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Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Foreclosures May Permanently Scar Homes
Economic Commentary
Foreclosure-Related Vacancy Rates
Stephan Whitaker
The national foreclosure crisis has caused there to be millions more vacancies in our housing stock than before. Vacant homes lower their community's property values and quality of life. Neighbors and public officials know foreclosed homes sit empty for months, but precise measures of foreclosure-related vacancy are rare. Using data from Cuyahoga County, Ohio, I trace the rise and fall in the vacancy rates of homes during the 18 months following their foreclosure. Ominously, the data suggest that foreclosure may permanently scar some homes. Foreclosed homes still have higher vacancy rates than neighboring houses two to five years after a sheriff's sale.
As the housing market staggers into its fifth year of decline, the issues of foreclosure and vacancy continue to demand our attention. In 2010, 1.85 million consumers nationwide received a new foreclosure notice, compared to between 600,000 and 800,000 in the "normal" times of a decade earlier.
Almost all foreclosed homes are at least temporarily vacant; as long as they remain so, they impact the home values and quality of life in their neighborhoods. What if the vacancy associated with foreclosure lingers on long after the foreclosure? Could the rise in foreclosures translate into both a short- and a long-term increase in vacancy?
Using a unique data set covering Cuyahoga County, Ohio, I explore whether foreclosed homes are reoccupied at rates similar to those of other recently sold homes. The data reveal that foreclosed homes go through more than a year of very high vacancy rates following the auction and are substantially more likely to be vacant up to 60 months after the foreclosure.
The distribution of foreclosures is heavily weighted toward high-poverty areas, and homes in these areas are more likely to be vacant long after they are sold. However, even compared to homes in census tracts with similar poverty levels, foreclosed homes show higher vacancy rates than others years after the auction.
The Impact of Vacancy
Foreclosure and the vacancy it causes are a concern for policymakers because a foreclosure's impact extends to hundreds of people in the neighboring community. A foreclosure adds one more home to the supply on the market and so depresses the prices of all homes sold in the area. This leads to smaller gains or larger losses for people who must sell in the current market and devalues the largest asset most households own—their house. This lower value limits homeowners' ability to extract equity for expenses such as home improvements, starting a business, college tuition, or retirement. Owners of depreciated homes may constrain their spending to try to make up for the lost wealth, and this can act as a drag on economic growth.
A vacant home can also lower property values, even if it is not for sale. Vacant homes are often part of a "shadow inventory" because the owners intend to put them on the market when demand recovers. Every month, some of these owners will decide that the costs of holding an empty house outweigh the benefits of waiting. In locations with a lot of shadow inventory in addition to the active inventory, there is downward pressure on home prices.
Moreover, the exterior of a vacant home is usually less likely to be well-maintained than an occupied one. This detracts from the vitality of the neighborhood and the prices buyers are willing to pay for nearby homes. In high-crime areas, unoccupied homes are often broken into, stripped of valuable metals, and vandalized. In some cases, criminals move into the homes and run illegal operations from them.
As foreclosures have increased in recent years, so have the studies that estimate their economic impact. It is not surprising that economists have been able to detect a distinct difference in prices for homes near a recently foreclosed property. John Harding, Eric Rosenblatt, and Vincent Yao used data from seven metro areas to estimate the impact of a foreclosure on the sale prices of nearby homes. Their results suggest that a distressed property within 300 feet of a home sale will lower the sale price by 1 percent. John Campbell, Stefano Giglio, and Parag Pathak report a similar finding in their study, which analyzes two decades of sales records from Massachusetts. They observe that a foreclosure within 264 feet reduced the sale price of a house by 1 percent. These two studies build on a list of similar published findings.
In articles on foreclosure, authors usually note that foreclosures lead to vacancies, which can depress sales prices through the supply and disamenity channels discussed above. A study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's Dan Hartley estimates the strength of the two channels separately. He finds that foreclosures in high-vacancy neighborhoods depressed prices by 2 percent via a disamenity effect, whereas foreclosures in low-vacancy neighborhoods depressed prices by 1.6 percent via a supply effect.
Parcel-level foreclosure data are widely available because the process must be recorded in court and property records. Data on the vacancy of individual homes are more difficult to obtain, so only one study so far has estimated the impact of vacant homes on nearby property values. Brian Mikelbank used data, collected by the City of Columbus, which identified vacant and abandoned homes along with foreclosures. He estimated that a vacant home reduced the sale price of nearby homes by 3.6 percent in the year following the city's survey. Controlling for vacancies reduced the estimated impact of the foreclosures, reflecting the strong relationship between the two. Anecdotal information and aggregate figures suggest that foreclosures cause additional vacancies, but the relationship needs further study using data on individual properties.
A Study of One Ohio County
To study whether foreclosure increases the length of time homes stay vacant, a set of data have to be constructed. I focused on Cuyahoga County, a populous counties hit hard by the foreclosure crisis. I used county sales records from 2006 to 2010, and for vacancy data, I used the U.S. Postal Service's address database. Homes are recorded as vacant in the USPS database if they have been vacant for at least 90 days. Actual vacancy rates are likely higher because there are many short-term vacancies that are not captured in this data.
The vacancy observations used in this analysis were all made in 2010. Figures that represent how many homes are vacant four or five years after a sale are calculated by taking homes that were sold in 2006 and observing whether they were vacant in 2010. Likewise, the vacancy rates calculated for the months close to a sale are based on sales in 2009 and 2010. The housing units are included in every month-difference group where it is possible to observe both sales and vacancies. Altogether, the calculations involve 85,000 properties and 130,000 sales transactions. I considered a sale a foreclosure if the transaction is recorded as a sheriff's sale.1
As to the question of whether foreclosed homes are more likely to be vacant after the sale, the simplest answer is yes. Six to nine months before the sale, the occupancy rates of both types of homes are essentially the same (figure 1). By the date of the sale, the homes in foreclosure are already more likely to be in an extended period of vacancy. After the sale, there is a sharp contrast: Homes sold through ordinary transactions are occupied by their new owners within a few months. Vacancies among the foreclosed homes increase during the same period.
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Comments40 Responses to "Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Foreclosures May Permanently Scar Homes"
I grew up in Cuyahoga County Ohio. In tx today with the 24th day of plus 100 degrees i miss the short but blissful summers there.
OHIO you suffer with the Country. All of the statistics, the charts, the issues are not pointing to the FACT of the FRAUDCLOSURE , the deception of the people with crap like hope hamp mha and yes the dodd stuff.
MONEY is the ART of WAR and the GAME doesnt play with a soul – only to see who wins the game.
GOD BLESS ohio and my poor Brother who is a Bank Exec there.
Don't pay for WALL STREETS crimes with your homes…They set us up to fail by bundling too many bad loans with a few good loans..It was intentional, massive and pernicious….The proof is in the Credit Default Swap insurance they all purchased against your home….Even the investors bought Credit Default Swap insurance against the risk they took…They are gaining the system once again by fraudclosing or forcing you to rent your home..They made hundreds of trillions of dollars off of the derivatives they created off of the loans they made both good and bad…They knew they were creating a bubble and they knew it would burst…and they put all of their ill gotten gains in overseas bankster accounts and socialized the debt the created onto all of us..They set MAINSTREET up to fail and robbed us blind. It was the biggest GLOBAL PONZI SCHEME SWINDLE AND HEIST..Your home is paid for free and clear because of what they did. See the movie INSIDE JOB….ALL OF THE DEVILS ARE HERE, IN PLAIN SIGHT.
Would appreciate everyone's comments and constructive suggestion on what is below this request.
Nugatory Declaration Certifying Cancellation of All Mortgages and Assignments
The hereinafter described Property owned by _______________ is hereby Declared and Certified by _________ to be free and clear of any and all Mortgages and Assignments purporting to claim an interest or lien in the Property inasmuch as all such Instruments hereinafter denominated as Recorded, either as mortgages or promissory notes thereto underlying and or subsequent assignments, were obtained or promulgated in violation of Law and contrary to Law and constituting a nullity as such was obtained either by Fraud or bad faith and unclean hands in the lending process that is unavailing on instance of forgeries and promissory estoppel and constructive fraud and fraud factum and unfair business practices conducted by incorporated entities and agents thereof, making false inducements in the course and practice and policy designed to receive unjust enrichment without risk of consideration or value in the null and void transactions that are ultra vires, null and void, ab initio.
Each of the Entities herein named hereinafter have been contacted in writing and delivered a copy of this Document at least 30 days before recording and each such Entity has failed to rebut and or answer within the 30 days prescribed and has remained silent during the 30 days preceding this recording and each identified Entity has by such silence granted tacit consent and waiver to this Nugatory Declaration, that the facts stated herein are true and incontravertable as to the commission of Fraud, Consumer Fraud, Constructive Fraud, False Inducement, Predatory Lending, Unclean Hands, Unjust Enrichment, Unconscionable Conduct, Estoppel, Nullity, Failure to Disclose, Violations of Truth in Lending, Mail Fraud, Violations of Respa, Destruction of the Original Note and Fatal Variance in Assignments, Forgery, Misrepresentation, Trustee Malfeasance and Gross Negligence, Counterfeiting Securities and slander of title and conflict of interest and prepayment, failure to record release in satisfaction, unfair trade, bait and switch, coercion. Entities are as shown in Public Record Documents as Recorded with these numbers:
Legal Description:
Be it hereby known to all the World that _____________ is the sole owner and that such owner holds free and clear title against all other claims for interest in the Property as there is no secured interest in the property whatsoever.
Appeared before me ________ a duly commissioned Notary Public for the State of _____ and County of _____ on this date of: _______, the person and individual personally known to me to be or otherwise properly identified, the same to be duly sworn upon this Oath, to Declare subject to the penalties for perjury, that the above and foregoing statements and or representations are true as a matter of personal knowledge and reason to believe that all such statements and or representations are true to the best of his knowledge.
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Beautiful!!!!! This is BRILLIANT!!!! How many millions of these cancellations of their bogus contract do you think we need? This could get those postal workers back their jobs when WE THE PEOPLE mail these en masse to the White House!!!!!!! We The People are legion, Expect us…..!!!!
If WE THE PEOPLE get behind this, and WE ALL DO THIS, they are DONE, THEY ARE TOAST LET'S STICK THIS FORK IN THEM!!!!!
Every American Citizen must watch INSIDE JOB to understand exactly who was involved in this and how the robbed us.. My husband and my son watched it with me the other night and now they are as mad as I am.
We have PROOF of all of their FRAUD and it is undeniable………I would still like to SEE with my own two eyes, exactly how many SHIT LOANS are floating around in that BOGUS HSBC GLOBAL TRUST…………NOW THERE IS THE PROOF OF HOW THEY SET US ALL UP TO FAIL..IT WAS THE BUNDLING OF A FEW GOOD LOANS WITH TOO MANY BAD AND THAT IS HOW THEY PUT _ALL_ OF US ON THE MORTGAGE FRAUD TITANIC……
We The People will make them an offer they can't refuse. If they won't rescind their fraud….We The People will launch a massive NATIONWIDE PROPERTY TAX REVOLT……If the revived Roman Empire can't collect a few grand a homeowner they can't keep their evil empire going. They are trying to screw the teachers and the cops and the firemen anyway. We The People can make a stand now or never……
Thanks I vent, but this does not work if others do not do this and help perfect this document and spread the word – so keep promoting and lets get this snowball rolling ….
Can the attorneys at this website perfect this to what you think this needs to be?? I really believe you are on the right track……I know we need to add Hold Harmless so they can not come back on us at at later date…An attorney told me that…
I noticed that you referred to this as a "cancellation", but what I have read about fraud in a notary book recently and otherwise when there is misrepresentations and any of the other evils involved then the loan is as though it never existed and a court in a decision used the words "nugatory and unavailing" which I use in this document instead of recission or repudiation as others have used – hence it is not a cancellation as you do not cancel something that does not exist, but treat as as never existing, by use of proper nomenclature to get the point across with explicit certainty as nunc pro tunc ab initio and null and void and not something to be treated as operative until nullified and invalidated.
I just read your comment and you seem to have pinned this thing down…You are exactly right, the loan never existed……….and we have proof so that should mean case closed…..
A Trillions….- Matt Weidner is an attorney here in Florida who fights endlessly for the homeowner. Since you have the document in form why don't you post it on his (new) site. He is now connecting with attorneys all across the nation and it would be a great way to get your document out there for edit. Since the laws vary from state to state, being judicial and non-judicial there may be a need to alter it for those types of foreclosure actitity. Actually, I agree with the others and Ivent that this is a brilliant idea.
Hey I VENT, do you have any explanation by what is meant by "hold harmless" as I am not sure what this statement is about and how it applies to this document?
From what I understand that means they cannot come back at a later date and say you owe them money………..I think it is an extra protection…..I will look up the legal terminology….
hold harmless by legal definition means a apromise to pay any costs or claims which may result from an agreement. Quite often this is part of a settlement agreement in which one party is concerned that there might be unknown lawsuits or claims stemming from the situation so the other party agrees to cover them….
It was just a suggestion… We know we can't trust these people so we better cover our asses I mean assets..
Say some Saudi investor comes along in couple of years and says I have a right to collect money from you….Now if we are asking for full loan recission this may not even be needed. As I said, am not an attorney….
A Nugatory Declaration is a declaration of war…….So we only need one of these to be sent to the White House then…….. Obama will submit it to the foreign enemy…..This is really awesome……you are brilliant!!!!!
TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FRAUD: I guess if WE THE PEOPLE do this we will find out for sure what team Obama is playing for.. We better have our guns and bullets ready……just in case…..
The foreign bastards could force Obama to declare martial law…..wait a minute. he won't even have to that because he signed EXECUTIVE ORDER 13528…. which weakened the posse commitatus act of 1873…..He is set to sign another EO in a couple of weeks which will weaken our 2nd amendment rights even further and our right to keep and bear arms….CLTV in Chicago reported last week that the G-8, THE FOREIGN ENEMY IS MEETING IN MY HOMETOWN, CHICAGO next Spring and NATO IS JOINING FORCES WITH THE CHICAGO POLICE FORCE FOR CROWD CONTROL.. I say WTF??? WHO SAID?????? If NATO is allowed to do that what that will be is a SLAP IN OUR FACE BY OBAMA and that act will fly in the face of our freedom.
Where are all the other comments from others – are you asleep?
My reseach on google about "hold harmless" is that this applies to when a contractor subcontracts another and they promise to hold harmless from whatever liabilities arise and doesn't seem to apply to this or any other situations.
TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF FRAUD, I don't think we need to use HOLD HARMLESS in this situation. A real estate attorney who was the attorney at my orignal house closing did tell me to put this in a settlement agreement with the pretender lender for my commercial property which I decided against negotiating with those foreign owned financial terorists…At the time I wrote that comment I did not realize this was not a settlement agreement. I do think your are right on with your idea….Please let me know what I can do. I will be glad to help fight this tyranny in any way that I can…..
Come on everyone!!!!!! We all need to get behind this brilliant idea that TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF FRAUD has come up with….We have to do this before they try and strip us of anymore of our rights or try to create new laws to make fraud legal…….imagine if they try to make cyberfraud legal…? Like MERS…??? We can't let them get away with stealing anymore from WE THE PEOPLE……
The Fed was all in on the Ponzi Scheme and they are also all in on the cover-up.
In reality the pretender lenders owe us money for collecting money on a loan they do not own…….Someone is owed this money is a very deceptive tool the judges are using to cover their asses for losing track of ownership to the loan. What the pretender lenders/servicers are doing is not only incredibly deceptive it is also illegal…They have to show proof, from the inception of the loan to today…
Sure they are not going to sell the houses with cloudy titles now the truth is becoming more and more apparent..These pretender lenders don't own these loans or these property rights..They are criminals and the judges are aiding and abetting them…. Cloudy title means they lost track of ownership of your loan.. CNBC reported a couple of weeks ago that most of these fraudclosures are going to become rentals…..Don't sign anything people. Chase sent my sister right to the title company to sign her rights away to her home because she did not know..The only signature that can start a new chain of title is the homeowner's because the titlle is clean to the homeowner….That reconveyance clears the title. That is why they want YOU to sell your home….IT IS ANOTHER SCAM. ANOTHER COVER-UP…….
All these pretender lenders want is the Credit Default Swap insurance which is worth 2-3 times the current value of the home……They are stealing every last dime they can out of these homes and they are using illegal means to receive more ill gotten gains… Fraudclosures are yet another cover up for their PONZI SCHEME..Don't sign anything. I hear there are "investors" down in Florida renting people their own homes and buying fraudclosures with bad titles. They are parasites and they are preying on what you don't know…What you do not know can hurt you…
Whether they call it Liars Loans, improper assignment of the collateral lien, improper conveyance, bifurcation of the mortgage and note, MERS, faulty affadavit, fake release of mortgage, bogus assignee, cloudy title, robo-signing, back dated assignments they are just powder puff names for FRAUD……..they are trying to legitamize fraud and legalize crime to suit their needs by giving a nicer sounding name to a very serious and highly destructive crime…
The above comment is for TRIED…….
Clouded Title means they do not know many loans are actually shadowing your home, whether or not you even have a mortgage.
Oh WOW, and doesn't that mean like the same exact thing? Just put in nicer terms which they do not deserve……….
Clouds on title are all sorts of dubious documents of whatever form they appear in the records and is not limited to just mortgages and assignments, but also quit claims and anything else that brings the chain of evidence into a disconnection until the mistake or error or fraud is uncovered and remedied as may be required by quite title action involving court oversight to determine how the facts justify ownership of the title, whether legal or equitable.
why dont all 67 counties….when a house goes back to the bank buy it at auction and eith sell it back to the original homeowner so the famiy stays intact or rent. if its an investment property instead of letting properties sit grow mold and eventually lose a taxable income???? by now all the counties must know the fraud going on in the origination, the title, modificatio fraud, and fraudclosure. take my situation when i go to court. i was told to stop paying by wells fargo. i didnt one day wake up and say well iam not going to pay my mortgage today. i was told to not pay. does the bank deserve a free house no. did the banks tell us all the deal with these loans that they were going ot be stock and they didnt really loan us the money and the real lender is not even on our note. then they go and tell appraisers do not come in at sale price anddo not expect any more business so appraisers had to do the dispicable and use comparables they would never use in different situations. homes flipp with in 6 months. homes sold and resold in 15-17 days, straw buyers used to raise prices. mortgage application fraud raising salaries to meet underwriting standards when homeowners were out of town buys and they had the original paycheck stubs whats 500- to 700 bucks here or there going to do and the peopel get the house they want. then of course robo signing. then the moster of all modification fraud losing paper work, moving files. the counties need to protect the homeowners and we can not be protected from our AG and government the each individual florida counties 67 of them need to play the banks at there own game. once they buy these homes and sell or rent to the original homeowner . they stablize our childrens live and the family can appeal the judgement. so awful letting these homes it vacant growing mild and getting eatin by termites. in my area alone i have seen horrid stuff. a bees nest in a hoime, a fire , grass 10 feet high. its a mess. if the people were only aloud to stay. we do not have uyers here the homes just sit. so eveyrone reading this florida lets write our comissioners and say hey stop the banks from getting these homes. save our tax base. remind them of judge cook in tampa whose husband is presidnet of community bank and her penssion are directly tied to banks but she is not bias when she has a fore closures. paleeze how could she not be. we need to get involved here and stop this r avaging of florida
Those people never had to leave their homes they are paid for free and clear because of the Ponzi Scheme. That is the deception, these pretender lenders lost track of ownership of these loans at the ORIGINATION…No one should have to buy these homes back for the homeowner…The homeowner owns their home since ORIGINATION where the paid deed was conveyed to the homeowner.. Our title is clean…they lost track of ownership by many illegal conveyances that were never recorded and their title is cloudy. Give the people back their stolen homes. If there is any fraud anywhere in the loan history they killed their contract and they should walk away, Clear title automatically goes back to the homeowner, they are the only one who can prove ownership of the property…..God Bless America, Death to the Foreign Tyranny!!!!!!!
The illegal foreclosures must be stopped..
I wonder about all of the foreclosed properties in FL and other humid southern states — after months and months and month ++ without air conditioning and care. They must turn into mold factories with insect infestations.
RESET NEEDED. Banks need to walk away from properties w/clouded title.
They don't care about us…All they care about is the insurance money….They have our homes insured to the hilt. Anyone can buy insurance on your home and say they own it. This is sick.
They probably take out extra insurance that covers mold…They don't care about us. They just come up with more and more ways to make money off of their Ponzi Scheme and our homes..
The banks want the deed to the poperty. They don't give a crap about the house.


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Action rewards action, so on the off chance that you need others to see you, at that point you have to see them first. It is sharing time which works best if you approach another artist's work and, at that point react with your own art story. So how to engage in with the art community… the initial step is to discover a way that best suits you. Where you need your art to go, who should it connect with, how you need to be received by society, what is the message or story you are telling with your art, and for what reason should others engage with your work – these are all questions that factor into understanding what mutual outlets would work best for you. All things considered, if you look to be seen by the art community, at that point the best way to do so is to really turn out to be part of it. This generally means putting yourself out there and removing what you made from the shadows and letting others experience it. You won't be found in hiding, except if you are leaving that to future archeologists.
Online there are numerous art communities, for example, Deviantart, Behance, See.Me, A Singular Creation, and others, where you can make a free account and: upload pictures, share information on projects you are working on, compose your artist statement, post news and achievements, and network with different artists. Getting your art noticed and associating with others is the thing that the art community is primarily about – artist meeting up to progress in the direction of the common goal of learning and developing. In this period, with the power of the internet, hindrances between artists and the worldwide audience are easily overcome.
Offline is vastly different in that the search engine optimization won't help your target audience locate your specific style and medium. Additionally you will have a smaller localized group to look into your works. In some cases a group show turns out to be well if a level of cooperative energy is accomplished inside which the show participants are both surrounded by art and artists and engaged by all. It takes attracting a crowd with the right people in the right place at the perfect time. Such is task best left to experienced event organizers. In the event that you find a community that is cooperating along these lines, you need to contact whoever is in charge for events and present your work to check whether it meets the standards for their shows.
One such artist community that is developing on a global platform is RAW natural-born artists. Their organizers unite a feature of artists, musicians, hair/make-up and clothing artists, videographers and other creative types for a grand soirée from both word of mouth and group financing. Numerous different group form on a nearby level, for the most part in a "grassroots" way calling themselves Artist collectives or Guerrilla Art Groups. This is another incredible method to get out and team up – not exclusively to conceptualize and create, yet in addition for artists to put on synergistic shows that are of varied interests to draw more extensive audiences.
Either gathering on an internet platform or coming together live, community is an advantageous experience for artists. Sharing experiences, suggesting resources, making new contacts are all part of getting from the table to the masses. At the point when you meet with a group of artists, some might be introverts; nonetheless, you will likewise locate the more outgoing ones that offer ideas which can help broaden your exposure to much more art communities. There are likewise numerous characteristics that can combine for example a performance artist can gain from a visual artist, an author can gain from a musician, a painter can gain from a photographer and all these the other way around… the list continues forever.
Grasping the uniqueness of the contributions of individual artists and helping each other as opposed to having a competitive mind-set plays a major role in getting noticed in the art community. If you are one that doesn't "play well with others" the option could be a kickback that will leave you a lonely artist. You must be prepared for a wide range of various characters and have toughness for spontaneous critiques that happen in the art community.
Advertising your artwork all alone takes away resources from your creative efforts and in such way you may not be found until long after your demise. That is a scenario of another person taking responsibility of your works and interacting with the art community. Do you see the worth, it is a now or never situation for the artist; without establishing an identity within the art community another person may get your work noticed for you simply after you are no more. So find other artist and find an association which in the art community is the initial step in getting seen or heard. All art is related and little art communities are regularly hinged upon or increase scale art communities.


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Puma's return to the basketball sneaker game hasn't just meant that it has made kicks for a collection of NBA players. With its recently-acquire mantle as the new kid on the block, Puma has decided to get involved in advocacy, most notably with the Puma Clyde Court Peace On Earth, for which $5 of every purchase went to the Trayvon Martin Foundation.
The next upcoming Puma release will take a similar approach to raising money for an important cause, as the company announced the debut of the Clyde Court #Reform. The sneaker was inspired by Meek Mill and his passion for criminal justice reform, and in a release, Puma announced that 100 percent of proceeds from sales of the sneaker will go towards the REFORM Alliance, an organization spearheaded by Meek Mill, Jay-Z, Philadelphia 76ers co-owner Michael Ruben, and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
The kicks follow the general design of all the Clyde Court releases so far. It's an all-black colorway with a few interesting details, like #REFORM in gold letters on the tongue and a quote by Olympic gold medalist and Puma ambassador Tommie Smith — "We had to be seen because we couldn't be heard" — on the outer sole.
Per a release, the black is meant to represent the American criminal justice system in which "many people face unjust sentences that do not fit the crimes for which they have been convicted," the red represents the "blood and sacrifice" of those who fight for justice, and the gold looks to celebrate "the victories that we will achieve together when organizations and individuals come together to work for much needed reform."
Those who watched the Golden State Warriors or the Phoenix Suns play on Thursday night got a glimpse at the kicks, as Warriors center DeMarcus Cousins and Suns center Deandre Ayton wore them on the floor.
The sneakers also got some love on Twitter from Raptors wing Danny Green and Kings big man Marvin Bagley III.
Puma will drop the Clyde Court #Reform on Feb. 1.


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Helena Rubenstein invented the cupid's bow lipstick that promised to give the coveted shape to the lips. Women also used stencils to achieve the desired cupid's bow shape of the lips.
It was also in 1920s that the first wave of feminism came about and women demanded more rights including the right to vote. Lipsticks at that time were actually considered a symbol of feminism.
It was also during this era that French Chemist Paul Baudercroux invented lipstick Rouge Baiser which was supposed to be 'kiss-proof' but was quickly taken off the shelf as women found it difficult to get rid off. Companies like Chanel, Guerlain, Elizabeth Arden, and Estée Lauder, started selling lipsticks.
The love for lipstick was not deterred by the depression of this era. A survey revealed that 50% of teenage girls fought over lipstick with their parents (Mitchell, Claudia; Jacqueline Reid-Walsh (2007-12-30). Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia. Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing. pp. 396–397). After the jazz baby era of 1920s, 1930s was all about elegant and matte finishes. Max Factor started selling lip glosses and became a huge hit among the masses as earlier it was only reserved for Hollywood actresses. Hit by the depression, lipstick was an affordable luxury for the women in this era. Deep plum and burgundy were some of the preferred shades of this era.
Going through the perils of the Second World War, women in the 1940s took to laborious jobs with men at war frontiers. The supplies of all materials were scarce, and as for lipsticks, the metal tubes were temporarily replaced with plastic and paper. Due to the lack of materials, makeup in this era was creative and breezy. Women were actually encouraged to wear reddest of the lips to boost the morale during the grim time of the war. Besame's American Beauty was one of the most popular shades of red.
This was the era when Hollywood glam icons such as Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor were setting the trends all over the world. Women wanted to look like their favorite Hollywood actresses and lipstick was popular than ever. Bold red lips were especially popularized by Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor and women in 1950s embraced the trend. Estee Lauder's Envious was one of the popular shades. A survey in the 1950s claimed that 60% teenage girls wore lipstick.
In 1952, Queen Elizabeth II created her own shade during her coronation. The shade was customized by Queen's favorite brand Clarin's and called the 'The Balmoral'. The color matched her coronation robe.
It was also during this era, Hazel Bishop successfully came up with a 'kiss-proof' lipstick. Soon enough, 'Revlon' came up with their own range of smudge proof lipsticks and then began the war of brands started.
Lipstick drew inspiration from arts, and popular culture and a variety of shades came and went from the fashion scene. There was something to suit everybody's preference. In 1973 Bonnie Bell introduced, 'Lip Smackers', that is lipstick with flavors. These became an instant hit with the younger crowd. Aerin's Rose Balm Lipstick in Pretty and corals like Maybelline's Orange Danger were some of the iconic shades of the era.
Lipsticks in the 1980s, much like everything was all about shimmers and gloss. The concept of power dressing came into being, and bold red lips were a statement once again. Matching your lip color with your outfits was common and in vogue. Hot pink lips became all the rage keeping up with dance party culture of the era. Goth lips were popular in some alternative sub cultures.
This was the era of grunge and makeup was simple. People were getting more and more conscious about environment and demand for chemical free, natural formulas for lipstick grew. Tattooed or getting semi-permanent color on the lip was getting popular. But if the 90s is remembered as the era of lip liners. Nothing screams the 1990s more than darker lip liners with a lighter lipstick. Brands such as Mac and Urban Decay came into the scene.
2000 Onwards
The 2000s was all about Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Paris Hilton. Shine was in and lip glosses were the favorite accesories once again.


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By Howard Bloom | May 2003
Islamic Censorship is taken from pages 321-326 of the April 2003 edition of Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies (Disinformation Guides).
Ever since October 18, 1899, when the American Anti-Imperialist League declared that "the subjugation of any people is 'criminal aggression,'" we've heard valid and disturbing complaints about how badly Western imperialism has damaged the nations of Africa, Asia, and South America. But imagine what life would have been like in the West if the tables of imperialism had been turned on us.
Suppose that Europe had been invaded by a power infinitely stronger than that of any piddling Euro-king in, let's say, 711 AD. Imagine that the armies of the imperialist invaders were so strong that they eventually overran the known earth, taking India, Russia, parts of China, Central Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and a slab of Africa as large as a daisy chain of the Australias. Imagine that these international aggressors were determined to convert people to a more "advanced" way of life. Imagine that they used the persuaders of swords, gunpowder, and the biggest cannons this planet had ever seen. Imagine that the Mediterranean Sea was turned by navies of their New World Order to a pool of war for a millennium or more. Imagine that Spain, Portugal, Malta, Sicily, and the Italian provinces of Piedmont, Montferrat, and Liguria had fallen, and that Narbonne, in France, had been seized. Imagine that huge swatches of Eastern Europe — including Poland, Romania, and massive pizza slices of the Balkans and the Ukraine — had been swallowed entirely. Imagine that the monolithic masters of subjugation had sailed up the river Tiber and fought their way into Rome. Imagine that the Black Sea had been set aside by these conquerors as their "private lake."
Imagine that the coasts of Italy, England, and Ireland had been raided over and over again, the men killed, the women and children snatched as slaves. Imagine that the good-looking ones had been penned up with hundreds of others from around the world to feed a decadent dictator's sexual cravings. Imagine that the European sex-slaves had included not just pretty girls, but also the attractive younger boys.
Imagine that the imperialist powers had periodically swept parts of the European landscape for white babies, tearing them from their nursing mothers' nipples and raising the infants to be cannon fodder, forced to fight ferociously for the cause of the "higher" civilization. Imagine that this enthusiasm for the subjugation of Westerners, Asians, and Far Easterners had lasted more than 1,200 years. And imagine that you were not allowed to read about it. No book on these atrocities could be published in the English language.
You would be in the dark, forming opinions without a clue about your own people's history. If the old Imperialist enslaver geared up to seize you once again, you would never know that he once had held you by the throat, and that his grip had rivaled in duration the life and death of civilization. Your ability to assess the seriousness of new threats from the seasoned nation-crusher would be profoundly crippled.
Grisly science fiction? No. Every detail of this imperialist nightmare happened. The whole scenario is true.
We flatter ourselves when we claim to have been the biggest, baddest exploiters since the Fall of the Roman Empire. Yes, the West spent 195 years on eight crusades to take a territory (the Christian "Holy Land") the size of a postage stamp. Yes, the West filled the streets of Jerusalem in 1099 with so much blood it literally welled up to the European butchers' ankles. Yes, the West briefly held 75 percent of the globe's landmass under its thumb. Yes, the West used foreign kings and queens like Kleenex to wipe its control-snorting nose. And, yes, the West killed off tens of millions of Native Americans through starvation and disease, then snatched the Middle East like a rag doll and waggled it humiliatingly for nearly 50 years.
But we are mere midgets of an Empire. We spent most of the last 1,500 years cooped up in a corner by the real giants of the capture-and-colonialization game.
If you are white, you are probably descended from one of the survivors who was not enslaved by these champions of people-chomping. Your ancestors are among the lucky ones who dodged being kidnapped and raised as battle-bots for a foreign power. Miguel Cervantes — the author of Don Quixote — was not so fortunate. He lost his left hand in a war of liberation against the predators, was captured, sold into slavery, and was kept in a central holding pen for Christian prisoners of the Empire for five years. The characters in Voltaire's Candide were forced to brave the Mediterranean Sea when it was patrolled by war fleets whose imperial propagandists bragged that their admirals totally "mastered" these waters. Voltaire's heroine, Cunegonde, was taken as a sex slave for a ruler of the rampaging military machine. Voltaire's fiction was a mere reflection of Europe's longstanding reality.
Even the young United States became involved, storming the parasitic exploiters' naval headquarters on the shores of Tripoli. The last European lands did not slip out of the oppressors' hands until 100 years ago. And some of those lands are now being fingered by the minions of tyranny once again.
Asia has not been so fortunate. Nor has Africa. In Mauritania and the Sudan, blacks are still enslaved by the thousands every year. Huge chunks of these continents remain a part of the old Empire, an Empire breathing heavily through its mask like Darth Vader, certain that its youth will bloom again. And convinced that in the next go-round, we won't stand a chance.
Those who've waged this assault on the West are the forces of Islam.
You've heard of our despicable Crusades. They went on for less than 200 years. The holy wars of Islam have ground on for over 1,300 years — 65 generations. Islam's modern historians brag to their own people about "the history of Muslim rule in Europe." The scholars' goal? "To remind the Muslim Ummah of its glorious past" — and perhaps to hint at its glorious future. On an English-language Website designed to gather Western recruits to Jihad, Dr. Mohsin Frooqi crows with pride about the days when Islam's troops brought "terror to the inhabitants of Corsica, Sardinia, Pisa and Genoa," "massacred the males" of Montferrat, and "devastated the cities and villages [of England and Ireland] and carried away booty and captives." Farooqi gloats over the fact that, "The terror of Muslim invaders along the old Danube highway hung over Europe for centuries," and that, "The yoke of Tatar Government remained on the necks of Russians for two hundred and fifty years."
Some of the Muslim world's most influential twenty-first century leaders say it is a sacred duty of Allah's 400 million men to resume the Empire's blessed campaigns, to yank all nations of this Earth into a global caliphate.
Yet this thousand-year-plus Jihad against the West is not in your history books. It isn't on TV. And it isn't likely to be.
There is an Islamic loophole in our freedom of speech. In the 1990s, a British historical author, Paul Fregosi, was commissioned to write a book about the Islamic crusades against Europe. By April 1997, he had nearly finished the manuscript. Then his publisher, Little, Brown (a part of the AOL Time Warner media octopus), was approached very quietly by Islamic groups. Executives in the British offices of the publishing house had visions of bombs and cut throats dancing in their heads. They did what their polite Islamic visitors demanded. Without uttering a word to the public, they cancelled Paul Fregosi's book. The leading French news agency, Agence France-Presse, was the only media outlet with the guts to cover the tale. It did so in just one brief 254-word piece, then dropped the issue entirely. As an editor at Little, Brown told Fregosi: "We've got to play the game according to Muslim rules."
I just bought: 'Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries' by Paul Fregosi via @amazon https://t.co/ulKk8J6rSL
— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) December 30, 2015
My publisher — Atlantic Monthly Press — was also threatened in June 1996 because my book, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History, rips off the masks disguising violence in every society, including the societies of Islam. Arab pressure groups asked ever so politely that The Lucifer Principle be withdrawn from print and that nothing that I write be published again. They offered to boycott my publisher's products — all of them — worldwide. And they backed their warning with a call for my punishment in seventeen Islamic countries.
In my case, punishment merely meant condemnation as a racist throughout the Islamic world, four years of denunciation on Islamic Websites from Michigan to Pakistan, an orchestrated campaign of negative readers' reviews on Amazon.com, an international letter-writing campaign to my publisher, and an attempt to stop the purchase or use of my books in universities and other places where they've gained popularity.
But if you want to know what real Islamic punishment means, ask the following people:
- Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie, who has been in hiding since February 1989 because of a worldwide Islamic fatwa calling for his death issued by the late Ayatollah Khomeini. A militant Iranian group backed up the death sentence by offering a $2.8 million reward for Rushdie's murder. Despite reports to the contrary, the fatwa has not been lifted. In 1998, the Iranian parliament declared that only Allah or the person who issued the fatwa can rescind it. Since Khomeini is dead and Allah ain't talking, the death sentence remains technically in effect. The parliament did say that it would do nothing to enforce the murderous decree, but the multimillion-dollar bounty remains in effect, and radical Muslim groups have continued to say that they will rub Rushdie out. He has become somewhat more visible, but he still keeps a pretty low profile and doesn't announce public appearances in advance.
- Other people who've had a hand in the Satanic Verses. In issuing his fatwa, Khomeini called for the death not only of Rushdie but also of "all involved in its publication who were aware of its content." As of September 1998, according to the BBC, the book's Japanese translator had been stabbed to death, its Italian translator was non-fatally knifed, and its Norwegian publisher survived being shot.
- Writer, poet, and doctor Taslima Nasrin, whose 1992 novel Laffa [Shame] touched off deadly riots in her native Bangladesh and triggered a Muslim death sentence on her head (she's now in hiding in Sweden). Her comments on the Koran and the treatment of women in Islam have further enraged those who wish her harm. In September 2002, a court in Bangladesh found her guilty in absentia of offending Muslims and sentenced her to a year in prison.
- Playwright Terence McNally, who is the victim of a fatwa calling for his execution should he ever enter an Islamic nation. His crime: portraying Jesus as gay in Corpus Christi. Since Jesus is a minor prophet in Islam, an offense unto him is now apparently grounds for a Muslim death decree.
- Nigerian journalist Isioma Daniel, who wrote a column prior to her country's scheduled hosting of the 2002 Miss World Pageant. She dared to say: "The Muslims thought it was immoral to bring 92 women to Nigeria and ask them to revel in vanity. What would Mohammed think? In all honesty, he would probably have chosen a wife from one of them." These words triggered three days of riots that claimed the lives of more than 220 people. A government official in the Nigerian state of Zamfara issued a fatwa declaring: "Like Salman Rushdie, the blood of Isioma Daniel can be shed. It is binding on all Muslims, wherever they are, to consider the killing of the writer as a religious duty." Daniel is now hiding in the US.
- Amal Kashua, a mother of eight, and Amir (last name unknown). These two members of Israel's Muslim minority starred in the first Israeli Arab porn film. Both of them have been severely beaten by mobs, and Kashua's family has said that they will kill her.
- Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, whose neck carries a knife wound meant to end his life. His novel Children of Gebalawi (a/k/a Children of the Alley) — which indirectly depicts Mohammed, Jesus, and Moses as members of the working class — and his defense of Salman Rushdie led to the fatwa.
- Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette. The creator of the comic strip Kudzu and syndicated political cartoons offered an acid take on Islamic terrorism. Taking off on the What Would Jesus Drive? ad campaign (which implies that Christ wouldn't tool around in a gas-guzzling SUV), his late-December 2002 cartoon showed a man in Middle Eastern garb behind the wheel of a Ryder truck. In the back is a nuclear missile, and across the top of the panel is the text: "What Would Mohammed Drive?" The cartoon didn't run in the print edition of the Tallahassee Democrat (where Marlette is on staff), but it did appear briefly on the newspaper's Website before being yanked off. Muslim groups howled, and Marlette was inundated with over 4,500 emails. "They all demanded an apology," he wrote. "Quite a few threatened mutilation and death."
Salman Rushdie on ISIS and Islam. https://t.co/hEAr3wHr9V pic.twitter.com/VK59ATTp5p
— Big Think (@bigthink) July 30, 2017
It is too late to get the opinions of Islamist/feminist write Konca Kuris, who was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by Hezbollah in the Turkish town of Konya in 1998, or of Turkish secularist and newspaper columnist Ahmet Taner Kislali, who died when a bomb went off beneath the hood of his car the following year.
While Paul Fregosi's book was being stifled and mine was under attack, Simon & Schuster, part of the Viacom media goliath, withdrew a children's book because the Islamic activists demanded it. The execs at S&S say that publishing World Religions: Great Lives by respected historian William Jay Jacobs had been an editorial mistake. The error? An illustration of the prophet Mohammed with a sword in his hand. Said the Muslim pressure groups, the painting was defamatory. Also, the section on Mohammed opens with this paragraph:
Muhammed. The Prophet (or "Messenger of God"). During his lifetime he was a man who loved beautiful women, fine perfume, and tasty food. He took pleasure in seeing the heads of his enemies torn from their bodies by the swords of his soldiers. He hated Christians and Jews, poets and painters, and anyone who criticized him. Once he had a Jewish prisoner tortured in order to learn the location of the man's hidden treasure. Then, having uncovered the secret, he had his victim murdered and added the dead man's wife to the collection of women in his harem.
Because of this paragraph and the painting of the entire book — which contains biographies of 32 major figures of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Asian religions — was recalled, and it remains out of print. Simon & Schuster sent a letter of apology to the Council on Islamic-American relations.
Was the portrayal of Mohammed in World Religions: Great Lives accurate? Mohammed ordered a minimum of 27 military raids, and personally led nine of them. That information comes from one of Islam's most popular modern biographies of Mohammed, a 120-page book published in Lahore, Pakistan, by Islamic Publications Ltd and distributed worldwide, but only in Islamic bookshops. The slender volume is Sarwat Saulat's The Life of the Prophet. Unless you are a potential convert to Islam, this is a book that Muslims do not want you to see.
The most influential twentieth-century interpreter of the Koran, the Ayatollah Khomeini, told all Muslims who would listen that military conquest was an obligation of all Godly men… including the Prophet Mohammed. "The leaders of our religion were all soldiers, commanders, and warriors," he wrote. "They put on military dress and went into battle in the wars that are described for us in our history; they killed, and they were killed. The Commander of the Faithful himself [Mohammed] (upon whom be peace) would place a helmet on his blessed head, don his coat of chain mail, and gird on a sword." So why was Simon & Schuster forced to withdraw a children's book that showed a picture of Mohammed with a sword in his hand? Because this is one of Islam's treasured views of its founder. But you are not allowed to know it.
In the late 1990s, a cabal of globally interlinked Islamic groups devised a strategy: "offer" major publishers access to "Islamic experts" who would screen books in advance. Said the letter the Islamic groups sent to my publisher: "We… invite the Atlantic Monthly Press to consult with Muslim Americans (we can provide a list of scholars) prior to the publication of materials that deal with Muslim issues in order to avert defamation in the future." These wise men would tell publishers in advance which manuscripts should not be published, which books — like Simon & Schuster's children's reader — would be offensive to the Muslim community. To put it differently, these Islamic censors would ever so gently prevent you and me from peering into the everyday beliefs and rhetoric of the world-wide Islamic community.
Just to let Atlantic Monthly Press know it was not alone, the letter added that the publisher would merely be falling into line with what was becoming a common practice. The letter made it abundantly clear that "other publishers" had already caved in to the pressure groups' generous offer.
Publishers are heroes who stand up for truth, right? Except when their knees buckle and they kiss the floor in fear. Every publishing house approached with the pre-censorship deal kept silent. Many of them allowed the secret censors in. The press did not know it. Even the censorship watchdogs at the Authors Guild and the American Booksellers Association, sincerely pledged to uphold freedom of the press, didn't have a clue.
Islamic censors force all writers to register their stories with the morality police. Romance literature in Nigeria:https://t.co/7C0Jk8ifJV pic.twitter.com/jwNsdkHBeO
— The Caravan (@thecaravanindia) June 4, 2017
I knew it only because the Islamic groups had accidentally made me an insider when they attacked me back in 1991. Omni Magazine had printed an early version of a chapter on the Lucifer Principle, the book I was writing at the time. Muslim activists disliked the fact that the piece, "The Importance of Hugging," mentioned that it is taboo in many Muslim societies for a husband and a wife to hold hands, much less kiss, in public. The article cited scientific studies and research from an Arab sociologist indicating that this lack of physical affection may be one reason Islamic societies have a tendency to produce violence. The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee took exception to the very notion that Islamic violence exists, and picketed Omni's offices for four days and nights.
I always thought Bob Guccione, Sr., the owner of Omni and Penthouse, had guts. Heck, back in the 1960s and 1970s, Guccione had peeled the cover off of one shabby CIA plot after another — a practice that could have put him in considerable danger. But when the Muslim activists showed up in the lobby of his building, Bob Sr. ordered his staff to keep their mouths shut. When Omni staffers were pelted with questions from reporters, none was allowed to utter even so much as a "no comment".
When reporters called Omni asking for my response to the protests, my phone number was kept secret and I was told nothing. That's the way Guccione wanted it. Why did his staff follow orders? Why were they so meek? Because high-level Omni employees were literally shaking with terror, wondering when an Islamic bomb would turn them from yuppies to Alpo splatter.
I had no idea the protests were taking place until a six-column head-line about the demonstrations hit the New York Post. Then Pan Am Flight 103 was downed over Lockerbie, Scotland, by an Islamic terrorist's bomb, and the protestors swiftly and silently melted away.
Since then, the Islamic activists have learned that staging noisy protests doesn't pay. The big prize comes from arriving in "diplomatic" stealth. The mere presence of Islamic representatives in a publisher's office has the effect of a visit from enforcers of a Mafia don. People will do anything the Muslim delegation asks just to stay alive. And the victims will remain silent about the deals they make to buy Muslim activists off… as silent as if their tongues had been torn out.
There's a reason for this secrecy. Big-time authors, the ones who can make a publisher rich, hate censorship and will often refuse to sign with companies that are under a censor's thumb. If it's known that a publishing company has made a pre-censorhsip deal, that publishing house is shamed in public by elite organizations like the Authors Guild and the writers' international anti-censorship group PEN. So Viacom's Simon & Schuster; AOL Time Warner's Little, Brown; and even my publisher, the independent Atlantic Monthly Press, do not want these author's groups to know a thing.
This fear of being caught in the act of censorship saved my book, The Lucifer Principle, from the shredder. After I'd spent four frantic days trying to find allies who would help defend Lucifer's right to exist, my agent, Richard Curtis, put me in touch with the Authors Guild's chief attorney. He wrote a letter to Atlantic Monthly Press explaining that the Guild would be forced to notify its members if Atlantic surrendered to the pressure groups and yanked my book. Atlantic Monthly Press was caught between two perils. On the one hand, it could risk the worldwide amputation of cash flow threatened in the letter from the Muslims, who wrote that "we intend to inform 52 countries, members of the Organization of Islamic Conference and thousands of Islamic Centers in America, Canada and Europe to boycott all Atlantic Monthly Press publications." On the other hand, it could take a chance on being shunned by the top authors in North America, Britain, and Europe.
The executives at Atlantic Monthly Press compromised. They asked me to rewrite a key chapter on Islamic violence — this time citing every gory Koranic reference by sura and verse. The facts in The Lucifer Principle had already been triple-checked. But when I was forced to dig deeper, the resulting rewrite, with it's 358 lines of footnotes, was far more damning to militant Islam than the original.
@loudmouthman If you haven't ordered it, I highly recommend Howard Bloom's The Lucifer Principle. The best book on memes. Period.
— Anthony Iannarino (@iannarino) September 14, 2008
An author can be bankrupted or have his or her health destroyed by the pressures of a court case. Even a large organization like the Jewish Anti-Defamation League can be silenced by court actions. When I was under attack, I asked for aid from the ADL. One of it's top officers told me, "We can't touch this. We're already in enough trouble." He referred to a court case leveled against the ADL in America by Muslim groups in 1993. That case dragged on until February 2002. Eleven years of bills from a squad of lawyers who each charge $300 or more per hour for their services add up fast. If that case had dragged on long enough, legal costs could have bled the ADL dry. As it was, it bled the ADL into silence.
Meanwhile, in 1997, when Paul Fregosi came under attack, I tracked down his home phone number in England and called him to offer support. He seemed confused about why his book had been hailed so enthusastically by its publisher during its early manuscript stages, then had been abruptly turned down. I told him of my own experiences with Islamic pressure groups and tried to explain the force that had been brought to bear against his publisher. It was a hard story for him to believe. I gathered the facts and wrote them up to encourage journalists at publications like the New York Times and The New Republic to come to Fregosi's defense. It turned out that the problem was worse than I had realized. Television networks and film studios were also targets of Islamic censorship. Even Disneyland would later be attacked by a Cairo meeting of Arab Foreign Ministers, who put together a committee that included "representatives of the Arab League, American Arab-Islamic organisations and Palestinians" to police Disney's depiction of Jerusalem.
All of the media outlets I contacted shied away from the censorship story. Only The American Reporter, a Website dedicated to investigative journalism, printed an article on the subject. It deemed that bit of news so important that it led the day's edition with an editorial decrying Islamic efforts to muzzle the Western press.
Paul Fregosi's book, retitled Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries, was eventually published by a small press in Buffalo, New York, that prides itself on its crusading efforts — Paul Kurtz's Prometheus Books. Kurtz is a veteran fighter against right-wing Christian fundamentalism and pseudoscience. He's the founder and chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), founder and chairman of the Council for Secular Humanism, and President of the International Academy of Humanism. Which makes him one of the few publishers left who enjoys a good fight… especially one against religious extremists, no matter what god they are beholden to.
By the time Jihad in the West was ready for distribution, Fregosi had finally come to understand what he was up against. Prometheus' Webpage dedicated to Fregosi's book contains the following quote from him: "There's an intention to censor what's going on about Islam, more so than for any other religion."
Meanwhile, the Islamic censorship campaign moved from freedom of the press to freedom of speech — the freedom to talk out loud about Islam. Brigitte Bardot, the former sex goddess of the cinema, had become an activist for animal rights. She protested in two newspaper interviews with the French daily Le Figaro that ritual Islamic methods of slaughter were cruel. In 1997, she was taken to court in Paris for inciting racism by a French pro-Islamic group called The Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between People. Bardot lost the case and was fined 2,000 francs. A lawyer for The Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between People explained her interpretation of France's "liberty, equality, and fraternity" like this: "[R]acist insult is illegal… [T]he law on freedom of the press… prohibits insults… for books,… public speeches and also private speeches between two people or private letters." Islam has claimed the right in France to sue you for what you say in confidence to your friends.
In 2002, the Islamic movement against Western freedom of speech was still gaining momentum. During an interview with the French magazine Lire (which means "To Read"), French novelist Michel Houellebecq called Islam "the most stupid religion" and went on to give his opinion of the Muslim holy book: "When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent." Offensive statements? Yes. Protected by the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights guaranteeing "freedom of opinion and expression; [including the] freedom to… seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media"? Yes. Or so you'd think.
"Michel Houellebecq's vision of a France ruled by an Islamist regime is all too plausible." https://t.co/95oqYNTiRI pic.twitter.com/nOzo5io7Aw
— Church and State (@ChurchAndStateN) September 25, 2017
To quote an article written by Salman Rushdie — the great veteran of Islamic censorship — in the Washington Post, "[T]he largest mosques in Paris and Lyon, the National Federation of French Muslims and the World Islamic League — accused [Houellebecq] of 'making a racial insult' and of 'inciting religious hatred.'" These organizations pooled their considerable funds (think "oil money") and took Houellebecq to court. Houellebecq was eventually exonerated.
As this was happening, legendary Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci was also in court. Her offense? In the months after 9/11, she had written a book — Anger and Pride (a/k/a Rage and Pride) — trying to wake the West up to the goals of the people we trivialize as "terrorists" — the Osama bin Laden-style mujahedin, makers of Holy War. "You don't understand," she wrote, "you don't want to understand, that for those Reverse Crusaders the West is a world to conquer and subjugate to Islam." Some of her thoughts were quite harsh, as when she says that Muslims "multiply like rats" and that "the children of Allah spend their time with their bottoms in the air, praying five times a day," Fallaci received death threats. Several groups sued to ban the publication of her book in France. When Fallaci hired a lawyer, the attorney also was threatened with death. In November 2002, the case was thrown out of court on a technicality (it had been improperly filed). One of the groups has vowed to refile the complaint.
Then, as if to add a touch of irony, an American group supporting Muslim holy war claimed the protection of freedom of expression guaranteed by the American Bill of Rights. The Global Relief Fund, a Muslim charity organization operating out of Illinois, was added to the US government's list of terrorist organizations. The reason? Its publications — publications you are not meant to see — solicit donations for violent Jihad in hotspots all over the world. A lawyer and spokesman for the fund, Ashraf Nubani, was outraged. This was a denial of freedom of speech, and worse, of freedom of religion. Some of the statements the authorities considered bloodthirsty had come directly from the Koran, a book filled with phrases like the following:
Come fight in the way of Allah… kill them wherever you find them… then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers. You shall soon be invited (to fight) against a people possessing mighty prowess; you will fight against them until they submit… The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Apostle and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution or crucifixion or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides… Say to the unbelievers if (now) they desist (from unbelief) their past would be forgiven them; but if they persist… fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression and there prevail justice and faith in Allah altogether and everywhere… Then Praise be to Allah Lord of the heavens and Lord of the earth Lord and Cherisher of all the worlds!
Said Nubani, "By quoting from foundation publications advocating that Muslims donate funds for jihad or struggle, the government is attacking Islam itself. You may not like it, but [financially supporting jihad] is part of the religion."
By now, the number of Islamic facts you haven't been allowed to read is somewhere in the tens of thousands. If the secret pre-censors have their way, you may never understand why Osama bin Laden repeatedly vows to end 80 years of "humiliation and disgrace" — the 80 years since the global Islamic Empire of the Turks was carved up and its sinews slit, the 80 years in which the Holy Lands of Allah were divided into Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and numerous others — all false Western creations designed to strip Islam of its military unity and of its worldwide might.
You may never understand why one of Sunni Islam's top clerics, Sheikh Youself Al-Qaradhawi, declares on his television programs that "Islam will return to Europe as a conqueror and victor." You may never hear about Khartoum, Sudan's imam Sheikh Muhammad Abd Al-Karim, who preaches to the congregation of his mosque that, "The Prophet said that the Muslims would take India…" And you may never be forewarned that an imam who presides over Saudi Arabia's mosque of King Fahd Defense Academy, Sheikh Muhammad bin Abd Al-Rahman Al-'Arifi, preaches and posts Website articles insisting, "We will control the land of the Vatican; we will control Rome and introduce Islam in it. Yes, the Christians, who carve crosses on the breasts of the Muslims in Kosovo — and before then in Bosnia, and before then in many places in the world — will yet pay us the Jiziya [the tax Muslim rulers exact from unbelievers], in humiliation, or they will convert to Islam."
You may never understand the goals of the Middle Eastern military cells now planted in the cities of Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, Spain, and North America. You may never realize why Osama views Islamic mini-wars around the globe as part of a single battle for global purity, one that goes back in time to 640 AD. You may never know that Islamic militants are working mightily to gain control over "the Islamic Bomb" (i.e., Pakistan's atomic bombs) and over Pakistan's next-generation submarine-building shipyards… and the three 10,000-mile-range, missile-carrying subs those yards have built to date.
You will continue to read the propaganda about the West's horrible Crusades, and it is true. But you may never know about Islam's crusades against the West, and how much longer and more murderous they have been. Or how much more murderous their revival in an atomic, bio-savvy, wireless era may soon be.
Reprinted with permission from the author.
Howard Bloom has been called "next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, [and] Freud" by Britain's Channel4 TV, "the next Stephen Hawking" by Gear Magazine, and "The Buckminster Fuller and Arthur C. Clarke of the new millennium" by Buckminster Fuller's archivist. Bloom is the author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History ("mesmerizing" – The Washington Post), Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century ("reassuring and sobering" – The New Yorker), The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism ("Impressive, stimulating, and tremendously enjoyable." James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic), The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates ("Bloom's argument will rock your world." Barbara Ehrenreich), How I Accidentally Started the Sixties ("a monumental, epic, glorious literary achievement." Timothy Leary), and The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Gave You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram – or How Muhammad Invented Jihad ("a terrifying book… the best book I've read on Islam," David Swindle, PJ Media).
Bloom explains that his field is "mass behaviour, from the mass behaviour of quarks to the mass behaviour of human beings." That specialisation gives him a wide scope. His scientific work has been published in: arxiv.org, the leading pre-print site in advanced theoretical physics and mathematics; PhysicaPlus, another physics journal; Across Species Comparisons and Psychopathology; New Ideas in Psychology; The Journal of Space Philosophy; and in the book series: Research in Biopolitics. In 2005, Bloom lectured an international conference of quantum physicists in Moscow – Quantum Informatics 2006 – on why everything they know about Schrodinger's Equation is wrong, and the concepts Bloom introduced were later used in a book proposing a new approach to quantum physics, Constructive Physics, by Moscow University's Yuri Ozhigov.
Bloom's second book Global Brain was the subject of an Office of the Secretary of Defense symposium in 2010, with participants from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT. Bloom is founder and head of the Space Development Steering Committee, a group that includes astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Edgar Mitchell (the sixth man on the moon), and members from the National Science Foundation and NASA. He has debated one-on-one with senior officials from Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Gaza's Hamas on Iran's global Arab-language Alalam TV News Network. He has also dissected headline issues on Saudi Arabia's KSA2-TV and on Iran's global English language Press-TV. And he has probed the untold story of the Syrian Civil War with Nancy Kissinger.
In addition, Bloom's work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Knight-Ridder Financial News Service, the Village Voice, and Cosmopolitan Magazine. He has appeared 199 times for up to five hours on 500 radio stations on the highest-rated overnight talk radio station in North America, Clear Channel's Coast to Coast AM, discussing everything from the biome in the gut and the evolution of the stars to the mechanism of the Great Recession of 2008 and North Korea's rocket programme.
Bloom has his own YouTube series, Howard the Humongous, which gets up to 790,000 views per installment. His website, howardbloom.net, has had between four and five million hits. Follow him on Twitter at @HowardxBloom.
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