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Muslim Man Brandishes Guns Outside of Christian Event on Facebook Live, Threatens 'Be Scared'
By Heather Clark on April 24, 2017 84 Comments
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A felony terror charge has been filed against a Muslim man who recently recorded himself on Facebook Live brandishing numerous guns outside of a Christian event and warning viewers in a profanity-laden denouncement to be "scared" and "terrified."
Ehab Abdulmutta Jaber, 45, has been charged with one count of making terrorist threats after he slipped into a Worldview Weekend conference in Sioux Falls earlier this month, which featured a message from Shahram Hadian, a former Muslim turned Christian pastor who leads Truth in Love Ministries in Spokane, Washington.
The event, held at Hilton Garden South, had been protested by approximately 70 members of the Islamic Center of Sioux Falls, who believed that the gathering was "Islamophobic" because it presented argument against the Islamic religion. Hadian's message was entitled "Sabotaging America: Islam's March Towards Supremacy."
Worldview Weekend President Brannon Howse also spoke on biblical prophecy.
Jaber had been spotted filming the event with his cell phone in the back of the room and was advised by a security guard that recording was not allowed. The Facebook Live video shows Jaber filming the cover of his Koran before scanning the crowd of approximately 500 people.
"My name is John Smith," Jaber told the guard in being approached. "The Muslim John Smith."
After being ejected from the gathering because he was carrying a firearm, Jaber recorded another Facebook Live video in his car in which he brandished several handguns and rifles, warning viewers amid expletives to "be scared."
"There's about, probably 400 people in there, if not maybe 500. … And now if you want to be really scared—be scared," he declared, holding up his weapons one by one. "Be scared. Be [expletive] terrified."
Jaber was later interviewed by local television station KSFY, and told reporters that he was "heartbroken to see that many people in that place."
"They didn't show up for a Christian conference," he asserted. "They showed up for an anti-Muslim rally."
Jaber contended to the news outlet that he regularly travels with the weapons and was simply exercising his Second Amendment rights.
"I'm not armed against the regular citizen. I'm not armed against Christians or against Jews, or against women or against children. I'm just armed against stupidity and oppression," he said.
While the Sioux Falls Police Department initially declined to press charges, stating that "everything [Jaber] was doing was legal," South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Lincoln County State's Attorney Tom Wollman concluded otherwise, announcing on Friday that Jaber had been arrested.
They told the Argus Leader that the video appeared to be a violation of state law, which prohibits threats to "commit a crime of violence with the intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population."
Jaber is also being prosecuted locally as meth was found in his home during the investigation.
Hadian says that he is bewildered both by the conclusion of the Sioux Falls Police Department and the portrayal of Jaber in the media.
"I'm not sure if I'm sure if the statement of the police officer is more baffling to me as a former police officer, or letting this guy … seem like he's the victim, [saying], 'I was upset. I was heartbroken,'" he outlined in an interview with Howse over the weekend. "There's lots of times that [we] get heartbroken over things, but we don't go brandishing weapons and have an arsenal and hundreds of rounds of ammunition."
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Mr. Alain COUSIN, the Deputy for the Manche, handed over his report on Shoreline management to the Minister responsible for Ecology, sustainable Development, Transport and Housing on 2nd November 2011.
Conforming to those commitments set out by the "Grenelle de la mer" agreement, the report suggests a national 'road map' for battling coastal erosion and the receding shoreline, the limit between land and sea. This report should be used as the basis for drafting the National Strategy for Shoreline Management (SNGTC).
The storm Xynthia, which struck the Charentais coast in the spring of 2010, underlined the need for the State and local authorities to have, along the length of the coast, a medium and long term view of the shoreline's evolution.
The working party, led by Deputy Alain Cousin, was set up in December 2010. It includes representatives of the five bodies of the "Grenelle de la mer" agreement (State, authorities, NGOs, unions, professionals). It has permitted concrete and workable proposals to be adopted and shared by all the parties.
The law has foreseen the possibility that the State put in place constraints for the public good so that the urbanization of those zones most at risk can be limited. These constraints take the form of risk prevention plans (PPR). The implementation of these risk prevention plans is a measure adapted to the issues at stake. The studies carried out within the remit of these PPRs allow the dangers and, consequently, the risks to be defined. The State drafts and implements the risk prevention plans. Local authorities and the EPCI affected are associated with the drafting of the projected plan, which is approved by the Prefect after a public inquiry and discussion by the affected local councils. The first five Coastal Risk Prevention Plans (PPRL) in Basse-Normandy were decreed in December 2011 (Dives-Orne, Bessin, Saint-Vaast, Barneville et Montmartin-sur-Mer). There are eight priority PPRLs in Haute-Normandy. They will be approved before 2014 (Dieppe, Rouxmesnil-Bouteilles, Arques la bataille, Martin-Eglise, Hautot-sur-Mer, Saint-Aubin-sur-Scie, Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer, Quiberville).


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Taken in the early 1950s, this publicity shot for Rancho La Puerta was definitely posed to allow the photographer to show as much as possible at once – it is true, though, that there's always a lot going on at the Ranch.
In the foreground, several white-shirted fitness attendants are lounging in the slant board area where guests could do inclined sit-ups. Adjacent, a man and woman lie in shallow concrete depressions, which, when half-filled with water, served as the Ranch's "Sumerian baths," so-named by founder Edmond Szekely, who studied Middle Eastern archeology and customs extensively. Guests could lie in an inch or two of sun-warmed water for their daily dose of Vitamin D – but the rule was no more than 20 minutes (10 minutes per side!). Despite the ministrations of attendants, and towels for headrests, these Spartan concrete "beds" proved too uncomfortable and the practice died out, despite its other reputed benefits of a sped up metabolism and heart rate.
Further back, we see several spa attendants sitting on the wall (strictly for the shot), and in the background, the Ranch's main swimming pool at the time. Today there are four, two of which are large exercise pools.
And just for a little added interest, a pony ride! While it is true that the Ranch at one time offered horseback riding, it has been many years since this was part of the program.


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Palama Settlement offered a number of activities including barefoot football. The photo above is from 1935. Other activities included swimming, diving and gymnastics. Photos courtesy Palama Settlement
Once the sports center of Honolulu,
Palama Settlement celebrates its 100th anniversary with a proud tradition of helping children to a better life
By Pat Gee
Special to the Star-Bulletin
He lived on a street so small and inauspicious he dubbed it "Peanut Butter Lane, off of Crackseed Road," when talking about his beginnings.
He had only one pair of heavily patched trousers his mother washed by hand at night so he could wear them the next day. She worked long hours making Chinese dresses for 35 cents apiece. His father had forgotten he had a family.
There was only one pair of shoes in the house for three children to share, and when their feet got too big to fit them, they cut the shoetops out.
One day, they had chicken for dinner. In the middle of a mouthful, he realized it was his scrawny pet that his mother had cooked. But because he was always so hungry, he choked it down anyway.
There were hundreds like my dad, Bill Gee, who lived on poverty-stricken Peanut Butter Lanes in the Palama area 70 years ago. But they say all roads lead to Mecca, and the dirt footpaths and one-car roads off Vineyard Blvd. in those days led young people in droves to a haven called "Palama Settlement."
The settlement, which is celebrating its 100th birthday with year-long festivities beginning June 1, has long been associated with sports activities and championship teams. But old-timers who went there say that the best thing about it was that it was like a second home, their friends became their family and the staff taught them to be productive members of society as well as outstanding athletes.
Bobby Rath, the son of founder James Arthur Rath, was born and raised on the grounds of the facility. Now 80 years old, the trustee emeritus remembers "hundreds of kids of all nationalities came after school and weekends, and stayed all day. It was their second home," away from homes filled with strife and tension in low-income districts. Many came from broken homes or their parents were too busy working to give them the attention they needed.
"This was the sports center of Honolulu. Everybody went from one sport to another. We had the best gym and swimming pool in town...you name it, we had it," he said.
There was a football and track field, tennis courts, game room, classes of all kinds, arts and crafts, music, dances at night, and hot running water - a luxury in those days - which inspired many to "live in the showers," Rath said.
"There was a very strong feeling of aloha. People were very proud to be a part of Palama Settlement. The major thing we had was outstanding people to work with," including his brother, "Junior" Rath, and athletic directors Wilder Parker and Bill Gee from the 1920s to the 50s, he recalled.
"Nelson Kawakami must have taught 40,000 kids to swim. For 25 years John Makolo and Anthony Ah Sam were fixtures here and surrogate fathers to the boys. They took care of the locker room and kept the kids in line. Nobody ever swore around here and you never heard any dirty stories for fear of losing their membership; it was extraordinarily important to them."
Most important to the parents, said Rath, a longtime swimming coach and diving champion at Palama, "they knew their kids were absolutely safe and were taken care of in every sense of the word."
In addition to the excellent staff and athletic facilities, Palama also boasted a complete medical department with 23 nurses and six dentists, subsidized by the city, and made free to card-carrying members who paid 25 cents a year to belong to the settlement.
Another trustee and self-described "Palama boy," Moses "Moke" Kealoha, excelled in weightlifting and bodybuilding and recently was recognized by the State Senate upon retirement for his business accomplishments, community service, and for being one of the best all-around athletes in Hawaii's history.
Now 67, Kealoha first started going to Palama at the age of 6 and still returns "to give a little back," as a lot of members did throughout their lives.
"People associate Palama Settlement with sports, but it was more culture than athletics," he said. "The staff emphasized the necessity of developing strong family ties and getting a good education. They didn't have (college) degrees but taught from experience and compassion; they inspired trust in the kids and did what they thought was best for their futures."
As a result, he said, "year after year Palama produced outstanding politicians, musicians, judges, educators, doctors and professional people �xxx If we didn't behave and cut classes, they (the school teachers) would suspend you from Palama Settlement. In other words, you cannot go back 'til the teacher says OK. That (suspension) was worse than 50 lashes."
Kealoha and Harry Fujinaka, another alumnus who attributed his success in life to playing every sport at Palama, are organizing volunteers to set up for a luau June 1 on the settlement grounds for the centennial celebration. (Call 845-2428 for tickets.)
Fujinaka, who has spent most of his 63 years as an educator and principal, said he hated school as a kid.
"The only reason I went into education was because I wanted to coach football," he said. "Coaching is my love �xxx being a coach is being a teacher �xxx I thought I could turn people around. I think I made it because of sports."
He has fond memories of his Palama "step-dads": Kawakami, Gee, Matsuo Fujii, Kiyoshi "Knuckles" Matsuo, Joe-gans Kupahu and Harry Mamizuka.
"They were a great bunch of guys. We really cared for each other," Fujinaka said.
Jimmy Koo, 75, was also among the hordes who "practically lived there" at the settlement from the time he was 6 years old. Although he excelled in basketball, he played everything, including barefoot football in the 120-pound league.
Members of the 1937 Palama Settlement 140-pound championship team get together for a team photo.
Reminiscing about his ragtag team put a smile in Koo's voice. Barefoot football meant wearing long "sailor-moku" pants, no helmet, no shoulder pads, and of course, no shoes because no one could afford any equipment. Their feet were naturally toughened from growing up barefoot, so it wasn't much of a hardship, he recalls.
In basketball "we had a great team," coached by Gee, Koo said.
They were together for 10 years and won the senior league championship several times. They even played against the famed Harlem Globetrotters and "taught them a few things ourselves," said Koo, proudly.
One game plan was to hoist one of their shortest guys onto the shoulders of another and throw him the ball so he could make a basket. "That was our forte - we did it quite often," Koo said.
The small, scrappy team included Frances Sing, Charlie McKee, Kupahu and Sylvester Abili. Koo said the Globetrotters "were too good for us," but the Palama bunch must have won their respect because they asked them to provide three substitutes when they were short-handed during one of their tours to the islands, he remembers.
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Interview with Film and Television Actor Fred Griffith
There are some interviews which just find a way to you and work themselves out on their own. Case in point, this one with film and television actor Fred Griffith (Brig. Gen. Robert Rodes, CSA), who upon reading my announcement regarding the Gods and Generals themed trivia contest we will be having here in March,…
Interview with Film and Television Actor Chris Conner
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Fan-Casting and Producing "The Last Full Measure"
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Blogging Manassas (Vol. 1): Preparation for the Event
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An Interview with Director Ron Maxwell
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Warner Brothers' New Promo for "Gettysburg"/ "Gods and Generals" Director's Cuts
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Shooting the Breeze with Actor Patrick Gorman
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Heat the oil in a large ovenproof dish on a medium heat. Brown the lamb on all sides (you may need to do this is in batches) then remove from the pan to a plate and set aside.
Reduce the heat, then add the onion, celery, carrots, leek and fennel and cook for 3–4 minutes, until softened. Add the wine and tomatoes, then return the lamb to the pan. Cover and cook for 2 hours, or until the lamb is soft and falling apart.
20 minutes before the end of the cooking time, add the new potatoes and continue cooking for 15 minutes. Add the asparagus for the final 5 minutes.
To make the coriander relish, put all the ingredients in a food processor and blend until well combined.
Serve the lamb, in bowls, with the coriander relish on top.


Concealed identities and hidden truths are the markers of the Jewish holiday of Purim, both in its exterior celebrations (the costumes) and in its deeper meaning. Much like a Shakespearean Comedy of Errors, on the surface the Megillat Ester is deceivingly simple and seemingly random in its sequence of events. The protagonists are assimilated, "comfortable" Jews living in a foreign land (Persia), afraid to reveal their identity, and it is the only book in the Tanakh (Bible) that makes no reference to God. Purim is the plural of the Persian term Pur (lots),those lots that Haman had cast to determine the fate of the Jews – as if to imply that our fate is a game of chance. On the other hand, this story seemed so relevant to our sages that it was included in the Biblical Canon, while the heroism and miracle of Hanukkah were left out. One of the greatest Torah scholars of the Middle Ages, Rambam (Maimonides) even maintains in his Code of Jewish Law that in the Messianic Age "All the books of the prophets and the sacred writings in the Bible will be annulled, with the exception of the Book of Ester" (Hilkhot Megillah 2:18).
The story of Purim is not easy to decipher: adding to the tease is the fact that the Queen's name itself, Ester, comes from the word "saiter", 'conceal', while the name of the book, Megillah, derives from the root "galal", which means 'to roll', since we read it in a scroll, but also "to reveal", as if to say that the very act of wrapping, concealing, was really meant to reveal some mysterious truth. Talking about concealments: even the Hebrew name for 'World", olam, comes from "alum": 'hidden'. The traditional interpretation is that all these apparent riddles playing with the idea of concealment are meant to remind people that it's up to them to discover the true miracle of God's presence in apparently random events and everyday things. In this sense, Ester's fasting and finding the courage to reveal her identity to the king and ask him to save her people – was just as big a miracle as the parting of the Red Sea. The fascination with this motif was always so strong that Jewish culinary traditions all over the world have mirrored it in their holiday dishes, creating foods that hide (usually pleasant) surprises below the surface.
One of our Italian answers? Of course… ravioli! I am posting a version with ricotta both because I always prefer dairy, and because there is a custom to skip meat on Purim: the Talmud relates that that was what Queen Ester had to do in the palace of Ahasuerus, since she had no access to kosher meat (her husband the king was not Jewish). However, the carnivores among you can just scroll down toward the end of the recipe, and see how to make a meat version.
Discard the stalks or any white parts from the chard, and cook it for 2 or 3 minutes with a few tablespoons of water (you can also microwave it on high on a covered platter for 1 minute): drain, squeeze to remove excess liquid, and chop finely.??
Heat the olive oil in a pan, add a clove or two of garlic, cook for one minute, add the chard and a little salt and cook for 5 minutes, stirring often.
Place the ricotta in a bowl, add the chard and the parmigiano, the nutmeg, and salt and pepper to taste.
Add a walnut-size amount of ricotta and chard filling at regular spacings on your fresh pasta sheet. Press around the filling with your fingers and seal with the tongs of a fork. Since it's Purim, cut the ravioli with a fun-shaped cookie cutter leaving the filling in the center of each.
You can also cut the dough into triangles (in honor of Haman's Star-Treck ears) with a sharp knife.
Cook the ravioli for about 5 minutes in a large pot of salted boiling water; drain with a slotted spoon and serve drizzled with butter cooked for one minute with a few leaves of fresh sage, and grated parmigiano to taste.
*** to make the pasta, shape about 2 ½ cups of 00 or all-purpose flour into a well on your work surface; . add 3 eggs in the center and knead into a smooth dough. Allow torest for about 20 minutes covered in plastic wrap. Roll the dough into a thin sheet with a rolling pin or pasta machine.
*** for a meat version, replace the ricotta with about 8 ounces ground veal or beef (or a mix). While you are blanching the chard, heat a little oil in a pan and add a "soffritto" ("mirepoix" of minced 1/2 carrot, 1/2 onion, 1/2 celery stick); cook briefly, add the meat and little white wine, cook for a minute or two, add the chard and cook for a couple more minutes.
Allow to cool, "tie" with a couple of eggs, flavor with nutmeg and little salt, and use this mix to fill the ravioli.
Skip the parmigiano, and instead of dressing with butter, stick to a rich sugo d'arrosto (roast meat sauce).
They look like sunflowers, really pretty!


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Short-cycling is a situation that can cause your air conditioning unit to wear out before its time. Given the cost of an AC unit, we definitely don't want that to happen! T.F. O'Brien can help you to avoid this. To do so, we must keep your unit from turning off and on as much as it would like to. We accomplish this by installing a time delay relay.
A time delay relay is a particularly good accessory for homes with sensitive family members who like to turn the heat or air up and down. It ensures that the system won't do what the thermostat's been told for 3-5 minutes after the adjustment has been made. Therefore, your system can't be burnt out regardless of whether or not you have a thermostat addict in your family.
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We don't overload the conversation with unnecessary technical jargon and other nonsense. We don't talk about technology, we talk about business value. Honesty and respect are important factors in our daily communication as people, and as such we don't talk down to clients about the particulars of an IT set up. Instead, we present simple solutions with clear, business-based advantages.
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1. I can't get over little baby dreams, I posted a little video of Will dreaming after I fed him, & it's the cutest. He cracks little smiles or peaks one of his eyes open. It's so funny to me. I could watch it over & over. & in the middle of the night when I'm exhausted feeding him at 4am it still cracks me up.
2. We signed up for Hello Fresh now that Will is here & this week is our first delivery. I normally love to cook homemade meals each night, but with a new baby the idea of meal planning, grocery shopping & actually cooking the meals seemed very daunting! Now that a major portion of my day consists of feeding our son, we decided to split up the duties of making meals, & using a meal service was a far less intimidating approach for my husband who doesn't cook dinners on the regular.
3. Giving the gift of sleep might be one of the nicest gifts to give your spouse / partner. This past weekend Chris & I alternated Saturday & Sunday letting the other person sleep in. On Saturday morning he took the baby & the dog into the front part of our apartment & let me sleep uninterrupted until 9:30. It was GLORIOUS. & I happily returned the favor the following day. Getting a few hours of good sleep can totally change your mood & I think it's one of the nicest & totally free gifts you can give your partner. Chris & I have always agreed it's something we would continue to gift one another with.
4. We are starting to lightweight make plans for the summer that extend beyond our apartment & our little neighborhood. Although the idea of travelling in a car for a few hours with an infant, or sleeping somewhere that isn't his little crib seems so extreme to me we want to be able to take our son places & not be tethered to our little baby bubble we've created. The only way to get comfortable doing these things is… to actually do them.
5. Right before Will was born we bought this laundry hamper & it's quickly become one of my favorite things. We sort our laundry by: colors, whites, delicates. & this makes life so much easier. I'm no longer dumping out a full laundry hamper on the ground trying to sort clothes! It's funny how sometimes such little things can make life so much easier.
6. William will be 4 weeks old on Friday & I can not wrap my ahead around it. I've always known that people say time moves incredibly fast when you have children & it's so true. He's already growing & changing so much, it breaks my heart a little bit! But I'm also so excited to see little bits of his personality pop out.
7. We are going to our first Giants game of the year in two weeks. We're taking Will & I'm pretty excited!
8. Chris is going back to work next week. I'm so grateful he's been able to take time off & work from home / only respond to emails the last two weeks. It's been so great to have him at home & I don't know what I would have done without him. It's definitely going to be a major adjustment being on my own with baby & dog but I'm excited for the challenge.
9. I went to acupuncture this week for the first time since birth & it felt SO good; besides getting a 45 minute nap it felt so nice to relax & do something super positive for my body!
10. We're watching the last few episodes of The Americans. The second to last episode of the series aired last night, we haven't watched it because I can't manage to keep my eyes open past 10pm but I'm dying to see how they wrap the series up!!


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That was the first company to produce IBM PC compatible computers. With the help of the growing technology, Compaq made some great user-friendly devices which were specially designed for fulfilling the desired needs of the user. This gave a major boost to the company in the 1990s, it became the largest supplier of the PC systems.
It may become a subsidiary of HP in the early 2000s and the brand Compaq continued to maintain its place in the market. Even after that Compaq devices have managed to impress the users with super quality services and facilities. If users desire to know more about the Compaq devices, they can contact the Compaq Customer Service. They can find effective solutions to all the problems associated with Compaq models.
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August 20, 2010 MGAceman Headup Games, PC, Web
Headup Games has announced the launch of the official website to their upcoming game Trapped Dead – the first tactical zombie survival game!
Next to general information on the game, its characters, enemies, storyline, game environment and much more, players will find manifold screenshots, artworks and a community meeting point where they can set up the last communication refuge for the living until the undead arrive. The developers will also show up for answering questions to the players and future contests will be taking place on the site.
The official Trapped Dead websit starting today can be reached under: www.trappeddead.com
Trapped Dead is a tactical real time strategy game where players control their characters in a 3rd person isometric view through a mature Zombie survival scenario in-spired by the successful Horror movies of the early 80s.
Our story takes place in the early 80s in a small town names Hedge Hill near Kansas City, Missouri. The sowing of a new genetically modified type of corn caused the exis-tence of a new virus which mutated through the natural food chain. A dog bite of an infected animal caused a local outbreak of the virus which rapidly infected the inhabi-tants of the idyllic provincial town. Mike and Gerald, two college boys, are thrown into the middle of a terrifying horror scenario. Having pulled over to a gas station near Hedge Hill during what was meant to be an enjoyable road trip, they are unaware of the virus which has already reached the gas station and its staff…
Trapped Dead is scheduled for release for end of Q4 2010.
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Trump's Plunder Doctrine Comes to Syria
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Part of the small residual U.S. force that the Trump administration is keeping in Syria serves no real military purpose:
"Al-Tanf has no obvious military purpose," added Sam Heller of the International Crisis Group. "The real justification is, to my knowledge, denying the Syrian government and its Iranian ally access to the neighboring al-Tanf/al-Walid border crossing with Iraq. That blocks a key trade route that would better integrate Syria with its regional surroundings and help government-held Syria get on a more stable economic footing, which some in DC believe would diminish U.S. leverage to force a political resolution to the war."
The Tanf base represents a determination to retain a mostly symbolic military presence inside Syria if only to keep a small part of the country out of the Syrian government's control. Keeping U.S. forces there accomplishes nothing for U.S. security, it is flagrantly illegal, and it puts these soldiers at risk for no good reason. Iran hawks desperately cling to this base because it is their last foothold in Syria from which to pursue their obsession with Iran.
In the latest twist, Trump has touted maintaining a military presence in Syria for the sake of "keeping the oil":
President Trump said that he is planning to keep a small number of troops in northeast Syria to protect the oil fields there and suggested that an American company might help the Syrian Kurds develop the oil for export.
"I always said if you're going in, keep the oil," Mr. Trump said at a cabinet meeting Monday. "We'll work something out with the Kurds so that they have some money, so that they have some cash flow. Maybe we'll get one of our big oil companies to go in and do it properly."
One of the only consistent features of Trump's foreign policy views is his belief that other countries' natural resources should be ours to seize and exploit as we please. Trump's worldview is a bizarre mash-up of crude colonialism and racketeering in which allies are expected to pay protection money and open-ended military intervention is fine as long as it gets you paid. We have previously heard him express a desire to seize oil resources in Libya, Iraq, and Venezuela, and so it was inevitable that he would want to do the same thing with Syria.
Besides the obvious practical difficulties of controlling Syria's oil fields with only a few hundred soldiers, there is the small matter of the sheer illegality of what Trump is proposing to do. Not only do our forces have no legal justification for being there and no authorization from Congress, but our government also has no right to sell this oil:
"Oil, like it or not, is owned by the Syrian state," Mr. McGurk said Monday in an appearance at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank. "Maybe there are new lawyers, but it was just illegal for an American company to go and seize and exploit these assets."
Mr. McGurk said that the only way to export the oil legally, the State Department concluded at the time, was to have an arrangement in which the money was put in escrow for use by the Syrians after the civil war was over, an arrangement that would have involved Russia and the Assad government.
That creates serious problems if there were an attempt to sell the oil from this area:
"It's not really possible for us to exploit those oil resources unless we want to be oil smugglers," McGurk said. He said that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a long-time oil industry executive, had looked into helping the SDF sell Syrian oil, but could not find a legal path for American involvement without Assad's permission.
Trump's confused Syria policy is where his fascination with plunder and his obsession with Iran combine in a truly toxic mix:
Accordingly, it's conspicuous that al-Tanf is what remains of the U.S. in Syria.
"It is everything wrong with Trump's war in Syria," said [Aaron] Stein. "The fact that it will be the last American enclave in Syria is more evidence of how Iran myopia has poisoned U.S. objectives in the region."
There are U.S. troops that are still being kept in Syria for the worst and dumbest of reasons, and Trump is the one responsible for it.
Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.


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Global has announced that it will launch Capital Brighton on Monday 3rd September, following the purchase of Juice 107.2 earlier this year.
It looks like all the existing Juice presenters will be leaving, as Capital Breakfast in Brighton will be presented by Dave Goodings and Miranda Burns, while Niall Gray will do drivetime. Other programmes will of course come from the Capital network in Leicester Square.
Today's RAJAR figures show that Juice current has a reach of 33,000 across Brighton and Hove, serving 9% of the local population.
Dave Goodings has worked as a digital presenter at The BRIT Awards and The X Factor and last month did his first shows on the Capital network, while Miranda has most recently been on Brum Radio. Niall also presents on the Capital network.
Ashley Tabor OBE, Founder & Executive President of Global, said: "We're proud to bring the fresh new sound of Capital to the vibrant area of Brighton and Hove. Across the country, Capital is the UK's No.1 hit music brand, reaching more than 8.3 million people every week and bringing it to Brighton and including local and national news and entertainment is very exciting. We're looking forward to working with new advertisers and partners in the area and connecting them with hit music fans through Capital."
Juice Brighton launched in 1997 as Surf 107 and was locally owned until January this year, having had 12 months under the ownership of UKRD in 2015-16.
As well as being on FM it's on the Sussex DAB multiplex.
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Why are our module icons grey, despite being published?
We have noticed that some of our module icons are greyed [grayed] out, despite being published. Does anyone know why?
Hello again, we have heard back from Tech Support. They told us the icon display was 'stuck' and they managed to correct it by cycling the publish state (which presumably means unpublishing then republishing the module item). I am a bit puzzled because we also tried this to no effect. I guess if the problem becomes widespread it might be addressed in a future release.
I was thinking that this might be related to Prerequisites or Requirements, but then in my testing this wasn't the case. Have you refreshed the page to see if anything has changed. Or, have you cleared your browser's cache/history, closed the browser, and then signed in again to see if there has been any change to those items? Is this happening in just one course? Or, are you able to reproduce the issue in multiple courses? You might need to reach out to Instructure's tech support crew if this has been an on-going issue.
Hi Chris, thanks for confirming that this is peculiar. I tried your suggestion of clearing my cache and logging in again but it made no difference. I will write to tech support and report back.
Sounds good, Isobel! Will be interesting to hear what Tech Support has to say!


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May 16, 2019 by Ivan Klimchuk MODX Digest #5 (April 22 – May 13, 2019)
Hey! You can support MODX Digest project and all work that I am doing for MODX using my Patreon page. Thank you in advance.
Latest news about MODX for the last 3 weeks. In the episode: renewal of MAB meetings, all processors were converted to a new format, active work on refactoring and docs, updating add-ons and interesting notes.
The episode is covering 3 weeks, as in Belarus were long public holidays, which I spent with pleasure with the family, so do not blame me for a short delay. Moreover, the episode turned out to be more interesting.
Thanks a lot to Mark Hamstra for supporting me and my work (Patreon).
MAB (MODX Advisory Board) started working again and in a new format. Three meetings have already been held, there are no more strict rules and stupid restrictions, and the group's work is aimed at achieving actual results while maintaining absolute openness and transparency.
MODX Development
According to the documentation, for now, solved 13 issues.
Work continues to correct broken links, to translate documentation into Russian, to improve the appearance of the site itself. Soon it will be possible to switch the documentation language through the interface.
All images and screenshots are synchronized with notes, and work has begun on updating outdated images.
Ivan Bochkarev transferred the documentation for pdoTools on English, and he also has plans to transfer the documentation for miniShop2 and Tickets.
Liam Franklin was actively involved in the work, he rewrote several important sections on installation, using the MODX tag syntax, and template building. This is important work, as part of the documentation describes very outdated things and we need to put everything in order.
Mark Hamstra did a thorough search through the documentation. So far, without using special services or applications that will help improve the relevance of the results, but you can already use it.
Also, Mark regularly posts updates on the special topic on the community forum, feel free to follow it there.
Work on refactoring continues, and thanks to the efforts of Joshua, Jason and myself, all processors have been converted to the new format. Here you can see the results of the work.
Jason then deleted the old models and now work is being done to make the new code work. To do this, you need to rewrite some points with the connection of the classes in the old style, update the model for MSSQL and probably add support for Postgres (in xPDO 3.0 it already exists). There is still a lot of work, but there is progress.
News from GitHub
#14558 – the discussion of the removal of unnecessary full-text index proposed by Sergey Shlokov is still ongoing. Need your opinion.
#14488 – now MODX 3 will work only on PHP 7.0+.
#14571 – the guys from Sterc, with good intentions, offered to add several useful widgets, one of which is a help widget for key combinations that are supported in the MODX manager area.
#14578 – Sander proposed to slightly improve the appearance of the user profile, but Bakha did the same thing (#14420)! This shows that communication needs to be improved between the participants in the development. It turns out a little in the chat in Telegram, but we need to transfer this experience to the English-speaking community.
#14581 – Ruslan Aleev suggested make the value of the Name field in the tables be a link to the entity, but there are issues that need discussion from the community.
#14569 – in the original design layout of the new third version, there was such a widget and Sander decided to implement it in the code. However, I am not very happy about this, because, as with the Help widget, such widgets would be very good to put together in a separate package, which could be offered as one of the starting ones. The reason is to do not litter already so big source code. This is all we need to maintain further, but there is not much time and people.
#14507 – Ivan Bochkarev completed the work on the updated look of the installer for MODX 3. This PR is ready for testing and review. All the old styles and images were cut out, the template was done in accordance with the design provided earlier.
Interesting notes and articles
[ru] Creating tables through MIGX – Mikhail Electricov described a trivial way to create own table in MODX using the MIGX component. This method is even faster than dealing with modExtra.
[en] MODX setup/ Directory Site Exploit – a couple of weeks ago, a new wave of hacking attempts took place through the left setup folder and the MODX team wrote instructions on how to deal with it.
[en] MAB relaunch – on April 25, a meeting of the updated MAB group took place, a group of people who are not indifferent to MODX and who are ready to take responsibility for its development. In the notes the results of the first meeting.
[en] The second meeting of MAB – on May 2, the second "extended" meeting took place, at which the main topic was a discussion of the roadmap of MODX 3 and MODX as a whole. The results were interesting.
[ru] Removing drafts on modx.pro – upon requests from the users, Vasily Naumkin added the ability to delete drafts to the authors. A trifle that has long been missing.
[ru] MODX. Request Management – Sergey Shlokov analyzed in detail the mechanism for processing incoming requests in MODX. Carefully, in the video the digging in the MODX guts, it can hurt. :)
New and updated add-ons
GoogleSheets-1.3.0-pl – Aleksandr Huz updated the component to synchronize the site with Google tables. What features have been added, the author described in a note in the communityRU. Plans to add more!
msOneClick-1.3.0-pl – Andrei Stepanenko has released a very large update of his component for ordering in one click. The author's noteRU describes all this magnificence.
Boilerplate-1.0.5-pl – Aleksandr Huz presented his new free component, which is the initial basic version of the site, with pre-installed add-ons and settings. Can save time. A detailed list of all the entities and actions of the component is given in a note in the communityRU.
ReachGoal-1.0.0-beta – in all visitor accounting services, it has long been possible to track goals (clicks, actions). Mikhail Tyrsyna has published a componentRU that allows you to create such goals directly from the MODX manager.
ClientSupport-1.1.0 – the Sterc team has updated its component, which allows you to send a request for support directly from the manager. The new version adds the ability to customize the icon for the button, as well as improved compatibility with MODX 3.
Personalize-3.7.2 – Bob Ray has updated his simple component, which can show different chunks depending on whether the user is logged in or not. In the new version, bugs were fixed and a fallback was added in case there is no full username. In this case, the username field is used.
SocialNetworks-1.0.2-pl – again Aleksandr Huz. This time he published his component for managing links to social networks through the MODX manager. The capabilities of the component are described in the noteRU.
Portfolio-1.0.1-pl – published theme component for a site with a portfolio. Includes 16 versions to choose from. A short demo in the form of a noteRU.
siteStatistics-2.3.0-pl – Sergey Shlokov updated his component to collect statistics on visits to the site pages. From changesRU – a tab with statistics directly on the resource page and search by users in the management of statistics.
FormDataManager-1.3.9 – updated component for managing data that was received by filling out forms on the site. Many improvements in the code, refactoring of processors, improved the handling of dates, both in the interface and in import/export operations, a special snippet for CRON tasks has been added.
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Grenades actually have physics now.
Unique ghillie suits for each environment.
Maps will have weather effects.
There will be snow maps in multiplayer.
A Sentry Gun can be destroyed with anything.
You can use the AC-130 to shoot down enemy helicopters.
It takes two rockets to take down an AC-130 in multiplayer.
At first you can only access Alpha Spec Ops missions, you will need to unlock the rest.
Special Ops is just as long, if not longer than Single Player.
There are 3 stars per mission. You get 1 star for beating on Regular, 2 stars for Hardened and 3 stars for beating on Veteran.
Special Ops includes a variety of game types and mission objectives, including Wave Defense.
There will be a new Thermal Scope attachment.
Many of the Call of Duty 4 perks are now actual attachments to weapons, e.g. Bandolier is now an extended magazine attachment.
You can view your previous Accolades at any time and see how many of each you've received.
The PS3 version of Modern Warfare 2 will have trophies and rumble support.
The PC version of Modern Warfare 2 will have Prestige mode, just like the console version.
There will be lobby mute.
Max level in Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer is Lvl 70.


In a multi-pronged attack on the Congress party, especially its president Rahul Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday equated the latter to an "expert pickpocket" who lies incessantly because he is burdened by his father's alleged involvement in the Bofors scam.
Modi, in his speech at a campaign rally at an indoor stadium near Panaji, accused the Congress party of being anti-middle class, while slamming its leaders' involvement in defence deals.
"Sometimes I think, why does he lie so much? I suspect that perhaps the sins of his father from the Bofors deal are weighing on his mind. In order to wash them, he is smearing the same sins on the rest of the world," Modi said.
Likening Gandhi — while referring to him only as 'Naamdaar' — to an "expert pickpocket" who plays innocent after committing theft, Modi said, that the Congress president played the same ploy, after meeting late chief minister Manohar Parrikar during a courtesy visit in January, when the latter was being treated for pancreatic cancer.
"When he stepped out, he uttered such white lies, that one cannot even imagine... In such a health situation, Parrikar had to come out to clarify the canards spread by the liars. Such a huge lie was caught, his face appeared innocent. There was not a frown on his brow," Modi added.
Criticising the contents of the Congress election manifesto, with a slanted reference to Gandhi's flagship 'Nyay' scheme, Modi said the document proved that the Congress wanted to tax the middle class for electoral gain. Modi added that the tax-paying middle class were the driving engine of India's economic development.
Modi said that top Congress leaders including 'AP' and the 'family' had made money on defence deals, and every defence deal executed during the Congress' tenure in power was tainted.


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import os

from django.test import TransactionTestCase
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group
from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError

from hs_core import hydroshare
from hs_core.testing import MockIRODSTestCaseMixin, TestCaseCommonUtilities

from hs_core.models import ResourceFile

class TestResourceFileAPI(MockIRODSTestCaseMixin,
                          TestCaseCommonUtilities, TransactionTestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        super(TestResourceFileAPI, self).setUp()
        self.hydroshare_author_group, _ = Group.objects.get_or_create(name='Resource Author')
        # create a user to be used for creating the resource
        self.user = hydroshare.create_account(
            'creator@usu.edu',
            username='creator',
            first_name='Creator_FirstName',
            last_name='Creator_LastName',
            superuser=False,
            groups=[]
        )

        self.res = hydroshare.create_resource(
            'GenericResource',
            self.user,
            'My Test Resource'
        )

        # create a file
        self.test_file_name1 = 'file1.txt'
        self.file_name_list = [self.test_file_name1, ]

        # put predictable contents into these
        test_file = open(self.test_file_name1, 'w')
        test_file.write("Test text file in file1.txt")
        test_file.close()

        self.test_file_1 = open(self.test_file_name1, 'r')

    def tearDown(self):
        super(TestResourceFileAPI, self).tearDown()
        self.test_file_1.close()
        os.remove(self.test_file_1.name)

    def test_unfederated_root_path_checks(self):
        """ an unfederated file in the root folder has the proper state after state changes """
        # resource should not have any files at this point
        self.assertEqual(self.res.files.all().count(), 0,
                         msg="resource file count didn't match")

        self.res.check_irods_files(stop_on_error=True)

        # add one file to the resource
        hydroshare.add_resource_files(self.res.short_id, self.test_file_1)

        # should succeed without errors
        self.res.check_irods_files(stop_on_error=True)

        # cleaning should not change anything
        self.res.check_irods_files(stop_on_error=True, log_errors=False, return_errors=True,
                                   clean_irods=True, clean_django=True, sync_ispublic=True)

        # resource should has only one file at this point
        self.assertEqual(self.res.files.all().count(), 1,
                         msg="resource file count didn't match")

        # get the handle of the file created above
        resfile = self.res.files.all()[0]

        # determine where that file should live
        shortpath = os.path.join(self.res.short_id, "data", "contents", "file1.txt")

        self.assertEqual(resfile.file_folder, None)
        self.assertEqual(resfile.storage_path, shortpath)

        self.assertTrue(resfile.path_is_acceptable(shortpath))

        # now try to intentionally corrupt it
        resfile.set_short_path("fuzz.txt")

        # should raise exception
        with self.assertRaises(ValidationError):
            self.res.check_irods_files(stop_on_error=True)

        # now don't raise exception and read error
        errors, ecount = self.res.check_irods_files(return_errors=True, log_errors=False)

        self.assertTrue(errors[0].endswith(
             'data/contents/fuzz.txt does not exist in iRODS'))
        self.assertTrue(errors[1].endswith(
            'data/contents/file1.txt in iRODs does not exist in Django'))
        self.assertTrue(errors[2].endswith(
            "type is GenericResource, title is 'My Test Resource'"))

        # now try to clean it up
        errors, ecount = self.res.check_irods_files(return_errors=True, log_errors=False,
                                                    clean_irods=True, clean_django=True)
        self.assertTrue(errors[0].endswith(
             'data/contents/fuzz.txt does not exist in iRODS (DELETED FROM DJANGO)'))
        self.assertTrue(errors[1].endswith(
            'data/contents/file1.txt in iRODs does not exist in Django (DELETED FROM IRODS)'))
        self.assertTrue(errors[2].endswith(
            "type is GenericResource, title is 'My Test Resource'"))

        # resource should not have any files at this point
        self.assertEqual(self.res.files.all().count(), 0,
                         msg="resource file count didn't match")

        # now check should succeed
        errors, ecount = self.res.check_irods_files(stop_on_error=True, log_errors=False)
        self.assertEqual(ecount, 0)

        # delete resources to clean up
        hydroshare.delete_resource(self.res.short_id)

    def test_unfederated_folder_path_checks(self):
        """ an unfederated file in a subfolder has the proper state after state changes """
        # resource should not have any files at this point
        self.assertEqual(self.res.files.all().count(), 0,
                         msg="resource file count didn't match")

        ResourceFile.create_folder(self.res, 'foo')

        # should succeed without errors
        self.res.check_irods_files(stop_on_error=True)

        # add one file to the resource
        hydroshare.add_resource_files(self.res.short_id, self.test_file_1, folder='foo')

        # should succeed without errors
        self.res.check_irods_files(stop_on_error=True)

        # resource should has only one file at this point
        self.assertEqual(self.res.files.all().count(), 1,
                         msg="resource file count didn't match")

        # get the handle of the file created above
        resfile = self.res.files.all()[0]

        # determine where that file should live
        fullpath = os.path.join(self.res.short_id, "data",
                                "contents", "foo", "file1.txt")

        self.assertEqual(resfile.file_folder, "foo")
        self.assertEqual(resfile.storage_path, fullpath)

        # now try to intentionally corrupt it
        resfile.set_short_path("fuzz.txt")

        # should raise exception
        with self.assertRaises(ValidationError):
            self.res.check_irods_files(stop_on_error=True)

        # now don't raise exception and read error
        errors, ecount = self.res.check_irods_files(return_errors=True, log_errors=False)

        self.assertTrue(errors[0].endswith(
             'data/contents/fuzz.txt does not exist in iRODS'))
        self.assertTrue(errors[1].endswith(
            'data/contents/foo/file1.txt in iRODs does not exist in Django'))
        self.assertTrue(errors[2].endswith(
            "type is GenericResource, title is 'My Test Resource'"))

        # now try to clean it up
        errors, ecount = self.res.check_irods_files(return_errors=True, log_errors=False,
                                                    clean_irods=True, clean_django=True)
        self.assertTrue(errors[0].endswith(
             'data/contents/fuzz.txt does not exist in iRODS (DELETED FROM DJANGO)'))
        self.assertTrue(errors[1].endswith(
            'data/contents/foo/file1.txt in iRODs does not exist in Django (DELETED FROM IRODS)'))
        self.assertTrue(errors[2].endswith(
            "type is GenericResource, title is 'My Test Resource'"))

        # resource should not have any files at this point
        self.assertEqual(self.res.files.all().count(), 0,
                         msg="resource file count didn't match")

        # now check should succeed
        errors, ecount = self.res.check_irods_files(stop_on_error=True, log_errors=False)
        self.assertEqual(ecount, 0)

        # delete resources to clean up
        hydroshare.delete_resource(self.res.short_id)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Ilosaarirock in Brief
Festival Life
Rival Sons (USA)
Rival Sons' music is pure eroticism blasting over the PA! This blues rock explosion, hailing from Los Angeles, treads in the steps of Led Zeppelin and Flamin' Groovies, but is not in debt to anyone. Rival Sons' debut album is a collection of brilliant hard rock sing-alongs in classic boogie style that have been disappointingly few and far between since the 1970s. Though the band's sex-soaked energy is already present on their recordings, a true surprise is on offer at the live occasion. The charismatic vocalist Jay Buchanan oozes the qualities of an old-school rock'n'roll god, and the trio on his side playing shameless riff-rock is unbelievable in its style and precision.
Rival Sons is worth seeing live right now. They are not yet big enough to only play gigs where the audience needs binoculars to actually see them, but in all likelihood, they soon will be. Right at this moment, however, they are hungry, not afraid to put themselves at stake, and full of sweat and ecstasy. After all overproduced button-pushing, would you like to be served some honest rock music for a change? Meet the Rival Sons and just dig in!
www.rivalsons.com
facebook.com/rivalsons
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Inequality is a zero-sum game
Published Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016, 3:39 pm
Front Page » Events » Inequality is a zero-sum game
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In a recent commentary ("Economic Inequality," January 2016), venture capitalist Paul Graham defends inequality on the grounds that it's not necessarily the result of a zero-sum game. In fact, he says, it's usually not. He accuses "the most naive" critics of growing levels of economic inequality of starting out from "the pie fallacy: that the rich get rich by taking money from the poor. Usually this is an assumption people start from rather than a conclusion they arrive at by examining the evidence." But zero-sum, far from being a "fallacy," is a conclusion that makes a great deal of sense based on the actual evidence.
He also frames inequality as as a natural and spontaneously arising phenomenon which can only be prevented by the state intervening to prohibit it. But acting on behalf of economic ruling classes, and enforcing the artificial property rights and monopolies from which they get rich, has been the primary function of the state since it first appeared.
Graham sees the drastically increased inequality of recent decades as the result of innovation and start-up culture. And in the main he sees that as a good thing. As an example of the "good" kind of inequality that results from start-up culture, Graham mentions "Larry Page and Sergey Brin starting the company you use to find things online."
Only it's by no means intuitive that a successful start-up should start out small, grow exponentially, and in the process make its creator obscenely rich. It makes just as much sense, in an atmosphere of total information freedom without artificial "intellectual property" barriers, that a successful start-up would "grow" by being replicated horizontally rather than becoming bigger. The original start-up would be one node among many, all of them freely replicated and independently owned and managed, in a network based on common protocols for interoperability.
As my fellow C4SS writer Anna Morgenstern once put it, "[o]nce a pocket of unmet demand is discovered, under anarchy, capital will flow in that direction and will arbitrage out the profit opportunity pretty rapidly." Absent entry barriers, the natural tendency is for temporary entrepreneurial profits from first-mover advantage to be driven down to zero by competition. The only way to keep getting richer and richer from an idea is to use some sort of legal monopoly to stop other people from copying it.
Small-scale wealth (up to, say, the low tens of millions of dollars) might be obtained by a few through serial displays of exceptional entrepreneurship and inventiveness, combined with long hours and extreme frugality. But you don't get really big fortunes by making things; you get them by controlling the circumstances under which other people are allowed to make things — what Henry George Jr. called "controlling access to natural opportunities."
And people getting rich off the rents from controlling access to natural opportunities isn't a process the state has to intervene in the market to stop; it's a process that's only possible in the first place by the state intervening to enforce such control. It's no coincidence that the rise of both the Internet and start-up culture coincided with a draconian upward ratcheting of "intellectual property" laws from the mid 90s on. If you think Bill Gates's wealth is all from creation and not zero-sum, try to imagine how much he'd have if there were no copyrights or patents on software, and Microsoft could be duplicated, modified and built on without restriction or charge.
But this isn't something new to start-up culture; if you look at the history of capitalism, this general principle has been applicable going all the way back to the beginnings of the system five hundred years or more. The system was founded on mass robbery and enclosure of peasant land, conquest of foreign markets and natural resources, and enslavement of conquered populations. And all the major avenues to wealth involved controlling the conditions under which other people were allowed to produce: absentee landlord ownership of land cultivated by other people, legal monopolies on the issue of currency and credit, and legal monopolies on copying new ideas and inventions, among many others.
And ever since then, the heirs and assigns of these robbers and slavers have had the state's guns at their back whenever needed, to make sure that we're allowed to produce only under the condition that we work hard enough to feed them in addition to ourselves. Sounds pretty zero-sum to me.


It may be only the beginning of November, however it is time to start thinking about your Christmas presents. Fashion Studio Magazine will be publishing a series of articles featuring stylish gift ideas from all over the world. Today, we introduce a vibrant Australian company, Young Republic, which came up with a very fashionable Christmas Collection. Have a look and enjoy your shopping!
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Please find or create a forum specific to such topics.
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