'Monsanto (soon to be Bayer) and their minions are poisoning us. Yet another independent peer-reviewed scientific study (article linked below) has confirmed that Monsanto's notorious weedkiller, Roundup, sprayed on most major agricultural crops and animal feed, including corn, soy, canola, sugar beets, cotton, wheat, alfalfa, and beans–contaminating the majority of the non-organic foods in U.S. grocery stores, restaurants, and school lunch cafeterias–is toxic, even at the routine parts per billion or trillion level ingested by most Americans everyday.
Roundup is everywhere, in our food, in our cotton clothing, in our urine, in our breast milk, in the rain, in our drinking water, rivers, fish, and wildlife. Following up on the declaration of a respected scientific panel of the World Health Organization in 2016 that Roundup (active ingredient glyphosate) likely causes cancer, compounded by numerous studies linking Monsanto's top-selling herbicide to hormone disruption, birth defects, kidney damage, and other diseases, the question we should be asking today is not whether we need more proof that the Biotech Bully of St. Louis is deliberately poisoning us for profit, aided and abetted by indentured scientists, media hacks, and politicians; but rather how do we drive Monsanto's Roundup and Roundup-tainted foods off the market?
Hint number one: don't hold your breath for the Trump administration, Congress, or the regulatory agencies to ban or even restrict the use of Roundup and the thousands of other pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and chemical fertilizers contaminating our food and water and destroying our soils' ability to sequester carbon and re-stabilize our dangerously out of control climate. Trump's new regime is filled with "business as usual" Monsanto cheerleaders, Wall Street bankers, and corporate cronies who love industrial agriculture and America's fossil fuel suicide economy.
Hint number two: don't expect Big Food companies, fast food giants, retail supermarket chains, school cafeterias and institutional food providers to voluntarily remove Roundup and other agri-toxics from their product lines and menus.
'A weedkiller commonly used on UK food crops and gardens has been linked to a serious liver disease by British academics.
Minute quantities of glyphosate, sold under the brand name Roundup by Monsanto, caused a fatty liver disease in a feeding study using rats.
The research was led by Dr Michael Antoniou, of Kings College, London, who said the findings raise serious concerns for human health.
'...Symptoms include fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, nausea, abdominal pain, spider-like blood vessels, jaundice, fluid build-up and swelling of the legs.
Dr Antoniou said: 'The findings of our study are very worrying as they demonstrate for the first time a causative link between an environmentally relevant level of Roundup consumption over the long-term and a serious disease.
'...Supporters of GM farming, such as the former Conservative Food and Farming Secretary, Owen Paterson, have used the fact GM crops and farming techniques have been used in the USA for 20 years as proof they are safe.
The British research, which has been peer-reviewed by experts to ensure the study was properly conducted, is the first to identify a risk to human health.
Experts at King's College used cutting edge profiling methods to examine the livers of female rats fed an extremely low dose of Roundup over a two year period.
Dr Robin Mesnage, a research associate at Kings, said: 'The concentration of glyphosate that was added to the drinking water of the rats corresponds to a concentration found in tap water for human consumption.
The team examined the livers at a molecular level and found evidence of cell damage, serious fatty liver disease and areas of dead tissue or necrosis.
They concluded: 'The study is unique in that it is the first to show a causative link between consumption of Roundup at a real-world environmental dose and a serious disease condition.
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is the term for a range of conditions caused by a build-up of fat in the liver.
It's usually seen in people who are overweight or obese.
A healthy liver should contain little or no fat. It's estimated that up to one in every three people in the UK has early stages of NAFLD where there are small amounts of fat in their liver.
Early-stage NAFLD doesn't usually cause any harm, but it can lead to serious liver damage, including cirrhosis - which can be deadly, if it gets worse.
'These results demonstrate that long-term consumption of an ultra-low, environmentally relevant dose of Roundup at a glyphosate daily intake level of only 4 nanograms per kilogram of body weight per day, which is 75,000 times below EU and 437,500 below US permitted levels, results in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
The fact the research has been peer reviewed and published in the journal Scientific Reports means the methods have been scrutinised and verified.
The Crop Protection Association, which speaks for Monsanto and other chemical companies, questioned the validity of the King's study.
The CPA said: 'Glyphosate is amongst the most thoroughly tested herbicides on the market, and those studies by expert regulators have consistently concluded that glyphosate does not pose a risk to public health.
'Crop Protection Society' my Aunt Fannie; 'Monsanto Protection Society' would be a far more truthful name for this group of Monsanto cheerleaders.
Minute quantities of glyphosate, sold under the brand name Roundup by Monsanto, caused a fatty liver disease in a feeding study using rats, researchers from Kings College London found.
is it safe to assume will you be backing up your 'opinion' by replying to the peer reviewed article in Scientific Reports, because it is hardly ethical to not do so whilst pouring scorn on the Review in quotes to the Daily Mail?'.
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'..Dhara Mustard Hybrid-11 (DMH-11) was genetically engineered by Delhi University to resist spray applications of the toxic herbicide glufosinate, also known as Liberty. A close relative to glyphosate, which is used in Roundup, glufosinate is a neurotoxin linked to birth defects and numerous other health and environmental issues. Despite promises by the biotech industry that these types of herbicide tolerant (HT) crops would reduce the use of herbicide, we can now confirm without doubt that the opposite is true. In the US, HT crops increased the use of herbicides like glufosinate and glyphosate by 527 million pounds in the first 16 years, and much more since.
The Chief Minister tactfully stated that "conflict of interest plagues the decision-making system." The farmer unions went further. Their members who attended the GEAC special meetings found the members "biased, unscientific," and lacking integrity.
The dark side of this committee was laid bare years ago after Aruna Rodriguez petitioned the Supreme Court of India claiming that the GEAC was a façade, rubber stamping approvals of GMOs on behalf of the industry. The Supreme Court asked one of the world's prominent biologists, P.M. Bhargava, to attend the committee meetings and share his recommendations. After about a year of watching the charade from the inside, he reported that the committee members rejected out of hand all objections to GMOs, ignoring their merit or potential impact. Irrespective of their source, every single scientific fact or research paper that showed potential harm was dismissed with the declaration that it was discredited.
'Poison Papers Reveal EPA Collusion With Chemical Industry': https://www.ecowatch.com/poison-papers-epa-2466211797.html?
"The transcript "exemplifies as well as any other single document among the Papers the history of everyday regulatory failures and agency complicity that is the unknown story of the EPA and its enduring collusion with the chemical industry, and whose result is a systemic failure to protect the American public from chemical hazards."
The Howard Johnson's meeting was called to discuss the IBT scandal and plan a way forward. No consumer groups, environmental groups or members of the public were present that day in Arlington under HoJo's cheerful orange roof when the topic of how to deal with the dead animals, the fraudulent and the corrupt data was discussed.
"We determined that [i]t was neither in EPA's interest or the public interest or the registrants' interest [to replace all IBT data] because a large number of studies, which were performed at IBT, were performed satisfactorily," Arnold said. (p. 6).
Yet Arnold's contention that some of the studies were "satisfactory" was contradicted multiple times in the same meeting. It was later stated, for example, that not one IBT study was free of errors (p. 16). Dr. Arthur Pallotta, consultant to the Special Pesticide Review Division in the EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs, stated that "there were few [IBT] studies that did not have discrepancies, errors and omissions" (p. 27). Elsewhere in the transcript, EPA accepted that more than 80 percent of the test results from IBT were invalid (p. 123).
And Trump want's to decimate even the small amount of good the EPA does at present!
Is it any wonder illnesses that were unknown or virtually negligible years ago are now skyrocketing?
'A growing number of foods commonly found in kitchens across America have tested positive for glyphosate, the herbicide that is the main ingredient in the popular consumer pesticide Roundup, which is widely used in agriculture. But few brands on that list are as startling as the latest: Ben & Jerry's, the Vermont ice cream company known for its family-friendly image and environmental advocacy.
The amounts of glyphosate (the herbicide used in Roundup) found in a pint of each flavor of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, in parts per billion.
May 19, 2015: Michael Dykes, who at that time was Monsanto's long-time vice president of government affairs, wrote directly to the EPA's Jim Jones, the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety & Pollution Prevention. Jones had oversight of the EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs and was a presidential appointee who carried significant clout. The afternoon was waning when the email came in at 3:28 p.m. Dykes reminded Jones that they had recently discussed the HHS' ATSDR glyphosate review at a meeting. "You were not aware of their review. Did you learn anything more about their efforts?" Dykes asked.
Jones did not waste time. Roughly an hour later he forwarded the message to his second in command, Office of Pesticide Programs Director Jack Housenger, writing "Monsanto thinks atsdr is doing a glyphosate Assessment. Could you guys run that down?" Housenger responds quickly: "Yes. Jess checked with them ... It has been difficult to get information."
Within an hour Jones instructed a member of his staff to get him contact information for the head person responsible for ATSDR. She replied the next morning that Dr. Patrick Breysse was the point person. Breysse joined the CDC in 2014 as director of its National Center for Environmental Health, overseeing the NCEH's ATSDR.
May 20, 2015: It was only a little after 8:30 a.m. but Jones told the staff member to instruct Housenger to get in touch with Breysse, and within two hours Housenger had penned an email to Breysse explaining that an EPA's own re-evaluation/risk assessment of glyphosate was nearing completion, and asking Breysse if "you would still feel the need to do your assessment." Housenger told Breysse that he already had reached the individual assigned to the ATSDR assessment and she had indicated she would "coordinate" with EPA, but that was not sufficient. Housenger did not mention Monsanto's outreach to EPA on the issue, but instead questioned "whether this is a good use of government resources" for ATSDR to continue with its review. Breysse responded that he would "look into this" and Housenger thanked him for his quick response. Breysse then reached out to an ATSDR division director named James Stephens to arrange a discussion about the EPA request.
June 4, 2015: Pressing the issue, EPA's Housenger wrote again to Breysee to say he had not heard from anyone yet. The ATSDR's Stephens wrote back promising to make sure "someone gives you a ring." Internal Monsanto emails show that at the same time, Monsanto was also pushing the "duplicative" narrative with HHS, meeting on June 4 with HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global Health Mitchel Wolfe to ask him to help repudiate the IARC classification and to recognize that a review of glyphosate was "not the primary role" for his agency. "Dr. Wolfe said he would follow up on what was going on with ATSDR and he was encouraged to have discussions with EPA staff, as well," a Monsanto memo detailing the meeting states.
June 9, 2015: Henry Abadin, an ATSDR supervisory scientist, reported to Stephens that he had talked with Housenger and explained that the agency did not believe it was "duplicating efforts." Nevertheless, he said he told EPA, "we did not have a problem with putting the glyphosate profile on hold, pending the OPP [Office of Pesticide Programs] final report."
June 19, 2015: To further ensure the ATSDR review didn't move forward, Monsanto's Dykes talked again with HHS's Wolfe, asking for an update on ATSDR. "I explained… our question was about the purpose and scope of such a duplicative review by ATSDR. I also told him that we were concerned that ATSDR may come out any day with a report. I again stressed that we were concerned that they were even reviewing glyphosate as were the people we talked with at EPA," Dykes wrote to colleagues.
June 21, 2015: It was a Sunday, but Monsanto's Dykes was still concerned enough about the ATSDR review to copy multiple colleagues on a late night email to report that he had continued to press the "duplicative" point with ATSDR but was concerned about a "glyphosate review coming any day." In a text message sent that same day, Monsanto Eric Sachs reached out to a former EPA toxicologist named Mary Manibusan asking for contacts at ATSDR. "We're trying to do everything we can to keep from having a domestic IARC occur w this group. may need your help," Sachs wrote. The text messages were among certain internal Monsanto records obtained by cancer victims who are suing Monsanto alleging Roundup caused their diseases.
June 23, 2015: By Tuesday, Monsanto's Jenkins had good news: He had heard from Housenger that the EPA official had been successful in garnering a promise from ATSDR to put its report "on hold." The review was not dead, however, he wrote: ATSDR argues "that their process is distinguishable and not duplicative. They look at different endpoints and told EPA they don't "make a call on cancer", but I think we should continue to be cautious."
On June 24, 2015: Monsanto's chief scientist William Heydens responded: "'Distinguishable and not duplicative'? Seriously? And I will believe the not 'making a call on cancer' part when I see it. Anyway, at least they know they are being watched, and hopefully that keeps them from doing anything too stupid..." Jenkins wrote back, acknowledging that Monsanto had much more to fear from ATSDR than EPA as the two agencies had arrived at "different conclusions" on other issues. He reported he had been told ATSDR was "VERY conservative and IARC like…"
By October 23, 2015: EPA and Monsanto had the ATSDR review fully on hold. EPA's Housenger wrote to update Monsanto's Jenkins: "They are waiting for our glyphosate RA. And they agreed to share what they do."
That same month, the EPA's Cancer Assessment Review Committee (CARC), which was chaired by Rowland, issued an internal report stating that contrary to IARC, the EPA's review of glyphosate found it "not likely to be carcinogenic to humans."
The EPA still has yet to issue the overall new risk assessment it said would be out in 2015. The agency has offered ever-changing timelines for the assessment, but now says it intends to release a draft risk assessment sometime this year. That will be followed by a 60-day public comment period. After the public comment period, the EPA will determine whether any risk management is needed. In the meantime, Monsanto has cited the EPA's backing of glyphosate safety as repudiation of the IARC finding both in court and with regulators in Europe who are also looking at glyphosate safety issues.
'This week in Brussels the European Parliament's Environment and Agriculture committees will hold a public hearing on The Monsanto Papers, documents released through lawsuits in the U.S. brought against Monsanto by over 250 people alleging that exposure to Roundup herbicide is responsible for their cancers.
'...In just five years' time, scientists say that many bugs have gotten to the point where they can simply shrug off the poisons that are created by GM crops.
'....Caroline Cox of the Center for Environmental Health and Michael Surgan of the Office of the Attorney General of New York State took it upon themselves to study the synergy of glyphosate and the inert ingredients in Roundup. Their paper, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found that the entire pesticide formulation induced toxic effects greater than the herbicide's lone active ingredient. Most concerning is the damage the whole product causes to the genetic information of cells. While glypohsate alone causes cancer, the inert ingredients allow glyphosate to penetrate further, damaging chromosomes and causing DNA mutations. In another study, Roundup as a complete formulation was much more lethal to human placenta cells than glyphosate alone. The formulation inhibited the activity of the enzyme aromatase, which plays an important role in the human endocrine system.
NIST didn't find any evidence of the use of explosives in any of the WTC Towers, but then, of course, they explained on being asked that they had not looked.
but again, they didn't test for it.
Is that supposed to be 'Good Science', or adherence to a 'Precautionary Principal'?
Does anybody really believe the US and UK regulatory and safety bodies give two hoots about Joe Public?
I am not talking about most firefighters, doctors and nurses here, of course, but even some of them will sell their souls for the sake of their jobs or financial incentives.
'...In an email to some of his colleagues, FDA chemist Richard Thompson noted, "I have brought wheat crackers, granola cereal and corn meal from home and there's a fair amount in all of them." He noted that the only food he had on hand that was not found to contain glyphosate traces was broccoli.
'..The U.S. is still largely turning a blind eye to glyphosate's dangers, thanks in no small part to the intense lobbying on Monsanto's part to keep its products on store shelves. The stubborn EPA refuses to ban the chemical, and it was recently revealed that they have known about glyphosate's carcinogenicity for at least 35 years and helped cover it up. EPA memos that were recently uncovered showed that the EPA knew by 1980 that the ingredient caused malignant tumors, kidney problems and hyperplasia, but they suppressed the findings at Monsanto's behest.
Glyphosate exposure has been linked to problems like melanoma, bone cancer, liver cancer, thyroid cancer, pancreatic cancer, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Monsanto currently finds itself facing a slew of lawsuits on behalf of people diagnosed with cancer as a result of glyphosate exposure, and it's unconscionable to think that an agency meant to protect us and our environment is so easily swayed into doing the exact opposite. Of course, there's a lot of money at stake, with Roundup bringing in $994 million in net sales for Monsanto from 2013 to 2014 alone.
And no doubt many or all of them will be on sale in the UK if May & Co. have their way with US/UK 'deals'.
'...Saskatchewan farmer Gus Zelinski transitioned to organic after being hospitalized for pesticide poisoning. He inhaled the herbicide Buctril-M after it circulated into the air of his tractor cabin while he was spraying his field.
"I couldn't get my breath; I was just about choking," Zelinski said.
He was hospitalized for a week. "The doctor said I was lucky," he said.
His wife Dolores said the incident led Gus to convert the farm to organic.
She said other farmers in their area weren't as fortunate as Gus.
"I can't tell you how many times I heard that in my (organic) inspection career. There were lots of stories about older farmers getting seriously ill or prematurely dying (due to pesticide-related illnesses)," he said.
The "revolving door" - the interplay of personnel that assists the industrial alignment of public service and regulatory authorities - has led to key figures at both the US's FDA and EPA having held important positions at Monsanto, or else doing so shortly after their biotech related regulatory work for the government agency.
An article in The Ecologist's famous 'Monsanto Files' by Jennifer Ferrara, 'Revolving Doors: Monsanto and the Regulators', looked in detail at this issue.
"Michael R. Taylor, the FDA's deputy commissioner for policy, wrote the FDA's rBGH labelling guidelines. The guidelines, announced in February 1994, virtually prohibited dairy corporations from making any real distinction between products produced with and without rBGH. To keep rBGH-milk from being "stigmatized" in the marketplace, the FDA announced that labels on non-rBGH products must state that there is no difference between rBGH and the naturally occurring hormone.
In March 1994, Taylor was publicly exposed as a former lawyer for the Monsanto corporation for seven years. While working for Monsanto, Taylor had prepared a memo for the company as to whether or not it would be constitutional for states to erect labelling laws concerning rBGH dairy products. In other words Taylor helped Monsanto figure out whether or not the corporation could sue states or companies that wanted to tell the public that their products were free of Monsanto's drug.
Taylor wasn't the only FDA official involved in rBGI-1 policy who had worked for Monsanto. Margaret Miller, deputy director of the FDA's Office of New Animal Drugs was a former Monsanto research scientist who had worked on Monsanto's rBGH safety studies up until 1989. Suzanne Sechen was a primary reviewer for rBGH in the Office of New Animal Drugs between 1988 and 1990. Before coming to the FDA, she had done research for several Monsanto-funded rBGH studies as a graduate student at Cornell University. Her professor was one of Monsanto's university consultants and a known rBGH promoter.
Linda J. Fisher . . .former Assistant Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Pollution Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances...now Vice President of Government and Public Affairs for Monsanto Corporation.
Terry Medley . . . former administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture, former chair and vice-chair of the United States Department of Agriculture Biotechnology Council, former member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food advisory committee...and now Director of Regulatory and External Affairs of Dupont Corporation's Agricultural Enterprise.
*Margaret Miller, Michael Taylor, and Suzanne Sechen (an FDA "primary reviewer for all rbST and other dairy drug production applications" ) were the subjects of a U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation in 1994 for their role in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of Posilac, Monsanto Corporation's formulation of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbST or rBGH). The GAO Office found "no conflicting financial interests with respect to the drug's approval" and only "one minor deviation from now superseded FDA regulations". (Quotations are from the 1994 GAO report).
"When people are trying to kill you and when they attack because they hate freedom, other disputes from Frankenfood to bananas and even important issues like the environment suddenly look a bit different." - Condoleeza Rice, George Bush's National Security Adviser.
'The Trump administration has rescinded an Obama-era ban on the use of pesticides linked to declining bee populations and the cultivation of genetically modified crops in dozens of national wildlife refuges where farming is permitted.
Rather than continuing to impose a blanket ban on GMO crops and neonics on refuges, Fish and Wildlife Service deputy director Greg Sheehan said decisions about their use would be made on a case-by-case basis.
'...Dewayne Johnson, a 46-year-old former groundskeeper, won a huge victory in the landmark case on Friday, with the jury determining that Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller caused his cancer and that the corporation failed to warn him of the health hazards from exposure. The jury further found that Monsanto "acted with malice or oppression".
Let's hope the slimeballs don't get off on appeal. But I suppose they'll try to draw the appeal out for years, and if it goes to the Supreme Court, well, the main thing that is Supreme about it is that it is Supremely Corrupt, being largely filled by the choices of corrupt Presidents.
'...Dr. Seneff noted the ubiquity of glyphosate's use. Because it is used on corn and soy, all soft drinks and candies sweetened with corn syrup and all chips and cereals that contain soy fillers have small amounts of glyphosate in them, as do our beef and poultry since cattle and chicken are fed GMO corn or soy. Wheat is often sprayed with Roundup just prior to being harvested, which means that all non-organic bread and wheat products would also be sources of glyphosate toxicity. The amount of glyphosate in each product may not be large, but the cumulative effect (especially with as much processed food as Americans eat) could be devastating. A recent study shows that pregnant women living near farms where pesticides are applied have a 60% increased risk of children having an autism spectrum disorder.
'...Monsanto claims that Roundup is harmless to humans. Bacteria, fungi, algae, parasites, and plants use a seven-step metabolic route known as the shikimate pathway for the biosynthesis of aromatic amino acids; glyphosate inhibits this pathway, causing the plant to die, which is why it's so effective as an herbicide. Monsanto says humans don't have this shikimate pathway, so it's perfectly safe.
'Dewayne Johnson made history this year when he sued Monsanto for causing his terminal cancer -- and won.


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Anyone in the habit of examining archive material will know how easy it is to become distracted. Looking through scans of the register for Greenford Park Cemetery, in a search for First World War Russian pilots, I came across some intriguing entries. "Was Comp". Was compensated? "Ref Comp". Refused compensation? Compensation for what? They were accompanied by names that sounded French or Dutch, alongside ages, most under a year old, the bare minimum of information scribbled in. Eventually, in 1916, someone with clearer handwriting and a greater sense of duty wrote the following:
Wednesday 27 Sep. 1916
10510 in 10491
De Bock Magdalena 7 mons
The War Refugee Camp Earls Court S.W.
Rev Father W.A Wright
J Golborn Fulham W.
Seven month old Magdalena De Bock was the child of Belgian refugees.
One hundred years to the day that the First World War ended, she reminds us why we have a war memorial with the names of local men on it. Their graves are hundreds of miles away in the countries where they fell, while the children of the Belgians some of them sought to avenge lie among their relatives and neighbours, in Greenford, Middlesex. On the 4th August 1914 Germany invaded Belgium, in an effort to reach France, on which it had declared war the previous day. Britain declared war immediately on Germany. Stories of the appalling atrocities committed by the advancing German army reached the British public quickly. Mass executions, the murder of civilians, sometimes hundreds at a time, at others randomly and on impulse, rape, looting.
In Greenford, twenty year old carpenter and labourer James Hutt decided to enlist. In Zele, near the town of Dendermonde in Belgium, Gustave De Bock, a flax worker in his late forties, did what every other sensible man who was able to was doing at the time. He took his family as far away as he could. Married with five children aged between sixteen and two, he and his wife Maria, Louisa, Cesar, Elina, Irma and Maurice joined over one million other Belgians as they fled the fighting. They were probably already on the move when an attack on Dendermonde on the 4th September 1914 left the ancient and prosperous town in ruins.
As I think of this family's desperate escape I am reminded of the news footage I have seen over the years of refugees, and in particular of those from the former Yugoslavia. At the time it was a shock to see such terrible things happening to people who looked a lot like us. They must have wondered, as they carried what they could into an uncertain future, what would happen to all the precious things they left behind them, the relatives who could not accompany them, their homes and cherished heirlooms.
Many Belgian refugees headed towards the Netherlands where they spent the war, others went to France, but around a quarter of a million of them, including the De Bock family, left for Britain. Using whatever means they could they crossed the Channel, arriving in their thousands. On the 14th October 1914 Folkestone received 16,000 refugees in one day. Across the United Kingdom clothes and toys were collected for distribution to those who arrived only with what they were wearing. Refugee reception centres were set up at Alexandra Palace and Earls Court in London, the latter eventually had 100,000 refugees pass through it. Many towns set up committees and arranged to take in Belgian families, making every effort to welcome them. The Belgian government built and managed villages in which communities of refugees had access to schools that taught in French and Flemish.
The De Bock family began to generate a paper trail, as every time refugees moved to a new address they were obliged to inform the police, and the documentation still exists, in an archive in Belgium, where Alison Sandford MacKenzie, who researches the stories of Belgian refugees in Royal Tunbridge Wells for her blog was able to find it for me. Their undated entry on the Central Refugee Register includes their address in Belgium, their names and ages, Gustave's occupation and a series of addresses as they moved around. It's difficult to make out some of the handwriting but one, possibly the first, could be Colnbrook, which suggests they may first have stayed near Slough in Berkshire.
The first firm reference to an address is in South Yorkshire, where another document tells us that Gustave and his family were living in July 1915, at Wharncliffe Silkstone, near Tankersley. At that stage he was described as an agricultural labourer. Chris Jones of The Friends of Hemingfield Colliery was able to tell me what the area was like at the time.
"Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery was only one of several collieries in and immediately around the parish of Tankersley, around 7 miles from Barnsley in South Yorkshire. The smallest settlement closest to the pit itself was Pilley. The main landholders included Earl Fitzwilliam, of Wentworth Woodhouse, and the Earl of Wharncliffe whose seat was at Wortley Hall.
Tankersley itself was described as a small mining village in 1914, at the time of the WSC pit disaster. The parish population was recorded as 2,423 in the 1911 Census, but that belies the working population of the pits who travelled short distances from neighbouring areas; Wharncliffe Silkstone pit itself employed around 1,400 men and boys, with around 1000 underground working several seams, collectively producing 10,000 tons per week. Other nearby industrial concerns included the Tankersley and Rockingham Collieries belonging to the very large coal, iron and chemical business of Newton Chambers & Co Ltd of Thorncliffe in the neighbouring parish of Ecclesfield. Hoyland Silkstone Colliery in Hoyland Nether was nearby, and several of Earl Fitzwilliam's own collieries in and around Elsecar."
That makes it seem as though it was a very grim industrial environment but as Chris explained "It would be wrong to think of the landscape as being black, for green fields were surrounding the steaming chimneys. There would be plenty for agricultural labourers to do. The estate land of the Earls Fitzwilliam and Wharncliffe were a mixture of enclosed fields and deer parks. Tankersley's binding the earliest enclosed deer park. Agricultural land was rented out to tenant farmers. Surface ironstone mining in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries disrupted the larger swathes of parkland which later became farmers fields."
The people of Yorkshire had welcomed Belgians, raising money and organising places to stay for a number of families. Entertainments such as concerts were organised for them. However, news of the treatment by the German army of their countrymen who had remained, of food shortages and starvation, and of their use as forced labour must have reached them. Their first language was Flemish and it must have been difficult to make themselves understood and, at times, cope with the stress of exile, despite the generosity and best efforts of their hosts. It may have been a challenge for Gustave, as the head of a family of seven that was about to gain another member, to earn enough to keep them all. Unfortunately they may also have become aware of growing calls for male refugees of suitable age to join the fight. It was hard for some to know the risks their own sons were facing at the front and at the same time see young men of the same age in the streets, especially after conscription was introduced. Gustave would have been at the end of the age range for military service and his oldest son Cesar was too young but they may still have been aware of some hostility. In July 1915 Gustave declared his intention to take his family to the refugee camp at Earls Court in London.
Thus it was that Magdalena De Bock was born in London, on the 16th February 1916. It is interesting to note that, while her father was described, at the time her birth was registered, as a "general labourer of Earls Court Camp" her place of birth is given as 28 Marloes Road. I thought that this might mean that she had been born at a private address or at the Kensington Infirmary which was once there but Veronika Chambers, of the website "Lost Hospitals of London" told me "No. 28 Marloes Road would have been used as a 'place of birth' address to avoid stigmatising a child being born in the workhouse. No. 28 was the offices for the Guardians of the Kensington workhouse, but undoubtedly the child would have been born in the workhouse. I suppose it was a kindness really. Many other workhouses used street addresses rather than a workhouse name for birth certificates."
I suspect the camp itself would have been an unsuitable place for Maria to have had her baby and the workhouse facilities provided the next best option. I doubt whether many Londoners are aware that around 100,000 Belgian refugees had passed through the War Refugee Camp by the end of the war or that it was even there, so little evidence remains of their presence. Earls Court housed 4000 refugees at a time, sleeping in beds in the huge exhibition halls, with little privacy. A painting by Henry Rushbury showing a group of residents with their children is a rather romanticised depiction of it.
Magdalena's brief life, the whole of which was spent as a displaced person at the Earls Court camp, coincided with some of the best known battles of the First World War. The Battle of Verdun began a week after her birth. The Battle of Jutland took place during her life. Tanks came into use for the first time at the Somme. Romania and Italy entered the war. Ireland witnessed the Easter Rising. I doubt if the De Bocks cared much about what was happening across the Channel because, on the 22nd September 1916, their youngest child died. Even today, in such an environment it might have been difficult to avoid gastroenteritis which often proves fatal for babies. They were not alone in their loss, I came across burial records for at least fifteen children under a year old as well as adults who died at the War Refugee Camp and have their graves at Greenford Park Cemetery. There is no way of knowing whether or how often they were visited but their families were not able to to buy plots or pay for memorials, so their loved ones were in graves shared with strangers and after a while it may have been difficult to remember where they were. Today their location is within sight of a section of the cemetery devoted to children. Brightly coloured balloons drift over them, there are teddy bears, flowers and statues to show every passing visitor how precious they are. I have no doubt that, had they been able to, those Belgian families would have lavished as much attention on the graves of their infants as parents do now.
The fact that Gustave, Maria and their surviving children spent so long at the camp suggests that they were not in a position yet to afford their own accommodation or that there was none to be had. According to Christophe Declercq of the Online Centre for Research on Belgian Refugees, "In the spring of 1915, pressure on local housing provision in Fulham even triggered a true anti-Belgian riot by local people."
Despite this, the records show that in March 1917 they had found a new home at 39 Heckfield Place, off Fulham Road, close to its junction with North End Road. They moved again to 42 Heckfield Place in July which suggested to me that it was a tenement as I knew from past research that families would sometimes move from one flat to another over a number of years as their family grew or shrank and their needs changed. This was confirmed by an archivist for the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham who has seen photographs of the building. She thought that, as some had been taken by the local health authority and included images of its demolition there may have been concerns about its quality. Even so this may be the place that Albert was born to Gustave and Maria in the late summer of 1917. It seems to have been an area with plenty of opportunities for employment and Gustave found work as a butter hand.
I learned this from one of the final entries in the De Bock family records. On the 23rd November 1917 Gustave and the others embarked at Southampton, on the way to Le Havre in France, "to take up employment under the Belgian Government". By now the issue of the failure of Belgian men to be part of the war effort had been resolved as a consequence of the shortage of munitions. There was such a need for them that refugees, both men and women, were taken on by existing British companies as well as by Belgian ones in the UK. An example was the Pelabon Works. Christophe Declercq told me "Very likely employment was at a munition factory, run by the Belgian government. Like in the UK, the Belgian government operated or co-ran several munition factories. Or if a Belgian-owned factory was involved in the respective war effort, the Belgian government would oversee employment to some extent."
My last piece of information about the De Bock family, before they disappear into the past, is a final change of address notification. On the 8th October 1918 they returned to Heckfield Place, this time to no. 19, just over a month before the Armistice. I don't know why they returned, or even if they stayed or joined the ninety per cent of refugees who went home to Belgium as soon as they could. They left more than memories behind them if they did.
If Magdalena had been born in the peace and comfort of her family's home in Zele rather than a refugee camp would she had survived? Her mother had borne five other healthy children before they were forced to leave. At Greenford Park Cemetery she has an irregular honour guard of soldiers, sailors and airmen of two world wars with their CWGC headstones. I believe hers is as much a war grave as that of any combatant or civilian who came under fire, yet there is nothing to tell us that she and the others are there. Only the registrations of her birth and death, and an entry in a cemetery register indicate that she even existed. Insignificant to most, but as precious to her family as a soldier left in foreign ground.
This post is dedicated to the unknown clerk who made the clear and detailed entry about Magdalena in the cemetery register in 1916.
If you have been affected by the loss of a infant Child Bereavement UK has a helpline.
To support today's refugee children please donate to UNICEF
I could not have written this post without the generous help of people who are passionate about their local and national history.
I am particularly grateful to Alison Sandford MacKenzie who took the time to provide me with some of the De Bock family's records whilst doing research for her own blog BelgiansRTW
Chris Jones, The Friends of Hemingfield Colliery
Veronika Chambers, Lost Hospitals of London
Christophe Declercq, Online Centre for Research on Belgian Refugees
A review of a book about the attack on Dendermonde can be found on Willy Van Damme's Weblog
The BBC's page on Belgian refugees in the First World War.
An excellent article by Bill Lawrence of Mexborough and District Heritage Society.
Christophe Declercq's informative, illustrated article on Belgian refugees in the UK.
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Happened to catch Lou Dobbs on the CNN evening news recently and one of his featured reports had to do with the issue of the displacement of service and construction workers by illegal immigrant labor. Such a difficult subject here in Richmond since the number of undocumented people is substantial in this community and rising daily.
I was reminded of a day some 3-4 years ago when -- in my role as field representative for a member of the state assembly -- I found myself sitting in a large discussion circle with representatives from various nonprofits and agencies, plus labor union members. It was a racially diverse group and one in which I normally felt in complete accord. The meeting was being held in Richmond's largest Spanish-speaking Catholic church. The pastor, Father Tony, was co-chair of the hosting organization. There was an interpreter present due to the number of Spanish-speakers in the meeting. We were gathered for a seminar on the subject of immigrant labor and the (then) upcoming march to be held in nearby Oakland as an element in the annual Cinco de Mayo parade and day-long celebration. Those taking the lead were members of a social action collaborative to which I was a founding member, plus the AFL-CIO acting on behalf of service workers.
I was increasingly uncomfortable as the morning wore on. I knew that the legislator for whom I worked would be solidly behind this cause and that I was pretty certain that she would expect me to support her views on the matter. In fact it was my obligation to do so. I was feeling more and more resistant as the morning wore on, and had to come up with some way to either give voice to my confusion -- or simply get up and leave. Neither course of action felt right, given my position.
When it became unbearable to continue to sit and stew -- I interrupted the agenda with this:
"I'm so schizophrenic on this matter that I'm feeling like I really need for all of you to help me sort out some of these doubts so that I can do my job. I feel as if I need two chairs to sit on -- one for the professional who is here to represent the state, and another for the Betty who sees the problem very differently from my boss, or, anyone else in this room, apparently." I continued to an uncomfortably hushed group, "I'm far more interested in the problem of displaced service workers than I am in the question of the rights of illegal immigrants!" Then I started to see black folks perk up and heads begin to bob in agreement -- though no one knew where this was going to take us. Not even I had any idea of what disastrous course I was taking, and that silent room suggested that I might be stepping out into the abyss without my bungee cord! I was confident enough of my standing in this group to risk candor. I then told the story of how dismayed I'd been recently to see on screen images of striking janitorial workers in San Francisco, 99% of whom were non-black in an industry that had at one time had been dominated by black folks. Where had they gone?
I told them how puzzled I was a couple of years earlier when my mother was a patient at a nursing home nearby where -- over a period of 3 months, every African American nurse's aide or registered nurse was systematically replaced by women from the Phillipines. Where had they gone?
The following day I drove from my satellite office in Richmond to our district office in Berkeley to catch my boss for some talk about the issue. Ordinarily we were so closely allied politically that there was little need to confer. This was different. I was far from clear on my own feelings about the matter -- couldn't stand to be thought of as either racist or politically incorrect. I felt myself far too sophisticated for such feelings. I was embarrassed. It was necessary to feel backed up by my office. And, in the event that we didn't see eye to eye on a matter as important as this one, then I'd have to make some decisions about whether I could adequately continue to fill this position at all with any sense of integrity. Important stuff.
After some polite listening my boss said the obvious, "...of course I support this action. These poor people have every right to employment. They're doing the work that no one else wants to do, and therefore are contributing positively to the economy."
I wasn't satisfied. My response was: "...I, and my black contemporaries, grew up as the children of service workers for the most part. I was a child and adolescent during the Jim Crow period, and my parents had little opportunity to enter any other job market due to racial practices of the times. Most of today's black leaders in my age group were supported by a generation of folks who were doing those jobs that no one else wanted to do. They were the red caps, the bellhops, the janitors and hotel maids, and the hospital aides and railroad porters, housekeepers and childcare workers, laborers on construction sites, etc. It was by their labor that my generation completed high school and began to enter the universities in significant enough numbers to begin to change the future for black folks everywhere."
She tried to reassure me that African Americans had moved on up since the economy had opened up to us, and that we no longer had to depend upon such low wage employment. This is an assumption that I found hard to justify in light of the desperation and hopelessness that I witnessed day after day in the course of doing the work.
What has happened to those displaced service workers over the past dozen or so years? There was little union organizing around to protect their industry or to organize on their behalf. What with the escalating cutbacks in the welfare system -- and with so many now at the mandatory cutoff after five years of benefits over a lifetime, how are they feeding their kids, or handling healthcare? Now that the service-worker-conveyer-belt-into-the-middleclass has disappeared, how are their children being moved into the mainstream? Or are they? Lots of questions. Had this entire generation of former service workers been abandoned to find their only salvation in an underground economy fueled by drugs?
As I recall, our conversation closed without consensus. I was left with the feeling that -- though I'd presented my case well -- I was not free to work against the official view from our office. The Latino vote had become a powerful factor in electoral politics, and I was fully aware of it. I think that -- as two mutually respectful good friends -- My boss and I without comment agreed to disagree. The words were never voiced -- then or ever, and I was left to ponder endlessly without resolution. I deeply resented the doubts I'd begun to suspect about my own sense of fairness and racial politics. Did I need to take one of those courses on the evils of racial bigotry after all these years? I truly didn't know. Was I, too, guilty of racism without recognizing it in myself?
After tentatively raising my issues at another time in the city's most effective collaborative -- Vision 2000 --, I drew back and held my silence. Though I felt strong support for my questions from other African Americans, few were willing to take a public stand on the matter. The fear of appearing racist was simply too much for us. I spoke about it with an activist African American clergyman whom I deeply respect and was told that "..African Americans are the most forgiving of people...". Didn't know quite how this related to the subject at hand, but it gave me a way to back away and hold my silence despite my strong continuing feelings of resistance while I worked on my forgiveness quotient.
I had a growing feeling that the issue was festering in the black community and that it would explode with anger and resentment at some point if not teased out. We tried to arrange a panel discussion but few participated or even seemed interested. It was not yet time.
The last time I felt strongly about the matter was a day when -- in the same group -- an announcement was made about the Latino Ride for Freedom, a bus trip across country to the nation's capital on behalf of immigrant rights. A page had been taken from our Civil Rights black book of strategies and I felt mildly offended. I couldn't, however, find a way to say anything that wouldn't alienate my Latino friends, so I quietly left the meeting as it neared closure, but again as a very troubled social activist.
Last night Lou Dobbs announced that 41% of displaced workers nationwide had been pushed out of competition for employment in the construction and services industries by illegal immigrant laborers. He added that 40% of black workers had suffered the same fate. There appeared on camera a white construction worker saying that more and more of those in his industry were being undercut for jobs by employers who were benefitting hugely from the low wages that illegals were willing to accept.
At last, the problem is being framed openly and in terms -- not of the victimization of illegal immigrants, nor of the victimization of African American displaced service workers -- but the villain was being called out for what it was; corporate greed. As it is with NAFTA and the exportation of entire industries overseas or below the border, what has happened is that those in the lower and middle classes are seeing the wages depressed by the deliberate actions of employers who benefit hugely by so doing. By bringing down wages in this country -- there will be less need for exportation of entire industries. Those results are a long way off, though, even the small wages for which the illegals will work pales against the miserably low wages in other countries. The race to the bottom will take years, but meanwhile the growing resentments among those displaced will continue to grow and the discontent will feed upon itself -- leaving the true culprits free of either blame or the need to be accountable to a nation under stress.
As always, African Americans were the canaries in the mine. The problem was explained away with the "...they're not taking jobs away from anybody. They're only doing the work that nobody else wants to do." If the Dobbs report has any merit, we may see the greatest push for controlling the borders coming from those same labor unions who ignored the signs until it reached their rank and file.
This will be a growing debate over the next decade. Hope we can uproot the villains and make firm these fragile coalitions between the have-nots. We can ill afford to do otherwise. We need one another in order to survive this time of unprecedented greed and exploitation.
Who's marked for greatness besides Paul Miller?
That's easy, I'm looking at Attorney Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center in San Francisco. His work on the world stage is becoming more and more important. He recently returned from the World Economic Forum at Davos with a strong sense of where we are and where we ought to be in the march toward a better future. His recommendations? "Forget what's happening in Washington, D.C. Let's just go about the business of building that better world here in the Bay Area and then let the rest of the country emulate that." His work on juvenile and criminal justice reforms has made a significant difference in policymaking in this state. His strong support in the battle for a moratorium for the death penalty will surely help to bring about much-needed scrutiny of the issue if not abolition.
United States Senator Barack Obama, of course; someone we're all pinning our hopes on. He impresses me because he is being so very cautious in not moving too fast or taking too many chances before it is appropriate to do so. He's letting us know that he's in it for the long haul and is trying hard to get us to not hamper his efforts by too-heavy expectations. This is a wise and ethical man who is destined to become a world leader in the not too distant future.
Lani Guinnere's short-circuited ascent has slowed her trajectory into national prominence to some degree, but her writings and her incisive powers of analysis continue to bring me from whatever "next room" I happen to be in when I hear that distinctive voice ring out from the radio. I've been known to pull over to the shoulder of the road to listen to her remarks from time to time, and each time come away with usable nuggets of logic and truth. We owe her much. Knowing that she is influencing a new generation of leadership from her university lectern is comforting. One day, though, I'm looking to see her occupying a bench -- maybe on the Supreme Court.
Then there's the rarely-seen Aron McGruder, the political cartoonist who has the same arresting effect on me that Ms. Guinnere does. So much wisdom gained over so few years -- 'tis a wonder. Can't imagine why we don't see more of this wise young man, but I'll keep watching what pieces of his work that I can ferret out and continue to hope for more.
In journalism there's Jesse Douglas Allen-Taylor of the Berkeley Daily Planet and an occasional contributor to AlterNet.com. His insightful pieces are being more and more widely read. Not much that happens in the Bay Area of any import whatever escapes his notice or his pen. He's working on a first novel that shows great promise. His insight into the workings of local governance has caught the attention and concerns of major policymakers and made a difference in outcomes of many a critical civic debate. I'm looking for a Pulitzer with his name on it one day soon.
I also like the work of Deborah Santana. Listening to a radio interview on the occasion of the release of her memoirs reminded me of the kind of spirit and sensitivity of Isabel Allende's writings.
In the arts I like the compositions and performances of Jill Scott and am waiting to hear more from Queen Latifah who has only recently discovered her more serious side and come up with more traditional jazz and R&B themes that are truly exciting. Each time I watch her I see a young Pearl Bailey before me, and wonder if Ms. Latifah sees that in herself? It's clearly an accidental quirk of nature since they're generations apart and there is surely no conscious effort to imitate, but the effortless timing and sheer richness of personality are stunningly similar.
I also have great expectations for the continuing political contributions of Kwami Mfume in his bid to join Obama in the Senate chambers. I've loved him for years and was truly dismayed when he left the Congress to head the NAACP. Have forgiven him, though, and am grateful for the fine work he did in leading that organization out of the shadows of insolvency and back into national prominence.
There are others, I'm sure, in other fields, but I have now to go about the important task of moving the laundry from the washer to the dryer -- then it's off to the dentist to make a payment on my newly re-lined dentures, so that I can claim them as my own again. For one who hated and feared dentists since childhood, I must admit that I was looking forward happily to the day when I could stay home and just send my teeth in a cab! In case you're wondering, that doesn't work too well, either. Wish I could do it all over again ... at least that part of my bodily life... .
Great show, but almost overwhelming ...
Only realized last night during the show that -- though I own a copy of the old film -- I've never had any inclination to watch it. Was aware that it was blatantly racist and, though considered the epic of its time and heralded the birth of the film industry as a viable art form, the pain of watching it always managed to overwhelm my curiosity. It felt more important to own for its historic value than to experience it. It sits on my bookshelf for someday ... .
Paul "DJSpooky" Miller is without question one of the prophetic voices of the new art world. That is undeniable. His inventiveness in instantaneously choosing those film clips to feed from his elaborate turntable (live!) -- into what is an almost brutally assaultive art piece was unlike anything I've ever experienced. It was all done on three huge screens that filled the stage. He "played" it in true DJ fashion -- almost cartoon-like images from the old silent movie in combination with the wild effects of morphing and kaleidoscopic openings and closings and super-imposing of images of brutality super-imposed upon scenes of almost Keystone Kop slapstick-taken-from-reality -- and all beating against your senses with the blaring of a rock music assault by Jimmy Hendrix! The soundtrack was the driving force -- loud, raucus, make-you-want-to-run-away music. Overwhelming is the only word that fits, and even then I wish I had another word to use to describe it all. When looking at that evil innocence (and what a strange coupling of words is that) of the period -- the irony in D.W. Griffith's film when viewed against all that followed in our nation's history is staggering!
Miller's choice of those images that featured not only black actors, but whites-disguised-as-blacks as well (with the tell-tale pink eye-linings). Incongruous! There was the cutting in of images of contemporary dancers played against scenes of cotton fields and galloping menacing Klansmen ... all orchestrated to enhance the ugliness of the period and the human tragedy of runaway racial bigotry.
While caught up in the wildness of what was happening on stage, my own mind was cutting and splicing and filling in with its own kaleidoscopic images of my great-grandmother, Leontine Breaux Allen, living those years in that little cabin alongside the levee of the Mississippi in St. James Parish, Louisiana. She was widowed and attempting to raise her brood - farming her small plot of land amid the chaos of radical social change. Up popped the image of handsome great Uncle Albert that hangs on the wall of my Richmond apartment along with all the others -- one of her sons who fled in terror to Kansas City -- never to return -- after a fatal confrontation with a Klansman there in Bayou country; a story I've never known in full detail. It was one of the whispered stories -- enshrouded in secrecy and usually only spoken of in creole by grownups. The language (a patois of Cajun French) was gradually adulterated out of existence by English, so we children learned of it from mother and Aunt Vivian in tiny bits as it gradually escaped the bounds of language over many years.
Maybe one of the reasons that I'm able to relate to Miller's presentation is that there is a resemblance in this dynamic flashing sand-blasting imagery and sound that connects with the process through which I'm able to reconstruct my own history. He's providing "triggers" that release meaningful "clips" reclaimed from childhood memories that together created the foundation upon which was formed the woman who eventually emerged. Interesting.
I sense that something terribly important is going on here, and I'm anxious to see and learn more about it. This is the mission of the arts, and Miller is rolling it out to serve a critical need in a time of unprecented social and political re-assessment and moral outrage.
When I see how far-reaching and all-consuming were the misconceptions and mind-numbing racist attitudes that ushered in decades of lynchings and mutilations that were aided and abetted by this film -- I'm appalled. And -- to cruise the internet and view the web sites based upon hate and racial bigotry -- still -- is devastating at worst, and disheartening at best.
Not sure how I feel about it yet, but I did notice how few non-whites were present in last night's audience. The house was almost 100% white. Found myself searching the crowd for other brown/black faces as we were leaving, and coming up empty. Not even sure what that means, except that there appears to be a growing number of members of the mainstream who are more than willing to examine the darker corners of our society if the search is through the arts and not by direct confrontation. Maybe this San Francisco audience was composed of patrons who are fascinated by the avant garde and are also willing to thereby be moved toward reconciliation; significant progress.
But then where were we?
My fear is that many of us are still trapped by the notion that HipHop is no more than highly sexualized young men in baggy clothing and barely-covered sensually gyrating young bronze women. It's viewed as caps worn backwards, do-rags and gold teeth and shoes-untied -- bumping and grinding verbal obscenities and misogyny for profit. It's seen as 6 inch diamond-studded crosses worn over FUBU tee shirts -- and 6 car garages. Not so. Gangsta Rap was no more than one facet of an emerging art form during the 80s and 90s. HipHop culture has continued to evolve and express itself in myriad ways -- for those who didn't forsake the art for celebrity. It bought a lot of gold chains and Hummers and swimming pools and Rollexes (plus some weapons of self-destruction) for lots of youngsters with few other ways to access fame and fortune. Some were bound to get caught up in the deceptively seductive web of the continuum and simply froze there, no question. But the essence of what has since evolved is a bonafide world-shaping genre that has produced some of the most exciting new art forms imaginable, and that has continued to influence world cultures clear across the planet.
Makes one wonder if its black critics (i.e., Dolores Tucker and dear philanthropic Bill Cosby) have remained open to the continuum -- the progression of the HipHop culture's effects upon dance, and poetry, in filmmaking, in the full spectrum of the visual and performing arts the world over? Would have given a my next social security check to have been sitting between these two revered icons last night -- with the chance to de-brief the experience over some chicken wings, spicy Mama-made head cheese and crackers, and a midnight cup of hot spiced cider ... .
Why call it HipHop? Why not? Dada is the silly name of a highly respected genre represented by Arp and his cohorts and suffers none the less for the dubbing.
I came away wanting to know more about the Reconstruction period, those unspeakably brutal years in this nation's history -- years that followed the emancipation of enslaved black Americans and our ascension to seats of power, at least for that brief tumultuous period depicted in the film. I really know very little of that era-- a time that brought about the backlash of the white south and the emergence of the Klan. Learned from Doug that the best thesis is that of Du Bois. Hope his book is still in print... .
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Here's How Netflix Can Bounce Back	Does BHP Billiton Have Room to Run Higher?
The gaming market accounts for one of the most rapidly growing markets, and the gaming companies have been capitalizing on this trend by upgrading the graphics and features of new upcoming games. At present, Electronics Arts (EA) and Activision Blizzard (ATVI) are the two most significant players of the gaming industry. As a matter of fact, both Electronics Arts as well as Activision are situated with almost similar growth prospects.
In the case of Electronic Arts, the yearly sports titles accounts for the most significant thing for the company, and this is why I am more bullish on the stock going forward. However, the company's latest version of FIFA, "FIFA 16" till date, hasn't performed as well as its predecessor "FIFA 15".
The company expects FIFA 16 sales to be 8.2 percent lower than those of FIFA 15. If this happens, it would be the first decline for FIFA after a long time.
However, FIFA 16 was not launched on any handheld devices, whereas FIFA 15 was launched for handheld devices. This could be the reason behind the declining sales of FIFA 16. Furthermore, FIFA 16 was not launched on Wii also, while FIFA 15 was.
As a matter of fact, the company is well aware of the declining sales, and it can be certainly said that it is putting in a lot of effort to regain the sales momentum. Electronic Arts' upcoming FIFA installment, FIFA 17, is scheduled to be launched on 27th of next month. In the case of FIFA 17, the company has decided to use its Frostbite engine.
The company will witness huge benefits by using the Frostbite engine as this could provide a new and fresh start to the game. Another significant advantage is that Electric Arts should also be able to reduce cost by using Frostbite engine, as this engine is also used by the company for Battlefield 1, etc.
Apart from this, Electronic Arts is also on its way to launch "Titanfall 2". Moreover, Titanfall 1 was launched for Xbox and Windows platform exclusively, but this time, Titanfall 2 will also be launched for Sony's PlayStation 4 console.
Despite the FIFA sales decline, Electronic Arts has continued moving higher over the last few weeks. Moreover, after a year of sales decline, it is highly likely that Electronic Arts will work extra-hard on greatly improving the game. In addition, FIFA sales tend to be higher whenever there's an international soccer event, and given that the UEFA EURO was hosted this year, FIFA sales could rise considerably next year.
One Reason Why Electronic Arts Can Continue Moving Higher. InvestorGuide.com. WebFinance, Inc. http://www.investorguide.com/article/20196/one-reason-electronic-arts-can-continue-moving-higher/ (access:April 24, 2019).


Congratulations to Wasps FC Ladies for securing their place in the new women's Super Rugby competition.
Wasps FC are delighted to confirm that their ladies' premiership team has been invited to take part in the inaugural RFU Women's Super Rugby competition.
Giselle Mather, Wasps FC Ladies Director of Rugby said "All at Wasps FC are thrilled to be included in the new Women's Super Rugby Competition. Wasps FC Ladies has a long and proud history in the women's game and inclusion in the new league will take our game to a new and very exciting level. We have worked hard in preparation for this moment and we look forward to bringing a high-level performance environment to London. The Women's Super league will be a very exciting and challenging competition".
The new competition has been created following a comprehensive RFU review of the women's game and reflects the growing popularity and success of it. The 10 clubs that form the new league took part in a rigorous 3 month selection process and first matches kick-off in September 2017.
Richard Green, chairman of the 150 year old club said "It's a huge honour to be part of this new Women's Super League, and it recognises the blood, sweat and tears that thousands of Waspies have shed in the 30 plus years of women's rugby at the club. We are immensely proud of their achievements and I am sure the best is to come! Wasps everywhere will be thrilled to hear this news. Once a Wasp, always a Wasp!"
For full information visit the Wasps FC website or England Rugby website.


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2 new members joined IWSA
We are glad to announce, that 2 more members joined IWSA during the 2016/17 winter swimming season.
A warm welcome for Mongolia and Australia as the new members of IWSA. The first to join was Australia, after our visit to the National Winter Swimming Championships, and officially became a member in October 2016.
Mongolia became a member closer to the end of the season. The official decision to make Mongolia a member of IWSA was made in February 2017 and a member certificate was awarded to Sh.Davaadorj of the Mongolian Winter Swimming Association on March 4, during the after party of the 8th Pirita Open. During season 2016/17, he was an active participant in multiple stages of the IWSA World Cup and other events of the IWSA event calendar.
We welcome our new members to IWSA and thank them for joining us. Let's all enjoy winter swimming!


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