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Amazing Dutch Whistleblower Video.
April 29, 2017 January 17, 2018 James Robertson Child Abuse, Corruption, Elite criminal networks, satanism	Irma Schiffer, Protocols of Zion, Ralph Reikermann, Regina Louf, Ronald Bernard
Screenshots from the key moment in the interview of Ronald Bernard conducted by Irma Shiffer. (Source)
Screenshots from the key moment in the interview of Ronald Bernard conducted by Irma Shiffer.(Source)
April 29th, 2017.
Amazing Dutch Whistleblower Interview.
A remarkable and very important video emerged on the internet this week. The video is a 39 minute long interview of a man named Ronald Bernard conducted by a journalist named Irma Schiffer.
There are large gaps in the story Ronald Bernard tells and there is no way to corroborate the claims he makes,, the story Bernard outlines is however broadly corroborated by many confirmed and substantiated facts established in recent decades such as the story told by Belgian woman Regina Louf who claimed to have been abused at an elite party in Belgium at which a young girl was murdered.
The police initially regarded Regina Louf as a fantasist until she was able to direct them to the place where the young girls body had been buried and in addition to that the body still bore evidence of the torture the young girl had suffered prior t0 her death as Regina Louf had described.
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Too Good to be True?
There is nothing new here, and the interview offers no names of people or institutions and therefore does not fall into the category of "too good to be true" at all in my view.
The Ronald bernard account is just another layer of confirmation. One of many. The importance of the story Ronald Bernard tells lies in the fact that we are hearing the story from the other side, an exceptionally rare event.
If people want to believe that Ronald Bernard is making this stuff up, there is no way to disabuse them of that opinion, there is no way to prove that his story is the truth, but having watched the interview there is no doubt in my mind that the story Bernard tells is substantially true.
I urge readers simply to watch the interview and decide for themselves via this link to the video or scroll to the bottom of this page.
Outline.
The story Bernard tells is that he was a smart young businessman, acting as a private financial broker when a senior figure notice his talent and invited him "in" telling him that if he chose this path he would have to learn to "put his conscience in the freezer".
The insider introduced Bernard to his clients and essentially passed his business onto Bernard in exchange for 10% of the earnings.
The role turned out to be a kind of Mr. Fixit, a middle man laundering money and hiding transactions on behalf of elite bankers and intelligence agencies who require these financial instruments to process and launder the money from their drug, weapon and human trafficking operations.
Bernard learned that intelligence agencies are operating as above the law criminal corporations on behalf of their elite masters. Bernard also learned that senior figures within the financial institutions through which the money was passing knew what was happening.
All in all things were going swimmingly, the fact that he was helping these people to start wars, fund terrorism and launder funds obtained through human and drug trafficking was not a problem.
Ronald Bernard was an atheist at this time also so he was not overly troubled by the knowledge that the elites he was working for worshipped a "different" God than most people, they worship Lucifer.
It is worth noting that some people profess themselves to be "light" or benign Luciferians, that may well be the case, or not, but the people who rule the world today are not of that variety, their Lucifer is the destroyer, the blackening force, the force that craves suffering and violent death, the more the better.
People want to debate the nature of Lucifer, that is fine, but the people who matter, those in power, believe in the evil version, an entity interchangeable with Satan, there should be no mistake about that.
One large gap in the story relates to Bernard's progress within the cult itself, the story jumps wildly from Bernard being an amused witness to a "Church of Satan" ritual that he describes as involving "naked woman and liquor" to the climax of Bernard's story and the event that precipitated his physical breakdown and fall from grace within the elite, when Bernard states that he was asked to murder a child within a ritual as a kind of "final binding" to the group.
There must be many steps that take place between being an "amused observer" and that request but the story jumps straight from the observer to the potential murderer, hopefully further interviews will flesh the story out in more detail. .
Downfall and Redemption.
After Bernard's refusal to murder a child and bind himself to the group irreversibly, Bernard appears to have begun to completely break down, his work performance dramatically declined and at some point the group he had been affiliated with abducted and tortured him to in his words "make sure that I didn't expose them"
At some point after that Bernard completely collapsed physically, suffered multiple organ failure and woke up in the Intensive Care Ward, he later realised that he must have almost died as when he had been taken to the hospital he had observed himself from above, he had looked down and watched the doctors working on his body.
Bernard interpreted that experience to mean that he was something more than simply his body. That he was more than an intelligent lump of meat and that his essence in some form would survive his physical death.
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
The remainder of the interview is Bernard offering his post breakdown view of the world, one standout moment was perhaps when Bernard baldly states that "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" is an accurate depiction of the world today. Which is true but a rather shocking statement from a modern European.
People who have not read the Protocols completely misunderstand them, they believe that this work is an anti -Jew hate tract, a "warrant for genocide" as one professional liar described it, it is nothing of the sort.
Regardless of questions of authenticity this is the most important thing to understand.
The Protocols are written from the point of view of a Satanist or Luciferian who poses as a Jew. This is merely a front. The narrator is not a Jew and he does not like Jews, he sees them as he sees all other people, as a nuisance, an obstacle and a resource to be exploited, lied to and if necessary, destroyed.
The narrator is not describing a Jewish plot and the Protocols does not in the slightest suggest that all or most Jewish people are part of some evil plot, in fact it states precisely the opposite.
My understanding of the plotters is that they are a coalition of the blackened, so there are people from all backgrounds represented and in each case their job is to subvert the institutions and positions they inhabit for the benefit of the broader cult.
So you must have Christians, they are very important because you need them to destroy Christianity from within, to turn it into a travesty and we have seen this take place in all major Christian denominations and the same principle stands for all groups and institutions.
As far as authenticity goes, in my opinion the Protocols are a doctored document based on very good intelligence, almost all of the text appears to be authentic but some elements seem to have been added in an attempt to flatter and manipulate the Russian Czar to whom it was originally presented.
As many have stated, the authenticity of this document at this point is completely irrelevant, the document describes the world that is being built, how it is being built and the type of people who are doing it, if that is a consequence of a hoax document being embraced and implemented after release or the document was authentic when published in 1903 makes almost no difference at this juncture.
The Protocols describe the program in a very direct and powerful way. Many other (more respectable) works such as "Tragedy and Hope" and "Brave New World" provide similar insights to the Protocols, but both are far longer and far less direct.
It should be remembered that the elite want people to be prejudiced, to be ignorant, to lump individuals into massive groups and condemn them en masse.
It is the height of foolishness to allow yourself to be tricked or manipulated into thinking like that, while it is true that a demographically disproportionate number of the engineers and managers of evil come from a nominally Jewish background, that should never be used to smear anyone because of their family or religious background.
It is also the height of blindness to imagine that the numerous non-Jews who propagate evil and play key roles in the tyranny project are to be somehow swept aside and forgotten.
The final point Ronald Bernard makes is that people must overcome the divide and rule con if they are going to depose these evil forces who currently rule the world.
The interview is deeply moving and although it is conducted in Dutch, the language has so many words that are similar to or the same as English that it is very easy to follow what is being said rather than merely reading it on the screen as is the case with many more distant languages.
Please do yourself a favour and watch this video if you have not already done so. Whilst much on YouTube is ephemera and nonsense, this is the exact opposite
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package com.webcohesion.enunciate.modules.spring_web;

import com.webcohesion.enunciate.EnunciateContext;
import com.webcohesion.enunciate.EnunciateException;
import com.webcohesion.enunciate.api.ApiRegistry;
import com.webcohesion.enunciate.module.*;
import com.webcohesion.enunciate.modules.spring_web.model.ResourceEntityParameter;
import com.webcohesion.enunciate.modules.spring_web.model.RequestMapping;
import com.webcohesion.enunciate.modules.spring_web.model.ResourceRepresentationMetadata;
import com.webcohesion.enunciate.modules.spring_web.model.SpringController;
import com.webcohesion.enunciate.util.PathSortStrategy;
import org.reflections.adapters.MetadataAdapter;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

import javax.lang.model.element.Element;
import javax.lang.model.element.TypeElement;
import javax.lang.model.type.TypeMirror;
import java.util.*;

/**
 * @author Ryan Heaton
 */
@SuppressWarnings ( "unchecked" )
public class SpringWebModule extends BasicEnunicateModule implements TypeFilteringModule, ApiRegistryProviderModule, ApiFeatureProviderModule {

  private DataTypeDetectionStrategy defaultDataTypeDetectionStrategy;
  private final List<MediaTypeDefinitionModule> mediaTypeModules = new ArrayList<MediaTypeDefinitionModule>();
  private ApiRegistry apiRegistry;
  private EnunciateSpringWebContext springContext;
  static final String NAME = "spring-web";
  private PathSortStrategy defaultSortStrategy = PathSortStrategy.breadth_first;

  @Override
  public String getName() {
    return NAME;
  }

  @Override
  public List<DependencySpec> getDependencySpecifications() {
    return Arrays.asList((DependencySpec) new MediaTypeDependencySpec());
  }

  public DataTypeDetectionStrategy getDataTypeDetectionStrategy() {
    String dataTypeDetection = this.config.getString("[@datatype-detection]", null);

    if (dataTypeDetection != null) {
      try {
        return DataTypeDetectionStrategy.valueOf(dataTypeDetection);
      }
      catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
        //fall through...
      }
    }

    if (this.defaultDataTypeDetectionStrategy != null) {
      return this.defaultDataTypeDetectionStrategy;
    }

    if (this.enunciate.getIncludePatterns().isEmpty()) {
      //if there are no configured include patterns, then we'll just stick with "local" detection so we don't include too much.
      return DataTypeDetectionStrategy.local;
    }
    else {
      //otherwise, we'll assume the user knows what (s)he's doing and aggressively include everything.
      return DataTypeDetectionStrategy.aggressive;
    }
  }

  public void setDefaultDataTypeDetectionStrategy(DataTypeDetectionStrategy strategy) {
    this.defaultDataTypeDetectionStrategy = strategy;
  }

  public PathSortStrategy getPathSortStrategy()  {
    PathSortStrategy strategy = defaultSortStrategy;
    try {
      strategy = PathSortStrategy.valueOf(this.config.getString("[@path-sort-strategy]", this.defaultSortStrategy.name()));
    } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
      // Ignore?  Log?
    }
    return strategy;
  }

  public void setDefaultSortStrategy(PathSortStrategy defaultSortStrategy) {
    this.defaultSortStrategy = defaultSortStrategy;
  }

  @Override
  public void setApiRegistry(ApiRegistry registry) {
    this.apiRegistry = registry;
  }

  public EnunciateSpringWebContext getSpringWebContext() {
    return springContext;
  }

  @Override
  public void call(EnunciateContext context) {
    springContext = new EnunciateSpringWebContext(context);

    DataTypeDetectionStrategy detectionStrategy = getDataTypeDetectionStrategy();
    if (detectionStrategy != DataTypeDetectionStrategy.passive) {
      Set<? extends Element> elements = detectionStrategy == DataTypeDetectionStrategy.local ? context.getLocalApiElements() : context.getApiElements();
      for (Element declaration : elements) {
        if (declaration instanceof TypeElement) {
          TypeElement element = (TypeElement) declaration;
          Controller controllerInfo = declaration.getAnnotation(Controller.class);
          RestController restControllerInfo = declaration.getAnnotation(RestController.class);
          if (controllerInfo != null || restControllerInfo != null) {
            //add root resource.
            SpringController springController = new SpringController(element, springContext);
            LinkedList<Element> contextStack = new LinkedList<Element>();
            contextStack.push(springController);
            try {
              List<RequestMapping> requestMappings = springController.getRequestMappings();
              if (!requestMappings.isEmpty()) {
                springContext.add(springController);

                for (RequestMapping requestMapping : requestMappings) {
                  addReferencedDataTypeDefinitions(requestMapping, contextStack);
                }
              }
            }
            finally {
              contextStack.pop();
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }

    //tidy up the application path.
    String relativeContextPath = this.config.getString("application[@path]", "");
    while (relativeContextPath.startsWith("/")) {
      relativeContextPath = relativeContextPath.substring(1);
    }

    while (relativeContextPath.endsWith("/")) {
      //trim off any leading slashes
      relativeContextPath = relativeContextPath.substring(0, relativeContextPath.length() - 1);
    }

    springContext.setRelativeContextPath(relativeContextPath);
    springContext.setGroupingStrategy(getGroupingStrategy());
    springContext.setPathSortStrategy(getPathSortStrategy());

    if (!springContext.getControllers().isEmpty()) {
      this.apiRegistry.getResourceApis().add(this.springContext);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Add the referenced type definitions for the specified resource method.
   *
   * @param requestMapping The resource method.
   */
  protected void addReferencedDataTypeDefinitions(RequestMapping requestMapping, LinkedList<Element> contextStack) {
    ResourceEntityParameter ep = requestMapping.getEntityParameter();
    if (ep != null) {
      Set<String> consumes = requestMapping.getConsumesMediaTypes();
      contextStack.push(ep.getDelegate());

      TypeMirror type = ep.getType();
      contextStack.push(requestMapping);
      try {
        for (MediaTypeDefinitionModule mediaTypeModule : this.mediaTypeModules) {
          mediaTypeModule.addDataTypeDefinitions(type, consumes, contextStack);
        }
      }
      finally {
        contextStack.pop();
      }
    }

    ResourceRepresentationMetadata outputPayload = requestMapping.getRepresentationMetadata();
    if (outputPayload != null) {
      TypeMirror type = outputPayload.getDelegate();
      Set<String> produces = requestMapping.getProducesMediaTypes();
      contextStack.push(requestMapping);

      try {
        for (MediaTypeDefinitionModule mediaTypeModule : this.mediaTypeModules) {
          mediaTypeModule.addDataTypeDefinitions(type, produces, contextStack);
        }
      }
      finally {
        contextStack.pop();
      }
    }

    //todo: include referenced type definitions from the errors?
  }

  public EnunciateSpringWebContext.GroupingStrategy getGroupingStrategy() {
    String groupBy = this.config.getString("[@groupBy]", "class");
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Having noticed that everything I've posted today is crabby, I'd like to take a moment to congratulate my friend and colleague, Steve Hall, publisher of Adrants for his latest honor.
Adjab, Adverblog, Adpulp and Freshglue are also named.
Crabby TODAY? Just TODAY? You're crabby everyday!
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Zyro's Cycle Vision Show kicks off on Monday next week (October 19th) at Vinopolis, London and the two day show promises to be bigger and better than ever before, the distributor said, which has released details of the workshops and layout ahead of the show.
Cycle Vision is open from 9.30am on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th October; with product workshops running throughout the day and a light lunch available between 12.00pm and 2.00pm. There will also be exclusive show promos on offer which will only be available to retailers who attend the show.
On the Monday evening Zyro is proudly presenting a seminar by renowned retail expert, Mary Portas, aimed at empowering the independent retailer. Zyro said: "The seminar will be filled with Mary's foresight and unique knowledge of brands, retail trends and consumer insights and is a fantastic opportunity for independent retailers to gain valuable insight into the current state of the high street and gain the skills needed to make their business thrive."
Following the seminar will be the inaugural Zyro Independent Retailer Awards, recognising and awarding Zyro's top UK and Irish independent retailers.
Brands that will be on show at Cycle Vision are ABUS, Altura, Bell, Blackburn, Bopworx, CamelBak, Cateye, Fenwick's, Genuine Innovations, Giro, Hamax, Magura, Panaracer, SKS, Tifosi, TORQ and Tortec.
Zyro retailers can still register at www.zyrob2b.co.uk/cyclevision. Meanwhile here are those workshop and layout details so dealers can organise their time.


It is amazing what a big impact a small item can have on your life. Today, I want to share one of these items with you. I purchased this earring holder on Amazon and it it the best $15.00 I have ever spent. I have been on a whole Marie Kondo kick lately, and one of the things she mentions is that you should be able to see the items you are storing, in order to keep them organized. For example, instead of stacking t shirts on top of each other, you should roll them and store them side by side, so you can see them all at once. This small change in my thinking has really helped in keeping my entire house neater and more organized. Now, I am always thinking of organizing things in that way.
Case in point is this earring holder. Before I purchased this, all of my earrings were thrown into a jewelry box and they were a tangled mess. I was missing backings and some earrings and I never wore half of them because I forgot I even had them. After going through all of my jeweler and getting rid off stuff I wasn't wearing anymore, I had the best time putting all of the keepers on this acrylic earring holder. It is like a small piece of art and I love how pretty they all look displayed like this. I have worn my earrings more in the last couple of weeks that in the last year combined. I can see them all now and the last thing I do before heading out the door is deciding which pair to wear to complete my outfit. This earring holder is a total win in my book. It has beautified my dresser and helped make me look more put together.
I am not a huge jewelry person in general , but I do love a good statement earring to add the finishing touch to a simple and classic outfit. It is also a fun and inexpensive way to keep your wardrobe on trend without spending a ton of money.
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T.I. Officially Announces The Dime Trap Album Drops Next Week
Rosario Harper September 28, 2018 9:51 am
Hustle Gang boss T.I. really isn't making fans wait long for his next solo album. The King of the South has announced The Dime Trap will drop next week.
Tip went to Instagram this week to announce his official release date.
Weekend. Feat. @thuggerthugger1 Prod. @therealswizzz OUT NOW!!! #DimeTrapOTW
A post shared by TIP (@troubleman31) on Sep 27, 2018 at 9:13pm PDT
Dime Trap 10/5
A few days ago, T.I. shared the project's cover art and revealed comedian Dave Chappelle would play a key role.
I present to you… album X The Dime Trap Feat. Dave Chappelle as The voice in my head. The wait is almost over. Coming Freakishly Soon!!!!
Earlier this month, Tip released his Meek Mill-featured "Jefe" video and "Wraith" single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0lmO2tDbHk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwRE21nnqmY
Last year, Tip said he couldn't see himself putting out more than three studio albums before hanging up the mic.
He told The Associated Press in a recent interview that he expects to release an album revolving around "trap music" this year. He's released nine full-length albums so far, and says he has "two or three albums left in him." The 36-year-old added: "But it's definitely time to transition." (The Washington Post)
T.I.The Dime Trap
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Q: Execute gulp4 task on cordova hook Recently I upgraded to nodejs 12, that required me to upgrade to gulp4. The upgrade was a must so I cannot downgrade.
Now, my cordova hook does not execute the gulp task.
Previously I executed it as:
gulp.start('build');

Now, gulp.start is no longer included in gulp4, gulp.series, gulp.parallel, gulp.task do not work either...
How can I call my task from my hook?
My hook file looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/env node

'use strict';

var gulp = require('gulp');

function hook() {
    process.stdout.write('Running gulp build task');

    require('../gulpfile.js');
    //interaction
    gulp.start('build');
}

module.exports = hook;

The gulp task is defined in gulpfile.js and is defined as:
gulp.task('build', gulp.series(['moveBrandingFiles', 'webpack-task', 'sass', 'index']));

If I manually execute gulp build it will work.

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In the Siwa Oasis of Egypt, there are two temples dedicated to Amun. The most famous of these is the Temple of the Oracle, while the second is now known as Umm Ubayda (Umm Ubaydah, Umm Ubayd), which might be a corruption of the name Umm Ma'bad, as it was known in the 1800's. Just as it was two thousand years ago, it is situated amidst a grove of trees a short distance from the rock of Aghurmi. The temple was at one time joined to the Temple of the Oracle by a causeway and formed an integral part of the rituals related to the Oracle and the god.
The site is marked by a large area of whitish ground. Only one wall stands today among these ruins, though near it is a number of huge stone blocks. All of these blocks seem to be inscribed, and in some places color remains visible.
The pyramid was built in the 30th Dynasty, and was mentioned in the story of Alexander the Great's visit to the Oasis after conquering Egypt. Until the beginning of the 19th century, a great part of the temple was still preserved, but in 1811 an earthquake caused major damage to the site.
Nevertheless, visitors to the site between the years of 1819 and 1821, including Cailliaud, Drovetti and Von Minutoli, still found much of the temple standing, though they recorded some blocks from the ceiling that had fallen down and one of the temple walls leaning. Then, in 1897, one of the Ma'murs of Siwa placed gunpowder in the foundations of the temple and blew it up to obtain stones for the staircase of the police station at Qasr Hassunah and for the construction of his own house. Hence, what time and nature could not do was accomplished by an ignorant government official in a few minutes.
Mostly, we know the plan of this temple from those made up by its 19th century visitors. It faced north, and was surrounded by two girdle walls. The enclosure wall was square in plan. Though many parts of the temple had already fallen by the early 19th century, the pronaos and the sanctuary still existed, and in front of these there was a pillared hall. Within the enclosure wall, and in front of the temple was an elevated area built of alabaster blocks. One of these, either an altar or a pedestal for a statue of the God Amun, was decorated on its four sides with a representation of Amun in the form of a human head with ram's horns.
Thanks to Von Minutoli, we have some idea of the arrangement of the scenes on the wall of at least the sanctuary. For example, the opposite wall in the same chamber as the one still standing much resembled it. From his drawings, we know that the builder was King Nectanebo II, the energetic ruler of the 30th Dynasty and one of the most active builders in the late period of Egyptian history.
On the wall that is still standing, there is a long text at the top consisting of fifty-one lines and three registers where various deities are depicted. In Von Minutoli's drawing of the wall, we find above the text that there was a decoration which served as an upper frieze. At the top was a repetition of the king's cartouche protected by the vulture goddess Nekhbet. Under it, a number of figures perform some of the ceremonies of the rite of "Opening of the Mouth". It is in sunken relief, and is the beginning of the text of the same rite.
Under the inscriptions there are three rows of figures, all carved in high relief, and at the top we see the actual builder of the temple. His name was Wenamun, who was "The Great Chief of the Desert". He wears an ostrich feather in his hair which shows that he was of Libyan decent, and he was the ruler of the Siwa when the temple was built, and in the depiction he kneels before the god Amun, who sits inside a shrine. Behind the ruler are seven deities, and on the middle register nine deities once appeared, but now there are only eight. On the bottom register there are now only three deities depicted, though in 1820 more figures were preserved.
What is most notable in these inscriptions is the text of the Rite of the Opening of the Mouth. It is more frequently found on papyri, on coffins or sometimes on the walls of tombs, since it is connected with the burial ceremonies. However, the text does appear on mortuary temple or chapel walls, and therefore this temple may have served in some way as a funerary monument for Wenamun, whose burial may not be far from this site.
As for the inscriptions that Von Minutoli provides to us from now destroyed sections of the walls, one of the most interesting preserves the upper part of Wenamun with a feather in his hair, standing in front of a deity inside a shrine. The deity also wears a feather in his hair, which might suggest Libyan origin or at least a Libyan appearance. This might lead us to believe that this was probably the ancient god who was worshipped in Siwa before the supremacy of Amun. Unfortunately his name is not preserved, and there are no other similar scenes to be found in the Siwa.
It is unfortunate that this temple is so destroyed today, because it was obviously closely connected with the Temple of the Oracle. Doubtless, more information will one day surface about these two ruins when Egyptologists finally decide that they are worth completely excavating.


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Not Just Good at National Politics, but the Best
By Craig Shirley
About Craig Shirley
Shunning the limelight, the legendary GOP consultant Arthur Finkelstein changed the world.
'Good morning!" Each time we speak by phone, I hear this slightly amused and amusing lyrical greeting in Arthur's distinctive, Jewish-Brooklyn accent. I have for 40 years, no less.
So has everyone else who has ever dealt with Arthur Jay Finkelstein, simply the greatest and most controversial, the most ethical and most successful political consultant and pollster in the history of American politics. Those who matter in politics are familiar with Arthur, but no one beyond that; which is the way Arthur likes it. He's never been the face of a wristwatch, but the gears would not run without him. While other consultants run to the spotlight, Arthur has always run away from it.
"If you haven't heard of him before, it's because he made sure you didn't," he was once described in a profile in The Huffington Post. It continued:
As CNN reported in 1996: "He is the stuff of Hollywood: A man who can topple even the most powerful foes, yet so secretive that few have ever seen him." Finkelstein has been compared to criminal mastermind Kaiser Sose in The Usual Suspects, who lay so low that some doubted he really existed. CNN captioned its photo, "Only known photo of Arthur Finkelstein." This after years in big-time politics. No other political consultant can make such a claim.
Long before anyone else in the modern age, Arthur taught Republicans how to win. At one point in the early 1980s, maybe half of the GOP senators were Finkelstein clients and even more in the House. He was a modern Prometheus, bringing fire to Republicankind.
He greets all alike — and they certainly are many — from the lowliest campaign aide to prime ministers and presidents. As always, Arthur is supremely confident, and yet often shy and self-effacing. Truth be told, he is also a soft touch. Once, when a losing campaign reneged on its pledge to pay for an airline ticket, one of Arthur's "kids" called him, desperately broke. Arthur paid for the ticket. Such stories are legion.
As I write this, I still can't believe Arthur Finkelstein is ailing. Badly. It can't be. Arthur has always been Arthur: a fun and principled conservative consultant to hundreds of campaigns, but he was much, much more than that. He quite literally changed our world. Arthur made a difference. He's struggling through chemotherapy now, and as with everything in life, there is more than a particle of risk. Still, this is a tribute to our friend Arthur, not a eulogy. Not yet anyway.
Early in our friendship, I asked him whether it was "Finkelsteen" or "Finkelstine" (with a long i), and Arthur characteristically replied, "If I was a poor Jew, it would be Finkelsteen, but since I am a rich Jew, it's Finkelstine." He'd plucked me out of a NCPAC (National Conservative Political Action Committee) campaign school in 1977, and we've been friends and he's been my mentor ever since. He abhors being called Art, and those who don't know him, when they make that mistake, will be met with that sardonic grin on his face.
In the maturation of his libertarian philosophy, he had the best educator in the world while at Columbia, Ayn Rand, with whom he sometimes shared a college radio show. After graduating, he later cut his teeth in polling, working for the legendary Bud Lewis at NBC and later still for the famed Richard M. Scammon, who was the only pollster to predict the election of Harry Truman in 1948. Dick Scammon later served as director of the U.S. Census. What an early education: Rand, Lewis, and Scammon. Arthur later fell in with a group of New York City intellectual libertarians led by Rand and including Alan Greenspan, scion of New York's café society.
Arthur also worked on the 1972 Nixon reelection and afterward quipped that he was the highest-ranking member of the campaign not to be indicted.
Arthur never puts on airs, is always found grinning, sometimes giggling, ideas constantly flowing. I have never heard him laugh out loud, but neither have I ever seen him lose his temper. I never heard him badmouth anyone, but you know who he likes and who he respects and who he does not, often dismissing them with a simple roll of his eyes. He loves the New York Yankees, steak and onion rings, his family including Donald, his campaign "kids," Las Vegas, horse-betting, and winning campaigns, not necessarily in that order. Reagan Library director John Heubusch, himself once one of Arthur's "kids," praised his ability to read polls, spot trends, and "predict to a tenth of a point what the outcome of the election will be. . . . If he was only so good at reading race forms at Belmont." But as with so many others, there was also personal warmth. Heubusch calls Arthur "a real humanitarian. A mentor par excellence." Many others, including Arthur kids John and Jim McLaughlin, say the same or similar.
Long before others went with the no-tie look, Arthur was always garbed in a frayed blue blazer and an untied tie dangled around his neck. You knew he was making sport of the establishment.
Arthur is the anti–Mike Murphy, the anti–Republican establishment consultant. Long before others went with the no-tie look, Arthur was always garbed in chinos, a frayed blue blazer, a blue button-down shirt, and an untied tie, which had seen better days, dangled around his neck. You knew he was making sport of the establishment with his grunge, un-establishment look. Often, he sported a two-day growth — again, long before it became fashionable. Talk to a reporter or appear on cable television? Perish the thought! Arthur would sell his soul before going on Fox News or MSNBC, where most GOP consultants are found today. Arthur would rather work in the trenches and win a campaign than pose as a celebrity consultant, going on cable television and talking about winning campaigns.
Prior to Karl Rove's whiteboard Arthur was often seen taking a pencil from behind his ear to scratch out political theories, ad concepts, speech concepts, and other ideas on a yellow legal tablet. Long before people were talking about three-legged stools and other such tomfoolery, Arthur had developed the more thoughtful Six-Party Theory. This Six-Party Theory originated in the 1970s as a means to explain how Republicans could attract Democrats through conservative ideology and win a majority. Conservative Democrats were the key. Conservatives outnumbered liberals roughly two to one. The six parties broke down as: Moderate/Liberal Republicans, Conservative Republicans, Conservative Democratic Theocrats (mostly Southern and blue-collar), African-Americans/Hispanics, White Liberal Democratic McGovernites, and Moderate Democrats. When he explained it, it made perfect sense. His ability to condense a difficult theory into layman's words was but one of the ways that he showed his genius. The grand old man of North Carolina politics, Tom Ellis, once quipped, "Just knock on his head and he'll give you a great idea."
Arthur remains the standard by which all political consultants are measured or should be measured. For him, it was always about the cause of freedom, of personal dignity and privacy. He is gay, yet no one ever cared. He is married to Donald and no one cared. It was almost never about him.
He was simply too interested in other things. He was a throwback, deeming winning and substance more important than style. He thought the candidate, not the consultant, should be the star. Sometimes he would look at GOP "strategists" on television, shake his head, and muse over what campaigns they had ever worked on. In this era of political dirty tricks, Arthur remains appalled at the thought that anyone would try to win illegitimately. For all his worldliness, he remains almost naïve and childlike about such things. Dirty tricks? I never knew a man more incapable of doing a dishonest or dishonorable thing. Dirty tricks? Arthur never understood that world, a world too familiar to too many GOP operatives.
Title and access to power never interested him. In 1985, Lee Atwater tried to coax Finkelstein into a meeting with Vice President George H. W. Bush, hoping to enticing the plebeian New Yorker to support the country-club patrician. Arthur, afraid he might like Bush, declined the meeting.
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Arthur later tried to entice Jeane Kirkpatrick into the race, and few realize how close the U.N. ambassador came to running for president in 1988. She finally decided against it, although polling showed she could beat Bush in Iowa. But "she did what any woman would do," Kirkpatrick quipped on a phone call that he later related to John McLaughlin. "Got her hair done and decided not to run."
During the Reagan presidency, Ed Meese, Jim Baker, and Mike Deaver each had his own favorite GOP pollster. For Ed, it was Dick Wirthlin; for Jim, Bob Teeter. For Mike, it was Arthur, but Mike never made a big move without Nancy Reagan's approval. This meant that Mrs. Reagan liked Arthur too.
Arthur knew he was good and he suffered no fools, especially with his less accomplished but more popular brethren, because he literally changed the world.
Without Arthur Finkelstein, Ronald Reagan might never have become president of the United States.
Can one man make a difference? You bet, and one need only look at the record for the historical proof. Without Arthur Finkelstein, Ronald Reagan might never have become president of the United States. In 1976, the Gipper challenged incumbent Gerald Ford for the Republican nomination but unexpectedly lost the first five primaries. Reeling, Reagan was heavily in debt. Everybody in the GOP establishment was calling on him to throw in the towel, except a small group of hardy conservatives, including Finkelstein. They made their last stand in North Carolina.
Senator Jesse Helms and his aide Tom Ellis brought in Arthur to help on the desperate Reagan campaign there. They'd seen Finkelstein work miracles before, having steered Helms to a win in the Tar Heel State in 1972, at a time when Republicans in North Carolina were atypical. Arthur had burst onto the political scene in 1970, guiding Jim Buckley to an astonishing win in the New York Senate race, with Buckley running only on the Conservative line, beating two better-known candidates. Finkelstein scripted the Reagan effort, helped unearth the Panama Canal treaties as a sleeper issue, wrote the TV and radio spots, and had Helms's young aide Carter Wrenn go out to county courthouses and — something unheard of in national politics at the time — cobble together a mailing list of 110,000 Republican primary voters in the state.
Reagan, in one of the biggest upsets in American politics, won the North Carolina primary, re-energizing his campaign for the second half of the contest before the GOP convention in Kansas City. Reagan lost to Ford by the narrowest of delegate margins, 1,187 to 1,070. Ford had all the power of incumbency on his side, while Reagan had only himself and a handful of loyal conservatives such as Finkelstein. Though Reagan lost in Kansas City, he went on to win the hearts and minds of Republicans nationwide, winning the 1980 nomination and then beating Jimmy Carter in a historic landslide that changed the world. Without that win in North Carolina in 1976, none of that future Reagan history would have happened.
By the way, Arthur later that year did the same in Texas, where Reagan trounced Ford, winning all 96 delegates. Finkelstein changed our world.
About using D'Amato's mother in a commercial, Finkelstein quipped to John McLaughlin, 'We had to prove Alfonse had a mother.'
Arthur did all of Helms's campaigns and created the permanent campaign before the phrase was coined, using Helms's Congressional Club to boost the senator and bury his opponents. But he was never just an order-taker. He argued vociferously that Helms should stop his opposition to a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. After one tussle, Arthur emerged and said to John McLaughlin, "Won't budge. Thinks King was a Communist" — and then, in a burst of dark humor, told him, "You've really got to be an extremist and not want a day off." In 1984, Helms was down by 30 points in the polls, but Arthur brought him back to win, defying the predictions of all. Arthur routinely won unwinnable races. In 1978, in New Hampshire, Arthur won the Senate race with a candidate who'd lived in the state less than four years. In 1980, one of his many victories included that of the contentious Al D'Amato in the Senate race in New York. About using D'Amato's mother in a commercial, Finkelstein quipped to McLaughlin, "We had to prove Alfonse had a mother." Still, there was a mutual fondness and respect.
In 1996, Arthur handled the campaign of Bibi Netanyahu, the current prime minister of Israel. Again, history was made. Without the election of the "Israel Now and Forever" hardliner Netanyahu, would Israel even exist today? Just to prove that it was no fluke, Arthur steered him to further victories. For the past 20 years, in addition to his work in the U.S., he has expanded his portfolio to include winning campaigns in Kosovo, Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Israel, where he guided Ariel Sharon to victory twice.
I asked him what his greatest source of pride was, and his greatest disappointment. Without missing a beat, he said that writing the immortal words at the base of the 9/11 memorial in New York City gave him the greatest satisfaction: "To honor and remember those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, and as a tribute to the enduring spirit of freedom." To know Arthur is to know at heart he is a romantic. He has always seen campaigns and his life as an idealistic struggle for liberty against the dark forces of collectivism. His biggest disappointment was a campaign in Massachusetts 40 years ago, because the candidate had a chance and was much like Arthur in his political outlook. He still laments that loss.
Arthur is also the greatest collector and cultivator of political talent in the history of the GOP. Some of his "kids" over the years have included the aforementioned John McLaughlin, Jim McLaughlin, John Heubusch, and Carter Wrenn but also Mari Maseng Will, Charlie Black, Roger Stone, Tony Fabrizio, Zorine Bhappu Shirley, Gary Maloney, Alex Castellanos, Rick Reed, Kieran Mahoney, Barbara Fiala, Craig Engle, Frank Luntz, Jim Murphy, Beth Meyers, Larry Weitzner, Matt Brooks, Ari Fleischer, Terry Dolan, and Brent Bozell, to name just a few. There has always been a certain swagger among Arthur's kids, as they knew and understood politics better than anyone else. At least they believed that. The few who traveled with Arthur became known as "Little Arthurs" It was all great fun, but it was also to a larger purpose. We believed we were saving Western civilization. Check that. We knew we were saving Western civilization. And we were fearless, as we'd been taught by Arthur. There was always an allure to being one of Arthur's kids.
His campaign operations have always been joyous affairs, part ideology, part road crew for the Grateful Dead. We were kids, oh, we were young kids. When other consultants shunted us aside, Arthur gave us a break, put us in positions of authority, and mentored us, all us — taught us, encouraged us, to be winners for a reason. A pebble drops in a pond, and the concentric circles go on forever.
His loving and devoted brother, Ronnie, held it all together for so many years, keeping sanity and rationality part of the equation. Yet he never interfered with the many lost causes Arthur wanted to pursue. I was once tasked many years ago to go to Pimlico race track and get down a $2,000 bet for the Finklestein boys. The horse won and Ronnie was giddy, but also generous with me for getting to the track on time.
Arthur is a non-practicing Jew, yet I somehow suspect he would have made a very good rabbi or pastor or priest or psychiatrist, given his spot-on and often compassionate advice. At least, he would have made a good act of it. But his real Walter Mitty fantasy is probably to manage the New York Yankees or own a casino. Still, he believes Thoreau's admonition and warning: "The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way." And he happens to be not just good at national politics, but the best. Ever. Heubusch said it for all who have known him: "There has never been a more talented genius in the polling and political consulting business than Arthur Finkelstein."
"Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion," Dolly Parton speaks softly in the movie Steel Magnolias. I understand the feeling. I am laughing at the many, many memories of Arthur, of the man who taught me so much, who introduced my wife Zorine and me 35 years ago, and who is now ailing. And there are tears.
We who are Arthur's kids, and many others, lament, even as Arthur remains indomitably optimistic against all odds. He's not going gentle into that good night. "Applaud, my friends, the comedy is finished." Beethoven's aphorism notwithstanding, Arthur's comedy is not over. Not yet, anyway.
I can't imagine a world without Arthur J. Finkelstein. We know few men who have lived a more honest existence, a more honorable existence, or who have had a greater impact on so many, so much, for so long and to such great good.
Arthur was and is our North, our South, our East, and our West.
Good luck and Godspeed, Arthur.
Craig Shirley — Mr. Shirley is the author of four books on Reagan, as well as December, 1941 and the newly released Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington's Mother. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller, December 1941 and the forthcoming April, 1945. He is the visiting Reagan scholar at Eureka College, a member of the board of governors of the Reagan Ranch, and a frequent lecturer at the Reagan Library.


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Waterloo underground shopping great bit like st Pancras kings x etc. Bring it on!
Central London already has many shops. Materialism is not always the answer. Sports facilities are poorly served particularly for adult recreation. They help health, social interaction and community building. A better use of an expansive space?
Let's have a Westfield type centre there. With grand pianoforte natrulement. Need I say moire ?!! We gave arrived as a dedstunation area and John lewis n waiutrose wiuuk soon be coimmonpkace here. Wubderbar!!
A sparkling new library to replace lower marsh?
I so miss the Eurostar departure lounge at Waterloo, not just because I could literally walk there. St Pancras is so small, no proper food/drinks or last minute shopping possible in the lounge, for even more passengers than 10 years ago.
I think it is good they redevelop it as shops, there are not many shopping facilities South of the river. Although it may be difficult to attract a lot of customers in this tucked away corner of Waterloo, except from the hurried commuters and few locals. If it's to have tiny shops with a small selection as in most airports/stations, then I don't see the point. If it's proper shops, that could be a nice improvement on the E&C shopping centre which is due to be demolished pretty soon.
In a letter to Lambeth planners, Tom Woolner of LCR's planning consultants Quod writes: "The proposals are still evolving, however it is anticipated to comprise some 12,000 square metres of retail (classes A1-A4) floorspace along with an element of assembly & leisure (class D2)."
So the proposals are still evolving and there will be a load of retail space right next to a major transport hub... hmm... I wonder what could possibly be put above that?
To be fair, it'll be more sensibly placed than some other towers are and will be amongst a cluster of other existing and planned towers - but they will probably want this to be a landmark building rivalling the Shard, at around 40-50 stories. I just wonder what shape it's going to be.
You sent that at 07.58?
You've either got to ease up on the all night drinking sessions, or put your reading glasses on before you approach your keyboard!
DavidS - this isn't a high rise development. It's about using the old departures and arrivals lounges below the old Eurostar platforms.


BELLEVUE, WA--(Marketwired - Mar 3, 2014) - K2 (www.K2.com), a leader in business process application software, today announced the winners of the FastFWD Challenge in conjunction with their global user conference in Las Vegas, NV. The winners were selected amongst dozens of submissions from K2 customers worldwide on account of their success in building powerful applications quickly and easily in an age where business is moving faster than ever.
SPEED: Arrow Energy, Andrew Blinco - In 2013, Andrew at Arrow Energy personally rolled out 25 apps across 12 business units, ranging from simple forms-driven apps to manage SAP support requests to complex business applications like Arrow's "Safety Conversation." He did it all in 10 months, saving Arrow more than 3,800 man hours.
POWER: Guy's and St. Thomas', Gary McAllister - Gary at Guy's and St. Thomas' has led a team to deliver a powerful solution called E-Noting to improve the quality of healthcare systems and data in the UK, impacting hundreds of thousands of patients each year.
VALUE: Marketform, Murray Macdonald & Daniel Blackwell - Marketform, an Insurance Syndicate operating within the Lloyd's Insurance Market in London, assembled an application to support underwriting varied and complex policies. Prior to K2, Marketform employees had to wade through a number of systems in order to get a complete view of policy information. With K2, employees have full visibility into customers and policies -- allowing them to make better decisions faster.
"The FastFWD Challenge Winners selected this year illustrate what's possible when vision and resolve collide with great technology," says Josh Swihart, Senior Vice President of Marketing at K2. "Business demands are increasing, and we at K2 are proud to be able to provide people with the tools they need to help them build industry-transforming applications fast, adjust with their businesses quickly and to realize incredible results. While there were many impressive submissions from our customers, we are proud to honor these exceptional customers for their work with K2."
More information about submissions and winners will be available on the FastFWD site, K2FastFWD.com, coming in April.


Michigan's Felix Aubock entered the 500 free as top seed in the event but shockingly failed to score. He bounced back in a major way Saturday evening as he captured the NCAA title in the 1650 free, rattling the NCAA record in the process.
After the race, Aubock explained how he moved past the big disappointment from Friday and what he was thinking as he awaited his chance at redemption. Aubock also discussed how he managed the race to stay with the field and then pull away for his title shot.
Michigan junior Felix Aubock took control early in the 1650 free on the final night of the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships in Austin, Texas. Throughout the race, Aubock was creeping further and further below NCAA record pace. Aubock did not have enough left over the final 100 to get the record but he swam a 14:23.09 to win his first ever NCAA individual title.
Aubock was second in 2017 and second in 2018 in this event. He was third in the 500 in 2017 and second in 2018. This season he was the favorite to win the 500 but he failed to make finals, placing 35th. Aubock finally put those demons behind him and won his first individual title for Michigan in this event. Aubock was off his best time of 14:22.88 as he remains the third fastest performer ever in this event.
Indiana freshman Michael Brinegar (14:27.50) gave Aubock a race early as he ended up with the runner-up spot for the Hoosiers.
Cal continued to pick up valuable points as Nick Norman (14:32.12) and Sean Grieshop (14:35.82) placed third and fourth. Grieshop was swimming in the earlier heats as he had the fastest time this afternoon.
There were a lot of fast times out of the afternoon heats with Louisville's Marcelo Acosta (14:38.92), Stanford's True Sweetser (14:39.07) and Georgia's Walker Higgins (14:39.52) all placed in the top eight.
Virginia's Brendan Casey (14:38.42) placed fourth in the fastest seeded heat and he finished fifth overall.
Michigan now has nine NCAA titles in this event. Aubock joins the likes of Fritz Myers (1957), Marcel Wouda (1993), Tom Dolan (1995, 96), Chris Thompson (2001), Peter Vanderkaay (2004) and Connor Jaeger (2013, 14) as winners of the event for the Wolverines.
Michigan now has the second most 1650 NCAA titles as they are tied with Ohio State and sit behind USC (14).