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Wahjudono, Denny Bernardus Kurnia, Univesitas Ciputra, Surabaya, Indonesia (Indonesia)
Wahyuningsih, Rr. Sri Handari, Universitas Brawijaya Malang Indonesia (Indonesia)
Wan, Gan Su
Wang, Jianlong, Macrothink Institute (United States)
Wang, Xingang
Wedyan, Lu'ay Mohammad Abdel-Rahman (Jordan)
Wei, Song
Wei, Zhang, Business School, Beijing University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China (China)
Wibawa, Baskara Agung, State University of Jakarta (Indonesia)
Wirjodirjo, Budisantoso
Wolfs, Diego A, UNIMEP - Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba (Brazil)
Wong, Anthony, University of Newcastle
Wong, Anthony (Hong Kong)
Wong, Anthony
Wong, Edward Sek Khin, University of Malaya (Malaysia)
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Wong, Raymond, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Wong, Raymond, The Chinese University of Hong Kong School of Accountancy (Hong Kong)
Wong, Siew Chin, HELP University (Malaysia)
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The dates have been released for this year's Godiva Festival.
After being pushed back to August last year to make way for the BBC's Biggest Weekend event, the much-anticipated music festival will return to its traditional calendar slot this year.
The festival will be held in Coventry's War Memorial Park over three days from July 5 to July 7.
The event, which is organised by Coventry City Council, has been running for 20 years and is promising to deliver top name acts as well as local talent across five different stages.
Godiva Festival has always been free upon entry but there has been speculation over whether future festivals could be ticketed.
It comes as the council revealed a £460,000 overspend on the festival last year.
A Freedom of Information request by the Local Democracy Reporting Service further revealed that Godiva 2018 cost nearly £1 million in total.
Would you pay to attend the Godiva Festival?
Last year's event attracted record crowds of 115,000 over the three days with a peak of 41,000 on the Saturday evening.
In recent years, it has become so popular that the capacity for the 2018 event was increased from 30,000 to 50,000 and the entire site fenced to improve safety.
What has the council said about Godiva Festival 2019?


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Where Did It Go Wrong? Hybridization and Crisis of Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK, 1989–2001
Submitted by Tommaso Pardi, CNRS-IDHES, GIS-Gerpisa on 25 févr. 2009 - 00:43
TMUK
Pardi, Tommaso
International Sociology, Volume 20, p.93-118 (2005)
crise, Europe de l'Ouest, hybridation, lean production, Royaume-Uni, système de production Toyota, TMUK, toyota, travail en équipe
In 1989, the Japanese carmaker Toyota established in Burnaston (UK) their first European transplant. Expected to become one of the most efficient auto factories in Europe and to be as successful as the American transplants set up by the company during the 1980s, Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK (TMUK) has failed to fulfil these expectations, cumulating in 10 years of production losses of more than £600 million and since 1999 falling into a serious crisis, which has put into question the internal compromise between the actors of the firm. The article traces back the trajectory of TMUK from its foundation up to the present crisis. It shows how the crisis emerged progressively from the initial shortcomings of the hybridized employment relationship of the transplant, and how it deepened under the difficult economic conditions faced by the company on the European market. The article also introduces an alternative theoretical approach based on the notion of the 'productive model' developed by the GERPISA international research network, which aims to deconstruct the functionalist idea of a unique and superior Japanese model transferable everywhere and by everybody, and to re-establish the Japanese transplants as full historical objects and as social and political organizations.
Voir aussi (bibliographie par firme)
Temporary Labor and Labor Conflicts in the Joint Ventures of VW and Toyota in China
Japanese carmakers in China: how to explain their decline?
Shimizu - PPT - Mutations Toyota - JG 03.2017.pdf
Shimizu - Compte-rendu
Real Localization in Overseas Production of Japanese Manufacturers

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An intriguing example of symbiosis is the appointment of Brig. Gen. Marsudi Hanafi to head the 30-strong police team tasked with following up on the recommendations of a government-sanctioned fact-finding team that recently completed a six-month investigation into the murder of human rights campaigner Munir.
Furthermore, unlike the fact-finding team, the police team had the power under the Criminal Law Procedures Code to force people to appear for questioning.
Whether that means that General Abdullah Mahmud Hendropriyono, head of the Badan Intelijen Negara (BIN), the State Intelligence Agency, will finally come clean on the involvement of BIN, or its operatives, in Munir's assassination remains, as always, a matter of conjecture.
Which leads neatly into the news that (that) a UN panel of legal experts has recommended (that) Indonesian security forces and local militia leaders responsible for crimes against humanity in East Timor in 1999 should face an international tribunal if Jakarta does not prosecute them effectively within six months.
If it does not, the report recommends that the UN security council create an international criminal tribunal in a third state or refer the matter to the International Criminal Court.
Given the propensity of the Indonesian generals to grant themselves immunity, any international pressure is to be welcomed.
Another General (ret.), Governor Sutiyoso of Jakarta, is well-pleased. The view from City Hall is about to be enhanced with a new attraction emulating the Las Vegas Bellagio dancing fountains.
Well, he might be pleased, but the Jakarta Post is not.
With music and choreographed laser beams, the Rp. 26 billion (US$2.7 million) project is simply an embarrassment amid recent reports that at least 8,455 toddlers in the city are suffering from chronic undernourishment.


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Today, when I walked home after school, it was a little late, because I studied with my friends after school. I realized the cloud was like burning. The color was so red. The sun was very round and big. It went down the mountain slowly. I slowed down my pace and enjoyed the sunset. It made me think of my happy time when I stayed in my hometown. At that time, I could sit at my front yard and appreciated the sunset. It was the best moment for me. The nature is so beautiful. If we slow down our life pace, we can find the beauty of our life.


FABIO CAPELLO admitted he faces a tough decision as his super-sub Jermain Defoe bagged a fifth goal in three games to earn England a 2-1 win.
Spurs striker Defoe came off the bench at half-time to score for the third successive international – after netting twice each against Andorra and Holland.
And Capello is considering picking Defoe ahead of Emile Heskey to partner Wayne Rooney in Wednesday's World Cup showdown against Croatia,when victory will ensure England a place in next year's finals.
He said: "I have time to decide but always when he plays the second half he scores a goal.
Defoe added: "Everyone wants to play. If I can come on and make an impact like I did then I'll do that.
Frank Lampard had given England the lead but boss Capello criticised his defence for allowing Slovenia substitute Zlatan Ljubijankic to head in a consolation goal.
Slovenia boss Matjaz Kek was furious about the award of the spot-kick Lampard converted, which left Bostjan Cesar injured after tangling with Rooney. Kek refused to blame Rooney but he said: "I am angry and disappointed about the penalty.


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Festival Diaries - Fringe Festival organiser Amy Wragg
PUBLISHED: 08:00 08 May 2010 | UPDATED: 10:18 02 July 2010
Norwich Fringe Festival organiser Amy Wragg shares her diary for the day.
Well, this is it. This is the point where the Fringe huffs its way to the apex of the hill, pulling a weight of a year's planning and preparation behind it, cresting for a moment before beginning a graceful and poetic descent.
Despite what you may have heard, this is the fun part - the bit when all the long hours come into perspective. It's when it's easiest to know what and who you are doing all this planning and preparation for.
In the coming two weeks we will have a wide range of poetry, music, art and stand-up comedy - some of the most interesting and energetic arts that Norwich has to offer, from Brian Catling's reading at Take Five this evening to the Hands to Haiti event at the Arts Centre on Friday.
In fact, the city will be spoilt for choice. The Norfolk & Norwich has some tremendous events itself, and it's been hard not feel the occasional flash of envy. I am glad they are here - and I'm glad we are here too. It speaks volumes about the people of Norwich, their enthusiasm and passion for the arts, in all its multitude of forms and platforms, whether it's Theatre Royal or a Subway off St Stephen's Street.
There is something for everyone. Let the streets be a-chatter with it all for the next two weeks. We've done this for you. Hope you enjoy it.
For more information about the Fringe Festival visit www.norwichfringefestival.com.
For more information about Norfolk and Norwich Festival or to book tickets visit www.nnf10.org.uk or call 01603 776400.


"Delicate and consciously well-crafted music.
Bonsai's brand of gentle, acoustic guitar-driven dream-pop organically grows into something grand"
Bonsai's EP is NYC record of the month on The Deli Magazine!
bonsai makes the top 50 best songs of 2014 on daytrotter!


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Childhood disability
Advice for parents and carers
If you have just found out your child has a disability
Useful childhood disability websites
Health professionals and families have chosen these sites as providing helpful information about the most common childhood conditions associated with disability.
Some of these websites are not Irish. They may contain information on services which may not be available in Ireland. You may still find the general information and advice useful.
Autistic spectrum disorders, autism
Aspire Ireland (Asperger Syndrome Association of Ireland)
Support and information for people who have Asperger's syndrome and their families.
www.aspireireland.ie
Autism Ireland
A charity that raises awareness and provides information on: education, intervention, support, advocacy, counselling, home-based support, research, information and advice for families.
www.autismireland.ie
Middletown Centre for Autism
The Centre was established by The Department of Education and Skills Ireland and the Department of Education Northern Ireland to support the promotion of excellence in the education of children and young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
www.middletownautism.com
AsIAm
A portal for the public and those with Autistic Spectrum Disorders providing information and a forum for people affected by Autism to share their stories and views.
https://asiam.ie/
Attention deficit disorder (ADD), Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
HADD-ADHD Ireland
HADD-ADHD Ireland's mission is to make life better for people affected by attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
www.hadd.ie
The Irish National Council of ADHD Support Groups (INCADDS)
National organisation that supports people with AD/HD by promoting person-centred treatment and raising awareness. INCADDS makes sure that families are supported so that they can support their children and relatives. Some local groups operate a phone helpline.
www.incadds.ie
Angelman Syndrome Ireland
A not for profit charity providing support and information about this rare neuro-genetic disorder of chromosome 15, which results in severe developmental delay.
www.angelman.ie
Acquired Brain Injury Ireland (ABI Ireland)
Acquired Brain Injury Ireland (ABI Ireland) is Irelands leading provider of community based neuro-rehabilitation services for people who have acquired a brain injury in Ireland.
www.abiireland.ie
Headway Ireland
Provides services and supports for people living with Acquired Brain Injury.
www.headway.ie
National Council for the Blind Ireland (NCBI)
NCBI (National Council for the Blind Ireland) is the national sight loss agency, which offers support and services to people of all ages who are experiencing difficulties with their eyesight.
A UK disability equality organisation which has useful information about cerebral palsy amongst other conditions on its website.
http://www.scope.org.uk/
Please note non-Irish websites may have information about services which is not applicable in Ireland.
Chromosomal
An international group, supporting, informing and networking with anyone affected by a rare chromosome disorder or an autosomal dominant single gene disorder and with any interested professionals.
www.rarechromo.org
The Genetic and Rare Disorders Organisation
A national alliance for voluntary groups representing the views and concerns pof people affected by or at risk of developing genetic or other rare disorders.
http://www.grdo.ie/
The Cleft Lip & Palate Association of Ireland (CLAPAI)
A voluntary group formed to provide support and information for parents of children affected by cleft lip and palate and those directly affected by the condition.
http://www.cleft.ie/
Down Syndrome Ireland
Offers support and services to people with Down Syndrome and their families throughout Ireland.
http://www.downsyndrome.ie/
A national organisation providing services, supports and information for people with hearing loss and promotes the equal rights of Deaf and Hard of Hearing people.
www.deafhear.ie
Share the Journey
An independent organisation established by parents of d/Deaf and hard of hearing children to provide information and support to other parents of d/Deaf and hard of hearing children, regardless of the communication, education and technological decisions they have made or will make for their children.
http://www.sharingthejourney.ie/
Dyspraxia/Developmental Coordination Disorder
Dyspraxia DCD Ireland
Provides information, services and supports for parents of children with dyspraxia and DCD.
http://www.dyspraxia.ie
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Ireland
Provides information to support families, carers and individuals affected by FASD and raises awareness of the condition.
http://www.fasd.ie/
The Irish Fragile X Society
Promotes public awareness of Fragile X Syndrome, provides support for families caring for individuals with Fragile X, and gathers current information regarding Fragile X and the treatment of its symptoms.
http://fragilexireland.org/
The Fragile X Society in the UK provides information and practical guidance to support and empower individuals and families living with Fragile X Syndrome and Fragile X-associated conditions
http://www.fragilex.org.uk/
Friedreich's Ataxia
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in the USA has a fact sheet on Friedreich's Ataxia
https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Fact-Sheets/Friedreichs-Ataxia-Fact-Sheet
Global Developmental Delay
A UK organisation that gives advice, support and information on all aspects of caring for a child with a disability. Here is their fact sheet on Global Developmental Delay.
http://www.cafamily.org.uk/medical-information/conditions/g/global-developmental-delay/
Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Ireland
Provides essential information, support and advice for everyone living with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus.
http://www.sbhi.ie/
Intellectual Disability (also called learning disability)
The National Association for People with Intellectual Disability. They provide information and support, promote advocacy particularly self-advocacy and organise conferences and research into intellectual disability.
www.inclusionireland.ie
Muscular Dystrophy Ireland (MDI)
Supports people who have muscular dystrophy and related neuromuscular conditions and their families.
http://www.mdi.ie/
Information about the different types of Muscular Dystrophy, causes and treatment from the UK's National Health Service:
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/muscular-dystrophy/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Non-Irish websites may have information about services which does not apply to Ireland.
Information about microcephaly from the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/microcephaly.html
Prader Willi Syndrome
Prader Willi Association Ireland
Prader Willi Association Ireland provides support for persons with PWS, their families, and their carers by providing a range of services such as: promoting awareness of the syndrome; providing information services including seminars and conferences; and by promoting best practice standards of care for persons with PWS.
http://pwsai.ie/
Prader Willi Syndrome Association (USA) has information about the condition on its website:
http://www.pwsausa.org/
Rett Syndrome Association of Ireland
An association of parents and families of people affected with Rett Syndrome and other related disorders who provide support and information to each other and to families who have received a new diagnosis.
http://rettsyndrome.ie/
Speech and Language Disorders
Speech Sound Impairment, Developmental Language Disorder, Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder and Language Disorder.
Enable Ireland has a number of useful information sheets about these speech disorders, written by Speech and Language Therapists:
https://www.enableireland.ie/resources/publications
Provides essential information, support and advice for everyone living with spina bifida/hydrocephalus.
Spinal Injuries Ireland (SII)
This is the only support and service agency in Ireland for people who have sustained a spinal cord injury and their families and provides a person centred service to assist people to engage fully in society.
http://spinalinjuries.ie/
Information on many syndromes and disorders can be found on the US National Human Genome Research Institute's website.
https://www.genome.gov/10001204
Turner Contact Group Ireland
Provides information about Turner Syndrome and support resources
http://www.tcgi.ie/
Turner Syndrome Society of the United States advances knowledge and facilitates research into Turner Syndrome.
www.TurnerSyndrome.org/
The national sight loss agency, which offers support and services to people of all ages who are experiencing difficulties with their eyesight.
www.ncbi.ie
Williams Syndrome Association of Ireland
Supports members through an annual programme of events and works to make medical, teaching and other professional groups more aware of the conditions associated with Williams Syndrome.
http://www.williamssyndrome.ie/
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And no I'm not talking about that movie. Which to this day I still have never seen and not sure I want to either…although the soundtrack is pretty good. A few weeks ago I went to Theology on Tap that the diocese hosted for young adults and the topic was Mary. The speaker is a deacon/seminarian who will be ordained on May 31st which is one of Mary's feast days – The Visitation.
This one is obviously right before Jesus performs his first Miracle and Mary basically takes on her motherly instincts and tells Jesus that he needs to help these people out! At first Jesus is like no way Mom but then willingly takes over. This reminds me of how most children are to their parents today.
Eve prefigures Mary here. The Matriarchs of the Old Testament foreshadow Mary and Elizabeth in the New Testament.
St. Louis De Montfort books? – If you are interested in learning about Total Consecration to Mary he has some good books. Some of them have just prayers and some of them have prayers with explanations. I just linked to all his books as I'm not sure which are which.
One of my favorite things about being Catholic is The Saints. I LOVE hearing crazy stories about what happenned to people after they prayed to certain saints. The speaker had several really neat "Mary" stories he shared. Here are a few that I remember.
The deacon was originally a Franciscan Friar for about 8 years before he decided he wanted to be a diocesan priest. While he lived in NYC with the Friars a lot of really interesting things happenned.
Outside the Friary they had this wall with this HUGE mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It had been there for YEARS. However the wall it was painted on was in really bad shape. After praying, repairing, and doing anything they could they finally decided the wall had to be torn down and redone. Everyone was really sad about losing the mural but there was nothing they could do.
Several months after the mural was redone a rich guy in a Mercedes and Armani drove by. When he saw the mural he STOPPED in the middle of the road and got out of his car and went and talked to the friars about the mural. To make a long story short the man ended up converting to Catholicism and ended up giving away a lot of his things to the poor and I think even ended up joining the friars years later.
I thought that those were really neat stories about this one mural of Mary and just how Mary works in peoples lives. She has a very important role in everyone's faith life no matter how big or small she's Jesus' mother and no one can change that.
I will leave you all with some questions. How has Mary changed your faith life? Do you have any crazy Mary stories you'd like to share? Let me know in the comments!
Wow, what an amazing story about the mural and the way Mary reached out to people!


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved $161.8 billion in new funds to continue fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the next year, without timetables for withdrawing combat troops.
The Senate's 92-6 vote to pass the war-funding bill marked a victory for Bush, who has vigorously opposed any move by Congress to impose timetables for ending the Iraq war, now in its sixth year.
The new war money could last through mid-2009, well past Bush's departure from office on January 20.
With this legislation, Democrats can claim victory in winning passage of a significant expansion of veterans' education benefits and domestic unemployment benefits.
Now that Congress has passed the final war-funding bill of Bush's presidency, debate of the Iraq war and how to end it moves to the presidential campaigns being waged by Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.


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Fylla's rog (Rajella fyllae) is een vissensoort uit de familie van de Rajidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd als Raja fyllae in 1887 gepubliceerd door Christian Frederik Lütken.

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After two weeks of getting four right and four wrong, it's time that I get at least one more right…will it happen though?
Here are my tips for this week.
AFL tips, for the entirety of the split round, will follow tomorrow.


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ASHER PENN
Bunny Rogers
Lonely Girl, 2013
Portrait By Asher Penn
Were computers around in your house from when you were born?
I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in New Jersey, Texas, then New York.
Did you use computers before there was the internet?
I watched my older sister, Katherine, play "School Bus Driver" a few times.
What was your first experience going online?
I sat with Katherine while she made my first AOL screen name, emr006. My first online experiences were very short. My interest developed and the duration of my sessions online lengthened with the discovery of AOL art forums.
How did you end up at art school? What did you study?
I only applied to one school. Parsons was the only school I felt passionate about attending, for its reputation in fashion design. Before I began college, I was certain I would major in fashion design. After I began college, I was certain I would not major in fashion design. I received my BFA in "Fine Arts."
Did your activities online ever get discussed at school with teachers of classmates?
In sixth grade I was a new kid in a Long Island middle school and I was afraid what public opinion might make of my obsession with neopets.com. I would hide the drawings and stories that filled my notebooks at the time. By eighth grade I had loosened up a bit and felt okay to leave these notebooks open on my desk. My pride in the quality of my drawings specifically overwhelmed my shame, and I wanted people to look at them and talk to me about them. They rarely did, and when they did it was curiosity rarely packaged in a kind way, but it was in efforts to facilitate an exchange between artist and audience that I had already established online.
What was your first website? What was on it?
"Got Aisha?", Generic aisha-related content.
Whats an Aisha?
My favorite neopet from my childhood. It looks like a cat without a nose and it has an additional set of long, stalk-like ears. These days I identify more with the usul, which most closely resembles a squirrel.
Can you list your websites since then?
The early ones, no. I let gotaisha.com expire (lol) and everything else was geocities-hosted. Here are the domains I own now: http://meryn.ru/, http://everybodydiesbut.me/, http://www.wednesdaymasons.com/ + http://www.midweekmasons.com/, http://is-slottet.info (with Filip Olszewski), http://www.sister-unns.com/ (with Filip Olszewski), http://samantha.su/ (with Filip Olszewski). I also post poetry at: http://cunny4.tumblr.com/
Where does the url meryn.ru come from?
Mutation of a cat sound and former nickname.
Where do you draw inspiration for website design?
Personal homepages.
Many of your sites seem like personalized archives- like the ribbon pages- what's the motivation behind these sites?
I make what I want/feel should exist.
What is it specifically about ribbons that you find interesting?
As trimming, their beauty... ability to transform an object through accessory, when it is literally a strip (of fabric, material, etc.). As "awareness" ribbons.
Performance seems to be a major component of your work, whether it's in the form of a video or a public event. What compels you to "put yourself out there"?
Self-affirmation through the existence of audience.
How long have you been writing poetry?
Since age 7, 8 maybe.
What are some of the things you think about before making an IRL object?
Materials, potential obstacles, cost, how it will photograph.
What creative activities do you do that people online wouldn't know about?
I like all types of handwork like sewing, embroidery, beading. Doll-making. Maybe you can tell this from my website, but working with clay is probably my favorite thing and an activity where I feel truly happy.


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Q: Why cant i use a function to fill a table in REACTJS I wrote a function in REACTJS that helps me to read a JSON-File and to display the content of the JSON-File. When I use the code of the function inside of a body the display of the content works fine. But now i want to use the function to fill a table with the content of the JSON and it wont work - the page stays empty. Thank you in advance!
The Function:
function FillData() {

                {
                    Data.map( datan => {
                        return(

                                {datan.personalActivationWord}

                        )
                    } )
                }

}

Trying to use it to fill a table (Tabledata for Setting1):
function Table() {
    return (

HMI

                <FillData />

                            Setting
                            Wert
                            Status

                            Setting1
                            <FillData />
                            Aktualisiert vor 3 Sek.

                            Setting2
                            AKTIV
                            Aktualisiert vor 3 Sek.

                            Setting3
                            AKTIV
                            Aktualisiert vor 3 Sek.

    )
}

A: You are not returning anything in your FillData function.
function FillData() {
    return

                {
                    Data.map( datan => {
                        return(

                                {datan.personalActivationWord}

                        )
                    } )
                }

}

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The Infectious Mindset and Rivero's 10%
Following that Holocaust thing I wrote recently, a fellow dropped into the comments section and declared Mike Rivero of What Really Happened was a Jew and perfectly untrustworthy on the subject of the Holocaust etc. He declared Rivero a gate-keeper who only let through 90%. Jewishness aside, the former claim was specious nonsense. But the latter was true. Mike Rivero does have his 10%.
But let's rewind a little. To a certain extent I started on WRH. It was the story of the USS Liberty that really did my head in. To a fellow with a Time Magazine mindset, the Liberty story was perfectly impossible, and yet here were the survivors laying it all out. It was impossible and it was true. Time and again, WRH has tripped me over the line of impossibility: remote control of wide-body passenger jets; molten as opposed to softened steel in the WTC collapse; the placement of bombs in OKC bombing; Pearl Harbour foreseen; the Holocaust; and now even global warming.
This is the infectious mindset. Once you've started, you're fucked. There is no cure for the red pill. But that's not to say that there aren't variations of red pills. There are. I wonder how many people stick with WRH as their sole provider of media-impossible stories? I understand the temptation. It's a one-stop shop. You hit it once a day and get everything you need. Curiosity's pangs of hunger nourished with a set daily diet. Who needs to go trawling through google, looking stuff up, when we have Mike to do it for us?
But like I said in an earlier piece, WRH's world is finite. It has limitations. You can spend all the time you like there and will never encounter Dave McGowan nor any mention of the 'pedophocracy'. (For late arrivals, The Pedophocracy is a must-read. It can be found here). And sure, the pedophocracy is explicitly a phrase of McGowan's creation, but the word itself is neither here nor there. It's the concept that counts. Give it whatever name you like, as long as it describes a network of immensely powerful people who traffic in children, have a penchant for satanism, and are seemingly untouchable. In terms of this big picture, I haven't a shred of doubt. The pedophocracy exists, and it exists big time.
McGowan took the red pill long ago. He wonders at things. He does not dismiss inconsistencies or make excuses for them. He asks questions, searches, and if sacred icons get smashed, well, what's a feller to do? Apart from 'Get Smashing!', ha ha.
But it's not all just iconoclasm. McGowan arrives at inevitable conclusions regardless of those conclusions being completely and utterly at odds with any sing-from-the-same-songsheet media message. We get this don't we? It's what we do. We know the media has bullshitted us on pretty much everything - certainly everything big. We're so completely there, that whatever the media says, we now start in the total and opposite direction to see if we aren't nearer the mark. That's our mindset. That's how our brains work now.
Where was I? Oh yeah, WRH's 10%. Rivero does do pedophilia from time to time. He does priests (so much so that we're now all perfectly familiar with his jokey refrain about 'always picking on the Catholics'), and he does the Franklin scandal. But that's pretty much it. Ironically, for a fellow who gives us all the stories the media ignores, on this subject he seems never to stray from the media line. The media loves to trash the Catholic Church and does pedophile priest stories to death. In fact, for many of us, the first thing that pops into our head upon hearing the word 'pedophile' is the word 'priest'. And then there's the Franklin scandal of twenty years ago. This too made the media. It was on the front page of the Washington Times no less. And sure, it was then buried and let die but that's neither here nor there. Fact is, we heard about all of it without WRH.
But Mike does other stories too. Here's a recent one, the basic thrust of which is that the current pedophile witch-hunt has run amuck. Read the link if you want, but for mine, it's the comment that's really interesting.
Child porn scourge creates more suspects than can be arrested
Mike's Comment -
Now, I will be the first to admit that there are some very sick individuals who do some very strange things to little kids (especially among the clergy), but when I hear the word "resources" it sounds like the true scale of the problem is being exaggerated to protect someone's budget from the axe during these difficult economic times.
I recall the brouhaha about Satanic Ritual Abuse in the 1980s and 1990. A media-fed panic swept the nation that children were being abducted and in some cases intentionally bred for the purposes of use in rituals to Satan. Despite many sensational stories in the media, and huge sums of money budgeted for the investigators, not a single case of actual Satanic Ritual abuse was ever found.
One of the most famous cases of accusations of child molestation, including Satanic Ritual abuse, involved the McMartin Pre-School. One of the mothers, an alcoholic and diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, accused one of the workers at the school of molesting her child. There was an arrest, nut in the absence of evidence no charges were filed. That this same woman had a history of false allegations of sexual abuse of her child was kept private, but a "Confidential" letter was circulated warning customers of the school that the issue of sexual molestation had been raised. Fanned by the media and by a local Catholic church that openly called for the death of the main McMartin suspect, Ray Buckey, the situation exploded into hysteria. Parents were convinced their children were victims. Interrogators pressured the children to "remember" the abuse, and forensics tests which contradicted the claims were scrapped while new and unproven testing procedures were tried.
After six years and $15 million, the case ended with no convictions. In hindsight, it was recognized that this had been a witch-hunt in the truest Medieval sense of the word. Popular imagination had run wild, and the people paid to find molesters had seen molesters at every turn, whether they were truly there or not.
In hindsight, it was clear that the children had simply gone along with whatever the interrogators suggested had happened, more in the spirit of a game than our of malice. That no evidence was ever found off the secret underground tunnels that figured in the lurid stories should have been a warning but it was not. The trials proceeded to their humiliating end.
Now, as I said above, I understand that there really are some very sick people out there. But when I hear claims that there are simply too many of them to arrest without more resources, I have to wonder if this is a problem with the economy, rather than with the real crime.
In her book, "Who Stole Feminism" Christina Hobbs Sommers revealed that while rape is and remains a real crime, there was no explosive epidemic of rape in the 1990s. The so-called rape "crisis" was a manufactured issue used to fill talk shows, sell books, and mostly to justify funding for campus rape centers and rape counselors, most of whom sat idle a great deal of the time. Like the Satanic Ritual Abuse panic, the Rape Crisis resulted in a flood of false accusations of rape which had the long term result of making it more difficult for real rape victims to get be believed. But the money flowed to the self-appointed saviors and that was the important thing.
So, I have to view the huge numbers of offenders mentioned in this article and wonder if (not unlike the global warming scam) the situation is being exaggerated to make a grab for more public funds, or at least dodge the budget ax as the economy slides.
If there is one lesson to be learned from the real Medieval witch hunts, it's that when you pay people to see witches, they will believe witches truly exist, and that bystanders, rather than miss out on the fun, will gladly join the hysteria.
What a long comment! Especially given that it's not factual. Unless there were two McMartins and I was watching another one, that is. Whilst McMartin was pre-red pill for me, that's not to say I wasn't paying attention. I was, and my recollection was not of a media witch-hunt per se, but rather of a media condemnation of a witch-hunt, pretty much precisely like Mike's above. As I understood it at the time - the whole thing was hysteria, the McMartin folks were innocent, and the parents and counsellors were all nutters, drunks, and villains. That's what the media told me and I believed them. Between an impossible crime, and the oh-so-credible False Memory Syndrome Foundation telling us that people just invented these crazy stories, I bought the 'false memory' line. It never occurred to me at the time that the False Memory Syndrome Foundation might be a creation of the CIA, funded by God knows who, and entirely staffed by 'ex'-spooks and 'ex'-pedophiles.
But never mind all that, best to keep things simple. So I wrote to Mike and set him straight on a key fact -
I hate to tell you this, but the tunnels under the McMartin school were found precisely as described. Google 'E Gary Stickel Phd McMartin tunnels'. That should sort you out.
Stickel by the way is actually famous. He's the archeologist Spielberg went to when he needed a consultant for Raiders of the Lost Ark. He's the real deal. And he found the tunnels and said so.
The tunnels were there. And if the tunnels were there, the kids and the parents weren't bullshitting. The drunk you mention only got that way because no one would believe her. Can't say I blame her myself.
It wasn't a witch hunt mate. It was real.
If it's any consolation I thought it was bullshit too. But the facts are undeniable and I changed my position.
Mike's not a chatty fellow so I got no reply. Nor did my thing appear on his letters page. But this one did -
READER: Thank you for your mention of the McMartin Preschool fiasco. A few points are worth mentioning. You wrote, "There was an arrest, but in the absence of evidence no charges were filed." Not so - charges were filed against 7 people, though dropped for all but 2, Peggy Buckley and her son, Ray. Ray Buckley spent 5 years in jail on a no-bond hold. Peggy's bond was $1million. The investigation and subsequent 2 trials resulted in a criminal case even longer and more expensive for Orange County, than OJ's. Actually, it was the longest and most expensive in American history. At the same time, as you note, other such cases against preschool teachers (and parents, grandparents, clergy) popped up around the country (bringing to light the phenomenon of 'false memory syndrome'). The second most well-known one occurred in North Carolina, the Little Rascals/Edenton Seven. Again, after the hysteria and trial, all were acquitted. A good website recap on the McMartin case is http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mcmartin/mcmartinacco... And an award-winning 1995 movie starring James Woods covers the subject well - 'Indictment; The McMartin Trial.'
WRH: There were no charges in the initial arrest; the one following the single accusation by the women who was a paranoid schizophrenic. The charges you describe occured later after a media-whipped frenzy made it politixally imperitive that someone be charged with something.
Um... is that interesting? I guess. Mike certainly seems down on the details. And it's certainly good reinforcement of the themes of 'hysteria', 'schizophrenic', 'waste of money', and 'false memory syndrome'. Pity they're all false. So I wrote to Mike again -
Hello Mike,
It seems my email yesterday went astray. I'm sending it again since you seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that there were no tunnels under the McMartin school. There were tunnels. Like I said, just google 'E Gary Stickel Phd McMartin tunnels'.
I look forward to you addressing this issue.
PS By the way, that False Memory Syndrome is a product entirely of the creation of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. If you google the names of the founders +pedophile, and +CIA, you might be in for a surprise - Martin T Orne, Louis Jolyon West, Ralph Underwager, and Peter and Pamela Freyd. Otherwise, did you not ever wonder where they got their funding?
Sure enough, no reply. But front page on WRH the next day is the ever reliable Franklin Scandal as a prompt for another comment on McMartin.
Franklin scandal (curiously, no use of his standard 'Flashback' preface)
The McMartin pre-school scandal made headlines for months and cost $15 million and wound up finding all parties innocent, but THIS scandal never saw the light of day because the corporate media refused to touch it.
Weirder and weirder! To highlight the fact that the Franklin scandal never saw the light of day because the corporate media refused to touch it, Mike actually posted the front page of the Washington Post on which it appeared. Ha ha ha ha. (Go on! That has to be worth a laugh, surely?!)
Am I the only person wondering what's going on here? What's up with this obsession with a twenty year old scandal that was covered in the media anyway? Isn't WRH all about the stories the media doesn't tell you? Go search WRH, see if you can find any mention of 'The Finders'. In spite of it being one of the biggest mindfucks ever, it doesn't exist on WRH. Just for the record, that's '0' results. Keep searching, look for 'Dutroux', look for 'West Point' or 'Presidio', hell, just put in 'pedophile'. For this last obvious search input, the new WRH provides two results, both of which are above. On the old WRH, you get fifteen. To put that in perspective, now try putting in 'Israel'.
I shake my head on this. I can sort of understand his position on McMartin and 'false memory syndrome' since it used to be my position. But that was before I was seized by the infectious mindset. And what, Mike doesn't have this mindset? Huh? Didn't I catch it from him? Surely his head is there.
Okay, so how is it that his site contains no mention of 'The Finders'? How is that possible? It's the perfect WRH story - crims caught dead to rights with a van full of kids; a customs agent's report detailing the bust of their headquarters (!); the CIA, the FBI, the Washington Metro police shutting down the investigation; and overall, the obviousness of wickedness at a colossal scale. Plug it into McMartin, the military childcare scandal, and yes, even Franklin, and the whole thing goes exponential.
But not at WRH it doesn't. On this subject, WRH is with the media. There is only one variety of pedophilia, and that mostly in the Catholic church. Beyond this there are individual perverts who occasionally seem to act in concert, but in no significant fashion. Any talk of childcare centres, global networks, or satanism, are notreallyhappened non-events, or otherwise discreditable variations of witch-hunt craziness, bad schizophrenic craziness, or just regular, old-fashioned alcoholic craziness. Which is to say, the victims imagined it all.
Is it just me, or are we in 'nothing-to-see-here-folks-move-along' territory?
I'll leave it to you to take your pick of excuses. Either the subject is too distasteful for Mike (unless Catholics are involved) and he prefers not to go there. Or it's a hurdle too far for him to get over - the Holocaust, no problem - but for the pedophocracy, his mental horse shies. Or perhaps some other reason occurs to you. Perhaps it occurs to me too. And?
And, let's just say Mike Rivero has a 10%, and this is it.
Posted by nobody at 2:06 PM 45 comments:
Labels: catholic church, false memory syndrome, franklin scandal, mcgowan, mcmartin, pedophocracy, satanism, wrh
Burn in Hell you deniers of the Holocausts!
Ha! Call me a sell-out if you like, but I've decided to join with those who demand that history not be questioned. I now condemn all those who deny the Holocaust. And as a man not given to half measures I'm upping the ante. It is no longer good enough to condemn those who question the Holocaust. Since there were two Holocausts, both of them must be sacrosanct. Both of them demand that anyone who questions any aspect of either of them deserves to be jailed, broken, and have their life ruined. One is not good enough. It's both or nothing.
What two Holocausts you say? Fact is, there was a Holocaust in each of the World Wars. Before the Holocaust of WWII was the Holocaust of WWI. If you're wondering why you've never heard of it, you need merely look to the anti-Semitic media. As we all know, Jews never get an even break in the media. If only they had a voice! A means to tell us of their suffering!
Never fear, I shall be their voice!
To dwell on the Holocaust of WWII alone is not enough. Any right thinking person must also acknowledge the Holocaust of WWI. To not do so is to dishonour the memory of the victims of a Holocaust. Every aspect of German wickedness delivered upon the innocent Jewish victims was present in both events. Both had gas chambers. Both had soap rendered from human victims. Both had lampshades made from human skin. And crucially both had six million victims. 6,000,000! To not scream in shrill indignation over both of these events is the absolute height of moral depravity.
Consider the enormity of those who only discuss one of these two Holocausts. For mine, it's the moral equivalent of a Palestinian mother who had ten children shot by the Israelis but only wants to talk about the five that she liked. Admit the truth you dreadful woman! The Israelis shot all ten of your children and all that rubbish about choosing five is just embroidery to, a) slur the good name of the Israelis and, b) save you acknowledging the five children you never liked anyway. Honestly, was there ever a people more deserving of their genocide than the Palestinians? The media is right to perpetually paint them as villains. How dare they resist their righteous Jewish masters!? Bloody untermenschen!
Where was I? Oh yes - as in all topics deserving of shrill moral condemnation, silence equals complicity. I'll say it again - Silence Equals Complicity. Anyone who wants to pretend that the first Holocaust isn't the equal of the second may as well just lather up with human soap, settle down in bed next to a human-skin lamp, and read AJP Taylor's History Of The First World War. I read this hateful tome and it appallingly failed to contain a single mention of gas chambers or 6,000,000 Jewish victims. Taylor is a denier pure and simple, and if he isn't dead already, he certainly deserves to be.
And for those who want to start bleating about any other Holocausts, I spit in your face. I have no time for such piss weak 'moral equivalency' arguments. Fuck the massacre of the Armenians under the Donmeh Turks. Fuck the mass starvation of the Kulaks under the Bolsheviks. Were Jews involved in any of these? As victims, that is? NO. As we all know it's only genocides directed at Jews that are worthy of shrill condemnation. And since here we have two Jewish Holocausts with identical features it follows that the shrillness must be doubled. Subsequently those who deny that two Holocausts took place are twice as condemnable as those who only deny one. Don't argue, the logic is bullet proof.
It's always a beautiful thing to have the moral high ground. I am now one up on those who only ever seem to bang on about the Holocaust, as if there was only one of them. Their moral unimpeachability is now laid bare as a sham, a hollow thing of no substance. Anything they say in their defence, ie: it never happened; the numbers don't add up; there's no evidence etc etc, falls at the first hurdle. As they've said themselves in their one-Holocaust campaign, to argue the point is to be a denier - the Worst Thing In The World! Shrillness is all they deserve. Don't argue with them. Just scream '6,000,000 Victims!' How dare they dishonour Their memory! Sickening.
And besides, anyone who disputes this, instantly disappears up their own clacker. What does it mean if one Holocaust is true and the other isn't? That the Jews merely imagined the first one? That they just made it up? What mad inhuman creatures would do this? What possible reason could Jews have for marching around America telling people that they'd been victims of an unparalleled injustice? Why would they do that? I can't think of a single reason. To even suggest that such a thing is possible is a tremendous slur against Jews. A clear case of anti-Semitism. Me - I reject anti-Semitism, I reject Holocaust denial, I embrace all that I am meant to.
Anyone who objects to the 'facts' of the first Holocaust, whether they like it or not, legitimises the questioning of the 'facts' of the second one. Both Holocausts carry nearly identical features - both were conducted against the Jews by the Germans, both had six million victims, both involved the same monstrous atrocities of lampshades, soap, and gas chambers. Between the two alternatives: that Jews recycled the same story to paint themselves as the world's greatest victims; or that Germans are the world's greatest monsters who pull the same shit over and over, only one of these is permissible.
As anyone who's been to the cinema knows, Jews are always victims and Germans are always villains. We cannot flip this coin and reverse these descriptions. To do so would be to say that all those Holocaust movies were a load of shit. Perish the thought! Jews cannot be fraudulent villains who've tricked the world. Germans cannot be the victims of a colossal hoax. The very idea is monstrous. Thus we have no choice but to double the charges. Therefore Jewish victimhood climbs to ever greater Olympian heights (of the God-like variety not the sporting one) and German villainy doubles again, plunging to a whole new nadir.
Is Dante still alive? Someone should get in touch with him and tell him to rewrite his Inferno with an added 34th circle of hell reserved just for Germans. God knows they deserve it.
So! I stake out my territory. I take the highest of high moral ground. I refuse, unlike all those other people who question unquestionable orthodoxies, to deny anything. It's all or nothing. Either both are true, or both are questionable. And I reject the latter. No fence sitting! Silence Equals Complicity. And so, I point my finger - J'Accuse! Acknowledge both Holocausts or be hoist on your own petard of Holocaust denial. Ignorance is no excuse! Anything other than accepting the truth of both Holocausts is no different to pushing that gas chamber button. Twice!
Posted by nobody at 11:05 AM 103 comments:
Labels: bloc-media, germany, holocaust, israel, palestine
I Declare Victory! No wait... what's the other one? Oh yeah, defeat. I Declare Defeat!
A while back I had a brilliant idea. It was to be an experiment using google that would appear to be what the searchers were looking for but was actually no such thing. Instead what they got was me screwing with their heads.
It took the form of a fake interview about the new release of a famous computer game. The targets of the exercise were the people who wrote the game and the people who played it. This particular game is an assassination game. Each level comprises a series of targets (as designated by a fictional 'agency'), which the players then have to assassinate by way of shooting, knifing, poisoning etc. I shan't name the game for reasons that will become obvious.
The nature of the game is such that if the creators of it aren't on the CIA's payroll, then they're idiots who are missing out on free money. This game is precisely to the CIA what those Death-to-Arabs army games are to the US military.
The plan was merely to leave the interview on my blog (complete with an unmissable title) and let the assassination obsessed fans find it via google. This strategy worked a treat. The fans arrived in droves. The next part of the plan, wherein I would screw with their heads by way of the developers explaining: the enormity of what they had done; their desire for atonement by means of a new different game; and how in the new game the targets would consist of the agency and other warmongers who'd previously been the bosses, was an abject failure.
Of the thousands and thousands who arrived and read it, not a single one got it. They were utterly unable to view their bent for assassination in an holistic fashion. Forget the wide-angle, the only lens in their head was a 500mm scope that, if it didn't have a target filling the viewfinder, couldn't see anything at all. Every single comment left was perfectly moronic. Okay, there was one fellow who got it, but he pretty much shrugged his shoulders and went back to the strangling etc.
Eventually it was all too much for me. Every day, every goddamn day, about a quarter of my arrivals here were these idiot gamers. It was a tsunami that never ended. This thing was just relentless.
I tried tweaking the experiment by going so far as to explain the point of the exercise, and it made no difference. They just didn't want to know. What they wanted was a new series of people to assassinate. And they just kept coming.
Rather than surrender I deleted the previous text and inserted a new piece. Brilliant. But it was pointless really. Nothing changed. The game's name was still in the address path, and the idiot legion of gamers seemed to stretch into infinity. Sure enough, no one got the new piece either. "This doesn't seem to mention ______ at all! Who am I meant to kill? What bullshit!" And every day my statcounter thingy gave me the depressing news. More fucking gamers.
And so, I give in. I wave the white flag and surrender unconditionally. Which is to say, I have deleted the whole entry. The gamers won. I declare defeat.
*Anyway, the second piece I wrote may be of interest to those small numbers of people who don't groove on assassination, and it is immediately below. Yoroshiku.
Labels: cia, google
An evil time and place
Think of an evil time or place. Think of some country that we all condemn as wicked villains. Presumably this country was some variety of fascist or communist. They probably sent their troops to invade innocent countries, kill the locals, and steal their shit. Imagine them in their villainous costumes goose-stepping about in big militaristic parades. Perhaps your historical villains were the kind of murderous racists that picked on some ethnic minority and put them into concentration camps. For the purpose of the exercise, the more villainous the better.
So, do you have that time and place fixed in your head? Excellent.
Now go sideways and wonder at the boys and young men in this place. As sure as eggs is eggs the vast majority would have grooved on the thought of their nation as ass-kicking powerhouse. There were no t-shirts back then but they probably had pictures of their weapons of war on their walls - tanks and fighter planes, that sort of thing. And there was probably no TV at the time but they'd have had some equivalent like the cinema, and they'd have gone to see the movies that made heroes of the soldiers that we now view as the greatest villains who ever lived. And they'd have cheered those villains. Because for them, they weren't villains, they were heroes. That's how it is in evil times and places. If you want to call those boys and young men brainwashed, I won't argue with you. They were brainwashed.
But that's no surprise is it? In those evil times and places, everything would have been like this - the movies, the radio, the newspapers, the comics, everything right down to the cigarette and bubblegum cards. Every single form of media that existed would have been this way. And all those kids would have thought that this was normal. It would never have occurred to these kids that what they were doing was wrong. And yeah sure, there would have been other stuff too, boring stuff for girls and for grown-ups. But the boys wouldn't have been interested. They would have been too busy with all that neat stuff with soldiers, cops, and spies, all with tons of gunfights, chases, and action, action, action.
Imagine if you were able to magically teleport back in time and tell those kids that what they were doing was evil. It's a complete certainty that they'd never have believed you. They'd have told you that you were stupid, crazy, a complete bullshit artist. Even the nice ones would have heaped shit on you. They'd have told you that the 'bad guys' attacked them first. Everyone knows that. The 'bad guys' wanted to destroy their country, whether they were a million miles away, or here at home waiting to fill up those concentration camps. And those brainwashed kids would have defended everything their goose-stepping heroes did, whether it was bombing civilians or torturing innocent men and women.
It's also possible that some of those boys didn't like what their evil government was doing. But they still loved their weekly instalment of Stormtrooper Hero, or whatever it was called back then. "You should see it. It's great!" But you wouldn't have the heart for it. It'd be too sickening, watching these fucking villains bombing those villages and hauling those people off to the concentration camps. Even the best of those kids would have had you shaking your head at how they didn't get it.
So with this picture in your head of this evil time and place and of those brainwashed kids, why don't we try a really crazy experiment? Imagine (it's crazy I know, but just humour me) what it would look like if this was your country, here and now? What would that look like? And what would it be like for the boys and young men? How would they dress? Can you imagine them wearing military camouflage and t-shirts with pictures of tanks or gunships on them?
Imagine if everything, from the movies to the computer games were full of our soldiers, spies, and whomever, going overseas and killing the people there. Imagine if there was some minority back home that every piece of media told you were the bad guys. Imagine we were told that they attacked us first.
Imagine that there were TV shows where the hero actually tortured this minority and that no one thought that that was evil, or weird, or any other thing. They just watched it and grooved on the excitement. Imagine computer games that would have fitted right in with the propaganda of that other evil time and place, with whoever was playing being told to go and kill whomever and them doing it and thinking it was the coolest game ever. Can you imagine that?
And one small step now - imagine some guy zapping in from some other time and place and telling you that the whole fucking thing was evil and that when you wore those t-shirts, and watched those shows, and played those games, that you were participating in something really monstrous? What would you say to that guy? Would you think he was nuts? Would you tell him he was bullshit?
You? Brainwashed? Ha! Those other kids in that other evil time and place, sure - but not you, no way. Go ahead, tell me I'm "stupid, crazy, a complete bullshit artist." You know you want to.
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Los Angeles Has One Problem: Too Many People
By David Stolinsky | June 21, 2021 | 0 Comments
It is said that Los Angeles has many problems: a housing problem, a homeless problem, a traffic problem, a crime problem, a pothole problem, a drought problem, and a power grid problem, among others. This is incorrect. Los Angeles has only one problem: a people problem.
The population of the city of Los Angeles is now about 4 million, and of the metropolitan area about 12.5 million. But when I first arrived here, the city contained about 2.7 million. Freeway traffic moved well except in rush hours, and even then it moved at 20-30 mph. On weekends, I could drive on city streets from my apartment near downtown to the beach at Santa Monica in 25 minutes.
If I was too late for lunch at the small hospital were I was training, I walked two blocks to Woody's Smorgasburger. The area was less than ideal, but often there were two motorcycle cops lurking near an intersection, so I walked without fear. Chief Parker headed the LAPD. The officers were armed with six-inch Smith & Wesson revolvers with adjustable sights, billy clubs, and a don't-mess-with-us attitude. The term "community policing" had not been invented. The police policed. Making a community was our job.
Many things have changed since those days, some for the better, some not. But it is undeniable that most of the problems listed above were at least aggravated, and often caused, by the extra million-plus people who crowded in here.
The Southwest in general, and southern California specifically, are semi-desert. They were not intended to sustain huge numbers of people. A few years ago, leftists pushed zero population growth. They told us to have only one child, or preferably none, for the sake of Mother Earth. Now these same people tell us to open the borders and welcome however many millions of immigrants decide to come. Consistency is not their strong point.
They drive by homeless encampments without a second thought. They watch developers ruin beautiful landscapes. They watch housing prices reach absurd levels. They watch street crime rise alarmingly as police are defunded and demoralized. But that's all they do – watch, as if the increasingly crowded conditions were a natural disaster over which they have no control.
Like other cities, Los Angeles has many problems. But most of them are aggravated, or actually caused, by its people problem.
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GOP gives voters who want to break DC deadlock one choice only: Vote straight line Democratic
Posted on October 28, 2016 (October 28, 2016) by Marc Jampole
Official Republican policy over the past eight years has been to delegitimize the presidency of Barack Obama, and it looks as if the GOP is prepared to follow the same strategy in a Hillary Clinton administration.
The examples of the Obama delegitimacy campaign are many: The dozens of attempts to overturn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; the Trump-led campaign to suggest Obama was not born in the United States; the outrageous letter GOP senators sent directly to Iranian leaders; the arrangement of a speech by a foreign head of government without White House participation; the historic refusal even to consider the President's Supreme Court nominee; and the shutting down of the government in 2013, which cost the United States about $24 billion.
We can see the development of the same obstreperous approach even before all votes are cast: Let's start with the crazy Trump assertion that the Clinton campaign is somehow colluding with the news media and state election officials (who nationwide are overwhelmingly Republican) to rig the election. To be sure, Trump's major reasons for making this absurd claim are to justify his loss to his large but extremely fragile ego, to continue his code-word campaign against minorities, and to distract the media and public from the Republican's long-term campaign to suppress the votes of minorities and the young. But one ramification of his mendacious screeds about election rigging is to delegitimize the election, and by implication, Hillary's presidency. Recent stories in the news media suggest that many are falling for Trump's accusations.
But Trump is not alone in planting seeds of doubt about the legitimacy of a Hillary presidency. More than 50 House Republicans have urged the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether Clinton Foundation donors had unusual access to Hillary Clinton while she served as Secretary of State. GOP Congressperson Jason Chavetz, who recently became the poster boy for flip-flopping because of his off-again, on-again support of Trumpty-Dumpty, promises an investigation of Clinton's term as Secretary of State lasting two years if he maintains his position as chair of the House Oversight Committee. Tom Filton, current president of the ultra-right Judicial Watch, has coined the expression "preemptive impeachment" to describe his plans for a Republican Congress.
It's not just a GOP-dominated House of Representatives that will try to delegitimize Hillary's presidency. GOP Senators Ted Cruz, John McCain and Pat Toomey have all explicitly promised to block any and all Supreme Court nominations that Hillary might make. With three justices over the age of 75, we could be down to five Supreme Court if the Republicans make good on this threat.
To whom will pledging to obstruct the operation of government for another four years appeal? Those who think banning all abortions is the most important issue. Ultra-rich folk who are so selfish that they want to minimize their taxes, even if it means destroying public education and letting our roads and bridges continue to crumble. Large industrial concerns that will suffer if we get serious about fighting global warming and don't care that the pursuit of clean energy and environmentally friendly business practices will give the economy a large boost. Then there are the racists and those who in their hearts think that women are inferior. Sounds like a rather large basket of deplorables to me.
But they do not represent a majority of Americans, and they don't even represent all of the Republican Party. A majority of Americans understand that man-made global warming (I hate the euphemistic "climate change") is happening. Most want to raise the minimum wage, make college more affordable and invest more in our decaying infrastructure. Most Americans, especially among the young, believe in an open, pluralistic society.
Perhaps most significantly, most Americans are tired of Washington's gridlock and the endless political sniping that has dominated 16 or the last 24 years of American government, that is, the years when Democrats held the White House. Because of news media conflation, many Americans have faulted both sides of the aisle for this ugly political bickering, but the unfolding of the 2016 election cycle has made it obvious that in fact, the Republicans and the Republicans alone are responsible for gridlock by their failure to accept the results of elections.
There is only one way to give Hillary Clinton a chance to fulfill the vision for which an unprecedented landside of Americans will likely vote on November 8. The American people must also give Democrats a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. With a majority of both houses, Hillary can get a lot accomplished from the most progressive platform in American history by a major party. She can make college affordable, raise the minimum wage, invest in infrastructure, alternative fuels and public education and even raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy. Without a majority on both houses, her presidency will face the constant stonewalling of Republicans and her administration is forced will be forced to wallow in investigation after investigation.
That's why in this election, everyone who wants to end governmental gridlock—Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians and Greens—must vote a straight-line Democratic ticket, at least for national and state-wide offices. Only racists, the ultra-wealthy and anti-woman extremists have anything to gain from a divided government. Moreover, a historic defeat may enable sensible, unhypocritical Republicans who believe in abiding by election results, such as Jeff Flake, Evan McMillan, John Kasich and Meg Whitman, to take control of the Republican Party.


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Upon initial examination of Luminita's paintings we are first drawn to her use of materials and her skill in execution. We should also look further to understand the person who has created this art. In conversation with the artist, we discover her response to the natural environment and the experience of living. Beyond the surface these paintings show us the path of a true artist, one who participates in the concept: Life is art!
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EPA: Lots left to do on fracking study
by Billy Ball
If you enjoy reading instruction manuals, chances are Friday's webinar report on a long-awaited fracking study from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was a hoot.
EPA scientist Jeanne Briskin, who is helping to lead the study, explained the multi-pronged approach the agency is taking to tackle fracking, which could begin permitting in North Carolina as soon as 2014. Perhaps not coincidentally, that's when the EPA expects to issue its draft report on the environmental impacts of the controversial drilling method.
The EPA study is expected to focus on fracking's effect on groundwater, water supply and wastewater treatment. All are key issues considering the widespread reports blaming fracking for water pollution in U.S. states that already allow the drilling.
Briskin said EPA research projects include analysis of fracking chemicals (dutifully listed on FracFocus' online registry of chemicals), spills, water-use scenarios and wastewater treatment. Work is also underway to develop methods for identifying the source of water contamination, vital if environmentalists are to concretely link the drilling to pollution reports.
EPA case studies of drinking water impacts are ongoing in fracking states, such as Colorado, North Dakota, Texas and Pennsylvania, Briskin said.
Additionally, EPA officials are planning five "technical roundtables" on fracking in 2013, starting with a Feb. 25 session on analytical chemical methods in the Triangle, according to Briskin. In April, expect roundtables on well operations and wastewater treatment, followed by meets on water acquisition and case studies in June.
After the release of its 2014 draft report, there will be a period for a science peer review, after which the agency will issue its final report, Briskin said.
In the meantime, the Indy will keep tabs on the N.C. Mining and Energy Commission, the group charged with readying fracking regulations. The group next meets Jan. 24-25.
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Hope you're all having a fantastic early spring 🙂 The weather's been so amazing where we are (yup, for Raincouver, too) and I've been walking to and from school for the past few days. I've been noticing WAY more concentration and school and a more positive outlook on days that I walk to school – it's amazing what a little exercise can do to you mentally!
Pancakes are up next! These beautiful little guys were made with the norm, spelt flour, a bit of baking soda, cinnamon, flax, and an egg. 🙂 Oh, and yogurt and a mashed banana for moistness. This plate was devoured!
We had roasted sweet potatoes (I seriously pop these like candy – they're better than Jolly Ranchers)!
A huge piece of fried trout and some roasted broccoli.
I think the roasted sweet potatoes and broccoli were my favourite parts. I think anything roasted tastes 10x better!
Probably not the most photogenic dinner, but I love having scrambled eggs with vegetables and cheese for dinner.
Spinach, zucchini, mushrooms, onions, and scallions topped with white cheddar and pepper. Really yummy and fast for those later dinners.
More pancakes. You know how much I love these guys!
Last but not least, my favourite dinner EVER! Okay, maybe my favourite dinner last week.
Check out all of those colours and textures! I am in LOVE!
Fried tilapia, roasted broccoli, roasted potatoes, and Mediterranean salad with roasted chickpeas and feta cheese.
And eggplant parmesan that I made! We dipped eggplant "coins" in flour, then beaten egg, and finally breadcrumbs. They were pan-fried and then topped with marinara sauce and cheddar cheese, then broiled. I had three of these yummy little guys! I think next time we'll cut them a bit thinner so they'll cook easier.


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Man Up (2014) - Review
by SEK - January 02, 2019
Synopsis: Nancy is traveling across London to toast another ten years of her parents' magical marriage. She runs into Jack who mistakes her for his blind date. Nancy decides to go with it and starts the most chaotic journey of her life.
Right Time, Right Place, Wrong Date.
The Brits really know how to make romantic comedies. Nancy (Lake Bell) is traveling to her parents 40th wedding anniversary party where she's set to make a speech (which she has been struggling with). Along the way she meets a woman, Jessica (Ophelia Lovibond), who feels Nancy could use some changes in her life and leaves her a self-help book called 'Six Billion People and You' while Nancy is sleeping.
Nancy wakes up to find the book with a chapter marked titled 'Your Negative Thoughts are Ruining Your Life (And Everyone Else's...)' and annoyed, she sets off the train after Jessica to confront her. Losing her in the crowd, Nancy is then approached by Jack (Simon Pegg), who is carrying the same book and under the impression that Nancy is Jessica, his blind date. Rather than correct him, Nancy opts to let him believe the lie as she seems charmed by him and his quoting of Silence of the Lambs, one of her favorite movies.
The two embark on a rather eventful night that continues on even after a creepy ex-classmate of Nancy's exposes the mistaken identity. I feel like this is where the movie really took off, with both Nancy and Jack calling each other out on their respective bullshit (Nancy is a cynic when it comes to romance, Jack is a soon-to-be-divorced man who thinks dating a 24-year-old will somehow validate him after his wife's affair...) while being seemingly unable, or unwilling, to part ways.
Lake Bell is a relatable heroine (um, flossing with her hair? genius!), who struggles to put herself out there and has to create a list of the things she wants to accomplish in her life (stronger thighs, for example), and Simon Pegg is once again witty and charming (can he please have more leading man roles?!) while still being sympathetic. They have chemistry, which makes this movie work, despite some of the silliness. The movie is so fun and endearing that it's easy to forgive the rom-com clichéd ending (hint; there's a lot of running...).
I docked it half a star for letting creeper Sean (Rory Kinnear) and his disturbingly stalkerish behavior get off scot-free.
Starring: Simon Pegg, Lake Bell, Ophelia Lovibond, Olivia Williams
Directed by: Ben Palmer
Watched: 09.24.2018
- Lake Bell spoke with her British accent even when she wasn't filming. The crew had no idea she was American until the end of filming when she thanked them all.
- Simon and Lake spent about a week perfecting their dance scenes at Rosita's.
- The story was based on screenwriter Tess Morris's real-life encounter at London Waterloo Station, where a man approached her and asked if she was his blind date. She wondered what would have happened if she had said yes.
Notable Song: Here I Go Again by Whitesnake
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Cousins Royce Moore and Brock Farias have taken their lifelong dialogue around sports and life to the podcasting world. The Moore BS Podcast is their medium and when Royce, a friend of mine for many years, asked to do a mashup between our shows I couldn't wait to talk about sports, life, faith and all in between. They didn't disappoint!
Friend and fellow podcaster Brandon Handley accepts the invite to come to the table and have a discussion around one of the oldest and most important topics in the history of man: Fatherhood. His own personal journey has taken his commitment to it beyond the walls of his own home and into a successful business and podcast focused on helping his fellow man become a better father.
Friend and fellow Podcaster Alex Stein, host of the Tell Me Who You Are Podcast, accepts Sean McCoy's invitation to Come to the Table to talk about interacting with people. It is one of the most basic aspects of life but dealing with people can be one of the most difficult things we encounter…especially with those who are different. However, with patience, kindness and a will to get past our insecurities we most often find out we have more in common with people than things we do not.


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Former Cargill director to join company's leadership team
Gert-jan (G.J.) van den Akker, a former Cargill executive and managing director, will become a member of the Cargill Leadership Team.
MINNEAPOLIS – Gert-jan (G.J.) van den Akker, a former Cargill executive and managing director, will become a member of the Cargill Leadership Team, effective Dec. 1. The global executive group is in charge of Cargill's strategic direction and organizational priorities. Mr. van den Akker had been senior head of global relations at Louis Dreyfuss, a privately-owned food and agriculture company.
"G.J.'s global perspective, background in trading and risk management, and leadership philosophy will play an important role in driving Cargill's direction and goals," said David MacLennan, chairman and chief executive officer for Minneapolis-based Cargill.
Mr. van den Akker, a Dutch national, joined Cargill's grain and oilseeds business in The Netherlands in 1987 as a management trainee. He took on assignments that led to roles with palm oil byproducts in Kuala Lumpur, domestic grain markets in Tokyo, and corn and soybeans in Geneva.
Mr. van den Akker in 1994 joined Cargill's Ocean Transportation business, where he served as managing director from 2007-11. Then he took a senior business leadership role for what is now Cargill Energy, Transportation & Metals, and he also was a member of the Cargill Risk Committee. Mr. van den Akker left Cargill for Louis Dreyfus in 2013.
Cargill's leadership team now has six members: Mr. van den Akker, Mr. MacLennan, vice-chairman Paul Conway, vice-chairman and chief risk officer Emery Koenig, executive vice-president and chief financial officer Marcel Smits, and senior vice-president Todd Hall.
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