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Marxism and the pseudo-left: David North interviewed at Leipzig Book Fair
On March 18, David North, chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, presented the new German edition of The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left: A Marxist Critique at the Book Fair in Leipzig, Germany. Following his presentation, a reporter from the newspaper Schattenblick interviewed North. The interview was published on March 29 and posted online on the Schattenblick web site. With the permission of Schattenblick, the interview is presented below. It has been translated from the original German.
Schattenblick: How would you explain to the average visitor to the Leipzig Book Fair, who has no real idea of left politics, the difference between real left and pseudo-left?
David North: I have provided in my book a concise definition of "pseudo-left": "The pseudo-left denotes political parties, organizations and theoretical/ideological tendencies which utilize populist slogans and democratic phrases to promote the socioeconomic interests of privileged and affluent strata of the middle class."
What I am seeking to explain is that the pseudo-left represents affluent sections of the middle class with various forms of identity politics. Their concentration on race, nationality, sexual orientation and gender is essentially bound up with conflicts within the wealthiest 10 percent of the population. Even within this privileged layer there is an unequal distribution of wealth. There is substantial dissatisfaction that the greatest portion of wealth, even within this affluent section of society, is going to the richest 1 percent.
This has led to the promotion of identity politics, including what we call in the United States "affirmative action." Demands are raised for quotas, the allocation of a certain percentage of positions for designated minorities, and even, in the most extreme cases, that minority and women students be taught only by professors of their own gender and race. Demands of this sort are aimed at securing a more satisfactory distribution of wealth among the most affluent layer in society. The pursuit of these demands by so-called left organizations has nothing whatsoever to do with the struggle of the working class. The role of the pseudo-left is not understood, and that is why so many were shocked after Syriza came to power in Greece and, almost immediately, began repudiating all its former demands and promises.
Yesterday, I was given an issue of Jungen Welt [the newspaper of the Left Party in Germany]. I was struck by the fact that this issue was dedicated largely to issues related to personal sexual orientation. This is Jungen Welt's focus at a time when Germany is moving rapidly toward remilitarization. As I just explained in my comments at the book launch, Germany is engaged in a new drive for world power. Isn't this the issue that a left newspaper should be concentrating on? Why are there no significant anti-war demonstrations in Germany? Why is there no organized opposition to war?
Our party in Germany has been involved in a serious political conflict over the presence of right-wing elements in the faculty of Humboldt University in Berlin. But outside of our movement, there has been hardly any public opposition to people like Professor Jörg Baberowski. He was even defended by the Left Party. [1]
When one speaks of the pseudo-left, one is referring to allies of imperialism who legitimize and support neo-colonial military operations, using human rights as a pretext. This is a "left" that has nothing to do with left politics as that term was understood by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Kautsky, Luxemburg, Liebknecht, Mehring and many other important figures in revolutionary history.
SB: In Germany there are movement activists who protest, for example, against nuclear power plants and the use of coal. They organize actions like chaining themselves to trees or railroad tracks to give expression to their opposition to existing conditions. At the same time many of them reject communism. How can one reach these people, who are sensitive to societal contradictions and want to do something to overcome them?
DN: I do not doubt the sincerity of many people who engage in protests over the issues you have referred to. I am not attacking anyone on personal grounds. But we must examine political tendencies carefully and investigate their objective social content. Protests related to environmental issues, though legitimate, do not necessarily have a clearly defined class character. Particularly in Germany, there is a long tradition of different forms of what Georg Lukács quite accurately described as "romantic anti-capitalism." [2]
Individualistic anti-capitalism, which is motivated by the manner in which the capitalist environment impinges upon personal lifestyle and concerns, is socially ungrounded. A well-known representative of this orientation was Gustav Landauer, who was an anti-Marxist anti-capitalist. [3] He specifically opposed the association of socialist politics with the mobilization of the working class as the leading and decisive revolutionary force.
What you describe in your question strikes me as an anarchistic petty-bourgeois movement. We witnessed something similar in the United States with the Occupy Wall Street movement. And what did it accomplish? Nothing! Among the problems that must be overcome—which is deeply anchored in the outlook of many radical tendencies—is distance from and distrust of the working class.
One of the ideological consequences of the influence of Herbert Marcuse was that many radicals were infected with a deep hostility toward the working class. [4] Marcuse repeatedly stressed that the working class, especially in the United States, is a reactionary force and that workers are essentially fascistic. He understood absolutely nothing about the working class. But these anti-working class prejudices remain strong to this day.
I have been asked why, in the US primary elections, Donald Trump finds support among sections of white workers. This is the case, but it is not at all unusual to hear the same workers say that they will vote in November for either Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders. What this means is that they are looking for an alternative to the existing system. The petty-bourgeois pseudo-left that I have mentioned has absolutely nothing to say to the working class.
SB: Are there workers who are class-conscious?
DN: First of all, there is a working class, and it is an oppressed class. We should return to the classics of Marxism. The great representatives of the Marxist intelligentsia, beginning with Marx and Engels, sought to develop socialist consciousness in the working class. They understood that the working class constituted the main objective force for socialist revolution. However, as I said, the working class is oppressed, and it cannot spontaneously develop socialist theory. This will be developed in the course of serious struggles.
The difficulties of our time find expression in your question: Is there a working class? It is worth noting that in the United States the concept "working class" is rejected. No politician employs this concept, and this goes as well for Bernie Sanders. He talks only of the "middle class." In other words, in no other land is the very existence of the working class so strenuously denied as in a country with one of the largest working class populations in the world!
This brings us back to the problem of the impact of the past defeats of the working class in Europe on the demoralization of the intellectuals. The views of the Frankfurt School, to which Marcuse belonged, expressed a deep political pessimism that led them to reject the working class. But the past defeats did not prove the non-revolutionary character of the working class. It was necessary to study the causes of the defeats. But Marcuse never examined the role of the Communist parties. He never developed a political critique of Stalinism.
SB: Is it not true that Marcuse worked with American intelligence agencies? [5]
DN: Yes. That was an expression of his pessimism.
SB: Here at the Leipzig Book Fair the concern is with literature. What is the role of culture in the outlook of Trotskyism?
DN: I am the editorial board chairman of the World Socialist Web Site. It places immense emphasis on questions relating to culture. As we see it, the political crisis is reflected in the sphere of culture—as, for example, in the very low level of contemporary cinema.
The World Socialist Web Site has just published a review today of Jonathan Franzen's Purity. It is a very bad novel. The problems of politics and culture are interconnected. We wish to see a return of a genuine revolutionary realism, and that is not—as one must always explain—"Socialist Realism" or Stalinist realism. Rather, our conception of realism is one that deals with the problems of our times as they are reflected in society and politics. This is vital for film and every genre of art.
SB: You referred to Bernie Sanders, who is seeking the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. The co-founder and former president of the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Helen Caldicott, who has campaigned for decades for nuclear disarmament, said that Sanders—even if he lost—has released a revolutionary potential among American youth. After the election the United States will never be as it was before. Do you share this appraisal?
DN: Sanders did not create this situation, and it was not his intention to do so. He is nothing more than an old radical, and he has many connections to left Democrats. They knew very well that there is great dissatisfaction with Hillary Clinton, to whom I have referred as "The Lady Macbeth of American politics." Sanders admitted that he was troubled by the possibility of the emergence of an independent political movement on the left of the Democratic Party. That is why he offered his services as a political lightning rod. It was his aim to keep this dissatisfaction within acceptable channels, and he was absolutely stunned by the popular response. He did not at all expect that he would find support among workers. No one foresaw this possibility. But as a socialist I often encounter workers who say, "Yes, I am voting for your guy. I am for him." They actually think that he is a party member.
Of course, he is nothing of the sort. But I believe that people will be more and more interested in finding out what real socialism is. American workers are not frightened by the idea of revolution. The middle class is frightened of it. But workers will want what we call in the United States, "The real thing." Of course, there is a danger that if this does not emerge, a charlatan like Trump could come to power. But neither he nor any other candidates, including Sanders, have really addressed themselves to the working class.
I am convinced that people are beginning to think seriously about politics. And you can believe me that fascism will not come to power so easily in the United States. It won't be so simple for an American Hitler to take power.
Eight years ago, it was argued by many that all American workers are racists. But millions of white workers were prepared to vote for an African American if he would stand up for their interests, and they voted for Barack Obama. However, they have been completely disappointed by him. Obama has done nothing for them. He has moved ever further to the right. He has escalated drone warfare. He has undermined their medical care. But the pseudo-left supports Obama.
SB: Could you imagine an alliance between the Black protest movement, which has emerged as a result of police killings, with left forces? Perhaps something similar to the Black Panther movement?
DN: Of course there is racism, but that is, fundamentally, a class issue. There are many white youths who are murdered by the police. When it is proclaimed that "Black Lives Matter," and one responds that "All lives matter," then the accusation is made that one is a racist. But that is not true. Police brutality is a class issue. We do not deny that racism exists, but what are the objective foundations of racism? It serves to split the working class. That has always been the purpose of racism. What was the purpose of anti-Semitism in Germany? It was a weapon against socialism. In one of the first biographies of Hitler, the German writer Konrad Heiden explained that Hitler hated the Jews not because of Rothschild the banker, but because of Karl Marx the socialist. Anti-Semitism was a class issue.
SB: Many refugees are seeking entry into Europe. What should the European Union do?
DN: This is a problem that the working class must solve. The EU will do nothing for the refugees. It is creating Fortress Europe. The first thing that must be done is to end the wars, for which the EU and the United States are responsible. They destroyed Iraq, then Libya, and now it is Syria. They started all these wars. Why are there hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria? Because there is a war that was started for the purpose of regime change. It was not a revolution.
When I give lectures on the subject of World War II, I often ask the students: What was the first item in the indictment of Nazi criminals at the Nürnberg Trial? Most people reply that they were placed on trial because the Nazis murdered the Jews. This is not quite accurate. The first charge against the Nazis were that they had committed "crimes against peace." That is, they used war as a means of achieving political aims. Bush did that. Clinton did that. And so has Obama. They are all war criminals, and they are responsible for the refugee crisis.
As I said, the first thing is to stop the wars. Moreover, everyone should have the right to live where they wish. Care should be provided to all refugees, and they should be guaranteed decent living conditions. And placing an 80 percent surcharge tax on all private fortunes greater than $10 million should provide funding for this and other social problems.
SB: Mr. North, thank you for this discussion.
[1] Jörg Baberowski, the chairman of the Department of East European studies at Berlin's Humboldt University, is the most prominent defender of Ernst Nolte, the most notorious academic apologist for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. Baberowski, in a February 2014 interview published in Germany's mass circulation newsmagazine, Der Spiegel, stated, "Hitler was not cruel. He did not want people to speak about the extermination of the Jews at his table."
[2] Georg Lukács (1885-1971) was a Hungarian socialist and philosopher.
[3] Gustav Landauer (1871-1919) broke with the German Socialist Democratic Party in the 1890s and emerged as a major figure in the anarchist movement.
[4] Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) was a leading representative of the Frankfurt School. After fleeing the Nazis, Marcuse came to the United States, where he became a university professor and wrote several books, including One Dimensional Man, that influenced the 1960s student movement.
[5] Marcuse, as is well known, worked for the OSS, predecessor of the CIA, during World War II.
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Rough Book is a hard look at the education system in contemporary India. Though one of the finest systems in the world, the lacunae in the system have created issues. The story is told to us through the eyes of a teacher, Santoshi Kumari, who rallies through a divorce with a corrupt income tax officer to become a teacher of Physics in a school. Her pupils are in the D division – "D" sarcastically referred to as Duffers by both the students and other teachers. How Santoshi rebels against the system to fight for her students, forms the bulk of the simply told, yet completely thought provoking film. The rebellion of the teacher and her students are internalised to make their point.
Cast: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Joy Sengupta, Ram Kapoor, Kaizaad Kotwal and others.
A screenwriter, actor, and director of Hindi and Marathi films and television serials in India. Having been an integral part of the Indian television serials and Hindi movies since the 1980s, he is also actively involved in the professional English and Hindi theatre. Ananth along with Sanjay Pawar received the National Award (2010) for the Best Screenplay and Dialogues for the successful Marathi movie Mee Sindhutai Sapkal'. The Marathi film " Mee Sindhutai Sapkal " also fetched him the special jury award at the National Film awards 2010. His latest film Gour Hari Dastaan was part of the Indian Panorama at the International Film Festival of India (2014) Goa, at the International Film Festival of Kerala IFFK (2014), the International Film Festival of Bangalore, and the International Film Festival of Chennai (2014). He next film Rough Book has already created enough excitement at the festival circuit and the Film Bazaar recently held at Goa.


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Take 5: 5 ARCs I Picked Up at ALA That I Can't Wait to Read
July 9, 2014 by Karen Jensen, TLT 9 Comments
This year at ALA Annual I learned lots of things, met lots of people, and came back with a ton of ideas I wanted to pitch. But in the end, it always comes back to the books for me and I saw lots of great ones. From rain that will kill you to a book that asks you to determine the truth from the lies, here are 5 of the ARCs I picked up at ALA 2014 that I am dying to read asap. All the descriptions are publisher's descriptions, but they are intriguing. You'll also want to check out these 5 fall YA lit titles that I have read and Highly Recommend.
H2O by Virginia Bergin
It's in the rain…and just one drop will kill you.
They don't believe it at first. Crowded in Zach's kitchen, Ruby and the rest of the partygoers laugh at Zach's parents' frenzied push to get them all inside as it starts to drizzle. But then the radio comes on with the warning, "It's in the rain! It's fatal, it's contagious, and there's no cure."
Two weeks later, Ruby is alone. Anyone who's been touched by rain or washed their hands with tap water is dead. The only drinkable water is quickly running out. Ruby's only chance for survival is a treacherous hike across the country to find her father-if he's even still alive.
Coming October 2014 from Sourcebooks Fire. ISBN: 9781492606543
Karen's Note: End of the world scenarios? Sign me up. With real world concerns about today's water supply and environmental issues, this is a timely read. It also sounds like it would make a good pairing with Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis.
Press Play by Eric Devine
Greg Dunsmore, a.k.a. Dun the Ton, is focused on one thing: making a documentary that will guarantee his admission into the film school of his choice. Every day, Greg films his intense weight-loss focused workouts as well as the nonstop bullying that comes from his classmates. But when he captures footage of violent, extreme hazing by his high school's championship-winning lacrosse team in the presence of his principal, Greg's field of view is in for a readjustment.
Greg knows there is a story to be told, but it is not clear exactly what. And his attempts to find out the truth only create more obstacles, not to mention physical harm upon himself. Yet if Greg wants to make his exposé his ticket out of town rather than a veritable death sentence, he will have to learn to play the game and find a team to help him.
Combine the underbelly of Friday Night Lights with the unflinching honesty of Walter Dean Myers, and you will find yourself with Eric Devine's novel of debatable truths, consequences, and realities.
Coming October 2014 from Running Press Teens. ISBN: 9780762455126
Karen's Note: Eric Devine is an excellent author who writes powerful, gritty stories from the male point of view. He also has written several posts for us here at TLT and wrote a chapter in the upcoming booking The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services. He has a heart for getting guys to read and you should definitely check him out.
Chasing Power by Sarah Beth Durst
Lies, secrets, and magic — three things that define Kayla's life.
Sixteen-year-old Kayla plans to spend her summer hanging out on the beach in Santa Barbara and stealing whatever she wants, whenever she wants it. Born with the ability to move things with her mind — things like credit cards, diamond rings, and buttons on cash registers — she has become a master shoplifter. She steals to build up a safety net, enough money for her and her mom to be able to flee if her dad finds them again. Well, that, and the thrill of using her secret talents.
But her summer plans change when she's caught stealing by a boy named Daniel — a boy who needs her help and is willing to blackmail her to get it. Daniel has a talent of his own. He can teleport, appearing anywhere in the world in an instant, but he lies as easily as he travels. Together, they embark on a quest to find and steal an ancient incantation, written on three indestructible stones and hidden millennia ago, all to rescue Daniel's kidnapped mother. But Kayla has no idea that this rescue mission will lead back to her own family — and to betrayals that she may not be able to forgive… or survive.
Coming October 2014 from Walker Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury. ISBN: 9780802737564
Karen's note: If you haven't yet read CONJURED by Sarah Beth Durst, you really should rectify that quickly. CONJURED is a bizarre and twisted in every epically awesome way possible retelling of the Pinocchio story with circuses, serial killers, and a teenage girl who can't remember who she is and when she does it may be deadly.
There Will be Lies by Nick Lake
New from Printz winner Nick Lake—the ultimate thrill ride about the lies others tell us . . . and the lies we tell ourselves.
Shelby Jane Cooper's world is the town of Scottsdale, Arizona, where she's home-schooled, hits balls at the batting cage, visits the library, and sees The Boy. Life in her city in the desert is one big routine, like ice-cream-for-dinner Fridays: normal.
But in four hours, she'll be struck by a car, and that's when normal ends.
Barely recovered from the accident, Shelby is inexplicably whisked away by her mother—away from the hospital, her home, and everything she loves—on a manic road trip to the Grand Canyon.
Shelby's mother says that everything's fine. But with mile after mile falling fast behind them, Shelby starts to question everything she knows about her life and tries to piece together what's real, what isn't, and who she can ultimately trust.
Master storyteller Nick Lake hooks readers from page one in this emotional rollercoaster which rockets from one dramatic twist to the next until the book's shocking conclusion.
Coming in January 2015 from Bloomsbury. ISBN: 9781619634404
Karen's Note: Everything about this sounds good. Sign me up. The cover has not yet been revealed for this title.
Sublime by Christina Lauren
True love may mean certain death in a ghostly affair of risk and passion from New York Times bestselling duo Christina Lauren, authors of Beautiful Bastard. Tahereh Mafi, New York Times bestselling author of Shatter Me calls Sublime "a beautiful, haunting read".
When Lucy walks out of a frozen forest, wearing only a silk dress and sandals, she isn't sure how she got there. But when she sees Colin, she knows for sure that she's here for him.
Colin has never been captivated by a girl the way he is by Lucy. With each passing day their lives intertwine, and even as Lucy begins to remember more of her life—and her death—neither of them is willing to give up what they have, no matter how impossible it is. And when Colin finds a way to physically be with Lucy, taking himself to the brink of death where his reality and Lucy's overlap, the joy of being together for those brief stolen moments drowns out everything in the outside world. But some lines weren't meant to be crossed…
Coming October 2014 from Simon &Schuster. ISBN: 9781481413701
Karen's Note: Sometimes I am shallow, but I think this is a pretty cover. And I know that tons of my readers will be lining up for this one. Beautiful and haunting are some of my favorite book descriptors so I am in.
And Now for a Giveaway
I accidentally picked up two copies of THERE WILL BE LIES by Nick Lake while at ALA. Or perhaps the Tween picked one up. However it happened, I accidentally got two which means someone else didn't get one so I am going to give one of mine away. You can enter to win two ways: 1) Leave a comment here with follow back information like an email or Twitter handle and/or 2) Tweet about the giveaway – helping to spread the word – and copy and paste a link to your tweet in the comments. We'll accept entries until this Sunday, the 13th, at Midnight. Open to U.S. residents.
What upcoming releases are you looking forward to? Share in the comments. I would hate to miss a great book!
Filed Under: ARCs, Christina Lauren, Coming Soon, Eric Devine, Nick Lake, Sarah Beth Durst, Take 5, Virginia Bergin


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Scientology library: "Religious cloaking"
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Psychiatry and Scientology — The Southern California Psychiatrist
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The Church of Scientology began as a pseudo-scientific healing cult, Dianetics, described by L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer, in his best-selling book "Dianetics: The Modern science of Mental Health" (1950). At first, Dianetics attracted followers by promising to cure psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders through a procedure called "dianetic auditing," based on pop-psychology, hypnosis, and cybernetics. Hubbard's theory as based on the principle that people can achieve health through abolishing ("clearing") negative influences ("engrams") from their minds by going back ...
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The Scientology Story: The Selling of a Church // Shoring Up Its Religious Profile — Los Angeles Times (California)
Author(s): Joel Sappell, Robert W. Welkos
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The church has adopted the terminology and trappings of traditional theologies. But the IRS is not convinced. Since its founding some 35 years ago by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology has worked hard to shore up its religious profile for the public, the courts and the Internal Revenue Service. In the old days, for example, those who purchased Hubbard's Scientology courses were called "students." Today, they are "parishioners." The group's "franchises" have become "missions." And Hubbard's teachings, ...
Tag(s): Canada • Church of Scientology of California (CSC) • Food and Drug Administration (FDA) • Fraud, lie, deceit, misrepresentation • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) • Inurement • Israel • Joel Sappell • Joseph A. Yanny • Legal • Los Angeles Times (California) • Medical claims • Religious cloaking • Robert W. Welkos • Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) • Tax matter • Toronto
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Is there any way to enable settings sync in this mode? This is mandatory because I need to debug some code of this feature.

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Horsemen in No Man's Land (Book) Review
by Military History @ Suite101
Released: 17th May 2012
Publisher: Pen and Sword Books Ltd
Author: David Kenyon
Type: Hardback
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For thousands of years, from the ancient Mongols to the Romans and Napoleon, the army that had the best and most professional horse cavalry was the master of the battlefield. After the failure of the French horsemen at the Battle of Waterloo to break the British squares, and the introduction of repeating rifles and crude machine guns in the American Civil War, the role of cavalry on the battlefield was in decline. Still, in 1914 when almost every European country went to the First World War on one side or the other, horse-mounted cavalry was still seen as important. A new book by David Kenyon entitled: Horsemen in No Man's Land; British Cavalry and Trench Warfare 1914-1918, looks at this in great detail.
A Review of Horsemen in No Man's Land
The new work, exclusive to a study of the British and Commonwealth Army's horse cavalry, runs ~290 pages with exclusive notes, bibliography, and cross-referenced index. It includes 15-plates, some never seen before. Its subject matter is solely on the operations on the Western Front in Northern France; the classic No Man's Land of World War One. It covers in equal detail the opening campaigns of 1914, the Somme Battles, Cavalry on the Hindenburg Line and Arras, Cambrai, Operation Michael and the final Hundred Days of 1918. Notably missing is any coverage of other fronts, being outside the scope of the work.
Overall information
Kenyon provides the reader, long accustomed to tale of horses charging vainly into certain death ala-Charge of the Light Brigade style, with the truth of the matter. It has long been presented that horse cavalry in the 1914-era had lost their traditional purpose of being an arme blanche 'shock weapon'. The argument's second part was that the infantry, who could simply be mounted on horses, mules, or even Lorries and Paris taxis, and rushed into battle, replacing horse cavalry. It is this argument that the author attacks and examines in great and minute detail. In action after action detailed by delving into legitimate first person accounts and source materials, the exaggerated fear that a few mounted men could inspire when they were actually allowed to attack, is explained.
The author of this work, who so brilliantly champions the British and Commonwealth Horse Cavalry in the Great War, come from a background in equestrian riding and horses. Kenyon is well-respected researchers and probably one of the most knowledgeable scholars on cavalry matters. Mr. Kenyon's previous books include the well-received Digging in the Trenches as well as numerous articles on military archeology and His Majesty's horse soldiers.
Overall, the work is a fresh look at a marginalized chapter in military history.
http://suite101.com/article/british-cavalry-and-trench-warfare-1914-1918-a410678
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Whether it's a birthday or Golden Wedding anniversary. Celebrate at Gstaad Palace.
Do you have something fantastic to celebrate? Are you looking for a special place in a breathtaking setting for this? Then choose the Gstaad Palace 5-star hotel.
The location of our hotel is very attractive particularly for international events. There's an airport for private jets just ten minutes away; Geneva and Zurich international airports are also easy to reach. We also offer you five different conference rooms with natural daylight, including the largest hotel owned conference room in the region. There is a lot to discover outside our hotel: whether it's a family day trip or team building – we will be happy to organise the right event for any occasion.
You have something really big coming up and need the whole hotel for it? You can rent the Gstaad Palace exclusively in its entirety on select days. Find out more.
Artists can exhibit their pictures or works of art in one of our banqueting halls.


This heirloom cucumber is amazing- each plant will produce literally up to 100 fruit! Eatable from small and white up to golden yellow, this torpedo shaped cucumber is good for eating raw and pickling, etc. Sow in spring.
Note: as these seeds were saved on handitowels, you will receive a piece of handitowel with the seeds on- put this in your seed tray and lightly cover with mix- the seeds will germinate in the normal way.


Hi there! We're hb5. It's nice to meet you. Maybe you read a little about us on our home page. But if you want to get a real sense of who we are and what we are about, our blog is the place to do it. We obsess about productivity and creativity and where they come together in interesting and unique ways. This is where we will talk about those ways, hopefully in a manner that you will find interesting.
The challenges of balancing, starting, and running a business with family life is something many of us at hb5 have to contend with and will surely get covered from time to time.
hb5 firmly believes in the power of Open Source Software; every bit of software we write is built with it. As such, we have a number of projects that we either contribute to or have created and made available under open source licenses. You can expect frequent coverage.
Breaking out of the spending 9-to-5 in a veal-fattening pen mold is another topic that is extremely near and dear to us. So much so, in fact, that our first project to open to the public is coworking space, hb5 co/work, in beautiful Historic Downtown Concord, NC. With more and more employers embracing telecommuting as a viable alternative to office-work for their employees, we feel coworking hits a sweet spot. It resides in a desirable middle-ground between being cloistered in a home office and languishing in a cube-farm.
If we're excited enough about it that we're starting a business on it, you better believe we'll be writing about it.
We've got a lot of things things in the works, things we think are going to be pretty great, things that we hope you will at the very least find useful. If we do our jobs right, then just maybe you will find some of them to be pretty great too.