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Edward Kennedy
- 1 Latin America 1961
- 2 1962 campaign
- 3 F.B.I. Soviet contacts memo
- 4 Cuba recognition drive
- 5 Kennedy and ACORN
- 6 Democratic Agenda
- 7 Democratic Agenda/Socialist Caucus
- 8 "Knows about" DSOC"
- 9 DSA interest in campaign funders
- 10 Nuclear Freeze
- 11 Nicaragua conference
- 12 Supporting "Veteran's fast for life"
- 13 Paying tribute to Michael Harrington
- 14 Opposed aid to El Salvador
- 15 DSA book
- 16 "Michael Harrington and Today's Other America"
- 17 CBC 33rd Legislative Conference, 2003
- 18 Supported by Council for a Livable World
- 19 Opposed the Iraq War
- 20 Introduced EFCA
- 21 Backed socialist Bernie Sanders
- 22 "Single - payer" movement
- 23 References
Edward (Ted) Kennedy was a veteran U.S. Democratic Party Senator from Massachusetts until his death on August 25, 2009. Martha Coakley is the Democratic Party candidate running to fill the Senate seat.
Latin America 1961
Kennedy took to Latin America in 1961. He visited a number of countries, accompanied by his "political counselor." John Nathan Plank In each country, Kennedy met with prominent Communists or other left-wing leaders. The U.S. Ambassador to Mexico was outraged that Kennedy wanted to bring such people to the embassy--this was the heart of the Cold War, after all--and he refused, telling Kennedy to arrange his own interviews somewhere else. A State Department official in Peru described Teddy as "pompous and a spoiled brat."
In Colombia, the first person Kennedy wanted to meet with was Lauchlin Currie, a Soviet spy who served as a key aide to Franklin Roosevelt, then moved to Colombia and renounced his American citizenship.
By the time he got to Chile, Kennedy apparently was tired of political work, so he "made arrangements to 'rent' a brothel for an entire night" in Santiago.
1962 campaign
Writing in the Boston Democratic Socialists of America newsletter, The Yankee Radical September 2009, editor Mike Pattberg gives some background on the 1962 campaign that made Ted Kennedy a Senator for Massachusetts.;[1]
- When Ted Kennedy first ran for U.S. Senate in 1962, he had no support from the left. Americans for Democratic Action, the major liberal group of the time, backed former Attorney General Edward McCormack in the Democratic primary. The Socialist Party USA mobilized their meager forces for Harvard professor H. Stuart Hughes, running as an anti-nuclear testing independent peace candidate in November. According to Ben Ross, SPers discussed the Hughes campaign exhaustively in The Yankee Radical in 1962, and with post-mortems into 1963. As near as I can tell from superficial research, both groups were right. McCormack actually had a good civil rights record, certainly stronger than JFK's, at a time when this wasn't to be taken for granted from Democratic politicians. Ted Kennedy had no record of any sort, but did have the Kennedy name and his father's money, which was more than enough. In the ensuing decades Eddie McCormack went on to become a corporate lawyer for big developers; H. Stuart Hughes eventually drifted into neo-conservatism, endorsing Reagan. Ted Kennedy evolved into…Ted Kennedy,the Lion of Liberalism, as the Globe calls him.
F.B.I. Soviet contacts memo
On July 28, 1970, the F.B.I. issued a top secret memo entitled CONTACTS BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SOVIET, UNION AN MEMBERS OR STAFF PERSONNEL OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS INTERNAL SECURITY - RUSSIA
The memo stated;
- A review of information we have developed through our coverage of Soviet officials and establishments in Washington, D. C., has disclosed a continuing interest by representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to maintain contacts with and cultivate members or staff personnel of the U. S. Congress. There appears below a compilation of such contacts which have come to our attention from January 1, 1967, to date:
- 1967 77
- 1968 34
- 1969 53
- 1970 to date 16
- 1967 55
- 1968 23
- 1969 10
- 1970 to date 6
Staff Employees
- 1967 265
- 1968 224
- 1969 239
- 1970 to date 104
- Based on a review of the information disclosed through our coverage, it appears that soviet officials are making more contacts with the following Congressmen or members of their staff than with other U. S. Legislators
- Senator Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts
- Senator Allen J. Ellender of Louisiana
- Senator J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas
- Senator Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon
- Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts
- Senator Michael J. Mansfield of Montana
- Senator Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota
- Sena tor George S. McGovern of South Dakota
- Sena tor Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota
- Sena tor Edmund S. Muskie of Maine
- Representative James G. Fulton of Pennsylvania
- Representative Robert L. Leggett of California
- Representative Donald W. Riegle, Jr., of Michigan
- Group 1
- Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification
The document was declassified on September 12, 1997
Cuba recognition drive
In 1972, a coalition of congressmen, radical activists and some communists spearheaded a drive to relax relations with Fidel Castro's Cuba.
Under, the auspices of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D.- Mass.) and Sen. Harold Hughes (D.-Iowa), a two day conference of liberal scholars assembled in April, in the New Senate Office Building to thrash out a fresh U.S. policy on Cùba.
Among congressional sponsors of the seminar were Sen. J. William Fulbright (D.-Ark.) and Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R.-N.Y.), both influential members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Sen. George McGovern (D.-S.D.), Rep. Bella Abzug (D~-N.Y.) and Rep. Ron Dellums (D.-Calif.).
Prominent members of the press and academic world participated, including conference chairman Kalman Silvert of the Ford Foundation, Joseph Gruenwald of the Brookings Institution, Tad Szulc of the New York Times and James Goodsell of the Christian Science Monitor.
Sen. Fulbright signalled the move to seek détente with Càstro's Cuba in March 1972, when he attacked the State Department for refusing to issue visas to four Cuban film-makers who planned to participate in a pro-Castro film festival in New York City.
Secretary of the New York State Communist Party USA, Michael Myerson coordinator of the festival, was among the observers at the Cuba recognition conference as well.
Prof. Larry Birns of the New School for Social Research in New York, admitted he deliberately selected panelists who look favorably on "normalizing'" relations with Cuba. The sessions, he said, were not supposed to generate an open debate. ,
One panelist, John M. Cates, Jr., director of the , Center for Inter-American Relations, matter òf factlyremarked during the discussions: "So why are we here'? We're here so Sen. Kennedy can have a rationale to get our country to recognize Cuba."
Kennedy had set the stage for the meeting by recommending an end to the economic boycott of Cuba, freedom of travel and cultural exchanges between the U.S. and Cuba, and reestablishment of formal relations.
Largely agreeing with Kennedy's recommendations, the group reached a broad consensus that the United States should: Pay rent or give up its Navy at Guantánamo, initiate cultural and sports exchanges with Cuba, lift the trade embargo on Cuba, sell surplus grain to the island on a deferred payment plan and establish formal and informal diplomatic contacts. Members also hoped a study commission to pursue these goals would grow out of the conference.
Brady Tyson of American University, the most miltant panelist, said public opinion must be mobilized to persuade the U.S. government to ease relations with Castro's regime. Committees of Cuban-Americans must be formed for the same purpose, he said.
The conference was financed by a New York-based organization called the Fund for the New Priorities in America, a coalition of groups clearly sympathetic to many pro-Communist causes.
The Fund was virtually the same group as the Committee for Peace and New Priorities, a pro-Hanoi group which bought an ad in November 1971 in the New York Times demanding Nixon set a Viet Nam withdrawal date. Both the Fund for the New Priorities and the Committee for Peace, were located at the same address in New York.[2]
Kennedy and ACORN
Edward Kennedy was an early supporter of ACORN.
ACORN leader Wade Rathke quotes veteran ACORN organizer Dewey Armstrong, on Kennedy's contribution to the organization.
- As you may know, Ted Kennedy may not be with us much longer...
- ACORN allied with him in '79 (a tactical decision at the time), when he committed unequivocal support for the central demand of our ACORN 80 Peoples Platform campaign (our first real national campaign), while Jimmie (his spelling…) Carter didn't much want to talk to us or risk being seen dealing with what we might call the broad-based progressive forces that were organizing, speaking out, and acting for social and economic justice...
- Ted Kennedy is an inspiration and example of what can be accomplished in the halls of power w/o sacrificing principles too much. Who'll be the next in line – doesn't have to be just one, either.[3]
Democratic Agenda
More than 1,200 people attended the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee initiated Democratic Agenda Conference held November 16-18, 1979, at the International Inn and Metropolitan AM Church in Washington 1 DC. The conference focused on "corporate power'; as the key barrier to "economic and political democracy," concepts many Democratic Agenda participants defined as "socialism.'
The Democratic Agenda meetings attempted to develop anti-corporate alternatives" through influencing the direction of the Democratic Party during the period leading to the July 1980 Democratic National Convention in New York.
Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee/Democratic Agenda leader Michael Harrington had endorsed, the Presidential campaign of Senator Edward Kennedy who was invited to address the Democratic Agenda conference' s Saturday luncheon. Although Sen. Kennedy declined to appear, he did send a message of support to the DA stating, "I share your conviction that progressive economic and social program must gain a high priority in the direction of our party and our nation...I welcome the opportunity to work with you."[4]
Democratic Agenda/Socialist Caucus
For groups and organizations seeking radical social change within the Democratic Party, the National Convention of 1980 had at least one historic first - formation of a Socialist Caucus of delegates. Organized by the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and by the Democratic Agenda which was DSOC's cadre and supporters within the Democratic Party and was based in DSOC' s New York office and at 1730 M Street, NW, Washington, DC. Some 31 delegates and alternates from twelve states and Democrats Abroad attended the Socialist Caucus.
As a preliminary to the convention's Socialist Caucus meeting, , indeed as a "building event" and as a continued show of support for Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), the Democratic Agenda sponsored a convention rally at New York's Town Hall. The speakers included Herman Badillo, Julian Bond, Fran Bennick, Harry Britt, Cesar Chavez, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI}, Douglas Fraser, Murray Finley, Michael Harrington, Terry Herndon, Ruth Jordan, Ruth Messinger, Eleanor Smeal, Gloria Steinem and William Winpisinger.
DSOC works within the Democratic Party, said Harrington, because of the party's relationships with organized workers, blacks, feminists, environmentalists and other "progressive groups."
The Socialist Caucus circulated a list of convention delegates who were caucus members, including;[5]
- Alice Papon, AZ
- Debbie Anderson, CA
- Helen Barrios, CA
- Harry Britt, CA
- Muriel Brownstein, CA
- Mickey Flacks, CA
- Vivial Hall, CA
- Dolores Huerta, CA
- Amy King, CA
- Ted Neima, CA
- Mike Nye, CA
- Raoul Teilhet, CA
- Richard Sklar, CA
- Pat Dillon, CT
- Kristine Blackwood, DC
- Steve Ramirez, DC
- Bill Simons, DC
- Jerry Wurf, DC
- Julian Bond, GA
- William Winpisinger, MD
- Vivian Hall, MA
- Brian Maranhoa, MA
- Ms. Su Finkbinder, MI
- Martin Gerber, MI
- Millie Jeffrey, MI
- Isabel Laluz, MI
- Gerald Maginelli, MI
- Bernice Selden, MI
- David Selden, MI
- Earl Bourdon, NH
- Henry Berger, NY
- Jim Chapin, NY
- David Dinkins, NY
- Elaine Drucker, NY
- Ed Gray, NY
- Patrick Kelly, NY
- Ruth Messinger, NY
- Libby Moroff, NY
- Cleveland Robinson, NY
- Gerry Cohen, NC
- Margaret Lynch, OH
- Judy Watts, OR
- Harold Rosenthal, PA
- Sue Rosenthal, PA
- Craig Murphy, TX
- Ray Majerus, WI
- Louise Uphoff, WI
- David Fleishman (foreign)
"Knows about" DSOC"
Nancy Lieber, International Committee chair of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, wrote a June 30, 1981 letter to Danielle Page, a staffer for Canadian Member of Parliament Ian Waddell.
- Dear Danielle Page,
- I'm sending along a list of Congresspeople and senators who know about us, democratic socialism, and -- perhaps Canada.
- Only the first one is an open socialist, but the others are sympathetic in varying degrees.
The list was;
- Congressman Ron Dellums
- Congressman Byron Dorgan (North Dakota)
- Congressman Steven Solarz
- Congressman Ted Weiss
- Congressman Barney Frank
- Congressman Gerry Studds
- Congressman Robert Kastenmeier
- Congressman John Conyers
- Congressman Harold Washington
- Congressman David Obey
- Congressman Les Aspin
- Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski
- Senator Ted Kennedy
- Hope this is of help and you recruit them to the cause!
- In Solidarity,
- Nancy Lieber
- Chair, Intl. Committee
DSA interest in campaign funders
Nuclear Freeze
During the 1979 SALT II debate, Oregon's far left Republican Senator Mark Hatfield introduced an amendment that called for a "strategic weapons freeze," which helped provide the impetus for the popular Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and would ricochet back into Washington and prompt Hatfield and other members of Congress to act.
As tensions between Washington and Moscow mounted in 1982 and the two countries built up their nuclear arsenals even further, Hatfield and other members of Congress 'heard from their constituents", who sought a way off the escalatory ladder and were calling for a "nuclear freeze" with the Soviet Union on the testing, production, and deployment of nuclear warheads and delivery systems.
"We heard from people at every stop who knew about the nuclear freeze proposal and wanted us to support it. 'Why not?' they asked. We found that question difficult to answer," Hatfield and Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) later explained in their 1982 book Freeze! How You Can Help Prevent Nuclear War. "A new arms control initiative was needed to offer leadership in Congress and respond to the growing public concern," they wrote.
On March 10, 1982, Hatfield and Kennedy joined House proponents of the freeze, including Representative Edward Markey (D-Mass.), to introduce a "sense of Congress" resolution based directly on a widely disseminated document, "Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race," developed by Randall Forsberg, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology defense policy expert who would later join the board of directors of the Arms Control Association. With the backing of Hatfield and Kennedy, the effort gained broad-based popular and expert support, national attention, and increasing political momentum.
Following new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's announcement in July 1985 that the Soviet Union would forgo tests and that the Soviet Union would not test until and unless the United States began testing, the Reagan administration declined to reciprocate. In October 1986, a bipartisan group of 63 House and Senate members, led by Hatfield, Senator Alan Cranston (D-Calif.), Representative Les Aspin (D-Wis.), and others, sent a letter to Reagan urging him to reciprocate and call off the next scheduled test in Nevada, code-named Glencoe.
Cranston and Hatfield also introduced legislation seeking to bar the spending of money to carry out U.S. nuclear tests if the Soviet Union was not doing so. Their initiative did not succeed, but it would get another chance.[6]
Nicaragua conference
The Communist Party USA controlled U.S. Peace Council organized a National Conference on Nicaragua in 1979, along with several other radical groups, to discuss a strategy to ensure that the Sandinistas took control.
Three Congressmen and two Senators lent support to this Conference: Ron Dellums, Tom Harkin, and Walter Fauntroy in the House and Mark Hatfield and Edward Kennedy in the Senate.[7]
Supporting "Veteran's fast for life"
On September 1st, 1986, four veterans began a water-only "fast for life" on the Capitol steps in Washington, D.C. They wanted to to draw attention to, and to protest, President Reagan's "illegal and extraordinarily vicious wars against the poor of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala."
The veterans were;
- George Mizo, U.S. Army, 1963-1970,Vietnam;
- Brian Willson, U.S. Air Force, 1966-1970, Vietnam;
- Duncan Murphy, U.S. Army, 1942-1945, ambulance driver, WWII;
- Charles Litekey, U.S. Army, 1966-1971, Vietnam, 2 tours;
- The veterans believed that the President's explicit policy of directing the contra terrorists in Nicaragua to commit wanton murder and destruction, enabled by appropriations passed by a majority of members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, amounted to grotesque, unconscionable violent behavior in violation of both U.S. Constitutional and international law, and the egregious breach of the human rights of virtually all Nicaraguan citizens. The veterans believed that the President was clearly vulnerable to Constitutional impeachment, and that all members of the Senate and House of Representatives should have been subjected to criminal prosecution under international law as well, whether they were re-elected or not.
On October 7 several U.S Congressmen and Senators spoke at a press conference in support of the faster's cause. They included Senator Charles Mathias (R-MD), Claiborne Pell (D-RI), Don Edwards (D-CA), Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Leon Panetta (D-CA), Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Senator John Kerry (D-MA), David Bonior (D-MI), Lane Evans (D-Illinois), Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT).[8]
Paying tribute to Michael Harrington
On Friday September 15, 1989, a tribute service was held to commemorate the recently deceased leader of Democratic Socialists of America, Michael Harrington.
Invited guest speakers were Irving Howe, Senator Edward Kennedy, Willy Brandt, Deborah Meier, Bogdan Denitch, Jack Clark and Eleanor Holmes Norton.[9]
Opposed aid to El Salvador
On February 6, 1990, Senators Edward Kennedy and John Kerry introduced a Bill to cut off all aid to El Salvador just a few days after EI Salvador's President Cristiani had come to Washington to discuss the need for such support.
This bill was backed by four other Democratic Senators: Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, Paul Simon of Illinois, Alan Cranston of California and Brock Adams of Washington state.
The Senators and Congressmen who vote against providing aid to the government of El Salvador were effectively handicapping the democratically-elected government in that area and paralleling the Communist line of the time.[10]
The Communist Party USA newspaper, the People's Daily World of January 30, 1990 stated:
- Last weekend's meeting of the Communist Party, USA resolved to Mobilize to build the March 24 demonstration in Washington, D.C. demanding an end to military aid to El Salvador and intervention in Central America.
DSA book
In 1991 Democratic Socialists of America was selling a book "Reclaiming our Future", by DSA honorary chair William Winpisinger, edited by "DSAer" John Logue and carrying a foreword by Senator Edward Kennedy.[11]
"Michael Harrington and Today's Other America"
In 1998, a new film based on late Democratic Socialists of America leader Michael Harrington was released. "Michael Harrington and Today's Other America-Corporate Power and Inequality" featured interviews with Bogdan Denitch, Congressman Bernie Sanders, Frances Fox Piven, John Kenneth Galbraith, Rush Limbaugh, Senate Ted Kennedy, Jim Chapin, Robert Kuttner, Charles Murray, Robert L. Hellbroner, Joanne Barkan, Joseph Murphy and Bob Herbert. [12]
CBC 33rd Legislative Conference, 2003
Anger at the Bush administration for waging war abroad and attacking rights at home bubbled up at the Congressional Black Caucus 33rd Legislative Conference in Washington DC, Sept. 24-27, 2003.
"Collective Leadership: Challenging A Bold New World" was the title of the conference, which attracted thousands of participants in 53 plenary and workshop sessions.
A standing-room crowd at a session titled "The Iraq War: America Speaks Out" convened by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), cheered Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), who recently accused Bush of "fraud" in tricking the U.S. into war. The White House reacted with rage to that blast.
But Kennedy did not apologize. "If your son or daughter is in the National Guard or Reserves, you know they are going to be called up and sent over to serve in Iraq," Kennedy thundered. "They are asking $87 billion for the war in Iraq and they cannot find enough to fund 'No Child Left Behind.'"
Kennedy read from the Pentagon's 28-page draft plan sent to Capitol Hill after weeks of protests from lawmakers that the occupation is floundering. "Locate and secure weapons of mass destruction," was the goal one week. A week later, again, "Continue to locate and secure weapons of mass destruction." The crowd groaned and Kennedy flung the draft in the air, calling it "an insult to our troops serving over there."[13]
Supported by Council for a Livable World
The Council for a Livable World, founded in 1962 by long-time socialist activist and alleged Soviet agent, Leo Szilard, is a non-profit advocacy organization that seeks to "reduce the danger of nuclear weapons and increase national security", primarily through supporting progressive, congressional candidates who support their policies. The Council supported Edward Kennedy in his successful Senate run as candidate for Massachusetts.[14]
Opposed the Iraq War
The following is a list of the 23 U.S. Senators voting "Nay" on the Iraq War resolution in October 2002. The vote was 77-23 in favor of the resolution.
Daniel Akaka (D - Hawaii), Jeff Bingaman (D - N.M.), Barbara Boxer (D - Calif.), Robert Byrd (D - W. Va.), Lincoln Chafee (R - R.I.), Kent Conrad (D - N.D.), Jon Corzine (D - N.J.), Mark Dayton (D - Minn.), Dick Durbin (D - Ill.), Russ Feingold (D - Wis.), Bob Graham (D - Fla.) [Retired, 2004], Daniel Inouye (D - Hawaii), Jim Jeffords (I - Vt.), Ted Kennedy (D - Mass.), Patrick Leahy (D - Vt.), Carl Levin (D - Mich.), Barbara Mikulski (D - Md.), Patty Murray (D - Wash.), Jack Reed (D - R.I.), Paul Sarbanes (D - Md.), Debbie Stabenow (D - Mich.), Paul Wellstone (D - Minn.) [Dec. 2002] and Ron Wyden (D - Ore.).
Introduced EFCA
EFCA was introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. George Miller (D-California) and Peter King (R-New York) and in the Senate by Senators Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) in April 2005. [15]
Barack Obama and Ted Kennedy traveled to Vermont to campaign for Bernie Sanders during the Congressman's successful 2006 U.S. Senate race.
According to Democratic Socialists of America's Democratic Left, Spring 2006, page 4;[16]
- The Democratic Party is not mounting a serious challenge, although a candidate may occupy the Democratic line. A number of prominent Democrats, including Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy and Illinois Senator Barack Obama, already have campaigned with Sanders.
"Single - payer" movement
According to Michael Lighty, a former National Director of Democratic Socialists of America, and Director of Public Policy for the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, writing in DSA's Democratic Left, Winter 2007/2008 .[17]
- There's a growing movement for single-payer universal healthcare. The movement is led by activists in Healthcare-Now!, doctors in the Physicians for a National Health Program, nurses in the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, leaders in labor unions such as United Steelworkers of America and Communication Workers of America, activists in the Progressive Democrats of America, and Congressman John Conyers, with the support for HR 676 by 300 union locals, 75 Central Labor Councils, and 25 state Federations of Labor, and hundreds of clergy and faith-based organizations, as well as civil rights, women's and healthcare advocacy groups in the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare.
- The policy proposals developed by Beltway think tanks and the principles for reform adopted by the AFL-CIO confer support for single-payer while allowing for private insurance-based approaches as well. Other bills in Congress, notably sponsored by Ted Kennedy and John Dingell and "Americare" introduced by Pete Stark, seek to incrementally establish a single-payer system.
Drinan Award
The Father Robert F. Drinan National Peace and Human Rights Award was established in 2006. The award is annually presented by the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and Council for a Livable World to individuals who exemplify the late Father Drinan's commitment |to peace and human justice".
The award broadly focuses on U.S. politics, political science, physical science, biology, peace studies, and peace and human rights activism.
- 2007 - Senator Ted Kennedy[18]
- ↑ TYR, Sep. 2009
- ↑ Human Events, April 29, 1972, page 3
- ↑ http://chieforganizer.org/2008/05/30/thinking-about-ted-kennedy/
- ↑ Information Digest, December 14, 1979, page 372
- ↑ Information Digest, Septemer 19, 1980, p 333
- ↑ ACA In Memoriam: Mark O. Hatfield (1922–2011), Daryl G. Kimball
- ↑ Communisis in the Democratic party, page 67
- ↑ [1] Ivan's Place , Veterans Fast for Life for Peace in Central America, accessed June 2, 2010
- ↑ Washington Socialist, September 1989, page 16
- ↑ Communists in the Democratic Party, page 9
- ↑ Democratic Left, July/August 1991, page 8
- ↑ [Dem. Left Winter 1998, page 2]
- ↑ PWW Black Caucus hears call: Defeat Bush, GOP, by: Tim Wheeler October 3 2003
- ↑ CLW website: Meet Our Candidates
- ↑ GDDSA newsletter archives, 2007
- ↑ Democratic left, Spring 2006
- ↑ Dem. Left, Winter 2007/8
- ↑ Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation website. Council for a Livable World 50th Anniversary Celebration


text: Abducted by the EHM [Economic Hit Men]! By Vijay Prashad March 28, 2005 [ A+ ] / [ A- ] Email this page Posted in: Asia, Central America, Ecuador, Education, Indonesia, North America, Panama, South America | No comments By Vijay Prashad The idea of the "conspiracy theory" is a red herring. Power is loath to reveal details of the various nefarious policies and projects conducted in its interest. In 1997, the Moynihan Commission studied the realm of US governmental secrecy, and concluded that excessive state secrecy corrodes democracy. If "secrecy is a form of government regulation," the Report noted, then it is the one area where the public can neither know the extent of the regulation over information nor the kind of information being regulated. For that reason, the Report argued, secrecy not only serves to protect "national security," but it also shelters government officials and agencies. Secrecy is a convenient way to protect one's personal legacy or else to protect unconstitutional policies until their hold on social life is established. "Conspiracy theories," in this climate, are not the province of the overheated imagination, but they are the necessary outcome of far too little information. The more openness from powerful (governmental and private) agencies, the less need for us, the citizenry, to indulge in speculation, rumor and "conspiracy theories." That's the reason I read John Perkins' Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004). All the advance press indicated that this book would have the smoking gun: now we'd know for sure how the world economic system is rigged on behalf of the global plutocracy. Perkins does validate much of what is commonplace in the "conspiracy theories" regarding imperialism. The broad outlines of the "conspiracy" are as follows: the World Bank commissions a US-based "consultancy group" to do a study of some aspect of infrastructural development in an economically devastated country. The report from the consultants generally overstates the country's needs, asking, for example, for a power grid that can produce far more electricity than the country wants or needs. The World Bank then hires a consortium of generally US or else G-7 based engineering firms (such as Bechtel) to take on the contracts. This consortium then sub-contracts the work to various local firms for a fraction of the bid, and it imports materials and expertise from the G-7 at fabulous prices. The World Bank, therefore, subsidizes the industrial and technical sector within the G-7, not in the country it claims to aid. That country, be it Indonesia or Ecuador, accepted a loan from the World Bank which is used to pay the consortium for its work. The Bechtels of the world benefit, whereas the Indonesian and Ecuadorian people are left holding the bill. Unable to pay, these countries go into severe debt, and when they can't pay this off they have to entertain the notorious debt-for-equity swaps: rights to the precious resources within these countries (such as oil) are then mortgaged toward the impossible debt. Why do the leadership in these countries accede to this logic? Because if they don't, Perkins suggests, they are killed (Ecuador's Jaime Roldos and Panama's Omar Torrijos, per example), they act out of class (rather than national) interests or else they feel compelled ("The more time I spent with [mid-level Indonesian politicians], the more convinced I became that I was an intruder, that an order to cooperate had come from someone, and that they had little choice but to comply. I had no idea whether a governmental official, a banker, a general or the U. S. Embassy had sent the order. All I knew was that although they invited me into their offices, offered me tea, politely answered my questions, and in every overt manner seemed to welcome my presence, beneath the surface there was a shadow of resignation and rancor"). While the bureaucrats and politicians of the darker nations angrily resign themselves to the like of Perkins, their countries are indebted for what might as well be millennia. Who are these people, like Perkins? They are the Economic Hit Men, a term Perkins claims, is widely used among his fraternity. "We build a global empire. WE are an elite group of men and women who utilize international financial organizations to foment conditions that make other nations subservient to the corporatocracy running our biggest corporations, our government, and our banks." These men and women opportunistically take the conditions of global inequality to further trap large parts of the world into the web of abstract capitalist domination, and once the country is ensnared "we demand our pound of flesh. This often includes one or more of the following: control over United Nations votes, the installation of military bases, or access to precious resources such as oil or the Panama Canal. Of course the debtor still owes us the money and another country is added to our global empire." Nothing Perkins writes about is news. Indeed, this "plan" for domination provided the basis for the creation of the alternative political agenda, known as the Third World. The Non-Aligned Movement, the Group of 77, the Singer-Prebisch theory of import substitution, the Tricontinental Conference in Havana, and the many UN institutions (such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) offered an alternative to the rapaciousness of imperialist capital, or the EHM. That nationalist ethos and program provided the foundations for people like Omar Torrijos, Jamie Roldos, Jacob Arbenz and others whom Perkins admires. But they are not simply courageous individuals or that "rare modern politician who was not afraid to oppose the status quo." These people were pushed by a groundswell of nationalist sentiment that wanted to use natural resources for human-centered development rather than for profit-centered aggrandizement. These people knew the logic of the EHM (for instance, the 1965 book by Kwame Nkrumah entitled Neocolonialism: the last stage of imperialism). This is the reason that they faced denigration from the powers that be, and many of their international schemes (such as commodity cartels) came in for ridicule from G-7 politicians and intellectuals. Perkins offers a validation of much that was already written about and known among those social movements that tried to follow an alternative development agenda. His book is a useful marker, even if it is not always easy to read. There is a discomforting sanctimoniousness from empire's dissidents, as they spend an inordinate time in their confessions telling us that they never really had their heart in their jobs. I often tell my students that I don't insist that they follow any prescribed ideology, but I do require them to be authentic to themselves: if you want to live like an EHM, then don't pretend to be a liberal. They must see the choices before them for what they are, and make an informed decision about their lives. Mid-life crises are horrid, but worst of all are those people who become EHMs and rely upon their dissident friends for absolution. If you want to be an EHM, then don't try to tell me that you are actually torn up about it. Apart from that, Perkins' account is readable. Toward the end of the book, Perkins offers this view of conspiracy, "It would be great if we could just blame it all on a conspiracy, but we cannot. The empire depends on the efficacy of big banks, corporations, and governments the corporatocracy but it is not a conspiracy. This corporatocracy is ourselves we make it happen which, of course, is why most of us find it difficult to stand up and oppose it. We would rather glimpse conspirators lurking in the shadows, because most of us work of one of those banks, corporations or governments, or in some way are dependent on them for the goods and services they produce and market. We cannot bring ourselves to bite the hand of the master who feeds us." While it is true that we are all implicated in the system, there are some, like the EHMs, who reproduce the system in an active, and deadly way. Those of us whose contribution to the social reproduction of empire is consumerism cannot see ourselves as part of the problem. Well, partly we're not the problem, even if we contribute to it. 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Income reported as capital or ordinary gain on the federal income tax return are also subject to Iowa income tax unless the capital gain exclusion under section 422.7, subsection 21, is applicable. This exclusion involves capital gain from the sale of real property used in a business or from the sale of the business, as long as the taxpayer materially participated in the business for a minimum of 10 years and which has been held by the taxpayer for 10 years.
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A new exclusion of both capital gain and ordinary gain is available for individual and corporation income taxpayers relating to capital or ordinary gain income realized by a taxpayer as a result of the involuntary conversion of property due to eminent domain. Eminent domain relates to the authority of certain government agencies or instrumentalities of government to condemn private property for any public improvement, public purpose, or other public use.
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quailallstar says:
He is playing off the idea of Apple pitching something as "innovative" in a "new" product when in fact its feeding off brand loyalists who will buy anything you throw at them.
Ahhh stupid me :)
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Thanks,cos I totally missed it.We're glad you're here to break it down for us.
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MERCDROID says:
Lol, you dropped something: /s.
Posted from my phone, using your girlfriend's Internet, while you're at work.
Lol!!,on the using your girlfriends internet while you're @ work.And here I thought Phil was low,you sir have just taken the crown from him.lol!!!
Sent from my HTC One rockin Jelly Bean 4.1.2
Oh wow so hurtful :'(
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How did you not see what he was doing right off the bat Lol.
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JakeHilltop says:
Haha we love you Phil.
CrzyP says:
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They are clowning on the imore site. Flame war.
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aggreyj says:
Hmm, I wonder if AT&T will be the only choice to get all of those iPhone colors
MERCDROID says:
Probably. I won't be surprised, if AT&T announces some kind of exclusive.
Posted from my phone, using your girlfriend's Internet, while you're at work.
AT&T would demand exclusive rights on the android kit kat bars if they could
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ne0ne says:
I'm sure they will start having exclusives on external chargers for phones next. All other carriers will only have removable batteries that have to be charged on a cradle :-)
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GoBigRed79 says:
It's Magic!
Raptor007 says:
Of course Apple in all of their "innovation" has always been "first" with everything on the market. So much for truth and reality. Apple has lost its innovative ways, and the new trashcan MAC proves it. But hey they can sell a plastic iphone and claim its "innovative, magical and cutting edge" yet outdated specs, a return to plastic which they continuously bash Samsung over. I am sure their next move is to say how special their plastic crap is.
Chanlion says:
I don't mind people dissing out their mobile but their desktop MAC OS is still the best and actually pushing software and hardware innovation.
I don't like the iOS line but the MAC platform really does work. Not attacking you but I just wanted to express that their desktop line at really does work and I don't want that to change.
Targon says:
What is Apple putting on the desktop again? Oh yea, MacOS X....the UI has not changed much since 2001, and adding a feature here or there is not really evolving the platform. Or, is dropping the DVD drive to force people to go through an online store what you consider "innovative"?
I am not saying Windows 8 is great, but it IS a lot more innovative than anything Apple has released MacOS X.
Who wants it to change, I don't! Microsoft changed from XP to Vista and Windows 7 and it sucked trying to make it look like OS X. Now Windows 8 is out and its the worse one yet, as bad as Windows 3.1. OS X has alot of nice features like Dashboard with Widgets, Time Machine, etc. Wonder where widgets came from in Android and Gadgets in Windows?
deegan87 says:
Widgets have been around on PCs since the '90s, they just weren't baked in. Time machine is the same as system restore.
ugahairydawgs says:
We've got to get past this fallacy that change = innovation.
You can't take a toaster and turn it into a turd and call it innovative just cause it's different. OS X may look the same now as it did a decade (same-ish....the visuals have changed), but the functionality has grown tremendously.
Johnny Z says:
What's a DVD drive?
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someoneStop.me says:
I think it's some kind of feature they're installing in car engines now to save on gas...
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chaz493 says:
You can say their desktop OS is the best, but their hardware is definitely not. They use graphics cards from last year, they have never even used a bluray drive yet. They are consistently behind the horsepower curve every year.
The only thing they had that was impressive and ahead of the times is thunderbolt.
Add in the fact that the new Mac Pro is nearly all proprietary with no expansion slots and it makes matters even worse. The only thing they innovate with when it comes to their computers is looks, everything else they are behind.
Slower processors, less ram, older videocards, but charge more money. The apple way
I have worked at two different schools and had 200 Macs and 200 PCs and far less problems with the Apple equipment. My other school we have 200 Macs and 1000 pcs and constant PC issues. We have switched from Dell to Lenovo and it has helped, but far more failures on the PC side!
They do use crappy video cards, but that is about it! They don't use crappy Atom processors and try and sell junk like that and have to give them credit on that. Like netbooks, the biggest junk that was available!
The specs on the new Mac Pro are stunning, but I agree on the expansion. The old tower was almost perfect, just needed a few tweaks.
All in all the Apple hardware in my experience is superior!
Pollster says:
This really says nothing on it's own. If they were the most expensive newest Macs available at the time and the the cheapest oldest PCs, then this is to be expected.
Were all of the PCs bought together from a bad batch? Are the sysadmins Mac guys who don't know how to network PCs? There's literally hundreds of reasons why you could have noticed what you noticed that have nothing to do with PC vs. Mac
Get on a network with 200 5-year-old low-end Macs, 200 high-end new Windows 7 boxes and IT admins who don't know how to network or maintain Mac and see if your anecdotal evidence holds up. There's never any Oranges-to-Oranges comparisons in computing.
If you see every issue as having only two sides, then your arguments will always be as deep as a piece of paper.
jaeskill says:
Get out... your sensible logic has no place here.
Clak says:
What is this "Apple hardware" that you speak of? Apple installs their software on the same hardware found in PCs. Sure, some cheap $300 PC won't perform as well as a Mac that cost a few grand, I wouldn't expect it to. But I'll take a PC over a Mac any day for it's ease of upgrade/repair. Trying to work on a Mac's hardware is such a pain in the ass. Having flashbacks to the old CRT fruity pebbles colored iMacs...shudder.
The most rabid, illogical, and deluded Apple fanboy on AC works in a school with access to developing minds. Heaven help us.
Sure netbooks were a bit underpowred, but that program was able to put affordable computers in front of so many people. Whose fault is it if people purchased one expecting it to perform as well as afull fledged laptop.
The new mac pro is mediocre at best. All the parts are available to build similar speced machine. The video card is readily available from nvidia. Innovative design is it looks like a trash can. The hardware is standard intel and nvidia.
someoneStop.me says:
I have a home recording studio that I used to run through a PC and now I run everything through a MacBook pro (mid 2012) and I gotta say everything just works... constant crashing and stuttering on my PC, which is a high end PC, sometimes would take me a solid half hour to get everything up and running properly each session... now with the MacBook it takes the time it takes to start up the computer, and a second later I'm in a session and getting to work. No loss of creativity, no mood going sour because I can't get the equipment to sync up properly... just a whole nother world! And this is coming from someone who's not exactly a fan of Apple. Quite happy with my MacBook pro... however on the phone end, it's android all the way baby!
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dc9super80 says:
I know Apple fanboys bash Samsung for plastic. I am not sure Apple has anything to do with that. There were plastic iPhones and Macs.
sunburned says:
This will be just like everyone posting a million panoramic iphone pics on FB like it was the best new thing.
thegrants82 says:
Glad that I got the stock moto x in black. All the different colored phones getting ready to be released into the wild is going to look to "chick".
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Chanlion says:
They see me trolling...
(Phil Nickinson remix)
But honestly, I kind of like the custom colours that they offer, it'll be cheaper than aftermarket.
"They hatin" Lmao. This.
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the_icon12 says:
This made me laugh... and laugh... and laugh... and laugh...
CeluGeek says:
Nokia did the colored phones first, and theirs are indestructible! xD
... But now they are never going to be anything but windows phones
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iloveliveunique says:
I love how you did this ha-ha. It's exactly what I was thinking, and even then other phones come out with color options some point down the line. Of course people will see it like they did it first.
kurpaige says:
Nokia was first, not Moto X. It's not that they did it first, but I met Apple won't make everyone wait to get them. Like them or not, Apple does things better then other companies. And sorry, I'm not a fanboy (I own a Droid MAXX), but I did stay at a holiday inn express last night.
tylerb2002 says:
yeah my old Nokia candy bar phone was blue =)
That was back when a phone was a phone, and a reliable one. That thing would turn itself on in time to sound my morning alarm even if the battery died overnight...I guess that's what I would call innovative.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself Phil.This is an all time low for you.Just for that comment,I'm not gonna buy an IPhone but get me the Note 3.Maybe by me doing this,it'll teach you to keep your Android Ideology to yourself.Im just joking Phil,you can stop crying now.lol!!!
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mstrblueskys says:
Every time I read one of these headlines, I laugh a bit. Thank you!
FreudSlipped says:
Best line of the day!
Gekko says:
well, i'm not Apple fan (although i do have great respect for them) and the only Apple product i've ever bought in my life was a few of their $29 iPhone headsets for my EVO and Nexus - BUT - i think Apple deserves some credit for popularizing offering consumer computer products in many different colors with the original iMac line in 1998. i can't remember anyone before them doing this.
dsignori says:
Funny! Love it !
Craig Trunzo says:
Now we just have to wait for the lawsuits against everyone else that makes a phone. Because apple apparently has the ability to make patents retroactive and all that.
Who will they sue first for violating their patent, that didn't exist a week ago, to offer colored phones? Samsung? HTC? Moto?
I also wonder what idiot judge it will be that actually allows them to do so and sides in their favor.
Everyone who has a phone with colour screens
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Xerox should be resurrected...
Transtang z28 says:
oh my gosh if i had a drink in my mouth when i read the headline i would have spit it all on my screen laughing!
Technosticrati says:
Time to short Apple stock. This is how they innovate post-Jobs?
Color me not impressed.
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overfloater says:
I'd color you, but I don't want Apple to sue me.
jasongeiger says:
Like OMG this is going to change everything!
plunder says:
Very cheeky Phil ;-)
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fort says:
The news is all over this. See Apple has GOLD! bomb!!!!
Did you see that Samsung Exec are scattered trying to copy it. Rumors of an Apple iWatch has them scrambling as well! Heard they failed at trying to put in a finger print scanner to try and beat Apple to that as well.
Company tries to match/one-up competition. That's news. Shoo troll.
Jim Gramze says:
I read a great article suggesting the iWatch is actually Apple's new TV set, not something to put on your wrist. That would be hilarious with everyone trying to beat Apple to market following the rumors. I have an expensive 2013 Samsung Smart TV, the voice and gestures are crap, but the 55" screen is awesome. 364 days in they had to come to my house and replace all the electronics. So much forvtop of the line samsung hardware. Still, the screen looks fantastic.
Can't believe all the hate here. You'd think people would be enjoying their devices instead. Sad little people trying to justify their inferior products.
Ratnok says:
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_X_ says:
LOL!! Best article of the month
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bkosh84 says:
I assume you don't share offices with these guys Phil? lol.
Zedd says:
Kiosks in mall's have been selling and installing different color plates for iPhone for years. Nothing new here.
Besides, if you put a protective case on your phone, and you should, it can be any color you want it to be.
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BAlGaInTl says:
Best headline ever!
Or at least that I can remember in the distant past...
sperkel says:
Most people put a case on their phone making the color and build material a moot point.Once you put a case on your Plastic Samsung or your Metal whatever phone you have then no one knows until you remove the case. If you want colors buy a different case.
jschu22 says:
We the Android community are far more guilty of creating this supposed "inventing" misnomer than Apple is.
Why can't we just appreciate things instead of trying to tear them down? We even do it within our own community (go check out the forums for plenty of S4 v whatever debate).
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snookasnoo says:
This "Apple invents colored phones" silliness is the kind of childish commentary you see in the forums from teenagers. Anytime I see this sort of thing I assume its from someone insecure in their choice of device.
I own both types of devices and funny how you rarely see this sort of thing in iOS forums. They don't spend their time obsessing over Android and which is "better" and what their choice of device means for their ego's. Rampant in the Android community though.
This from Android Central, the same site that glosses over every Android OS or device issue that comes along. GPS issues on the new Nexus 7? We don't use GPS anyway! Right.
There is really very little credibility on this site and its pretty sad and pathetic. Especially when their sister sites don't resort to such nonsense.
I feel sorry for people like this. It must be pretty awful to be so bossed and angry about the type of device other people choose.
bold1193 says:
First of all, you are very wrong. You must be very new here to question the credibility of this site. They always double check their sources; when it is a rumor they clearly state that; and when they do make a mistake, they immediately own up to it.
Second of all, the reason Android lovers (including myself) love comparing phones is that there are so many different versions and types of phones that it is somewhat of a game to see who has the latest and greatest and what problems ache all of us or just some of us. Apple and iPhone are very different because they have a limited amount of phone types and so there isn't so much of a need to "compete and compare". Also, many people who have Android know more about the specs and internals of their phone and so go into greater discussion of the differences rather than just "I have a black iPhone 5".
And if you dont tbink some iphone users are plain raving mad, go to bgr, that filth site is full of crazy I sheep. And just so you know, I love both; I have an iPhone 5, an iPad, an SGS4,and a Galaxy Nexus. So I am in no way biased to one or another.
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Your a moron
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You can own a moron? In that case, I'd like to own you.
That was stupid
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Don't you mean "Your(sic) stupid"?
My choice of is is better than yours waaaa pathetic
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nathanzzx says:
My friend, I'm an iMore reader and 1/3 of their post are stupid apple/android comparisons. That Rene Ritchie guys is a joke, 70 lines of useless discussion are normally his posts. Phil, on the other hand, did only a funny line, no problem with that I guess.
Chill out
VDub2174 says:
I'm a member over at iMore and there sure are posts about much better the iPhone is over [insert every other phone here].
My child knows how to double-space between paragraphs. That's more than I can say for you.
Instead if worrying about protecting googles good name spend some time with your kid
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"Instead of worrying about protecting Google's good name, you should spend some time with your kid."
There. Fixed it for you.
I don't worry about "googles good name". I worry about the grammatical capabilities of a good portion of the commentary on the Web today. A typo is one thing. Mangling the language is another.
Holy cow, really? That's all I read about in iphone forums. In almost every single one. There are trolls on both sides, I just hhappen to choose the correct side, that's all! LOL
Have you seen the forums on the other mobile nation sites? The only one without for the most part is the crackberry site and well, that's pretty much dying.
The trolling and flame-bait articles are rampant on both sides. If you don't like it, just skip over it. No harm no foul.
Well said
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IAmCashmere_D says:
Lmao iswydt
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I'm Afro-American and I don't like the word "colored". Is this article really about phones are black people/colored people?See what you started Phil,a race war.Im gonna buy a white Moto X and slam it up against a wall.That'll show you white people.Black Power!!!Lighten up,it's just a joke. :-)
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Slight problem... android will get sued by apple for running an OS with colour screens
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lucas710 says:
Appls new iPhone is gonna fail.
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FarmerFran says:
I see what you did there.
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A895 says:
Did I what see you there.
(Yes I meant to type it that way.)
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NFLPLAYBOOK says:
What a great headline. I need a good laugh this morning and you didn't disappoint.
Slikk says:
Lol hopefully they'll "invent" NFC this year too. MOAR NFC Devices!
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Hmmm well IMHO instead of adding 'new' features like NFC, they should make existing features like Bluetooth work.
I have a Galaxy S3 and I can send/receive files via Bluetooth to most phones, even 'dumb' phones.
However, this does not work with the smartest of phones...
PS: Nice article Phil :-)
Posted from work... during my lunch break ;-)
itpromike says:
Yup, because we all know Motorola invented colored phones. Well them AND AT&T. Meh, click fodder; great journalism.
The difference is Motorola won't claim they did.
By the way, Motorola invented the cell phone. Literally.
jschu22 says:
Do you really believe that Apple will claim they invented the color phone? I mean, really?
Do you believe in Santa Claus too? Hold on, I think the Easter Bunny just sent me a text.
They won't use the word invented. They are smarter than that. They'll just imply it.
Remember back a few cycles when Apple had the "If you don't have an iPhone, well, you don't have an iPhone" campaign? One of the commercials actually said, "If you don't have an iPhone you don't have iBooks so you don't have your favorite books in your pocket" That's the kind of lies they push. They pretend every incremental change they do is revolutionary. There are many more examples, including their heralding the new ear buds that are oval instead of round as if they invented it.
Crimsonshadow774 says:
Lmfao, I love it.
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glazedfaith says:
10/10 would read again
You guys are so lame this is a stupid headline not even a bit funny you guys act like Phil is god did you guys really laugh that hard at this pathetic
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Sentences. Look into it.
I concur.
And when he is done with sentences, he should look into punctuation as well.
I am not in school getting graded get over your self
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You are getting graded; by me and everyone who is unfortunate enough to happen upon your obtuse prose.
return_0 says:
Wow you is that not for even knowing is not being very of much get so like it say for that
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Hey guess what apple is not innovative any more holy shit
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Grow up move on
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turb0wned says:
At least Apple will make sure to have an exact released date and all colors and storage sizes will be available on that date unlike Android manufacturers.
I really do despise Apple. I was a big iOS fan till the iPhone 4 but damn, they have their shit together. Here we are what a month later and no release date for a T Mobile and sprint. At&t still has exclusive to colors and the 32GB. Where's the LG G2? Wasn't that announced forever ago? The Verizon HTC One was just released a few days ago.
Where is the millions in marketing the X phone? No one outside people on the forums even knows about it. Do we really need a Galaxy Active, Galaxy Mini? Or an HTC One mini, Sony Z,B,F,Q,L,R,Y... How are those colors that are every once in a blue moon being released for 1 company working out HTC?
Android is really a mess. I won't leave it for the iPhone anytime soon but it is just ridiculous already.
It's two different business models. Apples (pun intended) versus oranges. Dictatorship versus choice. If Google cracked the whip and made manufacturers march in lockstep it would go against their culture and their overall strategy.
It is just a os calm down get a life
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You first. You seemed to have worked yourself up into such a lather that you are incapable of constructing a cogent reply in the form of a complete sentence.
BBSeattle says:
It warms my heart to know that the Isheep actually come to our home to rant and rave about what we are saying and doing. Does that speak volumes or what?
I wonder if they complain about what their neighbors watch on TV?
Being a Sheep and needing everyone to be just like me seems like way too much work.
Long live Android and the independent thinkers.
That had to be the worst comment ever isheep is so old learn something new
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How about eSheep? Apple released an eMac at one point.
That's funny
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Pretty lame world you live in if what phone you bought tells people your a independent thinker or you are not
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Huh? Is that English?
What Scott r u too stupid to figure it out douche
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Google Translate doesn't yet support nitwit to English and thus your nonsensical rantings will have to remain a mystery to me.
T Nye says:
I actually LOLed at that! Awesome stuff!
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Too tell you the truth,he actually hurt my feelings.NOT!!!
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shamatua says:
This is really isn't worth getting excited about. Only small useless updates specs that it won't make a huge difference.
HalizDad says:
VDub2174 says:
Best. Article. Ever.
thatguyfromvienna says:
Haha! Nice title.
Hunter Petit says:
So funny! And true!
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zero157h7 says:
Is there an Android blog out there that does not pull these trite, childish, bull shit games for page views. Grow up Phil. You're better than this.
Grow a sense of humor
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No they r all babies in all the android forums. They say choice is good but if you don't pick what they like they will get Scotty J after you lol
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Thanks for the plug. It's appreciated.
*** mind blown***
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RandallMeek says:
Its not gonna happen Phil. If there is no "i" in front of it its over their head.
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I hear patents.
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Apple will be suing Phil in 3...2...1
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I love snarky titles like this.
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Good job Phil. Your troll bait worked perfectly.
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I think I rolled my eyes so hard when I saw this earlier that they almost got stuck in their sockets lol
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Well, it worked Phil. That's what I call a storm in a tea cup.
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This double live features Poison's on-stage energy and a few new studio tracks high lighted by "So Tell Me Why". It also features a C.C. Deville solo and a Drum solo by none other than Rikki Rockett. Classic Poison…~Shadow~
Yeah, it's a title that Poison gave to themselves, and it fits pretty well here. Let me preface this review by saying, I am not a huge fan of Live albums anyway, but this one is exceptionally bad. Now, you can tell from my other reviews, that I am a Poison fan and not one of these random Poison bashers, but this album is DOA.
To their credit, it really doesn't sound like they retouched any of the tracks in the studio, and to be honest the songs themselves aren't too bad. Pretty straightforward live versions of the studio tracks. They're not awful, but they're far from great. The entire CD has this awful washed out sound to it. The lowlight of the CDs, are the solos. Now, again, I'm the first to defend CC and Rikki, and if you check out my review of Power To The People you'll know that I give out props when they're deserved. They're not deserved here. These solos are downright painful to endure, even as a Poison fan, they're pretty bad.
So is there any good news? Is there any highlight on this two disc set? Well of course there is. And it's the four new studio tracks at the end of disc 2. `So Tell Me Why' is a spirited high paced, high strung song about love gone bad. The timing and tone of the track is somewhat reminiscent of `Fallen Angel', this is a song that could have been a hit. `Souls On Fire' is a tad slower and tries for that bluesy feel that Poison had on several of the B-sides from Flesh & Blood and Open Up And Say….Ahhh! Still a solid track. `Only Time Will Tell' is the obligatory love ballad, and it's actually a really good one.
Easily as good as some of their other hit ballads like `Something To Believe In', this is probably the stand out track among the four new tracks. `No More Lookin' Back' definitely shows some of the direction the band would be taking on their next album, Native Tounge with their new guitarist. CC's guitar work seems a bit disjointed on this track and the track isn't on par with what's to come on Native Tounge, but it is a nice little preview
For A true Poison fan this is great, knowing the recent releases I wonder why more people are not buying the new albums.
Believe it or not, I haven't even had my copy of this live Poison very long. Most of the time I've seen copies of this title, they were usually at used CD stores, thus asking for as much {often more} than a sealed / new copy at stops like Best Buy, Borders, etc. Thought this audio document of the band's 'Flesh And Blood' 1990-91 world tour was pretty good. Tunes I dug the most were "Look At What The Cat Dragged In", "Look But You Can't Touch", "I Want Action", the nine-minute guitar solo, Loggins & Messina's "Your Mama Don't Dance" and "Nothing But A Good Time". Also the four {4} added bonus tracks aren't bad either. A should-have.


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Probably not the first with 500 internal server error
Hello, quick introduction so you understand what I'm dealing with:
I'm a second year college student in Belgium, mostly interested in webdesign. I have to create a php project (I do love php) and I had had the choice between using the school's server (ftp) or my own server (ssh). So I chose mine. For this project, I would need an apache server, configured it, it works for what I want to do: local testing.
Now my problem (after an hour of google, I decided to take my chance and make a post here):
I have to use .htaccess for my project to rewrite the urls. Pretty basic stuff for you server guys probably. Now we got a script from school for the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L] RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
location: /etc/apache2/sites-available/web
<VirtualHost *:8080> ServerAdmin Brent ServerName ************** DocumentRoot /var/www/web <Directory /var/www/web> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog /var/www/web/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/accessregistrationpage.log combined </Virtualhost>
I also noticed that in the default file, this directery was also listed there, also having the AllowOverride option. Now I changed this too in the first place, but after testing if it worked without it, I changed it back to AllowOverride None (while restarting the apache server between the changes)
This "worked": in stead of getting an error "this URL does not exist" I got another one and now I'm pretty stuck:
Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, Brent and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Apache/2.2.20 (Ubuntu) Server at ******* Port 8080
- clearing the .htaccess file I created in a sub directory of my web dir, fixes the problem, makes me think the issue is in my htaccess file (you see I study IT, right? ), I do need the htaccess though :P
- chmod -R 755 . in my web dir, didn't change anything
- I created a default .htaccess file in the web dir with no contents, didn't change anything
So my guess, just out of the blue because I just read and copy/paste concering server configuration here, is that my apache server is out of date, and the .htaccess script we got from school uses some new stuff. However I have no idea if this is correct, I would test it but I have no clue how to update this server, because a friend installed it, like I mentioned, I'm not a server guy
Maybe some more relevant information:
- my server uses Ubuntu Server 11.10
- it's Apache 2.2.20 (I think that because the 500 error sais that)
- I run my server on port 8080 because my provider doesn't allow me to forward 80
- everything worked, except the htaccess, if I turn it off, or clear the file, it just works.
Thanks for your time, hope to receive an answer, but I'll will be searching for one myself around the web too ofcourse.
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Check what /var/www/web/error.log says, and try your htaccess putting one section at a time
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The primary cause for 500 errors is a syntax error (misunderstood directive) in the .htaccess file.
While I dislike your mod_rewrite code, it doesn't look like it should be the cause of the 500 error.
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West Somerset Railway plc warn of temporary closure if freehold is sold elswhere (From This is The West Country)
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West Somerset Railway plc warn of temporary closure if freehold is sold elswhere
5:21pm Monday 10th February 2014 in News
WEST Somerset Railway plc has warned that the railway could be closed for a period if the freehold is sold elsewhere.
On Friday, Somerset County Council made the decision to dispose of the freehold at a meeting. Currently, the council own the freehold and lease the land to the plc who operate the attraction as part of the lease.
While the council will only go ahead with the sale if conditions over preservation are met, they said they are committed to making sure the railway operates as normal in the meantime.
However, the PLC has said a sale to a third party would cause disruption and could mean closure of the railway while transfers take place.
The West Somerset Railway PLC and the West Somerset Railway Association, a support charity, have both submitted bids for the freehold of the land.
A spokesperson from the PLC said: "SCC has confirmed that because of its importance to the local economy, nothing will be done to jeopardise the ongoing success of the West Somerset Railway.
"In order to avoid any possibility of closure during the transfer process orders for operating the railway must be in place at all times.
"The Light Railway Order currently vests the powers to operate a railway only with the County Council or the West Somerset Railway plc, so if the land was sold to any other third party, unnamed in the existing order, the West Somerset Railway would be closed for the running of trains until statutory powers were obtained by the new owner/operator."
The railway would not reopen until powers were obtained.
As the WSR plc is the current operator of the railway, they already hold the statutory operating rights and say a transfer to them would avoid this.
They add: "Because objections to an application for a new order by a third party would lead to uncertainty, and with a public enquiry incurring very high costs, the report stipulates that the purchaser must pay all such resulting enquiry costs.
"We look forward to working with SCC and all our partners during the due diligence process to show how the plc option provides the solution." A recommendation put forward by the council states that West Somerset Railway should remain as 'operators of the railway'.
Cllr David Huxtable, the cabinet member for resources said that there has been a lot of support of the Railways Association proposals for the freehold.
Cllr David Hall added: "The West Somerset Railway is extremely important to Somerset, attracting thousands of visitors to the area and contributing greatly to the local economy.
"It's important that the railway continues to operate as normal while any discussions over a sale take place, and we're committed to making sure that happens.
"We will now sit down and work with all interested parties to do the right thing for Somerset council taxpayers and the right thing for West Somerset Railway."
A spokesperson from the West Somerset Railway Assocation was unavailable for comment.
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If the West Somerset Railway plc make a sensible offer, they won't have to worry about any issues that may arise if the freehold is sold to a third party, because they will be in control themselves. They are in business to make money and should not expect the people of Somerset to subsidise them. Simples!
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Lulu2011 wrote:Hi Lulu, Broadly agree with your apparent opposition to the idea of the people of Somerset subsidising a PLC...However, you seem to accept the 'business case' (not sure, when or even if it has been presented?!) for the transfer/sale of the freehold.
The West Somerset Railway plc will just have to make a realistic offer to buy the land. They are a plc and shouldn't expect the freehold to be gifted (or near gifted) to them which is probably what they are hoping will happen if they moan about it enough. At the moment, the freehold belongs to Somerset and it is only fair that a realistic price is paid.
If the West Somerset Railway plc make a sensible offer, they won't have to worry about any issues that may arise if the freehold is sold to a third party, because they will be in control themselves. They are in business to make money and should not expect the people of Somerset to subsidise them. Simples!
The WSR is, in a sense a museum and a heritage piece and as such should not be run for private profit.
Here's an even simpler suggested solution... Just simply leave the freehold of the West Somerset Railway as it is. Preserve the status quo. It isn't even apparently costing Somerset County Council anything; so why do they wish to relinquish the freehold?
This has more to do with Somerset County Council's Tory administration's ideologically driven political determination to cut, slash and burn jobs and services and privatise any and all remaining 'assets' including the WSR.
The other two parties are no different, of course; they are implementing savage cuts and privatisations where ever they are in control.
However, we will deal with that specific issue in our post below.
The Socialist Party and the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
opposes all cuts and all privatisations, including the proposed transfer of the WSR freehold, over to a PLC.
For more information, or to join the Socialist Party, visit: www.socilaistparty.o
For more information, or to join TUSC, visit: www.tusc.org.uk
8:32pm Wed 12 Feb 14
tauntonpundit says...
1. Without WSR plc running it the railway with the support of volunteers the freehold is a massive liability in terms of even basic maintenance of overgrown trees etc;
2. It is likely that the freehold was aquired by compulsory purchase of the land in the 19th century as low value farm land;
3. Inflating the value may prejudice the viability of WSR.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department have arrested a second man they say is involved in the robbery of a woman at gunpoint in a parking deck outside Carolinas Medical Center early Tuesday morning.
Quay Laurentis Davis, 19, was arrested and charges with robbery with a dangerous weapoon, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and felony conspiracy.
The robbery took place on Tuesday, March 5. Investigators say a woman was visiting the hospital and walking in the parking deck at 1000 Blythe Boulevard just after 1 a.m.
Two armed men approached her and demanded personal items from her, and fled the scene.
Later that day, detectives received a tip that the suspect vehicle that was used in the robbery was at a home on Taylor Drive. The owner of the vehicle, Joshua Aaron Wilson, 19, was then contacted and voluntarily came to the Law Enforcement Center where he was interviewed by robbery detectives.
After being interviewed, Wilson was charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon and felony conspiracy. He was taken to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office.
On Tuesday, March 12, Davis was arrested on Long Paw Lane in northwest Charlotte.
"We're thankful no one was hurt in the incident" says Kevin McCarthy, Manager of Media Relations for CMC. "And of course we're working closely with CMPD to get them what information they need to help solve the case. We've got some pretty good security video we turned over to them."
Hospital officials say "We're a 24-7 operation. There are a lot of people coming and going" so they have security measures around the clock, including foot patrols in parking decks, enhanced lighting, surveillance cameras and emergency call boxes.
Security escorts are also available for employees and visitors. McCarthy says "if they feel they would like to have to security escorts we can provide that for them."
McCarthy says the hospital intends to review the situation and security to see "whether there is something we can do in the future to make the area safer than it is."
If you have any information about this, please call Crime Stoppers at 704.334.1600.
Last summer, police investigated three attacks at Presbyterian Hospital, which is one mile away from CMC. LeJarris Williams, 31, was indicted in August on charges related to one of those attacks.
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