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About Janus
When of one mind, Janus' views form a composite of his two sides. He attempts to consider issues with care and thoughtfulness, though he remains biased towards Christianity and Western traditions. Outsiders might call him a Conservative, but in fact he is a Fundamentalist in that he promotes the Christian values that raised Western civilization to its peak.
At times, Janus possesses two minds on a given subject. Sometimes these thoughts oppose one another; sometimes they merely differ. At other times, one mind will take interest in a matter while the other will not. The two sides might even agree, but for different reasons.
One of the faces, looking to our right and called Patulcius, is the headstrong and determined side of Janus, tending to authoritarian ideals. Patulcius looks to history and upholds the traditions of Christianity and Western civilization, and the well-being of Western nations. Patulcius sees world events as a struggle between divine and demonic forces.
The other face—the easy-going, more open-minded, left-facing Clusivius—dislikes authority and prefers a more individualistic outlook. Clusivius looks to the future and contemplates changes. While Christian, Clusivius takes an interest in the well-being of other civilizations as well as the Western. Clusivius tends to believe that elitist conspiracies play a major part in world events.
When possible, the complete Janus seeks to form a synthesis of the two sides when making a decision. At other times Janus allows any differences to stand without resolution. But now and again the two sides must battle one another until one side wins Janus' acceptance.
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Nature can be cruel to mankind. If Concussus had his way, nature would be crueler yet. Concussus tends to arrive at the blackest of times, when humanity seems the most despicable.
Diabolus, the devil's advocate. Sometimes we are tempted to embrace the evil world that we despise. Diabolus is there to encourage us in this folly. Fortunately a rare visitor here.
I display this flag in solidarity with white Southerners, whose heritage today's decrepit society strives to erase; and as a sign of resistance to the globalist elites, their agents, and their agendas.
He didn't like ungrateful blacks, so it's the blacklist for this American icon.
An American hero for generations, today's zer-gendered freaks want to eradicate all traces of Andrew Jackson.
Vilified for decades, Leftists are demanding the end of Columbus Day and monuments to the God-fearing man who opened the Americas for Europe.
Liberals once heralded Woodrow Wilson's progressive social policies. Now modern Leftists intend to erase all homages to America's 28th president because he supported segregation.
Anti-fascist mutant terrorists would remove all monuments to Texas founding father Sam Houston because he was a slaveowner and a Southerner.
Roger B. Taney, the 5th Chief Justice of the United States, upheld the Constitution and the laws of the land in the Dredd Scott case of 1857. For that decision, his statue was recently removed from his home state of Maryland, a slap in the face to all of his contributions as a public servant.
Monuments to Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Lincoln are now attacked. We have quickly descended to the point where the enemies of our people will vilify any white historical figure if he upheld his people, his religion, his body of knowledge, and his civilization. We must annihilate these forces of barbarism or they will shortly annihilate us!
As overpaid, over-valued black athletes refuse to honor our flag because they believe police treat them unfairly, the NAACP demands that our nation change its historic anthem to something that represents the new, anti-White USA. Because Francis Scott Key's lyrics mentioned slaves without condemning slavery.
I display this flag, not in support of the traitorous US government, but in support of the European-descended people who built this country and bled for it, a people once known simply as Americans. And the more the 'new' and 'vibrant' so-called Americans despise this flag, the more I will embrace it!
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Where Tolerance Gets Us
Patulcius:
When it comes to tolerance and what it has done to Western Civilization, two quotes from the great 18th Century theologian John Wesley aptly describe the effects. The first:
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
And from John Wesley's Notes on the Bible for Matthew 24:9:
Then shall they deliver you up to affliction – As if ye were the cause of all these evils. And ye shall be hated of all nations – Even of those who tolerate all other sects and parties; but in no nation will the children of the devil tolerate the children of God.
Next to egalitarianism, tolerance is the key (stated) virtue of the Progressive Left.
Of course, to the Left, tolerance is something that other people must accept. Christians must tolerate other religious points of view and the acceptance of homosexuality. Nativists must tolerate the flood of foreigners in their midst. Men must tolerate a lack of respect from their wives and children—and from society in general. Football fans must tolerate anti-bullying rules.
But the Left not only does not, but must not, tolerate viewpoints and people whom their side does not approve. Why should they tolerate those who don't believe in equality and tolerance? Why should Progressives tolerate those who, by the very nature of their privileged births, are deemed bigots and oppressors? And what about smokers and fat people? Well, they're not following the sacred tenets of good health and nutrition, so they deserve to be shamed and spat upon for their own goods.
And the Left disapproves of no one more ferociously than a Bible-believing Christian.
The former Western hegemony of White, Christian, and male was nagged bit-by-bit into tolerating groups of people who opposed them. Often the outcasts and misfits could make a persuasive case for the extension of Christian mercy, love, and compassion. And what one generation tolerated, the next generation accepted as normal, and the third generation fully embraced.
Now tolerance has reached absurd dimensions in the West to such an extent that Whites are immigrating themselves into oblivion, Western Christianity is a force of impotence, and Western men have grown weak and effeminate and/or degenerated into delinquent free-loaders.
And now the "children of the devil" have taken over the Establishment. They grow bolder every day in their repression of the White, the male, or the Christian wherever the former "oppressors" might assert themselves.
"Coexist." Well, Western society isn't targeting the Muslims here, nor the peaceniks, transvestites, homosexuals, Jews, letter-I worshippers, or Taoists. Just the Christians. Funny how that tolerance thing works.
Interestingly, the Left usually tolerates Muslims. Muslims (ostensibly) condemn homosexuality, repress women worse than any Medieval Christian, and have little patience for the enlightened Progressive virtues of tolerance and social equality. So why does the Left tolerate Muslims and not Christians? Leftists consider Muslims to be a people oppressed by the former White-male-Christian hegemony, for one thing; and for another, Muslims blow people up.
(And despite all of the Hollywood propaganda that suggests otherwise, it is un-Christian to blow up innocent people in the name of Christ, and Christians simply don't do it. Such tactics wouldn't work anyway. There's a blowing-people-up double-standard.)
Now Western society is lost. To survive here, Christians must recognize that the popular culture is no longer our culture, that our countries no longer belong to us, that the greater society is no longer ours.
The misconception that we belong to the greater society, so hard to break, is preventing the formation of a distinct Christian society in the West that can resist the evils of the outside world. The early Church was coherent because it remained a society separate from the Romans.[1] A similar separation is necessary today.
And if Christians can form a distinct society in the ashes of the West, then we must no longer tolerate unrepentant sin in our midst. Only then will we survive and grow.
Clusivius:
While Christians must certainly forge a tighter community and weed out the unrepentent rebels in our midst, it is too early to give up on Western Civilization.
It may now be suicidal to fight for one's government, or to partake in most of its culture, but the nations of the West are not yet lost.
People who love their nations are waking up and returning to their roots. Such people must band together to resist the tyranny of the Globalist Establishment.
Considering tolerance, a free society must possess some degree of tolerance in order to remain free. The question is, tolerance to what degree? What a society must not do is allow its defining, majority culture and religion to fall to the wayside in the name of tolerance of others, as we see in the West.
Concorditas:
Indeed, there is room for a variety of like-minded people to gather together and organize resistance in groups, and for compatible groups to work together against the forces of Progressivism and Globalism. In fact, they are doing so already.
And each of these groups, be they religious or political, must strengthen and uphold the ancient moral codes of our civilization in order to remain cohesive against our enemies.
The causes are not yet lost.
[1] Christian society remained separate from the Romans until they gained enough numbers that Roman society joined and conformed to Christendom.
by Janus on 3 December 2013 • Permalink
Posted in Christianity, Clusivius, Concorditas, Patulcius, Western Civilization
Tagged American decline, cultural rot, establishment, globalism, john wesley, liberty, new world order, tolerance, traditionalism
Posted by Janus on 3 December 2013
https://finesetinitia.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/where-tolerance-gets-us/
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/ 3 December 2013
I frequently say something similar to that John Wesley quote at the top, good to know I'm not alone in thinking that.
Intolerance is fundamental to maintaining a cohesive society, especially intolerance of differning fundamental values.
The church is always strongest when its persecuted. We may see an Amish type movement from Christians in the near future, groups falling back to the rural areas and working in agriculture or online. I think this would be a good thing.
I think the current status quo of globalism and big, centralised beauracracy will crumble like Rome and we'll see a resurgence of nationalism. I think it will be violent, though, as people sort themselves or get sorted.
Here's an article in veterans today about cultural debasement in Weimar Germany
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/09/24/sexual-decadence-weimar-germany/
Thanks. I'll be discussing this phenomenon in a future post, though I'm not sure exactly how soon.
The fires of persecution will burn out the impurities, like forging steel.
Bay Area Guy
And what about smokers and fat people? Well, they're not following the sacred tenets of good health and nutrition, so they deserve to be shamed and spat upon for their own goods.
That's interesting, because I've observed the opposite. If anything, it's the left that endorses "fat acceptance" and "body positive" activism. Think people like Lindy West.
When it comes to their "tolerance," the rule that always drives the left is "root for the underdog." Therefore, any group that is perceived to be marginalized, be it Muslims or fat people, must be supported, even if said groups are often opposed to many aspects of leftist ideology.
I stand corrected on the issue of body image, having mistakenly tied it to the smoking issue.
I'd forgotten about the Lindy-West-types who push for self acceptance of any sort of body type, whatever its state, while the Michelle-Obama-types want to forcibly regulate what foods people can eat and in what quantities so that the most vulnerable in society can compete against the savvy pushers of addictive junk foods.
Oddly enough, I do sympathize somewhat with the body acceptance thing. Modern consumer culture has drilled the idea into peoples' (and especially women's) heads that if they are not beautiful or perfect (as seen on TV) they aren't quite as human as those who are and they shouldn't be happy. I sympathize with body-acceptance when people are otherwise healthy, but consider body-acceptance to be harmful if it means the acceptance of preventable body conditions that cause health problems or are the results of laziness and apathy.
My greatest contention, however, is when the government tries to impose one condition or the other on everyone, be it anti-discrimination of fat people in hiring at one end of the spectrum or the taxation or prohibition of junk food at the other.
Thanks for the correction! I do aim to be accurate here and encourage anyone to point out my errors when I make them. I may or may not agree, but I do appreciate constructive feedback.
Here's an example of what tolerance brings.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/horror-mob-of-topless-pro-abort-feminists-attacks-rosary-praying-men-defend.html
It is interesting that Progressive-types so often behave like spoiled adolescents. Should we be surprised when people who demand to live like animals act like animals? The men comported themselves admirably in the face of these modern-day antediluvian daughters of Cain.
I think the men should have punched the "ladies" in the front row. I bet that would be the last time we read about something like this. Chivalry is a two way street.
The early Church was coherent because it remained a society separate from the Romans.[1] A similar separation is necessary today.
This seems like a bad idea. For one, it would reduce Christianity to "just another religion" among many others thereby playing right into the Multi-Cult's hand.
I was just reading about this church/state seperation thingy.
"One of the most difficult dilemmas that has always faced the Church is its relations with the State, the paradox of being in the world, but not of it. The Church, the Body of Christ, has a human nature through the Incarnation but She also has a divine nature, a spiritual ethos, for 'My kingdom is not of this world' (John 18, 36). The delicate and fine balance between being in the world but not of it, of rendering unto Caesar the things of Caesar and unto God the things of God (Matt. 22, 21) has rarely been achieved."
——snip——-
"And indeed there have been periods of harmony or symphony between Church and State They occurred when the State limited itself to the material well-being and safety of its citizens and the Church was free to look to their spiritual Well-being and safety."
http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/ocet52.htm
Of course, this presupposes a Christian state and/or society.
A difficult balance, yes, and one requiring a Christian state/society. Some things do overlap between the two sides, making this management a difficult one. As it ideally protects its citizens while respecting their rights, so should a Christian state protect its church or churches while respecting their rights.
They were in the world, but not of the world, and this is the goal for a Christian to achieve. Interact with the world, but don't adopt its attitudes, methods, and culture.
As far as playing into the multi-cult's hand, with the mult-cults Christians can't win anyway. You can't defeat them on their own battlefield, so we must stick to our own field.
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" Such people must band together to resist the tyranny of the Globalist Establishment." Absolutely true. Too many in our society simply ignore or don't care To know the history of the world and the direction we are clearly headed.Great article!
Too many in our society simply ignore or don't care To know the history of the world and the direction we are clearly headed.
Most people are content to live in whatever society exists so long as they can live their lives in peace. I can't say that I blame them. The trouble arises when they can't live their lives the way they had before; they are fit for whatever charlatan can hustle them.
Thanks for your kind words, beezernoid.


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Prostate cancer runs in my family and has for at least four generations that I know of. My great grandfather died from it, my grandfather died at a younger age, so we don't know about him. Then my father and all 3 of his brothers (my uncles) were diagnosed with prostate cancer. As the next male in line, I had a strong suspicion that my turn was next. And I was right.
So knowing about this long history of prostate cancer in my family, I paid special attention to documentaries, read a lot of studies, and tried to keep up to date on the latest cancer research. I really listened when they told me what I should be doing to prevent prostate cancer. I loaded up on the fresh fruit and vegetables, drank green tea, made sure to eat tomato products, exercised regularly, maintained a healthy weight, and got good rest. And, most importantly, I did not start doing all of this last Tuesday – I had been making a valiant effort to "eat clean" for a good twenty years or more!
Guess what, I still got prostate cancer.
From what I can tell, scientists believe that cancer has two main causes – genetic and environmental. So I think I clearly fell on the genetics side of that ledger.
Based on my case alone, (a sample size of one), I am of the unscientific opinion that for certain types of cancer, genetic types like prostate cancer that run in families, there is little you can do to prevent it. Of course, my view is totally unsupported by any facts, and you should never rely on it. (Only make decisions about your own heath in consultation with a licensed medical doctor).
Yes, I believe your personal behavior can contribute to some forms of cancer, like staying out in the sun too long. But for genetic, family-type cancers, I think the writing is on the wall – it's only a matter of time. That's what I think anyway.
I was always intrigued by the story of Jay Kordich, formerly known as The Juiceman, who – the story goes – had bladder cancer as a college age man and beat it, supposedly, never to rear its ugly head again by juicing fruits and vegetables and avoiding bad stuff like cake. Not only that, he's still going strong today in his nineties, and I presume, cancer free.
I think it is a rare individual who has the time and resources to be as diligent and conscientious as Jay apparently was and still is.
I am left with the idea that the single-best thing you can do to beat cancer is early detection – that is your best chance at beating the disease. Regular doctor visits, regular checkups, mammograms, PSA tests, DRE's (digital rectal exams) Listen to your body, examine your body and see your doctor on a regular basis.
I don't have to cite scientific studies to back me up here – it's common sense – the earlier you detect a disease, any disease, the better your chances of beating it are, and cancer is no exception.
Does that mean you should skip the green tea and the tomato paste? No, I don't believe you should. One possible benefit that I received from "eating right" is that when I did get diagnosed with prostate cancer, it was a milder form. Is it possible that eating all those fruits and vegetables protected me from, say, a more aggressive form of prostate cancer?


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Q: Where is the boundary between a programming language and the operating system itself When a program is compiled, the code eventually ends up as instructions that can be executed by the processor. When for example a C program that writes data to a file is compiled, what code is in the executable file, is it just the code to call the OS write?
I have seen the comparable question that refers to use of Frameworks in the OS, I consider using framework one level too high, I want to know more specific on the lower level.

A: Yes, it's just code saying "do a write".
There is usually code for writing files, communicating with the network, the screen etc. within the operating system, so it would be a waste of time to reprogram those services in user space (and the kernel would probably not even let you). The interface between use space and the OS is usually a strictly defined API consisting of system calls which execute predefined routines in the kernel.

A: It is less about programming language and operating system. It's more about user space functions and operating system level functions.
User programs have user space functions.
User space functions call operating system level functions to perform OS-specific tasks.
A C program that wants to write to a file will end up calling the one or more operating system level functions to do the real work.
A Python program that wants to write to a file will most likely end up calling the same operating system level functions to do the real work.

A: An operating system essentially presents an API to programs, on how to get things done much in the same way that most programs have a standard runtime library so you don't have to code everything yourself.   This typically includes things like converting a string of digits to an integer, and so on.
In the Unix world the term "system call" is used for invoking a method in this API.  Many exist, typically in reading and writing files, reading input from the user, printing strings to the user, reading the computer clock, and giving safe, fair access to the hardware so you have the illusion that your program is started, do stuff, and eventually end, without having to know that other programs also run, the CPU takes turns executing them, they may also write files while your program does, etc.
The programming language "closest" to Unix would be C.  If you want to work with low level programming this is a good language to do it in.

A: On modern processors, the CPU instructions that either perform or initiate input/output are privileged; in addition, the physical memory addresses that devices map onto is protected (in this case, by the operating system).  Further, interrupt handling capabilities (which are used by the devices to signal to the processor that data and/or device is ready for more I/O), are also privileged.

Privileged instructions, memory addresses, and interrupt handlers cannot be executed in the user mode process that runs the application.  Thus, the application can only request the I/O operation from the operating system, usually via a system call, or some form of secure request into the operating system to access privileged resources.
There generally will be libraries on both sides of the system call.  In the user mode application, there will be some language and runtime libraries that perform formatting and serialization of content that ultimately invoke operating system routines via a privileged & protected (system) call mechanism.  The operating system will have a set of routines that respond to the application's requests and ultimately access the device.

Typically for a C program to perform a write, that is accomplished in source code by calling a library routine, so the compiler compiles that high-level function call (the write) into a machine code function call, pretty much just like the translation/compilation of any other function call.
The function call binds to a library routine that ultimately makes a system call or privileged request into the operating system.  These libraries themselves are sometimes written in (part in) assembly language so that they can use the system call mechanism, which is usually some special processor instructions that the compilers don't normally generate.  (Some systems have C-compilers with extensions that allow them do make system calls without needing assembly language.)

A: This depends very much on what operating system and what language you're talking about. Other answers have explored what this means for common consumer systems (e.g Windows or Unix-type OSs), but there are some interesting alternatives out there.  Some operating systems, for example, are written such that they can only run programs written in a specific language.  In this case, the language is effectively part of the operating system, and there is no boundary between the two.  The most recent well known such system was Microsoft's Singularity OS which used a modified version of C# as its integrated language.  Older systems that were based on UCSD p-Code (a virtual machine implementation of the Pascal language) also blurred the boundaries in a similar way.

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Q: What happens to C++ exceptions crossing COM method boundaries? In COM-based Windows Explorer shell extensions error conditions are expressed using HRESULT return values returned from COM interface methods.
But if inside the body of a COM interface method (or inside a method of some C++ object called directly or indirectly in a COM method) a C++ exception (e.g. std::runtime_error, std::bad_alloc, std::invalid_argument, etc.) is thrown , what does exactly happen?
Is this just an undefined behavior?
Or is the C++ exception somehow converted to a Win32 Structured Exception (SEH) ?
If so, what is the mechanics of the conversion process?

A: Allowing exceptions to cross a COM boundary is verboten and behavior is unspecified.  What happens depends on the C++ compiler you use.  If you use MSVC++ then, yes, C++ exceptions piggy-back on top of SEH.  MinGW is popular for GCC, it doesn't.
Which makes it technically possible for a client program to catch the exception.  The .NET CLR does so for example, turning the unmanaged exception into a managed SEHException.  This is however purely for diagnostic reasons, allowing the program to shut down in a controlled manner with a decent error message and stack trace.  Actually catching the exception is very unlikely to come to a good end.  You by definition cannot handle the exception, you have no hope of restoring the state of the COM server.  The exception of course bypassed code in the COM server that is normally expected to execute.  A memory leak would be a typical result.  A lock that didn't get released is a good way to hang the program undiagnosably.  Repeated exceptions are likely if you just keep trying to use the server.  Only program shutdown is the reasonable approach.


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Arther P Jacobs: Reading and Writing
Sarah Callaghan December 7, 2015 Arther Jacobs, Reading & Writing
Arthur speaks about the influence of reading and writing on his life at varies times throughout his memoir. Being from a middle class background, his access to education meant Jacobs would be very literate , with writing the primary form of communication when he could not meet with a person face to face.
Jacobs first speaks about reading a writing within the chapter, 'Education'. School would be the place where Arthur was properly introduced and taught to understand literature, however not all children had this luxury. In 1900, children were legally viewed as 'little adults', meaning they were expected to work if they were from poorer families. A 1900 survey into child labour in London showed 25% of all children aged 5-13 had part time jobs or worked. However this would not have been the case for Arthur. Being from a middle class background would have meant that his parents would have paid for his schooling to ensure a successful career in the future.
Jacobs comments on how be became 'letter minded at a very early age' (40), with letters for him being an, 'object of desire' (40). He tells the amusing story of loving letters and postcards that much, he would steal his parents ones, which he got in trouble for so would try to persuade his family to, 'put my name on their mailing lists (40)', while making sure he was in the vicinity of the letter box when the mail came through to grab them. Despite himself only being able to manage an 'occasional, hand-guided, pencilled "Thank-You" message' (41) when writing himself, it shows to us Jacobs had a good understanding of letters and writing from a young age. This gives us as readers an insight into his middle class background, and his interests as a child.
Not only letters, but he also talks about the impact that poetry had on him throughout school. In junior school, he remembers being forced to read a poem out loud in front of his class. After, he reminisces being, 'immersed in the experience' (73) and how the words, 'meant something' (73) to him being the, 'most lovely sound' (73). Poetry to some people is difficult to understand, being either cheesy or tedious. The fact the poem made sense to him and that the whole experience was, 'enjoyable' shows Jacob's has some sort of connection to literature.
The teachers noticed Jacob's connection to poetry, praising him after presenting a poem to the class, saying he read it, 'beautifully' (73). Later on that day, she again prompted him to read aloud, obviously recognising his talent.
Lord Byrons poem, ' Stanza's for Music that Jacobs reads aloud, which is his first time properly expressing himself through literature.
His connection to writing made me remember his other academic talent of art, which I wrote about in my previous post. This shows to me as a reader that Jacob's had a strong connection to art in all its forms, differing from the typical young man who were usually drawn to more manual work.
Looking back at these snapshots as a adult, Jacobs questions whether expressing himself through writing and poetry helped him, 'grow into a man and express' (75) himself. Jacob's connection to reading and writing is such a significant part of his youth. Not only this but with choosing to write a memoir to document his life, proves how writing was the most obvious and natural way to express himself and reflect on his life.
Adam Smith. (2007). Exploring 20th Century London – Children . Available: http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/children. Last accessed 25/11/2015.
20th century 20th century working class Arthur Jacobs Letters poetry Postcards reading working-class writing
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Parliamentary Supremacy, Privilege and the Hyper Injunction, Part 2
by Gildas the Monk on April 3, 2011
A couple of weeks ago I posted on the topic of the so called "Super Injunctions" and "Hyper Injunctions."
This has been a topic highlighted by our learned editor.
Where La Raccoon leads The Times follows, and this weekend the issue has featured on the front page and in the Leader section http://twitpic.com/4ft21a
The purpose of my earlier piece was to lay the foundations for a discussion of the legality of the so called "Hyper Injunction" – an order of the court which forbids the recipient from discussing the matter in question even with their MP.
Central to the issue of the relation between the courts and Parliament is the issue of "comity." That is simply the concept that each respects the exclusive constitutional rights of the other in certain defined areas.
To take an example, a Member of Parliament is protected by Privilege and may speak freely on any matter at all within the Chamber of the House. But if an MP was to make comments about, say, a criminal trial which was ongoing so that might interfere with and prejudice a fair trial that would be an abuse of that privilege. By convention MPs avoid doing so. Equally the Courts are very clear that they should not trespass on the workings of Parliament. The problem comes in defining where the limits of the province of each lies.
Let me now explain how arguments for the Super or Hyper Injunction are put forward.
Imagine that I am an anarchist. I concoct a plot to destroy the Coca Cola Company. I decide to allege that there is proof that Coca Cola causes cancer, and I even manufacture some bogus but convincing evidence to this effect. If this information is spread about it might wreck Coca Cola's lawful business, or at least cause a lot of damage to its reputation. Coca Cola will sue for trade libel (and other matters) and are entitled at the start of the action to apply for what is referred to as an "interim injunction" to prevent me from spreading these rumours. An interim injunction is simply a temporary one, granted at an early stage proceedings, intended to preserve the position of the parties until trial when a final decision and order can be made.
Broadly the argument for a Super Injunction or Hyper Injunction which Coca Cola will make at the beginning of the case will be something like this:
Even if the Court can't decide at this early stage whether there is any substance to my allegations, there is a serious case that I am defaming Coca Cola unjustly
If the accusations are spread about they will cause great damage to its business
Because I am a noted activist and trouble maker it is quite likely that I will try to raise these spurious allegations in the press, or even dupe my MP into raising the matter in the House of Commons under the protection of Privilege
Also, if word of the action gets out, it will damage Coca Cola's business no matter if it is vindicated at trial. People will say there is "no smoke without fire"
If I intend to vindicate the allegations I will have the chance to do so in court at a fair trial when all the evidence is heard
Therefore the "balance of convenience" (the phrase the Courts use) favours making an order which has the effect of "gagging" me from telling anyone not only about my allegations, but in terms which forbids the press reporting the fact that Coca Cola have brought the action, and even purports to stop me telling my MP about it.
Once it gains its injunction, Coca Cola would then proceed to trial, my lies would be exposed on the full hearing of the evidence and the injunction will made permanent.
As I mentioned in the previous piece, many of the cases in which the press are gagged about revealing the fact that an action has been brought are cases in which "celebrities" have brought an action based on "breach of confidence" – a legal term which usually means someone wants to suppress knowledge of their infidelity or drug use. The argument here is that if it gets out that footballer Mr X has brought an action against glamour model and "wannabee" star Miss Y, then everyone will put two and together and, quite reasonably, make four. So the press are restrained from reporting that the action even exists.
At least in the case of the Coca Cola example I hope you can see how reasonably and persuasively the argument can be put. However, to explain the extreme danger of such orders let me give two more "hypotheticals"
I am an investigative journalist. I discover information which suggests a drug being prescribed to pregnant women can cause terrible deformity in the unborn child. The drug company with millions invested in research argues cogently that their drug is safe and I should not be allowed to report this matter. It brings proceedings to stop me publishing the story or even telling an MP about it using the arguments I have set out above.
The name of the drug is Thalidomide.
Or take another example. Let us imagine that I am a very successful businessman and Press Baron and someone is making horrid accusations about my honesty. They allege that I am a thief, a crook, and a liar who is conning his shareholders and plundering the company. I bring proceedings to stop them making these defamatory statements using, of course, the cleverest and most expensive lawyers.
My name is Robert Maxwell.
In either case should it be lawful to prevent bringing the complaints to the attention of an MP who may, if he thinks necessary, raise the matter with the protection of Privilege? The answer, of course, is "no." It should be noted that, as I recall, the manufacturers of Thalidomide did try to suppress The Times' reporting of the effect of the drug by injunction. And it is a matter of record that the bullying Maxwell resorted to every legal trick to suppress the rumours and complaints about his conduct.
One of reasons the argument for such an injunction seems reasonable is that it can be argued that a defendant will always have the chance to vindicate himself at trial. But in practice this is not true. The costs of litigation are notorious, oppressive and terrifying to an ordinary person. Lawyers for the wealthy and powerful use the costs or potential costs of litigation as a weapon with which to crush the resolve and destroy the resources of the ordinary citizen. Litigation is a game only the super rich can play.
Also litigation is slow. No matter what the courts may say about it, able litigants can usually string it out if they wish to. One of the cases which brought the issue of the Super Injunction to the fore, the Trafigura case, has been going on since 2006, I believe.
How does all this relate to constitutional theory?
Technically the High Court can make any order it thinks fit to police and manage a matter before it. The power is statutory under the Supreme Court Act 1981 and also said to be inherent, in essence stemming from the Court's original historical authority vested in it by the Crown.
It is clear that the Super Injunction, if not unconstitutional, is highly undesirable and prone to abuse. On balance, in my view, the risks of such a complete gag on the press are too high to be worth the risks of such a precedent.
However, I have said that I think there is a good argument that the Hyper Injunction at least is unconstitutional and should not be made in any circumstances. This is because it offends the principle of "comity", because it strays into an area where the Courts should not venture and offends aspects of Parliamentary Privilege.
First there is the right of free speech within the Palace of Westminster, statutorily enshrined in Article IX of the Bill of Rights of 1689:
"Freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament"
On a narrow view this principle simply protects the MP from an action in slander – or, in my view, contempt of court – for anything said in the Chamber. But on a wider view an order which stops a matter being communicated to a Member of Parliament offends it. It is hard to see how a Member can freely speak or debate if he is denied knowledge of the issue.
Further, as I pointed out in the earlier piece, a further aspect of Parliamentary Privilege is the power of "contempts". A contempt being:
"Any act or omission which obstructs or impedes either House of Parliament in the performance of its functions, or which obstructs or impedes any Member or officer in the discharge of his duty, or which has a tendency, directly or indirectly, produces such result"
Again, historically this has been construed along the lines of matters such as lying to select committees, but it seems to me that this fits the bill quite nicely. What is the job of an MP? It is not just to vote on the government's legislation. It is also to represent. A person who is denied the right to communicate with an MP is being denied representation, and whether directly or indirectly the function of MP is being obstructed.
Finally, as I pointed out, the highest court the land is, in fact, Parliament. Thus, as it seems to me, informing a Member of that court of a matter cannot be contempt of a lower court. All that one is doing is bringing the matter to the attention of the superior court. What that Member wishes to do with that is a matter for that Member and the superior court.
For all these reasons, I think it can be cogently argued that the Hyper Injunction offends aspects of Parliamentary Privilege and as such could not or should not be made by the High Court.
But if all if that is wrong, then I suggest a simple solution. Let there be an extra clause in the Bill of Rights as follows:
"It shall not be lawful to impede or prevent a citizen from communicating his concerns upon any matter to an elected Member of Parliament"
Mr Speaker, I so move.
Finally, you may have noted that I have made no reference at all to the Human Right Act. That is because I do not believe it is necessary. The constitution works just fine without it – if it is properly understood and engaged. In these two pieces I have tried to relate and argue dispassionately, but please permit me one polemic. If I wanted to cobble together an argument under that Act I could. Just as I could create an argument that my Human Rights are being abused by the fact that I might not be allowed to vote whilst being banged up in prison for stabbing a pensioner, or because I am a bit broke, or because in school I never got to go out with Penny from the Lower Sixth (very upsetting, that, plenty of trauma).
The Human Rights Act is a junket, the self serving illegitimate love child of sloppy euro-intellectualism and deeply unpleasant, extremely greedy lawyers. It is ironic that the source of many of the Super Injunctions is the "right to privacy" which it creates, a right which seems to involve essentially covering up the serial adultery and drug taking of "celebrities", footballers and the Great and the Good.
That's just a personal view.
On a wider front, if the Judges themselves do not get a grip and stop the tide of draconian orders which threaten to undermine fair reporting and free speech, Parliament must act to re-assert its Sovereignty. Lawyers and judges like to think they are the bastions of freedom. In this case they are acting to suppress those freedoms. They must be checked now.
Gildas the Monk
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Tyrone D Murphy
How to circumvent the UK Libel Laws and fend off an action
It has been
my own experience that any rich individual or corporation will not hesitate to
use the flawed and draconian libel laws to hide the truth or cover up criminal
activity. In addition the hyper- injunction or super-injunction are also aimed
at the rich. How can someone who is the victim fight such an unfair system
have any chance at all of fighting back and winning?
This was highlighted
by an American author who wrote about a Saudi business man who was alleged to
have supported terrorism. Although the book was written in America by an
American author the businessman went to the UK courts and took a libel action,
he was granted an order. There is yet another example of absolute absurdity of
the UK legal system when an individual who became involved in court
proceedings over the risk of toxic materials leaching out of paint used to
coat drinking water tanks was silenced by a "hyper-injunction" which even
banned him from talking to an MP. The gagging order effectively bans the
person from discussing the issue with anyone who could help take legal action
in relation to their complaint.
These are prime examples of the UK legal
system and how unfair the system really is. You can argue to remove Super
Injunction by proving the information is actually public domain and thus
prohibiting its disclosure is a waste of time. However this is going to be
very costly and can only benefit extremely greedy lawyers.
So how do we get
around all this? The answer is elementary!
Anyone who suspects a libel
action is imminent or has been threatened with a libel action; I would
strongly urge you to PUBLISH immediately. If the truth is on your side they
will have to lie, commit perjury and pervert justice to take an action against
you to try and supress the truth. This is where your strength lies; once they
instigate a cover story and lie to support a libel action or an injunction
it's on record
They are many people and bloggers out there that will help
you and I will certainly publish for you or on your behalf.
Cunningham April 4, 2011 at 22:06
Would I be in contempt if I repeated the old adage;
'Things go better with Coke!"
Joe Public April 3, 2011 at 19:07
"And it is a matter of record that the bullying Maxwell resorted to every
legal trick to suppress the rumours and complaints about his conduct."
You might be correct in that accusation Gildas; I cannot recall reading any
contemporaneous criticism of him in the Mirror.
Randy Hack
I seem to remember a host of libel actions, oft featuring Private Eye.
But could be False Memory Syndrome..
Private Eye used to love winding up Cap'n Bob.
Dennis April 3, 2011 at 15:07
I have no hesitation in supporting your resolution. I am, however, vaguely
embarrassed to again raise a point of disagreement.
If there is one area of English law improved by the HRA, it must surely be
in granting 'the right to be let alone'. I think one of the best illustrations
of our courts struggling to protect a person from the most outrageous invasion
was that involving Gordon Kaye following his accident in the storms of the
late eighties.
I should say I very much enjoy your contributions and add my
Gildas theMonk
Thank you very much. I think there is a sensible debate to be had about
the matter, and of course I did descend into polemic. The question is where
and how one draws the line. But with the way these orders are being used,
the line is being crossed
JuliaM April 3,
2011 at 12:12
/applause
ivan April 3, 2011 at 11:13
In the case of Thalidomide the injunction was the worst thing to happen. If
the problems had been out in the open then it would have been discovered that
the lack of vitamin C during pregnancy was the real problem and so the tragedy
would have been almost eliminated.
Gildas, you have started another topic – the bill of rights. Now the
question is,'what should be in it?'
2Mac April 3, 2011 at 11:05
"The Human Rights Act is a junket, the self serving illegitimate love child
of sloppy euro-intellectualism and deeply unpleasant, extremely greedy
lawyers."
I loved that sentence.
Raccoon April 3, 2011 at 11:37
I am going to embroider that sentence on a cushion, I liked it so
much!
Wigner's Friend
Excellent Article,
I think the future will involve more and more control being attemtped by
the courts on the masses so like a good boy scout use technology to establish
your rights of speech.
The answer is simple from a technological point of view. Download Linux
Live CD / USB for free to act as temporary operating system while leaving NO
TRACE on your home system. (Can also be used on any windows system to
remove/place/copy data without trace)
Get behind 7 proxies / TOR, encrypt your connection through your ISP, open
up several blogger accounts, publish details claiming to be a court
clerk/worker in the know, retweet using trending # tags, link in comments
sections of blogs and newspapers in a mass copy paste jolly.
As nobody knows the subject is taboo and subject to the Super Injunction,
it will be copied and posted and go viral on the web within and outside the
domain of the UK Courts.
Your defence:
No Evindence Available so remain SILENT.
You can now also argue to remove Super Injunction by proving the
information is actually public domain and thus prohibiting its disclosure is a
waste of time.
Sometimes Freedom is Free.


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Max. storage period --->Maximum period for which the material may be stored.
Min. Rem. Shelf Life-->Minimum amount of time for which the material must keep upon goods receipt for the goods receipt to be accepted by the system.
Total shelf life----->Period for which the material will keep in total, that is, from the date of production to the shelf life expiration date.
In addition to the material master settings as updated by other memebr, you have to make settings in OMJ5 activation to be made for SLED for plant & movement type.
The production date of the material delivered will be entered during the goods receipt only, hence, the pop up will not appear during the UD.
Inaddition to the settings in material master & SLERD activation OMJ5 , you add Std Char : LOBM_VFDAT as a chaarecteristic for the class of class type 023/022 for the material..
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Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. é o décimo álbum de estúdio da banda de rock norte-americana The Smashing Pumpkins. Foi lançado em 16 de novembro de 2018 pela Napalm Records. Produzido por Rick Rubin, é o primeiro registro da banda a contar com o baterista Jimmy Chamberlin desde Zeitgeist (2007), e o guitarrista James Iha desde o retorno do grupo, em 2006.

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Fox Attacks Twin Girls, Causes Serious Injuries to Both
The nine-month-old girls, Lola and Isabella Koupparis, were attacked on Saturday evening as they were sleeping in their cots in Homerton, east London.
One of the twin girls mauled in an apparent fox attack has been transferred to a specialist children's hospital for further treatment on her injuries, doctors said on Tuesday.
Both babies suffered arm wounds and one of them, Lola, also has facial injuries, police said on Monday, APF reports.
The twins were attacked as they slept in an upstairs bedroom at their home in Homerton at around 10pm on Saturday. Their four-year-old brother, Max, who was also sleeping upstairs, was not hurt.
The fox is thought to have crept in through a door on the ground floor which had been left open because of the hot weather while Mrs Koupparis and her husband Nick watched Britain's Got Talent on television, The Press Association reports.


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River of Heaven
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Published by: Three Rivers Press; Reprint edition
"You have to know the rest of my story, the
part I can't yet bring myself to say. A story
of a boy I knew a long time ago and a
brother I loved and then lost."
Past and present collide in Lee Martin's highly anticipated novel of a man, his brother, and the dark secret that both connects and divides them. Haunting and beautifully wrought, River of Heaven weaves a story of love and loss, confession and redemption, and the mystery buried with a boy named Dewey Finn.
On an April evening in 1955, Dewey died on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilead, Illinois, and the mystery of his death still confounds the people of this small town.
River of Heaven begins some fifty years later and centers on the story of Dewey's boyhood friend Sam Brady, whose solitary adult life is much formed by what really went on in the days leading up to that evening at the tracks. It's a story he'd do anything to keep from telling, but when his brother, Cal, returns to Mt. Gilead after decades of self-exile, it threatens to come to the surface.
A Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Bright Forever, Lee Martin masterfully conveys, with a voice that is at once distinct and lyrical, one man's struggle to come to terms with the outcome of his life. Powerful and captivating, River of Heaven is about the high cost of living a lie, the chains that bind us to our past, and the obligations we have to those we love.
"Graceful, evocative."
—Chicago Sun-Times
"One part domestic novel, one part confession, and one part thriller…This novel is about the toll living takes on our skin and our soul."
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
"If you don't know Lee Martin, you should….[River of Heaven] is a page-turner, both tender and tough, with real insight into how people live and breathe and love and worry."
"Intricately plotted…Martin is an able storyteller who doesn't need to resort to flashy verbal tricks to establish his credibility as a writer of literary fiction. In Riverof Heaven, he's created an accomplished and deeply satisfying work."
"Martin crafts eloquent sentences."
"Lee Martin's portrait of Sam Brady, a man in fear of his life and crippled by it, lingers painfully and persuasively."
—Amy Bloom, author of Away
"Sam Brady, sixty-five, has kept a secret for half a century. 'We can't tell,' his brother decides for him, and Sam doesn't, but the cost of his silence has been profound. Few writers could unfold Sam's history with the grace and compassion of Lee Martin. River of Heaven is an unusual novel, wise and humane, a story of cowardice and courage and the tortuous passage between them."
—Kathryn Harrison
"In River of Heaven, Lee Martin has created that rare thing: a literary page-turner. This is a story about the corrosive power of a childhood secret, and the way our lives are shaped as much by what we withhold as what we reveal. An elegantly structured, powerful and original novel, full of heart."
—Dani Shapiro, author of Black & White
1. What prompts Sam to build a doghouse in the shape of a ship for Stump? Why does Arthur decide to help?
2. When Duncan Hines, reporter for the local Daily Mail, shows up to take pictures of the doghouse, how does this begin to change Sam's life?
3. After watching the television news report to see the hostage situation at the grain elevator, and knowing his brother is held up at gunpoint inside, what is Sam's initial reaction? Why do you think he says he'll "wait it out" rather than go to his brother?
4. Why, after all these years of self-imposed isolation, does Sam seem to welcome company, even yearn for it?
5. What does Sam find at the yard sale? Explain its significance in the story. Do you think there is a greater symbolism to it?
6. In Chapter 4, Sam reminisces about the last thing his brother said to him before their long estrangement: "I guess we all have to live the lives we've made, but I don't think I can live mine here, not now." Do you think Sam has lived the life he's made? Why did he choose to stay in Mt. Gilead?
7. When Sam first goes with Arthur to the Seasoned Chefs, he says, "I wish I could trust this feeling I have, this thing rising up in me I can only call joy." Why can't Sam trust this feeling?
8. Each of the main characters—Sam, Arthur, Maddie, and Vera—has experienced some type of loss. Name them and how each has coped.
9. Why does Arthur lie about Maddie's mother, saying she's a methamphetamine user when, in fact, she died of AIDS?
10. Explain the friendship between Sam and his neighbor, Arthur. What does Sam get out of it? How does Arthur view Sammy?
11. At various points in the novel Arthur reminds Sam that he doesn't know much about family and true love. Why does Arthur feel the need to say those things to Sam? Does he mean to be hurtful?
12. Name the present-day moments throughout the novel that bring up memories of Dewey Finn for both Sam and Cal.
13. Sam tells Vera that he likes the idea of Maddie living with him. How does he feel about her eventually returning to her grandfather?
14. Sam has spent much time thinking about the past. Do you think he has ever contemplated the future? How far ahead does he think?
15. What do you suspect Cal has been doing with himself since the death of Dewey Finn and leaving home to join the Army?
16. After Cal explains the reason he had the drawn-up map of Chicago, Sam goes to bed and has a very profound and significant dream. What happens in it? What does Sam think it means? What is your interpretation?
17. What is the River of Heaven? Do you think it is an appropriate title for the novel?
18. On page 159, Sam says that his father, in 1959, "had no idea how far love could reach." Does Sam have any idea himself?
19. Cal says to Sam, on page 165, "You're a good man, Sammy. You always have been." What does this do for Sam?
20. When Cal pulls up in his truck after searching for Stump, what does Sam shout to him? What does Cal do? Why does Sam choose to tell him?
21. When Cal finally reveals that he was part of the militia, how much of his story does Sam believe?
22. On pages 228 and 229, Arthur realizes that "We touch the world . . . and sooner or later the world touches back." What does he mean by this? How has the world touched back at him?
23. What was the final story on Cal's involvement with Herbert Zwilling? Why do you think the FBI investigator would rather have this explanation over the plans to blow up the Sears Tower?
24. Upon learning that Cal has died, what is Sam's reaction?
25. Do you think there was a real chance for Sam to save Dewey?
26. What do you think Vera's and Maddie's reactions to Sam's confession will be? How about Nancy Finn? Do you think she's had a long suspicion that he was somehow involved in Dewey's death?
27. What has finally telling his story about the night Dewey died done for Sam?
This evening toward dusk my neighbor, Arthur Pope, strides across the driveways that separate our houses, a casserole dish held between his hands. I see him through the kitchen window as I stand at the sink opening a can of Natural Balance duck and potato for my basset hound, Stump. I reach to switch off the light, but, too late, Arthur has spotted me—I can tell by the way he lifts the casserole dish higher, extends it with his oven-mitt covered hands—and I have no choice but to wave at him and then go out into my side yard and open the gate.
"Ahoy, neighbor." A former Navy man, this is the way he talks. Unlike me, he's kept fit over the years. He still does calisthenics, even keeps a barbell set in his basement—a manly man with chest and shoulders and arms that aren't what they were thirty years ago, but still they're impressive. A thick head of wavy gray hair. A bounce to his step. "Time for mess." He bows his head over the casserole dish and sniffs. "Andouille jambalaya," he says. "Permission requested to come aboard, sir."
It's October, and the leaves have started to fall. Here in Mt. Gilead, our small town in southern Illinois, we can burn them on Saturdays, air quality and the ozone layer be damned. We rake our leaves to the sides of our streets or onto our back yard gardens, and set them to burn. The air smells of the must and the smoke the way it has this time of year as long as I can recall since I was a kid in Rat Town—that's what we've always called the neighborhood in the lowlands on the south edge of Mt. Gilead, a mess of tumble down houses. Each spring there, when the Wabash River rises, the floodwaters still come up to the doorsteps. I'm glad to be safe and dry here in Orchard Farms, this modest gathering of ranch homes on streets with names like Apple Blossom and Cherry Blossom and Peach Tree.
Arthur thinks he knows my life—me, Sam Brady, a bachelor all my sixty-five years—and I wish I could believe that he does. He thinks he knows it because his dear wife, Bess, is now six months gone, and he imagines that we share the misery of men living alone. "You and me," he said once not long after she died. He laid his hand on my shoulder. "Jesus, Sammy. We're a pair."
But my life is not his. I'd tell him this if I had the heart. I'd tell him I have no idea what it is to love someone all that time—nearly forty years he and Bess were married—and to lose them one day without warning. An aneurysm in her brain. "Arthur, my head hurts," she said, and then the next instant, she fell to the kitchen floor, already gone. All my adult life I've lived alone, except for the dogs, the latest being Stump, who stands now at the screen door waiting for his duck and potato.
"He gets contentious," I tell Arthur, nodding toward Stump. Nothing could be further from the truth; like all basset hounds, Stump is long on patience, steadfast with his devotion, mild-tempered, and affectionate—a perfect companion. His nose is up against the storm door glass. His velvety ears hang in loose folds, their ends curling slightly inward. He stares at me with his sad-ass eyes. "Stump," I say to Arthur. "He puts the hurt in me if he doesn't get his grub."
"Don't we all." Arthur lifts the casserole dish toward my nose. "Sailor, don't we all."
What can I do but let him into my house and tell him to set the casserole dish on the range? He tells me exactly how he made it, and I know what's coming next. "I could give you the recipe." He snaps his fingers. "Or you could come on down to the Senior Center—that's the ticket—and, Sammy, you could learn to do for yourself."
It's not the first time he's asked. He's learned to cook by joining a widowers' group—the Seasoned Chefs—and every Wednesday evening he goes downtown to the Senior Center and works up a new dish. But me? "Sorry, Arthur," I tell him. "No can do."
For a moment, I'm tempted—I'll admit that—but then I think of myself trying to make conversation with all those men, widowers who have a genuine right to their loneliness, and I can't imagine it. You see, I'm a man who chooses to be alone, a man who has a secret. I'm a closet auntie, a fag, a queer—you know all the words. Here in Mt. Gilead, even this day and age when the world is supposed to be more tolerant, more accepting, it's clear that many folks think this is a wrong thing to be. I see the graffiti spray-painted on the sides of garbage dumpsters along alleys, on the bathroom walls at the city park, on the Salvation Army collection bins in the Wal-Mart parking lot. Those words. I hear them on the lips of school boys and cocksure young men swaggering around the Town and Country Lanes, where I sometimes bowl a few lines, even from people like Arthur, older men who still believe that naming something they fear puts it in a place where it can't hurt them. I've heard them all my life, these words. I've let them, for better or worse, make me a cautious man, on guard, well aware that danger always waits just around the corner.


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From: Glenn Petersen 10/31/2020 4:42:31 PM
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Joe Biden Slams Netflix & Amazon On Taxes, Again
By Jill Goldsmith
Co-Business Editor
"Let me be clear: Hardworking Americans should not be paying more in federal income taxes than Amazon or Netflix. It's time for big corporations to finally pay their fair share," Biden tweeted between frenetic campaign stops with this nail-biter of an election only five days away.
Let me be clear: Hardworking Americans should not be paying more in federal income taxes than Amazon or Netflix.
It's time for big corporations to finally pay their fair share.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 30, 2020
At a rally in Minnesota on Friday afternoon, he broadened out the thesis, one that's key to his platform, that the wealthiest and biggest companies — some 91 of Fortune 500 companies in particular — paid "zero taxes" last year.
Amazon didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
A Netflix spokesperson cited the company's financial statements, saying "Netflix paid US federal taxes in 2019 and is reporting a significantly higher effective tax rate so far in 2020."
However, it can't go unnoticed that many people in Hollywood, including those at the Ted Sarandos co-run streamer and the Jeff Bezos juggernaut, are big supporters of the Biden-Harris ticket and the Democratic Party overall — which may be a sign that Biden wants to show he's not afraid to call out friends as well as enemies.
Biden's tax spat with Amazon goes back to the summer of 2019, when he tweeted: "I have nothing against Amazon, but no company pulling in billions of dollars of profits should pay a lower tax rate than firefighters and teachers. We need to reward work, not just wealth."
Amazon fired back then with its own tweet: "We've paid $2.6B in corporate taxes since 2016. We pay every penny we owe. Congress designed tax laws to encourage companies to reinvest in the American economy. We have. $200B in investments since 2011 & 300K US jobs. Assume VP Biden's complaint is w/ the tax code, not Amazon."
The tax debate flared after President Donald Trump and the Republicans reworked the corporate tax code in 2016, slashing the corporate tax rate to 21%, from 35%.
A widely cited analysis by Washington, D.C. think tank the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy last year analyzed 2018 financial filings of the country's largest publicly held companies and found that dozens of them, including Amazon and Netflix but also Starbucks, Chevron, Eli Lilly and others, were able to "zero-out" federal income taxes even if they posted profits.
An element of Biden's tax plan was even dubbed the "Amazon Rule" because he tends to single out the Bezos-run company. It set a 15% minimum tax rate on net annual income for corporations making over $100 million a year, no loopholes allowed.
It's true that the so-called FAANG or FAAMG stocks — Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google — have attracted the most attention for their tax rates, according to S&P Global Intelligence. Of that group, S&P said, Facebook was the only company to report an effective tax rate at or above the statutory rate in 2019. Netflix and Microsoft, meanwhile, reported the lowest effective tax rates last year, at 9.5% and 10.2%, respectively.
The reason Netflix popped up today in particular in Biden's remarks wasn't clear. Netflix is a much smaller company and more contained business than others in the FAANG/FAAMG group.
Bernie Sanders may be why. He called them out in April 2019, saying, "Amazon, Netflix and dozens of major corporations, as a result of Trump's tax bill, pay nothing in federal taxes. I think that's a disgrace." In November, he singled out Netflix in a tweet:
Your $8.99 Netflix subscription is more than the company paid in federal income taxes last year (nothing).
We are going to make massive corporations finally pay their fair share.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) November 19, 2019
Yesterday, Netflix said it will raise the price of its standard plan by $1 a month to $14 and of its premium plan by $2 to $18.
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