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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, المجلد 47،الأعداد 1-4
بواسطة Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
y. 3.
"The wild kine," the antilope defassa, a species of bovine antelope. "The deer," arům (for arům), plural of rim. Rim is the white antelope (antilope leucoryx); though identical in form with the Hebrew gêm (rêym), it is very doubtful whether the latter word means the same: the LXX translate it by Movókepws (A. V. "unicorn"). The Assyrian is, like the Arabic, ri'mu, and there is a good discussion of the meaning of this word in an article on the Animals of the Assyrian Sculptures in the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology for 1877; it appears certain that it is not the antilope leucoryx, but some larger and robuster animal, perhaps the wild buffalo (see Job xxxix, 9-12).
V, 5.
"Trench": round the tent a trench is dug to receive the rain from the roof and prevent the water from flooding the interior.
V. 6. "In the morn": the morning was the time when raids were made, and the word şabáủ thus itself is used in the sense of a sudden attack. Yü şabåhåh was the battle-cry (shi'år) of Temîm in the Day of el-Kulâb. To wish peace in the morning to a place is therefore an appropriate greeting:
vv. 7–15. The journey here described would take the wanderers along the southern skirt of the tract called by Palgrave (Cent, and East. Arabia, Vol. I, chap. vi) "the Upper Kaseem;" er-Rass is still a place of some importance, and will be found marked on Palgrave's map some distance to the North of 'Oneyzeh. In the days of Zubeyr the country was in the possession of the Benû Asad, who were not always on the friendliest terms with the Benû Đubyân, among whom the poet lived.
v. 12. Tassels of scarlet wool decorated the haudaj in which ladies rode. rig seeds" : habbu-l-fenú ; the exact nature of this plant with a scarlet seed or fruit is very doubtful : see Lane, s. vv. ügüins and
فني and عشرق
V. 16. "The Holy House" is the Ka'beh. The mention of its building by the Qureysh and the men of Jurhum must not be understood of the same time. Jurhun was the name of two Arab stocks : the first the ancient race who peopled the lower Hijâz and Tihâmch at the time of the legendary settlement of Ishmacl among them, with whom he is said to have intermarried ; the second (whom M. de Perceval regards as alone having had a historical existence) a tribe who ruled in Mekkeh from about 70 B. C. to 200 A. D. They were expelled from Mekkch and dispersed so that no memorial of them remained by an Azdito stock from el-Yemen called the Khuzâ'ah (C. de Perceval, Essai, i, 218. Aghânî, xiii, 108-111.). The second Jurhum are said (Agh. id., p. 109) to have rebuilt the Ka'beh on the foundations laid by Abraham after it had been overthrown by a flood : the architect was one 'Omar cl-Järûd, whoso descendants were known as the Jedarah, or masons. The Qurcysh settled in Mekkoh during its occupation by the Khuzâ'ah, and gained possession of the Ka'bch in tho time of Quşayy, whose mother was of the raco of the Jedarah, about 440 A. D. (C. de Perceval). Quşayy, in the year 450 A. D. or thereabout, caused the building erected by the Jurhum to be demolished, and rebuilt the Ka'bch on a grander scalo. It was rebuilt a third time in the year 605 A. D., very shortly before the Moʻallaqah was composed. Mohammed, then 35 years old, assisted in the work. Theso thrco occasions are probably those to which Zuheyr refers.
" Circle round," tāfa haulahu ; the tawaf, or going round seven times, was one of the most ancient rites of the religion of the Arabs; it was the mode of worship used not only for the Ka'beh, but also for the other objects of reverence among the pagan Arabs : see Lane, s. v. Duwâr. .
v. 18. In this verse må beyna-l-'ashireti must be understood as meaning the friendship of the two houses of the family. Beyn ("that which is between") has two contrary significations : disunion, that which parts or separates, and concord, that which joins ; so Đâtu-l-bcyn means both enmity and friendship,
Ashireh here means the stock of Baghîd son of Reyth son of Ghatafân, the common father of 'Abs and Đubyân ; according to the dictionaries "ashireh is the smallest sub-division of the tribe, but its use here is clearly opposed to that view. The various words meaning tribe and family are very loosely applied in the old poetry, and the distinctions drawn between them by lexicographers (scc Lane s. v. shab) do not seem to be borne out by usage. In v. 24 'Abs and Đubyân arc cach called qaum, and in v. 34 'Abs is a ħayy.
v. 19. The literal translation of this verse is—
"Ye two repaired the condition of 'Abs and Đubyân (by peaco), after that
they had shared one with another in destruction, and had brayed between them
the perfume of Menshim." The second hemistich is said to refer to a custom which existed among the Arabs of plunging their hands into a bowl of perfume as they took an oath together to fight for a cause until the last of them was slain. Menshim, the commentators say, was a woman in Mekkeh who sold perfume. Such an oath was followed by war to the bitter end, and so "he brayed the perfume of Menshim" became a proverb for entering on deadly strife. That oaths so taken were counted of special force may be seen from the tale of "the Oath of the Perfuined ones,' ħilf' el-Mutayyabin, taken by the sons of 'Abd-Menâf and their partisans in or about 490 A. D. (see C. de Perceval, Essai, i. 254. Ibn-el-Athîr, Kâmil, i. pp. 329-30.)
v. 22. Ma'add was the forefather of all those Arabs (generally called musta-ribeh or insititious) who traced their descent from 'Adnân, whose son he was. The name is thus used to denote the Central stocks, settled for the most part in Nejd and el-Hijaz, as opposed to the Arabs of el-Yemen or of Yemenic origin by whom they were bordered on the North and South. The name of Ma'add's son Nizâr is also used in the same way. Nizâr was the father of Mudar, Rabî'ah, and Anmâr; the last-named and his descendants joined themselves to tho people of el-Yemen; and "Rabî'ah and Mudar" is again a comprehensive term used to designate the tribes of Nejd and the Hijaz.
v. 25. "Slit-eared, of goodly breed": min 'ifdlin muzennemi. There are two ways of taking this phrase: the first is that here adopted, whereby muzennem is rendered as an adjective attached to 'ifal, meaning "slit-eared." Camels of good breed had a slit made in the car, and the piece of skin thus detached (called zenemeh) left to hang down. The ordinary grammatical construction would require the feminino, muzennemeh, to agree with 'ifal ; but tho masculine is used by a poetic license. Thu other, resting on the authority of Abû 'Obeydeh, reads 'ifali M[uzennemi, young camels (the offspring) of Muzennem" (or el-Muzennein) : Muzennem, he says, being the name of a famous stallion-camel whose broed was much renowned among the Arabs.
It is worth remarking that this line seems to contradict the assertion of et-Tebrîzî, in his commentary on the Hamâseh, p. 107, that the young camels (seven or eight months old) called 'ifal (plural of 'afil) were not given in payment of bloodwits. Perhaps there was an exception in the case of the better breeds. The passage, how. ever, on which et-Tebrîzî makes this remark does not necessarily bear him out. V. 26.
"Tribesmen together leagued," el-Ahláf, plural of hilf. The commentary says that these confederates were Ghatafân, Asad and Tayyi' ; other authorities quoted by Lane (s. v. hilf) restrict the appellation to Asad and Ghatafan, Asad and Çayyi', or Fezârah (a branch of Đubyân) and Asad. Since Đubyân, a division of Ghatafan, is named separately from the ahlâf, it would seem probable that the word here means only Asad and Tayyi'. I do not, however, find that these confederates took any part in the War of Dális, except at the battle of Shib Jebeleh, when Asad joined Đubyân and Temîm against 'Âmir and 'Abs; their presence at the oath-taking between the various branches of Ghatafan would, however, render the engagement more formal and solemn : they were a sort of "Guaranteeing Power."
V. 27-28. Herr von Kremer (Culturgeschichte des Orients unter den Chalifen, Vol. ii., p. 358, note*) regards these verses as interpolated, and alien from the spirit of the poetry of the Ignorance. He says, moreover, that they are inconsistent with v. 48, which expresses the true feeling of that age, that of the Future no man knows anything. Certainly their spirit is more religious than is usual in the old poetry, and the mention of the Book and the Reckoning Day points to a body of doctrine which we are accustomed to think was first planted among the Arabs by Mohammed. But it is to be remarked that the passage where the verses come (vv. 26-33) seems thoroughly consecutive and complete in sense : that the same number of verses is given, in the same order, in all the recensions of the poem; and that v. 28 exhibits a very curious construction, easily intelligible indeed, but unlikely to be used in an interpolation : this is the carrying on of the mejzûm imperfect from the apodosis of the conditional sentence in v. 27 6 into the unconditional proposition of v. 28.
As regards the possibility of such an exhortation being addressed to the tribes settled in the country East of Yethrib and South of the mountains of Tayyi' in 610 A. D., I do not think that it should be hastily rejected. Few subjects are more obscure than the real nature of the religion of the pagan Arabs. It would seem that at the time when the Prophet arose there was extremely little religious faith in the people of any sort: that their old divinities were held by them in much the same estimation as that in which our own forefathers in Norway and Iceland held Odin and Thor when Christianity first overspread the North. But beyond the reverence, such as it was, paid to
* His words are—"Das Gedicht, Zohair XVI, wird man wegen v. 27 (28), der von der Abrechnung am jüngsten Tage spricht, für unecht oder interpolirt erklären müssen. Ich entscheide mich für das Letztero, denn v. 49 (48) spricht die echte, alte Idee aus, dass man von dem Zukünftigen nichts wisse." In the same note, H. von Kremer sees traces of Mohammedan recension in the name 'Abd-allah in a poem of 'Antarah's. I presume that he considers the occurrence of that name as belonging to the father of Mohammed, the son of Jud'ân, and the brother of Dureyd son of eş-Şimmeh, as well as to the tribe-fathers 'Abd-allâh ibn el-Azd (Ma'arif, p. 54), 'Abd-allâh ibn Ghatafân (id. p. 39), and 'Abd-allah ibn Ka'b and 'Abd-allâh ibn Kilâb, sub-divisions of 'Âmir ibn Şa'şa'ah (id. pp. 42 and 43), to be insufficiently vouched for.
el-Lât, el-'Ozzà, Menât, Fuls, Wedd, and the rest, there was certainly a back-ground of faith in The God, Allah, whose name was, as it still is, in the mouth of every Bedawî as his most frequent ejaculation. Without assuming such a faith as already well known to the people, a great portion of the Qur'ân would be impossible : that revelation is addressed to men who join other gods with God, not those who deny Him. Some tribes may have had more of this belief in the One God, and been accustomed to look more immediately to Him, others (especially those who, like the Qureysh, possessed famous shrines of idolatrous worship which brought them in much profit,) less : probably contact with Judaism and Christianity determined in some measure the greater or less degree of it. Now among the neighbours of the tribes of Ghatafân were the Jews settled from Yethrib to Kheybar and Teymâ; to the North was Kelb in the Daumat (or Dûmat) el-Jendel, almost entirely Christian ; Christianity had made some progress in Țayyi', nearer still; and we have seen how, according to a fairly vouched for story, Qeys son of Zuheyr, the chief of 'Abs, spent the last years of his life as a Christian anchorite in 'Omân. To the West was Yethrib, in constant relations with the Kings of Ghassan, who were Christian, together with their people; and to the North-cast was el-Hîreh, whose King, en-Noʻmân Abû Dâbûs, had long been a Christian, and where Christianity had spread among the people long before his day. En-Nabighah of Đubyân, Zuheyr's famous contemporary, had dwelt long at the Courts both of el-Hîreh and Ghassân; and in a well-known passage* (much contested, it is true, but in favour of the genuineness of which much may be said,) he refers to a Rabbinical legend of Solomon's power over the Jinn, and how they built for him Tedmur. At the fair of 'Okåt Quss son of Sâʻideh had preached Christianity long before Zuheyr made this poem. And to 'Abs itself belonged one of the Hanifs, Khalid son of Sinân son of Gheyth (see Ibn Quteybeh, Ma'arif, p. 30). These thing's seem to me to make it not impossible that the lines may be genuine. The objection that they are inconsistent with v. 48 appears wholly groundless; the latter refers to the vicissitudes of this world and the chances of life: the former to the reckoning of God in the world after death. (See note on v. 32 for a further argument in favour of the authenticity of these verses.)
V. 29. War, el-Harb, is feminine in Arabic; as in vv. 31 and 32 it is personified as a woman, it seemed best to use in the translation the feminine pronoun in v. 29 and 30.
V. 31.
Skin," thifâl, is the mat of skin that is placed beneath the mill to receive the flour. The comparison of War to a mill and the slain to ground grain is common in the old poetry; so says 'Amr son of Kulthìm (Moʻall. vv. 30, 31)-
متى تقل إلى قوم كان يتوا في القاه أنها طيينة
ولهوتها ضاعة أجمعيذا و تقاها في
دجل
-z les
* En-Nabighah, v. 22 sqq. For a discussion of this passage, see Noeldeko, Beiträge z. Kenntn. der Poes. d. alt. Araber, p. XI, and Ahlwardt, Bemerkungen über die Acchtheit d. alt. Arab. Gedichte, pp. 17-18 and 41. Noeldoke appears to overlook the tradition (unless he rejects it) that en-No'mûn was a Christian.
• When our War-mill is set against a people
as grain they fall thereunder ground to powder ; Eastward in Nejd is set the skin beneath it,
and the grain cast therein is all Quạâ'ah."
"Year by year shall her womb conceive": telqah kisháfan ; Icishaf is said of a she-camel that conceives in two following years. Another word used in a like sense of War is 'awan, which is applied to an animal with a hard hoof (as a cow or mare), that after bringing forth her first-born (bikr) conceives again forth with and bears another young one; so harbun "awan is said of a war the fury of which is perpetually renewed (see Hamâseh, p. 180). Again, hail, plural ħiyal, is used of a war which lies long dormant; its meaning is a she-camel that does not conceive for two years, or some years, and it is therefore the opposite of kishaf. El-Hârith son of 'Obâd said of the War of Basûs after the slaying of his son Bujeyr by Muhelbil
v. 32,
"The War of Wa'il has conceived at last, having long been barren."
. "Ahmar of 'Âd." According to the received story of the Muslims, it vas to Thamûd, not to 'Âd, that the prophet Şalih was sent to warn them of their wickedness. The sign that he gave them was a gigantic shc-camel that issued forth at his bidding from a rock (Qur'ân vii. 71): "Then said those among them that were filled with pride—'Verily we reject that in which yo believed. And they slevy the she-camel and rebelled against their Lord, and said—'0 Şâlih! bring upon us that wherewith thou didst threaten us, if thou art indeed of the Sent of God! Then the carthquake seized them, and they lay on their faces in their dwellings, dead." (Qur. I. c. vv. 74–76. The story is also told in Sürah xi, vv. 64–71.) The leader in the slaying of the Camel was Qudâr el-Ahmar, "Qudâr the Red"; and thus "More unlucky than Ahmar of Thamûd," and "More unlucky than the Slayer of the She-camel," became proverbs. The people of Thamûd (-who are mentioned* by Diodorus Siculus and Ptolemy, and as late as 450 A. D. in the Notitia dignitatum utriusque imperii : see C. de Perceval, Essai i., p. 27–) dwelt in Hijr, a valley on the road Northwards from the Hijaz into Syria. The racc of 'Âd, on the contrary, were settled in the South of Arabia, in the Angâf, now a vast desert of sand : Ibn Quteybeh (Ma'arif, p. 15) places them "in ed-Daww, and ed-Dahnâ, and 'Âlij, and Yebrîn, and Webbâr, from 'Omân to Hadramaut and el-Yemen." To them was sent Hûd (Qur. vi. 63 and xi). They also by a vast space of time, if the Thamudeni of the Notilia dignitatum are the same as the latter people. The commentators give two reasons to explain why Zuheyr said, " Ahmar of 'Âd" instead of "Ahmar of Thamûd": the first is the necessity of the rhythm, which would not permit him to say Thamûd; the second is that some of the genealogists say that Thamûd was a cousin of 'Âd, and after the destruction of the
* In Mr. George Smith's " Assyria" (" Ancient History from the Monuments" Series), p. 100, Sargon, in 715 B. C., is related to have led an expedition into Arabia, " where he conquered the Thamudites and several other tribes, carrying them captive and placing them in the cities of Samaria."


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Pro Tennis Tour (Amstrad)
Genre: Action, Simulation, Sports
Visual: Isometric
Published by: Ubi Soft Entertainment Software
Developed by: Blue Byte Software GmbH
Platform: Amstrad CPC
One of the most famous and realistic old tennis simulators, approved by the champion of those times Jimmy Connors, after whom he was named; perhaps not the most graphically beautiful (although still very nice), but perhaps the most difficult in terms of gameplay.
Perhaps it is this game and more valuable in the first place - even to properly throw the ball, not to get them into the net, will have to work hard, to say nothing about what calculate the desired trajectory of the ball or catch the sly feeding their opponent. it's all about control features of the game: for the filing and you need to keep up with the three seconds to move the yellow X at a certain angle for a certain distance (this is the direction and force of impact), and the cross moves slowly, so I have n suffer.
As already mentioned, graphically the game looks pretty nice, you can even admire the animated stands, but the faces of the players are almost not drawn (but they themselves are drawn, and not bad, and their movements on the court are also good, except that sometimes too slowly ). Verdict - entertaining, but it is extremely difficult (at times up to irritation and despair) game designed just for the biggest fans of tennis computer, ready to spend hours mastering all its subtleties.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Shlomo Sand is a history professor at Tel Aviv University. His charismatic, readable style was evident in his previous book The Invention of the Jewish People, the English edition of which kicked up quite a controversy in 2009. The title alone seemed designed to shock.
But in fact Sand was arguing a fairly banal truism: there is no such thing as a unified, national "Jewish people." As a globalized religious community (due to proselytizing before the rise to power of Christianity in the fourth century) there are instead multiple different Jewish communities across the world.
A Jew from Yemen would have no distinctive secular points of reference in common with a Jew from France, Russia or Poland. For example: before Zionist reinvention from the end of the 19th century, Hebrew was a purely liturgical language. Jews from different countries naturally spoke in local languages.
That book was a fascinating journey through centuries of Jewish history, much of it swept under the carpet by Zionist historiography. Sand's new book, The Invention of the Land of Israel, is essentially a direct sequel, focusing on the nature of an idea central to Zionism: the "Land of Israel" — Eretz Israel in Hebrew.
Sand explains that in Israel, "in the Hebrew-language edition of foreign books, the word 'Palestine' is systematically replaced with the words Eretz Israel … Even when the writings of important Zionist figures such as Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Ber Borochov and many others [who also used 'Palestine'] … are translated into Hebrew" (23).
In the Hebrew Bible (known to Christians as the Old Testament), the geographic area roughly corresponding to the land of Palestine (between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea) is mostly called the "land of Canaan." The area "never served as a homeland for the 'children of Israel,' and for this reason, among others, they never refer to it as 'the Land of Israel.'" Most Israelis, Sand argues, are not aware that the term is not found in the the Hebrew Bible "in its inclusive meaning" of a wide geographic area (86).
Later Jewish religious law "does feature the debut of the term 'Land of Israel' " but, Sand explains, this was a "holy land" rather than a "homeland" (102). Most Jews did not seek to live there. Philo of Alexandria, a first century Jewish philosopher, lived in Egypt — right next to Palestine. He could have moved to Jerusalem, since both regions were under Roman rule — but instead, like most people, he chose to live and die in his original homeland (96).
Furthermore this Eretz Israel was traditionally considered by mainstream Judaism to be so holy the devout were positively forbidden to move there (183). Even pilgrimage was a rare, and later phenomenon. Between the years 134 and 1099, "we know of no attempts by the followers of rabbinical Judaism to make pilgrimages to the holy city" of Jerusalem (123).
All this stands in stark contrast to the 1948 Israeli Declaration of Independence which claims that "the Jewish people … never ceased to pray and hope for their return." In contrast to this "mythos," Sand writes: "most of the world's Jews … did not regard Palestine as their land … they did not strive 'in every successive generation to reestablish themselves in their ancient homeland' " (175).
"Settlement Zionism, which borrowed the term 'Land of Israel' from the Talmud, was not overly pleased with the borders it had been assigned by Jewish law … extending only from Acre to Ashkelon … [it was] not sufficiently contiguous to serve as a national homeland," argues Sand (214).
He then reviews the history of the ever-shifting definition in Zionist thought of where exactly its "Land of Israel" is — something undeclared till this day.
Early Zionists drew on God's promise in the book of Genesis to give the mythical patriarch Abram's children "this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates" in modern day Iraq.
In 1897, the same year as the first Zionist congress, Israel Belkind ("the first practical Zionist") drew a map: " 'The Jordan splits the Land of Israel in two different sections,' asserted Belkind, whose assessment was subsequently adopted by most [Zionist] settlers of the period" (216).
For the future first prime minister of Israel David Ben Gurion, these borders "were too expansive and untenable, while the borders of the Talmudic commandment were too narrow." In 1918 he gave his own take: "In the north — the Litani River, between Tyre and Sidon [in Lebanon] … In the east — the Syrian Desert. The eastern border of the Land of Israel should not be precisely demarcated … the Land's eastern borders will be diverted eastwards, and the area of the Land of Israel will expand" (217).
Not for nothing were the borders of the new state unmentioned in its declaration of independence (233).
Ben Gurion later scaled back this conception, but even mainstream Labor Zionist figure as Yigal Allon would still at times refer to the whole of historic Palestine as the "western Land of Israel" as late as 1979 (237).
There's also a brilliant chapter on the origins of Christian Zionism in the protestantism of nineteenth-century British imperialists.
Sand stops short of calling for implementing the right of return for Palestinian refugees. His concluding chapter is a history of al-Sheikh Muwannis, the Palestinian village that Israel ethnically cleansed in 1948 and in place of which his own university now stands. Unfortunately, he counterposes removing the university, on the one hand, with the Palestinian refugees never being able to return en masse, on the other — as if those are the only two options (280).
It's a useful book for debunking Zionist myths, which, due to the legacy of Protestant Christian Zionism in the west are surprisingly resilient. But as Sand's slightly flaky post-Zionist politics demonstrates, a more realistic knowledge of history doesn't necessarily translate fully to a rights-based understanding of the Palestinian plight.
Still, there is much to enjoy and learn in the evidence in the potentially incendiary material he assembles here.
Asa Winstanley is an associate editor with The Electronic Intifada, and a journalist in London who has also worked in Palestine.
Question: "But as Sand's slightly flaky post-Zionist politics demonstrates, a more realistic knowledge of history doesn't not necessarily translate fully to a rights-based understanding of the Palestinian plight."
Does not necessarily? Or am I missing an essential point here?
Typo corrected, thanks for pointing it out.
As Zionist propagandists attempted to attack Professor Shlomo Sand back in 2009 from this angle; everyone should now see Johns Hopkins University geneticist Dr. Eran Elhaik, Ph.D.'s recent genetic study completely supporting Professor Sand. Dr. Eran Elhaik "The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses".
"Settlement Zionism, which borrowed the term 'Land of Israel' from the Talmud, was not overly pleased with the borders it had been assigned by Jewish law … [it was] not sufficiently contiguous to serve as a national homeland,"
Are a few isolated pockets not enough to form a viable state? Haven't I heard this argument somewhere?
Perhaps the phrase "Land of Israel" doesn't appear in the bible, but the "Land of X" appears many times (where X is a tribe of Israel). For example, see Deuteronomy 34. And the phrase "tribes of Israel" appears many times. So, the claim is disingenuous at best.
As it happens, the phrase "Land of Israel" does appear in the bible, in Ezekiel 38. However, the original Hebrew phrase is ADAMAT (אַדְמַת יִשְׂרָאֵל), which can be translated as "soil" or "earth," but the context is the same as "Land of Israel." Also used is the phrase "Mountains of Israel" (הָרֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל).
However, my main concern with this work is, who is he trying convince? He won't convince me and I'm as secular a Jew and as pro-Palestinian state as anyone. Can he even imagine for a micro-second any religious Jew contemplating this theory? All this theory will create is negative vibes, which are proven time and time again to be bad for the Palestinians (and the Israelis).
Mr. Kaboomnik, Zionists have been deluding Jewish people since they decided that they'd create "Israel" over and inside a well established country, where thousands of natives have been lived since pre-historical times. For colonizing that country, Palestine, they invented many myths, and one of them is that the land of Palestinians was given to Jews by Yaveh. That is the basis of their false argument for coming to Palestine, stealing the land, killing and expulsing Palestinian people, robbing their properties and all they have. Those crimes cannot be without punishment, and the work of Schlomo Sand shows the Zionist actions against Palestinians as it is: horrendous crimes. It doesn't matter that you, secular, or other persons, Jewish, don't believe in the historical researchs. It matters for us, Palestinians, and for our supporters, who now have a decisive argument for our fight against Zionism. It's one more crime to the extense list of those criminal Europeans who more than a century ago decided to colonize our land. The true about that criminal enterprise have been found along the years. Now it's the true about religion's time. We'll be on this with the same force we are about other injustices commited by Zionists against us. Perhaps not now, but one day people will understand how important Sand's issue is for us, for justice, for human rights and for the humanity -- because we cannot let that the injustices and crimes which have been imposing on us by Zionists since XIXth century happening to ayone, in anytime again.
As we know, truth is entirely subjective, so yes, I agree truth is a nice ideal to achieve, but is it really achievable and at what cost are we willing to attempt it?
I am an atheist who believes that religion should be eradicated, but I know that isn't going to happen, because of the problem of human subjectivity.
At best, we can negotiate with human subjectivity, and hopefully achieve a relatively acceptable compromise.
This is also the way to achieve peace, but the approach of Sand (and many others of his kind) negates these efforts.
Just as I know any efforts I make to defeat religion will not only fall on deaf ears, but will increase the negative interaction between religious and secular, the same is true of the provocative approach to solving Israel-Palestine.
You cannot defeat Zionism (or Islamism) by showing their core fundamental beliefs to be fully or partially wrong. You can only achieve a compromise that is fully or partially beneficial to both sides.
Mr. Kaboomnik, let me desagree of some of your points. First of all, truth is not subjectif when related to facts. Facts are facts, even if we see them on different perspectives. And the fact is that the Torah isn't a history book -- the findings of mr. Filkenstein, the archeologist, are very important and show the truth (again): there is no correspondence between the mythical narratives and the history which archeology and historical documents tell us in Palestine.
It wouldn't matter if Torah wasn't used by Zionists and the ultra-orthodox for opressing and killing a whole people, the Palestinians, and for stealing their land. Zionists have based their criminal enterprise in Palestine on Torah since the earliest days -- the movement was created on the idea of a "coming back" to Zion, to Judea, to Israel -- a land, they say, Javeh gave to Jews. That is the idea behind all tragedy Palestinians have been facing since the XIXth century. That's why it's important to deconstruct the religious myths.
I understand your argument and think we can consider it carefully for political purposes. I also think that the ultra-orthodox Jews will revolt against those who contradict their belief. Those considerations, although, cannot hide the facts, the true, the academical research and the political fact that the Zionist colonialist enterprise in Palestine was based on myths.
There will be no peace without justice, and justice begins in the acknowledment of all the facts which lead to Palestinian drama. There will be no peace while the ultra-orthodox people keep the Torah as a justification to the ethnical cleansing of Palestinians and to all the violence they have been commiting to them. There will be no peace while the righst of the refugees continue to be denied because of the myths of the Torah. There will be no peace at all based on lies.
We are not dealing with "amateurs". I'm afraid that perhaps Palestine is a "test balloon" to the purposes they have in other parts of the world, for dominating the most important resources on Earth. They intend not only making money with them but also controlling the life of many countries -- "do what we want or we'll cause your misery". They have been using that same method along the time. See what they did to the representatives of the nations in UN during the General Assembly which recommends the partition of Palestine in "Palestine and the Great Powers", by Michael Cohen or in the UN documents.
In that context, I think that deconstruct their myths is a way to show who they really are and what are their aims -- a very useful way to fight for our rights, the same rights Zionists and their collaborators are turning in simple trash.
Oh dear @ "test balloon"
Unfortunately Baby, while on one hand you claim "truth is not subjective when related to facts," but then you go on to say "I'm afraid that perhaps Palestine is a test balloon..." and so on, and in doing so you prove that truth is entirely subjective.
You're mixing the "truths". I'm refering to facts when I tell about true -- facts which Sand is bringing to light.
For the Zionist case: I've been studying Zionism the last 4 years. I know what they can do. That's why I'm afraid -- based on facts, not on nothing. Based on conclusions of my researches on them, their acts, their ideology. Very objective facts.
1. Anyone who believes in the complete objectivity of facts is profoundly naive. True objectivity doesn't exist and has never existed. Every so-called proven fact can be interpreted in different ways and challenged. I suggest you read Kuhn for a better understanding of this issue.
2. I know many people who study (including myself), and 4 years isn't very long - it is barely long enough to scratch the surface. Have you even been to Israel and spoken with an Israeli with a non-adversarial stance?
I will offer you some advice however that will aid your learning. Study writings from both sides of any conflict, not just the side with which you identify, and try not to seek the worst in people when reading the opposite side. And don't think that facts are objective - only the uneducated believe such things.
As a philosopher, I read Kuhn. And yes, facts are objectives. Based on that objectiveness we can get differents interpretations. Facts, de per se, are not subjectives.
To be in Palestine/Israel is not so important for researches and conclusions. In any case I lived in Palestine and have a lot of Israeli (include Jews) friends, to whom I use to talk in a regular way. And I'll come back this year.
Four years of study is few for philosophy and some matters, but not for Zionism studies. I keep studying, but what I've known until now is enough for the knowledgement that it is, and always was, a racist ideology, and that its members never hesitated in commiting atrocities for achieve their aims. See their own documents and writings.
Last, the problem with Zionism, to me, begins with the premise: to take a country in which another people have been living since the beginning of human times, and worst, based on myths and lies. As the logics teach us, if the premise is false, all the argumentation is false too. There is no justification for the Zionist's genocidal acts.
It was a pleasure to debate this issue with you, sir. Best wishes.
Agreed with you on all points Kaboomnik; alas, give his argumentation, I doubt you'll be heard.
It's easier to expect turkeys endorsing Xmas than to expect zionist Jews to endorse the inalienable Palestinian Right of Return.
Another point I wanted to include. I have noticed since Professor Sand's last work (the bestselling, acclaimed, and award winning) "The Invention of the Jewish People" none of Sand's critics ever field any serious attempt a reply to Professor Sand's work itself! The main argument raised against "The Invention of the Jewish People" was certain genetic "research", which Dr. Eran Elhaik has now demonstrated to have been very spurious and to put it bluntly pseudo-scholarship and Zionist propaganda. As geneticist Dr. Eran Elhaik says on his Johns Hopkins University personal webpage (again see Dr. Eran Elhaik's recent, acclaimed, and explosive genetic study "The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses") "Kirsh (2003) filled two pages with the bad practices of Israeli and Jews geneticists in their attempt to manipulate the data and the results so they will not conflict with the Zionist narrative. I didn't find it necessary to do a similar project because then I would run out of space. Instead, I focused on the supernatural element of the Rhineland Hypothesis and the fact that it was completely made up to support the narrative. " (a very telling quote by Dr. Elhaik there).
The only real "response" to Professor Shlomo Sand's work has been attempts at insulting him and of course pathetic attempts to try to claim that he is a supposed "Jew-hater" (or I guess in his case another alleged "self-hating Jew" in the view of the vapid Zionist propagandists). Other than that the only real "substantive" claim made is when some occasionally note that Professor (of History) Shlomo Sand, Ph.D.'s main area of academic expertise is the historical study of nationalism (and in particular French and European nationalism if I recall, think Rousseau, etc. etc.). But this attempted "charge" against Sand really comes to nothing as Sand's expertise in the study of nationalism actually makes him PERFECTLY suited to study Zionist ideology (especially as Zionism itself was invented in late 20th century CE EUROPE by Theodor Herzl to start with). And of course as a professional historian Professor Sand simply quotes the relevant experts in a wide array of fields, such as his first book (according to his own statement) being largely started by Sand himself reading the work of well-known historian Israel Jacob Yuval debunking the still often brought up myth of the supposed (aka NON-existent) "exile of the Jews" (that again Yuval and Sand note never happened) by the Romans in 70 CE. See Israel Jacob Yuval's work "The Myth of the Jewish Exile from the Land of Israel: A Demonstration of Irenic Scholarship" (irenic referring to Christianity here and denoting that this myth of the alleged "exile" was actually a European Christian invention used by them actually to insult Jews and which Judaism as a religion, and much later Zionism, adopted for their own different reasons and motives).
So again we are still waiting for any serious challenge to Professor Sand's masterful work!


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England (5/2) are out to avenge their 2-1 defeat inflicted by Germany (11/10) at Wembley last year by winning tonight's (Wednesday, November 19th) international friendly in Berlin.
But Fabio Capello's side face an uphill struggle as all but two of their frontline stars are out injured.
After Manchester United confirmed that Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney would not be fit to join the squad, key midfield duo Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard both dropped out with knocks sustained while playing for their clubs at the weekend.
Add to that Germany's impressive recent home record, which is 100 per cent intact so far in their South Africa 2010 qualifying campaign, and the toughness of the task facing their 1966 World Cup final opponents becomes clear.
One man who could seize the opportunity to stake his claim for a first team spot is Manchester United's midfielder Michael Carrick.
Almost ever-present in the Red Devils' European and domestic-conquering campaign last season, Carrick – 16/1 to score first after netting against Stoke City at the weekend – is excited at the prospect of playing against one of England's oldest rivals.
He commented: "We are playing for England and that is the stuff of dreams. If you ask any player if they want to play in England against Germany they will tell you it is a massive game."
Meanwhile, England will field a second string strike force, after injuries to Rooney, Emile Heskey, Theo Walcott and with Michael Owen still lacking match fitness.
As a consequence, Capello is likely to opt for Jermain Defoe up front, partnered by either his Portsmouth team-mate Peter Crouch, or in-form Spurs hitman Darren Bent.
Defoe is 7/1 to make the first goal of the game his seventh in an England shirt, with Crouch and Bent priced at 8/1.
Considering the Germans are set to put out a strong team featuring the likes of Bastian Schweinsteiger and Miroslav Klose, under-par England may be happy to earn a draw against a team which beat Euro 2008 semi-finalists Russia 2-1 in Dortmund last month – this result is available at 23/10.
Another mouth-watering fixture will be held at Hampden Park where Scotland (9/2) host South American giants Argentina (4/6).
The anticipation ahead of the game has been heightened by the fact that new manager Diego Maradona will be taking charge of his side for the first time.
Like England, Scotland have been beset by injuries with important players such as Kenny Miller and Darren Fletcher pulling out of the squad.
However, there will still be plenty of individuals desperate to put in an impressive showing with the world watching Maradona's managerial debut.
Birmingham City's James McFadden, with three league goals to his name this season, is 9/1 to break the deadlock, while Chris Iwelumo is 10/1 to banish memories of his recent horror miss in World Cup qualifying against Norway by grabbing the opener.
Will Capello's men enjoy their German jaunt?
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Usury, at least in modern times, has typically been regarded as excessive interest rates, in the order of dozens or even hundreds of percent. Those of us, of a "certain age", can recall the stereotypical "loan shark" and his henchmen who fall under the category of usurious money lenders. Such was not always the case. Within some commentaries, any interest charged to any of the Hebrew brethren was considered usury, Interest could be charged if the money/food / whatever had been lent to a foreigner.
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20 You shall not demand interest from your kindred on a loan of money or of food or of anything else which is loaned. 21From a foreigner you may demand interest, but you may not demand interest from your kindred, so that the LORD, your God, may bless you in all your undertakings on the land you are to enter and possess.
24 If you lend money to my people, the poor among you, you must not be like a moneylender; you must not demand interest from them. 25If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset; 26for this is his only covering; it is the cloak for his body. What will he sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will listen; for I am compassionate.
35When one of your kindred is reduced to poverty and becomes indebted to you, you shall support that person like a resident alien; let your kindred live with you. 36Do not exact interest in advance or accrued interest, but out of fear of God let your kindred live with you.37 Do not give your money at interest or your food at a profit.
There are over a dozen references to usury, interest, money lending, and so forth spread throughout the Old Testament and even the New Testament as each Matthew and Luke recount the story of the master who put some servants in charge of various amounts of money and one was castigated for not giving the money to a bank so that it would be returned at least with interest.
In most jurisdictions, Usury laws regulate the charging of interest rates. Loan sharking violates these laws, and in many states, it is punishable as a criminal offense. The usual penalty imposed is a fine, imprisonment or both.
But, the reader may be thinking, no one has heard about loan sharks anywhere except the movies in years and years, the cops, and the Feds must have taken care of it, so all is good now, right?
Not really. Most of us drive by businesses nearly every day which while perhaps not classically defined as "loan sharks", are at least predatory in their interest rates and practices. These businesses are the payday loan companies or any other number of titles they may operate under. The premise is simple and sounds almost good and beneficial to the people taking out the loans.
The loans are typically small, say under $1,000 and are short-term, usually 14 days. The "interest rate" on the loan paperwork may say 10%, but the websites of these firms may actually list the effective APR (Annual Percentage Rate) in the order of 360% or higher.
A person takes out a $500 loan for 2 weeks, at 10% interest, this is $550 plus origination fees of, for the purpose of this article, $50 making the total $600 payable in 2 weeks. At the end of the 2 weeks, the individual may be unable to pay and the loan gets re-written as $660 ( $600 plus 10% interest ) plus the $50 origination fee, making the loan amount due in 2 weeks, $710. So, at the end of one month, this $500 loan now costs $210 in interest and fees. This is how the effective APR gets so ridiculously high in such a short time.
But, the average individual pays it back in 2 weeks right?
Not really, a couple of studies have found that the average "payday" loan with a duration of 14 days, takes the average person greater than 240 days to repay. Nearly 9 months to pay back a 14-day loan simply because the fees and rewrites keep piling up and piling up.
Clearly, this practice needs to stop, but very few of us are in any position to make any meaningful change to this distressing situation. We can, however, become educated on the disastrous nature of these predatory loans by reviewing the information available through the USCCB, for example, http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/poverty/domestic/predatory-payday-lending-background.cfm. There is a link on this site to another amazing resource: https://togoforth.org/2015/08/07/payday-lending-hurts-families/. Another resource which is quite helpful is https://www.debt.org/credit/predatory-lending/.
Prayer. Pray that a solution may be found for this usurious and sinful situation. Pray for the conversion of heart of the operators of these predatory loan companies. Pray for the victims of the predatory loan companies that they may find a more stable, suitable employment situation which will help them out of the hands of these people.
While this article is technically accurate, I would note there would probably be far less of this practice if religious groups, including some Catholic, would cease their war on business and become a bit more literate in the science of Economics, dismal though it may be. When all the poor hear is the bewailing their status with nothing concrete to offer from the critics, little wonder they turn to unsatisfactory solutions to their problems.
Counterpoint from an economist instead of a someone who doesn't understand the way payday loans work.
to be thanks to vote buying politicians. And liberal Catholics who vote for them deserve some of the blame.
In a nutshell, usury is charging ANY interest on a loan backed by a person, rather than an asset. The amount of interest is irrelevant.
How about: "THE CREDIT CARD GOD".
No kidding. Some of these credit cards are at 22% APR. Our entire economy is built on people living on debt they will never be able to repay. I won't even touch the 20 TRILLION dollars in debt the country is in. I can only imagine what God thinks as He looks at the way we are living.


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Remember the biggest ever revolt against war
On Saturday the UK will mark Armistice Day. An official cult of remembrance requires that this week people in the public eye – politicians, newsreaders, sports personalities and so on – wear the red poppy that commemorates British service personnel.
I am wearing the white poppy, that commemorates all the victims of all wars. It's a socialist, anti-militarist tradition that I think should be spread more widely.
The horrible destruction in Syria, unleashed by the regime of Bashar al-Assad to protect his power from a popular uprising and generalised into a multi-sided war, is reason enough to wear the white poppy.
And this year it can also serve as a reminder of the greatest popular anti-military uprising in history – in Russia in the summer of 1917.
The women workers of Petrograd (now St Petersburg) began the 1917 revolution in February, by striking and demonstrating against the first world war (in which Russia was allied with Britain and France) and the hardships it brought.
Soldiers of the Petrograd garrison, by refusing to fire on the protesters and pledging their allegiance to the soviet (workers' council) in the city, assured the collapse of the 300-year-old tsarist dynasty.
The new provisional government that took over after the February revolution promised the restive army that it would end the war … but not immediately. In June 1917 it tried to launch an offensive against the German and Austro-Hungarian forces on the eastern front.
Whole units, battalions and regiments refused to fight. Some of them met, adopted a formal resolution, and in some cases arrested or lynched their officers. Others simply abandoned the battlefield and streamed home, guns in hand. They figured it was better to deal with the authorities at home – if there were any – than to die trying to kill equally innocent soldiers on the "other" side.
There had already been cases of fraternisation, such as the "Christmas truce" between British and German soldiers, and of desertion. But nothing on this scale. A whole army simply refused to obey orders.
No wonder president Putin, who has built his reputation on bloody, murderous interventions in Chechnya in 2000-01 and Ukraine in 2014-15, recalled 1917 as a "betrayal of Russia from within". Nothing could be scarier to the governments of today than the prospect of people, once again, refusing to kill each other for mythical nationalist ends.
In 1917, the unprecedented military mutiny combined with the seizure of land by peasants and the political revolt of urban workers. The provisional government collapsed.
The result was the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks, the first party that claimed to rule in the name of working people – although they failed to do so, which is another story – and the centenary of that takeover is on Tuesday (7 November).
One of the new government's first acts was to issue a Decree on Peace. They ordered the head of the army to negotiate a ceasefire on the eastern front and, when he refused, encouraged front-line regiments to agree ceasefires with the German and Austro-Hungarian troops in the trenches opposite – effectively, an endorsement of the rebellious soldiers' actions in the summer.
These measures did not bring peace. Within months, Russia was plunged into a bloody civil war which killed more of its people than the first world war did. Nevertheless its withdrawal from the first world war showed what mass anti-war action could do.
Here is a declaration by the Smolensk Initiative Group of Women and Mothers – one of the thousands of grass-roots organisations that sprung up during the Russian revolution – published on 5 May 1917 by the independent socialist newspaper Novaya Zhizn. I think it gives a good idea of what working-class people thought about the war and how to stop it.
To all Russian Women and mothers. We, a group of Russian women and mothers, are joining the protest of the working people against the war. We are also extending our hand to women and mothers the world over.
We are deeply convinced that our extended hand will meet the extended hands of mothers the world over. No annexations or indemnities can compensate a mother for a murdered son. [They were referring to the moderate socialists' slogan, "peace without annexations and indemnities"].
Enough blood. Enough of this horrible bloodshed, which is utterly pointless for the working people. Enough of sacrificing our sons to the capitalists' inflamed greed. We don't need any annexations or indemnities. Instead, let us safeguard our sons for the good of all the working people the world over. Let them apply their efforts not to a fratricidal war but to the cause of peace and the brotherhood of all peoples. And let us, Russian women and mothers, be proud knowing that we were the first to extend our brotherly hand to all the mothers the world over.
Smolensk Initiative Group of Women and Mothers.
That's from a wonderful collection of the documents of the rank-and-file movement, Voices of Revolution 1917, edited by Mark Steinberg (Yale University Press, 2001), p. 98. GL, 6 November 2017.
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Red and Black October: An Anarchist Perspective on the Russian Revolution for its 100th Anniversary - Black Rose Anarchist Federation says:
[…] Two factors were decisive in the emergence of the Russian Revolution of 1917: the Tsar's forcible participation in the ongoing First World War, and widespread economic crisis, including near-famine conditions for urban workers. The disorganization of economic life during the war led to critical shortages for both the cities and the Army, thus making the continuation of the war-effort quite impossible. It was in the cities that the Revolution began in early 1917, spreading to the war-front by summer, provoking mass-desertions by conscripted soldiers who had experienced the utter pointlessness of the war firsthand. In fact, the Russian Revolution can in some ways be considered one of the greatest popular anti-militarist uprisings in history. […]
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Tag: moral turpitude
At first sight this news story isn't particularly relevant. But we think that it's important. A labourer from Rugby has been found guilty of a serious offence against a girl. At Birmingham Crown Court he was put on probation for three years.
But that wasn't the end of the matter. His employers didn't approve of his conduct and promptly sacked him.
The man, who was not willing to go without a fight, complained to the Industrial Tribunal in Birmingham. The tribunal said that his firm must re-employ the man. They refused.
At a meeting of the same tribunal held in November, the company's spokesman justified its action in these terms: "The company expects high standards from its employees. It will not today, tomorrow, or next year, employ a man who has been convicted of this offence, rape, or any offence involving moral turpitude."
The tribunal rejected his defence. The man was awarded £2,053 in compensation for unfair dismissal.
The relevance of this industrial tribunal case to the majority of gays is that it supports them in any claim they might make against wrongful dismissal.
It means that gays should no longer fear being sacked for their sexuality. And for that matter, people should no longer try to stop people learning just who they are. There are far more gays who feel they have to repress their sexuality for fear of losing their jobs than there are gays who actually get sacked.
Time For Action
The time has come — and gone perhaps – when gay people start demanding their human rights. The charge of "moral turpitude" is one that many companies could use to get rid of gays they no longer wish to employ.
Our private lives are private lives and it really is time that gays demanded the right to lead private lives. It's time we demanded the right to be treated with true equality – that is, for gays to no longer have to fear for their jobs.
In this field women have just been refused the right to be treated as men's equals by a male MP "talking out" the Women's Rights Bill in Parliament.
The gay male suffers the inequality that women suffer and more. There is still a very heavy weight of public opnion ready to condemn the male homosexual.
Parallel Struggles
The women's struggle for human rights is parallel to the gay struggle.
Recently women supporting the Bill which demands very basic human rights have staged a demonstration both outside and inside Parliament.
It is this sort of action that gets things done. Ultimately Mr Maddon, the MP for Hove will have to sit down and shut up while women get what's been due to them for centuries.
It's been a long time since we saw any action of this sort by gays for gay civil rights, so it's hardly surprising that many in Parliament and elsewhere think that we gays are satisfied with being society's second-class citizens.
The 1967 Sexual Offences Act offers male gays legality-within-limits. It's not enough. It offers no protection. It is a feeble law.
Ask Your MP
One way each gay could make his/her feelings known to his/her MP is to write to the MP and ask:
(1) Are you anti-gay? If so, why?
(2) Would you support any new legislation that would give full human rights to gays in all parts of Britain. If so, why haven't you done anything about it?
(3) Have you ever realised that one in ten of your constituents is gay? This is why you should take up the struggle for gay rights for us. As an MP you are supposed to represent the wishes of your constituents.
Remember whatever you say should be treated in confidence by your MP. Remember also that unless we take some direct action now, the time will just go on passing, and we'll still be second-class citizens.
Heartening Signs
It is heartening to see that an industrial tribunal will not listen to excuses for sacking on the grounds of "moral turpitude". Perhaps we are approaching the emergence of a slightly saner attitude to sexualities. But it does not mean that we have reached anything to be proud of, or even to rest at.
There are many people who, seeing that Parliament has become too divorced from the people it's supposed to represent, have little faith in the established channels of change.
It's true that Parliament, which, by definition, is a place for discussion by all the people, has become the legislating arm of the executive – the Government – rubber-stamping plans to freeze pay or prices, etc.
But there's no reason to suppose that it's got to stay like that.
Roads To Freedom
Undoubtedly, Parliament is increasingly irrelevant to the individual members of society. But to change that will take several decades – without any increase in gays' rights.
Therefore the roads to freedom that are open to us now are:
(1) Through Parliament by making the gay voice heard – through contacting your MP;
(2) By other means outside Parliament, whatever it is – demonstration or whatever form you choose your protest to take.
The most important thing now is that we should do something: there hasn't been a big gay rights demonstration for almost two years!
If you want freedom, decide what path your protest is going to take and then do it!
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Ron Paul Warns The Jan. 6th Show-Trials Threaten All Of Us
Monday, Jul 26, 2021 - 01:37 PM
Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity,
The recent felony conviction and eight month prison sentence of January 6th protester Paul Hodgkins is an affront to any notion of justice. It is a political charge and a political verdict by a political court. Every American regardless of political persuasion should be terrified of a court system so beholden to politics instead of justice.
We've seen this movie before and it does not end well.
Worse than this miscarriage of justice is the despicable attempt by the prosecutor in the case to label Hodgkins – who has no criminal record and was accused of no violent crime – a "terrorist."
As journalist Michael Tracey recently wrote, Special Assistant US Attorney Mona Sedky declared Hodgkins a "terrorist" in the court proceedings not for committing any terrorist act, not for any act of violence, not even for imagining a terrorist act.
Sedky wrote in her sentencing memo:
"The Government … recognizes that Hodgkins did not personally engage in or espouse violence or property destruction."
She added, "we concede that Mr. Hodgkins is not under the legal definition a domestic terrorist."
Yet Hodgkins should be considered a terrorist because the actions he took – entering the Senate to take a photo of himself – occurred during an event that the court is "framing…in the context of terrorism."
That goes beyond a slippery slope. He is not a terrorist because he committed a terrorist act, but because somehow the "context" of his actions was, in her words, "imperiling democracy."
In other words, Hodgkins deserved enhanced punishment because he committed a thought crime.
The judge on the case, Randolph D. Moss, admitted as much.
In carrying a Trump flag into the Senate, he said, Hodgkins was, "declaring his loyalty to a single individual over the nation."
As Tracey pointed out, while eight months in prison is a ridiculously long sentence for standing on the floor of the "People's House" and taking a photograph, it is also a ridiculously short sentence for a terrorist. If Hodgkins is really a terrorist, shouldn't he be sent away for longer than eight months?
The purpose of the Soviet show trials was to create an enemy that the public could collectively join in hating and blaming for all the failures of the system. The purpose was to turn one part of the population against the other part of the population and demand they be "cancelled." And it worked very well…for awhile.
In a recent article, libertarian author Jim Bovard quoted from Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago about how average people turned out to demand "justice" for the state's designated "political" enemies:
"There were universal meetings and demonstrations (including even school-children). It was the newspaper march of millions, and the roar rose outside the windows of the courtroom: 'Death! Death! Death!'"
While we are not quite there yet, we are moving in that direction. Americans being sent to prison not for what they did, but for what they believe? Does that sound like the kind of America we really want to live in?
While many Biden backers are enjoying seeing the hammer come down on pro-Trump, non-violent protesters, they should take note: the kind of totalitarian "justice" system they are cheering on will soon be coming for them. It always does.


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Category Archives: From the Treasurer
Bob Conlan's 164 Restoration
April 2, 2013 From the TreasurerBil - Treasurer
In case you are not up to speed on Bob's project here it is briefly.
I met Bob at an HCCP show at the Massey house. He was not a member at the time. He has three Alfa's including a 166.
Bob purchased his father-in-law's 164. He has been restoring this car over the past two years.
His search for parts includes trips to Italy and the junk yards there.
He has restoration photos too which I'm sure he will send. Hopefully the car will be ready by the Tech Session.
I'm sure it is rare indeed to actually restore a 164.
12 Hours of Sebring , March 16, 2013 will mark the end of an era !!!!!
March 5, 2013 From the Treasurer, Uncategorized, William J. Conway TreasurerBil - Treasurer
This will be the last year LMP1 class that has roots that go back to the World Manufacturers
Championship , that Alfa Romeo competed in and won in 1975 and 1977. It wasn't until 1975 that it won , after years of trying, that Alfa Romeo won the World Championship for Makes. The 1975 season was one of almost total domination with seven wins in eight races.
Trying one more time February 23rd Winter Dinner at Lalocanda
February 20, 2013 From the Treasurer, Uncategorized, William J. Conway TreasurerBil - Treasurer
I guess the threat of snow kept many away, so I rescheduled for Feb 23!!!!!
The Delaware Valley Alfa Romeo Club is having its annual dinner at LaLocanda Restaurant this Saturday Evening February 23rd at 7:00.
They are located at 4989 West Chester Pike in Edgemont PA.
We expect members of Ferrari and Maserati FIAT Lancia Club to be there too.
Below is there website
http://www.lalocandapa.com/
Mario the owner is a collector of Italian Cars welcomes all!!!
Winter Saturday Night Dinner February 16th
The Delaware Valley Alfa Romeo Club is having its annual dinner at LaLocanda Restaurant this Saturday Evening February 16th at 7:00.
Saving the Family 164 by Bob Conlan
December 24, 2012 From the Treasurer, Uncategorized, William J. Conway TreasurerBil - Treasurer
Bob is a new member that I met via HCCP. Bob is an avid collector here is his story of the family 164.
We acquired this car about 18 months ago,although it had been in my wife's family for many years (this car was originally purchased for my father – in-law about 12 years ago,he moved back to his native Italy about 9 years ago,the car wound up being damaged and sitting at a repair shop for about 6 years ). When we first went to pick the car up it was really in sad shape,5 flat tires,hole in the oil pan,it had not run or been started in a half a decade……it had been sitting outdoors,uncovered with various other car parts and scrap materials sitting on top of it..it was a real mess.I was able to get the car to the shop I use for my other hot rods(2 ford mustangs)Picketts automotive in Darby Pa..it was a real toss-up weather to attempt to fix/restore the car or sell it for scrap..my wife Carm,had a bit of a sentimental attachment to the car so we decided to try and rescue it….we did a lot of mechanical and maintenance repair and replacement work on the car (all fluids,filters ,belts ,brakes,brake lines,exhaust,battery,hoses,plugs,timing belt ,water pump,gaskets,tires ,fuel pump were replaced plus front end alignment,tune-up,and other electronic tweaks ).all of the mechanical parts required to get the car running smoothly again were readily available,however the body parts were another story…I do not think the 1991 164 l was a real popular model either in the USA or in Italy. The plan was to get the mechanicals squared away then work on the body and trim parts to get the car ready for paint.i needed about a dozen parts and pieces both interior and exterior before taking the car to the body shop.i was able to locate a few parts here and on the internet but not everything that I needed……as luck would have it I was vacationing in Italy last month and I talked my wife ,who is fluent in Italian,into coming with me to a few junk yards in southern Italy and I was able to locate several parts I needed(center grill,left and right side ac vents ,hood release latch).i now have almost all the parts I need to complete the restoration and hopefully the car will go in for paint over the winter…..when all is said and done i think I will have somewhere near 2+years and 8k into a car I got for nothing ,that will be worth less than 4k when finished but we both love the car and plan to enjoy it for several more years….it was actually a lot of fun searching for the car parts in Italy and I could not have done it with out my wife's help……..also a big thank you to Bill Conway for his help,insight and encouragement and to Mark and Jim Pickett at Picketts automotive for completing all of the mechanical and safety work on the car… respectfully…..Bob and Carm Conlan
Holiday Greetings to Nick Falcone Enterprise, Thanks for the years of support!
November 28, 2012 From the Treasurer, Uncategorized, William J. Conway TreasurerBil - Treasurer
DVAROC.ORG thanks Nick Falcone Enterprises, LLC for their many years of support!!!!!
They are located at: 161 Rock Hill Road, Bala Cynwyd, PA\Nick Falcone Enterprise, LLC, 610-664-0944. A foreign sports car repair facility in Bala-Cynwyd, PA. Falcone was a Fiat and Alfa Romeo dealership before these cars were pulled out of the US market, and servicing exotic cars is still a large part of their business. Nick Falcone Enterprises, LLC has been servicing Alfa Romeo's for many decades and they specialize in auto restoration and building and repairing race cars. Ruth Wolf is an experienced SCCA Nationals Driver She very knowledgeable about race cars and racing. 1987 Ruth won the DC Regional Series Championship in FP. Ruth was SCCA North East Divisional Champion in CSR in 1996.As part of her involvement in racing, Ruth has served on the SCCA Philadelphia Region's Board of Directors 3. She was Regional Executive in 1996 and 1997. She has also taught at the SCCA driver's school. Ruth is presently racing her silver GTV was recently built by Nick Falcone Enterprises, LLC.
Vincent Votto is the President and Head Mechanic with a lifetime of experience and is willing provide repair and service or consult you how to do the repair and service. Falcone Enterprises, LLC has been giving Tech Sessions to the club for many years. They are open to topic idea's so let them know of any idea you may have. Nick Falcone Enterprise, LLC is a long time member of DVAROC.ORG, thank you again for the support. Log on their website www.nickfalconeenterprise.com for more details.
Radnor Hunt September 8th & September 9th
September 6, 2012 Calendar 2012, From the Treasurer, William J. Conway TreasurerBil - Treasurer
Sunday Club Parking Limit 20 cars
Saturday Unlimited Parking.
Contact Bill Conway about Sunday Parking
Sunday September 9th is the 100 Car Show
Car Club parking at Concours
**** GATES OPEN AT 9 AM !!!
20 Car Limit on Sunday September 9th Contact me if you are attending.
First 20 have club parking!!!!
Saturday September 8th will be club only events Tailgating, a Tour,and a Rally (NO COST)
Optional Catered Lunch is $30, there may not be enough, but there are other food vendors.
https://dvaroc.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2012-Car-Club-Experience-Registration-Form-copy.pdf
Radnor Hunt Info
August 13, 2012 Calendar 2012, From the Treasurer, News and Noteworthy, William J. Conway TreasurerBil - Treasurer
Schedule is as follows:
Friday, September 7th
6:30 PM – Barbeque at Radnor Hunt
Saturday, September 8th
8:00 AM to 2:00 PM – Chester County Road Rally
6:30 PM to 10:30 PM – Black Tie Gala, Silent Auction and Art Show Preview
Sunday, September 9th
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Radnor Hunt Concours d'Elegance
11:30 AM to 2:30 PM – VIP Luncheon served in Clubhouse
I will look into club parking stay tuned!!!


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Vermeer Corporation acquires Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC
McLaughlin Group, Inc. and Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC come together as Vermeer MV Solutions
Vermeer Corporation has announced its purchase of Vac-Tron Equipment, LLC, and its plans to bring the Florida-based company together with McLaughlin Group, Inc. which was purchased by Vermeer in 2017. This acquisition and integration of the two companies builds on the Vermeer strategy to provide a comprehensive suite of vacuum excavation technology, equipment, training and support to the growing underground utility and soft dig markets.
Founded in 1997, Vac-Tron is known for innovative, high-quality vacuum excavation products sold and serviced across underground utility markets. Headquartered in Okahumpka, Florida, Vac-Tron offices and production facilities employ more than 100 people. For the last 13 years, Vac-Tron products have been sold almost exclusively through the Vermeer dealer network.
McLaughlin, a drill tooling and vacuum excavation company founded in 1921 and located in Greenville, South Carolina, with more than 100 team members, brought nearly a century of industry knowledge into the Vermeer fold last year.
"This acquisition allows us to leverage the innovation, market expertise and production capabilities across our McLaughlin, Vac-Tron and Vermeer brands to meet increasing customer demand while giving our dealers a more efficient, single-point connection to a full product lineup. Coming together solidifies the long-term strategy and commitment to support customers and dealers in a unified way," said Jason Andringa, Vermeer Corporation president and CEO.
Operating under the combined group, Vermeer MV Solutions, the organization will continue to provide Vermeer-branded vacuum excavation equipment and technology through dedicated Vac-Tron and McLaughlin series product lines as well as McLaughlin-branded utility accessories and auger boring systems.
Vermeer MV Solutions will operate under one combined leadership and sales team led by General Manager Dave Van Wyk. Leadership at both Vac-Tron and McLaughlin will come together and serve as a unified team, bringing the strengths and best practices together in the areas of innovation, design, manufacturing, sales and customer support. The Florida and South Carolina locations will continue production as they work together to meet the growing demand within the soft dig markets.
"We've been proud to have the Vermeer name on our equipment for the past 13 years. Now, we are proud to formally be a part of the Vermeer family. We look forward to investing with McLaughlin and Vermeer to deliver the technology and equipment our customers need as we provide the highest quality product for the customer," said Tim Fischer, Vac-Tron president.
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mclaughlinunderground.com
Vac-Tron Equipment LLC
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Okahumpka, FL
vactron.com
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HHS Inspector General Finds Serious Flaws in 20% of U.S. Hospice...
MA attorney general requires Steward to maintain Quincy emergency room for one year
SSI Group, Inc., The1646 day(s) ago
Attorney General Martha Coakley has reached a deal with Steward Health Care System that requires the for-profit hospital operator to keep a temporary emergency room at Quincy Medical Center and other services in Quincy The settlement does not penalize Steward for shuttering its Quincy hospital last month even though that closure was in violation of a 2011 contract with Coakleys office Steward kept the emergency room at Quincy Medical Center open even after ending other hospital services the day after Christmas Coakley said Wednesday that Steward must maintain the emergency room until the end of 2015 or face up to 30 000 a month in fines It can close the emergency room next year if public health officials determine the facility is not well used Given the significant changes in the healthcare marketplace we believe that the conditions of the agreement are fair and consistent with the goals of maintaining access to high-quality healthcare services in the City of Quincy Steward spokeswoman Brooke Thurston said in a statement The deal requires Steward until Oct 1 2018 to keep primary care and specialty physicians in Quincy and provide transportation linking patients between the Quincy emergency room and other nearby medical facilities Steward a private-equity backed hospital chain has agreed to help displaced employees of Quincy Medical Center through a 16 million plan that includes severance packages and help finding new jobs Boston-based Steward bought Quincy Medical Center out of bankruptcy in 2011 but the 196-bed hospital continued to struggle to attract patients It failed to become profitable losing an estimated 20 million last year
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require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'
require 'haml'
require 'json'

require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/dreamscreen")

def base_name(fname)
  fname.split(".")[0]
end

get '/test' do
  haml :test
end

get '/' do
  @raw_images = ::DreamScreen.raw_images.take(10)
  haml :index
end

get '/choose_background' do
  @fname = params["fname"]
  @bg_images = ::DreamScreen.bg_images
  if (!::DreamScreen.screened_images.include?(@fname))
    img = ::DreamScreen.remove_green(@fname)
    ::DreamScreen.save_screen( base_name(@fname) + ".png" , img)
  end

  haml :background
end

get '/finish' do
  @fname = params["fname"]
  @bg_name = params["bgname"]

  img = ::DreamScreen.merge_background( base_name(@fname) + ".png", @bg_name)
  name = Time.now.getutc.to_s
  @name = base_name(@fname) + "_" + base_name(@bg_name) + "_" + name.split(" ").join("_") + ".png"
  ::DreamScreen.save_image( @name , img)

  @out_images = ::DreamScreen.out_images
  haml :finish
end

get '/error' do
  @error = params["error"]
  haml :error
end

get '/raw' do
  content_type :json
  ::DreamScreen.raw_images.map{ |x| {:path => x} }.to_json
end

get '/background' do
  content_type :json
  ::DreamScreen.bg_images.map{ |x| {:path => x} }.to_json
end

get '/screened' do
  content_type :json
  ::DreamScreen.screened_images.map{ |x| {:path => x} }.to_json
end

get '/out' do
  content_type :json
  ::DreamScreen.out_images.map{ |x| {:path => x} }.to_json
end

post '/merge' do
  content_type :json
  data = JSON.parse(request.body.read)
  @fname = data["front"]
  @bg_name = data["bg"]
  img = ::DreamScreen.merge_background( base_name(@fname) + ".png", @bg_name)
  name = Time.now.getutc.to_s
  @name = base_name(@fname) + "_" + base_name(@bg_name) + "_" + name.split(" ").join("_") + ".png"
  ::DreamScreen.save_image( @name , img)
end

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FBI forced to point out Trump is lying about Hillary again
Donald Trump — (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The FBI debunked Trump after he decided to amplify a baseless right-wing conspiracy alleging that Hillary Clinton's emails were hacked by China.
By	Oliver Willis
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was forced to publicly debunk Trump, who made a wildly false allegation to try to deflect from the FBI's ongoing investigation into his campaign's involvement with Russian operatives.
Riffing off a report from the right-wing (and often inaccurate) Daily Caller, Trump wrote, "Report just out: 'China hacked Hillary Clinton's private Email Server.' Are they sure it wasn't Russia (just kidding!)? What are the odds that the FBI and DOJ are right on top of this?"
NBC News asked the FBI to comment on Trump's conspiracy-mongering, and they said flat-out that his allegations were inaccurate.
"The FBI has not found any evidence the [Clinton] servers were compromised," an FBI official told NBC.
The FBI official also referred NBC to a report from the Justice Department inspector general on the FBI's investigation of Clinton's private email server. The report said the FBI "acknowledged that the FBI investigation and its forensic analysis did not find evidence that Clinton's email server systems were compromised."
Trump and his allies in the conservative media, including the Daily Caller and especially Fox News, love to suggest that Clinton or her associates are criminals as a way to distract from the investigations into Trump and his associates.
But Trump and his inner circle are the ones who have kept law enforcement busy for the past 20 months.
There have been 20 criminal charges so far for the Trump gang, including five guilty pleas or convictions for figures like Trump's campaign manager, his personal lawyer, and his national security adviser.
Trump can obsess over Hillary Clinton and her popular vote victory over him all he wants. But it won't change the fact that the FBI has cleared Clinton of wrongdoing while Trump still faces serious legal peril.
The FBI is just doing its job — both by correcting the record on Trump's ill-informed public statements, and by thoroughly investigating whether Trump and his cronies committed crimes.
Published with permission of The American Independent.
Former research fellow at Media Matters for America who has been blogging about politics since 2001. Follow him on Twitter @owillis.
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Harmony (2000)
by Andrei Gavrilov (piano), Camerata Lysy Gstaad, Fritz Helmis (harp), Gerald Moore (piano), Jacqueline du Pré (cello), James Galway (flute), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), John Ogdon (piano), Julian Bream (guitar), Karl Leister (clarinet)
Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in E major ("La Primavera"), RV 269, Op. 8/1 (The Four Seasons; "Il cimento" No. 1): Allegro
Adagio, for violin, strings & organ in G minor, T. Mi 26 (composed by Remo Giazotto; not by Albinoni)
Boléro, ballet for orchestra, M. 81: Extract
Bagatelle for piano in A minor ("Für Elise"), WoO 59
Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major ("Eine kleine Nachtmusik"), K. 525: Allegro
Canon and gigue, for 3 violins & continuo in D major, T. 337: Canon
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: Air
Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2: Valse 2
Peer Gynt, incidental music, Op. 23: Morning
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor ("Moonlight"), Op. 27/2: Adagio sostenuto
Gymnopédie for piano No. 1
Clair de lune, for piano (Suite Bergamasque No. 3), CD. 82/3 (L. 75/3)
Vltava (The Moldau), symphonic poem (Má Vlast No. 2), JB 1:112/2: Extract
Concerto for flute, harp & orchestra in C major, K. 299 (K. 297c): Andantino
Ellens Gesang III ("Ave Maria"), song for voice & piano, D. 839 (Op. 52/6)
Titanic, film score: My Heart Will Go On
Liebesträum, notturno for piano No. 3 in A flat major ("O Lieb, so lang du lieben kannst"), S. 541/3 (LW A103/3)
Adagio for strings (or string quartet), Op. 11 (arr. from 2nd mvt. of String Quartet)
Cantata No. 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben," BWV 147 (BC A174): Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
An der schönen, blauen Donau (On the Beautiful, Blue Danube), waltz for orchestra (with chorus ad lib), Op. 314 (RV 314): Excerpt
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major ("Elvira Madigan") K. 467: Andante
Nocturne for piano No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9/2, CT. 109
Symphony No. 9 in E minor ("From the New World"), B. 178 (Op. 95) (first published as No. 5): Largo (opening)
Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Prelude
Ave Maria, for voice & piano, CG 89e (after Bach's Prelude No. 1 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
Suite for keyboard (Suite de piece), Vol.2, No.4 in D minor, HWV 437: Sarabande (opening)
Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar & orchestra: Adagio (opening)
Pavane, for orchestra & chorus ad lib in F sharp minor, Op. 50
The Swan (from "Carnival of the Animals"), original (for 2 pianos & ensemble) and arrangements
Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622: Adagio
Prince Igor, opera (completed by Rimsky-Korsakov & Glazunov): Polovstian Dances (beginning)
Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: Träumerei
Schindler's List, film score: Theme
Requiem for soloists, chorus & orchestra, K. 626: Lacrimosa
Fantasia on Greensleeves, for harp, flute & strings (arranged by R. Greaves; from the opera "Sir John in Love")
Time to Say Goodbye (Con te partirò), song
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FYI - Annual World Series Sales List set to blast this Wednesday evening. I wanted to do it Tuesday but promised to take my boy to see Kershaw pitch in Game 1 and cheer on our boys in blue. Lots of collectors contributed this time, the most ever. If you are not on the master glove collector mailing list and want to be, please drop me an e-mail at either ebbets55 at aol.com or jim at baseballglovecollector.com and I'll gladly add you to the list. Might want to monitor your spam folders as it's going out to over 1,000 collectors and some mail servers might treat it as spam. Sellers, please monitor your e-mails Wednesday evening as any interest will immediately be forwarded.
It's gonna be a fun night as I always love to hear from people I haven't heard from in a long time.
List went live tonight at 5:30 PST. Yahoo guys say they aren't getting it as Yahoo must think I'm a prolific spammer sending an attachment to over 1,000 people. If you didn't get the list and want to, please e-mail me or get me another e-mail address and I'll send it right away. Thanks.
Dude...amazing job on this list! Tons to choose from, and not just quantity. Very cool options. I hope everyone in the hobby enjoyed the list as much as I did. And I didn't even buy any (sold 3 though). Thanks, JD!!!
Yes, great eye candy! Encore! Encore!
Thanks guys. It was fun. We sold about 45 gloves so far. People are already pushing for a Christmas list. Ha, we'll see.
The only bummer was that some Yahoo guys said either they didn't get it, got it late or only got 60 of the 80 pages. It went to everyone on the same e-mail and was an 80 page 8 MB PDF so if anyone would like to try again, I'll be happy to resend on a one-off to see if that fixes the problem.


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Q: How to use JASPI/JASPIC on Jetty? On Jetty's main project page compatibility with JASPI (JASPIC/JSR 196) is mentioned.
However, the distribution of Jetty 8 does not seem to contain any classes related to JASPI. There's a jetty-security-8.1.8.v20121106.jar jar in [jetty home]/lib, but this one does not contain any of the JASPIC/JASPI types.
The documentation about JASPIC/JASPI on the Jetty wiki is only a placeholder and does not contain any information.
After some Googling I found JavaDocs on the Eclipse site and discovered there should be a  jetty-jaspi-8.1.8.v20121106.jar somewhere. Those JavaDocs are included in the distribution as well. Finally, a jetty-jaspi repo appears at Github.
Obviously there is some amount of support available, but why are those classes seemingly not present in the Jetty distribution and where is the documentation on how to configure this? What am I missing?

A: This project (https://github.com/guofengzh/jaspi-on-jetty) is a working example of the JASPI API in jetty that uses geronimo-jaspi which in turn calls back to the jetty-jaspi modules for the authentication.  Geronimo seems to be providing the configuration mechanism and jetty the authentication modules themselves in this example.
It seems as though you can select a form, digest or basic authentication methods.  A quick test of the form based login has shown it appears to function.
The Jaspi authentication factory is setup in jetty-web.xml like so:
<Set name="securityHandler">
  <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.security.ConstraintSecurityHandler">
    <Set name="loginService">
      <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.plus.jaas.JAASLoginService">
        <Set name="name">JAASRealm</Set>
        <Set name="loginModuleName">jaas</Set>
      </New>
    </Set>

    <Set name="authenticatorFactory">
      <New class="org.eclipse.jetty.security.jaspi.JaspiAuthenticatorFactory" />
    </Set>
  </New>
</Set>

And the jaspi configuration file is referenced via a system property in the pom.xml file:
<systemProperty>
  <name>org.apache.geronimo.jaspic.configurationFile</name>
  <value>./conf/jaspi/form-test-jaspi-2.xml</value>
</systemProperty>

Additionally, the jaspi library you mentioned is added as a dependency in the pom, along with the geronimo jaspi implementation:
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
  <artifactId>jetty-jaspi</artifactId>
  <version>${jetty.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.components</groupId>
  <artifactId>geronimo-jaspi</artifactId>
  <version>2.0.0</version>
</dependency>

I have also been unable to find documenation on the topic.  It seems as though the jetty-jaspi module is not one of the standard start options, but could be added to the ${jetty.home/lib/ext} directory (see Jetty classloading).

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