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Category Archives: Facsimile Bipolar Political Sociopathy
From Democracy to Despotism – Erdogan Takes Turkey East
Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Facsimile Bipolar Political Sociopathy, Political Psychology, Russia, Turkey
Democracy v Absolutism, Erdogan, NATO & Turkey, Putin & Erdogan
Erdoğan says his demand for a safe zone in Syria is rooted in Turkey's war against terrorism. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Erdoğan says, is as much a threat as the Islamic State. That is of course nonsense . . . .
Rubin, Michael. "Turkey's Syria Policy Could Lead to Its Own Destruction." National Interest, October 21, 2019.
While those both enamored and fearful of power have always played "both sides of the street", Turkey's drift from a freely speaking, open, and vibrant democracy to one far from NATO ethics, interests, and values should be clear to the free world. Through the power of President Erdogan's feudal imagination and thuggery, Turkey has been transformed into a politically absolute polity driven by the narcissism of its leader
Worse for the Turks and even his fans: President Erdogan's toadying before Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Erdogan may appear strong standing up to the west, which today cannot levy enough sanctions on his project (probably hurting the Turks more than the Turkish President), but how may he appear doing Putin's bidding while his equally enamored — or captive to Moscow — neighbor, Bashar al-Assad AKA "Bashar the Butcher", continues destroying and strangling Syria — in Turkey's direction too — under cover of destroying Sunni Islamists?
When Turkish air power rightly downed two Russian MIGs overflying Turkey's airspace while refusing communications with Turkish air defense, Erdogan refused apology. And what for? He and his military had done everything right for the purposes of Turkish Defense.
The Su-24 shootdown took place on November 24, 2015.
Eight months later, widely reported on June 27, 2016, Erdogan apologized to Putin.
That has turned out a fair demonstration of Russian "realpolitik" and maddening absolute power.
For those watching — and those who knew the facts — "Sultan Erdogan" may just as well have knelt before "Emperor Putin".
Perhaps President Erdogan has had some household bills yet to pay, and, beside, has needed a certain supply of energy to heat the house.
I hope the excerpts and videos that follow prove helpful as windows into the love fest developed between Ankara and Moscow.
Posted to YouTube by Erdogan Gönüllüleri (Erdogan Volunteers), October 30, 2014.
The first direct gas pipeline between Russia and Turkey was the Blue Stream, commissioned in 2005. In 2009, Putin proposed a Blue Stream II line parallel to Blue Stream under the Black Sea.[2] The Blue Stream II project did not carry through and the South Stream project took the lead, until it was abandoned in 2014. The TurkStream (then named Turkish Stream) project was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 1 December 2014, during his state visit to Turkey.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurkStream
Related Online
Kenyon, Peter. "Turkey's President And His 1,100 Room 'White Palace'". NPR, December 24, 2014.
Posted to YouTube by Channel 4 News, November 24, 2015.
The Russia Defence Ministry denied the aircraft ever left Syrian airspace, counter-claiming that their satellite data showed that the Sukhoi was about 1,000 metres (1,100 yd) inside Syrian airspace when it was shot down.[5] The U.S. State Department said that the U.S. independently confirmed that the aircraft's flight path violated Turkish territory, and that the Turks gave multiple warnings to the pilot, to which they received no response and released audio recordings of the warnings they had broadcast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shootdown
Moscow's Grand Mosque Dedication – Published to YouTube by RT, September 23, 2015.
MOSCOW — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan apologized Monday for the downing of a Russian warplane in November and called for Russia and Turkey to mend a bilateral relationship that has become openly hostile over the incident.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/turkey-apologizes-for-shooting-down-russian-warplane-last-year/2016/06/27/d969e0ea-3c6d-11e6-9e16-4cf01a41decb_story.html – 6/27/2016
Gazprom has started to fill the first branch of the offshore section of the Turkish Stream pipeline with natural gas. This is the final stage of testing the pipeline before putting it into operation later this year . . . .
. . . The first line is intended for the supply of Russian gas to Turkish consumers, the second – for gas supply to the countries of southern and southeast Europe.
https://financialtribune.com/articles/energy/100392/russia-begins-pumping-gas-into-turkish-stream-pipeline – 10/19/2019.
Erdoğan says his demand for a safe zone in Syria is rooted in Turkey's war against terrorism. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Erdoğan says, is as much a threat as the Islamic State. That is of course nonsense: The SDF formed to fight Al Qaeda affiliates and the Islamic State at a time when Turkey was passively if not actively supporting them. Nor can Turkish officials credibly point to terrorist attacks from Kurdish-governed portions of Syria. Groups that evolved from the PKK are not monoliths: The SDF is progressive and moderate; any visit to the region makes clear that the group does not embrace the PKK's Cold War-era Marxism. The PKK itself has long sought peace and does not attack civilians. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) splinter group continues to engage in terrorism, but they are based nowhere near Syria nor do they have any links to the SDF.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/turkeys-syria-policy-could-lead-its-own-destruction-89841 10/21/2019
In a recent article in Foreign Policy, my colleague Steven A. Cook argued that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was playing Washington like a fiddle. With a combination of bluffs, threats, and bluster, Erdogan managed to convince the United States to come up with an arrangement in northeastern Syria to prevent a Turkish invasion—an arrangement that comes at the expense of the Kurds, who have carried the brunt of the fighting against the Islamic State. Whatever one thinks of the Kurds, their determination and sacrifice should be treated as an international public good; they have stopped and destroyed one of the most dangerous and homicidal groups the modern world has known. The Turks by contrast have contributed nothing to this endeavor.
If Erdogan has succeeded in manipulating Washington, however, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in turn, has played him to the hilt.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/03/putin-plays-erdogan-like-a-fiddle-syria/ – 9/3/2019.
"Civilizational Narcissism"; "Malignant Narcissism".
Also Related Online
Abadi, Cameron. "Why is Turkey Fighting Syria's Kurds?" Foreign Policy (FP), October 17, 2019.
BBC News. "Qatar's emir 'gives $500m private jet to Turkey'". September 17, 2018.
How Homeowner Erdogan Looks Online
Posted to YouTube by James Mac, December 28, 2014 – Primary Source: BBC News, "Erdogan presidential palace – in 60 seconds", November 6, 2014.
Posted to YouTube by Global News, August 27, 2019.
Sudan's Bashir: All About "Narcissistic Supply"
Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, Africa, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Facsimile Bipolar Political Sociopathy, International Development, Islamic Small Wars, Political Psychology, Sudan
dictatorship, malignant narcissism, Narcissistic Supply, Omar al-Bashir
Why whole constituencies suffer along with dictators and their criminal regimes, only God and a handful of political psychologists know.
In schematic from childhood to demonhood:
"Narcissistic Mortification" –> "Covering / Splitting" –> "Narcissistic Manipulation" (in practice, "Narcissistic Personality Disorder"; on BackChannels, "Malignant Narcissism", "Facsimile Bipolar Political Sociopathy" (the author's own term) –> ("Excess of Joy Weeps") : Experience of "Narcissistic Supply".
As BackChannels may use the term "Covering / Splitting", the reference is to masking over the defective, humiliated, or impotent self — it's not uncommon for children to suffer — and suffer deeply — at the hands of a powerful and sadistic other in such a way as to demand a coping and defensive route in behavior in response. The "splitting" then may refer to the development of the heroic or heroic-appearing self and the daring exploration and development of congruent behaviors. Not all who would experience "narcissistic mortification" become malign in their response — some may be reparative in response — but some do wish to get the better of their tormentor in one-up mirror fashion.
"Narcissistic Manipulation" –> "Gaslighting" and "Perceptual Control" — in the linguistic or Orwellian sense, control of the target's information, imagination, organizing (Gestalt functions) and perception plus predictions or prognostics.
What would you do to be loved (by the masses)?
Widely accepted by Kremlin-watching journalists: Vladimir Putin's beloved KGB bombed several Moscow apartment buildings in the dead of night in a false-flag operation intended to promote fear of Chechen rebels and produce the election of Russia's ideal man.
The mission proved successful.
In his acceptance speech, Vlad had tears in his right eye, whether from cold or joy, who can tell?
In any case, the Russian Army would go on to "fight" Chechen rebels (see KavKaz Center) in part by terrorizing Chechen villages not previously hooked up with units.
Had history not had "grandiose and messianic" personalities, there would perhaps be very little of human history at all.
Be that as it may, many ages — feudal, medieval, Renaissance, Elizabethan, lol (whatever works) — have passed into a modernity in which knowledge and reason prevail in the fashioning and support of modern democratic, humanist, and secular law and policy. Reflecting that sea change in humanity, Europe has come up with a dozen "constitutional monarchies" bound up in a reasonably coordinated, cooperative, and peaceful "European Union" that should be, so BC opines, quite sensitive about states marching themselves backward into the bloody illusions of the past.
Putin's way has brought out the dictator in some EU / NATO politicians (Erdogan, Orban, Le Pen, Trump), not all completely successful in their quest to be as if feudal lords in command of their tribes x (criminality), language, race, religion, perhaps wealth, but in someways successful enough. Ironically, and while working opposite the direction of the Russian collusion "witch hunt", the Trump Administration has taken many measures along the crime- and dictatorship-fighting axis to dull the expansion of nefarious post-Soviet enterprise (on BackChannels, have a look at Venezuela).
BackChannels' trope regarding dictatorships: "Different Talks — Same Walk!"
So back to Omar al-Bashir who cannot tolerate that Sudanese should get the world's news coming out about his regime worldwide.
Al Jazeera English, February 19, 2019.
The news, however, does get out, making the dictator's image increasingly indelible and negative in global conscience and memory.
Abdin, Latifa. "Protests in Sudan: A primer on the ongoing unrest, two months on." Open Canada, February 19, 2019.
Since coming into power in 1989, al-Bashir worked to systemically consolidate power by banning political parties, dissolving parliament and actively muzzling political dissent, through arrests, torture and executions, as recent events demonstrate. His government also worked to systematically ban trade unions, which played a key role in two successful popular uprisings in Sudan — one in 1964 and another in 1985.
https://www.opencanada.org/features/protests-sudan-primer-ongoing-unrest-two-months/
Africa News. "Sudan protest hub: Student rallies ramp up pressure on govt". February 19, 2019.
Journalists – local and international, have been caught in the middle of the protests. Foreign reporters have been deported or ordered out over their coverage whiles local journalists have been arrested and allegedly tortured.
Rolls of daily and weekly newspapers have also been confiscated. A number of varsity professors in the capital Khartoum were recently arrested for attempting to stage a protest.
http://www.africanews.com/2019/02/20/sudan-protest-hub-africanews-updates/
RSF. "At least 79 journalists arrested in two months of protests in Sudan".
These systematic arrests have targeted not only reporters covering protests in almost all parts of the country but also journalists who themselves dared to protest against the regime's policy of censorship and arrests of journalists with the aim of restricting coverage of the protests.
https://rsf.org/en/news/least-79-journalists-arrested-two-months-protests-sudan
FTAC: Despots – Different Talks –> Same Walk!
Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, A Little Wisdom, American Domestic Affairs, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Facsimile Bipolar Political Sociopathy, FTAC - From The Awesome Conversation, Political Psychology, Politics, Psychology
absolute power, authoritarianism, despotism, dictatorship, dignity, freedom, humanism, malignant narcissism, political psychology
Different talks — same walk! When it comes to dictators, all are malignant narcissists.
Many want to keep repeating old arguments, especially, yawn, "communism v capitalism" but the truth is more like "sweet words — foul deeds".
Add incitement, the role played by anti-Semitic cant and libel by despots through the ages.
In the eastern tradition too — I have in mind the Golden Horde — there appears to have been no difference in treatment between persons and property, and, in fact, for some (reference Richard Pipes books on Russian history) proof of sovereignty might be made to lie in the senseless destruction of either with impunity. And I would cite as another characteristic of the "authoritarian" breed the ability to visit suffering on others at will and with impunity.
On the street, they're bullies; in office, presidents for life.
From Correspondence – Frozen in Time – The Promise of the 'Unreachable Untrue'
Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, American Domestic Affairs, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Facsimile Bipolar Political Sociopathy, Islamic Small Wars, Political Psychology, Politics, Religion
21st Century Neo-Feudalism, democracy, feudalism, Islamist, medieval time bubble, modernity
We think of refugees and displaced people in a spatial context.
Somebody has lost their home, their security, their purchase on the control of their own life, and so they wander in-country or beyond, and depending on their personal characteristics – the movies always say "character", but social reality is much different – they'll grow again where they plant themselves or suffer the indignity of loss and rootlesness.
The segment you're interested in is wandering through time with an unhelpful toolkit, and the obedient base can't figure out why it's not working. They're mired in conflicts wrought by mutual greed and jealousy, and, perhaps like Imam ______, the more clever of tongue thrive on the turmoil by offering the unreachable untrue.
I recall a Star Trek episode in which a "holodeck" (synthetic surround theater) Dr. Moriarty achieved sufficient mastery of his own artifice and cyber environment to threaten the ship. Spoiler Alert! The solution at the end, which had to be negotiated because Moriarty really had interfaced with ship's control, was to provide him and his woman (it's complicated) with a cyber universe of their own. The world that would seem infinite to the evil couple was in the greater reality contained (and possibly ejected into space).
One might say of Catholic and otherwise conservative or orthodox observance in religion that all of it sustains something that took place a long time ago.
We do that with art –
Sosibios Vase rendered by Keats.
The figures have been frozen in time. The particular above have been especially well preserved by Keats's poem.
Most of the religious in the modern world who attend a service also leave it with something taken away, and that adds its part to their lives and their search for a place for themselves. The monastery exists too. Add pope and papacy, the "Christ Process" – got that one from a Jesuit supplying blankets to the Four Corners region – and the existence of a timeless space maintained in the mind with the volition of the thinker.
Muhammad and his Islam may have had issues with boundaries – related on BackChannels: "Facsimile Bipolar Political Sociopathy" – just an opinion, of course, and that got into the patronizing and permits and orders produced within the Qur'an, not so complete for this world but ever so demanding in its build around injunction. The Muslims — the Islamists — that interest you may believe they are carrying out still relevant orders when they are raiding their targets – murder, theft, rape, and rapine – but in reality they are doing so much only for the aggrandizement of their chosen authority beneath the Eye of Heaven.
Ditto Putin.
What is the escape plan from the medieval worldview and its imposition – and impoliteness – today?
Also on BackChannels:
Universally, nature figures out how to destroy or mutate monocultures, whether in agriculture or in human existence. While we may be in a divine sense of "One cloud, one earth, one sky", we are nonetheless highly differentiated humans x person x family x clan x tribe x nation.
For agriculture, the related science industry strives to maintain comprehensive seed banks as part of the arsenal at hand to address natural mutations adverse to production — of the simple enjoyment of something gardened — in the growing environment.
For the discussion of culture, BackChannels promotes the view that our planet's cultural inventory" links to fewer than 7,000 living languages, each of which represents how a group of people in comparative isolation — population-in-place — used human sound and sign to aid in perceiving and addressing from their perspective their own particular environmental and social challenges and opportunities.
Often, instead of typing "The Jews (live in Israel)", the note may be similarly but more tellingly expressed as "The Hebrews are back in the Land of the Hebrews".
Arab, Baloch, Kurds, Pashtun — same treatment.
As "The English" — and English — have gone everywhere in some fashion, the language today provides a modern medium for communication without the demand for the erasure of other language cultures. And with the age of English colonial expansion now past, one may expect the resurgent greater being of other language cultures in their cores (x ethnolinguistic cultural density) and at their margins and finally in the mixing bowls of heterogeneous (multi-cultural) political spaces.
E pluribus unum.
Out of many, one.
The American slogan, well linked to the European invasion of or presence in — interpretation is moot — North America, well reflected the necessity of tolerance and varying degrees of separation and mixing in the New World beneath the benevolent and idealist umbrella of a secular and humanist vision of governance. The delivery thereby of great personal freedom — to be Christian, Jewish, Muslim or of any other faith community — and to speak the new language, English, while retaining the power to speak also every other language on earth, to be multilingual by choice, has been also part of the bargain. Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, Pashto, Urdu, "Jamaican" — no problem, mon.
The American way has worked in America.
Other of the authentic open democracies of the world have found similar equilibrium and a key to prosperity and survival in related law and rule of law.
Other systems, much less liberal, some totalitarian, appear still invested in the feudal / medieval worldview and they "express" in nefarious methods (e.g., "Active Measures", deception, disinformation, disingenuous speech, etc.) and vanguards their desire to impose their singular will — criminal, despotic, intolerant — far beyond their own context, and not only in space but in time as well.
For the most part for those preferring to live "back there" somewhere, the world goes on around them and evolves a both more inclusive but also widely varied cargo packed into the myriad cultures of humanity.
Also in Media: "Read Donald Trump's Fiery Speech Calling Accusations Against Him 'Outright Lies'" | TIME – October 13, 2016
Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, Also in Media, Facsimile Bipolar Political Sociopathy, Political Psychology, Politics, Syndicate Red Brown Green
2016 American Elections, American elections, Donald Trump, presidential character
This election will determine whether we are a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged. This is reality, you know it, they know it, I know it, and pretty much the whole world knows it. The establishment and their media enablers will control over this nation through means that are very well known. Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe, and morally deformed.
Source: Read Donald Trump's Fiery Speech Calling Accusations Against Him 'Outright Lies' | TIME – 10/13/2016.
Search results for "Trump, meltdown speech"
For context and for the record: BackChannels has been supported by curiosity, editorial and entrepreneurial zeal (it hasn't raised a dime but it's been rewarding nonetheless), and semi-retired time (its ageing editor is not done with striving in his arts). America's "Fourth Estate" — The Media — represents a still broad and independent multitude of national and international voices. Some, as noted in these virtual pages, may be partisan and inclined toward steep slants propped up by disingenuous observations and worse, but most observe from the same world and comment on its various facets.
Today: is there a global intelligentsia? Yes — and I'm certain BackChannels is not unique receiving viewers from more than 140 nations, including North Korea and Vatican City (once). 🙂
Are there intellectual elites?
Quora, an "answer site", has an answer at least in affirmed and estimated numbers of Ph.Ds worldwide.
Note that for those PhDs employed in their fields, they are paid to contest one another in the advancement of knowledge. As regards influence, attach each to academic and research institutions or to consultancies to known figures in power.
Are there global business, financial, and political "elites" as defined by their proprietary clout and wealth? Yes — and you may look them up and read about them in Forbes (Forbes Billionaires)and the Wall Street Journal ("WSJ, billionaires" – search result).
Such powerhouses have names.
Add the titular but still present kings and queens of Europe, the still formidable same elsewhere in the world, then presidents and prime ministers and, perhaps, their "inner circles" and closest advisors.
Some, like Paul Manafort, may be shadowy figures, but none are themselves shadows.
Related on BackChannels:
https://conflict-backchannels.com/2016/05/27/putin-yanukovych-manafort-trump/
https://conflict-backchannels.com/coins-and-other-terms/anthropolitical-psychology/
Links – Russia in Syria – Medieval and Absolute Dictatorship
Posted by commart in 21st Century Feudal, Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Facsimile Bipolar Political Sociopathy, Political Psychology, Politics, Russia, Syndicate Red Brown Green, Syria
dictatorship, political absolutism, Russian, Syria, totalitarianism
Despite strong denials from Moscow, Russian airborne troops are preparing to land in Syria to fight Islamic State forces. The surprise attack on Monday, Aug. 31, by ISIS forces on the Qadam district of southern Damascus, in which they took over parts of the district – and brought ISIS forces the closest that any Syrian anti-Assad group has ever been to the center of the Syrian capital – is expected to accelerate the Russian military intervention.
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2015/09/02/debkafile-russia-gearing-up-to-be-first-world-power-to-insert-ground-forces-into-syria/ – 9/2/2015.
Location: Syria's Theater of the Real.
Producers: Putin, Assad, Khamenei.
Title of the Show: "Assad vs The Terrorists".
Cast of extras, dead and alive: 250,000 dead; 9 million displaced or refugee.
Most Memorable Set Design: Homs, fashioned by barrel bombing to look like Hiroshima the day after.
Casting Dilemma: Getting Baghdadi's fighters and other al-Qaeda-type elements to play their parts without knowing it.
Method: Bomb the al-Qaeda units less than ordinary Syrians.
Why: For Putin, post-Soviet Russia becomes neo-feudal Russia, and he's the boss; for Assad, in the age of the "War on Terror" no spectacle could be more glorious than playing the lead in "Assad vs The Terrorists"; for Khamenei, a grand and sustained Shiite vs Sunni Battle perpetuates the medieval justification for his authority, however much he may care to abuse it.
CAUTION: From the Second Row Seat to History
Journalists in-country have an observation deck limited to their eyes and ears, but they may with accuracy report what they see and what they hear; journalists scouting the web for opinion and news in any area of interest necessarily receive all information one step removed from Being There and may be vulnerable to disinformation, in this instance information intended to change the character of the Syrian Tragedy — AKA either "Assad vs The Terrorists" or "Assad vs A Good Portion of the Syrian People" — and draw opposed powers into the field.
That noted, the world has seen also its share of barrel bombing videos and stills, read multiple reports involving at least one period of chemical warhead deployment — and seen Russia agree to neutralize and remove those munitions — and followed either the development of large Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon or Turkey, or, this week, witnessed the aftermath of drownings of ordinary people and their children, real people, Syrian refugees.
The world may also recall watching another production — the $52 billion Winter Olympics at Sochi during February 2014. However, probably overlooked by the public at large that month (February 10, to be exact) was the headline and lede in The New York Times: "Russia and China Skip Security Council Meeting on Humanitarian Aid to Syria":
UNITED NATIONS — The morning after an aid convoy came under fire when it tried to reach a besieged Syrian city, a meeting here on a draft resolution that would force all parties in the bloody conflict to allow access for humanitarian organizations fell apart when representatives from Russia and China failed to show up, United Nations Security Council diplomats said.
Perhaps Syrians would do well to borrow some mid-20th Century Jewish wisdom: Never Forget.
New evidence proves Russian military directly engaging in Syrian Civil War
The regime's offensive in the Lattakia Governorate continues to reveal previously unknown details about Russia's involvement in the Syrian Civil War. Apart from the sighting of recently delivered Russian BTR-82A infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), new evidence now confirmes Russian military personnel has a key role in leading the offensive on the ground.
http://spioenkop.blogspot.com/2015/08/new-evidence-proves-russian-military.html – 8/29/2015.
"We are aware of reports that Russia may have deployed military personnel and aircraft to Syria, and we are monitoring those reports quite closely," said spokesman Josh Earnest.
"Any military support to the Assad regime for any purpose, whether it's in the form of military personnel, aircraft supplies, weapons, or funding, is both destabilizing and counterproductive."
http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-monitoring-reports-russian-military-syria-213836626.html – 9/3/2015.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34131573 – "Syria conflict: How far is Russia prepared to bolster Assad?" — 9/2/2015.
On August 22, the Bosphorus Naval News website showed the Alligator-class Russian ship Nikolai Filchenkov, part of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, two days earlier passing through Istanbul's famed waterway en route to an unknown location in the Mediterranean (hint, hint).
But what was remarkable about the Filchenkov was that military equipment was visible on deck . . . .
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/01/russia-puts-boots-on-the-ground-in-syria.html – 9/1/2015.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4696268,00.html "Russian jets in Syrian skies" – 8/31/2015.
http://www.newsweek.com/why-putin-sending-troops-syria-368436 – 9/3/2015 – (by Elliott Abrams).
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c417e912-5479-11e5-b029-b9d50a74fd14.html#axzz3kz4QStb1 – "US voices concern to Russia over military moves in Syria" – 9/6/2015.
Sideways Related on BackChannels
https://conflict-backchannels.com/2014/12/02/quote-manipulation-about-the-plo-leader-pacepa-and-rychlak-2013/ – 12/2/2014.
https://conflict-backchannels.com/2015/05/20/link-yarmouk-played/ – 5/20/2015.
Update: September 29, 2015 – From the Daily Beast, Aug. 23, 2015
Based on extensive fieldwork in one village in the North Caucasus, reporter Elena Milashina has concluded that the "Russian special services have controlled" the flow of jihadists into Syria, where they have lately joined up not only with ISIS but other radical Islamist factions. In other words, Russian officials are adding to the ranks of terrorists which the Russian government has deemed a collective threat to the security and longevity of its dictatorial ally on the Mediterranean, Bashar al-Assad.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/23/russia-s-playing-a-double-game-with-islamic-terror0.html – 8/23/2015.
Update: October 19, 2015: From The New York Review of books, July 11, 2012 – By Michael Ignatius
The Syrian conflict has triggered something more fundamental than a difference of opinion over intervention, something more than an argument about whether the Security Council should authorize the use of force. Syria is the moment in which the West should see that the world has truly broken into two. A loose alliance of struggling capitalist democracies now finds itself face to face with two authoritarian despotisms—Russia and China—something new in the annals of political science: kleptocracies that mix the market economy and the police state. These regimes will support tyrannies like Syria wherever it is in their interest to do so.
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jul/11/syria-proxy-war-russia-china/
Update: October 20, 2015: From The Guardian, October 3, 2015
Another FSA officer, Colonel Abdulsalam Almerei, commander of Talbeissa operations in northern Homs, told me two days ago after his brigade was attacked by Russian aeroplanes: "We have no Isis here, we are fighting for our freedom and dignity. We want a united Syria for all Syrians. We do not want to oppress any sect or change one tyranny with another."
Assad and his backers have jeopardised the national and territorial integrity of Syria. Many Syrians have lost faith in the UN; they feel that the international community has abandoned them to the barbaric killing machines of Assad and Isis. The international law states that the principle of responsibility to protect civilians overrides the principle of sovereignty of states when a government kills its own people.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/04/syria-russia-assad-isis-conflict
Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin – Listening, Reflecting, Comprehending, Speaking
Posted by commart in Conflict - Culture - Language - Psychology, Facsimile Bipolar Political Sociopathy, Islamic Small Wars, Political Psychology, Psychology
Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin, political psychology, terrorism
As jihadi recruitment has grown even more severe, I believe it is because we have failed to factor in early childhood development. This is where the prologue to violence begins including radicalization and recruitment later on . . . .
While a lot of money is being thrown at "de-radicalization," reminiscent of the War on Poverty (and just think of where that has gotten us), we owe it to the public and to ourselves not to be terrified to address childrearing practices in these homes. They are different than in the West. Nevertheless, the Western converts who radicalized share a similar background of shame and troubled early childhoods.
Kobrin, Nancy Hartevelt. "Ten Years Out – My Advice from "Listening" to Somalis in the Hennepin County Jail Minneapolis." Family Security Matters, May 15, 2015.
Kobrin, Nancy Hartevelt. The Maternal Drama of the Chechen Jihadi. IPI E-Books, FREE download.
Other titles by Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin:
The Banality of Suicide Terrorism: The Naked Truth About the Psychology of Islamic Suicide Bombing
Penetrating the Terrorist Psyche
Readers may finding themselves swimming in Kobrin's sprawling style but with brights applied to sifting thematically while doing so will also develop insight into the building blocks of the "exploding iceberg", i.e., enraged terrorist cool in personality.
Only once, I believe, has BackChannels addressed the formation of a psychologically teleological path from out of a simple childhood experience (with language): Guilt and Jealousy in Two Lines (September 26, 2013).
Generally speaking, children don't — because they cannot frame their own case — write dissertations, and adults addressing adult displays of violence approach the same with the combines of hardware and legal tools known to military and paramilitary missions.
Message: quell it first; unravel the motivation afterward.
Posted to YouTube 2/7/2007 (views: about two million).
The mother has tremendous impact on a baby. These are women often isolated from the larger society. I always asked the prisoners about their mothers. Often their eyes would well up because they knew that I knew that they were Mama's Boys, bullies. Yet these mothers should not be blamed because in a shame honor culture the female is at the eye of the storm. She is THE shock absorber of chronic emasculated male rage. If we do not deal with early childhood development, we will lose this war on radicalization.
Raising a child happens behind closed doors. Neighbors always say about the jihadi that he was such a nice boy without knowing what really went on. To air one's dirty laundry in public is shaming for a clan culture. Nonetheless childhood development must be factored into a cohesive plan for "de-radicalization" if we want to foil the numerous ticking human bombs.
While cultural and ethnolinguistic self-invention and experience correspond to the exigencies of living in some place with some people — really: about 7,000 living languages wrap the earth in its humanly conscious expression and reflection — the strength of combined analytical, creative, empathic, and scientific effort in the conflict and crime arenas resides in the promise of the universal applicability of hard won insight, for we are natural observers of ourselves, individually and communally, and, in some part, healers as well.
The crime that is theft — including the theft of life itself — needs no introduction anywhere on earth, but that which programs the criminal and scripts the crime — what gets into a really nasty "piece of work" — begs a good looking over life's earliest formative experiences, and it needs that examination in a way that produced universally accessible and understood insight. Kobrin, who in her works shares her own recollections of torment in this regard, lays out what might be called — so I may call it — "the terrorist's tableaux": despite the scatter in the writing, one finds in her explications about "exploding icebergs" and "maternal cameos" coherent narratives about the formation of criminal bullying and terrorizing behavior.
The oldest brother of the Toulouse scooter killer, Mohamed Merah, denounces the role of his own father, mother, sister and brother in spawning a "monster" in his new book.
Abdelghani Merah, 36, says the youngest of his four siblings was raised in an "atmosphere of racism and hatred" but also of violence and neglect. He has written the book – "Mon Frère, ce terroriste" (My brother the terrorist) – to try to counter the hero-worship of Mohamed, 23, among some young French Muslims. "I am the killer's brother but I am on the side of his victims," he says.
Lichfield, John. "How my hate-filled family spawned Merah the monster." The Independent, May 15, 2015.
Tsarni told reporters assembled on his leafy street that day he had not seen his brother's brood for years. "I wanted my family away from his family," he said. It's not hard to understand why he would distance himself from the two young men accused of engineering that murderous blast, but he insists the whole family is trouble—from welfare scams to bomb threats to jihad—and it all stems from their mother, who fled the United States and now lives in Dagestan.
Back on the phone, still thinking about his brother's family, he apologizes for his outburst of profanity, and then launches into yet another condemnation of his sister-in-law. "That woman—she created evil spawn. Evil spawn from an evil woman."
McPhee, Michele. "Family Matters: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the Women in His Life." Newsweek, October 16, 2014.
Appearing on the cover in which the above piece lives in the magnetosphere: "Twisted Sisters: As Dzhokhar Tsarnaev awaits trial for his alleged role in the Boston Marathon Bombing, many of the women in his life are still proclaiming his innocence . . . and pushing for jihad."
Terrorism centers on the inability to mourn loss. It becomes obsessive about the inability to process the concept of death and dying— the persistent denial of death. Terrorists deny death and even claim to love it. In reality they are terrified and taunt death like bungee jumpers who taunt heights because they cannot accept their terror, their vulnerability, and their own mortality. The suicide bomber is the terrorists' death-anxiety emollient. It is a bizarre kind of counterphobic activity. Terrorism becomes the celebration of death. Terrorists communicate their obsession with death to their children through peculiar rituals. Think of Hamas and Hizbollah and their death parades, dressing children in suicide bomber uniforms. Or selling little doll suicide bombers as toys, making the bizarre practice of killing off one's own acceptable. Or consider the thousands of plastic keys that the Ayatollah Khomeini ordered from Taiwan to be placed around the necks of Iranian children who went to their death as human mine sweepers during the Iran– Iraq War. The "nice" Ayatollah slaughtered these innocents while telling them and their impotent, terrorized parents that this plastic key guaranteed their entry into paradise. The terrors of the terrorist's "inner child" are literally and concretely projected into their own children. Terrorists feel dead and want others to feel what they feel. But they cannot put their feelings into words. In the world of terrorism everything is the opposite of what it should be.
Kobrin, Nancy Hartevelt (2013-11-12). Penetrating The Terrorist Psyche (Kindle Locations 482-493). Multieducator Inc. Kindle Edition.
Modern law enforcement may address terrorism as a physical process (e.g., sometimes involving "bombs on two legs") and try to get in the way of it or forestall an act close to or at its commission.
The detachment, as it were, of contemporary psychoanalytic forces may delve back much, much farther into the beliefs and habits of cultures and families, what may be imparted through the infant's period of language uptake, how children respond to abuse by way of the formation of "grammatical" or rule-based behaviors , and the ready political systems for culture-wide programming, intake, and operations that one finds with such as Hamas and Hezbollah. In those forces, which I presume always around (or we wouldn't have "Officer Krupke" and its inverted psychobabble for entertainment) and always new, Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin has produced the voice of the damaged and injured by terrorism in the family — the exercise of sadistic will in the realm of the intimate — and welled that out into the portion of the human experience now embroiled in related conflicts and the singular and senseless tragedies that come of political terrorism and its inversions.
Posted to YouTube 11/21/2011.
FTAC – On Haron Monis – Mentality
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He sent out plenty of "signal" by way of prior crude verbal behavior and visible crime, but the targets of his mentality and those who share it have been slow to promulgate or reinforce sedition and treason laws and to inaugurate detention / investigation without charge in some form. In legally egalitarian liberal democracy, what is done to one must be applicable to all of a class of offender (abortion clinic bombers, for example, are terrorists too), and that may be impeding reaction.
I suspect Muslim-majority states have a deeper quandary as regards identification with these aggressors on two grounds: one is fear of mafia politics in force by these gangs — the feudal seem accustomed to doing away with critics and rivals; and the other involves buy-in and getting something out of the program (and that, apparently, equals some 63,000 Facebook "Likes" for a garden variety narcissistic murderer).
Carlos Bledsoe, Little Rock
Nidal Malik Hasan, Fort Hood
Dzhokar Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon (he's in Yahoo news today)
Michael Zihaff-Bibeau, Ottowa
At best: an incomplete list.
I hesitate to coin a term in what seems to me, online at least, an ambivalent and confused field: the study of narcissism. However, in relation to Bledsoe, Hasan, Tsarnaev, and Zihaff-Bibeau, on might suggest the existence of internalized narcissistic scripting. Each discovered laid out (just for them) a ready made mission in "political Islam" (Erdogan's Islam, Baghdadi's Islam, Qaradawi's Islam, all Islam where either autocratic official or dependent fascist follower endorse civilizational Islamic supremacism). Once convinced by example and much reinforced by al-Qaeda or Brotherhood-type community-wide communications composed to encourage and incite bloody murder, these "lone wolves" (it has been claimed Monis had more than 60,000 "Facebook buddies") are primed to deploy themselves and steal from the world the lives of innocents.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/22/world/canada-shooter/index.html 10/24/2014.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/22/world/americas/canada-ottawa-shooting/ – 10/31/2014.
http://news.yahoo.com/marathon-bombing-suspect-due-court-thursday-053742889.html 12/18/2014.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/doctors-supervising-ft-hood-suspect-nidal-malik-hasan-long-concerned-strange-behavior-article-1.414605 – 11/12/2009.
http://jihadology.net/2013/12/23/guest-post-abdulhakim-mujahid-muhammad-carlos-bledsoe-a-case-study-in-lone-wolf-terrorism/ – 12/23/2013:
''Like I said'' there's an all out war against Islam and Muslims in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Waziristan, Chechnya, Somalia, Palestine, Phillipines, Yemen etc. And Muslims have to fight back. Like I said before in a past interview we believe in an eye for eye not turn the other cheek. Now it's a all out war on America and I'm on the other side. The side of the Muslims Yes! The side of Al-Qāeda Yes! Taliban Yes! Al-Shabaab Yes! We are all brothers under the same banner. Fighting for the same cause which is to rid the Islamic world of Infidel and Apostate Hypocritic regimes and Crusader Invaders and re-establish the Caliphate, the Islamic Empire and Islamic Law as was ended officially in 1924 by the fall of the Ottomans."
Update – December 23, 2014
We allowed Iranian Man Haron Monis into our country on a business visa and then welcomed him as a political refugee. Charged with fraud at home, the Iranian government asked for him back. But we said no to the Iranians. When Monis wrote inexcusable letters to the families of soldiers who died in Afghanistan, describing them as pigs and Nazis, we excused that — delivering only a slap on the wrist of 300 hours of community service. Some called for his Australian citizenship to be revoked. We said no to that, too. We allowed Monis to remain an Australian citizen, a gift sought out by millions of refugees who are keen to embrace and respect Australia as an open, generous and free country.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/sorry-history-of-tolerating-the-intolerant/story-e6frg7bo-1227165583579?nk=10cef80bb687c64406dfa1a23f22fba2 – 12/24/2014.
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As noted, The so-called "lone wolves" among terrorists are not quite alone nor unknown to authorities.
The one thing they are not before committing murder: stopped.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-siege-memorial-service-for-katrina-dawson-20141223-12cnqv.html – 12/23/2014.


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HA NOI (VNS) — The latest 1 per cent devaluation of the Vietnamese dong should not lead to aggressive weakness in the currency, HSBC noted in its Global Research report released on Thursday.
The bank further pointed out that the dong should be relatively stable over the coming year. These comments were made in light of the State Bank of Viet Nam's move last Wednesday to weaken the reference rate for the currency to 21,246 per dollar from 21,036 per dollar in a bid to bolster the export-driven economy without cutting policy rates and to flatter inflationary pressure.
This is the first shift in the rate since June 28, 2013, when the currency was weakened by around 1 per cent versus the dollar after keeping the rate unchanged since December 2011dong has been better supported by the more balanced nature of forex inflows over the last year.
Excessive trade produced certain signals when it reached US$1.65 billion in May and $2 billion in April. Dong's onshore liquidity has been relatively flush with interbank interest rates softening, which together has led to an increased demand for the US dollar, given the narrower interest rate differentials.
"While we do not expect the latest small depreciation to cause much concern over the future of the dong, there is no doubt a risk that if the policy is seen as too loose, then concerns about rising inflation and further depreciation could arise," the report pointed out.
The inflation rate in Viet Nam was recorded at 4.72 per cent in May compared with the 4.45 per cent rate recorded in April.
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HSBC also suspects there may be a risk of a further 1 per cent depreciation later in the year if policymakers feel it is necessary, though HSBC's base prediction is for a relatively stable dong in the coming months. — VNS
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Convinced that ethical businesses can be powerful motors of positive impact, she envisioned, Venezia Autentica, a people-powered way to save Venice and the Venetians in early 2015. She met Seba her partner in life and business in Venice, in the summer of 2014. She's French, well traveled and one of the loves of her life is her 18 years old mare, Donna. She holds an MBA and is a Health and Biology graduate.
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UPDATED: Fri., Nov. 12, 2021
By Ed Condran edc@spokesman.com(509) 459-5440
It makes perfect sense that Monster Jam truck driver Tristan England named his 2-year-old son Crash. "I love the name, but it's not going to look good on his car insurance card," England quipped.
England knows a lot about collisions since he's been on the Monster Jam truck driving circuit for six years. "This job has been an absolute dream come true since I started," England said while calling from Albuquerque. "It's total chaos out there, which is so much fun for me. What I do fits my driving style."
England, 25, isn't kidding. Since his hometown of Paris is a small city in northeast Texas, there isn't much traffic. "When I drive in a place like Dallas, I get anxiety real bad. I have road rage."
England works out his driving issues in arenas. "I'm great after getting out there," England said. "I grew up on this stuff."
England's father bought a truck dubbed "The Big Kahuna," which he drives professionally. "I was in high school when my dad got that truck," England said. "I loved it, and I was part of his crew before I became a driver. How could I not do something so cool?"
Monster Jam, which is slated for Friday through Sunday at Spokane Arena, is an action-packed motorsport with drivers locked in intense competitions of speed and skill. "There really is nothing like it," England said. "You can't compare what we do with anyone else. We have a unique skill set."
Witness heated rivalries, unique stunts and fierce head-to-head battles for the event championship. The 12,000-pound monster trucks include the legendary Grave Digger, El Toro Loco and Megalodon, which England will drive.
"I typically drive Earthshaker, but this time, it's going to be Megalodon," England said. "I'm pumped up."
There will be freestyle events, skills, donut and racing competitions. Freestyle motocross exhibitions are also slated.
The series champion receives an automatic bid to the Monster Jam World Finals to compete for the title of world champion. "I show up to win," England said. "That's what I aim to do when I come back to Spokane."
England will also check out the sights and hopes there is a concert he'll be able to catch when he returns to town. "The last time I was in town, I saw Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (at the Knitting Factory in February 2020)," England said. "My dad was jealous I saw that show."
England is looking forward to the day when his son Crash will make it three generations of drivers in the world of Monster Jam. "I'm sure it's in his blood, like it's in my blood," England said. "There's nothing like driving a monster truck, and it's so cool to watch them if you aren't driving them."
Monster Jam Friday through Sunday at Spokane Arena, 720 W. Mallon Ave. Tickets are $22, $27, $32, $37, $42, $47, $52, $62 and $72. Show times are 7 p.m. Friday, 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday. For more information: (509) 279-7000 and spokanearena.com.
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SYCAMORE, Ill., March 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — IDEAL INDUSTRIES, INC. today announced the acquisition of Cree Lighting, which includes the LED lighting fixtures, lamps and intelligent lighting control solutions business for commercial, industrial and consumer applications of Cree, Inc. (CREE – NASDAQ). Cree announced the pending change in ownership in a release earlier this morning. IDEAL also acquires the rights to use and operate under the Cree Lighting™ brand.
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Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeye's fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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Entry from July 18, 2004
Numerous 1920s "Big Apple" citations in the New York Morning Telegraph
Gerald Cohen's 1991 monograph identified about seven "big apples." There are many more. The citations provide overwhelming detail of John J. Fitz Gerald's authorship and use of "the big apple."
The following are all from John J. Fitz Gerald, unless otherwise indicated. These were all found by me, unless indicated as "COHEN" (Gerald Cohen). A 1923 non-Morning Telegraph horseracing cite was found by Peter Jenson Brown. The Old Fulton Post Cards website has digitized some of the New York (NY) Morning Telegraph, and many citations can be found in a boolean search for "big apple" and "morning telegraph."
From the New York Morning Telegraph (except where otherwise indicated):
May 3, 1921 (COHEN): J. P. Smith, with Tippity Witchet and others of the L. T. Bauer string, is scheduled to start for "the big apple" to-morrow after a most prosperous Spring campaign at Bowie and Havre de Grace.
July 17, 1921, New Orleans (LA) Item, "Fleet 'Miss' Has Not Met Defeat This Year" by P. J. Horgan, Business and Real Estate Section, pg. 5, col. 8:
This daughter of Ultimus-Reflex, which raced so well at the Fair Grounds in the colors of R. D. Brown and under the tutilage of Puddin McDaniel, is the only Orleanian of the past winter that has circulated with conspicuous profit and glory as a "big apple."
March 30, 1922: Always a hard worker, Turner is keenly desirous of leading the New York riders this year, and his affiliation with the Rose stable may enable him to do so, for there are many good ones in the barn and they will win plenty of races on "the big apple" this year.
April 1, 1922: He will have the acid test put to him on "The Big Apple" within a few weeks.
April 6, 1922: It would seem that the West holds a big call over the East in the Kentucky Oaks this year, for certainly the above three fillies far outranked anything of their age and sex shown on "the big apple" during 1921.
April 10, 1922: This is just as it should be, for the Jamaica track will open the season on "the big apple" on May 3.
(No byline. -- ed.)
April 17, 1922, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), "Big Crowd Turns Out to See Derby Horses Work at Local Ovals" by C. J. Savage, pg. 7, col. 2:
McDermott Goes East
Jockey Russell McDermott departs for New York tonight. He became connected with the Madden establishment a week ago and will give the "big apple" a trial for a change.
April 19, 1922: The Fisher horses will move on to Pimlico at the close here and then journey to Long Island for a campaign over "the big apple."
April 21, 1922: Johnnie Coakley is another who deserted "the big apple" for a whirl at the iron men.
April 23, 1922: It was a good performance and a convincer that he will held his own in the early racing on "the big apple."
April 27, 1922: Kimball Patterson will bring four of the Jim Beam flat racers to "the big apple" this Summer.
May 3, 1922 (COHEN): It looks like a big year on "the big apple."
May 3, 1922, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), "Miss Jay Easily Wins Ashlands Oaks Event" by C. J. Savage, pg. 12, col. 5:
Local Horsemen Attend.
A number of horsemen came over from Louisville for today's racing, among them being Mose Goldblatt, John Ward and Joe Thomas. Harry Anderson finally deserted "the big apple" as the New York racing circuit is known and is on the scene here.
April 23, 1923 (COHEN): Racing returns to "the big apple" this afternoon.
October 17, 1923, The Evening Tribune (San Diego, CA), "Sande Says Zev Fastest of All Horses," pg. 18, col. 6:
At the close of the season on the Blue Grass tracks he journeyed eastward to ride his first winner on "the big apple" during the Empire City meeting.
November 16, 1923, The Evening Tribune (San Diego, CA), "Sande Real Riding Leader of the Year," pg. 24, cols. 4-5:
While such riders are T. Parke, P. Walls and L. McDermott attained good averages in other parts, it is generally conceded that the best of the country's jockeys show their wares on "the big apple."
December 1, 1923, The Thoroughbred Record (Lexington, KY), pg. 259, col. 3:
REPARATION WINS SOUTHERN REGIONAL HANDICAP.
BOWIE, Md., Nov. 24. -- Metropolitan horses continue to sweep the board at the Bowie course. The second important stake of the meeting went the way of an outfit from "the big apple" when J. E. Davis's Reparation led a big field over the mile of the Southern Maryland Handicap this afternoon.
February 18, 1924: (See "first explanation" heading.)
February 27, 1924: JAKE BYER, who surprised his fellow-trainers by slipping off to his Lakewood home and marrying Miss Dorothy Efros of that village, is enjoying a honeymoon trip through the Far West. The little horseman made his first stop at San Diego to take in a bit of the Tia Juana meeting, having a few horses campaigning at that point. He will return in time to take up and put in training the several he will race on "the big apple" this summer.
April 26, 1924 (COHEN): Racegoers have been impatiently awaiting the return of their favorite pastime to "the big apple."
April 30, 1924: ...journey to the big apple...
May 21, 1924, Miami (FL) Daily News and Metropolis, "Eastern Three Year Old Ordinance Is Liberally Engaged In Most Stakes" by Associated Press, pg. 19, col. 3:
NEW YORK, May 21. -- Racing at Jamaica during the last week has been notable chiefly for the fine showing of Ordinance. The son of Ormondale and Dona Roca is about the sweetest piece of horseflesh now in competition around the big apple and the majority of experts pronounce him the peer of his age division.
November 5, 1924: Willie Rosen and SLim Peterson celebrated another victory for "The Big Apple" in the mile and a sixteenth claimer, all starters to be entered for $2,000 or $1,500.
November 17, 1924: Under the efficient management of Jim O'Hara the sport has improved steadily, and a glance at to-morrow's program shows it is right up to the grade of "big apple" competition.
December 5, 1924: Each season at New Orleans sees the rise of some apprentice star... Parke and Lang both went on to better things around "the big apple."
December 23, 1924: New York, "the big apple" of racing, instead of stifling the growth of young jockeys, should be the first to aid in their development.
December 29, 1924: The initial is a sprint affair of six furlongs, which will be run during the United Hunts meeting, which preceded the regular opening on "the big apple"...
January 7, 1925: With such boys as McAtee, Turner, Kummer, O'Donnell, Stutts, and Schuttinger to draw from, there is an assurance of horsemanship close to "the big apple" standard. And there is no better than that in this wide world.
April 25, 1925 (COHEN): For there are no better judges of riding ability than the folk who make up the daily gatherings at the courses around "the big apple."
March 3, 1925, New York (NY) Evening Post, "Racing Area Grows with Dates Alloted for Smaller Tracks" by J. B. Snodgrass, pg. 15, col. 1:
But the "big apple" is Maryland, New York and Kentucky, where the largest stakes and the best meetings in the world are held, and horses jump from East to West in pursuit of the golden prizes.
June 29, 1925: Chicago will open the big Illinois season on Thursday. The big apple of the West promises enthusiasts the best sport they have seen in years...
July 13, 1925: The A. C. Bostwick stable, unable to make time around "the big apple," is doing rather well in Chicago, where the opposition is not so formidable.
July 23, 1925: "Mac" was the last rider to sport a mustache around the big apple...
August 6, 1925: Still he has been a three time stake winner on the "Big Apple" this season, a record many youngsters cannot boast of.
August 29, 1925: Quite a few will freshen up here until Tuesday before embarking for the big apple and Belmont Park, while many will remain in the Spring water village until Maryland's opening at Havre de Grace.
September 1, 1925: R. L. Miller informed Beau Belmont...back in March that he considered the New York circuit too speedy for his performance and that he would give the "leaky roof" tracks a chance this Summer. He swtiched his plans, however, and still is with us on "the big apple"...
September 27, 1925: He has been a regular on the "big apple" for thirty years...
September 28, 1925: Cherry Pie, New York's lone contribution to the $10,000 Toronto Autumn Cup Handicap, was forced to accept a sound beating from Horologe, one that learned his racing ways on "the big apple," but who now campaigns for the California owned Joaquin Stable.
September 30, 1925: The Rancocas Stable picks no soft spots for its maidens in these late days of racing on "the big apple."
October 7, 1925: Hayai and Lacewood, two fillies that campaigned at Miami, are doing right well around the "big apple."
October 10, 1925: You can't stop the Rancocas youngsters in these waning days of 1925 racing around "the big apple"...
January 7, 1926: The elderly son of Ultimus is a stake runner in the going, as he has shown often around "the big apple."
January 9, 1926: This three boys did far better than any of the others active around the big apple.
January 11, 1926: Around "the big apple" you hear little of this horsemen's organization, a "hard boot" combine whose members play scant part in metropolitan racing.
December 1, 1926: (See "second explanation" heading.)
December 16, 1926: The boys from "The Big Apple" garnered a little Christmas money when three New York owned thoroughbreds sped past the judges in front yesterday.
January 13, 1927: In Fall racing around "The Big Apple," Catalan, a fast son of Fair Play, and at one time a rater...
January 16, 1927: "Pony" McAtee, crack rider from the Big Apple, showed Floridians one of his stoutest finishes...
April 26, 1927 (COHEN): Beau Belmont can not recall a big apple racing period that left the barrier to a better start.
November 30, 1927 (by Lanny):
Tijuana Racetrack, Mexico...
ONE FOR NEW YORK
The New York youngster, Topay S., claimed by A. T. Sansone back on the "Big Apple" last Summer, jumped out of the maiden ranks in the fifth.
June 15, 1928 (COHEN): On the Big Apple. (Title of column -- ed.)
November 29, 1928 (by Lanny): McDaniel is shooting at $200,000 in stake money with a fair chance of carting it back with him when he returns to the "Big Apple" late next March.
December 12, 1928 (by Lanny): Tijuana Racetrack... The Tatar, back on the "Big Apple," was considered a fair hide when it came to leaving the string.
FOR ME TAKES BULL RUN
For Me, a horse from the sticks, clashed with Bull Run, a one-time first-rate sprinter on the "Big Apple," and in a hard drive that lasted more than half a mile, the busher got the verdict.
December 15, 1928 (by Walter Moriarty): One of the speediest 2-year-olds on the Big Apple--finishing third in the Juvenile Stakes at Belmont.
December 16, 1928 (by Walter Moriarty): The Greentree management...tried their best to win with Simon, but he could get nowhere around the Big apple. Saratoga, Aqueduct and Jamaica all saw him in action, but one second was the best he could get.
December 24, 1928 (by Walter Moriarty): He is a capable pilot, a good horseman, while not of caliber required on the "big apple," still proficient enough at Oriental Park.
December 29, 1928: This flashy miss won three straight on the "Big Apple" before being taken to Cuba, where she has annexed two more.
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Greetings TV Fans! Lately, I have been binge-watching Showtime's SMILF and I have to say that I am absolutely obsessed. The critics say it is "raw and funny" and they are absolutely right. The main character, Bridgette, has just the right blend of Weeds' Nancy Botwin and Orange is the New Black's Piper Chapman's personality along with her own set of quirkiness. She is learning how to be a single mother with each new day and challenge, while still trying to chase her dreams in the process. If you have not gotten a chance to check this show out, I highly recommend it. After watching SMILF season 1 episode 5, I have my own desire to play the day out in different parts. Please note spoilers are ahead if you have not gotten a chance to watch yet. In episode 5, the show opens up with "Part 1" revealing that it is father's day. The day plays out differently each time with 4 different parts throughout the episode. Each part starts off with Larry's father knocking on the door displaying his #1 Dad apparel, to be interrupted by Larry not being able to find his beloved panda stuffed animal. The distractions get more and more extreme, involving different characters, leading up to part 4, which is actually heart-warming and truly perfect. My top 5 moments from SMILF season 1 episode 5 are:
Bridgette beats up the fire alarm. In part one, Bridgette has a premonition type flash of where the panda could be, revealing that she left it over at Ally's house. She runs over there to enter a sea of chaos and distraction, as the family is trying to prepare everything for father's day. When the fire alarm goes off, Bridgette is determined to lend some assistance, as she proceeds to punch it repeatedly to be quiet. While I'm not sure we should try this method at home, it is clear that she is channeling her own frustration over finding panda. But she is not about to give up just yet.
Bridgette decides to do shrooms which "could make her a better parent." In Part two of the episode, Bridgette has a similar premonition flash that panda was left behind in Eliza's room. While she searches frantically, the two decide that doing shrooms is the best solution to remedy the situation. Bridgette is convinced that this will absolutely help her clear her mind to find panda, only it leads to some very confusing hallucinations along the way, including Larry speaking to her in a grown man's voice and Eliza suffocating in her excess sea of clothing.
Bridgette gets propositioned for a "sleep over." In part one after she beats up the incessant fire alarm, Bridgette is listening to Ally go on and on about "Mr. Daddy" and what to do for him for father's day. While it is initially revealed as background chatter, Bridgette's attention is woken up suddenly when she is asked if she would like to have a sleep over. Bridgette's confusion about what this actually means leading up to a scenario where she would get pregnant again and what the trust fund would look like make this moment even more hilarious. Unfortunately, this does not lead to the discovery of panda.
The panda is Larry's "constant." Bridgette's desperate need to find panda for Larry demonstrates how much she truly cares for his son. She mirrors his own frantic cries, throwing everything around in a frenzy to try and locate Larry's beloved panda. At one point, she is speaking to her mom on the phone and screams out that she needs to find panda "or Larry is going to die!" While Bridgette has been hanging on by a thread to make ends meet, her unconditional love for Larry never fails which makes her search for panda empathetic. Larry deals with a lot of moving around; going from his mother's house to his father's and even to his grandma's and the panda is the only thing that stays the same. Bridgette is clearly also holding on to this constant for Larry, wanting to be able to provide him with stability and continuous love.
Panda is found along with Bridgette embracing father's day. Part 4 starts off the same way, with Larry's father, Rafi at the door. Rather than slamming the door in his face, Bridgette and Larry leave with Rafi to go celebrate the day at Tutu's house, Bridgette's mother. Panda is discovered at the house and all is right with the world again. This leaves us with a true family moment. Even though everyone has their differences, they come together because Larry is the constant, creating an undeniable bond of happiness. Plus, it helps that panda is there keep the peace.
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It would be easy to think that these people are connected to the government and have some special way of helping you, but if you get to the fine print, you find that "The agent is not associated with the government, and our service is not approved by the government or your lender. Even if you accept this offer and use our service, your lender may not agree to change your loan." But you will probably have to pay for their service regardless.
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Excellent work, and I love your tank! Beautiful expressive brushwork.
WOW looks good, how elegant and beautifu!
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but that tank is real nice , its like its moving .
Really the tank sure looks like it is speeding through the desert ,kicking up dust as it speeds by.
Another wow here, great work.