Aldi has a lot of good things going for it, but in case you aren't in the know on this grocery store, let me try to sway you. The grocery store has ridiculously amazing prices and a stock that changes often, but before you worry that low prices mean low quality, let me point out Aldi's award-winning Rosé. Have I convinced you yet? No? Keep reading, and I swear you'll be an Aldi fan in no time.
Mark Your Calendars — Aldi Is Bringing Back Its $9 Bottled Mimosa in a Pineapple Flavor!
Aldi's Wine Advent Calendar Is Now Available in the US, So Bottoms Up, Friends!
OMG, Aldi Is Bringing Its Wine Advent Calendar to the US This Year — Mark Your Calendars!


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Is this what the 'copper gold' iPhone 8 will be called?
Mashable Aug-14-2017, 15:30:17 GMT
When Apple's executives get on stage next month to unveil the next iPhone, we'll already know almost everything there is to know because, well, they screwed up and leaked the most important details themselves. The new iPhone will probably have an new OLED edge-to-edge screen, no physical home button, wireless charging, and likely come in a new "copper gold" color. But what will Apple call that hot shade of pinkish-bronze? SEE ALSO: New high-res video shows'copper gold' iPhone 8 from all angles According to phone leaker Benjamin Geskin, who has been providing a steady stream of iPhone 8 leaks that have been corroborated by other reports, Foxconn's internal name for the copper-colored device is "Blush Gold." Foxconn's internal name of the new #iPhone8 color is "Blush Gold" (腮红金) Barcode says "Blush Gold 64GB / 128GB" pic.twitter.com/MZPTfVAr2P
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Apple iPhone 8 Copper: New Color Variant Leaks Ahead Of Release
International Business Times Aug-7-2017, 21:35:10 GMT
What appears to be a copper color variant of the iPhone 8 has been leaked online. While the images strongly suggest a new color option for Apple's 10th anniversary iPhone, there's still no guarantee that the iOS 11-running handset would debut in a copper color. This Monday, My Drivers outed on Chinese social media site Weibo a set of photos showing non-functional models of the upcoming iPhone 8. Drawing attention to the images is the model for what seems to be copper or copper gold color variant of the Galaxy S8 rival. It's hard to tell if the leaked photos are those of legitimate iPhone 8 units or simply mockups of the smartphone. However, Apple Insider believes that what's shown in the pictures could be models from a clone factory.
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iPhone 8 to cost between $999 and $1,099
Daily Mail - Science & tech Sep-5-2017, 20:05:48 GMT
It may be called the iPhone 8, iPhone Edition or even iPhone X, but one thing seems clear - Apple's new handset will be the most expensive the firm has ever made. Prolific Apple leaker Benjamin Geskin has shared what he claims are the final iPhone 8 prices on Twitter, continuing rumors that some versions of the new phone will cost over $1,000. He claims the 64GB version will cost $999, the 246GB version will be $1,099, and the 512GB version will be $1,199. Prolific Apple leaker Benjamin Geskin shared iPhone 8 prices on Twitter, continuing rumors that some versions of the new phone will cost over $1,000. According to a direct conversion, this would price the new devices at £767, £843, and £920 respectively in the UK, but the British version has typically cost more than the those sold in the US, so these may not be accurate.
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Daily Mail - Science & tech Aug-9-2017, 00:10:03 GMT
A case for the iPhone 8 may have just given the best peek at the much-anticipated handset yet. The render of the case shows a'notch' design with no home button, which lines up with all the information leaked about the device so far. It comes as, KGI Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo, says the iPhone8 launch date will be right in line and right on the same day as the iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus, although it is expected to be available in limited quantities. The photo of the case shows a'notch' design with no home button, which lines up with all the information leaked about the device so far The latest in a string of leaked images comes from a case maker, who often get an early look at devices in order to have cases ready at the time of launch. The leaked render comes courtesy of well-known Apple leaker Evan Blass, who tweeted out this afternoon.
Apple iPhone 8: Only 16% of users say they will upgrade
The iPhone 8 is supposed to be a massive step forward in design and honor the device's 10th anniversary, but it's looking like Apple's new phone may be a flop. A new survey from investment firm Piper Jaffray shows iPhone users aren't any more excited for this release than they were for the iPhone 7. Only 16 percent of those surveyed said they are planning to upgrade to the new device. A new survey from Piper Jaffray shows iPhone users aren't any more excited for this release than they were for the iPhone 7. Only 16 percent of those surveyed said they are planning to upgrade to the new device.
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NASA Medallion Commemorates Curiosity Rover's 1st Year on Mars
By Robert Z. Pearlman 2013-08-05T16:51:05Z
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover medallion commemorates the first year the science laboratory has roved the Red Planet.
(Image: © collectSPACE.com)
NASA is marking the Curiosity rover's first year on Mars with a commemorative medallion minted from metal used in the engineering of the robotic explorer.
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) with its Curiosity six-wheeled rover landed inside Mars' Gale Crater on Aug. 6, 2012 (EDT and GMT; Aug. 5, PDT) after a nearly nine-month journey from Earth. The car-size, 1-ton Curiosity is the largest roving vehicle ever launched to the Red Planet.
Within its first 12 months exploring Mars, Curiosity met its major science objective, finding the evidence for a past wet environment that was well suited to supporting ancient microbial life. [Curiosity's 1st Year on Mars: A Look Back (Video)]
Entering the second year of its planned two-year mission, the rover is trailblazing a path to the base of Mount Sharp, the 3.4-mile-high (5.5 kilometers) mountain that rises from the crater's center. Once there, Curiosity will continue its investigation into how the Martian environment changed and evolved.
NASA's Curiosity medallion features a raised depiction of the Mars rover with its drill-equipped robotic arm stretching into the design's outer border. The three-dimensional rendering captures the Curiosity rover's laser-outfitted camera mast and is detailed enough to make out the custom tread on one of Curiosity's wheels (the pattern leaves behind tracks that spell out "JPL" in Morse code).
The front of the 1.75-inch diameter (4.4 centimeters) medallion is inscribed "Mars Curiosity Rover" and "Landing — August 5, 2012," the latter noting the date of the rover's touchdown as recorded at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., where Curiosity is controlled.
NASA's insignia doubles as the Earth as rendered on the reverse of the medallion. The agency's emblem is offset by a raised depiction of Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos.
Inscribed along an inner border are "Mars Exploration" and "NASA Official Commemorative." An inscription along the outer border reads: "This Medallion Was Minted With Test Metal Used During The Engineering Of Curiosity."
Added to the antique copper used to mint the thousands of medallions was the metal from an engineering test unit for Curiosity's lower environmental control system (LECS) tee duct. The LECS was designed to cool the Multi-Mission Radio-Thermal Generator (MMRTG), which serves as Curiosity's nuclear power source.
Winco International of California produced the medallions for NASA and ensured that the metal from the test tee-duct was incorporated into the minting process.
"Winco's mission in producing the Curiosity medallion was to create an official commemorative that would be worthy of the program it represents," said Winco president Andy Boston. "The resulting design and dimensional quality has truly exceeded our expectations."
Though primarily minted for NASA's use, Winco has made some of the Mars Curiosity Rover medallions available to the public through select distributors.
The Mars Curiosity medallion is the latest among a series of similar commemoratives produced by Winco for NASA. The company, which also provides the agency's official lapel pins, has minted medallions for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo missions, the 30-year space shuttle program, and the aeronautic achievements pioneered at the Dryden Flight Research Center.
Click through to collectSPACE.com to see the Mars Science Laboratory engineering test unit tee duct that was used to mint NASA's new Mars Curiosity Rover medallion.
Follow collectSPACE.com on Facebook and on Twitter at @collectSPACE. Copyright 2013 collectSPACE.com. All rights reserved.


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import org.apache.poi.hssf.util.HSSFColor;

/**
 * 表格属性
 * @author jueyue
 * @version 1.0 2013年8月24日
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public class ExcelTitle {

	public ExcelTitle(){

	}

	public ExcelTitle(String title,String secondTitle,String sheetName){
		this.title = title;
		this.secondTitle = secondTitle;
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	}

	/**
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	private String title;
	/**
	 * 第二行名称
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	/**
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	/**
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	/**
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	public String getTitle() {
		return title;
	}

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	}

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		this.secondTitle = secondTitle;
	}

	public short getHeaderColor() {
		return headerColor;
	}

	public void setHeaderColor(short headerColor) {
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	}
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This is not a post about writing dialogue.
Last weekend, I caught up with an old friend over dinner. We first met in a now-defunct writers' group, back when I first had an inkling I might want to give this whole writing thing a shot. As one of my first beta-readers and original fans, I owe a lot to her critiques from those early years. She and I have been in and out of touch, but thankfully we've recently reconnected.
She's a fan of speculative fiction, but she feels that genre fiction is sometimes too much in Conversation* with itself to reach the wider audience it seeks with its "big ideas." Imagine two mirrors reflecting each other. Was genre looking outside itself as much as it should? She conceded this was more a problem in the past than now, where genre has a much larger diversity of voices and perspectives.
Our chat lasted a good hour, and we debated the finer points of each other's opinions, and each conceded to the other certain exceptions and nuances. I'm not going to reopen the debate between genre and literary fiction here,** but I went home asking myself a lot of questions I hadn't considered before. Who am I in Conversation with when I sit down to write a story? How do those Conversations affect the stories I tell?
This may seem obvious, but the first person I'm in Conversation with is myself. Even with I'm just messing around, there's a lot of interior dialogue*** going on between my conscious and unconscious selves. Everything that I write can't help but be a continuation of that discussion. What do I love? What do I hate? What do I fear the most? I don't lay out my whole interior life raw on the page, but certainly my passions inevitably leak through.
Then I (hopefully) publish a story and I have a Conversation with the readers. They bring their own perspectives to my story, exchanging ideas in a way that even if I've done my job right I only have limited control over. Can I anticipate who might be reading my story? To a degree, I can, by submitting to certain markets and writing particular types of stories. If I've done my research, I know the audience for the story I've written. Do I cater to them or do I worry about entertaining myself first?
If I've written a story about a mutant cyborg squirrel, then it will inevitably be compared to every other story about a mutant cyborg squirrel. It's also in Conversation with all the stories about mutants, cyborgs, and squirrels. What does my story say about all of those subjects? There's no way I could read every story about these three things, but maybe I've read a few of them. Is my story in response to one of them? Whether I like it or not, my augmented super-squirrel (let's call him Acorn-X) does not exist in a vacuum.
Where does my story about Acorn-X**** stand in relation to the times I live in? Maybe he's a response to all the crazy news I'm reading on the internet about rat brains controlling Predator drones. Or some kind of statement on ethical treatment of animals. Maybe I just like squirrels.
This is not a post with answers. I'm still wondering how much of this stuff to consider when I'm writing a story. It's very possible I'm overthinking it. I'm the kind of writer who sits down with a character or situation in mind and just starts to write until something happens. This is not a method for everyone. I know writers who are so compelled by issues that they must write stories in response. That's fine too. But most of these Conversations happen outside my control. I feel like I need to satisfy myself first.
Who are you in Conversation with?
Me and the rest of the Inkpunks, I hope. I'd love to hear your thoughts below.
** For the record, neither was my friend. We both agreed that literary fiction could be in just as much of an echo-chamber as any other type of fiction.
*** still not a post about dialogue.
**** not actually a story I'm writing.
Great point about stories being conversations with yourself. And not just conscious vs subconscious. Isn't that where the best tension comes from? One character says, "Cyborgs are the best, I can't wait to be a cyborg," and I have to respond to that. So the other character says, "I would hate you if you turned into a cyborg." Now that that's been said, I need to reply to it again, so action happens, and the first character goes to Walmart and gets a cyborg operation. It's yet another comeback when the second character is captured by Walmart security, and gets saved by the cyborg friend.
The best conversations either have conflict or discovery. Conversations without either of these are just monologs or speeches. Stories should have back and forth. Instead of "And then…" there needs to be "Yes, but…" and "Therefore", making it full of conflict, discovery, and conversation.
When things are really flowing for me, that's exactly what's going on. Two or more parts of my brain are playing devil's advocate for various positions on various issues, everything from, "Would you like a drink?" to "Should we sell genetically modified living Barbie dolls to children?" Without the alternate voices, it's just an essay.
Some great points, Luna. I swore the post wasn't really about writing dialog, but it really comes down to that, right?
LOL I used a dialog in my example, but didn't want to restrict it to dialog. The actions of the character and the effects in the world are also part of the conversation. That is the evidence piece, the "Let me prove it to you" pieces that interact, all trying to make their points to each other.


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The art of caricaturing by Mitchell Smith
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The art of caricaturing
by Mitchell Smith
Publisher: F.J. Drake & co 1941
A series of lessons covering all branches of the art of caricaturing. In this brief and consistent book Mitchell Smith gives lessons that cover all branches of caricaturing. Drawings illustrate all necessary points, and each point is explained in the text. Author included caricatures of many famous men.
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by Michael Pearl, Danny Bulanadi - No Greater Joy Ministries
The Ultimate Superhero Graphic Novel. In the beginning... Before the first man was created, before the earth, the sun, the stars, even before light and time were created, there was God. He alone existed without beginning, but he was not alone...
Ostrich Cycles
by Carl Antonowicz
This is a comic book based on a dream. 'The world is very sick, grandpa says. He says they're all walking somewhere they think is important. He says they've got everything all mixed up. We're the only ones who can help them, grandpa says.
Comic History of the United States
by Livingston Hopkins - G. W. Carleton & co
The author hired a vacant lot on Nassau street, and there, surrounded by the paraphernalia of literature and art, he went to work with pen and pencil to jot down the leading incidents of American history to the best of a somewhat defective memory.
Bound By Law: Tales from the Public Domain
by J. Boyle, J. Jenkins, K. Aoki - Center for the Study of the Public Domain
This graphic novel is an excellent introduction to copyright law. The authors wanted to make copyright accessible for everyone. The 'plot' revolves around Akiko, a filmmaker who wants to capture a day in the life of New York City ...


As a person with a geology background, Bob found this restriction hard to justify, especially since the new Arkansas educational benchmarks for 5th grade include introduction of the concept of the 4.5-billion-year age of the earth. Bob's facility is supposed to be meeting or exceeding those benchmarks.
Both of the directors welcomed me warmly and were very forthcoming in their answers to my questions. They were, however, quite firm in their insistence that they and their facility be kept strictly anonymous if I was to write a story about Bob's issue. We talked for over an hour about the site's mission, their classes, and Bob's situation specifically. Both directors agreed that "in a perfect world" they could, and would, teach evolution and deep time. However, back in the real world, they defended their stance on the prohibition of the "e-word," reasoning that it would take too long to teach the concept of evolution effectively (especially if they had to defuse any objections) and expressing concern for the well-being of their facility. Their program depends upon public support and continued patronage of the region's school districts, which they felt could be threatened by any political blowback from an unwanted evolution controversy.
With regard to Bob's geologic time scale issue, the program director likened it to a game of Russian roulette. He admitted that probably very few students would have a real problem with a discussion about time on the order of millions of years, but that it might only take one child's parents to cause major problems. He spun a scenario of a student's returning home with stories beginning with "Millions of years ago …" that could set a fundamentalist parent on a veritable witch hunt, first gathering support of like-minded parents and then showing up at school board meetings until the district pulled out of the science program to avoid conflict. He added that this might cause a ripple effect, other districts following suit, leading to the demise of the program.
The first place I happened to find, purely by accident, was a privately run science museum for kids. As with Bob's facility, the museum requested not to be referred to by name. I was only there for a short time, but I'm not quite sure what to make of what happened there. I looked around the museum and found a few biological exhibits, but nothing dealing with evolution. I introduced myself to one of the museum's employees as a science educator (I am indeed a science educator) and asked her if they had any exhibits on evolution. She said that they used to, but several parents — some of whom home-schooled their children, some of whom are associated with Christian schools — had been offended by the exhibit and complained. They had said either that they would not be back until it was removed or that they would not be using that part of the museum if they returned. "It was right over there," she said, pointing to an area that was being used at that time for a kind of holiday display.
Susan told me she had overheard a teacher explaining the "balanced treatment" given to creationism in her classroom. This was not just any classroom, but an Advanced Placement biology classroom. This was important to Susan, not only because of the subject and level of the class, but also because it fell under her supervision. Was she obliged to do something about this? She knew quite well that the "balanced treatment" being taught had been found by a federal court to violate the Constitution's establishment clause — perhaps there is no greater irony than that two of the most significant cases decided by federal courts against teaching creationism were Epperson v. Arkansas and McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education.
Susan sincerely wanted to do something about it, but she decided to let it go. Her reasoning was that this particular teacher is probably in her final year of service. To Susan, making an issue out of this just was not worth the strife it would have caused in the school and in the community.
Because of the power wielded by fundamentalists who rely on belief rather than science, an entire generation of children in Arkansas and other states is getting a substandard science education, and good teachers are forced into Faustian bargains in order to protect what they think they can protect. Worse, this is not just happening in Arkansas, but in many states throughout the nation. Because of a group that cannot accept it when science contradicts their literal interpretation of a text that is thousands of years old, they're willing to let the rest of the children, whose parents may not share their narrow view of Biblical truth, suffer.


Faculty and instructors are welcome to use Box for OSU to facilitate project collaboration and data sharing. You may create class-designated folders, then click the "Invite People" button to share the folder and its contents with your students.
When you invite students to be collaborators, you'll need to set their permissions for accessing and editing the content in your folder. For example, if you do not want to grant students the ability to delete files in your folder, set their "Invited Permission" level to be "Viewer Uploader."
We invite you to watch the short tutorial videos on the Getting Started with Box page to learn more.
While Canvas can be configured to integrate with some aspects of Box, the implications of any such integration on our pedagogical practices and classroom environments must be studied further before enabling any such integration. Our goal is to ensure our learning environment meets the needs of our students and our faculty.


Before the clan system was fully recognised, the MacDuff Earls of Fife were the greatest family in Scotland. MacDuff, 1st Earl of Fife, was held to be the Earl of Fife who opposed Macbeth (1040–1057) and assisted Malcolm to the throne of Scotland. The centre of MacDuff power was the kingdom of Fife, and they held extensive lands in the northeast and in the Lowlands. The MacDuffs held the ancient privilege of crowning the kings of Scotland on the ancient Stone of Scone, the right to bear the red lion rampant of the royal house, and the right to lead the front rank of the Scottish army. They could also claim the right of reprieve for the crime of murder, for a modest payment, or the right of sanctuary at the Cross of MacDuff near Newburgh, Fife.
Clan Duff claims to be of the original Royal Scoto-Pictish line. The line ended in 1353 with the death of Duncan IV, and the Earldom of Fife was passed to the House of Stewart in 1371. In 1759 the earldom of Fife returned to the Duff family when William Duff, Lord Braco (1697–1763) received the title Earl Fife in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1733 he bought a settlement called Doune on the Moray Firth that in 1783 became known as MacDuff. He bought Duff House, Banff (designed by William Adam) though he never lived in it. His son James, 2nd Earl Fife (1729–1809) completed the building of the house. In the 1817, James, 4th Earl Fife (1776–1857), renamed the town of Mortlach in Moray as Dufftown.
The MacDuff tartan, above, is the "hunting" version of their clan tartan, modern colours. Hunting tartans replace the most prominent colour in the main tartan with darker colours like green and blue.
About the notebook: This notebook is made with cloth woven in mills in the United Kingdom. Notebook pages and paper components are made with 80gsm acid-free paper from sustainable forests. Boards used in the binding process are made of 100% recycled paper. This hardback notebook is bound in genuine British tartan cloth with an elastic closure, ribbon market, eight perforated end leaves and expandable inner note holder. It contains a removable booklet about the history of clan tartans, and a bookmark that gives information on the Macduff Modern Hunting tartan.


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Q: Table for unpacked quantity of incoming delivery items in SAP EWM Searching for a datebase table in SAP EWM to use in a Fiori dashboard for displaying transport units in inbound logistics. I can find the data in transaction /scwm/tu at the tab delivery items:
Screenshot /scwm/tu
Searching for the unpacked quantity of the assigned delivery item(s). It's like the amount is already bound to a handling unit, where I can also see the unpacked amount in the details, but as it's a PLAN handling unit I can not find the required data in the "normal" hu tables. Does someone know where to look this up?
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Maybe I also just went in the tables with the wrong parameters (mostly docid of the delivery or the huident or hu_guid) ? Been also thinking of /lime/nquan, but could not find any table to map the guids to the /lime/ tables..
Thankful for every idea!

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Home > Deals-In-Gh > Lumia Phones prices slashed in Compu-Ghana's First Promo of the year.
Compu-Ghana on the 12th of April will have their first sales promotion of the year. This is a one day offer only and whilst stock last. Probably a good time to buy one if you've been waiting on a discount.
Also get free Astrum earphones, 8GB micro SD cards and 2500mah power banks when you make a purchase.
With the next batch of devices being rolled on to the technical preview of windows 10 for phones, you can pick one up as a trial device.
Kindly speak with Emmanuel, Microsoft Authorized Device Care, Nokia, for assistance.
Office location: Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Kokomlemle Faanofa Street.
Please do you deal in Microsoft Applications like Office 365?
Hi John, the Lumia 950 and 950XL aren't available yet in Ghana. I'll have that information on the blog when available.


MarketingProfs announced the availability of their first Vendor Selector today. It allows you to find and compare Email Marketing Service Providers in seconds (36 blue-chip vendors have been invited to participate in this interactive buyer's guide!).
Shopper's Handbook: View a 50-page downloadable PDF report prepared by two subject-matter experts about how to choose an email service provider.
Filters: Select up to 10 filters and view a vendor list tailored to your requirements.
Product Listings: Select any number of vendors and press the "Compare" button. You'll see the vendors' answers to 150 questions; you can download or print to view them in a side-by-side Excel comparison table.
This email guide is a dynamic thing--built as a technology tool rather than a static report. You aren't getting a two-inch binder of reading material but a flexible, adaptable tool that is constantly being improved and upgraded to suit the changing needs of the MarketingProfs audience.
The email vendors represented are truly the best of the bunch. Vendors participated for free and dedicated some serious time and attention to answering questions about their email applications.
To get access to all the features in this Vendor Selector you will need to sign up for a Premium Membership. I can definitely recommend becoming a Premium Plus member, I've been one for almost 6 months now and the information you have access to is absolutely amazing!
Access the Email Marketing Service Providers Vendor List here.
Law firm McCann Fitzgerald features an article in their current "Legal Update" publication. In the article, Direct Marketing by Email: Data Protection Obligations, the firm says "those engaging in direct marketing by email should be aware of the increasing number of data protection obligations to which they are subject when doing so. Indeed, where the marketing crosses a frontier, the obligations may derive from Irish law and from foreign law. The costs of an oversight regarding the relevant Irish law can be significant: a criminal prosecution and a fine of 3,000 EUR per email, apart from the likely adverse publicity."
Mark your calendar for yet another interesting web seminar on July 13, 2005. This time it's hosted by Jupiter Webinars and it's called "Effective E-mail Marketing: Tactics to Improve Campaign Performance".
Marketers using testing and other sophisticated tactics such as segmentation, personalization and message frequency techniques are almost twice as likely to attain conversion rates of more than three percent, compared with marketers that do not. But a recent JupiterResearch study shows that most e-mail marketers fail to use these tactics and testing strategies on a regular basis. In this Webinar, Research Director David Daniels examines the direct correlations that exists between performance and campaign targeting and timing.
How important is email privacy to your business? A new email privacy survey conducted by Relemail reveals it may be far more important than you expected. The survey presents some startling statistics about how email subscribers view privacy.
In this survey, Relemail takes a closer look at these statistics and reveals what it means for you and your organization.
In all, what we're seeing with the Relemail survey is that the importance of email privacy is higher than it has ever been in the online community. We're seeing that internet users are skeptical of the privacy claims of companies, and that they will avoid subscribing to email newsletters if they don't trust that company, or if they have some reason to suspect that their email privacy won't be observed. We also see that people are far more likely to subscribe when privacy practices have been independently certified, and once they do subscribe they are far more likely to give that organization more business, because they trust that organization and they're happy to do business with an organization that acts ethically.
Read the full article here: "Email privacy now a top concern for 19 out of 20 internet users".
The author of this article, Mike Adams, is the founder of Relemail. He created it out of frustration in seeing the email community fail to come up with realistic anti-spam solutions even after years of negotiation and bickering among the top ISPs.
If you're considering an electronic newsletter, you might want to have a look at the eNewsletter Checklist by eNewsWriters, Inc. It summarizes the points that you need to consider when implementing an e-newsletter.
The FAQ section is also worth reading.
An approach for attracting readers to your enewsletters --and getting people to read through them -- is an invitation to become an insider. Insiders get the useful information first. They get the facts that others don't yet have. They become, in effect, members of a private club.
In actuality, all readers of the newsletters become insiders just by opening them. But the strategy is to establish an identity for the letters as a source for exclusive information.
This works particularly well for financially-oriented newsletters. But it can also work for sports, entertainment (celebrity scoop), health, politics and more.
So, don't just lay the info out there. Enhance its value with an aura of exclusivity.
Outlook's preview pane window is a commonly overlooked element in email designs. The designer only has at the most, 300 pixels of height to present the email's main content and navigation to an Outlook user. In this case, since the user doesn't have to open the email to preview its content, this section should communicate the main message of the email quickly and efficiently.
In an article called "Boosting Email Deliverability" Wendy Roth form Lyris Technologies explains how to ensure your email isn't mistaken for spam. ISPs don't only block emails based on the content in your subject line and body, but they may be blocking your mail before they even see the subject line. Why? Because they can't be sure that you are who you say you are.
Helping ISPs verify your identity, therefore, is a crucial part of ensuring that your email messages make it to the recipient's inbox. By using a static IP address, having both forward and reverse DNS set up for your domain name, and adding SPF information to your record, you're letting the ISPs know that you're one of the "good guys," which makes it far less likely that your email will be mistaken for spam.
Email is Dead ... Long Live Email!
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What role should email play in building stronger relationships with customers?
What is Return on Customer and how does it go beyond response rates to accurately quantify the success of email marketing initiatives?
E-consultancy created a 119-page Email Marketing Buyer's Guide which, they claim, is perfect for B2B and B2C companies that send out (or that want to send out) regular emails. It includes 14 vendor profiles from suppliers that E-consultancy believes are among the best in the UK.
The report features a SWOT analysis for the sector, market research and growth forecasts, trends and issues and tips on best practice email marketing. A vendor matrix is also included, so you can quickly identify companies that offer the services you need.
The email services checklist uses the following criteria: Full Service, ASP, Off-the-shelf software solution, Strategy and Campaign Planning, Design and Copy, List Provision, Data Management, Data cleansing, Dedupe and Validation, Broadcast, Data Capture Services, Tracking, Reporting, Data Analysis, Event-triggered messaging, Sequence Messaging, Dynamic Content Solutions, Personalisation, Flash, Video and Audio.
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The Federal Trade Commission is seeking comment on proposed changes to the rules enacted under the CAN-SPAM anti-spam legislation, including one that would require emailers to comply more quickly with opt-out requests.
Rule changes proposed by the FTC could affect how the CAN-SPAM Act is enforced.
Read what their proposals include here.
The FTC will accept comments until June 27. Comments may be filed online at https://secure.commentworks.com/ftc-canspam/.
All marketing or commercial communication via email must comply with the CAN SPAM Act of 2004.
Last December, however, congress enacted changes to the CAN SPAM Act of 2004. Find out about the new provisions of the Act: download the 2005 CAN SPAM report, containing a summary of the original provisions of the Act as well as the new (as of Dec 2004) additions.
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A special thanks to Mark Brownlow who pointed me to these web seminars in his email marketing blog "No Man Is An Iland".
How Many Articles Does a Newsletter Need?
In article on the ChiefMarketer website, Peter Krass answers the question "How Many Articles Does a Newsletter Need?".
He states that the right number of articles for a newsletter is however many it takes to do the job. And the job is reaching your target audience, getting your message across, and persuading your readers to take whatever action it is that you want them to take. That might mean just one article. Or it might mean 30.
Do you want to convey breadth and range? Or deep, intense focus?
Who are your readers? Do they already know your company or not?
Do you mainly want to drive traffic to your website? Or do you just want to keep in touch with your readers?
So, if you find yourself wondering how many articles your newsletter should include, first consider who you are, who your readers are, what actions you want to inspire, and your resources.
This week Clickz is featuring an article called "How Spam Complaints Affect Delivery". In this article Kirill Popov and Loren McDonald explain that minimizing spam complaints always starts with practices used to collect e-mail addresses.
Consider including unsubscribe instructions at the top of your e-mail, in addition to the footer.
Include instructions for users to whitelist your domain.
Provide a preference update page.
In most cases, above-average complaint rates suggest poor e-mail practices that over time lead to decreasing open and click-through rates. In the short term, too many spam complaints simply get your e-mail filtered or blocked.
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The first thing to do is decide what to test.
Measure the click-through rates on each variation (eg. different subject lines).
Design two identical landing pages to measure results.
The timing of a rollout can skew the results.
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The Sacrament of Baptism is often called "The door of the Church," because it is the first of the seven sacraments not only in time but in priority, since the reception of the other sacraments depends on it. Once baptized, a person becomes a member of the Church. (Note: if you need to request a Baptismal document for someone that has already been Baptized please click Sacramental Document Requests)
Infant Baptisms are celebrated one Sunday of the month at 1:30 pm (following 12:30 Mass), except on the Sundays during Lent. In November and December, infant baptisms may be held on different Sundays, so as not to conflict with the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.
Please remember - baptisms are not celebrated during Lent.
Our Lenten season invites each of us to draw closer to Jesus in prayer and do good works,
Baptisms will be suspended during Lent and the Baptism preparation classes will continue after Easter.
Baptism Preparation Classes
Parents of the infant must be registered as Good Shepherd parishioners (Online Registrationis available)
Must attend a Baptism Preparation Class, which is normally held from 7pm- 9pm once a month. Call the parish to registar for classes.
An infant baptism information form must be filled out and submitted to the Good Shepherd Parish Center. The form may also be emailed to the Parish Secretary, Michelle Anglade: manglade@gsbh.org.
Godparents must also attend the Baptism Preparation Class. If godparents live too far away to attend the preparation class at Good Shepherd, they must attend at their own parish and provide written confirmation from that parish that they attended a preparation class.
You may have more than one godparent for your child; however, at least one godparent is required to be a fully initiated Catholic. It is best if the godparents are people who play a significant role in the life of the child, and who will remain a religious and spiritual support as the child grows to adulthood.
Before planning a baptism, please note the date of regularly scheduled baptisms (and make sure it is not during Lent). Inform relatives of the regularly scheduled date before they make their travel plans. Exceptions are made only for significant family scheduling difficulties.
For more information regarding Infant Baptisms and to schedule your child for participation, please contact the Parish Center at (310) 285-5425.
Baptism Fee
The Baptism fee is $100. The fee can be paid at the Baptism Class and is due prior to the Sunday ceremony.
Adult Baptism
Adult Baptism is part of the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA). The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults consists of two phases: that of Inquiry and that of a Catechumen.
The first phase (Inquiry) is a time for questions. Set in an open atmosphere, this stage allows for the investigation of the Catholic Church: what Catholics believe, the sacraments and other matters of interest to anyone embarking on a faith journey.
The second phase (Catechumen) is a time of commitment. As a catechumen, and after discernment, the individual, together with others who have made a similar decision, proceeds along a spiritual path which leads toward Baptism, First Communion and Confirmation. At this point, the focus is on various elements of Christian theology and experience: prayer, the Holy Scriptures, the sacraments, the Mass, and the Catholic life.
Although the program tends to begin in the fall, people interested are welcome at any time. There is no time limit, as each faith journey is a personal one.
For more information, please contact Sister Virginia Stehly, C. S. J., Director, RCIA and Adult Confirmation, at (310) 285-5425, Ext. 108 or by email: vstehly@gsbh.org
Amen, amen, I say to you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. (John 3:5)
The Good Shepherd Parish Center is adjacent to the parking lot which is west of the church. The driveway entrance can be made from Santa Monica Blvd and Roxbury.


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Diana Rigg, British star of stage and screen, dies aged 82
September 10, 2020 — 11.51pm
London: British actress Diana Rigg, who came to fame in the cult 1960s TV show The Avengers and more recently appeared in Game of Thrones, has died aged 82.
Rigg, who had a long career in theatre, as well as appearing in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service where her character marries the British spy, died peacefully at home with her family.
Diana Rigg as Lady Oleanna Tyrell in Game of Thrones.
Her agent Simon Beresford said she died on Thursday morning. Rigg's daughter, Rachael Stirling, said she died of cancer.
"My beloved ma died peacefully in her sleep early this morning, at home, surrounded by family," Stirling said in a statement.
"She died of cancer diagnosed in March, and spent her last months joyfully reflecting on her extraordinary life, full of love, laughter and a deep pride in her profession. I will miss her beyond words."
Rigg starred in The Avengers alongside Patrick McNee's bowler-hatted John Steed. They played an impeccably dressed duo who fought villains and traded quips in a show whose mix of adventure and humour was enduringly influential.
Rigg starred opposite Australian George Lazenby in spy thriller On Her Majesty's Secret Service as the only woman ever to marry James Bond. In later life, she played Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones.
Her latest television series, a remake of All Creatures Great and Small, began airing just last week in the UK.
Born in Doncaster in northern England, Rigg moved with her family to India before returning to go to school in England. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before making her debut at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959.
It was her role as the karate-kicking leather-clad secret agent Emma Peel in The Avengers that brought her to wide attention.
Rigg won an Emmy for playing Mrs Danvers in a TV adaptation of Rebecca in 1997 and was nominated for her roles in 1975's In This House of Brede and again in 2002 for Victoria & Albert.
She had a prolific theatre career, including a Tony-nominated turn as Mrs Higgins in My Fair Lady on Broadway in 2018.
In 1994, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her contributions to film and theatre.
"For half her life Diana was the most beautiful woman in the room, but she was what used to be called a Trouper," British playwright Tom Stoppard said in a statement on Thursday. "She went to work with her sleeves rolled up and a smile for everyone. Her talent was luminous."
Bond co-star Lazenby wrote on Instagram: "I'm so sad to hear of the death of Diana Rigg. She undoubtedly raised my acting game. The death of Contessa Teresa di Vincenzo Draco [Rigg's character] created a memorable cinema moment over 50 years ago. As my new bride, Tracy Bond, I wept for her loss. Now, upon hearing of Dame Diana's death, I weep again."
Rigg's Game of Thrones co-star, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, said: "She always raised the bar with her incredible talent, intelligence and wit. An absolute joy and honour to work with."
The official Game of Thrones account tweeted: "Be a dragon. The realm will always remember Diana Rigg."
Actor and screenwriter Mark Gatiss, who worked with Rigg on stage and on TV's Doctor Who, described her as "flinty, fearless, fabulous. There will never be another."
The director Edgar Wright, who worked with Rigg in her final film role, the upcoming Last Night in Soho, tweeted: "She exceeded all my highest expectations, so blazingly talented, fiery & funny. Miss you already Dame D."
Reuters, McClatchy
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Vandana Shiva: A New Wave of Colonization, Carbon Slavery
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Joseph Mercola, M.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service
It's all about digitalization – they want to reduce life to software and end humans' sacred relationship to their food and the land where it is grown.
Big Tech is driving a new wave of colonization in the name of sustainability and "net zero" carbon emissions
Tech billionaire Bill Gates, now the largest owner of farmland in the U.S., is at the root of the problem, pushing technology as the only mechanism to save the world, and in so doing denying real solutions
Shiva calls Gates' book, "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster," which pushes for the elimination of age-old farming traditions and widespread adoption of fake meat, "rubbish"
According to Shiva, in order to force the world to accept this new food and agricultural system, new conditionalities are being created through net zero "nature-based" solutions, which will only further destroy indigenous people and small farmers
Net zero does not mean zero emissions, Shiva says; it means the rich polluters will continue to pollute and also grab the land and resources of those who have not polluted
25 Jun 2021 – Vandana Shiva is a brilliant mind calling for inhabitants of the Earth to unite against forces that are threatening to destroy the planet, in part via a new wave of colonization in the name of sustainability.
Tech billionaire Bill Gates, now the largest owner of farmland in the U.S.,1 is at the root of the problem, pushing technology as the only mechanism to save the world, and in so doing denying real solutions. This path is not accidental but carefully orchestrated to amass wealth, power and control, while making all but the elite subservient.
In my interview with Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., she spoke about Gates Ag One,2 which is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, where Monsanto is also headquartered.
"Gates Ag One is one [type of] agriculture for the whole world, organized top down. He's written about it. We have a whole section on it in our new report,3 'Gates to a Global Empire,'" she said. This includes digital farming, in which farmers are surveilled and mined for their agricultural data, which is then repackaged and sold back to them.
Bill Gates' New Book Is 'Rubbish'
In the above Under the Skin podcast with Russel Brand, Shiva takes aim at Gates' book "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need," which was released in February 20214 — calling it "rubbish:"5
"Just by chance I was reading the rubbish in Bill Gates' new book. I normally don't read rubbish but when they want to be rulers through rubbish, I read it. And it's lovely because he says the greenhouse gases from factory farms are not because of factory farms and putting animals in prisons … it's because the cows were the problem. They had four stomachs and the four stomachs make the methane."
The reason cows in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) emit methane that smells is because they're fed an unnatural diet of grains and placed in crowded quarters. It's not a natural phenomenon. It's a man-made one. "You walk behind a good cow on a grazing pasture, she's not stinking," Shiva said.6
The strong recommendation to replace beef with fake meat is also made in Gates' book7 — another example of replacing a whole, natural food with something engineered, heavily processed and fake. It all stems from an overreaching theme of arrogance and the desire for recolonization and a global empire.
The idea is to imply, or create the environment in which, survival isn't possible without technology. "It is a denial of the richness of agroecological knowledges and practices that are resurging around the world," according to one of Navdanya's reports.8
Shiva founded Navdanya, a nonprofit organization promoting biodiversity, organic farming and seed saving, in 1994. She has also travelled the globe to warn other countries, including Africa, about plans to displace rural farmers so investors can turn the land into industrial farms to export the commodities.
Gates' book talks about eliminating age-old farming traditions, which Shiva believes must be protected. Speaking with Brand, Shiva said:9
"He [Gates] has put the Indian plow that has existed for 10,000 years and says this primitive technology must go. I call this, as the future technology, a partnership between our bodies, the body of the Earth, and the body of the animals — realizing that we are not masters but we are there to serve through what Gandhi called bread labor, the labor of our body in the service of the Earth, in the service of community.
So we are for sure at an epic moment where everything wrong is being given a new life just at the time when the world was waking up … I think this is happening … because of arrogance … we've destroyed every international law, we've destroyed all democracy, we have locked people into fear … you know, the British empire had that arrogance."
Breaking the Sacred Relationship With Food
Industrialization started the process of severing humans' age-old connections to their food and the land on which it's grown. "Now, with digitalization," Shiva said, "they would like to end it forever."10 Tech giants, in an effort to drive home digital agriculture, are working to reduce life to software11 while advancing digital surveillance systems.
So far, Shiva's organization has managed to prevent Gates from introducing a seed surveillance startup, where farmers would not be allowed to grow seeds unless approved by Gates' surveillance system. The data mining, Shiva says, is needed because they don't actually know agriculture.
This is why Gates finances the policing of farmers. He needs to mine their data to learn how farming is actually done. In countering the tech giants' attempts to remove humans' sacred relationship to food, Shiva states we can fight back by remembering and focusing on a few essential principles:12
Food is the currency of life
The highest duty is to grow and give food in abundance
The worst sin is to let someone go hungry in your neighborhood, not grow food and, worse, sell bad food
"We've got to bring to the center of our everyday life the rituals that make life sacred," Shiva said. "Our breath … breath is what connects us to the world … water connects us to the world. Food connects us to the world."13
'Net Zero' Nonsense
Gates has been vocal that achieving "net zero" emissions will be the "most amazing thing humanity has ever done."14 By 2030, he's pushing for drastic, fundamental changes, including widespread consumption of fake meat, adoption of next generation nuclear energy and growing a fugus as a new type of nutritional protein.15
The deadline Gates has given to reach net zero emissions is 2050,16 likely because he wants to realize his global vision during his lifetime. But according to Shiva, in order to force the world to accept this new food and agricultural system, new conditionalities are being created through net zero "nature-based" solutions. Navdanya's report, "Earth Democracy: Connecting Rights of Mother Earth to Human Rights and Well-Being of All," explains:17
"If 'feeding the world' through chemicals and dwarf varieties bred for chemicals was the false narrative created to impose the Green Revolution, the new false narrative is 'sustainability' and 'saving the planet.' In the new 'net zero' world, farmers will not be respected and rewarded as custodians of the land and caregivers, as Annadatas, the providers of our food and health.
They will not be paid a fair and just price for growing healthy food through ecological processes, which protect and regenerate the farming systems as a whole.
They will be paid for linear extraction of fragments of the ecological functions of the system, which can be tied to the new 'net zero' false climate solution based on a fake calculus, fake science allowing continued emissions while taking control over the land of indigenous people and small farmers.
'Net Zero' is a new strategy to get rid of small farmers in first through 'digital farming' and 'farming without farmers' and then through the burden of fake carbon accounting.
Carbon offsets and the new accounting trick of 'net zero' does not mean zero emissions. It means the rich polluters will continue to pollute and also grab the land and resources of those who have not polluted — indigenous people and small farmers — for carbon offsets."
Gates already alluded to this double-standard in responding to those who criticized him for the hypocrisy of being a serious polluter himself, with a 66,000 square-foot mansion, a private jet, 242,000 acres of farmland and investments in fossil fuel-dependent industries such as airlines, heavy machinery and cars.18
This pollution is acceptable, Gates said, because, "I am offsetting my carbon emissions by buying clean aviation fuel, and funding carbon capture and funding low-cost housing projects to use electricity instead of natural gas."19
Carbon Colonization and Carbon Slavery
Carbon colonization and carbon slavery are two terms being used to explain the reality behind carbon trade, which is being regarded by Big Tech as the next big opportunity, Shiva says.20 Carbon trade refers to the buying and selling of credits that allow a company to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide,21 but by buying up credits from nonpolluters, industry can continue to pollute.
Technocracy is also a resource-based economic system, which is why the World Economic Forum talks about the creation of "sustainable digital finance,"22 a carbon-based economy and carbon credit trading.23 As explained on its website:24
"Digital finance refers to the integration of big data, artificial intelligence (AI), mobile platforms, blockchain and the Internet of things (IoT) in the provision of financial services. Sustainable finance refers to financial services integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into the business or investment decisions.
When combined, sustainable digital finance can take advantage of emerging technologies to analyze data, power investment decisions and grow jobs in sectors supporting a transition to a low-carbon economy."
As Navdanya's report explains, however, this will ultimately further remove the rights of small farmers, who will be forced into a new form of data slavery:25
"A global 'seal' of approval based on fake science, fake economics of maximizing profits through extraction will create new data slavery for farmers. Instead of using their own heads and cocreating with the Earth, they will be forced to buy 'Big Data.' Instead of obeying the laws of Mother Earth, they will be forced to obey algorithms created by Big Tech and Big Ag."
Focusing solely on carbon reductionism also misses the point that "forests, lands, ecosystems are so much more than the carbon stored in them," and putting conditionalities on small farmers will only make environmental injustices worse. The report adds:26
"Conditionalities under any condition violate democratic principles and human rights. Farmers are guided by Earth care. The culture of Earth care needs to be respected and rewarded because it is centered on rights of the Earth and rights of all her children … Conditionalities put on the nonpolluters by the polluters who want to continue to pollute is unjust and ecologically, morally and ethically bankrupt."
'The Universe Is Divine'
According to the ancient Vedas, the universe is divine, and everything therein — even the smallest grass — is an expression of the divine. "When I go to villages," Shiva told Brand, "women will do sacred ceremonies with indigenous seed. They will never use a hybrid seed for a sacred ceremony … It's quite amazing. No one told them, but they have that understanding of integrity and what the sacred means. It means to treat without violation."27
The universe exists for the well-being of all, but her gifts must be enjoyed without greed, Shiva explained. Taking more than your share is theft, and will only backfire. The solution to true sustainability doesn't lie with new technology, but in relying on the natural "technology" that is the universe:28
"It is by learning from the Earth that we can regenerate the Earth. We have to become students of Mother Earth, not try and dominate her. When we practice agriculture in unison with the Earth's ecological processes aligned with the ecological laws of nature and the Earth, we evolve an agriculture of care for the land, for the soil. We participate in the process of regenerating the seed and biodiversity, soil and water."
1 Fortune March 13, 2021
2 Independent Science News November 16, 2020
3 Navdanya International, Gates to a Global Empire
4 Market Watch February 16, 2021
5 YouTube April 13, 2021
10 YouTube April 13, 2021
11 Navdanya, Earth Rights Are Human Rights
14 BBC News February 15, 2021
15 ZeroHedge February 16, 2021
16 Fox Business February 21, 2021
17 Navdanya, Earth Rights Are Human Rights, Page 14
18 The Nation February 16, 2021
21 Investopedia, Carbon Trade
22 World Economic Forum, Sustainable Digital Finance Can Unlock a Low-Carbon Economy
23 World Economic Forum, What Is a Carbon Credit?
Dr. Joseph Mercola is the founder of Mercola.com. An osteopathic physician, best-selling author and recipient of multiple awards in the field of natural health, his primary vision is to change the modern health paradigm by providing people with a valuable resource to help them take control of their health. Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine–Midwestern University 1978-1982; Chicago Osteopathic Hospital 1982-1985; Family Practice Residency Chief resident 1984-1985; Board Certified American College Osteopathic General Practitioners July 1985; State of Illinois Licensed Physician and Surgeon.
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ICE Launches Public Relations Push To Address Threats And Harassment Against Agents Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched an unusual public relations campaign. They say agents are threatened and harassed for doing their jobs. But critics say they have every right to speak out.
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ICE has something to say, and it's not about the agency's latest crackdown on illegal immigration. Officials at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have launched an unusual public relations push. They're worried about what they call a toxic atmosphere in which ICE agents are threatened and harassed for doing their jobs. ICE critics say the agency brought this on itself and protesters have every right to speak out. NPR's Joel Rose reports.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Sunday, July 14 - 30 seconds.
JOEL ROSE, BYLINE: When you work at ICE, sometimes you get voicemails like this one.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Yeah, I'd just like to say you should probably quit your job because otherwise you're a Nazi [expletive] who just, like, is evil as [expletive]. And by the way, my tax money pays you, and you are a [expletive] monster. Just saying.
DAVID MARIN: I would get those type of calls regularly.
ROSE: Dave Marin now works at ICE headquarters in Washington. He says he got voicemails like that a lot when he was the head of ICE field operations in Los Angeles. Marin says he would report them to security. Beyond that, he didn't give them much thought.
MARIN: Never really thought about, wow, I wonder if these people ever were to get my address, and I wonder if they were ever to come to my house. But we never thought about those kinds of things. But now when we get those type of calls, it's very concerning for us.
ROSE: Marin says voicemails like that seem scarier these days. What's changed is that the debate around immigration has gotten uglier. Protests are getting more personal, targeting ICE agents when they're off duty. And sometimes ICE is the target of violence. Officials point to an incident this summer near Seattle where a man was shot and killed by police after throwing flaming objects outside an ICE detention center, and in San Antonio someone fired shots into two ICE offices late at night. No agents were injured in either case, but ICE leadership is worried that somebody could be. Here's acting director Matthew Albence in an interview.
MATTHEW ALBENCE: Our workforce are being subjected to threats and harassment and protests at their houses merely for enforcing the laws that Congress has authorized us to enforce and expend $7 billion a year for us to enforce.
ROSE: ICE has offices and detention centers all over the country, and that makes the agency a convenient focus for protesters. There's been a movement to abolish ICE for years, but under the Trump administration that movement has suddenly caught fire, and protests at detention facilities have gotten bigger and more frequent.
ROSE: That's led to clashes like this one in Rhode Island, where an employee at a detention facility that works with ICE drove his truck into a crowd of protesters last month.
(SOUNDBITE OF SCREAMING)
ROSE: Protesters say several people were injured. The driver of the truck resigned a few weeks later.
SARAH SALDANA: Emotions are at an all-time high. I don't think we can argue with that.
ROSE: Sarah Saldana is a former ICE director under President Obama. She says she's faced many protests outside the office where she worked, and she understands the desire to correct the record about what ICE does and what it does not do.
SALDANA: Let's get our facts straight. The agency is involved in interior enforcement. When you say something like abolish ICE, I think you ought to know what you're talking about.
ROSE: There is a lot of confusion out there. You can see that in angry posts on social media. That, along with the protests, is what prompted ICE officials to launch their PR offensive - pushing their narrative in the media, writing open letters to the public, even releasing some of the angry voicemails they get, and making sure people don't confuse ICE with the Border Patrol, which has also come under fire for holding migrant kids in cages and separating families at the border. Acting Director Matthew Albence wants to make it clear - that is not ICE.
ALBENCE: The trouble is that people continue to try to conflate what the Border Patrol stations are, where these individuals are being held on a very temporary basis while they're being processed, with ISIS detention facilities, and that's two wholly different things.
ROSE: But ICE's critics say they know exactly what the agency does, and they don't like it. ICE is detaining more immigrants than ever - an average of more than 55,000 immigrants per day in August; more than half had not been convicted of a crime. And government watchdogs have repeatedly chastised ICE over conditions at some of its facilities. Former ICE Director Sarah Saldana says the agency's latest PR push fails to acknowledge all this.
SALDANA: There is no recognition that there is a reason underlying these protests - not one that excuses violent behavior, but certainly why people are very upset. And there's no reference to the actions of the administration that I believe have horribly fueled these emotional fires.
UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting) Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE.
ROSE: Back in July, a few dozen protesters gathered on the sidewalk in front of a house in Southern California. That house belongs to the current head of ICE's LA field office.
UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER: He is committing crimes against humanity by taking children from their parents, and that's called kidnapping - kidnapping.
ROSE: The protesters have been back several times and so have the local police, though the protests have always been peaceful. They're organized by a local activist named Maria Estrada, the daughter of Mexican immigrants.
MARIA ESTRADA: If they have no problem coming after us and our families, then the least I can do - the very least I can do - is make his family uncomfortable.
ROSE: ICE officials say officers have a right to privacy when they're off duty with their families, and protesting at an officer's home is crossing a line. Estrada doesn't see it that way.
ESTRADA: I'll be honest with you - I don't give a [expletive] if his wife is offended. I don't care if his family's home. I want them to be uncomfortable. I want him to move. I want him to quit his job, and I want him to move out of our neighborhood. That's what I want.
ROSE: Estrada says she's planning another sidewalk protest next month.
Joel Rose, NPR News.
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Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: Civil Disobedience and the Rule of Law
By Jessica Pishko
ON JULY 8, 2013, inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in Northern California initiated a hunger strike to protest the conditions and overuse of SHUs (Segregated Housing Units). Inmates confined to the SHU are kept in a windowless room for up to 23 hours a day; some have been in the SHU for decades, despite clear and mounting evidence that solitary confinement causes definitive psychological harm and is tantamount to torture. Within a few weeks, some 30,000 prisoners all over California participated in the hunger strike. The movement issued a list of demands, including such reasonable items like ending long-term solitary confinement, permitting inmates a weekly phone call, and providing adequate food.
Wilbert Rideau, the well known editor of The Angolite and someone who suffered innumerable injustices under racist penal policies — including over a decade in solitary — eloquently defended the Pelican Bay hunger strikers in a New York Times editorial this summer. He writes that prisoners, who have so much to lose and are unlikely to succeed, still protest because they are "made desperate by the lack of options to address their grievances." For an inmate in solitary, denied access to writing materials and unable to vote, hunger strikes are the only way to bring to light conditions about which people on the outside lack information. Such protests seem like the epitome of civil disobedience, and as Lewis Perry suggests in his book Civil Disobedience: An American Tradition — they demonstrate the link between civil disobedience, citizenship, and the rule of law.
Perry, a history professor who has written well respected books about slavery and American intellectualism, argues that nonviolent protests, like hunger strikes, are a long-standing American tradition, mediating the competing American values of "revolution" and "submission to majority rule." Perry's book serves as a useful history of civil disobedience from prerevolutionary days to the present, though it avoids an overarching theme or interpretation. This can make an elusive concept even more slippery: for example, civil disobedience generally refers to breaking laws that are unjust, as in the case of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins. There, African Americans sat in "white only" areas in order to protest Jim Crow laws; their act was designed specifically to draw attention to racial disparity (their action later legitimized by corrective Supreme Court rulings). Yet, as Perry points out, the term "civil disobedience" was also adopted by a group urging college students to lie about their race on college applications in order to protest affirmative action. Is such lying properly considered civil disobedience?
The term was popularized by Henry David Thoreau's essay "Resistance to Civil Government," which was renamed "Civil Disobedience" only years later. Thoreau did not think of himself as practicing civil disobedience, but his emphasis on doing what he, as an individual, thought of as "right" (even if it meant suffering punishment) is a theme that continues to resonate with other groups today. Civil disobedience is perhaps best generalized as intentional lawbreaking with the aim of revealing injustice. Perry traces the beginnings of civil disobedience in religious and moral authority — the idea that individuals should adhere to a higher law than current laws of the land. Over time, the religious overtones gave way to an emphasis on abstract notions of justice, of what it means to live in a just society.
Perry goes on to delineate some of the basic rationales behind civil disobedience as well as the tensions in that reasoning. Perry seems most interested in tracing the fault lines in civil disobedience theory: moral authority versus media coverage? Individual consciousness versus higher power? Righteous law-breaking or general disorder? Civil disobedients, Perry posits, paradoxically respect the law and societal institutions (like courts) while feeling, at the same time, that they cannot acquiesce in perceived immoralities perpetrated by those same institutions. While civil disobedience is not mentioned in the Constitution — indeed, the Founding Fathers were fairly allergic to all forms of law-breaking — some people have taken the incorrect and paradoxical view that the First Amendment protects civil disobedience. But it would also be wrong to say that civil disobedience has no relationship to fundamental rights, because such individual rights are frequently the basis of civil protest movements.
Civil Disobedience points out another important contradiction: if a citizen submits herself to the workings of a democratic government, then she must also submit herself to the punishment which comes from civil disobedience. Influential thinkers like Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi instructed their followers to peacefully submit to arrest and punishment. On the other hand, if the laws are unfair, then isn't the punishment for breaking them also unfair? Perry somewhat frustratingly doesn't really answer this question; instead he provides examples showing that no one who participates in civil disobedience agrees on what it means.
Perry rightly gives credit to the antislavery and civil rights movements for generating the most discussion about civil disobedience. He takes pains to discuss the role of black abolitionists, who protested laws that denied them the rights of citizenship. For such leaders, the only way to assert humanity was to defy the codified law of slavery. What are the obligations of someone who is not bestowed the rights of full citizenship to submit to the rule of law? In a just world, Perry points out, those individuals should have less to fear in terms of punishment, but it wasn't a just world. In any case, African-American antislavery activists never gave up their claims of citizenship even as they broke the law.
Perry also points out that civil disobedience hasn't always been "nonviolent" in the strictest sense of the word, and he seems interested in correcting the notion that civil disobedience is necessarily correlated with peaceful means. African-American antislavery protestors, for example, were willing to tolerate some violence in order to achieve their goals, especially on the grounds of self-defense. Further, what may seem peaceful to some is disruptive to others, such as harassing public figures to force their resignation, blocking college administrative buildings, or camping in Zuccotti Park.
Throughout the student protests of the 1960s, another theme emerged — if lawbreaking becomes commonplace, does it lose its power to shock? Perry cites one student protestor as stating that causing general disorder on campus is a way of protesting against a laundry list of repressive institutions — the draft, capitalism, and campus authority. Some of the student protests at Berkeley during the 1960s seem to simply resist the notion that school authorities had the right to limit student activism. Do those protestors, then, deserve punishment because they are breaking laws unrelated to the government policies at issue?
Today, the idea of nonviolent public protest is central to our notion of democracy. Activist groups as diverse as Occupy Wall Street and the religious right borrow the terminology. Perry discusses more recent forms of civil disobedience, focusing on the antiabortion movement for its well documented use of traditional tactics (sit-ins, blocking) and their justification on the basis on individual freedoms (the "right to life"). He omits hackers like Anonymous who try to evade detection and punishment as contrary to the civil disobedience tradition. In Perry's view, hackers aren't participating in civil disobedience if they hide their identity.
Perry is admirably sympathetic to political movements that are hard to justify morally. For example, he includes a discussion of the Southern states' protests against the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education as a form of civil disobedience; the KKK's acts were social protest against desegregation. Of course, the KKK was frequently violent, but they and other white supremacists did engage in acts like sit-ins and protests, which more closely align with civil disobedience.
Legally, what is the difference between civil disobedience and acts of lawlessness? Most of the time, the law does not consider intent in lawbreaking. In United States v. Schoon, the Ninth Circuit distinguished between two types of civil disobedience: one that breaks the law it protests (e.g., civil rights protestors deliberately breaking Jim Crow laws) and the other that defies other laws in order to make a public point (like protestors blocking a sidewalk). The protestor is still guilty for the crime committed, not for the law under attack. Legally, neither breaking the law to make a broader social statement nor breaking it to protest the specific law is an adequate defense.
Some civil rights advocates felt that change should always happen not through civil disobedience but through the courts, and this was true throughout the women's suffrage movement, as well. On the other hand, some leaders felt that change through the courts or Congress was too slow, and sometimes the courts make errors of judgment — witness the retrospectively poor judgment in Dred Scott or Plessy v. Ferguson. On the flip side, sometimes social and political pressure can push the tide toward a test case — the recent Supreme Court case striking down the Defense of Marriage Act comes to mind as an example. The choice to go to court always requires the selection of certain laws to oppose, which means that change must be slow and detailed. This contrast becomes more obvious in Perry's discussion of the student social protests during the 1960s. Many of their grievances were directed toward oppressive institutions in general, and such objections are not suitable for court action, because they don't address specific laws.
Does this mean that all civil disobedience that results in lawbreaking should be avoided? Some legal theorists, like the late dean of Harvard Law School Erwin Griswold, argue that lawbreaking should be punished equally, whether the justification is because the law is unjust or not. Griswold argued that those who break the law should be prepared to face the consequences. To do otherwise would demonstrate disrespect for the laws and rule of democracy. He justifies this argument by pointing out that morality does not necessarily equate with legality.
Griswold's argument, however, as the legal scholar Ronald Dworkin countered, is legally flawed. Not all examples of lawlessness are prosecuted; prosecutors always have discretion when choosing to prosecute crimes. Some laws may be unpopular and rarely enforced; others may be selectively enforced. Consider for example the enforcement of drug laws in poorer urban neighborhood as opposed to more affluent suburban ones. It's just not true that everyone breaking the law should be punished. Morality and legality aren't always equivalent.
But the sense that they should be penetrates all of American democratic society. When religious organizations refuse to pay for birth control, as required under the Affordable Care Act, is that civil disobedience? In such cases, objectors usually take refuge in the Constitution, evoking fundamental rights — such as the right to religious freedom — as something that supersedes all other laws. Civil rights advocates made much the same argument, positing that the Constitution made all men equal; therefore, any laws that purported to subjugate on the basis of race were invalid.
Both sides accept the legitimacy of the lawmaking process, and belief in that process is necessary if civil disobedience is to have any meaning. Punishing civil disobedients, however, may not make sense — participants in the civil rights movement who disobeyed racist laws had no incentive to be deterred, whether they were punished or not. When a society deprives a group's fundamental rights, threats of punishment ring hollow.
As in the Pelican Bay hunger strikes, civil disobedience can be used to bring to light unfair conditions and initiate changes in laws. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation retaliated against the hunger strikers by cutting off their access to television, radio, and other news, restricted other privileges, and sent some people to "administrative segregation" — an even more punishing form of solitary where inmates are deprived of nearly all human contact. The CDCR's official statement was that the hunger strikes were primarily caused by inordinately powerful prison gang leaders. Most of the inmates' demands were not met; however, the state has agreed to hold public hearings on the use of solitary.
Perry doesn't address the use of civil disobedience by incarcerated individuals. Hunger strikers are not really disobeying a law, but they are giving authorities the opportunity to demonstrate the arbitrariness of punishment, which only reinforces the hunger strikers' cause and draws attention to the inhumaneness of their treatment. Furthermore, as with the case of African-American protestors during the pre–Civil War era: do inmates owe the law the same deference if they are not treated as full citizens of this country? While Perry does an excellent job recasting the US tradition of civil disobedience, he doesn't really address this question.
Perry sees the predictability of civil disobedience tactics, and their widespread recognition, as good signs. Police at the University of California, Davis recognized the gestures of civil disobedience — protestors linking arms, for example — as defiance and a sign of the students' refusal to disperse, and this shows that the tradition is alive and well. In a widely publicized incident, those students were doused with pepper spray, which, given the ubiquity of internet video, only served to bolster the cause of the protestors. Perry ends his book with a discussion of how the use of nonviolent protests throughout the world may well enhance this American tradition. Such uses of civil disobedience, as in the Arab Spring uprisings, may begin to provide a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between lawlessness and citizenship.
Jessica Pishko practiced corporate law and represented death penalty clients and victims of domestic abuse pro bono. Her novel-in-progress is about an unsolved mystery.
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Russia: National Identity, Imperial Character, Post-Communism, National-Capitalists and "Compradors" – Interview with Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov – Nouvelles de Synergies Européennes n°20, 1996
1996, Alexander Prokhanov, Nouvelles de Synergies Européennes, Russia
One of the principal "nationalist" advisors of Gennady Zyuganov – the principal adversary of Boris Yeltsin during the June 16th presidental elections in Russia – granted us an exclusive interview on May 28th in Moscow: he's Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov, also the director of the national opposition paper Zavtra, the former director of Den (banned after the days of October 3-4 1993) and Sovetskaya Literatura, a monthly magazine before Perestroika, published in many languages where Russian literature progressively left the Marxist yoke to full rediscover its Russianness. This interview with A. A. Prokhanov will help our readers see the mysteries of Muscovite politics more clearly and also better understand the strange alliance between nationalists and socialists, between the "browns" and the "reds" as the sensationalist press said, which is being sealed in Russia, and could, in the case of "national-communists" victory, overturn the present relation of forces in Europe. (Loukian Strogoff)
Loukian Strogoff: In general you are considered by Western media as one of the principal "nationalist" advisors of the candidate Gennady Zyuganov. Russian national identity is always difficult to define for Westerners, who don't recognize the divides to which they're accustomed. Certain Russian nationalists prefer the definition of an "ethnic nation", founded on the idea of a "majority people." Such or such city or village would be Russian because it's populated by a Russian majority. Other nationalists define the Russian nation as the heir of imperial Russia's history. They call for the defense of Russia's "traditional interests." Is your reference the ethnic nation or the imperial nation?
Alexander Andreyevich Prokhanov: I quite prefer the second definition. For a long time, I've tried to understand why Russian nationalists haven't united in a major movement. I have made efforts myself in favor of a Russian national conservative movement, but without any success until now. I believe that Russian man cannot rid himself of the imperial tradition. The purely ethnic approach raises more problems than it solves. What are we to think about millions of mixed marriages, interweaving peoples and languages. We'd also have to return territories where Russians are in the minority. The partisans of a "pure" ethnic nation are not numerous and form "exotic" groups. In general, Russian nationalism is synonymous with imperial consciousness. Nationalist and "imperialist" movements have dispersed their support to all candidates except Grigory Yavlinsky, who would be, from a certain point of view, the only candidate representing an "ethnically pure movement."
Strogoff: How would you analyze the power relations between the "nationalist", "social democratic", and "orthodox communist" political forces that support Zyuganov's candidacy?
Prokhanov: There are practically no "strict obedience" Communists and there hasn't been for a long time. All the political and ideological elite firstly betrayed the Party by becoming "liberal" and forming the "democratic" camp. The people with pragmatic ideas, imbued with the ideal of a grand Soviet state remained in the Party. For them, the USSR represented communism. In particular I'm thinking about scientists, "builders," the military. That's the type of communist that predominates today in a Party where there are no longer ideological discussions as in the years 1905-1917. The present Party no longer pretends to have a monopoly on the truth. From this point of view, we can qualify it as parliamentary and "social-democratic." I do not doubt that in the case of victory it will retain this orientation. It's in a period of transition. Bit by bit, it's becoming the party of Russian interests, where the idea of justice and social harmony dominates and in which people who perceive the world in a rational, but also irrational manner, I mean believers, are found. Provisionally, we can effectively qualify it as "national-communist." Two sources of energy animate it: the energy of the wounded nation and the energy of social suffering.
Strogoff: They've accused Zyuganov of antisemitism because in his book "I Believe in Russia", he wrote: "The Jewish diaspora traditionally controls the financial life of the continent and increasingly becomes the principal inspiration of the Western socioeconomic system every day." Do you think that Zyuganov is antisemitic?
Prokhanov: In Russia, as in Europe, a situation has been created where anyone who intends to speak about the relationship of Jews to society is qualified as antisemitic. Relations between Russians and Jews are indeed troubled, as they've always been, because there has been much suffering on both sides. Zyuganov, as a political analyst, speaks about questions that are beyond the scope of Russia. But he's not antisemitic. As a statesman, he must take into account all the forces of the country and try to restore justice and harmony wherever they've been trampled.
Strogoff: Yeltsin is clearly the foreigner's candidate, [the candidate] of globalist financial forces. But what about Yavlinsky? Should he be considered the foreigner's backup candidate? Is the continuation of his candidacy explained by an order from abroad or simply by the fact that he's shown himself to be too greedy during his haggling with Yeltsin?
Prokhanov: Two types of politicians gravitate around Yeltsin; the first we can qualify as "national capitalists" and the others I like to call "compradors." The conflict between them is permanent. At a certain moment, Yeltsin separated from the radical liberals. He filled his administration with the national-capitalists and, in this sense, we can no longer say that he's absolutely a creature of the United States. And the interests of the radical liberals actually find themselves represented by Yavlinsky who is thus not a backup candidate but an autonomous creature, a "pure product." The conflict between Yeltsin and Yavlinsky arises from two different visions of the world. It's a conflict between divergent capitalist clans and interests. Today, the national-capitalists, the "hardliners," the "defense ministers" around General Korzhakov, are the pillars on which Yeltsin leans to counterbalance the influence of the other pole constituted by the "compradors" like his economic advisor Livshits and his prime minister Chernomyrdin. This second pole is close to Yavlinsky.
Strogoff: Already during the summer of 1995, Oleg Boyko, speaking in the name of a certain number of bankers, asked for the postponement legislative elections in exchange for financial support for the highest levels of the state. In a way, he wanted to "privatize" the presidency of Russia and the federal government. He declared: "The choice is between capitalism and democracy." Today, "the letter of 13" (bankers and major businessmen) demands a historical compromise and a national unity government that would preserve their interests. They're using civil war as blackmail. What do you think about this development? Should Gennady Zyuganov agree to discuss such a compromise before the elections?
Prokhanov: The threat of civil war is not an abstraction. If it was a myth, it would not be used as an instrument of psychological war. The situation is so hostile that it prevents any rebirth of the country today. The present opposing forces cancel each other. These 13 bankers that we call the "13 vampires" have a motivation hidden from public opinion: the fear of a new coup by Yeltsin relying on the "national capitalists." This group would then be in a position of major strength and the clan of the "compradors" around Chernomyrdin, who serves these 13 bankers, could be the next victims of a sort of "right wing fascism." We must remember the conflict last year between General Korzhakov and Vladimir Gusinsky, president of the financial and media group Most, recently elected president of the Russian Jewish Congress after a few months of exile in Russia. It's this fear, not of the "national-communists" but of the "national-capitalists" that has forced them to formulate compromise proposals between different political forces.
Strogoff: In the case of Gennady Zyuganov's victory, what would be the urgent priority measures that your biweekly paper Zavtra would demand from the new government
Prokhanov: We aren't seeking vengeance. An amnesty would be necessary to recover social peace. We will honor our dead. Vengeance will only come from God and mercy, from the head of state.
Strogoff: You were the quasi-official chronicler of the Soviet military campaign in Afghanistan. How do you judge the advisability and the results of the Russian military campaign in Chechnya, in particular in light of the "cease-fire" that was just signed in the Kremlin?
Prokhanov: The conflict in Chechnya is the result of the development of a criminal world, in Grozny as in Moscow. In fact it's a settling of scores between mafia groups. That's why this war wasn't really a war. It was "instrumentalized" by the oil, drug, etc lobbies. To my knowledge, they are the emissaries of Chernomyrdin who has agreements with Chechen leaders about a new re-allotment of profits from existing and planned oil pipelines. For the moment Yeltsin has stopped the war and can derive an electoral benefit from it, but nothing is essentially resolved and the criminalization of the Caucasus has been boosted by this war. Criminal empires don't have the right to exist.
Strogoff: Evgeny Primakov seems to have given a certain coherence to Russian diplomacy. The minister of the interior, Anatoly Kulikov, also gives the impression of being a serious and upright man. Could these two ministers, in your opinion, retain their posts in the context of a new administration?
Prokhanov: It's possible. Knowing Gennady Zyuganov well and his prudent approach in matters of change, he could only appreciate a specialist like Primakov, a brilliant representative of the Soviet diplomatic tradition. He's doubtlessly unique. He could reestablish the situation after the departure of Kozyrev, the pawn of the Americans. So he could be very useful. Kulikov is also a good specialist. We haven't forgotten how he killed many of our friends on the 3rd and 4th of October 1993. Nevertheless he has certain merits. The most important is having refused to participate in the planned coup last March 17th that started with the occupation of the Duma for a few hours. His declared intention at the start of the year to control the anti-national banks and his attempts to fight against corruption in his ministries could also plead in his favor.
Strogoff: Certain Western European countries, in particular France, strive to free the European Union from American tutelage. Should a new government in Russia support such a path towards a "Europe for Europeans?"
Prokhanov: All that has come from Europe to Russia has been negative. For us the West is a synonym for evil. Politicians are interested in a move away from a United States of Europe, because American withdrawal would weaken it. There are knots of contradictions that would fortunately handicap its influence on Russia. For the most part, the European Union is an illusion as the contradictions between France and Germany on the occasion of the conflict in the Balkans, which Russia played a part in, show. It will continue in this way. The refocusing of American policy towards Asia could make the United States a partner of Russia in this region.
Interviewer: Loukian Strogoff
Source: http://www.archiveseroe.eu/eltsine-a48470098


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