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Jewish Rights to Israel (part 1): Declaration of Independence
Posted on September 20, 2018 September 25, 2018 by Forest Rain
Once Jewish rights to Israel were obvious. Even those who had no connection or sympathy to Zionism knew where Jews came from, about Jewish connection to the Holy Land. To top it off, Jew haters often demanded Jews "go home to Palestine." Then everyone knew that Palestine was just another name for Zion.
Now, somehow, Jewish rights to Israel are not so obvious. Interestingly, both antisemites and modern liberal Jews find themselves asking the same questions (albeit for different reasons): Is it legitimate to found and maintain a State specifically for the Jewish People?
The antisemite denies the legitimacy of the Jewish State out of hatred for the existence of the Jewish People. Jewish sovereignty is abhorrent because Jewish existence is abhorrent.
The liberal Jew, on the other hand, is taking into consideration the questions of pluralism, equality and an innate aversion to anything that could remotely be considered racism. In a time when political movements are calling for the abolition of borders and nationalism is equated with extremism it can seem difficult to defend the idea of a State for a single people.
Added to this is the additional complexity of the Arab population both within and without Israel, many of whom object to the existence of the Jewish State in its entirety while others say that their objections are about specific laws and policies of the Jewish State.
Many of us find ourselves at a loss to explain Jewish rights to the Jewish land to the modern progressive, post-religion, low information (but loudly opinionated) person. My friend Ryan Bellerose has gone to great lengths to teach us effective terminology, explaining the concept of indigeneity and how this differs from people of longstanding presence in a land. Referencing the Bible, while it being a very powerful motivator to the religious person, is counterproductive in dialogue with the non or anti-religious.
Indigenous status is a whole different ballgame.
Surprisingly (or maybe not so surprisingly), Israel's Declaration of Independence spells out Jewish rights to the land of Israel in exactly the format Ryan suggests. There is no "Because God said so" while indigeneity is placed above all other explanations. It also addresses the difference between the indigenous people and the inhabitants who are not indigenous, while declaring that in the Jewish State all individuals will have the same, equal rights. This is the precursor to the recently passed Nation State Law which I will address in a separate article (Jewish Rights to Israel: Part 2).
As part of my work at the Israel Forever Foundation I did something few of us bother to do – I read the most basic document regarding the foundation of the Jewish State – the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel. It fascinated me to discover that, although the document was written before the questions of this time arose, it addresses them clearly and concisely, spelling out the reasons for the legitimacy of the Jewish Nation State.
Israel's Declaration of Independence
"The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books."
In Hebrew there is no word for indigenous however, the description that opens the Declaration of Independence is the definition of indigeneity: the land in which a nation was born, the place where that nation first formed their culture, built spiritual, cultural and political institutions.
Israel is the land in which the Jewish people were sovereign and the place from which, as a Nation, the Jewish People influenced the world (through the ideas laid out in the Bible).
Indigeneity is the strongest claim any People can have to any specific land: this specific piece of land and no other is the ancestral homeland of my People. While lacking the word for indigenous in Hebrew it was clear that the writers of Israel's Declaration of Independence had clear understanding of the meaning and the power of this concept.
"After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom."
This second paragraph reinforces the first with the explanation that the Jewish People were forcibly removed from their ancestral homeland and did not leave or abandon the land from their own free will. Despite centuries of exile, the Jewish People never gave up the hope to return and regain sovereignty in their ancestral homeland. This is an extraordinary and unparalleled testament to the deep connection of a People to the land.
"Impelled by this historic and traditional attachment, Jews strove in every successive generation to re-establish themselves in their ancient homeland. In recent decades they returned in their masses. Pioneers, defiant returnees, and defenders, they made deserts bloom, revived the Hebrew language, built villages and towns, and created a thriving community controlling its own economy and culture, loving peace but knowing how to defend itself, bringing the blessings of progress to all the country's inhabitants, and aspiring towards independent nationhood."
This paragraph takes Jewish hope to the realm of practicality: Impelled by this historic and traditional attachment, impelled by Jewish history in the land and the connection that was continued in exile through hope and prayer, Jews strove in every successive generation to re-establish themselves in their ancient homeland. Jews not only retained esoteric hope but took action, in every generation, to re-establish themselves in their ancient homeland. In recent decades (prior to the Declaration of Independence) Jews returned in their masses. Following this is a description mirroring the first paragraph of the document and elaborating the revival of the Jewish People in their indigenous land – reviving the language in which their original culture was articulated, building thriving communities, taking custodianship of the land (making the desert bloom), controlling their own economy and culture.
Here, for the first time, the document refers to "all the country's inhabitants" – in other words, the Jews and non-Jews (Arabs). This was written after the Arab massacres of their Jewish neighbors:
In 1920 a number of settlements in the Galilee were attacked (among them Tel Hai where Trumpeldor and seven others were murdered) and in Jerusalem. Some 30 Jews were murdered and hundreds injured.
In 1921 Jews were attacked in Tel Aviv, Petach Tikva and Mikveh Yisrael and other communities, dozens were murdered and many more injured.
In August of 1929 Jews in Jerusalem were attacked and entire neighborhoods were destroyed. In Hebron 69 Jews were massacred, many others were severely injured and the community was wiped out. Jews were also attacked in Haifa, Tel Aviv, Gaza, Ramleh, Akko, Beit Shean and more.
The great Arab revolt of 1936-1939 in which 630 Jews were murdered and some 2000 were injured. At first, Jews hoped that if they kept their heads down, the violence would subside. Then Orde Wingate decided to help the Jews, teaching them self-defense tactics which changed the balance of power (and have since become fundamental elements of the IDF's doctrine).
It is within this context that the Declaration of Independence explains that the Jewish community while, loving peace knows how to defend itself and will bring the blessings of progress to all the country's inhabitants.
"In the year 5657 (1897), at the summons of the spiritual father of the Jewish State, Theodore Herzl, the First Zionist Congress convened and proclaimed the right of the Jewish people to national rebirth in its own country.
This right was recognized in the Balfour Declaration of the 2nd November 1917, and re-affirmed in the Mandate of the League of Nations which, in particular, gave international sanction to the historic connection between the Jewish people and Eretz-Israel and to the right of the Jewish people to rebuild its National Home."
Here the document moves from the explanation of indigenous rights to the discussion of Jewish rights under international law – from the first Zionist Congress to the Balfour Declaration, it's reaffirmation by the League of Nations which recognized the historic connection between the Jewish people and Eretz-Israel and to the right of the Jewish people to rebuild its National Home.
"The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people – the massacre of millions of Jews in Europe – was another clear demonstration of the urgency of solving the problem of its homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State, which would open the gates of the homeland wide to every Jew and confer upon the Jewish people the status of a fully privileged member of the community of nations."
The Holocaust as an example, not a reason – in this paragraph the Declaration mentions the Holocaust, explaining that this is a clear demonstration of the need to solve the problem of homelessness by re-establishing in Eretz-Israel the Jewish State. It is important to note that the Holocaust is not brought as a reason or justification for the establishment of Israel but as an example of what can happen when the Jewish People have no Israel and are not seen by the community of nations as equal and with full privileges.
Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust in Europe, as well as Jews from other parts of the world, continued to migrate to Eretz-Israel, undaunted by difficulties, restrictions and dangers, and never ceased to assert their right to a life of dignity, freedom and honest toil in their national homeland.
Here too as an example – also after the Holocaust, survivors and other Jews continued to make aliyah undaunted by difficulties and never ceased to assert their right to a life of dignity, freedom and honest toil in their national homeland. It was not because of the Holocaust survivors that the State of Israel was established but they, whose dignity had been stripped from them, joined those already struggling to establish a life of Jewish freedom and were followed by additional Jews who all came together in their national homeland.
"In the Second World War, the Jewish community of this country contributed its full share to the struggle of the freedom- and peace-loving nations against the forces of Nazi wickedness and, by the blood of its soldiers and its war effort, gained the right to be reckoned among the peoples who founded the United Nations."
This paragraph is an interesting assertion of rights of Israel's Jewish community, not because they are freely given (as one might expect) but as something earned due to behaving like other peace-loving nations and through the blood of its soldiers.
"On the 29th November 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable."
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel but this was not something the nations swooped in and did for the Jewish People; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution – which they did. Was the statement of legal fact, that the recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable, a premonition of future questions regarding the legitimacy of the Jewish State?
"This right is the natural right of the Jewish people to be masters of their own fate, like all other nations, in their own sovereign State."
The right to be master of your own fate is a natural right. The Jewish People, like all other nations, have the right to their own sovereign State.
Accordingly we, members of the People's Council, representatives of the Jewish Community of Eretz-Israel and of the Zionist Movement, are here assembled on the day of the termination of the British Mandate over Eretz-Israel and, by virtue of our natural and historic right and on the strength of the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.
In accordance with all the reasons given above, by virtue of our natural and historic right and on the strength of the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, on the termination of the British Mandate over Eretz Israel the representatives of the Jewish Community of Israel (not the Jewish world community) and of the Zionist Movement (the National Movement for Jewish self-determination) declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel. This was an important determination that the Jewish historic name of the land would be the name by which the new State would be called.
"We declare that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948, the People's Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People's Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State, to be called "Israel."
The State of Israel will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
Here the document declares the State of Israel open to immigration of all Jews, the basis for what is now called the "Law of Return".
While the document clearly discusses Jewish rights, it is important that here, we see for the second time, mention of "all inhabitants." The addition of these two little words explains a crucial concept – the Jewish People are recognized as indigenous and have the rights of an indigenous people returning to their ancestral homeland. The other inhabitants, while not indigenous, are recognized as having rights do to their residence within the land and thus, in accordance with the visions of the prophets of Israel who described what the Jewish State needs to look like and in accordance to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations the State of Israel will provide for the benefit of all, not just the Jews but for Jews and Arabs alike: the development of the country, freedom, justice and peace, complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions.
These rights were later established in Israeli law but it is important to note that those were a realization of this declaration which was based on the ancient visions of what a Jewish State needs to be.
"The State of Israel is prepared to cooperate with the agencies and representatives of the United Nations in implementing the resolution of the General Assembly of the 29th November 1947, and will take steps to bring about the economic union of the whole of Eretz-Israel.
We appeal to the United Nations to assist the Jewish people in the building-up of its State and to receive the State of Israel into the community of nations."
The declaration expresses the willingness of the new State to cooperate with international bodies and requests that the United Nations assist the Jewish People and receive the State of Israel into the community of nations.
"We appeal – in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months – to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions."
Here, for the first time, the Arab inhabitants of Israel are addressed directly, in the context of the previous pogroms against the Jews of Israel and the winds of war that were recognized by the declarers – with the request to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.
"We extend our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighborliness and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East."
The declaration does not stop with the Arab inhabitants of Israel but extends a hand of peace to all neighboring Arab countries and an offer of collaboration – that they assist with the settling Jews in the sovereign Jewish State (a request that includes the Jews living at the time in Arab lands) and a promise that the State of Israel will do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East.
"We appeal to the Jewish people throughout the Diaspora to rally round the Jews of Eretz-Israel in the tasks of immigration and upbuilding and to stand by them in the great struggle for the realization of the age-old dream – the redemption of Israel."
The last request is to Jews around the world to assist with the tasks of immigration and upbuilding and stand by the Jews of Israel in the great struggle for the realization of the age-old dream – the redemption of Israel.
Placing our trust in the Almighty [the first and only time God is mentioned in the document], we affix our signatures to this proclamation at this session of the provisional Council of State, on the soil of the Homeland, in the city of Tel-Aviv, on this Sabbath eve, the 5th day of Iyar, 5708 (14th May, 1948).
Daniel Auster Mordekhai Bentov Yitzchak Ben Zvi Eliyahu Berligne Fritz Bernstein Rabbi Wolf Gold Meir Grabovsky Yitzchak Gruenbaum Dr. Abraham Granovsky Eliyahu Dobkin Meir Wilner-Kovner Zerach Wahrhaftig Herzl Vardi Rachel Cohen Rabbi Kalman Kahana Saadia Kobashi Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Levin Meir David Loewenstein Zvi Luria Golda Myerson Nachum Nir Zvi Segal Rabbi Yehuda Leib Hacohen Fishman David Zvi Pinkas Aharon Zisling Moshe Kolodny Eliezer Kaplan Abraham Katznelson Felix Rosenblueth David Remez Berl Repetur Mordekhai Shattner Ben Zion Sternberg Bekhor Shitreet Moshe Shapira Moshe Shertok
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Rita Kardon says:
Wish I could tattoo this on my forehead, so that all who see me WOULD read, and digest it.
Brilliantly written and offered to all people.
Forest Rain says:
We all need to put this on the wall of every home, every school so our kids will unavoidably know this


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Mega.nz and Openload Blocked in Brazil Following Court Order
October 1, 2019 by Andy Maxwell
File-hosting giant Mega.nz has been blocked by some ISPs in Brazil following a ruling from the São Paulo Court of Justice. The New Zealand-based platform believes that the Court has been misled but it's not the only site affected. Several other domains are listed by the Court, including one apparently operated by Openload, one of the world's biggest cyberlockers.
Founded in 2013, Mega quickly grew to become one of the world's dominant file-hosting and sharing platforms.
Launched by Kim Dotcom, who later appeared to distance himself from the site, Mega was promoted as a privacy solution, a place where files could be kept safe from prying eyes. However, in common with file-hosting sites of all kinds, some people use it to store copyrighted content, with large volumes being offered publicly.
This has created friction between Mega and some rightsholders, despite the former insisting that it does all it can within the law to respond to claims. Nevertheless, some rightsholders prefer the strong-arm approach.
During yesterday, reports from Brazil indicated that Mega had become inaccessible via some ISPs. The problem was spotted at Mega too, which tweeted to one ISP, Vivo, to sort out the issue.
"Hello @vivobr," Mega wrote in Portuguese. "We are receiving reports from our users that Vivo is blocking https://mega.nz through a DNS block. Please rectify this as soon as possible! You are interfering with your customers' Internet."
Soon after, however, it became clear that Vivo and indeed additional ISPs weren't in a position to do anything about the problem.
According to legal resource JusBrasil, there was a court process on September 12, 2019, which ordered four Internet service providers – Claro Brasil, Vivo-Telefonica, Oi and Algar Telecom – to prevent their subscribers from accessing 10 domains, including Mega.nz.
The most recognizable of the other nine domains is oload.tv, which appears to be a domain operated by file-hosting giant Openload. Last December, Vivo told a local publication that it had been forced to block Openload in Brazil following an earlier court decision but declined to provide additional details.
The rest of the list consists of Alfastream.cc, which doesn't present itself as a regular hosting service but has URLs listed online which indicate content is available on the platform. Similarly, Akugyash.com only displays a brief message but elsewhere on the web is described as a video balancer.
Verystream.net is helpful in that it describes its function on its homepage as the CDN (Content Delivery Network) used by file-hosting site Verystream.com. Fembed.net and Ruvid.nl both point to the same file-hosting service with the former's branding, with ClipWatching.com and VideoShare.club acting as file-storage sites.
The final and most strange domain on the list is centrelinguistique.com, which appears to be a French language school, which doesn't fit the file-storage theme of the other domains in any way.
According to Brazil's Technoblog, the details of the blocking case are being kept secret, which does nothing to unravel the language school mystery. However, it does claim to have identified ABTA – the Brazilian Association of Subscription Television – as the plaintiff in the matter.
Documents that are publicly available suggest that this is probably an expansion of an earlier ruling, with a note that the plaintiff requested an "extension" of an earlier action due to the "distributor and facilitator websites" adopting "new techniques to circumvent the blockages made by the providers."
In any event, the operators of Mega feel that its domain has been blocked inappropriately.
"With respect to the block in Brazil, we respectfully believe that the order is wrong and that the Court has been misled," the company wrote in Portuguese this morning.
"MEGA has excellent compliance. We are working on a solution. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience!"
Whether that solution is legal or technical in nature isn't yet clear. However, there are reports that the targeted ISPs are employing different blocking measures, with some targeting IP addresses (which can be bypassed using a VPN) and others meddling with DNS (which can be circumvented by using an alternative, such as OpenDNS).
There's no mention of the action on the website of the Brazilian Association of Subscription Television but they do have a selection of ominous anti-piracy videos, one of which is embedded below.
oload.tv
Big Brother: TV Channel Staff Told to Report Password Sharers For Piracy
January 24, 2023, 20:41 by Andy Maxwell
Pirate IPTV: Fines For Suppliers & Users as Govt. Plans Pre-Approval System
November 13, 2022, 20:15 by Andy Maxwell
Brazil Repurposes Seized Pirate Streaming Boxes for Schools and Hospitals
August 22, 2022, 10:51 by Ernesto Van der Sar

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The survival genre is one that, by its very nature, doesn't appeal to a very wide crowd, owing to its demanding mechanical nature, but there are, of course, a few survival titles out there that transcend that. Facepunch Studios' long-running game Rust is definitely one of those, and the developer/publisher recently announced that it's crossed a major landmark.
In an update published on Steam, Facepunch Studios announced that Rust has sold over 12.4 million copies worldwide since launch- to be precise, it's sold 12,481,079 copies. All of its DLC packs combined have sold over 1.1 million units, and currently, the game boasts an all-time peak concurrent player count on Steam of an impressive 267,211 players.
Rust first launched into early access in 2013. After significant development changes and improvements over the next few years, it launched in full, exclusively for PC, in 2018. In May of last year, Facepunch Studios also released Rust: Console Edition for PS4 and Xbox One, with development support from Double Eleven. Read our review for the console version through here.
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2014 Contenders: If You Want to See a Whale, by Julie Fogliano
Every year, a picture book or two gets bandied about in the (online, publicly visible) Newbery discussions. Last year gave us Each Kindness and Step Gently Out. This year, we've had Africa Is My Home (assuming you take it as a picture book, rather than a heavily-illustrated work of short fiction); the other title that I've seen crop up in the most discussions is probably If You Want to See a Whale.
In a way, it's academic exercise, discussing these picture books. No "traditional" picture book has ever won the Newbery (though that's an assertion that assumes you agree with me on how to categorize A Visit to William Blake's Inn [1982 winner], which I think of as an illustrated collection of poetry rather than a picture book, and which is filed in the 811s in our local library system, but which did win a Caldecott Honor). The Honors list isn't much better -- aside from another poetry book, Dark Emperor (2011 Honor), the only picture books I can find are Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats (1929 Honor) and The ABC Bunny (1934 Honor), from the pre-Caldecott days. (If you can think of one I missed, leave a comment!)
And yet I feel like it's an important discussion to continue having. Even without the iconic illustrations, the texts of Goodnight Moon and Where the Wild Things Are and Horton Hears a Who are, I would argue, key parts of American children's literature. It's very hard to talk about picture books without considering the illustrations -- it feels kind of like trying to evaluate a symphony without ever mentioning the string section -- but the ones that fall within the Newbery range (which is the overwhelming majority of them) deserve our attention nonetheless.
With all that said, it seems to me that the text of If You Want to See a Whale does several things extremely well, and a few things maybe not as well. The sound of the book when read aloud is fantastic -- Julie Fogliano has a keen ear for alliteration and assonance, and lines such as the ones in which she describes clouds "in the sky that's spread out, side to side" are a joy just to say. The ending of the book in the text is also beautifully ambiguous, fading out on the lines "and wait... / and wait... / and wait..." The last of illustrator Erin E. Stead's pictures shows the whale quest coming to a successful end, but it does so wordlessly -- although she's given us a tidy ending, Fogliano as author has declined to do so.
The main thing that bothered me -- and maybe it's just from sitting through too many Creative Writing workshops back in college -- was the book's unwillingness to fully commit to its central conceit. I know that the book isn't really about whale-watching at all, but a metaphor is best when it works on both the literal and figurative levels. A window isn't helpful for watching for whales (or at least, nowhere near as helpful as being outside), and if you're on a beach or in a boat, roses and bugs aren't likely distractions.
This doesn't mean that If You Want to See a Whale isn't a delight, but I do think it means that it's not Newbery material. When Rachael reviewed Each Kindness last year, she talked about the intense difficulty of writing a short text. One flawed line in a 300-page novel might pass by unnoticed; the same isn't true of a poem of 52 lines, several of which are only two or three words long. Surviving the scrutiny that such a short text invites is an incredibly high bar, and I'm unconvinced that Whale clears it.
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Labels: 2014 Contenders, Picture Books, Poetry
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson is a picture book that won an Honor in 2006. And the text is amazing.
Sam Eddington November 22, 2013 at 3:12 PM
Ah, good catch!
It's interesting to me that our library here seems to have had a hard time deciding exactly what to do with that one, since they have one copy shelved in Easy, but another one shelved in J Fic. I wonder if that's just because of the Newbery honor, or if it's because they thought there was something about the book itself that would merit that kind of cataloging.
Mrs. Williams November 22, 2013 at 6:16 PM
Like Jake and Me - Honor 1984. One of my favorites actually.
Sam Eddington November 26, 2013 at 7:48 AM
Another good catch!
Mark November 22, 2013 at 10:30 PM
The thing that keeps this discussion so important to me is, as I said over at Heavy Medal the other day, the clear and explicit instructions of the Newbery Criteria to consider books for 0-year-olds and up. How about BUT NOT THE HIPPOPOTAMUS over DICEY'S SONG in 1983? There are some wonderful board books out there with amazing text that no one's looking at.
Eric Carpenter December 12, 2013 at 7:31 AM
Steig's Doctor DeSoto received a Newbery Honor.
One has to remember that before the 1980 selection committees the Newbery Committee and Caldecott Committee were composed of the same members which may have something to do with the historic lack of picture books with Newbery medals.
This single committee thing makes the case of the Frog and Toad awards particularly interesting. The 1971 committee presumably read Frog and Toad are Friends and awarded it a caldecott honor for its illustration and two years later the 1973 committee looked at Frog and Toad Together and gave it a newbery honor but didn't recognize its illustrations.
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The Conceit of Scientologists
July 25, 2021 By Mike Rinder 24 Comments
Another STAND League fool offers his twisted take on how scientology is maligned in the press.
STAND League should adopt a new motto for themselves, using the wisdom and words of the Bard himself: Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Jim Kalergis has been one of the big FSM's in the LA area for decades. His livelihood depends on people believing that scientology is good.
This guy actually thinks scientologists re in a position to complain about how people don't trust them media? Wonder what a Gallup Poll would say about the public "trust" in scientology? I would be certain it would be 0%.
But typical of their pretzel logic, they take a supposed to survey saying people don't trust the media and twist this into a conclusion "therefore what the media says about scientology is untrue." And the proof? "My scientology is a force for good." Yep, sure it is. Good for your bank account Jim as suckers are fleeced and you get your commission checks.
This "reasoning" is like a criminal who has committed a crime saying "But a survey said people don't trust prosecutors, so they must be lying about me and I should be set free." Talk about apples and oranges Jim.
Here is the first part of his sound and fury, signifying nothing… The rest is just him quoting Thomas Jefferson as some sort of proof that scientology is being maligned. You don't need to leave much to the imagination to wonder what Thomas Jefferson would have said about scientology had he been around today. This is just one thing Jefferson said about Christianity: "Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth." It's convenient to quote Jefferson ("a man I have enormous respect for") about how bad the media is and ignore his views on religion. Offering up Thomas Jefferson as if he would be a champion of scientology is a little short-sighted. Seems the Shakespeare quote was on the money: this guy IS an idiot.
The conceit of the idiot who just knows he is right, because his Founder told him so, is something to behold.
Here is Jim in all his sound and fury:
According to a recent Gallup Poll, mistrust of news and information sources is at an all-time high. In the U.S., only 9 percent of those surveyed have a "great deal" of trust in mass media. Thirty-three percent have "none at all."
I lost faith in the veracity of mass media and the evening news many years ago, when it became apparent to me that the Scientology they were covering was some "other" Scientology, not the real-world one I knew so well.
Mass media outlets have continued to create the "other" Scientology. The reality gap between it and my Scientology has grown to the point it's now a chasm as wide and as deep as the Grand Canyon.
My Scientology is a timely force for good. I'm certain of that, because I've lived it for over 50 years, to my great benefit. The media version is an ill-intended mishmash of slander and misrepresentations. Apples and oranges is an understatement. More like apples and hemlock.
It pains me that people whose lives could be bettered using real-world Scientology are being so horribly misinformed. Perhaps the deception is money-motivated. Good news gets fewer clicks and views than sensationalism and slander. Or perhaps there's a more sinister reason for the overt deception.
So it's not surprising another Gallup Poll found that only 28 percent of those surveyed considered journalists to have "high" or "very high" "honesty and ethical standards." Apparently, it's not just Scientologists who've noticed the current state of ethics in journalism.
Here's what a man I have enormous respect for wrote on the subject:
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day."
If you agree with the above, you're in good company. Those words were penned by Thomas Jefferson in an 1807 letter to newspaper editor John Norvell. Jefferson's words are as true today as they were in his day. It's a mistake to blindly accept what's being presented via newspapers or mass media at face value. We can only know the extent of misinformation in media content if we've been in a position to compare our direct knowledge of the facts to their "truth."
Social media is even less trustworthy. Case in point: last year, as an experiment, I followed up on Facebook memes featuring quotes by our Founding Fathers that appeared to support then-current political candidates or agendas. Out of the 27 memes I researched, 26 were either entirely false, misattributed or grossly out of context. Yet, social media users gleefully hit the "like" button and shared them with their fellows.
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GL says
$camologists live in a Möbius strip universe.
georgemwhite says
I was driven insane by Scientology in 1988 after the completion of OT VIII on the Freewinds. The insanity was rooted in a belief after seventeen years that Hubbard and Scientology were correct. The absurdity of OT VIII and the display of no OT abilities, turned my mind into a split personality rooted in Buddhism at the time. When the recession hit, I lost my trucking business to bankruptcy as my clients fled. Prior to that I lost a $100,000 per year job due to the application of study tech to a problem. Scientology simply does not work. My Townhouse went into Foreclosure as well due to the recession. After a brief time in the street, I managed to make a few ties with new people. I was not declared until 2008 when I met a few Scientologists from Clearwater. Staff never pursed me because I was very angry and would take their heads off literally. When I read Miscavige's return to OT VII order I blew up totally at the Sand Castle. It was stupid 36 pages written by an idiot. I threw the cans against the wall, Pounded the walls furiously with my fists for 10 minutes. Then on the way out I overturned furniture and screamed at the auditor and staff. I told them "I am right on OT VIII; you are wrong". I had a split insane personality for at least a dozen years as I gradually recovered.
Dave Fagen says
I (and probably others) would be very interested to know more specific details about this experience of yours. Details, for example, about how exactly you tried to apply study tech to a problem, and how it caused you to lose your $100,000 job. And how, in as much detail as you can possibly come up with, how OT VIII turned your mind into a split personality rooted in Buddhism. And any possible details about how you recovered. And whatever else you can think of. It might take you a long time to write, and it might be long enough to be a book. But I would want to read it.
I can write another book now but I will just give you a few details.
After OT VIII on the Freewinds I returned to my job in Miami. I ignored people. I would go to meetings and answer questions with nonsense about misunderstoods. My head was full of space alien ideas. I made enemies by refusing to listen. It goes on and on.
They ganged up against me. The real kicker was an hour meeting with another director where I got hung up on "this" or "that" as a better word. I could not follow ideas. I suggested giving away our trucks. A mess in my mind.
Hubbard tried to hijack original Buddhism and he was totally wrong. When I was in the Army serving in Korea during the Vietnam war, I learned Buddhism straight from the monks in Thailand and Singapore. Original Buddhism was the opposite of Scientology. As the monks explained, there was a cult called the "Pudgalavadins" who formed 100 years after the Buddha's death. They had the primitive idea of the thetan.
They were not Buddhist and declined. I was perfectly ok studying Scientology for 17 years. When Hubbard claimed he was the connection to original Buddhism, he split my mind into an almost endless circle. My Hubbard was an idiot but I just finished OT VIII.
It split my mind in half.
Very interesting. Thanks. I'll look for the book when you're done with it.
Missed Withhold says
George: I am sad to read your story. Scientology has 65 years of proving to the World that doing Scientology is hazardous to your health, your financial well-being, your mental well-being, your physical and spiritual well-being.
Write to your State Representatives and request the FDA and Government force the cult of Scientology to put a BLACK BOX WARNING on all $cientology courses and auditing routing forms that states:
((((((WARNING))))))))
$cientology is a faux religion and a cult. $cientology and $cientologists including Mark "Marty" Rathbun extorted and bribed the United States Internal Revenue into granting it Tax Exempt Status in 1993 via unethical and immoral methods.
$cientology is a Criminal Organization that has destroyed thousands and thousands of people's lives. RUN AWAY!
The US Government is afraid of $cientology or is using $cientology as an experiment to see how GAS LIGHTING and brain washing methods works on people.
$cientology $ervices and $cientology Front Groups are not required to work under the laws of the land.
$cientology has its own justice system and in 65 plus years has NEVER GRANTED ANYONE JUSTICE.
Google: Luis Garcia, Debbie Cook.
$cientology uses Deceit, Manipulation, Fraud, Extortion, Bribery and Financial ruin, shattered families and lives are only a few of the side effects of Doing Scientology $ervices.
CAVEAT EMPTOR!! Buyer Beware. When entering any $cientology organization or affiliate, you are entering a mind fucking evil cult and your life is in danger.
geothemwhite says
Great idea. I will send this to Vern Buchanan, form Sarasota my rep.
Todd Cray says
Oh boy, where to start?
Yes, he is correct. The media "enjoys" a trust lower than Congress, for example. And yes, they deserve all the mistrust that they get. So how does that help scientology's case? Spoiler alert: It doesn't!
Even polarizing figures such as the last two presidents usually enjoy the support of part of the media most of the time. But Jim admits that scientology is receiving UNIVERSAL disapproval in what he thinks of as the monolithic "the media." Now THAT is unusual. This consensus in the media–an institution that thrives on disagreement–is only found when there really is nothing redeeming to say about a subject, such as the health effect of smoking (although Dr Hubbard was a lone dissenter), Harvey Weinstein (and perhaps soon, Danny Masterson) or the latest mass shooting. In every one of these cases the problem is not the media; it's clearly the subject matter!
But now that we've been educated about the unreliability and mendacity of the media, where to go from here? Lower our trust in the media? Probably a good idea, in any event. Yet we're supposed to take Hubbard's word–a man caught in more lies and scandal than even the top "9 percent of those surveyed"–and even revere his often debunked ideas as unalterable "scripture?" We should only trust a single "media" outlet, namely STAND, a "publication" that doesn't even hide its bias, whose entire raison d'etre is acting as an unflinching propaganda outlet for a single institution?
Yes, I get it: To a person, Jeffrey Dahmer's neighbors had no idea what he was up to. Sadly, they were wrong! Such is the value of "personal testimony" that "my Jeffrey" would never do such things. But it's safe to say that in time, they reviewed the evidence about their neighbor and revised their conclusions. (Thank you, press).
Maintaining the same naivete about "my scientology" doesn't come easily! THAT takes effort and a willful immersion in a bubble. Probably, it takes even more motivation than that: While Jim fails to disclose the financial conflict of interest underlying his "reporting" at least he lets it slip that scientology has worked out for him "to my great benefit." So he would be wise to consider his own words: "Perhaps the deception is money-motivated." Ain't no "perhaps" about that one!
mwesten says
Jim's reasoning:
Claim: "Some news/information sources are untrustworthy."
Illogic: "But not Gallup as this poll serves my improper premise."
Fallacy: Appeal to Authority, Appeal to Popularity
Claim: "Some news/information sources lie about Scientology."
Illogic: "I know this because my experience is different to what's reported."
Fallacy: Anecdotal fallacy, Psychologist's fallacy
Claim: "They lie because they're money motivated."
Illogic: "Good news gets fewer clicks."
Fallacy: Non Sequitur, Ipse Dixit, False Premise, Appeal to Motive
Claim: "Nothing can be believed which is seen in a newspaper."
Illogic: "Thomas Jefferson said so. He was awesome."
Fallacy: Appeal to Authority, Honour by Association
Claim: "One must have direct knowledge of something to know its truth."
Illogic: "But if the media relays someone else's direct knowledge, it is untrue."
That "some people reportedly find some news/information sources untrustworthy" is not evidence that "what's reported about scientology is untrue." Sorry, Jim.
Shit logic, as usual.
Clearly Not Clear says
I loved reading how neatly you tied a bow in his bullshit logic. An Olympic take down.
Jere Lull says
"Those words were penned by Thomas Jefferson in an 1807 letter to newspaper editor John Norvell."
Those words are as true about John Norvell in 1807 as they were about John Norvell in 1807. Today can be a completely different situation as publications regularly fact-check each others' articles. Responsible authors correct themselves when inaccuracies of fact are pointed out to them. scientology, of course, can not correct the most basic errors of facts: what the "Founder" laid down on paper
PeaceMaker says
Also, what is STAND except a type of modern-day media, a digital broadside? Doesn't the critique about reliability and veracity apply to them at least as much?
And typically — just like the media Kalergis says can't be trusted — Scientology even gets their facts wrong: Norvell was not a newspaper editor, just a 17 year old considering a possible future career doing so (which he eventually did).*
Jefferson's words fit pretty well when their subject is changed:
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in Scientology PR. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day."
20 million members?!
"Unprecedented expansion"?!
"Highest ever stats"?!
"no disconnection"?!
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Norvell
Zee Moo says
$cientology is the religion that dares not say its name. Because its name is candy coated Ebola kiddie Porn in the vox populi.
Jim Kalergis is reduced to false equivalency and outright lies to try to make himself and his 'religion' the victims of an insidious plot to destroy them.
Any FSM knows that good sales come from a positive attitude and a wiliness to lie like crazy to get with your want.
Glenn says
Read the blog. He brings up not one win , gain or new ability he achieved in his 50 years in the cult. THAT told me he was just spewing a plethora of hype. The lack of facts is abundant.
Suspect the idiot wrote it all as part of a step in doing lower conditions and that's it.
Jim is an interesting character. He was the first OT VII completion. He was the darling boy of Los Angeles. In the 80's he was a much sought after event speaker and FSM. People flocked to his events. Then at one point he went dark and faded away and no longer spoke and no longer did events. I asked my FSM, Divona, at that time, "Hey why don't we see or hear Jim Kalergis anymore? What is he doing these days?"
She said that he was off the Bridge and disaffected and that no matter how many registrars and OT's and others came to recover him to the Bridge, no one could handle him. This was in the 90's around the time the "New and Improved Miscavige OT VII Course" came out. All OT VIIs and completions were ordered back om the Level to get the correct OT VII. Jim said NO and no way was he redoing OT VII which he'd done twice before. He said he got the EP he wanted and was happy with that EP and he was not going to overrun it by doing it again even if there was new stuff to it. Period. End of story..
He was like that for some years and then all of a sudden he surfaced again and was fully on board with Scn. I think what happened behind the scenes is that his wife and kids were told that if we can't salvage Jim, you'll have to disconnect from him. Of course no one in the family wanted that, so Jim came out of dust balls to show he is with them and wrote articles like this one. But my question is: Is Jim actually UTR to keep his family, or is he still a true believer? Anyone know the answer to this one?
If he is UTR he's likely reading this. Hope "he'll" jump in with an update.
I doubt if he will jump in with an update for us. If he is UTR he wants to take no chances as disconnection is really real.
Dotey OT - In from 1990 to 2017 says
Another prime example of the scientologist being the last to know the truth about scientology.
So sad and so dangerous. A fool communicating the story only as he knows it, the rest of us being aware of the rest of the story – the part that destroys people's lives.
Other than that he has it right about the general mistrust in the news.
grisianfarce says
Only 27 memes? Pathetic. There would have been hundreds leading up to, and after, the election. For better or worse American and British politics 2015 to now have ushered in the Age of Feels True. The 'best' memes (in the Darwin/Dawkins sense) either feel truest or spark the most emotion.
As for scientology being a 'timely force for good' – utter nonsense. Hubbard littered with path with lies, stolen twisted truths, and drug fueled fantasy. To misquote him: What your own eyes have been deceived into seeing is true for you.
Joe Pendleton says
It is a bit rich to read Jefferson's screed against newspapers as he regularly used one when he was Secretary of State to attack George Washington, his own president. If you want to know a little more about that, Google the wiki entry for National Gazette. I guess there's truth in "it takes one to know one."
I confess to no longer trusting the mainstream media on most subjects (NY Times , Washington Post, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC,etc) and I consider over 90% of political memes on Facebook to be sheer propaganda, filled with lies.
Having said that, it is certainly perplexing to see Scientology MOTIVATING so much as victims. Don't they know what "look what they did to me" MEANS???😀😀😀
Yes, Jim, the deception is money-motivated. Without the steady diets of lies, money would cease flowing into Dwarfenführer's® coffers and what remains of scientology would dry up and blow away like the gains promised and never delivered.
Of those who KNOW the truth of the organization claiming to be scientology vs what they represent, I'll bet that NONE believe a word that comes out of their spokespuppets' mouths.
Jp says
Jim Kalurgis is proof that anyone who's in Scientology long enough will choose delusion over reality in order to maintain that carefully constructed bubble.
The end product of Scn will always be complete disassociation
Mark Kamran says
Excellent 👌 summation of Scientology in two para.
Just want to add , after finding our it's fake and fraud ,if one still associated with it then it's pertinent to refer it as Stockholm Syndrome.
Fifty years ago, the term Stockholm Syndrome was coined at the end of a six-day bank siege.
The phrase was reported to have been coined by criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot.
The hostages experience a powerful, primitive positive feeling towards their captor. They are in denial that this is the person who put them in that situation. In their mind, they think this is the person who is going to let them live."
The underlying principles of how it works can be related to different situations :
"A classic example is domestic violence, when someone – typically a woman – has a sense of dependency on her partner and stays with him," says psychologist Jennifer Wild, a consultant clinical psychologist at the University of Oxford.
"She might feel empathy rather than anger. Child abuse is another one – when parents emotionally or physically abuse their children, but the child is protective towards them and either doesn't speak about it or lies about it."
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from flask import Flask, render_template
from videoonline import models
from videoonline.models import db
from videoonline.extensions import bcrypt, login_manager, principals
from flask_principal import identity_loaded, UserNeed, RoleNeed
from flask_login import current_user

def Create_App(Config = 'videoonline.config.DevConfig'):
    app = Flask(__name__)
    with app.app_context():
        app.config.from_object(Config)

        # Will be load the SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL from config.py to db object
        db.init_app(app)
        # 数据库是一个重要的组件,所以先把数据库内容全部完成再继续后面的操作

        # Init the Flask-Bcrypt via app object
        bcrypt.init_app(app)
        # Init the Flask-Login via app object
        login_manager.init_app(app)
        # Init the Flask-Prinicpal via app object
        principals.init_app(app)

        # 因为 identity_loaded 信号实现函数,需要访问 app 对象, 所以直接在 create_app() 中实现.
        @identity_loaded.connect_via(app)
        def on_identity_loaded(sender, identity):
            """Change the role via add the Need object into Role.

               Need the access the app object.
            """

            # Set the identity user object
            identity.user = current_user

            # Add the UserNeed to the identity user object
            if hasattr(current_user, 'id'):
                identity.provides.add(UserNeed(current_user.id))

            # Add each role to the identity user object
            if hasattr(current_user, 'roles'):
                # 原本多对多的用户权限,现在改成用户对应角色 一对多,取消for循环
                # for role in current_user.roles:
                role = current_user.roles
                identity.provides.add(RoleNeed(role.name))

        app.static_folder = 'theme/static'
        app.template_folder = 'theme/templates'

        # 定义 404,405 等、这里只定义 404
        @app.errorhandler(404)
        def page_not_found(error):
            return render_template('40X/404.html'), 404

        from videoonline.view import root_view
        from videoonline.admin import admin_view

        app.register_blueprint(root_view, url_prefix = '/')
        app.register_blueprint(admin_view, url_prefix = '/admin')

        return app

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Q: C++ template function pointer type deduction I have the following code
using my_map_t = std::map<int, Object<double>>;
using my_map_iterator_t = my_map_t::iterator;

template <typename FWD, typename Func>
void inner(my_map_t& map, int key, FWD&& obj, Func emplacer) {
        emplacer(map, key, std::forward<FWD>(obj));
}

my_map_t map;

template <typename FWD>
void outer(my_map_t& map, int key, FWD&& obj)
{
        auto lambda = [](my_map_t& m, int k, FWD&& o) {
                m.emplace(k, std::forward<FWD>(o));
        };

        inner(map, key, std::forward<FWD>(obj), lambda);
}

which compiles painlessly. So this means that he deduce automatically the template argument of inner function.
However, if I introduce a function pointer I need to specify the function pointer template argument, otherwise the compiler complaints
using my_map_t = std::map<int, Object<double>>;
using my_map_iterator_t = my_map_t::iterator;

template <typename FWD, typename Func>
void inner(my_map_t& map, int key, FWD&& obj, Func emplacer) {
        emplacer(map, key, std::forward<FWD>(obj));
}

template <typename FWD, typename Func>
void(*fp)(my_map_t&, int, FWD&&, Func) = &inner;

my_map_t map;

template <typename FWD>
void outer(my_map_t& map, int key, FWD&& obj)
{
        auto lambda = [](my_map_t& m, int k, FWD&& o) {
                m.emplace(k, std::forward<FWD>(o));
        };

        (*fp<FWD, decltype(lambda)>)(map, key, std::forward<FWD>(obj), lambda);
}

Why in the case of function pointer the argument deduction is not working any more?
Did I make some mistake? Is there a way to achieve a better syntax?
NOTE ADDED
I need to use function pointer because I have some function with the same signature of inner. Let us call them inner1, inner2 and inner3. They are called by some outer function
void outer(...) {
     if(...) {

         inner1(...)
     } else if (...) {

         inner2(...)
     } else {

         inner3(...)
     }
     some_long_task(...)
}

Now in my case  the outer function is called cyclically. The checks in the ifs can be time consuming and they are independent of the argument of outer function. I was thinking while the some_long_task is being executed, to set up a function pointer to the right function inner1, inner2 or inner3 exploiting some cpu parallelism, so that, the the new cycle begin, I do not have to waste time doing the if check.

A: template <typename FWD, typename Func>
void(*fp)(my_map_t&, int, FWD&&, Func) = &inner;

is not a normal function pointer.  It is what's called a variable template.  When you have a variable template, in order to refer to a specific instantiation, you must specify the template parameters.  To demonstratre that, consider
template <typename T>
constexpr T pi = T(3.1415926535897932385L);

You can't just do cout << pi because we don't know which pi to use.  The same occurs with
(*fp<FWD, decltype(lambda)>)(map, key, std::forward<FWD>(obj), lambda);

Here fp needs the <FWD, decltype(lambda)> so the compiler can know which specific fp instance to refer to.  It has to do this even before it evaluates the function call because it needs to check the parameters against the function.
What we would need to not have to specify the parameter is a future like CTAD but would work for function pointer variable temapltes.

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https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-investors-could-have-a-new-problem-rising-infections-in-alameda-51590251664
Rising Covid-19 Infections in Alameda County Could be a Problem for Tesla
Updated May 24, 2020 9:51 am ET / Original May 23, 2020 12:34 pm ET
A motorcyclist rides by the Tesla Fremont Factory on May 12, 2020 in Fremont, Calif. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
California's Alameda County, home to Tesla's flagship Fremont assembly plant, saw a 20-plus percent spike in confirmed Covid-19 cases over the past week. If the upward trend continues, investors may have to revisit the Tesla plant reopening saga again.
According to the L.A. Times' tracker of Covid-19 infections by county, Alameda averaged 58 new infections a day over the past week, up from about 48 infections a day over the prior seven days. What's more, the Times reported 100 infections on Friday, the most since tracking began.
Alameda, in total, has about 2,700 confirmed cases, according to the Times. That would rank Alameda the sixth-highest out of California's 58 counties, according to the Times. California has about 88,000 confirmed cases, according to the Covid Tracking Project. The state has the fourth highest case total, trailing behind New York, New Jersey and Illinois.
The county's local stay-at-home order remains in effect, but the county recently allowed retail stores to open for curb side pick up or delivery, as well as selected manufacturers and logistics providers.
"We are seeing an increase in reported Covid-19 cases," an Alameda spokesperson told Barron's in a email. "With the recent relaxation of shelter-in-place restrictions, our residents are likely interacting with each other more often." Some of the increase, the county spokesperson noted, "can be explained by increased testing and improved case detection." The spokesperson added that health officials are monitoring the situation closely, and that the data "highlights the difficulty in containing COVID-19."
Tesla (ticker: TSLA) wasn't immediately available to comment on Saturday.
Tesla reopened its Alameda facility recently. The company filed, and dropped, a lawsuit against the county. CEO Elon Musk tweeted threats to relocate the plant to another state, and threatened to flout local stay-at-home orders if the assembly plant was not allowed to reopen. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and even President Donald Trump weighed in on the plant's reopening.
Tesla, in the end, came to an agreement with local officials and published a "return to work playbook," which outlined several enhanced health and safety measures including more cleaning, temperature checks and shift staggering to minimize employee interactions, among other actions.
The good news for investors is this reopening episode didn't impact Tesla's stock price in a notable way. Shares rose slightly over the span negotiations took place. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average were about flat over the same time frame. The divergence wasn't noteworthy.
The news didn't hit the stock price because analysts expect U.S. manufacturing, Tesla included, to return to normal eventually. The timing of Fremont's reopening, ultimately, shifts production from one quarter to another.
Still, if the plant were to shut again, Tesla stock could take a hit. Tesla's quarterly results matter to investors. In fact, Tesla's epic stock rally, up almost 320% over the past year, was catalyzed by better-than-expected third quarter 2019 earnings.
After Fremont's reopening was finalized, Wall Street became a little more optimistic about second quarter 2020 deliveries. Delivery estimates vary widely, but the high end of delivery estimates came down from more than 120,000 vehicles to about 84,000 vehicles. The average analyst estimate is currently 68,000 cars delivered in the quarter ending June. The company delivered about 88,000 vehicles in the first quarter.
With the plant reopening before the end of June, the average—about 68,000 cars—looked like a layup. But more production hiccups could force investors to revisit these estimates about the pace of production and deliveries.
Tesla shares rose 2.2% this past week. The S&P 500 was up 3.2% over the same period. The slight underperformance isn't noteworthy. Tesla stock, after all, is up 95% year to date, far better than the comparable 9% drop of the S&P over the same span.
California's Alameda County, home to Tesla's flagship Fremont assembly plant, saw a 20-plus percent spike in confirmed Covid-19 cases over the past week.


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