingly disappeared again but fear not they'll make a very exclusive and rare performance at this year's Green Man.
Another fantastic artist I discovered at Meltdown last year was This Is The Kit, a stunning folk rock band led by Kate Stables, they somehow make fantastic music yet still seem so under the radar after many years, Kate's voice is really stunning, at points when she performs you won't hear a pin drop, on top of all that her lyrics are well thought out and the songs themselves are stellar, If your a fan of acoustic music you'd be doing yourself a disserviceby not checking them out.
An all female singing collective with incredible talent, they performed last year at Green Man and will make a triumphant return this year, they've released one album 'Be Ok' which came out earlier this year so even if you've seen them before, your bound to hear some beautiful new songs from the collective this time around as well.
Easily one of the next big things, you've most likely already heard The Big Moon on various radio stations and they continue their seemingly unstoppable rise through the rankings, featured on Radio 1 many times as well as on their introducing program, the four girls are brining back grunge with a vengeance, they're heavier than Haim and Wolf Alice but it's easy to see them becoming just as big, check them out now before it's too late.


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How North Korea might respond to US, South Korea war games
August 19, 2017 | 2:38am
SEOUL, South Korea — America's annual joint military exercises with South Korea always frustrate North Korea. The war games set to begin Monday may hold more potential to provoke than ever, given President Donald Trump's "fire and fury" threats and Pyongyang's as-yet-unpursued plan to launch missiles close to Guam.
Will the allies keep it low-key, or focus on projecting strength? An examination of this year's drills and how the North might respond to them:
THE WAR GAMES
US and South Korea won't cancel military drills
BEIJING/SEOUL — The United States and South Korea will go...
The Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills will be the first joint military exercise between the allies since North Korea successfully flight-tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles in July and threatened to bracket Guam with intermediate range ballistic missile fire in August.
Despite some calls to postpone or drastically modify drills to ease the hostility on the Korean Peninsula, U.S. and South Korean military officials say that the long-scheduled exercises will go ahead as planned.
The drills, which began in the 1970s and involved 25,000 American and 50,000 South Korean soldiers last year, consist mainly of computer simulations aimed at honing joint-decision making and planning and improving command operations. The United States and South Korea also hold larger war games in the spring, called Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, which involve live-fire exercises and training with tanks, aircraft and warships.
There's media speculation that the allies might try to keep this year's drills low-key by not dispatching long-range bombers and other U.S. strategic assets to the region. But that possibility worries some, who say it would send the wrong message to both North Korea and the South, where there are fears that the North's advancing nuclear capabilities may eventually undermine a decades-long alliance with the United States.
"If anything, the joint exercises must be strengthened," Cheon Seongwhun, who served as a national security adviser to former conservative South Korean President Park Geun-hye, said in an interview.
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North Korea fired what appeared to be a submarine-launched ballistic...
Impoverished North Korea hates the drills in part because it must frequently respond with its own expensive displays of military might.
During last year's drills, the North successfully test-fired for the first time a submarine-launched ballistic missile ruler Kim Jong Un then praised as the "success of all successes." Shortly after the drills, the North carried out its fifth and biggest nuclear test, which it claimed was of a "standardized" warhead that could fit on a variety of its rockets.
During this year's war games in March, North Korea launched four extended-range Scud missiles into the sea in what it described as a rehearsal for striking U.S. military bases in Japan.
MISSILE THREATS
It's almost certain that this year's drills will trigger some kind of reaction from North Korea. The question is how strong it will be.
Some experts say North Korea is mainly focused on the bigger picture of testing its bargaining power against the United States with its new long-range missiles and likely has no interest in letting things get too tense during the drills.
If this is right, expect the usual propaganda belligerence in state media or low-level provocations like artillery and short-range missile drills. Or perhaps the North could conduct its first submarine-launched ballistic missile test since last August, which, if successful, would allow it to demonstrate serious military capability without posing an immediate direct threat to the United States.
North Korea can now fit missiles with nuclear warheads
North Korea has successfully developed a miniaturized nuclear warhead that...
"North Korea has already flight-tested ICBMs twice this year and will probably take a wait-and-see approach to assess the impact of stronger pressure from the United States and China and maybe even seek an opportunity for talks, rather than quickly move forward with another test," said Moon Seong Mook, a former South Korean military official and current senior analyst for the Seoul-based Korea Research Institute for National Strategy.
But others think the North might use the drills as an excuse to conduct another ICBM test or maybe even act on its threat to lob missiles into the waters near Guam.
"North Korea is probably looking at all the cards it has to maximize pressure against the United States, and the drills provide a good opportunity to do it," Cheon said.
WORRIES ABOUT THE FUTURE
There are calls in both the United States and South Korea for the allies to pause or downsize the joint military exercises to reduce strain and potentially persuade North Korea into talks to freeze its nuclear program.
Kim Jong Un names himself general secretary of ruling party
North Korea's Kim Jong Un threatens to build more nuclear weapons
Kim Jong Un reportedly cracks down on use of 'perverted' slang on cellphones
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Kim Jong Un thanks North Koreans in rare New Year's letter
David Wright, a U.S. analyst from the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in an emailed statement that the United States should "postpone or significantly restructure" the exercises to reduce the risk of military confrontation.
"Smart military planning means ensuring that exercises do not enflame an already tense situation," Wright said.
South Korea's Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper said in an Aug. 11 editorial that the allies could gain a bargaining chip in efforts to persuade the North into meaningful nuclear talks by halting or scaling down the joint drills.
"The U.S.-South Korean drills aren't a sacred realm," the newspaper said, referring to the time that Washington and Seoul agreed to cancel their large-scale Team Spirit drills in the early 1990s to induce the North to join denuclearization talks.
These arguments might not win over South Korean conservatives whose main fear is that a fully functional ICBM in Pyongyang would eventually force the United States to consider a peace treaty with the North and also the removal of the tens of thousands of American soldiers stationed in South Korea.
While expressing a desire to reach out to the North, South Korea's liberal President Moon Jae-in has also ordered his military officials to schedule talks with the United States to increase the warhead limits on South Korean missiles, and his prime minister said recently that the country should also consider acquiring nuclear-powered submarines to better cope with North Korean threats.
Some conservatives want more strength, however, and are calling for the United States to bring back the tactical nuclear weapons that were withdrawn from the South in the 1990s.
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Andy Murray Effortlessly, Overtly Stands Up For Women In Tennis
Andy Murray with his female coach Amélie Mauresmo
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On a local NPR radio station today I heard a great piece about Andy Murray and how he is taking a stand for women in tennis, reporting on a story that appears in Elle magazine.
Admittedly I'm not a tennis fan, I don't have anything against it, just never got into it - even the Slams and Olympics. I have however admired various tennis players - men & women - throughout the years. I mean come on - you have to love John McEnroe - but I also was a fan of Björn Borg and of course Billie Jean King, and the Williams sisters but also Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf. Tennis is in a sort of golden age with the Williams sisters and Novak Djokovic, and the icons Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. With Nadal and Federer on people's minds currently, one name that I think gets overlooked - at least among non-tennis fans - is Andy Murray. I knew he was a great player, not sure where he ranks 'all-time' but seems he is arguably one of the best, but regardless of his worth as a player, I am learning he is also a great man.
Though Serena Williams dominates her sport as do Nadal & Federer, maybe moreso without a direct competitor, and could well be the best tennis player ever (disregarding the whole gender thing), and women's tennis in general gets plenty of attention, they still fall far below men in pay. Beyond that they still, this past year unfortunately frequently, are treated with misogyny. There were numerous instances - which you can read in the Elle article linked above so I won't get into them here. Let's just say some ridiculous statements and treatment were done to women. But one male player at least isn't having any of it, and he's not afraid to speak up about it: Andy Murray.
The best part is that it seems to be him just being him, naturally responding and speaking up - not having to force it or seem as if he's reaching or trying to hard to be a male 'feminist'. And that is getting him noticed by the female players and women in general. In the Elle article, the incomparable Billie Jean King says "Andy's been great, and without even realizing it, probably." Meanwhile, in the NPR story, the Elle story writer Lizzy Goodman talks about how his reactions, the way he almost rolls his eyes at the fact he even needs to be in the conversation, are as powerful as the words.
Andy is the only top male player to have hired a female coach, former top player Amélie Mauresmo, but then he has experience with it - his mother Judy is a tennis coach and he grew up being coached by her before he would move onto male coaches as a pro only to return to a female coach again.
One of my favorite quotes from Murray is on the subject of equal pay. Besides supporting it obviously, he goes further to say "what I just don't get is why it wouldn't be something that tennis players are proud of, like, to be the only sport [where the male and female game and earnings] are even comparable." The fact that it could and should be something to be proud of, not just not fight against, shows its really his opinion that it should happen. Another great quote refers to the coaching aspect - of men dominating as coaches of both men and women. "She's a woman, so she can't understand the men's game," he says of female coaches in general. "But then how can a man understand the women's game?" Meaning, if its okay for a man to coach a woman - why not vice versa? His experience with having to stand up for his coach gave him the impetus to do it in general for women in tennis.
I love how Goodman talks about his approach, if it can even be called one, as 'dudish' or 'bro' like, so nonchalant and natural that it has more power because of it.
In a perfect world we wouldn't need someone like Murray, by his own account not needing a 'feminist', but we do, and so I am happy that there is. Keep up the fight Andy Murray.
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What is "White" Sharia? (Yes, this is a Thing)
Posted January 13, 2018 10:15 pm by CJ Wyatt
Life was cheap to those who created Sharia. Sadly, Americans on the hard right/Alt-Right are openly talking about what their own version of Sharia would look like in the context of non-Islamic European-Americans.
White Sharia is a meme that likely began in late 2016. As far as I can tell, the Alt-Right podcast The War Room was one of the first to explore the idea and for almost two hours the hosts flesh out a graphic vision of white rape gangs and more.
White Sharia is conceptualized as a corrective to the decadence of Western feminism that has led many of our sisters and wives to debauch themselves in prodigal living resulting in less white babies and weaker marriages. This makes demographic replacement by non-Westerners/non-whites inevitable.
It should be mentioned that the Alt-Right and meme culture is based on irony and jokes meant to shock and steer conversation. Much like third-wave feminism, it's full of half-truths.
White Sharia is open to such heinous activities as "corrective rape" and polygamy to forcefully impregnate obstinate Western women of "good genes" who refuse to carry and birth children. By the calculation of White Sharia advocates, this strategy would jack-up desirable female genetic contribution during peak childbearing years that are usually lost to empowered promiscuity and careerism. Earlier childbirth means fewer sexual partners which equals stronger marriages.
Andrew Anglin, infamous proprietor Alt-Right site The Daily Stormer once mentioned that Western women will eventually need to choose between Islamic Sharia and White Sharia.
I've found that Leftists, "normies", and most conservative-types don't really understand the Alt-Right or meme-culture. They either don't get the high levels of irony or they pretend they don't. Much of the Alt-Right's belief-cycle plays out as follows (roughly):
Become conversant in spiritually/morally dangerous ideas (National Socialism, "helicopter rides" etc) in order to trigger your enemies and signal to fellow travelers.
Deploy ironic memes based on these ideas.
Begin to actually sympathize with the above ideas and/or start to see other human beings as vermin/sub-human/contemptible.
Ultimately, and these are just the facts, the Alt-Right and White Sharia are the result of the leftwing's war on traditional morality plus identity politics. It's also a result of the capitulation of establishment, economically-minded Republicans in government. The war, the identity politics, and the capitulation are all evil.
This is all totally antithetical to the Church's vision of complementary vocations for husbands and wives. Additionally, race/ethnicity are irrelevant in Christ. Christ transcends that for us. We don't have to obsess over it anymore.
Not unlike leftists today, there is a preoccupation in the Alt-Right with earthly justice with no concept of ultimate victory in the eschaton where God will "wipe away every tear" (Rev 21.4). Orthodox Christians have nothing to learn from Islam or Mohammed and ought not take cues from them. We have the fullness of the Truth and life with the witness of the saints. Darkness does not comprehend the light (Jn 1.5).
That said, it's unsurprising in this fallen world that some men would put their foot down and take on the role of oppressor in jest or in reality. If these men can do-no-right in the eyes of our culture's wicked pseudo-reality — what do they have to lose? It's not right, but it's one of the choices the culture gave them so some men are going to choose it. Surprise, surprise.
Graphic content warning! The links below are NSFW. Many contain racially charged, offensive and violent language. Presented here for educational purposes.
*[Video] Explaining why White Sharia is "a good meme." A good place to start to understand the concept.
The women with the most alternatives, the best alternatives to family and reproduction do less of the family and reproduction.
*[Podcast episode] Put a baby in her belly!
November 2016. The War Room. White Rape Gangs #WhiteSharia. This podcast is hosted on a mainstream Alt-Right site.
*Could there be a hard right/Islamic alliance on the horizon? I doubt it, but someone is floating the idea.
People called us crazy, but we have said and continue to say this because this is based on historical precedent going back to the 15th century with the fall the Byzantine Empire to the Ottomans through the sale of the cannons to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II and has persisted up through the First World War, Second World War, and will manifest again in the Third World War, as it is coming together today.
*A critique of White Sharia from within the hard right.
If "white sharia" does not sound as ridiculous to you as "white Zionism," then it is time to take stock of who you are and for what, exactly, you are fighting. In doing so, not only will you naturally arrive at a more workable political strategy, but you will have eradicated one more remnant of anti-white indoctrination from your core being.
*In Defense of White Sharia. The author responds to the critique above and lays out the case for stealing the patriarchal form of the enemy.
When I say we will have White Sharia in White Afghanistan one day, it means that we will have an extreme tribal patriarchy in the ethnostate. But it also offers visions of what that patriarchy and that ethnostate could look like. People can imagine themselves with a beard and an AK in the Appalachian Mountains. Images and examples are more powerful than words. That is why joking about White Sharia is more powerful than pleas for returning to long-dead traditions.
*[Video] Emily Youcis, former Philadelphia Phillies snack vendor, stumping for White Sharia.
*White Sharia Will Make You Dumb. A critique of the bizarre eugenics argument for White Sharia.
*They Want Us Caged: Anti-Feminism, "White Sharia" & Traditionalism. Click the link for a standard feminist response.
*[Video] Titled WHITE SHARIA NOW. A laugh track is edited in over a documentary-style video of young white women debauching themselves.
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Savannah: $109,000
Macon: $120,000
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Lawyer's in Georgia take home an average 63.96 per hour. Annual earnings for Lawyer's working in the State of Georgia average $133,030 which is 287% above the state median income and 259% above the national median income for all occupations. Employment for a Lawyer makes up just 0.40% of the working population in Georgia and is limited due to the specific qualifications required along with the schooling involved in this career path. The increasing demand for qualified Lawyers coupled with the educational barrier to enter the field is met with a steady supply of eager college graduates anxious to make a long-lasting impact in the lives of others in and around Georgia.
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Islamic Myths and Memories: Mediators of Globalization
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Introduction: Islamic Myths and Memories – Facing the Challenge of Globalization
"To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die … To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly …" Out of thin air: a big bang, followed by falling stars. A universal beginning, a miniature echo of the birth of time … the jumbo jet Bostan, Flight AI-420, blew apart without warning, high above the great, beautiful, snow-white, illuminated city, Mahagonny, Babylon, Alphaville.1
So begins a powerful postmodern myth of globalization that spans Muhammad's jahiliyya and today's cosmopolitan London: immigration, the big city, and the unavoidable accompaniment: terrorism. Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses features as its heroes Gibreel Farishta, the angel Gabriel who doubles as a Bollywood superstar, and Saladin Chamcha, the satanic anti-hero Salah al-Din who tries but fails to be British. In their interactions in heaven and on earth both are beyond reality and imagination, good and evil, past and present, East and West.
The present wave of Islamic resurgence coincides with the era of globalization. Radical Islamists perpetuate the religio-national struggles begun at the height of modernity by the Muslim Brothers and Jama'at-i Islami against colonial powers and indigenous secularized governments; but, operating from globally marginalized Muslim countries or from Western diaspora enclaves, Osama Bin Laden and the Jihadi-Salafis also transcend their forebears in an apocalyptic fight against worldwide unbelief.2
At the other end of the scale, liberal Islamic intellectuals, many of them living in North America or Western Europe, are reiterating the modernist quest of Muhammad 'Abduh and Sayyid Ahmad Khan to accommodate the West; yet, at the same time today's modernists substitute for their predecessors' apologetics a new confidence in a shared worldwide destiny.3
From yet another angle, localized Muslim masses in the shantytowns of underdeveloped Muslim-majority countries or in the banlieues of the big cities in the West, once thought to be festering in their place, are now seen claiming their rights and freedoms, whether in the popular uprisings of the so-called Arab Spring or in demanding recognition as citizens on equal terms with the non-Muslim majorities in the West.
The media is an indispensable component of these popular uprisings as well as of the contemporary Islamic resurgence. From Imam Khomeini's smuggled cassette tapes of his sermons during the Islamic revolution in Iran, to Osama Bin Laden's provocative declarations of unbounded jihad against America and its allies on al-Jazeera, to Yusuf al-Qaradawi's moderated Wasatiyya tendency on the same channel, to Tariq Ramadan's appearances in the Western media calling for intercivilizational dialogue, to Shaykh Nazim's online spiritual advice to virtual disciples, to 'Amr Khalid's "New Preaching," Muslim men of religion of all colors and shades have made full use of the new informational technology to promote their various causes.
The veteran Arab Afghans' easy shift between arenas of conflict in Bosnia, Chechnya, Somalia, Kashmir, and the Philippines, the spectacle of 9/11 in New York and Washington, and internationally financed "start-up" terrorist acts from Madrid and London to Casablanca and Bali, and the jihadi da'wa (call to Islam) on the internet, all indicate that radical Islam fully participates in the current compression of the world.4
Myth and Memory
The literature on Islam and globalization is vast and rapidly growing.5 There is also a wide variety of studies on the place of the mass media in the contemporary Islamic resurgence.6 The present book seeks to contribute to this ongoing research by focusing on two interrelated theoretical perspectives that constitute a major component in the culture of globalization. These revolve around the concepts of myth and memory. The importance of myths of origins and collective memory has been recognized in the study of Western culture, and perhaps especially in the study of Israel,7 but until now it has been little used in the study of Islam, and hardly at all in the study of globalized Islam.8
Mythological thinking and socio-cultural remembering (and forgetting) have been major mechanisms for the constitution and maintenance of all societies, both premodern and modern. Articulated through religious beliefs,9 or the imagination of the nation,10 they secure their communities' attachment to specific times and places.
The essays in this collection seek to explore how the annulment of spatial/temporal distances by globalization and the contraction of the world by the new communication technologies underlying it has affected the cherished myths and memories of the Muslim community, and how various contemporary Islamic thinkers and movements have responded to the challenges of globalization by preserving, reviving, reshaping, or transforming these myths and memories altogether.
In the present environment of impersonal market forces, ubiquitous media signs, governmental disengagement, mass consumption, and worship of the here and now, myths may seem redundant and collective memory attenuated. Pierre Nora believes that it was under such circumstances that myth came to be regarded as merely false belief, while memory resorted to the aid of unceasing cycles of commemorations.11
We contend that not only are past myths and collective memory very much alive in contemporary localized struggles for identity, but that they are also deployed in the ongoing construction of worldwide networks. For today's Islamic thinkers and activists—as, indeed, for all myth-makers—myths and memories are not mere nostalgia, but rather important tools in the cultural politics of globalization.
Myth and memory are constantly deployed, at both global and local levels, in evolving public discourses on religion, society, and politics, in the practical ways in which da'wa (Islamic preaching) is reconstructed as the backbone of community and meaning, and in the modes by which jihad is reformulated in the struggle for the sake of the faith community.
The concept of myth usually refers to stories of epic character about gods or (super)human heroes. Such stories are known from the dawn of history, and in modern times their study has been pursued particularly by social anthropologists and students of comparative religion. Most myths deal with the past—creation myths, of the universe or of the ethnie—but some may turn to the future, as with apocalyptic myths.
Many of them are also connected to specific places—the center of the world, the place of origin, the site of the end of days.12 As Emmanuel Sivan notes in his discussion of Arab political myths, their function beyond the recreational aspect is twofold: to provide an explanation for current realities, and to mobilize for action. The first involves locating the present in the historical continuum, the second legitimizes or delegitimizes the existing order.13
Islam has its share of myths of origins and hero myths, epic stories about the time, places, and people with whom the deity was present. These of course center on Muhammad, the seal of the prophets (khatam al-nabiyiin) and the model (al-uswa al-hasana) for all Muslims throughout the ages, and on Mecca and Medina, the sites of his call. Other prophets, righteous men and fighters for the cause of Islam, second him in various localized levels.
This is the context of the myth of the Satanic temptation of the Prophet that Salman Rushdie reused with reference to contemporary concerns of Muslims in the West, as Ulrika Mårtensson's contribution to this volume demonstrates, as well as of the retelling of stories of the prophets among Muslim immigrants discussed by Gerd Marie Ådna.
In the Muslim majority countries, the lessons of the prophets are taken up and adapted to the concerns of the common people by "new preachers" such as Amru Khaled, analyzed by Shosh Ben Ari. Of special status for the Sunni Muslims are also the Prophet's companions, the collective hero of the pious forefathers (al-salaf al-salih), which is the best of generations, while for Shi'is these are the imams, the usurpation of whose power is deplored in the Ashura ritual to this day.
The myth of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, who were responsible for the great conquests of early Islam, and the reenactment of this myth by the Ottomans in the face of the modern European onslaught, inspires not only Bin Laden and the globalized militants of al-Qaeda, but also contemporary Turkish popular culture, as Martin Riexinger's chapter shows. The myth of the shura, the council that was formed to choose the third Caliph, frames some liberal Muslims' call for democracy, as well as that of Yusuf al-Qaradawi, as presented by Uriya Shavit.
A later myth, which was appropriated for a time by Arab nationalists but has now returned to the Islamic fold, is that of the Crusaders, who had attacked Muslim lands but were ultimately repulsed. The contemporary use made of this myth is discussed in this volume, among others, by Xiaofei Tu in the unusual context of China.
The myth of the apocalypse, as Itzchak Weismann shows, has been adjusted to the global cultural economy by the Sufi Shaykh Nazim, who frames it as a response to the globalized Salafi-Wahhabi challenge to Sufism.
More recently a different, depersonalized and profanitized, meaning of myth has been offered and gained ground within the cultural discipline of semiotics. Roland Barthes characterizes "myth today" as an ideology or "speech," in which preexisting signs are appropriated and stripped of their historical context and signification, to be infused with new mystifying conceptual content. This has "the task of giving an historical intention a natural justification and making contingency appear eternal."
In this way myths make particular worldviews appear to be unchallengeable because natural or God-given.14 Capitalizing on these insights, Bruce Lincoln remarks that such mystification may serve not only the bourgeoisie, as Barthes believed, but also other strata of society, and that myths not only reflect, encode, and help replicate established structures, but may also be employed as effective instruments of struggle against them.15
Most powerful among the sort of ideological myths observed by Barthes in contemporary Islam are Sayyid Qutb's trans-historical use of the concept of jahiliyya (the era of ignorance or barbarity that preceded Islam), through which he conveyed Islamist resistance to Nasser's oppressive regime,16 and the image of al-Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem found in so many houses across the Muslim world, a visual representation of the Palestinians' plight which Nimrod Luz discusses in relation to the Palestinian minority in Israeli.
Such myths on the more mundane level are women's struggle to drive in Saudi Arabia, the purda in London, and the American Idol competition in Afghanistan, which point to specifically Islamic tensions between freedom and bondage, equality and hierarchy, individualism and collectivism, tradition and modernity, and the local and the global. Globalized media may transform and globalize these myths, but they have their limits: the global umma created through images in the media remains a virtual umma.
The concept of memory has likewise two major meanings that span the fault line of the cultural turn of the late twentieth century. One is conveyed through Maurice Halbwachs' seminal term of collective memory, which emphasizes the importance of the social in the process of remembering.
He claimed that every social group develops a memory of its past through shared images, stories, and rituals that highlight its unique identity, providing it with a sense of continuity through time and space, and enhancing its solidarity. Modern societies in particular also tend to refashion their past in order to further some present political objective.
What society remembers or forgets thus reflects its self image, identity, aspirations, and the course of action it wishes to take.17 Jan and Aleida Assmann's complementary concept of cultural memory stresses the role of traditions transmitted through the generations in shaping the collective memory. Within it they distinguish between functional memory, which reflects what a society needs, and stored memory, conscious and unconscious, which makes room for the heretical, the subversive, and the disowned.18
Like all other peoples, Muslims' remembering and forgetting are shaped between their sociopolitical circumstances and cultural traditions. The predominant Islamic regressive view of history as a process of deterioration from the time of the Prophet to the end of days attunes Muslims' social memory to the distant past. This does not always come at the expense of the more recent past, as Mark Sedgwick's examination of Arab popular historical memory demonstrates. Still, as we have seen, Muslims' collective memory has usually focused on the myths of origins relating to the Prophet and the early generations.
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People will travel from all over the world for a four-day music event in memory of a much-loved Sittingbourne punk.
When Dave Wild, also known as Davee or Chaospunk, died last year aged just 32, his friends promised to put on a gig in his honour.
Six months later, more than 40 bands have signed up for the Davee Wild Memorial Weekender, which will see some of the scene's biggest names play in Canterbury.
Dan Goatham, who is organising the festival with Peter "DJ Pete" Hanscomb and several others, could not think of a more fitting way to remember his childhood friend, who was known for promoting new and established bands, often at his own expense.
The 29-year-old, who plays guitar and sings in 7 Day Conspiracy and Morgan's Puff Adder, grew up with Dave in Sittingbourne.
He said: "I've known him since day one; we grew up five doors down from each other.
"We got into punk together and put on gigs together since we were 14 or 15. There isn't another way to remember Davee.
"His birthday would have been on February 5 and rather than his family sitting at home feeling awful all weekend, they can be surrounded by all his friends telling them what a great bloke he was.
"Most bands got in touch with us when they heard we were putting on a tribute gig for Davee, so we haven't really had to go around the houses to get anyone to play.
"Some bands, The Remains, Belinda Carbuncle and Morgan's Puff Adder for example, are reforming for the gig.
Dan wished to thank everyone helping with the gig, including DJ Pete, Emma Smith, Vince Thorpe, Mark Burrows and Vic Wintergreen.
Dave, who later moved to Canterbury, died on July 23, 2013, from sudden adult death syndrome.
His father, Gary Wild, said: "This memorial gig in memory of David means so much to us and the rest of the family who will be there to support the event.
"It is something we have been looking forward to since it was first put to us by Dan Goatham, who we would like to thank, along with DJ Pete and everyone else involved.
See the event's Facebook page for the full line-up.


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Q: Does ES6 introduce a mechanism to make block-scoped function statements (not expressions)? Does ES6 introduce a mechanism to make block-scoped function statements (not expressions)?
The following is illegal in ES5 and I presume remains so in ES6?
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Edit: corrected nomenclature.

A: Your code is syntactically valid and "legal" in ES6.
It wouldn't work as "expected" though: functions even in ES6 are scoped by the enclosing function (or by nothing if run in a global scope).
You can declare it using block(real block!)-scope visibility with let though:
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Number of investors in RES decide to go to intl arbitration if feed-in tariffs recognized unconstitutional - lawyer
KYIV. Dec 17 (Energy Reform) - A number of investors in the renewable energy sector have already made internal decisions to go to international arbitration if the Constitutional Court of Ukraine recognizes feed-in tariffs on the submission of people's deputies as unconstitutional, lawyer Timur Bondarev, the managing partner of Arzinger law firm, representing the interests of the industry, has said.
"Our company already has at least about ten investors who have made an internal decision to apply to international arbitration if feed-in tariffs are declared unconstitutional," Bondarev said at a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency, adding that one company has already filed a claim in connection with this issue to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
According to him, a number of large international law firms have confirmed the existence of great winning chances for representatives of the RES industry.
At the same time, he expressed hope that the Constitutional Court will carefully consider the appeals of specialized associations, find an opportunity to bring them to the hearing and take into account the scientific conclusions regarding the feed-in tariffs provided to it by the investors' lawyers.
"The case is very difficult, it has a very long historical tail and it is in the interests of the court to make an unbiased decision," he said, expressing surprise at the court's decision to hear the case in a closed format, announced the same day on the eve of the press conference.
At the same time, Bondarev called it incomprehensible that the judge, when considering the case, noted the absence of additional materials and petitions on it.
"The formal approach and the closed review are of great concern to us. I hope this is some kind of mistake, and the position of the industry will be heard," the lawyer said.
As reported, a number of specialized renewable energy associations filed a petition with the Constitutional Court to involve them in the consideration of the case on the appeal to the Constitutional Court of 47 MPs to declare unconstitutional provisions of the laws on alternative energy sources and on the electricity market, considering that its objective consideration is impossible without taking into account the position of the whole industry.
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Many anglers will not realise that the origins of remote alarms were in the early 1980s. Pete Melbourne made a remote drop off alarm for The Tackle Shop Gainsborough around 1982. The receiver was a FM radio and you had to have the radio tuned to the right frequency otherwise it didn't work. Obviously if the tuning knob was nudged the receiver didn't pick up when you had a run! It was a start though. Then an enterprising chap came up with the Otech which you could plug into any alarm head converting them to a remote system. I thought this was quite good at the time until the Tx-i arrived. The Tx-i was right from the start and I've used these heads ever since.
For predator anglers who do not always fish with tight lines sensitivity control is vital otherwise there is the risk of random bleeps being indistinguishable from an actual take.
With care a Tx-i can be set up to avoid a lively bait setting it off all the time. Alternately when fishing for zander in running water off the baitrunner a Tx- i can be set to register the slightest knock.
Once in a while I get asked why we need remotes. The answer is simple. If you have your heads at full volume you can annoy other anglers and of course the last thing you want to do is tell other anglers that you are catching. A remote sits in your pocket and quietly tells only you that you have a take.
Be warned of one thing, the elements and the dark that conspires to part you with your Delkims. I was sheltering under a brolly on a very windy day. The brolly was tied down, but I had to get up to replace a drop off bobbin that the wind had blown off. As I got to the rod the brolly took off taking one of my other Delkims and the bank stick into 20 feet of water! A million to one chance. Then there was the time (twice) when packing up in the dark after a zander session, somehow I left the alarm on its bank stick behind. I have resolved to be much more careful in the future. Not only is there the cost to consider there is also the inconvenience of having one less alarm until you can afford a new one.


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Q: Find the maximum of $f(x, y) = (3x+4y)e^{\frac{-(x^2+y^2)}{2}}$ as a function of $r$ over a closed disk $x^2+y^2\leq r^2.$
Find the maximum of $f(x, y) = (3x+4y)e^{\frac{-(x^2+y^2)}{2}}$ as a function of $r$ over a closed disk $x^2+y^2\leq r^2.$

So my first guess is to check the interior points and then the boundry points. But, how do I get the function $f$ as a function of $r$?
I rewrote it as following, but not sure if this is right.
$$f(x(r, t), y(r, t)) = (3r\cos{t}+4r\sin{t})e^{-\frac{r^2}{2}},$$
I can then get the parital derivatites:
$$f_r=(3\cos{t}+4\sin{t})e^{-\frac{r^2}{2}} - (3r^2\cos{t}+4r^2\sin{t})e^{-\frac{r^2}{2}}$$
$$f_t=(-3r\sin{t}+4r\cos{t})e^{-\frac{r^2}{2}}$$
Then, I can find when the derivatives are equal to $0$,
$$f_t=(-3r\sin{t}+4r\cos{t})e^{-\frac{r^2}{2}} = 0 \implies \tan{t} = \frac{4}{3}.$$
I think I'm doing this totally wrong. Maybe I should use Lagrange multipliers somehow?
Answer is: $max(r) = 5re^{\frac{-r^2}{2}}$ if $r \leq 1$ and $max(r) =\frac{5}{\sqrt{e}}$ if $r \geq 1$. $min(r) = -max(r)$.

A: You have two r's in the problem.  So lets call one something different by saying $x^2+y^2=r^2\le R^2$.
You have correctly calculated $t$ which results in a maximum. This gives $\cos(t)=\frac{4}{5}$ and $\sin(t)=\frac{3}{5}$. Put this into your expression for $f_r$ and it is easy to see that $r=1$.
Now if $R>1$ then you have a maximum at $r=1$ and thus $max[f(x,y)]=5 e^{-\frac{1}{2}}$.
If $R<1$ then maximum is at $r=R$ so $max[f(x,y)]=5 R e^{-\frac{R^2}{2}}$.
You of course still need to check these are maximums.

A: First of all, let us see what happens in $D_r(0)$. We have$$f_x(x,y)=e^{-\frac{x^2+y^2}2}(-3x^2-4xy+3)\text{ and }f_y(x,y)=e^{-\frac{x^2+y^2}2}(-3xy-4y^2+4).$$Therefore, the critical points are the solutions of the system$$\left\{\begin{array}{l}-3x^2-4xy+3=0\\-3xy-4y^2+4=0.\end{array}\right.$$This system has two solutions: $\pm\left(\frac35,\frac45\right)$, which belong to $D_r(0)$ if and only if $r>1$. On the other hand,$$f\left(\pm\left(\frac35,\frac45\right)\right)=\pm\frac5{\sqrt e}.$$
Now, if $x^2+y^2=r^2$, we have $f(x,y)=(3x+4y)e^{-\frac{r^2}2}$. So, if $(x,y)=r(\cos\theta,\sin\theta)$,\begin{align}f(x,y)&=(3\cos\theta+4\sin\theta)e^{-\frac{r^2}2}\\&=5\left(\frac35\cos\theta+\frac45\sin\theta\right)e^{-\frac{r^2}2}.\end{align}So, the maximum of $f$ in that circle is $5e^{-\frac{r^2}2}$, whereas the minimum is $-5e^{-\frac{r^2}2}$.
Therefore,$$\max f=\begin{cases}\frac5{\sqrt e}&\text{ if }r\geqslant1\\\frac5{e^{\frac{r^2}2}}&\text{ otherwise }\end{cases}\text{ and }\min f=\begin{cases}-\frac5{\sqrt e}&\text{ if }r\geqslant1\\-\frac5{e^{\frac{r^2}2}}&\text{ otherwise.}\end{cases}$$

A: You got
$f(r,t)=$
$(3\cos t +4\sin t)r\exp(-r^2/2)$,
$0\le t \lt 2π, 0<r\le 1.$
The problem is separable :
Find the maxima of
1)$g(t):= 3\cos t +4\sin t$, $0\le t \lt 2π$.
2) $h(r):=r\exp (-r^2/2), 0<r \le 1$.
1) $g(t)= (3,4)(\cos t, \sin t)$
(scalar product).
Note $(\cos t, \sin t)$ is a unit vector.
Hence:
$g(t)= |(3,4)||1|\cos \phi$, where $\phi$ is the angle between the vectors.
Hence
max $ (g(t))= \sqrt{3^2+4^2}=5$.
$( \cos \phi =1$, i.e. $(3,4)$ and $(\cos t, \sin t)$ are parallel)
2) $h(r)=r\exp(-r^2/2)$.
$h'(r)=$
$ \exp(-r^2/2) +r(-r)\exp(-r^2/2)$;
$h'(r) >0$ for $0<r \lt 1$, i.e strictly increasing $h$.
$h'(r=1)=0$
$h'(r) < 0$ for $r > 1$ , i.e. strictly decreasing $h$.
For $r <1$ : $\max (h(r)) =r\exp(-r^2/2)$.
For $r \ge 1$:  $\max (h(r))= \exp(-1/2)$.
Finally:
$\max (f(r,t)=$
$ (\max (g(t))) (\max (h(r)))$.


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Nearly every minute, someone in our country develops Alzheimer's disease, and more than 5 million Americans already live with this disease. It is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, and it currently has no cure, no diagnostic test and no treatment.
As the population ages, the number of people diagnosed with Alzheimer's will continue to grow, and if current trends persist, as many as 16 million Americans will have this terrible disease by 2050. I believe that, as a nation, we must commit to defeating one of the greatest threats to the health of Americans and the financial well-being of our country.
As a member of the Senate Health Appropriations Subcommittee, the Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer's disease and a founding member of the Senate NIH Caucus, I believe it's critical to support medical research. Consistent, sustained support of medical research is essential to saving and improving lives, reducing health care costs, growing our economy, and maintaining America's role as a global leader in medical innovation.
Without a way to prevent, cure or effectively treat Alzheimer's, it will be difficult – if not impossible – to rein in our nation's health care costs. In 2015, the direct costs of caring for those with Alzheimer's was about $226 billion. If the trend continues, the disease will cost more $1.1 trillion (in today's dollars) by 2050. The costs borne by Medicare are also expected to increase by more than 400 percent, from approximately $113 billion today, to $590 billion in 2050. I support medical research because if we can find effective treatments for diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia, we can extend quality of life for patients and also significantly reduce the cost of caring for them in years to come.
In 2013 and 2014 as Ranking Member of the Senate Health Appropriations Subcommittee that funds NIH, I worked to secure a significant increase in funding for Alzheimer's research – at the time, the largest ever increase in Alzheimer's disease research funding. I've since continued working with my subcommittee colleagues to secure considerable increases in Alzheimer's funding over fiscal years 2015 and 2016.
This month, I was delighted to bring National Institute on Aging (NIA) Director Dr. Richard Hodes to Kansas to learn more about the important work taking place right here in Kansas – including at the University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Center (KU ADC). Dr. Hodes spearheads the federal research effort to find effective ways to treat or prevent Alzheimer's disease.
During Dr. Hodes' visit, we met with a clinical trials patient from Overland Park. The patient explained to us that while he doesn't have Alzheimer's disease, he is concerned about the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease in his family. The patient hopes his participation in KU ADC clinical trials will help researchers there gather valuable data on the disease that might benefit patients and families in the future, including his own.
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Deep-sea soundscapes of Japan
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This dataset is an archive of acoustic data associated with the deep-sea soundscapes of Japan. Python codes to visualize the audio data are also provided in a notebook based on Google Colab.
Four deep-sea ecosystems around Japan were recorded. This includes the benthic habitats off Sanriku, the twilight zone of Suruga Bay, the hydrothermal vents of Suiyo Seamount, and the abyssal plains off Minamitorishima Island.
Off Sanriku: multiple recording locations were surveyed between July 21 and August 5, 2019 within an area enclosed by 39°02.3486'N, 39°24.1055'N, 142°08.2092'E, and 142°27.0315'E. The depth range was between 250-1011 m.
Suruga Bay: one recording location was surveyed November 4-5, 2019 at 34°58.3952'N, 138°43.2089'E. The depth was 1686 m.
Suiyo Seamount: three recording locations were surveyed between August 21-25, 2019 at 28°34.2715'N, 140°38.6216'E, 1384 m (an active hydrothermal vent without visible bubbling), 28°34.1438'N, 140°38.9641'E, 994 m (caldera rim), and 28°34.3288'N, 140°38.5758'E, depth 1381 m (an active vent orifice).
Minamitorishima Island: one recording location was surveyed on March 14, 2020 at 23°05'N, 153°50'E, depth 5500 m.
Two recording systems were used. The first system, designed to a depth rating of 2000 m, was deployed in Sanriku waters, Suruga Bay, and Suiyo Seamount. It was composed of a DS-850 digital recorder (Olympus, Japan) and a AQH-020D hydrophone (AquaSound Inc., Japan). The AQH-020D hydrophone has a sensitivity of -195 dB re 1V/μPa and a flat frequency response between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. The second system was designed to 6000 m depth rating (off Minamitorishima Island). It was based on an LS-P4 digital recorder (Olympus, Japan) and a HTI-94-SSQ hydrophone (High Tech Inc., U.S.A.). The HTI-94-SSQ hydrophone has a sensitivity of -198 dB re 1V/μPa and a flat frequency response between 2 Hz and 30 kHz.
(1) Duty Cycle: continuous. (2) Sampling Rate: 44.1 kHz (off Sanriku, Suruga Bay, and Suiyo Seamount) and 88.2 kHz (off Minamitorishima Island). (3) Channels: 1 (single input but stereo output). (4) File Format: WAV. (5) Audio Gain: High. (6) High Pass Filter: Off.
At each deployment, one recorder was fixed at the seafloor. Each deployment lasted for from a few hours to a maximum of two days. Deployment and recovery of recorders were conducted by free fall camera systems (off Sanriku), Edokko Mark 1 (Suruga Bay and off Minamitorishima Island), DSV Shinkai 6500 (Suiyo Seamount). Operational noises produced from these deep-sea observation platforms and research vessels were also recorded.
We used the LTSA_gui to generate long-term spectrograms (LTS) and save the LTS in mat files. Each mat file contains median-based LTS and mean-based LTS. Median-based LTS was obtained by measuring median power spectral densities within each 1-min segment. Mean-based LTS was obtained by measuring mean power spectral densities within each 1-min segment. Both types of LTS have a frequency resolution of 10 Hz.
Chong Chen, Tzu-Hao Lin, Hiromi Kayama Watanabe, Tomonari Akamatsu, Shinsuke Kawagucci (2021) Baseline soundscapes of deep-sea habitats reveal heterogeneity among ecosystems and sensitivity to anthropogenic impacts. Limnology and Oceanography, 66: 3714-3727.
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Israel annexation plan: From two-state paradigm to 'conflict management'
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The argument for 'conflict management' as opposed to conflict resolution is an attempt to dismiss both charges of apartheid and calls for a single state based on equality
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The argument that the two-state solution is dead, or as good as dead, has by now become firmly embedded in mainstream commentary on Israel and Palestine.
Warnings about the diminishing likelihood, or viability, of a Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, based on the size of the settler population and extent of Israeli colonisation, have been sounded for decades.
Now, practical hurdles are also being understood in the context of – and as a practical expression of – the political obstacles, namely the rejection of and opposition to Palestinian sovereignty in the West Bank and Gaza Strip shared by Israeli leaders across the mainstream political spectrum.
One positive of the discussion around potential Israeli annexation of occupied West Bank territory – which has too often stressed "risks" to Israel and seen Palestinian perspectives marginalised – has been the opportunity to focus minds on the de facto, single state that already exists.
Equality or apartheid
For many of those coming to the conclusion that the two-state solution is dead, there are only two options left: some form of single state based on equality, or, formalised apartheid with the possibility of a future mass expulsions of Palestinians.
The maxim from here on is 'conflict management' – an explicit, unashamed defence of an open-ended, apartheid status quo
This, for example, was the conclusion of Jewish-American writer Peter Beinart's recent articles, where the former advocate of a two-state solution called for a single binational state (the highly significant distinctions between variations of the "one state" are for another time).
Unsurprisingly, however, not everyone accepts the equality or apartheid binary.
Recent responses to the annexation debate and Beinart's piece make it clear that for those most deeply committed to shielding Israel from accountability, the maxim from here on is "conflict management" – an explicit, unashamed defence of an open-ended, apartheid status quo.
Commenting on Beinart's piece, former US State Department official Aaron David Miller tweeted: "2 states looks doubtful...The honest answer right now is there's no way out". Right-wing activist Gerald Steinberg similarly backs "the concept of 'conflict management' – as distinct from 'solution'".
A billboard on a main road leading to the West Bank city of Ramallah, reading in Arabic: "If the choice is between one state or two state, then I am choosing the one state." on 23 February 2017 (AFP)
From differing starting positions, both Miller and Steinberg are amplifying a position advocated by a significant chunk of Israeli leaders and public figures – including members of supposedly divergent political camps.
'Living with the problem'
In 2013, then-minister Naftali Bennett – one of the most prominent representatives of religious nationalism in the Knesset – told settlers that "a Palestinian state within Israel is not possible", and thus: "We have to move from solving the problem to living with the problem."
For years, the horizon of a hypothetical 'two-state solution' did crucial work in delaying a reckoning about the apartheid status quo
Three years later, former military chief Moshe Ya'alon told a US think tank that "Israel should manage the conflict rather than trying to solve it". In 2018, then-Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman declared: "All we can do is work on managing the conflict with the Palestinians."
It's not just political leaders; Israeli-American philosopher and West Bank settler Micah Goodman speaks for many in his support for policies that supposedly "shrink" occupation, while describing the "conflict" with the Palestinians as simply "part of our life, like car accidents and crime and poverty".
This argument for "conflict management" (as opposed to conflict resolution, let alone decolonisation) could be increasingly heard from Anglo-American politicians, think-tank fellows, and pro-Israel advocates, as an attempt to dismiss both charges of apartheid – the "two-state solution" is still the goal, it's just not possible for now – and calls for a single state based on equality.
The new paradigm
Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, for example, who represent an important current in US diplomacy and policy-making, have already dismissed not only Beinart's case for a unitary state on the grounds that "there are no democratic traditions" in the Middle East, but also a modest proposal for the mere recognition of Palestinian statehood a "reward" Palestinians' behaviour does not merit, they unashamedly stated.
Why Peter Beinart's call for a one-state solution misses the mark
There was already a clear danger that in the name of "preserving the two-state solution", any decision by the Israeli government to either walk back annexation, or proceed with a fudged or partial plan, would be welcomed with relief by Western governments.
But there is actually a further risk: that those politicians and pundits who cannot deny the impossibility of a two-state solution, but who refuse to think outside the box or in terms of solutions that require Israel to be confronted, will now pivot to, and embrace, a "conflict management" paradigm long advocated by many in Israel.
For years, the horizon of a hypothetical "two-state solution" did crucial work in delaying a reckoning about the apartheid status quo. If it is now being discarded, it seems highly likely to be replaced by "conflict management" as the paradigm through which support can be extended for Israeli apartheid, and its ongoing dehumanisation and displacement of Palestinians.
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.
Ben White is a writer, journalist, and analyst specialising in Palestine/Israel. His articles have appeared widely in international media outlets, including Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The Independent, and others. He is the author of four books, the latest of which, 'Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel' (Pluto Press), was published in 2018.
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