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/* $Id: cgraph.h,v 1.7 2008/04/28 16:35:09 erg Exp $ $Revision: 1.7 $ */
/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 ts=8: */

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**********************************************************/

#ifndef ATT_GRAPH_H
#define ATT_GRAPH_H

#include		<cdt.h>

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

#ifndef FALSE
#define FALSE (0)
#endif
#ifndef TRUE
#define TRUE (!FALSE)
#endif
#ifndef NOT
#define	NOT(x)			(!(x))
#endif
#ifndef NIL
#define NIL(type)		((type)0)
#endif
#define NILgraph		NIL(Agraph_t*)
#define NILnode			NIL(Agnode_t*)
#define NILedge			NIL(Agedge_t*)
#define NILsym			NIL(Agsym_t*)

/* forward struct type declarations */
typedef struct Agtag_s Agtag_t;
typedef struct Agobj_s Agobj_t;	/* generic object header */
typedef struct Agraph_s Agraph_t;	/* graph, subgraph (or hyperedge) */
typedef struct Agnode_s Agnode_t;	/* node (atom) */
typedef struct Agedge_s Agedge_t;	/* node pair */
typedef struct Agdesc_s Agdesc_t;	/* graph descriptor */
typedef struct Agmemdisc_s Agmemdisc_t;	/* memory allocator */
typedef struct Agiddisc_s Agiddisc_t;	/* object ID allocator */
typedef struct Agiodisc_s Agiodisc_t;	/* IO services */
typedef struct Agdisc_s Agdisc_t;	/* union of client discipline methods */
typedef struct Agdstate_s Agdstate_t;	/* client state (closures) */
typedef struct Agsym_s Agsym_t;	/* string attribute descriptors */
typedef struct Agattr_s Agattr_t;	/* string attribute container */
typedef struct Agcbdisc_s Agcbdisc_t;	/* client event callbacks */
typedef struct Agcbstack_s Agcbstack_t;	/* enclosing state for cbdisc */
typedef struct Agclos_s Agclos_t;	/* common fields for graph/subgs */
typedef struct Agrec_s Agrec_t;	/* generic runtime record */
typedef struct Agdatadict_s Agdatadict_t;	/* set of dictionaries per graph */
typedef struct Agedgepair_s Agedgepair_t;	/* the edge object */
typedef struct Agsubnode_s Agsubnode_t;

/* Header of a user record.  These records are attached by client programs
dynamically at runtime.  A unique string ID must be given to each record
attached to the same object.  Cgraph has functions to create, search for,
and delete these records.   The records are maintained in a circular list,
with obj->data pointing somewhere in the list.  The search function has
an option to lock this pointer on a given record.  The application must
be written so only one such lock is outstanding at a time. */

struct Agrec_s {
    char *name;
    Agrec_t *next;
    /* following this would be any programmer-defined data */
};

/* Object tag for graphs, nodes, and edges.  While there may be several structs
for a given node or edges, there is only one unique ID (per main graph).  */
struct Agtag_s {
    unsigned objtype:2;		/* see literal tags below */
    unsigned mtflock:1;		/* move-to-front lock, see above */
    unsigned attrwf:1;		/* attrs written (parity, write.c) */
    unsigned seq:(sizeof(unsigned) * 8 - 4);	/* sequence no. */
    unsigned long id;		/* client  ID */
};

	/* object tags */
#define AGRAPH				0	/* can't exceed 2 bits. see Agtag_t. */
#define AGNODE				1
#define AGOUTEDGE			2
#define AGINEDGE			3	/* (1 << 1) indicates an edge tag.   */
#define AGEDGE 				AGOUTEDGE	/* synonym in object kind args */

	/* a generic graph/node/edge header */
struct Agobj_s {
    Agtag_t tag;
    Agrec_t *data;
};

#define AGTAG(obj)		(((Agobj_t*)(obj))->tag)
#define AGTYPE(obj)		(AGTAG(obj).objtype)
#define AGID(obj)		(AGTAG(obj).id)
#define AGSEQ(obj)		(AGTAG(obj).seq)
#define AGATTRWF(obj)		(AGTAG(obj).attrwf)
#define AGDATA(obj)		(((Agobj_t*)(obj))->data)

/* This is the node struct allocated per graph (or subgraph).  It resides
in the n_dict of the graph.  The node set is maintained by libdict, but
transparently to libgraph callers.  Every node may be given an optional
string name at its time of creation, or it is permissible to pass NIL(char*)
for the name. */

struct Agsubnode_s {		/* the node-per-graph-or-subgraph record */
    Dtlink_t seq_link;		/* must be first */
    Dtlink_t id_link;
    Agnode_t *node;		/* the object */
    Dtlink_t *in_id, *out_id;	/* by node/ID for random access */
    Dtlink_t *in_seq, *out_seq;	/* by node/sequence for serial access */
};

struct Agnode_s {
    Agobj_t base;
    Agraph_t *root;
    Agsubnode_t mainsub;	/* embedded for main graph */
};

struct Agedge_s {
    Agobj_t base;
    Dtlink_t id_link;		/* main graph only */
    Dtlink_t seq_link;
    Agnode_t *node;		/* the endpoint node */
};

struct Agedgepair_s {
    Agedge_t out, in;
};

struct Agdesc_s {		/* graph descriptor */
    unsigned directed:1;	/* if edges are asymmetric */
    unsigned strict:1;		/* if and self, multi-edges forbidden */
    unsigned maingraph:1;	/* if this is the top level graph */
    unsigned flatlock:1;	/* if sets are flattened into lists in cdt */
    unsigned no_write:1;	/* if a temporary subgraph */
    unsigned has_attrs:1;	/* if string attr tables should be initialized */
    unsigned has_cmpnd:1;	/* if may contain collapsed nodes */
};

/* disciplines for external resources needed by libgraph */

struct Agmemdisc_s {		/* memory allocator */
    void *(*open) (void);	/* independent of other resources */
    void *(*alloc) (void *state, size_t req);
    void *(*resize) (void *state, void *ptr, size_t old, size_t req);
    void (*free) (void *state, void *ptr);
    void (*close) (void *state);
};

struct Agiddisc_s {		/* object ID allocator */
    void *(*open) (Agraph_t * g);	/* associated with a graph */
    long (*map) (void *state, int objtype, char *str, unsigned long *id,
		 int createflag);
    long (*alloc) (void *state, int objtype, unsigned long id);
    void (*free) (void *state, int objtype, unsigned long id);
    char *(*print) (void *state, int objtype, unsigned long id);
    void (*close) (void *state);
};

struct Agiodisc_s {
    int (*afread) (void *chan, char *buf, int bufsize);
    int (*putstr) (void *chan, char *str);
    int (*flush) (void *chan);	/* sync */
    /* error messages? */
};

struct Agdisc_s {		/* user's discipline */
    Agmemdisc_t *mem;
    Agiddisc_t *id;
    Agiodisc_t *io;
};

	/* default resource disciplines */
#if !defined(_BLD_cgraph) && defined(GVDLL)
#define extern  __declspec(dllimport)
#endif

extern Agmemdisc_t AgMemDisc;
extern Agiddisc_t AgIdDisc;
extern Agiodisc_t AgIoDisc;

extern Agdisc_t AgDefaultDisc;
#undef extern

struct Agdstate_s {
    void *mem;
    void *id;
    /* IO must be initialized and finalized outside Cgraph,
     * and channels (FILES) are passed as void* arguments. */
};

typedef void (*agobjfn_t) (Agraph_t * g, Agobj_t * obj, void *arg);
typedef void (*agobjupdfn_t) (Agraph_t * g, Agobj_t * obj, void *arg,
			      Agsym_t * sym);

struct Agcbdisc_s {
    struct {
	agobjfn_t ins;
	agobjupdfn_t mod;
	agobjfn_t del;
    } graph, node, edge;
};

struct Agcbstack_s {		/* object event callbacks */
    Agcbdisc_t *f;		/* methods */
    void *state;		/* closure */
    Agcbstack_t *prev;		/* kept in a stack, unlike other disciplines */
};

struct Agclos_s {
    Agdisc_t disc;		/* resource discipline functions */
    Agdstate_t state;		/* resource closures */
    Dict_t *strdict;		/* shared string dict */
    unsigned long seq[3];	/* local object sequence number counter */
    Agcbstack_t *cb;		/* user and system callback function stacks */
    unsigned char callbacks_enabled;	/* issue user callbacks or hold them? */
    Dict_t *lookup_by_name[3];
    Dict_t *lookup_by_id[3];
};

struct Agraph_s {
    Agobj_t base;
    Agdesc_t desc;
    Dtlink_t link;
    Dict_t *n_seq;		/* the node set in sequence */
    Dict_t *n_id;		/* the node set indexed by ID */
    Dict_t *e_seq, *e_id;	/* holders for edge sets */
    Dict_t *g_dict;		/* subgraphs - descendants */
    Agraph_t *parent, *root;	/* subgraphs - ancestors */
    Agclos_t *clos;		/* shared resources */
};

#if _PACKAGE_ast
/* fine control of object callbacks */
#   if defined(_BLD_cgraph) && defined(__EXPORT__)
#	define extern  __EXPORT__
#   endif
#   if !defined(_BLD_cgraph) && defined(__IMPORT__)
#	define extern  __IMPORT__
#   endif
#endif

extern void agpushdisc(Agraph_t * g, Agcbdisc_t * disc, void *state);
extern int agpopdisc(Agraph_t * g, Agcbdisc_t * disc);
extern int agcallbacks(Agraph_t * g, int flag);	/* return prev value */

/* graphs */
extern Agraph_t *agopen(char *name, Agdesc_t desc, Agdisc_t * disc);
extern int agclose(Agraph_t * g);
extern Agraph_t *agread(void *chan, Agdisc_t * disc);
extern void agreadline(int);
extern void agsetfile(char *);
extern Agraph_t *agconcat(Agraph_t * g, void *chan, Agdisc_t * disc);
extern int agwrite(Agraph_t * g, void *chan);
extern int agisdirected(Agraph_t * g);
extern int agisundirected(Agraph_t * g);
extern int agisstrict(Agraph_t * g);

/* nodes */
extern Agnode_t *agnode(Agraph_t * g, char *name, int createflag);
extern Agnode_t *agidnode(Agraph_t * g, unsigned long id, int createflag);
extern Agnode_t *agsubnode(Agraph_t * g, Agnode_t * n, int createflag);
extern Agnode_t *agfstnode(Agraph_t * g);
extern Agnode_t *agnxtnode(Agraph_t * g, Agnode_t * n);
extern Agnode_t *aglstnode(Agraph_t * g);
extern Agnode_t *agprvnode(Agraph_t * g, Agnode_t * n);

extern Agsubnode_t *agsubrep(Agraph_t * g, Agnode_t * n);

/* edges */
extern Agedge_t *agedge(Agraph_t * g, Agnode_t * t, Agnode_t * h,
			char *name, int createflag);
extern Agedge_t *agidedge(Agraph_t * g, Agnode_t * t, Agnode_t * h,
			  unsigned long id, int createflag);
extern Agedge_t *agsubedge(Agraph_t * g, Agedge_t * e, int createflag);
extern Agedge_t *agfstin(Agraph_t * g, Agnode_t * n);
extern Agedge_t *agnxtin(Agraph_t * g, Agedge_t * e);
extern Agedge_t *agfstout(Agraph_t * g, Agnode_t * n);
extern Agedge_t *agnxtout(Agraph_t * g, Agedge_t * e);
extern Agedge_t *agfstedge(Agraph_t * g, Agnode_t * n);
extern Agedge_t *agnxtedge(Agraph_t * g, Agedge_t * e, Agnode_t * n);

/* generic */
extern Agraph_t *agraphof(void *);
extern char *agnameof(void *);
extern int agrelabel(void *obj, char *name);	/* scary */
extern int agrelabel_node(Agnode_t * n, char *newname);
extern int agdelete(Agraph_t * g, void *obj);
extern long agdelsubg(Agraph_t * g, Agraph_t * sub);	/* could be agclose */
extern int agdelnode(Agraph_t * g, Agnode_t * arg_n);
extern int agdeledge(Agraph_t * g, Agedge_t * arg_e);
extern int agobjkind(void *);

/* strings */
extern char *agstrdup(Agraph_t *, char *);
extern char *agstrdup_html(Agraph_t *, char *);
extern int aghtmlstr(char *);
extern char *agstrbind(Agraph_t * g, char *);
extern int agstrfree(Agraph_t *, char *);
extern char *agstrcanon(char *, char *);
char *agcanonStr(char *str);  /* manages its own buf */

/* definitions for dynamic string attributes */
struct Agattr_s {		/* dynamic string attributes */
    Agrec_t h;			/* common data header */
    Dict_t *dict;		/* shared dict to interpret attr field */
    char **str;			/* the attribute string values */
};

struct Agsym_s {		/* symbol in one of the above dictionaries */
    Dtlink_t link;
    char *name;			/* attribute's name */
    char *defval;		/* its default value for initialization */
    int id;			/* its index in attr[] */
    unsigned char kind;		/* referent object type */
    unsigned char fixed;	/* immutable value */
};

struct Agdatadict_s {		/* set of dictionaries per graph */
    Agrec_t h;			/* installed in list of graph recs */
    struct {
	Dict_t *n, *e, *g;
    } dict;
};

extern Agsym_t *agattr(Agraph_t * g, int kind, char *name, char *value);
extern Agsym_t *agattrsym(void *obj, char *name);
extern Agsym_t *agnxtattr(Agraph_t * g, int kind, Agsym_t * attr);
extern int      agcopyattr(void *oldobj, void *newobj);

extern void *agbindrec(void *obj, char *name, unsigned int size,
		       int move_to_front);
extern Agrec_t *aggetrec(void *obj, char *name, int move_to_front);
extern int agdelrec(void *obj, char *name);
extern void aginit(Agraph_t * g, int kind, char *rec_name, int rec_size,
		   int move_to_front);
extern void agclean(Agraph_t * g, int kind, char *rec_name);

extern char *agget(void *obj, char *name);
extern char *agxget(void *obj, Agsym_t * sym);
extern int agset(void *obj, char *name, char *value);
extern int agxset(void *obj, Agsym_t * sym, char *value);
extern int agsafeset(void* obj, char* name, char* value, char* def);

/* defintions for subgraphs */
extern Agraph_t *agsubg(Agraph_t * g, char *name, int cflag);	/* constructor */
extern Agraph_t *agidsubg(Agraph_t * g, unsigned long id, int cflag);	/* constructor */
extern Agraph_t *agfstsubg(Agraph_t * g), *agnxtsubg(Agraph_t * subg);
extern Agraph_t *agparent(Agraph_t * g), *agroot(Agraph_t * g);

/* set cardinality */
extern int agnnodes(Agraph_t * g), agnedges(Agraph_t * g);
extern int agdegree(Agraph_t * g, Agnode_t * n, int in, int out);

/* memory */
extern void *agalloc(Agraph_t * g, size_t size);
extern void *agrealloc(Agraph_t * g, void *ptr, size_t oldsize,
		       size_t size);
extern void agfree(Agraph_t * g, void *ptr);
extern struct _vmalloc_s *agheap(Agraph_t * g);

/* an engineering compromise is a joy forever */
extern void aginternalmapclearlocalnames(Agraph_t * g);

#define agnew(g,t)		((t*)agalloc(g,sizeof(t)))
#define agnnew(g,n,t)	((t*)agalloc(g,(n)*sizeof(t)))

/* error handling */
typedef enum { AGWARN, AGERR, AGMAX, AGPREV } agerrlevel_t;
extern agerrlevel_t agerrno;
extern void agseterr(agerrlevel_t);
extern char *aglasterr(void);
extern int agerr(agerrlevel_t level, char *fmt, ...);
extern void agerrorf(char *fmt, ...);
extern void agwarningf(char *fmt, ...);
extern int agerrors(void);

/* data access macros */
/* this assumes that e[0] is out and e[1] is inedge, see edgepair in edge.c  */
#define AGIN2OUT(e)		((e)-1)
#define AGOUT2IN(e)		((e)+1)
#define AGOPP(e)		((AGTYPE(e)==AGINEDGE)?AGIN2OUT(e):AGOUT2IN(e))
#define AGMKOUT(e)		(AGTYPE(e) == AGOUTEDGE? (e): AGIN2OUT(e))
#define AGMKIN(e)		(AGTYPE(e) == AGINEDGE?  (e): AGOUT2IN(e))
#define AGTAIL(e)		(AGMKIN(e)->node)
#define AGHEAD(e)		(AGMKOUT(e)->node)
#define agtail(e)		AGTAIL(e)
#define aghead(e)		AGHEAD(e)
#define agopp(e)		AGOPP(e)

#define TAILPORT_ID		"tailport"
#define HEADPORT_ID		"headport"

#if _PACKAGE_ast
#   if !defined(_BLD_cgraph) && defined(__IMPORT__)
#	define extern  __IMPORT__
#   endif
#endif
#if !defined(_BLD_cgraph) && defined(GVDLL)
#define extern  __declspec(dllimport)
#endif

extern Agdesc_t Agdirected, Agstrictdirected, Agundirected,
    Agstrictundirected;

#undef extern

/* fast graphs */
void agflatten(Agraph_t * g, int flag);
typedef Agsubnode_t	Agnoderef_t;
typedef Dtlink_t	Agedgeref_t;

#define AGHEADPOINTER(g)	((Agnoderef_t*)(g->n_seq->data->hh._head))
#define AGRIGHTPOINTER(rep)  	((Agnoderef_t*)((rep)->seq_link.right?((void*)((rep)->seq_link.right) - offsetof(Agsubnode_t,seq_link)):0))
#define AGLEFTPOINTER(rep)  	((Agnoderef_t*)((rep)->seq_link.hl._left?((void*)((rep)->seq_link.hl._left) - offsetof(Agsubnode_t,seq_link)):0))

#define FIRSTNREF(g)	(agflatten(g,1), AGHEADPOINTER(g))

#define NEXTNREF(g,rep)  	(AGRIGHTPOINTER(rep) == AGHEADPOINTER(g)?0:AGRIGHTPOINTER(rep))

#define PREVNREF(g,rep)  	(((rep)==AGHEADPOINTER(g))?0:(AGLEFTPOINTER(rep)))

#define LASTNREF(g)		(agflatten(g,1), AGHEADPOINTER(g)?AGLEFTPOINTER(AGHEADPOINTER(g)):0)
#define NODEOF(rep)		((rep)->node)

#define FIRSTOUTREF(g,sn)	(agflatten(g,1), (sn)->out_seq)
#define LASTOUTREF(g,sn)	(agflatten(g,1), (Agedgeref_t*)dtlast(sn->out_seq))
#define FIRSTINREF(g,sn)	(agflatten(g,1), (sn)->in_seq)
#define NEXTEREF(g,rep)  	((rep)->right)
#define PREVEREF(g,rep)  	((rep)->hl._left)
/* this is expedient but a bit slimey because it "knows" that dict entries of both nodes
and edges are embedded in main graph objects but allocated separately in subgraphs */
#define AGSNMAIN(sn)        ((sn)==(&((sn)->node->mainsub)))
#define EDGEOF(sn,rep)		(AGSNMAIN(sn)?((Agedge_t*)((unsigned char*)(rep) - offsetof(Agedge_t,seq_link))) : ((Dthold_t*)(rep))->obj)

#undef extern
#if _PACKAGE_ast
_END_EXTERNS_
#endif
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif


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John and Shannon have been married since July 2002, enjoy life together, and still feel like newlyweds.
Vacation July 2014: Day 1
Part of shannon's adventure in Summer, Vacation
Day 1: Wednesday, July 16, 2014
We packed up our car, packed up our kids, and stuffed everything and everybody into the car. This was our first road trip as a family.
Wes is 6, Carissa is 3, and Elizabeth is 20 months. John and I typically dislike spending time in the car and dislike driving, so we were planning for the worst when it came adding three young kids to the mix. John found some TVs we could attach to the car seats so the kids could watch DVDs. That was a major lifesaver again and again during the trip, at least for the older kids. There was not much that would keep Elizabeth entertained for long.
The plan: to leave in the mid-morning and drive about 10 hours to West Richland, WA.
The actual: We left around 10 am and got as far as southern Idaho when this happened:
I was driving and ran over some debris from a semi-truck tire. It was a HUGE piece and even though I tried to miss it, I didn't. A few minutes later an alert came up on my dashboard indicating low tire pressure. We were about 8 miles from the next exit, and we took it.
Where were we? The middle of nowhere. Really! Look at the window of the gas station we stopped at:
Our flat tire happened in the most sparse portion of I-84 in Idaho. It's desert. There's nothing for miles and miles and miles and miles. We were truly fortunate that we were only 8 or so miles from a service station, and we were even more fortunate that our tire lost air gradually instead of blowing so we could make it to the exit instead of being stranded on the side of the road.
As we drove home after our vacation I took a picture of the exit with the gas station. Can you see it?
The gas station had a sheep and some llamas in front that the kids watched while they ate snacks.
I started out optimistic with the flat tire but with each passing minute and each additional thing that went wrong my hope gradually faded. We found out when we got to the gas station that we didn't have cell service. There was a number posted at the gas station of a tire repair service but no way to call it. The gas station didn't allow phone calls. There weren't many people coming in or going out of the gas station ("middle of nowhere"), but I was able to ask an elderly couple if we could borrow their cell phone. John called the tire repair shop and got directions. It was in Burley, 45 minutes away. John had to change the flat tire and put on the spare. Did I mention it was about 1:30 in the afternoon, sunny, and 100 degrees?
He tried to take off the flat tire but the lug nuts were stuck. For a while it seemed hopeless we'd ever get that dumb tire off the car. Finally in desperation I stopped a man who seemed to work at or own the gas station. He was feeding the llamas, and I asked if he could help my husband. He went out and was able to help get the nuts loose so John could get the tire off.
He put the spare on, but then he had to find a place for the flat tire. It didn't fit in the same space the spare had been. He had to pull out everything in the trunk and repack it around the flat tire. I think John should get a gold star.
Finally, finally, after a couple hours, we went on to Burley. We spent a couple more hours at the tire repair store getting the valve stem fixed ($100 for that tiny thing) and figuring out what to do next. The kids watched PBS Kids on the TV and ate free popcorn. There's a golden lining to everything.
We had lost so much time we wouldn't arrive at our destination until after midnight, and that's if we didn't stop at all. We pulled out a tablet and booked a hotel via Priceline.com in Twin Falls, ID.
It was the Red Lion Hotel, which isn't really a 5-star place (really a 2.5 star that calls itself a 3-star joint), but it was a place to rest for the night. We took the kids to dinner at an OK Italian place next door to the hotel, and then we drove over to the welcome area by the bridge that leads to Twin Falls from the freeway. When you're on I-84 driving past Twin Falls you have no idea about this river here. It's totally hidden until you're on top of it.
We stuck around to watch a couple people who were preparing to jump off the bridge. But they had parachutes. Even so, it was kind of nerve-wracking to watch them. Poor Wes couldn't see but I took a video so he could watch it later.
Walking back to the hotel from dinner:
Elizabeth grabbing a cold one before bedtime:
Statue of the founder of Twin Falls. And Carissa:
Preparing to watch the parachuters:
I actually had wanted to stop at Twin Falls sometime during our trip to show the kids the waterfalls, which we had the opportunity to do the next morning before continuing our journey. It just happened differently than I had planned. And thus ended our first day of vacation.
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We finally did something fun
Part of shannon's adventure in Momhood, Summer, The Kids
We finally did something fun together.
After dragging my three kids to my physical therapy appointment I took them to a splash pad to play.
The personality of each kid is apparent:
1) Carissa: Put on eye protection and stay to the edge of the water.
2) Elizabeth: Run like a crazy woman through the water and get as wet as possible, as fast as possible. And then retreat to Mom for a snuggle in the towel.
3) Wes: Drink the water.
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Why the West is to Blame for the Crisis in Ukraine: The Full Story
Chris Nineham 27 March 2015. Posted in News
We can't begin to understand the Ukrainian catastrophe unless we reject the dominant Western account of what is happening.
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Chris Nineham, Stop the War's joint chair, reviews Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Professor Richard Sakwa.
WE ALL KNOW about of the fog of war, but the current coverage and commentary on the crisis in Ukraine arguably takes wartime disinformation to new levels.
Richard Sakwa's new book is a rare and precious exception. It is clear and measured and carefully researched and it shows that the story we are told in the west about events inside Ukraine is deeply flawed.
More generally, it exposes the idea that Russia is the aggressor and the West the protector of Ukraine's democratic will as a travesty of the truth. In short, Sakwa's analysis is diametrically opposed to what passes for an explanation of the Ukraine crisis in the mainstream.
One of the book's great strengths is that it sees the crisis as a product of two connected processes, one domestic, one geopolitical.
Far from being a straightforward expression of popular will, Sakwa details how the government that emerged from the Maidan protests in February 2014 represented the victory of a minority hardline anti-Russian Ukrainian nationalism.
But this minority could come to dominate, he argues, because of the context provided by an aggressive, US-led, Western foreign policy designed to assert Western control over Eastern Europe and, at least in its more hawkish versions, de-stabilise Russia.
The push to the east
Nato and the EU have been pushing steadily eastwards ever since the end of the Cold War, despite verbal assurances from a series of Western leaders that this would not happen.
Twelve countries have joined Nato in the region since 1991. Georgia and Ukraine were promised membership at the Nato Summit in Bucharest in 2008, despite repeated warnings from the Russian government that taking Nato to the Russian border would cause a security crisis of the first order. It was only the intercession of Germany and France that forced the US to put these plans on hold.
The push to the east continued in the form, amongst others, of a plan to get Ukraine to sign up to an 'Association Agreement' with the EU. It was this agreement, due to be signed in November 2013, which sparked the crisis. To grasp its significance it is important to understand just how closely tied Nato and the EU have become, especially since the Lisbon Treaty signed by EU members in 2007.
Article 4 in the proposed Association Agreement committed the signatories to 'gradual convergence on foreign and security matters with the aim of Ukraine's ever deeper involvement in the European Security area' (p.76). As Sakwa puts it, "it is pure hypocrisy to argue that the EU is little more than an extended trading bloc: after Lisbon, it was institutionally a core part of the Atlantic security community, and had thus become geopolitical". (p.255)
All parties involved must have known that this document, if signed, would have caused existential anxiety in Moscow. Defenders of the West's drive to the east justify it as the reflection of the will of the people concerned.
This is disingenuous. As Western leaders themselves have publicly admitted, a campaign to buy Ukrainain hearts and minds has been running for decades. In 2013, US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, Victoria Nuland, publicly boasted of the fact that the US had invested $5 billion in 'democracy promotion' since 1991, a huge sum by USAID's standards (p.86). It has since been revealed that the EU too spent 496 million on front groups in Ukraine between 2004 and 2013 (p.90).
And there was nothing democratic about the process. Discussions about the Association Agreement in fact took place behind the backs of the Ukrainian people and the text of the agreement was not available in Ukraine till the last moment (p.74). It actually contained very little in the way of assistance to Ukraine's economy, and its centrepiece was a radical liberalisation of EU-Ukraine trade, a direct threat to the traditional economic relations between Ukraine and Russia.
In the end, for a mixture of reasons, President Yanokovich didn't sign up to the deal.
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CERN scientists discover elusive "Obama particle" which destroys economies on contact (satire)
In a stunning breakthrough that's sure to result in dozens of Nobel Prizes being awarded to somebody, scientists at the CERN Large Hadron Collider have discovered the elusive "Obama particle" by slamming the U.S. economy into a brick wall at 99.999% of the speed of a derivatives flash crash.
The collision produced an elaborate pattern of joblessness and wealth destruction which was captured and mapped by CERN scientists to create a statistical detection model that pinpointed the elusive Obama particle's role in destroying everything it touches.
"We believe this Obama particle may be the fundamental destructive force behind anti-matter and dark matter all at once," said one scientist who asked not to be named. "It seems to be capable of destroying everything it encounters."
After their discovery, Obama particles were found buried under the government parliament building in Greece, where they are now believed to have contributed to the disappearance of Greek wealth into a parallel dimension. Obama particles have also been spotted at Goldman Sachs, IRS offices and even hiding in the ear canals of CNBC's stock picking jester Jim Cramer, who seems especially skilled at destroying wealth with a degree of consistency that defies sheer randomness.
The search for the Obama particle is based on the fundamental laws of the universe which state that as the velocity of money approaches the speed of a fast-talking White House spokesperson, that money gains mass and gets heavier, causing it to fall out of the bottom of the Large Hadron Collider where it is collected by unpaid "science interns" holding out empty EBT cards. After those EBT cards are "recharged" with heavy money isotopes, they are redistributed to Obama supporters who use them to buy Tide laundry detergent, Oreo cookies and street meth, all of which are now available at your local Wal-Mart. (For the meth, you have to visit the Wal-Mart restroom.)
The Federal Reserve is reportedly very excited to get its hands on the elusive Obama particle in order to accelerate its economic destruction initiatives. "Until now, we've had to destroy the economy the old fashioned way by printing money," said Janet Yellen. "Now, with the Obama particle, we can accomplish this without even trying!"
The most fascinating finding of the Obama particle, according to CERN scientists, is that at high enough energy levels, the particles coalesce to open a gateway to a dimension of evil-possessed demons, transporting them into our world to serve as California Senators.
It is not yet known how to send those demons back to their own world, but the search is on for another elusive particle called the "Rand Paul particle" which is believed might be able to halt the destruction of the Obama particle.
Unfortunately, all such particles may be rendered irrelevant by something far more ominous. It's an underlying element of the universe that's so destructive, scientists nicknamed it the "anti-God element" while warning that it should never be allowed to come into existence lest it destroy our entire world in an instant. The technical name for this anti-God element is the "Hillary Clinton particle" and echoes of it have been detected in Benghazi, Obamacare web servers and even on the body of the late Vince Foster. The Hillary Clinton particle can also reportedly invade email servers and wipe them clean… especially if such email servers contain evidence of treasonous criminal activity.
The ongoing search for the Hillary Clinton particle is being funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which hopes to incorporate the particles into infertility injections that cause lifelong infertility among the general public in order to "save the planet" from cow farts. Meanwhile, the global elite are being treated with cutting-edge longevity breakthroughs so they can live forever, ruling the dead planet they have systematically destroyed.
Go science!
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/049172_CERN_scientists_Large_Hadron_Collider_Obama_particle.html#ixzz3Vu8S2u8i
Why I Am a Card-Carrying Conspiracy Theorist
by Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB
I believe there is a World Government in place. To say that it is "hidden" does not make it woo-woo or silly. Any world government worth its salt would have to come about secretly. Deceit is one of the strongest weapons in our species. Knowledge is also a weapon, and the takeover artists had great knowledge as to how human nature works.
Amazing details as to how a few men accomplished such a feat can be found in the lecture that Richard Day, MD, gave to medical students and physicians in 1969. Dr Day worked for Planned Parenthood and his boss, therefore, was Rockefeller. Day was allowed to leak much information, perhaps as a trial balloon.
On that occasion, no member of the audience expressed objection to the "plans" that were revealed. Later, however, in 1988, Lawrence Dunegan, MD, went public with his complaints. I am going to go over a bit of this material again, as a new element has arisen. Namely, as from March 15, 2015, the government of France is proposing to criminalize the discussion of conspiracy theory.
It should indeed be necessary for the members of World Government to outlaw discussion of their doings, as their doings are, in part, criminal and they wish to avoid jail!
I hereby declare myself a conspiracy theorist, specifically calling attention to the crimes of the conspirators. If that means I get thrown into the klink, so be it. (By the way, judicial activist Bill Windsor has been incarcerated again, with bail set at $4.1 million. What does that tell you?)
Treasures from Dunegan's Report of Dr Day's Talk
Below are some of the predictions made in 1969 by Richard Day, MD. It seems obvious that an effective way to get control of society is to go against the sources of power -- family, dignity, and belonging to a group -- that folks otherwise possess. I'll quote only ten of Day's predictions. Rather than choosing the most sensational ones, I'll go for ones of a homely, personal type.
1. He predicted that the entry to the grounds of hospitals would require an ID card (I assume this was to get the public used to having IDs at all places of employment) and that in order to start this move, "Thefts of hospital equipment would be allowed." In other words, the guys who do all the behind-the-scenes stuff would steal things to make the public realize THAT PEOPLE STEAL THINGS. Gotta teach us what naughty folks do! (Later, I note, we'd need to be protected against people such as hijackers. This would require being frisked, emptying our luggage, and eventually trying out as nude models.)
2. Dr Day said that "More men will be transferred to other cities, and in their jobs more men would travel. Therefore it would be harder for families to stay together." In other words, THE POWERFUL WILL SEE TO IT THAT THE MAIN SOURCE OF STRENGTH PEOPLE HAVE, THE FAMILY, WILL BE WEAKENED.
3. Regarding his own profession, Dr Day said "The solo practitioner would become a thing of the past." I read this as: YOU CITIZENS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO BUILD UP A TRUSTING RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR PHYSICIAN. YOU WILL BE 'ON YOUR OWN.' At the same time he leaked the fact that "new diseases would appear that would be very difficult to diagnose and untreatable – at least for a long time." So YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHERE YOU STAND, REGARDING HEALTH. (Ahem. How was he able to imagine disease that had not yet shown up?)
4. Dr Day said "Clothing would be more stimulating and provocative. Bras would be thinner and softer." Read: Manufacturers will be guided to make sexually-liberalized clothes TO ENCOURAGE PROMISCUITY, THUS CURTAILING a main promoter of the pair-bond, namely INTIMATE knowledge ONLY OF ONE'S SPOUSE'S BODY.
5. He predicted that "Population shifts would be brought about." So we would have "PEOPLE WITHOUT ROOTS IN THEIR NEW LOCATIONS." And why? He said "Traditions are easier to change in a place where there are a lot of transplanted people."
Note: thus far we see our hidden overlords deciding to help us do away with privacy, family structure, health security, the love bond, and tradition. Really, they are out to alter human nature. You've got to give the Rockefellers (or their advisers) a lot of credit for figuring out how our emotions and instincts normally guide our decisions.
6. "SPORT IN THE UNITED STATES WAS TO BE CHANGED, IN PART AS A WAY OF DE-EMPHASIZING NATIONALISM. Soccer, a world sport, was to be emphasized."
7. "PEOLE WOULD BE MORE AND MORE USED TO THE IDEA OF RELINQUISHING SOME NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY." (That was said in 1969 when nobody in the US was talking about such a thing, much less did we know the word 'soccer.')
8. Big leak here: "We can or soon will be able to control the weather. You can make drought during the growing season SO THAT NOTHING WILL GROW." (A pretty counterintuitive advance in technology, eh?)
9. "Implants would lend themselves to surveillance by providing radio signals. THIS COULD BE UNDER THE SKIN OR A DENTAL IMPLANT." (In fact some employers now require that one's 'ID card' be inside the body, and it's being encouraged for pets, and for old folks who might wander.)
10. "Some books will disappear from libraries…. Further down the line NOT EVERYBODY WILL BE ALLOWED TO OWN BOOKS." Well, son of a gun.
Are the ten foregoing items conspiratorial? Absolutely.
I hold that Dr Day knew of things that were being conspired about, and the proof of the pudding is that they have come to pass.
My writing career started in 1981 with the publication, in the Melbourne Age, of my review of "Genes Mind, and Culture," by Charles Lumsden and EO Wilson. I see human behavior through Darwinian eyes. There is no question that we are a predator species when it comes to killing other animals, but we also prey on fellow humans. We do it left, right, and center. Absolutely everyone does it. The Ten Commandments urge us not to, because we do so.
Kin altruism provides that we are not too grabby when it comes to the possessions of our close relatives. Indeed, we are inclined to make sacrifices for parents, siblings, and especially our offspring. But the human individual is, like other mammals, self contained and selfish. We have to look out for Number One in a competitive situation.
We are biologically equipped with ways to control others in ways that favor us. We may do it by emotionally manipulating them, or offering them promises. Our talent for deceit is a particularly useful thing for controlling others. (See Randolph Nesse, MD, on our marvelous capacity for self-deceit.)
Why People Resist the Revelations of Conspiracy
In general, it's considered an embarrassment to subscribe to the main conspiracy theories of today. When JFK was killed in 1963, people did scoff at the Warren Commission's findings that Oswald was a lone nutter. Yet hardly anyone would state outright that the assassination must have had huge help from high-level people.
Today the 9-11 conspiracy theory, often rendered as "9-11 was an Inside Job," is seriously countenanced by a fair percentage of the American population. Still, there is quite a willingness to ridicule those who proclaim it.
I suppose it is natural for people to hold back on criticism of their leaders. To honor one's group leader is biologically provided for, just as is the honoring of one's parents. You feel terrible if you express any disloyalty.
Also, we all have an instinct to think our group is always right, and to have little regard for the rights of foreigners.
Yet the attacks of 9-11 are harmful to the domestic group. Why are people so reluctant to face up to it? Don't we expect our parents, teachers, clergymen, doctors – anybody we trust – to take a stand when an evil deed has been committed?
Many Americans are in denial over 9-11 because it would be unbearable to admit that the US government was responsible for attacking the World Trade Center. So they shut their mind to it. Denial is a very strong psychological strategy. (I know I do it myself, over other issues.) It is probably the main reason for the anti-conspiracy position.
All Rather Self-Defeating
Today's news, as mentioned above, is that France now views skeptics as criminals. This is very worrying. It implies that the Big Bosses (I take such decisions to have been made globally) feel they have sufficiently conquered the educated population! Oh-oh.
They assume we will accept this new regime in which critical thinking is taboo. Will we? I would not bet ten bucks on it -- either way. So far I see very little protest, none from legislators! If it's true that the public will capitulate to these horrific laws, this will basically cancel the political gains of three centuries, starting with, say, John Locke's 1689 "Two Treatises of Government."
If so, our biologically-grounded habits will have turned out to be our undoing. We will have said:
"Sure, powerful, ruthless types, do as you wish. We are averse to being confrontational with you. Go on, take our liberties. Oh, you want our money too? Hmm. That's not so nice. Oh, you want our health? Gee, I didn't know that was included. Hey wait a minute. You say you have the droit de seigneur? Crikey, I think you guys are going a bit too far."
The Homely Examples
In an effort to persuade anyone who is on the fence about conspiracy theory, I ask them to look again at Dr Day's 1969 predictions. Over the years, Dr Dunegan occasionally ran into persons who had been at the dinner, but they alleged no memory of the startling remarks. (Further evidence of the human mechanism of denial?)
To be fair, though, those doctors did not know that the predictions would come true! We have the great advantage of realizing that they did come true. This surely constitutes proof:
1. That somebody up there does make plans like that for the whole society.
2. That they're able to direct the carrying out of such ideas, via business, government, schools, and media.
3. That, even though the predictions are 46 years old, the bits and pieces are still in the works, and the parts that have not yet happened are likely to happen.
Criminality: Can We Indict?
Call me old-fashioned but I think the solution to dealing with these characters is to recognize that their "grandiose plans" contain much that is against the law. We're talking jailable offenses, and in one case a hanging offense. All it takes is a rap sheet.
Let's analyze only the ten items shown earlier (Dr Day provided more than a hundred), viz.: 1. Stealing stuff from hospitals; 2. Men to travel in their jobs; 3. Solo GPs out, and new diseases in; 4. Bras to be softer; 5. People to move to new locales; 6. Soccer to be promoted; 7 Some national sovereignty to be relinquished; 8. Weather control; 9. Implants with radio control; 10. Books banned.
For starters, let's scratch off the list some non-criminal items: Men to travel; Bras softer; Move to new locales; and Soccer to be promoted. We can also omit "GP's out," but leave half of that item: "new diseases" in. That leaves six of the ten for us to consider.
One of these is Theft from hospitals, but I suggest we ignore it as trivial. I'll also omit Implants, as they would perhaps be done "consensually" and hence not criminally. And though I love Books, I don't see criminality in banning them (in terms of today's criminal law).
What we are left with are three major criminal offenses, so blithely proposed by Dr Day. Namely: inventing new diseases, and causing drought, both of which are forms of murder, and relinquishing national sovereignty, which may be an act of treason.
I have been working for years to tell people about these crimes. (My 2011 book is entitled: Prosecution for Treason; Epidemics, Weather Wars, Mind Control and the Surrender of Sovereignty.) So far I have constantly run up against the barrier of disbelief. But I didn't use the clues given in Dr Day's speech as evidence of World Government's blatant criminality. I will do that here. Please listen up.
Diseases and Drought – Great Woes of Mankind
New diseases. Oh, come on, anyone can see that this is a crime. I think we should categorize it as the crime of murder, as murder has no statute of limitations. Many of the 'new diseases," not least AIDS, caused many deaths. The persons responsible need to be punished as murderers. That's elementary, isn't it, my dear Watson?
The other crime is weather control. When one mentions rain-making or temperature changing (both of which are massively being done today, as far as I can figure), one gets the retort "It is done for beneficial purposes." OK, but that's not true of drought-making. According to Dr Dunegan, Dr Day said "You can make drought during the growing season so that nothing will grow."
Day's remark was made in the context of food control, allegedly intended to get people to practice population control. He said "Food supply is to be brought under centralized control so that people would not have enough to support any fugitives from the new system." Wow, we are talking life-and-death control here.
Who do these jerks think they are, anyway?
By the way, the US Constitution Article III, section 3, calls it treason if you "levy war" against the United States.
The punishment is death.
The Australian Criminal Code (Part 5.1, Division 80.1) provides a punishment of life imprisonment for any
person who "levies war, or does any act preparatory to levying war, against the Commonwealth."
We could easily charge with treason those who levy war by drought-making or invention of new diseases. (I think the murder charge is easier, yet it might be wise to take the treason concept out of mothballs.)
Don't you want, in your heart of hearts, to stop these things? Wouldn't yours be a better world without strange new diseases and the use of weather control to produce hurricanes, tornados, and earthquakes at the drop of a hat?
Well, then, you have to think law. And don't wait for the judicial system to get onto it, cause they ain't gonna. (By the way, lotsa folks are committing the felony of obstruction of justice, in regard to the foregoing crimes.)
Better watch out if you're one of them.
A Word about National Sovereignty
In the foregoing, I mentioned a major definition of treason found in US and Australian law: levying war against the people. In my book, Prosecution for Treason, I rehearse an expanded jurisprudence. I think the throwing over of the Constitution, the major protection of America, is a crime of treason.
I find it easy to identify treason in a Congressman. He commits this crime (no joke) any time he passes a law that delivers his legislative power to a party outside his hands, be it the Executive, the UN, or a "trade treaty."
There's also the attempt on the part of World Government to take away every nation's government.
For example, the various nations of Europe – Spain, Germany, Italy, etc, -- gave up their autonomy by joining the European Union.
If the US or Oz follows suit, as it does to some extent in treaties (such as NAFTA or the Lima Declaration), is that a crime of treason? Personally I don't think it can be a crime, except when committed by those who are supposed to guard us, namely our elected representatives and any officials they appoint.
If the Rockefellers go about undermining national sovereignty by corrupting our governments, I blame the members of government, not the Rockefellers. (And if they only "recommend" a yielding of national sovereignty, that is their First-Amendment right to free speech.)
Still, if you are keen on indicting the Rockefellers for treason, you can do so, as I said, under the clause about levying war (via the invention of new diseases and/or drought-making). Note: In the US, treason is a hanging offense.
By the way, some really fascinating things could come out at a properly conducted trial. Perhaps even some things favorable to, or exculpatory of, the Rockefellers. You never know....
Here is a video by Dr Stan Montieth with ideas about the Invention of diseases:
Mary W Maxwell can be reached at mary.maxwell@alumni.adelaide.edu.au. Her 2013 book, Consider the Lilies, delves into some of the "new diseases" predicted by Dr Day. She writes regularly for Gumshoenews.com. Her recent article on the Port Arthur massacre is linked below. There may be some treason in that judicial episode, too!
Gog, Google, Gold and the Goddess: How Illuminati Trademarks Blaspheme the LORD God of the Bible
by Jeremy James
The sociopaths who control the United States, and who are in the process of igniting World War III, are incredibly arrogant. While hiding their intentions and even their existence
as much as possible, they are prone on occasion to put their 'signature' on their best work. They especially like to honor the 'god' of their false religion and to have the masses unwittingly bow down before him.
For example, as many commentators have already noted, some of the principal dates in the Christian calendar are actually pagan feast days MUCH MORE+MEANING OF BARACK OBAMA
Russell Brand (Useful Idiot) anti establishment "revolutionary" who Supports Money Power Globalism
Clarkson, Brand And Useful Idiots
The imbecilic man child Russell Brand has made a video trying to explain what is happening with the Clarkson ''fracas''. According to Brand, affecting a tedious Australian accent for some reason, Clarkson is a throw back to a time before multiculturalism and tolerance which still carries a huge amount of appeal. Clarkson, says Brand, is responsible for Nigel Farage and the rise of UKIP, it's all part of a backlash to ''Political Correctness gone mad!'' and an out of date world view of individualism and pride in one's country.
The problem with Brand is simple, everything he says is unmitigated garbage.
In Brand's view Political Correctness is not a method of thought control at all, it is some sort of natural progression of the human spirit which has just magically and wonderfully appeared out of nowhere. Brand takes it for granted that we are ''diverse'' and that we can ''learn from other cultures around us''. Thus men such as Farage or Clarkson are nothing but crusty old relics dreaming of yesteryear belonging to a world which, according to Brand is '' self assured white man, the kind of version of Britain that is beginning to fade as we become more tolerant'. Brand of course likes to think of himself as a revolutionary fighting the system, yet what he has to say is almost identical to what the Chairman of Goldman Sachs has said:
''"It's impossible to consider that the degree of homogeneity which is implied by the other argument can survive because states have to become more open states, in terms of the people who inhabit them. Just as the United Kingdom has demonstrated."
Peter Sutherland, former chairman of Goldman Sachs.
''We must learn to be more understanding of people's needs as our country becomes more diverse, and that emerges as part of our cultural narrative of who we are''
Russell Brand, Anti Establishment hero.
Peter Sutherland is speaking from a Globalist perspective of creating a gigantic consumerist slave farm for profit. Russell Brand is a supposed anti establishment ''revolutionary'' who just so happens to believe in, and agree with, everything the money power has to say.Goldman Sachs is the enemy of Brand yet he completely agrees with their Globalism, how strange...this, of course, is why he isn't locked up with Golden Dawn or slandered like Farage or sued like Le Pen.
So, the fact that men such as Clarkson and Farage are sidelined is not just because ''humanity'' has left them behind it is because the powers Brand claims to oppose are phasing them, and all other white men, out!.
But we can't expect Brand to address that, it would be painful admitting everything you have ever thought and said is childish rubbish. Russell will continue to ''Rage For The Machine''. Read More
ISA_Obama Was Hand-Picked & NOT a Natural Born Citizen - Congress Knew It & Protected Him_circa2015 ~Ambassador Lee Emil Wanta
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/03/obama-was-hand-picked-not-a-natural-born-citizen-congress-knew-it-protected-him/#oiZGlxg1wPEI41CA.03
Worldwide Alert: Neil Is Pissed Off And Is Releasing His Weapons
Worldwide Alert:
Neil Is Pissed Off And Is Releasing His Weapons
During the past three months I have felt the sting of my money being stolen, my bank accounts being wiped out on New Year's Eve, my friend being killed while attempting to help us, and another friend who survived a car accident — all of it orchestrated by the Cabal.
I finally heard word tonight that "they" do not want any foreign country helping us. So guess what? It is time to fight back with all we've got. Time to exact revenge. Time to completely exploit every one of their weaknesses. So here we go, ladies and gentlemen! Payback is a bitch. We may be small but we are a force to be reckoned with.
I am reluctantly giving up possession of the Black Book, aka Book of Codes. It will go to the one I believe is best suited to handle it. I have been watching over the Book, taking care of it, but in dealing with the Global Accounts, I have had little time to use this "lethal weapon" to the world's maximum advantage.
Let me be clear here. With the Book(s) in hand, the Greek Government would never have to worry about the European Union's absurd demand for repayment. They would be holding the Book that exposes the EC (European Commission) for providing the entire EU (European Union) with nothing but blank paper. Yet they expect to be paid back. So are we to give them back paper of no value whatsoever? So long EU!
On the other hand, imagine the damage that the Russians could wreak on the West if they had the Book, this "Financial Holy Grail," in their hands. They would be able to expose the unrestrained, unlimited frauds that the West has perpetrated against its own people!
Imagine the damages they would be forced to pay to the very people that they have kept enslaved for so many long years. But whoever receives this Book will have to be extremely careful with it — it can be deadly as well as generous.
Imagine what this Book means and the vast consequences that it will have around the globe. The Book spells out everything: there will be no more disputes over the accounts! And the World Bank will finally be seen for what it is and that it has absolutely nothing to do with the Collateral Accounts.
The Book would also reveal that the Spiritual White Boy, King Anthony Santiago Martin (ASM) as we know him, died in 1985 (God rest his soul). His death was three years prior to Ferdinand Marcos' death in 1988. The one now known as Anthony Santiago Martin arrived in 1993 from a Thai village. He is certainly no King Anthony. He was put into place by an alphabet agency, and, along with four others, was meant to impersonate the deceased King Anthony. The accounts are indeed large, but … the King is no longer.
This imposter ASM admits he was offered money yet he also claims never to have received any. If you believe this one, wait until you hear him twist another lie. He even claims he was set up for the purpose of gaining unauthorized access to the ASM accounts. Now that makes sense seeing the West believes they own accounts that do not belong to them. In fact, this play-actor Anthony Santiago Martin actually states that he was only a signator and nothing more.
Getting Back in Focus
There is much that we have been facing and when we honestly assess our forces, we see that we can handle the Global Accounts or the Book, but not both at the same time. Our team can handle 8 or 9 deals simultaneously, but the magnitude of what we face is tremendous and we need help.
But we have the perfect ammunition that another could use to do a bang-up job against those who plan to destroy us. This will give us double bang for the punch, and maybe just enough to push us over the hump to a spot called safety.
So this is for you, the people who supported us, have laughed with us, and sometimes felt for us. Now we return your support and faith in us, and we hope we are soon done. The "Financial Holy Grail" is now on its way to global exposure. With this break-through action, we are pushing them hard from all angles. Together with the new AIIB, BRICS, etc., we will all make a very nice harmony.
For any and all interested in the Black Book please contact us at: contact@neilkeenan.com
Shit is about to happen so put your hats on – nasty to wash out you know!
NEIL KEENAN
Heartbreaking moment a four-year-old Syrian girl 'surrendered' when a photographer pointed his camera at her... and she assumed it was a gun
Young refugee girl mistook Osman Sagirli's camera for a deadly weapon
Four-year-old froze in obvious terror and then raised her hands in the air
Child has been identified as Adi Hudea, whose father was killed in 2012
Image has since gone viral, being shared on Twitter thousands of times
This is the heartbreaking moment a four-year-old Syrian girl 'surrendered' to a photographer when she mistook the man's camera for a gun.
Taken at the Atmen refugee camp on Syria's border with Turkey last December, the image shows the young girl frozen in fear with her arms raised and her lips tightly pursed.
The child has been identified as Adi Hudea, whose father died in the 2012 Hama massacre and who has been living with her traumatised mother and three siblings at Camp Atmen ever since.
Harrowing: Taken at the Atmen refugee camp on Syria's border with Turkey, the image shows four-year-old Adi Hudea frozen in fear with her arms raised and her lips tightly pursed
Shocking: Palestine-based photojournalist Nadia Abu Shaban tweeted the image along with the caption: 'Thought he has a weapon not a camera so she gave up'
The image was taken by Turkish photojournalist Osman Sagirli but went viral earlier this week when it was shared on social media.
Palestine-based photojournalist Nadia Abu Shaban tweeted the image along with the caption: 'Thought he has a weapon not a camera so she gave up'.
Turkish media researching the origins of the photograph later suggested Adi Hudea was a four-year-old boy, not a girl, and revealed he was a resident of the Atmen refugee in Syria.
But BBC Trending have subsequently spoken to Sagirli himself who confirmed the image shows a little girl.
Ms Shaban's tweet has since been reposted more than 14,000 times and prompted emotional responses from social media users.
One wrote: 'I'm actually weeping seeing this. We've made this planet a horrible place, haven't we?', as another said: 'We are failing the younger generations and those still to come. SHAME ON US.'
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POPE Francis to Lead U.N. 1-World GOVT Official "SIGNING" & Launching
ANTICHRIST & 4th Blood Moon merging in major tangible SIGN of the nearing Tribulation ~
Thrillseeking skiers and snowboarders take on the steepest slopes in the world
Now that's a black run! Thrillseeking skiers and snowboarders take on the steepest slopes in the world
The stunning snaps have been released by award-winning adventure photographer Tero Repo
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Top skiers such as Jeremy Jones from Cape Cod in Massachusetts, USA and Xavier De Le Rue from Bayonne, France, spend their time carefully edging their way down the most stomach-churning drops on the planet.
THIS IS FULFORD'S REGULAR WEEKLY REPORT
YESTERDAY FULFORD PUBLISHED A SPECIAL PRESENTATION OUTLINING HIS PROPOSAL FOR A NEW WORLD FEDERATION
Benjamin Fulford – March 31, 2014
Monotheism in crisis as high level insiders claim the Qu'ran and the New Testament were Vatican P2 lodge propaganda
In a sign we are living in historic times, high level insiders have begun claiming that Jesus Christ was a fictitious character and that the Qu'ran was written by Vatican propaganda experts. This is evidence the 2000 year old Roman plan to create a unified, mono-cultural fascist world government is unravelling and that, as a result, ancient secrets are pouring out. The details of the new revelations can be seen at the end of the article.
Meanwhile nuclear and earthquake terror threats are being made by the US military industrial complex, Russia, Israel, the gnostic Illuminati, the North Koreans and others as a back-drop to negotiations aimed at forming a world federation of free states and sovereign humans.
During the last week the Russians, the gnostic Illuminati, the federation of world martial arts societies, the British, the North Koreans and others have contacted the White Dragon Society to offer support for its plan to end poverty and stop environmental destruction.
Also last week, a man claiming to represent "Russian television" sent a reporter to record a planned one hour special documentary about the White Dragon Society. The individual failed to offer any proof he represented Russian television but nonetheless, he was shown proof the WDS had the capability, if necessary, to raise a 200 million person army against the cabal.
The cabal, through the P2 freemason lodge, also contacted the WDS last week to say that President Vladimir Putin of Russia had agreed to participate in the planned world federation but only on the condition that President Barack Obama revealed to the world "final proof" of what the US government knows about aliens.
The WDS was also asked many detailed questions by the man from "Russian television" about esoteric topics. One was the question of US what happened to the US underground bases. What the WDS knows from its direct intelligence sources is that the bases were shut off from the surface of the planet around 2011. Also, horrific human experiments and humans being kept in cages were discovered by the white hats who took over the underground bases before shutting off their surface entrances. The entrances were shut to ensure senior cabalists would have no shelter in the event they tried to carry out their plan to destroy 90% of humanity.
Also, the WDS told them the man going by the name Cobra claimed to have ridden a supersonic underground train from London to New York before the bases were shut down. This corroborates extensive written records about these underground train networks. The Russians were also told the WDS had been shown photographs of underground wheat fields.
In addition, the WDS explained that members of the Majestic 12 or MJ12 group set up by President Eisenhower to deal with alien contacts came to the conclusion it was dealing with a rogue artificial intelligence that was able to override and control some human minds, especially those of top government officials. The P2 claim this is the "black sun" and that it resides in the gamma ray spectrum.
The "Russian TV" man was also introduced to Chodoin Daikaku. Daikaku is the head of a world federation of seven martial arts groups including Karate, Judo and Aikido. Together they have dojos in 190 countries and have representatives at all levels of the world's armed forces. He was also shown evidence of WDS alliance with Asian secret societies such as the Red and Blue and the Dragon family.
These groups support the WDS aims of creating a world federation for peace followed by a campaign to end poverty and stop environmental destruction. As mentioned above, in combination with the Western secret societies such as the Freemasons and the Gnostic Illuminati, the groups have the potential, if necessary, to raise an army at least 200 million strong.
As negotiations for world peace continue, so does saber rattling continue from all sorts of places. The Gnostic Illuminati have also threatened to destroy "the Jewish square mile" of London as well as Jerusalem and New York "this week" if the cabal did not surrender control of the dollar based financial system.
The Israelis for their part have shut all their embassies worldwide, as reported last week, and now we are being told by people like Gordon Duff that each of those embassies contains a nuclear weapon.
The North Koreans, to add their bit, have publicly threatened to set off a "new type of nuclear bomb." They are also talking about forcing unification with the South.
The folk who warned in advance of the Malaysian airline incident and the trouble in the Ukraine (presumably the military industrial complex) have also issued a fresh, dire warning that: "the next operation will be in Moldovia, in Belarus and then to kill Obama April 16th and nuke a US city."
There is also plenty of talk of earthquake weapons being deployed against Japan, California,Yellowstone National Park (with its giant sleeping volcano) against La Palma (to set off a tsunami) etc.
All of this talk is from WDS primary sources and is corroborated by plenty of stuff being posted on the net.
With these threats as a backdrop, various groups continue to jockey for control of the financial system. The latest maneuver came last week when a cabal agent approached the WDS to say they were going to hand over trillions of dollars in bonds to President Obama when he visits Japan in April as well as to the Keshe Foundation and the Cobra resistance.
He was told that whatever secret group he represented did not have the right to create trillions of dollars out of nothing, even if they were suddenly trying to do nice things. The WDS believes right to issue currency, and thus the right to decide the future of the planet, belongs to humanity as a whole and not some secret self-appointed group of gangsters.
Once humanity is liberated from Babylonian style debt slavery and global fascism then groups like Cobra and Keshe will be generously financed provided they are genuine.
It is under such circumstances that high level cabal insiders are now starting to reveal what they claim to be deep dark secrets of monotheism.
For example, high level members of the P2 lodge that has controlled the Vatican until now claim that Jesus Christ was a fictitious character created for the purposes of government, which is Latin for controlling (govern) minds (ments).
The claims that the Qu'ran was written by the Vatican are being made in a legal deposition presented to a court in London by the lawyer Michael Shrimpton. Here is the text of the claim:
20. The Defendant also correctly appreciated that Osama bin Laden was not personally religious, i.e. that his public image was a front. In coming to that conclusion he was informed by his knowledge, gained in part through high-level direct and indirect Saudi contacts, including the late H.E. Prince Mohammed, Governor of the Eastern Province, who before his assassination supported the Customer Buy-Out bid for Rolls-Royce and Bentley Motors co-ordinated by the Defendant in 1997/1998, without wishing to give offence to any Muslim, that Islam was a fraudulent religion. That is because the Koran was not dictated by God, as Islamic theologians proclaim, but by a series of theologians at the Vatican, hence the original being in Latin and the requirement for early Islamic scholars to speak Latin. The Defendant also understood that the first author of the Koran died before the work could be completed, explaining the differences between the earlier and later chapters. That in turn helps explain the deep division between Sufi and Salafist Muslims, which in turn has a bearing on understanding Islamo-fascist terrorist organisations such as al Qaeda.
Understanding that bin Laden only wore religious dress when on public view (e.g. when recording propaganda videos) helped in tracking him. This analysis was of interest inter alia to the NSA and FBI, which may help explain why the illegally seized material included a name in the Arabian Peninsula intelligence section of the FBI.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210930808/Michael-Shrimpton-Defense-Filing-Southwark-3-6-2014?secret_password=2ah1j81k0bhidyzeeqau
Such claims are shocking many in the monotheistic world. However, they can also be dismissed as part of the long planned New World Order campaign to pave the way for a new age world religion.
Source:http://benjaminfulford.net/2014/04/01/monotheism-in-crisis-as-high-level-insiders-claim-the-qu%E2%80%99ran-and-the-new-testament-were-vatican-p2-lodge-propaganda/
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whos f   Name         Size                   Bytes  Class
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Do I need to convert my image to another data class? I would appreciate any help on this.
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A: The cause of error is because your image is RGB and imhist does not deal with that. To work around this you can either use a single channel:
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or convert from RGB to grayscale:
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That should work fine now.

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The Groove is the name of Sirius XM Radio's Old School R&B channel, located on channel 50. The service signed on September 25, 2001 as part of XM Satellite Radio's offerings, broadcasting on channel 64. It was one of the three remaining Sirius XM-owned channels (along with Pop2K and The Village) that was not featured on Sirius's lineup until 2011. As part of XM Radio Canada simulcasting the U.S. service (with the exception of Clear Channel's channels) on April 1, 2007, The Groove was added to XM Radio Canada.
The Groove focuses mostly on classic R&B, Funk and Old School Dance party tracks from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The channel is also commercial-free and features DJs, most of them veterans of the early days of Urban Contemporary radio, where most of its core music came from. For Sirius listeners, some late-1970s music through the 1990s can be found on its sister The Strobe, Soul Town and Heart & Soul channels, which are also heard on XM.
On October 22, 2010, The Groove adjusted its direction to include Dance, Disco, and Freestyle classics after Sirius XM removed The Strobe from the roster and placed the channel online. In May 2011, Sirius XM added The Groove to the Sirius lineup. On May 9, 2013 The Groove became available to Sirius receivers for the first time ever.
During part of 2014 The Groove was replaced with an all-Michael Jackson channel, On Friday, August 21, 2015, The Groove was added back to Sirius XM Radio 50 and Dish Network 6050.
On April 21, 2016, The Groove was temporarily changed to the Prince Tribute Channel to commemorate Prince's recent death.
During the week following August 17th, 2018, The Groove featured all-Janet Jackson content, including short interview clips, her own music, and music that inspired her throughout her career.[1]
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It's been roughly three months since neighbors in an Oak Creek subdivision found coal dust covering their homes and cars.
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Xam'd: Lost Memories
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A lot of dramatic potential blown by trying to do way too many things at once.
It's Like...
...Last Exile and Wings of Honneamise watch Nausicaä, then get together to do a realistic take on a shounen superhero show.
亡念のザムド
Bouhen no Zamudo
Literal Translation
Xam'd of the Lost Memories
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Series Type
26 25-minute episodes
Alternate World
Weird-looking Supercreatures
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Violence: 3 (significant)
Nudity: 1 (mild)
Sex: 1 (mild)
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While living on Sentan Island, largely separated from a terrible war, Akiyuki's life is changed when he along with his friends Haru and Furuichi are caught up in an explosion on a school bus. A mysterious light then enters Akiyuki's arm and transforms him into a powerful creature named Xam'd. As his memories and sense of self begin to disappear, a mysterious girl named Nakiami quells his rage and gives Akiyuki two options: come with her and live, or stay and let the Xam'd turn him to stone. Akiyuki follows Nakiami to a postal ship where he begins a journey of self-discovery and becomes increasingly caught up in the conflict between the Northern Government and the Southern Continent Free Zone.
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Review Date: 2011-10-28 (updated 2011-10-28)
2.5 stars out of 5 (?)
Xam'd: Lost Memories has all the appearances of a quality production: a grand, sweeping musical score, a detailed world filled with different technologies, and solid production values with Bones' distinctive look. The problem is it's 52 episodes crammed inside a 26 episode series and as a result it never manages to provide a satisfying viewing experience. There are plenty of good scenes, and in the first half especially there are enough good scenes strung together to form some pretty good episodes, but it introduces so many characters, locations, factions, and sub-plots that by the second half it's largely a mess, and the climax fails to pull it together or even resonate meaningfully. It's a cool-looking show, at least, with plenty of impressive action sequences, and the topnotch musical score is good enough to distract from the wordy monologues. The English dub is well cast, but consists of an uneven mix of very good and underwhelming performances.
It's a shame Xam'd never comes together. It's not outright bad, or annoying to watch, but the more attention you pay, the worse the writing seems. As a result, Xam'd ends up being a flawed and ultimately un-noteworthy addition to studio Bones' generally stellar resume.
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Xam'd: Lost Memories is proof positive that like so many things in life, a series divided against itself cannot stand. It has all the appearances of a quality production: a grand, sweeping musical score, a detailed world filled with different technologies, and solid production values with Bones' distinctive look. The problem is Xam'd is over-plotted. It's 52 episodes crammed inside a 26 episode series and as a result it never manages to provide a satisfying viewing experience.
There was a lot of potential for Xam'd to go in an interesting direction. The concept of Akiyuki having to come to terms with sharing his body with another being, and having to learn about that life-form lest he lose himself altogether, is what I was hoping the show would focus on. While it never actually forgets that plotline, Xam'd tries to go in a million directions at once so it never manages to bring it around full circle in an effective way. The series can't seem to help itself from introducing new characters, new locations, new groups and factions, seemingly for no reason.
To be fair, these criticisms are not all-encompassing. I can't say that Xam'd is a good show, but it is a show with a lot of good scenes. In the first half especially there are enough good scenes strung together to form some pretty good episodes. There are exciting combat sequences and intense moments of character interaction that are hard to turn away from. There are also quieter moments that help establish various relationships and build camaraderie. The postal ship Akiyuki finds himself on in the first half is manned by a likable crew. My favorite supporting character on the ship was the smarmy Akushiba, whose antagonizing attitude towards Akiyuki, and the begrudging mutual respect that begins to form, is cut woefully short.
Talking about supporting characters in a show like Xam'd is a slippery slope. There are some interesting people encountered throughout, but there are just so many characters it's easy to get bogged down. Talking about Raigyo, who is in the same situation as Akiyuki, the cold and embittered military commander Tojiro, or Akiyuki's childhood friend Haru, torn between duty and her feelings, doesn't even scratch the surface of Xam'd's cast of characters. The show actually seems aware that it has too many people running about and regularly kills characters off in highly dramatic ways to make more room. These moments can be powerful to watch, but also feel cheap, as Xam'd relies more on sudden shock to generate emotion in place of genuinely compelling writing.
I will say that the one supporting character arc I found satisfying was the relationship of Akiyuki's parents, Fusa and Ryuzo. Xam'd largely does an effective job of portraying a marriage that is hanging by a thread. Although they're separated, neither party is able to bring themselves to end the relationship. And yet there's too much frustration, particularly on the part of Fusa, to forgive and forget. With so much going on those two only get so much focus, but that plotline doesn't get discarded or forgotten like so many others in Xam'd.
The second half of Xam'd is where the show really buries itself. While it had trouble finding its footing in the first half, the second half pulls the show so many directions it can't help but trip over itself. Various characters group together and separate at the drop of a hat, yet the script still attempts to follow everyone. Certain characters' potentials are realized far too late, and in other cases we just have to take for granted that everything worked out. Worse yet, the relationship between Akiyuki and Haru, which the viewer follows from episode 1, winds up bungled, and the final episodes are an illogical mess. At no point is it ever entirely clear why there is a war going on or what sides the various factions fall on. The final episodes still attempt to incorporate all the build-up of the conflicts and, while cool looking, the climactic action sequences fail to resonate in any meaningful way.
A big part of what kept me watching Xam'd to the end is the music. At the very least it's effective in distracting the viewer from the fact that many conversations are just wasting time, with people pontificating with grand flowery language about various aspects of morality and other philosophies. The orchestral score during these scenes is effectively heavy and helps a lot in disguising how pointless a lot of the interactions are. The music is also similarly well-matched to slower, mood-setting scenes and locations and larger, battle-ridden landscapes. The OP/ED songs are made up of English lyrics that don't make any particular sense, but I still found the opening addictive and well animated.
Speaking of the animation, it's generally quite good. Bones has consistently produced good-looking shows, and Xam'd is no exception. I've always enjoyed the unique color pallet Bones uses, as it gives the animation a nice sense of dimensionality and texture. The animation and art quality is not 100% consistent between episodes, but at no point do characters go wildly off model or feel hampered by stiff animation. At its best, Xam'd has interesting mechanical designs and entertaining facial expressions and body language. The various transformations into Xam'd are always cool-looking as characters' bodies morph and change in unnatural ways. The fight choreography is solid, and, considering how much stuff can happen at once, the editing is surprisingly decent.
The English dub isn't bad, but at the same time I can't help but feel ADV's former and Sentai Filmworks' current recording studio is a little out of form. Casting is solid, with Akiyuki's English voice actor providing a normal-sounding voice that doesn't feel underacted or milquetoast. His parents are also effective in carrying their personal drama throughout the series. To me, the highlight of the dub was Chris Hutchinson's desert-dry vocals as Tojiro Kagisu, an effective interpretation of the character. Unfortunately, there are a few annoyances and technical issues throughout, such as ridiculous voices for some minor characters, a couple instances of missing dialog, and one of Haru's lines that actually sounded like an outtake.
It's a shame Xam'd never comes together. Nothing about the show is ever outright bad, and I never found it annoying or arduous to watch. However, invariably, every time I reflected on the episodes I had watched I found more plot holes and problems in the character development. It looks as good as any Bones production I can think of, but lacks the kind of quality writing that has helped the studio produce some of the most memorable shows of the last decade. Without that kind of writing, Xam'd ends up being a flawed and ultimately un-noteworthy addition to the studio's resume.
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Kid with hidden/unexpected superpower shows are a dime a dozen, though this one falls toward the darker end of the spectrum; the more serious half of Generator Gawl is just one example. The airship parts are reminiscent of Last Exile in flavor and style, and quite similar in the larger scale war story backdrop; the creative alternate-world technology is also somewhat similar to the classic Nausicaä in the more fanciful aspects, and Wings of Honneamise in the more down-to-earth everyday life scenes on the ground.
Notes and Trivia
Xam'd: Lost Memories is an original series that premiered on the Playstation Network and later aired on television, which technically makes it an ONA: Original Net Animation. There aren't a lot of hugely prolific ONA's out there, but the format is starting to gain traction.
Considering the PSN premier, it's no surprise that Xam'd was co-produced by Sony Computer Entertainment along with Bones and Aniplex. The series actually debuted on the inaugural launch of the PSN video download service in 2008.
When the show aired on Japanese television in 2009, it had different openings and endings from the PSN version. Sentai Filmworks' presentation of the series matches its original presentation on the PSN.
In keeping with the online roots, it's also available streamed in North America, free, on Hulu.
US DVD Review
Sentai's Blu-ray sets are solid productions. The 1080p/VC-1 encoded video does a good job of bringing the nice animation to high-def systems. The funny thing is, depending on who you talk to, Xam'd is not technically a high-definition production. Although the native production resolution is higher than standard definition (720x480) it is not native 720p (1280x720). Don't even ask about 1920x1080, because outside of Studio Ghibli anime just isn't animated at that high a resolution. Xam'd's original resolution is what video gamers typically refer to as "sub-HD" as it falls somewhere between standard def and high def. In this case, Bones tends to produce work at a 960x540 resolution. That might sound like a bit of a gyp, but the extra lines of resolution do result in a noticeable boost in sharpness and clarity, with wide scenic shots coming across especially well. Audio-wise, there are dual 5.1 DTS-HD MA tracks that sound excellent and near-theatrical quality. The extras consist of credit-free versions of the original opening and closing sequences and the openings and endings that were used for broadcast.
Sentai Filmworks' TV-14 rating is on the mark as there are some shocking and sudden deaths that make the series a little more intense than average.
Violence: 3 - There's a war on so there are lots of explosions and weapons fired. While some deaths are graphic the camera does not linger on the violence.
Nudity: 1 - A character or two disrobe but nothing explicit is shown.
Sex/Mature Themes: 1 - There are some romances between characters besides Akiyuki and Haru but that's about it.
Language: 2 - The dub is a near-straight reading of the subtitles and neither script is all that crass.
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Available in North America from Section 23 on two bilingual DVD or Blu-ray sets. Also available streamed, free on Hulu.
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