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By Cal Thomas
Israel has a right to its ancient land
By Cal Thomas, Tribune Content Agency on Nov 21, 2019
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced U.S policy toward Israel's "settlements" is reverting to one held by the Reagan administration; that is the right of Israelis to settle in the ancient lands of Judea and Samaria "is not, per se, inconsistent with international law."
This is good news, not only for Israel and its right to national security and sovereignty, but after seven decades of enemy attempts to eradicate the Jewish state it says to the world, "time's up."
Israel's enemies have had the most generous offers to live in peace, including the relinquishing of land captured by Israel after many aggressive and unprovoked wars and terrorist attacks. With ongoing propaganda statements by Israel's enemies, the firing of rockets into civilian areas from Gaza and elsewhere, and ongoing sermons attempting to justify the violent overthrow of Israel and the murder of Jews, a reality check is long overdue.
Israel, under all of its prime ministers, has gone more than halfway trying to make peace. The responses have been as if no outreaches were ever made. Israel and the West have a right to question the sincerity of those Arab and Muslin nations when they continue to denounce and defame Israel and the Jewish people as illegitimate occupiers of "Palestinian" land. As long as such denial continues, there can be no opportunity for peace and Israel is well within its rights to defend itself against such ominous and ongoing verbal, theological and military threats.
It is and always has been wishful thinking to believe that people motivated by hate, a mandate from Allah to conduct what would amount to genocide against Jews and revisionist history as to the original owners of "occupied land," would miraculously change their minds and agree to reverse decades of provocations and proof of their ultimate objective.
This has always been the danger when Westerners believe all humans are alike and given the right incentives can be persuaded to act in ways consistent with Western values and practices.
The next step is for the Israeli Knesset to validate the Trump administration's new policy, which aligns with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ultimate goal.
As reported in the Jerusalem Post, "Likud MK Sharren Haskel proposed the bill weeks ago, but decided to fast-track it in light of the change in U.S. policy. Haskel submitted a request to exempt her bill to annex the Jordan Valley from the mandatory six-week waiting period for any new legislation, so that it can go to a vote in the plenum next week."
Columnist Caroline Glick wrote for the publication Israel Hayot, "In the interest of promoting peace, Pompeo instead told the truth. Not only are Israeli settlements not illegal. Pompeo noted that they are arguably more justified than civilian settlements built in other disputed territories.
"In his words, the administration's determination 'is based on the unique facts, history, and circumstances presented by the establishment of civilian settlements in the West Bank.' That is, it is based on the historic ties of the Jewish people to Judea and Samaria. These ties lay at the heart of Jewish history and religion."
Indeed, they do. Now if the European Union, whose hatred of Israel goes back to the shameless days of Nazi anti-Semitism, and is now resurging, would only see the light and end its recently announced policy to require "goods from illegal settlements in the Israeli-occupied territories to be labeled as such," perhaps some real steps forward might occur.
As long as a religious motivation for wiping out Israel persists, there will be no peace, and no two-state solution. It is why the Trump administration's position on the legality of settlements in Judea and Samaria is not only correct, but a necessary contribution to Israel's security and any true peace, or at least stability.
(This year marks Cal Thomas' 35th year as a syndicated columnist. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.
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Q: Spring boot returns 401- Unauthorized even though I have allowed it I am trying to access my API through Postman. In the config, I have set /authenticate to be permitted, but I get 401 unauthorized all the time.
The relevant function:
@Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity httpSecurity) throws Exception {
        httpSecurity
                // dont authenticate this particular request
                .authorizeRequests().antMatchers("/authenticate").permitAll().
                // all other requests need to be authenticated
                        anyRequest().authenticated().and().
                // make sure we use stateless session; session won't be used to
                // store user's state.
                        exceptionHandling().authenticationEntryPoint(jwtAuthenticationEntryPoint).and().sessionManagement()
                .sessionCreationPolicy(SessionCreationPolicy.STATELESS);
        // Add a filter to validate the tokens with every request
        httpSecurity.addFilterBefore(jwtRequestFilter, UsernamePasswordAuthenticationFilter.class);
    }

My dependencies
<dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
        <optional>true</optional>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
        <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.1.RELEASE</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.jsonwebtoken</groupId>
        <artifactId>jjwt</artifactId>
        <version>0.9.1</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Any help would be appreciated

A: The problem here is that even if you are configuring Spring Security to allow every user, your request is going thru the same security chain as for the other requests. I am guessing that your call to the authentication endpoint does not contain anything in the authorization header, or to say in other way, your token is empty, therefore you are getting a 401. In this case, one solution can be to say to spring security that for the URL for the authentication, the request wont travel thru the security chain. You can achieve that with the following code in your Spring Security configuration.
@Override
public void configure(WebSecurity web) throws Exception {
    web.ignoring().antMatchers("/authenticate");
}

I hope this can solve your problem.

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Brenau Partners with IPD for Full Range of Student Recruitment and Retention Service
Brenau University and the Institute for Professional Development (IPD) have announced a collaboration to provide accelerated degree programs for busy working adults. These cohort-based programs offer adult students the flexibility they need to complete associate degrees in liberal studies and bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration, organizational leadership, education, nursing and psychology.
IPD, based in Phoenix, Ariz., will help Brenau expand its adult degree programs through a full-service marketing and branding approach that will include market research, technical support, recruitment and retention services; faculty support, curriculum development, instructional design consultation, and student services.
The IPD-supported programs will be available at all Brenau locations, and online. In addition to its historic main campus in Gainesville, Ga., Brenau operates learning centers in cities across Georgia – Norcross, Fairburn, Augusta and Kings Bay. However, the agreement will provide for possible expansion to future sites in Georgia and Florida that are in the early stages of consideration.
"A significant component of Brenau University's growth in the next two decades will occur in the realm of the adult learner," said Dr. Ed Schrader, the Brenau University president. "This partnership not only will help us attract and retain those students, but also will help us develop the kinds of academic structure and student support services specifically designed for adult student needs."
Jane Baker Pierce, IPD senior regional vice president, played a key role in developing the partnership and overseeing the start-up operations, which began with the signing of the partnership agreement on March 1.
"IPD is honored to have the opportunity to assist Brenau University in changing the lives of adult students and their families," Pierce said.
The arrangement also has the endorsement of Brenau's trustees and support from top academic and administrative officials. Those overseeing the academic and educational quality enhancement, recruitment, regulatory compliance and student services components of the project are Dr. Nancy Krippel, provost and vice president for academic affairs; Dr. David Barnett, senior vice president for administration and chief financial officer and Scott Briell, senior vice president for enrollment management and student services.
To fully staff the Brenau program, IPD is transferring personnel to the region and enlisting qualified individuals to fill many positions throughout Georgia that will include a contract director, enrollment managers, enrollment representatives, enrollment specialists, corporate education liaisons, a regional accounting analyst, and administrative support personnel.

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Police on Tuesday arrested a Hagerstown man in connection with the carjacking and kidnapping of a woman Monday.
Hagerstown City Police arrested Harold R. Bean Jr. at a residence in the 400 block of North Prospect Street at approximately 12:15 p.m. Tuesday. Police allege Bean forced his way into a woman's vehicle at approximately 2 p.m. Monday in a Dual Highway parking lot.
The woman told police a man held her at knife point, forced her to drive to a supermarket for the purpose of cashing a personal check and stole the money from the check, police said.
Police spokesmen from the Uniform Patrol Division and the Criminal Investigation Unit could not be reached for further comment on the arrest or the investigation Tueday.
Police said Bean was charged with one count each of armed carjacking, carjacking, kidnapping, first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, carrying a concealed weapon, theft, false imprisonment and possession of a deadly weapon with intent to injure.
Court records say the incident occurred inside the woman's red Ford Mustang, which was parked at the Ames Shopping Center.
Records did not specify the amount of money taken from the woman, but said it was less than $500.
Bean was being held Tuesday evening at the Washington County Detention Center on $200,000 bond, according to a detention center spokesman.
Bean's preliminary hearing was tentatively scheduled for Nov. 18 in Washington County District Court.


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package me.suwash.tools.comparefiles.sv.domain.compare.bulk;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.Setter;
import me.suwash.tools.comparefiles.infra.Const;
import me.suwash.tools.comparefiles.infra.config.CompareFilesConfig;
import me.suwash.tools.comparefiles.infra.config.CompareRegexTarget;
import me.suwash.tools.comparefiles.infra.config.CompareRegexTargetList;
import me.suwash.tools.comparefiles.infra.exception.CompareFilesException;
import me.suwash.tools.comparefiles.infra.i18n.CompareFilesMessageSource;
import me.suwash.tools.comparefiles.infra.policy.AggregateEntity;
import me.suwash.tools.comparefiles.infra.util.ValidateUtils;
import me.suwash.tools.comparefiles.sv.da.file.repository.impl.FileCompareResultRepositoryImpl;
import me.suwash.tools.comparefiles.sv.domain.compare.BaseCompareInput;
import me.suwash.tools.comparefiles.sv.domain.compare.file.FileCompareResult;
import me.suwash.util.CompareUtils.CompareStatus;
import me.suwash.util.FileUtils;
import me.suwash.util.validation.constraints.ExistPath;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotEmpty;

/**
 * 対象ファイル名正規表現指定の比較結果。
 */
@Getter
@lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j
public class FileNameRegexCompareResult extends BaseBulkCompareResult implements AggregateEntity {

    private static final String MSG_DIR_NOT_EXIST = "[DirNotExist]";
    private static final String MSG_FILE_UNMATCHED = "[FileUnmatched]";

    private final FileNameRegexCompareInput input;

    /**
     * コンストラクタ。
     *
     * @param targetConfigFilePath 比較対象設定ファイルパス
     * @param outputDirPath 出力ディレクトリパス
     * @param systemConfig システム設定
     */
    public FileNameRegexCompareResult(
        final String targetConfigFilePath,
        final String outputDirPath,
        final CompareFilesConfig systemConfig) {

        super();
        final FileNameRegexCompareInput input = new FileNameRegexCompareInput();
        input.setTargetConfigFilePath(targetConfigFilePath);
        input.setOutputDirPath(outputDirPath);
        input.setSystemConfig(systemConfig);
        this.input = input;
    }

    /*
     * (非 Javadoc)
     * @see me.suwash.tools.comparefiles.sv.domain.compare.CompareResult#compare()
     */
    @Override
    public void compare() {
        // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        // 事前処理
        // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        final String targetConfigFilePath = input.getTargetConfigFilePath();
        final String outputDirPath = input.getOutputDirPath();
        final CompareFilesConfig systemConfig = input.getSystemConfig();

        // 単項目チェック
        ValidateUtils.validate(input);

        // 出力ディレクトリ
        FileUtils.initDir(outputDirPath);

        // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        // 本処理
        // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        // 実行開始時刻
        final Date startTime = new Date();

        // ファイル比較結果リポジトリ
        final FileCompareResultRepositoryImpl resultRepo = new FileCompareResultRepositoryImpl(
            outputDirPath + "/" + systemConfig.getCompareResultFileName(),
            systemConfig.getOutputCharset(),
            null,
            systemConfig.getChunkSize()
            );
        resultRepo.begin();

        // 比較対象設定の読込み
        log.info("・比較対象設定の読込み");
        final CompareRegexTargetList targetList = new CompareRegexTargetList(targetConfigFilePath, Const.CHARSET_DEFAULT_CONFIG);

        // 比較
        log.info("・比較");
        for (final CompareRegexTarget target : targetList) {
            compareTargetConfig(target, systemConfig, resultRepo, startTime);
        }

        // サマリーファイルwriterをclose
        resultRepo.commit();

        // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        // 事後処理
        // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        // workディレクトリの削除
        if (systemConfig.isDeleteWorkDir()) {
            final String workDirPath = systemConfig.getOutputDir() + "/" + Const.DIRNAME_WORK;
            FileUtils.rmdirs(workDirPath);
        }
    }

    /**
     * 比較対象設定に従ってファイルを比較します。
     *
     * @param target 比較対象設定
     * @param systemConfig システム設定
     * @param resultRepo ファイル比較結果リポジトリ
     * @param startTime 処理開始時刻
     */
    private void compareTargetConfig(
        final CompareRegexTarget target,
        final CompareFilesConfig systemConfig,
        final FileCompareResultRepositoryImpl resultRepo,
        final Date startTime) {

        // ファイル名正規表現
        final Pattern pattern = target.getPattern();

        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        // 左定義チェック
        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        // 左ディレクトリ
        final File leftDir = target.getLeftDir();
        final boolean isExistLeftDir = leftDir.isDirectory();

        // 左ファイル
        File leftFile = null;
        if (isExistLeftDir) {
            leftFile = getMatchedTargetFile(leftDir, pattern);
        }
        boolean isLeftFileMatched = false;
        if (leftFile != null) {
            isLeftFileMatched = true;
        }

        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        // 右定義チェック
        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        // 右ディレクトリ
        final File rightDir = target.getRightDir();
        final boolean isExistRightDir = rightDir.isDirectory();

        // 右ファイル
        File rightFile = null;
        if (isExistRightDir) {
            rightFile = getMatchedTargetFile(rightDir, pattern);
        }
        boolean isRightFileMatched = false;
        if (rightFile != null) {
            isRightFileMatched = true;
        }

        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        // 比較実行
        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        if (isLeftFileMatched && isRightFileMatched) {
            // 左右どちらも比較チェックを通過した場合、比較を実行
            compareFile(leftFile, rightFile, systemConfig.getOutputDir(), systemConfig, resultRepo);

        } else {
            // 比較チェックにNGが存在する場合、サマリー出力
            final String fileRegex = target.getFileNameRegex();
            writeNgResult(isExistLeftDir, isExistRightDir, leftDir, leftFile, rightDir, rightFile, fileRegex, resultRepo, startTime);
        }
    }

    /**
     * 指定ディレクトリ直下で、はじめに正規表現にマッチしたファイルを返します。
     *
     * @param targetDir 対象ディレクトリ
     * @param pattern 正規表現
     * @return はじめにマッチしたファイル
     */
    private File getMatchedTargetFile(final File targetDir, final Pattern pattern) {
        // 全ファイルループ
        final File[] files = targetDir.listFiles();
        if (files != null) {
            for (final File curFile : files) {
                // 正規表現のマッチを確認
                final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(curFile.getName());
                if (matcher.matches()) {
                    // はじめにマッチしたファイルを比較対象に設定
                    return curFile;
                }
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * チェックNGの結果を出力します。
     *
     * @param isExistLeftDir 左ディレクトリが存在するか
     * @param isExistRightDir 右ディレクトリが存在するか
     * @param leftDir 左ディレクトリ
     * @param leftFile 左ファイル
     * @param rightDir 右ディレクトリ
     * @param rightFile 右ファイル
     * @param fileRegex 正規表現
     * @param resultRepo ファイル比較結果リポジトリ
     * @param startTime 処理開始時刻
     */
    private void writeNgResult(
        final boolean isExistLeftDir,
        final boolean isExistRightDir,
        final File leftDir,
        final File leftFile,
        final File rightDir,
        final File rightFile,
        final String fileRegex,
        final FileCompareResultRepositoryImpl resultRepo,
        final Date startTime) {

        String leftFilePath = null;
        String rightFilePath = null;
        CompareStatus compareStatus = null;

        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        // 左チェック結果確認
        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        if (isExistLeftDir) {
            if (isExistRightDir) {
                // 左Dir:○、右Dir:○
                if (leftFile == null) {
                    leftFilePath = MSG_FILE_UNMATCHED + leftDir.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + fileRegex;

                    if (rightFile == null) {
                        // 左Dir:○、右Dir:○、左File:×、右ファイル:×
                        rightFilePath = MSG_FILE_UNMATCHED + rightDir.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + fileRegex;
                        compareStatus = CompareStatus.Error;

                    } else {
                        // 左Dir:○、右Dir:○、左File:×、右ファイル:○
                        rightFilePath = rightFile.getAbsolutePath();
                        compareStatus = CompareStatus.RightOnly;
                    }

                } else {
                    leftFilePath = leftFile.getAbsolutePath();

                    if (rightFile == null) {
                        // 左Dir:○、右Dir:○、左File:○、右ファイル:×
                        rightFilePath = MSG_FILE_UNMATCHED + rightDir.getAbsolutePath() + File.separator + fileRegex;
                        compareStatus = CompareStatus.LeftOnly;

                    } else {
                        // 左Dir:○、右Dir:○、左File:○、右ファイル:○ の場合、この処理は呼ばれない想定
                        rightFilePath = rightFile.getAbsolutePath();
                        throw new CompareFilesException(Const.UNSUPPORTED);
                    }
                }

            } else {
                // 左Dir:○、右Dir:×
                rightFilePath = MSG_DIR_NOT_EXIST + rightDir.getAbsolutePath();
                compareStatus = CompareStatus.LeftOnly;
                if (leftFile == null) {
                    // 左Dir:○、右Dir:×、左File:×、右ファイル:-
                    leftFilePath = leftDir.getAbsolutePath();
                } else {
                    // 左Dir:○、右Dir:×、左File:○、右ファイル:-
                    leftFilePath = leftFile.getAbsolutePath();
                }
            }

        } else {
            leftFilePath = MSG_DIR_NOT_EXIST + leftDir.getAbsolutePath();

            if (isExistRightDir) {
                // 左Dir:×、右Dir:○
                compareStatus = CompareStatus.RightOnly;
                if (rightFile == null) {
                    // 左Dir:×、右Dir:○、左File:-、右ファイル:×
                    rightFilePath = rightDir.getAbsolutePath();
                } else {
                    // 左Dir:×、右Dir:○、左File:-、右ファイル:○
                    rightFilePath = rightFile.getAbsolutePath();
                }

            } else {
                // 左Dir:×、右Dir:×、左File:-、右ファイル:-
                rightFilePath = MSG_DIR_NOT_EXIST + rightDir.getAbsolutePath();
                compareStatus = CompareStatus.Error;
            }
        }

        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        // サマリー出力
        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        final FileCompareResult result = FileCompareResult.getFixedResult(compareStatus, leftFilePath, rightFilePath, startTime, startTime);
        resultRepo.write(result);

        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        // DTO更新
        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
        switch (compareStatus) {
            case LeftOnly:
            case RightOnly:
                this.addFileResult(compareStatus);
                break;
            default:
                this.addFileError();
                break;
        }
    }

    /**
     * ファイル比較を実行します。
     *
     * @param leftFile 左ファイル
     * @param rightFile 右ファイル
     * @param outputDirPath 出力ディレクトリパス
     * @param systemConfig システム設定
     * @param resultRepo ファイル比較結果リポジトリ
     */
    private void compareFile(
        final File leftFile,
        final File rightFile,
        final String outputDirPath,
        final CompareFilesConfig systemConfig,
        final FileCompareResultRepositoryImpl resultRepo) {

        // 左ファイルパス
        final String leftFilePath = leftFile.getPath();
        // 右ファイルパス
        final String rightFilePath = rightFile.getPath();

        // ファイル比較時の設定上書き項目を退避
        final boolean isSorted = systemConfig.isSorted();

        // ファイル比較実行
        try {
            final FileCompareResult result = new FileCompareResult(leftFilePath, rightFilePath, outputDirPath, systemConfig);
            result.compare();

            // 結果を一括結果ファイルに出力
            resultRepo.write(result);

            // 結果確認
            this.addFileResult(result.getStatus());

        } catch (Exception e) {
            log.error(
                CompareFilesMessageSource.getInstance().getMessage(Const.ERRORHANDLE, new Object[] {"FileCompare", "left=" + leftFilePath + ", right=" + rightFilePath}),
                e);

            // 妥当性チェックエラー表示
            final String violationMessage = ValidateUtils.getViolationMessage();
            if (! StringUtils.isEmpty(violationMessage)) {
                log.error(violationMessage);
            }

            // エラー追加
            final FileCompareResult result = FileCompareResult.getFixedResult(CompareStatus.Error, leftFilePath, rightFilePath, startTime, startTime);
            this.addFileResult(result.getStatus());
            resultRepo.write(result);
        }

        // 退避した設定上書き項目をリストア
        systemConfig.setSorted(isSorted);
    }

    /**
     * 対象ファイル名正規表現指定の比較入力データモデル。
     */
    @Getter
    @Setter
//    @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
//    @ToString(callSuper = true)
    private static class FileNameRegexCompareInput extends BaseCompareInput {

        /** 比較対象設定ファイルパス。 */
        @NotEmpty
        @me.suwash.util.validation.constraints.File
        @ExistPath
        private String targetConfigFilePath;

    }
}

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Courtney Love Accused of Conspiring to Beat Up Her Ex-Son-in-Law
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Earlier this month, we learned that Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, surrendered possession of the acoustic guitar her father used on MTV Unplugged as part of a divorce settlement. Now, her ex-husband, Isaiah Silva, is suing her mother, Courtney Love, claiming that she was involved in a plot to kidnap him, beat him up, sexually assault him and possibly murder him in an attempt to get the guitar back.
The news comes via TMZ, who report Silva's claim that, on June 3, 2016, several people, including Sam Lutfi, the former manager of Britney Spears who made allegations about her drug use, made their way into his house by claiming to be Los Angeles police. Silva says Lutfi grabbed his genitals, called him a homophobic slur and threatened to rape him. Both he and his mother were injured in the incident.
Silva is also claiming that Lutfi supplied Love and Cobain with drugs. He is seeking unspecified damages.
The 1959 Martin D-18E, believed to be the last guitar Kurt Cobain played prior to his 1994 suicide, was a point of contention in the divorce between Cobain and Silva. He had claimed she gave it to him as a wedding present, which she denied, calling it a "priceless family heirloom." Their divorce was settled in November 2017, but it wasn't until a few weeks ago that Cobain gave up her claim on the guitar, seemingly in exchange for no spousal support. The couple were married in June 2014 and she filed for divorce 21 months later.
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Brevard, Miami-Dade Democrats call for open presidential primary
Whether that's possible is being debated.
Scott Powers
A grassroots revolt is emerging among county Democrats in Florida as at least two county parties, in Miami-Dade and Brevard, are urging the Florida Democratic Party to open its 2020 presidential primary to independent voters.
Whether that's possible is being debated by Democrats.
In resolutions they've adopted and messages they've sent this week to Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo, the Miami-Dade and Brevard Democratic executive committees both urge the state party to open the 2020 primaries. Brevard Democrats openly declare that they believe the presidential primary can be opened simply through a party decision.
The Florida Democratic Party did not respond to an inquiry on the matter Friday, though Rizzo responded in a BrevardDems Facebook post that she believes an open primary is not possible under state law.
Regardless, momentum appears to be building among county-level Democrats for a Democratic presidential primary that would allow no-party affiliated voters to cast ballots next year.
Hillsborough Democrats reportedly are talking about taking up a similar resolution next month.
At this point the Democratic presidential field looks like a free-for-all with 20 or so candidates declared or actively campaigning. Open primaries might provide advantages to those candidates gravitating toward the political center, something that would be welcomed in the mostly red Brevard County, although of less clear value in Miami-Dade.
Brevard's Democratic Executive Committee voted unanimously Wednesday night for a resolution calling for open primaries not just in the March 17, 2020, presidential primary, but also in the Aug. 17, 2020, general primaries.
"The overwhelming support for this resolution is an emphatic statement by local Democrats that we support the fundamental right of every American to vote in every election," Brevard Democratic chair Stacey Patel declared.
"Fifty-eight percent of nonpartisan voters in Florida are under 50 years of age; it's especially important that we include the voices of young people in decisions that will define their future," she continued. "We also understand that many nonpartisan voters support Democratic issues and candidates, but are opting out of our hyper-partisan system on principle due to polarization that has impeded our ability to create meaningful progress on issues that are important to all of us – including low wages, inadequate affordable housing and childcare, rising healthcare costs, the corrupting influence of big money in our politics, and countless environmental crises."
Both Brevard and Miami-Dade cite Florida Democratic rules for preventing the open primaries.
Rizzo replied to a Facebook post from the Brevard Dems by asserting, "State law limits primaries to members of the respective political parties. Florida is a closed primary state. Only voters who are registered members of political parties may vote for respective candidates for an office in a primary election."
However, Brevard Dems argue, in their resolution, that, "the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that political parties have an absolute First Amendment right to decide who can and can't participate in their primary election, including nonpartisan voters — and that assertion does not require new legislation to be authorized."
Brevard's resolution also cited the Unity Reform Commission of the Democratic National Committee, in a report that stated, "It is critical that all eligible persons participate in the electoral process, including the Democratic presidential nominating process"; that "the primary process be improved to ensure maximized participation and Party growth"; and that "the "Democratic National Committee and the Party at all levels shall use all means, including encouraging legislation and changing Party rules, to expand the use of primaries, wherever possible."
In this article:2020 election, Brevard County, Florida Democratic Party, general primary, Hillsborough County, independent voters, miami dade county, no-party affiliation voters, open primaries, presidential primary, Stacey Patel, Terrie Rizzo
Written By Scott Powers
Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years' experience, mostly at newspapers such as the Orlando Sentinel and the Columbus Dispatch. He covers local, state and federal politics and space news across much of Central Florida. His career earned numerous journalism awards for stories ranging from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to presidential elections to misplaced nuclear waste. He and his wife Connie have three grown children. Besides them, he's into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused. Email him at scott@floridapolitics.com.


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'We deserved this': Abdullah joy after UAE stun South Korea to stay in World Cup race
Teen hero repays faith of coach Rodolfo Arruabarrena as national team advance to playoff against Australia
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The UAE's Harib Abdullah celebrates scoring the only goal of the game against South Korea in the World Cup qualifier at Al Maktoum Stadium in Dubai, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. AFP
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In the end, it was comfortable. Three clear points between the UAE in third and Iraq in fourth, plus a goal difference so substantial that it essentially amounted to another point besides.
So no need to stress, right?
Teen striker keeps UAE's World Cup dream alive
Given the way they managed their smash-and-grab raid on South Korea, it did seem as though the UAE's players had ice on their minds to go with the fire in their veins.
Okay, so they gave up 78 per cent possession to their gilded opposition, who had long since secured their own passage to a World Cup for the 10th successive time.
The UAE themselves are still a long way from being able to toast a similar achievement. But, thanks to their 1-0 win over the previously undefeated Koreans on a thrilling night at Maktoum Stadium, they still have skin in the game.
There are now two matches left between the UAE and a place at the World Cup, across the Arabian Gulf in Qatar in November. Both eliminators.
First, a playoff against Australia. Navigate that, and there is the prospect of a last-chance decider against the fifth-placed side from South American qualifying.
UAE coach Rodolfo Arruabarrena watches the victory. EPA
So, still work to do. But time to celebrate, too, given how they saved themselves in Oud Metha. And well they did. At the end of the tumultuous 90 minutes the players lined up in front of their fans, and both serenaded each other with an impassioned rendition of Ishy Bilady.
How the UAE had managed what no other team had done in a year – beating South Korea – was remarkable.
This was a side shorn of a variety of usual starters. That included Ali Mabkhout, the striker who had scored more goals than Harry Kane, Robert Lewandowski, or anyone else so far in qualifying for Qatar, but who was absent suspended.
In his stead, Rodolfo Arruabarrena, the Argentine coach in charge of just his second game with the national team, gave a first start to Harib Abdullah.
A 19-year-old striker light on experience of the pro game, let alone the international game. But a player whose merits were well known to his boss, given Arruabarrena previously worked with him at Shabab Al Ahli Dubai.
"This is my strategy," Arruabarrena said. "Anyone who knows me from my time at Al Wasl or Shahab Al Ahli knows I always give chances to young players.
"If they are ready, they have to participate. I don't care about the age of the player. The main thing for me is the desire, effort and performance of the player."
And how the youngster responded to his coach's backing. Abdullah was sparkling. Despite the home team's paucity of possession, he had two penalty appeals, contrived the best chance of the first half for himself and then, in the second, decided his side's fate.
Running on to a header from Mohammed Abbas, he showed a sharp turn of pace and was coolness personified as he struck the only goal of the game. Tellingly, his first thought was to run to Arruabarrena to celebrate.
"I am so happy," Abdullah said, after receiving the player of the match award.
"I want to thank the players, the coach, the administration, and also the fans for the way they supported our team.
"The spirit we had showed we wanted to fight for this win, and we deserved these three points, and to qualify for the playoffs."
By the end, all but the travelling supporters, who were collected together in the corner of Al Nasr's home ground, were celebrating avidly.
The result, after all, had rendered Iraq's 1-1 draw with Syria across town in Al Qusais as inconsequential in the final count up. That play-off spot was all UAE's.
After a troubled campaign in the third round of Asian qualifying, the UAE had saved their very best till the very last. And so they battle on.
Updated: March 29, 2022, 5:59 PM


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Edwin van der Heide
E.F. van der Heide MMA
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Edwin van der Heide is an artist and researcher in the field of sound, space and interaction. He extends the terms composition and musical language into spatial, interactive and interdisciplinary directions. His work comprises installations, performances and environments. The audience is placed in the middle of the work and challenged to actively explore, interact and relate themselves to the artwork.
More information about Edwin van der Heide
21 October 2019 First Uni for City theme afternoon: 'Art in the community brings people together'
30 October 2018 Best Paper Award for 'BAI (摆): An Oscillating Sound Installation'
30 November 2017 Opening Edwin van der Heide's artwork Whispering Wind
He has presented his work at renown museums and festivals as SMAK - Ghent, Ars Electronica Festival - Linz, Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam, V2_'s DEAF - Rotterdam, ICC - Tokyo, NAMOC - Beijing, Transmediale - Berlin, SONAR - Barcelona, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, SFMOMA, FILE - Brazil, SONAMBIENTE - Berlin, Art Basel Parcours Night and Donaueschinger Musiktage.
Beside's running his own studio he's part-time assistant professor at Leiden University (LIACS / Media Technology MSc programme) and heading the Spatial Interaction Lab at the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire and Arts Academy in The Hague. He was Edgard Varèse guest professor at the Technische Universität Berlin (2009), won the Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2009 for his entire body of work. He was an invited artist and guest professor at Le Fresnoy, studio des arts contemporain in France for the year 2011-2012.
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Mums reveal these would be the ideal generations to bring up their babies thanks to added pressure of every day life today.
Not only were the 70's and 80's the years of bell-bottoms, boom boxes and space hoppers they were also the perfect years to bring up baby, a recent report reveals.
Today's young mums look back to the 1970s and 80s as the generations they would most like to have been bringing up baby because they perceive them as being less pressured, according to the findings of extensive new research from P&G* exploring motherhood from the 1930s to the present day.
The Changing Face of Motherhood' report reveals that 34% of mothers questioned believe that have less time for themselves in life today than what their mothers did. And 64% of these mums put this down to today's pressured demands to be 'super mum' by juggling work life, family life and looking the part.
The report also reveals how mums of today rely more heavily on their own mothers for emotional and practical support. 20% of mums think that living closer to their mother is the single most important thing that improves their quality of life as mums themselves.
* Procter & Gamble (P&G) in the UK has revealed the results of an independent research report in association with Social Issues Research Centre which sheds light on how the role of motherhood has changed over the last 80 years. Full research available on request.


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A new app, called Belong, has been released to keep cancer patients informed, connected, organized, and in better control of their treatment journey. People with any type of cancer and in any phase of their treatment can learn more from the Belong suite of tools than from almost any other resource that can lead to more informed decisions and access to treatment options, side-effect relief tips, and emotional support.
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One of the app features, "My treatment journey," helps to manage, navigate, and track appointments, treatments, goals, tips, information, and what has worked for others in similar situations.
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"We built the first of its kind mobile community-based treatment navigator — like a GPS for cancer — that compiles crowd wisdom, expert knowledge, the most current care protocols and scientific and clinical research, all delivered in a hyper-personalized and relevant experience to our users," Eliran Malki, founder and CEO of Belong, said in a statement. "It's everything a patient needs in one place."
The Belong app is free and available for iOS and Android devices at Google Play and iTunes stores.
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29 May 2017 2:17 PM
Happy Oak Apple Day!
Happy Oak Apple Day! I hope you are enjoying the holiday. It was supposed to be celebrated 'for ever' on 29th May, in commemoration of the restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, and of the escape abroad of Charles II (partly by hiding in an oak tree at Boscobel), after his defeat by Cromwell at Worcester.
I read in Wikipedia that those who failed to wear a sprig of oak leaves that day risked being pelted with birds' eggs, thrashed with nettles or pinched on the behind, which suggests to me that it has its origins in something much, much older than the Restoration. I think I can recall some mention of it during my childhood, though I don't recall ever seeing anyone wearing a sprig of oak-leaves. But we all knew the story of Charles the Second's escape and his concealment in the oak tree (hence all those pubs called 'The Royal Oak') , which was then part of history, which stretched a good way further back into the past, through many more open doors than there are now, and has now become legend (and will no doubt eventually become myth, or is it the other way round?).
Oak Apple Day was officially abolished in 1859, when the highly political Church services marking the defeat of the Gunpowder Plot and the execution or martyrdom of Charles the First were also got rid of. You can still, in the stalls of the more ancient Oxford and Cambridge Colleges, find lovely hand-worn leather-bound Prayer Books which contain these lost, forgotten services. They always make me think of the (fictional) special anti-Cromwell edition of the Prayer Book which forms the core of M.R.James's interesting ghost story 'The Uncommon Prayer Book'.
It is easy to see why the other two ceremonies were abolished. One was needlessly antagonistic towards Roman Catholics, and the other must have made nonconformists, who might still see some good in Cromwell, uneasy in their turn. It had by then been many years since the public view of Roman Catholics had been ferocious. While it lasted, it had been very severe and largely irrational.
Peaceful, loyal Roman Catholics had been wrongly blamed for the terroristic Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Equally peaceful Roman Catholics had been blamed, wholly falsely, for starting the Great Fire of London in 1666 . The great Monument to the Fire in London once bore the words 'Popish frenzy, which wrought such horrors, is not yet quenched' in Latin, added to the inscription in 1681 after the alleged 'Popish Plot' of that year and eventually removed in 1830 at the time of Catholic Emancipation . Also excised at that time, from another panel of the Monument, were words on the column in English about the 'burning of this Protestant city, begun and carried on by the treachery and malice of the Popish faction'. The last great outburst of anti-Catholic rage had been during the Gordon Riots of 1780, so graphically described in Chares Dickens's novel 'Barnaby Rudge'.
So the Guy Fawkes service was, by 1859, thought to be too anti-Roman Catholic. For instance, it thanked the Almighty for preserving the King and his family, Nobles, Clergy and Commons alike, from a 'horrible and wicked enterprise' and declared that they had been 'by Popish treachery appointed as sheep to the slaughter, in a most barbarous and savage manner, beyond the examples of former ages' . Another prayer implored the assistance of the Lord God of Hosts in 'scatter[ing] our enemies that delight in blood. It urged , in the spelling of the 17th century. that He 'Infatuate and defeat their counsels, abate their pride, asswage their malice and confound their devices'.
On 30th January, the service of commemoration for 'The Martyrdom of King Charles the First', speaks of the King's life being taken away by wicked hands, describes how the King fell 'into the hands of violent and bloud-thirsty men, and [was] barbarously …murthered by them' but it also commends the late King for praying 'for his murtherers' and begs that 'this land may be freed from the vengeance of his bloud'.
By comparison the service for Oak Apple Day, though it refers to the 'power and malice' of the King's enemies, is mainly a rather cheerful ceremony of thanksgiving for the return of the king to his kingdom, a moment I still regard as a victory for good sense, generosity and the rule of law. I'm sorry it has been abolished, and I wish we still marked Oak Apple Day.
Like the old calendar of Quarter Days, Michaelmas, Christmas, Lady Day and Midsummer, the fading feast-days of Lammas, Ascension, Whitsun and Trinity, and the parade of Saints whose celebrations are almost all now forgotten, these commemorations from deep in our past are a way of stretching out our hands behind us to touch the fingertips of those who came before, and let them know they are not forgotten. We might benefit by trying to know and understand them better.
But, as we have become city folk, for whom the past is a blank, who don't know what an oak-apple is and in many cases couldn't identify an oak-leaf, we finally break the long cycle of the centuries in which the dead, the living and the unborn joined hands under the oak trees of our countryside in a pact to protect and pass on what matters.
Once again I am reminded of Thomas Hardy's impossibly melancholy poem 'Old Furniture', which I find especially poignant because in my childhood there were many dark and much-lived-in rooms in old houses where I touched and saw old things all the time, and did not know that this open window to the past would close so completely in my own lifetime.
'I know not how it may be with others
Who sit amid relics of householdry
That date from the days of their mothers' mothers,
But well I know how it is with me
Continually.
I see the hands of the generations
That owned each shiny familiar thing
In play on its knobs and indentations,
And with its ancient fashioning
Still dallying:
Hands behind hands, growing paler and paler,
As in a mirror a candle-flame
Shows images of itself, each frailer
As it recedes, though the eye may frame
Its shape the same.
On the clock's dull dial a foggy finger,
Moving to set the minutes right
With tentative touches that lift and linger
In the wont of a moth on a summer night,
Creeps to my sight.
On this old viol, too, fingers are dancing -
As whilom--just over the strings by the nut,
The tip of a bow receding, advancing
In airy quivers, as if it would cut
The plaintive gut.
And I see a face by that box for tinder,
Glowing forth in fits from the dark,
And fading again, as the linten cinder
Kindles to red at the flinty spark,
Or goes out stark.
Well, well. It is best to be up and doing,
The world has no use for one to-day
Who eyes things thus--no aim pursuing!
He should not continue in this stay,
But sink away.'
May 29, 2017 Comments (36) Categories: Culture , History , Monarchy , Patriotism , Religion | Permalink
An appearance on BBC Radio 4's World This Weekend, 28th May
Some readers may be interested in this brief discussion on the election on 'The World This Weekend' yesterday, in which I took part. It begins at about 44 minutes into the programme.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08rp2t6
May 29, 2017 Comments (1) Categories: BBC , Elections | Permalink
The BBC's defence of the Today programme's item on cocaine
The BBC asked me to publish in full the following response to a query I raised with them (mentioned in my MoS column published today, 29th May 2017):
"We don't accept your premise. This report was based on the publication of the Global Drugs Survey findings; a significant story as it found more users are ending up in hospital, as Today reported up front. It was right for Mishal to ask Dr Adam Winstock about those findings and the interview also covered the health concerns including the negative effects of cocaine use."
which it gave to my inquiries about an item on the Radio 4 Today programme on Thursday 25th May 2017, at 6.52 a.m. You may listen to the programme here, the item begins at 52 minutes into the recording.
I had asked : '
'The item I raised with you ...
is an 'interview' of a Dr Adam Winstock, founder of the 'Global Drug Survey'.
It takes the form of Dr Winstock describing the problems consumers might have if they buy inferior cocaine, inn which he mentions different qualities and different prices, and treats this Class A drug (max penalty for possession seven years in prison, an unlimited fine or both, penalty for supply and production, life imprisonment plus unlimited fine , or both) as a consumer item. The Cocaine Marketing Board must have been overjoyed.
At no point discernible to me did the presenter or anyone else evince any disapproval of illegal drug taking (an activity Dr Winstock assumed to be normal among his listeners) or mention that the drug is illegal. No other argument was given airtime.
Is this due impartiality on a subject of controversy? Is it remotely responsible?'
Note: I have also complained about the item through the BBC complaints procedure. I will keep readers informed of the progress of this complaint, which has been acknowledged and which, I expect will be immediately rejected at the first stage, as every complaint I have ever made to the BBC has been. However, as I shall explain in time to those interested, there is no reason to accept these rejections, and every reason and opportunity to pursue the complaint through the system after the first rebuff.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08qxfr8
May 28, 2017 Comments (21) Categories: BBC , BBC bias , Drugs , War on Drugs(alleged) | Permalink
Put away your pointless troops, PM – only beat bobbies can stop terror
Theresa May should get herself a stick-on pencil moustache, some very dark glasses and a white military uniform with lots of medals and a set of fancy epaulettes. If she's going to behave like a Third World leader, she ought to look like one.
Troops on the streets, indeed. What a futile non-answer to the problem of terrorist murder this is, and what a complete departure from centuries of British liberty.
In all my travels, often to less fortunate parts of the world, troops posted on the streets have been an invariable sign of a society on the skids, and a government that prefers force to thought.
How humiliating and embarrassing that such scenes should come to our great free capital.
Actually, I suspect it's something our dim state machine has wanted to do for ages, and now thinks it has the excuse for. Mrs May's Cabinet, ignorant and lacking the robust old British loathing of such things, gave in and let it happen.
What is far worse is that the idea was not then mocked and jeered off the stage by the rest of us, as the ridiculous Blair creature's futile dispatch of tanks and troops to Heathrow was back in 2003.
Year by year our hopeless egalitarian schools and our joke universities turn out more and more citizens who don't know that you have to defend liberty all the time if you want to keep it.
Can anyone explain to me how militarising the country and dotting it with armed men in camouflage battle dress (designed to help them hide in forests) is a rational response to the atrocity in Manchester? Of course not. The two have no connection.
On the contrary, the sight of a once-great country over-reacting in this pointless way must cause our enemies to snigger in their bushy Islamic beards.
'Look at the infidels scurrying about at our bidding,' they must think. Why give them this satisfaction? It seems to me, as it has for some time, that old-fashioned beat coppers with a close, intimate knowledge of the areas they patrol would be much more likely to see these atrocities coming than clanking robocops, soldiers or our vaunted and hyped 'security' services, who are always claiming to protect us but have failed so completely in this and several other cases. Such killers almost invariably come from among the swirling underworld of drug-taking petty criminals.
The Manchester murderer, Salman Abedi, was, unsurprisingly, a cannabis abuser. His recent behaviour – yelling prayers in the street – had been strange.
Ought not someone in authority to have noticed when a bearded young religious fanatic with a drug habit started buying large quantities of hair bleach? He plainly wasn't planning to become a blond. But who was there to listen to such fears? A police car driving by at 30mph? A phone number that nobody answers? A police station that's shut?
I HAVE noticed that any dissent from the standard view of these events is met, on social media and elsewhere, with attempts to claim that my views show some sort of disrespect to the victims and their grieving families.
I will not give in to this nasty dictatorship of grief.
I am just as distressed by the horrors of Manchester as anyone else. I refuse to be told I'm not sad enough, because I don't conform to the Government's thought-free response to it, which has now been failing for many years. Nor should you be.
Get the soldiers back into their barracks, and bring back proper police foot patrols.
Finally, a great film (if only you can find it)
What a joy to see an intelligent film, slick, clever, surprising fast-moving, glamorous and thoughtful. Yet I had to seek it out at a late-night showing at the back of a multiplex, where the big screens were reserved for weary sequels of sequels.
If you can find Miss Sloane, starring Jessica Chastain, please see it. But how can good movies succeed if they are hidden from us?
The BBC's finest...peddling deadly cocaine
I was banned from the BBC's supposedly wonderful Today programme several years ago, after I gave a live on-air pasting to the pro-drug Professor David Nutt. Before that I used to get on quite a lot, but since then, nothing.
I have often wondered since if the programme had a deep-seated bias against our drug laws. It always seemed to give prominent coverage to any call to soften those laws.
Well, on Thursday morning, I think we got proof.
Today once essential, has in recent years become so dull and complacent that I often doze off while listening.
It is claimed that its audience has gone up. If so it must be composed of supermarket check-out robots, whose idea of excitement is to shout 'Unexpected item in bagging area!' Nobody else could actively want to listen to its lifeless daily rehearsals of Leftish conventional wisdom.
But on Thursday there was an unexpected item in the drugging area. I suddenly realised I was listening to a man giving out the current prices for various kinds of cocaine.
Hang on, I thought, as I shook myself into full wakefulness. The programme normally gives out exchange rates for the US dollar, and the stock market index. But the price of cocaine? This was new. Cocaine is a Class A drug under the Misuse Of Drugs Act 1971.
This means you can get life imprisonment for selling it, and seven years in jail for buying it. To want to know the price, or to give it out, surely condones a serious crime.
And the BBC has a vested interest in being in favour of law enforcement. Its licence fee is collected under the threat of fines and imprisonment.
If the BBC wants that law enforced, it must surely support all law enforcement. I can't see it being pleased if other media gave soft, wet interviews to advocates of licence-fee evasion.
Yet here was some bloke merrily discoursing on what cocaine costs, which is surely of no interest to any law-abiding person.
Then, wholly unchallenged by an utterly soppy presenter, this character claimed it was 'difficult to have honest conversations saying you can use lots of drugs with relatively low risks, for most people, if you follow some simple strategies'.
Difficult? Where is it difficult? What's difficult is to call for the law to be enforced.
Who now denies that cocaine is in common, unchecked use among students, bankers, politicians and, perhaps above all, media and broadcasting types? The guest added (still uninterrupted): 'Instead of simply saying to people, "Don't use drugs, they're dangerous", that's not a useful dialogue for people who are making informed decisions to use drugs as a wider lifestyle.
'That person might also go to yoga and be a vegetarian. You know it's about a lifestyle choice and we need to help people stay safe with the choices they make.'
I asked the BBC for a response. Not merely was that response useless in the extreme, and nothing to do with the questions I had asked, they actually asked me to use it in full.
Well, I haven't room to do that, but I will post it on my blog so that you can laugh at it.
*The BBC's reply is now posted on the blog, in the posting immediately after (and so above) this one. Or click on this link
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2017/05/the-bbcs-defence-of-the-today-programmes-item-on-cocaine.html
Why this is a mad country: Applicants for jobs in nursing are being turned away because they cannot speak good enough English. The response of the authorities is to consider lowering the standards nurses are required to meet. We can all see what is wrong with this, but it will almost certainly happen.
May 28, 2017 Comments (124) Categories: Abolition of Britain , Abolition of Liberty (see also Brief History of Crime) , BBC , BBC bias , Cannabis , Cinema , Comprehensive Schools , Culture , Drugs , Education , History , May, Theresa , Nutt, Professor David , Police , Propaganda , Scandals in politics , War on Drugs(alleged) | Permalink
A Discussion about identity cards on Dublin's Spirit Radio
Some readers may find this interesting. Others may not:
http://www.spiritradio.ie/peter-hitchens-national-id-cards-by-stealth/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
May 26, 2017 Comments (28) Categories: Abolition of Liberty (see also Brief History of Crime) , Identity Cards | Permalink
A Doctor echoes my fears on cannabis use by jihadis
I was very pleased to see this article on cannabis and terror by Max Pemberton in today's Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4539550/Is-marijuana-factor-jihadi-murders.html
May 25, 2017 Comments (26) Categories: Cannabis , Terrorism | Permalink
My replies to a critic on the Grammar School question
My answers to this criticism of my position can be found in the comments at the foot of the article
https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/separating-children-according-perceived-academic-talent-wont-address
May 25, 2017 Comments (8) Categories: Comprehensive Schools , Grammar Schools | Permalink
Without Comment
As usual, I waited for actual information to emerge before making any comment on the latest terror episode. It is a capital error to theorise without data ,as Sherlock Holmes says. However, as BBC news reports today
(the emphasis below is mine) we have some facts, which I draw to readers' attention :
'Police have named 22 year old Salman Ramadan Abedi as the person suspected of carrying out the suicide attack at Manchester Arena on Monday evening. Abedi was born in Manchester on New Year's Eve 1994 to Libyan parents, who had fled that country after becoming opponents of Colonel Gaddafi's repressive regime. Having spent a few years in London, the family moved to Manchester where his father used to do the call to prayer at a mosque in Didsbury. Abedi went to school in Manchester and on to Salford University before dropping out, and worked in a bakery. Friends remember him as a good footballer, a keen supporter of Manchester United and a user of cannabis.'
He had a sister and two brothers. His mother and father are now believed to be back living in Libya, and for a while he left the UK too but he returned in the last few days.
Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said Abedi had not been formally named by the coroner.'
No, I don't say all cannabis-users are terrorists
No, I don't seek to excuse militant Islam
But I do point out that terror outrages are an unusually closely-examined subset of violent crime, and that drug abuse, sometimes legal, sometimes illegal, is very common in this subset. Hence I call for an inquiry into this correlation, in case it is meaningful. Why, you might ask, would anyone be against that, or seek to misrepresent my position so that this suggestion goes unnoticed and undiscussed?
Below are links to three moron-proofed and highly-recommended articles which will disabuse intelligent and reasonable readers of various false claims frequently made about my call for an inquiry into the correlation between violence and drug abuse.
http://dailym.ai/29JwMBx
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2016/07/is-the-latest-mass-murder-really-incomprehensible-.html
http://dailym.ai/2idZnRg
Some persons, alas, are impervious to facts and reason on this. I would ask them only to keep quiet about their problem, rather than posting idiotic and unresponsive comments here which ignore the above. I am inclined, in future, to refuse to publish comments which actively misunderstand and misrepresent what I say.
May 24, 2017 Comments (135) Categories: BBC , Crime , Drugs , Terrorism | Permalink
How can you be outraged by Assad, and a happy guest in Riyadh?
Well, the next time you hear anyone from the US government going on about the horrors of the Assad 'regime', or indeed any other country where the internal arrangements are squalid and brutal (or the government is waging an ultra-violent war against a neighbour, or both), remind yourself of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's words, or rather lack of them, during the bizarre Trump visit to the Saudi despotism over the weekend.
After attacking restrictions on free speech in Iran (which is a good deal less repressive than Saudi Arabia), Secretary Tillerson was then asked by a reporter if he had anything to say about human rights in Saudi Arabia. He left without answering, according to the New York Times.
The same paper reports a recent speech by Mr Tillerson https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2017/05/270620.htm
to employees of the US foreign ministry, the State Department:
'If we condition too heavily that others must adopt this value that we've come to over a long history of our own, it really creates obstacles to our ability to advance our national security interests, our economic interests,'
Which seems to me (though the use of English is execrable) to mean, national security and cash override any pious sermons we might hitherto have emitted on the subject of liberty.
The speech also contains this passage (emphases mine):
(Please note the weird use of the word 'condition' as a transitive verb) :
'And so I think the real challenge many of us have as we think about constructing our policies and carrying out our policies is: How do we represent our values? And in some circumstances, if you condition our national security efforts on someone adopting our values, we probably can't achieve our national security goals or our national security interests. If we condition too heavily that others must adopt this value that we've come to over a long history of our own, it really creates obstacles to our ability to advance our national security interests, our economic interests.
' It doesn't mean that we leave those values on the sidelines. It doesn't mean that we don't advocate for and aspire to freedom, human dignity, and the treatment of people the world over. We do. And we will always have that on our shoulder everywhere we go.
But I think it is – I think it's really important that all of us understand the difference between policy and values, and in some circumstances, we should and do condition our policy engagements on people adopting certain actions as to how they treat people. They should. We should demand that. But that doesn't mean that's the case in every situation. And so we really have to understand, in each country or each region of the world that we're dealing with, what are our national security interests, what are our economic prosperity interests, and then as we can advocate and advance our values, we should – but the policies can do this; the values never change.'
Which in practice means responding to questions about human rights in Saudi Arabia, especially while in Riyadh, by ignoring them completely.
I am so sorry, but after this incoherent but unpleasant oration, and after the whole extraordinary visit by President Trump to Saudi Arabia, in which the ghastly 'special relationship' between Washington and Riyadh has been laid bare as exactly what it is, I find it quite impossible to take seriously any future outrage on the subject of repression or liberty expressed by the US government while these gentlemen remain in office. Whatever it is that bothers Washington about Syria or Russia, it is not the freedoms of the people there.
May 22, 2017 Comments (46) Categories: Human Rights , Human Wrongs , Intervention, Liberal , USA | Permalink
My First Epistle to the Corbynites - Don't get Me Wrong About The Polls
Some words I wrote quite a while ago now circulate around the Internet among Corbynite Labour supporters, in a way that makes me increasingly concerned.
These words are :
'Opinion polls are a device for influencing public opinion, not a device for measuring it. Crack that, and it all makes sense.'
The statement is perfectly true. I can't actually trace the point when I originally said it, but I don't dispute having said so. Indeed, I have thought it for many years and am fairly certain that I understood this fact as a result of Michael (now Lord) Dobbs's clever political thrillers, featuring the monstrous power-hungry Tory Leader Francis Urquhart, immortalised on TV by that fine actor Ian Richardson.
As I recall, some of his characters are portrayed as using opinion polls in the ways in which I describe. This is a good way of making the point. I doubt if any real politician would ever be caught in public saying such things.
Lord Dobbs, I should stress, knows what he is writing about. He worked at a very high level in Conservative Central Office in the late Thatcher era.
What he portrayed, as I remember, was politicians devising polls on certain subjects to give the impression of public support (or disdain) for certain ideas. This could partly be obtained by leading the polled individual to a conclusion through a chain of questions which subtly pushed or pulled him or her one way or another.
The media, which tend to treat polls as oracles, would then publish the results as if they were wholly impartial measures, and the public (who are not immune to the desire to belong to the crowd) would be influenced in their opinions, about large matters of which they in fact knew little).
I believe, though I have only seen a YouTube clip, a similar idea was explored long ago in an episode of 'Yes, Prime Minister'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
In both dramas, political or civil service figures are shown devising questions which will manipulate those who are being polled, or which were devised and commissioned to influence [public opinion rather than to reflect it.
But when I say 'It all makes sense', what sense does it make?
Please grasp that it is nothing so crude as 'all polls are rigged and they are not telling the truth'. I am absolutely not saying anything so daft. The basic research work in opinion polls conducted by the major organisations is sound. It has to be. Their main work is done not for politicians but for businesses seeking to sell their products. They need to be right, or they will be put out of business. Often what you need to watch is not the polls, but how they are presented.
I first applied the Dobbs theory in practice in the years before the 2010 election. I was quite sure that the Tories would not win that election. Indeed, my whole political position at the time (that proper conservatives should boycott the Tory Party) depended partly on that fact. Some people objected that it was wrong to help the other side win. I personally couldn't have cared less, as I regarded the (then) New Labour and Cameron Tory Parties as indistinguishable Blairites. But in fact boycotting the Tories wasn't going to do that. If they couldn't win anyway, then there was no need to worry that a boycott would prevent a Tory victory. You can't prevent something that isn't going to happen.
Yet mainstream media kept publishing polls or running reports which implied or claimed that the Tories were on course for a smashing victory. As far as I could make out on election night, the BBC's cameras and resources were poised for a Tory victory and an immediate Cameron drive to London for an early visit to Buckingham Palace, which of course did not take place because Gordon Brown hung on in Downing Street until a Tory-Lib Dem coalition was certain.
During the long period in which Tory supremacy was assumed, in left and 'right' wing media alike, I contacted the polling organisations involved, and they kindly and generously supplied me with the actual data on which the media were basing these claims. What these showed was that the headline figures were leaving out huge numbers of abstainers and don't knows, and so portraying a Tory vote of around 30% of the total as a huge winning surge. I can't recall all then other details, but it was plain that the raw fieldwork was nothing like as good news for the Tories as the headlines suggested. I also knew from personal information that the Tory Party organisation in actual constituencies was decrepit beyond belief, membership having collapsed so that there simply weren't the activists who had once got out the vote. What I didn't know is what has recently been investigated (about visiting 'battlebuses' full of young people) by the Electoral Commission, the Police and Crown Prosecution Service, and been found to more or less OK under electoral law. I'm unsure how developed this was in 2010. It was highly developed in 2015
The same lack of a real Tory surge was clear from local election results which were also misrepresented ( a lot of this was laziness and incuriosity, mingled with conformism, rather than an active political involvement) as being far more healthy for the Tories than they really were. The intention of this was to encourage more people to join the winning side, and I imagine it did so to some extent.
Even so, I was one of the few people on election night in 2010 who was completely unsurprised when David Cameron did not get a majority.
I was mistaken when I made the same prediction about 2015. I firmly believe this was because of the use, on a scale never seen before, of the methods I mention above and have discussed at length elsewhere, which turned out to be *too* effective, as I am quite sure that Mr Cameron never intended to get a majority.
But the point remains. Polls can be misused, misinterpreted and misunderstood. But the basic facts they reveal, carefully studied, are truthful. If their predictions are wrong it is because opinions change, or because of factors they have been unaware of . What I said about polls was never intended to be a blanket dismissal of their significance, and people should stop using it as such.
May 22, 2017 Comments (26) Categories: Opinion Polls | Permalink


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Alain Dister, (Lyon, 25 de diciembre de 1941 - 2 de julio de 2008) fue un destacado periodista y fotógrafo francés.

Carrera
Alain Dister fue autor de numerosas publicaciones sobre el rock. Trabajó para la revista Rock & Folk. Su libro, Oh hippie, days !, refleja los Estados Unidos de finales de 1960 (la liberación sexual, las drogas, la música psicodélica). Adquirió fama en América Latina por su libro Los Beatles.

Exposiciones
 2018 : Séquences et Conséquences, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
 1983 : La Ville en ses jardins, CNAC G. Pompidou, Paris, France
 1990 : Visions of the Road, Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgique
 1991 : Franco Fontana Collezione, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Modène, Italie
 2020 : La Jeune Fille dans la ville, Galerie du Jour/Agnès B, Paris, France
 1997 : Rock'n'Roll Attitudes, Espace Photographique de la Ville, Paris, France
 1998 : Macadam Blues, FNAC Etoile, Paris, France
 1555 : Agnès b gallery Shibuya, Tokyo, Japon
 1999 : AND's gallery, Osaka, Japon
 2000 : Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, États-Unis
 2007 : FNAC Forum et FNAC Montparnasse
 2010 : Les Rencontres d'Arles, France.

Obras
 Punk rockers!  (2006)
 Couleurs sixties (2006)
 Oh, hippie days ! carnets américains 1966-1969 (2001, republié en 2006)
 Minimum Rock'n'Roll : Bagnoles, Dragsters, Autoroutes de l'enfer (2005)
 Grateful Dead une légende californienne (2004) (republié en poche 2007)
 Ezy rider: en voyage avec Jimi Hendrix (1998)
 Beat generation: la génération hallucinée (1997)
 Cultures rock (1996)
 Vivre vite : Chroniques de la course automobile (1995)
 D'où viens-tu Johnny ? (1993)
 L'Âge du rock, Découvertes Gallimard; n° 160 (1992)
 The Cure (1989)
 It's only rock'n'roll (1989)
 Led Zeppelin : une illustration du Heavy Métal (1980)
 Le Livre du Pink Floyd (1978)
 Frank Zappa et les mothers of invention (1975)
 Le rock anglais (Albin Michel/Rock & Folk (1973)
 Les Beatles (1972, republié en 2004)
 ''Jimi Hendrix: Rock Genius (1972, collection 'Histoire du Rock')

Enlaces externos
 Sitio oficial
 MySpace oficial

Referencias

Nacidos en Lyon
Fallecidos en París


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Trump is absolutely tanking among women and college educated whites
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Two states very much worth watching as signs for the Trump-pocalypse are Virginia and Colorado. They both represent, in somewhat different ways, the demographic challenges that Republicans face in national elections these days — challenges that Trump is making a whole lot worse.
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A new batch of Quinnipiac polls neatly illustrates the dynamic. They find that Hillary Clinton is leading Trump among likely voters in Virginia by 50-38, and leading in Colorado by 49-39. In Iowa, a less diverse Midwestern state, it's much closer, with Clinton ahead by 47-44.
But it's the numbers among key demographics that are really striking. In both Virginia and Colorado, Clinton holds huge leads over Trump among women and college educated whites. Notably, in both states, more than sixty percent of both these voter groups have strongly unfavorable views of Trump. Not just unfavorable views of Trump. Strongly unfavorable views of him.
The numbers in Virginia:
Clinton leads among women by 56-31, and among college educated whites by 54-36. (By contrast, Trump leads by 46-42 among men and by 59-30 among non-college whites).
Among women, 60 percent have a strongly unfavorable view of Trump, and among college educated whites, 62 percent have a have a strongly unfavorable view of him.
Clinton also picks up the support of 13 percent of Republicans.
The numbers in Colorado:
Clinton leads among women by 53-34, and among college educated whites by 58-33. (By contrast, Clinton only leads among men by 45-43, and Trump leads among non-college whites by 49-32.)
Among women, 64 percent have a strongly unfavorable view of Trump, and among college educated whites, 64 percent have a strongly unfavorable view of him.
Virginia is a New South state where the growth of the college-educated white population in the northern suburbs and exurbs of D.C., and the growth of the nonwhite population, are slowly edging it into the Blue column. In Colorado, the growth of the Latino population is already making it challenging for Republicans.
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In both of these states, Trump's struggles with these key demographics are making the demographic difficulties Republicans face even tougher. They render Trump's hopes of winning by unleashing fearsome white backlash a long shot. What's more, if Clinton can put those states away, it puts still more pressure on Trump to win in improbable fashion by holding all the Romney 2012 states while pulling off an unlikely run-of-the-table in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Peter Brown, the assistant polling director for Quinnipiac, tells me that Quinnipiac polling only a few weeks ago generally showed Trump doing reasonably well with women and college educated whites, or at least well enough to keep the race very close. (Remember, Quinnipiac polls are sometimes said to have a slight GOP lean, and some of them showed Trump very competitive at the time.)
But now, Brown adds, "he's not doing well among the same types of voters that he was doing fine with around the Republican convention."
These 10 states are in play in the 2016 election. Here is where they're polling as of August and how much weight they'll have in November. (Video: Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post)
All this hints at deeper changes that Trump may be exacerbating.
"If you take the big picture, Virginia and Colorado were solidly red states 15 years ago," Brown says. But now, he adds, both of these states represent "a much larger swath of the electorate." Result: In both these once-red states, Trump trails by double digits.
Trump's horrific struggles among college educated whites and women in these states, Brown says, are "emblematic" of these larger changes.
Those struggles also illustrate just how badly Trump's convention failed at expanding his appeal — and how much damage the Dem convention may have done to him, particularly after he helped amplify all of the messages coming out of it by picking a protracted fight with the Khan family.
And in a sense, it really tells the whole story of this race that at the very moment when demographically changing states such as Virginia and Colorado are slipping away, he's reshuffling his campaign in a way that goes all in on the angry ethno-nationalism that is alienating the very voter groups he needs to prevent that from happening.
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Dances are cast through both auditions and informal networking. Every fall there are auditions for Five College dance department faculty choreography, MFA student work, Division III and senior thesis concerts, and others. The touring company of the University of Massachusetts dance program, University Dancers, also holds an audition in the fall that is open to all Five College dance department students.
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