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No one is safe from assassination by the American President, including American citizens -- ANYWHERE on the globe.
The American President and his small cabal of operatives are immune from any oversight and accountability of said assassinations.
Thus sayeth the American President and his small cabal of lawyers of the Department of Justice and their "secret memos" paralleling the memos of the last American President's and the assumption of the executive right to detain and torture ANYONE at will.
This American President didn't seek this right. He assumed it. He just had an American citizen assassinated, incinerated by a drone. Well, three American citizens, actually. Then his lawyers in the DOJ hustled to write up secret memos to make it psuedo-legal after the fact. It is not legal. It is not ethical.
So what does one of the heretofore secret psuedo-legal memos claim? As quoted from Bill Van Auken in wsws, the American President (according to one of these memos a/k/a "a white paper" leaked last Monday to the media) "can" target an individual who is an "operational leader of Al Qaeda or an associated force who poses an imminent threat of violent attack and whose capture is not feasible."
So much to be outraged by.
Let's start off asking what is an "associated force" that would be murder-able according to this? Any group or individual hostile to the United States in the eyes of the American President whether he, she or they are Al-Qaeda -- or not even close. Once again, no immunity and no accountability after the fact. If the American President or his over-empowered minions have determined "hostile one or ones" murder-able, then it is a done deal. Excruciating annihilation by drone.
Again, no questions to be required thereafter which THEY also have determined.
Dictatorial? Abso-friggen-lutely.
The aforementioned leaked Department of Justice Office Legal Council memo was given last summer, Van Auken reveals, to members of the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary committees "on condition that its contents be kept secret from the American public." Isn't that troubling?
It was prepared to psuedo-justify the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen in a September 2011 drone strike. Samir Khan, also a naturalized American citizen, was killed in that same missile attack. Al-Awlaki's 16-year old son, born in Denver, was murdered by a drone strike two weeks later, also in Yemen. A country we are not at war with.
Van Auken re assassination of Anwar Al-Awlaki:
In the case of al-Awlaki, no evidence was ever presented that he played an "operational" role in al-Qaeda, and experts on Yemen dispute this description. What is clear from the rest of the conditions, however, is that once the US president or his underlings make such a designation—without presenting charges, much less proving them—assassination is "lawful" according to the Justice Department.
Last week Jay Carney, Obama spokesman, was questioned about the memo. Carney readily defended the entire drone killing program, insisting drone killings "are legal, they are ethical and they are wise." Van Auken reveals that conservative estimates claim nearly 5,000 men, women and children around the globe have been killed by them.
Van Auken quotes Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the ACLU on the memo:
"This is a chilling document. Basically, it argues that the government has the right to carry out the extrajudicial killings of an American citizen ... It recognizes some limits on the authority it sets out, but the limits are elastic and vaguely defined, and it's easy to see how they could be manipulated."
The memo was "leaked" at the same time 11 U.S. senators (ONLY 11???) -- 8 Democrats and 3 Republicans -- were demanding the administration provide Congress with their heretofore "secret" legal opinions supporting "the President's authority to deliberately kill American citizens."
Van Auken:
In both its criminal content and its pseudo-legalistic tone, the white paper resembles nothing so much as the so-called "torture memos" that were drafted under Bush and released by the Obama administration in April 2009 in what it claimed at the time was the inauguration of a new era of "transparency and openness."
The administration has defended those responsible for torture and other crimes ever since, while establishing the tightest reign of secrecy in American history. As the summary of the assassination memo make clear, the criminality that existed under Bush has escalated sharply under his successor.
The white paper argues that Authorization of the Use of Military Force passed by Congress in September 2001 justifies assassinations and drone strikes anywhere on the planet. It recycles the claims made by the Bush administration that the entire world is a battlefield in the war on terror.
Among the sources cited in support of this contention are speeches given by Nixon administration officials in defense of the 1970 invasion of Cambodia. That Nixon's Cambodia policy was subsequently an article in his impeachment apparently doesn't faze Obama and his underlings.
The document asserts that there "exists no appropriate judicial forum" to consider whether presidentially ordered assassinations of US citizens raises constitutional issues. Any court review, either before or after the killings, it states, would improperly interfere with "specific tactical judgment" of the president and "officials responsible for operations."
The rest of the paper consists largely of assertions that the extra-judicial executions of US citizens by means of drone strikes violate neither the US Constitution, nor the US ban on assassinations, nor international law and cannot be construed as war crimes. Much like the torture memos drafted a decade ago, these claims are meant to reassure those following the criminal orders of the White House.
What is spelled out here is a presidency which has arrogated to itself the "right" to act as judge, jury and executioner in carrying out secret assassinations of American citizens as well many thousands of other human beings around the globe. The overturning of any limitations on this power of life and death lays the groundwork for a police-state dictatorship.
Yeah, let's give away our fifth amendment right of due process to nice personality Obama a/k/a Murderer-in-Chief whose evil policies have trumped dramatically George Bush's, which we all know is saying a profound lot.
Let's watch Obama who campaigned so hard on "change" bring us to full-out dictatorship.
[cross-posted on correntewire]
At the risk of invoking Godwin's law- there's a reason people study History- to avoid repeating it.
nope. when you're dumb and ignorant, you stick with what you know, which is 'let the politicians rule, they know best.' besides, that democracy leads to 'mob rule' which leads to socialism which leads to race mixing. never underestimate racial bigotry in discussing american politics.
so the executive branch is usurping the powers of congress, large numbers of congress are so crooked that their oversight is worse than useless, and a very large proportion of americans are quite content at an authoritarian government because they have a henchman's character: find the strong man, do what he wants, catch the spare change he throws you.
democracy is not just beyond the range of the henchcreatures. 'progressives' don't want it either. all they want is that their masters be 'nice.' hard to say which sort is more of an obstacle.
al -- both Obama's and the drones' popularity are apparently up. it boggles the mind. WTF??? this country, so incredibly much of it, is lost to authoritarian rule. it is lost to "exceptionalism", to collective narcissism, to over-identifying with the oppressors, a Stockholm Syndrome on steroids. Yet, there are many who are awake and with conscience, but they are ignored by the government, the media and their fellow country people. Still, that is where my hope is. There are more than we realize and hopefully more and more people will wake up and get courage and get "it". Watching the soft fascism harden faster and faster is excruciating but I do feel some hope in the courage and clarity of courageous and moral people. We have to play it where it lays, and "it" lays in a gigantic amoral cesspool at the moment.
note to commenter I deleted. differing opinions welcome. nasty name-calling not!
"Contained in this statement is the tacit recognition that the rights enumerated in the US Constitution, including the 5th Amendment's guarantee that no one "shall be deprived of life … without due process," have been turned into a dead letter.
"Wyden went on to ask for clarification as to whether the administration believes that the president can use this authority inside the United States. Brennan's response omitted any assurance that American citizens will not be secretly murdered on US soil.
"Instead, he cryptically asserted his determination to "optimize transparency on these issues, but at the same time, optimize secrecy and the protection of our national security." Neither Wyden nor anyone else on the Senate committee attempted to probe further.
"With this chilling exchange, the threat of a US police state dictatorship comes clearly into view. Brennan will not disavow the president's "right" to secretly murder US citizens on American soil, because such methods may prove necessary, ostensibly for the struggle against "terrorism" and in defense of "national security."
"After all, they proved to be so in other countries. Obama and Brennan did not invent the methods of secret "kill lists" and covert assassinations. They were employed on an industrial scale less than four decades ago in the Chile of General Augusto Pinochet and the Argentina of General Jorge Videla.
"There, military and intelligence officials, most of them trained in the US, drew up kill lists of tens of thousands of their own citizens and carried out their assassinations. They also acted in the name of a struggle against "terrorism" and in defense of "national security," but had the real aim of crushing the resistance of the working class.
"Workers, students, peasants, intellectuals and anyone perceived to be a potential enemy of the state were rounded up by death squads, tortured and killed in secret prisons or thrown alive from airplanes into the sea. Like Mr. Brennan, the officials of the Argentine and Chilean dictatorships refused to acknowledge any role in these state killings, leaving their victims to be counted among the "disappeared."
"Those comforting themselves with the old adage, "It can't happen here," should think again. The lurch to the right by the entire American political establishment and its irrevocable break with the democratic principles enunciated in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are very far advanced.
"Less than 40 years ago, a special Senate committee headed by Idaho Senator Frank Church did grill top CIA officials on covert assassinations, denouncing the agency for the practice and introducing a law against it. Even Republican President Gerald Ford was compelled to declare that his administration "does not condone under any circumstances any assassination attempts," and to "condemn any CIA involvement" in "assassination planning."
"While no doubt the US government and its spy agency continued to carry out crimes in subsequent years, support for bourgeois democratic forms of rule within the political establishment remained sufficiently strong to force the government to officially reject assassination as state policy.
"Just four years ago, Brennan's involvement as a top CIA official under the Bush administration in the crimes of torture, extraordinary rendition and secret CIA "black sites" made it impossible for Obama to nominate him as CIA director. Now, not only are those crimes forgiven, but the even more serious ones involved in the drone assassination program go unchallenged.
"We have already seen in the past few years anti-terror laws invoked against domestic protesters and dissidents, from the arrest of five men last May in Chicago on "conspiracy to commit terrorism" charges for their involvement in anti-NATO protests, to the revelation that the FBI carried out a nationwide investigation treating the Occupy Wall Street protests as "domestic terrorism."
i suppose i am safe from summary execution by the Prez.
i mean, i say only nice things about him & his wife and the
lovely daughters. and i always mention biden,mad dog
i am safe.
(dont tell the Prez that i read Jan Sand's comment and agreed)
(please! i dont want a drone overhead messing up my head)
Given society or social values have never been any measurement or litmus test of truth or justice, and that only human values that have an intent of human decency or compassion or similarly derived divine values ever represent any form of truth, I find solace in being part of the small minority who are able to recognize evil and to stand to account.
Or, as Soviet dissident and goulag survivor Natan Sharansky said in his memoirs, it takes courage to recognize evil. You know, like the 2% who resisted the tyranny of a king, the 2% who resisted slavery, the 2% who resisted the ignorance and violence of ethnic and gender violence, bigotry and hatred.
The path to human dignity and justice is always the path least traveled. But, the rewards granted by aspirations of virtue, empathy and human dignity means I never have to rationalize who I am. I never have to rationalize why I sold my soul to the "devil" or to evil of any kind.
And that means I am truly free. No one can ever take that away from me.


text: Robert W. Murray joined the faculty at UM-St. Louis in 1968 after a very successful career at Bell Labs. He was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, and received degrees from Brown University, Wesleyan University and Yale, where he completed his Ph.D. with Professor Martin Saunders. He served as chair of the Chemistry Department at UM-St. Louis from 1975 to 1980. In 1981 he was the first chemist in the University of Missouri system to be appointed Curators' Professor and has been a visiting scholar in Karlsruhe and Cork. He has received the American Chemical Society St. Louis Award in 1974, the ACS Midwest Award in 1989, the University of Missouri Presidential Award for Research and Creativity in 1990 and the I. H. Weldon Medal of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association in 1994. Professor Murray is well known for his research in the area of oxidation chemistry, particularly that involving ozone, singlet oxygen, hydrotrioxides and dioxiranes. His many contributions have helped demonstrate the relevance of oxidation chemistry to environmental and health issues. Dr. Murray's more recent work has centered on the chemistry of dioxiranes. He devised an experimental procedure for producing solutions of methyldioxiranes. Dimethyldioxirane, DMD, referred to in the literature as "Murray's Reagent", is a remarkable reagent and has found substantial applications by others around the world. He has received federal funding for his research at UM-St. Louis every year since 1968, and has given about 300 invited lectures in the U.S. and Europe. Over the years, he has been known as a compassionate and understanding teacher of organic chemistry to graduate students, chemistry majors and health science majors. Dr. Murray assumed Curators' Professor Emeritus status in 1999.


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KABUL, Afghanistan, March 13, 2013 A combined Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Haqqani network facilitator and another insurgent in the Tanai district of Afghanistan's Khost province today, military officials reported.
The Haqqani facilitator is believed to be responsible for attacks on Afghan and coalition forces and to have been involved in procurement and distribution of improvised explosive devices and other weapons to insurgents in Khost and Paktia provinces.
The security force also seized seven assault rifles, four ammunition magazines, two handguns, 75 rounds of ammunition and IED-making materials.
In other Afghanistan operations today:
-- A combined force arrested an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander in Kunduz province's Kunduz district. He is suspected of directing subordinate fighters in attacks against Afghan and coalition forces and is a known IED expert who has passed his knowledge to other members of an extremist cell.
-- In Helmand province's Marjah district, a combined force arrested three insurgents during a search for a Taliban commander suspected of being a senior administrator for the insurgent network in the district. He also is believed to have been deeply involved in planning, coordinating and conducting attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. The security force also seized two machine guns and 400 rounds of ammunition.


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The Australian credit risk puzzle
PUBLISHED: 28 Aug 2012 00:07:00 | UPDATED: 28 Aug 2012 06:01:10PUBLISHED: 27 Aug 2012 PRINT EDITION: 28 Aug 2012Christopher Joye
There is a worrying puzzle at the heart of Australia's financial system that involves the misrepresentation and mispricing of credit risk.
It also distorts investment, the development of a deeper fixed-income market, and policy measures to improve the stability of the system.
The puzzle is twofold. First, when you lend money to an authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI) – be it a credit union, building society or bank – through an investment in a savings product, you are provided with no credit risk disclosures whatsoever. If there is one thing we have learnt since 2007 it is that neither banks nor the sovereigns that sometimes underwrite them are risk-free. Indeed, taxpayers here and abroad have furnished enormous, and unprecedented, support to deposit-takers in order to vouchsafe their solvency.
You confront three mains risks as a creditor to an ADI. On the first $250,000, you are taking a punt on the creditworthiness of the Australian government. Beyond that sum, you are directly exposed to the ADI's credit risk. Of course, individual institutional risks vary substantially depending on the size and type of ADI.
Finally, if you are investing in a fixed-rate term deposit, you are assuming interest rate, or so-called "duration", risk. Technically, if interest rates rise (fall), the value of your savings decreases (increases) in a relative sense. You can avoid this latter risk by putting your money into a variable-rate account.
A surprisingly large 50 per cent of the $1.24 trillion in ADI deposits are not covered by any government guarantee. Depositors are wholly reliant on the solvency of the organisation they are lending to.
While Australia's four major banks have high, "AA-minus", credit ratings, these are boosted two notches by Standard & Poor's explicit assumption that they are too big to fail. Crucially, Standard & Poor's doesn't believe any other bank or "mutual" has been afforded this protected species status.
All other ADIs have lower credit ratings, or no rating at all. For example, Bank of Queensland is rated "BBB-plus", or four notches below the majors. Heritage Building Society was downgraded two times by Standard & Poor's to the lowest "investment grade" threshold, and recently requested that its rating be withdrawn. Most credit unions and building societies are not financially robust enough to secure ratings. Their business models are concentrated in the geographies they service, and are subject to significant local-area economic volatility.
A second puzzle is that when you put money into an ADI deposit your asset never gets revalued.
Regulators require that all other investments are regularly repriced so that we are not mistaken about their true worth. But this principle does not apply to deposits.
Most of the time deposits would be priced at their face value. In extreme adversity, however, a liquidation-based valuation approach might discount this. We are so conditioned to accepting these conventions that the inconsistencies are hard to fathom. Consider this comparison.
Today you can invest in a AAA-rated Australian government bond, or a secured, AAA-rated "covered bond" issued by a major bank. Both investments are safer than the circa $600 billion of domestic deposits that do not carry a taxpayer guarantee. With a major bank covered bond you can pick fixed or floating rate alternatives, just like you can choose between variable and fixed rate deposits.
If you invest in either bond, your money gets revalued every day. Your capital moves up and down according to the financial market's independent assessment of the credit quality of the Australian government or bank in question. In contrast, when you stash money into a deposit promoted by, say, a small unrated mutual, the capital risk of your investment never gets reappraised. It doesn't matter if you are locked up for three years in a term deposit, or if the mutual experiences financial duress, your capital is (incorrectly) inferred to be immune from loss.
While in a perfect world deposits would be repriced like all other investments, the best we can hope for is that policymakers ensure consumers are fully informed about the risks they face. The fact this doesn't happen today is surprising given the tremendous increase in concern about private and public credit risks since 2007. Even supposedly risk-free sovereigns like the US and Japan have lost their AAA ratings.
The truth is that there is no such thing as a "risk-free" asset. Educating households about the spectrum of possible credit risks would assist in breaking down the traditionally binary choice between cash and equities, and stimulate a more even distribution of investments across deposits, corporate and government bonds, and shares. Greater transparency would also have a disciplining influence on ADIs, compelling them to think more carefully about the risks they absorb through their lending activities.
Our neglect of credit risk manifests in other ways too.
In 2008 taxpayers began formally insuring ADI deposits against institutional failure for the first time, against the recommendations of the 1997 Wallis inquiry, which rejected deposit insurance for fear of sparking moral hazard.
The Financial Claims Scheme protects ADIs against a sudden flight of retail funding, and creditors against the danger ADIs don't pay them back. While most observers think this insurance, which covers around $623 billion of deposits, is a vital bulwark against ADI insolvency, we now charge nothing for it. Last Friday Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens revealed he was not opposed to doing so. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission also has reservations about the exploitation of credit risk ignorance in the burgeoning "hybrid" securities market, which has raised billions from retail investors by dressing equity up as debt.
These investments rank behind all other debt, frequently have near-perpetual 60-year terms, and allow issuers to stop paying interest for five years. Yet they are sold as a premium cash product.
What are the policy solutions?
We don't need more disclosure documents. But we could have a pithy statement attached to all deposits noting that the repayment of capital is subject to the credit risk of the sovereign and the institution.
Hybrids with equity features should not be sold as debt. Shedding more light on risk will help us better manage it.
Christopher Joye is an economist, fund manager and policy adviser.
The Australian Financial Review
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When You Appease Tyrants, They Just Hate You Even More
To Fidel Castro, the bright-eyed, telegenic Elián González was a "traitor" who could become a symbol of freedom for both the exiles in Miami and the people of Havana, and who could therefore damage Castro's image at home and abroad. Therefore, soon after Elián was found floating around the ocean in an inner tube, Castro assembled 300,000 Cubans on Havana's streets to protest the "kidnapping" of Elian by the United States. Then Castro tried to lure Elián back — as Ceausescu had tried on me, after I had escaped from Romania. Elián's two Cuban grandmothers were dispatched to the United States, bringing photo albums with pictures of Elián's relatives, schoolmates, home, dog, parrot, and empty school desk "waiting for you to return." Cuba supplied the grandmothers with new clothes and travel expenses. They were, of course, accompanied by Cuban handlers, who managed their every move in the United States.
Elián himself did not fall for Castro's tricks. Unfortunately, President Clinton and his attorney general, Janet Reno, did swallow the bait, and the boy went back to Cuba. It was not long before Russia's Pravda began crowing: "It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the backdrop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people."[2]
Elián González became an international symbol of freedom. Today the Miami house where he lived as a free child is a popular museum, where visitors can see a popular shrine to the boy — who is now a 19-yer-old prisoner on a starving Communist island. Elián's school uniform still hangs in the Miami closet, along with dozens of outfits that he never got a chance to wear. A giant image of the Associated Press photo showing an American federal agent pointing an automatic weapon toward Elián, who had been hiding in a bedroom closet, is also on display.[3]
According to international law, our embassies are part of the United States, and an armed attack on any U.S. embassy is considered an act of war against the U.S. So far, every indication is that the armed attack on our consulate in Benghazi was planned and carried out by terrorists. If this proves to be true, then the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens was indeed an act of war against the U.S.
A Libyan security guard at the consulate, who was seriously injured during that so-called "spontaneous" attack but survived, has testified that "there wasn't a single ant outside" until 9:35 p.m., when as many as 125 armed men descended on the compound from all directions. The men lobbed grenades into the compound, shouting "God is great." They wounded the guard, and then moved to the villas that make up the consulate compound.
For his part, the interim president of Libya, Mohamed el-Megarif, stated that the terrorists had chosen a "specific date" for this attack, and that "foreigners" took part in it.
Our ambassador to Libya was indeed murdered on September 11, 2012, the day when the United States was mourning the death of some three thousand Americans who had also been killed by Islamic terrorists. That day also happened to be the very day the Kremlin was celebrating a significant anniversary — 125 years since the birth of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the KGB, now rechristened as FSB.
Was the Kremlin involved in the assassination of our ambassador in Libya? We do not know yet. But we do know that the ambassador was killed with Russian weapons and ammunition. We also know that the Kremlin and its intelligence organizations have a penchant for symbolism, a weapon of the emotions successfully wielded by all Russian tsars and their Communist successors.
58 Comments, 29 Threads
1. Robert of Ottawa
Your headline is wrong, incorrect even. When you appease tyrants, they despize you further.
September 22, 2012 - 11:44 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
The crocodile will eat you first, last and in between, just as long as he is nearby to lunge for your body parts. Westerners are incapable of understanding the Islamic mindset, and herein lies their weakness. Islamists intuit said weaknesses, and prey on them like vultures.
Moreover, one really has to live among these third world beasts to understand their mindset, or at the very least study their methods. If one fails to learn their lessons then disaster will surely occur. Why? Leftists are natural appeasers, and many have the same goals as Islamists. Therefore, those who truly believe in freedom and liberty haven't a prayer to beat them back without their own arsenals.
The following are some said lessons…learn them well!! http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/09/23/when-is-it-honorable-to-lie-and-under-whose-cultural-system-further-exposing-the-clash-of-civilizations-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
September 23, 2012 - 4:39 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
When correcting someone…it's always wise to spell 'despise' correctly.
September 23, 2012 - 12:45 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Robert of Ottawa
Spelling is all confused here in Canada :^)
September 23, 2012 - 9:33 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
2. FeralCat
I am perfectly fine with giving all manner of Hell, even more than you did, to the State Department and Carter and Obama, but what about Bush and especially what about our generals? Why leave them out?
September 22, 2012 - 11:52 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
3. FeralCat
In service of fairness I will not leave Bush and our Generals out.
September 22, 2012 - 11:52 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
I don't have your credentials but I agree with you 100%. Our leadersship, both military and civilian have compromied our security, and I suspect they have an agenda. I have commented on this point for years, and I must say I have no evidence, but by observation of their behaviour as reported, there could be no other explanation
September 23, 2012 - 4:09 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
The last general to actually speak his mind (or at least permit his staffers to speak theirs) got canned courtesy of Rolling Stone magazine.
September 25, 2012 - 1:42 am Link to this Comment | Reply
4. FeralCat
Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide. Ramadan is also an occasion to remember that Islam gave birth to a rich civilization of learning that has benefited mankind. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate. Mohammad's word has guided billions of believers across the centuries, and those believers built a culture of learning and literature and science. All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements. The Islam that we know is a faith devoted to the worship of one God, as revealed through The Holy Qur'an. It teaches the value and the importance of charity, mercy, and peace.
George W. Bush !!!
September 22, 2012 - 11:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Yours is a false religion, empty of hope because it does not address the fallen state of man, and ridicules mankind's only hope for redemption through Christ Jesus. He came to be offered as the perfect sacrifice, as an atonement for sin, so that God's holy justice is satisfied and that man may have a path away from God's wrath.
For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believe in Him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16). Repent of your empty religon and the false teachings of your Koran, and believe in Jesus and his work on the cross. It is by no work of man that he is saved, only through faith in Jesus Christ.
September 23, 2012 - 1:08 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Hello?!?!? Can you people read?!?! FeralCat signed it as George W. Bush!!! Those are George W. Bush's words about Islam, not FeralCat's!! It is proof appeasement infects the Republicans as well.
September 23, 2012 - 2:49 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
No, it means that George W. Bush actually knew the difference between Muslims and Islamists.
September 23, 2012 - 8:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
The man could not be this stupid. I think hes loyalty was compromised by his Oilman's connection,s with Saudi corrupters. The same Saudis who bought and sold our politicians and military leaders for the last 60 years. I would like to be wrong.
September 23, 2012 - 4:14 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
In Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 911, he explored the ties between the Saudis and the Bush family.
The movie was a propaganda hit piece, but I've always said that Moore could have done the country a real service by detailing Saudi influence on political figures of both parties, as well as academia and the media.
September 23, 2012 - 5:54 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
If we want Mideast oil to no longer influence our political and economic decisions, then the answer becomes intuitively obvious to even the most casual of observers.
The only sticking point is when you try to convince the Left that it's in our best interests to look closer to home for our fossil fuel requirements.
September 25, 2012 - 1:57 am Link to this Comment | Reply
5. FeralCat
Human sacrifice 21st Century American style.
It would seem the Aztec High Priests of the 15th century have been reincarnated and are now in full reign at the building some still call the Pentagon.
America's Generals are now very much like the Aztec High Priests of many centuries ago. The main difference, and it's a relatively small one, is that instead of continually sacrificing what they regarded as their excess and disposable human property to the Sun God to try to gain benevolence and avoid wrath, America's Generals keep trying to sacrifice America's Constitution, and do sacrifice more and more of the lives and limbs of America's troops, whom they regard as their excess and disposable human property, as well as hundreds of billions of dollars of America's rapidly shrinking treasure, which although itself is of much lesser importance is still no small matter, to the gods they reverently call "The Prophet Mohammad", "The Holy Qur'an" and "The Noble People Of Afghanistan and their Noble Muslim Culture" to try to gain benevolence and avoid wrath, and maybe even get an extra star and another few assorted colorful baubles for which to adorn themselves.
Is our military fighting for anything most Americans would regard as at all decent in Afghanistan? Certainly not our Army, nor our Marines. America's Generals have repeatedly ordered them to respect the gods they call "The Prophet Mohammad", "The Holy Qur'an" and "The Noble People Of Afghanistan and their Noble Muslim Culture" and if American troops get shot to death by what their Generals call their Partners in Peace, then the Generals conclude that America's derelict and sacrilegious troops must not have respected the gods they call "The Prophet Mohammad", "The Holy Qur'an" and "The Noble People Of Afghanistan and their Noble Muslim Culture" nearly enough and order them to take still more religious and cultural "sensitivity" training so they can better respect the Noble Muslim Culture of the Noble People of Afghanistan, maybe even enough where they can start joining in the practicing of that Noble Muslim Culture themselves, which would no doubt delight the Generals to no end.
There of course is never any "sensitivity" training ever even recommended for what America's Generals call "The Noble People Of Afghanistan" so they might better understand and appreciate Western and American culture. But then as America's Generals clearly must regard the Noble Muslim Culture of the Noble People of Afghanistan as being far superior to Western and American culture, they would surely regard any such thing as, well, absolutely unthinkable, and blasphemous, and upon hearing any such suggestion would no doubt order even more "sensitivity" training.
* Mainstream Noble People of Afghanistan Muslim Culture includes child rape of both young girls and young boys, torturing dogs including puppies, total enslavement of women, stoning women to death for being raped, and death to apostates, which itself covers a whole lot, just to very briefly mention a few of the highlights.September 22, 2012 - 11:54 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
6. TommyTee
"When You Appease Tyrants, They Just Hate You Even More"
Headline also applies to the tyrant named Obama.
September 23, 2012 - 1:15 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
The tyrant in the White House can drone you! Let the buyer beware.
September 23, 2012 - 12:46 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
7. Joe Smith
I believe that you meant to say, "Our Ambassador to Libya was murdered…", in the seventh to last paragraph.
Not "Our ambassador to Iraq was murdered…"
September 23, 2012 - 1:37 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
8. Dr. Frank Lippenheimer
"When You Appease Tyrants, They Just Hate You Even More"
Mmmmm, no, I don't think that's quite it. It's not a matter of "hate," it's a matter of power-lust. Autocrats and dictators, like Imadiddyjob, Chavez, and so forth, are not motivated by hatred. They are motivated by ambition. They may be totally into hate, and the infliction of pain on a massive scale, but that is not what impels them. It is the insatiable urge for personal POWER that drives tyrants. Right and wrong; good and bad, has nothing to do with it. Tyrants don't hate. They hunger.
September 23, 2012 - 2:32 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Dr. Frank Lippenheimer
Or, in the words of the movie character, Hannibal Lecter, he "covets" — and what does he covet …? Cultural revenge? Probably not. Religious justice? I doubt it. Something that he would very much like to possess or control? Oh yeah.
September 23, 2012 - 2:44 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
No, I agree with the author. What tyrants feel toward appeasers is complete contempt… hatred for the weak.
September 23, 2012 - 10:06 am Link to this Comment | Reply
9. weo
Who knew that Mr Pacepa was such a racist.
Obviously, his article is a thinly veiled racist attack on the first black president, a man who deserves to enjoy his frequest lavish holidays rather then be pestered with trivial criticisms about the deaths of ambassadors, which was totally Bushhitlers fault anyway.
September 23, 2012 - 4:23 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Weo, you are wacko. It's always someone else's fault the Democrats fail or implement injustice on the American people by making them more dependent on government to live. Republicans are to be included in that group but not all. Your mantra is Bush made me do it. Because someone is against President Obama doesn't automatically make them a racist you idiot!
October 30, 2012 - 1:28 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
10. WilliamTecumseh
If I had my choice I would kill every Mohammedan in the world, but I am sure we would be getting complaints from Hell before breakfast.
September 23, 2012 - 5:16 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
I really liked him in the Bourn series, I wish he would have kept his mouth shut, because I can't watch him now without smirking.
September 26, 2012 - 1:58 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Apparently the directors/writers/etc have corrected that little problem with the latest Bourne episode (which I have yet to see.) I feel the same as you about Damon though. My smirk is brought on by recalling a seen in the movie (er, puppet show?) Team America where Kim Jong Il says his name "Maaaat DAAaamon?". If you haven't seen it, make sure to get the unedited/R version. The gratuitous sex scene (yes, with marionette puppets) is hilarious! Had me it tears.
-RoketOctober 6, 2012 - 7:00 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
11. FeralCat
Caroline Glick -
Both the actions of the Egyptian prosecution and Qaradawi's sermon prove incontrovertibly that the two policies the US has adopted since Sept. 11, 2001 to contend with Muslim hatred for the US have failed. The neoconservative policy of supporting the democratization of Muslim societies adopted by President Barack Obama's predecessor George W. Bush has failed. And the appeasement policy adopted by Obama has also failed.
"So, hurry, hurry, O Muslim youth in America and Europe, and teach those filthy lowly ones a lesson that all the monkeys and pigs in America and Europe will understand. May Allah guide you and grant you success." These are the voices of democratic Egypt. The government, which has indicted American citizens on capital charges for exercising their most fundamental right as Americans, is a loyal representative of the sentiments of the Egyptian people who freely elected it. The Salafist preacher is a loyal representative of the segment of the Egyptian people that made the Salafist party the second largest party in the Egyptian parliament. Qaradawi's call for the abolition of freedom of speech in America — as has happened in Europe — to ban all criticism of Islam is subscribed to by millions and millions of Muslims worldwide who consider him one of the leading Sunni Muslim clerics in the world. Free elections in Egypt have empowered the Egyptian people to use the organs of governance to advance their hatred of America. Their hatred has been empowered, and legitimized, not diminished, as the neoconservatives had hoped.
There is a difference between appeasing parties who have been harmed by your actions and appeasing parties who wish your destruction. In the 1970s the US appeased the Philippines by transferring sovereignty over the Clark Air Force Base to the Philippine government. America was still America and the US and the Philippines became friends. To appease a party that hates your way of life, you must change your way of life. The only way America can appease the Muslim world is for America to cease to be America."
September 23, 2012 - 9:23 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
12. Larry Allen
PM: Please put back in large print option.
September 23, 2012 - 10:47 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Most popular browsers already offer ways to enlarge the text size of the page you are viewing. For instance, in Firefox, hold down the control key (usually marked CTRL) with one finger and, while holding it down, press and release the "+" key with another finger and your text will get somehat bigger. Just keep hitting the "+" key until it is as big as you want. If it gets too big, just click on the '-' key. Just be sure you are holding the CTRL key down as you press the "+" and "-" keys.
Unfortunately, some browsers do things differently. For those, you will probably need to click on View/Zoom and then "+" or "-" in the browser's menu. But once you find out how your browser does it, you can increase or decrease text size very easily wheneven you use it.
September 24, 2012 - 5:00 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
And make every story a one page story, giving the option to view on multiple pages. Its not like the screen is too short!
September 26, 2012 - 2:00 am Link to this Comment | Reply
13. Ariel
"It was also significant that the first attack on New York's World Trade Center, which was intended to knock the North Tower into the South Tower and to generate mass killing, took place on February 26, 1993, when the Kremlin was celebrating 41 years since the first Soviet nuclear test. The suicide attack against the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole, in which 17 sailors were killed and 39 injured, took place on October 12, 2000. That was the anniversary of the beginning of Israel's major offensive of 1973, which was decisive in Israel's winning the Yom Kippur War. "
- Such anniversaries one has each day. On the other hand I indeed have internal information that the glasses were raised in the KGB buffet on the day when the Yom Kippur war against Israel started in 1973 by the coordinated offensive of Egypt and Syrian forces.
GMAR HATIMA TOVASeptember 23, 2012 - 11:00 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
14. waxwing01
Before I read this column , I look into the mirror. One face after one face appear maybe up to 50 faces and they look like demons then I see face with light halo bright as the sun I believe and Divine Love poured on me. I could not use that face to read the column so one of the 50 faces took over I believe
Then I began to think about Franklin Roosevelt having to look into the face of Hitler then look into the face of Stalin and wonder who would he end up holding hands with?
which brings me to Jimmy Carter. Without a Jimmy Carter never could Ronald Reagan be elected President and everyone who blames Franklin as having demons for holding hands with Stalin as Germany was cut in two and now we see Germany united again the powerhouse of Europe and one wonders if in they will whore for future China to keep up with the power elite
Which brings me to doctor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad PHd and how he had light around his head. If this stay with him instead of just freak light he could go to housing projects and unite millions upon millions of the poor to fling fling fling themselves at the "evil" Then use nuclear weapons to destroy "evil"
perhaps we need Mitt Romney to stand up to the Doctor president from Iran who had white light around his head but I also think wolf smile Obama can do this as wellGod does not tell me which of the 50 faces I see in the mirror write this but I do not believe the face with the little liitle horns is the author today
more latterSeptember 23, 2012 - 11:38 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
15. mzk1
I really appreciate the authors' writings.
Unfortunately, as someone who works daily for and with Romanians, there are a lot of anti-semitic beliefs in Romania today, often by good people who would never think of hating an individual Jew, but who have fallen for conspiracy theories and whitewashing of their own history.
They admit the holocaust occurred, just deny their own part in it.
September 23, 2012 - 12:03 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
16. Jossi
Mr. Pacepa's articles are correct, timely and puts again many points in the right contest. I appreciate the elucidation about the dates of the different attacks which correspond to some anniversary of our enemies, or losses they had to swallow. But, the 11. September generally should not be confused with the founder of the KGB, who happened to be born on that day. Nevertheless, in this case of the Bengazi attacks of the US Embassy and murder of its Ambassador, which fall on Sept 11 – 2012 and on the 125. birthday of F. Dzerzhinski could well prove the involvement of the KGB. The 11 September has a much more powerful symbol, which the majority of people aren't aware. THE BATTLE OF VIENNA IN 1683. On the night of the 11 Sept 1683 the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold Habsburg together with the overall command given to the Polish King Jan Sobieski III (and his Crown forces) and other forces, defended Vienna which was under siege from the Ottoman Empire, the Grand Vizir Mustafa Pasha. The Ottoman definitively lost, and they lost big. From then on, the Ottoman Empire never again tried to invade Europe, declined, and disappeared after WW1.
September 23, 2012 - 12:28 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Yes, but would they remember the Christian date, or the Muslim date? I know we Jews generally stick to the Jewish date, thus the Chmelnitzky massacres are called "the decrees of (5)408 and (5)409″. (Besides, adoption of the Gregorian calendar was not done at once in Christendom.)
On the other hand, my understanding here is that Muslims stick to the "civil date" for birthdays, since there is no tradition of birthdays in Islam (or in Judaism, except according to Chabad, to my knowledge – yet in Israel the religiosu population insists on celebrating the Hebrew date).
On the third hand, Bin Laden came from a rather Westernized background. His family picture as a kid looks like a polygamous Brady Bunch.
September 23, 2012 - 2:23 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
By the way we still want Hija Sofia returned. We will never forget or forgive the desecration of this Christian temple.
October 6, 2012 - 8:06 am Link to this Comment | Reply
17. tanstaafl
Hillary Clinton, March 2011, said Bashar Assad was a "reformer".
She later tried to claim she was only quoting others, but such weasel words from a US sec'y of state boggle the mind.
Hillary, Susan Rice et al. did their best to spin the boss' selected version of Benghazi, but that little exercise in spin has fallen apart.
The press, of course, won't hold their feet to the fire, a big part of the problem that enables the lying from this administration.
…the administration and the leaders of the Democratic Party have publicly rushed to conclusions without knowing the truth. For them, the prestige and the security of the administration seem to be a lot more important than the prestige and the security of the United States.
That's the key, right there. Whatever they can do or say to make their particular crowd look good.
September 23, 2012 - 3:08 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
18. Libertyship46
"President Reagan reversed all these trends by calling the tyrants and their tyrannies by their real names, and treating them as such. Remember his "Evil Empire"? The Soviet press agency TASS said those words demonstrated that Reagan was a "bellicose, lunatic anti-Communist." But it was precisely that "lunatic anti-Communist" who won the 44-year Cold War and returned America to greatness."
We need a president that will stand up to the major threat of the day. In Reagan's day, it was communism. Today it is Islamofascism. The events of the past week prove that this is a very real threat and the death of our ambassador and three others in Libya also proves just how dangerous this threat is.
And let's not forget the assault on our embassy in Cairo, where it took roughly two days before Morsi even commented on the attack, let alone condemned it. This is what the Islamofascists of the Muslim Brotherhood has to offer, and they were probably the ones that organized the attack on our embassy in Cairo.
We are entering a new "Cold War," only this one is between Islam and the west. Recent events throughout the Muslim world only prove that this is a very real war and that it will probably take generations to resolve. But, like the Cold War, we need to embrace this struggle and stand up to these tyrants. Apologizing to them (like Obama did in 2009 in Cairo) and appeasing them (as Obama did with Iran during the 2009 revolt there) will only encourage them, and liberal Democrats never seem to learn that lesson. Perhaps it's time Republicans start reminding the American public just how dangerous appeasing an enemy can be. A dead ambassador is the end result of Obama's failed foreign policy and it's only going to get worse unless we stand up to it NOW.
September 23, 2012 - 3:29 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
The Islamists are the useful fools of the Russians. The KGB, or whatever they call themselves now, is providing intelligence and material support for the terrorists' attacks. It is vital that we understand who our real enemies are. We do not have the resources to fight the wrong people. The Russians are counting on that.
September 24, 2012 - 12:34 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Darnelle Mason
How can we expect courage and honest conviction from a coward? Not only does he appease the unappeasable, but his weak approach with the Russians — who aim for Middle East vs US discord — have now kicked out USAID without offering anything in return. Can enough Americans get outraged to vote this clown out of office? I hope so. I pray so. I bleed so.
September 24, 2012 - 7:58 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
19. Dan
Will you please comment on what you know about KGB or Bloc service support for anti- Vietnam War and Civil Rights groups during the 1960s and 1970s in the US? It's about time we had a better appreciation of that subject.
September 23, 2012 - 3:37 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
20. jao44
Thank you for this column, I had some inkling of what your subject addresses but to hear it from someone who was behind the scenes and actually experienced it just renews my enthusiasm for "anyone but obama". In this case, most certainly to work harder to elect Romney/Ryan in November. Regardless if they aren't your first choice, they are the ONLY choice if we wish to save our and our children's future.
September 23, 2012 - 5:30 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
21. elkh1
They don't hate you, they despise the contemptible you. Hate is for the worthy enemies. Contempt is for the appeasers.
September 23, 2012 - 5:45 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
22. Ragnar
" It was also significant that the first attack on New York's World Trade Center, which was intended to knock the North Tower into the South Tower and to generate mass killing, took place on February 26, 1993, when the Kremlin was celebrating 41 years since the first Soviet nuclear test. "
Huh? The first Soviet nuke test was 29 August 1949. 41 years later is 29 August 1990.
And the author failed to mention the legal basis for the Elian Gonzalez situation, but that would have ruined his narrative.
September 24, 2012 - 12:11 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
23. PermReader
Of course a Tyrant as any "strong man" despise the appeasers.The transformation of the USSR into Russia that was declared as the "collaps of communism" had the same effect on the west as on the alcoholic who was freed from the deterrent ampoule.As the leftist Israelis the West began to "make friends" with the no more enemies.To appease Russians they help them to tie their ex-colonies-the precondition of reestablishment of the empire that they where so affraid off.
September 24, 2012 - 3:41 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
24. 2discern
It would be nice to correspond with Mr.Pacepa. My thoughts about how we have a usurper presently as putative president goes to links (clues)of barry soetero 1.traveling to Pakistan/Russian under Indonesian passport
2. the live mic gaffe with Russian president Dimitri Medvedev
3. barry's ability in disinformation with zero conscience
4. barry a red diaper baby of Frank Marshall Davis
5. Axelrod red diaper baby also
6. Valerie Jarrett also red diaper baby (father in law connect to Davis)These connections are not coincidental. Many would appreciate insights from Mr. Pacepa on this topic of non-vetted barry soetero/obama/soehbarka/Shabazz whatever his real name may be.
September 24, 2012 - 9:20 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Studious Citizen
Well, what were the KGB's activities in Pakistan circa 1981?
September 25, 2012 - 7:16 am Link to this Comment | Reply
25. SunsetDistrict,Inc.
The KGB for decades planted and watered the seeds of America-Hatred around the glove.
In 1968 the KGB had a big mission/staff at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. Their goal was to destabilize mexico and there by play hell with the US.
KGB sought out the most charismatic student leaders at UNAM, the largest Mexican University — 100,000 students.
The KGB demanded massive protests prior to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. The soviet inspired student "orgnanizers" fired on the Mexico City Police thereby starting the famous Tlatelolco Massacre where between 200 and 1000 protesters were killed.
Former student radicals went on to become university professors and write books on "Tlatelolco". None of them tell the truth that the students had intentionally been ramping up the tension for weeks by periodically firing at the police.
The KGB has pissed down a lot of misery in its sorry history.
September 27, 2012 - 6:14 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
26. SunsetDistrict,Inc.
The new egyptian government fears the mob.
They know tha mob can turn on them like they turned on Mubarek.
If I was in the CIA, I would be contacting all new egyptian politicians asking them if they have a plan b. Uncle Sam can be a great friend when the islamic mob turns on their government.
The mob is satanic.
The mob runs egypt.
September 27, 2012 - 6:19 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
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Arthur Bogan commented on "EOL Curators":
This discussion on the use of common names and capitalization is interesting. Mollusks in North America have a standardized list of common names for 6,273 marine, freshwater and terrestrial mollusks (Turgeon et al. 1998, second edition). The American Fisheries Society is publishing a revised and updated conservation assessment for freshwater mussels covering Canada, United States and Mexico and a new conservation status list for the freshwater gastropods of Canada and the United States. We are moving to use capitalized common names. Common names of the freshwater gastropods need to be revised to be more internally consistent. These two lists are soon to be put on a two year cycle for revision and should be posted to the web. The development of a standardized list with common names for mollusks in the United States became the responsibility of the American Malacoogical Union, Council of Systematic Malacologists in April 1983 with the first list published in 1998. Art Bogan
Andrew Brower commented on "EOL Curators":
@tony rebelo: I have my own personal prescriptions, such as using an apostrophe when a species is named after someone, but that does not mean that I expect anyone else to follow my lead. I think that language works best when people can clearly and unambiguously communicate with one another, and ultimately that is the goal of scientific nomenclature. Given that there are hundreds or thousands of languages in the word, I doubt very much that we will ever reach consensus on a set of universal common names for all taxa. If, as Tony suggests, we were to approach the issue philosophically, I suppose that all material "things" are individuals and so should be discussed and addressed with proper names. Maybe we'll wind up like Germans and capitalize all our nouns? cheers, AB
tony rebelo commented on "EOL Curators":
@Deniz Martinez: Scientific names have to be prescriptive, but common names can be either. Unfortunately there are lots of prescriptive approaches to common names, from national lists, copy editors and official lists (often required for legal purposes). It would be great to be descriptive, but this appears to be a rare approach, usually done with local indigenous and unwritten languages. The moment the common names come to be printed or published prescriptive standardization follows. Field guides are the worse of these, standardizing and formatting common usage into "standard English" (or what-ever language). Just looking at common names on iSpot in South Africa they are fluid and inexact, often changing with context, and sometimes remaining the same as the identity of the organism (its scientific name anyway) changes with more accurate ID. But these are different issues to "what is a common name"? Is it a descriptive phrase? Is it a Proper Noun? These are fundamental differences in approach, different orthographies, different styles. Will we always have the Steller Seacow vs the Steller's sea cow schools, with trends oscillating between approaches as fashion, personalities and practicalities dictate?
tony rebelo commented on "EOL Curators":
@Andrew Brower: @Andrew - is it not weird that you claim not be be prescriptive but then criticism the use of Steller Jay or Mourning Cloak - is that not being prescriptive in demanding a collective noun approach where people use Proper Nouns? In many field guides the use of one approach or the other is often determined by the copy editor either deciding for or against apostrophes, and then rigorously applying it across the board. Thus what enters print is often not what is in use, but once in print, becomes what is used. The insistence of transferring genitive in the Latin name to the Proper Noun is not what is often in use, no matter how logical, or how certain people insist on one convention or the other. So if I call your tree the Osage Orange or the Bodark am I incorrect - will you still say that it is OK because it is supposed to be "unregulated." In which case we can have Greater Crested Grebe or Great Crested Grebe or Great Crest Grebe or Great-crest Grebe, and clutter indexes with a myriad of similar alternatives used by difference cliques. Is that desirable. Might the above not easiest be summarized Great Crest Grebe and allow users to meld the terms into whatever way they desire. It is amazing how many terms that sound wrong in one context are in use in another (and ruthlessly standardized by copy editors).
Deniz Martinez commented on "EOL Curators":
Lexicographers differentiate between "prescriptive" and "descriptive"--the former aims to dictate how words SHOULD be used, the latter to document how they ARE being used. I personally think of scientific names as the prescriptive, a standardized nomenclature, while common names are descriptive, the usage on the ground. EOL would be most useful if it would aim to be prescriptive with the scientific names and descriptive with the common names--that is, work to make sure all records have the correct scientific nomenclature identified and verified, and also to have as many common names documented as possible--and documented as they are used, whether or not they are perceived as "correct" scientifically. The idea of marking a "preferred" common name for a given language is certainly useful for noting what the most common common name currently is in order to aid with searching and communicating with the public and promoting conservation activities such, but should not necessarily be taken to be permanently prescriptive, as those preferences could and often do change over time as language itself changes. (One of my favorite illustrated plates is an 1880 print of an echidna and platypus, labeled "spiny ant-eater" and "duck mole"...LOL) Anyway...just my two cents, from an amateur linguist :)
Andrew Brower commented on "EOL Curators":
The whole point of "common names" is that they are not regulated like Nomenclature is regulated, and people can call things whatever they want. We have a tree in Tennessee called the Osage orange and also the bodark. There is a butterfly called the mourning cloak here, and the Camberwell beauty in England (and lots of other things in other countries). Fine, great. That's why we have scientific nomenclature with rules of priority and synonymy. The discussion about apostrophes seems wrong to me. If you have Steller's jay (Cyanocitta stelleri), the specific epithet is in the genitive case, meaning that the jay is of, from or belonging to Steller. That's what the Latin means. Calling it Stellers jay is incorrect, just like when you see the mailbox with "the Johnson's"on it (unless somebody lives there called "the Johnson" - let's hope not). Calling it the Steller jay just confuses people because they think it is from outer space. Last, if one desires that there be only a single non-Latin name for every organism, then plainly all common names will be in Urdu, because Urdu is the most widely-spoken human language. Greatest good for the greatest number, right? cheers, AB
Laurence Livermore commented on "EOL Curators":
At Scratchpads we've been discussing how we handle vernacular names and their associated metadata. Which language codes to use is an issue as the DwCA extension standard uses ISO 639-1 which is fairly incomplete. We are thinking about ISO 639-2. For us associating languages is also important for taxon descriptions and will hopefully link us with a user's choice of interface language. Some links: ISO 639-1 list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes ISO 639-2 list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-2_codes DwCA Vernacular Name extension: http://rs.gbif.org/extension/gbif/1.0/vernacularname.xml
Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL Curators":
@tony rebelo: From a technical standpoint it looks like EOL searching is thrown off by presence/absence of apostrophes. I'll see if I can put in a ticket to make sure that South Africans who leave them off will still find the same pages that would be found by other English speakers who use apostrophes. And I had a heck of time making sure I didn't misuse any apostrophes in this comment.
Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL Curators":
@John Tasirin: Personally I like the idea of establishing common names for organisms that don't have any. EOL could be a place to do that - if you add a common name, and if you set it as preferred, you are listed as the source. This doesn't sit well for curators who are adding common names established by organizations, but at least there is some accountability.
Cyndy Parr commented on "EOL Curators":
@tony rebelo: This is a fascinating discussion and obviously some of these issues go beyond what we can do as EOL curators. EOL has had discussions about (and have changed over time) how we capitalize common names. We've also had requests to automatically prefer certain "official" lists. For some of the reasons cited here (not to mention the lack of programming time) we haven't gone that route. From the user perspective, please know that if the name appears on EOL's common name tab, searching on that name will allow a user to discover the page regardless of the capitalization and whether or not it is preferred by a curator. So for findability we want as many common names as possible. Also please be aware that we don't currently have the ability to store different common names as *preferred* for different regions or dialects of a language. So Americans will constantly be at war with the Brits (and maybe the Australians and English-speaking South Africans) over which bird name should go at the top of the page (loons or divers, anyone?). We might want to change that, but this is a slippery slope technically. We can't support a preference for each local community unless there's a distinct language code to associate that preference with. Tony, I would be interested to know if your 11 official languages all have language codes available to choose from on EOL. If they do, then yes, we could support preferred names for each of them. If they don't, then maybe we need to add more codes.
tony rebelo commented on "EOL Curators":
It seems as if every society, publisher and journal has its own unique set of rules for common names. I love the AFS rule 5: that explicitly says that common names are not proper names. - What are they then? Descriptive nouns? Also having this issue for South Africa - do we want an Official List of Names (we have 11 official languages) for all organisms: we have lists for birds, mammals, trees, reptiles, amphibians, fish, butterflies and odd charismatic groups, (as a rule local botanists have until recently refused to acknowledge common names, with some exceptions: trees, cycads, aloes, proteas), but each has their own sets of rules. Having been involved with threatened Red List plants the first step towards getting public buy-in is to create a common name. Clearly there is an issue here that needs attention. However, we immediately have a conflict in that (compounded with 11 languages) we want to retain the rich local culture of common names which an official list will effectively destroy. (we have ample example of this with the internationalization of the bird common name list). How does one proceed?
Bruce Carlson commented on "EOL Curators":
Tried earlier to insert this comment on this thread but it went elsewhere I guess so trying again: FWIW: For fishes, the American Fisheries Society has formulated rules for the common names of all American fishes. Here are a few excerpts from those rules: 4. ...Hyphens, suffixes and apostrophes shall be omitted except where they are orthographically essential, e.g. three-eye flounder (etc.).... 5. Common names shall not be capitalized in text except for those elements that are proper names.... I have an older edition of the AFS's publication "Common and Scientific Names of Fishes" and in it they take up three pages to cover 18 rules regarding using common names. I don't know if they have made changes to these rules in more recent editions.
John Tasirin commented on "EOL Curators":
Thank you, Steve. I saw your comments in my email but they did not seem to appear here. I refreshed my browser twice, they did not come up. I wanted also to say that EOL is in a good capacity and position to standardize common names. It is nice to have a place to refer to. A common name for each living organism. I would like to establish one for Indonesia that has more than 400 working, tribal languages.
John Tasirin commented on "EOL Curators":
I think, I will be happy with "Cape sugar bird", "white oaks", "Plettenberg Bay" and "Capetown".
tony rebelo commented on "EOL Curators":
I would argue that most people would write "The forester came over and cut down 3 big oak trees in my woods." If they wanted to be specific they would write "The forester came over and cut down 3 big White Oaks in my woods." And if they were really fussy they would write "The forester came over and cut down 3 big White Oaks (Quercus albus) in my woods." Having published a field guide my fight was with the copy editor who wanted to retain the publishers style. It was only by appealing to the director that the copy editor budged. A lot of what is published is house styles, rather than what makes sense. After all why should it be "Cape sugarbird"? why not cape sugarbird? (this is entirely unpalatable for some reason - Cape is a proper noun and cannot be lower case) Indeed why not Cape Sugarbird (after all it is a proper noun for the bird)? I dont think that this is an issue that we can follow precedence on. As stated below, it depends whether you follow the descriptive noun or Proper Noun route. The trend is certainly - in many popular writings - to go the descriptive route. I think in ignorance by people who dont know better than that there is a fly, and perhaps a green, maybe a blue and perhaps even a brown one. but for anyone who appreciates that there are many species and wants to communicate about these species then descriptive nouns are wholefully inadequate. One of Adam's first tasks was to give Proper Names to the animals and plants: not to merely describe them, but to name them Properly. (And that explains why Fungi are such a pain - they were forgotten and dont have original Proper Names!)
Steve Baskauf commented on "EOL Curators":
My point about common names is that in the absence of "official names", common names will be in whatever form they are commonly used. I checked a number of North American plant field guides and there are a number of them that capitalize the first letters of common names. However, there are also a number (maybe more?) that capitalize ALL of the letters of the common name in the entries for the taxa (a practice I wouldn't advocate). There are also some which do not capitalize the common names (e.g. Gleason and Cronquist Manual of Vascular Plants which is a pretty standard reference). So there doesn't seem to be a consistent pattern, although perhaps the newer guides do capitalize first letters. ITIS (which I use as a source of names both scientific and common on my website) does not capitalize most common names, although it does for bird species, which I think is a recognition of what is common practice for those taxa. I just don't think that in common usage, people write "The forester came over and cut down 3 big White Oak trees in my woods." They write "The forester came over and cut down 3 big white oak trees in my woods." We may not like that or think it's a good idea, but that is what people do. We are not in a position to legislate common usage.
tony rebelo commented on "EOL Curators":
The loss of the apostrophe is common as words become more commonplace. There are bird examples - I remember - but cannot call them to mind now. But around Cape Town (Cape's Town) we have Devils Peak, Lions Head, Sir Lowrys* Pass, Bettys* Bay, St Sebastian Bay, Jeffreys Bay, Gordons* Bay, Mitchells Plain, Simonstown (or Simons* Town) , Plettenberg Bay , Prince Alfred Hamlet (*on some/many maps still with apostrophe) and so on. So the loss of the apostrophe and the "s" is an ongoing process, although I will concede that the apostrophe is lost easier when the "s" is also dropped - where the "s" is retained many seem to think like you that it cannot just be an s as that implies plural and hence must be aspostrophed.
Donald Hobern commented on "EOL Curators":
Hi Tony - I'm intrigued by your comment on Burchell(')s Coucal. The form without an apostrophe makes no sense at all to me in English. The only sense I can make of the name is that it is a Coucal that is associated with (not necessarily owned by) Burchell. English uses the possessive apostrophe-s to indicate this. The English s-without-an-apostrophe is good for plurals but not this case. I recognise that other languages (Afrikaans?) use s-without-an-apostrophe for the possessive, but I don't see how that would help you. So, in short, does "Burchells Coucal" mean something specific to you that is different from "Burchell's Coucal" and how? All the best, Donald
tony rebelo commented on "EOL Curators":
I think you are muddling Common Names with Official Names. What I have said applies to all common names. Official Names are lists of standardized common names set up by some committee or group for standardization. Those are a small subset of common names used by people, and in my opinion reduced the diversity and richness of common names - if we really need a standard list, well we have the scientific names. Some of what you say is correct. If people are using Greater Crested Grebe, who are we to say it should be Great Crest Grebe? Although I would say that Burchell's Coucal is a typological error for Burchells Coucal. So please: Strawberry Bush and Hearts-a-bustin-with-love is great, but remember the capital letters. (Heartsabustinwithlove is too extreme and Hearts Abusting With Love is ridiculous). Part of my problem is that I also speak Afrikaans, which apart from being phonetic tends to have a oneword approach to objects, so words like Heartsabustinwithlove are second nature to me (the phonetics is important as words like Whiteeye are almost never a problem in Afrikaans, so hyphens are rare).
Steve Baskauf commented on "EOL Curators":
Well, what you are saying makes sense. However, one's position on this issue depends somewhat on what one believes about the purpose of providing common names in a reference. If one believes that a centralized body should decide on the proper common names for species and that everyone should use those names (e.g. as is generally the case for bird species where a governing body puts out a list of standardized common names), then perhaps your approach should be adopted. On the other hand, if one believes that the purpose of listing common names is to report what people actually call the taxon, then it doesn't really matter what we think is the most sensible way to list a name. What matters is how one finds it being used. Unlike birds, there is no centralized body that decides what common names should be used for plants. Subsequently there may be several common names for a single species of plant as well as different regional names. For example, in some places, Euonymus americanus is called "strawberry bush". However, in the area where I live, the most typical common name is "hearts a-bustin' with love" or just "hearts a-bustin' ". How does one render that according to rules? No one has actually appointed Encyclopedia of Life or EOL curators to decide the proper way to render common names.


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