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Women who inspire… How to become an Ambassador.
Thanks to the friendship with wonderful organization "Ukrainian Women's Fund" I have an opportunity to meet truly inspiring people and this time they were women Ambassadors.
I was overexcited about the upcoming meeting because the Ambassador of one of my favorite countries the Kingdom of Morocco was invited to this event. So that was a day of good impressions. First of all I was surprised that the meeting was in the same building where I used to apply for a Moroccan visa. This year I've been there at least 4 times to support my team of W.E.Art (Women Empowerment through Art) project which we implemented in Morocco this summer.
Another thing which impressed me that much is the fact the Ambassador of Morocco is a woman! I always knew (especially after the W.E.Art project) that Moroccan women are progressive and inspiring and I`ve proved it to myself one more time.
So, here we've met to speak about the important issues of equal opportunities for women and men; youth movements and empowering women` leadership.
The meeting took place at the house of Argentina in Ukraine where we were hosted by Ambassador of Argentina in Ukraine Lila Roldan Vazquez de Muan.
from right to left (Ambassadors of Lebanon, Portugal, Argentina, Morocco)
Mrs. Lila Roldan was talking about her country and the role of women there. The first woman she`ve mentioned was Evita Peron the wife of the Argentinian president. She did a lot of very important work for the society and people said that her husband wouldn`t be a president without her support. She was inspiring for everyone. Evita was always working among the people. She thought that women should be in politics. She made it possible for women to vote in 1947.
In 1991 Argentina accepted the law of quota, which says that at least 30% of women have to be at the government.
Mrs. Lila Roldan was dreaming to become a diplomat from her early ages. When she was 6, she said to her parents that she is going to be a diplomat. She entered university to earn lawyer degree, because she to her mind that was the easiest way to achieve her dream.
When she passed a test to diplomacy, they asked her, what she is going to do when she will get married. She said that has no idea, cos she might go down this staircase and fall in love forever and live happily ever after, but maybe she will never meet her fate, so she doesn't know. Mrs. Lila was impressed why they didn't ask this question to her men colleagues…
When Mrs. Lila started to occupy the position of Ambassador she was the only women an Ambassador among 9 people.
She didn't want to get into diplomacy because of the quota for women, she wants to be better than others – to fit the position she wants.
"You have to fight for the conditions of your job. To achieve the same positions as your colleagues you don't need to be equal, you have to be better…" – that was the words her adviser told to young diplomat Lila Roldan.
She got married in her 30th. First Mrs. Lila decided to work on her career, than on her family. Her husband is supporting and following her.
Her son was grown up in Argentina, cos she wants to let him know their family, grannies, cousins, and others.
Mrs. Lila shared her experience with us and empowered us with her believe in today`s generation with her own observation as Ukrainian ladies are beautiful, but they are beautiful not only by appearance but also inside. Also she said that we have to show this to the world, that we are clever, educated, and responsible for the whole family. Ukrainian ladies are good enough to keep the future in your hands.
Ambassador of Lebanon Mrs Claude Hajal Demashkieh shared with us the development of women diplomacy in Lebanon where previously if she is unmarried and under 35 a woman could apply to become a diplomat in Lebanon. Currently the restriction of unmarried women is cancelled, so even married lady could apply to join the diplomacy corps.
The system of getting involved into diplomacy work is as follows: 2 years as training before start working abroad in ministry of foreign affairs in Lebanon; after this diplomat can work 7 years abroad and come back to Lebanon to work for 2 years again.
Now there are 20% of women in the diplomatic institution are working as diplomats. Mrs. Claude Hajal was working as Ambassador in such places as Paris, London, and Geneva. She started to work in 1994 and met her husband there who is also diplomat. The first Embassy where Mrs. Hajal was posted is in Jordan. She was placed according to her family conditions.
She is an exception of the common rules, cos she never was working abroad for 7 years. For instance Mrs. Claude was working as a Consular in Egypt for 3 years, after Egypt she gave birth to a baby girl and her husband became an ambassador in Berlin. She made a decision to keep the family instead of increasing the carrier and took 4 sabbatical years to save the family. That means no salary, no promotion, etc…
Combining work and family sometimes is quite tricky. You can't work in the same Embassy, but on the neighborhood countries and this is not easy for many of people.
With Ambassador of Morocco Mrs. Mina Tunsi on the right
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco Ms. Mina Tunsi shared with us the story of her way and inspiration of becoming an Ambassador, which she considers as a funny story.
In her early ages Mrs. Mina Tunsi was dreaming about becoming an Ambassador, but she didn't even know why. In 1956 Morocco got independence. The 1st Princess gave a great speech in the city of Tangier. It was something unbelievable when the first princes appeared in public with uncovered head and wearing European dress. She became the first woman in Morocco who made the public speech. She was talking in French, Arabic and English to keep fighting for liberalization of the country and for the women role in this movement. She became the first Arab women ambassador in the UK and after – Italia. Everyone was talking how educated she was, beautiful, smart… Her personality made a great impression to little Mrs. Mina, who was dreaming to became an Ambassador. That was the time she understood clearly that she can't be a princes, but for ambassador – yes! Her parents where laughing at her dream… But after finishing her study, the first job was of course in the ministry of foreign affairs. Mrs. Mina Tunsi applied to become an ambassador and that's why she is here now. Currently there are 38% of women in the diplomatic corpus in Morocco: 12 ambassadors, general consuls, diplomats.
In 2004 the new family code which gives more rights to women and start developing more dynamic society was accepted in Morocco. That was a huge step into building gender equality.
Nowadays there are more and more Moroccan women are achieving top positions. The Counselor of the King is a woman. 35% of politicians are women. Many of the women are involved in the private sector. But they are still fighting for the gender equality.
"If you want something – you'll get it. Keep your dream in mind work for it and don't give up" – said Mrs. Mina to us.
Ambassador of Portugal Mrs. Maria Cristina Almeida, told us the story that her father was diplomat and also he was a feminist. He thought that her daughter could do whatever she wants. In 1974 Portugal was in dictatorship mostly run by men. Women can't go to Ministry of foreign affairs, just like a service stuff and they couldn`t be married. In 1994 the revolution took place and everything changed. All the professions started to be available for women. Currently they have more women judges than men in Portugal. But they have quite few women ambassadors like 12-13 persons only.
48% of working force is women in Portugal. They have an education and they have to use it. It doesn't mean they all want to work but in order to live comfortable life women have to work together with their husbands.
There are 50% of women working at the top-level administration, they could work well as majors, in municipalities, NGOs, voluntary service etc.
"Let's do things, let's change… Take the destiny of this country into your hands. Don't think that because if this things you will miss marriage, family etc… "– said Mrs. Maria Cristina Almeida. She is married for a long time and she is happy. When she says something to her husband, he says – yes!
I think I would love to be an Ambassador. Watching those confident and beautiful women I wish to imagine myself on one of those places as an Ambassador of our lovely Ukraine. I might be a good candidate to represent our culture and traditions as well as positive attitude of Ukrainians.
So how to become a diplomat and what is needed to occupy this position?
We asked the Ambassadors few questions which could help to describe the portrait of beginner diplomat:
1) At what age you have started the diplomatic career?
Mrs. Maria Cristina Almeida (Portugal) – at 25 years;
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco Ms. Mina Tunsi started her work at 26-27 years old.
Ambassador of Lebanon Mrs Claude Hajal – at 26 years.
2) To your mind, which personal characteristics helped you to get the position you occupies now. There are some advises which the Ambassadors shared with us:
– You have to write well, the text should be well written and meaningful. It has to be structured. This is a very important thing;
– If you have economics, lawyer, psychology, sociology degree you have more chances to enter the diplomatic academy;
– Dream! Work more than men, be ready to take challenge of being first woman. Don't let men tell you: "you are woman, you are weak, so you could go home, etc… this work is not for you…";
– Make a man your partner, not someone who depends on you;
– Work hard and be tough;
– Take your not boring job, be dynamic and work on your creative ideas.
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You could predict the future with Ukrainian traditional divinations
Something you`re going to miss this night (St.Nicholas Day)


In a New York Times Magazine article in December of 1989, a 41 year-old writer named Paulette conveyed her sense of loss at trying to have a child in her late thirties, not succeeding, and now finding herself a successful 41 year-old writer who, sadly, "will probably never have a baby." It wasn't until she reached age 38 that she first decided to stop using birth control pills and try to get pregnant. She had hoped she could get pregnant naturally after learning more about the timing of her cycle and the quality of her cervical mucus. She did not understand her biological clock. It wasn't until she reached forty that she saw a local doctor who began fertility testing, including mucus testing, hormone testing, and two endometrial biopsies . None of this plodding got her any closer to getting pregnant. She then went through the many simple, old methods of treatment that sometimes work and might possibly make sense in a young woman trying to have a baby. But not for a 38 year old woman.
In fact, what Paulette went through is the conventional approach of trying to make a diagnosis and then using simple, old-fashioned methods to supposedly treat that diagnosis. The problem with this conventional view was that (1) many of these "diagnoses" are just normal variants that have nothing to do with why the woman is not getting pregnant, and (2) if a woman's time has almost run out, fiddling around for too long with the old-fashioned approaches may waste the few precious years she has left.
As physicians, we simply have to admit that we often really don't know why a couple isn't getting pregnant except that the wife is nearing the edge of her biological clock. Of course, a low sperm count in the husband, tubal obstruction, lesions in the uterine lining, and poor ovulation can all contribute to infertility, and all of those problems can be solved. But the biggest problem for a 38 year-old woman is simply her age.
There is now simple testing that could have told her (when she was younger) just when her particular biological clock would expire and let her decide (while there was still time left) when to stop procrastinating. Some women lose their fertility in their twenties and others not until their forties. We can now explain to you how you can gauge your own biological clock at an earlier age, and indeed freeze that clock while you are still young. If you are too late for that, I will explain how you can still get pregnant if you get the proper treatment.
Years ago I celebrated New Year's with our son's high school biology teacher and his 39 year old wife, Pam, with their six-week old baby, who never would have existed without IVF. Pam told me to make sure to tell everyone how awful it is to go through the conventional series of "diagnostic" tests and ineffective treatments for years and years with one contradictory diagnosis after another. She had gone through seven years of this at the previous clinic she had used. She had been through literally hundreds of pills, shots, doctors' visits, and tests, not to mention worthless and potentially damaging surgery.
A non-invasive ultrasound technique called "Antral Follicle Count" [see video], as well as an isoteric blood test called "AMH", can tell us just where you are on your age related biological clock, and when you should start to worry.
When Pam and her husband came to us, I told her that I really didn't know why she wasn't getting pregnant. But she was in her late thirties and that was enough reason for them to be infertile; I recommended no more tests. She was thrilled when I suggested we proceed right to what was then the "new" technology of in-vitro fertilization (IVF). She was fed up with trying to figure out why she was infertile and getting nowhere. After seven years of wasted efforts, Pam finally conceived with the IVF procedure, and she and her husband had a healthy baby, who is now a healthy teenager. She has no idea why she was infertile and neither do I nor her original doctors. Fortunately, for Pam, it was not already too late.


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Defending the indefensible? Lawyers on representing clients accused of nightmarish crimes
Rory Carroll and Simon Hattenstone talk to the lawyers who've taken on some of the toughest cases
Rory Carroll and Simon Hattenstone
The Guardian, Friday 27 June 2014 10.00 EDT
Irving Kanarek, 94, practiced law in California from 1957-1989. He represented Charles Manson, who was convicted in 1971 of conspiracy to murder actor Sharon Tate and six other people. He also defended Jimmy Lee Smith, convicted of abducting and murdering an LA police officer in 1963, a case immortalized in the book The Onion Field.
Irving Kanarek: 'I don't dream or even think much about Charlie.'
Photograph: Felix Clay for the Guardian
I would defend a client who I knew was guilty of horrific crimes. They have to be proved guilty. I've had cases where people were guilty as hell but they couldn't prove it. And if they can't prove it, he's not guilty. In that case, the person walks free. That's American justice.
I got a reversal of Jimmy Lee's death sentence, and he had been accused of killing a police officer. That made me the victim of police non-objectivity. They pulled me over, gave me tickets undeservedly.
It wasn't a difficult decision to take the Manson case. My purpose was to fight legally admissible evidence, and the amount of that was scant. His guilt was based on a few hearsay words, inadmissible in court, that he supposedly told this guy to do a number on the Tate residence. No question he was legally innocent. And, more than that, he was actually innocent. There was no evidence connecting him to those murders.
The newspapers, the magazines, the motion pictures got people all excited – Manson as the embodiment of human evil. Charlie wasn't a monster. When you look at the legally admissible evidence, you come to a very different conclusion. Just looking at him from objective considerations, he's a personable person.
I've thought a lot about the case in terms of the legalities. I haven't dwelt much on the human tragedy of it. There's a lot of myth, for example that the baby was taken out of Tate's body. Not so. The wounds were not in the abdomen. The wounds were primarily in the breast area.
I didn't spend much time [thinking about Tate and the other victims], because they were victims of disputes that Charlie had nothing to do with. I think his direct involvement has been woefully extrapolated.
By the time I visited the house, the bodies were gone. The scene was what I'd call mechanical. Nothing about it was gruesome, per se. They'd marked where they were in chalk. So it isn't as overwhelming as some people may feel. None of it stayed with me. The tools of the courtroom make such scenes less than human. I didn't think about it emotionally. The victims are part of the case, but are not that tangible. I lost sleep on other cases, but not on this one.
People ask me, have I ever felt in the presence of evil, I don't know how to respond to that. I don't dream or even think much about Charlie.
I have regrets about every case where someone is killed or injured. Murder is unappetizing. But I've never defended anyone who's been accused of horrible criminal acts on children.
Hat tip to Emily, a regular reader of the blog (or something like that).
Labels: Irving Kanarek
Goodbye Helter Skelter
George Stimson has a newly released book.
A New Look at the Tate-LaBianca Murders
"There's an image and a person that the District Attorney created called 'Manson Helter Skelter.' And there's an image that's in the press that you've been reading and watching and looking at for years. And that's built up in your mind. That's an image that somebody else made up. It's got nothing, really, to do with me personally. I am not that guy. But yet that guy is built up in your mind and you think that that guy is me. You think that I'm that fire-breathing, seven-foot-tall, no good hippie cult leader bullshit bunkum punk shit that they put on me, you know. And then sometimes I think you guys get to believing that shit.
"That's not me.
"I might be worse than that, in some ways." -- Charles Manson
In August of 1969 the spectacular Tate-LaBianca murders rocked Los Angeles, the country, and the world. But even more shocking than those murders was the story behind them: the story of a homicidal maniac named Charles Manson, how he turned the sons and daughters of middle-class America into a "Family" of murderous slaves, and an insane plan to achieve world domination by sparking a race war called "Helter Skelter."
But what if it was just a story?
Here is the first realistic and reasonable examination of the Tate-LaBianca murders and the true reasons behind them. Based on years of research and exclusive information from Charles Manson and many of his former and present friends, Goodbye Helter Skelter presents the conclusions of a long-time Manson associate -- conclusions that will likely change everything you think you know about Charles Manson, his "Family," and some of the most infamous murders in the history of American crime.
Goodbye Helter Skelter includes material taken from hundreds of hours of tape-recorded conversations with Charles Manson. Never before has Manson's point of view been presented in such a complete and coherent format.
416 pages, including over thirty pages of color photographs
Goodbye Helter Skelter by George Stimson Available Now
contact@goodbyehelterskelter.com
Copyright © 2014 The Peasenhall Press
Posted by DebS at 2:55:00 PM 67 comments
Labels: Charles Manson, George Stimson, Helter Skelter
No Words...
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Posted by Matt at 12:06:00 AM 11 comments
Labels: Debra Tate, Don Wilson
Who's that Girl?
Patty has seen this image before but she always assumed it was Photoshopped. Recently she noticed that Aes-Nihil has the original in his collection. Obviously it's Sandy and Lynn, but now Patty is wondering, "who's that girl?"
Labels: Lynette Fromme, Sandra Good
Okay, I will admit it, I have an affinity for these old trashy tabloids! You know the stuff they write is totally blown out of proportion and sometimes outright made up but, damn, it is entertaining!
You rarely hear anything about Mike Armstrong and his wife Denise, I don't think they testified at the trial. I have found a couple of articles about them though, here's one that Cielodrive has transcribed about a fire destroying their trailer at Spahn Ranch.
Posted by DebS at 12:21:00 AM 10 comments
Labels: Charles Manson, Manson Family, National Examiner
Claire Vaye Watkins
This summer as part of a summer workshop Claire will do a special reading at The Cabin, a literary center in Boise Idaho on June 22nd.
An article in the Boise Weekly reveals the news that Claire is expecting her first child in a couple of months.
Posted by DebS at 2:35:00 PM 6 comments
Labels: Claire Vaye Watkins
Rare old photo
Labels: Catherine Gillies, Ruth Ann Moorehouse, Sandra Good, Squeaky Fromme
This Charming Man
What exactly was it that made people want to spill their guts out (no pun intended) to a man named Charles Manson? How did Charlie become so skilled at reading people? Was it just something he was born with, or was it something he learned in reform schools/prisons? Was he always charming? Back in the days of yonder, when he was a pimple-faced teen, did he have the ability to charm the girls out of their poodle skirts? Did he purposely pick certain people he knew he could dominate? Is he a man, monster, or both? What do you think he is? I don't think the answer is all that complicated. In my opinion, and I am sure I am going to get reamed for saying so, he is an extremely dangerous, unstable man who was nothing more than a clever pimp. His ability to get people to do stuff on his command is what makes him dangerous. That, and his opinion that human beings other than himself had no rights to their own lives & money. Their money was his money, according to the Gospel of Charlie. He always talked against being materialistic, but he was always the first one reaping the benefits of other people's goods. Manson loved the benefits of money more than he has ever let on, and that, right there makes him more human than ever! You didn't ever see him turning his nose up against all of the material possessions, luxuries & comforts that Dennis Wilson's money provided, did you? Hell no! He's no fool. The following excerpt from Paul Watkins book is an extremely good description of CM:
Later people would ask me how a man like Charlie Manson could ever be considered Christlike. How could he ever get that close to people, so close that they spoke his rap, and thought his thoughts. The answer is simple, really. He listened to them, each of them. He concentrated on what they said. He sympathized with their problems, knew their idiosyncrasies. He allowed them to express all their fears, hopes, aspirations. Seemingly, he did not judge, he merely listened, and focused all his attention on them. He became friend, brother, lover, and father. He gave himself in a way that, perhaps no one else ever had, particularly in the beginning. Ironically, few people ever really pay attention on that level. He taught the girls not only to love their minds, but their bodies, and to use them without inhibition. What he had started at Spahn's, he continued at Gresham Street. He was always changing the motion, remaining unpredictable.
He went on to write:
The girls in the Family adored Charlie; he knew each of them-their hang-ups, their likes, dislikes, phobias, their tastes in food, sex, music, their backgrounds-everything. Whenever someone appeared who might cause a problem to our scene-a narc, redneck, probation officer, anyone from the straight world-Charlie knew immediately which girl would be best suited to neutralize that person. He was masterful at this; to do it, he had to know his women well.
In closing, I would like to add that while I am sure Manson is a fascinating character to know, and to correspond with, he is just too damned unstable to let out. He couldn't just go out into the desert to disappear into anonymity, because every moron in town would be chasing after him, following him around, and trying to recreate "The Family." Of course, I am sure old Charlie wouldn't mind an assortment of groupies following him out there to cater to his every need, but we all know that isn't ever going to happen. While I think Tex Watson is a helluva lot more dangerous than Manson ever will be, I still don't think he is innocent.
Posted by AustinAnn74 at 1:28:00 AM 15 comments
Labels: Charles Manson
Linda Kasabian 2014
Labels: Linda Kasabian
Manson-related art exhibit opens today in LA
Blog reader John Tottenham has an exhibit opening today at:
Maloney Fine Art
2680 South La Cienega Blvd.
(between Venice & Washington)
On the subject of "The Undesirables" John writes:
"I encountered the Manson story as an impressionable 15-year-old who had recently been kicked out of one the least notable public schools in the south of England. I was sent to a school for difficult kids but spent most of my days walking the streets of London. I found a copy of 'The Family,' Ed Sanders' colorful account of the Manson murders, and I went round and round on the Circle Line in London, unable to put it down. The atmosphere it evoked, thick with sex and dread, was intoxicating to a morbidly romantic youth whose voice still hadn't broken. In the evening, after a day of truancy, I returned to the family home in a quaint Kentish village - 35 miles from London but deep in the heart of the country, and very remote insofar as public transport was concerned - where I would read it while listening repeatedly to 'Forever Changes' by Love. Fortuitously enough, I discovered this record at precisely the same time, and it served as the perfect soundtrack, evoking an eerie, damaged, distinctively Los Angeles atmosphere. Arthur Lee's cryptic, riddling lyrics - 'Sitting on a hillside, watching all the people die,' etc, are not dissimilar to Manson's "No sense makes sense" logic: "Look down at me and you see a fool, look up at me and you see a God, look straight at me and you see yourself," etc. The Manson case offered an exotic and extreme form of vicarious teenage rebellion, being the complete antithesis of my staid rural colonial upbringing.
After gazing upon the grainy full page shot of Susan Atkins (AKA Sadie Mae Glutz) in 'Helter Skelter' I became hopelessly besotted. I would stare at that photograph for minutes on end, completely losing myself in it. Her expression was very haunting, very penetrating. What most drew me to the Manson story was the predicament of the girls. They seemed, in a way, like victims themselves, and they hadn't been much older than I was when they had fallen under Charlie's spell.
I projected most of my adolescent romantic longing onto them, though there was a lot to go around. I wrote a billet-doux to Susan Atkins and sent it to her care of the Frontera Women's Institute. A few weeks later my mother, understandably perplexed, handed over an envelope with a California prison stamp upon it and a complicated series of numbers denoting the sender. Susan had written back, informing me that she had seen the light and recommended I do likewise. After the epistolary letdown I began to feel guilty about my Manson-immersion. I built a ceremonial bonfire and burned the Atkins letter, along with other artifacts, including an original copy of the Manson 's 2019 record on ESP that I had found so affecting, especially 'Look at your Game Girl,' which perfectly evoked the eerie sun-dried lostness of those times.
When I started digging into the case again, I realized that the photograph of Sadie in 'Helter Skelter' was rather a flattering one. She certainly wasn't doing herself any favors when she started showing up in court with a shaved head and unshaven legs: that was a look I couldn't get behind. In hindsight, the Sadie infatuation probably had an unhealthy effect upon the kind of women I subsequently gravitated towards.
My interest in the case had faded by the time I made it out to LA. By then it had become off-puttingly trendy in transgressive circles. But it has turned out to be a constantly revisited fascination. And obviously I'm not alone in it. I frequently meet people whose early impressions of Southern California were formed by the Manson case. Murder stories often serve as a portal to another time and place. In this case, it served as a window into the Los Angeles of the late 60s, obviously a very interesting time, especially as the idealism and hedonism began to sour. Here was a unique confluence of circumstances - a crucible of chaos in which a bizarrely charismatic ex-con with a messianic complex attracted just the right group of vulnerable and manipulable young men and women on just the right/wrong combination of potent drugs in a climate that facilitated a horrific and previously unthinkable chain of events.
My intention with the drawings was to capture as precisely as possible my most intimate impressions of nature. In this case, feminine nature. I was never interested in the murders as much as the shadows they cast and by the girls who dwelled in those shadows. And what became of them. The drawings are of all the girls in the Family, not just the killers; in fact, some of the killers are under-represented. I used almost every suitable image I could find. There has always been something haunting about a mugshot, especially old ones, and these mugshots are about 45-years-old now.
They started out, as everything seems to, as doodles on post-it notes, and they evolved on to slightly larger pieces of finer paper. Though tiny, some of them took a long time to complete. I wouldn't be satisfied until I felt that I'd captured something, if not an exact rendering of the photograph, then something that evoked.
The drawings are a personal exercise in nostalgia. When I think of the Manson saga I don't think so much of where it took place - and where I ended up - but rather of where I was when first exposed to it; the canyons and deserts of Southern California come sweeping back to me as I first imagined them, borne on the cold autumn wind through the English countryside, while I sat on the sofa in the living room of a modest country house with 'Forever Changes' repeatedly playing on the stereo. I know it's all played out now but it wasn't when I first came across it. It's my attempt to capture what I found so haunting when I first became obsessed with the case.
Posted by Matt at 6:56:00 AM 5 comments
Labels: John Tottenham, Maloney Fine Art, The Undesirables
Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids posters
I don't think I have much to say about these posters, except they are from "Marilyn Manson & The Spooky Kids" circa 1991-1994. Just to add, I think it is sick of entertainers to use murder victims in their advertisements to sell tickets. Even more sick is the thought of Tex Watson "preaching" against Marilyn Manson music, because it is "evil!" What is worse? Don't know. Just don't know.......
Posted by AustinAnn74 at 12:52:00 AM 19 comments
Labels: Charles Manson, marilyn manson
Ballarat BEL Be-In, Easter Sunday '71
From the Nevada State Journal, April 8 1971: "the gathering was called for by participants in the Laguna Beach Christmastime Happening as a religious experience. They denied later reports that the gathering would be a rock festival saying no live music was planned for the Easter sunrise observation."
*Special thanks to Michael Channels for permission to use the image at left.
Here are two more from the same event that DebS recently found in the LA Freep. One has a map showing festival attendees how to arrive at Ballarat from Laguna Beach:
"According to Superintendent Murphy of Death Valley National Monument, no arrangements have been made with his department for the festival...As we see it, this festival has all the makings of a very bad trip."
Promoters jumped on board and rumors floated that bands like Jethro Tull would be in attendance. BEL member Dion Wright who painted the Taxonomic Mandala made the following statement: "An Easter gathering will take place in Ballarat California, an eighty acre privately owned ghost town...(that) has been offered free of charge. We have represented to (Inyo County) a pilgrimage...including the placing of a Book of Life in the Panamint Valley."
Book of Life, not Book of Death (as in Leary's and the Manson's manifestos). Patty has heard the Goler Wash referred to as the "Holy Goler" and has always wondered why: perhaps this is part of the answer. Interesting, no?
Labels: Ballarat CA, Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Goler Wash, Los Angeles Free Press
The National Socialist Liberation Front, James Mason
I am not sure if this will be of interest to you or the Mansonistas at the MansonBlog. Here it is anyway.
Below (and attached, as a Word Doc) are a number of articles. These were taken from SIEGE, a Neo-Nazi publication from the 1980s. SIEGE began as a newsletter associated with the National Socialist Liberation Front (an offshoot of the National Socialist White People's Party) and later was associated with Universal Order (a quasi-mystical, informal Hitler-worshipping group). In both instances it was edited and written by James Mason, who readers may remember from Schreck's original edition of The Manson File. He was a Neo-Nazi who established links with a number of Family members (Squeaky and Sandy mainly, I think) and (positively) associated Manson with figures like Hitler and George Lincoln Rockwell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Liberation_Front
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mason_%28National_Socialist%29
The articles below are the ones from SIEGE which deal directly with Manson. There are a number of others which mention him, but I didn't include him since they only do so indirectly. The articles that might be of most interest to MansonBlog readers are the last few, starting from 'Universal Order'. These ones, as far as I can tell, didn't appear in the NSLF-affiliated SIEGE but came later. They don't say anything particularly ground-breaking, but do provide an unorthodox view of Tate-LaBianca which I feel probably had some input from the Family members still grooving on Charlie's vibe. All collected editions of SIEGE can be accessed here:
https://archive.org/details/Siege_836
James Mason is an ardent National Socialist who has achieved underground infamy. Mason's revolutionary rhetoric is deemed so subversive and violent that it has even alienated other Nazis. SIEGE shares this uncommon distinction with Céline's Les Beaux Draps (A Fine Mess), which was banned from print inside the Third Reich for being too hateful. This status of notoriety has served to propel SIEGE to new dimensions as a harangue bold enough to advocate sheer political terror. Indeed, Mason views the prevalent status quo Establishment as enemy number one, and has striven to foster its decollation by any means available.
Much of the criticism Mason has attracted stems from his praise of Charles Manson as a misunderstood ideological leader. Superficial minds immediately dismissed this claim as preposterous. But Manson did not carve a swastika on his forehead without reason. Manson does
consider himself a kind of neo-Nazi, and what is "neo" about his Nazism is at times quite fascinating. Thus Mason deserves credit for taking Manson seriously enough to glimpse the very coherent meaning behind his apparent façade of madness. Furthermore, both Mason and Manson have nothing but contempt for right wing shenanigans and escapist fantasies that purport to wage battle over pivotal issues that must not be lost, when in reality the greater WAR to even pre-emptively assert such causes has already been crushed. Suffice it to say, this open honesty has not endeared Mason with those of a lukewarm and illusive mentality.
They'll say that you can't have anything to do with such a criminal, such a defective, such a pervert, such a monster. The lesson of history is clear and the method of the Jew is exposed for those with the understanding, the intelligence and the courage that it takes to put it to use. For the rest, they write themselves off right away, as easily as that. The Revolution is going to call for people who will think, "To hell with all that other! What has he to say?" For when they exclaim to hell with the other, they mean the whole System, everything it says and everything it stands for. They then stand at the beginning. (Adolf Hitler was unable to do this because at his time he was able to work within that system but, in so doing, may have engendered his own ultimate end.)
Those who cannot, under any circumstances, accept or even try to accept Manson are unconscious of the fact that, in reality, this means they cannot accept their own reflections. They are then severely crippled– just like the Jews say they are– and not only useless to themselves or anyone else but that same kind of liability to anything they may get into as I have attempted in many various ways to outline and illustrate in SIEGE over the years.
(Even in the hostile, Jewish-System accounts of the Manson Family, you'll find no dregs or cripples such as abound in the Right Wing. Only the best from among the best– racially and otherwise, profoundly alienated by a Jew System– just as it was with the NSDAP in Germany .)
There is the immediate rise of, "What about all those drugs?" Part of the legend and lore of the Kosher myth-building machine. First, speaking for myself only, I have never used drugs and never plan to. Not only do I not feel I require them for any reason, I feel they are detrimental to the faculties both mental and physical. Second, I have had explained to me by people who are "drug wise" that there is a differentiation between natural substances such as "grass" and certain hallucinogens, and the rest of the broad drug spectrum. It was that spectrum of addictive, manufactured drugs that Manson specifically forbade among his circle. But, just from a practical point ofview, you tell a young White kid he must get his hair cut and give up grass, etc., and you are going to lose him to the other side who will be thinking to themselves– rightfully– just what a jerk you are. We will interior decorate only AFTER we have extinguished the house fire. (Same goes for sex practices as long as it is kept WHITE, just as Manson insisted.)
Last of all, as could easily be deduced from my shotgun blast against any form of "religiosity" earlier in SIEGE, I go for nothing, indeed have no tolerance for anything remotely "spooky". All of this is real, it is solid, it is as "American as apple pie", and it only may seem strange on the surface because it is so new. Manson, like Hitler, is as human as you or I. He is just special by virtue of a one-in-a hundred-million shot of gene combinations which gives him his ideas, his personality and his physical presence.
Vol. XI, #11– Nov., 1982
The Meaning of Manson
He is a product of the American heartland and was subject to the worst conditions that prevailed. But racially, psychically, and culturally he is perhaps the MOST American. Personally gifted, selfless, fearless– both morally and physically– and absolutely dedicated to Life, to Earth and to Truth. What he did– in spite of a life full of the worst adversity– rather than drown in a sea of bitterness as most would have done, he established a racial-socialist colony in Death Valley, in California, in the midst of the push-shove of the 1960's, which was neither hippie nor Right Wing.
As far as those of us today who remain active in the struggle against Death, in favor of Life, Manson's meaning is of the highest importance. His ideas can be readily accepted by racially sound, intelligent, honest Leftists as they can be by Rightists. Without Manson's input, neither side will unravel the problem nor find an answer in time. His is to date the most supreme example of defiance, action and survival.
Little more can be added here except that the verse from Mein Kampf in which Hitler cautioned against turning one's back to the immortal hands which occasionally are outstretched to us in times of great stress, has its most potent meaning at this time– "...woe to the people that is ashamed to grasp them."
[Vol. XII, #3– March, 1983]
The Attack On Manson
Last month's issue of SIEGE had gone to press at about the same time the news of the prison attack against Charles Manson reached us here. Personally, I hadn't experienced such a shock since I received the word of the assassination of Commander Rockwell. Neither had the implications for the Movement been as great as that day in 1967. It was probably better that things worked out as they did, time-wise, as there was little or nothing more that could have been added in these pages to the news reports which, I'm certain, everyone saw at that time. I dislike trying to comment in an intelligent way on a grave topic about which few facts have come in.
Speculations now aside, Manson's injuries are not severe and will produce nothing of a lasting nature. One friend reported that,"It was all over with inside of four minutes." Those with any combat experience, or experience at being wounded, will be aware that four minutes can be an eternity. But there are at least as many friends of Manson inside as there are enemies and this plus their fast action made the difference. We thank these from the bottom of our heart.
I never recalled any questions or worries during the Sixties about what would happen should someone kill the Commander or even whether anyone might seriously try. He was eminently well qualified to take care of himself and, as he would say, his very audacity helped keep him alive. But with Manson it has been different. We have worried– deeply– about the very real risk of just such an attack. If the world outside is a jungle then the world of prison is an insane asylum. It turns out that it was a "nut" that finally got to Manson after all these years but it certainly didn't have to be. Among dangerous punks of all types– inmates and guards alike it is known and accepted that a hit against Charles Manson would place one at the top of the pecking order. And it's an odd coincidence that both Rockwell and Manson were forty-nine years of age at the time of their most deadly personal attacks.
People are dying and getting killed all the time. It'll happen to each one of us sooner or later. In prison, those with "names" have been targeted traditionally since these institutions first existed. Though maybe prison, with all its risks, is and has been Manson'sworld, we still view his life as something of extreme value, something to be preserved at all cost. We have been lucky this time. I'm a believerin luck. Maybe nothing like this will happen again, or at least not for a very long time. It was as though, with the elevation of years with no significant attack, the probability of one happening was becoming critical. Now, in more ways than one, the pressure is off, for awhile.
The press, as always, treated Manson as hot property, not as an individual. That he had been seriously attacked was sensational. That he's going to be all-right is not. And it is this view– that of the Jewish press– that the majority of those in the Movement seem content to be left with concerning Manson. Not too surprising really when you match this view and this attitude with the state the Movement finds itself in.
Though I expressed the sincere feeling that I do not identify with these times, I do take pride in the fact that and the realization that I am not, in spite, stricken by contemporary blindness. Jesus of Nazareth in robes and sandals in 1934 would be a sensation. But in the year 30 A.D., he was just another guy, a shit-disturber whom they allowed to be strung up in the manner of the most common criminals. Adolf Hitler with his flashy uniform, his para-military party and his histrionic oratory today seems most out of place. In 1933, he was little different than a dozen other European dictators. They say familiarity breeds contempt while the dreamer in all of us longs for the exotic. Maybe that's why the Christs among us in the present are so often overlooked or scorned. The Movement with its weird way of looking at things can't see in Manson anything more than what the Jewish press puts in its deliberately distorted, sensationalized coverages.
What did it in the end for Jesus, Hitler and Manson is found in what they SAID and in what they DID... and not in whatever way they might have tried to attract the attention of any potential fan club. If Manson is still with us in the living, you can thank a couple of nameless prison inmates. What do you now do about that which you nearly left until it was too late?
[Vol. XIII, #11– Nov., 1984]
To Charles Manson it is necessary to devote his own segment. He is unique from the rest not because of any comparative degree ofgreatness, not on account of any variation from a certain, accepted norm but only because he is the only one which is still alive. And alive in this age generally means to be grossly misunderstood.
I have no way of knowing how many of you managed to watch the interview with Manson done by CBS on its "Nightwatch" program during March of this year. It is difficult for me to comment on what was said even though I videotaped the entire, sixty-minute show. For one, it was anything else but an interview. The "host" kept on interrupting, baiting and throwing barbs all throughout, not to mention tossing in his own little "interpolations" at every commercial break. Manson did his best to hold a tight line of thought despite all interference and provocation. What came across to me– and I have known Manson for about six years– was impressive. The heaviest concepts I have heard to date.Things so huge and all-encompassing that they were and are hard to grasp. I realize that the bulk of the Movement is in agreement with the System in that "Manson is insane". I have heard all that elsewhere before, applied to different personalities. It says nothing about Manson. It tells a lot about those who say it.
Without difficulty, I can well imagine and appreciate how Manson must strike the average mind. Incomprehensible. However, I always felt that the minds in the Movement– or at least some of the better ones– would and should be more perceptive and receptive. I have only been partially right. While 98% of what Manson says flies right over the heads of most, only about 30% leaves me behind in the dust. Tome– a realist and an objectivist– that doesn't mean Manson is screwy. To me it means that here is one source from which I can still draw understanding and knowledge– from which I can still LEARN. For these past five or six years, I have had a sure feeling that whenI could approach Manson's grasp and understanding, I'd have achieved something truly great. I've been gaining at it slowly but steadily and remain more convinced of it than ever before.
Contrast this with the information to be found in the Movement. First, how much of it is direct reprint, often dating back ten years and beyond? What does the most advanced of it consist of? Flowery curses upon the System and admonishments to get away and form our own colonies. What's missing is the state of mind, the weltanschauung, the ideology upon which to live, think, to base and to view and everything. I've come to know enough of it to realize that full comprehension of the rest would amount to the ultimate weapon, offensive anddefensive, in our poor, disinherited hands.
Manson is unique from the rest because he still lives. He is identical with the rest because he too was undone and betrayed by his own disciples. And for any who have the courage to see arid know that, with 1945, the world and everything in it was turned upside-down, it only follows logically that you look for the greatest of leaders, not at the top where they used to be found, but at the STONE BOTTOM the way this crazy, evil mess demands it must be! But bottom or no, not even the walls of San Quentin can confine his world-significant impact. (And I just wish all of you could have caught a glimpse of the half-dozen-strong escort of "Mr.T's" he had from the block to the roomwhere the interview was conducted.)
Everything else had become to me just like a broken record. I was more than just a little amazed and disgusted when some of the "better" people in the Movement would ask me in the beginning, "Is he a member of the party?" or "Does he plan to become a party member?"The problems always arise when small or average minds try to measure something great using their own inadequate standards. Such as if Jesus were to appear on the street and some asshole inquire, "Are you a member of our Church?" And, in any case, he'd be in violation of the hair and dress code, with no visible means of support, etc.
To the Right Wing aficionados, I would remind you that our Enemy, in the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, has long ago promised to invariably attach the status of "common criminal" to their own worst enemies so that their true nature would be effectively concealed from the eyes of the people. Even at that, they have found it altogether impossible to continue seriously pretending that Manson is no more than a common criminal.
I have done what I could to inject– subtlely and overtly– as many of Manson's ideas into Movement thought as possible. I have had limited success. But having accomplished this much, I can only hope that the seeds have been planted and the torch passed...
[Vol. XV, #5– May, 1986]
(This was the last commentary on the above subjects appearing in the original
SIEGE.)
Universal Order
"Do not handicap yourselves with the idea of revenge, because the trend of events will avenge the wrongs that you suffer, not only in the case of the individuals who initiated the persecutions, but also of the society that has permitted this lawlessness."–Vidkun Quisling, 1945
"To get yourself together you need not to even think there is anyone else in this world. I don't need to look down on, or get off on, or get over on. The hardest thing to overcome is our own lies, confusion and our jealousy!"–Charles Manson
"Open up the dope valves and let the people take all the dope they want.
Let 'em dope themselves on out till there's nothing left of it.
Let the people do what they want to do.
Take the rules and regulations off of it and then what you have left is the people that want to live.
The people that want to die, let 'em go. The people that want to destroy themselves, let them go ahead and destroy themselves."–Charles Manson, 1984
Night Of The Buck Knives
If any single historic similarity links Hitler to Manson in the eyes of friends and foe alike, surely it has to be what have become known as the Tate killings of 1969. One cannot bring up the name of Charles Manson for discussion without having these killings brought into the picture by the moralists and curiosity seekers just as one cannot bring up the name of Hitler without some conditioned brainwashees harping away on the "Six Million" I now undertake, to the best of my knowledge, for the first time the task of analyzing these killings strictly from the "pro" viewpoint and hope to come out with arguments superior to those of the "anti" camp. I do this with no firsthand knowledge of the events and certainly without the sanction of either Manson or any of his associates.
One thing I do however bring into the balance with my study of this most fascinating chapter in recent American history is abroad background as a National Socialist and the understanding of the modus operandi of the Jews and their controlled media. I bring with me also a background as a National Socialist revolutionary and all of the anti-Establishment modes of thought and action which that involves. Finally, I am supported by a better-than-average knowledge of and familiarity with some of the principals in the case. What follows then would have to be viewed as the appraisal of the Tate killings by a sympathetic, White revolutionary.
First of all it is necessary to dispel the prevailing mythology surrounding the case in precisely the same way as an entire universe of corresponding legend has to be done away with that was erected around the matter of European Jews during the Second World War. Manson, too, had his equivalents of Speer, Frank, Eichmann, etc., who– seeing that the jig was up– exulted in commanding huge fanfare for themselves yet were artists when it came to shifting the real blame. A very large proportion of the most bizarre, blood-and-gore and, I might add, perverse stories connected with the case were the inventions of Susan Atkins as she struggled to do her best to impress the grand jury after she had been indicted in the course of the investigation of another case. The opportunistic prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi, merely made capital of it in his subsequent book, Helter Skelter, and a legend was born. It mattered not that Susan Atkins later retracted her statements– enough evidence had been gleaned by the System to go on to crack the case and the media had the suitable grist for its myth mill.
It Couldn't Have Happened To a Sweeter Bunch
Let us now go on to get rid of another clumsy but commonly held misconception, that of the "poor, innocent victims". Those of you with backgrounds similar to mine in the American National Socialist Movement will be among the first to sadly admit that it was indeed a damnable shame that Hitler did not, in fact, kill at least six million Jews during the War. We are the minority who KNOW what the Jews were and are all about and we can shed no tears for any of them. The rest of the gullible public sees things otherwise. So we have before us the image of the beautiful actress, Sharon Tate, eight months pregnant, slaughtered in her home with a number of her equally beautiful friends by a bunch of crazed beasts out for bloodglut per se. Sound familiar in premise? Sort of like all those beautiful, talented and peace-loving Jews that a certain madman, bent on conquering the world, took an irrational dislike to.
How knowledgeable are most of you about the Tate case, even if that means judging it based upon the hostile and distorted versions available in bookstores? An intelligent, informed person can still learn much truth even from the worst liars if he knows what to look for. I found that the house on Cielo Drive in L.A., scene of the killings, had been occupied by one Terry Melcher, half-Jewish son of White renegade actress Doris Day, and that Melcher had made the acquaintance of Manson as a music promoter and had reneged on a series of promises he had made Manson over the previous year or more. In fact, it appears as though Manson and some associates had been at the house as guests on a few occasions. This much then rules out the false notion of "random" killings.
It may have been accident that the house on Cielo Drive had since been taken by Roman Polanski, Jewish film director and erstwhile child molester, at the time of the killings but it is irrelevant when one stops to consider that the strata of human type stayed steady throughout the transition of tenants. Given that then, it is helpful to take a look at what is known of the people who were in that house on the night of the killings. My sources are the very books that were written to, first of all, make money off the sensationalism, and, secondly, to defame Manson and his associates for having been anti-Establishment enough to have dared lay hands on the "Beautiful People". They are the following: Helter Skelter by Bugliosi and Gentry; The Family by Ed Sanders; Will You Die For Me? by Charles Watson; Child of Satan, Child of God by Susan Atkins; and The Manson Women by Clara Livsey.
Hollywood Rogues Gallery
Sharon Tate, whose most famous role was in "Valley of the Dolls" wherein she had typified the supreme harlot role for a nation full of impressionable, young White girls to emulate, had as her first business agent one Hal Gefsky. Her early producer as well as her lover had been one Martin Ransohoff. Still another lover of that period, Jay Sebring, a.k.a. Kummer, was to be among the dead at Cielo Drive a few years hence. Tate had come to meet Roman Polanski when her producer-lover, Ransohoff, had hired Polanski to direct one of his films. Through Polanski came Voityck Frykowski who had known Polanski from the old days in Poland and who was to become yet another Cielo Drive death.
Polanski and Tate began their affair and he wasted no time in exploiting her Aryan looks by getting her into a nude spread in "Playboy" magazine during 1967. They were married in 1968. The Polanskis were such close friends of the likes of Robert Kennedy that they were present the night of his killing. From the beginning it was known and accepted that the Polanskis were regular users of LSD.
A glance at the rest of those present at Cielo Drive that night reveals that Voityck Frykowski had been dealing in a substance known as methlenedioxyl-amphetamine which is used as a stimulant as well as an aphrodisiac. It was revealed that Frykowski was "on" this substance himself at the time of his death. He was also involved in a marijuana smuggling ring which brought that substance into the U.S. from Jamaica via Canada .
Through Frykowski came Abigail Folger, his lover and member-in-good-standing of the filthy rich set as Folger Coffee heiress. The nominally "White" Miss Folger had just campaigned for Negro Tom Bradley for mayor of L.A. and had been a volunteer social worker in Watts.
Jay Sebring was a successful men's hair stylist who took his business name from the famous race track. After his death it was revealed by the L.A.P.D. that Sebring had been heavy into sado-masochism after they had discovered whips, chains, studded cuffs, hoods, and even films of these activities on Sebring's premises.
The teenager, Steven Parent, it would appear, did have the dubious distinction of having been at the wrong place at entirely thewrong time.
Some of those who, as easily as not, might have been there that night at Cielo Drive included Terry Melcher himself, Roger Vadim (one-time husband of Jane Fonda) who had just celebrated a birthday at the house, Jerzy Kosinski (matchmaker for Frykowski and Folger) had actually been supposed to be there, and, finally, Roman Polanski himself who happened to be off tending to another film.
After the killings, the L.A.P.D. found at the house large quantities of cocaine and mescaline as well as videotapes depicting scenes of sadism, masochism and bestiality. The boy, Steven Parent, had not been at the house at all but was about to depart the grounds after visiting at the servant's quarters. This leaves only Tate, Sebring, Frykowski and Folger. Much speculation has been made concerning Sebring's presence there in Polanski's absence. The nature of the relationship between Folger and Frykowski is clear. With regard to the eight-month-old fetus Tate was carrying, it was, after all, a Jew.
Would You If You Could?
As a National Socialist, I am not interested in sensationalism. Instead of gruesome details, I want to know the why and wherefore of things. As with the facts disproving Nazi "gas chambers" plus information on why Jews were concentrated, similar circumstances surrounding the Tate killings are tacitly suppressed. We are satisfied the right people got it in both cases and, if there is fault to be found,it is that the Second World War was lost and that Manson and some of his best people were apprehended and jailed. Call it revolution, Helter Skelter, or whatever you want. It is WAR between Life and Death forces and war means killing.
The key, as Commander Rockwell said, is that it still remains a one-sided war with the only blows landing being those of the Enemy. You read of it each day. WE– the Whites– are fair game whether it be our minds, our souls, our spirits, our culture, our country or our very blood that is being attacked and destroyed. To the media that is only par for the course. But let OUR SIDE make an attack and you know the results! If you could mount a successful attack yourself would you do it? Would you condone it by others? Do you really KNOW who your enemies are? Do you KNOW what is happening and what is at stake? If there is ever to come a genuine Movement then it will only come about through people who have gotten their thinking straight, for, without the right thought, nothing of any value can hope to follow.
The killings of July and August, 1969 were prime examples of DIRECT ACTION and in cases of revolution, or national liberation, direct action alone merits the highest respect. Those out front, putting themselves on the line and taking the action, as Tomniasi wrote, are in fact the real LEADERS and are at the top level of the struggle. All else pales to insignificance as events over the past thirteen years would tend to prove. Everything combined that has been attempted on the part of this Movement since the death of Commander Rockwell in 1967stands at ZERO when compared to the magnitude of and vibrations from that one night in August, 1969, that have continued ever since.
Neither I nor anyone else has the right to question or judge what happened in 1969, least of all from a moralistic standpoint. It is only that we have misread it for so long. The historic march of events never stops at the death of a single individual.
However, poor mortals can and do often get out of step with or fail to recognize that same historic march when it reconstitutes itself into another form. We have been thirteen years in the wilderness.
I do know that with the death of Hitler and the loss of the Second World War the situation was transformed to the point where something very much like "Helter Skelter" most probably already is and shall more and more become the order of the day. I pose the merit of thenotion of a series of similar actions by members of the Movement directly on the heels of the arrest of Joseph Paul Franklin in order to have taken some heat away from Franklin and to, as Tommasi would say, "heighten the contradictions".
Nearer The Truth...
...or "How I Broke the Right Wing Habit And Started Living Life". The fact remains that the Truth is One and the conflict only enters because, due to racial differences in the world, the Truth smiles more on some than on others. The Right Wing is a history of deviations,off-channels and side-rails from the mainline of Truth, concocted mainly by those who didn't have it in them to stand in the harsh, naked glare of unadorned Truth. National Socialism has been the closest thing yet to approach successfully the task of putting the Truth to work in reality. But this was done very far away and nearly forty years ago.
The practice of mixing Truth with lies in an effort to formulate something that the sick masses might accept without much struggle has resulted in the Right having built for itself an insurmountable obstacle of self-imposed hang-ups and restrictions. 99% of everything in the Right goes toward maintaining the facade of this or that particular illusion, whether it be turning the clock back to 1876, 1933, or whatever.
The National Socialist Liberation Front, from the time I had reactivated it in 1980, and up to the present, has slowly and steadily been gaining acceptance among the members of the Movement having long ago grown sorely disappointed with the totally out-of-touch, cultist, hobbyist, fetishist Nazi organizations that had held the stage heretofore. In NSLF they at least found reality and honesty. But after two years of following this course, it had already become clear to me that the key element was still lacking and we were still a long way from starting the kind of Movement that will catch on, take hold and spread in the manner of all historically significant and successful Movements.
About one month after I had put out the first issue of the new SIEGE in the summer of 1980, I made my first contact with the Charles Manson people. In the two years that followed, that relationship grew to where now it has become too large to remain confined and camouflaged inside the idea of a fallen Comrade, Joseph Tommasi, whose work I had earlier set myself to keeping alive, as it was the best thing I had run across up to that time. No recorded comment of Tommasi's on Manson is known to exist even though Tommasi was in high-gear operation in the L.A. area at the time of the Tate killings. He, precisely as I at the time, probably missed the greater point to the thing entirely. I would venture to guess however that he would not take kindly to anyone trying to mix "apples and oranges" with regards to the NSLF and Manson. And, as far as Manson is concerned, I was advised over a year ago to forget what I was doing in NSLF and start over fresh. As I feel I must pursue this course unencumbered by considerations of the past, the decision was made to leave NSLF and start UNIVERSAL ORDER, a name suggested to me by the highest authority. (Manson himself.)
That is what I have now done.
Labels: James Mason, National Socialist Liberation Front, Nikolas Schreck
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
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Manson Tour 2014: A Day With Aes-Nihil
MansonBlog.com had the distinct pleasure of spending a day with John Aes-Nihil. John directed (among others) a film called "Manson Family Movies (1984)". If you haven't seen it, you should.
Aes-Nihil is an archivist, collector and broker of all things Manson (among many other subjects). His Manson archives alone covers 3 buildings, so we only scratched the surface of this magnificent collection. Today we present you with a small taste of what we saw. If you are looking for a particular item you can contact him through his website.
One thing that caught our eye was a collection of paintings. If you peruse Facebook (for example) you can find some pretty good artists who use the Family as their subject matter. Back in the day, there was an artist by the name of Caesar Lindhersch who was pretty damned good. Here are a few examples:
Lindhersch Paintings
While we're on the subject of art, DebS was delighted to see a print from a wood cutting that friend Robert Taylor did many years ago. It is a self portrait. Robert has a long history with the counter/alternative culture dating back to his involvement with The Process in Chicago in the mid '60's and then and his association with Robert DePugh's Minutemen in the late '60's, early '70's. Robert, who is a writer and a musician has authored a thing or two that you may have read when researching things on the periphery of the Manson saga. He writes under the name R N Taylor . His folk noir genre band is named "Changes".
A branded case that formerly contained Jay Sebring products:
Here's something that caught our eye pretty quickly. An original 16mm reel of Robert Hendrickson footage from his time embedded with the Manson Family at Spahn Ranch:
If you'd like to own this photo of Bobby Beausoleil, John has it in mint condition in the original magazine:
Another thing that interested us was his collection of Manson music. As non-afficianados of Manson music, some of these we'd never heard of:
Aes-Nihil's personal Manson bookshelf (there are separate collections of books around the property, but these were within reach of his bed:
A signed hard-cover copy of Helter Skelter
A hard-copy edition of Stranger in a strange land:
This is an original copy of Mel Lyman's "Autobiography of a World Saviour". Below is a first edition copy which John explained is extremely rare. Mel Lyman headed The Lyman Family and the The Fort Hill Community. Manson reportedly corresponded with Lyman as he was "already doing what we're trying to do".
You may have heard this quote:
The only difference between us and the Manson Family is that we don't go around preaching peace and love and we haven't killed anyone, yet.
– Jim Kweskin (perhaps in jest)
Lyman addressed in The Freep:
Speaking of The Freep:
Ok, now here's a gem we just COULDN'T pass up. "The Psycho-Sexual History of the Manson Family". It's origins are not verifiable (yet). After perusing random sections of 850 pages, we were giddy enough to purchase a copy. Readers, you'll be hearing about this one over the coming months!
I randomly reached into that briefcase grabbing about 40% of the pages, cutting it like a deck of cards. The first thing I saw were these gems. All touring stopped as I gathered the group to look. How can anyone pass this up?
A prison sketch by Squeaky Fromme. John wasn't positive if it was original or a really good copy:
John showed us a photo of Steven Parent's corpse on the table at the coroner's office. This is a photo none of us had ever seen before. It gives a glimpse into the rarity of some of the items included in his collection. I'm no expert, but judging by the photographic paper I could be convinced that it' is original.
Out of respect to the victim's families we shy away from posting post-mortem photographs directly on this blog. However if you want to view it we have made it available to our readers HERE. If you do not like to see graphic content, DO NOT click the link.
Saying our good-byes. Thank you, John for your hospitality, patience and generosity with your knowledge!
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Recently we've been getting questions from other photographers like the one above who are wondering more about our approach to taking photos. Well, we're here to help! We love when photographers ask questions in our blog's comments. We are so happy to be able to share what we've learned and hopefully inspire you all to push yourselves further, whether it's in your business, your photography, or your personal life!
While we're always growing and learning new techniques, here's a few Tips&Tricks we can share to point you in the right direction. If you're still having trouble, we'd be happy to schedule a personal mentoring session with anyone looking for personalized help!
We're putting this first, but it is by far NOT the most important thing. Some people think that better cameras = better photos and that couldn't be further from the truth! When it comes to gear, we always recommend people "invest in glass". By that we mean—spend your money on lenses, not camera bodies!
Camera bodies can be swapped out as newer versions come out, but if you have invested in quality lenses, they hold their value well and can be used on future camera upgrades! We shoot almost exclusively with prime lenses. This means that our lenses are fixed focal lengths, not zoom lenses. The reason being, prime lenses have lower f-stops, meaning they can help you get that creamy out of focus background you're looking for. Prime lenses tend to also be sharper than zoom lenses, and work better in low-light situations which is great for wedding photography! If you have lens questions, leave a comment below and we can help point you in the direction of a good lens or two to start out with!
The biggest lie you can believe is that your photos are not good because of your gear. Good gear does not make a good photographer! We encourage all photographers to use what they currently have (even if that's just an iPhone) and continue to push themselves with it until it makes sense to upgrade! Along with gear, it's not the quality of the gear but more how you use what you have to achieve what you're looking for. Camera settings play a big role in achieving a sharp, crisp and clear photo. We recommend learning your gear well, dive into the manual, the menu and settings and experiment with what works best for you. We shoot on full Manual at all times to make sure we have full creative control over any setting we want to change around. Shooting on manual takes time to learn, and can be SO confusing at first. But stick with it, it's worth it! We encourage anyone learning to force themselves to shoot on "M" and soon it'll become second nature and you'll be changing settings without even thinking!
Editing can be one of the most overlooked aspects of photography! We take time to hand touch every image that we deliver to our clients, whether that's adjusting the color temperature, tweaking the color levels, softening skin, etc. In editing you can do so much, or so little! We strive to make our images look natural and timeless, not applying any filters or effects to them that would take away from the true nature of the moment captured. We use Adobe Lightroom CC to edit all our photos. We love how easy it is to organize, rate, tag and edit photos within Lightroom without having to go to more extensive and in-depth programs like Photoshop. There are rare occasions we'll use Photoshop, but only for "major edits" like removing items in the background, swapping faces, etc. In Lightroom our priority is accurate skin tones and color. We want to make our couples look true-to-life, with a color temperature that's not too warm or too cool. This is a fine balance, and it takes training your eyes over time to notice the small shifts in color that can affect a photo one way or the other. There's TONS of editing tutorials out there, but if you'd like to see how we edit make sure to follow Stephen on Periscope, a live streaming app (@steezdiaz) as he does frequent live editing scopes with in-depth tutorials and behind the scenes look into our process.
Out of the three tips we're mentioning today, we're saving the best and possibly the most important for last! Achieving the perfect look is very heavily related to lighting! There are so many factors that play into lighting and how it affects a photo. For this reason, we always choose our photography locations based entirely on lighting, not the scenery! You'd be surprised how some spots that you would think would look great in photos actually look terrible because of the lighting. Here's three things to keep in mind when looking for good lighting for photography.
Natural Reflectors - It has taken us lots of shooting time to train our eyes to see the natural reflecting light that comes off of objects all around us. Sounds like a crazy super power but you can do it too! This reflecting light really effects your photos and it's a good idea to keep an eye out for it. Say if you place your subject on green grass, surrounded by green trees. What color is the reflected light going to be? If you answered GREEN, you were correct! This will give just the slightest tint of green to the skin tones which is never flattering (unless you're the Hulk)! For the best and most accurate skin tones look for neutral natural reflectors, like a light colored pavement or a white wall. These surfaces bounce light in a way that is just perfect for portraits. When in doubt you can bring your own reflector. We'll use these in a pinch when there's no good natural reflectors around...but if you look hard enough, you'll be able to find some, promise!
Timing - If you've been around a photographer or filmmaker before, you've probably heard them talk about "golden hour". It's the time when the sun is lowest in the sky, when everything is dreamy and golden. This is our favorite time to shoot as the shadows are long and soft (as opposed to the harsh dark shadows at high noon). We schedule all our of engagement shoots for about 1-2hrs before the scheduled sunset time. That way we can catch that golden hour every time!
Backlighting - We always try when we can to put the sun behind our couples. That way we're shooting towards the sun, with the couples between us and the sun. If the sun is too harsh you can angle slightly away from the sun so that it's not hitting your lens directly. When the sun hits your lens directly it creates sun flare which can be a cool effect...but it really washes out your subject and makes the photo hazy. To ensure your subject stays nice and sharp and to avoid haziness we have a couple tricks. First, you can use a lens hood or your hand to help reduce how much the sun is hitting your lens. Although, what we've found works best to reduce flare when shooting directly into the sun is to use natural "blockers" as we call them to block out the sun in the background. This could be anything, the edge of a building, a tree branch, a distant land feature, etc. When you block the sun from hitting your lens, your images will be tack sharp and in focus.
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IMDb ranks the best movies of the late, great director Tony Scott, who made many thrilling high-octane action movies with fantastic cinematography.
Being the brother of Ridley Scott, who is also responsible for many great movies, the late, great movie director Tony Scott has a canon of thrilling high-octane action movies full of incredible cinematography.
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The director had a very specific aesthetic that went on to influence loads of 2010s action movies. And with many of those movies starring Denzel Washington, Scott had a big hand in developing Washington's brand, which led to some exciting thrillers.
10 The Hunger (6.7)
The Hunger is Tony Scott's directorial debut and for his first movie, it's strange for a number of different reasons. First of all, the movie is an erotic horror, neither word of which is synonymous with the director. Not just that, but the movie stars none other than Ziggy Stardust himself, David Bowie.
Famous movie critic Roger Ebert called the movie "agonizingly bad," but The Hunger has since found somewhat of a cult following.
9 Unstoppable (6.8)
In Scott's career, he worked with Denzel Washington a total of six times, and Unstoppable was the final of the lot. Unstoppable, like a lot of Scott's movies, is fairly underrated, as it's one of his most high-octane movies, being pretty short in length but packed with explosive action.
The movie follows two men who attempt to stop a runaway freight train, with Chris Pine co-starring and trying to keep up with Washington, and it's of his best movies, according to Rotten Tomatoes.
8 Top Gun (6.9)
Being the director's most commercially successful movie, as it made more than $350 million worldwide, Top Gun has become an iconic movie and borderline pop culture phenomenon, thanks in part to many of the movie's great quotes.
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Top Gun is such a beloved movie that it's even getting a sequel more than 34 years after the original's initial release, the trailer of which has already inspired a ton of fan theories.
7 The Last Boy Scout (7.0)
The Last Boy Scout marked many trademarks that the director laid to rest. After finding massive success in directing Beverly Hills Cop 2, The Last Boy Scout was his last foray into comedy and his last attempt at working with comedy actors, as the movie stars Damon Wayans.
It may have something to do with the movie being negatively received by critics, however, the film remains as one of those movies that critics hated but audiences loved.
6 Spy Game (7.1)
Spy Game saw Scott first do what would become a trademark of his, which is putting two high caliber actors from different generations on-screen together. The movie stars Brad Pitt and Robert Redford and they have an amazingly kinetic energy together. Though audiences really enjoyed the movie, Spy Game unfortunately underperformed at the worldwide box office.
5 Deja Vu (7.1)
Another first for Scott, Deja Vu is a sci-fi thriller movie, but considering how he never returned to the sci-fi genre, it mustn't have been Scott's favorite genre to work in.
Despite this, it was a success at the box office and was loved by the general public. The movie again stars Washington, who tries to prevent a terrorist attack in New Orleans based on what he knows about the future.
4 Enemy Of The State (7.3)
Enemy of the State is an exciting and fast-paced thriller that stars Gene Hackman and Will Smith. But what makes the film even better upon rewatching it is the fan theory that Enemy of the State is a secret sequel to Francis Ford Coppola's classic 1974 thriller, The Conversation.
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Both movies are about surveillance, in which Hackman plays characters who are experts in the field. As The Conversation ends ambiguously, fans have made some compelling arguments that they are the same character.
3 Crimson Tide (7.3)
Being the first of two collaborations with the director, Gene Hackman delivered an amazing performance in Crimson Tide as Captain Ramsey, who is one of the best characters from all of Tony Scott's movies.
The 1995 submarine thriller pit the legendary actor against Denzel Washington, as the two are at odds over whether or not they should launch the submarine's missiles. Hackman's performance is masterful, as he doesn't play the character as an all-out villain and instead gives Ramsey a touch of humanity.
2 Man On Fire (7.7)
Of all of Tony Scott and Denzel Washington's collaborations, Man On Fire is by far the best. The movie is Scott's magnum opus, as it's 2.5 hours long and full of his biggest set pieces.
Scott wanted to adapt the novel of the same name more than 20 years before he actually did, and he had planned on it being his sophomore effort. At the time, the studio didn't think that the young director had enough experience, but the wait was worth it.
1 True Romance (7.9)
True Romance is unlike Scott's movies that he is known for today, as in the years since its release, the director adopted a darker and grittier aesthetic and style. But before that, his movies were bright, colorful, upbeat, and incredibly vibrant, and True Romance is the shining example of that.
Though the movie was originally going to be directed by William Lustig, which is one of the interesting behind the scenes facts about the movie, Scott turned Quentin Tarantino's script into the most heartwarming movie ever made about drug deals, shoot outs, and pimps.
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Country Style - Played through a Mesa Boogie Mark 4. Recorded with a Neumann TLM 193 microphone straight to Protools 24. Mixed with a room reverb.
Rock Rhythm - Played through a reissued vox AL30. Recorded with a Neumann TLM 193 microphone straight to Protools 24. Mixed with a room reverb.
Mellow Jazzy - Played through a Mesa Boogie Mark 4. Recorded with a Neumann TLM 193 microphone straight to Protools 24. Mixed with a long reverb.
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In February 2021, we closed our $5.2M seed round with Accel. Three months later, we announced our $26M Series-A round with Benchmark. And in mid-December of that same year, our $150M Series-B led by Altimeter and Coatue was also announced for a valuation at $1.5B. Having 3 rounds of funding in the same year is definitely not common, and can trigger different types of reactions, such as TechCrunch's "infinite revenues multiple" article.
In this article, we want to tell you why and how we raised the Series-B. As for the last few times when we shared our Seed deck and our Series-A deck, we will also share the deck we used for the Series-B in this article and how we pitched it. We hope this will give you some insight about Airbyte's vision and the fundraising process, even though our case might be unique.
Our initial plan was to raise the Series-B at the end of 2022. But we decided to test the waters in November of this year. Our thinking was that if we could get the Series-B now under the same conditions with the partners we would ideally seek next year, then we would do it now. Why?
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is a faculty member in Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology. He is Distinguished Professor and the Director of Penn State's Center for Human-Computer Interaction. He also has courtesy appointments as professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Instructional Systems, and Psychology.
Until August 2003, He was a professor in Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He was also Director of Virginia Tech's Center for Human-Computer Interaction, and had secondary appointments as professor of Teaching and Learning and Psychology. And prior to that, He was a scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (1976-1994), where He managed the legendary User Interface Institute.
His research interests include methods and theory in human-computer interaction, particularly as applied to Internet tools for collaborative learning and problem solving, and the design of interactive information systems. He has written or edited 17 books, including Making Use: Scenario-Based Design of Human-Computer Interactions (MIT Press, 2000), The Neighborhood in the Internet: Design Research Projects in Community Informatics (Routledge, 2012), and Creativity and Rationale: Enhancing Human Experience by Design (Springer, 2012). He serves on several editorial boards for journals, handbooks, and series. He is editor of the Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics.
He received: Joseph T. Rigo Award, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, 1994), SIGCHI Academy, ACM (2001, "ACM SIGCHI" is the ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction), SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, ACM (2002), ACM Fellow (2003), Alfred N. Goldsmith Award, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2004), IEEE Fellow (2004), Honorary Fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (2005), Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011), Fellow of Association for Psychological Science (2012), and an honorary doctorate from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2012.
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When I post a event on the calendar for a certain date, when the thread is created the date is pushed back by a day but the event is on the correct date on the site calendar.
Look at the GuzzFest/Tubing calendar thread as an example please.
I'll look at it but I'm in Cali right now for work so it might be a bit.


Diffuse axonal injury is a nice, clinical way of saying massive brain damage. This term was introduced to me in the intensive care unit while I was looking upon the complicated network of tubes and needles and machines that were keeping my daughter alive; it was a little difficult to comprehend at the time. It is also called shear damage, which sounds deceptively simple when you first hear it.
Considering that she was hit by a car traveling 45 miles per hour when it hit her, Annette was surprisingly "intact." I hate to say she was lucky, but her body was amazingly free of visible injuries after the accident. Now it is apparent that her head took the brunt of the damage that fateful evening. Her brain did a lot of bouncing around inside her skull when she hit the ground, not to mention any damage inflicted when she was hit by the car.
The "shear" part of the damage comes when the brain is bouncing around inside the skull. Some parts of the brain of the brain stay in motion while other parts stop. This results in neuron connections (axons) being ripped apart from each other. The diffuse part means that this is happening throughout the entire brain.
The wikipedia entry where I got most of my initial information was exceedingly grim. I have since reviewed other sources of information, though none of them were any more hopeful. I am cautiously hopeful, but it is heartbreaking nonetheless.
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Q: Calculating the area of overlap of two functions I have two functions. I am giving here the basic structure only, as they have quite a few parameters each to adjust their exact shape.
For example, y = sin(.1*pi*x)^2 and y = e^-(x-5)^2.
The question is how much area of the sine is captured by the e function:

A: I tried to be clever and recursively find the points of intersection, but that turned out to be a lot more work than was necessary.
As n.m. pointed out, you want the integral from a to b of min(f, g). Since you're integrating by approximation, you're already stepping through the interval, meaning you can check at each step which function is greater and compute the area of the current trapezoid.
Simple implementation in C:
#define SLICES 10000

/*
 *  Computes the integral of min(f, g) on [a, b].
 *
 *  Intended use is for when f and g are both non-negative, real-valued
 *  functions of one variable.
 *
 *  That is, f: R -> R and g: R -> R.
 *
 *  Assumes b ≥ a.
 *
 *  @param  a   left boundary of interval to integrate over
 *  @param  b   right boundary of interval to integrate over
 *  @param  f   function accepting one double argument which returns a double
 *  @param  g   function accepting one double argument which returns a double
 *  @return     integral of min(f, g) on [a, b]
 */
double minIntegrate (double a, double b, double (*f)(double), double (*g)(double)) {
    double area = 0.0;

    // the height of each trapezoid
    double deltaX = (b - a) / SLICES;

    /*
     *  We are integrating by partitioning the interval into SLICES pieces, then
     *  adding the areas of the trapezoids formed to our running total.
     *  To save a computation, we can cache the last side encountered.
     *  That is, let lastSide be the minimum of f(x) and g(x), where x was the
     *  previous "fence post" (side of the trapezoid) encountered.
     *  Initialize lastSide with the minimum of f and g at the left boundary.
     */
    double lastSide = min(f(a), g(a));

    // The loop starts at 1 since we already have the last (trapezoid) side
    // for the 0th fencepost.
    for (int i = 1; i <= SLICES; i++) {
        double fencePost = a + (i * deltaX);
        double currentSide = min(f(fencePost), g(fencePost));

        area += trapezoid(lastSide, currentSide, deltaX);

        lastSide = currentSide;
    }

    return area;
}

/*
 *  Computes the area of a trapezoid with bases `a` and `b` and height `height`.
 */
double trapezoid (double a, double b, double height) {
    return h * (a + b) / 2.0;
}

A: If you're looking for something really, really simple, why don't you do Monte Carlo Integration?
Use the fact that the functions are easy to calculate to sample a large number of points. For each point, check whether it's below 0, 1, or 2 of the curves.
You might have some fiddling to find the boundaries for the sampling, but this method will work for a variety of curves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_integration

A: I'm guessing your exponential is actually of the form e^-(x-5)^2 so that the exponential decays to zero at plus/minus infinity.
Given that, your integral would be most quickly and accurately calculated by something called Gaussian quadrature. There are a few types of common integrals which have very simple solutions using different polynomials (Hermite, Legendre, etc.). Yours specifically looks like it could be solved using Gauss-Hermite quadrature.
Hope this helps.

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Q: Convert PBI Desktop dataset to push dataset I have a report and dataset created in Power BI Desktop and published to Power BI Online. I need to update the rows of this dataset from an API and try to use a REST API, but I can only update a push dataset and look for a method to convert my normal dataset. Would it be possible to convert or copy the existing structure to facilitate the creation of this Push Dataset?
I tried converting using a Windows PowerShell module PowerBIPS, but that module has had an error since last year and apparently doesn't work anymore.


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Depeche Mode's Martin Gore: 'Music is a tough industry to break into'
Leonie Cooper Mar 27, 2013 7:42 pm GMT
'Times have changed so much' says the electronic band's songwriter and guitarist
Depeche Mode's Martin Gore has said that music is now – more than ever – a "tough" industry to break into.
Speaking to the Belfast Telegraph, Gore said that "times have changed" since his band formed.
He commented: "I don't want to be pessimistic, but times have changed so much. I'm not saying it was easy when we first started out, but at least there was a healthy record industry and record companies were looking to sign bands and there was money flying around."
He added: "It's really difficult now. I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into."
Depeche Mode released their new album, 'Delta Machine', earlier this week.
The electro-veterans recently revealed that they turned down the opportunity to win a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Brits this year after learning that ITV had no intention of airing footage of them accepting the award.
To watch the official video for the album's first single, 'Heaven', scroll down to the bottom of the page and click. The video was directed by Tim Saccenti and shot in New Orleans. Gahan has said that the video was inspired by Terrence Malick's 2011 film The Tree Of Life with "beautiful yet twisted, dark imagery".
Depeche Mode play London's O2 Arena on May 28 and 29.
These are currently the only UK dates the band have announced as part of 34-date European tour which will include appearances at Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium (July 7), BBK Festival in Spain (July 11) and Optimus Alive Festival in Portugal (July 13). A North American tour will follow later in the year.
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