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Top-Secret UFO Files Could 'Gravely Damage' US National Security if Released, Navy Says
The US Navy confirmed they have secret, classified documents regarding a 2004 UFO encounter, but releasing them could 'gravely damage' national security.
Top-Secret UFO Files Could 'Gravely Damage' US National Security if Released, Navy Says : Read more
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Johnny Nonsense
The Navy statement is intentionally very vague so that the reader can imagine national security concerns to be whatever concerns them the most. The religious person will think it will damage their religion, the investor will think it will damage their investments, etc.
I'm sure the US Navy aren't the only ones who see these things - what about other countries? Why/how are they all on the same page?
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I would think it could be the "entanglement theory".
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Oh, the military is always saying stuff like that. It's just their standard excuse for hiding as much information as possible away from the public....
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Aandruk82
I say let the military decide what's best for us. If they know something which they obviously do and deem it too risky to be let out to the public then I say let's stand behind out military. I believe in them and what they are doing and if they say it's not for public eyes then so be it. What would the public do with knowing more about craft in our skies that exhibit radical new capabilities. It's the militaries job to handle such events and I believe they are doing just that. Whatever we get here and there as far as information great but let's let the military decide how it gets distributed.
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cecilia fx
Johnny Nonsense said:
it's not vague.
Revealing info about this Unidentified thing might also reveal surveillance techniques. And since the US has been spying on the Russians (among others) for years this could be dangerous.
politically.
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Not all of us prefer to be sheeple.🙈🙉🙊
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Truthseeker007
I was in the military and I respect my fellow brothers and sisters. But that is not the way the US is supposed to work especially when the money is coming from us to fund the military with our tax dollars. It is the Military Industrial Complex which Eisenhower warned about and very dangerous for us for them to have to much power and secrets. There is no reason the American public shouldn't know these things when we are the ones funding them. That is like giving your money to an investor and them telling you they can't tell you what they are doing with your money because it might hurt your feelings.lol!
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groove50 said:
I agree and they have been hiding things from us for years and years.
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cecilia fx said:
They will also lose a lot of credibility when the American people and the world find out they have known about aliens and even work with some for a long time and lied about it and even called people tin foil hat wears for discovering this. I saw a good show on the History channel the other day about aliens and the US gov. cover up. It was very thought provoking to say the least and even went over a few things I discovered through my own research on the matter.
I do think they are slowly dripping it out to the public especially since it is being allowed to be shown on mainstream TV. But they can never come out and say the aliens have always been here or what they call full disclosure. I don't think that will ever happen. Unless the whole 2 party system is done away with. Well now it is more like just big government no matter what party.
These original recordings were promptly collected and erased by "unknown individuals" who arrived on the ship by helicopter shortly after the incident, one officer said.
Could that have been the MIB or also known as Men IN Black that seem to always show up with encounters like this?
ty_buchanan
If these "aliens" are from another planetary system they have been away from home for a very long time. According to Einstein their civilization has probably blown itself apart thousands of years ago with nuclear bombs and no longer exists.
I say let the military decide what's best for us.
Exposing our advanced radar data capabilities is only "rational and worldly" reason I could see for the presentation info being withheld.
The FLIR camera videos and their data-readouts has been public since at least the original Gulf War, when the military touted their precision missile strikes.
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Truthseeker007 said:
Unless the whole 2 party system is done away with.
Judging by the UFOlogy tales over the decades, neither 2 parties, nor "big government" is the problem. It's the (very) Deep (and very secretive) State that is hiding this stuff from us, as well as from Goldwater, Carter, Clinton, etc.
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ty_buchanan said:
If these "aliens" are from another planetary system they have been away from home for a very long time.
These objects, if real, seem not very restrained by our "known laws of physics" - so it's no big leap to imagine they'd know a few FTL - worm hole - warp drive- shorcuts too.
If this is the case, it could be the very OPPOSITE of your Einstein conjecture. IOW: these could be some of the very same objects (& "pilots") that have been reported since the 1940's (and maybe thousands of years earlier). The decades and centuries that have passed during sightings here would seem only a half hour errand run here and back for them.
Dtjeff
I agree with you. Except it is not the Military which is keeping secrets of the skies from us. It is the Government. They try to keep as many secrets as possible from American people.
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I believe this was touched upon by the Navy Pilot/witness who spoke about this on the Joe Rogan podcast. One method of recording the UFO is still classified, so they won't release that footage, whatever it is.
I think the truth is that several countries have an idea what's going on, know they exist, but they have no means of stopping it, and it's disconcerting. It's even possible some countries have managed to recover some artifacts but are no closer to understanding or reverse engineering the technology than a 17th century physician would be to understanding advanced medical practices today.
Governments would rather keep everyone in the dark than admit that they are powerless to do anything of substance against a technologically superior species. These 'craft' have been moving in and out of US airspace for decades, with impunity, and that likely freaks out a lot of high ranking military folks. No point in terrifying us unwashed masses as well. That won't help anything.
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I don't think all ET's are like us and warlike.lol!
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ladino said:
I think so or the ones they call the hidden hand. The true controllers. The ones we don't see. Maybe the true controllers of this earth are the Reptilians like has been said by a few researchers that dive in the rabbit hole.
I did see something I think it was on a history channel documentary about the cover up of aliens by the governments. On there it said when people get near the crafts they would get sick and throw up kind of like radiation poisoning. So maybe the crafts are some kind of Thermal Nuclear.
Nixter
The problem with all of this is that the "need to know" basis for disseminating UFO information is extremely limited. In the book by Leslie Kean; "UFOs: generals, pilots, and government officials go on the record." She revealed that even the President of the United States is not allowed to see this information. That is the problem right there, who is seeing this information and why is it that the President of the United States cannot know about it? This is insanity, we cannot trust any military agency with these kinds of secrets there has to be some kind of review, after all we are paying the bill for all of the stuff. It all boils down to this, the government has secret technology that could lift humanity to the stars quite literally, we cannot afford to stay living as primitives on this planet when the information to make us a star fairing race is available.
sb5k
The definition of Top Secret (other than a great, funny movie) is material that could "gravely damage US security".
This really gives no hint of what is in there. It could be information about our radar or systems that recorded the data, or it could be actual information about aliens.
The Navy gave no information about this.
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sb5k said:
The only problem with that is they are doing nefarious things beneath the American people's noses labeling it as something that will damage national security. Such as things they did with MK Ultra in the past. And who knows what they are doing now beneath our noses and without our knowledge.
Nixter said:
Correct me if I am wrong but didn't they let the president stop seeing that information after JFK. He was going to share some of the information with the Soviets. Probably another part of the reason he was taken out by the CIA and the Bush clan. But I know it may be a topic for another post but it is connected in a way to the UFO cover up.
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The Philadelphia Campaign begins
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On this day in history, August 25, 1777, the Philadelphia Campaign begins when British General William Howe and his brother, Admiral Richard Howe, land 17,000 troops in an armada of 265 ships at Head of Elk, Maryland. The armada was the largest ever assembled in American waters.
George Washington's Continental Army tracked Howe's movements down the eastern seaboard until he lost track of them near the Delaware Capes. Washington camped at Wilmington, Delaware until he could determine where exactly Howe was going. Howe encountered rough weather at sea, taking six weeks to get from Sandy Hook, New Jersey to Maryland's Elk River at the top of the Chesapeake Bay. Howe's men were sea sick and his horses dying after running out of forage during the long and rough voyage.
General William Howe
Howe landed just below the town of Elkhorn, Maryland, and began unloading supplies and thousands of soldiers, a monumental task in a shallow and muddy river. Ships got stuck in the mud. Horses were so weak after running out of food that they couldn't walk. Some of the largest ships couldn't even make it all the way up river and had to be unloaded further down and their cargos transported by land.
Hale-Byrnes House, Newark, Delaware
Wilmington sits between Elkton and Philadelphia and Washington himself led frequent reconnoitering missions to determine what the British were doing and what their troop strength was. Howe advanced slowly. He had to wait for his horses to eat and get their strength back. Another huge storm enveloped the area, destroying ammunition for both sides.
Eventually Howe began advancing toward Philadelphia. For weeks, the two armies maneuvered around each other, with frequent skirmishes, but no major battles. Washington finally dug in along the Brandywine Creek near Chadds Ford about 20 miles to the southwest of Philadelphia. The two armies clashed in one of the biggest battles of the Revolution at the Battle of Brandywine on September 11th, a battle that pitted 30,000 soldiers against one another and had almost 2,000 casualties.
The British were the victors at the Battle of Brandywine, the first major battle of the Philadelphia Campaign. The Continental Army was nearly wiped out, and would have been if not for the last minute maneuvers of generals Nathanael Greene and William Alexander, who held off the British until the rest of the army could escape. The American defeat forced Congress to flee Philadelphia in haste and move further inland.
For several more days the two armies maneuvered around one another, but the British were able to march into Philadelphia on September 28th unchallenged. They would continue to occupy the city until June of 1778, when the new American commander, Henry Clinton took over from Howe and abandoned Philadelphia on orders from London. Clinton took the troops back to New York and began the new Southern Campaign to take back the southern states after their attempts in the north had failed.
Read what happened on other days in American history at our On This Day in History section here
August 25, 1777 - The Philadelphia Campaign begins
August 26, 1765 - A Boston mob destroys the home of Thomas Hutchinson
August 27, 1776 - George Washington loses the Battle of Long Island
August 28, 1775 - The American invasion of Quebec begins
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DO YOU KNOW THAT 200 CHINCHILLAS HAVE TO BE KILLED FOR ONE FUR COAT?
This month Animal Friends launches a big national campaign for the ban on breeding animals for fur in the Republic of Croatia. After a campaign in which Goran Visnjic sent a message of boycott against wearing fur "If you wouldn't wear your dog, please do not wear any fur" from a billboard three years ago, this year's campaign for the ban on breeding animals for fur is joined by another Croatian actor. Robert Boskovic will pose with a one-year-old chinchilla Pepo on leaflets, post cards, and 50 billboards which in mid January appeared in seven Croatian towns - Zagreb, Split, Osijek, Rijeka, Varazdin, Zadar, and Pula.
It is estimated that between 30 and 50 million animals are killed every year for their fur. Chinchillas, foxes, minks, raccoons and other animals spend their short lives on fur farms kept in tiny wired filthy cages, constantly pacing in circles from stress and boredom. Some of them develop self-mutilating behaviors and become aggressive towards other animals in cages.
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A legal ban of this cruelty is the only solution for the animals bred and killled for their fur. Croatia, in which chinchillas are bred for their fur, should follow the example of countries like Great Britain and Austria that showed ethical and political maturity by banning the breeding of animals for their fur.
During the campaign for the ban on breeding animals for fur in Croatia, at the main city square in Zagreb a big international protest for the ban on breeding animals for fur will take place on February 4, 2006. Protesters from Slovenia, Serbia and Monte Negro, Germany, Austria and other countries will join activists from Animal Friends and Croatian citizens.
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Speeding down the road from Les 2 Alpes, I unzipped my jacket as the sun's warming fingers crept around the vertiginous peaks standing sentry on either side. I was on my way to meet Donnons des Elles au Velo J-1, a formidable sounding group of 13 women who were riding every stage of the Tour de France the day before the men competed in the world biggest and greatest bicycle race.
My jacket flapping in the wind, sleepy legs slowly waking, a series of questions ran through my mind. Did I have enough TRIBE bars to keep myself fuelled over the next day? Would we be able to stop for water? Had I remembered my sunscreen? Just how fast were these women going to ride?
I rolled into our meeting spot on the side of the road just outside Bourg d'Oisans feeling very much like the new girl at school, unsure who I should speak to and where I'd fit into everything. Spotting a support car filled with water I felt reassured that I wouldn't die of dehydration (it was due to be hotter than the sahara), so I spent some time slathering myself in Factor 50 whilst I attempted to decipher the meaning of the team briefing taking place in uber-fast French. We rolled out.
We were riding Stage 13 of the Tour de France, a 170km epic from Bourg d'Oisans in the Isère to the city of Valence in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. After a particularly punishing Stage 12 in the mountains, the weary band of women were happy that the day's stage would be very flat and had been instructed by their coach to use the day as a recovery ride. He'd made it emphatically clear that under no circumstances were we to push hard, break away or do anything except roll, putting the minimal amount of force through our pedals so that the team could flush the lactate from their legs and give their muscles a chance to repair.
You might think that as I bike racer I'd find these instructions hard to follow and want to push hard. Wrong! Though I do adore going fast, a day in the saddle with no 'efforts,' intervals, puffing, panting and leg pain sounded pretty delightful so I settled into a cruisy pace with my companions and set about getting to know more about them and their mission.
The whole point of the ride (although not the only reason – the 13 women simply enjoy the opportunity to do nothing but ride several weeks each July) is to publicise the fact women are denied a Tour de France of their own, and frequently because people think that women aren't strong enough to ride a stage race of such length and difficulty. As all of the women in Donnons des Elles au Velo J-1 are amateurs (some of them racers, some of them not), in matching every mile the men ride each year they make the point that women are more than capable of riding back to back stages of significant difficulty. So whilst Donnons des Elles Au Velo J-1 aren't actually racing, but rather riding, the point is a professional women's UCI team could perfectly well race a women's Tour de France if they had the opportunity.
The point of the ride is not, as some silly commenters have written on my video, to get women to ride in the current Tour de France alongside the men. In what other sport do men compete alongside women? The idea is to publicise the need for parity and the fact that women aren't given the chance to shine and ride the biggest cycling event on the calendar. Imagine if Wimbledon was just for men? Imagine if you grew up knowing the you'd never be able to ride the Tour de France just because you were born female – what does that say to girls?
As we continued to roll along the valley, a neat peloton of smiles and tanned limbs I cautiously began to practice my French and was happy that I seemed for the most part to be understood. It was pretty crazy to be riding on such a flat road slap bang in the middle of the French Alpes and even at 'recovery pace' we began eating up the miles. Every time someone got a little overexcited and went too fast, a cry of 'oop, oop!' would be heard from a sensible member of our group reminding us to take it easy and rest our legs.
About 30km in, we reached our first hill, something I found really strange as I can easily climb 1000m in 30km back home in Devon, and we were in the Alpes! We pedalled to the top for a gorgeous view of the mountains, pastures in the foreground making for quite the idyllic scene. Ditching jackets and grabbing bidons from the support car, we descended through pretty villages before resuming our ride on the flat. And in this way it continued for several pleasant hours.
A big thanks to ŠKODA for sending me to coverage the women's ride and for sponsoring Donnons des Elles Au Velos J-1 this year.
If you'd like to find out more about Donnons des Elles Au Velos and their mission and find out how to join them for a stage of the ride yourself, check out their Facebook page here.
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Heroic Codes in Doctor Who
September 9, 2014 / Becadroit
Cooking up a story
Writers are like chefs. They have ingredients: pop culture tropes, personal influences, knowledge of their audience, big themes and little obsessions. They also have recipe rules they can choose to follow or ignore when they cook up a story. They chuck everything into a mixture, have it whiz in their brains for a bit and in the end, whatever comes out ideally tastes of the familiar, yet is new.
Part of the ingredient list for writers is cultural inheritance. A store of legends, myths, characters, themes, expectations and sayings, (like 'once upon a time'). These change from culture to culture, but if there is such a thing as 'the West' or Western culture, surely it could be defined by the breadth of this cultural largesse. Part of its genius is that it incorporates aspects of many cultures (from Sumerian, Gaelic to Ancient Greek) and appropriates many stories and characters (from Cinderella – who is from China – to the miracle birth of the baby Horus).
It's good to be reminded that just because something feels familiar, or even tired, there are reasons it's lasted over generations.
So when someone reinterprets Robin Hood I have expectations of a place called Sherwood, of Merry Men, of Maid Marian and how they battle the Big Bad Sheriff of Nottingham because I am familiar, like many of us are, with our shared cultural heritage. This story could happen on a far-flung space station, on a tropical island, or in 1960s New York with a gang of dancing kids battling corrupt dancing judges – but we would still recognise it because of how the characters are drawn, and how the story develops. It is a part of our cultural memory.
Yet, there are also opportunities for depth. Not just to present the old in a new setting, but to explore what it means when we make legends, what it indicates about us that we tell new stories by returning to previous stories.
The Doctor and Flashheart of Sherwood
For all the Lord Flashheart fake laughter, which in itself is significant, this is what Robot of Sherwood is doing. Once more The Doctor is told how people see him. It is not as a good man, it is more than that, as Robin explains, as The Doctor is a hero of the same standing as Robin himself, and as Marian notes, a clever one at that.
This is clever of Mark Gatiss too. He uses his character – a version of Legendary Hero – to affirm the legitimacy of an entirely made up fictional character – The Doctor – as Hero. It's the writer claiming what he is creating as myth is just as credible and valuable as any other myth.
As the viewer we assent to this because we trust Robin Hood because he is a Hero. Outside of the story, we know there are 50 years of TV episodes, novels, films, audio plays, fan fiction and criticism to back this claim up. Of course The Doctor is a mythic hero. Of course this means he shares a lot in common with Robin Hood, or any one of a number of such beings that are driven to do more and sacrifice more than most mere mortals can achieve.
Heroic Much?
Of course (again) such a TV show must make the Hero more empathetic. In many myths, Heroes don't often have the luxury of 'good' that the rest of us may bask in when we rescue a possum from a car park (for a real life instance). That's because heroes see the big picture, they're out before the bulldozers and petitioning governments to stop trees being torn down for those very same car parks in the first place. They are too busy, in short, to sit back and ponder stuff like character development.
To put it another way, Heroes are often difficult to personalise in stories, precisely because their actions are epic, and because every day details are either absent, unflattering or insignificant – they get worn away over the millennia in the retelling, and only the significant stuff remains. This is why fairy tales and folk tales seem generic.
Even if they were once 'real' people, Heroes transcend history, even their own. So Robin Hood is a legend, the conflation of folk hero saviour and a bunch of historical figures whose values and deeds are reflective of the desires and needs of the times he represents. That he remains pertinent today says something about both the malleability of stories and the consistency of our requirements in Heroes.
What The Doctor has in all of this, is the benefit of epic Herculean tasks combined with the minutiae of individuality. We get to see details about The Doctor that we don't know or have forgotten about most other Heroes. This is one benefit of writing for television, but it is also the result of how we like our stories told now and how they are preserved. This is precisely why Robin Hood often grated in this episode – because he was deliberately living like a Heroic figure – all bombast. Yet it was when he was real – when talking about Marian or demanding the truth from Clara – that he became a character we could find empathy for.
This is also true of The Doctor, we feel for him as events unfold, and cheer him on too. This is why the companion is important. Since he is Hero and we are not, we need someone more like us to be a lens through which we can understand and question him. In this way, if The Doctor is a hero to Clara, then he is Hero to us and a more accessible and enticing one than many other Heroes.
Damselling and Courtly Love
If Greek Heroes followed the Homeric Warrior Code, followed even now by many of our pop culture Heroes (just think Batman or even Superman), it is also true the nature of the Heroic has been influenced by other ideals. The notion of the quest has been influenced by the chivalric code, and ideals about knighthood embedded additional features, such as the notion of Courtly Love.
Robin Hood is an interesting example. He is a nobleman, (like all good knights), but is an outlaw. Whether he is actually part of the chivalric period matters less than how he clearly demonstrates the Hero's Quest is no bar to love, and can even inspire great deeds, as Courtly Love requires, even or especially if, the beloved is separated from the Hero – as with Robin and Marian.
Writers like Gatiss know all of this, which is why Clara is no Damsel in Distress. Her manipulation of the Sheriff is inspired, and her frustration with The Doctor and Robin Hood compelling. I do wish Marian had more to do, but at least she recognised a hero when she saw one.
It was also why this episode offers an updated Heroic Code, which highlights intellect, technology and cunning over Homeric or even Knightly Warrior values – again made clear in Into the Dalek. Doctor Who's message is that anyone can be Heroic without weapons and without a Damsel; however, with his reason, grumpiness, and anger this Doctor is reminded there are other motivations in life, like love, even amid the life of quests he chose for himself.
Heroic Fallibility
Robin demonstrates The Doctor can be brilliant and also wrong. It happens a bit, where the plot is upended and goes in a direction you don't suspect because The Doctor jumps to conclusions or posits a hypothesis that is demonstrated to be incorrect.
In Robot of Sherwood, sometimes legends prove to be real, although they may be tilting at robotic alien windmills. Yet, for all his outer confidence, conviction, power and knowledge The Doctor is wrong about Robin, but as Clara notes, also blind to how he is perceived.
All this wrongness is just the overt stuff, and hides how The Doctor every so often subverts his unconscious desires. In the episode The Doctor's Daughter, we have the Tardis physically taking him somewhere where he can make someone like himself. This happens and he is angry because Jenny is both like him and not like him enough. In the end The Doctor thinks he's lost her, because he falsely believes he was too early or too late.
No. He was on time, he just didn't wait. In this instance, he forgets the Tardis is a part of himself and so, he is where he needs to be at exactly the right time. In this way, The Doctor's flaw, like so many Heroes, is hubris: excessive pride or a kind of blindness to thinking beyond his own. He questioned the Tardis' timing and therefore he misses out. In Ancient Greek myth hubris is always punished by Nemesis – in this case 'losing' Jenny. But in general The Doctor's BIG nemesis, or opposite or mirror are the Daleks.
Of course, The Doctor is generally a little more aware than the average Hero – mainly due to the presence of his companions. He even realises how his hubris and defiance lead to the creation of the Daleks as his nemesis. His real punishment, then, is his self-imposed/sometimes not-self imposed exile and loss of home. He is a Hero because he realises he isn't, punishes himself for failing when he tries and fails and is at his most Heroic when he forgets all of it.
Thus, we can see your most up to the minute writers constantly messing about with some of the most ancient theories – the building blocks even – of Western story telling regarding the formation of character and how heroes are defined.
Pompeii vs Sherwood
What some viewers expected was something about how The Doctor's intervention creates the event, which therefore creates the legend of Robin Hood, as in Fires of Pompeii, where The Doctor and Donna are forced into a situation where they explode the volcano. This is either unintended irony or entirely deliberate given how Peter Capaldi plays the opposite of what he was with Caecilius. This link to Pompeii is further signalled by the alien beings building all too familiar circuits when and where they shouldn't be.
However, Robot of Sherwood is opposite to this kind of story logic. In this episode all the myth making has been done and we and The Doctor learn Robin Hood the myth is a creation of himself. Furthermore, The Doctor learns is that he is not alone in striving to be better than he may be in reality and that even if he doesn't think he is good, he is someone's Hero.
Batman, Caecilius, Courtly Love, Fires of Pompeii, Homer, Into the Dalek, Lord Flashheart, Mark Gatiss, Peter Capaldi, Robin Hood, Robot of Sherwood, Superman, The Doctor's Daughter
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Government Regulation of Religion
Aug 4th, 2006, in News, by Patung
Indonesia scores poorly on an index of the level of government, and social, interference in religious affairs.
The Association of Religion Data Archives figures for Indonesia.
Scores are based on a scale of 0-10, 0 being none at all, 10 being an extreme level.
Government Regulation of Religion, - 6.1
Government Favoritism of Religion - 8
Social Regulation of Religion - 9.3
The first measure, of government regulation, Indonesia's 6.1 score compares to an average for south-east Asia of 5.5, and a world average of 2.4. Goverment favoritism towards particular religions in south east asia averages 4.4, and in the world as a whole 3.8, thereby putting Indonesia's 8 in a poor light. The final measure, social regulation, where Indonesia scores an almost totalitarian 9.3, sees the south eastern Asian score at 4.8, and the world at 2.9. Indonesians appear to take a great interest in the religious affairs of their neighbours, according to this survey.
The figures above seem to be based on data derived from the U.S. State Department's International Religious Freedom Report for Indonesia.
On the broad scoring of religious freedom, using a scale of 1-7, 0 meaning total freedom of religion and 7 presumably meaning none or very little, Indonesia merits a 5, with the regional average at 4.9 and the global average at 3.7.
The Association of Religion Data Archives also claims that Muslims account for only 54% of the population, while Christians account for 13.5%, Hindus 3.4%, "Ethnoreligionists" 2.5%, "Chinese Universalists" 1.43%, and Buddhists 1%. Based on these numbers about 20% of Indonesians are non-religious or atheist, it seems. The figures appear to be based on data recorded in the World Christian Database, a subscription only service.
The CIA factbook figures (1998) for religious adherence in Indonesia puts the percentage of Muslims at 88% and Christians at 8%. It is likely that the ARDA is trying to measure religious observance rather than simple, and notional, affiliation, as seemingly recorded in the CIA figures.
10 Comments on "Government Regulation of Religion"
O. Bule says:
For a free society to thrive, complete separation of organized religions and the state must be strictly enforced. The government should have no interest in who worships what, when, where, and how (unless the how involves human sacrifice or something similar, as that would violate secular law against murder, kidnapping, etc.).
O. Bule
Oskar Syahbana says:
And what do they say about European government? Most of them still doesn't allow the construction of a mosque (and even transforming the old mosque from 18th-19th century to a museum). Do they score low?
Oskar where you get that idea? Holland, Germany, Sweden, England, France. There are mosques all over the place, big ones, small ones. Not just in big cities, plenty in villages as well. I am sure they all have the correct government permits, else they would be closed up or torn down.
But I dont think the governments are so generous with funds to build them, not so much as before. A lot of that is raised either localy within the comunities or alms from the middle east.
Of course its not up to governments to pay for buildings off worhip, thats responsibility of worshipers themselves.
badai ismatu says:
I know what is the source of this 'government regulation of religion." It is taken for grantedly from Brian J. Grian's article on International Religion Indexes published in a new (unknown) journal of Interdisiplinary Journal of Research on Religion 2006. If you read entire article you will be surprised that this research is not intended only to examine Indonesia. It examine all countries, and Indonesian ranks about in the middle among hundreds countries. You can guess what is the reason to put this kind of blaming Indonesian government. And you know what? Grian's category in this research is indeed misleading and the set of data he used (that is IFRF) is also dubious. How can we come to this shortcutted conclusion? Come on. Be fair and academic!!!
psykz says:
country needs to be neutral, not focusing on one religion only.
if the country do that, then they will miss other point of views which will draws them back. i studied at US and I have friends who are Moslems from Indonesia and from other countries (like Lebanon, Arab, etc) and from US itself.
sorry to say this, but our people do have that small point of view, where they always felt intimidated upon religion etc. Why?
I believe this is caused due to fact the environment are too focused, one sided, and thus it affects their way of life etc.
Government need to focus more on what structurize them, like education, economic, politics, wealth of people, etc.
I.e: education: why don't just eliminate dress code in public schools? people are suffering due to fact they have to pay dress code each time and each year tradition of signing dress can be eliminated by this solution. simple solution, yet due to certain factors, small factors such as this are always get overlooked.
Just a question: what's the reason for having the religion on the ID?
Having religion on the ID in Indonesian context means having identity. That is sort of political identity the former New Order regime required soon after the communist coup in 1965. Communism in Indonesia is always identical with atheism and in this kind of anti communism atmoshpere, being attached to one religious tradition was very urgent for life saving. This is also in accord with the Constitution that recognize God and religions for Indonesians.
Psykz, you are right! A government should focus more on education as well as wealth of people in general instead of overlooking to religion. And that is a different philosophical underpinning between the US, European tradition and some Asian countries like Indonesia. We can have a long discussion for this. I am now doing my study here at ANU for this stuff.
Sorry I made a mistake to put the name of writer of the article I mentioned. It should be read as Brian J Grim and Roger Finke from Pennsylvania State University. I knew that this two scholars have made intensive contribution on the field of sociology of religion.
Keyonna says:
Can you tell me what the Indonesian goverment is doing to help protect the Christian people of Indonesia from the Laskar Jihad? Also why has the Indonesian goverment allowed the Laskar Jihad to have so much power in their country? Also can you tell me about whats happening with the new Constitution that the Goverment of Indonesia is now at this present time making?
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Have you checked the md5sum of downloaded file?
What method (tool, software) have you used to burn the image to DVD?
I don't use DVDs for ages, for them the "output file" device name (of=) could be /dev/sr0 , /dev/sr1 . Find it yourself.
Once the bash prompt after this command is returned, it's safe to (umnount and) extract the media, and use it.
If you insist on graphical tools, the only reliable one is SUSE ImageWriter. It's in Arch repos. It's a perfect tool for USBs, but don't remember, if it can write images to DVDs.
Try either of two. Hopefully, it will work.
Indeed, wanted to ask if you've already used K3b in the past and if that worked well. Sincerely, never used it to burn linux images, so can't express any opinion about it. Though if it worked for you in the past, don't see any reason why it shouldn't do it now.
I'm out of ideas , Im afraid.
Please, give it some time to download the latest version before trying to run Cnchi yourself.
@karasu I was using a 'mini' iso , so I didn't change anything before that message appears , it appeared in the sequence of the others at the top corner .
@just I made two new downloads ( a 'mini' and a `live' iso) , burned both at DVDs and put at pendrives too ( SUSE ImageWriter is only to them,really) . So I was well prepared :) . But it was not enough :( .Resuming ( the results were almost the same , with DVDs and pendrives ,mini and live isos ) : if I don't change the language at the start (F2-pt-BR) results that message ( … set-up running …); if I change at F2 results other things- KDE4 doesn't install packages , Cinnamon and MATE couldn't make sda partitions ( or something like this ) .
So I prefer wait until next month to try again , when everything will be better . August is a strange month .
But If you have a usb stick I would try the dd comand!! Nothing to lose.
@iwar Yes , you right . Well , I hope that you mentioned dd to use like liveusb and not to use like - # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda - or something like this .
I had the same problem while trying to install Antergos for the first time.
I downloaded the minimum iso and created a DVD.
Three attempts to install from a hard power down reboot resulted in the same error.
and I thought nothing was happening since there was no indication of action. I hit install again and got your error.
I performed a soft reboot and waited at the desktop. After about 2 minutes, I hit the install icon and waited again. Normal install action then occurred. The normal install activities followed in sequence and I was able to install to hard disk. I chose the Cinnomin desktop since I use that on Linux Mint.
I have no idea why the soft reboot method worked for me rather than the normal hard power up from a cold machine.
I did use the 18 Aug imageby the way.
That means the command "ionice" before dd?
That means the command 'ionize' before dd?
It's like nice , the difference is that ionice applies to I/O events.
When a big amount of data (say, 10+ G) is copied or moved to external devices, or when, for example, you run 4 instances of fsarchiver , which in parallel archive 4 different 20G partitions, the graphical desktop interface performance may deteriorate.
Mouse will stop moving, clicking on X button won't close a window, a menu won't open, it won't be possible to move a window with the mouse, etc.
That's because I/O operations consume a big deal of CPU.
ionice helps to avoid graphical interface deterioration during massive I/O activities. The desktop remains responsive.
It's not needed by dd , but using it during heavy I/O operations is a good practice. I use it so frequently so it became a habit, the fingers write it automatically, without thinking.
@just Thank you very much and good information, please teach me!
The next time promise to ionice --help, to not disturb!
…The next time promise to ionice --help, to not disturb!
No problem! On the contrary, thanks for the question. It was a pleasure to respond you.


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Paperclip is a co-working space in Sheung Wan. The website looks great, is responsive and therefore mobile friendly, has active social media elements, and nice custom illustrations. I especially like the photos because they show of the space, which is quite simply the best looking space of any co-work space in Hong Kong. Seriously, go check it out in person and you'll see what I mean. No disrespect to others like Wynd and CoCoon that are also unique, but Paperclip's interior design and extensive use of wood is simply on another level.
I like it when someone makes it easy for me to know what they do. The folks at Foak do that with a nice, big opening statement right there in the middle of a big graphic–"We make creative games and applications for mobile." I also like it when there are bold, bright graphics, subtly animated, and what I'm guessing is a mobile phone but could be a large green walking popsicle without a stick, but with sharp, pointy teeth and a purple tongue, bent on devouring some small dots. I have no idea what that's all about, but I like it. But they should get rid of the ugly Captcha box down at the bottom by the contact form. Embrace spam.
It's not what you think. It's not about camping out at a bar. It's not a festival for alcoholics. It's a bunch of self-declared geeks getting together to talk about topics like open source, user experience, coworking, mobile development, and big data. Sound fun? Well, 400-500 Hong Kong computer types think so, and 10 years from now you'll probably be working for one of them. But enough about the event, let's talk about their 2013 website. Bright, bold colors, great photography, nice graphics, and yes, an elegant responsive design. And don't worry, these folks want to set Hong Kong on fire in a good way.
Before I moved to Hong Kong, my wife and I spent a lot of time on real estate websites looking for the right place to live. We were frustrated by a confusing user experience, small photos, blurry photos, photos of things we didn't care about, no photos, no video, and no detail. Spacious is a Hong Kong startup that's changing all that, and they have a nice website to prove it. There's a nice, big photo on the homepage, and that already tells me I'm in for a different experience. The site isn't responsive, but I'm sure they'll fix that soon (hint, hint).
The marketing folks at Lane Crawford tell me they're going to help me discover my own world of style. Well, they have, and it is most certainly bright pink, floral print men's suit coats. I guess I don't really understand much of what passes for fashion these days, or who would pay $3,300 HKD (over $400 USD) for a camo print t-shirt, but I know good design when I see it, and suits with flowers exploding from the collar notwithstanding, the Lane Crawford site is a pleasure to behold. It's not taking advantage of responsive design just yet, but it still looks great.
In case you're not noticing the pattern yet, I like websites with big photos. But first, Surround App is an app that allows you, an English speaker, to engage Chinese speaking users on Weibo, which is China's equivalent of Twitter, only more so. Don't ask me how it works or how they do it, because I only just barely installed it on my Galaxy and haven't had a chance to try it out. They have it for the iPhone as well. But what I like about the website is the great photography, the parallax scroll, and just overall appealing design.
I've never eaten at The Pawn, but if the food is as good as the web design, I'm tempted. Located in Wan Chai, The Pawn serves dishes like "Pan-fried seabass, mashed potato, seasonal vegetables, with lemon butter sauce." Sounds good enough to me. The Pawn website makes use of amazing photography (how did they get that photo of a Hong Kong street with no cars or people on it?), custom illustrations, and unique navigation. Not responsive, but good looking stuff, nonetheless.
I don't know the first thing about makeup, and anyone who says I do is a filthy liar. I also don't know anything about Sasa, except that I know I've seen the logo around Hong Kong quite a bit. I think they have shops. But again, not the type of place I frequent. Any photos of me doing so are fabrications. Now the thing is, I'm not a huge fan of the Sasa.com website, which serves their consumers. The website I'm a fan of is their corporate site. I love the colors, imagery, and design elements. Everything is consistent and fits just right for the type of company Sasa is.
This is a beautiful example of responsive design where you wouldn't necessarily expect it. Check it out on your phone or shrink your browser width-wise and you'll see what I mean. One small and simple but unique aspect is the blending of their Twitter stream in a way that doesn't ruin the design and elegance of the site. Beautiful colors and photography, user friendly navigation, and great product pages with plenty of big photos to keep me happy. It almost makes me want to start wearing a watch.
Dim makes unique consumer products by covering stainless steel with silicone to create heat resistant trivets that can bend into a fruit bowl, "flexi-trees" that have branches for holding your knick-knacks, and leaves that can be bent to make small dishes for holding your keys or…whatever. Good design has gone into the products, which lend themselves to become part of a pattern on the website that establishes the brand of Dim. The site is definitely not SEO friendly in that all the content is contained on a single page, but it looks great.
An architecture/design firm and then some, 10, which apparently got the name after being founded in 2010, also knows how to get the right kind of website to showcase their services. They design big buildings, and there's no way to show that off better than with big photos, which is pretty much 95% of the website. If the entire world were designed by 10, it would be a beautiful place. But if you can't enjoy their projects in person, you can get pretty close by checking out the website.
So what did I miss? Are there great examples of web design in Hong Kong that you are outraged I left out? Post comments and links below.


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Statements and briefs bridge gap between what should be done and what must be done to turn the tide against AIDS together
In the 12 months since the International AIDS Conference followed calls for an AIDS-free generation with a theme of "Turning the Tide Together," two aspirational guides provided directions for the way forward. First came the PEPFAR Blueprint, Creating an AIDS-free Generation , presented on the eve of the last World AIDS Day by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who warned, even as she praised the plan from the world's biggest AIDS donor: "The history of global health is littered with grand plans that never played out." The plan was built with some anticipation of the new consolidated World Health Organization Guidelines for treating and preventing HIV infection. Both were based on the understanding that interventions that reach everyone who needs them are exponentially more effective than ones that don't.
Now amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research has released an issue brief, Tackling HIV/AIDS Among Key Populations: Essential to Achieving an AIDS-free Generation, that spells out the importance of reaching four populations at greatest risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV: people involved in commercial sex, people who inject drugs, men who have sex with men, and transgender people. With criminalization, neglect, discrimination, and physical violence confronting these populations, getting an accurate count of their numbers has been a challenge. The brief notes that the prevalence of HIV among these populations has long been underestimated and that recent epidemiological studies have determined that they bear a "major share" of the epidemic worldwide, that doesn't stop with them. After noting that HIV prevalence is 22 times higher among people who inject drugs than in the general population, that in low and middle income countries, men who have sex with men are 19 times more likely to have HIV and female sex workers more than 13 times more likely than the general population, and that available evidence has shown 19 percent of transgender women in 15 countries are living with HIV, the briefing presents a concise and striking graphic on the proportions of new HIV infections happening among these "key populations" and their sex partners in six countries. But perhaps even more striking are the blank spots on a map from a 2012 Lancet Infectious Diseases article on the Worldwide burden of HIV in transgender women showing how great the absence of knowledge on that population continues to be. Effective interventions for all of these populations are known. That is not the problem, the brief notes. Sustained political will, and priorities to reach the people who need them them is.
In the meantime, the Special Summit of African Union on HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that met July 12- 16, produced a declaration reiterating a commitment to strong and effective responses to the three diseases, including through poverty elimination strategies, addressing barriers to affordable medicines, integrating sexual and reproductive health and rights services, and a pledge to "review relevant laws and policies at national and regional levels to strengthen rights-based protections for all vulnerable and key populations . . . "
Finally a joint statement by the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Stop AIDS Now, that welcomed the 2013 WHO consolidated HIV treatment guidelines stresses that the role of community-based interventions, involvement of those living with HIV, and protection of human rights will be vital to turning the guidelines into practice.
This entry was posted in HIV/AIDS and tagged Abuja Declarations, amfAR, MSM, sex workers, Blueprint, Key Populations, IDU, GNP+, transgender women on July 30, 2013 .
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Kevin Scott joins Signiant to help lead our next era, going beyond file transfer
By Meg Cater | Dec 7, 2018
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We've had a busy year here at Signiant. Not only have we been growing faster than ever, we have been preparing for the next phase of Signiant's technology evolution, which builds upon our Media & Entertainment industry focus and leadership in cloud-native SaaS.
"Signiant solutions play an increasingly central role in our customers' businesses," said Margaret Craig, CEO of Signiant. "Media companies have embraced our unique SaaS platform as they modernize their content supply chains, and we're experiencing tremendous demand for new functionality above and beyond file transfer."
Kevin Scott
Part of the next era for Signiant includes strategic hires like Kevin Scott, who just joined our executive leadership team as Chief Business Development Officer. Based in Los Angeles, Scott brings years of experience leading and advising many of the world's top M&E companies on technology strategy.
"One impact of our recent innovations is that Signiant is increasingly drawn into forward-looking strategic dialogue with our customers," continues Craig. "Kevin is the ideal person to engage with media executives in this way – he understands the industry both at the C-Suite level as well as at the hands-on implementation level."
I had a chance to catch up with Kevin and experience first-hand his depth of understanding of the M&E industry, both historically and the opportunities and challenges facing us today.
Q&A with Kevin Scott
Can you tell me about your background and how you got into the Media industry?
I grew up on a ranch in the Midwest, but decided that neither being a rancher nor winter was for me. So, I moved to Northern California for college to bask in snow-free winters and study engineering.
I started my career as an aerospace systems engineer working on commercial communications and government spacecraft for Hughes Electronics, which was DIRECTV's original parent company. Thanks to Hughes, I had the opportunity to both attend business school and transfer to DIRECTV in a business development role. That transfer was my entry into Media.
Since DIRECTV I've worked in strategic business development, management and consultant roles in media-focused start-ups, entertainment services providers and consulting organizations. For most of the past 10 years, I have been an independent consultant completing business and technology strategy projects, mostly for large media companies in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Looking back over your career, what are the most significant industry-changing technologies that you've seen?
I'm biased based on my experience, but one of the first US Media industry-changing technologies I saw was the deployment of satellite-delivered digital television in the early 1990s. The delivery technology and platform provided a better viewing experience and, often for the first time, meant consumers in rural areas not served by what were then called multiple system operators (i.e., cable companies) had straightforward access to more than a handful of over-the-air broadcast networks. I think, too, the services provided by DIRECTV and its DBS competitors were the beginning of the explosion of video entertainment sources that we see today.
A second industry-changing technology was and is the migration to file-based/tapeless workflows. This migration has been occurring for some time, and it's not yet complete. File-based workflows and the reduced use of videotape is a fundamental requirement to streamline media supply chains; however, moving large files around the world over standard TCP/IP networks was a big problem because of network congestion and latency. Signiant very significantly helped solve that problem.
Another is the transition to HDTV. Driven by display manufacturers and positioned as a consumer requirement, the transition to HD operations had an enormous impact on media companies because their media operations infrastructure had to be modified – and sometimes replicated – to support high definition files. The transition to HD caused a very large capital spend over a number of years in the Media industry to upgrade infrastructure.
More recent, highly impactful technology trends are (a) cloud computing/virtualization and (b) IP networking and content delivery.
Media companies are accelerating their deployments of cloud-based technologies and services for several reasons, mostly related to efficiency and agility: capital investment for owned, on-premise infrastructure can be replaced with operating expense-based services, cloud services can rapidly scale up or down based on a customer's changing needs and cloud services potentially allow users to more rapidly respond to changing market requirements. Signiant's cloud-native SaaS platform and services provide a prime example of the benefits this set of technologies can provide its users.
Similarly, the shift to IP-based infrastructure is motivated by operational efficiency gains as well as the overall desire among Media organizations to move to more agile technology that can better support today's changing business models than can traditional infrastructures.
Multi-platform content delivery is both a technology trend and a commercial trend that is obviously still occurring. Media companies want to reach consumers across distribution platforms and consumption devices. The impact of this trend on the entire Media industry cannot be overstated.
Are there any emerging technologies or services that you see impacting the future?
Yes, I think there are a number of technologies, services and trends that will significantly impact the future of the Media industry. Some that may be most impactful include:
Cloud computing and the virtualization of formerly hardware-based media technologies, IP-based infrastructures and multi-platform content delivery– while here today – will continue to evolve with respect to capabilities and increasing deployments and market penetration.
The rapidly increasing use of data– descriptive and technical metadata about content assets, information about the planned and actual monetization of content and data about processes and resources within the media supply chain – to automate and orchestrate media supply chains. This clearly implies that being able to find, manage and access rich media and consumption metadata and having frameworks to enable the flow of information across the media supply chain are necessary. (In this context, "orchestrate" means aligning a business request with applications/services, data and infrastructure. In a supply chain built on containerized "micro" services, process automation is driven by orchestrating across these services.)
Artificial intelligence and machine learning. The use of AI and ML in the Media industry is in its infancy, but several use cases already exist. On the consumption side, AI/ML can be used to personalize consumers' experiences to increase their engagement. More relevant to the solutions Signiant provides, AI and ML services, such as those from the large cloud computing providers, are being used to add metadata to content assets to improve search/retrieval and monetization of these assets. As AI/ML capabilities increase, the future opportunities for using AI and ML to intelligently, dynamically orchestrate services, resources and their connecting fabric within the media supply chain are very compelling.
Considering its global reach, do you feel like there are any major challenges facing the industry?
The global Media industry faces huge challenges. The flip side of these challenges, though, is that visionary, innovative and agile organizations like Signiant have tremendous opportunities. I believe some of the key industry challenges are:
Rapidly changing consumer wants and needs, expectations and demand.
Key trends are continued net declines in traditional Pay TV subscribers; accelerating consumer migration to OTT platforms and services; increasing multi-platform distribution for anywhere, anytime consumption.
Consumer trends are perhaps the major driver of change and challenge in Media.
These trends have a snowball effect: Consumer trends require new business models →New business models require new, fundamentally different and more efficient technology infrastructures and processes →All of the foregoing lead to restructuring, including consolidation, in Media technology and across the overall Media industry.
Agile, cost effective and scalable media supply chains are critical.
(For legacy Media companies) Newer media organizations that are very technology savvy, have new business and distribution models and are investing extraordinary amounts of money in content production. How do the legacy, large media organizations compete?
Intense cost and time-to-market pressures. "Keeping up" with the newer media organizations' content spend means legacy companies have less capital for traditional technology investment, but they must still operate their media supply chains. They must find ways to do more, faster with less.
The increased rate of Media technology change driven from other industries (e.g., Consumer Electronics, IT/Technology, Telecom).
Deployment of the new technologies mentioned above where relevant skills and experience might not be in place and where deployment is at the same time the existing business must be operated (i.e., "changing the tires while the bus is moving").
In general, these challenges imply a number of needs for Media organizations:
A shift in mindset…not business as usual; not incremental change,
Knowledgeable, appropriately trained/skilled workforce,
Shared content and data throughout an organization and the use of common services within its media supply chain,
Accelerated convergence of disparate workflows into a managed supply chain servicing all distribution channels,
Technology, data and service implementations to automate and orchestrate the media supply chain; allow content to be found, accessed and efficiently acted upon (internal) and discovered (consumer),
Tools, processes, infrastructure and services that enable expanded and new ways of creating, managing and transforming content and delivering consumption experiences.
Why did you decide to join Signiant?
Well, for lots of reasons, but it's probably easiest to break it down into three main areas:
Extraordinary Team: The Signiant team is extraordinary. I am both thrilled and honored to work with such smart, innovative and customer-focused colleagues.
Unique Opportunity: Signiant has a unique and very compelling opportunity to help its customers both navigate and benefit from the evolution of the Media industry. As we talked about, virtually every aspect of Media is changing – dramatically and quickly. Many of these changes are either driving or enabling the convergence of our customers' media workflows into an integrated, managed and more automated supply chain. Key to the success of this convergence is connecting people, processes, systems, on-premise and cloud services, content assets and data.
Very Strong Market Position: The extensive footprint and capabilities – current and planned – of Signiant's SaaS platform provide the connectivity among people, processes, systems, content and data that is so critical for the industry's success. Signiant is clearly a leader in intelligent file transfer, and moving content and data quickly, easily, reliably and securely is incredibly important. But Signiant's solutions increasingly go beyond file transfer to provide access to content and information about that content, then connect various aspects of the media supply chain to allow our customers to manage, transform, monetize and analyze their assets. This is hugely exciting!
It's hugely exciting for all of us. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your insight, Kevin.


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The Constitution Is The Fulfillment Of The Declaration Of Independence
Independence Day remains the American holiday. The document and event are indelible. It is also important to remember its less celebrated, but even more important, successor.
By J.T. Young
Even more revolutionary than America's Declaration of Independence was its declaration of governance. It is easily overlooked that while Americans proclaimed independence on July 4, 1776, they had to wait for the Constitution to govern it. Although lacking the former document's lightning effect, it was the latter that has assured America's lasting impact.
It is always thus: The first, regardless how notable its successors, holds an unassailable advantage. It is no less true with America's great documents. "When in the course of human events…" "We hold these truths to be self-evident…" In a less relativistic age, these phrases were hallowed — rather than deconstructed — into every school child's heart.
Sadly, if the words are not reverenced as formerly, the event they announced still holds pride of patriotic place in America. Independence Day remains the American holiday. The document and event are indelible. As undoubtedly important as this document was, and remains, to America, it is important to remember its less celebrated, but even more important, successor.
Why We Preference the Declaration
The Constitution does not get its own day for several reasons. For one, it has no single day of origin. It had many. Its convention crafted it over the course of 1787's summer and finally adopted on September 17. To take effect, it had to be ratified. The 13 states did over three years — Delaware first on December 17, 1787; New Hampshire putting it into effect on June 21, 1788; and Rhode Island finally doing so on May 29, 1790.
The Declaration of Independence is also advantaged by being simpler and more accessible. Despite its list of specific grievances, its message is general: "That these United Colonies are, and of Right, ought to be free…" Literally revolutionary and divisive then, its message is simple and unifying now: Freedom.
If the Declaration of Independence provides all the "w's" — America's who, what, when, where, and why — the Constitution was stuck with the unenviable task of supplying the "how." In contrast to the Declaration of Independence's general call for freedom, the Constitution was left with the far more difficult task of defining how freedom would govern. Where the Declaration of Independence offers freedom's limitless promise, the Constitution is stuck with its limiting reality.
How to Limit Freedom as Little as Possible
During the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Hamilton underscored the job's difficulty: "I believe the British government forms the best model the world ever produced." Of course, the colonies had severed themselves from that very government. They could not then simply replicate it here, even had they possessed the means to do so. Instead, they had to forge into the uncharted.
In contrast to the Declaration of Independence's more enviable task of proclaiming freedom, the Constitution had to limit it. Inevitably that meant giving up some to a national government. Conscious of this, its designers sought to strictly limit the national government's authority — something hardly matching any extant government models of their day, or today's, for that matter.
For this reason, the Constitution's largest limitations on freedom are all on the national government it implements. Its original text narrowly defines the national government's role. Its first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights, explicitly limit it further. The last two of these, the Ninth and Tenth, reserve the rights not named in the Constitution to the people and the states.
Since then, only two amendments have increased government power over the individual and one of those — the Eighteenth, authorizing Prohibition — was later repealed by the Twenty-First.
The Constitution Makes It Possible For Us to Celebrate
Because of its more difficult task, the Constitution is far more divisive than the Declaration of Independence. We still fight over it, just as its crafters did, with the fundamental divide still being over its original purpose to create, but strictly limit, government.
While America declared its freedom on this day more than two centuries ago, it lived just 11 years under the freedom it declared, ineffectually waging a war and ineffectively governing under it. On the brink of dissolution, the 13 original states seized upon the Constitution as their solution. For 230 years, it has stood up to its more difficult job of implementing freedom.
To appreciate that job's difficulty, consider how many peoples have declared their freedom since then, and how few have effectively retained it.
Recognizing the Constitution's irreplaceable role in no way disparages the Declaration of Independence's promise and courage. It is rightly honored on this, its and America's day.
However, it is worth pausing to remember the reason we recall it so fondly is the document that followed it and embodied it so effectively. It designed a government from whole cloth then strictly limited its scope — both unheard of at the time. The Constitution's quiet effectiveness is the reason we loudly celebrate the Declaration of Independence today.
J.T. Young served in the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget from 2001 to 2004 and as a congressional staff member from 1987 to 2000.
Photo U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Gustavo Castillo/Released
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