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Harbinger Group Inc. (NYSE:HRG), Formerly Zapata Corporation, is a holding company based in Rochester, New York, and originating from an oil company started by a group including the former United States president George H. W. Bush. Various writers have alleged links between the company and the United States Central Intelligence Agency. In 2009, it was renamed the Harbinger Group Inc.
The company traces its origins to Zapata Oil, founded in 1953 by future-U.S. President George H. W. Bush, along with his business partners John Overbey, Hugh Liedtke, Bill Liedtke, and Thomas J. Devine. Overbey was a 'landman', skilled in scouting oil fields and obtaining drilling rights cheaply. Bush and Thomas J. Devine were oil-wildcatting associates.[1] Their joint activities culminated in the establishment of Zapata Oil.[2] The initial $1 million investment for Zapata was provided by the Liedtke brothers and their circle of investors, by Bush's father Prescott Bush and his maternal grandfather George Herbert Walker, and their family's circle of friends. Hugh Liedtke was named president, Bush was vice president; Overbey soon left.
According to a CIA internal memo dated November 29, 1975,[2] Zapata Petroleum began in 1953 through Bush's joint efforts with Thomas J. Devine, a CIA staffer who had resigned his agency position that same year to go into private business, but who continued to work for the CIA under commercial cover. Devine would later accompany Bush to Vietnam in late 1967 as a "cleared and witting commercial asset" of the agency, acted as his informal foreign affairs advisor, and had a close relationship with him through 1975.[3]
In 1954, Zapata Off-Shore Company was formed as a subsidiary of Zapata Oil, with Bush as president of the new company. He raised some startup money from Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post, and his son-in-law, Phillip Graham.[4][5]
Zapata Off-Shore accepted an offer from an inventor, R. G. LeTourneau, for the development of a mobile but secure drilling rig. Zapata advanced him $400,000, which was to be refundable if the completed rig did not function, followed by an additional $550,000 together with 38,000 shares of Zapata Off-Shore common stock when it did.
The U.S. government began to auction off mineral rights to the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Central American coast in 1954, and in the late 1950s and early 1960, Zapata Off-Shore concentrated its business in these areas.[6] In 1958, drilling contracts with the seven largest U.S. oil producers included wells 40 miles (64 km) north of Isabela, Cuba, near the island Cay Sal.
In January 1959, the Cuban Revolution overthrew the Cuban government of Fulgencio Batista, and Bush bought control of Zapata Off-Shore, funded with $800,000,[7] splitting Zapata Corporation into two independent companies with the Liedtkes still in control of Zapata Petroleum. Bush moved his offices and family that year from Midland, Texas to Houston for access to the Caribbean through the Houston Ship Channel.[8] But although Zapata Offshore had only a few drilling rigs, Bush set up operations also in the Gulf of Mexico, the Persian Gulf, Trinidad, Borneo, and Medellin, Colombia, and the Kuwait Shell Petroleum Development Company was among the company's clients.[9]
In 1960, Jorge Diaz Serrano of Mexico was put in touch with Bush by Dresser Industries. Dresser was owned by Prescott Bush's Yale friends Roland and W. Averell Harriman, and had been George H.W. Bush's first employer upon his graduation from Yale, giving him his start in both the oil business and the defense contractor business.[10] Serrano and Bush created a new company, Perforaciones Marinas del Golfo, aka Permargo, in conjunction with Edwin Pauley of Pan American Petroleum, with whom Zapata had a previous offshore contract. The deal with Permargo is not mentioned in Zapata's annual reports, and SEC records are missing. In 1988, a Bush spokesman claimed that the deal lasted only from March to September 1960. However, Zapata sold the oil-drilling rig Nola I to Pemargo in 1964. John Sherwood, who led the CIA's anti-Castro operations in the early 1960s, said that Zapata Offshore was used as a conduit to fund these operations, in the guise of oil contracts.[11]
Zapata's filing records with the U.S.Securities and Exchange Commission are intact for the years 1955–1959, and again from 1967 onwards. However, records for the years 1960–1966 are missing. The commission's records officer stated that the records were inadvertently placed in a session file to be destroyed by a federal warehouse, and that a total of 1,000 boxes were pulped in this procedure. The destruction of records occurred either in October 1983 (according to the records officer), or in 1981 shortly after Bush became Vice President of the United States (according to, Wison Carpenter, a record analyst with the commission).[12]
In 1962, Bush was joined in Zapata Off-Shore by a fellow Yale Skull and Bones member, Robert Gow. By 1963, Zapata Off-Shore had four operational oil-drilling rigs—Scorpion (1956), Vinegaroon (1957), Sidewinder, and (in the Persian Gulf) Nola III.
In 1963, Zapata Petroleum merged with South Penn Oil and other companies, to become Pennzoil.
By 1964, Zapata Off-Shore had a number of subsidiaries, including: Seacat-Zapata Offshore Company (Persian Gulf), Zapata de Mexico, Zapata International Corporation, Zapata Mining Corporation, Zavala Oil Company, Zapata Overseas Corporation, and a 41% share of Amata Gas Corporation.
In 1965, an oil rig that had cost three million dollars was reported lost in Hurricane Betsy and Zapata received a claim settlement of eight million dollars from Lloyds of London; for this insurer to settle a claim for an oil platform disaster without any physical evidence was unprecedented.[13]
In 1964, Bush ran for the United States Senate, and lost; he continued as president of Zapata Off-Shore until 1966, when he sold his interest to his business partner, Robert Gow, and ran for the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 1966, William Stamps Farish III, age 28, joined the board of Zapata.
Various writers have suggested that Zapata Off-Shore, and Bush in particular, cooperated with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), beginning in the late 1950s.[14]
Two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memoranda have been offered to show connections between the CIA and George H. W. Bush during his time at Zapata.
The first memo, written by FBI Special Agent Graham Kitchel on November 22, 1963, names Zapata Off-Shore regarding the John F. Kennedy assassination at 12:30 pm CST that day. It begins: "At 1:45 pm Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished the following information to writer. .. BUSH stated that he wanted to be kept confidential. .. was proceeding to Dallas, Texas, would remain in the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel."
A second FBI memorandum, written by J. Edgar Hoover, identifies "George Bush" with the CIA. It is dated November 29, 1963 and refers to a briefing given to Bush on November 23. The FBI Director describes a briefing about JFK's murder "orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency. .. [by] this Bureau" on "December 20, 1963. When this second memorandum surfaced during the 1988 presidential campaign, Bush spokespersons (including Stephen Hart) said Hoover's memo referred to another George Bush who worked for the CIA.[15] CIA spokeswoman Sharron Basso suggested it was referring to a George William Bush. However, others described this G. William Bush as a "lowly researcher" and "coast and beach analyst" who worked only with documents and photos at the CIA in Virginia from September 1963 to February 1964, with a low rank of GS-5.[16][17][18] Moreover, this G. William Bush swore an affidavit in federal court denying that Hoover's memo referred to him:
I have carefully reviewed the FBI memorandum to the Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State dated November 29, 1963 which mentions a Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency. ... I do not recognize the contents of the memorandum as information furnished to me orally or otherwise during the time I was at the CIA. In fact, during my time at the CIA, I did not receive any oral communications from any government agency of any nature whatsoever. I did not receive any information relating to the Kennedy assassination during my time at the CIA from the FBI. Based on the above, it is my conclusion that I am not the Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency referred to in the memorandum.(United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Civil Action 88–2600 GHR, Archives and Research Center v. Central Intelligence Agency, Affidavit of George William Bush, September 21, 1988.)
US Army Brigadier General Russell Bowen wrote that there was a cover-up of Zapata's CIA connections:
Bush, in fact, did work directly with the anti-Castro Cuban groups in Miami before and after the Bay of Pigs invasion, using his company, Zapata Oil, as a corporate cover for his activities on behalf of the agency. Records at the University of Miami, where the operations were based for several years, show George Bush was present during this time.[19]
Another writer quotes four former U.S. intelligence officials saying that Bush was involved with the CIA prior to the Bay of Pigs:
Robert T. Crowley and William Corson of the CIA:
Bush was officially considered a CIA business asset, according to Crowley and Corson. "George's insecurities were clay to someone like Dulles", William Corson said. To recruit young George Bush, Robert Crowley explained, Dulles convinced him that "he could contribute to his country as well as get help from the CIA for his overseas business activities."[20] [Bush] was, according to Corson, "perfect at talent spotting and looking at potential recruits for the CIA. You have to remember, we had real fears of Soviet activity in Mexico in the 1950s. Bush was one of many businessmen that would be reimbursed for hiring someone the CIA was interested in, or simply carrying a message."[21]
John Sherwood of the CIA:
Bush was at first a tiny part of OPERATION MONGOOSE, the CIA's code name for their anti-Castro operations. According to the late John Sherwood, "Bush was like hundreds of other businessmen who provided the nuts-and-bolts assistance such operations require... What they mainly helped us with was to give us a place to park people that was discreet."[22]
An anonymous official connected to "Operation Mongoose":
George Bush would be given a list of names of Cuban oil workers we would want placed in jobs... The oil platforms he dealt in were perfect for training the Cubans in raids on their homeland.[22]
John Loftus, in his book Secret War quotes former U.S. intelligence officials reporting the same story:
The Zapata-Permargo deal caught the eye of Allan Dulles, who the "old spies" report was the man who recruited Bush's oil company as a part time purchasing front for the CIA. Zapata provided commercial supplies for one of Dulles' most notorious operations: the Bay of Pigs Invasion. – Chapter 16, p. 368
In 1960, Fabian Escalante was in the Department of State Security (G-2) in Cuba. At the time of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Escalante was head of a counter-intelligence unit, and was part of a team investigating a CIA operation called Sentinels of Liberty, an attempt to recruit Cubans willing to work against Castro. His information about Bush comes from a counterintelligence operation against Tracy Barnes of the CIA:
Tracy Barnes functioned as head of the Cuban Task Force. He called a meeting on January 18, 1960, in his office in Quarters Eyes, near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, which the navy had lent while new buildings were being constructed in Langley. Those who gathered there included the eccentric Howard Hunt, future head of the Watergate team and a writer of crime novels; the egocentric Frank Bender, a friend of Trujillo; Jack Esterline, who had come straight from Venezuela where he directed a CIA group; psychological warfare expert David A. Phillips, and others. The team responsible for the plans to overthrow the government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala in 1954 was reconstituted, and in the minds of all its members this would be a rerun of the same plan. Barnes talked at length of the goals to be achieved. He explained that Vice-President Richard Nixon was the Cuban "case officer", and had assembled an important group of businessmen headed by George Bush [Snr.] and Jack Crichton, both Texas oilmen, to gather the necessary funds for [Operation 40]. Nixon was a protege of Bush's father [Prescott], who in 1946 had supported Nixon's bid for congress. In fact, [Prescott] Bush was the campaign strategist who brought Eisenhower and Nixon to the presidency of the United States. With such patrons, Barnes was certain that failure was impossible.[23]
In early November 1960, the CIA agreed to use US contractors for the maritime component of the operation.[24] The CIA codename for the Bay of Pigs Invasion of April 1961 was "Operation Zapata".[25] Through his work with Zapata Off-Shore, Bush is alleged to have come into contact with Felix Rodriguez, Barry Seal, Porter Goss, and E. Howard Hunt, around the time of the Bay of Pigs operation.[26]
CIA liaison officer Col. L. (Leroy) Fletcher Prouty alleges[27] that Zapata Off-Shore provided or was used as cover for two of the smaller ships (LCIs) used in the Bay of Pigs invasion: the Barbara J and Houston. Prouty claims he delivered two ships to an inactive Naval Base near Elizabeth City, North Carolina, for a CIA contact and he suspected very strongly that George Bush must have been involved:
They asked me to see if we could find – purchase – a couple of transport ships. We got some people that were in that business, and they went along the coast and they found two old ships that we purchased and sent down to Elizabeth City and began to load with an awful lot of trucks that the Army was sending down there. We deck-loaded the trucks, and got all of their supplies on board. Everything that they needed was on two ships. It was rather interesting to note, looking back these days, that one of the ships was called the Houston, and the other ship was called the Barbara J. Colonel Hawkins had renamed the program as we selected a name for the Bay of Pigs operation. The code name was "Zapata." I was thinking a few months ago of what a coincidence that is. When Mr. Bush graduated from Yale, back there in the days when I was a professor at Yale, he formed an oil company, called "Zapata", with a man, Lieddke, who later on became president of Pennzoil. But the company that Lieddke and Mr. Bush formed was the Zapata Oil Company. Mr. Bush's wife's name is Barbara J. And Mr. Bush claims as his hometown Houston, Texas. Now the triple coincidence there is strange; but I think it's interesting. I know nothing about its meaning. But these invasion ships were the Barbara J and the Houston, and the program was "Zapata." George Bush must have been somewhere around.[28]
(Prouty is incorrect, Barbara Bush's full name is Barbara Pierce Welch Bush. Although Barbara Bush does not have a "J" in her name, the ship which George Bush served on during WWII while he was flying airplanes which he named "Barbara," was the U.S.S. San Jacinto. So the Barbara J might very well be the Barbara J(acinto))
John Loftus writes: "Prouty's credibility, however has been widely attacked because of his consultancy to Oliver Stone's film JFK," but notes on page 598 that: "While his credibility has suffered greatly because of his consultancy to Oliver Stone's film JFK, his recollections about the CIA supply mission have been confirmed by other sources."[29]
A CIA memorandum states that the freighter ships were leased, not purchased, by the Garcia Line Corporation that had offices in Havana and New York City. The owners were Alfredo Garcia and his five sons. The CIA was using the Rio Escondido for "exfiltrating anti-Castro leaders......prior to 1961 BOP planning." It had brought out Nino Diaz, and Manolo Ray. Its captain Gus Tirado was well known to the CIA. Eduardo Garcia met with two CIA agents in NYC and D.C. to arrange the use of the Garcia ships for the invasion. The alleged price was $600.00 per day per ship plus fuel, food and personnel. Eduardo selected and hired 30 men who were "executioners for Batista" Miro Cardona of the Frente, and the CIA did not like the choice of men hired to protect the Garcia ships. "Nobody questioned that Eduardo was coming along with the expedition. "I'm going to be in charge of my ships", he said.
Memorandum From the Chief of WH/4/PM, Central Intelligence Agency (Hawkins) to the Chief of WH/4 of the Directorate for Plans (Esterline):
The Barbara J (LCI), now enroute to the United States from Puerto Rico, requires repairs which may take up to two weeks for completion. The sister ship, the Blagar, is outfitting in Miami, and its crew is being assembled. It is expected that both vessels will be fully operational by mid-January at the latest. In view of the difficulty and delay encountered in purchasing, outfitting and readying for sea the two LCI's, the decision has been reached to purchase no more major vessels, but to charter them instead. The motor ship, Rio Escondido (converted LCT) will be chartered this week and one additional steam ship, somewhat larger, will be chartered early in February. Both ships belong to a Panamanian Corporation controlled by the Garcia family of Cuba, who are actively cooperating with this Project. These two ships will provide sufficient lift for troops and supplies in the invasion operation.
The Bay of Pigs operation was directed out of the "Miami Station" (code-name JM/WAVE), that was the CIA's largest station worldwide. It housed 200 agents who handled approximately 2,000 Cubans. Robert Reynolds was the CIA's Miami station chief from September 1960 to October 1961. He was replaced by career-CIA officer Theodore Shackley, who oversaw Operation Mongoose, Operation 40 (including Porter Goss, Felix Rodriguez, Barry Seal), and others. In 1976, when Bush became CIA Director, he appointed Ted Shackley as Deputy Director of Covert Operations. In 1981, when Bush became Vice President, he appointed Donald Gregg as his National Security Advisor.
Kevin Phillips[30] discusses George Bush's "highly likely" peripheral role in the Bay of Pigs events. He points to the leadership role of Bush's fellow Skull and Bones alumni in organizing the operation. He notes an additional personal factor for Bush: the Walker side of the family (who initially funded Zapata Corporation) had apparently lost a small fortune when Fidel Castro nationalized their West Indies Sugar Co. Edwin Pauley was "known for CIA connections", according to Phillips; it was Pauley who put Pemargo's Diaz and Bush together.
Phillips and others have detailed subsequent involvement by Zapata associates in the Watergate affair. George Bush, as Richard Nixon's ambassador to the United Nations, allegedly urged his former Zapata partner Bill Liedtke to launder $100,000 to the White House plumbers. After Nixon's 1972 re-election, he appointed Bush as Chairman of the Republican Party National Committee. When the laundering was exposed, those involved included several CIA officials: E. Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis, Eugenio Martínez, Virgilio González, and Bernard Barker. A discussion of the laundering appears on the Nixon tapes for June 23, 1973.[31]
Michael Maholy alleges[32] that Zapata Off-Shore was used as part of a CIA drug-smuggling ring to pay for arming Nicaraguan Contras in 1986–1988, including Rodriguez, Eugene Hasenfus and others. Mahony claims Zapata's oil rigs were used as staging bases for drug shipments, allegedly named "Operation Whale Watch." Mahony allegedly worked for Naval Intelligence, US State Department and CIA for two decades.
Zapata, under Robert Gow's direction, sought to acquire a controlling interest in the United Fruit Company in 1969, but was outbid by AMK Corp.[33] Robert's father, Ralph Gow, was on United Fruit's board of directors.
Gow apparently left Zapata in 1970. He took with him from Zapata Peter C. Knudtzon. Ties to the Bush family continued. In 1971, both Jeb Bush and George W. Bush worked for Gow's new company, Stratford of Texas (also known as Stratford of Houston). Stratford imported tropical plants. According to Knudtzon, George W. Bush reportedly flew for Stratford to Florida and Guatemala.[34] Stratford evidently had ties to a large commercial plantation in La Democracia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
In the 1970s, under chairman and CEO William Flynn, Zapata expanded its business to include subsidiaries in dredging, construction, coal mining, copper mining and fishing.
By the late 1970s, saddled with weak operations, high debt and low return on investment, the company again began undergoing changes in management and direction. Led by John Mackin, who succeeded William Flynn, the company began selling off some of those businesses and refocused on offshore oil and gas exploration and production.
In 1982, chief operating officer Ronald Lassiter assumed the role of CEO, and presided over a decade of loss-making brought on by the collapse of oil prices. In 1982, Zapata Off-shore became Zapata Corporation. Its stock performed poorly. By 1986, Zapata was one of the bad loans that shook the foundations of San Francisco-based Bank of America, with a debt of more than $500 million and a fiscal year loss of $250 million. The company announced several restructurings during those years and managed to stave off bankruptcy, but continued to incur major losses. In 1990 the oil drilling company proposed selling its entire fleet of offshore drilling rigs to focus solely on fishing. The company had not had a profitable quarter in more than five years.
In 1990, Zapata Offshore sold 12 of its drilling rigs to Arethusa Offshore, which a few years later merged with Diamond Offshore. Still struggling with debt by 1993, Zapata signed a deal with Norex America to raise more than $100 million through a loan and stock sale. But financier Malcolm Glazer, owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL franchise and at the time owner of 40 percent of Zapata, did not want his holdings diluted and filed a lawsuit to block the deal.
By 1994, the company had come under Glazer's control, after a proxy fight. Glazer became chairman of Zapata, replacing Ronald Lassiter, and in 1995 Avram Glazer was named CEO and president of Zapata. De facto headquarters moved from Houston to Rochester, New York. It no longer engaged in exploration, but owned several natural gas service companies. It also produced protein products from the menhaden fish. In subsequent years Zapata sold its energy-related businesses and focused on marine protein.
Between 1998 and 2000, Zapata tried to position itself as an internet media company under the "zap.com" name. In July 1998, Zapata announced its plans to acquire several web sites, including ChatPlanet, TravelPage and DailyStocks.com.[35] The company's stock boomed and crashed along with other dot-coms, and in 2001 the company conducted a 1 for 10 reverse stock split. The venture was cited by many investment journalists as an example of a company jumping on the internet bandwagon without any relevant experience. This period is probably best remembered for Zapata's unsolicited (and unsuccessful) takeover bid of the Excite internet portal.[36]
During this period, Zapata also built up a controlling stake in Safety Components International, a manufacturer of air bag fabrics and cushions.
On December 2, 2005, Zapata Corporation Chairman, Avram ("Avi") Glazer, announced the sale of 4,162,394 shares, 77.3%, of Safety Components International to Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. for $51.2 million. The company sold its remaining stock in Omega Proteine on December 1, 2006, leaving it with no active subsidiary. The Glazer family sold its controlling stock of the Zapata Corporation to Philip Falcone's Harbinger Capital in 2009, and the company's name was charged to Harbinger Group Inc. with the ticker symbol HRG on the NYSE.[37][38] In 2010–2011, Harbinger Capital Partners LLC transferred its 54.4% interest in Spectrum Brands to Harbinger Group Inc. giving the company controlling interest in that company.[39][40] Also in 2011 Harbinger Group Inc. acquired the insurance company Old Mutual U.S. Life Holdings, Inc.[41][42]


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It's the 2013 race for mayor, but some say the leading contenders are in a time warp two decades old, as Joseph Lhota and Bill de Blasio are dropping names and presenting images of a city unknown to many New Yorkers, leaving some observers to wonder how effective it could be two decades later. NY1's Josh Robin filed the following report.
Some say New York City may as well look like it did in 1994 the way the contenders are talking.
"Mr. Lhota was a right-hand man of Rudy Giuliani when he was going out of his way to divide this city," Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio said during a mayoral debate Tuesday night.
"Bill de Blasio served in the administration of David Dinkins, and during that period of time, we had 2,000 murders a year," Republican mayoral candidate Joseph Lhota said during the same debate.
If that wasn't clear enough, Lhota hearkens back to years past in a campaign ad. The ad says that grisly scenes will return if de Blasio is elected.
The Democrat all but warns of Giuliani time again at City Hall, a return to incivility if Giuliani's former deputy wins.
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"The vast majority of New Yorkers weren't here then," said Mickey Blum of Baruch College. "They were either children or they lived somewhere else."
Of the more than 3 million New Yorkers registered to vote now, just 32 percent were eligible to vote in 1993, when Giuliani won a first term. Go back four more years to when Dinkins won, and that number is only 21 percent.
Asked about it Wednesday, both men blamed the other.
"Think about, Josh, how this all started. This all started with my opponent tagging me with Rudy Giuliani. Rudy Giuliani this, Rudy Giuliani that. That's fine. I'm inextricably linked to Rudy Giuliani," Lhota said. "But if that's the direction he wants to go in, I want to remind everybody that he worked for the biggest failure of a mayor that's ever hit the shores of the city of New York.
"What we have to call out is, when someone uses a divisive approach from the past, I will call it what it is, and I will note that that's something we thought we left in the past," de Blasio said.
The primaries were largely different, particularly the Democratic one. There, the current mayor was the focus. De Blasio persuaded many voters that he'd provide offer the sharpest break from Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Of course, both men say they're offering ideas for the future.
One thing for sure that's changed: the lever machines are gone, at least for this election.
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Proposed town budget at $12mTax levy increases by 4 percent
The Town Council has submitted its preliminary fiscal year 2014 budget, which totals around $12 million and asks town taxpayers to contribute around $8.5 million — right at the maximum 4 percent tax levy increase allowed by state law.
The council had an initial review of the budget at its Wednesday, March 20, meeting.
The Medical Center is slated to receive a $37,000 funding increase over last year, totaling $123,800. The Center had originally requested $183,800 in town support to cover the Medical Center's revenue shortfalls.
The Block Island School received its request of $4.5 million in town support — an approximate $100,000 increase from last year.
Library expenses may increase by $42,624, totaling $468,776. The amount includes ongoing and one-time property maintenance. This amount also includes a 10 percent wage increase for the library director, who was paid on a probationary basis last year.
The town plans to increase fee revenues by $37,645, which includes proposed mooring rental and permit fee increases.
The budget also sees a $53,659 increase in recreation costs, totaling $353,041. Heinz Field maintenance expenditures are expected to double over the next year due to increased maintenance. The town plans to continue using organic fertilizer on the field, instead of a less expensive synthetic option.
The recreation department has also proposed $12,000 wage increases for department aides. This is to cover a time when the recreation "director may be out on leave," said Town Finance Director Amy Land.
Land said that recreation department program expenses are designed to be covered by the program's revenue.
Not included in the budget yet is the proposed Town Beach Pavilion renovation. The town is expected to bond this project and the Beach Pavilion is projected to bring $101,000 in revenues this year.
Also not in the budget is a proposed $3 million in sewer repairs — the town would also bond this project if approved.
The budget proposes a 3 percent increase in town employee and police wages, but Land said that the contract negotiations for both parties are not complete.
Town Councilor Norris Pike suggested adding in a budget line for a deer bounty, in order to reduce the deer herd on Block Island.
"We're probably going to be cutting stuff out of this budget, Norris, because we're already at our maximum [tax] cap," said Second Warden Ken Lacoste.
The council also approved a request from the Housing Board, supporting the board's request to bond $1 million in construction costs for its new affordable housing project. This would be in the Housing Board's budget, not the town's, and would be voted on by town taxpayers.


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Gallery Night picks from Dorota Biczel Nelson
Without hesitation, I recommend the letterpress-printed posters by the self-described "humble Negro from the South," Amos Kennedy Jr., whose work is on view at RedLine Milwaukee, 1422 N. 4th St. Kennedy is among a handful of print fanatics who, in a refreshing manner, have revived the near-obsolete but elegant tradition of printing text from hand-set type. He infuses the 19th-century tradition of using decorative wooden type, the format you might associate with "Wanted Dead or Alive!" posters, with provocative political and ethical slogans and the layering of rich color and pattern. They strike a chord without being overtly didactic. They are visual seduction with contemporary life lessons.
The "Persian Visions" show at the Haggerty Museum of Art (recently reviewed for Art City by Brent Gohde), 13th and Clybourn streets, is a rare opportunity to see contemporary work from one of the most volatile countries on the planet. The show prompts interesting questions about the role of art in society. Why feature photography and video work by the youngest Iranian artists abroad? Is the work an authentic expression of the struggles, challenges and attitudes? Does the exhibition highlight or obscure the battle of ideologies?
Last but not least, there is a small show not to be skipped. As I was browsing through the Gallery Night offerings, it struck me that shows of large-scale, three-dimensional work are rare outside institutional settings. So it is a real treat to see Blue Ant Gallery, 338 E. Milwaukee St., feature the sculptures and furniture of L. John Andrew. Working at the intersection of fine art, design and craft, Andrew creates mesmerizing, imaginative objects in which myriad, tiny, industrial elements come together in oblique, organic entities (see image, left). The natural, the sci-fi and the meticulous cohere in organism-like objects.
Dorota Biczel Nelson is an artist, the communications director for Walker's Point Center for the Arts and an Art City contributor.
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John Andrew: I think I've seen his work. Very good. John welds metal washers into organic shapes/furniture? Nice photo.
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Pharrell is lending his voice to a good cause. The super-producer has joined the lineup of performers for Alicia Keys' 10th Annual Black Ball.
The Keep a Child Alive charity gala will take place on November 7 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. In addition to Pharrell, there will be performances from Alicia Keys, Carole King, jazz/R&B artist Roy Ayers, British soul singer Laura Mvula, and opera singer Kathleen Battle.
"As we near our 10th anniversary event, we're thrilled to welcome Pharrell to the Black Ball stage," said Keep a Child Alive CEO Peter Twyman. "His incredible talent combined with our already stellar roster will make for a wonderful night of music and giving back."
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The "Gore Effect"
You just knew it was coming. You knew Mother Nature has a wry sense of humor. You knew one of Mother's favorite targets of practical jokes is Al Gore – he of the enormous carbon butt print … the Nobel Laureate "climate scientist" who had a grand total of TWO college science courses: he "earned" a C in one and a D in the other. But he did well in politics and learned his climate chaos lines well.
So here we are, just as Professor Gore is launching his new manmade global warming catastrophe horror movie series – and Mother Nature sends along some special September weather to accompany the premiere. We all owe a real scientist … Anthony Watts … a hearty "thank you" for sharing his weather forecast with us.
It's official, NOAA shows the "Gore Effect" hitting America tonight
Posted on September 14, 2011 by Anthony Watts
You know, sometimes coincidences are just too strange and funny to ignore. Here's the low temperature forecast map from NOAA produced today, for overnight low temperatures during the time that Al Gore's Climate Reality Project gets into its full swing. It starts at 8PM EST/5PM PST. Chill baby, chill:
Source: http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/graphical/images/conus/MinT1_conus.png
And it gets worse, see below. For anyone who doubts the Gore Effect, I'll point out that it has its own Wikipedia entry, which says:
The Gore Effect is a term used with various meanings relating to Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore. In one use, the term is a humorous concept suggesting a causal relationship between unseasonable cold weather phenomena and meetings associated with global warming, with particular emphasis on events attended by Gore. The phrase has also been used to describe Gore's impact in raising global warming as a public issue, and in other ways related to Al Gore.
The Toronto based national newspaper Globe and Mail defined the term in 2007 quoting a user's submission to the online Urban Dictionary website as "the phenomenon that leads to unseasonably cold temperatures, driving rain, hail, or snow whenever Al Gore visits an area to discuss global warming.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_effect
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Gov. Jan Brewer will sign the latest set of restrictions on abortions.
And she will do it Saturday night at a ceremony organized by a group which eventually hopes to outlaw the practice entirely.
The measure, approved this past week, will require that abortions induced through medications be performed only by a doctor. That requirement now exists only for surgical abortions.
When the bill takes effect later this year, it will end the existing practice of permitting trained nurse practitioners to administer RU-486.
Bryan Howard, chief executive of Planned Parenthood Arizona, said the net result will be that abortions will no longer be available at clinics in Flagstaff, Yuma and Prescott. He said that is because Planned Parenthood does not have enough trained doctors to send to the rural areas.
Howard also said the requirement for a doctor to oversee the procedure also will mean delays for women seeking to terminate abortions in Phoenix and Tucson.
Gubernatorial press aide Matthew Benson said Brewer's decision should be no surprise.
``The governor has a strong pro-life record and believes that this legislation furthers actions to protect the unborn,'' he said.
Other provisions in the bill will require medical professionals to offer patients a chance to see the ultrasound which is routinely performed before an abortion as well as to hear any fetal heartbeat.
Sen. Nancy Barto, R-Phoenix, one of the prime sponsors of the legislation, said while she opposes abortion, that is not the purpose of this bill. Instead, she said, it is to provide the same protections for women who terminate a pregnancy with RU-486 as those which exist in cases of surgical abortion.
She said nothing in the legislation bars a woman from proceeding with an abortion if she wants.
Tonight's ceremony is being hosted by the Center for Arizona Policy which helped craft the legislation. Among the organization's principles is ``protection of human life from the time of conception to the end of natural life.''
Brewer, in her response to a 2010 candidate questionnaire from CAP, said she supports a prohibition against abortion except where necessary to prevent the death of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest.
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Mediterranean Diet for Cats: Ideal Feline Health
The Mediterranean Diet for Cats: Ideal Feline Health – Guest post by Dr. Enrico Forte
There are an estimated 86 million pet cats in the U.S. and the vast majority of them are fed commercial dry cat food. Dry foods are supposedly formulated in such a way as to provide cats with optimal nutrition and ensure your beloved pet's health. Even though conventional food is so widely used and trusted, there is mounting evidence that it may be responsible for a lot of sick pets.
Commercial pet foods are made primarily from four things: Meat by-products, cereal grains, vitamins and a spraying of fat to make it appealing. It sounds harmless, but reality is much more sinister. (Editors note: In the interest of good taste, we omitted details of what's actually in it. If you want to know more, you can search it on Google)
Because cats are carnivorous, their bodies lack the ability to adequately process large amounts of carbohydrates. This has been known to contribute to feline obesity and diabetes.
The best thing you can do for your cat's health is give them a natural, healthy diet consisting of fresh and wholesome foods: A Mediterranean diet. The Mediterranean diet is well known to possess wondrous health benefits to people. There's no reason why your cat can't benefit from it, as well.
Start by giving your feline friend light and lean meats like poultry and fish. Salmon, tuna and other cold water ocean fish are rich in minerals, essential fatty acids and omega-3. Besides, what cat doesn't love fish? It can't hurt to mix a little bit of olive oil into your cat's meals, either. It will keep their skin healthy and make their coat shine. It also promotes heart health, aids fat loss and regulates blood sugar.
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Polly Admits To Irrationality And Is Wrong On The Science
Britain must resist Tea Party thinking | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian
... a taste of the Tea Party arrives on these shores in the peculiar paranoia of the climate-change deniers. You may dismiss some as fruitcakes or oil company lobbyists, but when Andrew Turnbull, former head of the civil service, reveals that he is of their number, it should alarm us.
I won't rehearse the paranoia of the deniers who think the world is against them: yes, it is.
For some reason they consider "the warmists" a leftwing conspiracy, though why is never clear.
On matters of fact, those of us who are not scientists can only listen to what scientists say and trust such an overwhelming global consensus. As cabinet secretary, Turnbull would have had to appraise evidence on myriad subjects of which he could know little: relying on best expertise is the only rational approach. So in what part of his psyche resided the Tea Party idea that scientific facts don't matter?
Reason should rule, but none of us is as rational as we pretend, each inhabiting our imaginations more than we do the real world, with opinions driven by beliefs, passions, convictions, hopes, fears and a hundred contradictory thoughts and impulses. But to make sense of the world, there is an obligation to seek out evidence and trust to expertise. Where it conflicts, we fight our political corners.
But science is different. Chief scientist John Beddington said in a forthright speech this year that we should become "Grossly intolerant of pseudo-science, the cherry-picking of the facts and the failure to use scientific evidence and scientific method"
Too right Polly, you aren't as rational as you pretend, and old Bedders hits the target with the attack on cherry-picking, it is just the target isn' the one he thinks it is.


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Do I think she had affair with this same man? Nope!
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"Vaughn(Jehovah's Witness family spokesman most likely the COBE) declined to comment on accusations against Holt, who is a Jehovah's Witness and was acquainted with both the Heichels, possibly through Jehovah's Witness gatherings, investigators said. Several small congregations of around 100 people each meet at different times in the same Kingdom Hall."
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These are his wedding pictures inside the Kingdom Hall..
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After seeing the wedding pics, I think affair is possible.
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My guess, holt wanted an affair, but she didn't.
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It is so sad. I am sorry that this happened. Things like this are occurring on an almost daily basis. I just read on another board that there is a 12 year old girl missing since yesterday afternoon. My thoughts are with all who have lost loved ones to evil people who's only desire it is to hurt others.
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|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:56:34 GMT(10/22/2012)
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|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:08:39 GMT(10/22/2012)
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So the murderer was another JW?
Funny... none of the hordes of JWs across the country posting about the missing/murdered girl on Facebook bothered to post that news once it was discovered...
My condolences to the family of the girl, but it kinda pisses me off how the JW community acts. People go missing and get murdered every day in the country...in the world... and JWs pay it no mind - other than to use it to market their paranoia - but when it happens to them personally, you often get the attitude of, "Oh it's so much more horrible when it happens to us, God's chosen people". And now... your murderer is one of you? Welcome to the real world...
|Room 215
|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:23:50 GMT(10/22/2012)
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... so sad.... heartbreaking, really
|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:49:30 GMT(10/22/2012)
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The gathering included references to scriptures that might lend comfort in a time of crisis, said a congregational elder, but wasn't materially different from a regular service.
|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:03:02 GMT(10/22/2012)
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Satanus - "My guess, holt wanted an affair, but she didn't."
More like his marriage was dysfunctional, he had increasingly severe mental and emotional problems, he developed an infatuation with her, the infatuation became obsession, and eventually he couldn't stop himself from "purging" the obsession.
|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:13:33 GMT(10/22/2012)
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I will suspend judgement until more is known. It's no use to anyone to speculate on what happened.
|Left in the Cold
|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:16:10 GMT(10/22/2012)
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Anyone remember Christan Longo? He was just a sociopath turned physcopath. Sadly, a small number of people are just "wired wrong" from birth. They have no conscience. The Scioipath Next Door is a good book if you're interested in phycology. Christan Longo has been called one. He killed his entire family. I was at a neighboring kh at the time. Regardless, my sympathy to the friends & family of this senselessly murdered woman.
|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:14:21 GMT(10/22/2012)
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I find the speculation on here to be crude and inappropriate.
JW or not, this is a terrible tragedy, especially for her husband who clearly loves her deeply in those photographs.
My thoughts are with him.
|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:31:32 GMT(10/22/2012)
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I agree, some of the speculations here are riddled in soap opera drama and all sorts of ridiculousnesss. This is a monstrous crime that no rational or normal human being would commit. Also a trend I keep noticing lately is where certain people on these news websites are spewing JW hate and debates over the news of this poor girls murder; NONE of this has anything to do with doctrine or WT history! Some people are making "apostates" look like sick chickens in front of both jws and non-jws!
|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:36:44 GMT(10/22/2012)
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nuthouse escapee said:
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|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:43:32 GMT(10/22/2012)
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Saw the "Memorial" FB page last night. Someone on my account posted something on it. Most of the posts were just giving condolences, but then you get those "I can't wait until Jehovah destroys this wicked system!" comments.
What wicked system is that?
Is this guy's congregation part of that wicked system?
Its amazing how they divide the world up.
|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:58:32 GMT(10/22/2012)
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I didn't see that coming. I read rumors yesterday, but thought maybe he was someones crazy bible study...to find out he was a baptised JW and see pics of him with HIS wife...I wasn't expecting that. I am sure more crazy info to come.
|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:23:24 GMT(10/22/2012)
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UPDATE: The autopsy results are back for 21-year-old Starbucks barista Whitney Heichel. A Multnomah County medical examiner says Whitney was killed by "multiple gunshots." Time of death has not yet been released.
|posted Mon, 22 Oct 2012 16:32:28 GMT(10/22/2012)
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The statement was made that Holt was "irregular" at the meetings.
Statement from Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall in Gresham:
We were completely shocked to find out that Jonathan Holt, an irregular attendee of our meetings, was arrested and would be in any way tied to this case as a suspect. Jehovah's Witness regard life as precious, a gift from God. We had no indications that would lead us, prior to this event that he would be capable of being involved in what is alleged to have happened. We have no knowledge of the events that led up to what took place with the disappearance of Whitney and know none of the details of what took place after her abduction. We will await the authorities' investigation, and fully cooperate with them as they work through this numbing and disturbing case. Our local congregations especially feel the pain. So many families have been severely impacted by this senseless act of violence committed against our daughter, sister, and friend. Jonathans wife is too an innocent victim, and our love and support is as strong for her and her family. It will take a long time for her to heal. With God's help, and assistance from our brothers and sisters, we will recover and use our experience to help others.
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He did not mythicize the poor (he loathed myths too); he saw them rather dourly as they were. Their imperviousness to middle-class ideas was both an argument in their favor and a reason for despair since they showed no signs of inventing a socialism of their own, and he did passionately want socialism for everyone, on moral and rational grounds; as he pointed out, the machine had changed everything: "So long as methods of production were primitive, the great mass of the people were necessarily tied down to dreary, exhausting manual labor: and a few people had to be set free from such labor, otherwise civilization could not maintain itself, let alone make any progress. But since the arrival of the machine the whole pattern has altered. The justification for class distinctions, if there is a justification, is no longer the same, because there is no mechanical reason why the average human being should continue to be a drudge." Yet the poor and the working class, slow to change their habits (and maybe because of this), possessed at any rate "common decency"—a quality Orwell found absent in many intellectuals and well-to-do people. "One has the right," he says despondently, speaking of Pound, "to expect ordinary decency even of a poet." The "even" sums up his feelings. Having no vanity himself, though plenty of angry pride, he disallowed the claim of the artist to be exceptional in any way, and here he was flying in the face of reality. The artist is an exception and hence indulged and forgiven (also mistreated). But Orwell did not have much forgiveness. It is surprising, for instance, to find him indulgent to Sir Osbert Sitwell. His egalitarian strictness made him an incipient philistine mistrustful of the vagaries of art, not to mention the vagaries of the artist.
Indeed, he was a philistine, of a peculiar kind, that loved beauty, flowers, birds, Nature; this curmudgeon even loved poetry, not just good bad poetry, but the real thing. But it was a love crossed by misunderstandings, like the love, in some fable, of one species for another, a mastiff for a rose. He wrote bad poetry himself and sometimes in his early book reviews a schoolboy purpled prose. His genius was for precise observation of data and for quantifying, which made him a better analyst of the art of Frank Richards, author of boy's stories, than of the art of Tolstoy. It is easier to quantify "the underlying beliefs & general imaginative background" of a Frank Richards than to apply these rule-of-thumb measurements to Tolstoy or Swift or Dickens.
Though aware of the impossibility of this, he would have liked to find some acid test to subject works of art to which would tell the investigator demonstrably whether they were good or bad. In fact he devised one for characters in fiction: a character in a novel "passes" if you can hold an imaginary conversation with him. In his own novels, only Big Brother, probably, would meet that eccentric requirement. He was a Sherlock Holmes fan and a lover of puzzles and brain-twisters, also of the odd fact of the "Believe It or Not" variety. His literary criticism often smacks of police detection, as when he discovers—quite astutely—that the fault of Koestler is "hedonism," something that is not apparent to the untrained eye. He was not a natural novelist, having no interest in character or in the process of rising or sinking in ordinary society or in a field of work—a process that engaged the sympathies not just of Proust or Balzac but of Stendhal, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Conrad, Zola, Dickens, Dreiser. He would have been indifferent both to success and to failure. It is hard to imagine the long family-chronicle novel in several volumes he was planning to write just as the War was breaking out. Maybe he did not have enough human weaknesses to be a real novelist.
He was interested in institutions, in whatever could be measured, counted, surveyed, in the mechanics of work, in cost. He inventories his books to find how much reading has cost him over the past fifteen years and gets a figure of 25 pounds a year. Calculated out at nine and ninepence a week, this equals 83 cigarettes (Players). Most of his books, he notes, he bought second-hand. He was always totting up. He maintained careful records of the minute profits of the small village shop he kept (about one pound a week), of crops planted in his garden, of the milk produced by his goats and eggs laid by his hens. When the War comes, he reckons that he can grow half a ton of potatoes in one year, which ought to see them through the all-but-certain food shortage. And shortly after Munich, he tries to enlist Herbert Read in a scheme to buy printing presses to be ready to get out clandestine leaflets when England goes fascist; estimated cost probably three or four hundred pounds. He is sure fascism is coming because he has added up the possibilities and he "cannot believe that the time when you can buy a printing press with no questions asked will last forever."
In his political speculations he thought in terms of futures and sought out "laws" to ease the labor of prediction (wars break out in the autumn, after the harvest has been got in; the decline of the British Empire was attributable to the invention of the telegraph, which killed off individual initiative and centered decisions in Whitehall), just as when arriving at a spike he sought to find its characteristic defect—every spike had one. He was fascinated by the inner workings of institutions and would have liked to take them apart, like a watch. His inventiveness was of an old-fashioned, hard-headed, utilitarian kind. At one time he "tried to devise an envelope which couldn't be opened without the fact becoming apparent." After a tabulation and breakdown of famous cases, he amused himself constructing a model of the popular idea of the perfect murder. Some similar ratiocination must have led to the construction of the "model" societies of 1984 and Animal Farm. Building these ingenious, air-tight, neat worlds based on a few simple principles such as double-think and "but some are more equal than others" must have appealed to his sardonic imagination.
He was an unsociable bird and so far as one can tell he held little communion with himself, except to the extent that he was a source of data, the nearest one at hand. He used himself, as I said, as an experimental animal in the course of his social researches. Or as a "control." Hence he had to keep himself under observation with impartial scientific rigor, and this is especially evident in his early period, when he was a "pure" recording instrument and his writing was most delicate and exact. His celebrated honesty was a workmanly quality. It is a question of keeping your tools clean. A precision tool must be "true," straight as a die.
Later he formed the habit of making avowals to his readers, often in a truculent manner. For instance he admits suddenly that he has never been able to dislike Hitler. Such a confession "expects" that the reader feels the same but has not had the bravado to declare it. The part of himself that Orwell exposes to his readers—and the only part that interests him—is the common man, the man on the street, You and I, insofar as we are capable of honesty. Nigel Dennis said that Orwell's appeal was "to what everyone knows in his heart," but this is less a soft appeal than a challenge, a species of blackmail or bullying: if you think you dislike Hitler, you are a hypocrite or a toady of fashion and you had better think again. The same with such phrases as "the pansy Left," "the successive literary cliques which have infested this country," "hordes of shrieking poseurs," Blimpish summons to the boor in the reader's heart to emerge with a safe-conduct. "To write in plain vigorous language one has to think fearlessly," he declared. It is true that he did not care what people thought of him, but this may not always be such a virtue as he imagined; the opinion of others is a corrective.
Possibly Blair-Orwell was corrected too often in youth to brook it afterwards. Though he tots up afterwards, for the record, the mistakes in prophecy he has made in his "London Letter" to Partisan Review, he is generally convinced of his own rightness and never repents an error with a truly contrite heart. Once he has changed his mind he seems to be unconscious of having done so and can write to Victor Gollancz early in 1940, "The intellectuals who are at present pointing out that democracy & fascism are the same thing depress me horribly," evidently forgetting that he has been saying that himself a year earlier. On the occasions when, conscious of a possible previous injustice, he starts out to write a reappraisal, as in the cases of Gandhi and Tolstoy, he slowly swings around to his original position, restated in less intemperate language. In "Why I Write," he declared "I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood." This is loyal and admirable in the man, but it is a grave limitation on thinking. Lacking religion and mistrustful of philosophy, he stayed stubbornly true to himself and to his instincts, for which he could find no other word than "decency," as if no further definition was needed. The refusal to examine this concept (is it innate or handed down and if so what is the source of its binding power?) makes Orwell an uncertain guide to action, especially in the realm of politics, unless he is taken as a saint, that is a transmitter of revelation—a class of person he had a great distaste for.
It is impossible, at least for me, to guess how he would have stood on many leading questions of our day. Surely he would have opposed the trial and execution of Eichmann, but where would he be on the war in Vietnam? I wish I could be certain that he would not be with Kingsley Amis and Bernard Levin (who with John Osborne seem to be his main progeny), partly because of his belligerent anti-Communism, which there is no use trying, as Conor Cruise O'Brien does, to discount, and partly because it is modish to oppose the war in Vietnam: we are the current "pinks." I can hear him angrily arguing that to oppose the Americans in Vietnam, whatever their shortcomings, is to be "objectively" pro-totalitarian. On the other hand, there was that decency. And what about CND? He took exception to the atom bomb, but as a "realist" he accepted the likelihood of an atomic confrontation in a few years' time and computed the chances of survival: "If the show does start and is as bad as one fears," he wrote from Jura to a friend, "it would be fairly easy to be self-supporting on these islands provided one wasn't looted." I cannot see him in an Aldermaston march, along with long-haired cranks and vegetarians, or listening to a Bob Dylan or Joan Baez record or engaging in any of the current forms of protest. The word protest would make him sick. And yet he could hardly have supported Harold Wilson's government. As for the student revolt, he might well have been out of sympathy for a dozen reasons, but would he have sympathized with the administrators? If he had lived, he might have been happiest on a desert island, and it was a blessing for him probably that he died.
If he is entitled to be called "the conscience of his generation," this is mainly because of his identification with the poor. He was not unique in tearing the mask off Stalinism, and his relentless pursuit of Stalinists in his own milieu occasionally seems to be a mere product of personal dislike. Nobody could say that Orwell had sold out or would ever sell out for money; honors, women, pleasure; this gave him his authority, which sometimes, in my opinion, he abused. His political failure—despite everything, it was a failure if he left no ideas behind him to germinate—was one of thought. While denouncing power-worship in just about everybody and discovering totalitarian tendencies in Swift (the Houynhnhnms have a totalitarian society), Tolstoy, and gentle local anarchists and pacifists, he was in fact contemptuous of weakness—ineffectuality—in political minorities. Apparently he did not consider how socialism, if it was to be as radical and thorough-going as he wished, could secure a general accord or whether, failing such an accord, it should achieve power by force.
Actually during the War he was in favor of arbitrary measures, such as the seizure and requisitioning of empty mansions for housing the bombed-out poor—a sound enough notion but unlikely to be accepted by the Churchill government, as he of course knew. Would he have organized and led a committee of the homeless to storm and occupy those mansions? If not, why rail? It is a question whether Orwell's socialism, savagely felt as it was, was not an unexamined idea off the top of his head: sheer rant.
In reality, though given to wild statements, he was conservative by temperament, as opposed as a retired colonel or a working-man to extremes of conduct, dress, or thought. He clung to the middle-class values which like himself in his early period had sunk to the bottom of society. His main attacks were launched against innovations, including totalitarianism, a "new" wrinkle in the history of oppression, and this may explain his revulsion from the atom bomb. "Man," he wrote, "only stays human by preserving large patches of simplicity in his life," a good dictum but hard to carry out unless some helpful Air Force general will bomb us back to the Stone Age. The longing to go back to some simpler form of life, minus modern conveniences, is typical of a whole generation of middle-class radicals whose loudest spokesman was Orwell. On the subject of socialism and progress, Orwell indulged in a good deal of double-think; in fact he hated the technology which he counted on to liberate the majority and loved working the land which in any rational socialist economy would be farmed by tractors. When the War finally came, he found an unsuspected patriot in himself via the agency of a dream. He had completed a circle: his first published writing, printed in a local paper (and not reprinted here), was a patriotic poem: "Awake, Young Men of England." The date was October 2, 1914.


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CSCOAL's Richard Smith flew from Adelaide to Scotland in February to oversee the assembly of the cradle, and its technical certification for load lifting.
Scottish Culture Minister Fiona Hyslop arranged for a full assessment of all options by DTZ in 2010, the outcome of which was that the Adelaide based not for profit Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Ltd (CSCOAL) was identified as clearly the only viable organisation with the financial capacity and necessary engineering expertise to manage the project. While recognising that others have an interest in saving and acquiring the ship, the DTZ Report found that only our Adelaide bid had the capacity to succeed.
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|Claude Turner was arraigned in the Waterbury Superior Court last year. File photo.
WATERBURY — A Watertown man charged with the double murder of a woman and her son has been found not competent to stand trial, but that status may change after he is treated for mental illness at a state hospital.
Claude Turner, 37, will be committed to a psychiatric ward for 60 days to give doctors a chance to treat a mental condition that prevents him from comprehending the charges against him, according to a ruling made Monday in Waterbury Superior Court.
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ratsmik wrote on Aug 21, 2013 9:22 AM:
" If it is proven 100 percent that he is the killer why waste time and money. "
conservative1 wrote on Aug 21, 2013 9:34 AM:
" He was sane enough to clean up the murder scene and sell off their assets. Try him then find a good strong tree to hang him and his wife from. ..justice served "
Sahara wrote on Aug 21, 2013 11:36 AM:
" Oh please, how ridiculous!! Excuses excuses!! Nobody is scared to face consequences anymore for a damn thing they do! Thanks a lot Malloy you reject!! "
Mike wrote on Aug 21, 2013 7:09 PM:
" Damaged goods. Perfect example of why we need a death penalty. Out back and one in the back of his head. Problem solved. "
Linda wrote on Aug 22, 2013 6:13 AM:
" I agree if this loser could cover up the crime scene,steal the victims car, and take off with his half witted wife, he should be able to stand trial. I say skip the trial if it is for sure he did it , send him to the lab for experimentation. See why he is like he is..and any other experiment .
why waste tax payers time and money to send him to trial and house him at all. "
why waste tax payers time and money to send him to trial and house him at all. "
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" @ Mike...I haven't seen you at any of the meetings lol nice to meet you I'll flip a coin for who gets to pull the trigger "
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