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Mass Protest Looms Over Tattered Liberian Economy
By FPA Staff Reporter On Jan 31, 2017
Monrovia – Despite efforts by the Liberia National Police and other security apparatus to dissuade a group of Liberian entrepreneurs from abandoning a planned protest, the aggrieved business owners say they will carry on the protest as planned.
Report by Bettie K. Johnson Mbayo, [email protected]
"We are peacefully assembling to petition the National Legislature to address this economic hardship in the country, this is unfair that the current status of the country is not how we want it to be, the National Legislature and all regulating bodies must address this" Prince P.S Haward, Executive Director of the Patriotic Entrepreneurs of Liberia
State security officials are citing security risk as a basis to ditch the idea of holding the protests in Monrovia.
The planned protest comes on the eve of the start of voter registration for the 2017 presidential and legislative elections.
The protest at the Capitol, the seat of the Liberia's legislature, according to the group is to address issues pertaining to the economic hardship in the country.
The prevailing economic condition in Liberia is creating concerns amongst Liberians with low income earners – the vast majority of the population – continue to complain. The country's currency has badly depreciated as the exchange rate skyrockets, trading at LD$110 to US$1.00 – the worse depreciation in the West African nation's history.
Liberian petroleum retailers are also decrying the unfavorable market condition, with hundreds of them going out of business. Some of them have accused the government of trying to put them out of business.
And for the Patriotic Entrepreneurs of Liberia (PATEL), they are an advocacy group for pushing for the rights of Liberian small businesses.
PATEL Executive Director Prince Howard said the protest at the grounds of the Capitol is to allow the Legislature addresse several issues ranging from the imposition of high tariffs on goods imported in Liberia, the constant inflations of the United States dollars rate, and the police constant harassment of petty traders.
The mass rally is expected to shut down all Liberian businesses beginning Tuesday as the protesters await redress from the Legislature.
The rally was previously scheduled to go on for three days but, the head of the group leading the protest disclosed that if the Legislature address the economic issue today (Tuesday), the three days will be cut off and businesses will be open.
Shifting blames
On Sunday, January 29 members of PATEL and the Police met to negotiate the planned protest.
PATEL Acting Chairman, Presley Tenwah said its members have come to the point where they are tire of blames shifting.
"We have come to a point where we are tire of blame shifting, we spoke with Finance and regulating bodies but they all are shifting blames," he said.
Repeal the laws
Mr. Tenwah said the petition to the lawmaker is to request that they repeal the laws to benefit citizens in the country.
"We are telling them to repeal the law because it is not favorable for Liberian businesses, most of our products are bought in US dollars and we regularly have Liberian dollars, look at the rate it is so high when you are buying US rate and it's frustrating," Tenwah said.
He said repealing the laws will bring sanity to Liberian business in the country.
"Also crediting money from the bank with such tariff is like getting us out of the business and the National legislature is the body that will help us."
Not demonstration
Police Inspector General, Gregory Coleman and Deputy Director for Operation, Abraham Kromah, are raising serious security alerts ahead of the protest is ongoing.
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"We are concern on the security implication, looking at the repulsion because that is our role so it is cardinal and germane," Abraham Kromah.
But Tenwah clarified that the rally is not meant to demonstrate but to claim the attention of the Liberian Legislature.
"Our people are not treating us well, but the economic hardship must be address since Liberia is not exporting products and the triggered down effect is on Liberian traders," he said.
He continued: "We are Liberian businesses and if the Legislature will have one currency for us to pay the taxes mainly Liberian dollars will be commendable to us."
For his part, Police Inspector General Gregory Coleman previously requested PATEL to go back to the law and follow it.
He cited part III of the act amending the Executive law with respect to the National Police Force.
The law is on public order, duties, rights and conditions of service in which 22.86 (A) and states:
"Any person who desires to hold any special event in the form of demonstration, march, or similar event in any public shall notify the County Attorney in the County where the event is to take place of his or her order intention not less than seven days before the date of special event."
Col. Coleman also cited 22.86 (B, D, and E) of the Act, saying: "You meant peaceful protest, but these are critical times, there are detractors, and people can misuse your good intention and caused violence."
The Police I.G disclosed that his trip to Togo was suspended due to the threat the plan protest will have on the state.
"Just the idea of store closure has greater effect on the state, and we know that Article 17 of the constitution give you the right, but also we want you follow the Police act," he said.
A subsequent meeting was held Monday at the Police Headquarters in Monrovia. Justice Minister Fredrick Cherue, Liberia Revenue Authority Commissioner Elfreida Tamba, Commerce Minister Axel Addy were present at the meeting.
However, details of the meeting have not yet been disclosed, but FrontPageAfrica gathered that top priority of the agenda was to call on the group to refrain from the protest while they negotiate their demands.
Held Accountable
Col. Coleman disclosed that they met with the group but all efforts to cancel the panned protest prove unsuccessful.
"We have told them that if they put out their 1,500 people today and violence result from there, the leaders will be held accountable," the LNP boss said.
It can be recalled that Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hans Barchue described as "unfortunate" the increment in taxes by the legislature on basic commodities including water and he hopes it could be reversed.
"This is unfortunate but it is the reality of the time and we hope it could be reversed," Deputy Speaker Barchue told journalist. "It has to do with policies, economy and fiscal – the monetary policy has to be look at too because the manner and form prices are going up and we could go back to the drawing board I guess."
But Barchue admitted that solving the current economic challenge is massive but the policies must impact the ordinary Liberians.
"I am not over the fiscal institution of government; however, we must always take into account the impact that will be held on the people when we make policies. For example, the increase in taxes on water I don't think it was a wise move," he said.
The legislature in December 2016 during its extra sitting voted for taxes to be increased from 7% to 10% on tobacco, 35% on imported water and 2% for locally produced water and that taxes on residential buildings are increased from 0.083% to 0.25%.
The lawmakers also voted that taxes be increased on land within city or town limits, which are currently at 2% get an increment to 3.5% and that goods and services taxes increased from 10% and 5%.
A 15% increment was proposed to be levied on hotel services, gambling services and restaurant services.
The protest is expected to be the first post-war protest against economic hardship. The last time there was similar protest was April 14, 1979 when a group of students, university instructors and some ordinary citizens led by Progressives, notably amongst them Gabriel Barcus Matthews.
The protest, however, turned out into riot – The Rice Riot – the saw the death of hundreds of students and citizens.
They were protesting against increase in the price of a 100lb bag of rice from US$22 to US$26.
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Scottish Lighthouse Museum
Kinnaird Head Lighthouse
The Scottish Lighthouse Museum hosts the largest collection of lighthouse lenses and equipment. There's lots of exhibits to keep young and old entertained and is quite interactive as many items can be touched and played. For example maps of where Scottish lighthouses can be light up by pressing buttons, lens lights can be re-directed and altered and bells rung. Some rooms have audio visual displays which delve deep into the history of Scottish lighthouses. Children can dress up in the lighthouse keeper jacket and hat. Allow about an hour to tour the museum, then another hour for the lighthouse tour.
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Kinnaird Head Lighthouse Tour
Entry to the lighthouse is by timed tour. Whilst waiting you can browse the well stocked gift shop where there is a range of lighthouse books and gifts or tour the museum. Listen out for the bell ringing to announce the start of the tour.
The tour begins with a history of Scottish lighthouses and then a history of Kinnaird Head Lighthouse. A short walk from the museum, past lines of fishing net posts and buouys takes you to the new automated lighthouse lens and light which flashes every 15 seconds and can be seen 12 miles out to sea. The foghorn next to it is no longer used, which must be a relief to the locals! From here another short walk takes you to the entrance of the lighthouse.
There is no disabled access for the lighthouse as the tour consists of climbing up to the top of the lighthouse (don't forget to get the children to count the steps so that they can win a certificate) and visiting each room.
The unique feature of the Kinnaird Head Lighthouse is that it was built using an existing castle structure, the Kinnaird Castle, which was built several centuries earlier.
The Kinnaird Head Castle dates back to the 15th century and was built by the Frasers of Philorth and they changed the name of burgh from Faithlee to Fraserburgh (cited in Castles of the Clans: The Strongholds and Seats of 750 Scottish Families and Clans by Martin Coventry).
The lighthouse was constructed in 1824. The lighthouse keepers cottages were built in 1902. The lighthouse was closed in 1991 and given over to The Scottish Lighthouse Museum Trust and Historic Scotland. The cottages can be entered where a range of uniforms and old photographs and equipment can be viewed.
The lighthouse tour begins in the boiler room where original equipment can be viewed. More steps upwards takes you to the duty room and relief lighthouse keeper rooms, with original furniture and equipment. Up more steps takes you to the lenses and light area. Look out for bullet holes from when the lighthouse was attacked by German planes during The Second World War. The tour then takes you onto the balcony of the lighthouse. This can be quite windy and isn't for those afraid of heights! Those who do venture out will be rewarded with some magnificient views of the Buchan Coast. Those who don't can visit the cafe to see these views over a leisurely drink, snack or meal. Don't worry about thinking yourself a feartie - winds of up to 143mph have been recorded at the lighthouse!
How To Get To The Scottish Lighthouse Museum and Kinnaird Head Lighthouse
Directions- Head towards Fraserburgh on the A90. At Fraserburgh follow the signs which take you onto the A952. The museum will be sign posted from here.
There is ample parking at the museum and toilets can be found by the gift shop. There is facilities for the disabled.
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The Ghost Story Of Kinnaird Castle
Sir Alexander Fraser had a daughter called Isobel who he didn't let mix with local people. When her father was away on business she took in a stranger who was a piper that sought shelter from a snowstorm. They got to talking late into the night and when he left in the morning, they knew they had fallen in love. They would meet in secret, but unfortunately Sir Alexander found out about them and forbade them to meet. The couple arranged another tryst which Sir Alexander found out about and locked Isobel in her room. He then met her lover and locked him in chains in a cave below the Wine Tower of the Castle. Unfortunately a storm broke and swept the sea into the cave, drowning her lover. The next day Sir Alexander intended to take Isobel to the cave so that her lover would be beaten down to renounce any desires of marriage. Sir Alexander did not realise he had drowned. When he took Isobel to the cave, she ran in and found her lover dead and still locked in chains. Horrified and distressed she ran to the Tower and flung herself off and onto the rocks below. The cave thereafter became known as The Piper's Cave and the ghost of the piper can be heard playing for Isobel. Whenever a storm gathers up a ghostly figure can be seen wandering between the Castle and the Wine Tower.
Graeme Milne in his book The Haunted North: Paranormal Tales from Aberdeen and the North East describes the hauntings that take place in the former Lighthouse Keepers Cottages and accounts of visitors to the Kinnaird Lighthouse who have seen the sudden appearance of old fisherfolk.
Fraserburgh Lighthouse
In late 2006 and early 2007 the Kinnaird Head lighthouse was given a fresh coat of paint. It took six weeks to paint the Fraserburgh lighthouse at a cost of �4,000.
In January 2007 thieves stole the antique copper roof top dome from the Fraserburgh Lighthouse Museum. It weighted half a tonne and was secured by steel chains at the car park of Kinnaird Head. Sadly a valuable piece of Scottish maritime history has been lost to the greed of criminals. The 10 feet round and 5 feet high roof top dome was from the Ardtornish beacon on the coast of Mull.
Views of Kinnaird Head
The Scottish Lighthouse Museum works closely with local schools to teach them about the history of Scottish lighthouses. For example in winter 2007 Fraserburgh Academy pupils entered a 1001 views of Kinnaird Head competition to design posters that could be used to help advertise and market the Scottish Lighthouse Museum. The Fraserburgh Academy children were invited to The Scottish Lighthouse Museum where they had a tour of the centre, the lighthouse and the surrounding area. This included a lesson in photography so that photographs could be included in posters. In April 2008 many of the 1001 Views of Kinnaird Head were put on display until May in the visitor centre.
Contact Address, Telephone Number And Website Of Kinnaird Head Lighthouse
The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses
Kinnaird Head
Stevenson Road
AB43 9DU
Website: www.lighthousemuseum.org.uk
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By Marco Buscaglia After sitting through a seemingly endless flow of college football and basketball games over the holidays, I now know what is lacking in drum corps. In fact, you could say the answer hit me like an exaggerated kick from a large stuffed bird, or a roundhouse punch from an oversized member of the green vegetable family. That's right -- drums corps needs mascots! Now I'm not talking about cute kids dressed up in pint-sized uniforms, I'm talking real mascots. Run-out-before-the-corps-and-whip-the-crowd-into-a-frenzy mascots. Six or seven-foot tall characters covered in fake fur or feathers from head to toe in blue and black or red and green. Save a spot for the last guy to get cut -- the 136th man, if you will -- or the girlfriend who loves to help but can't cook or sew to save her life. Dress him or her up in your corps colors and let their fan flags fly! In addition to being an all-important addition to any corps parade routine, these mascots could use the field of competition to duke it out before the show starts -- maybe a game of dodgeball or some Red Rover. Turn them loose on the crowd to pass out candy, shake hands, kiss babies and deliver an occasional bucket full of confetti to an anticipating audience. Our mascot friends would be helpful before the show as well. Go ahead, send the costumed creature to a show city a few days beforehand -- have him or her clown around at the local mall to drum up some interest or pose with the mayor for photos for the local paper. Then on the day of the show, he can hang out at the souvie stand, signing autographs for all the fans. Here are a few examples of potential mascots from the top 12. The Blue Devils -- that's obvious. After all, they already have some sort of playfully diabolical creature on their Web site. Roll out a costume for the big fella. Give him something to do. I can already see him putting the peace sign behind Michael Cesario's head on the DCI broadcast, that rascally little demon! The Cavaliers have their standing man -- the guy on the side of truck -- but I don't think someone who looks like that would allow himself to partake in the duties of a bona fide mascot -- I can't see him making the necessary exaggerated gesture of "you better give us a good score or else ..." to visual judge Tim Ochran before a show. And forget about any fake fisticuffs with our friend the Blue Devil -- the Standing Man would be way more concerned about keeping his hair in place than fighting. So let's try something else. A giant rose for Rosemont? Too feminine. A big Don Warren head? Too scary. How about one of Warren's trademark cigars? A seven-foot monolith of packed tobacco, complete with arms and legs. He'd look like the guy from the drive-in ad -- the "Let's all go to the snack bar!" giant hot dog, complete with the ability to do back flips. Being one of the only corps from an actual big city, the Boston Crusaders should play up their metropolitan roots. OK, let's get the obvious out of the way: Giant lobster, pot of beans, Paul Revere -- all way overdone. How about Boston Red Sox great Carl Yastrzemski? Not a guy in a costume, mind you, but the real Carl Yastrzemski. Anyone in Chicago knows that Ernie Banks is the go-to guy when it comes to a necessary last-minute spokesman for the city, so we hope Yaz would oblige to represent Beantown when needed. According to his official Web site, Yastrzemski is now a roving instructor with the Red Sox. If he doesn't agree to the deal, just tell him there's a kid in Allentown who needs help with his swing. The Cadets? I'll avoid any gratuitous New Jersey jokes -- or is that Pennsylvania -- for now. How about a throwback to Holy Name? Maybe a giant robed priest? A stained-glass window? A giant bingo card? For the Santa Clara Vanguard, I'm thinking three giant letters -- kind of like the Sesame Street letters who run around and form words. Imagine the eruption of laughter when the "V" stands in front of the "S" and "C" with her arms crossed, refusing to budge. The Crossmen already have Bones, so they're all set. Something tells me that he won't be participating in the mock football game between the final corps and finale, though. Perhaps he and Yaz could grimace at each other in the end zone while participating in a tobacco-spitting contest. One thing is certain, in addition to all the wonderful and heartwarming tasks your corps mascot could be a part of during the season, he or she may not be the best person to sit next to on the bus, whether it's with the members or staff. So save a spot in the merchandise vehicle. And when there aren't any crowds to dazzle or judges to mock-harass, all corps will surely benefit from a mascot's main duties: filling water bottles, washing uniforms and sweeping out the gym. Corps thrive thanks to members cut from different cloth Leaf it to Canada to break the monotony of tour Aging out isn't worth the weight The ABCs of drum corps fans Show concept promises all-out KISS and tell Marco Buscaglia marched in the Cavaliers from 1984-1989 and the Cavalier Cadets from 1978-1983. He currently is an editor with Tribune Media Services in Chicago. Marco can be reached via e-mail at marcobuscaglia@hotmail.com.


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Wormwood is the fifth studio album by American metalcore band The Acacia Strain. The album was released on July 20, 2010. Wormwood reached #67 on the US Billboard Top 200 chart. The song "Jonestown" was released as a single in June 2010 and was available at the website for Prosthetic Records.

Track listing

Personnel
Production and performance credits are adapted from the album liner notes.

The Acacia Strain
 Vincent Bennett – lead vocals
 Daniel "DL" Laskiewicz – lead guitar, programming, backing vocals
 Jack Strong – bass
 Kevin Boutot – drums
Production
 Zeuss – producer, engineer, mixing, mastering
 Paul Mocadlo – assistant engineer
 Angryblue – art direction, illustration, design

Guest musicians
 Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed) – vocals on "The Beast"
 Bruce LePage (100 Demons) – vocals on "Nightman"
 Kyle Chard (Born Low) – vocals on "Jonestown"

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I'm a smiley person. I smile at strangers, at babies, at teachers, at grocery store clerks. It's a completely selflish (a word I just made up that is a combination of selfish with selfless) effort on my part to be liked by complete strangers and everyone I come in contact with. Like me, please! I'm likable and I will prove it by stifling all of my feelings and smiling instead!
Even when I'm feeling crappy, when my day has been meh, I smile at people because essentially, I'm a phony. My need to please trumps my true feelings. Growing up in the midwest, this is learned behavior. Even when we seethe, we smile.
My daughter however is quite the contrary. Please do not tell her to smile.
I'm going to preface my next statements by saying that I believe these grandpa-ish characters have good intentions. They feel better when they see a dame smile at them. When I do not fulfill that obligation, they are reminding me that it is my job to make them feel better by faking my own happiness.
Why aren't men or boys told to smile? Why is it okay for a man to have a bad day without him being required to fake it, so people around him feel smooshy pooshy poopy inside?
The other day, my daughter and I walked into the bank and apparently not jovial about running errands with her mother, my kiddo had an upside down you know what! A complete stranger, a man, told my daughter to smile. My daughter did not smile. In fact, her bored expression morphed into a snarl, and since I'm her mother and can read her mind, this is exactly what she was thinking: "Who the hell do you think you are? I'm not allowed to talk to strangers, let alone do what they tell me. What, do you have a puppy in a van you want to show me too? Some candy in the bushes? Why don't you take this snarl and shove it where the sun don't shine!" The man immediately realized my daughter is not of the "princess variety" and retreated back in the line. I smiled at him to make up for my daughter's lack of compliance, and immediately regretted it.
I wasn't smiling on the inside, so why was I smiling on the outside? Why did I feel the need to fulfill an unwritten obligation to a man who has no right to tell me or my daughter to enjoy a boring trip to the bank. The bank is not fun, and my brain and mouth are not fooled into thinking it's Disneyland.
I am so proud of my daughter for not being a pushover like her mother. An 11-year-old girl is under no obligation to make a grown man feel smooshy pooshy poopy inside. I want my daughter to be happy, but on her terms. She is allowed to be bored or grumpy and her expression can match her mood.
Elise is a contributor on Felicity Huffman's website What the Flicka?, Scary Mommy and The Mighty, with essays featured in LA. Parent Magazine, Literary Mama Magazine and on KPFK's radio program, Motherhood Unplugged. She currently lives is Iowa with her 11-year-old daughter, Adelaide, who's thriving and living life to its fullest and funniest, despite having Cystic Fibrosis.


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This scenario from Lock 'n Load's Heroes of the Blitzkrieg features the 1st Panzer Division's attempt to cross the border from Luxembourg to Belgium on May 10th, 1940. The German player has to try and get as many units as possible across a river while the Belgian player has to stop them. Things are complicated by a Panic! rule whereby Belgian units might be forced to retreat every time a German unit successfully crosses over to the western bank.
The Belgians set up on the west side of the river behind lots of barbed wire and mines. There's an old WWI-era machine gun in the center of the town on the upper floor of a church.
The Germans have an impressive array of forces with them. They've got mobile units that include motorcycles with side cars and some of the newer German scout vehicles. They've also got a mortar team for support.
LnL's Swift and Bold is an expansion to their squad-based WW2 wargame, Band of Heroes. Swift & Bold features the British forces, vehicles, and even gliders. There are about a dozen new scenarios in the expansion with brand new counters. Players can use the maps already provided with Band of Heroes and the scenarios here are really nicely crafted. Most of the scenarios are a bit smaller and have fewer units but there are a couple of real slug-fests for those who enjoy those big battles with everything but the kitchen sink in there.
Today, I just finished a scenario from Swift and Bold called "Expected Company". It's the day after D-day and the British paras are defending against a German counter-attack. The Germans have to clear the roadside in the middle of the board while the Brits try to stop them. For a variety of reasons, I think this scenario shows what can go wrong when you get too fixated on one goal and blind yourself to what the enemy is doing.
Although I talk a lot about Lock 'n Load products on this blog, it's nice to take some other games off the shelf once in a while just to see what other game companies are doing. Lately, I've developed a bit of a man-crush on Worthington Games, which has consistently delivered an interesting variety of games covering lots of different topics. Today's report is of the scenario, "Hot LZ" from WG's Boots on the Ground.
"Dammit!" Lt. Waterman muttered in exasperation as he watched helplessly. His ride home, a big beautiful UH-60 Blackhawk, was turning around and heading back to base. Tracer fire fell short of the helicopter as it increased altitude and raced off. With so many insurgents in the area, there was no other choice but to do this the hard way and get Team Alpha back to the Green Zone on foot. That wasn't especially good, especially as rounds from nearby windows were hitting the walls and pavement near him and his 6-man squad.
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In the third scenario of Lock 'n Load's World at War: The Untold Stories, there's a classic match-up consisting of the Canadians versus the East Germans. This scenario is a tough one for both sides since there are multiple objectives and lots of different forces to contend with.
The NATO forces include the 2nd PPCLI (Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry) and the Royal Dragoons "A" Squadron. 2PPCLI has a couple of tank platoons mixed in with infantry and M113s while the Dragoons consist entirely of Leopard C1 tanks. About halfway through the scenario, the Canadians get CF-18 close air support, which is pretty cool since I've always loved the CF-18s.
This is (probably) my final article dealing with strategy in LnL's Corps Command: Dawn's Early Light. As I mentioned in my previous post, the key to Soviet victory is finding a NATO weak spot while maneuvering your other units around the other defenders to either prevent NATO reinforcement or to protect your own breakthrough elements.
For the NATO player, there are some essential points to keep in mind in order to successfully defend against a Warsaw Pact invasion.
The first point is setup and formation.
In scenario 7 of Lock 'n Load's WWII platoon-level combat game, Nations at War: White Star Rising, the Americans are trying to take Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 7, 1944. The US objective is to get off the beach, get behind those Germans and take the town of Saarbourg.
The Germans get six infantry platoons, a couple of HMGs, a 20mm quad cannon, some mortars and several improved positions, which I guess are supposed to represent bunkers. I set up the German HQ on the hill to the west with some infantry and an HMG as well as a powerful 88mm AT gun. Two more platoons set up a bit further to the west and east while the anti-air and mortars sit back in the town. Just so the Allies can't make a straight dash for the town and ruin my day, I've placed two minefields on the roads from the beaches.
OOB: US Alpha, Charlie, and Delta teams. USSR gets 33rd MRD and 1st Tank as well as two Mi-24 Hind helicopters from the 69th AHR.
Soviet Objective: Move 6 units from south to north off the map.
Setup: I set up the Americans on the hills overlooking the approaches to the south. I don't like putting the Chaparral so far up front but it's no use to me if it's sitting safe in a city somewhere while my units are getting destroyed by Soviet air.
I put Charlie on the hill to the west with a Dragon AT weapon. Alpha HQ and the SAM sit on the hill to the east. And to the east of that lies the rest of Alpha Troop. The Bradleys would normally be out of command range but since they're Recon units, they can act independently even when they're pretty far from their HQ.


Once in a while one of our community theaters offers a production so phenomenally good that the line separating professional and volunteer casts becomes a blur. Thus it is with Manatee Players' The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and a book by Peter Parnell.
This version is based on the Victor Hugo novel, utilizing the music from the 1996 Disney animated film. I found that film badly flawed—in making it family friendly, in line with Disney branding, the story is almost incomprehensible. The stage version brings us much closer to the sweeping passion of the original Victor Hugo novel, and more than half the score is new for the stage version. Titled Der Glöckner von Notre Dame, the musical was successfully launched in 1999 in Berlin, Germany (in German, with a book by James Lapine), then brought to the United States (with a book by Parnell) as The Hunchback of Notre Dame in a co-production of La Jolla Playhouse in 2014 and Papermill Playhouse in 2015. Though well received, producers did not proceed with a Broadway production or even a tour. Instead, the musical was released to regional companies and continues to enjoy a good bit of popularity.
Artistic Director/director Rick Kerby fields a cast of mostly regulars, all at the top of their game. This production features a separate choir to give an added richness to the massed choral sound. Twenty members are listed, although I could only identify about 12 on stage at the performance I attended. Perhaps they rotate in and out. No matter, their presence is strongly felt. Alexander Zickafoose gives an emotionally rich performance as the deformed Quasimodo. At the top of the show he becomes the character right before our eyes via costuming and makeup, a stunning theatrical moment. Mr. Zickafoose has kicked around in a lot of ensemble parts in past productions, so only the title role in Peter and the Starcatcher prepared me for his performance here. Cory Woomert as our villain Claude Frollo dominates the stage with his rich bass and excellent acting chops. He brings a nice level of conflicted humanity in a part where there might not be any. I have watched him grow from the ensemble to multiple memorable leading roles, and I delight every time he racks up another. This is his finest performance, so far, but I am sure the best is still to come.
Ashley Figlow, new to Manatee Performing Arts Center but seen at other theaters often, plays Esmeralda, who truly feels for Quasimodo's plight. Her "God Help the Outcasts" is the highlight it needs to be. Brian Chunn returns (actually how can someone return when he has been in every main stage production this year except Annie?) as Captain Phoebus de Martin, in full vocal glory. He is Manatee Players' go-to guy for masculine leading men (Count Carl Magnus, John Wilkes Booth among many others). Brian Craft gives his best performance ever as Clopin Trouillefou, with strong singing and dancing and lighting up the stage whenever he is on it. Others offering nice contributions include David Addis as Jehan Frollo and general ensemble, Joseph Rebella (his flips, back and forward, wowed the audience) as Lieutenant Frederic Charlus, and Skylar Homan as Florika. I couldn't help noticing Noah Rodriquez in the ensemble (he has played named parts in the past) and I enjoyed his confident presence. The ensemble is one of the strongest ever seen on the MPAC stage.
Rick Bogner is music director, leading a five-piece ensemble. The score weaves together several styles, and Bogner keeps them nicely differentiated.
Ken Mooney provides sets and costumes. His biography states that he is "Resident Costume Designer for Feld Entertainment, Inc., in Ellenton, Fl." This organization until recently produced Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and multiple other traveling arena shows. The have an exemplary reputation in the entertainment industry, so when it was announced that they were relocating their operations center to this area I thought it would be good for the community. When we get to have such a brilliant artist working in our community theaters, I know I was right. Thank you to Feld Entertainment for allowing this. Mr. Mooney's atmospheric set brilliantly captures the medieval era church and functions equally well for the other venues. The costumes would not be out of place on professional stages. Joseph P. Oshry creates a dark moody vista with is lighting design, some of his best work, which is always on a high artistic level. All of this gives Rick Kerby the opportunity to make magic with his cast. He moves the story along with a firm hand, never a flaccid moment, and has choreographed to make his cast look really good, never pushing them beyond their abilities, although there are a number of fine dancers on the stage.
This version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame makes for a dark afternoon or evening, but in the end, it is a moving one. I highly recommend it to all and believe there are not going to be many empty seats during this run, after word of mouth spreads.
Manatee Players presents The Hunchback of Notre Dame, through March 4, 2018, at Manatee Center for the Performing Arts, 502 3rd Ave W., Bradenton FL. For tickets and information, call 941-748-0111 or visit manateeplayers.com.


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Reiner Fuellmich Invited to Warsaw: a "Nuremberg 2.0" Initiated by Polish Intellectuals
November 24, 2021 TLB Staff COMMENTARY, Tyranny, WORLD 4
ER Editor: The full video is posted below. Fuellmich speaks in English and gives a useful overview of the findings of his German committee thus far.
On 15 November, Reiner Fuellmich, founder of the Corona Ausschuss (Corona Committee) and former chancellor candidate for the new German political party Die Basis, was a guest of a Polish parliamentary commission of enquiry on Covid-19.
In Warsaw, he participated in the inauguration of the "Nuremberg 2.0" project, initiated by the same commission, which is a think-tank of Polish intellectuals. They include, for example, Grzegorz Braun, Professor Mirosław Piotrowski, Paweł Skutecki and Mr Jacek Wilk, assisted by lawyers Arkadiusz Tetela, Krzysztof Łopatowski and Jarosław Litwin.
With the help of Reiner Fuellmich and the Corona Committee, with which he has been working for months now, they are reportedly planning legal actions against what they call "the new totalitarianism".
The Commission of Inquiry and the "Nuremberg 2.0" project
The conference lasted three hours and was broadcast live on YouTube. An English dubbing is available.
In the description of the video, the project is presented as follows:
"A citizens' initiative born as much from the urgency of the moment as from a cry from the heart. The aim is to urge conscious and responsible Poles to gather documentation that describes the crimes, violations of law, abuses and omissions of the authorities and to testify about individual tragedies that the general public may not be aware of today…
[…] We ourselves will collect and classify the documentation; we are preparing legal actions in which the charges are specified, and we will take legal action against the direct or indirect perpetrators of the offences in question. We will also establish an archive of professional documentation, on the basis of which we will publish legal annals entitled "The Nuremberg Annals 2.0".
This project was launched as a result of "decisions of the Polish government, and more specifically those of the Ministry of Health and its subordinate agencies, which have caused serious harm and injustice, most of whose victims are Poles – citizens of the Republic of Poland." Regarding its title, which will certainly puzzle some readers, the authors state that it "refers to the trials reported in history books, where the NSDAP system of the Third Reich was prosecuted for the crimes perpetrated by those who carried out the policies and orders implemented by the said system. The name of the project is purely symbolic."
Warsaw Declaration against the new totalitarianism
The day after the conference, the project's bearers took up their pens to draft a first manifesto, a synthesis that marked the beginning of the investigation with force. One thing is certain: they want to make history. We have translated this manifesto and suggest you read it in full below:
As we meet in November 2021 in the Polish capital, Warsaw, we are sending this very important and urgent message to the world. It is clear to us that humanity is now facing the greatest challenge in its history. Large multinationals, especially in the digital, banking and pharmaceutical fields, have undertaken a major overhaul of our world, and in the process are destroying the health, wealth and lives of billions of people in an unprecedented way. In order to expand their spheres of influence and gain, the globalist groups centred on the ideology of health have begun – with premeditation – criminal actions aimed at provoking world chaos, resulting in major social movements, economic problems and bloody wars. It has been established to date that the intended remedy for such a situation should be strict political and financial control imposed on the populations, under the pretext of a false concern for health preservation, economic balance and security. The governments of several countries, being under the influence of the globalists, are fighting against their own populations on a scale never before known. These governments have thus become the local overseers of oppressive, criminal and international groups. Governments have, for the most part, monopolised the media sphere and have achieved submission, control and coercion, thereby collapsing basic laws and individual freedoms by using lies, terror and fear. The harmful effects of these actions have been made known through the increase in the number of deaths, through the destruction of economic activity, through difficulties in access to health care. The systematic violation of medical secrecy and privacy is a cause for great concern. At the same time, even greater dangers are looming on the horizon. To date, we do not know the long-term effects of the medical experiments imposed by Big Pharma. Nor do we know how much damage will be caused by this artificial limitation of economic activity and human relations.
It is from the Polish capital, having experienced the two totalitarian periods of the 20th century, that we call on all people of good will to unite together across all divisions, in the face of the subjugation that is fast approaching us all.
Human life cannot be governed by any ideology that threatens the dignity of the human person, truth and natural laws.
Dignity is an intrinsic, innate and natural sign of Man, independent of social and historical context. For this reason the human person must not be treated as a manipulable object or as a means to an end – such as those envisaged by totalitarian ideologies. The dignity of the human person remains a source of basic, inviolable rights, such as the right to self-defence, the right to freedom and property, the right to truth and work… Human life must never become the object of restriction, manipulation or exploitation. We insist that the lies currently propagated through the media and even through scientific circles call for a return to the truth understood as the coherence between perceived reality and lived reality. This will be a long and difficult process, but no one is exempt from the duty to seek the objective truth. Disinformation and pseudo-science (also on a global scale) must today arouse not only great concern, but also condemnation. Relativism leads inevitably to enslavement and totalitarianism. In our opinion, all laws must absolutely respect the natural law, which gives all other regulations a moral dimension that allows them to serve the real good of man. On the other hand, legal positivism, which is contrary to the requirements of natural law, has no value as a moral commitment. Unjust statutory law should be challenged by means of civil disobedience, and even be considered null and void. The right to disobey laws is a characteristic of subjective right before authority.
It is our duty to resist the authority that abuses its prerogatives, just as it is necessary to fight against dictatorship in all its forms. We are not only protesting against the various forms of harassment, but above all against the tyrannical power that has no name, but which today governs the world of finance, the media, police surveillance and politics. Human dignity, truth and natural law will not be able to lose against the new totalitarianism for good. Let us stand firmly by the most precious human values. Let us be united, let us be courageous and let us be active. We will win!
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4 Comments on Reiner Fuellmich Invited to Warsaw: a "Nuremberg 2.0" Initiated by Polish Intellectuals
Bengt Lindstedt December 5, 2021 at 12:23 pm
Tack för ert hårda arbete jag önskar er all framgång,världen är på gränsen att krackelera av all korruption överallt och denna s.k. pandemi är den värsta korruptionen i mannaminne.Alle dessa som ligger bakom borde ha lagens strängaste straff enligt min mening.
Translation: Thank you for your hard work I wish you every success, the world is on the verge of cracking down on all corruption everywhere and this so-called pandemic is the worst corruption in living memory. All those behind it should have the most severe punishment in the law, in my opinion.
Dr. David HILL December 4, 2021 at 7:05 am
When the world is mad and the political leaders of the world are the puppets of the global elite as they are now, humankind has no option but to rise up against tyranny. History has shown that eventually with all national struggles, the military forces also disobey their generals et al and fall on side with the oppressed people who are in reality their own families to protect them, not politicians or their generals. A global war against tyranny is no different. It will be a great struggle, but one that humanity has to win and eventually one that it will win.
Gregory Tashjian December 2, 2021 at 6:22 pm
Please keep up your noble work
Robert Babcock November 29, 2021 at 3:45 pm
The governments of the world and their agencies all need to be taken to task and be held responsible for their crimes against humanity. They have crossed the line that determines human rights many times over.


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US mosques and New York skyscraper seized over links to Iran
Federal investigators moved to seize four mosques in the US and a skyscraper in Manhattan yesterday over their alleged financial aid to Iran, in an extraordinary step likely to worsen relations between Washington and Tehran.
Prosecutors in Manhattan filed a civil complaint in the federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500m in assets of the Alavi Foundation, which describes itself as a charitable foundation, and a company, Assa.
The mosques are in New York City, Maryland, California and Texas.
Prosecutors claim that the foundation and the company have been engaged in money laundering, with the cash sent back to Tehran.
The move could be designed to punish the Tehran government at time when its relations with the US are already strained over Iran's alleged nuclear weapons programme.
But the Obama administration also risks incurring the anger of American Muslims if the mosques, all Shia, are seized. The takeover of mosques would also raise constitutional questions around the right of freedom to religion.
The move comes at a sensitive time, with a debate under way in the US over the loyalty of American Muslims after the shooting at Fort Hood last week. Major Nadil Malik Hasan was yesterday charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder.
The Alavi Foundation, on its website, declares its mission to be the promotion of charitable and philanthropic causes through educational, religious and cultural programmes.
"The foundation does this by making contributions to not-for-profit organisations within the United States that support interfaith harmony and promote Islamic culture and Persian language, literature and civilisation," it says.
It says it funds these activities through rent from the Fifth Avenue skyscraper, Piaget, which was built by a company owned by the Shah of Iran in 1978 and whose ownership passed to the Iranian republic after the 1979 Islamist revolution. Tax records show that the foundation earned $4.5m in rent in 2007.
New York prosecutors alleged that the foundation, through the company Assa, illegally funnelled millions in rental income back to Iran's state-owned Bank Melli, which the US claims has been involved in Tehran's alleged attempts to secure a nuclear weapon.
The US attorney for the southern district of New York, Preet Bharara, who was appointed by Obama, issued a statement saying: "For two decades, the Alavi Foundation's affairs have been directed by various Iranian officials, including Iranian ambassadors to the United Nations, in violation of a series of American laws."
Bharara asked for the foundation's accounts to be seized.
The US has in the past targeted other Iranian companies and US and European companies that do business with them and frozen their assets
The mosques and the skyscraper will remain open while the case is heard.
United States | Politics | 2009-11-13 | guardian.co.uk


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Facebook Isn't the Problem. We Are.
By Lucas Lynch April 17, 2018 No Comments
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The idea that Facebook is responsible for Trump's victory is yet another folk devil whom we can blame in lieu of truthfully assessing important issues.
In the year 2011, not long after the movie "The Social Network" came out, and with an economy still anemic, I did what many people who graduated into the recession and found that their career progress stalled had done. I decided to try and build a Facebook web app, which I more or less completed in August of 2012.
"I decided to try and build a Facebook web app, which I more or less completed in August of 2012"
It was a very simple idea: Imagine if, in the course of an argument or debate as we now see all the time, there were a way to tabulate the votes – back then only likes – and officially declare a winner, making it a fun game between friends. I even built out additional 'reacts', before Facebook integrated such features into the mainstream platform. I also was able to export the conversation and allow for Reddit-style nested commenting, with each comment also subject to an upvote or downvote. People could use the app or come on to my platform. In any case, their contributions would be counted and tabulated, and a 'winner' of the debate would be declared after a certain time limit, posted both in the initial user's thread and on my own platform. Stats on 'wins' and what kinds of reacts people gave them could be tracked over time, creating a ranking system of debaters.
It wasn't a bad idea. But it was also really my first project of such a scale as a developer. It was that first project developers build (badly, sometimes) that gives them their first real education as developers – having to do complex things and solve problems and make terrible mistakes that require fundamental fixes later on. Such is the best education there is for how to write software. After months of work, I had an app that barely worked, that perhaps I could have tried to see in production. But I also had a formative education in development that I'd never forget.
After that, friends began to enlist me to build their own products, and I had quietly launched a new business off the ground. Though I was proud that I was able to build my Facebook app, very soon I saw why it was also embarrassing from an engineering perspective, a fact that a good friend of mine with a far greater degree of proficiency as a software developer politely pointed out. I packed it up, including its database, and put it in a git repository on Bit Bucket, where it sits 'on ice' to this day.
In order to use this app, one had to go through a similar process that the now infamous app "This Is Your Digital life" – farmed out to the now more infamous data firm Cambridge Analytica – used. You offer users the app, and in order to use it they have to click through a consent button that clearly states that the app will have access to a whole variety of data.
In my app, like in most, there was no nefarious purpose behind this – I needed the information for people to be able to log in, track what they did, and to store and alter both the original Facebook comment thread and any subsequent Reddit-style nested comments on my own platform. I also needed to incorporate the names and comments of friends engaging in the original debate on Facebook, so as to store them and display on my own system. Such information was easily available to me as a developer through the Graph API. My hope was that this application could offer an experience both to the users who downloaded it but even those who didn't download it. I was able to publish to the user's original status with stats and declarations of victory. I loved debating with my friends, and just wanted to turn it into somewhat of a fun game, and for that I needed data.
"In my app, like in most, there was no nefarious purpose behind this – I needed the information for people to be able to log in, track what they did, and to store and alter the original Facebook comment thread along with subsequent comments on my own platform"
Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal hit – a scandal in which the company was accused of illegally breaching Facebook data and using this data to build the manipulative powerhouse that would elevate Donald Trump to the presidency – it occurred to me that even today, I too have data that was collected from users and their friends in the process of building this app. Nothing extraordinary: their names at the time, Facebook IDs, links to pictures, and the old statuses that were submitted to the app for the purposes of tabulating the winner of the debate. There was a whole variety of other data I could have collected; trivially easy to store in my own database. But this data sits on ice in a git repository. If Facebook had expected that all app developers – such as those who created the personality quiz app that was granted similar permissions by users to collect its own data for Cambridge Analytica – were supposed to delete this data when they were finished, then I too am guilty.
People who think the Cambridge Analytica scandal is a kind of 'data breach' don't quite understand how the Facebook API and applications written with it in mind work. There was no 'breach'. As with all things Facebook, users willingly gave application developers access to their information. Apps like mine, or FarmVille, or Tinder, or anything else that asks for or requires a Facebook login need access to it in order to tailor their experience easily to the user. It is very simple for any user to say no – simply don't download or use the app. Don't use social media. Don't write online. But for years Facebook has made the graph accessible and open and has made no secret of this, much to the delight of most people, as more and more software products came tailored to their needs.
"People who think the Cambridge Analytica scandal is a kind of record 'data breach' don't quite understand how the Facebook API and applications written with it in mind work"
Having not really worked with the Facebook API since 2012, I cannot personally testify to just how the ability to collect data on people's friends have changed, but Facebook apparently tightened up just how and where app developers could collect this data. Before these restrictions went into place and the rules were tightened, Cambridge Analytica apparently collected data on 87 million users. This is data that Cambridge Analytica – founded by Steve Bannon of Breitbart News and the Trump campaign infamy – used to try and test and hone their messages for the 2016 election, even before the idea of a Donald Trump candidacy was a serious consideration in anybody's mind.
Steve Bannon [Getty Images]
The revelations of this transaction have dominated international headlines, all but torpedoing Zuckerberg's flirtations with running for president and culminating with him testifying before Congress this week. Facebook's stock took a beating, with Zuckerberg himself losing billions go of dollars in value as markets reacted to the news of the 'breach' (but rebounding since his successful performance in Congressional testimony).
What's fascinating about this newly heightened degree of hysteria is that the fact that app developers getting access to your data is nothing new. This very practice was an integral part of the 2012 Obama Campaign data operationmm an operation that received effusive praise at the time for its engagement with big data, with Facebook data being an integral part of this.
In addition, by harnessing the growing power of Facebook and other online sources, the campaign is building what some see as an unprecedented data base to develop highly specific profiles of potential voters. This allows the campaign to tailor messages directly to them — depending on factors such as socio-economic level, age and interests.
The data also allows the campaign to micro-target a range of dollar solicitations online depending on the recipient. In 2008, the campaign was the first to maximize online giving — raising hundreds of millions of dollars from small donors. This time, they are constantly experimenting and testing to expand the donor base.
Reports are that even Facebook was surprised by the extent of the data the Obama campaign was able to access, but did nothing to stop it. Would this current panic have come to life if Hillary Clinton had been elected president instead? Is this really a panic about data security as advertised? It's especially notable just how much of this noise is coming from concerned Democrats, given that there is every indication that if Facebook data would have been privileged to one candidate over another, it would have been privileged to Hillary Clinton – as leaked Podesta emails show, higher ups at Facebook seemed firmly committed to electing the first woman president.
Hillary Clinton [AP]
This is what makes the Cambridge Analytica panic, and the Facebook panic more generally, so amusing with some knowledge of the other side of the equation. It is a panic over things which we have known for years – A) when you install a Facebook app, it gives developers to your data, and B) what is that data useful for? Finding out what you already want – and delivering it to you. As the whistleblower in the Cambridge Analytica scandal said•
"Trump wasn't in our consciousness at that moment; this was well before he became a thing," Wylie said. "He wasn't a client or anything."
The year before Trump announced his presidential bid, the data firm already had found a high level of alienation among young, white Americans with a conservative bent.
In focus groups arranged to test messages for the 2014 midterms, these voters responded to calls for building a new wall to block the entry of illegal immigrants, to reforms intended to "drain the swamp" of Washington's entrenched political community and to thinly veiled forms of racism toward African Americans called "race realism," he recounted…
"The only foreign thing we tested was Putin," he said. "It turns out, there's a lot of Americans who really like this idea of a really strong authoritarian leader and people were quite defensive in focus groups of Putin's invasion of Crimea."
There is valid criticism insofar as that the Obama campaign collected data using their own app created for those explicit purposes, whereas "This Is Your Digital Life" claimed to only be using the data for academic purposes. Insofar as this went unanswered and users un-notified, Facebook rightfully deserves criticism and reform.
But given that this took place, the supposed damage that resulted from this too is vastly overestimated. What did Cambridge Analytica do with the data they received? They used it to test out what slogans and issues might be salient with voters, years before even the faintest idea of a Trump candidacy was in anybody's mind. Trump seemingly came upon similar themes without their aid. We forget that at the start of the election cycle, Cambridge Analytica was working for Ted Cruz, who did not seem to gain any advantage by using them. Even after being hired by the Trump Campaign, by late September or early October of 2016 the Trump campaign had decided instead to use RNC data instead, which they found to be vastly more accurate.
Ted Cruz [AP]
It is abundantly clear that the panic over Facebook is really a panic about Donald Trump. It's certainly understandable why many are upset about the fact that Trump was able to win this election seemingly against all odds, but the extent to which Facebook made this possible is only the extent to which it also made possible the victories of Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, at which time hardly a peep of protest was offered.
Facebook assaults both components of this power dynamic, providing the platform and audience that only news-media outlets could once command, and the organizing power that only parties once held. As then-Senator Obama understood well in 2008, the internet provides political candidates a previously unimaginable opportunity to identify, communicate with, and organize supporters — an opportunity that, significantly, exists outside the traditional party apparatus. Trump, like Obama before him, was able to connect with voters outside the more stifling confines of political-party organizing.
We should note as well that Obama's use of data and his subsequent victory too were against perhaps one of the biggest onslaughts of fake news regarding a presidential candidate in modern times – the racially-tinged 'birther' conspiracy, alleging that Barack Obama wasn't born an American citizen, along with allegations that he could secretly be a Muslim.
And despite the dystopian narrative that Trump's victory was only thanks to Facebook's ability to uniquely hack our minds and manipulate the country into supporting this candidate with onsloughts of fake news aided and abetted by Russian hackers, the hard thing for many Democrats to accept is that social media isn't, in fact, quite as far reaching as they think. According to a Stanford University Study conducted just after the election, "only 14 percent say they relied on Facebook and other social media sites as their most important source of election coverage." And given just how extensive this distribution channel actually was, for fake news to have still swung the election, fake news would have to be some of the most potent information ever distributed: ""For fake news to have changed the outcome of the election, a single fake news story would need to have convinced about 0.7 percent of Clinton voters and non-voters who saw it to shift their votes to Trump, a persuasion rate equivalent to seeing 36 television campaign ads."
"Despite the dystopian narrative that Trump's victory was only thanks to Facebook's ability to uniquely hack our minds and manipulate the country into supporting this candidate with onsloughts of fake news aided and abetted by Russian hackers, the hard thing for many Democrats to accept is that social media isn't, in fact, quite as far reaching as they feared"
This is not to doubt that social media isn't powerful. And arguably, as older generations pass away or convert to the new medium over time, this power might in fact manifest in a way more similar to that which is currently only alleged. But as of now, Democrats should still be more worried about Fox News than Russian-run Facebook pages – though the steps Facebook is taking to ensure that administrators of large pages are verified is a good one regardless.
Again, I think back to the data that is still sitting on a git repository that I haven't touched in years. I imagine to myself – suppose my idea had taken off? What could I have done with this data now? It's certainly true that Facebook itself is employing huge teams of people to study what people do on and off its site, but there are thousands of app developers like me or just a bit more sophisticated than me. What could I do with these stored conversations and how they were ranked? Beyond perhaps finding out the political persuasion of some of my users, and perhaps tailoring certain things to them, I'm at a loss as to how this could serve an agenda of world domination.
Given what both the Obama and Trump campaigns did with Facebook data, and given that the 'stolen' data turned out to be less useful than data collected by the RNC (which no one is howling about), this circus feels more and more like a tale full of sound and fury – perhaps not signifying nothing, but not signifying the sinister conspiracy Democrats are hoping for.
Zuckerberg's testimony before congress seemed to reflect that the panic over Facebook largely reflected a profound ignorance over the technology itself. As Slate declared, "The Senate Fought Mark Zuckerberg, and Mark Zuckerberg Won". Many monologues of panic over user data by Senators and Congressmen and women ended with our elected representatives demanding privacy options for users that in many cases already existed, or for changes that Facebook had already enacted since. In other cases, it reflected the fact that the body poised to regulate the world's biggest social network – a move that might not be bad in principle – hardly understood the technology it was poised to regulate.
Facebook instead feels more and more like yet another convenient excuse for our political failures. Was it really Facebook and Cambridge Analytica that that drove Democrats to defeat in November? Or was it a Democratic party so fervently shackled to a gospel of intersectionality and identity politics that it willfully refused to acknowledge that it indeed has a white working class problem? Was it really Russian-engineered fake news going to far fewer voters than TV-viewers that did this, or was it the running of a candidate that was completely tone-deaf on issues that mattered to a key demographic – a tone-deafness that she has continued to double down on since the election ended? Moreover, how is it possible that this unique confluence of Russian fake news and Cambridge Analytica data helped elect a candidate that seems much more similar to leaders being elected in a trend worldwide, from Orban in Hungary to Modi in India to Duertete in the Phillipines?
"Facebook instead feels more and more like yet another convenient excuse for our political failures. Was it really Facebook and Cambridge Analytica that that drove Democrats to defeat in November?"
The problem isn't Facebook. It's us. Like the way that many Trump supporters think Mexicans and Muslims are to blame for their problems, this is mere scapegoating. And hitting this scapegoat is going to have the same effect on solving the problem that all scapegoating does – none.
All that Cambridge Analytica did with the data they collected is literally what every marketing firm does with Facebook every day – use the data to figure out what we want so they can deliver more of it to us.
This idea that Facebook is responsible for Trump's victory seems like yet another folk devil on whom we can easily blame all our problems and relieve ourselves of the responsibility for introspection on just how we may have been wrong in approaching important political issues and our fellow Americans. If this "data breach" only helped Steve Bannon figure out what we wanted, then neither he nor Facebook are to blame.
You know who is? Us.
Facebook isn't the problem. It's you. Facebook is only a heightened reflection of who we are, insofar as we are willing to share that. Nobody hacked our brains, all that happened was someone used technology to hold up a mirror to them.
"Nobody hacked our brains, all that happened was someone used technology to hold up a mirror to them"
This is certainly not to say Facebook isn't yet another company with profit interests at the core of its concern. Nor is to say that there are a whole host of other reasons why limiting our time and exposure to social media are still good ideas. And it is self evident that living in a digital environment tailored to your needs all the time can most certainly siphon people off into echo chambers, and it is entirely possible that this effect – not the 'hacking' our data or fake news – could be having a deleterious effect on our politics, insofar as increased numbers of voters are really living in this environment.
But if you want to really fix the problem of our politics, closing off social media networks is not going to accomplish this. We are going to have to challenge our core epistemologies instead – much harder, much more grueling work, and without nearly as much ease and relief as it is to heap scorn upon a digital scapegoat.
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Q: securely authenticating users as a third-party Let's say i'm writing a program or app that requires me to authenticate users on their behalf, i.e. ask a user for their credentials to log in to a website or something to retrieve and process data.
How can i do something like this in such a way that the user's security is guaranteed, preferably so that i can't even see the credentials they've provided at all. And if this is not possible, how can users be assured that their privacy and security is not compromised in any way.

A: Simplest answer, but probably not useful to you is:
You can't guarantee privacy and security are not compromised! And as the admin on the server, if you receive and store user credentials, you could access them.
Immutable Law #6 of Security: A computer is only as secure as the administrator is trustworthy
So think about what level of security you would accept as appropriate.
You could use something like OpenID, like StackExchange uses - it removes the authentication piece from their responsibility. Only the OpenID provider receives credentials - SE just gets a token from them.

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Meet the designer behind some of the web's newest killer fonts
Founders of Hoefler & Frere-Jones Jonathan Hoefler (left) and Tobias Frere-Jones (right)
The font world is being revolutionized. Thanks to newer browsers and greater bandwidth, there's been an explosion of new web fonts — tens of thousands of them over the last decade. We used to be stuck with Helvetica, Times New Roman or Comic Sans. New we've got hot new fonts like Mercury, Helvetica Neue and Museo Slab. These new-style fonts not only are prettier, they are designed with pixels in mind, so they reproduce much better on devices of different sizes.
Crisper typography, which is part of a larger design renaissance on the web, is more important than ever amid greater competition from native apps and rise of things like retina displays. In addition to being more aesthetically pleasing, these new web fonts are also easier to use. Instead of having to download them to your computer, you browse online font stores or traditional font foundries for the font you want, click on it, insert a tiny piece of code, and, voila, your site is suddenly rendered in it.
What's next in fonts? We posed that question to Jonathan Hoefler, cofounder of president of famed typography foundry Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Last month, the company released Cloud.typography, in-browser versions of its 1,000-plus fonts. H&FJ has received numerous design awards, and its typography can be found everywhere, from magazines text to advertising logos. Its Gotham font, which was originally commissioned by GQ, can be found in a number of logos, including the Obama '08 campaign.
In with the new, out with the old
See some samples of H&FJ's most popular fonts, compared with the older print-centric fonts they're replacing.
GigaOM: Aside from the multiple-screen functionality, what are websites looking for with typography?
Hoefler: Websites and their readers are looking for typography that can be as sophisticated as content. It's interesting to think about something like Wikipedia, which is superior to a printed reference book in almost every meaningful way, despite having been limited to such a rudimentary typographic palette all these years.
Even dictionaries from the 19th century used more complex typographic palettes, with small capitals and swashes and slab serifs and gothics used to articulate information in different ways. We're really excited to see websites start using the sort of advanced typographic vocabulary that readers deserve: It's going to make reading online a lot more rewarding.
Are the aesthetic expectations for online fonts different than print?
Aesthetics are usually a function of custom, so it's fair to say that what online readers expect is a byproduct of what they're used to. A lot of these expectations are good ones, and still offer useful benchmarks for success when choosing a webfont: A lot of fonts on the web fumble over seemingly obvious expectations like "a bold should be demonstrably bold," or "a text font should be legible at text sizes.
There are also expectations that H&FJ is looking to change, most of which have to do with two decades of print fonts masquerading as webfonts. If you're able to suffer Helvetica or Times at 12 pixels, with their tight spacing and clogged forms, you're going to be in for a real treat with a ScreenSmart typeface that's specifically designed to be experienced at this scale.
What are your pet peeves with online typography?
Small thinking. I hate the notion that a 21st-century designer would sit down to create a family of webfonts, and feel hidebound by the expectation that it should come in "regular, italic, bold, and bold italic." Or the notion that CSS properties, which exist to categorize fonts that have come before, should be considered a recipe for fonts that will come in the future. Conventions like "a family can only exist in nine widths" or "only two weights may be heavier than 'bold'" are ridiculously arbitrary rules, and we've got them squarely in our crosshairs.
What are the most popular web fonts?
We don't know yet. Right now I think a lot of people are looking for alternatives to the fonts they're familiar with, and this is a great place to start. But what I really think we're going to see in the coming year, and I hope Cloud.typography is an important part of this, are designers using not only new fonts, but new kinds of fonts on the web. I'm also hoping that the notion of "popularity" gives way to richness, in which there aren't one or two font families dominating the web, but instead a thriving ecosystem of high-quality fonts that makes online experiences more distinctive.
What do you mean by "new kinds of fonts"?
By "new kinds of fonts," I'm thinking about new categories of fonts that so far haven't made it to the web. Reliable condensed [narrow] fonts for text sizes have been a mainstay of graphic design for more than a century, but the web doesn't have a single good candidate in this category. But we're also thinking about new categories of fonts that can be created, in response to how people use fonts on the web.
How are your fonts changing?
The biggest way in which our fonts are changing is that they're all being designed with multiple channels in mind. We've always been pretty ruthless about editing our work, leaving things on the cutting room floor if we don't think they're up to snuff. With Cloud.typography up and running, we're requiring that every new project have a way to thrive not only on paper, but on desktop and mobile screens.
How often does your staff of 17 create new fonts?
We create new fonts all the time: that's actually all our design department does. At the moment we have 13 font families in development, comprising somewhere between 380 and 420 styles. During a family's development, it's common that its roster of styles expands and contracts, as we seesaw back and forth between wanting to keep its list of styles manageable, and wanting to give designers finer control. "As few styles as possible, as many weights as necessary" is our motto.
We're holding our annual RoadMap conference in November in San Francisco, which will focus on experience design for the tech industry (tickets will go on sale shortly).
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