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Monopolies and Underdevelopment
This ambitious analysis is centered on the evolution of economic structures in colonized economies, showing the effects of these structures on today's global reality for all economies, whether they are considered 'developed' or 'underdeveloped.' The result is an illuminating study of historical restriction and exploitation and its impact on present day markets around the world. Learn More
Procedural Fairness in Competition Proceedings
Edited by Paul Nihoul, Tadeusz Skoczny
How substantive competition rules are enforced plays a crucial role in achieving their goals. This thoughtful book examines procedural issues that have arisen from the increased enforcement of competition law worldwide. Learn More
The Economic Characteristics of Developing Jurisdictions
Edited by Michal S. Gal, Mor Bakhoum, Josef Drexl, Eleanor M. Fox, David J. Gerber
There is ongoing debate as to what competition law and policy is most suitable for developing jurisdictions. This book argues that the unique characteristics of developing jurisdictions matter when crafting and enforcing competition law and these should be placed at the heart of analysis when considering which competition laws are judicious. Through examining different factors that influence the adoption and implementation of competition laws in developing countries, this book illustrates the goals of such laws, the content of the legal rules, and the necessary institutional, political, ideological and legal conditions that must complement such rules. The book integrates development economics with competition law to provide an alternative vision of competition law, concluding that 'one competition law and policy size' does not fit 'all socio-economic contexts'. Learn More
Innovation, Competition and Collaboration
Edited by Dana Beldiman
As innovation processes become increasingly collaborative, new relationships among players in the innovation space emerge. These developments demand new legal structures that allow horizontally integrated, open and shared use of intellectual property (IP). This book examines the fundamental issues regarding the collaborative use of IP and discusses emerging trends including: the interpretation of FRAND terms in the context of standard essential patents; secondary liability of technology providers; contractual arrangements in trademark law, and the treatment of IP issues in specific emerging industries. Learn More
Joint Research and Development under US Antitrust and EU Competition Law
Björn Lundqvist
This fascinating new book dissects, from a Competition law perspective, how Research and Development collaborations operate under both US and EU antitrust law. Analyzing the evolution of this innovation landscape from the 1970s to the present day, Lundqvist details the modifications and amendments made over this time to the relevant legal acts and guidelines. In doing to, the author picks up on the slow shift that has taken place in both the antitrust laws of the USA and the Competition Rules of the EU. The book concludes by discussing the necessity for a stringent attitude towards the antitrust establishment, and how this can be developed by reviving the concept of the 'innovation market'. Learn More
Litigation and Arbitration in EU Competition Law
Edited by Mel Marquis, Roberto Cisotta
With courts and arbitrators functioning daily as front line decision-makers applying EU competition law, this book reflects on a variety of issues related to the litigation and arbitration of cases in this field. It provides expert analysis from perspectives of substance, procedure, fundamental rights, as well as inter-institutional dialogue and coherence. Learn More
State-Initiated Restraints of Competition
Edited by Josef Drexl, Vicente Bagnoli
States influence competition in the market in various ways. They often act themselves as market participants through state-owned enterprises. They regulate markets and specific sectors of the economy such as public utilities in particular. In some instances, market regulation explicitly aims to promote competition in the market. In other instances, regulatory schemes and decisions may inadvertently distort competition or openly promote conflicting objectives and even anti-competitive goals. Furthermore, states can distort competition among firms when they act as purchasers of goods and services as well as when they grant subsidies to individual firms. This book assembles contributions by competition law scholars who present new insights on the diversity of problems and challenges arising from state-initiated restraints of competition in jurisdictions from all around the world, not only including the EU and the US, but also Latin American countries, China, India and Australia. Learn More
Private Enforcement of Antitrust
Arianna Andreangeli
Through the expert assessment of the US federal courts' case on competition law, alongside that of domestic Europe, Arianna Andreangeli provides a fresh response to the issues surrounding collective litigation. The discussion is skillfully placed in the wider context of competition enforcement, whilst at the same time exploring both past and present trends. The book concludes that collective litigation of competition claims must strike a "fair balance" between respecting rules of due process and ensuring fuller access to justice. Learn More
Standardization under EU Competition Rules and US Antitrust Laws
Standardization under EU Competition Rules and US Antitrust Laws is a comprehensive and detailed legal analysis of standard-setting procedure and the regulation of standard essential patents. It deals with the competition law aspects of competitors' collaboration to create technical standards, as well as the contentious antitrust issues regarding access to standards and standard essential patents. Learn More
International Merger Policy
Julie Clarke
International Merger Policy offers a compelling comparative assessment of domestic and regional merger laws and procedures. Identifying important areas of convergence and emerging best practice, it considers existing levels of international cooperation and identifies the key costs associated with transnational merger review before evaluating possible mechanisms by which they might be reduced. Learn More
Competition Law and Policy in Japan and the EU
Etsuko Kameoka
This exciting new book embarks on a comparative analysis of competition law and policy in Japan and the EU. It provides a clear and carefully researched exposition of the differences between the relevant rules, systems and underlying ideas of the two jurisdictions, together with the relevant historical backgrounds. Learn More
Market Building through Antitrust
Adrien de Hauteclocque
Market Building through Antitrust investigates the role of antitrust policy in the building of competitive energy markets in Europe. By looking at the specific problem of long-term supply and access contracts in the electricity sector, the book questions the suitability of antitrust policy as a market building tool. It shows that the institutional infrastructure that pre-dated competitive reform and the politics of liberalization have largely shaped the current dynamics at work in European energy regulatory practice. In particular, antitrust law has increasingly been used as a quasi-ex ante regulatory tool, thereby raising problems in terms of economic efficiency, legal certainty and political legitimacy. Learn More
Trade Liberalisation and International Co-operation
Edited by Tania Voon
This book provides a detailed analysis of major legal and public policy issues arising from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) – a treaty that will dramatically change the landscape of international trade, with effects that will be felt on a global scale. Learn More
The Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law
Edited by Michael Faure, Xinzhu Zhang
This book focuses on experiences with the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) of 2007 in China. It uses carefully-chosen case studies to examine how the competition authorities in China discuss cases and how they use economic reasoning in their decision-making process. Learn More
Pharmaceutical Innovation, Competition and Patent Law
Edited by Josef Drexl, Nari Lee
Considering the arguments from the perspectives of innovation, competition law and patent law, this book explores the difficult question of balancing protection with access, highlighting the difficulties in harmonization and coordination. The contributors to this book, including academics, judges and practitioners from Europe, the US and Japan, explore to what extent patent strategies and life-cycle management practices take advantage of patent laws and health-care regulation and disrupt the necessary balance between incentives for innovation and access to affordable medicine and health care. Learn More
The Political Economy of Competition Law in Asia
Edited by Mark Williams
This detailed book describes and analyses the essential political economy features that provide the backdrop to the competition policies and competition law regimes of several of the most important Asian economies. Learn More
Building New Competition Law Regimes
Edited by David Lewis
This detailed book focuses on the development of competition law institutions and contains case studies that examine this against the backdrop of the debate around global convergence of competition law and the limits imposed by particular national circumstances. Learn More
Business Innovation and the Law
Edited by Marilyn Pittard, Ann L. Monotti, John Duns
Business Innovation and the Law analyses the topical issue of protecting and promoting business research and development. It does so by examining business innovation through the lens of different legal disciplines – intellectual property, labour and employment laws, competition and corporate laws. Learn More
Cartels, Competition and Public Procurement
Stefan E. Weishaar
Stefan Weishaar explores the ways in which economic theory can be used to mitigate the adverse effects of bid rigging cartels. The study sheds light on one of the vital issues for achieving cost-effective public procurement – which is itself a critical question in the context of the global financial crisis. The book comprehensively examines whether different laws deal effectively with bid rigging and the ways in which economic theory can be used to mitigate the adverse effects of such cartels. The employed industrial economics and auction theory highlights shortcomings of the law in all three jurisdictions – the European Union, China and Japan – and seeks to raise the awareness of policymakers as to when extra precautionary measures against bid rigging conspiracies should be taken. Learn More
Regulatory Competition in the Internal Market
Barbara Gabor
Regulatory competition within Europe and internationally, operates in several fields with different outcomes. This book offers a comparative legal and economic analysis of corporate, securities and competition law, exploring the reasons behind such differences. Learn More


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The Greatest Bracket Busters in NCAA Tournament History
Michael Weinreb
It's a given: Every year, you spend time carefully filling out your NCAA tournament bracket, and every year, some low seed nobody saw coming winds up busting your chances before the first weekend even begins. We don't know who it might be this year (keep a close eye on Bucknell), but here are five of the most notorious bracket-shattering early-round upsets in tournament history.
#15 Norfolk State 86, #2 Missouri 84, 2012
The MEAC Champions pulled off one of the most stunning upsets in recent years when Missouri's Phil Pressey missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer. Kyle O'Quinn led Norfolk State with 26 points and 14 rebounds. "We even messed up my bracket," he admitted afterward.
#14 Mercer 78, #2 Duke 71, 2014
The stats gurus over at Five Thirty Eight gave Mercer a 7 percent chance of winning this game, thereby making this loss arguably an even worse loss than Lehigh's upset of Duke in 2012. Mercer shot 55.6 percent from the field compared to Duke's 35.5 percent. "This is what March Madness is all about," said Mercer's Langston Hall.
#15 Middle Tennessee State 90, #2 seed Michigan State 81, 2016
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo is generally renowned for his tournament-coaching brilliance, but this loss was further proof that March Madness can envelop anyone. The Spartans were 16.5-point favorites over the Blue Raiders, but couldn't stop the onslaught. "In my wildest dreams I didn't think they'd hit some of the shots they hit," Izzo said afterward.
#15 Santa Clara 64, #2 seed Arizona 61, 1993
A wild victory for a school that's best known for producing point guard Steve Nash—but interestingly, Nash, only a freshman, shot 1-for-7 from the floor, and missed a couple of key free throws in the final seconds. The Broncos still held on to win after Arizona missed a 3 at the buzzer. "They didn't panic," said Broncos coach Dick Davey, "but I did."
#15 Richmond 73, #2 Syracuse 69, 1991
This wasn't the first time Richmond had proven to be a bracket-buster—coach Dick Tarrant's team also defeated Charles Barkley and Auburn as a No. 12 seed back in 1984. But Richmond again made history in 1991, becoming the first-ever 15 seed to beat 2 seed. But by the end of this one, Richmond had captured the imagination of a national audience on CBS, which had shifted nearly all its national viewers to this game, and forever ratcheted up the wild unpredictability and strange beauty of March Madness.
When Tarrant was told by broadcaster Verne Lundquist that 25 million people were watching the end of this game, he joked that his players might have, um, had some digestion issues had they known.
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SATAN'S MAFIA - NAZIS - GUILTY - "GLOBAL OMNICIDE!" RACE RIOTS, DR DEATH'S COVID-19, GLOBAL GREAT DEPRESSION, ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE MAYHEM, PEAK ENERGY, GLOBAL DEPOPULATION & POLICE STATE AGENDA! "It Is THE END!"
JIMMY - "THE KOCH SUCKING CRAMER" - THE RIGGED MARKETS ARE WRONG!
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE - TOPS - GREAT DEPRESSION 25.6% - INCLUDING - FURLOUGHED WORKERS - UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS - DISCOURAGED WORKERS - AND - PART TIME WORKERS WANTING FULL TIME WORK! . . . .
. . . . THE - "U6" - UNEMPLOYMENT PLUS UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS AND FURLOUGHED WORKERS! . . . . .
. . . . TOPS - 25.8% - WHEN OVER 3% OF FURLOUGHED WORKERS - AND - UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS - NEITHER - COUNTED! ARE ADDED IN TO U6!
U6 Unemployment Rate
This interactive chart compares three different measures of unemployment. U3 is the official unemployment rate. U5 includes discouraged workers and all other marginally attached workers. U6 adds on those workers who are part-time purely for economic reasons.
. . . The current U6 unemployment rate as of May 2020 is 21.20.
BS FOR THE BILLIONAIRES SPECIALIST - JIM CRAMER - RANTS ON THE VIDEO BELOW THAT - THE NAY SAYERS HAD IT ALL WRONG! . . . .
. . . "THE FREE EFFICIENT RATIONAL MARKETS" - KNEW THAT THE ECONOMY WAS NOT AS BAD AD PEOPLE WERE SAYING! BASED ON THE DROP IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE - U3 - THIS WEEK!
WRONG AGAIN - JIMMY THE KOCH SUCKER! - THIS RATE WAS - RIGGED LOWER - BY THE WAY THEY DID - NOT - COUNT WORKERS THAT WERE FURLOUGHED. (SEE ARTICLE BELOW)
Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization
FURLOUGHED WORKERS - ARE - NOT - INCLUDED IN - U3 - "THE OFFICIAL" UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, U5 - "THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE INCLUDING DISCOURAGED WORKERS!" NOR ARE FURLOUGHED WORKERS INCLUDED IN THE REAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE . . . U6!
THE TWO PRIOR TWO UNEMPLOYMENT RATES - U3 AND U5 - WERE CONCOCTED BY RONALD THE PURE EVIL GRANDPA ACTOR DUNCE DON IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES! TO REDUCE THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN EARLY EIGHTIES RECESSION. IF YOU CAN'T REDUCE THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE BY - RAPING THE MASSES - AND - STUFFING THE POCKETS OF THE 300 BILLIONAIRE SLAVE OWNING DON FAMILIES! JUST CHANGE THE DEFINITION AND SAY THEY ARE "UNEMPLOYABLE!" WHAT EVIL BEASTS!
THE REAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE - U6 - INCLUDES "DISCOURAGED WORKERS" AND WORKERS WORKING PART TIME - BECAUSE THEY CAN'T GET FULL TIME WORK. THIS IS THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE TO COMPARE TO - THE GREAT DEPRESSION - ALMOST!
THE U6 UNEMPLOYMENT RATE ONLY DROPPED FORM. . . .
. . . . 22.8% IN APRIL - TO 21.2% IN MAY! A DROP OF ONLY 1.6%. . . .
. . . . NOT INCLUDING THE - 3% OF FURLOUGHED WORKERS THAT BLS STATED IN THE ARTICLE BELOW ARE NOT INCLUDED IN ANY OF THESE FIGURES! WHICH ARE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO BE MORE LIKE . . 6% TO 8% . . OF THE WORKFORCE. THESE ARE WORKERS THAT ARE NOT OFFICIALLY - LAID OFF - BUT - THEY ARE - COLLECTING UNEMPLOYMENT. MOST ARE NOT LIKELY TO BE REHIRED, IF THE ECONOMY DROPS INTO A MAJOR GREAT DEPRESSION, LIKE I ANTICIPATE!
. . . . IT WAS AN - "OVERSIGHT" - THESE - FURLOUGHED WORKERS - WERE - NOT - INCLUDED IN THE UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS! . . . YEAH RIGHT!
UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS - ARE NOT - A PART OF ANY THREE OF THESE UNEMPLOYMENT RATES. THESE WERE NOT A BIG FACTOR IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION ERA. BUT NOW THERE ARE . . . . .
. . . . 10.7 MILLION PLUS UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS IN THE US!
. . . . MORE LIKE - - 10.7 MILLION - IN CALIFORNIA ALONE!
I TRUST THAT THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE OF THIS GROUP IS MUCH HIGHER THAN THE - 24.2% - U6 - UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FOR THE WHOLE POPULATION, INCLUDING FURLOUGHED WORKERS!
SO THE MAGIC FREE RATIONAL EFFICIENT MARKETS - ARE WRONG - JIMMY!
THE ACTUAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE PEAKED IN APRIL AT ROUGHLY 25.8% . .
. . . OMG! . . . THIS 25.8% RATE . . IS HIGHER THAN THE 25.6% RATE . . .
. . . . DURING - THE GREAT DEPRESSION - BEFORE REGAN STARTED THESE
. . . . BS FOR THE BILLIONAIRES - FRAUDULENT UNEMPLOYMENT MEASURES!
. . . . AND DROPPED ONLY SLIGHTLY TO 24.2% IN MAY!. . . .
. . . . IF YOU ADD IN AN ADDITIONAL 1% TO 7% MORE FOR - UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS - THAT ARE - NOT COUNTED! . . . .
. . . THE RIGGED MARKETS - CERTAINLY - ARE - NOT CORRECT - THAT ALL IS WELL! IN FACT I WOULD ARGUE THAT . . . . .
. . . . THE MARKETS ARE - RIGGED - TO - TRANSFER MORE TRILLIONS TO . . .
. . . . THE 300 OR SO - RUTHLESS SLAVE OWNING BILLIONAIRE DON FAMILIES!
. . . . BEFORE - THE PURE EVIL BEASTS - SINK - PLANET EVIL TITANIC! THIS IS
. . . . "SATAN'S MAFIA GLOBAL DEPOPULATION AND POLICE STATE AGENDA!"
. . . . JUST WAIT TO YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS THIS FALL!
Here's why the real unemployment rate may be higher than reported
PUBLISHED FRI, JUN 5 20201:29 PM EDTUPDATED FRI, JUN 5 20205:21 PM EDT
The unemployment rate in the U.S. improved last month as millions of people returned to the workforce.
But the official 13.3% unemployment rate, while still high relative to any point since the Great Depression in the early 20th century, likely understates the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.
The real unemployment rate is likely at least 16%, according to the federal government.
That would mean roughly 1 in 6 people can't find work.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which published its monthly jobs report Friday morning, admitted the official unemployment rate may be low relative to reality due to an error in data collection.
Around 21 million Americans were unemployed as of mid-May, a reduction of 2.1 million people from a month earlier, according to BLS data.
That number includes workers who were furloughed — meaning those who were temporarily laid off — by their companies in recent weeks.
More than 15 million workers — about 73% — of the total unemployed are on temporary layoff and expect to be recalled to work once business rebounds.
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That share is far higher than at any other time in modern history (with the exception of April, when the share was 78.3%).
Yet the BLS may have severely undercounted the number of workers classified as "unemployed on temporary layoff" due to an error, the agency said.
The BLS determines how many people are unemployed based on a household survey. Survey interviewers misclassified several furloughed workers as being "absent from work due to 'other reasons,'" according to the BLS.
That's the same category of workers who'd be on vacation, for example.
16.3% unemployment rate.
The overall unemployment rate would have been "about 3 percentage points higher than reported" if those individuals had been identified correctly, according to the agency. (The estimate isn't seasonally adjusted.)
That would put the official unemployment rate at 16.3%.
The true rate could be higher still.
The unemployment rate doesn't include the share of workers who may have dropped out of the workforce, perhaps due to feeling pessimistic about the chances of finding a job in the current economy. More than 6 million workers have dropped out of the labor force since February.
In fact, the unemployment rate is a much-higher 21.2% as judged by another metric.
This metric, which the BLS calls U-6, includes people "marginally attached to the labor force." These are people who aren't currently working or looking for work but are available for work, as well as part-time employees who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for part-time employment.
The U-6 metric doesn't include the workers misclassified by the agency.
Of course, furloughed workers could be recalled back to work quickly, depending on the speed of the economic rebound as states begin to reopen certain business sectors. The unemployment rate would likely rebound faster in this eventuality than if the layoffs were permanent.
The same misclassification phenomenon occurred in April, too — the official 14.7% unemployment rate would have been nearly 20% if furloughed workers had been identified correctly, the BLS said.
"BLS and the Census Bureau are investigating why this misclassification error continues to occur and are taking additional steps to address the issue," the agency said Friday in the jobs report.
"According to usual practice, the data from the household survey are accepted as recorded," the agency said. "To maintain data integrity, no ad hoc actions are taken to reclassify survey responses."
FREE - RATIONAL - EFFICIENT - MARKETS - GOT IT RIGHT! . . DONNIE THE DESPOT IS . . . .
. . . . "MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" . . AND . . "RECEIVES AN A+++ FOR COVID-19!"
. . . OR - "JUST THE LAST MONSTER - FLEECING RAPING PILLAGING - OPPORTUNITY!"
. . . "MAKING AMERICA DEAD AGAIN!" . . BY THIS FALL! . . I REST MY CASE . . THIS IS . .
. . . "SATAN'S MAFIA GLOBAL DEPOPULATION AND GLOBAL POLICE STATE AGENDA!"
. . . THIS IS - NOT - A - "V SHAPED" - "U SHAPED" - OR - "L SHAPED" RECESSION!
. . . IT IS - "THE BEGINNING - OF - THE HELL BEYOND ALL HELLS" - ON. . .
. . . PLANET EVIL GREED! THIS IS JUST THE LAST . . . . . MASSIVE . . .
. . . FLEECING RAPING PILLAGING CHURNING AND BURNING OPPORTUNITY FOR
. . . SATAN'S MAFIA! THE PURE EVIL MONEY MONSTERS AND EVIL MONEY SLUTS!
. . . YOU - PURE EVIL - FASCIST RACIST EVIL WHITE RICH FUCKS ARE DOING . .
. . . A FANTASTIC JOB! . . . "KILLING EVERYONE!" . . . GUILTY OF "GLOBAL OMNICIDE!" . .
. . . MY JOB! . . . TO REMIND YOU . . USING . . .
. . . "THE LOGIC OF THE GOD OF LOVE!" . . . . AND . . . "MY FATHER'S EYES". . . .
. . . THAT - "YOU" - YES - "YOU" - EVIL RICH FUCKS AND THEIR WHORES!
. . . YOU WILL RECEIVE - "THE LOGICAL IMPLICATIONS" - OF - WHAT - YOU - SUPPORT!
. . . VERY SOON! . . EITHER . . PUBLICALLY, FINANCIALLY, GLOBALLY . . SUPPORT. . . .
. . . THE ONLY - SUSTAINABLE HUMANE AND EGALITARIAN - SOCIETY AND ECONOMY . .
. . . "THE SHE MATRIARCHAL NORDIC MODEL!" . . . BERNIE / AOC!
. . . "AS IT IS IN HEAVEN!" . . . "SO SHOULD IT BE ON EARHT!"
. . . "TAKE CARE OF THOSE IN NEED!" . . . NOW . . . AND I MEAN NOW! OR . . . .
. . . "I WILL FRY YOU IN THE VERY HELL YOU FRIED ME IN!" . . . .
. . . "THAT YOU FRIED - MY CHILDREN - MY SPECIES - MY PLANET - IN!" . . .
. . . FOR YOUR - INSATIABLE - INSANE - "PURE EVIL GREED!" . . . YOU ARE TRULY . .
. . . "SATANIC FUCKS - BEYOND - ALL - SATANIC FUCKS" . . IN ALL OF HISTORY!
. . . "YOU" - YES - "YOU" - EVIL RICH FUCKS AND THEIR WHORES! . . . .
. . . WILL - BE - "FRYING" - IN - "THE VERY HELL BEYOND ALL HELLS" . . .
. . . "YOU" . . ARE . . "FRYING ME" . . IN . . VERY SOON! . . ENJOY THE . . . .
. . . "MOST HORRIFIC HELL BEYOND ALL HELLS" . . NOT EVEN MOVIES COULD DEPICT!
. . . "KARMA ON - TRUMPET COCAINE!" . ENJOY HELL - RICH FUCKS AND THEIR WHORES!
6/2/20 THE RACIST FASCIST PSYCHOPATHS - THE NAZI SATAN'S EMPIRE - RIGHT WING MONEY MONSTERS - "ARE KILLING US!" . . . . . THE NAZI'S WON WWII! AND . . . .
. . . THEY ARE VERY PROUD OF IT! IF THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT THEY ARE GOOD AT . .
. . . FLEECING, RAPING, PILLAGING, CHURNING AND BURNING OF - "THE REST!" . .
. . . THEY ARE SIMPLY - "THEIVES - THUGS - AND - THEIR WHORES!" . .
. . . FOR THEIR - INSATIABLE, INSANE - PURE EVIL GREED! . . . AND . . .
. . . "KILLING EVERYONE!" . . . . EVEN THEMSELVES . . "THANK GOD!" "It Is THE END!"
. . . THE RACE RIOTS - DR. DEATH FAUCI'S KILLER CORONAVIRUS - TRUMP/PENCE - JOE BAMA - 9/11 - CHENEY/BUSH . . FROM MY WORK ON - REAGAN . . ARE ALL PART OF . .
. . "SATAN'S MAFIA" - THE PURE EVIL RICH AND THEIR WHORES . . .
. . . "GLOBAL DEPOPULATION AND GLOBAL POLICE STATE AGENDA!" . . .
. . . THINK ABOUT IT - WHAT HAVE - THE RACE PROTESTS / RIOTS - ACCOMPLISHED?
. . . BY THE EVIL RICH - JUST NOW - TODAY - RAISING THE CRIMINAL CHARGES TO SECOND DEGREE MURDER ON THE PRIMARY OFFICER, AND THE OTHER THREE OFFICERS TO ACCOMPLICES TO SECOND DEGREE MURDER - TODAY - JUNE 3, 2020! . . . .
. . . THEY HAVE GOTTEN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS TO MILLIONS OF POOR, BLACK, MINORITIES, UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS, LIBERAL PEOPLE - TO - SPREAD AGGRESSIVELY
. . . DR. DEATH FAUCI'S KILLER CORONAVIRUS! SPECIFICALLY KILLING THE PEOPLE THAT THE EVIL RIGHT WING HATE THE MOST - LIBERALS, THE POOR, BLACKS, UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS, OTHER MINORITIES, ETC! . . .
. . . EXCEPTIONAL JOB AT - "KILLING US" - PURE EVIL RIGHT WING MONEY MONSTERS!
. . . PLUS - THESE SAME - BLACKS, MINORITIES, LIBERALS ARE THE ONES WHOS LIVES HAVE JUST BEEN DESTROYED - ALONG WITH THEIR BUSINESSES - THE FEW THAT THEY HAVE!. . . . .
. . . BURYING THESE PEOPLE IN MASSIVE DEBT! . . . .
. . . WHILE GIVING - MORE - TRILLIONS TO THE MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES!
. . . IN FORGIVABLE LOANS! THAT MOSTLY THEY CAN MEET THE REQUIREMENTS TO HAVE THE LOANS FORGIVEN!
. . . TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS - TO - THE MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES! . . .
. . . SATAN'S MAFIA DONS - ARE - FLEECING TRILLIONS FROM - "THE LOWER DECKS!"
. . . JUST BEFORE - THEY - HORRIFICALLY SINK - "PLANET TITANIC!" . . THIS FALL!
. . . BY THE END OF JULY - DR DEATH FAUCI'S KILLER CORONAVIRUS - WILL - EXPLODE AMONGST THESE PEOPLE! JUST AT THE SAME TIME AS . . . . .
. . . THE 1,000 PER WEEK UNEMPLOYMENT - WILL - EXPIRE! . . . .
. . . "THE HELL OF ALL HELLS ON PLANET EVIL GREED!" FOR THESE BLACKS, MINORITIES, POOR, UNDOCUMENTED, ETC! . . . BY AUGUST! . . . HORRIFICALLY BY NOVEMBER!
. . . MY PRIOR EXTENSIVE POSTS ON THE TOPIC - FOR ALL POSTS - CLICK "POSTS" ABOVE
IS THIS "SATAN'S MAFIA GLOBAL DEPOPULATION AND POLICE STATE AGENDA!?" "MEDICARE FOR ALL!" OR "CORONAVIRUS FOR ALL!" "NAKITA CORONAVIRUS" CAUSES GREAT DEPRESSION - REDUCTION IN "GLOBAL DIMMING!" CAUSES CLIMATE CHANGE HELL ON EARTH! "It Is THE END!"
EVIL TRUMP PENCE FLORIDA - RIGHT WING - INSURE - "THE MOST HORRIFIC CASE" - 10 MILLION PLUS US DEATHS - "THE HAMMER AND THE DANCE!" CRITICAL PAPER! MARKET OR GOVERNMENT PRICING AND ALLOCATION?! "THANK GOD!" - - "It Is THE END!"
"GET YOUR SUCK BAGS NOW!" EVIL TRUMP PENCE - RIGHT WING - INSURE - "THE MOST HORRIFIC CASE" - 10 MILLION PLUS US DEATHS! EVIL IDIOTS! "THE HAMMER AND THE DANCE!" MARKET OR GOVERNMENT PRICING AND ALLOCATION?! "THANK GOD!" - - "It Is THE END!"
"BECOMING ONE" US FIRST WAVE - SECOND WAVE IN CHINA AND EUROPE! FANTASTIC JOB - AT - KILLING US! 9/11, THEN COVID-19, COMING NEXT - "HOT STUFF!" WHO?! TO FINISH OFF THE RICH AND THEIR WHORES! "THE GOOD" GO TO HEAVEN! "It Is THE END!"
THIS IS "SATAN'S MAFIA GLOBAL DEPOPULATION & POLICE STATE AGENDA!" "THEY ARE KILLING US!" THE NORDIC COUNTRIES - THE ONLY REAL DEMOCRACIES - SWEDEN VS DENMARK - VS THE TOTALITARIAN EMPIRES: SATAN'S EMPIRE - XI JINPING'S & VLAD'S EMPIRES! "THANK GOD!" "It Is THE END!"
"LAST CALL FOR SOULS!" "BECOME ONE!" NOW! THIS IS "THE FINAL TESTAMENT OF JESUS CHRIST!" PREPARE YOUR SOULS! FATHER SAID - LIKE IT WAS DURING THE TIME OF NOAH - ONE DAY THE WORLD WILL SEEM NORMAL - THEN "It Is THE END!" MOST SOULS WILL BE TAKEN UP TO HEAVEN! THE EVIL RICH & THEIR WHORES LEFT IN HELL THEIR PURE EVIL GREED - FOR MORE - "MONEY MONEY MONEY" - CAUSED!
TO BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND HOW - THE NAZI'S WON WWII - YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE BACKGROUND OF - KING CHARLIE KOCH - MODERN DAY HITLAR!
RADICAL RIGHT WING ECONOMIST OF "FIRING LINE" FAME - BILL BUCKLEY - CALLED CHARLIE KOCH'S IDEOLOGY - "TOTALITARIAN LIBERTARIANISM!" I CALL IT . . . .
. . . MODERN DAY NAZI GERMANY - "CORPORATE STATE FASCISM" - FOR THE EVIL RICH!
. . . "ALL FOR THE WHITE RACIST FASCIST - PURE EVIL MEN!" - - "ENSLAVE - THE REST!"
. . . AS HARVARD POLITICAL SCIENTIST - SHELDON WOLLEN - CALLED IT . . .
. . . "INVERTED CORPORATE STATE TOTALITARIANISM!" . . AS NOAM CHOMSKY CALLS IT
. . . "SOCIALISM FOR - THE RICH!" - - "RUTHLESS CAPITALISM FOR - THE REST!"
. . . MY OTHER VERSION - "SOCIALISM FOR - THE RICH!" - - "SLAVERY FOR - THE REST!"
WHAT IS INTERESTING IS THAT MY BROTHER SENT ME A VIDEO OF THE ATROCITIES OF WWII, SAYING THAT - DAD WAS PROUD TO STAND AGAINST THESE MONSTERS.
"THE PRICK DICK" THAT BIRTHED ME - AND - "THE PRICK DICK" THAT BIRTHED MY WIFE - WERE - "CARD CARRYING MEMBERS - MADE PRICK DICKS - OF - SATAN'S MAFIA!"
THEY BOTH SCREWED ME AND SUPPORTED ALL OF THE CORPORATE STATE AND THEIR LEGIONS OF LUNATIC DEPLORABLE OPERATORS - THAT SCREWED ME OVER MY WHOLE LIFE - UP TO - AND - INCLUDING - ON THEIR DEATH BEDS! THIS IS ONE OF THE KEY CRITERIA OF - THE CODE OF OMERTÀ - OF SATAN'S MAFIA!
. . . SATAN'S MAFIA - THE EVIL RICH - ABOVE - FAMILY - AND - GOD!
I SENT MY BROTHER THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE BELOW AND THE VIDEOS ABOVE ON THE KOCHS, NOTING THAT - "THE EVIL RIGHT WING THAT - "THE PRICK DICK MADE MAN THAT BIRTHED ME" AND THE RADICAL RIGHT WING SO VEHEMENTLY SUPPORT" - ARE - THE NAZIS THAT THEY SAY THEY WERE FIGHTING TO STOP! . . . . .
DEUTSCHLAND 1945 VIDEO - A MUST WATCH VIDEO - MY BROTHER'S EMAIL AND MY RESPONSE TO MY BROTHER DAVE. FIRST HIS EMAIL, AND THEN, MY RESPONSE.
This is incredible footage. I am sending it because John Moultrup was in Germany when this was shot. At the very end of the war. I have had a growing realization that his tour of duty was actually far more intense and difficult than he ever let on, for a very different reason. Being in Germany at the end of the war was to be in a place of complete and total social disintegration and dissolution. These shots show that, in painful reality. Somehow they got a superb colorization. I don't know if there was color film back then, or if this is some how colorized digitally. But it really works.
Seeing the looks of emptiness on the faces. Seeing the German soldiers as POW's @ 9:00, seeing the complete destruction of the country. Seeing Russian soldiers, with Amerian soldiers, etc., all being the victors, was intense. It is all a very sobering statement as to the real cost of war.
The war officially ended on 5/8/45. It was clear that as the Allies made their way through the country, the war was over for some parts of Germany before that actual date.
So there is no doubt in my mind that John Moultrup saw stuff that was too painful to talk about. He flew about 6 combat missions during April, 1945. Then the combat missions stopped. But relatively soon he was involved in "flying bigwigs around the country". I think he may have switched from a B-17 to a DC3, but I'm not positive about that. He stayed in Germany until maybe February, 1946. I think I may have that date in the book.
I was always aware of the fact that Dad simply would not talk about anything from that time. I have a strong sense that there was more in the memory bank than he let out. I do wish that he could have seen the book that captured his momentos. I hope that the book acts as a testament to the type of war experiences that he had. He didn't have to deal with bullets. He always said that by the time he got there, the Luftwaffe was gone, and it was easy for him. That's only partly true. The Luftwaffe was gone, but he had a completely different category of intensity to grapple with. This film shows that, in a big way.
MY EMAIL RESPONSE:
Wow - That Was Heavy!
I portrayed Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize Wining author of the international bestseller - "Night." This was for a One Act Play Competition, we took second in the state. I was portraying him, crying as I saw my whole family taken to the gas chambers. The last part of the scene is where I watch them take away - "My Pappa!" I would be in tears, and so too would most of the audience. It was truly intense to give this One Act Play, God only knows how many times, making our way up to Second in The State. It was the most emotional experience of my life!
Elie Wiesel: Nobel Prize Committee
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1986/wiesel/biographical/
An Evening With Elie Wiesel
https://youtu.be/kC5MbVsyFh8
Much of my work in Political Economics has been focused at understanding how the Koch Brothers, who's Dad Fred, brother Eric, who was the head of Prussia for HITLAR. His wife - Elsie - was the "Butcher of Buchenwald." She was famous for having lamp shades made out of tattoos from prisoners. The belief is that the prisoners were "skinned alive!" Just to make it Intensely Pure Evil. Were responsible for - Taking Over - Satan's Empire - The US - for - "Satan's Mafia!" The Radical Right Wing, Right Wing Democrats and Right Independents - the Evil Rich!
Charlie and David Koch's, Dad - Fred, was responsible for the Bircher Society, and the Rise of The Radical Right. While Charlie and David are the ones primarily responsible for the rise of The Radical / Purely Insane / Right Wing since Evil Braindead Don - Reagan. Along with the movement of The Right Wing Left - to where - The Radical Right Wing was during the sixties and seventies!
REPORT IS A - MUST READ - IT IS PRINTED OUT BELOW
Report: The Koch's Their Nazi Past American Oil and The Foundation of Republican Ideology
https://unknownjournal.wordpress.com/2010/10/06/▼-report-the-kochs-their-nazi-past-american-oil-the-foundation-of-republican-ideology/
The Koch Brothers ARE The Radical Right! Their annual Kochtopus Conference, are the top Billionaires from The Radical Right, Right Libertarians and The Fau-Left, The Right Wing Democrats On the Planet.
The Trump Tax Cut gave Charlie and David, alone, not including Fred and Bill. An annual tax cut of over $1 Billion per year.
I guess the Kochtopus Group of Billionaires Investment of roughly $1 Billion - TO PUT TRUMP IN OFFICE, PAID OFF VERY WELL! The Republican and Democratic Party's each spent around the same $1 Billion a piece!
The Democrats spent their money on keeping - The Democratic / People's Candidate - Bernie Sanders - from being elected! Similarly to the way that the Evil Right Democrats, had all of the Right Democrat Presidential Candidates - Give their supporters to - THE SLUT OF RIGHT WING DEMOCRATS - JOE BAMMA!
Critically - getting - FAU-LIBERAL - Elizabeth Warren - to - attract many - would be - Bernie Supporters - to - support her. As she supports nearly the same Nordic Model policies - but calls herself a - capitalist! NOT - OMG - a - socialist! Then she gave her - would be Bernie supporters - to - JOE BAMMA! Insuring that - the only - Democratically supported candidate - Bernie Sanders - the - Democratic Market Socialist - would - NOT - be elected! I said then
. . . "IT'S EITHER - BERNIE!" - - OR - - "BURN BABY BURN!"
PURE EVIL TRUMPET'S POLICIES - gave massive billions of profit increases, from critical environmental remediation costs reduction, to THE KOCH SUCKERS, due to environmental laws being eliminated! At the Horrific cost of the poor living around their facilities, insuring the death of our planet. Plus, billions of profits annually from opening up the remaining very sensitive wildlife preserves to oil and gas exploitation!
PURE EVIL TRUMPET'S POLICIES gave - Trillions and Trillions - from the current - Billionaire Bailouts - to - 300 SLAVE OWNING RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE FAMILIES! HIS OWN INCLUDED!
JOE BAMMA gave - Trillions and Trillions - of the Billionaire Bailouts from - The Great Recession - to - 300 SLAVE OWNING RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE FAMILIES!
CHARLIE KOCH AND THE KOCHTOPUS' BILLIONS OF INVESTMENTS - TO MAKE - SATAN'S EMPIRE - CHARLIE KOCHTOPUS' - TOTALITARIAN EMPIRE FOR THE RICH - HAVE PAID - TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS - TO ROUGHLY - 300 BILLIONAIRE FAMILIES IN THE US! There are 630 billionaires in the US, but 4 are Koch Brothers, 5 are The Waltons, etc, etc!
The Koch Brothers Exposed - Exceptional Documentary
https://youtu.be/2N8y2SVerW8
The Koch Brothers Exposed, is a good overview of their current Business of Ruinning The US. As Bill Buckley of Firing Line Fame, one of the most conservative economists of all time, called Charlie . . . . Charlie is a Totalitarian Libertarian!
I Would Go with Totalitarian Ruthless Billionaire Slave Owner, that annually is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, massive environmental destruction, and now, Global Omnicide, . . . myself!
Their MOST PROFITABLE business is The Pine Ben Refinery in Minnesota, that has at various times, had the worst environmental record, refining Canadian Crude. The Koch Brothers own 25% of the Canadian Tar Sands, by the last data I recall.
My work and that of my intellectual mentors, Noam Chomsky, and Chris Hedges, in particular, have been focused at stopping - The Neoliberal Fascist Right Wing.
The Political Economic Wing - is stilled called - "The New Left." Those of us that support - The Sustainable Humane and Egalitarian - The SHE Matriarcal Nordic Model. Bernie and AOC.
Secrets of The Happiest People In The World - Denmark - Libertarian Democratic Market Socialist - Sustainable Humane and Egalitarian - "The SHE MATRIARCAL Nordic Model!"
https://youtu.be/ofc-u0tp4x0
Being Happy - Sustainable - Humane - And - Egalitarian - If Only The World Could Have Grasped - Jesus' Christ's Vision - of - The Society One With The God of Love!
"Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order," is basically The Bible of The New Left, by The God Father of The New Left, my hero since 1978, Noam Chomsky.
https://youtu.be/JLZG0jzkpAk
We have been trying to stop - The Neoliberal Fascists - The Kochtopus - The Rothschilds - The House of Saudi - The Most Ruthless Totalitarian Dictators - our whole careers.
Get Rid of the Malignancy in the White House - Trump!
https://youtu.be/W6-4gh8QhIQ
Chris Hedges: Fascism in the Age of Trump - highly recommended
https://youtu.be/BMYjroVIDLA
Chris Hedges: Death of The Liberal Class
https://youtu.be/wrt5xfbZ_ow
Chris Hedges book on "Death of The Liberal Class," is a good read on what they did to us.
Chris Hedges: The Cult of Trump
https://youtu.be/rJ6OHMpXNfk
Chris Hedges on Biden Trump and New Left
https://youtu.be/elJwNiAgcmA
State of the World, Neoliberalism, and Activism
https://youtu.be/Ww4WdUEKM98
Father Blasé Bonpaine's exceptional book - "Imagine No Religion," tells of how Father Bonpaine's was excommunicated from The Church, for outing The US Role in supporting ruthless dictators in Central and South America. The US destroyed his career, similarly to how they have destroyed my career and other supporters of - God's Sustainable Humane and Egalitarian societies! The Nordic Countries!
Father Blasé Bonpaine's: "Imagine No Religion!" A must read.
https://www.amazon.com/Imagine-No-Religion-Autobiography-Bonpane/dp/1597096709/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Imagine+no+religion&qid=1590286570&sr=8-2
Father Blasé Bonpaine's Interview
https://youtu.be/dFLI--E4Bwo
Father Blasé Bonpaine's: Imaging No Religion Book
The Satan's Mafia Dons Destroying - Planet Evil Greed - Are The Same Monsters doing the Same Thing as in WWII! Sad Isn't It!
As Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky, point out, "But at a level of insanity that makes the Nazi's look tame!" As these Evil Money Monsters have - committed - Global OMNICIDE!
Report: The Kochs, A Nazi Past, Oil & The Foundation of The Right
Notorious Nazis Ilse Koch, her husband Karl Otto Koch and Erich Koch are the ghosts of Koch Industries, who seized the U.S. conservative political agenda years ago and seem capable of seizing the government in total through the Tea Party. Ilse Koch was the Nazi's specialist in making objects from human skin; was the only woman charged with war crimes; and along with her husband was in charge of one of the most horrific horror camps in Nazi Germany.
Koch Industries is the child of the violence of Buchenwald, widely regarded as one of wartime Germany's most notorious "death camps".
Information connecting Ilse and Koch Industries is hard to find but is a string of fragments, pieces of information that connects the American and German Kochs and this connection gives us a clear image of the sentiment behind the Tea Party and conservative American politics since the 1950s. Where is the connection between the German Koch's and Fred Koch? Besides evidence the American Koch was related to Ilse's family, Erich Koch (a high level Nazi official in charge of Prussia) invites Fred Koch to sell his oil in Nazi Germany when he is banned from doing business in the US. After the fall of Nazi Germany, Erich Koch and Fred expand the oil empire to the Soviet Union. Erich Koch had been in charge of Prussia for Hitler so his ties to the Soviet Union ran deep. A few years later the Soviets took Fred Koch's oil and prosecuted Erich for war crimes – Fred Koch returned to the US, became anti-communist, and was allowed to do business in the States again.
American Fred Koch, and through association the Kochs from Germany, establish the John Birch Society in the 1950s in NY, which becomes the policy center for American conservatives. The society was built on Fred Koch's oil money in the 1950s and can be thought of as the center of neo-conservative politics as well as the Tea Party movement. The ideologies of each are not the same – but the Tea Party fits into the neo-conservative put for colonial corporate police state as a sort of consumer citizen of the neo-conservative strategy mad as hell at the government and the legacy of liberalism, postmodernism, multiculturalism, taxes….etc.
Ilse and her husband Karl were tried by the SS before the war ended, accused of corruption. Her husband Karl Otto Koch was tried and sentenced to death in Nazi Germany. After the war, Ilse was arrested in the German American Zone, tried in front of a tribunal and sentenced, but was quickly pardoned by the American general appointed leader of the zone.
Notes on the Koch's, Their Nazi Past, American Industry&The Foundation of Republican Ideology_________________
Erich Koch
Koch reported to Hitler that unemployment had been banished entirely from East Prussia, a feat that gained admiration throughout the Reich.
On September 1, Koch became Reichskommissar of Reichskommissariat Ukraine with control of the Gestapo and the police. His domain was extended from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea; he captured ethnic German, Polish, Belarus and Ukrainian's declaring that "Ukraine children need no schools. What they'll have to learn will be taught them by their German masters" and "If I meet a Ukrainian worthy of being seated at my table, I must have him shot..".
Koch worked together with the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment, providing the Reich with forced labor. Due to his brutal actions, Nazi rule in Ukraine was disturbed by a growing number. Before once more getting away himself, by escaping through this Baltic Sea port on April 23, 1945, on the icebreaker Ostpreußen. He faced charges of war crimes for the extermination of 400,000 Poles, but was never indicted for his crimes in Ukraine. He was sentenced to death on March 9, 1959 by the district court in Warsaw for having planned, prepared and organised the mass murder of civilians. Russians thought he possessed information about art looted by the Nazis during the war.
Years after the war, Koch stood trial in Poland and was convicted in 1959 of war crimes and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment a year later.
Brother of Erich Koch, Karl Otto Koch
….(August 2, 1897 – April 5, 1945), a Standartenführer (Colonel) in the German Schutzstaffel (SS), was the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald. On August 1, 1937 he was given command of the new concentration camp at Buchenwald. Investigation into his improper conduct at Buchenwald included corruption, fraud, embezzlement, drunkenness, sexual offences and a murder. Koch's orders to kill prisoners at the camp were revealed, as well as embezzlement of property stolen from prisoners.
Koch married Ilse Köhler with whom he had a son and two daughters. Köhler later became known as "The BUTCHER of Buchenwald. She was accused of taking souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates with distinctive tattoos. MANY BELIEVE THAT SHE HAD THE PRISONERS SKINNED ALIVE! MAKING THEM - THAT MUCH MORE DESIRABLE - FOR THE EVIL NAZIS! She built an indoor sports arena, which cost over 250,000 marks, most of which were taken from the inmates arrested by the Gestapo for embezzlement of SS funds and the murder of certain inmates in an attempt to cover up these crimes.
She was tried for war crimes by an American military tribunal in 1947. Prosecuting her was future United States Court of Claims Judge Robert L. Kunzig. She was charged with "participating in a criminal plan for aiding, abetting and participating in the murders at Buchenwald." The tribunal found Koch guilty and sentenced her to life imprisonment.
After she had served two years, General Lucius D. Clay, the interim military governor of the American Zone in Germany, pardoned her. Owing to international condemnation, however, Koch was re-arrested in 1949 and tried before a West German court for instigation to murder in 135 cases. She was sentenced to life imprisonment on January 15, 1951. She committed suicide by hanging herself at Aichach women's prison on September 1, 1967.
Fred Chase Koch
….(September 23, 1900 – November 17, 1967) chemical engineer and founded the TEXACO oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries (Chevron). Koch and its customers were sued for patent infringement, process for turning crude oil into gasoline. Litigation effectively put Winkler-Koch out of business in the U.S. for several years. Koch turned his focus to foreign markets, including the Soviet Union and NAZI GERMANY, reportedly with the help of ERICH KOCH.
During his time in the Soviet Union, Fred Koch came to despise communism and Josef Stalin's regime "a land of hunger, misery and terror".
Fred C. Koch married Mary Robinson in Kansas City, Missouri in 1932. They had four sons, Frederick (b. 1933), Charles (b. 1935), David (b. 1940) and William (b. 1940). His sons are Charles de Ganahl Koch and David H. Koch.
The New York Times on Charles and David:
"Koch Industries began with oil in the 1930s and now also spews an array of industrial products, from Dixie cups to Lycra, not unlike DuPont's portfolio of paint and plastics. Sometimes the biological DNA persists as well. The Koch brothers' father, Fred, was among the select group chosen to serve on the Birch Society's top governing body. In a recorded 1963 speech that survives in a University of Michigan archive, he can be heard warning of "a takeover" of America in which Communists would "infiltrate the highest offices of government in the U.S. until the president is a Communist, unknown to the rest of us". That rant could be delivered as is at any Tea Party rally today.
Last week the Kochs were shoved unwillingly into the spotlight by the most comprehensive journalistic portrait of them yet, written by Jane Mayer of The New Yorker. Her article caused a stir among those in Manhattan's liberal elite who didn't know that David Koch, widely celebrated for his cultural philanthropy, is not merely another rich conservative Republican but the founder of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, which, as Mayer writes with some understatement, "has worked closely with the Tea Party since the movement's inception". To New Yorkers who associate the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center with the New York City Ballet, it's startling to learn that the Texas branch of that foundation's political arm, known simply as Americans for Prosperity, gave its Blogger of the Year Award to an activist who had called President Obama "cokehead in chief."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html
The John Birch Society
The foundation is financed via the oil and gas fortunes of Fred G. Koch, a founding member of the John Birch Society. Koch "wrote admiringly of Benito Mussolini's suppression of Communists in Italy, and disparagingly of the American civil-rights movement.
http://www.jbs.org/
The depth of influence the Koch's exert over the US conservative agenda
Sons Charles G. Koch and David H. Koch run the company as well as Koch Family Foundations, one of the largest single sources of funding for conservative organizations in the United States. Organizations and think tanks supported by the foundation include Citizens for a Sound Economy, the libertarian Cato Institute, Reason Magazine, the Manhattan Institute, the Heartland Institute and the Democratic Leadership Council. David H. Koch ran for president on the Libertarian Party ticket in 1980. Author Thomas Frank wrote in "What's the Matter with Kansas?" that "Koch money flowed through Triad Management Services", an advisory service to conservative donors groups and candidates, for the 1996 Senate campaign of Sam Brownback. Other sources only hint at a connection of Koch family members and Triad.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Koch_Industries
Koch outspends Exxon on climate and clean energy disinformation
Although Koch intentionally stays out of the public eye, it is now playing a quiet but dominant role in a high-profile national policy debate on global warming. Koch Industries has become a financial kingpin of climate science denial and clean energy opposition. This private, out-of-sight corporation is now a partner to Exxon Mobil, the American Petroleum Institute and other donors that support organizations and front-groups opposing progressive clean energy and climate policy. In fact, Koch has out-spent Exxon Mobil in funding these groups in recent years.
http://climateprogress.org/2010/03/31/report-koch-industries-outspends-exxon-mobil-on-climate-and-clean-energy-disinformation/
Another example of Republican ties to Koch Industries
(…) If convicted, the company faced fines of up to $352 million, plus possible jail time for company executives. After George W. Bush became president, however, the U.S. Justice Departmentdropped 88 of the charges. Two days before the trial, John Ashcroft settled for a plea bargain, in which Koch pled guilty to falsifying documents. All major charges were dropped, and Koch and Ashcroft settled the lawsuit for a fraction of that amount. Koch had contributed $800,000 to the Bush election campaign and other Republican candidates.
Koch family timeline from yahoo answers
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100916180207AAR3QoK
A new article on Nazi skin lamps – NY Magazine
Ilse Koch was the most notorious for, among other things, her objects made from the skin of murdered prisoners. (IT IS BELIEVED BY MANY THAT THE TATOOS FROM THESE PRISONERS WERE SKINNED ALIVE! THE REAL - PURE EVIL - ATTRACTION OF - "THE SKIN TATOO LAMPS!"
http://nymag.com/news/features/67963/
Also from yahoo answers:
From yahoo questions – College Park, Maryland, has identified "a human skin lampshade, or part of one, from the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald. The National Museum of Health and Medicine holds three pieces of tattooed human skin, also from Buchenwald. Ilse Koch is the most famous of all Germans accused of having committed atrocities during the war. She was the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald camp. She was twice convicted in post-war trials, once by an international court and once by her own country. The chief charges against her were cruelty to inmates, including murder, but what she is best-known for is the making of human-skin ornaments, including the lampshades of which we've all heard.
Neo-conservatives:
"Neoconservatism… originated in the 1970s as a movement of anti-Soviet liberals and social democrats in the tradition of Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Humphrey and Henry ('Scoop') Jackson, many of whom preferred to call themselves 'paleoliberals.' [After the end of the Cold War]… many 'paleoliberals' drifted back to the Democratic center… Today's neocons are a shrunken remnant of the original broad neocon coalition. Nevertheless, the origins of their ideology on the left are still apparent. The fact that most of the younger neocons were never on the left is irrelevant; they are the intellectual (and, in the case of William Kristol and John Podhoretz, the literal) heirs of older ex-leftists."
In his semi-autobiographical book, Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea, Irving Kristol cited a number of influences on his own thought, including not only Max Shachtman and Leo Strauss but also the skeptical liberal literary critic Lionel Trilling. The influence of Leo Strauss and his disciples on neoconservatism has generated some controversy, with Lind asserting:
"For the neoconservatives, religion is an instrument of promoting morality. Religion becomes what Plato called a noble lie. It is a myth which is told to the majority of the society by the philosophical elite in order to ensure social order… In being a kind of secretive elitist approach, Straussianism does resemble Marxism. These ex-Marxists, or in some cases ex-liberal Straussians, could see themselves as a kind of Leninist group, you know, who have this covert vision which they want to use to effect change in history, while concealing parts of it from people incapable of understanding it."
William Kristol defends his father by noting that the criticism of an instrumental view of politics misses the point. When the context is a discussion of religion in the public sphere in a secular nation, religion is inevitably dealt with instrumentally. Apart from that, it should be born in mind that the majority of neoconservatives believe in the truth, as well as the utility, of religion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
. . TRUMP - TEAR GASSES, SHOOTS, AND USES MILITARY ON - PEACEFUL PROTESTORS!
. . SO - HE - CAN WALK TO A - BRUTALIZED CHURCH - FOR - A PHOTO OPP!. . OMG!
. . THE BISHOP FROM - THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF WASHINGTON . . . SAID THAT . .
. . EVIL PRESIDENT TRUMP - DONNIE THE DUNCE - TOTALITARIAN DESPOT . . . .
. . "DISGRACED THE BIBLE AND JESUS CHRIST!" . . . I SO AGREE! . . . .
. . "GOD OF LOVE!" . . JC . . SARAYU . . MAMMA! . . HELP! PLEASE! . . . . .
. . WE BARFED UP - PURE EVIL DONNIE THE DUNCE - PENCE THE ANTI-CHRIST!. . .
. . CHARLIE KOCH - KING OF SATAN'S EMPIRE! . . THE KOCHTOPUS - SATAN'S MAFIA!
. . THE PURE EVIL MONEY MONSTER RICH AND THEIR PURE EVIL MONEY SLUTS! . . .
. . THEIR - PURE EVIL ANTI-CHRIST SATANISTS! . . . . .
. . "ABSOLUTE WEALTH AND POWER" . . . . "CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY!"
. . "ALWAYS AND ALL WAYS!" . . . ENJOY . . . .
. . "THE HELL BEYOND ALL HELLS" . . . YOUR PURE EVIL GREED CAUSED! . . .
. . I REST MY CASE . . "TRUMP IS MORE EVIL GREED DRIVEN INSANE" . . THAN . . .
. . MY PRIOR FAVORITE - PURE EVIL MONEY MONSTER TOTALITARIAN DEPOT . . . . .
. . CALIGULA OF ROME! AT LEAST CALIGULA'S FAMILY TRIED TO KILL HIM BEFORE
. . HE MOVED THE CAPITAL OF ROME FROM ROME TO EGYPT - TO MAKE IT HIS EMPIRE!
. . HE KILLED HIS FAMILY! . . .
. . FINALLY . . . HIS BODY GUARD KILLED HIM! BEFORE HE MADE ROME A . . .
. . COMPLETE TOTALITARIAN DESPOTISM EMPIRE OF AN EVIL SATANIC MONEY MONSTER!
. . SATAN'S EMPIRE - WILL - RE-ELECT - EVIL TOTALITARIAN DESPOT DONNIE THE DUNCE!
. . JUST LIKE - THE EVIL RIGHT WING - RE-ELECTED . . . .
. . MASS MURDERER - GUILTY OF 9/11 AND GLOBAL OMNICIDE - PRICK DON CHENEY . . .
. . AND HIS - EVEN MORE BRAIN DEAD AND BRAINWASHED DON - PURE BUSHIT! . .
. . I REST MY CASE . . . .
. . "THANK GOD!" - - "It Is THE END!"
. . PRAY FOR FORGIVENESS OF OUR SINS, AND THOSE OF THE MOST EVIL SOCIETY EVER!
. . PRAY THAT - "THE GOD OF LOVE" - MAY FORGIVE US! . . .
. . PRAY THAT - "THE GOD OF LOVE" - MAY CONSIDER TAKING US UP TO HEAVEN . .
. . ON JULY 4TH! . . . OR . . . DAY THAT SHE / HE SEES AS APPROPRIATE! . . . .
. . OR - IF HE / SHE WANTS - US - TO RAISE OUR SPIRITS UP TO GOD! . . . .
. . PRAY THAT - "THE GOD OF LOVE" - MAY . . .
. . "GIVE US GOD'S PEACE TO RAISE OUR SPIRITS UP TO THE GOD OF LOVE!" . . .
. . ASCENSION THURSDAY 2022! . . OR SPIRITUALLY MEANINGFUL DAY TO YOU!
. . A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET! . . IF SOONER . . IF "HELL ON EARTH" HAS MADE
. . YOUR WORLD - SIMPLY UNBEARABLE! . . . .
. . LET "THE GOD OF LOVE" GUIDE YOU. GO WITH - "THE GOD OF LOVES" BLESSING!
. . "LET THE GOD OF LOVE" - GUIDE YOU - "TO ETERNITY IN GOD'S LOVE!"
. . VERY SOON! . . . . . .
. . FATHER IT IS FINISHED!
. . "THANK GOD!" - - "It Is THE END!"
Hitler's Willing Business Partners
A shocking account of IBM's complicity with the Nazis is a reminder that people bear moral responsibility for the actions of the corporation a point that critics have failed to grasp.
Thomas Watson chose to tabulate the Nazi census, to accept Hitler's medal, and to fight for control of Dehomag. And he made other equally indefensible choices in his years of doing a profitable business counting Jews for Hitler—choices that are described in IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black. This is a shocking book, even if its subtitle, "The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation," is hyperbolic and misleading. (IBM was hardly America's most powerful company in the 1930s and 1940s; General Motors was, and it too did business with the Third Reich, though you could be forgiven for getting the impression from Mr. Black that IBM was alone in this unrighteous commerce.) IBM was a New Deal company that famously strove to avoid laying off its work force during the Depression. Watson was a friend of President and Mrs. Roosevelt's. IBM helped crack the German intelligence code. It had a good war. Yet, with the help of more than a hundred researchers working in archives in the U.S., Britain, Germany, France, and Israel, Edwin Black has documented a sordid relationship between this great American company and the Third Reich, one that extended into the war years.
More Than A Dozen European Billionaires—Linked To BMW, L'Oréal, Bosch—Have Families With Past Nazi Ties
Madeline Berg Forbes Staff
Last week, the German billionaire Reimann family, whose JAB Holdings owns Krispy Kreme, Panera Bread and Pret a Manger, admitted to profiting from, and taking part in, Nazi abuses and slave labor during the Nazi regime.
The acknowledgement came after the German newspaper Bild reported that Albert Reimann Sr. and Albert Reimann Jr., both dead, were active in the Nazi Party and used Russian civilians and French prisoners of war as slaves during World War II. The family—which includes four billionaire children of Reimann Jr. worth an estimated $3.7 billion each—plans to donate about $11 million to a "suitable organization," according to family spokesperson Peter Harf, though it hasn't yet announced which. Harf also claims the family had already been looking into its ancestral ties to Nazism, commissioning German historian Pauk Erker to do so in 2014; his work is ongoing and is expected to be completed in 2020, a spokesperson told Forbes.
But the family was far from alone in participating in Nazi activities or profiting from the Nazi regime. More than a dozen European billionaires and their families whose business roots predate World War II—including Kuehne and Nagel's Klaus Michael Kuehne and Knorr-Bremse AG's Heinz Hermann Thiele—had ties to Nazism through contracts, slave labor, the appropriation of stolen goods or other means.
"These kind of stories never come as a surprise. In 1944, one third of the whole workforce in Germany was forced labor. This means that almost every company which produced back then was in one way or the other involved in the war economy," says Roman Köster, a German historian. "From 1942 it proved very complicated [for German businesses] to maintain production [that] was not in one way or the other related with the war." He adds that Bild's findings in the case of the Reimann family are worse than others because of the abuse and mistreatment of these workers, though a Reimann family spokesperson says Albert Reimann Sr. and Albert Reimann Jr. did not personally assault or harm any laborers.
Many of these billionaire companies openly acknowledge, and apologize, for those ties, though monetary responses are rarer.
"With the passage of time, it gets increasingly difficult to make a legal argument around reparations, unless the claimant can show conclusive proof of theft by the defendant's ancestors," says Karthik Ramana, a professor of business and public policy at the University of Oxford whose research has also encompassed ethics. "What potential claimants are left with then is moral suasion—and given the stakes for incumbents, I wouldn't hold my breath in expectation of a flood of reparations."


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MAUDE Adverse Event Report: ASCENSION ORTHOPEDICS CADENCE TALAR DOME, SIZE 1, RIGHT CADENCE TOTAL ANKLE SYSTEM
ASCENSION ORTHOPEDICS CADENCE TALAR DOME, SIZE 1, RIGHT CADENCE TOTAL ANKLE SYSTEM Back to Search Results
Catalog Number 10208101
Device Problems Positioning Problem (3009); Appropriate Term/Code Not Available (3191)
Patient Problems Bone Fracture(s) (1870); Pain (1994); Swelling (2091); Injury (2348)
The device involved in the reported incident is not available for evaluation. An investigation has been initiated based on the reported information.
2 of 3 reports - other mfg report numbers: 1651501-2018-00052, 1651501-2019-00004. Patient indicated she had a cadence implanted on (b)(6) 2016 in her right ankle. Patient had subsequent follow up visits with surgeon and had to have repair surgery. In (b)(6) 2017, she had surgery to repair fracture of bone. At the end of 2017, the patient lost her job and moved to (b)(6) as a result of issues she experienced with cadence. While in (b)(6), the patient consulted another surgeon, and he advised her that the implant was ¿in varus¿ and recommended being able to do a surgical repair. On (b)(6) 2018, the surgeon removed the implant and replaced the cadence with a competitor implant. No additional information available. Medical notes were received on january 2019 - summary of medical notes: on (b)(6) 1982, patient had a history of ankle repair surgery due to a broken ankle. There were no known complications after the procedure. The patient then underwent second surgery on (b)(6) 2001 to remove the screws and pins (debridement). The patient experienced gradual return of pain and bone spurs after. On (b)(6) 2016, the patient underwent right total ankle replacement with cadence total ankle system due to chronic ankle pain. On (b)(6) 2016, patient¿s husband called in and complained that the patient was experiencing sharp burning pain in her big toe and in the space between. The patient was put in cam boot and was on weight bearing as tolerated. The patient was advised to return in four weeks for repeat x-rays and examination with their physician. On (b)(6) 2016 ¿ 7 weeks off from surgery, complained of right ankle pain. On x-rays, her tibial component appears to be in varus. Not in previous x-rays. On (b)(6) 2017, patient came in for evaluation after 2 months post-op right total ankle replacement using cadence total ankle system. The patient complained she was having no pain until about 10 days ago, at which point she was having medial malleolus pain. Based from the physical examination performed by the physician, the patient has significant tenderness and some swelling over the medial malleolus. The patient dorsiflexes only to about neutral, so she was a bit stiff. The surgeon suspects she might have an occult periprosthetic fracture of her medial malleolus and ordered a ct scan with metal suppression and advised patient to come back a week after. On (b)(6) 2017, ct scan reveals a periprosthetic medial malleolar fracture that is nondisplaced in nature. With this, the patient agreed to the physician¿s recommendation of undergoing open reduction internal fixation. On (b)(6) 2017, the patient underwent right open reduction internal fixation medial malleolus, strayer. Patient had a stable condition after the operation. Two-week postop evaluation, patient presented with no complications and was put into a short leg cast. However, 3 months after the operation, patient complained of occasional sharp pains under the medial malleolus. Patient also stated that the last three days had some pain in the mid portion of her lateral right leg. Based from the physical examination performed by the physician, the tenderness felt at the musculotendinous junction of the peroneal tendons may be just some peroneal tendonitis. The physician advised her on dietary management, smoking cessation and a rocker bottom soled shoe. Patient was advised to follow up 2 months after.
CADENCE TALAR DOME, SIZE 1, RIGHT
CADENCE TOTAL ANKLE SYSTEM
ASCENSION ORTHOPEDICS
8700 cameron road #100
vivian nelson
plainsboro, NJ 08536
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using namespace gpos;
using namespace gpdxl;

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//	@function:
//		CDXLPhysicalDML::CDXLPhysicalDML
//
//	@doc:
//		Ctor
//
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
CDXLPhysicalDML::CDXLPhysicalDML(
	CMemoryPool *mp, const EdxlDmlType dxl_dml_type,
	CDXLTableDescr *table_descr, ULongPtrArray *src_colids_array,
	ULONG action_colid, ULONG oid_colid, ULONG ctid_colid, ULONG segid_colid,
	BOOL preserve_oids, ULONG tuple_oid,
	CDXLDirectDispatchInfo *dxl_direct_dispatch_info, BOOL input_sort_req)
	: CDXLPhysical(mp),
	  m_dxl_dml_type(dxl_dml_type),
	  m_dxl_table_descr(table_descr),
	  m_src_colids_array(src_colids_array),
	  m_action_colid(action_colid),
	  m_oid_colid(oid_colid),
	  m_ctid_colid(ctid_colid),
	  m_segid_colid(segid_colid),
	  m_preserve_oids(preserve_oids),
	  m_tuple_oid(tuple_oid),
	  m_direct_dispatch_info(dxl_direct_dispatch_info),
	  m_input_sort_req(input_sort_req)
{
	GPOS_ASSERT(EdxldmlSentinel > dxl_dml_type);
	GPOS_ASSERT(NULL != table_descr);
	GPOS_ASSERT(NULL != src_colids_array);
}

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//	@function:
//		CDXLPhysicalDML::~CDXLPhysicalDML
//
//	@doc:
//		Dtor
//
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
CDXLPhysicalDML::~CDXLPhysicalDML()
{
	m_dxl_table_descr->Release();
	m_src_colids_array->Release();
	CRefCount::SafeRelease(m_direct_dispatch_info);
}

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//	@function:
//		CDXLPhysicalDML::GetDXLOperator
//
//	@doc:
//		Operator type
//
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Edxlopid
CDXLPhysicalDML::GetDXLOperator() const
{
	return EdxlopPhysicalDML;
}

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//	@function:
//		CDXLPhysicalDML::GetOpNameStr
//
//	@doc:
//		Operator name
//
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
const CWStringConst *
CDXLPhysicalDML::GetOpNameStr() const
{
	switch (m_dxl_dml_type)
	{
		case Edxldmlinsert:
			return CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenPhysicalDMLInsert);
		case Edxldmldelete:
			return CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenPhysicalDMLDelete);
		case Edxldmlupdate:
			return CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenPhysicalDMLUpdate);
		default:
			return NULL;
	}
}

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//	@function:
//		CDXLPhysicalDML::SerializeToDXL
//
//	@doc:
//		Serialize function descriptor in DXL format
//
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
void
CDXLPhysicalDML::SerializeToDXL(CXMLSerializer *xml_serializer,
								const CDXLNode *node) const
{
	const CWStringConst *element_name = GetOpNameStr();
	xml_serializer->OpenElement(
		CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenNamespacePrefix), element_name);

	CWStringDynamic *pstrCols = CDXLUtils::Serialize(m_mp, m_src_colids_array);
	xml_serializer->AddAttribute(CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenColumns),
								 pstrCols);
	GPOS_DELETE(pstrCols);

	xml_serializer->AddAttribute(
		CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenActionColId), m_action_colid);
	xml_serializer->AddAttribute(CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenOidColId),
								 m_oid_colid);
	xml_serializer->AddAttribute(CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenCtidColId),
								 m_ctid_colid);
	xml_serializer->AddAttribute(
		CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenGpSegmentIdColId), m_segid_colid);
	xml_serializer->AddAttribute(
		CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenInputSorted), m_input_sort_req);

	if (Edxldmlupdate == m_dxl_dml_type)
	{
		xml_serializer->AddAttribute(
			CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenUpdatePreservesOids),
			m_preserve_oids);
	}

	if (m_preserve_oids)
	{
		xml_serializer->AddAttribute(
			CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenTupleOidColId), m_tuple_oid);
	}

	node->SerializePropertiesToDXL(xml_serializer);

	if (NULL != m_direct_dispatch_info)
	{
		m_direct_dispatch_info->Serialize(xml_serializer);
	}
	else
	{
		// TODO:  - Oct 22, 2014; clean this code once the direct dispatch code for DML and SELECT is unified
		xml_serializer->OpenElement(
			CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenNamespacePrefix),
			CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenDirectDispatchInfo));
		xml_serializer->CloseElement(
			CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenNamespacePrefix),
			CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenDirectDispatchInfo));
	}

	// serialize project list
	(*node)[0]->SerializeToDXL(xml_serializer);

	// serialize table descriptor
	m_dxl_table_descr->SerializeToDXL(xml_serializer);

	// serialize physical child
	(*node)[1]->SerializeToDXL(xml_serializer);

	xml_serializer->CloseElement(
		CDXLTokens::GetDXLTokenStr(EdxltokenNamespacePrefix), element_name);
}

#ifdef GPOS_DEBUG
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
//	@function:
//		CDXLPhysicalDML::AssertValid
//
//	@doc:
//		Checks whether operator node is well-structured
//
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
void
CDXLPhysicalDML::AssertValid(const CDXLNode *node, BOOL validate_children) const
{
	GPOS_ASSERT(2 == node->Arity());
	CDXLNode *child_dxlnode = (*node)[1];
	GPOS_ASSERT(EdxloptypePhysical ==
				child_dxlnode->GetOperator()->GetDXLOperatorType());

	if (validate_children)
	{
		child_dxlnode->GetOperator()->AssertValid(child_dxlnode,
												  validate_children);
	}
}

#endif	// GPOS_DEBUG

// EOF

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


This UK Census collection gives details on the records of all those enumerated in the 1871 Census of England and Wales. The United Kingdom Census of 1871 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of 2 April 1871, and was the fourth of the UK censuses to include details of household members. The 1871 format of the census was identical to the previous census.
TheGenealogist provides fully transcribed records and links to the actual images of the 1871 Census, reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England.
The 1871 Census for England was taken on the night of 2 April 1871. Forms had been distributed to people a few days earlier and were collected on the 2 April. All responses were to reflect the individual's status as of 2 April 1871 for all individuals who had spent the night in the house. People who were traveling or living abroad were enumerated at the location where they spent the night on census night. All of the details from the individual forms were later sorted and copied into enumerators' books.
Whether blind, deaf, or dumb, imbecile or lunatic.
Search the 1871 Census Records Now!
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury was born in London in 1801. He became a renowned English politican, philanthropist and social reformer who campaigned to reform the Lunacy Laws, the employment of women and children in mines and the use of boys as chimney sweeps. He was elected as the Tory Member of Parliament for Woodstock and was a strong supporter of the Duke of Wellington. On the 1871 Census, we find Earl Shaftesbury living at 24 Grosvenor Square, Central London with his daughter, Lady Victoria Ashley.


I have a laminiate kitchen counter top that I would like to upgrade, however, buying and installing a new one will cost a fortune. Has anyone tried any of the different ways of doing this?
Hello! Hometalk has a number of suggestions for upgrading laminate countertops on theur website. Click on the link below to scroll through the options. Giid luck!
Many people paint their countertops to update them and make them look better. You can do a faux granite or marble look, as well as just paint it a different color. Click below to see some that fellow Hometalkers have done. Read as many as you can as part of your research until you can choose one method and feel confident that it's what you want. The key to longevity is to make sure you uses several coats of sealer when you've finished painting. Once it's finished, you will have to remember to never put hot pots or pans on the surface without a hot pad. You can add a coat of sealer every few years, to keep it looking great. Wishing you the best.
I have redone a counter. There is a kit at Lowes that is specifically for use on a counter. I am sure other home improvement stores have them as well. The directions were clear and it was easy to use. I would suggest looking into something like that.
I have used Rustoleum stone spray on rental countertops and after 10+ years it is like new. You need to lightly sand the countertop and then prime the surface with a quality primer (I used Kilz). Spray light even coats until you are happy with the coverage, then apply 2-4 coats of a sealer (I used polycrylic (doesn't yellow}.
I have also been looking at a company called Instant Granite (both are sold on Amazon) for the countertops in our new-to-us house.
I don't like the look of the granite paint kits as the finished product is only as good as the person applying the granite effects, which would be me lol!
Thanks so much. I will check out the kits.


Who would have thought that speeding down the highway in the future could lead to the car actually taking control and then just flagging you as a result? This is the case for our PreCrime story of the week! Tech big wig Mark Massero (Kyle Howard) is the first of possibly many people Vega and Dash will encounter in the newly installed Hawk-Eye program. Hawk-Eye essentially detects radical behavior and flags people so that in case they do anything crazy, the authorities will know beforehand. This eerily sounds like the PreCog program and both Arthur and Agatha are not on board with Dash's involvement with Vega. First, let's breakdown what happens to Massero's behavior.
Basically Massero is predestined to murder someone at a park. In this case there is a clearer picture of everyone that is involved. Vega starts by going directly to the source, Massero. Vega does get lucky in tracking down Massero since Hawk-Eye already has him marked. Both she and Dash exploit this opportunity to try and stop Massero from committing a crime. Their first encounter isn't the most comfortable way of catching the guy. Vega suspects foul play at Massero's residence but is treated to some T&A (network TV style) and bluntly goes for the "have you ever seen this man?" approach. Obviously this isn't as easy as it sounds so both Dash and Vega visit Massero's psychiatrist. Before that though, Vega suggests to Dash to try and apply to become Vega's Hawk-Eye partner that way they can legally get away with interrogating suspects despite Dash having visions at random times. Once they realize what all goes on with Massero's behavior, both Dash and Vega pursue this lead and they end up right where Dash's vision started. They manage to rescue the victim but in a twist, Massero's fate takes a turn for the worst and in a last minute effort, Dash and Vega do what they can to prevent what will happen to Massero and his psychological problems.
As for bigger picture plot, Agatha has another vision dealing with the three siblings being back in the PreCrime program milk bath and all. Unfortunately Dash may be the reason they go back. In Agatha's vision, she sees Vega overlooking them in the milk bath and that is what causes a panic amongst siblings. Dash doesn't seem to be too worried about the future but then again, he is the weaker one of the PreCogs. On the other hand, Dash being recruited as Hawk-Eye analyst and having been exposed to Vega's colleagues could mean that one of her coworkers will talk and the PreCrime program could inevitably come back to life. This is all just speculation, but otherwise Dash and Vega are safe from the rest of the world. Agatha also has to convince someone from the island the siblings lived on to cooperate with her to prevent any chance of their existence being exposed.
The bigger picture of what the series is trying to paint is actually a lot more intriguing than the crime of the week stuff. I guess the procedural stuff can sort of move the episode along but the bigger picture plot can still remain intact. I like where this is going in terms of storytelling. The two siblings working in the shadows away from Dash is a fascinating and entertaining direction the series needs. Let's just hope it doesn't run out of steam anytime soon because I like the level of danger the series is treading.


Stacey Fox-Alvarez, DVM, MPH, is an emergency and critical care specialty intern with University of Florida, where she earned her DVM and a master's degree in public health. Her primary areas of interest are medical oncology and oncologic emergencies. She completed a small animal rotating internship with Affiliated Veterinary Specialists in Maitland, Florida.
Amara Estrada, DVM, DACVIM (Cardiology), is a professor of cardiology and the associate chair for instruction in the department of small animal clinical sciences at University of Florida, where she also earned her DVM. Dr. Estrada completed a cardiology residency at Cornell University. She frequently speaks at continuing education meetings nationally and internationally. Her research interests include inherited cardiomyopathies and interprofessional education.
How do I calculate a vertebral heart scale (VHS)?
The vertebral heart scale system (ie, vertebral heart size) was developed as a means to objectively evaluate cardiac size among dogs of different breeds and thoracic conformations.
Already a pro at measuring VHS? Take our VHS quiz here!
The VHS was established to create a more objective way of diagnosing cardiomegaly via thoracic radiography. Individual dogs can have values that fall outside of the normal range without cardiac disease, so it should not be used as the only means of diagnosing cardiac disease in any given patient.
In addition to a thorough history and physical examination, VHS can be used to raise clinical suspicion of heart disease. VHS is useful for monitoring a patient in which heart disease is suspected (Figure 1), or in tracking changes in progressive cardiac disease over time.
Figure 1 Illustration of VHS calculation in a normal dog. On a lateral radiograph, a line is drawn from the carina to the most ventral aspect of the heart. This line is the "L" or long axis line. A line is drawn perpendicular to the long axis at the widest portion of the heart, extending to the cranial and caudal borders. This is the short axis or "S" line. These lines are transposed using calipers extending along the spine from the cranial aspect of T4. The number of vertebrae traversed (rounded up to the nearest tenth) are added together for the VHS.
VHS has been shown to correlate with other means of measuring cardiomegaly (ie, ECG, echocardiography) in dogs with progressively increasing heart size, and it is considered by some to be the gold standard in determining cardiomegaly in dogs.1 The authors believe many dogs with presumptive MVD can be managed effectively by use of a thorough physical examination and basic diagnostics, such as a VHS and measurement of blood pressure. As guidelines for the treatment of heart disease in veterinary medicine evolve, it will become increasingly important to accurately stage patients with these conditions to determine when medical treatment is indicated. VHS calculation can be an important component to the staging of cardiac disease.
ACE inhibitors are currently recommended for these patients by some specialists, as well as the majority of the members of the ACVIM consensus panel for MVD.6 As more studies evaluate the use of medical intervention to delay the onset of CHF in dogs with preclinical cardiac disease, treatment recommendations will continue to change.
The ACVIM consensus statement on degenerative MVD recommends baseline thoracic radiography for dogs with a new murmur, then annually thereafter.6 For practitioners adhering to these guidelines, annual calculation of VHS and rate of change from previous imaging should become standard practice and may help identify those patients at higher risk of developing CHF in the coming year. Figure 2 illustrates annual radiographs taken in a patient with progressive cardiomegaly.
Figure 2A Progressive cardiomegaly noted on annual evaluations in a dog with MVD.
Figure 2B Progressive cardiomegaly noted on annual evaluations in a dog with MVD.
Figure 2C Progressive cardiomegaly noted on annual evaluations in a dog with MVD.
The VHS has been shown to be useful when determining whether a cough is cardiogenic, pulmonary, or mixed in origin for dogs with MVD.9 One study found that a VHS >12.0 was suggestive for a cardiac component to cough in dogs with MVD.9 It is important to note that among these dogs, some were determined to have a cough of mixed cardiac and pulmonary origin.
The original guidelines for VHS were designed to be applicable across breeds and conformations, and most dog breeds studied individually fall within the normal range. However, several breeds have normal VHS values that would suggest cardiomegaly using the original scale.
Of the breeds evaluated to date, the boxer, bulldog (French and English), Boston terrier, Cavalier King Charles spaniel, Labrador retriever, pug, Pomeranian, and whippet have been found to have average values that are much higher than other dog breeds. New sets of normal values have been developed for use in these breeds12-14 (Table).
To calculate a VHS, a lateral thoracic radiograph in right or left lateral recumbency is needed. If using plain films, calipers or a ruler will be necessary to hold the measurements. If using digital films, calipers or electronic calipers can be used.
The best possible technique and positioning of the patient should be used to prevent rotation from affecting measurements and to make serial imaging comparisons more reliable.
Using the calipers, measure the long axis of the heart from the carina to the apex of the heart at its most ventral point.
Measure the heart at its widest point (ie, the short axis) perpendicular to the line drawn for long axis.
To calculate the vertebral heart scale, add the "L" and "S" measurements together.
Right or left lateral recumbency is acceptable. If taking serial images, they should be done using the same side.
The long axis should be drawn from the level of the carina. The short axis should be perpendicular to the long axis.
Typically, a value of <8 for cats is used for convenience (normal, 6.7-8.1). A value >8 indicates cardiomegaly, which may indicate underlying pathology.
In cats, normal VHS does not rule out heart disease or dysfunction, as diseases that produce concentric hypertrophy (eg, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) will not necessarily be accompanied by an enlarged cardiac silhouette.
Interobserver variability is a known factor affecting consistent measurement of a VHS. One study showed an average difference between individuals of around 1 vertebrae when evaluating the same films.16 Ideally, the same veterinarian should calculate the VHS at all time points for an individual patient when tracking changes.
Pericardial effusion has been shown to cause an increased VHS result. In 1 study, the majority of dogs with pericardial effusion had a VHS >12.0.17 This should be a consideration for any dog with a generalized cardiomegaly on thoracic radiography. A thorough physical examination and history can help to rule this condition in or out as a cause for exercise intolerance, lethargy, collapse, ascites, or other similar signs.
Right vs left lateral recumbency may impact the VHS. Several studies have shown no difference between measurements, while others have shown that dogs in right lateral recumbency have higher VHS values (by approximately 0.3 vertebrae).1,4,21,22 This suggests that serial measurements of the same patient should be performed with consistent positioning; however, this may not be clinically significant.
It is important to note that a normal heart size on thoracic radiography does not rule out cardiac disease or dysfunction. The VHS is a valuable tool to assess cardiac status and should be used in conjunction with other diagnostics (ie, physical examination, history, resting respiratory rate, ECG, NT-proBNP, echocardiography) to determine if treatment for cardiac disease is warranted or if further testing is needed based on clinical suspicion of cardiac involvement in disease.
Nakayama H, Nakayama T, Hamlin RL. Correlation of cardiac enlargement as assessed by vertebral heart size and echocardiographic and electrocardiographic findings in dogs with evolving cardiomegaly due to rapid ventricular pacing. JVIM. 2001;15(3):217-221.
Summerfield NJ, Boswood A, O'Grady MR, et al. Efficacy of pimobendan in the prevention of congestive heart failure or sudden death in Doberman pinschers with preclinical dilated cardiomyopathy (the PROTECT Study). JVIM. 2012;26(6):1337-1349.
O'Grady MR, O'Sullivan ML, Minors SL, Horne R. Efficacy of benazepril hydrochloride to delay the progression of occult dilated cardiomyopathy in Doberman pinschers. JVIM. 2009;23(5):977-983.
Kvart C, Häggström J, Pedersen HD, et al. Efficacy of enalapril for prevention of congestive heart failure in dogs with myxomatous valve disease and asymptomatic mitral regurgitation. JVIM. 2002;16(1):80-88.
Pouchelon JL, Jamet N, Gouni V, et al. Effect of benazepril on survival and cardiac events in dogs with asymptomatic mitral valve disease: A retrospective study of 141 cases. JVIM. 2008;22(4):905-914.
Atkins C, Bonagura J, Ettinger S, et al. Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of canine chronic valvular heart disease. JVIM. 2009;23(6):1142-1150.
Lord P, Hansson K, Kvart C, et al. Rate of change of heart size before congestive heart failure in dogs with mitral regurgitation. J Small Anim Pract. 2010;51(4):210-218.
Lord PF, Hansson K, Carnabuci C, Kvart C, Häggström J. Radiographic heart size and its rate of increase as tests for onset of congestive heart failure in Cavalier King Charles spaniels with mitral valve regurgitation. JVIM. 2011;25(6):1312-1319.
Guglielmini C, Diana A, Pietra M, Di Tommaso M, Cipone M. Use of the vertebral heart score in coughing dogs with chronic degenerative mitral valve disease. J Vet Med Sci. 2009;71(1):9-13.
Sleeper MM, Roland R, Drobatz KJ. Use of the vertebral heart scale for differentiation of cardiac and noncardiac causes of respiratory distress in cats: 67 cases (2002-2003). JAVMA. 2013;242(3):366-371.
Buchanan JW, Bücheler J. Vertebral scale system to measure canine heart size in radiographs. JAVMA. 1995;206(2):194-199.
Jepsen-Grant K, Pollard RE, Johnson LR. Vertebral heart scores in eight dog breeds. Vet Radiol Ultrasound. 2013;54(1):3-8.
Lamb CR, Wikeley H, Boswood A, Pfeiffer DU. Use of breed-specific ranges for the vertebral heart scale as an aid to the radiographic diagnosis of cardiac disease in dogs. Vet Rec. 2001;148(23):707-711.
Bavegems V, Van Caelenberg A, Duchateau L, Sys SU, Van Bree H, De Rick A. Vertebral heart size ranges specific for whippets. Vet Radiol Ultrasound. 2005;46(5):400-403.
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package org.onosproject.store.host.impl;

import org.onosproject.net.HostId;
import org.onosproject.store.Timestamp;

/**
 * Information published by GossipHostStore to notify peers of a host
 * removed event.
 */
public class InternalHostRemovedEvent {

    private final HostId hostId;
    private final Timestamp timestamp;

    public InternalHostRemovedEvent(HostId hostId, Timestamp timestamp) {
        this.hostId = hostId;
        this.timestamp = timestamp;
    }

    public HostId hostId() {
        return hostId;
    }

    public Timestamp timestamp() {
        return timestamp;
    }

    // for serialization.
    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
    private InternalHostRemovedEvent() {
        hostId = null;
        timestamp = null;
    }
}


Part of me misses the heyday of peripheral-based rhythm games, where developers competed in an arms race of plastic instruments and licensed music. The genre made a slight comeback with Rock Band 4 and Guitar Hero Live, but now the latest gaming arms race is VR. Harmonix has jumped on the VR bandwagon with the announcement of Rock Band VR for Oculus Rift.
The announcement trailer is… somewhat tricky to make sense of. The gameplay is different to the rest of the series, and shows off a new addition called Performance Mode. According to the Harmonix blog, this mode allows you to "experiment with different chords, notes and strum speeds to develop your signature sound and make each song your own". Basically, it's more about strumming along with the song, and less about hitting every note on cue.
The game (which is currently exclusive to PC) will include Classic Mode, which features the series' familiar note highway. It'll have a soundtrack of 60 songs, along with global leaderboards. Furthermore, it'll support both PS4 and Xbox One Rock Band guitars. It's odd that Harmonix isn't supporting PSVR, considering they already have an established presence on consoles that they could leverage. Perhaps we'll see a PSVR launch if this is a success.
Rock Band VR will launch for PC on 23 March 2017.