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Why in the world would Eric Holder, John Kerry and especialy
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For Neighbors of Top Officials, Extra Security and Extra Challenges
Cars belonging to Secretary of State John Kerry's security detail outside his house in Washington on Wednesday. Their engines are always on, so they are ready to go at a moment's notice.
July 17, 2014
WASHINGTON — Outside Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s Northwest Washington colonial and Secretary of State John Kerry’s historic Georgetown Federal, armed security guards wait with car engines humming.
The motorcades idle so they are ready to shepherd Mr. Kerry and Mr. Holder to their offices or planes at a moment’s notice. But well after Mr. Kerry and Mr. Holder are on their way, some black S.U.V.s linger round the clock in their neighborhoods, engines on, ready to react should anyone take a step too close to the houses the agents protect.
Most neighbors say they like it that way.
“It gives a sense of security,” said Eric Mielants, who considered buying an alarm system for his house around the corner from Mr. Holder, but instead decided to count on the attorney general’s detail. “It’s never a bother, really. Quite the opposite.”
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. Not all of his neighbors are happy about the idling S.U.V.s.
Mandel Ngan / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The celebrities of the nation’s capital, unlike those who enjoy the secluded realms of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, often live cheek-by-jowl with more ordinary Washingtonians. Many administration officials do not make the kind of money that buys walled-off privacy, or like Mr. Kerry they live in cobblestoned urban density. The result of this peculiar mix of geography and demography is that the protectors of Washington officialdom are sometimes at odds with the tax lawyer who is simply trying to turn into his own driveway.
In the gated Georgetown community of Hillandale, neighbors who have protested the security arrangements for Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, found themselves on the front page of The Wall Street Journal last month in an article that quickly spread online. Although the complaints were more personal than usual — one resident objected to the “doughnut bellies” on Ms. Yellen’s blue-uniformed security detail — they were also familiar. Some of the residents in Mr. Holder’s Spring Valley neighborhood said they did not like the perpetual noise of the running motors, and one of Mr. Kerry’s neighbors said the permanent presence of the security alternated between “useless” and “over the top.”
But most relationships are not nearly as adversarial in a city accustomed to White House motorcades that routinely hold up traffic, cordoned-off buildings after bomb scares and police helicopters’ whirring overhead. In some neighborhoods, the longer the security detail loiters, the more friends the detail makes.
“They’ve sort of become part of the neighborhood,” said one of Mr. Holder’s neighbors, referring to an F.B.I. agent by her first name. “We’ll miss them when they’re gone.”
The good will has not come unearned. Some security officers knock on neighbors’ doors and introduce themselves when they first arrive in a neighborhood, said John C. Murphy, who led Secretary of State Colin L. Powell’s security detail. Former members of details emphasized how important it is to charm the neighbors, who are also a crucial source of potential intelligence.
“If you alienate people, they’re just going to say to hell with you and not tell you what’s going on,” said Dan Emmett, who wrote “Within Arm’s Length,” a book based on his 21 years as a Secret Service agent.
In Mr. Holder’s neighborhood, his security detail initially had a permanent station in front of Mr. Mielants’s house, a few doors down from Mr. Holder. So when a school bus dropped off Mr. Mielants’s young son at home after his first day of elementary school, rather than on a nearby street corner where Mr. Mielants was waiting, the F.B.I. agent protecting Mr. Holder took the boy in tow and walked him to his father. The agents have also given Mr. Mielants’s children fake security badges as gifts.
On a recent day, one of Mr. Holder’s agents moved a misplaced recycling bin from a neighbor’s driveway so the neighbor could turn into it without getting out of his car. Agents have also helped elderly residents take their trash cans out to the street and given dog biscuits to a gardener walking the family pet.
Elizabeth Barth, who lives a few doors down from Mr. Holder, said the agents even chased away men who seemed ready to steal her car last summer.
The biggest benefit, neighbors say, is enjoying Mr. Holder’s security without being Mr. Holder.
In Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s neighborhood in Chevy Chase, Md., just over the border from Washington, the Montgomery County police roam the community as a supplement to the security detail that drives Chief Justice Roberts to and from the Supreme Court. Neighbors say it gives them peace of mind.
“They don’t send that car because they like me,” said one neighbor, who asked not to be identified talking about Chief Justice Roberts’ security arrangements. “They send that car because they want to keep an eye on the house when the security detail’s not there.”
Some neighbors of Washington’s well protected complain that the security details could actually be more substantial than they are. Ronald Bauman, a neighbor of Mr. Kerry, said that despite the block’s 24-hour surveillance and a private Georgetown security force that already patrols the neighborhood, there is still local crime. The three cars stationed between cones on the narrow street in front of Mr. Kerry’s home do not seem to be much of a deterrent, he said.
And those who benefit from the security details also worry about their intrusiveness. Ms. Barth, the neighbor of Mr. Holder who praised the agents for chasing away the car thieves, said the security came hand-in-hand with life in the detail’s sightlines.
“They’re also watching you,” she said.
Ms. Barth’s husband, Richard, said he once ended up by mistake in the middle of Mr. Kerry’s convoy when he was returning home — and soon found himself getting a tongue-lashing. Mr. Bauman said he also had to navigate through Vietnam War veterans protesting during Mr. Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign and through security agents when Mr. Kerry’s wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, invites prominent guests.
After the inconveniences, Mr. Bauman said the Kerrys had their employees knock on neighborhood doors with bags of candy as peace offerings. “The Kerrys have tried to be gracious in a very condescending way,” he said.
Perhaps the most common reaction in Washington to the security details of the powerful is a yawn.
In McLean, Va., neighbors said the detail was unobtrusive for Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who as president pro tempore is third in the line of presidential succession.
And in Chief Justice Roberts’ neighborhood, said Doug Lowenstein, 63, “You could walk down the street 100 times and have no idea the chief lives there.”
#1. FBI. Underboss Patrick Leahy need someone to protect them?
I thought Hitler and Stalin were the only people who used bodyguards?
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For Neighbors of Top Officials, Extra Security and Extra Challenges
Cars belonging to Secretary of State John Kerry's security detail outside his house in Washington on Wednesday. Their engines are always on, so they are ready to go at a moment's notice.
July 17, 2014
WASHINGTON — Outside Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s Northwest Washington colonial and Secretary of State John Kerry’s historic Georgetown Federal, armed security guards wait with car engines humming.
The motorcades idle so they are ready to shepherd Mr. Kerry and Mr. Holder to their offices or planes at a moment’s notice. But well after Mr. Kerry and Mr. Holder are on their way, some black S.U.V.s linger round the clock in their neighborhoods, engines on, ready to react should anyone take a step too close to the houses the agents protect.
Most neighbors say they like it that way.
“It gives a sense of security,” said Eric Mielants, who considered buying an alarm system for his house around the corner from Mr. Holder, but instead decided to count on the attorney general’s detail. “It’s never a bother, really. Quite the opposite.”
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. Not all of his neighbors are happy about the idling S.U.V.s.
Mandel Ngan / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The celebrities of the nation’s capital, unlike those who enjoy the secluded realms of Hollywood and Silicon Valley, often live cheek-by-jowl with more ordinary Washingtonians. Many administration officials do not make the kind of money that buys walled-off privacy, or like Mr. Kerry they live in cobblestoned urban density. The result of this peculiar mix of geography and demography is that the protectors of Washington officialdom are sometimes at odds with the tax lawyer who is simply trying to turn into his own driveway.
In the gated Georgetown community of Hillandale, neighbors who have protested the security arrangements for Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, found themselves on the front page of The Wall Street Journal last month in an article that quickly spread online. Although the complaints were more personal than usual — one resident objected to the “doughnut bellies” on Ms. Yellen’s blue-uniformed security detail — they were also familiar. Some of the residents in Mr. Holder’s Spring Valley neighborhood said they did not like the perpetual noise of the running motors, and one of Mr. Kerry’s neighbors said the permanent presence of the security alternated between “useless” and “over the top.”
But most relationships are not nearly as adversarial in a city accustomed to White House motorcades that routinely hold up traffic, cordoned-off buildings after bomb scares and police helicopters’ whirring overhead. In some neighborhoods, the longer the security detail loiters, the more friends the detail makes.
“They’ve sort of become part of the neighborhood,” said one of Mr. Holder’s neighbors, referring to an F.B.I. agent by her first name. “We’ll miss them when they’re gone.”
The good will has not come unearned. Some security officers knock on neighbors’ doors and introduce themselves when they first arrive in a neighborhood, said John C. Murphy, who led Secretary of State Colin L. Powell’s security detail. Former members of details emphasized how important it is to charm the neighbors, who are also a crucial source of potential intelligence.
“If you alienate people, they’re just going to say to hell with you and not tell you what’s going on,” said Dan Emmett, who wrote “Within Arm’s Length,” a book based on his 21 years as a Secret Service agent.
In Mr. Holder’s neighborhood, his security detail initially had a permanent station in front of Mr. Mielants’s house, a few doors down from Mr. Holder. So when a school bus dropped off Mr. Mielants’s young son at home after his first day of elementary school, rather than on a nearby street corner where Mr. Mielants was waiting, the F.B.I. agent protecting Mr. Holder took the boy in tow and walked him to his father. The agents have also given Mr. Mielants’s children fake security badges as gifts.
On a recent day, one of Mr. Holder’s agents moved a misplaced recycling bin from a neighbor’s driveway so the neighbor could turn into it without getting out of his car. Agents have also helped elderly residents take their trash cans out to the street and given dog biscuits to a gardener walking the family pet.
Elizabeth Barth, who lives a few doors down from Mr. Holder, said the agents even chased away men who seemed ready to steal her car last summer.
The biggest benefit, neighbors say, is enjoying Mr. Holder’s security without being Mr. Holder.
In Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s neighborhood in Chevy Chase, Md., just over the border from Washington, the Montgomery County police roam the community as a supplement to the security detail that drives Chief Justice Roberts to and from the Supreme Court. Neighbors say it gives them peace of mind.
“They don’t send that car because they like me,” said one neighbor, who asked not to be identified talking about Chief Justice Roberts’ security arrangements. “They send that car because they want to keep an eye on the house when the security detail’s not there.”
Some neighbors of Washington’s well protected complain that the security details could actually be more substantial than they are. Ronald Bauman, a neighbor of Mr. Kerry, said that despite the block’s 24-hour surveillance and a private Georgetown security force that already patrols the neighborhood, there is still local crime. The three cars stationed between cones on the narrow street in front of Mr. Kerry’s home do not seem to be much of a deterrent, he said.
And those who benefit from the security details also worry about their intrusiveness. Ms. Barth, the neighbor of Mr. Holder who praised the agents for chasing away the car thieves, said the security came hand-in-hand with life in the detail’s sightlines.
“They’re also watching you,” she said.
Ms. Barth’s husband, Richard, said he once ended up by mistake in the middle of Mr. Kerry’s convoy when he was returning home — and soon found himself getting a tongue-lashing. Mr. Bauman said he also had to navigate through Vietnam War veterans protesting during Mr. Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign and through security agents when Mr. Kerry’s wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, invites prominent guests.
After the inconveniences, Mr. Bauman said the Kerrys had their employees knock on neighborhood doors with bags of candy as peace offerings. “The Kerrys have tried to be gracious in a very condescending way,” he said.
Perhaps the most common reaction in Washington to the security details of the powerful is a yawn.
In McLean, Va., neighbors said the detail was unobtrusive for Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who as president pro tempore is third in the line of presidential succession.
And in Chief Justice Roberts’ neighborhood, said Doug Lowenstein, 63, “You could walk down the street 100 times and have no idea the chief lives there.”
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Bet you know how the Jews felt when the German police were rounding them up for the ovens.
Charles Darwin doesn't really care how you feel, eh?
You are about to go extinct, right Charlie?
a species that hires bodyguards to protect them looses the ability to protect themselves and are doomed to extinction when the bodyguards turn on them.
Married police officers arrested in fatal shooting
August 7. 2014.
TULSA, Okla.— Two Tulsa police officers who are married have been arrested in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man who was walking with their daughter, authorities said.
Jeremy Lake was found shot to death Tuesday night on a street near downtown, Tulsa police department spokeswoman Jillian Roberson said.
Shannon Kepler, 54, was arrested on a complaint of first-degree murder and Gina Kepler, 48, was arrested on a complaint of accessory to murder after the fact. Both were booked Tuesday night in the Tulsa County jail. It wasn't immediately clear whether they have attorneys.
The Keplers are City of Tulsa police officers, have 24 years on the force and were off duty at the time of the shooting, Roberson said.
Lake was walking with the Keplers' 18-year-old daughter, Lisa Kepler, when Shannon Kepler confronted him, Roberson said. An argument ensued and the father lashed out, shooting Lake, Roberson said. Lisa Kepler started to run, and was shot at, but the bullet missed, Roberson said.
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Lisa Kepler said at a news conference Wednesday that her parents had kicked her out of their home a week ago, and she said was living with Lake at the time of the shooting.
"I don't know what could have led them to do this," she said. "They didn't even know Jeremy."
Police Chief Chuck Jordan said in a statement that "the circumstances around this incident drives home the fact that domestic violence is a societal problem and transcends all economic groups."
"I as well as the whole depart
Charles Darwin doesn't really care how you feel, eh?
You are about to go extinct, right Charlie?
a species that hires bodyguards to protect them looses the ability to protect themselves and are doomed to extinction when the bodyguards turn on them.
Married police officers arrested in fatal shooting
August 7. 2014.
TULSA, Okla.— Two Tulsa police officers who are married have been arrested in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man who was walking with their daughter, authorities said.
Jeremy Lake was found shot to death Tuesday night on a street near downtown, Tulsa police department spokeswoman Jillian Roberson said.
Shannon Kepler, 54, was arrested on a complaint of first-degree murder and Gina Kepler, 48, was arrested on a complaint of accessory to murder after the fact. Both were booked Tuesday night in the Tulsa County jail. It wasn't immediately clear whether they have attorneys.
The Keplers are City of Tulsa police officers, have 24 years on the force and were off duty at the time of the shooting, Roberson said.
Lake was walking with the Keplers' 18-year-old daughter, Lisa Kepler, when Shannon Kepler confronted him, Roberson said. An argument ensued and the father lashed out, shooting Lake, Roberson said. Lisa Kepler started to run, and was shot at, but the bullet missed, Roberson said.
This booking photo provided by the -Tulsa County …
This booking photo provided by the -Tulsa County Sherriff's Office shows Shannon Kepler. Authori …
Lisa Kepler said at a news conference Wednesday that her parents had kicked her out of their home a week ago, and she said was living with Lake at the time of the shooting.
"I don't know what could have led them to do this," she said. "They didn't even know Jeremy."
Police Chief Chuck Jordan said in a statement that "the circumstances around this incident drives home the fact that domestic violence is a societal problem and transcends all economic groups."
"I as well as the whole depart
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Praying With Women
What is the worst offense that a religious person can commit? Murder? Rape? Grand theft auto? Nope. According to Catholic Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, the worst thing a Catholic can do is attend a worship service led by a woman.
As Caryn Riswold wrote two weeks ago, Bishop Paprocki has threatened to excommunicate any Catholic who attends a worship service of the Holy Family Inclusive Catholic Community, led by Rev. Mary Keldermans. She was recently ordained as part of the international Roman Catholic Womanpriests movement. One does not have to participate actively in this heretical worship to incur this extreme penalty: attendance alone is sufficient.
The Catholic Church does not automatically excommunicate murderers or rapists or other criminals. That punishment, the worst which the Church can impose, means the offender is excluded from the religious community and may not take communion. It is reserved for the worst offenders – those who pray the wrong way.
Organized and institutional religions all regard praying the wrong way as a capital offense. Deadly religious wars within a faith have a long history. The efforts of a few Christians, like Martin Luther, to reform some of the beliefs and practices of the organized Church in Europe in the 16th century touched off centuries of warfare between Catholics and Protestants.
The schism within the Russian Orthodox Church a bit later developed out of an argument about the proper way to make the sign of the cross, among other similar questions about daily ritual practice. The result was centuries of persecution and exile for those so-called Old Believers, who refused to change their ways.
Jews have done the same thing, although with less violence. Some German Jews tried to bring changes to worship practices in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as translating prayers from Hebrew into German. That caused a split among European Jews into Orthodox and Reform wings. Orthodox Jews continue to control religious observance in Israel, and do not consider reform Jews to be sufficiently Jewish.
The deadly rampages of Muslims in Iraq against other Muslims who worship in a different way, Sunnis vs. Shiites, are making headlines again. Boko Haram terrorists are killing other Muslims in Nigeria.
Murderous hatred between different religions is even greater. Across the world and across the centuries, Christians have killed Jews and Muslims, while Muslims and Hindus have fought in southern Asia. In and around Israel, being Muslim or Jewish is enough to condemn a person to death by the other side. Radical Muslims have declared holy war, jihad, against Westerners.
So Bishop Paprocki is following a long tradition. His anger has been provoked by a very modern issue which divides religious traditionalists of many faiths from reformers – the role of women. When the world’s major religions were institutionalized, human societies subordinated women and excluded them from all leadership positions. Theories and practices were developed to justify women’s unequal place, such as that women represented sexual temptation or that menstruation made them unclean or that they were biologically and intellectually inferior. Over the past two centuries, these social assumptions have been demonstrated to be unscientific and illogical. As our social and political organizations have slowly and certainly reluctantly adapted to this revolution in gender understanding, so have some religious organizations. In many faiths, women now play roles once reserved exclusively for men. The theological dogmas which seemed unchangeable have changed.
Catholicism has changed, too. Until the Hol
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Praying With Women
What is the worst offense that a religious person can commit? Murder? Rape? Grand theft auto? Nope. According to Catholic Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, the worst thing a Catholic can do is attend a worship service led by a woman.
As Caryn Riswold wrote two weeks ago, Bishop Paprocki has threatened to excommunicate any Catholic who attends a worship service of the Holy Family Inclusive Catholic Community, led by Rev. Mary Keldermans. She was recently ordained as part of the international Roman Catholic Womanpriests movement. One does not have to participate actively in this heretical worship to incur this extreme penalty: attendance alone is sufficient.
The Catholic Church does not automatically excommunicate murderers or rapists or other criminals. That punishment, the worst which the Church can impose, means the offender is excluded from the religious community and may not take communion. It is reserved for the worst offenders – those who pray the wrong way.
Organized and institutional religions all regard praying the wrong way as a capital offense. Deadly religious wars within a faith have a long history. The efforts of a few Christians, like Martin Luther, to reform some of the beliefs and practices of the organized Church in Europe in the 16th century touched off centuries of warfare between Catholics and Protestants.
The schism within the Russian Orthodox Church a bit later developed out of an argument about the proper way to make the sign of the cross, among other similar questions about daily ritual practice. The result was centuries of persecution and exile for those so-called Old Believers, who refused to change their ways.
Jews have done the same thing, although with less violence. Some German Jews tried to bring changes to worship practices in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as translating prayers from Hebrew into German. That caused a split among European Jews into Orthodox and Reform wings. Orthodox Jews continue to control religious observance in Israel, and do not consider reform Jews to be sufficiently Jewish.
The deadly rampages of Muslims in Iraq against other Muslims who worship in a different way, Sunnis vs. Shiites, are making headlines again. Boko Haram terrorists are killing other Muslims in Nigeria.
Murderous hatred between different religions is even greater. Across the world and across the centuries, Christians have killed Jews and Muslims, while Muslims and Hindus have fought in southern Asia. In and around Israel, being Muslim or Jewish is enough to condemn a person to death by the other side. Radical Muslims have declared holy war, jihad, against Westerners.
So Bishop Paprocki is following a long tradition. His anger has been provoked by a very modern issue which divides religious traditionalists of many faiths from reformers – the role of women. When the world’s major religions were institutionalized, human societies subordinated women and excluded them from all leadership positions. Theories and practices were developed to justify women’s unequal place, such as that women represented sexual temptation or that menstruation made them unclean or that they were biologically and intellectually inferior. Over the past two centuries, these social assumptions have been demonstrated to be unscientific and illogical. As our social and political organizations have slowly and certainly reluctantly adapted to this revolution in gender understanding, so have some religious organizations. In many faiths, women now play roles once reserved exclusively for men. The theological dogmas which seemed unchangeable have changed.
Catholicism has changed, too. Until the Hol
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Nanoparticles could help deliver a killer blow to cancer
Nanotherapy is showing promise as a means to target chemotherapy, kill tumour cells by heating or enhance the effectiveness of radiotherapy
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Electron micrograph of a breast cancer cell. Iron oxide nanoparticles could be injected into a tumour and heated in an alternating magnetic field. Photograph: Rex
David Cox
Wednesday 13 August 2014 02.00 EDT
A hundred years ago, the outbreak of the first world war saw Europe’s industrial superpowers embark on a technological arms race with increasingly lethal consequences. Over the following four years this would not only revolutionise warfare but have far-reaching consequences for communication, transport and – perhaps most surprisingly – medicine.
In 1943, American pharmacologists Louis Goodman and Alfred Gilman were investigating nitrogen mustard, a descendent of the mustard gas produced on a large scale basis by the German army in 1916, which in addition to being a blister agent had devastating effects on the immune system. Their studies found this chemical agent had the potential to prevent the replication of cancer cells, leading to the very first cancer chemotherapy regimes in the 1950s.
The limitation of chemotherapy has always been that has the potential to harm every cell in the body, rather than merely impacting the rogue tissue. However, over the past decade, the fledgling field of nanotechnology has provided researchers with a technique that may soon allow them to deliver these drugs directly to tumours.
“The reason chemotherapy doesn’t always work is because you can’t give enough of it without exposing the body to too many toxins,” explains Jack Hoopes of the Norris Cotton Cancer Centre in New Hampshire. “So you can’t get enough drug into the tumour to be effective. I think what nanotechnology offers is the ability to target things to individual cancer cells and that’s the future of cancer therapy.”
Nanoparticles could help deliver a killer blow to cancer
Nanotherapy is showing promise as a means to target chemotherapy, kill tumour cells by heating or enhance the effectiveness of radiotherapy
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Electron micrograph of a breast cancer cell. Iron oxide nanoparticles could be injected into a tumour and heated in an alternating magnetic field. Photograph: Rex
David Cox
Wednesday 13 August 2014 02.00 EDT
A hundred years ago, the outbreak of the first world war saw Europe’s industrial superpowers embark on a technological arms race with increasingly lethal consequences. Over the following four years this would not only revolutionise warfare but have far-reaching consequences for communication, transport and – perhaps most surprisingly – medicine.
In 1943, American pharmacologists Louis Goodman and Alfred Gilman were investigating nitrogen mustard, a descendent of the mustard gas produced on a large scale basis by the German army in 1916, which in addition to being a blister agent had devastating effects on the immune system. Their studies found this chemical agent had the potential to prevent the replication of cancer cells, leading to the very first cancer chemotherapy regimes in the 1950s.
The limitation of chemotherapy has always been that has the potential to harm every cell in the body, rather than merely impacting the rogue tissue. However, over the past decade, the fledgling field of nanotechnology has provided researchers with a technique that may soon allow them to deliver these drugs directly to tumours.
“The reason chemotherapy doesn’t always work is because you can’t give enough of it without exposing the body to too many toxins,” explains Jack Hoopes of the Norris Cotton Cancer Centre in New Hampshire. “So you can’t get enough drug into the tumour to be effective. I think what nanotechnology offers is the ability to target things to individual cancer cells and that’s the future of cancer therapy.”
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WCC offering concealed weapons class
Posted 16 minutes ago
Enrollment is now open for a concealed weapons permit course at Wytheville Community College. The training course will be held on Saturday, Aug. 23, on the main campus in Wytheville.
The course is an eight-hour, non-credit class, and it will provide the classroom and range instruction necessary for participants to meet certification requirements to apply for a Concealed Weapons Permit in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The experienced course instructors include retired FBI agent Doug Fender and WCC Police Officer James Spence.
Students are required to provide their own firearm and 50 rounds of ammunition. Students will also be required to purchase two or three targets at the cost of one dollar each. Tuition for the course is $65 per person.
Seating is limited, and preregistration is required. For more information or to register, contact Jane Mitchell at [email protected] or (276) 223-4820 or Brinda Browning at [email protected] or (276) 223-4712.
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FBI Official Gets Six Years - Washington Post
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Mar 13, 2008 - The Metro article incorrectly said that former FBI official Carl L. Spicocchi was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with four years suspended
In a courtroom crowded with his friends from law enforcement, a former FBI official was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for torturing his girlfriend at knifepoint and gunpoint during a six-hour ordeal in her Crystal City high-rise apartment.
Carl L. Spicocchi, 55, a 19-year FBI veteran who had run the Toledo office and was on temporary assignment in Washington, pleaded guilty in Arlington County Circuit Court last year to two felony counts of abduction and using a firearm in the Aug. 23 attack.
"This obviously was a horrific crime," Circuit Court Judge James F. Almand said. "It requires a substantial sentence and a substantial amount of time."
Almand sentenced Spicocchi to 10 years in prison, suspending four of them.
Spicocchi, who is married, believed his girlfriend was dating another man and attacked her in a jealous rage, according to court records. But the girlfriend, who said she was too fearful of Spicocchi to appear in court yesterday, said in a statement that she was not unfaithful.
"He thought she was cheating on him, but she wasn't," said Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Lisa Bergman. The attack "came completely out of the blue," Bergman said.
In the statement, read by Bergman, the woman gave this account: When she came home that day, she found Spicocchi hiding in a closet, armed with a gun and a 10-inch knife. He stripped her and wrapped her in tape, then dragged her around the apartment by her hair. He forced the gun into her mouth and held the knife to her throat. He beat her repeatedly. He told her that he would cut open her veins and that, because of his training, he knew how long it would take the blood to drain from her body.
"He said I had met my match," she said in the statement.
He told her that he planned to kill her and that she would soon join her father, who had died 10 months earlier. He said that he would write a check for $100,000 from her account and flee to South America after she was dead and that he had a plane ticket for a 6 a.m. flight.
Finally, the woman said, she escaped by running into the hall and screaming for help. "The attack on me was unprovoked," she said in her statement. "I feel lucky to have escaped the monster."
She said Spicocchi had told her he had been divorced for four years.
WCC offering concealed weapons class
Posted 16 minutes ago
Enrollment is now open for a concealed weapons permit course at Wytheville Community College. The training course will be held on Saturday, Aug. 23, on the main campus in Wytheville.
The course is an eight-hour, non-credit class, and it will provide the classroom and range instruction necessary for participants to meet certification requirements to apply for a Concealed Weapons Permit in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The experienced course instructors include retired FBI agent Doug Fender and WCC Police Officer James Spence.
Students are required to provide their own firearm and 50 rounds of ammunition. Students will also be required to purchase two or three targets at the cost of one dollar each. Tuition for the course is $65 per person.
Seating is limited, and preregistration is required. For more information or to register, contact Jane Mitchell at [email protected] or (276) 223-4820 or Brinda Browning at [email protected] or (276) 223-4712.
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FBI Official Gets Six Years - Washington Post
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Mar 13, 2008 - The Metro article incorrectly said that former FBI official Carl L. Spicocchi was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with four years suspended
In a courtroom crowded with his friends from law enforcement, a former FBI official was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for torturing his girlfriend at knifepoint and gunpoint during a six-hour ordeal in her Crystal City high-rise apartment.
Carl L. Spicocchi, 55, a 19-year FBI veteran who had run the Toledo office and was on temporary assignment in Washington, pleaded guilty in Arlington County Circuit Court last year to two felony counts of abduction and using a firearm in the Aug. 23 attack.
"This obviously was a horrific crime," Circuit Court Judge James F. Almand said. "It requires a substantial sentence and a substantial amount of time."
Almand sentenced Spicocchi to 10 years in prison, suspending four of them.
Spicocchi, who is married, believed his girlfriend was dating another man and attacked her in a jealous rage, according to court records. But the girlfriend, who said she was too fearful of Spicocchi to appear in court yesterday, said in a statement that she was not unfaithful.
"He thought she was cheating on him, but she wasn't," said Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Lisa Bergman. The attack "came completely out of the blue," Bergman said.
In the statement, read by Bergman, the woman gave this account: When she came home that day, she found Spicocchi hiding in a closet, armed with a gun and a 10-inch knife. He stripped her and wrapped her in tape, then dragged her around the apartment by her hair. He forced the gun into her mouth and held the knife to her throat. He beat her repeatedly. He told her that he would cut open her veins and that, because of his training, he knew how long it would take the blood to drain from her body.
"He said I had met my match," she said in the statement.
He told her that he planned to kill her and that she would soon join her father, who had died 10 months earlier. He said that he would write a check for $100,000 from her account and flee to South America after she was dead and that he had a plane ticket for a 6 a.m. flight.
Finally, the woman said, she escaped by running into the hall and screaming for help. "The attack on me was unprovoked," she said in her statement. "I feel lucky to have escaped the monster."
She said Spicocchi had told her he had been divorced for four years.
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(CNN) -- Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was seriously injured and hospitalized Monday after a single-vehicle accident in Vermont, state police said in a written statement.
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How is these hired mercenaries working out for you?
another reason you pay taxes eh?
You don't think the people in law enforcement who created 911 deliberately picked that day?
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A California State Parks ranger was placed on leave after he was found intoxicated and asleep in his patrol car with a beer between his legs, officials said.
A passerby stumbled upon the ranger, Tyson Young, on the afternoon of Aug. 15 in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, which is off Highway 101 south of Eureka, according to the California Highway Patrol.
After trying unsuccessfully to wake up the ranger, the passerby snapped a picture of Young, who was sleeping soundly with a Keystone Light snugly tucked between his legs. The tipster photographer wished to remain anonymous, said the Lost Coast Outpost, which published the photo.
another reason you pay taxes eh?
You don't think the people in law enforcement who created 911 deliberately picked that day?
Nah!
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State ranger caught dozing with beer between his legs
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A California State Parks ranger was placed on leave after he was found intoxicated and asleep in his patrol car with a beer between his legs, officials said.
A passerby stumbled upon the ranger, Tyson Young, on the afternoon of Aug. 15 in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, which is off Highway 101 south of Eureka, according to the California Highway Patrol.
After trying unsuccessfully to wake up the ranger, the passerby snapped a picture of Young, who was sleeping soundly with a Keystone Light snugly tucked between his legs. The tipster photographer wished to remain anonymous, said the Lost Coast Outpost, which published the photo.
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Nevertheless, in some parts of Spain towards the end of the 14th century, there was a wave of violent anti-Judaism, encouraged by the preaching of Ferrand Martinez, Archdeacon of Ecija. In the pogroms of June 1391 in Seville, hundreds of Jews were killed, and the synagogue was completely destroyed. The number of people killed was also high in other cities, such as Córdoba, Valencia and Barcelona.[2]
One of the consequences of these pogroms was the mass conversion of remaining Jews. Forced baptism was contrary to the law of the Catholic Church, and theoretically anybody who had been forcibly baptized could legally return to Judaism; this however was very narrowly interpreted. Legal definitions of the time theoretically acknowledged that a forced baptism was not a valid sacrament, but confined this to cases where it was literally administered by physical force: a person who had consented to baptism under threat of death or serious injury was still regarded as a voluntary convert, and accordingly forbidden to revert to Judaism.[3] After the public violence, many of the converted "felt it safer to remain in their new religion."[4] Thus after 1391 a new social group appeared and were referred to as conversos or New Christians. Many conversos, now freed from the antisemitic restrictions imposed on Jewish employment, attained important positions in 15th century Spain, including positions in the government and in the Church. Among many others, physicians Andrés Laguna and Francisco Lopez Villalobos (Ferdinand's court physician), writers Juan del Enzina, Juan de Mena, Diego de Valera and Alonso de Palencia, and bankers Luis de Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez (who financed the voyage of Christopher Columbus) were all conversos. Conversos - not without opposition - managed to attain high positions in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, at times becoming severe detractors of Judaism.[5] Some even received titles of nobility, and as a result, during the following century some works attempted to demonstrate that virtually all of the nobles of Spain were descended from Israelites.[6]
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You Are Still Being Lied To: Howard Zinn’s “Columbus and Western Civilization”
October 8, 2012 in News
The following is an excerpt of “Columbus and Western Civilization” written by Howard Zinn that appears in the Disinformation anthology You Are Still Being Lied To edited by Russ Kick.
Author’s Note: In the year 1992, the celebration of Columbus Day was different from previous ones in two ways. First, this was the quincentennial, 500 years after Columbus’ landing in this hemisphere. Second, it was a celebration challenged all over the country by people—many of them native Americans but also others—who had “discovered” a Columbus not worth celebrating, and who were rethinking the traditional glorification of “Western civilization.” I gave this talk at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in October 1991. It was published the following year by the Open Magazine Pamphlet Series with the title “Christopher Columbus & the Myth of Human Progress.”
George Orwell, who was a very wise man, wrote: “Who controls the past controls the future. And who controls the present controls the past.” In other words, those who dominate our society are in a position to write our histories. And if they can do that, they can decide our futures. That is why the telling of the Columbus story is important.
Let me make a confession. I knew very little about Columbus until about twelve years ago, when I began writing my book A People’s History of the United States. I had a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University—that is, I had the proper training of a historian, and what I knew about Columbus was pretty much what I had learned in elementary school.
But when I began to write my People’s History, I decided I must learn about Columbus. I had already concluded that I did not want to write just another overview of American history—I knew my point of view would be different. I was going to write about the United States from the point of view of those people who had been largely neglected in the history books: the indigenous Americans, the black slaves, the women, the working people, whether native or immigrant.
I wanted to tell the story of the nation’s industrial progress from the standpoint, not of Rockefeller and Carnegie and Vanderbilt, but of the people who worked in their mines, their oil fields, who lost their limbs or their lives building the railroads.
I wanted to tell the story of wars, not from the standpoint of generals and presidents, not from the standpoint of those military heroes whose statues you see all over this country, but through the eyes of the G.I.s, or through the eyes of “the enemy.” Yes, why not look at the Mexican War, that great military triumph of the United States, from the viewpoint of the Mexicans?
And so, how must I tell the story of Columbus? I concluded, I must see him through the eyes of the people who were here when he arrived, the people he called “Indians” because he thought he was in Asia.
Well, they left no memoirs, no histories. Their culture was an oral culture, not a written one. Besides, they had been wiped out in a few decades after Columbus’ arrival. So I was compelled to turn to the next best thing: the Spaniards who were on the scene at the time. First, Columbus himself. He had kept a journal.
His journal was revealing. He described the people who greeted him when he landed in the Bahamas—they were Arawak Indians, sometimes called Tainos—and told how they waded out into the sea to greet him and his men, who must have looked and sounded like people from another world, and brought them gifts of various kinds. He described them as peaceable, gentle, and said: “They do not bear arms, and do not know them for I showed them a sword—they took it by the edge and cut themselves.”
Throughout his journal, over the next months, Columbus spoke of the native Americans with what seemed like admiring awe: “They are the best people in the world and above all the gentlest—without knowledge of what is evil—nor do they murder or steal…they love their neighbors as themselves and they have the sweetest talk in the world…always laughing.”
And in a letter he wrote to one of his Spanish patrons, Columbus said: “They are very simple and honest and exceedingly liberal with all they have, none of them refusing anything he may possess when he is asked for it. They exhibit great love toward all others in preference to themselves.” But then, in the midst of all this, in his journal, Columbus writes: “They would make fine servants. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
Yes, this was how Columbus saw the Indians—not as hospitable hosts, but as “servants,” to “do whatever we want.”
And what did Columbus want? This is not hard to determine. In the first two weeks of journal entries, there is one word that recurs 75 times: GOLD.
In the standard accounts of Columbus what is emphasized again and again is his religious feeling, his desire to convert the natives to Christianity, his reverence for the Bible. Yes, he was concerned about God. But more about Gold. Just one additional letter. His was a limited alphabet. Yes, all over the island of Hispaniola, where he, his brothers, his men, spent most of their time, he erected crosses. But also, all over the island, they built gallows—340 of them by the year 1500. Crosses and gallows—that deadly historic juxtaposition.
In his quest for gold, Columbus, seeing bits of gold among the Indians, concluded there were huge amounts of it. He ordered the natives to find a certain amount of gold within a certain period of time. And if they did not meet their quota, their arms were hacked off. The others were to learn from this and deliver the gold.
Samuel Eliot Morison, the Harvard historian who was Columbus’ admiring biographer, acknowledged this. He wrote: “Whoever thought up this ghastly system, Columbus was responsible for it, as the only means of producing gold for export…. Those who fled to the mountains were hunted with hounds, and of those who escaped, starvation and disease took toll, while thousands of the poor creatures in desperation took cassava poison to end their miseries.”
Morison continues: “So the policy and acts of Columbus for which he alone was responsible began the depopulation of the terrestrial paradise that was Hispaniola in 1492. Of the original natives, estimated by a modern ethnologist at 300,000 in number, one-third were killed off between 1494 and 1496. By 1508, an enumeration showed only 60,000 alive…. in 1548 Oviedo [Morison is referring to Fernandez de Oviedo, the official Spanish historian of the conquest] doubted whether 500 Indians remained.”
But Columbus could not obtain enough gold to send home to impress the King and Queen and his Spanish financiers, so he decided to send back to Spain another kind of loot: slaves. They rounded up about 1,200 natives, selected 500, and these were sent, jammed together, on the voyage across the Atlantic. Two hundred died on the way, of cold, of sickness.
In Columbus’ journal, an entry of September 1498 reads: “From here one might send, in the name of the Holy Trinity, as many slaves as could be sold…”
What the Spaniards did to the Indians is told in horrifying detail by Bartolomé de las Casas, whose writings give the most thorough account of the Spanish-Indian encounter. Las Casas was a Dominican priest who came to the New World a few years after Columbus, spent 40 years on Hispaniola and nearby islands, and became the leading advocate in Spain for the rights of the natives. Las Casas, in his book The Devastation of the Indies, writes of the Arawaks: “…of all the infinite universe of humanity, these people are the most guileless, the most devoid of wickedness and duplicity…yet into this sheepfold…there came some Spaniards who immediately behaved like ravening beasts…. Their reason for killing and destroying…is that the Christians have an ultimate aim which is to acquire gold…”
The cruelties multiplied. Las Casas saw soldiers stabbing Indians for sport, dashing babies’ heads on rocks. And when the Indians resisted, the Spaniards hunted them down, equipped for killing with horses, armor plate, lances, pikes, rifles, crossbows, and vicious dogs. Indians who took things belonging to the Spaniards—they were not accustomed to the concept of private ownership and gave freely of their own possessions—were beheaded or burned at the stake.
Las Casas’ testimony was corroborated by other eyewitnesses. A group of Dominican friars, addressing the Spanish monarchy in 1519, hoping for the Spanish government to intercede, told about unspeakable atrocities, children thrown to dogs to be devoured, newborn babies born to women prisoners flung into the jungle to die.
Forced labor in the mines and on the land led to much sickness and death. Many children died because their mothers, overworked and starved, had no milk for them. Las Casas, in Cuba, estimated that 7,000 children died in three months.
The greatest toll was taken by sickness, because the Europeans brought with them diseases against which the natives had no immunity: typhoid, typhus, diphtheria, smallpox.
As in any military conquest, women came in for especially brutal treatment. One Italian nobleman named Cuneo recorded an early sexual encounter. The “Admiral” he refers to is Columbus, who, as part of his agreement with the Spanish monarchy, insisted he be made an Admiral. Cuneo wrote:
…I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me and with whom…I conceived desire to take pleasure. I wanted to put my desire into execution but she did not want it and treated me with her finger nails in such a manner that I wished I had never begun. But seeing that, I took a rope and thrashed her well…. Finally we came to an agreement.
There is other evidence which adds up to a picture of widespread rape of native women. Samuel Eliot Morison wrote: “In the Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola they found young and beautiful women, who everywhere were naked, in most places accessible, and presumably complaisant.” Who presumes this? Morison, and so many others.
Morison saw the conquest as so many writers after him have done, as one of the great romantic adventures of world history. He seemed to get carried away by what appeared to him as a masculine conquest. He wrote:
Never again may mortal men hope to recapture the amazement, the wonder, the delight of those October days in 1492, when the new world gracefully yielded her virginity to the conquering Castilians.
The language of Cuneo (“we came to an agreement”), and of Morison (“gracefully yielded”) written almost 500 years apart, surely suggests how persistent through modern history has been the mythology that rationalizes sexual brutality by seeing it as “complaisant.”
So, I read Columbus’ journal, I read las Casas. I also read Hans Koning’s pioneering work of our time—Columbus: His Enterprise, which, at the time I wrote my People’s History, was the only contemporary account I could find which departed from the standard treatment.
When my book appeared, I began to get letters from all over the country about it. Here was a book of 600 pages, starting with Columbus, ending with the 1970s, but most of the letters I got from readers were about one subject: Columbus. I could have interpreted this to mean that, since this was the very beginning of the book, that’s all these people had read. But no, it seemed that the Columbus story was simply the part of my book that readers found most startling. Because every American, from elementary school on, learns the Columbus story, and learns it the same way: “In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-Two, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue.”
How many of you have heard of Tigard, Oregon? Well, I didn’t until, about seven years ago, I began receiving, every semester, a bunch of letters, 20 or 30, from students at one high school in Tigard. It seems that their teacher was having them (knowing high schools, I almost said “forcing them”) read my People’s History. He was photocopying a number of chapters and giving them to the students. And then he had them write letters to me, with comments and questions. Roughly half of them thanked me for giving them data which they had never seen before. The others were angry, or wondered how I got such information, and how I had arrived at such outrageous conclusions.
One high school student named Bethany wrote: “Out of all the articles that I’ve read of yours I found ‘Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress’ the most shocking.” Another student named Brian, seventeen years old, wrote: “An example of the confusion I feel after reading your article concerns Columbus coming to America…. According to you, it seems he came for women, slaves, and gold. You say that Columbus physically abused the Indians that didn’t help him find gold. You’ve said you have gained a lot of this information from Columbus’ own journal. I am wondering if there is such a journal, and if so, why isn’t it part of our history. Why isn’t any of what you say in my history book, or in history books people have access to each day?”
I pondered this letter. It could be interpreted to mean that the writer was indignant that no other history books had told him what I did. Or, as was more likely, he was saying: “I don’t believe a word of what you wrote! You made this up!”
I am not surprised at such reactions. It tells something about the claims of pluralism and diversity in American culture, the pride in our “free society,” that generation after generation has learned exactly the same set of facts about Columbus, and finished their education with the same glaring omissions.
A school teacher in Portland, Oregon, named Bill Bigelow has undertaken a crusade to change the way the Columbus story is taught all over America. He tells of how he sometimes starts a new class. He goes over to a girl sitting in the front row, and takes her purse. She says: “You took my purse!” Bigelow responds: “No, I discovered it.”
Bill Bigelow did a study of recent children’s books on Columbus. He found them remarkably alike in their repetition of the traditional point of view. A typical fifth-grade biography of Columbus begins: “There once was a boy who loved the salty sea.” Well! I can imagine a children’s biography of Attila the Hun beginning with the sentence: “There once was a boy who loved horses.”
Another children’s book in Bigelow’s study, this time for second-graders: “The King and Queen looked at the gold and the Indians. They listened in wonder to Columbus’ stories of adventure. Then they all went to church to pray and sing. Tears of joy filled Columbus’ eyes.”
I once spoke about Columbus to a workshop of school teachers, and one of them suggested that school children were too young to hear of the horrors recounted by las Casas and others. Other teachers disagreed, said children’s stories include plenty of violence, but the perpetrators are witches and monsters and “bad people,” not national heroes who have holidays named after them.
Some of the teachers made suggestions on how the truth could be told in a way that would not frighten children unnecessarily, but that would avoid the falsification of history now taking place.
The argument about children “not being ready to hear the truth” does not account for the fact that in American society, when the children grow up, they still are not told the truth. As I said earlier, right up through graduate school I was not presented with the information that would counter the myths told to me in the early grades. And it is clear that my experience is typical, judging from the shocked reactions to my book that I have received from readers of all ages.
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Read more of Howard Zinn’s “Columbus and Western Civilization” and other thought-provoking essays from a variety of contriubtors in Russ Kick’s You Are Still Being Lied To, available on Amazon and in all good bookstores.
In You Are Still Being Lied To, An unprecedented group of researchers including Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Howard Bloom, Sydney Schanberg, Michael Parenti, Riane Eisler, Jim Marrs, and many, many others-investigative reporters, political dissidents, academics, media watchdogs, scientist-philosophers, social critics, and rogue scholars-paints a picture of a world where crucial stories are ignored or actively suppressed and the official version of events has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. A world where real dangers are downplayed and nonexistent dangers are trumpeted. In short, a world where you are being lied to.
while Christians killed and tortured Muslims, Bahai's,Christian Scientists and Jews" says Chris Columbus.
"That is why I had a concealed permit to carry smallpox
to the native Americans when I invaded their country for
Christ and Isabella". confesses Chris the hun Columbus.
2. reads brought to you by Glock
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Nevertheless, in some parts of Spain towards the end of the 14th century, there was a wave of violent anti-Judaism, encouraged by the preaching of Ferrand Martinez, Archdeacon of Ecija. In the pogroms of June 1391 in Seville, hundreds of Jews were killed, and the synagogue was completely destroyed. The number of people killed was also high in other cities, such as Córdoba, Valencia and Barcelona.[2]
One of the consequences of these pogroms was the mass conversion of remaining Jews. Forced baptism was contrary to the law of the Catholic Church, and theoretically anybody who had been forcibly baptized could legally return to Judaism; this however was very narrowly interpreted. Legal definitions of the time theoretically acknowledged that a forced baptism was not a valid sacrament, but confined this to cases where it was literally administered by physical force: a person who had consented to baptism under threat of death or serious injury was still regarded as a voluntary convert, and accordingly forbidden to revert to Judaism.[3] After the public violence, many of the converted "felt it safer to remain in their new religion."[4] Thus after 1391 a new social group appeared and were referred to as conversos or New Christians. Many conversos, now freed from the antisemitic restrictions imposed on Jewish employment, attained important positions in 15th century Spain, including positions in the government and in the Church. Among many others, physicians Andrés Laguna and Francisco Lopez Villalobos (Ferdinand's court physician), writers Juan del Enzina, Juan de Mena, Diego de Valera and Alonso de Palencia, and bankers Luis de Santangel and Gabriel Sanchez (who financed the voyage of Christopher Columbus) were all conversos. Conversos - not without opposition - managed to attain high positions in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, at times becoming severe detractors of Judaism.[5] Some even received titles of nobility, and as a result, during the following century some works attempted to demonstrate that virtually all of the nobles of Spain were descended from Israelites.[6]
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You Are Still Being Lied To: Howard Zinn’s “Columbus and Western Civilization”
October 8, 2012 in News
The following is an excerpt of “Columbus and Western Civilization” written by Howard Zinn that appears in the Disinformation anthology You Are Still Being Lied To edited by Russ Kick.
Author’s Note: In the year 1992, the celebration of Columbus Day was different from previous ones in two ways. First, this was the quincentennial, 500 years after Columbus’ landing in this hemisphere. Second, it was a celebration challenged all over the country by people—many of them native Americans but also others—who had “discovered” a Columbus not worth celebrating, and who were rethinking the traditional glorification of “Western civilization.” I gave this talk at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in October 1991. It was published the following year by the Open Magazine Pamphlet Series with the title “Christopher Columbus & the Myth of Human Progress.”
George Orwell, who was a very wise man, wrote: “Who controls the past controls the future. And who controls the present controls the past.” In other words, those who dominate our society are in a position to write our histories. And if they can do that, they can decide our futures. That is why the telling of the Columbus story is important.
Let me make a confession. I knew very little about Columbus until about twelve years ago, when I began writing my book A People’s History of the United States. I had a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University—that is, I had the proper training of a historian, and what I knew about Columbus was pretty much what I had learned in elementary school.
But when I began to write my People’s History, I decided I must learn about Columbus. I had already concluded that I did not want to write just another overview of American history—I knew my point of view would be different. I was going to write about the United States from the point of view of those people who had been largely neglected in the history books: the indigenous Americans, the black slaves, the women, the working people, whether native or immigrant.
I wanted to tell the story of the nation’s industrial progress from the standpoint, not of Rockefeller and Carnegie and Vanderbilt, but of the people who worked in their mines, their oil fields, who lost their limbs or their lives building the railroads.
I wanted to tell the story of wars, not from the standpoint of generals and presidents, not from the standpoint of those military heroes whose statues you see all over this country, but through the eyes of the G.I.s, or through the eyes of “the enemy.” Yes, why not look at the Mexican War, that great military triumph of the United States, from the viewpoint of the Mexicans?
And so, how must I tell the story of Columbus? I concluded, I must see him through the eyes of the people who were here when he arrived, the people he called “Indians” because he thought he was in Asia.
Well, they left no memoirs, no histories. Their culture was an oral culture, not a written one. Besides, they had been wiped out in a few decades after Columbus’ arrival. So I was compelled to turn to the next best thing: the Spaniards who were on the scene at the time. First, Columbus himself. He had kept a journal.
His journal was revealing. He described the people who greeted him when he landed in the Bahamas—they were Arawak Indians, sometimes called Tainos—and told how they waded out into the sea to greet him and his men, who must have looked and sounded like people from another world, and brought them gifts of various kinds. He described them as peaceable, gentle, and said: “They do not bear arms, and do not know them for I showed them a sword—they took it by the edge and cut themselves.”
Throughout his journal, over the next months, Columbus spoke of the native Americans with what seemed like admiring awe: “They are the best people in the world and above all the gentlest—without knowledge of what is evil—nor do they murder or steal…they love their neighbors as themselves and they have the sweetest talk in the world…always laughing.”
And in a letter he wrote to one of his Spanish patrons, Columbus said: “They are very simple and honest and exceedingly liberal with all they have, none of them refusing anything he may possess when he is asked for it. They exhibit great love toward all others in preference to themselves.” But then, in the midst of all this, in his journal, Columbus writes: “They would make fine servants. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”
Yes, this was how Columbus saw the Indians—not as hospitable hosts, but as “servants,” to “do whatever we want.”
And what did Columbus want? This is not hard to determine. In the first two weeks of journal entries, there is one word that recurs 75 times: GOLD.
In the standard accounts of Columbus what is emphasized again and again is his religious feeling, his desire to convert the natives to Christianity, his reverence for the Bible. Yes, he was concerned about God. But more about Gold. Just one additional letter. His was a limited alphabet. Yes, all over the island of Hispaniola, where he, his brothers, his men, spent most of their time, he erected crosses. But also, all over the island, they built gallows—340 of them by the year 1500. Crosses and gallows—that deadly historic juxtaposition.
In his quest for gold, Columbus, seeing bits of gold among the Indians, concluded there were huge amounts of it. He ordered the natives to find a certain amount of gold within a certain period of time. And if they did not meet their quota, their arms were hacked off. The others were to learn from this and deliver the gold.
Samuel Eliot Morison, the Harvard historian who was Columbus’ admiring biographer, acknowledged this. He wrote: “Whoever thought up this ghastly system, Columbus was responsible for it, as the only means of producing gold for export…. Those who fled to the mountains were hunted with hounds, and of those who escaped, starvation and disease took toll, while thousands of the poor creatures in desperation took cassava poison to end their miseries.”
Morison continues: “So the policy and acts of Columbus for which he alone was responsible began the depopulation of the terrestrial paradise that was Hispaniola in 1492. Of the original natives, estimated by a modern ethnologist at 300,000 in number, one-third were killed off between 1494 and 1496. By 1508, an enumeration showed only 60,000 alive…. in 1548 Oviedo [Morison is referring to Fernandez de Oviedo, the official Spanish historian of the conquest] doubted whether 500 Indians remained.”
But Columbus could not obtain enough gold to send home to impress the King and Queen and his Spanish financiers, so he decided to send back to Spain another kind of loot: slaves. They rounded up about 1,200 natives, selected 500, and these were sent, jammed together, on the voyage across the Atlantic. Two hundred died on the way, of cold, of sickness.
In Columbus’ journal, an entry of September 1498 reads: “From here one might send, in the name of the Holy Trinity, as many slaves as could be sold…”
What the Spaniards did to the Indians is told in horrifying detail by Bartolomé de las Casas, whose writings give the most thorough account of the Spanish-Indian encounter. Las Casas was a Dominican priest who came to the New World a few years after Columbus, spent 40 years on Hispaniola and nearby islands, and became the leading advocate in Spain for the rights of the natives. Las Casas, in his book The Devastation of the Indies, writes of the Arawaks: “…of all the infinite universe of humanity, these people are the most guileless, the most devoid of wickedness and duplicity…yet into this sheepfold…there came some Spaniards who immediately behaved like ravening beasts…. Their reason for killing and destroying…is that the Christians have an ultimate aim which is to acquire gold…”
The cruelties multiplied. Las Casas saw soldiers stabbing Indians for sport, dashing babies’ heads on rocks. And when the Indians resisted, the Spaniards hunted them down, equipped for killing with horses, armor plate, lances, pikes, rifles, crossbows, and vicious dogs. Indians who took things belonging to the Spaniards—they were not accustomed to the concept of private ownership and gave freely of their own possessions—were beheaded or burned at the stake.
Las Casas’ testimony was corroborated by other eyewitnesses. A group of Dominican friars, addressing the Spanish monarchy in 1519, hoping for the Spanish government to intercede, told about unspeakable atrocities, children thrown to dogs to be devoured, newborn babies born to women prisoners flung into the jungle to die.
Forced labor in the mines and on the land led to much sickness and death. Many children died because their mothers, overworked and starved, had no milk for them. Las Casas, in Cuba, estimated that 7,000 children died in three months.
The greatest toll was taken by sickness, because the Europeans brought with them diseases against which the natives had no immunity: typhoid, typhus, diphtheria, smallpox.
As in any military conquest, women came in for especially brutal treatment. One Italian nobleman named Cuneo recorded an early sexual encounter. The “Admiral” he refers to is Columbus, who, as part of his agreement with the Spanish monarchy, insisted he be made an Admiral. Cuneo wrote:
…I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me and with whom…I conceived desire to take pleasure. I wanted to put my desire into execution but she did not want it and treated me with her finger nails in such a manner that I wished I had never begun. But seeing that, I took a rope and thrashed her well…. Finally we came to an agreement.
There is other evidence which adds up to a picture of widespread rape of native women. Samuel Eliot Morison wrote: “In the Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola they found young and beautiful women, who everywhere were naked, in most places accessible, and presumably complaisant.” Who presumes this? Morison, and so many others.
Morison saw the conquest as so many writers after him have done, as one of the great romantic adventures of world history. He seemed to get carried away by what appeared to him as a masculine conquest. He wrote:
Never again may mortal men hope to recapture the amazement, the wonder, the delight of those October days in 1492, when the new world gracefully yielded her virginity to the conquering Castilians.
The language of Cuneo (“we came to an agreement”), and of Morison (“gracefully yielded”) written almost 500 years apart, surely suggests how persistent through modern history has been the mythology that rationalizes sexual brutality by seeing it as “complaisant.”
So, I read Columbus’ journal, I read las Casas. I also read Hans Koning’s pioneering work of our time—Columbus: His Enterprise, which, at the time I wrote my People’s History, was the only contemporary account I could find which departed from the standard treatment.
When my book appeared, I began to get letters from all over the country about it. Here was a book of 600 pages, starting with Columbus, ending with the 1970s, but most of the letters I got from readers were about one subject: Columbus. I could have interpreted this to mean that, since this was the very beginning of the book, that’s all these people had read. But no, it seemed that the Columbus story was simply the part of my book that readers found most startling. Because every American, from elementary school on, learns the Columbus story, and learns it the same way: “In Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-Two, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue.”
How many of you have heard of Tigard, Oregon? Well, I didn’t until, about seven years ago, I began receiving, every semester, a bunch of letters, 20 or 30, from students at one high school in Tigard. It seems that their teacher was having them (knowing high schools, I almost said “forcing them”) read my People’s History. He was photocopying a number of chapters and giving them to the students. And then he had them write letters to me, with comments and questions. Roughly half of them thanked me for giving them data which they had never seen before. The others were angry, or wondered how I got such information, and how I had arrived at such outrageous conclusions.
One high school student named Bethany wrote: “Out of all the articles that I’ve read of yours I found ‘Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress’ the most shocking.” Another student named Brian, seventeen years old, wrote: “An example of the confusion I feel after reading your article concerns Columbus coming to America…. According to you, it seems he came for women, slaves, and gold. You say that Columbus physically abused the Indians that didn’t help him find gold. You’ve said you have gained a lot of this information from Columbus’ own journal. I am wondering if there is such a journal, and if so, why isn’t it part of our history. Why isn’t any of what you say in my history book, or in history books people have access to each day?”
I pondered this letter. It could be interpreted to mean that the writer was indignant that no other history books had told him what I did. Or, as was more likely, he was saying: “I don’t believe a word of what you wrote! You made this up!”
I am not surprised at such reactions. It tells something about the claims of pluralism and diversity in American culture, the pride in our “free society,” that generation after generation has learned exactly the same set of facts about Columbus, and finished their education with the same glaring omissions.
A school teacher in Portland, Oregon, named Bill Bigelow has undertaken a crusade to change the way the Columbus story is taught all over America. He tells of how he sometimes starts a new class. He goes over to a girl sitting in the front row, and takes her purse. She says: “You took my purse!” Bigelow responds: “No, I discovered it.”
Bill Bigelow did a study of recent children’s books on Columbus. He found them remarkably alike in their repetition of the traditional point of view. A typical fifth-grade biography of Columbus begins: “There once was a boy who loved the salty sea.” Well! I can imagine a children’s biography of Attila the Hun beginning with the sentence: “There once was a boy who loved horses.”
Another children’s book in Bigelow’s study, this time for second-graders: “The King and Queen looked at the gold and the Indians. They listened in wonder to Columbus’ stories of adventure. Then they all went to church to pray and sing. Tears of joy filled Columbus’ eyes.”
I once spoke about Columbus to a workshop of school teachers, and one of them suggested that school children were too young to hear of the horrors recounted by las Casas and others. Other teachers disagreed, said children’s stories include plenty of violence, but the perpetrators are witches and monsters and “bad people,” not national heroes who have holidays named after them.
Some of the teachers made suggestions on how the truth could be told in a way that would not frighten children unnecessarily, but that would avoid the falsification of history now taking place.
The argument about children “not being ready to hear the truth” does not account for the fact that in American society, when the children grow up, they still are not told the truth. As I said earlier, right up through graduate school I was not presented with the information that would counter the myths told to me in the early grades. And it is clear that my experience is typical, judging from the shocked reactions to my book that I have received from readers of all ages.
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Read more of Howard Zinn’s “Columbus and Western Civilization” and other thought-provoking essays from a variety of contriubtors in Russ Kick’s You Are Still Being Lied To, available on Amazon and in all good bookstores.
In You Are Still Being Lied To, An unprecedented group of researchers including Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Howard Bloom, Sydney Schanberg, Michael Parenti, Riane Eisler, Jim Marrs, and many, many others-investigative reporters, political dissidents, academics, media watchdogs, scientist-philosophers, social critics, and rogue scholars-paints a picture of a world where crucial stories are ignored or actively suppressed and the official version of events has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. A world where real dangers are downplayed and nonexistent dangers are trumpeted. In short, a world where you are being lied to.
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Obama Begs for More War
Did Putin Just Bring Peace to Ukraine?
by MIKE WHITNEY
“In the implementing of their policies, our western partners– the United States first and foremost – prefer to be guided not by international law, but by force. They believe in their own ‘exceptionalism’, that they are allowed to decide on the fate of the world, and that they are always right.”
– Russian President Vladimir Putin
“What did we do to deserve this? What did we do to deserve being bombed from planes, shot at from tanks, and have phosphorous bombs dropped on us? ….That we wanted to live the way we want, and speak our own language, and make friends with whom we want?”
– Alexander V. Zakharchenko, Chairman of The Council of Ministers of The Donetsk National Republic, The Vineyard of the Saker
There is no way to overstate the significance of what has transpired in Ukraine in the last three weeks. What began as a murderous onslaught on the mainly Russian-speaking population of east Ukraine, has turned into a major triumph against a belligerent and expansionistic empire that has been repulsed by a scrappy, battle-hardened militia engaged in a conventional, land-based war. The conflict in east Ukraine is Obama’s war; launched by Obama’s junta government, executed by Obama’s proxy army, and directed by Obama’s advisors in Kiev. The driving force behind the war is Washington’s ambitious pivot to Asia, a strategy that pits Russia against Europe to prevent further economic integration and to establish NATO forward-operating bases on Russia’s western border. Despite the overheated rhetoric, the talk of a (NATO) “Rapid Reaction Force”, and additional economic sanctions; the US plan to draw Ukraine into the western sphere of influence and weaken Russia in the process, is in tatters. And the reason it is in tatters is because a highly-motivated and adaptable militia has trounced Obama’s troopers at every turn pushing the Ukrainian army to the brink of collapse. Check out this frontline update from The Saker:
“The (Ukrainian Army) is not retreating on one, two or even three directions, it is retreating everywhere (except north of Lugansk). Entire battalions are leaving the front under orders of their battalion commanders and without the approval of the Junta leaders. At least one such battalion commander is already being judged for desertion. The entire Ukie leadership seems to be in a panic mode, especially Iatseniuk and Kolomoiski, while the Nazis are mad as hell at the Poroshenko administration. There are constant rumors of an anti-Poroshenko coup by outraged Nazi nationalists…..
The bottom line is this: Poroshenko promised a victory in a matter of weeks and his forces suffered one of the most total defeats in the history of warfare. ….the most likely thing is that this ridiculous “Banderastan” experiment has seriously begun sinking now...
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Obama Begs for More War
Did Putin Just Bring Peace to Ukraine?
by MIKE WHITNEY
“In the implementing of their policies, our western partners– the United States first and foremost – prefer to be guided not by international law, but by force. They believe in their own ‘exceptionalism’, that they are allowed to decide on the fate of the world, and that they are always right.”
– Russian President Vladimir Putin
“What did we do to deserve this? What did we do to deserve being bombed from planes, shot at from tanks, and have phosphorous bombs dropped on us? ….That we wanted to live the way we want, and speak our own language, and make friends with whom we want?”
– Alexander V. Zakharchenko, Chairman of The Council of Ministers of The Donetsk National Republic, The Vineyard of the Saker
There is no way to overstate the significance of what has transpired in Ukraine in the last three weeks. What began as a murderous onslaught on the mainly Russian-speaking population of east Ukraine, has turned into a major triumph against a belligerent and expansionistic empire that has been repulsed by a scrappy, battle-hardened militia engaged in a conventional, land-based war. The conflict in east Ukraine is Obama’s war; launched by Obama’s junta government, executed by Obama’s proxy army, and directed by Obama’s advisors in Kiev. The driving force behind the war is Washington’s ambitious pivot to Asia, a strategy that pits Russia against Europe to prevent further economic integration and to establish NATO forward-operating bases on Russia’s western border. Despite the overheated rhetoric, the talk of a (NATO) “Rapid Reaction Force”, and additional economic sanctions; the US plan to draw Ukraine into the western sphere of influence and weaken Russia in the process, is in tatters. And the reason it is in tatters is because a highly-motivated and adaptable militia has trounced Obama’s troopers at every turn pushing the Ukrainian army to the brink of collapse. Check out this frontline update from The Saker:
“The (Ukrainian Army) is not retreating on one, two or even three directions, it is retreating everywhere (except north of Lugansk). Entire battalions are leaving the front under orders of their battalion commanders and without the approval of the Junta leaders. At least one such battalion commander is already being judged for desertion. The entire Ukie leadership seems to be in a panic mode, especially Iatseniuk and Kolomoiski, while the Nazis are mad as hell at the Poroshenko administration. There are constant rumors of an anti-Poroshenko coup by outraged Nazi nationalists…..
The bottom line is this: Poroshenko promised a victory in a matter of weeks and his forces suffered one of the most total defeats in the history of warfare. ….the most likely thing is that this ridiculous “Banderastan” experiment has seriously begun sinking now...
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Fox News Suffers Major Legal Defeat to TVEyes
September 10, 2014
On Tuesday, a New York federal judge issued a significant “fair use” ruling, and in the process, handed Fox News a major legal loss in its attempts to protect its news shows from exploitation.
The lawsuit concerns TVEyes, which might not be widely known, but is used by MSNBC, ABC, CBS, Reuters and Bloomberg to monitor what is being said on Fox News and more than 1,400 other television and radio stations. Besides use by media organization, TVEyes’ clients also include the White House, 100 members of Congress, the Department of Defense, the American Red Cross, AARP, Goldman Sachs, the Association of Trial Lawyers and many others.
These customers create customized search terms and are able to get access to transcripts and video clips. Fox News has warned that such a service — because it also allows those who pay a flat fee of $500 a month to watch live streams — will erode its ratings and “decimate” its business.
There was even more at stake.
As anyone who watches MSNBC knows, Fox News clips are often shown widely in the media. In this lawsuit, Fox News expressed concern that TVEyes competes with its own authorized clip service, which has deals with Yahoo, Hulu and YouTube. What’s revealed in today’s ruling is that Fox News licensees must agree they will not show clips in a way that is derogatory or critical of Fox News.
With that backdrop, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein had to examine TVEyes and figure out whether it was a copyright-infringing machine (somewhat but not exactly analogous to what the Supreme Court had to say about Aereo) or whether it served some form of purpose that put it outside the realm of a copyright holder’s exclusive rights. Hellerstein takes the latter view, determining that it’s closer to Google’s efforts to digitize books than Meltwater’s efforts to scrape online news stories.
The judge uses police departments as an example of how TVEyes is used.
“Police departments use TVEyes to track television coverage of public safety messages across different stations and locations, and to adjust outreach efforts accordingly,” he writes. “Without a service like TVEyes, the only way for the police department to know how every station is constantly reporting the situation would be to have an individual watch every station that broadcast news for twenty-four hours a day taking notes on each station’s simultaneous coverage. … Without TVEyes, the police department could not monitor the coverage of the event in order to ensure that the news coverage is factually correct and that the public is correctly informed.”
And so, when it comes time for the judge to analyze the first factor of fair use — the purpose and character of the use — the judge credits TVEyes with adding something new rather than merely repackaging the original copyrighted works.
“Unlike the indexing and excerpting of news articles, where the printed word conveys the same meaning no matter the forum or medium in which it is viewed, the service provided by TVEyes is transformative,” says the summary judgment ruling. “By indexing and excerpting all content appearing in television, every hour of the day and every day of the week, month, and year, TVEyes provides a service that no content provider provides. Subscribers to TVEyes gain access, not only to the news that is presented, but to the presentations themselves, as colored, processed, and criticized by commentators, and as abridged, modified, and enlarged by news broadcasts.”
The judge credits TVEyes as being the only service to do this. Not even the Internet as a whole qualifies as a substitute because Fox News doesn’t provide all of its content online.
“That, in and of itself, makes TVEyes’ purpose transformative and different in kind from Meltwater’s, which simply amalgamated extant content that a dedicated researcher could piece together with enough time, effort, and Internet searches,” writes the judge.
On one of the other factors in the fair use analysis — the effect of the use upon the potential market for the copyrighted work — Judge Hellerstein says that Fox News has failed to show that TVEyes is threatening its revenues from advertisers or cable and satellite providers. He adds there’s “no basis” for concluding that people are using the media monitoring service as a substitute for watching Fox News and even ridicules the cable news network for alleging harm from lost clip licensing revenue. According to the ruling, Fox makes $212,145 from syndication partners and $246,875 from the licensing of clips — “a very small fraction of its overall revenue,” the judge notes.
“I find that the small possible market harm to Fox News is substantially outweighed by the important public benefit provided by TVEyes,” concludes the judge.
TVEyes wasn’t completely victorious. The judge wants more evidence to be presented on the service’s feature of letting subscribers download, archive, email and share clips via social media. He’s also not ready to rule on the service’s allowance of searches by date and time instead of keywords.
But overall, this is a landmark court ruling in favor of TVEyes, which has also prevailed on Tuesday in its arguments that Fox News’ hot news misappropriation claim are preempted by federal copyright law. We’ll continue to monitor this dispute to see if Fox News appeals today’s ruling.
A status conference has been set for October 3 to discuss the remaining claims. In a statement in the wake of the ruling, a Fox News spokesperson is emphasizing that at least a portion of the lawsuit remains live:
“The Court only rules that a specific portion of TVEyes’ service–its keyword search function–was fair use. The Court expressly said that it required more information to decide whether TVEyes’ other features–including allowing video clips to be archived, downloaded, emailed, and shared via social media–were fair use. To find those features to be fair use would be unprecedented as TVEyes copies and distributes content, as opposed to helping its users find it. Such a ruling would be inconsistent with the Second Circuit’s decision in HathiTrust and Judge Chin’s district court decision in Google Books, as well as the long line of media clipping service cases in the Second Circuit and other circuits that found similar features not to constitute fair use.”
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Fox News Suffers Major Legal Defeat to TVEyes
September 10, 2014
On Tuesday, a New York federal judge issued a significant “fair use” ruling, and in the process, handed Fox News a major legal loss in its attempts to protect its news shows from exploitation.
The lawsuit concerns TVEyes, which might not be widely known, but is used by MSNBC, ABC, CBS, Reuters and Bloomberg to monitor what is being said on Fox News and more than 1,400 other television and radio stations. Besides use by media organization, TVEyes’ clients also include the White House, 100 members of Congress, the Department of Defense, the American Red Cross, AARP, Goldman Sachs, the Association of Trial Lawyers and many others.
These customers create customized search terms and are able to get access to transcripts and video clips. Fox News has warned that such a service — because it also allows those who pay a flat fee of $500 a month to watch live streams — will erode its ratings and “decimate” its business.
There was even more at stake.
As anyone who watches MSNBC knows, Fox News clips are often shown widely in the media. In this lawsuit, Fox News expressed concern that TVEyes competes with its own authorized clip service, which has deals with Yahoo, Hulu and YouTube. What’s revealed in today’s ruling is that Fox News licensees must agree they will not show clips in a way that is derogatory or critical of Fox News.
With that backdrop, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein had to examine TVEyes and figure out whether it was a copyright-infringing machine (somewhat but not exactly analogous to what the Supreme Court had to say about Aereo) or whether it served some form of purpose that put it outside the realm of a copyright holder’s exclusive rights. Hellerstein takes the latter view, determining that it’s closer to Google’s efforts to digitize books than Meltwater’s efforts to scrape online news stories.
The judge uses police departments as an example of how TVEyes is used.
“Police departments use TVEyes to track television coverage of public safety messages across different stations and locations, and to adjust outreach efforts accordingly,” he writes. “Without a service like TVEyes, the only way for the police department to know how every station is constantly reporting the situation would be to have an individual watch every station that broadcast news for twenty-four hours a day taking notes on each station’s simultaneous coverage. … Without TVEyes, the police department could not monitor the coverage of the event in order to ensure that the news coverage is factually correct and that the public is correctly informed.”
And so, when it comes time for the judge to analyze the first factor of fair use — the purpose and character of the use — the judge credits TVEyes with adding something new rather than merely repackaging the original copyrighted works.
“Unlike the indexing and excerpting of news articles, where the printed word conveys the same meaning no matter the forum or medium in which it is viewed, the service provided by TVEyes is transformative,” says the summary judgment ruling. “By indexing and excerpting all content appearing in television, every hour of the day and every day of the week, month, and year, TVEyes provides a service that no content provider provides. Subscribers to TVEyes gain access, not only to the news that is presented, but to the presentations themselves, as colored, processed, and criticized by commentators, and as abridged, modified, and enlarged by news broadcasts.”
The judge credits TVEyes as being the only service to do this. Not even the Internet as a whole qualifies as a substitute because Fox News doesn’t provide all of its content online.
“That, in and of itself, makes TVEyes’ purpose transformative and different in kind from Meltwater’s, which simply amalgamated extant content that a dedicated researcher could piece together with enough time, effort, and Internet searches,” writes the judge.
On one of the other factors in the fair use analysis — the effect of the use upon the potential market for the copyrighted work — Judge Hellerstein says that Fox News has failed to show that TVEyes is threatening its revenues from advertisers or cable and satellite providers. He adds there’s “no basis” for concluding that people are using the media monitoring service as a substitute for watching Fox News and even ridicules the cable news network for alleging harm from lost clip licensing revenue. According to the ruling, Fox makes $212,145 from syndication partners and $246,875 from the licensing of clips — “a very small fraction of its overall revenue,” the judge notes.
“I find that the small possible market harm to Fox News is substantially outweighed by the important public benefit provided by TVEyes,” concludes the judge.
TVEyes wasn’t completely victorious. The judge wants more evidence to be presented on the service’s feature of letting subscribers download, archive, email and share clips via social media. He’s also not ready to rule on the service’s allowance of searches by date and time instead of keywords.
But overall, this is a landmark court ruling in favor of TVEyes, which has also prevailed on Tuesday in its arguments that Fox News’ hot news misappropriation claim are preempted by federal copyright law. We’ll continue to monitor this dispute to see if Fox News appeals today’s ruling.
A status conference has been set for October 3 to discuss the remaining claims. In a statement in the wake of the ruling, a Fox News spokesperson is emphasizing that at least a portion of the lawsuit remains live:
“The Court only rules that a specific portion of TVEyes’ service–its keyword search function–was fair use. The Court expressly said that it required more information to decide whether TVEyes’ other features–including allowing video clips to be archived, downloaded, emailed, and shared via social media–were fair use. To find those features to be fair use would be unprecedented as TVEyes copies and distributes content, as opposed to helping its users find it. Such a ruling would be inconsistent with the Second Circuit’s decision in HathiTrust and Judge Chin’s district court decision in Google Books, as well as the long line of media clipping service cases in the Second Circuit and other circuits that found similar features not to constitute fair use.”
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Hot weather in store for southland
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Los Angeles faces a potentially record-breaking heat wave this weekend, with temperatures expected to climb into the triple digits in much of the region.
As the mercury rises, humidity across the region is forecast to drop, putting Southern California at increased risk of wildfires, forecasters warned.
The heat-up is expected to begin Thursday, with temperatures potentially reaching the mid-90s downtown and topping 100 in the valleys of L.A. County, said meteorologist Scott Suka
The temperature is expected to continue climbing until it peaks Sunday, when heat records for the date could be broken across the region, including downtown L.A.’s record of 100 degrees and Woodland Hills' 107-degree record set in 1971, officials said.
“When it’s that hot it doesn’t matter if it’s humid or not,” Sukup said.
The National Weather Service on Thursday warned that the heat wave through next week will leave the elderly particularly vulnerable. People should avoid strenuous activities in the middle of the day and wear lightweight, loose-fitting clothing, the agency said.
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L.A. forecast: Stifling heat wave could break records this weekend
Hot weather in store for southland
By Joseph Serna contact the reporter
Weather ReportsWeatherDroughts and Heat WavesWeather WarningsNational Weather Service
Los Angeles faces a potentially record-breaking heat wave this weekend, with temperatures expected to climb into the triple digits in much of the region.
As the mercury rises, humidity across the region is forecast to drop, putting Southern California at increased risk of wildfires, forecasters warned.
The heat-up is expected to begin Thursday, with temperatures potentially reaching the mid-90s downtown and topping 100 in the valleys of L.A. County, said meteorologist Scott Suka
The temperature is expected to continue climbing until it peaks Sunday, when heat records for the date could be broken across the region, including downtown L.A.’s record of 100 degrees and Woodland Hills' 107-degree record set in 1971, officials said.
“When it’s that hot it doesn’t matter if it’s humid or not,” Sukup said.
The National Weather Service on Thursday warned that the heat wave through next week will leave the elderly particularly vulnerable. People should avoid strenuous activities in the middle of the day and wear lightweight, loose-fitting clothing, the agency said.
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Retired firefighter Arnett Hartsfield Jr., who helped lead the fight against discrimination in the LAFD, dies
Retired firefighter and attorney Arnett Hartsfield Jr., who helped lead the fight against racial discrimination in the Los Angeles Fire Department, died Friday in L.A. He was 96.
Hartsfield, who wrote “The Old Stentorians,” a book about the history of African American firefighters in the city, had a serious fall in January and had been in declining health, said his wife, Jeanne Hartsfield.
He joined the department in 1940 and stayed with it until 1961, by which time he had earned his law degree at USC. That same year he filed charges with the city’s Civil Service Board, detailing how black firefighters were denied promotions and severely harassed at fire stations.
Hartsfield was a professor of black studies at Cal State Long Beach and helped e
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Retired firefighter Arnett Hartsfield Jr., who helped lead the fight against discrimination in the LAFD, dies
Retired firefighter and attorney Arnett Hartsfield Jr., who helped lead the fight against racial discrimination in the Los Angeles Fire Department, died Friday in L.A. He was 96.
Hartsfield, who wrote “The Old Stentorians,” a book about the history of African American firefighters in the city, had a serious fall in January and had been in declining health, said his wife, Jeanne Hartsfield.
He joined the department in 1940 and stayed with it until 1961, by which time he had earned his law degree at USC. That same year he filed charges with the city’s Civil Service Board, detailing how black firefighters were denied promotions and severely harassed at fire stations.
Hartsfield was a professor of black studies at Cal State Long Beach and helped e
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American political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has filed a lawsuit on the grounds that a new Pennsylvania law is aimed at silencing prisoners.
The Pennsylvania legislature rushed a bill last month that gives unlimited powers to district attorneys and crime victims to silence prisoner speech by claiming that such statements cause victims’ families “mental anguish.”
The "Revictimization Relief Act" was passed after Abu-Jamal delivered a pre-recorded speech to students at Vermont’s Goddard College, his alma mater, which calls him as "an award winning journalist who chronicles the human condition."
On Monday, 60-year-old Abu-Jamal and prisoner-rights groups filed a federal lawsuit seeking to stop the law, asking a judge to declare it unconstitutional.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, a Republican, signed the measure into law on October 16 saying it's designed to curb the "obscene celebrity" cultivated by convicts like Abu-Jamal, who has drawn international support for claims he's the victim of a racist justice system.
Civil rights experts will challenge the law in court. “If the First Amendment means anything, it’s that government officials can’t silence people they don’t like,” Vic Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, told the Christian Science Monitor.
He added that the law would even apply to people who have served their sentence and been freed from prison.
“We think this law is pretty clearly unconstitutional and is just a result of election-year pandering,” Walczak noted.
Abu-Jamal was arrested and charged with murdering white police officer Daniel Faulkner in Philadelphia in December 1981. One year later, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. But he was resentenced to life in prison in 2012.
Abu-Jamal, who was formerly a radio announcer and the president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, maintains that he is innocent and has submitted numerous appeal requests based on allegations of judicial bias, police brutality, and an inadequate defense during his arrest and trial 32 years ago.
After his controversial trial drew international attention, late South African leader Nelson Mandela, Amnesty International, the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, several members of Congress, and a number of celebrities expressed support for Abu-Jamal.
The African-American activist, who graduated from Goddard in 1996, said that his studies at the college provided him an opportunity to learn about important figures in far-off places.
Before his arrest, Abu-Jamal was known for his outspoken political views and commentary on racial injustice and police brutality.
Abu-Jamal joined the Black Panther Party at the age of 15 in May 1969 and helped form the Philadelphia branch of the party. He was a member of the Black Panther Party until October 1970 and was subject to FBI COINTELPRO surveillance from 1969 until about 1974.
The civil rights activist has written several books during his years in prison and continues to protest against his conviction on prisonradio.org
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Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:0PM
American political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal has filed a lawsuit on the grounds that a new Pennsylvania law is aimed at silencing prisoners.
The Pennsylvania legislature rushed a bill last month that gives unlimited powers to district attorneys and crime victims to silence prisoner speech by claiming that such statements cause victims’ families “mental anguish.”
The "Revictimization Relief Act" was passed after Abu-Jamal delivered a pre-recorded speech to students at Vermont’s Goddard College, his alma mater, which calls him as "an award winning journalist who chronicles the human condition."
On Monday, 60-year-old Abu-Jamal and prisoner-rights groups filed a federal lawsuit seeking to stop the law, asking a judge to declare it unconstitutional.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, a Republican, signed the measure into law on October 16 saying it's designed to curb the "obscene celebrity" cultivated by convicts like Abu-Jamal, who has drawn international support for claims he's the victim of a racist justice system.
Civil rights experts will challenge the law in court. “If the First Amendment means anything, it’s that government officials can’t silence people they don’t like,” Vic Walczak, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, told the Christian Science Monitor.
He added that the law would even apply to people who have served their sentence and been freed from prison.
“We think this law is pretty clearly unconstitutional and is just a result of election-year pandering,” Walczak noted.
Abu-Jamal was arrested and charged with murdering white police officer Daniel Faulkner in Philadelphia in December 1981. One year later, he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. But he was resentenced to life in prison in 2012.
Abu-Jamal, who was formerly a radio announcer and the president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, maintains that he is innocent and has submitted numerous appeal requests based on allegations of judicial bias, police brutality, and an inadequate defense during his arrest and trial 32 years ago.
After his controversial trial drew international attention, late South African leader Nelson Mandela, Amnesty International, the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, several members of Congress, and a number of celebrities expressed support for Abu-Jamal.
The African-American activist, who graduated from Goddard in 1996, said that his studies at the college provided him an opportunity to learn about important figures in far-off places.
Before his arrest, Abu-Jamal was known for his outspoken political views and commentary on racial injustice and police brutality.
Abu-Jamal joined the Black Panther Party at the age of 15 in May 1969 and helped form the Philadelphia branch of the party. He was a member of the Black Panther Party until October 1970 and was subject to FBI COINTELPRO surveillance from 1969 until about 1974.
The civil rights activist has written several books during his years in prison and continues to protest against his conviction on prisonradio.org
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FBI agent Matthew Lowry’s alleged fall: ‘How in the world did it get to this?’
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Even at 19, Matthew Lowry was clean-cut and cautious, unwilling to do anything that might sabotage what he always wanted: a law enforcement career like his father’s.
That’s how Joann Green remembers Lowry, the FBI agent who was found in late September slumped over the wheel of an unmarked FBI vehicle with heroin and guns inside.
Green, whose daughter dated Lowry for a year when he was in college, considered him an ideal boyfriend — handsome, polite and ambitious. “I thought he was dropped from the heavens,” she said.
She and her daughter, who declined to be interviewed, were stunned when they learned that Lowry was under investigation for possibly stealing and using heroin seized as evidence — a scandal that has prompted two federal judges to toss out charges against nearly two dozen members of what prosecutors allege were two dangerous and sophisticated drug rings.
“He was straight-laced, a proper child,” Green said. “How in the world did it get to this?”
The answer to that question is anything but clear. Lowry, 33, has been suspended from his job, said his attorney, Robert C. Bonsib, but not charged. He is cooperating with investigators, who have said little about what they think led to the agent’s alleged actions.
Bonsib decried some of the aspects of the investigation into Lowry as “grossly overblown,” and said that Lowry is “devastated by what has occurred here.”
While prosecutors and investigators sort out whether his actions have affected any more cases, those who knew him growing up in Upper Marlboro, Md., are having a hard time reconciling the allegations with the young man they knew.
“He was a typical student with decent grades. There were no major issues,” said George Hornickel, director of Grace Brethren Christian School, a small, private school in Clinton, Md., where Lowry attended high school and graduated in 1999.
“We are a Christian school. We teach morals, honesty and all good things,” Hornickel said. “We understand that not all graduates who leave here embrace all the values. We try to get kids to follow Christ.”
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FBI agent Matthew Lowry’s alleged fall: ‘How in the world did it get to this?’
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November 14 at 8:16 AM
Even at 19, Matthew Lowry was clean-cut and cautious, unwilling to do anything that might sabotage what he always wanted: a law enforcement career like his father’s.
That’s how Joann Green remembers Lowry, the FBI agent who was found in late September slumped over the wheel of an unmarked FBI vehicle with heroin and guns inside.
Green, whose daughter dated Lowry for a year when he was in college, considered him an ideal boyfriend — handsome, polite and ambitious. “I thought he was dropped from the heavens,” she said.
She and her daughter, who declined to be interviewed, were stunned when they learned that Lowry was under investigation for possibly stealing and using heroin seized as evidence — a scandal that has prompted two federal judges to toss out charges against nearly two dozen members of what prosecutors allege were two dangerous and sophisticated drug rings.
“He was straight-laced, a proper child,” Green said. “How in the world did it get to this?”
The answer to that question is anything but clear. Lowry, 33, has been suspended from his job, said his attorney, Robert C. Bonsib, but not charged. He is cooperating with investigators, who have said little about what they think led to the agent’s alleged actions.
Bonsib decried some of the aspects of the investigation into Lowry as “grossly overblown,” and said that Lowry is “devastated by what has occurred here.”
While prosecutors and investigators sort out whether his actions have affected any more cases, those who knew him growing up in Upper Marlboro, Md., are having a hard time reconciling the allegations with the young man they knew.
“He was a typical student with decent grades. There were no major issues,” said George Hornickel, director of Grace Brethren Christian School, a small, private school in Clinton, Md., where Lowry attended high school and graduated in 1999.
“We are a Christian school. We teach morals, honesty and all good things,” Hornickel said. “We understand that not all graduates who leave here embrace all the values. We try to get kids to follow Christ.”
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New Obama State Dept Top Energy Diplomat Amos Hochstein A Former Marathon Oil Lobbyist
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The U.S. State Department recently announced that Amos Hochstein, currently the special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs, will take over as the State Department's top international energy diplomat.
Hochstein will likely serve as a key point man for the U.S. in its negotiations to cut a climate change deal as part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), both at the ongoing COP20 summit in Lima, Peru and next year's summit in Paris, France. Some conclude the Lima and Paris negotiations are a “last chance” to do something meaningful on climate change.
But before getting a job at the State Department, where Hochstein has worked since 2011, he worked as a lobbyist for the firm Cassidy & Associates. Cassidy's current lobbying client portfolio consists of several fossil fuel industry players, including Noble Energy, Powder River Energy and Transwest Express.
Back when Hochstein worked for Cassidy, one of his clients was Marathon Oil, which he lobbied for in quarter two and quarter three of 2008, according to lobbying disclosure forms reviewed by DeSmogBlog.
Hochstein earned his firm $20,000 each quarter lobbying the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate on behalf of Marathon.
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New Obama State Dept Top Energy Diplomat Amos Hochstein A Former Marathon Oil Lobbyist
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The U.S. State Department recently announced that Amos Hochstein, currently the special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs, will take over as the State Department's top international energy diplomat.
Hochstein will likely serve as a key point man for the U.S. in its negotiations to cut a climate change deal as part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), both at the ongoing COP20 summit in Lima, Peru and next year's summit in Paris, France. Some conclude the Lima and Paris negotiations are a “last chance” to do something meaningful on climate change.
But before getting a job at the State Department, where Hochstein has worked since 2011, he worked as a lobbyist for the firm Cassidy & Associates. Cassidy's current lobbying client portfolio consists of several fossil fuel industry players, including Noble Energy, Powder River Energy and Transwest Express.
Back when Hochstein worked for Cassidy, one of his clients was Marathon Oil, which he lobbied for in quarter two and quarter three of 2008, according to lobbying disclosure forms reviewed by DeSmogBlog.
Hochstein earned his firm $20,000 each quarter lobbying the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate on behalf of Marathon.
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SantaCon sends Kringles lurching merrily about
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The Coming Horror
Hillary the Inevitable?
by ANDREW LEVINE
Anything can happen in two years time. For now, though, it looks like Hillary Clinton will be the next President of the United States.
The reasons are obvious: opposition from within the Democratic Party will be too little too late; and, on the off-chance that someone else’s candidacy actually does take off, the Party leadership, ever mindful of Wall Street’s concerns, will crush it — faster than a Massachusetts or Vermont Senator can say “Slick Willy.”
With less than two years to go and with Democratic voters fed up with President Obama’s craven “bipartisanship,” his wars, and his eagerness to do Wall Street’s bidding, it is surprising that sparks of rebellion don’t flare up frequently.
The hardly ever do however; not in public view, anyway. The unconcealed intra-party wrangling that went on last week as the deadline for averting another government shutdown loomed was a first for the Age of Obama.
In a healthier political climate, it would be a portent of things to come. In the world as it is, it was more likely a flash in the pan. These are Democrats, after all; their first and last instinct is to knuckle under.
On the Republican side, the party’s grandees, even dearer to Wall Street than Clinton Democrats, will either succeed again in keeping their useful but refractory idiots in line or they will not.
If they do, the Republicans will again nominate someone their base will despise. We saw how that worked out in 2012.
On the other hand, if the base gets its way, those “uncommitted” voters on whom the outcomes of American elections depend will be scared off again, as well they should be.
QED.
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But does anyone really want a President Hillary? Maybe a few unreconstructed Friends of Bill do, and some feminists with tunnel vision. No one else can stomach the idea.
Nevertheless, Democratic voters and unaffiliated “moderates” will acquiesce. In neoliberal times, acquiescence is what politics is all about.
And so we have global warming, 24/7 surveillance, increasing inequality, perpetual war and a host of other horrors no one really wants.
There is money to be made from these things, and their impact on the larger economy is considerable. Careers are tied up with them. Still, there is not a right-minded person on the face of the earth who would not want them gone if getting rid of them were of no consequence to their personal ambitions or to their bottom line.
In actually existing democracies, self-interests regularly trump the public interest. This is why there is no voting away the evils acquiescence enables.
And this is why, etymology and political theory aside, the demos do not rule in actually existing democracies. By constraining the options and threatening economic hardship if results don’t...
CONTINUE READING
The Coming Horror
Hillary the Inevitable?
by ANDREW LEVINE
Anything can happen in two years time. For now, though, it looks like Hillary Clinton will be the next President of the United States.
The reasons are obvious: opposition from within the Democratic Party will be too little too late; and, on the off-chance that someone else’s candidacy actually does take off, the Party leadership, ever mindful of Wall Street’s concerns, will crush it — faster than a Massachusetts or Vermont Senator can say “Slick Willy.”
With less than two years to go and with Democratic voters fed up with President Obama’s craven “bipartisanship,” his wars, and his eagerness to do Wall Street’s bidding, it is surprising that sparks of rebellion don’t flare up frequently.
The hardly ever do however; not in public view, anyway. The unconcealed intra-party wrangling that went on last week as the deadline for averting another government shutdown loomed was a first for the Age of Obama.
In a healthier political climate, it would be a portent of things to come. In the world as it is, it was more likely a flash in the pan. These are Democrats, after all; their first and last instinct is to knuckle under.
On the Republican side, the party’s grandees, even dearer to Wall Street than Clinton Democrats, will either succeed again in keeping their useful but refractory idiots in line or they will not.
If they do, the Republicans will again nominate someone their base will despise. We saw how that worked out in 2012.
On the other hand, if the base gets its way, those “uncommitted” voters on whom the outcomes of American elections depend will be scared off again, as well they should be.
QED.
* * *
But does anyone really want a President Hillary? Maybe a few unreconstructed Friends of Bill do, and some feminists with tunnel vision. No one else can stomach the idea.
Nevertheless, Democratic voters and unaffiliated “moderates” will acquiesce. In neoliberal times, acquiescence is what politics is all about.
And so we have global warming, 24/7 surveillance, increasing inequality, perpetual war and a host of other horrors no one really wants.
There is money to be made from these things, and their impact on the larger economy is considerable. Careers are tied up with them. Still, there is not a right-minded person on the face of the earth who would not want them gone if getting rid of them were of no consequence to their personal ambitions or to their bottom line.
In actually existing democracies, self-interests regularly trump the public interest. This is why there is no voting away the evils acquiescence enables.
And this is why, etymology and political theory aside, the demos do not rule in actually existing democracies. By constraining the options and threatening economic hardship if results don’t...
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Apparently zombie TV shows need 'Do Not Try This At Home' warning labels: GunFAIL LXXX
Seven of the 56 guns discovered by TSA agents on the person of passengers boarding flights at airports around the country during the week ending Dec. 12.
It's been a few months since I started publishing the GunFAIL stories in lots of 100, and I've noticed that many of our regular categories reveal a remarkably consistent pattern from one post to the next. This time around, for instance, 39 of our 100 GunFAIL incidents involve people accidentally shooting themselves. In our last post, there were 41. This time, there were 17 fatalities. Last time, 15. This time, 22 kids accidentally shot. (Including the youngest in some time, but not the youngest of the year, a 9 month old shot and killed by his father while cleaning a still-loaded gun.) Last time, 20. This time, nine "home invasion" shootings. Last time, nine. This time, seven accidental discharges while cleaning guns. Last time, five. And so it continued on down the line. In other words, these accidents are regular and predictable.
The exact circumstances, though, are often varied and unpredictable. For instance, entry number 10 is one of nine accidental shootings among family members in this compilation (there were eight last time), but the individual circumstances set it apart. A 16-year-old boy was killed by his 24-year-old brother, because his brother likes to watch The Walking Dead while he fondles his gun. Presumably because it's a scary TV show, and he likes to fantasize about killing the zombie bad guys. Smart.
Have you ever wondered whether anybody accidentally shot themselves in their sleep, with a gun they kept under their pillow? We've seen it a few times, and we've got another one here, in item number 15. A plain vanilla "home invasion shooting" at home becomes a somewhat thornier political issue when, as in entry number 57, the shooter is a city councilman. On the other hand, while the whole world likely already has heard about former baseball player Jose Canseco having accidentally shot his finger off while cleaning his gun, here in GunFAIL world, it's merely entry number 71 out of 100.
Below the fold, 96 more stories.
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Apparently zombie TV shows need 'Do Not Try This At Home' warning labels: GunFAIL LXXX
Seven of the 56 guns discovered by TSA agents on the person of passengers boarding flights at airports around the country during the week ending Dec. 12.
It's been a few months since I started publishing the GunFAIL stories in lots of 100, and I've noticed that many of our regular categories reveal a remarkably consistent pattern from one post to the next. This time around, for instance, 39 of our 100 GunFAIL incidents involve people accidentally shooting themselves. In our last post, there were 41. This time, there were 17 fatalities. Last time, 15. This time, 22 kids accidentally shot. (Including the youngest in some time, but not the youngest of the year, a 9 month old shot and killed by his father while cleaning a still-loaded gun.) Last time, 20. This time, nine "home invasion" shootings. Last time, nine. This time, seven accidental discharges while cleaning guns. Last time, five. And so it continued on down the line. In other words, these accidents are regular and predictable.
The exact circumstances, though, are often varied and unpredictable. For instance, entry number 10 is one of nine accidental shootings among family members in this compilation (there were eight last time), but the individual circumstances set it apart. A 16-year-old boy was killed by his 24-year-old brother, because his brother likes to watch The Walking Dead while he fondles his gun. Presumably because it's a scary TV show, and he likes to fantasize about killing the zombie bad guys. Smart.
Have you ever wondered whether anybody accidentally shot themselves in their sleep, with a gun they kept under their pillow? We've seen it a few times, and we've got another one here, in item number 15. A plain vanilla "home invasion shooting" at home becomes a somewhat thornier political issue when, as in entry number 57, the shooter is a city councilman. On the other hand, while the whole world likely already has heard about former baseball player Jose Canseco having accidentally shot his finger off while cleaning his gun, here in GunFAIL world, it's merely entry number 71 out of 100.
Below the fold, 96 more stories.
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