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Leymah Gbowee's mission: Defy a dictator, end a war, return her native Liberia to peace. Abigail Disney's mission: Make a movie telling the world how it was done. Kevin Conley meets the visionary pair who reached across continents and cultures to show just how powerful women's voices can be.
In the fall of 2006, Leymah Gbowee, a 34-year-old Liberian mother of five, came to New York City to talk to members of the United Nations Security Council about women, security, and peace. On the third day of her visit, she attended a long series of meetings at the UN, then walked back to the Hotel Bedford, five blocks away. She had one more meeting to go, and she wasn't happy about it. A movie producer and director had asked to talk to her about a film they hoped to make, a documentary about a group of ordinary Liberian women who, if the stories were true, had managed to help stop that country's nearly continuous 14-year civil war. ("Oh, those women," one warlord said. "They didn't really matter. They were only our conscience.") Though Gbowee had agreed to sit down with the filmmakers, she assumed she'd be wasting her time. The friend who'd set up the meeting had told her that the producer, Abigail Disney, came from the movie-studio and theme-park family. "Yeah, right," Gbowee told her friend. "Disney World? What does this mean to someone from Africa?"
Disney, who is in fact Walt Disney's grandniece, and her friend, the director Gini Reticker, had heard intriguing but incomplete accounts of the Liberian story, the gist of which was that three years earlier, a group of women had formed a human barricade outside a meeting room where peace talks between the warring factions had broken down—and succeeded in forcing the negotiators to get serious. But none of the Liberian women the filmmakers had spoken to seemed to know the whole story, and none had the ineffable presence needed to carry a feature-length film. Disney had begun to fear that the project wouldn't get off the ground. Reticker, meanwhile, had begun to fear that it would. Her previous movies had addressed difficult topics (including, in her 2003 Oscar°-nominated documentary short,
female genital mutilation), but this story seemed worse. "I was afraid of it," Reticker says. "Everything you heard about what was happening in West Africa—the violence against women—was horrific."
At the Hotel Bedford, Gbowee came downstairs to the lobby in jeans and a T-shirt. The meeting would be quick—no food, no drink, no chitchat. She sat at the head of a small table and took stock of the women sitting on either side. In recent years, she'd spoken to many journalists, yet very little about the doings of the Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET), the interfaith movement of Christians and Muslims she'd helped found in 2001, had ever appeared in print, on film, or on radio. "So I'm saying to myself, 'Okay, these two white girls want to talk,'" she remembers. "Apparently my face showed I wasn't interested in anything they had to offer, but I tried to be nice." She told the visitors how WIPNET had indeed played a vital role in ending the war, then excused herself and went back to her room.
And just that quickly, Disney and Reticker walked outside and started jumping up and down. "We couldn't believe how incredible Leymah was," Disney says. "She was (a) brilliant, (b) beautiful, (c) fierce, and (d) at the heart of a story that was even more astonishing than we'd imagined. Any doubt I had about making this movie was gone."
The Liberian civil war, which lasted from 1989 to 2003 with only brief interruptions, was the result of economic inequality, a struggle to control natural resources, and deep-rooted rivalries among various ethnic groups, including the descendants of the freed American slaves who founded the country in 1847. The war involved the cynical use of child soldiers, armed with lightweight Kalashnikovs, against the country's civilian population. At the center of it all was Charles Taylor, the ruthless warlord who initiated the first fighting and would eventually serve as Liberian president until he was forced into exile in 2003.
Gbowee was born in central Liberia but grew up in Monrovia, the country's capital. Her father was, in her words, "typical indigenous dirt-poor"; her mother came from the Americo-Liberian elite. Over the years, the family saw the worst of the sectarian violence. One day in 1990 Gbowee and her mother were at one of the city's Lutheran churches, where 2,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) were being sheltered. "That morning soldiers came to the church and rounded up several persons and killed them," Gbowee says. "And one of the guys told us, 'You should not stay here tonight, because the group that's coming soon will be worse than us.'" Thanks to that advice—a murderer's random act of kindness—Gbowee and her mother survived the slaughter that followed: more than 600 people cut down in a single night. "We went just two blocks away, and we could hear people screaming, crying, begging for help—an all-night massacre."
As the war continued, so did sustained campaigns of rape and mutilation. In 1996, when Gbowee's son was 3, her daughter 2, and she was five months pregnant, the fighting came so close to their home that she had to rush them all to safety, past checkpoints that fighters sometimes decorated, as she puts it, with "a fresh young head." They took shelter at her parents' three-bedroom home—along with some 50 other relatives and friends. Every morning the group came together to scrape out a meal from whatever they had. And one morning Gbowee's son told her, "I really am so hungry. I just need a piece of doughnut."
"Nuku," she said, using a pet name for her son Joshua Joseph, "I don't have a piece of doughnut to give you."
In that moment Gbowee realized that, thanks to this war, her children had lived in hunger their whole lives. The realization stuck with her. She had become a social worker in 1994, and in 1998 she began counseling former child soldiers; finally, the damage done to all of Liberia's children was more than she could bear. In 2001, she persuaded the women at her church to join her in peace marches and prayer vigils, and, when groups of Muslim women with similar sentiments heard about them and decided to follow suit, a movement was born. In 2003 Gbowee was appointed spokesperson, the one to stand before the microphones when the women marched or handed over an official resolution. At such times she felt inspired, as if what she said was "ordained by God."
Despite Gbowee's initial lack of enthusiasm, the filmmakers threw themselves into their project. They had discovered that established news sources had very little footage of WIPNET at work, and this scarcity helped shape their vision of the film. "We realized that there was a reason for that, right?" says Disney, a 48-year-old mother of four. "The women had been defined out of the frame. So we decided to put them back where they belonged."
Their persistence was rewarded. Gbowee grudgingly agreed to set up interviews with other women from wipnet and—a crucial victory—to sit for the camera herself. She gradually went from reluctant participant to charismatic star, and the project took off.
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—a surprisingly hopeful mix of eyewitness accounts, archival news footage, and home video of key events—premiered in New York in April.
Four months before the premiere, a key clip landed on the filmmakers' desk: handheld footage of the day, in 2003, when Gbowee confronted President Charles Taylor himself. It was an official event—WIPNET handing over a signed resolution calling for peace; that the women had gotten Taylor there, that their constant presence had gotten his attention at all (as they chanted and sang every day, through monsoons and heat waves, in a field that Taylor passed on his way to work), was stunning. Taylor had been arguably the most feared warlord in Africa, and his cold-bloodedness hadn't diminished with his rise to the presidency. Now he sat several yards away on a gilt sofa decorated with the official seal of Liberia. The dais on which Gbowee stood was turned toward the audience, but she turned to face Taylor instead. She spoke in the controlled cadence of diplomacy, but the fury behind her words was unmistakable:
"We ask the honorable pro tem of the senate...to kindly present this statement to his excellency Dr. Charles Taylor with this message: that the women of Liberia, including the IDPs...are tired of war. We are tired of running. We are tired of begging for bulgur wheat. We are tired of our children being raped. We are now taking this stand to secure the future of our children because we believe, as custodians of society, tomorrow our children will ask us, 'Mama, what was your role during the crisis?' Kindly convey this to the president of Liberia. Thank you."
Several times as filming progressed, Gbowee had occasion to return to Manhattan, and when she did, she stayed at Disney's apartment. She was there when one of Disney's sons was sick, and she saw that, despite the Disney money, here was a mother who worried the way all mothers do. The two women began to get to know each other. Slowly they started becoming friends.
I have been friends with Disney for nearly 30 years, and in August, when Gbowee was in town for another UN conference, I joined them for dinner. As Disney cooked, her husband, Pierre Hauser, a writer and another old friend, could be heard down the hall, cheering and watching the Olympics with their two young sons. One of their daughters stopped in the kitchen on her way out to see a movie. Gbowee checked her e-mail on the family computer. When Disney set out dinner—roast chicken, fried zucchini, and rice—she remembered to serve a hot-pepper sauce Gbowee likes.
Things are equally cozy and hospitable when Disney goes to Liberia. "A friend was like, 'How can you invite her to your house? You have so many children. That place is too humble,'" Gbowee told me over dinner. "And I said, 'Listen to me. I have five children. Abby has four children, three cats, two turtles, one dog, one bunny, one goldfish.'"
That both women are mothers is not a negligible coincidence but a first principle:
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
shows how motherhood can become an eloquent political force. But their children aren't the only thing that unites them; temperamentally, too, Gbowee and Disney are alike. "It's remarkable," says Mary McCormick, president of the Fund for the City of New York, a wide-ranging philanthropic organization that has set up a program so donors can contribute to the women's peace-building movement in Africa. "They're totally unsimilar in terms of the obvious: wealth, origin, nationality. But they're very similar in terms of their drive, and their vision, and their willingness to do what it takes to get the job done."
Disney grew up in Toluca Lake, California, just two miles from the Disney studio in Burbank. As a teenager she spent a lot of time playing basketball and volleyball, pastimes that irked her family for being unladylike; when I first met her, in 1979, irking her family was a preoccupation. Back then, it was clear to her friends that she regarded family wealth with pained ambivalence, a predicament that was greeted with scant sympathy.
She involved herself as little as possible with the studio and the family investment corporation. After graduating from Yale, she moved to New York; she wrote her PhD thesis at Columbia on American war novels; she and Hauser started the Daphne Foundation and began giving money to grassroots organizations that fight poverty.
She was loud, literary, politically active, quick with a waggish comment. She accepted offers to join the boards of many organizations. But until making
Pray the Devil Back to Hell,
she says, she'd "never done anything on purpose." Even her introduction to Liberia was an accident: In the early days of the administration of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, elected president in 2005 after nearly three years of corrupt transitional government following Taylor's exile, Disney was invited to visit the country with a group from Harvard's Women and Public Policy Program. And on that trip she first heard the stories about the women who'd ended a war. On the last night of her visit, over drinks with Geoffrey Rudd, the European Commission's chargé d'affaires in Liberia, she double-checked the accuracy of the rumors. "Here is a guy," she says, "who, if this is a fairy tale, he's going to be the guy to tell me. And before I could even get to the end of the sentence, he said, 'Those women were amazing. We wouldn't be sitting here in peace, with Ellen in the presidency, if it hadn't been for them. In fact, there's CNN footage of me trying to climb out the window of the negotiating room.'"
When it premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival just a year and a half after that first meeting at the Hotel Bedford,
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
won the festival's award for best documentary feature. It is an upbeat story about an unlikely mix of characters who believed in themselves and kept on doing so through the worst of circumstances and against all odds, all the way to their final triumph. (The irony of this is not lost on Disney. "I made a
movie!" she says. "It was completely by accident, believe me. But it does make me laugh.")
At the climax of the film
nearly 200 women loop arms in the close quarters of the corridor outside the "peace hall," where Taylor's representatives and the rebel warlords are meeting but getting nowhere. The women are blocking the men from leaving the room, and the generals stuck inside send security forces to arrest Gbowee for obstructing justice. "And that term 'obstructing justice' was almost like when you take gas and pour it on an open flame," Gbowee says. "I said, 'Okay, I'm going to make it very, very easy for you to arrest me.' I took off my hair tie. They were looking at me, and I said, 'I'm going to strip naked.'"
Throughout West Africa, it's a powerful curse for a woman to strip naked in public—absolute bad luck, bad fortune. And to Gbowee, that's what the situation called for. That morning, she'd heard a report of a missile exploding in the American embassy compound in Monrovia: Two boys had just gone out to brush their teeth, and now all that was left of them was their slippers. "That day we had to do something dramatic," she says.
The moderator of the talks came into the hall to calm her. Gbowee was enraged, but she was also a brilliant tactician. "There were two things playing in our favor," she explains. "One, the peace talks were in Ghana, and the Ghanaians hold strongly to their traditional beliefs. And the men at the table mostly came from indigenous backgrounds and also held strongly to indigenous beliefs. They would have given us the world rather than see us stripping naked." When a frustrated warlord came out to try to push and kick the women away, Gbowee says the moderator told him, "Go back in there and sit down. If you were a real man, you wouldn't be killing your people. But because you are not a real man, that's why they will treat you like boys."
Two weeks later, the terms of the peace treaty were announced.
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
has traveled widely since its release, playing to women's gatherings in Srebrenica, Lima, Jerusalem, and Tbilisi. Disney likes to quote an old African saying: When the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers; the movie reflects her belief that it was "time for the grass to speak."
That interest in giving voice also explains why, when Gbowee came to New York for the premiere, Disney introduced her to some of the biggest players in the city's philanthropy scene—people like Hildy Simmons, a former managing director at J.P. Morgan turned philanthropic adviser, and Marie Wilson, founder of the White House Project. By then, Gbowee had founded a new and broader organization, Women Peace and Security Network Africa (WIPSEN), and the group needed money. "We were struggling with institutional support, myself and my staff," she says. "We had not taken salary for three months." Disney put up $25,000 of her own money and then got a cadre of donors to follow suit. "She didn't have to do it," Gbowee says. "The movie was complete. Most people, once they've gotten what they wanted, they are off and out of your life!" Thanks to this newly solid financial footing, wipsen has been able to export peace-building programs to war-torn zones in Sierra Leone and the Niger Delta. Disney has convinced a group of American activists, including Gloria Steinem, to attend the group's conference in Ghana this month.
And when they get there, Gbowee will have one more request: "This time Abby has to stay awake at night so that we go dancing, because last time she did not do a good job," she told me in August. "She said, 'Leymah, I'm so sleepy. Can I go to bed?' And I was like, 'Abby, I thought you were a fun person.' This is one area where I think we are different. When it's nighttime and I have made up my mind that it is time to go dancing, there is nothing in my mind about sleep."
"Oh, man, I was so embarrassingly old that night," Abby said. "But it was 1 a.m. when I left, and no one was even in the club yet! If you think I was going to dance on an empty dance floor, the only white lady for 50 miles..." She shakes her head. "And by the way, when I went past that same club on the way to the airport at 7 a.m., it was still packed to the rafters."
I pointed out that if it hadn't been for big and loud and late, late parties, I would barely know Disney. At such hours, she was usually leading the charge.
"Okay, we'll see about that," Gbowee said. "In December, because of you, I will give her another chance."
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LAKE CITY, FLORIDA -- I signed up with Earthlink for DSL internet service in August of 2005. I used the service exactly one week from the day it was turned on. I had a dispute with Bell South and requested they remove their line from my property. I decided to go with cable and VOIP. I called Earthlink and told them I needed to cancel my account. They informed me I was obligated to pay for one full year and if I canceled early I would still have to pay 240 dollars. I am such an easy target, I paid for the full year. When the year was up I called them again and requested to cancel my account. They wanted to know why I wanted to cancel, I told them I don't have a phone line going to my house. I explained I had not used the service accept for the first week. They canceled the account and gave me a confirmation number. The charge was 39.95 per month.
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I was having a really bad time during this because I had lost my husband in June of 2007. I tried to contact them and couldn't get through.I tried again the next day same thing. Because there were so many things I had to deal with at that time I forgot to try to call them again for three months. This time when I called I got through and again told them the whole story of no phone line and that I had canceled already once. They of course were so sorry for all my trouble and again canceled the account. They were generous enough to refund two months of the five they owed me. As I said I am an easy target, so I agreed. The charges stopped again.
With the death of my husband I was having financial problems and decided to stay with my youngest son for a while and let another one of my children stay in my house and make the payment. This was in September of 2007. Although I checked my account each month I just didn't really look at it close. That is until one month a check to my doctor bounced. I knew the money should have been in the account. So I checked my account to see what had happened. WOW!
Earthlink had started taking out 39.95 in October of 2007. This was in Feb. of 2008. I called them again and was very upset. I went through the same routine again. They refunded two months. The charges stopped. Two months later in April of 2008 charges from Earthlink appeared on my account again. Only this time it was 3.95 per month.
I tried to call them I never got through I tried everyday without ever talking to anyone. Last night I decided to go to their website. I found a live chat contact there. I started the chat with Helen K. The only thing she could "do" was to give me a two month refund of the 3.95 and cancel the account again. I think there should be someone I could complain to. I feel I should have a full refund of all my money! I am undecided at this time as to what steps I will take from here.
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Your initial contract with Earthlink was probably one of those yearly deals that a customer can't back out of. And your distress at your husband's illness is understandable. But if you let the financial stuff get pushed aside, you're gonna pay. I'd suggest contacting your bank and making it clear that Earthlink is no longer allowed to debit your account. Keep fighting Earthlink, and ask your bank if you have any recourse for the unauthorized charges.
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To compare Britain's not-yet- 200-year occupation of the Falkland Islands to the Jews' 3,000 years of continuous claim to Judea and Samaria is hardly the brightest example of effective hasbara.
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Matter of time
Sir, – Gideon Sa'ar ("Sa'ar: Israel no less connected to Ariel than British are to Falklands," December 30) may have inadvertently given Israel's enemies a gratuitous piece of propaganda fodder.
To compare Britain's not-yet- 200-year occupation of the Falkland Islands to the Jews' 3,000 years of continuous claim to Judea and Samaria is hardly the brightest example of effective hasbara (public diplomacy).
No idolatry
Sir, – Regarding recent articles and letters to the editor about celebrations in Israel on the first of January, there seems to be some confusion.
Until early in the last century New Year's Day was called by many the Feast of the Circumcision.
Some may have noticed that it comes eight days after Christmas Eve, and that is exactly what it celebrated – the circumcision of that famous Jewish baby, Jesus.
Orthodox rabbis might not agree with what has become of the faith that arose around Jesus, but a mitzva is a mitzva, regardless of whose body, so there really is no case for "idol worship" since Jesus was undoubtedly Jewish.
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Quite disgusting
Sir, – With regard to "Bayit Yehudi gains 3 seats in a week, 'Post' poll finds" (December 28), those who attribute Likud Beytenu's slide in the polls mainly to the party's attacks on Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett are missing an important point.
Of far more concern to me as a potential Likud voter is Binyamin Netanyahu's failure to express the slightest concern or discomfort that his partner, Avigdor Liberman, is being indicted on serious corruption charges.
We should still be shaken to the core by a senior cabinet minister in the State of Israel facing such charges. That Netanyahu seems to brush it off as the new norm in Israeli politics is quite disgusting.
Sir, – Why is there a fuss about saying that soldiers should sometimes refuse to follow orders? It was established at the Nuremburg trials after World War II that immoral, oppressive orders must be refused.
Carrying out an atrocity is not excused by saying, "I was following orders."
There is room to think that an order to use force – perhaps deadly force – to make an area of the Jewish homeland judenrein is an immoral order. Perhaps we should focus on the errors of those who give such orders rather than on the newest sin: not physically forcing Jews out of their homes in Israel.
Modern Luddites
Sir, – Normally, Pinchas Landau is logical, and even if I disagree with his conclusions his column is thought-provoking. However, "Nice work if you can get it" (Global Agenda, Business & Finance, December 28) was off the mark.
Landau repeats the arguments that date back to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. In 19th-century England, Luddites fearful of losing work rioted and smashed the new wide-framed looms that threatened to put skilled artisans out of work. Every change since then that improves efficiency, thus reducing labor requirements, has been resisted on the same basis.
What the objectors forget is that the human race has an infinite desire for more possessions, so that when the automated looms allowed one worker to produce three times as much cloth, cloth became cheaper and more garments were sold. In fact, societies have absorbed the efficiencies created by automation by consuming more goods and working shorter hours. Gone are the days, at least in advanced societies, of 72-hour work weeks.
The current stage of automation is no different in principal from that faced by the Luddites, only that we are now automating some intellectual activities as well as physical ones.
Change always affects some members of society adversely, as well as providing benefits for the majority; this has always been so.
It behooves us to cushion the hardships that changes inflict on some, and adapt to the new opportunities that increased efficiency provides for others.
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We don't get it
Sir, – I know Barry Shaw ("Why a two-state solution will never work," Original Thinking, December 28). I've read his book, Israel Reclaiming the Narrative.
I'm from Netanya – a realistic "30-second rocket shot" from Tulkarm.
Why don't we Israeli Jews get it? I couldn't agree more that a two-state solution is impossible.
Islamic leaders from every group cannot and will not recognize the State of Israel. How then, can they sit at so-called peace negotiations? What they demand would definitely lead to a death warrant for Israel.
Be forewarned
Sir, – Congratulations to Abraham Katsman for his excellent reminder about US President Barack Obama's proposed secretary of state, Sen. John Kerry, and the latter's disturbing record against America's assertive international policies ("John Kerry: 'Perfect choice' for whom?," Comment & Features, December 27).
Kerry's missteps are indicative of Obama's larger picture of failures in the Middle East – indeed, a "perfect choice." But, one might say, what about Kerry's positive support for Israel? For an answer, one need only refer to another US senator-turned-secretary of state.
I was at the State Department in 1980 when President Jimmy Carter appointed Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-Maine) to the post.
When Muskie's first disagreement with Israel emerged, he stated flippantly that he was no longer representing one state, but an entire country and the national interest – the "national interest," of course, as he saw it.
Despite all the justified criticism that will continue to be leveled against the appointment of Kerry, he will almost assuredly be approved. He should be watched closely as he takes up his new functions. Forewarned is forearmed.
The writer is a retired US Foreign Service officer
Fabulous 'hasbara'
Sir, – The "From our Archives" section of December 21 states that on that date 65 years previously, it was reported in The Palestine Post that, according to a "resolution submitted to the Arab League and an anonymous bulletin sent to all foreign embassies and newspaper agencies in Cairo, Jewish citizens of Arab countries were to be considered citizens of the Jewish state and would become enemies of the Arab states."
It is startling that such clear, damning evidence about the responsibility for the Jewish refugees from Arab countries is not widely known and publicized.
This says something about our fabulous hasbara (public diplomacy).
Statisticians lie
Sir, – You recently ran an article headlined "Poll finds majority of Israelis want two-state solution" (December 19). This is simply false, as proven by the results of the last Israeli elections.
Polling is very much dependent on the sample, the questions and who is asking and interpreting the answers. Remember: "Statistics don't lie but statisticians do."
People generally want peace.
But what if you are offered just a piece of paper called peace. The Arabs have made it abundantly clear that to them, peace means the destruction of Israel and its replacement by Palestine. Is The Jerusalem Post in favor of this?
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Ming's Buffet was closed by the health inspector for the second time in less than a month.
Orange County Health Inspector reportedly found two mice and a roach during a field investigation on Tuesday. The restaurant was closed at approximately 2:25 p.m. and given the opportunity to correct the issues prior to reinspection the following morning. The restaurant reopened on Wednesday after the inspector determined all violations had been corrected.
"Whenever we have problems with a restaurant we try and visit a right after we had a problem and wait a few weeks and recheck the restaurant to make sure that they have kept everything up and it had not fallen back into old habits," Orange County Health Inspector James Scales said. "We made another inspection because it had been almost a month since we first inspected the restaurant."
Ming's Buffet, located at 840 North Main Street in Vidor, was closed Sept. 4 - Sept. 6 after dead mice and sticky traps covered with German roaches were discovered during a health inspection. The restaurant reopened after it was found to be in compliance at that time by the Orange County Health Inspector and the City of Vidor Code Enforcement.
The health code inspector also reinspected Kotoyama to ensure the establishment was staying in compliance after recently having a 'No Score' report. Kotoyama, located at 2226 MacArthur Drive in Orange, received a 79 out of a possible 100. The restaurant received demerits for storing onions under raw onions, storing boxes of food on the floor inside the wail-in coolers and freezers and several live and dead roaches found inside the kitchen area. The health inspector noted on the report that a follow-up inspection will be performed.
Sunmart #363/Orange Truck, located at 333 Lutcher Drive in Orange, received a 90 out of a possible 100 during a recent health code inspection. The establishment received demerits for two dead roaches found inside the storage area, floors in the kitchen and prep areas were in need of being cleaned as well as heavy mold was found inside the ice machine.
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L: (So, Doug, North Korea shelled South Korea – do you think that's the sound of an approaching black swan we hear? Doug: It could be, but I doubt North Korea wants a real war, and South Korea absolutely wants to avoid one. Of course, North Korea's government is a hereditary monarchy, run by the thoroughly degraded Kim family – which is a bit confusing, in that everybody in Korea is either a Kim, a Park, or a Lee. Who knows what's going on in the abnormal psychology of Kim Jong-Il, or whoever is really running the place? It's perverse. North Korea is already a wasteland, so a war would do them relatively less harm; in a way they have nothing to lose. South Korea is a G20 economy, however, so even if they win a shooting match in short order, they still lose, in terms of the damage they would suffer in the process. From a realpolitik point of view, it makes sense for the North to occasionally kill a few South Koreans, make threatening noises, and keep the "us vs. them" rhetoric hot. It provides an excuse for their extraordinarily low standard of living, and a reason for having a police state. They use nationalism and patriotism very effectively to prop up their pathetic regime. In that regard, they are like most governments, just more extreme. But I consider the chances of an actual war to be slim. It was interesting to see gold shoot up the day the Koreas traded artillery shells. Coincidentally, it was just after the EU's announcement that all is well and everyone can go back to spending as usual. I don't think it's likely that the Koreas will go for all-out war and push the teetering global economy over the edge. But it's possible, because we're dealing with certifiable lunatics. It's more likely the EU itself will provide a black swan event. The bankruptcy of the euro, and then the EU, was always inevitable. It may now be imminent as well. Regarding North Korea, though, what's really interesting is the information leaked through Wikileaks that China – basically their only supporter – may be pulling back its support. The Chinese can see that maintaining a lunatic regime in North Korea no longer serves any useful purpose. They don't need a loose cannon on their border. I expect it will collapse in the near term. The Chinese, likely with the collusion of some North Korean generals, will oust the Kims, and set up something that's less of a liability. L: I saw that news. It's quite striking that after the wikileak, some Chinese officials have apparently come out and said that they do, in fact, favor reunification of the Koreas. Doug: The whole idea of Wikileaks is terrific. They've become one of the most important watchdog organizations on the planet, helping to expose a lot of government action for what it really is. This latest leak of a quarter of a million classified U.S. embassy cables is quite a coup, not just for revealing China's changing attitudes about North Korea, but for exposing discussions the U.S. had with other countries about bombing Iran, espionage conducted by U.S. diplomats in Paraguay, Chinese government attacks on Google, and more mundane things like the lavish lifestyles of Kazakhstan's political elite. L: The more skeptical people become of the Right and Honorable So-And-So, the better. Doug: Exactly. And on a more fundamental philosophical level, this is in keeping with my sense of justice. Crooks should not get away with their crimes just because they hold lofty titles, wear spiffy uniforms, and call their crimes great deeds necessitated by "national security," "economic stimulus," or whatever other nonsensical lies they come up with. I'm fond of saying, "Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the law – but be prepared to accept the consequences." Well, exposing secrets is an important part of enabling the natural consequences for dastardly deeds to follow. The whole idea of "national security" has gotten completely out of control. It has about zero to do with protecting what little is left of America; it's all about protecting, and building, the U.S. government, and the people who participate in it and profit from it. People fail to understand that the USG doesn't represent them, or care about them – or at least not any more than a farmer cares about his milk cows. It's an entity unto itself at this point. It has its own interests, which have only an accidental or coincidental overlap with those of America. Government is by its very nature duplicitous and predatory; it always puts itself first. By cynically paying lip service to traditional values, and whipping up a nationalistic, patriotic fervor, they can get Boobus americanus to go along with almost anything they propose. Just like Boobus north koreansis. L: Hm. Sarah Palin apparently does not agree with you about Wikileaks. She's reported as going on record saying that Wikileaks personnel should be treated like terrorists. Doug: And people thought I was being too hard on the Tea Party movement. This is exactly the sort of knee-jerk conservative reaction that shows that such people really don't care about freedom at all. I suspect Palin is cut from the same cloth as Baby Bush – ignorant, unintelligent, thoughtless, reactionary, and pig-headed. She belongs on reality TV, not in a position where she could damage the lives of billions of people. L: The report says she wants to know why governments didn't hack the Wikileaks website. Well, apparently somebody did last Sunday when these secret diplomatic cables were leaked – and who is a more likely culprit than the U.S. government? On the bright side, the attack failed. A handful of nonviolent individuals took on the world's greatest superpower, as a matter of principle, and won. That just goes to show yet again how technological advances tend to flatten the power pyramid of society. Doug: Yes; we talked about that in our conversation on technology. Every advance in technology puts the little guy on a more even footing with those at the top of the intra-human food chain. This is why the Colt revolver became known as "the great equalizer." For the first time, the little guy was not only the equal of the big guy but, because he presented a smaller target, was his superior. The Internet is the best thing that's happened for freedom since the invention of the printing press. Technology is the biggest force for individual liberty, and politics the main enemy of it. But people idiotically idolize politicians and generals much more than scientists and inventors. Despite that, with the development of very powerful, homemade laser weapons, and 3D printers that will soon allow anyone to make almost anything, at trivial cost in their garage, the cat will soon be out of the bag. We should discuss those in the future. These things are very opportune at the very time that the bloated states of the world are going into collapse, much like the Roman Empire in the 5th century. L: In an interesting counterpoint, Reuters reports that Hillary Clinton defended Wikileaks, even as she arrived in Kazakhstan at the same time as the embarrassing assessment of Kazakh leadership was leaked. Sometimes liberals do defend liberal ideas, like freedom of the press. Doug: Sometimes. But not if it's politically incorrect press. You can rely on them only to make government larger and more expensive at every turn – that you can rely upon like a Swiss train. Hillary – like any Secretary of State – is a skilled and enthusiastic liar. Her stock in trade is deception. Everything she says is intended to forward her drive to be the President. I wonder if she'd be worse than Palin? But that's like asking if Nero would be worse than Caligula. L: No argument from me on that. And you know I agree with you on the watchdog principle, but what if they go after private-sector entities? CNN reports that Wikileaks' next target is a major U.S. bank. Doug: It's a mistake to think of banks in the U.S. as being private sector entities. U.S. banks got into bed with the state decades ago, and got even more closely entwined via the latest set of regulations, and bailouts. At this point they're really parastatal entities. Plus, I'd guess that whatever whistle-blowing Wikileaks is planning, it probably has to do with the bailouts or other government interactions with the banks anyway – exactly the type of thing that needs to be exposed. L: Fine, but their mission is not to fight the state, but simply to publish "important" news and information. What if someone uses their secure drop-box technology to reveal salacious material on private individuals… say, a complete list of all of Doug Casey's mistresses? Doug: Unfortunately, that list would be rather small at the moment. Not that Wikileaks would deem that sort of thing important enough to bother with. But, look, it doesn't matter; there are tabloids that cover that ground already, and they get the respect they deserve. If you aren't prepared to accept the consequences of something, don't do it. The only sure way to avoid having your mistresses exposed, if you really don't want that to happen, is not to have mistresses. L: So… do you believe in a human right to privacy? Doug: In the sense of having a right to remain silent, yes. No one should ever be forced to reveal anything they don't want to reveal. But in the sense of stopping other people from saying, publishing, or broadcasting information about you, no. The information in their heads is theirs, and they have a right to do whatever they want with it. If it happens to be about you and you don't like it, tough. Develop better security measures. Or better, "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." L: What about libel? Doug: If information put out by others about you is wrong, defend yourself with the truth. If you have a solid reputation accumulated over years of interactions with many people, your side of the story should get a good hearing. If you've been a jerk to many people, or not always honest, you'll have a tougher time – which is as it should be. The potential harm that lies might do does not justify giving power to the state to control what other people say – that's a far greater harm. A complete free market in information will necessarily make people much more discriminating, and less gullible. They'll become much less likely to believe things without solid evidence. L: Sounds a bit like an intellectual Wild West. Doug: Yes, but that's a good thing. We have laws against libel and slander now, and people violate them constantly. It's not just ineffective, it's counterproductive, because the existence of libel laws makes people more likely to believe what they hear. In a society without laws against libel, people would be much more skeptical, and the potential harm from lies would be diminished. L: I can see that… and why you favor the Wikileaks technology. You remain an optimist; things have to get worse before they can get better, but the longest term trend of them all is "the ascent of man." Doug: Yes. The trend is towards rapidly accelerating advances in technology. So, certainly in this case, the trend is your friend. Don't fear technology – it's what brought us out of the caves and primeval slime – it's everybody's best friend. L: After the dog? Doug: Poodles in particular. I suspect this isn't the time for a sidebar on standard poodles. But I will mention it's one of the many subjects on which I'm in total agreement with my friend Richard Russell. L: Poodles. I'm not going to go there now. Perhaps we can discuss animals and their rights, or lack thereof, in some future edition. How about investment implications? Doug: Unfortunately Wikileaks is not itself an investment opportunity, being a non-profit organization. L: If it was for profit, would you invest? Doug: I'd have to look at the actual business model and projections, but there's reason to be skeptical. By its nature, Wikileaks is always going to be outside the mainstream of the economy, with rabid governments trying to shut it down, maybe even imprison its people, as they get more desperate. This thing has "scapegoat" written all over it. I hear Interpol has suddenly decided to bring Assange in on charges of sexual assault – transparency and accepting the consequences of his actions should apply to him, like anyone else, but I'm very suspicious of the timing of these accusations. Wikileaks is an encrypted, moving target, but a target nonetheless. L: Do you contribute to Wikileaks? You like the service, but don't believe in charity. Doug: I wouldn't consider it charity; I value their service. If I sent them money it would be because I want to show support, and reward their efforts. Sending them money, and giving them other support, amounts to a fair exchange, in my view. Not because of charity, which very often just assuages the guilt of the donor, while subtly encouraging bad habits in the recipient. L: Okay. So, other than as yet another straw in the wind – evidence of the approach of the end game for the current global economic order (the latest implications of which we'll cover in The Casey Report in two days) – are there any other investment implications? Doug: Well, this is also a technology story. Wikileaks itself is not an investment opportunity, but there are new technologies that are fantastic opportunities. Not to be overly promotional here, but Alex Daley does an excellent job of covering this beat in our Casey's Extraordinary Technology newsletter. L: Roger that. Do you mind if I take this opportunity to thank all our readers who responded last week and voted for our Belarusian musical protégé? She won the vote for "best new band" last week, even though we readers had less than a day to respond after our last conversation went live. This week there's a vote for "best band," and we have until December 3 to vote. Reminder: to listen to PRANA in English, go to www.musicbyprana.com, click on "eng" for English, then click on the angel holding a musical symbol, then click on the "play" triangle. There are more songs in Russian on the Russian side of the site. To vote: go to http://www.trkbrest.by/projects and click on Prana's picture (the caption is in Russian, but you can see the word "PRANA" in caps and she's the only girl). When the popup box appears, click on the blue "Голосовать" button on the left. Thanks from Prana and our Belarusian friends. Doug: In for a penny… L: Thanks, and for your insight on the Wikileaks phenomenon. Doug: You're welcome. Talk to you next week… ----- [Technology not only makes the world go round – it has led to a tight-knit global community, exchanging information across the world at the blink of an eye. But Internet technology is not the only tech sector that's booming. 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Shining a light on the sociopaths who hide in the dark places under the rocks of government is always a good thing. Just as they recently did in their exposé of what is going on with the counterproductive U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's great to have a whistleblower organization like them. Julian Assange, who runs it, is a hero, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize – although it's a shame that prize has become so meaningless and degraded.
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Monday, 17 October 2011
From Little Things Big Things Grow
As i have probably mentioned previously, Saturday is Daddy day at our house. I trot off to work at 8am and the little ones spend the day with Daddy O. They often can't wait to get me out the door to see what he has in store for them. I'm never quiet sure exactly what goes on, but it is usually something pretty special and something Mum would never do. They wear their jarmies and have nothing but fun. This week they baked bread and made homemade pizza for lunch. As well as planting their own alfalfa in cute little decorated cut up milk bottles {the decoration washed off after watering}. How ace is that? I don't know where he got the idea from? Its something i would probably never do. And i like that. Its the little things that make the father child relationship grow. Its the time, thought, support and nurturing. Its the best.
We all benefit and we are all so lucky, its the normal at our house.
From little things big things grow. Even little alfalfa sprouts.
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I always believe in my products. Not just in the "I believe that they'll succeed" sense, but in the "I believe that these products serve a purpose and fulfill a need in people's lives" sense. Frankly, that's why I promote them, and why I'm able to do it with a clear conscience: because I know I'm making a difference (however small and localized it may be), or at least trying to make one. And so here we are, in the final hours of the Primal Blueprint Healthy Sauces, Dressings & Toppings giveaway extravaganza. (I don't think I've ever used that word – "extravaganza" – before in a serious way, so I'm trying it out for a change. What do you think?) If you've just been putting off the order for whatever reason, here's your cue to go order a copy. If you haven't yet been convinced, allow me to give you a few reasons why I think you should order the book. Give them an honest appraisal; that's all I ask.
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First of all, I think we can all agree that Primal food is a solid foundation of taste, nutrition, satiety, density, and volume. When you put a piece of well-cooked grass-fed steak, free of sugary salty soybean oil-infused sauces and unnecessary breading in your mouth, you appreciate that this is how meat was meant to be. When you use fresh vegetables, kale that bites back and asparagus that snaps in your mouth and cooked carrots that manage to be both tender and crispy at once, you know the goodness of produce. And these fill you up, they nourish, they enrich your life. Still, though, we humans possess the ability to perceive and appreciate a nearly infinite range of flavors and textures. Hundreds (if not thousands) of cuisines and flavors beckon, and we should probably entertain their advances. If we don't, if we eat the same things all the time, we may run into food fatigue.
I'm probably a bad example of this, because I'm the type of guy who'd be pretty happy with just ten or so foods for the rest of my life. Still, even I like to change things up now and again. And it seems I'm not alone. This edition of Dear Mark is geared directly to you. Let's go:
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At the age of 10, I decided to become a vegetarian. Despite my parent's disapproval, I dove right in and after seven years went whole-hog vegan. Six years later, at the age of 23, I was diagnosed with an immune deficiency, had stopped menstruating, struggled with bloating and constipation, low energy, no libido, and anxiety. At 5'7″ and 135 pounds, I was by no means overweight, but I carried all of it in my belly and had very little muscular definition. The doctors I had seen (and there were many), told me the immune deficiency was incurable and they didn't know the reason for my amenorrhea. I work as a stage actor, so the chronic infections and lack of vitality were seriously effecting my work and art. I soon gave up on Western Medicine, and started reading everything I could about "alternative healing". I started seeing an acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist, and the first time I met with both of them the first thing they commented on was my diet. "Maybe you should eat meat" were the last words I wanted to hear, and I remember bursting into tears as soon as I heard them.
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I keep hearing Ubuntu described as merely a noob's distro lately. Well, it's about time people either come clean or switch already. I'll start the ball rolling. My name is Karl (Hi, Karl), and I'm a Linux veteran who runs Ubuntu.
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Hi Karl...
I'm spanky and I'm a GNU/Linux user. I will not use Ubuntu as long as it pushes proprietary software.