BMI New York is proud to announce the rollout of a new bi-monthly music industry workshop and panel series for 2007. Produced in conjunction with Gibson Guitar and Billboard magazine, the first "Industry Insider" entitled "Music in Film: Soundtracks in 2007" will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 13 at the Gibson Baldwin NY Showroom (421 West 54th Street) from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Admission is free; please R.S.V.P. to RSVP@bmi.com with the panel date in the subject.
The New York "Industry Insider" series will launch on Feb. 13 with tips and tricks from established film music executives, who will discuss soundtrack placements, networking and how to make the perfect pitch in a moderated Q&A format. Panelists include music supervisors Jim Dunbar and Janice Ginsberg; Karen Lamberton, VP, Soundtracks and Film & TV Music, RCA Music Group; Gillian Morris, Senior VP, Film & Television Music/Licensing, Wind-Up Records; and moderator Steven Scharf; Senior VP, Creative, Carlin America & President, Steven Scharf Entertainment.
Janice Ginsberg's 20-plus year career includes working with artists of all genres as a talent acquisition executive, music supervisor, music publisher and producer. Ginsberg's experience encompasses many credits in radio, TV, feature films and soundtrack albums. Consultancies have included her acting as U.S. representative for Italy's CAM Original Soundtracks (Il Postino), a joint venture with music publisher Carlin America and Greene Street Films for whom she established a music publishing division. Presently, Ginsberg is developing a music department for the Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation. Her production credits include Standing in the Shadows of Motown-The Story of the Funk Brothers, Strange Brew: The Story of Cream and Let the Good Times Roll: The Roots of American Music…New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Music supervisor and consultant credits include Sisters, The Hip-Hop Project and Snow Angels.
Jim Dunbar is a New York-based music supervisor and producer. His credits include Kimberley Peirce's Boys Don't Cry, Richard Linklater's School of Rock, Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou and Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. Among his current projects are Todd Haynes' I'm Not There, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's The Nanny Diaries, and an untitled project by Kimberley Peirce. Prior to working in film, Dunbar was a senior A&R executive at Capitol, Columbia and Geffen Records, and worked as a DJ for radio stations WHFS and KUSF.
Gillian Morris is currently Senior Vice President of Film & Television Music/Licensing at Wind-Up Records, responsible for licensing Wind-Up's master and publishing rights for film and TV placement, as well as overseeing the company's soundtrack division. Prior to joining Wind-Up in 2000, Morris was an independent music supervisor for a series of independent films in New York City, and prior to that, oversaw the film and television licensing department at Arista Records in Los Angeles.
Music executive Karen Lamberton started her career at Thorn EMI in Los Angeles, later becoming an assistant at Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency where she worked with such top composers as Ennio Morricone, Hank Zimmer and Michael Kamen. Other experience includes positions at Capitol Records, Worlds End and Quincy Jones' music publishing company, where she rose to VP. She joined J Records in 2001 as VP of Soundtracks and Film/TV Music, establishing a licensing division and overseeing the procurement and making of soundtrack albums. She also worked with such artists as Maroon 5, Alicia Keys and Gavin DeGraw at J, and after the BMG merger, she took on the additional responsibility of working the RCA roster, which included Foo Fighters, Kelly Clarkson and Christina Aguilera, among others. She is currently VP of Soundtracks and Film & TV Music at RCA Music Group, overseeing a vibrant staff and a roster of artists well-represented in the area of soundtrack albums and film, TV, and advertising.
Steven Scharf's 38 years in the recording industry has covered areas of record producing, A&R, music publishing, and the management of record producers, film and TV composers, and artists. In 1991, he founded Steven Scharf Entertainment, a producer management company representing a wide array of talent, including producers Julius "Juice" Butty and Rob Friedman, composers Mark Suozzo and Barry Goldberg, and artists Ali Eskandarian, Intercooler and 46bliss, among others. He has also ventured with legendary music publisher Freddy Bienstock of Carlin America Inc., where he is currently Senior VP of Creative, concentrating on all film/TV/advertising and song placements.
The "Industry Insider" series was created by the BMI Los Angeles Writer/Publisher Relations team in conjunction with Gibson Guitar and Billboard to provide BMI songwriters with music industry insider resources essential for success. Moderated by a rotating group of professionals from the three companies, the panel series offers a direct link to the inner-workings of the music business from the perspective of established music professionals. Educational support for the creative community is a cornerstone of BMI's songwriter outreach programs, and through such programs, BMI fosters networking and career-developing skills and talents.
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Guido van Rossum, the creator of the hugely popular Python programming language, is leaving cloud file storage firm Dropbox and heading into retirement. That ends his six and a half years with the company, which hired in him in 2013 because so much of its functionality was built on Python. And, after last year stepping down from his leadership role over Python decision making, that means the Python creator is officially retiring.
His recruitment at Dropbox made sense for the tech company. Dropbox has about four million lines of Python code and it's the most heavily used language for its back-end services and desktop app.
According to Dropbox, in 2011, when van Rossum first met Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, the Dropbox server and desktop client were written: "almost exclusively in Python".
Today, Dropbox also relies on Go, TypeScript, and Rust, as well as the open-source Mypy static type checker that Dropbox develops to manage Python code at scale. Mypy helps developers overcome the challenge of understanding dynamically typed Python code written by other developers in the past.
Python is now nearly 30 years old and, depending on which ranking index you read, it's the most widely used programming language in the world and underpins some of the biggest apps in the world, such as Instagram, which has also been working to tame Python at scale.
Dropbox said van Rossum has had a major impact on its engineering culture.
"There was a small number of really smart, really young coders who produced a lot of very clever code that only they could understand," said van Rossum. "That is probably the right attitude to have when you're a really small startup."
However, as Dropbox notes, when the company grew, new engineers could not understand the clever but 'short and cryptic' code written by and for earlier developers.
Van Rossum called this "cowboy coding culture" and educated the company about the value of maintainable code.
"When asked, I would give people my opinion that maintainable code is more important than clever code," he said.
"If I encountered clever code that was particularly cryptic, and I had to do some maintenance on it, I would probably rewrite it. So I led by example, and also by talking to other people."
Dropbox also credits van Rossum with sharpening the company's testing processes for its continuous integration program and helping engineers understand why tests were broken.
After that, he started work on the Mypy static checker, which was written by Dropbox employee Jukka Lehtosalo, who van Rossum introduced to Dropbox. Van Rossum formed the mypy team in 2015 to help clean up Dropbox's massive Python codebase.
He also worked to make the engineering culture at Dropbox and in the Python community more inclusive for women, according to Dropbox.
"It's been an amazing ride to see this little hack of mine affect so many people in their lives," said van Rossum
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Caviar Emptor Wins Top PRSA Silver Anvil Award
NEW YORK, (June 4, 2004) – Caviar Emptor is a recipient of this year's prestigious Silver Anvil Award, sponsored by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA). The Silver Anvil, which recognizes outstanding achievement in strategic public relations planning and implementation, was presented during the Silver Anvil Celebration Event held June 3 in New York City. Caviar Emtpor received the award in the "Public Service: Associations/Nonprofit Organizations" category.
Caviar Emptor is a partnership of SeaWeb, Natural Resources Defense Council and the University of Miami's Pew Institute for Ocean Science to protect and restore the dwindling populations of Caspian Sea sturgeon. The campaign, now in its third year, has called for listing beluga sturgeon as an endangered species in the United States and for a halt to the international trade in beluga caviar, while encouraging consumers to opt for alternatives, such as aquacultured caviars from trout, paddlefish and varieties of sturgeon found in the United States.
"The PRSA Silver Anvil awards are the highest watermark of success for any public relations practitioner," said Kelly Womer, APR, chairperson, 2004 Silver Anvil Awards and senior counselor, Carmichael Lynch Spong. "We congratulate Caviar Emptor for their public relations program that incorporated measurable and sound research, planning, execution and evaluation. This program contributes to the best practices of our industry."
The Silver Anvil Awards has grown in scope and stature since its inception in 1947. Silver Anvils are now awarded to programs in 54 categories. In the 57 years since the inception of the program, more than 1,000 organizations have received Silver Anvils for excellence in strategic public relations planning and implementation. The Public Relations Society of America (www.prsa.org), based in New York City, is the world's largest organization for public relations professionals helping to advance the profession and the professional.
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10 May 2018: A team of Royal Marines is preparing for an historic 2,000-mile (3,200 km) journey along Norway's coastline. The eight-strong, self-sufficient team will cycle up to 200km and paddle up to 40km a day.
Norway 75 will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Telemark raids – an Allied operation which successfully halted Nazi Germany's plan to develop nuclear weapons.
Travelling by sea kayak and bike, the team will revisit the sites of a number of critical World War II Commando/SOE operations that led up to the raids, linking up with the Norwegian Home Guard, local historians, and families with connections to the events.
Throughout the expedition this June and July, Norway 75 will rely on Inmarsat to stay connected.
Inmarsat is supplying an IsatPhone 2 satellite phone and a range of BGAN broadband terminals including highly compact equipment to stow away in kitbags and a system for comms-on-the-move.
The eight-strong, self-sufficient team will cycle up to 200km and paddle up to 50km every day.
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Symbolism in William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies' Essay
Symbolism in William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'
Definition: A symbol is something that is itself as well as something else. In literature it means literal or objective sense coupled with abstract meaning. Symbolism refers to serious and extensive use of symbols in a work of literature.
Symbolism in Lord of the Flies: The novel is rich in symbolism. A host of different interpretations of the novel's symbolism – political, psychological and religious – exists. We will look at some of the prominent symbols employed by Golding and try harmonizing the different interpretations. Since symbolism is an evocative device to communicate the theme of a literary piece, we must first agree on the theme of Lord of the Flies.
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He has apparently evacuated himself from a warplane that has been hit. The man crashes to his death at the top of the hill on the island. He, with his parachute, is taken to be a mysterious supernatural beast by the boys among whom the talk of a snake-like beast of the jungle is already rampant. The dead parachutist is not, however, just an extension of the ghost metaphor. He also represents the historical past intruding on the scene and influencing it in a profound manner. For the boys the historical past is the war they left behind. For humanity it would be the past of man as an insidious influence in his present.
5.	The Beast – Lord of the Flies: The title of the novel is itself symbolic. The phrase is a literal translation of the Hebrew 'Beelzebub', one of the demons named after a philistine god. Later the term was often used in Christianity as a name for the Devil. The metaphor is one of regression (in its original sense of paganism) and evil (in its later meaning of the Devil). In the novel one of the younger boys, who is referred to as 'the boy with the birthmark on his face', tells the others about having seen a snake-like beast on the trees. Though Ralph tries to allay their fears as unfounded, the belief in the beast persists. It is strengthened by the unexplained disappearance of the boy with the birthmark. It is reinforced by the 'beast from air' mentioned above, so mush
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situations are taken at face value. To recognize symbolism takes quite a sharp mind. Even with the quick mind, some still will not catch complete meanings of certain symbols. Symbols tend to stand for only one thing. They will stand for life or death or anything you can imagine. Sometimes, it can be seen that symbols can stand for more than one thing. William Golding finds a way to make a few of the symbols in his novel mean two things. In Lord of the Flies, Golding writes of a pig's head, an island,…
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Symbolism is using words, places, people, and objects for a meaning that is deeper than its literal meaning. In the novel, "Lord of the Flies," William Golding uses so much symbolism that the novel could arguably be viewed as an allegory, or a writing with a double meaning. While not all of the symbols are very obvious, the novels title for example, a few of them are, for example, the conch shell, the fire and the parachutist are all very prominent symbols used by Golding. In "Lord of the Flies"…
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Symbolism in Lord of the Flies In the allegorical novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses symbolism to explore the issues of civility and savagery. Throughout the novel, Golding connects symbolic items with the main characters, Ralph, Piggy, Simon, and Jack, to show how they change and become less civilized. This change is a major theme throughout the novel; it shows how the natural state of human beings is savagery. The novel also shows how objects can keep people grounded in their beliefs…
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primitive desires for power and authority (Hubbard 1). William Golding portrays these same ideas in his novel, Lord of the Flies, only Golding portrays these natural desires with english schoolchildren stranded on a tropical island paradise. In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, civilization and savagery take contrasting roles and are represented by a number of different symbols including people, places, and objects (Koopmans 70). William Golding was born on September 19, 1911 in St. Columb Minor…
novels? In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, symbols are illustrated through people, objects, and colors. In this novel, a group of children are faced with the difficulty of living isolated from society after their plane crashes on a deserted island. With no formal civilization, parents, or rules, the kids have the freedom to do as they choose. Throughout the novel, the boys find and use objects on the island that symbolize something of different importance. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding…
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1966 Iñigo Altube, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Gasherbrum II in 2001.
2014 Dorje Khatri, Nepalese Chhetri climber, who ascended Everest seven times (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013) and Cho Oyu in 2011, died in an avalanche on Everest, aged 45.
Please find in the Download Section all updated fatality tables!
There were over 450 ascents and five fatalities on Everest, no ascent and one fatality on K2, 25 ascents and no fatality on Kangchenjunga, 25 ascents and one fatality on Lhotse, 27 ascents and one fatality on Makalu, 16 ascents in spring (plus well over 100 ascents in fall) and two fatalities on Cho Oyu, 35 ascents and two fatalities on Dhaulagiri I, 30 ascents in spring (plus a similar number in fall) and two fatalities on Manaslu, 22 ascents and two fatalities on Nanga Parbat, three ascents and one fatality on Annapurna I, 19 ascents and no fatality on Gasherbrum I, no ascent and one fatality on Broad Peak, two confirmed ascents and one fatality on Gasherbrum II and two ascents and one fatality in autumn on Shisha Pangma.
It was difficult this year to compile the chronicles. Some false information was around on the net, but it was sorted out finally. The countings of the ascents of Everest are not finished yet, there were over 450! The fatalities table and the table with ascents without bottled oxygen (addition: Ludovic Challeat!) are updated already. The others will follow as soon as possible!
Andrew Lock finished the 14 8000ers on October 2nd with Shisha Pangma. It was reported, that he made a variant of the "Iñaki route", which is not correct.
To end confusion, 18 months ago the table with all routes and variants was published here and the original story with route sketch here, including a long forgotten route.
Austrian climbers made the first traverse to the East ridge in autumn 1980. It was published in the American Alpine Journal 1981, page 309, but forgotten in all publications afterwards until the launch of this website. The handmade route sketch was drawn by a member of the Austrian expedition and it was allowed to publish here under copyright.
Chech climber Leopold Sulovský is leading an expedition to Cho Oyu. They will attempt to climb a new route on the SW Face. Details are reported here!
In March of this year, news sites on the internet created controversy based on a writer who claimed to know that Simone Moro was aware he did not climb the highest of the three Beka Brakai Chhok peaks.
This is certainly untrue and will be explained here in detail. The "case" of Beka Brakai Chhok (BBC) is truly one of the most confusing subjects in the history of High Asian research. Simone Moro achieved a fine, historical first ascent, a relatively rare feat in modern times. He and his companion Hervé Barmasse well deserved the "Dalla Longa Award": BBC South is without question the most beautiful and the most challenging of the three BBC peaks.
In 2006, after private correspondence, it was realized that BBC Central is the highest of the three summits.
If you want to know the difference between the "big" world of passionate climbing, and the "small" world of private passionate research, then you need look no further than the story of BBC. This is a saga about peak identification and listing: it is about comparing maps and checking photos from all directions, mainly panoramas produced by expeditions that achieved first ascents. People involved in this confusing story are not to blame, particularly not the recent first ascensionists.


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Thousands of dementia sufferers threatened with restraint
Thousands of elderly people with dementia have been threatened with restraint using new safeguards which are supposed to protect the vulnerable.
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By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent
6:00AM BST 20 Aug 2013
Figures show that almost 12,000 legal applications were made in 2012/13 to deprive people who lack mental capacity freedoms, such as locking them in rooms, forcibly giving them medication or preventing them from seeing visitors.
Deprivation of liberty safeguards (Dols) were introduced in 2009, in an attempt to end the scandal of dementia patients being locked up and restrained without justification.
The statistics show the number of safeguards requested has risen by 66 per cent in three years, with more than half involving dementia sufferers.
Last week MPs raised concerns that the rules were being used wrongly, leaving the most vulnerable at risk of abuse.
Investigations have found that thousands of elderly people in care homes and hospitals have been subjected to "blanket restrictions" such as locked doors on wards and day rooms, to make life easier for staff.
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And still the NHS cover-up goes on
Care homes locking up old people to make life easier for staff
A report by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) says that almost half of the applications made in 2011/12 were refused, suggesting that staff have been too heavy-handed in wanting to apply unnecessary restrictions.
The laws mean care workers should only restrict the liberty of the most vulnerable if authorities agree that it is required to protect them.
Last week MPs warned that Dols are often used incorrectly.
The Health Select Committee said: "The evidence the committee heard regarding the application of Dols revealed a profoundly depressing and complacent approach to the matter.
"There is extreme variation in their use and we are concerned that some of the most vulnerable members of society may be exposed to abuse because the legislation has failed to implement controls to properly protect them."
Councils and local health authorities can approve placing restraints or restrictions on people who are deemed to lack the mental capacity to consent to their care or treatment. They include those with dementia or a learning disability.
Dols aim to make sure that people in care homes and hospitals are looked after in a way that does not inappropriately restrict their freedom.
They should ensure that a care home or hospital only deprives someone of their liberty in a safe way, and when there is no other way to look after them.
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How will American, US Airways merger impact Iowa?
Updated: 5:25 PM CST Feb 14, 2013
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American Airlines and US Airways said they're merging in a deal they value at $11 billion, creating the world's biggest airline.The combined carrier will be called American Airlines but run by US Airways CEO Doug Parker.The airlines announced their deal Thursday.It reduces the number of major U.S. airlines to four.American Eagle and US Airways Express both fly out of Des Moines International Airport in Des Moines. American also flies out of the Cedar Rapids airport.Officials with the Des Moines Airport said the merger will likely be a good thing for passengers in Des Moines. The airlines don't fly to the same locations out of Des Moines, which means all five cities that are currently served will likely still be served after a merger."They don't overlap any routes. American flies to Chicago O'Hare, Dallas Fort Worth. US Airways flies to Phoenix, Charlotte, North Carolina and Washington National. So there is no overlap. I don't think our passengers are going to see any immediate effect," said Don Smithey, Des Moines Airport executive director.In general, passengers are not expected to see much change. "They have proven that they can make money here on those routes and I know after the bankruptcy, American Airlines gave us every indication they were going to stay where they were in Des Moines," said Smithey.Officials said that with last year's addition of Southwest Airlines, prices would likely not change significantly.Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitor's Bureau is watching the merger closely."Overall, I think this is a positive. No. 1, you would have risked the fact of maybe losing one of these airlines, so by them merging, I think they'll remain strong here in Des Moines, both American and US Air are strong airlines for this community, they're strong to Washington D.C., to Dallas to a lot of other locations around the country. So yes, it's very important for us to keep them strong here. And the more competition obviously we have amongst our own airlines, then the better off we all are as well," said Greg Edwards, president and CEO of the Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau.Visitors Bureau officials said any change in the number of plane seats into or out of the airport could impact how many shows and conventions come to the metro."When we're talking to national planners, they want to know how many direct flights to how many direct cities we have. So that's a very important ingredient in our total package," said Edwards.There are still a lot of details to work out with the merger, and officials don't expect passengers to see any big changes in the next couple months.
American Airlines and US Airways said they're merging in a deal they value at $11 billion, creating the world's biggest airline.
The combined carrier will be called American Airlines but run by US Airways CEO Doug Parker.
The airlines announced their deal Thursday.
It reduces the number of major U.S. airlines to four.
American Eagle and US Airways Express both fly out of Des Moines International Airport in Des Moines. American also flies out of the Cedar Rapids airport.
Officials with the Des Moines Airport said the merger will likely be a good thing for passengers in Des Moines. The airlines don't fly to the same locations out of Des Moines, which means all five cities that are currently served will likely still be served after a merger.
"They don't overlap any routes. American flies to Chicago O'Hare, Dallas Fort Worth. US Airways flies to Phoenix, Charlotte, North Carolina and Washington National. So there is no overlap. I don't think our passengers are going to see any immediate effect," said Don Smithey, Des Moines Airport executive director.
In general, passengers are not expected to see much change.
"They have proven that they can make money here on those routes and I know after the bankruptcy, American Airlines gave us every indication they were going to stay where they were in Des Moines," said Smithey.
Officials said that with last year's addition of Southwest Airlines, prices would likely not change significantly.
Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitor's Bureau is watching the merger closely.
"Overall, I think this is a positive. No. 1, you would have risked the fact of maybe losing one of these airlines, so by them merging, I think they'll remain strong here in Des Moines, both American and US Air are strong airlines for this community, they're strong to Washington D.C., to Dallas to a lot of other locations around the country. So yes, it's very important for us to keep them strong here. And the more competition obviously we have amongst our own airlines, then the better off we all are as well," said Greg Edwards, president and CEO of the Greater Des Moines Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Visitors Bureau officials said any change in the number of plane seats into or out of the airport could impact how many shows and conventions come to the metro.
"When we're talking to national planners, they want to know how many direct flights to how many direct cities we have. So that's a very important ingredient in our total package," said Edwards.
There are still a lot of details to work out with the merger, and officials don't expect passengers to see any big changes in the next couple months.


Jiménez Botta, Felix A. "Embracing Human Rights: Grassroots Solidarity Activism and Foreign Policy in Seventies West Germany", PhD, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108145.
This dissertation shifts our understanding of 1970s human rights activism from a minimalist politics of salvation to a maximalist commitment to kindred spirits. Scholars see the 1970s as the time when the internationalist dreams of the 1960s disappeared to be supplanted by the salvation of a few over the transformation of the root causes of society's ills. By contrast, this dissertation examines West German activism on behalf of Latin Americans chaffing under military rule in the 1970s as a campaign of international political solidarity by different means. Faced with an environment hostile to transnational solidarity at home and abroad, West Germans of varying political doctrines and Christian confessions, as well as exiles from Latin America, embraced a common language of human rights as they pursued their political agendas. Its neutralist and humanitarian overtones made "human rights" discourses appealing to activists with diverging political goals. This dissertation reinterprets human rights activism as a continuation of internationalist commitments at a time when the foundations for transnational solidarity eroded. Grassroots embrace of human rights occurred during a tense state of securitization provoked by left-wing terrorism in West Germany. With the West German state increasingly unwilling to stand up for human rights on the international stage, especially for leftist victims, or accept them as refugees, grassroots solidarity activists were compelled to embrace a discourse that the state would accept. The Chilean and Argentinean cases--the most prominent instances of state-perpetrated abuses in 1970s Latin America--prompted leftists, left liberals, trade unionists, and Christians to advocate for the admission of political refugees and the imposition of economic embargoes and sanctions. Chilean and Argentinean exiles advocated for political change in their countries, but were forced to utilize human rights rhetoric to escape the stigma accorded to left-wing politics. Conservatives embraced human rights argumentation against the military regime in Chile when the wave of repression reached their political partners of the Christian Democratic Party in Chile. Lacking similar partners in Argentina, West German Christian Democracy did not demonstrate interest in conditions there. The West German government responded to grassroots advocacy with a minimalist vision for human rights protection that emphasized private negotiations on behalf of select individuals, which was abhorrent to many grassroots activists. The embrace of human rights by grassroots activists occurred in a highly contested process of political defeats and realignments. It was not a turn to a new utopia. Drawing on research in state and civil society repositories in Europe and the Americas, as well as oral interviews, this dissertation offers a window into transnational political activism between West Germany and Latin America in the 1970s. It shows how activists from the left and the right, as well as government officials, arrived at different definitions of human rights and diverging strategies for protecting them.


With short stories, is it OK if nothing happens?
I'd rather yank out my own stitches than miss a chance to read with children, but I also need to belong.
After days of trekking, paddling and swimming, when it was too dark to read and I was almost too tired to speak, I got the kids to flex their imaginations.


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The Young Pope: HBO Sets Premiere Date for Jude Law Drama
by Cindy McLennan, November 1, 2016
The Young Pope TV series premieres on HBO, January 15th. Jude Law stars. (Photo: Gianni Fiorito/HBO)
Did you light a candle? HBO has finally confirmed The Young Pope will premiere on Sunday, January 15th at 9:00pm ET/PT. The second episode of the new 10-episode limited drama series will bow the next night, Monday, January 16th at the same time. The remaining episodes will debut on subsequent Sundays and Mondays through the first season's run.
Jude Law stars as Lenny Belardo, aka Pius XIII. Diane Keaton stars as Sister Mary, a nun from the U.S., who now lives in Vatican City. The cast also includes Silvio Orlando, Scott Shepherd, Cécile de France, Javier Cámara, Ludivine Sagnier, Toni Bertorelli, and James Cromwell.
Diane Keaton and Jude Law star in The Young Pope TV series on HBO. (Photo: Gianni Fiorito/HBO.)
The Young Pope | Official HBO TV Show Description
Directed by Paolo Sorrentino, THE YOUNG POPE tells the story of Lenny Belardo, aka Pius XIII, the first American Pope in history. Young and charming, his election seems to be the result of a simple yet effective media strategy on the part of the College of Cardinals. But appearances can be deceptive — above all, in the place where people have chosen the great mystery of God as the compass guiding their existence.
That place is the Vatican and those people are the leaders of the Church. And Pius XIII proves to be the most mysterious and contradictory of them all. Shrewd and naïve, ironic and pedantic, primeval and cutting-edge, doubting and resolute, melancholy and ruthless, Pius XIII tries to cross the endless river of human solitude to find a God he can give to mankind. And to himself.
A joint Sky, HBO, CANAL+ production, The Young Pope first premiered in Italy and Germany on October 21st. The series has also already debuted in France, UK, Sweden, and Poland.
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I often wonder the long term life/career plan and how our liver journey will route or re-write what Harper and Brodie, cousins or friends littles will do when they grow up.
Many of the medical teams We have worked with been impacted by something and someone in their life for them to integrate into medicine.
Here is a short story that is all about heart and medicine and being inspired by life's events.


I'm so done with lazy LinkedIn users.
If you're the consummate LinkedIn networker, I'm not talking about you, so how about just passing this along who's not? There are more than enough folks who need to know!
I hope not! So why would you say it on LinkedIn, when you want to make a great first impression?
If you want to avoid scripted invitation messages, there's only one "Connect" button to use: The one located below a person's picture when you open up his or her full profile. Read all about them, scroll through their bio, and then click that"Connect" button.
I read about you in "website, article, speech"; and you have a fabulous background. I would like to connect to your professional network. Thank you, .
Spelled my name wrong — bad start!
Didn't notice I don't live in Houston; I'm not a prospect for them.
Put the onus on me to write them back with a time to talk.
Took the easy way out — I would expect to receive a professionally written prospecting letter to my direct e-mail (often found under "contact information" in LinkedIn profiles).
I immediately dropped my LinkedIn connection with this person to save myself — and my connections — from further solicitations.
Study the prospect's profile. Go to his or her personal website if they have one, and search out more information about them.
Take the LinkedIn tutorials, buy a book on how to use LinkedIn, watch YouTube videos — whatever suits your learning style — but do something! Be more personal, more effective, and more formal, and you will get better results.
Don't forget: LinkedIn is a tool for developing meaningful professional relationships. Use it as a launching pad to talk to people on the phone or meet face-to-face for the best results.


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Tonight a Jinx-selfie 👹 I wasn't wearing the complete cosplay here, but I'm enjoying posting some selfies in this period 😳 Hope this won't bother you, let me know! -- Wig&costume: TaoBao Lenses: Ryuustore -- . . . . .
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HOME SICK😷 Hoping to be better for the weekend photoshoots 😢 Selfie inspired by all natural anime girl.
Hi people! How you doing? . I will flood you with my lastest photoshoots so be prepared lol . Rei is my favorite character! I'm so happy to do her costumes! . . . Character: Ayanami Rei - Chinese Dress Figure Version . . Anime/mangá: Neon Genesis Evangelion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Yuri Plisetsky 😍 Anime: Yuri On Ice 🇪🇨 Cosplayer: @nekoiats_ . . .
Yesterday's shoot was so successful!!! I'm so excited to share the pictures with you! You guys were so responsive to my story posts I'm so happy!!! - What's your favourite nostalgic anime?
Last one of this series (= We have to take more cute photos together "nozoeli" style♡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Run while you still can . . . 📷 @larpopular 💗💗💗 . . . . . . . . . . . .tags~~~ .
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[ENG SUB] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OWamDKJZzY LCK Night! 멋진분들과 함께!
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Soo I decided to change things up w some crossplay loll~ 😀 I cosplayed as Alois Trancy for @animepasadena last weekend and had a great time! Kuroshitsuji was and still is one of my favorite animes so I was super excited to finally be able to cos it! I like all kinds of anime but I def enjoy the ones that are dark and tragic the most hehe~ 🙂 Alois is one of my fav characters from the series so I wish I had costested or prepared more for him, esp cuz I haven't done much crossplay. LOL my makeup was so messy 😭 srry im lazy 😫 Ahah but I had fun cosing him anyway since he's kinda crazy and sadistic but sad at the same time lol~💜🖤 i'll post the rest of my kuroshitsuji photos soon!😁 I look forward to cosplaying him again and will work hard to do him more justice next time! (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑ . . . .
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5 Classic Movies With Way Better Insane Foreign Ripoffs
Raoni Lacerda ·
If you tend to avoid foreign cinema because you feel like some of the punch is lost when you have to read the dialogue at the bottom of the screen, boy are you missing out. Oh, we're not talking about the subtle, heart-wrenching dramas France is probably cranking out these days; we're speaking of the many low-budget yet gloriously insane foreign knockoffs of Hollywood blockbusters. For example ...
The Ugandan Expendables Is Fucking Amazing
The Original:
In a bizarre twist on what should have been an incredible idea, The Expendables features the industry's most successful and influential action heroes creating lifeless, second-rate impersonations of themselves. Many audiences describe the film and its sequels as an expensive collection of familiar shapes and noises.
The Foreign Ripoff:
Sometimes an expert in a field is described as having forgotten more about a subject than anyone else will ever know. Well, Operation Kakongoliro! has forgotten more about plot than it itself ever knew about plot.
We can describe this film in only 14 words: In Uganda, war has hit the streets. FUCK THAT, says The Ugandan Expendables. And since we have one word left over, underline that "fuck."
FUCK. THAT.
It is wall-to-wall karate and machine guns and has virtually no interest in linking events together with a narrative. You'll never know how unnecessary structure is until you've seen 500 Ugandan actors explode from inexplicable violence punctuated by trial version Adobe After Effects bullets.
This is just the caterer.
There is no language barrier in Ugandan Expendables. In the time it takes for you, the casual English-speaking viewer, to think, "I don't speak Swahili," you've already missed 25 principal actors get kicked to death. This is a dense masterpiece made by passionate, industrious filmmakers. It's a genre so indescribable, they literally had to make up words to describe it. One of those words is "supa BASTARD."
Real Talk: The action is supa BASTARD as shit.
The Ugandan Expendables includes the gratuitous shootouts from the Stallone original and somehow managed to do it with zero safety precautions and an unlimited stack of pirated editing software. Untrained stunt men fling themselves into the ground while wads of cartoon blood invade our reality from seemingly unrelated wormholes. It seems impossible you've ever done anything kind enough to Uganda to deserve this gift from them.
SUPA BASTAAAAARD!
Operation Kakongoliro! is the finest example of the expanding Uganda film industry, Wakaliwood, known for their crazy no-budget action movies. The internet first fell in love with them when it saw Who Killed Captain Alex, an inspired work of insanity made with less than $200 and (reportedly) real blood. A bucket of blood and $200 won't even get Christian Bale to take a meeting, and these Ugandans managed to choreograph 70 kung fu fights and bury 287 extras with it.
These are just the script supervisors.
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Hong Kong's Street Fighter Is A Pile Of Time-Traveling Gibberish
Golden Harvest
Imagine a martial arts movie featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme in which masters of eclectic fighting styles enter a combat tournament for honor, glory, and love. Congratulations, you've just imagined Bloodsport. Now, continue imagining Bloodsport, but remove the stakes and personality, turn most of the fighters into lab technicians or reporters, squeeze in dozens of clumsy, almost violently incorrect references to a video game, add every possible production problem, and pay a line cook to shit on it at the end of a 13-hour shift. You're now imagining Street Fighter.
Future Cops is an unlicensed, loose, and insane adaptation of the Street Fighter video game, released a year before the official American adaptation found a way to make that sound like a terrible idea.
Future Cops begins in the year 2043, with Chinese M. Bison being sentenced to death, and his loyal minions Toyota (E. Honda), Kent (Ken), and Thai King (Sagat) hatching an ambitious plan to save him. Only one of those guys work for M. Bison in the video game, implying the filmmakers had trouble following the plot of a game about fistfighting your way to a fistfight. As you're about to see, that stupidity pays off big time.
Set stupidity levels to full, Kent. And double it.
Instead of a prison escape, Kent, Toyota, and Thai King come up with the idea of time-traveling back to 1993 to brainwash the judge who convicted him. And their plan would have worked if not for three things: First, there is more than one judge in 2043 China; second, nothing suggests they know how to brainwash people; and third, Ryu, Vega, Dhalsim, and Guile overhear the plan and chase them back to 1993. Rest assured, the movie does nothing to make any of this sound more coherent.
Thinking too hard about the subtitles may cause nosebleeds.
By this point, the plot has kicked the legs out from under sanity and anything is possible. There are flying laser platforms, low-budget re-creations of every Street Fighter special move, and an entire subplot where the Future Cops go undercover at a high school. The pop culture references soon wobble off course, and people end up transforming into Dragon Ball Z characters or getting sucked into Super Mario Bros. arcade games.
"Guys, I think the costume designer might have lied when she said she played Street Fighter."
Future Cops is weirdly generous with its plot. They could have gotten away with just Street Fighter meets Terminator meets 21 Jump Street, but then they squeeze in several romances and a dystopian loveless future they need to prevent. You see, in 2043, sex is illegal after AIDS has wiped out most of humanity. It's a strange twist in a movie that seems to be designed around every video game and toy the filmmakers could think of. It's almost as if this was once a dark time-travel story and 80 pages of the script were accidentally replaced with children's Christmas lists.
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Italy's Answer To James Bond Stars Sean Connery's Brother As Sean Connery's Brother
Produzione D.S.
James Bond is the British secret agent/Time Lord who mutates from a rejuvenating cocoon every decade or so to continue his never-ending quest of murdering flamboyant villains and crushing international ass without so much as glancing at a condom.
The 1967 Italian film Operation Kid Brother finds the world threatened by a ruthless terrorist organization known as THANATOS, and the only person who can stop it is 007. And, well, since he's not available, the world has to settle for his brother, Dr. Neil Connery. It is important to note that Neil Connery is Sean Connery's brother in real life, but in our universe, Sean Connery isn't actually James Bond. In Operation Kid Brother, Neil Connery is both James Bond's brother and Sean Connery's brother.
"Looksh like I got the chopsh ... Wait, I think I may have actually broken hish neck."
Dr. Neil Connery might be playing himself (kind of), but he has all the powers of James Bond and then some. He is a surgeon, a hypnotist, an archer, a scientist, a ladies man, and a master with both types of karate chop. And when viewed through the filter of "This makes sense only if he doesn't get the difference between movies and real life," every fight and sexual conquest takes on a hilarious context. It's as if he's performing a great joke and also the only person who doesn't get it.
Italian director Alberto De Martino wasn't the first person to shamelessly rip off the James Bond phenomenon, but he goes for the brass ring. Instead of working for the Italian equivalent of British Intelligence, Dr. Neil Connery just punches in at the same place as the regular James Bond. He even meets up with two spies played by Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, actors who played M and Miss Moneypenny, respectively, in several Bond films.
Those aren't the only Bond actors starring in this disaster. Daniela Bianchi, the female lead in From Russia With Love, shows up to dazzle Dr. Neil with her feminine wiles, and the evil leader of THANATOS is Adolfo Celi, aka Emilio Largo from Thunderball.
Seen here wearing the "Thriller" jacket.
Again, the movie is entirely dependent on a childlike inability to understand that Sean Connery is not actually an international super spy, which is paradoxically its most glaring weakness and its greatest strength.
7 Insanely Dark James Bond Scenes They Hope You Forget
Indonesian Mr. Bean Is A Ghost Trapped In Hell
K2K Production
Mr. Bean is an adorable English man-child played by Rowan Atkinson who can't really talk and ruins absolutely everything he tries to do. He's the kind of man generally seen slipping on banana peels in silent movies, only alive and doing it today.
The Indonesian version of Mr. Bean is pretty much exactly the same, except for the "alive" part. Indonesian Mr. Bean is a ghost, which is a word here meaning "a man eternally bound in a sheet."
Who greets people by headbutting.
In Indonesia, these kinds of spirits are called pocong -- basically, people trapped in their death shrouds. It's not clear what Mr. Bean did to become a ghost, but it undoubtedly involved some manner of riotous pratfall.
The movie takes the goofy innocence of Mr. Bean and makes it its own. For instance, at one point in this comedy film, a chainsaw-wielding maniac humorlessly slaughters a pregnant woman and her husband. It's less funny than we're making it sound, though.
"All right, let's film this Mr. Bean scen- WHAT THE SHIT?! WHO IS THAT?!?"
The murdered couple become pocongs and meet Mr. Bean, whose mission is to escape from the Indonesian underworld at all costs. Also, Catwoman is there, as a singer, and getting to the Catwoman concert is everyone's main motivation for getting out of Hell.
"Any ghosts in the crowd tonight? Let me hear you if you were recently dismembered by a chainsaw killer!"
You can watch the entire film on YouTube, mainly because no one who makes a Mr. Bean vs. Catwoman knockoff has any right to fuss about copyright violations. Speaking of, the film was met with controversy after audiences felt tricked. Many of them were led to believe it was an official Mr. Bean film before finding out it was a madman's dream journal set in the afterlife starring a lookalike. And that lookalike, William Ferguson, was as confused as anyone. He was hired specifically because he resembles Rowan Atkinson, and the producers were happy to let people think he was the real Mr. Bean.
Ferguson didn't even know he was the main actor in the movie until he'd already filmed a third of it (it was a three-day shoot). After it was released, he felt ashamed for his role in deceiving moviegoers. In fairness, getting trapped in a bag and starring in the wrong movie in a foreign country is exactly the kind of thing Mr. Bean would do.
Couple Breaks Up Over Cans of Beans, Because 2020
Turkey's Batman V Superman Combines The Two Into A Single Insane Hero
Metin Film
Superman and Batman fight each other for the right to claim the more irritating fanbase, but they're forced to put aside their differences when Lex Luthor unleashes a cave troll on an abandoned ship graveyard. Everyone loses in the process.
In the Turkish film Demir Yumruk Devler Geliyor, instead of creating a thin excuse for Batman and Superman to fight, the filmmakers just combined them into the same character, which saves everyone a lot of time.
Part Batman, part Superman, all Turkish.
The fused heroes face off against Fu Manchu, a man with mechanical-handed henchmen and an endless supply of bikini-clad women. The twists and turns come so fast you often can't even tell the difference between them and genuine production mistakes, and neither could the actors or the director.
The villainous Fu Manchu is a relentless gay stereotype draped across several Asian stereotypes. He's something you'd normally only see in a sketch performed by a prison improv group.
"OK, we have the characters and setting. Now someone shout your favorite food and felony."
In keeping with the grand tradition of Turkish copyright-infringing cinema, wherein the only special effects occur when a stuntman accidentally falls into a thresher, costumes seem to have been thrown together with things the cast and crew found in their trunks. There are absolutely no visual effects, and the fight scenes seem to have been filmed during the second rehearsal, with SuperBatman patiently waiting for the next choreographed attack to come in before carefully punching near the other performers' faces.
Look close. Can you believe this is all one take!?
One thing this film has in common with Zack Snyder's Batman V Superman is our hero's casual disregard for human life. Even if his great mind and unlimited powers could solve a problem multiple ways, he never doesn't pick "massacre." For example, Turkish SuperBatman has no problem drowning a man with his bare hands. And, owing to the film's lack of a special effects, the only way to make this look convincing was to film the actor actually trying to drown someone.
Turkish SuperBatman's power of pool murder is still more heroic than Zack Snyder's Superman and Batman put together.
Raoni would like to thank his good friend Diego Borges for presenting him with a Demir Yumruk Devler Geliyor DVD.
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require "cloud/aws/base/manager"

module RightScale
  module CloudApi
    module AWS

      # Simple Notification Service namespace
      #
      # @api public
      #
      module SNS

        # Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) compatible clouds manager (thread safe).
        #
        # @example
        #  require "right_aws_api"
        #
        #  sns = RightScale::CloudApi::AWS::SNS::Manager.new(
        #    ENV['AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID'],
        #    ENV['AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY'],
        #    'https://sns.us-east-1.amazonaws.com')
        #
        # @example
        #  sns.CreateTopic('Name' => 'myNewTopic') #=>
        #    {"CreateTopicResponse"=>
        #      {"@xmlns"=>"http://sns.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-03-31/",
        #       "CreateTopicResult"=>
        #        {"TopicArn"=>"arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:826693181925:myNewTopic"},
        #       "ResponseMetadata"=>{"RequestId"=>"ba2c7170-8d8f-11e1-99c8-cd4871234eac"}}}
        #
        # @example
        #  sns.ListSubscriptions #=>
        #    {"ListSubscriptionsResponse"=>
        #      {"@xmlns"=>"http://sns.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-03-31/",
        #       "ListSubscriptionsResult"=>{"Subscriptions"=>nil},
        #       "ResponseMetadata"=>{"RequestId"=>"8d53941d-8d8f-11e1-a165-a1021f73c0e5"}}}
        #
        # @see ApiManager
        # @see http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/sns/latest/api/API_Operations.html
        #
        class Manager < AWS::Manager
        end

        # Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) compatible clouds manager (thread unsafe).
        #
        # @see Manager
        #
        class  ApiManager < AWS::ApiManager

          # Default API version for SNS service.
          # To override the API version use :api_version key when instantiating a manager.
          #
          DEFAULT_API_VERSION = '2010-03-31'

          error_pattern :abort_on_timeout,     :path     => /Action=(Create)/
          error_pattern :retry,                :response => /InternalError|Unavailable/i
          error_pattern :disconnect_and_abort, :code     => /5..|403|408/
          error_pattern :disconnect_and_abort, :code     => /4../, :if => Proc.new{ |opts| rand(100) < 10 }

          set :response_error_parser => Parser::AWS::ResponseErrorV2

          cache_pattern :verb  => /get|post/,
                        :path  => /Action=List/,
                        :if    => Proc::new{ |o| (o[:params].keys - COMMON_QUERY_PARAMS)._blank? },
                        :key   => Proc::new{ |o| o[:params]['Action'] },
                        :sign  => Proc::new{ |o| o[:response].body.to_s.sub(%r{<RequestId>.+?</RequestId>}i,'') }
        end
      end

    end
  end
end

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Designed to provide complete protection to the person working on the mezzanine. Various sizes available.
A weldless, cost-effective safety rail system made of galvanised steel or aluminium.
A self-closing industrial gate made of galvanised steel.
Suitable for openings for up to 1.8m.
Mobile or fixed, our range of step-overs and work platforms will help you tackle any obstruction in the warehouse.
Solutions to improve warehouse safety include handrails, barriers, protectors, gates and platforms (mobile and static). Ideally, these systems should be highly visible, easy and quick to put together to reduce down-time, and corrosion resistant (especially if installed outdoors or corrosion-prone environments).
Railings are a straight-forward way of separating pedestrian areas from vehicle traffic or other zones that require extra precautions.
An uncomplicated way to build railings (in any configuration you need) is to use a Kee Klamp system. The fittings and tube connect to each other simply, without requiring any welding: all you need is an Allen key. Being made of galvanised steel, they are also corrosion resistant.
We can help you configure a warehouse railing system in no time: get in touch or see our range of pre-assembled handrail posts that you can purchase directly online.
Industrial gates provide safe access to various areas of the warehouse.
Where an obstacle cannot be removed (ie it is part of the building or part of the warehouse logistics system or services), step-over platforms or working platforms are suitable, easy-to-install solutions that could help you make work more efficient.
Mobile work platforms are portable work spaces that can be designed to any size.
Machinery collision in a warehouse can significantly affect operations: besides posing a risk for staff health and safety, accidents can also cause significant down time, decreasing general productivity. High-vis barriers will help machine operators prevent accidents.
In the event barriers get hit by machinery, these are easy to replace as they do not need any fabrication on site. They will also provide protection from direct impact for storage areas, pipes, poles, corners or any other structures.
Pallet gates are usually designed to provide protection to the person working on the mezzanine.
These ensure that users are not exposed to fall hazards when handling pallets at height. If your warehouse requires pallet handling at height, using a mezzanine gate will simplify operations and ensure staff safety.
Ideally, choose an easy-to-install, low-maintenance mezzanine system.
Step-overs and mobile work platforms can help workers tackle obstacles in a warehouse, but they can also act as platforms that will aid the safe storage of items at height.
Using them with a self-closing industrial gate will improve the safety of workers in a warehouse.
No matter what systems you decide to use for your warehouse or factory, adequate safety training, protective workwear and equipment, as well as designated routes and walkways will also play a key role in keeping your team safe and sound. The Kee Safety range of products will help to minimise and manage the risk of damage or injury to your building or warehouse where the risk cannot be designed out or avoided.
A range of high vis upright protectors for corners, racking units, posts and pipes.
Single, double, full height gates. Available in plain galvanised steel or powder-coated galvanised steel.
Safe access gates for mezzanines and platforms.
Mobile work platforms are adaptable, portable work spaces that allow elevated stable access where ladders or standard practices are not easily implemented.
Designed to provide a safe means of access up and over obstructions. Configurable to suit any layout.


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Iran, Impossible? by American Scholar, Dr. Michael Ledeen.
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Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:02 am Post subject: Iran, Impossible? by American Scholar, Dr. Michael Ledeen.
Iran, Impossible?
Nope. The mullahs will go the way of the Evil Empire.
After years of baffling silence, George Will has finally written about Iran. His guide is the justly celebrated Azar Nafisi, but her one-liner Will used to portray contemporary Iran � "What differentiated this revolution from the other totalitarian revolutions of the twentieth century was that it came in the name of the past" � demonstrates a serious misunderstanding of the past (the F�hrer's movement was every bit as anti-modern as Khomeini's) and thus of the future (both forms of fascism being quite capable of asserting a terrible revolutionary claim on the destiny of all mankind and unleashing their murderous hatred on a global scale).
Worse, Mr. Will tosses off a dismissive pronunciamento so absolute and categorical that he implies it is writ in the very nature of things: "There is no plausible path to achieving (regime change in Iran)." Why? Because "the regime-changers have their hands full with the unfinished project next door to Iran."
He'd have done better to concentrate his great talent and energy on preventing major-league baseball from reaching Washington, D.C. The claim that the United States cannot possibly bring about the fall of clerical fascism in Tehran is as silly as similar claims directed at Ronald Reagan when he set about bringing an end to the evil Soviet Empire. Indeed, skepticism about our determination to defeat Soviet Communism was far more justifiable than doubts about the thoroughly plausible path to end the Iranian mullahcracy. For only a small minority of the oppressed peoples of the Soviet Empire were ever willing to openly challenge the Kremlin � as, for that matter, were the people in the Philippines under the Marcos kleptocracy, or in Yugoslavia under the mad Milosevic. Yet all came crashing down, defeated by their own people, who were inspired and supported by Americans.
In Iran today, upwards of 70 percent of the population is openly hostile to the regime, vocally desirous of freedom and democracy, and bravely supportive of the Bush Doctrine to bring democratic revolution to the entire region.
If we could bring down the Soviet Empire by inspiring and supporting a small percentage of the people, surely the chances of successful revolution in Iran are more likely. By orders of magnitude. "No plausible path," my derriere! (as Senateur Kerry might put it). Ask Comrade Gorbachev about the power of democratic revolution before you write off the Iranian people.
I think that Mr. Will got it wrong because he assumes that regime change implies military conquest. But we don't need armies of fighting American men and women to liberate Tehran; the foot soldiers are Iranians, and they are already on the ground, awaiting good leadership with a clear battle plan. The war against the Iranian terror masters will be political, not military. The weapons that will end the dreadful tyranny � so well described by Mr. Will and Mrs. Nafisi � are ideas and passions, not missiles and bullets. To our great shame, we have failed to support the Iranians' battle against their hated regime, but that is a failure of will, not a failure of means.
Mr. Will believes it inevitable that Iran will become a nuclear power in the near future, and this may well be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Surely the United Nations, the British, and the Europeans are doing everything possible to bring it to fulfillment. But this is a fallacy of "static" thinking in a rapidly changing world. South Africa and Ukraine were members of the nuclear club when they were oppressive tyrannies, but scrapped their nukes when they became free. It is certainly true that the current Iranian regime will stop at nothing until they have atomic bombs, but a free Iran might well make a different choice.
Most importantly, there is a huge difference between atomic bombs in the hands of fanatical mullahs, and atomic bombs controlled by a pro-Western and democratic country. Mr. Will says it is "surreal" for Condoleezza Rice to discuss the Iranian nuclear program in terms of what we can "allow" Iran to do, I suppose because he is convinced we have no plausible path to prevent it. That may or may not be true; I don't know if there is a politically acceptable military option, and I agree that diplomacy cannot possibly derail the mullahs' mad atomic march. But it is at least equally "surreal" to dismiss the prospects of democratic revolution in Iran, and thereby join the ranks of the appeasers.
If Reagan had listened to this sort of criticism � and there was no shortage of it in the early '80s � Gorbachev would still be managing the gulags and funding Communist movements all over the world. If Bush accepts George Will's view of Iran, we will soon see the world's primary sponsor of terror armed with atomic bombs.
It is not inevitable. We can beat them. Delay costs lives, both ours and those of the brave Iranians who challenge clerical fascism.
Faster, please.
Michael Ledeen, an NRO contributing editor, is most recently the author of The War Against the Terror Masters. Ledeen is Resident Scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute
Haleh -
There can only be ONE Iran, a FREE one.
Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:15 am Post subject:
Thanks Haleh !
Referendum AFTER Regime Change
"I'm ready to die for you to be able to say your own opinions, even if i strongly disagree with you" (Voltaire)
Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:35 pm Post subject: George Will
George Will is right to conclude that Terrorist Ayatollahs are tough targets!
His conclusion is based on a keen observation of the history of Ayatollahs, and their rise to power: An observation most of us missed!
What George Will is referring to (perhaps unintentionally) is the FACT that those who have helped bring Ayatollahs inot power are still very much in control of Global Politics, and still very much in need of the Ayatollahs and a continual looting of Iran's many resources, continual control of Middle East infact by holding the power in Iran (in the name of Islam!).
That's what "Green Belt" meant. Something we managed to miss!
The Green Islamic Belt was not about defeat of Communism_ Russian Empire was already a collapsed regime at the time, and EU power figures knew of it and the need to REPLACE IT.
The Green Islamic Belt, as we can see today, was suppose to replace the weaker Red Belt wrapping around America's Neck!
When potential "trators" like Carter were buying into the EU Plot and agreeing to help out, they probably didn't know what they are getting into.
I assume this because it's hard to imagine an American President knowingly puts the Green Belt around America's Neck! (although I could be wrong; there are all kind of people in the world who would do just that for hard Ca$h and lots of it)
So! Mr. George Will is merely pointing out to a historic fact the rest of us tend to ignore: That the same Dark Forces who planned Islamic Coup, and helped the Rist of Islamic Terrorist Regimes and their Thugs & Mafia into power, are still very much alive and in charge of the Global Events.
That's why some of us believe without exposure of events and powers behind Islamist Fascists' Reign in Iran and Middle East there is not much chance we can truely win this battle, and not fall into more traps in the long run!
It also refers to another Fact that:
The Mullahs will fall on their face the minute such Powers stop flirting with them and using them for their gains.
Long live Iran.
George Will thinks that Iran is not capable of Regime Change and Michael Ledeen and the neocons would be "dreamers" according to him..
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:06 am Post subject: Mullahs have powerful supporters
Whoever gave the false documents on Iraq and then killed their scientist, did not mean to Help U.S. in any ways, but to BUY TIME for MULLAHS.
now go figure how much these dirty Mullahs are worth for some of the Powers. the more influential powers behind the world political scenes, I might add.
Againt I point out to the backwardness of attacking on Mullahs while they are still running Embassies in EU/UK and all over the world, while they still have diplomatic Immunity. Such Terrorists that deserv to be bombed, with DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY! now isn't that the most ironic of all politics?
When is a time to close down the terrorist IRI's embassy, for God's sake?
When will "Lucrative Deals" with Mullahs end?
After throwing Nukes at Iran and leveling the whole country?
You know we won't sit there and watch an entire nation suffer the effects of Nuclear bombs and pollutions. If you think there will be any oil wells left for UK to plunder it after our country's destroyed, think again.
Either UK/EU/U.S. dirty politicians drop their support of the ayatollahs and let the nation live freely, or we will HAVE TO destroy all the oil wells just so we can live free of Colonialism.
If the so called "opposition groups" are so weak to do so, they can sit there and watch the oil fields burn while sippin tea with Mr. Brezensky!
We're had enought of all POLITICS. all of you can kiss the Humanity's Sacred A$$. and Go to HELL with the Khomeinis, the Hitlers, the Bin Ladens and the rest of Fascist-Colonialist Gang you've helped to create.
there there.
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:36 am Post subject: we've had it!
Again, whoever bought this TIME for dirty Mullahs, also helped them get their hands on Nuclear Scientists and facilities.
On the news--> Saddam had sent it's Nuclear Scientists to Syria before the attack.
Wow! So in his last minutes he was still making deals!
instead of saving his A$$ he was worried about Mullahs Nuclear facilities!
or those who worried about loosing their lucrative ayatollahs signed yet another dirty deal with saddam?
who else was told to sell nuclear science to the ayatollahs?
another so called "ally" of U.S.! Pakistan.
Pakistan is a creation of Colonialist Brits. It was their farewell gift to India, so to speak! That and the whole blood bath, which is a continuous theme everytime Colonialists are forced out!
What do you think UK has for us as farewell gift? what esle: a Nuclear disaster, and more blood bath!
Now anyone can still justify "TALKS" with UK?
Try this line:
DROP THE FRIGGIN AYATOLLAHS OR WE'LL BOMB THE HELL OUT OF ALL THE OIL FIELDS.
now that's the way to carry on a "DIALOGUE" with Colonialist UK.
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:46 am Post subject: To Israel:
To the Government of Israel,
with Love & Respect:
None of your threats to drop bombs on nuclear facilities or ayatollahs headquarters is going to be effective.
The ayatollahs WANT you to bomb Iran.
They're literary BEGGIN you to start a war!
And the Colonialist Fascists of EU/UK would love to see both our nations in more war and chaos, and destroyed!
YOU WANT TO TALK POLITICS?
THREATEN THAT YOU WILL BOMB THE OIL WELLS!
now that's called EFFECTIVE POLITICS!
they don't expect it, and are not yet prepared to Re-Act.
And our nation is smart enough to get by for a while without the oil.
DO IT ISRAEL. LET'S EXPOSE ALL THE FACES BEHIND THE AYATOLLAHS.
LET THEIR MOUTH DROP TO THE GROUND!
LET THE FASCISTS KNOW HOW FAR IS TOO FAR!
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 12:01 pm Post subject:
Mr. George Will is merely pointing out to a historic fact the rest of us tend to ignore: That the same Dark Forces who planned Islamic Coup, and helped the Rist of Islamic Terrorist Regimes and their Thugs & Mafia into power, are still very much alive and in charge of the Global Events.- Persian
To some extend I agree. Also, Iraq was a derailmaent and a distraction from the real war on terror, assuming anyone was actually interested in fighting a real war on terror.
I disagree, because it has enouraged the Iranians to ask the same (Regime Change) for their country.
One less dictator is better.
Spenta wrote:
Spenta, I agree - After Afghanistan should've focused on the Mullahs - not Saddam..
IRANIANS UNITE
PERSIA LIVES ON!!
FREE IRAN NOW!
But i don't cry because i wouldn't have left 27 millions of people being tortured and killed.
One less dictator is good!
Amir Taheri says it well in his recent editorial.
First Afghanistan,then Iraq, then now Iran... and then SYRIA and SAUDI ARABIA,
Coz all the terrorism will NOT be gone till all these regimes have been destroyed.
I don't believe that Regime Change in Iran will finish everything.
Syria and SA are next..
Next after the Islamic Regime of course..
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject: Drop the Mullahs! or NO MORE OIL WELLS!
THE FORCES OF FASCISM AND COLONIALISM
REFUSE TO DROP THEIR HAND MADE PUPPET
AYATOLLAHS!
http://www.iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2004&m=09&d=26&a=3
THE ONLY WAY OUT:
IF ANYTHING SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU MY NATION!
IF MORE DISASTER SHOULD BEFALL UPON YOU!
ELIMINATE THE OIL WELLS
WE WILL NOT GO DOWN QUIETLY
WE WILL TAKE OUR OIL WELLS WITH US!
BE SURE TO SPREAD THE WORD.
stefania wrote:
Stefania - don't be so simplistic and speak as though these things are natural evolutions of one another. The fact of the matter is the MULLAHS ARE THE MAIN PROBLEM - and a true government by the Iranian people in Iran that is free and fair will be a major blow to all fanatics and terrorists everywhere. The concept of "One Less DIctator" is kind of faulty logic because the definition of a "dictator" in many of the situations throughout the world is relative. One people's dicator is another people's hero / savior.
Saddam was a pansy ass - he was weak - he was a woosie..
The Mullahs on the other hand are the kingpins of international terror and hate and should, as Michael Ledeen has been saying for years and we've all been saying, disposed of by the Iranian people with America's support.
Europe NEEDS TO WAKE THE F UP and STAND WITH THE UNITED STATES
i AGREE.. WHAT HAVE I ALWAYS BEEN SAYING HERE?
I HAVE BEEN SAYING AND STILL SAY THAT THE MULLAHS ARE THE MAIN PROBLEM.
BUT I AM HAPPY THAT SADDAM IS GONE AND THE TALIBAN TOO.
AND I THINK THAT IRAN MUST BE NEXT IN THE LIST.
AND AFTER, IT WILL BE SAUDI ARABIA AND SYRIA'S TURN
BECAUSE THE PROBLEM WILL NOT BE COMPLETED ELIMINATED WITHOUT REGIME CHANGE IN ALL THOSE COUNTRIES ALSO.
It all could've been achieved with less cost in re: to lives.. Anyhow, lets see wehat happens this week!!!!
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