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Originally published at Washington's Blog by Kevin Ryan on 2/9/15
NBC News anchor Brian Williams is taking heat for having repeatedly lied to the public about an Iraq War experience that he never had. Williams has decided to take a few days off to see if the whole affair will blow over but that strategy is not likely to work given the legs that the story has grown. There is a way for Williams to turn it all around, although it would be tougher than anything he has done in the past. He could save face by coming clean on something important that he once reported and never mentioned again.
On September 11, 2001, Williams was covering the terrorist attacks of the day. Late that afternoon a third skyscraper collapsed at the World Trade Center (WTC) and Williams interviewed a New York City fireman named David Restuccio about it. Just after the building collapsed, NBC broadcast the live scene as Williams remarked, "This is like watching the collapse of an active volcano. And the dust from it is not unlike that from a volcano." He brought Restuccio on and continued, "You guys knew this was coming all day." Restuccio replied, "We had heard reports that the building [WTC 7] was unstable and that it would be best if it would either come down on its own or it would be taken down."
This was the point at which a good journalist would have stopped and asked, "It would be taken down"?… Continue reading
Stand up and be counted: Make this one of your New Year's resolutions. Revel in your courage to stand up for truth and justice and be counted.
If you have been paying attention to what is going on in this country, you know that the 9/11 attacks have been used again and again as the justification for policies that contradict core American values. Endless war, torture and warrantless surveillance do not reflect the values of the overwhelming majority of people who inhabit the land of the free and home of the brave. These policies echo the values of a morally bankrupt elite who control our governing institutions.
Our government repeatedly violates the self-evident truths expressed by our Declaration of Independence: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The contradiction between word and deed produces an intentional societal paralysis. Individuals feel helpless. Powerlessness and apathy make it possible for authoritarianism to flourish. Manufactured divisions obscure our common interests from ourselves, shifting our attention away from those who benefit and wield unchecked power.
If you have educated yourself about 9/11, you know that the issue tends to act as a portal through which you discover a hidden history. It is one of many rabbit holes that can lead to a re-evaluation of what passes for "history."
911Truth.org has been educating the public about the events surrounding the 9/11 attacks for… Continue reading
Originally published at Global Research by Prof. Edward Curtin on 12/1/14
The anthrax attacks that followed those of 9/11 have disappeared from public memory in ways analogous to the pulverization of the Twin Towers and World Trade Center Building 7. For the towers, at least, ghostly afterimages persist, albeit fading like last night's nightmare. But the anthrax attacks, clearly linked to 9/11 and the Patriot Act, are like lost letters, sent, but long forgotten. Such disappearing acts are a staple of American life these days. Memory has come upon hard times.
With The 2001 Anthrax Deception, Professor Graeme MacQueen, founding Director of the Center for Peace Studies at McMaster University, calls us back to a careful reconsideration of the anthrax attacks. It is an eloquent and pellucid lesson in inductive reasoning and deserves to stand with David Ray Griffin's brilliant multi-volume dissection of the truth of that tragic September 11th. MacQueen makes a powerful case for the linkage of both events, a tie that binds both to insider elements deep within the U.S. government, perhaps in coordination with foreign elements.
MacQueen's thesis is as follows: The criminal anthrax attacks were conducted by a group of conspirators deep within the U.S. government who are linked to, or identical with, the 9/11 perpetrators. Their purpose was to redefine the Cold War into the Global War on Terror and in doing so… Continue reading
Originally published at digwithin.net by Kevin Ryan on 12/6/14
Politicians and pundits often use terrorism to promote the interests of their financiers. This fear mongering goes hand in hand with attempts at war profiteering, population control, and the concentration of political power. What many are beginning to discover is that deception is integral to the success of the terrorism business. That is, the official accounts of terrorist events are typically fraught with omissions of fact and the concealment of clues that point to the involvement of more powerful people. The success of these false accounts reveals important aspects of human nature and points to ways in which thoughtful people can help to overcome such challenges.
There will always be a few people greedy enough to lie to others for personal gain, but we can live with this. What we can't live with is large numbers of people lying to themselves because habitual self-deception is fatal. Long-term successful lies require motivated liars but also willing listeners and when millions or billions of citizens engage in such duplicity they make it difficult, if not impossible, for anyone to survive.
It's common to see people blaming the government or the media for lying and taking advantage. That's not surprising because, in general, politicians are highly evolved lying machines and the media is rewarded for telling the majority what they want to hear in ways that promote business interests. But what is really needed to overcome that pattern is to examine how lies told by… Continue reading
Originally published at WhoWhatWhy.com by Kevin Ryan on 9/24/14
When neighbors went trick-or-treating at Terry Lee Loewen's house in Wichita last Halloween, they saw a quiet, unobtrusive, "normal" man. Two months later, federal authorities said they'd seen through the disguise and found a jihadist hiding in the suburbs.
Loewen "planned to die as a martyr" and was charged with trying to drive an explosives-laden vehicle onto the tarmac at Mid-Continent Airport, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said at the time of the arrest. An avionics technician, the then-58-year-old Loewen was really working on behalf of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to the authorities.
Yet contradictions in the government account suggest there might be considerably more to know about Terry Loewen and his alleged plot. Was Loewen a Walter Mitty whose dark daydreams bloomed into reality, as the FBI says? Or was he just a hapless suburbanite who chose the wrong online fantasy life?
The official story is this: Loewen decided to engage in terrorism only six months before his arrest, and immediately began devoting all his time to preparations for becoming a "lone wolf" suicide bomber. A letter allegedly written by Loewen and released by the FBI gave the reasons for his radical change of heart: "My only explanation is that I believe in jihad for the sake of Allah + for the sake of my Muslim brothers + sisters."
"I expect to be called a terrorist (which I am), a psychopath,… Continue reading
Originally published at BORDC by Christina Murray on 10/17/14
"Some stories are just too true to tell."
This quote from the trailer of "Kill the Messenger," a film about the life of reporter Gary Webb, who wrote on the CIA's role in drug trafficking in 1996, sums up exactly why reporters like Webb are important, and why understanding the role of powerhouses such as the CIA and other government organizations is crucial in how we see ourselves within our own country.
The movie is a close, dramatic retelling of the life of Gary Webb, who, when he broke the story of the Nicaraguan drug cartel that transported drugs to Los Angeles, received intense support and intense critique. Eventually San Jose Mercury, the newspaper that Webb wrote for, backed away from the story fearing severe backlash. This effectively ended Webb's career. The most heartbreaking moment in Webb's story is the story of his death, which the film does address. In 2004, Webb was found dead, he has apparently committed suicide.
The film's main objective is to address the role of the CIA during the Reagan administration in supporting, or at least ignoring, the Nicaraguan cocaine trade."The [New York] Times' resistance to accepting the reality of this major national security scandal under President Ronald Reagan even predated its tag-team destruction of Webb in the mid-1990s, when he was alternately pummeled by the Times, the Washington Post and the… Continue reading
Originally published by Seymour Hersh at the London Review of Books April, 2014
In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, he was ready to launch an allied air strike, this time to punish the Syrian government for allegedly crossing the 'red line' he had set in 2012 on the use of chemical weapons. Then with less than two days to go before the planned strike, he announced that he would seek congressional approval for the intervention. The strike was postponed as Congress prepared for hearings, and subsequently cancelled when Obama accepted Assad's offer to relinquish his chemical arsenal in a deal brokered by Russia. Why did Obama delay and then relent on Syria when he was not shy about rushing into Libya? The answer lies in a clash between those in the administration who were committed to enforcing the red line, and military leaders who thought that going to war was both unjustified and potentially disastrous.
Obama's change of mind had its origins at Porton Down, the defence laboratory in Wiltshire. British intelligence had obtained a sample of the sarin used in the 21 August attack and analysis demonstrated that the gas used didn't match the batches known to exist in the Syrian army's chemical weapons arsenal. The message that the case against Syria wouldn't hold up was quickly relayed to the US joint chiefs of staff. The British… Continue reading
Originally published at Daily Censored by Kristina Borjesson on 12/11/13
The Warm-Up
It began with an email on October 24, 2013 to Tom Stalcup, Ph.D., Co-Producer and Senior Science Advisor for the new documentary, "TWA Flight 800." New York Magazine intern Claire McCartney wrote that editor Geoffrey Gray wanted to talk to Stalcup and to "get in contact" with Kristina Borjesson, the film's Producer/Director.
In his first phone conversation with Stalcup, Gray jokingly identified himself as being with the National Transportation Safety Board. He congratulated Stalcup on his success and suggested he write a book. Stalcup asked if Gray had seen the documentary. Gray hadn't, but promised to talk again after watching it.
Gray portrayed himself as an honest investigative journalist, saying that investigations like Stalcup's into TWA 800 are his life and that he has conducted many of them and knows what it's like. He gave Stalcup the impression that he was working on a serious article for New York Magazine. Stalcup provided Gray with verified, factual information, free of any speculation or theorizing.
When Gray called film director Borjesson, she asked Gray about the context of his article so that she could better answer his questions. Gray said it was for an issue on conspiracy theories. Borjesson responded that she and her investigative team wanted nothing to do with that because the first-hand sources (members of the original official investigation who had actually handled the wreckage and evidence), hard forensic evidence and eyewitnesses presented in the "TWA Flight… Continue reading
Originally published at Salon by Tim Shorrock on 5/7/07
If you go by the book jacket of his new memoir, "At the Center of the Storm," George Tenet is enjoying the life of a retired government servant teaching at Georgetown University, where he was appointed to the faculty in 2004. The former CIA director played up the academic image when he kicked off the recent media blitz for his new book by doing an interview for CBS's "60 Minutes" from his spacious, book-lined office at the university. His academic salary, and the reported $4 million advance he received from publisher HarperCollins, should provide the former CIA director with more than enough money to live comfortably for the rest of his days and leave a substantial fortune to his children.
But those monies are hardly Tenet's entire income. While the swirl of publicity around his book has focused on his long debated role in allowing flawed intelligence to launch the war in Iraq, nobody is talking about his lucrative connection to that conflict ever since he resigned from the CIA in June 2004. In fact, Tenet has been earning substantial income by working for corporations that provide the U.S. government with technology, equipment and personnel used for the war in Iraq as well as the broader war on terror.
When Tenet… Continue reading
By Elizabeth Woodworth
With polls consistently showing that approximately 50% of Canadians and Americans doubt the official story of 9/11, the feat of keeping the lid on a public debate for over 12 years has been nothing short of miraculous.
This article presents a simple case study showing that this miracle is being performed with the assistance of Google and YouTube search engine interference.
On September 8, 2013, the popular Russia Today "Truthseeker" program, with over a million subscribers on YouTube,[1] published a 13-minute newscast entitled "The Truthseeker: 9/11 and Operation Gladio (E23)."
Below the video frame ran the caption:
Bigger than Watergate': US 'regular' meetings with Al-Qaeda's leader; documented White House 'false flag terrorism' moving people 'like sheep'; the father of Twin Towers victim tell us why he backs this month's 9/11 campaign on Times Square and around the world; & the protests calendar for September.
This paragraph was followed by a list of interviewees, including four people representing three scholarly research organizations: Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth,[2] the 9/11 Consensus Panel,[3] and The Journal of 9/11 Studies.[4]
The "Truthseeker" video immediately started to gain popularity on YouTube, reaching 131,000 views in the first three days.[5](The history of the viewing statistics may be seen by clicking on the little graphic symbol under the video frame, and to the right)
Truthseeker posted its program to YouTube on Sept. 8. Russia Today tweeted the YouTube link to its 546,000 followers and to the… Continue reading
NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, 12 former CIA, FBI, NSA, and US military officials — including Time Magazine's 2002 person of the year, Colleen Rowley, and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who provided the daily brief for three presidents — say in an open letter to President Obama that the charge that President Assad used chemical weapons on August 21st is based on false intelligence.
If this charge is false, and leads to war in Syria, it would not be the first time US leaders have misled their public into going to war. Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War, admitted in 2003 that America went to war in Vietnam on the false intelligence that North Vietnam had attacked a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin.
The 9/11 Consensus Panel was formed to deal with another notorious fraudulent pretext for war, the attacks of September 11, 2001, that triggered the "war on terror" and the ongoing military actions in the Middle East.
The professional 24-member Panel was formed in 2011 to show the public that behind the horrific images of planes crashing into the Towers lies a wealth of slowly emerging evidence that 9/11 was a false flag operation.
Using a standard medical review model, the Panel has thus far produced 37 Consensus Points refuting the official story, five of which are released today.
For example, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's report on the… Continue reading
Campaigner and film maker Tony Rooke claimed a moral victory today after a UK court gave him a conditional discharge even though he has refused to pay his BBC license fee. Over 100 supporters from as far away as Denmark and Norway cheered in front of the court house as independent media people conducted interviews and photographed the crowd. Court officials had booked their largest room for the case but were at a loss to find that well over 50 people could not be fitted in.
Tony said: "I am taken a back and hugely grateful for all the support." He is asking for at least one person to take up the campaign by refusing to pay or taking other legal action (see below).
Rooke argued that the BBC's coverage of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York has been so distorted that it amounts to giving aid and comfort to the unidentified terrorists who demolished three World Trade Centre buildings in 2001. Two hijacked planes were flown into the famous Twin Towers and a third tower WTC7 collapsed later in the day. The attacks were used as the pretext for a decade of wars and the introduction of police state measures across the NATO countries. Vast personal fortunes were made by White House and CIA officials who failed to thwart 9/11.
The official 9/11 story was promulgated by the US media within minutes of the first collision, based on anonymous sources in the Bush White House. Despite a mass… Continue reading
On February 25, in the small town of Horsham in the United Kingdom, there will be a rare and potentially groundbreaking opportunity for the 9/11 truth movement. Three hours of detailed 9/11 evidence is to be presented and considered in a court of law where the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) will be challenged over the inaccurate and biased manner in which it has portrayed the events and evidence of 9/11.
Over the last 16 months, BBC has been challenged strongly by individuals in the UK over two documentaries that they showed in September 2011 as part of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, namely '9/11: Conspiracy Road Trip' and 'The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 Ten Years On'. Formal complaints were lodged with BBC over the inaccuracy and bias of these documentaries, which, according to 9/11 activists, was in breach of the operating requirements of BBC through their 'Royal Charter and Agreement' with the British public. This document requires BBC to show information that is both accurate and impartial. These complaints were supported by the US-based educational charity Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth), which submitted detailed scientific evidence to BBC to buttress the complaints. The evidence focuses in particular on the confirmed free-fall of WTC 7 and NIST's 2008 admission of this fact. In addition, over 300 AE911Truth petition signers supported these complaints by sending letters to BBC, requesting that BBC show this evidence to the public.
As a continuation of this process with BBC, documentary film maker Tony Rooke has… Continue reading
Huff, Mickey S., and Andy Lee Roth, eds. Censored 2013: Dispatches From the Media Revolution. New York: Seven Stories Press, October 2012. 468 pp. $19.95
Review by Paul W. Rea, PhD
Project Censored has delivered another timely and essential book. The passion and commitment of editors Prof. Mickey Huff and Dr. Andy Lee Roth definitely show—and not just in their own writing. They're managed to tease out fine performances from many other writers, including Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Elliot D. Cohen of Truthout, Sara van Gelder of YES! Magazine, Peter Phillips, Adam Bessie and many others.
The issues definitely matter. The significance of the reader-selected Top 25 Censored Stories of 2011-12 is beyond dispute. Number 1 is "Signs of an Emerging Police State"; Number 2 is "Oceans in Peril"; and Number 3 is "Fukushima Disaster Worse Than Anticipated." Other sections reveal how a "Federal Reserve Audit Reveals Trillions Loaned to Major Banks" and a "Small Network of Corporations Run the Global Economy." For each general issue, News Clusters add context, breadth and depth.
Rumblings from the Occupy Movements of 2011 reverberate throughout many of the clusters. Readers learn not only about the "Bankster Bailout," but about how to create an economy for the 99 percent. Lesser-known issues include how Congress has forced the US Post Office to bear unfair financial commitments, apparently in an effort to justify its privatization.
Informed, Incisive Critiques of Corporate Media Censorship
More than in previous Project Censored volumes, historical approaches inform this year's… Continue reading
by RTAmerica
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad both delivered two of the most controversial speeches at the latest session of the United Nations General Assembly. And while the Israeli's speech was aired in full on CNN, the Iranian's address has been ruthlessly cut and the viewers have missed some very important points. What are the ramifications of this kind of selective reporting?
RT's Liz Wahl is joined by Amber Lyon, a three-time Emmy award winning journalist who suggests that sensationalism, hype and downright propaganda is being used to push America into a war with Iran.
Commentary isn't even needed here … just watch this: (Every War Starts with a False Flag Operation begins at 7:22)
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Jesse Ventura, live on mainstream television with Piers Morgan September 17, 2012. Amazing…
September 8, 2012
By Victoria N. Alexander
"9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out" is getting public attention and casting doubt on the scientific validity of the U.S. government's investigation into the WTC tragedy. PBS is the first major network to air the program.
Just days away from the 11th anniversary of the World Trade Center tragedy and months away from the U.S. presidential election, a game-changing 9/11 documentary is ranking number three among "most watched" documentaries on PBS and number one among "most shared." Available for free online August 18th – September 4th, the documentary could have a significant effect on public opinion. [Update: PBS has extended viewing indefinitely.] Both the Republicans and Democrats, as equally staunch defenders of the official story, stand to be affected if the public's suspicion of government corruption grows deeper.
An earlier report on Digital Journal found that the claims made in the documentary can be verified by reading the government reports themselves. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the government agency charged with the investigation, did not provide any data — no measurements or estimates — of the mass or energy that would be required to bring down the buildings in about ten seconds. Normally a scientific report would present all the data that is used to construct a theory. The omission of data is a red flag to anyone familiar with scientific procedure. It appears that the investigators may have intentionally produced reports that the scientific community would reject.… Continue reading
July 5, 2012
by Paul Craig Roberts
Hot Air Day is upon us. On July 4 hot air will spew forth all over the country as dignitaries deliver homilies to our "freedom and democracy" and praise "our brave troops" who are protecting our freedom by "killing them over there before they come over here."
Not a single one of these speeches will contain one word of truth. No speaker will lament the death of the US Constitution or urge his audience to action to restore the only document that protects their liberty. No speaker will acknowledge that in the 21st century the Bush/Obama Regime, with the complicity of the Department of Justice, federal courts, Congress, presstitute media, law schools, bar associations, and an insouciant public have murdered the Constitution in the name of the "war on terror."
As in medieval times, American citizens can be thrown into dungeons and never accounted for. No evidence or charges need be presented to a court. No trial is required, and no conviction.
As in tyrannies, US citizens can be executed at the sole discretion of the despot in the Oval Office, who sits there drawing up lists of people to be murdered.
Protestors exercising their constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association are attacked by armed police, beaten, tasered, tear-gassed, pepper sprayed, and arrested.
Whistleblowers who report the government's crimes are prosecuted despite the statute that protects them.
US soldier Bradley Manning, who allegedly gave Wikileaks the documents… Continue reading


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On Friday night at Staples Center, the Lakers and Clippers will face off for the second time this season, and Los Angeles' long-time second-tier franchise is in a position to take a 2-0 series lead over its more glorious, more celebrated neighbor. That alone makes the game a must-watch. But it's the fact that the Clippers are poised to compete over and perhaps win the future that's the most startling fact in their now very real rivalry. Since moving to Los Angeles in 1984, the Clippers have been mostly an NBA doormat. That lowly reality has only been more acutely felt by Clippers fans because of their team's proximity to one of the league's shiniest, brightest objects: the Lakers of Kareem and Magic, of Shaq and Kobe, of Kobe and Phil. The Lakers have won eight titles since the Clippers arrived in the city of stars and could-have-beens. The Clippers, by comparison, have only made the playoffs five times during that stretch There are a lot of reasons for that discrepancy, but ...
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Anti-Catholic Cult Hit With Half Billion-Dollar Judgment
Christhiaon Coie has spent 43 years waiting for the day when the brutal, Catholic- and gay-hating cult leader who she says raped her and numerous other girls, some of them as young as 8, would get his just desserts.
Last week, that day finally arrived.
In Miller County, Ark., a judge ordered a church run by 79-year-old Tony Alamo, who is serving a 175-year sentence on 10 counts of sex trafficking minors, to pay seven women abused by him as girls $525 million in actual and punitive damages. The women sued after Alamo's criminal conviction in Arkansas in 2009.
It is believed to the largest civil award in Arkansas history.
Coie was not a plaintiff in the case, but she has spent much of her life traumatized by her rape at age 13 or 14 by Alamo, who was then married to her mother, Susan Alamo. She finally fled her home in 1971, and since that day she has done what she could to battle Alamo, a bizarre man who had followers pray for Susan's resurrection for months after her 1982 death from cancer. Coie even had to sue Alamo to force him to return her mother's body, which he hid for years.
"I just went, 'Oh, thank you, God, if you're up there, thank you, thank you, thank you,'" Coie told Hatewatch today, recounting the beating and sexual abuse suffered by children at the hands of the leader of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, which is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. "These women are telling the absolute truth about what happened to them as little girls. The children suffered and suffered and suffered. I know that as sure as I breathe oxygen."
"Once Tony loses every piece of property, he's a paper tiger," she said, adding that she was nevertheless still afraid after years of hiding from Alamo. "We still go to sleep with one eye open; the other one's partially open, too. Once he realizes there's nothing left, I think he may try to come after me and a lot of other people who had the guts to stand up. I'd be a fool to say I'm not afraid."
Unlike many cases with such huge awards, the plaintiffs in this case may actually see most of what they won in the default judgment last week. That's because the arm of the Alamo Ministries that lost the case, Twenty First Century Holiness Tabernacle Church, owns property in California that reportedly has valuable water rights. The LA Times reported that the plaintiffs' lawyer, David Carter, said the rights could bring in as much as $1 billion when they are sold to satisfy the judgment. ( continue to full post… )
UFO Cult Celebrates World Swastika Rehabilitation Day
Celebrants of World Swastika Rehabilitation Day, who on Saturday arranged to have a swastika-festooned banner flown along Manhattan and the New Jersey shore, are expressing bafflement and outrage over the barrage of complaints their festivities invited.
"Why should the swastika, a symbol of peace for more than 1.5 billion people in the world, offend the people of Manhattan?" asked Thomas Kaenzig, coordinator of the event, in a press release. "Any negative emotions regarding the swastika by people under the age of 70 years old are obviously linked to their education and not to their experiences. It's about time people were re-educated to understand the original meaning of the oldest and most recurrent symbol in the world."
The event was organized by followers of the "Raelian movement," a publicity-loving UFO cult founded by a French race car driver and journalist who claims to be the son of an extraterrestrial named Yahweh and a half-brother to Jesus, Moses and Buddha. ( continue to full post… )
Nativists Focus Attacks on Religious Denominations
In the wake of two recent religious gatherings, anti-immigrant hard-liners are focusing their fire on two major religious faith groups: the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Southern Baptist Convention.
The duo's shared offense? In the past week, both have publicly opposed legislation that would require businesses to participate in E-Verify, a federal government tool for verifying people's immigration status, and have called for compassionate treatment of all immigrants, regardless of legal status.
The John Birch Society (JBS) — a conspiracy-minded, far-right organization that made its name in the 1950s and 1960s by spreading anti-communist propaganda and working against school desegregation and has lately edged back into the mainstream by hooking up with Tea Party groups and Glenn Beck fans — took the lead in attacking the bishops. "American Catholic bishops, equating socialism with true Christian charity, have long been allies of the radical Left in its plans to socialize the American economy," R. Cort Kirkwood wrote in comments that completely ignored the Catholic Church's historical enmity toward communism and its staunch pro-Americanism during the Cold War. His article was published in JBS magazine The New American released yesterday. ( continue to full post… )
Imprisoned Cult Leader and Child Rapist Faces $66 Million Judgment
An Arkansas jury yesterday awarded $33 million to each of two men who were ordered beaten as teenagers by cult leader Tony Alamo — a man who is now serving a 175-year sentence for sexually assaulting child "brides" as young as 8 years old and who has a long history of ordering brutal assaults on children.
Jurors were told that Seth Calagna, 21, and Spencer Ondirsek, 20, were beaten by the late John Kolbek on orders from Alamo while they were being raised on the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound in southwest Arkansas, according to The Associated Press. Alamo's lawyer, however, said afterward that the ministry doesn't have anything like the millions of dollars needed to pay the award.
The Alamo cult, which was described in a lengthy 2007 profile in the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report, was violently anti-Catholic and anti-gay. But like many other personality cults, its most horrifying aspect was its abuse of children. The Report profile described, among other things, how 11-year-old Justin Miller was held down by four men and beaten bloody in 1988 on Alamo's orders for a minor classroom infraction. Alamo was initially charged with felony child abuse, but he fled and the charges were dropped seven years later. Miller's family sued and was awarded a judgment of $1.46 million in a federal court. ( continue to full post… )
Child Rapist and Anti-Catholic Cult Boss Gets 175 Years
Cult evangelist Tony Alamo was ordered today to spend his remaining years in a place that nobody will confuse with heaven. A federal judge in Texarkana, Ark., sentenced him to 175 years in prison for transporting young girls he called his "brides" across state lines for sex. Before being sentenced, Alamo, 75, testified briefly and praised God. "I'm glad I'm me and not the deceived people in the world," he said.
The anti-Catholic, pro-polygamy, gay-bashing evangelist — whose birth name is Bernie LaZar Hoffman — was convicted in July on 10 counts of taking girls across state lines for sex over a period of 14 years. His stepdaughter, Christhiaon Coie, wasn't among them but, in an earlier interview with the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report, said she was raped by Alamo when she was in her teens. "I want to thank [the SPLC] for demanding justice when so many others turn a blind eye to so many pathetic cowards who hide behind Bibles, sheets and children," she said in an E-mail today as she awaited news of Alamo's sentence.
Alamo met and married Coie's mother, Edith — a name she soon changed to Susan — in 1966 and the couple began Tony Alamo Christian Ministries three years later in California. Followers say they were punished with beatings and food deprivation, and threatened with losing their spouses and children. Among other things, Alamo blamed the Catholic church for communism, Nazism and the two world wars.
The Alamos moved the cult's headquarters to Arkansas in 1975. When Susan Alamo died of cancer in 1982, her husband kept her embalmed body in the dining room of their home for several months in the expectation that she would rise from the dead. Her casket eventually was interred in a heart-shaped mausoleum.
Alamo served four years in prison in the 1990s for income tax evasion. He resumed his ministry when he got out. Last year, federal agents raided his 15-acre compound in the town of Foulke, Ark., near the Texas state line, looking for evidence of sexual activity with underage girls. One teenager told the FBI that Alamo "married" and had intercourse with her when she was 9. An informant told agents that she saw Alamo sometimes take more than one girl at a time to his bedroom, where he kept candy bars and a Barbie doll collection. ( continue to full post… )
Cult Evangelist Tony Alamo Convicted on Sex Charges
Anti-Catholic, pro-polygamy evangelist Tony Alamo will likely be preaching from behind prison walls for the rest of his life, and perhaps nobody is happier than his stepdaughter, Christhiaon Coie.
"I started crying and screaming," Coie told Hatewatch, upon hearing that Alamo was convicted today by a federal court jury in Texarkana, Ark., on all 10 counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex. Alamo, 74, faces up to 175 years in prison, plus fines that could total $2.5 million.
Coie says she was raped by Alamo when she was younger. "I've been in this fight, trying to stop him, for nearly 40 years."
Trial of Anti-Catholic Cult Leader on Sex Charges Opens
The federal trial of Tony Alamo, who led a notorious anti-Catholic cult, began this week in Texarkana, Ark. Alamo, 74, has pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of transporting underage girls across state lines for sex. His trial comes nearly two years after the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report published an expose on Alamo that detailed allegations of physical abuse, statutory rape and polygamy.
The magazine reported that Alamo had lost a $1.4 million civil lawsuit brought by the family of an 11-year-old boy whom Alamo allegedly had ordered beaten. The SPLC's Fall 2007 report also revealed that Alamo contended girls should marry as soon as they begin menstruating, even if they're as young as 10; in a 2006 radio broadcast, Alamo justified this view by claiming that "God impregnated Mary when she was about 11 years old." In a 2007 broadcast, he said that first graders should be allowed to marry because they're having sex anyway.
In addition to his alleged sexual proclivities, Alamo frequently denigrated Catholics. He has blamed them for "every filthy thing," including communism, Nazism, the two world wars, the Jonestown massacre, drugs, prostitution and pornography. He also spewed hatred toward gays, referring in a defense of polygamy to "these bastards, these homosexual Vaticanites, they condone homosexuals and they condemn marriage." The SPLC lists his Tony Alamo Christian Ministries as a hate group.
Alamo's headquarters in Fouke, Ark., was raided last fall by dozens of federal and state law enforcement agents searching for evidence of child abuse. He was arrested on Sept. 25 at an Arizona motel. It's not the first time he's faced significant jail time: Alamo was convicted on tax evasion charges in 1994 and served four years of a six-year prison sentence.
SPLC Exposes Raided Alamo Cult's Practices
A year after the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report published allegations of physical abuse, statutory rape and polygamy inside Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, authorities raided the cult's headquarters in Fouke, Ark. Some 100 state and federal agents entered the compound Saturday night, apparently searching for evidence of child abuse and child pornography.
The Report's investigation details the sordid history of Alamo, who was released from federal prison in 1998 after completing a sentence for tax evasion. Alamo had also been charged with felony child abuse in 1989, but that charge was finally dropped in 1995. However, the family of the 11-year-old boy who allegedly was subjected to 140 blows on Alamo's orders for minor academic infractions filed suit and won a $1.4 million judgment.
As detailed in the Fall 2007 issue of the Report, Alamo in recent years has argued that girls should marry once they start menstruating, even if they are as young as 10. In a 2006 radio broadcast, he said: "God impregnated Mary when she was about 11 years old. So the government idiots, the people that don't know the Bible, what you're going to have to do is get a hold of God now, you're going to have to get up there and cuff him and send him to prison for statutory rape."
In early 2007, Alamo cited the alleged promiscuity of 1st-graders as grounds for marrying them before the age of legal consent. "I've found out from people's parents that their daughter started having sex when she was 6 years old and had sex every day of her life," he said in another broadcast. "So right there, by the time she's 15 years old, she's had sex thousands of times. I mean, this is just reality."
The Report's story also explores the Alamo cult's strange background and its leader's raging hatred for Catholics and homosexuals. Alamo has blamed Catholics for "every filthy thing," including communism, Nazism, the two world wars, the Jonestown massacre, drugs, prostitution and pornography. He has also attacked his many detractors in Fouke, saying that God would "destroy" what he characterized as his "Vaticanite" critics.
Taking It to the Limit, One More Time
Can the man sink any lower?
After all, we're talking about a fellow who pickets the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq, shouting that they are being punished by God for somehow helping America in its "fag-enabling" ways. A man whose own children have accused him of beating them viciously with a mattock handle. A "pastor" who has celebrated the deaths of coal miners trapped beneath the earth, children killed in school bus accidents, even the thousands murdered on Sept. 11, 2001. The language he employs in his sermons attacking homosexuality — versions of which have been hissed at passing children by his followers — is so disgusting that it is unprintable in the major media.
But now Fred W. Phelps, who runs the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) of Topeka, Kansas, and the infamous GodHatesFags website, has taken another step down into the slime. His latest, posted last week on Friday the 13th, is "Thank God for Dead Boy Scouts." The WBC Video News production opens to the strains of a hymn. ( continue to full post… )
Bad Week for Alamo Ministries
The first week of October was a rough one for World Pastor Tony Alamo, the cult leader who for decades has claimed "homosexuality is caused by demon possession" and the U.S. government is an agent of the "satanic" Catholic Church.
On Oct. 2, Tony Alamo Christian Ministries member Leslie Ray "Buster" White was indicted by a federal grand jury in Tyler, Texas, on charges of trafficking in 1,475 pairs of counterfeit Nike tennis shoes as well as illegally copied CDs. (White has been described as the associate pastor of Alamo Ministries, although Alamo denied that to the Texarkana [Texas] Gazette.) During an FBI raid of White's Great American Outlet Mall — where the counterfeit goods were allegedly sold — federal agents also seized nearly $110,000 in cash. ( continue to full post… )


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Mazda North American Operations, in a move to further enhance its reputation as a company that builds cars that are fun to drive, announced that the new, redesigned Mazda6, Mazda's flagship mid-sized car, will be entered into the Grand Am series running on Mazda's SKYACTIV technology clean-diesel.
The 2014 Mazda6 will make its motorsports debut at the Rolex 24 endurance race on January 26-27, 2013 in Daytona Beach, Fla. The Mazda6 racecar will be powered by a Mazda SKYACTIV-D Clean Diesel engine (video) and is being developed to compete in the new GRAND-AM GX class.
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Festival keeps rolling along like the Wabash Cannonball
He's been charged with the task of putting together the Bluegrass Festival 28 times now, which might seem to indicate that tasks get finished on autopilot.
But if there's one thing Ken Christopher, chairman for this weekend's Bluegrass in the Park Folklife Festival, has learned, it's that no matter how many times something gets done, no matter how easy it is to acquire sponsors and no matter how readily the volunteers step forward, each year presents its own challenges.
Take the weather, for example. In August, there are no guarantees. It can be brutally hot and humid. Or, it can be stormy.
It actually also can be cold, though that's much less likely. Christopher has seen it all.
But he's hoping for a little more of the pleasant and perfect weather we've experienced recently for this weekend's festival, which will take place Friday and Saturday in Audubon Mill Park.
"We're keeping our fingers crossed about that," he said.
All the usual ingredients are in place, including Downtown Henderson Project's Breakfast in the Park on Saturday and the folklife activities that take place for a few hours on Saturday.
In recent years, Bluegrass has offered a venue for several "active" events, including the Fox on the Run 5K, the Pickin' & Pedalin' bicycle tour, Flippin' & Flyin' disc golf tournament and the Jammin' & Jumpin' Street Vault. All of those events benefit other charities or groups.
Also this year, the Henderson Tennis Club is hosting its Doc Hosbach Memorial Tennis Tournament on the Water Street courts during Bluegrass in the Park.
But first and foremost there's the music, which is "still free" as the festival logo and T-shirt design prominently note this year.
"You don't find that very often," the longtime festival chairman said.
He is pleased with what's in store for the music stage.
"We've really got a nice lineup," Christopher said. "Friday night is going to be a blast. It's really eclectic."
With band names like "Henhouse Prowlers" and "Hot Day at the Zoo," the Friday lineup also includes Pokey LaFarge, an artist who was featured recently on "The Late Show with David Letterman."
"He defies classification," Christopher said. "The one thing that I know is that he is fun."
Saturday's music lineup features The Sons of Bluegrass, King's Highway, Detour, Jerry Salley & Breakin' New Ground, Westbound Rangers and Audie Blaylock.
"The music program and all the other things we offer make us a well-rounded festival," Christopher said. "If someone comes down to the festival they're going to find something to do. There really is something for everyone."
Henderson Area Arts Alliance also is offering its own event to celebrate Bluegrass in the Park, as well as the opening of the 20th-anniversary season. The opening event will feature Rhonda Vincent at 7 p.m. today at Henderson Fine Arts Center. A ticket is required, and information is available at the box office, 270-831-9800.
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A death row inmate who tried to delay his execution by claiming he was allergic to the anesthesia used in the lethal injection was put to death today, right on schedule.
Darryl Durr, 46, was declared dead at 10:36 a.m. ET. Julie Walburn from the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, where the execution took place, said there were no complications and that the execution went smoothly.
A prison official who was present told ABC News that as the process began Durr clenched his fists and grimaced while holding his head up for about 10 seconds, before putting his head down. The official, who declined to be identified, said it wasn't clear whether Durr was in pain or reacting to the moment.
Durr had been convicted of the rape and murder of 16-year-old Angel Vincent in 1988. He is the 37th inmate executed in Lucasville, Ohio's so-called "death house" at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility since 1999 and the fourth person to be executed in Ohio this year.
"Serial rapist Darryl Durr kidnapped, raped, and murdered 16-year-old Angel Vincent. Durr's punishment finally gives justice to the family of the victim for Durr's brutal and unforgivable crimes," Ryan Miday, a spokesman for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason, told ABC News last night.
Mason prosecuted Durr in his 1988 trial and has remained engaged in Durr's subsequent appeals.
Durr attempted last week what was called in reports a "unique" appeal, reportedly the first of its kind, when his defense lawyer Kathleen McGarry told the Ohio District Court Judge Gregory Frost that she found evidence that Durr was allergic to anesthesia after reviewing his 800-page medical history report, court records say.
McGarry said in court documents she wasn't aware of the exact allergy Durr had, but wanted to make sure it didn't include thiopental sodium, the anesthetic Ohio uses in its lethal injection.
"One of the things the Ohio Constitution guarantees is that he has a quick and painless execution," McGarry said to the Associated Press last week.
"If he's going to react to the anesthetic drugs in such a manner that he's going to have a violent reaction, either vomiting or seizures or whatever the spectrum is that could happen, then obviously the execution has problems," she said.
Ohio became the first state last year to switch to a single dose of anesthetic to put inmates to death, rather than the three-drug cocktail used by other states.
A Columbia University Medical Center anesthesiologist filed an e-mail as part of Durr's appeal saying if he did have an allergy to thiopental sodium, it may pose a problem.
"An allergic or other adverse reaction to some component of a general anesthetic might present a serious problem for an execution by lethal injection," the email from Mark Heath said.
McGarry cited other cases involving adverse reactions to execution methods in her appeal. In 1989, Texas death row inmate Stephen McCoy began choking and seizing after receiving lethal injection chemicals causing a witness to faint, according to reports. In 1992 death row prisoner Robyn Lee Parks' muscles in his jaw, neck, and abdomen began to spasm about two minutes after the drugs started to flow during his execution in Oklahoma. However, according to reports, the exact cause for those reactions was undetermined in each case.


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Icacina mannii Often called mumu, this species is found from Congo to Senegal. Its fruits, seeds and tubers are all edible, at least after proper preparation. The pink pulp of the fruit is eaten at least in Congo, Senegal, and Guinea. The seeds are steeped for a week in water, which is changed each morning to remove bitter elements. They are then left in the sun two days to dry. Finally, they are reduced to flour by pounding. The resulting meal can be mixed with that of millet or beans to make a thick paste (known as enap in Senegal). The tuber is cut up and leached in running water to remove toxic elements and facilitate maceration. The pieces are afterwards dried, pounded, and strained to remove fibers. The starchy flour is then either eaten without further processing or, more often, is blended with the flour from the seeds. It is also softened into an edible paste by the addition of boiling water.
Icacina claesensi Called kukbukumbu in Congo.
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The Relationship Between Academic Confidence and Academic Achievement of Selected First Time Students at Grand View College
Wassenaar, Carolyn M. Veldhuizen
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The problem. Colleges and universities experience limited success using traditional criteria for identifying academically at-risk students. This study used College Student Inventory, Nelson Denny Reading Test scores, and GPA to investigate the relationship among academic achievement, confidence, and study habits for selected academically at-risk students at Grand View College. Procedures. Students scoring below the 35th percentile on the Nelson Denny Reading Test who were advised and enrolled in College Level Reading (n = 24) were paired with students who were advised but did not enroll in College Level Reading (n = 22) Fall 1991. Posttest results and first semester grade point averages were compared. Findings. The small number of students in the control group for whom all data were available (n = 6) prevented completion of meaningful calculations. However, simple comparisons revealed greater gains for the experimental group on all measures. Further analysis of at-risk students (n = 19) who enrolled in College Level Reading indicated statistically significant levels of mean grade equivalency gain (t-Test = 10.17 p = .0001) on the Nelson Denny Reading Test. Conclusions. Students enrolled in College Level Reading achieved statistically significant gains in achievement on the Nelson Denny Reading Test in one semester, but correlations between achievement, confidence, and study habits. were not statistically significant despite indications of a positive relationship. The characteristic elusiveness of academically at-risk students coupled with limited time allowed for intervention could have influenced results. Recommendations. A repeated study with larger numbers of students for a longer period of intervention would be recommended.
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Readings for the third Thursday of Advent:
10 Moreover the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
11 Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt theLord.
13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. (Isaiah 7, KJV)
26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. (Luke 1, KJV)
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I seem to have read too many war stories and they meld together. This story was too disconnected with the jumping back and forth of the different story lines, and the ending attempted to bring them all together. The setting provided a wonderful description of Wales and the Welsh people, but the character lacked depth. So many of the story lines had choppy events that transpired with no clear sequence. And of course, the Germans are portrayed as mean, inhumane creatures that batter their own troops. The story needed to be longer to give justice to the three characters, instead of flitting here and there.
Such a well-written book. Unfortunately, it took me forever to read it, because I was lazy and busy and those sorts of things. But I finally sat down and read the last third in one evening and it was so good! I actually enjoyed it all along but once I really got into it, it was pretty consuming.
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cynefin a sheep flock's connection to their land/territory, passed down from ewe to lamb (mother to daughter) as the males are sold off.
It's gratitude she feels, mixed with pride and hope, and she trusts that together this blend amounts to love. (Esther, 24)
If she can't see the world, she'll settle for the world coming to her. (Esther, 30)
And it seemed miraculous to speak the same language as men he had just been trying to kill, who might kill him any second, the words passing between them faster than bullets. (Karsten, 60)
Karsten can't help thinking that he saved their lives at the cost of his own honor, and if he had it to do again, he isn't sure he'd bother. (106)
"And they call it the fatherland," she says, as if to herself. "I wonder how the mothers feel about that. How did they ever let the men get away with that one?" (Mrs. R to Esther, 128)
She ought to hate them, she thinks, and she supposes she does, but she can't quite muster the heat of anger. She doesn't know them, after all; whatever they've done, it doesn't feel like they've done it to her. (Esther, 129)
What a wound it is that stops you bleeding. (Esther, 187)
...but it requires him to forget Rhys, the real Rhys....Now it's as if he's been rechristened in death, as if Arthur and the rest have created a Rhys then can mourn. (196)
...and all at once she sees his nationalism for what it is, selfishness, and more than that, a kind of licensed misanthropy. (203)
"Sometimes it feels like they're all linked somehow, the losses, like a chain, one death coupled to the next, and the next, whichever side they're on." (208)
"A film like that [Triumph of the Will] does something more important than stir the few, don't you think? It makes the rest an audience. Passive, you see? You watch a film, you sit in a cinema, you see things, you feel things, but you do nothing." He leans closer. "That film made our actions a drama to be watched, talked about, as if it were only happening on a screen, on a set. Forget incitement. That's the power of film, to draw a line between those who act and those who watch." (Hess to Rotheram, 223)
So this is bravery, she thinks, staring at the stars pinned above her. This absence of fear. Not something you feel, after all, but something you don't. (Esther, 239)
No, she tells herself, she has too many regrets already. She refuses to take on another. (245)
Patriotism? She's never seen before how love of country is so wrapped up in the love of fathers, but it suddenly seems so typical of the way men would ask for love. No, not even ask. Demand, as a duty. (254-255)
Escape, it has come to Karsten, is as complicated as surrender. Not one act, one moment, so much as a process. (258)
This is what men will never understand, she realizes....Their dishonor, men's dishonor, can always be redeemed, defeat followed by victory, capture by escape, escape by capture....But women are dishonored once and for all. Their only hope is to hide it. To keep it to themselves. (271)
...and she thinks, If she can stand it, a grown child, all that wasted love, so can I. (Esther, 273)
She has so much wanted to see the world, and now, before she's got any farther than Liverpool, she's beginning to see how much of it's already gone. (282)
She can't believe it's been just one day, she feels so changed. (290)
She is composed of nothing but shame and this tiny core of growing innocence. (291)
"Sometimes I think saving my life was the worst thing I ever did in it." (Rotheram/Steiner to Karsten, 297)
A million people keeping a secret. (298)
Why fatherland and not motherland? she'd wondered. But now she thinks: Why should the love of fathers or mothers be equated with love of country? Couldn't you love your country by loving your children? Weren't they your nation, at the last? (309-310)
Rotheram knows the films are true, yet they're being used as propaganda. At heart, he's simply not sure how or even if men can be forced to believe such things. (315)
"Perhaps it was luck, but once you have enough luck, it starts to feel like fate....We knew it was impossible, but everything else before it had been impossible." (Hess to Rotheram, 316)
"You can't believe a thing is possible until you do it. Yet until you do it, why even ask if you should? There's no morality about the impossible....We couldn't believe such a thing was possible, and that's how we could do it." (Hess to Rotheram, 317)
He sees a flash of hatred in Hawkins's eyes, but doesn't regret it. Better, he thinks, that you should hate me than feel forgiven. (Rotheram, 319)
Slowly building to a moving resolution: A few years ago I came across a short story from a new writer called "The Ugliest House in the World." Set in a small Welsh town, the story was simple, clear, and incredibly moving; I've never forgotten it and I have often wondered if he wrote anything else. Just recently, I read a review of a debut novel by the same author, Peter Ho Davies. Delicate, lyrical, and quiet, the novel slowly opens up and pulls you in. Set in the wanning days of World War II, the story centers around the titular Ethel Evans, a young barmaid who helps her aging father and his flock of sheep, a German P.O.W. named Karsten, and a town of nationalistic Welsh miners, young English evacuees, and a whole community that while on the periphary of war are no doubt touched by it.
This was a lovely story set in the Welsh countryside during the end stages of WWII. The story centers around two main characters, 17 year old Esther and German soldier Karsten, and gradually and beautifully shows how their lives intersect.
The story alternates between Esther's and Karsten's points of view. Each little section gives us more and more insight into the characters and their lives and their hopes and dreams. Esther is a miner/sheep farmer's daughter, so her life isn't exactly luxurious. She works hard, and bears a great deal of responsibility after the death of her mother. Karsten, who is my favorite character, is a fatherless German who, being raised by his mother in their inn, is very naive and innocent when it comes to men. He doesn't understand the way that men think or act, although he is among them and one of them. I loved the inverted perspective that we get from Karsten, and his sense of honor and virtue and truth, even when it causes him pain at the derision of his peers.
There was a running theme in this book of courage and cowardice, and what those things actually mean to us. How they make us who we are. Also, a theme of home, nationality and indentity, and that who we think we are isn't necessarily who we REALLY are.
I very much enjoyed this book, even though the war itself and the Nazi atrocities were far in the background, which isn't the usual WWII book I go for. I loved that this was a story about people, and felt personal and intimate and real. There were some unrealistic things, to me, but those come down to the behavior of people, and nothing in that is ever unrealistic, as people are unpredictable and strange, sometimes.
I enjoyed the ending as well, and the openness that it left us with, so that we can end it in the way that the reader finds appropriate, whatever will give the reader closure. :)
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0618918523, Paperback)Following two widely praised short-story collections, Equal Love and The Ugliest House in the World, Peter Ho Davies's first novel, The Welsh Girl, deserves to be equally well received. It carefully examines two great themes, dislocation and cowardice, through the stories of a WWII POW camp built by the British in the remote mountains of northern Wales and Esther, the 17-year-old Welsh girl at the heart of the story. The POW camp, filled with Germans, is yet another national insult, as far as the Welsh are concerned, only one of many instances of prejudice between and among the novel's characters: Welshman against Brit and vice versa, Brits and Welshmen against Germans, Germans against Jews. Some of these enmities are age-old antagonisms; others are newly-minted political killing machines.
Davies introduces a Welsh concept--cynefin--for which there is no English equivalent. It means a certain knowledge and sense of place that is passed down the matrilineal line in a flock of sheep. They always know where they belong and never leave their own turf. It is a perfect metaphor for much of what takes place in this carefully plotted story, and for the displacement felt by many of the characters. Esther longs to escape her village, yet is devoted to the flock and to her father. She meets Colin, an English soldier, in the pub where she works. He is a rough sort and things end very badly between them.
Another theme visited again and again is the concept of cowardice. Is it cowardly to save one's life and the lives of others by surrendering to the enemy? Is death the price that must be paid to be considered brave? The German POWs debate this endlessly, especially Karsten, an intelligent, sensitive soldier who did surrender himself and his men when it was clear that all was lost. When he and Esther find one another under impossible circumstances, Davies renders their relationship perfectly: it is star-crossed, but desperately important to both of them, setting them both "free" in the truest sense of the word. The Welsh Girl is a beautifully told story of love, war, and the accommodations we make in the midst of both. --Valerie Ryan
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At the height of World War II, a forbidden romance blossoms between seventeen-year-old Esther Evans, the daughter of a Welsh shepherd, and Karsten Simmering, a troubled young German prisoner of war, who questions what he has been fighting for.
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Great, we had Annika's baptism on Sunday. She did really well. DH and I had a big arguement on Saturday, but I think we needed it. We have both been very stressed and it got us to talk about things - we even got to DTD later as make up. Both kids actually slept at the same time and before I was too exhausted to do anything! Overall, a great weekend!
Jennifer - if you read this, a new letter in the mail today. This one is like the books where you read text and see pictures. I wrote what pictures are beside them :)
I found my high school best friend on Facebook the other day. We were born 3 min apart on the same day and both named Kristine as full first name. Well, we both married older men with teenage step children and now have a little one (okay, I have two).
Annika gave me 4 1/2 hrs sleep and then 3 more hours last night. She has continued sleeping for 3 more hours now! I could get used to this!!
Viktor is practicing putting on shoes. Rather than a stripper, I have one bent on putting on his clothes
Ok. I finally got the urge to clean yesterday. I did alot, but then I got tired. You still can't really tell. I find I move from room to room putting things away, so no room ever gets completely done, but looks better.
I took DS to the library yesterday. Other then that, not much happened. Today is a holiday in Canada (Family Day) so DH is off work. I am hoping we will get to do something fun. DS is still sleeping though.
Kristi - That's neat about connecting with you best friend again. I found my best friend from grade school on facebook. It's neat to see what everyone's up to.
Mom to Thomas David 10/19/06 and Rebecca Paige (aka Becca) 7/15/09 and Dance Studio owner.
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Kristi - Isn't Facebook awesome for reconnecting? I've "found" people that I figured I would never see again. It's funny to think our kids won't give this type of thing a second thought probably. It will just be a part of thier lives early on.
Mandee - I sort of do the same thing when I clean... I start one thing and then I get side-tracked to a different room for some reason and then start doing something else. Sometimes I really have to focus my efforts to get the results I want.
AOTD: I had big plans for sorting all Dylan's old clothes and getting the new baby's room all set up, but I didn't really get much done. DH did rearrange furniture in preparation though. He set up Dylan's toddler bed in his room, but the crib is still in Dylan's room too. I'm nervous to move Dylan out of the crib and into the bed.
Amy - Mom to beautiful boys Dylan 10-31-06 and River 3-12-09
Kristi - I recently found my best friend growing up. We were best friends from 2nd grade until 9th grade, then I moved away for a couple of years. I had not talked to her since I was 15. I have looked for her over the years with no luck, then she found me on Facebook. It has been so nice talking to her and catching up. She actually had two kids quite young, so she has a 17 and 14yo, I love that we got back in touch. Ayla wants to put on her shoes, jacket, clothes, everything by herself. It is very frustrating for both of us because she is very stubborn and doesn't let me help. I have been trying ways that I can help her get started, then make her feel like she did it all herself...so far so good!
Mandee - It's a holiday here too!! President's Day. Mavi got off of school, but dh had to go to work. I was bummed and begged him to take a day off, but he couldn't.
Amy - I love the name River! Good luck moving Dylan into a bed, I hear it can go really smoothly. I had a bad experience with Mavi, so I'm getting another crib LOL. Ayla just is such a great sleeper, I can't see taking her crib, plus it converts so I figure she can use it as a toddler bed if we need to later. She will share a room with the baby though, should be fun LOL.
I also did some major cleaning yesterday. I don't know if nesting can start this early or not, but I was like scrubbing walls yesterday (very unlike me) and threw out a ton of old toys. I'm planning on tackling the kids' room today and organizing. I have so much hand me downs that have been given to me, and not knowing the gender has really made it pile up. I want to go thru it and bin according to gender and size, that way it will be easy to pass things along when we know if it's a boy or girl. Dh did give a gift certificate for Victoria's Secret on Saturday, it is in the prettiest box I've ever seen! I bought both the kids a movie so we just did some shopping, then watched movies the rest of the day. It's nice having another day off, but I wish I could have slept in....dh woke me up getting ready for work so I was up early as usual.
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Amy- I love the name River also. Jordan had a girl in her preschool class named Rivor.
Mandee- Hope you are feeling 100% soon.
AOTD: Good, other than being on call which really stinks. I keep getting paged in the middle of the night and I am exhausted. Dh got me a gift certificate for a one hour massage, so I am hoping to take advantage of that next weekend to make up for this one! My birthday is this coming Friday and my co-workers are taking me out, so I would say I will be having a lot of fun in the near future.
Happy President's Day and Family Day!
Amy: My friend Meghan's kids are Eden and River. Its a really cute name.
AOTD: Our weekend was good, we met our neighbors on one side of us, the house on the other side is still empty. I'm so excited about good neighbors! But it will be hard to move again in June! We're LOVING the new house, and its starting to feel like home finally. "Almost" everything has found a home. DH put most of his office together, and there are still a few boxes in the garage and the office, but besides that we're DONE!! I'm really enjoying this home!! LOVING the square footage!! (Going from a 1232 to 2000 is a big deal!)
Amanda: I'm sorry I never answered your question! We're living on Dyess AFB (in Abilene, TX) right now. Its BRAND new and the streets behind us our still being built. We sold our house and close on Wed, so we're living in base housing until we move to Vegas in June.
Jenna, Proud AF Wife to Mosin Loving mama to Zoey 6.04, Aidah 10.06, Angel m/c 7/23/09, our rainbow baby Zane 4.10, and expecting a 12.12 baby!
Judy: Here is a trick I learned at work for little ones to put their coats on themselves. Lay it on the ground in front of her the neck by her feet. Have her put her arms in it and flip it over her head. Then all you have to worry about is zipping it up!
My weekend was ok. We did some cleaning. Hopefully we can get some more done this weekend!
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AOTD-It must have been a cleaning weekend! I cleaned and threw out so many toys it was ridiculous. I had to get it done though, it was getting out of control in my living room. Especially when the daycare kids were here. We went shopping Saturday and bought a new tv. Sunday we just hung around and relaxed.
Katie - Thanks! My friend showed me that trick the other day. I still haven't tried with Ayla but I'm going to soon. Hopefully it will help with some of the meltdowns.
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Overview of Bassani Black Long Road Rage 2 into 1 System - STR-237B
- Stepped headers merge into a true reverse-cone megaphone muffler
- 1-3/4 in. headpipe steps up to 1-7/8 in. into the collector to increase flow and improve performance
- 4 in. muffler body with polished billet end cap
- Removable spiral-core louvered baffle included
- Include mounting hardware
- Heat shields included unless noted
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(2) #64 allen band clamps
(1) Front head pipe
(1) Rear head pipe
(1) Long Megaphone with billet end cap
(1) Front heat shield
(1) Rear head shield
(1) Collector heat shield
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Great Look on Sportster
I really love the look of these pipes on my Nightster. It gives it a much different look than most sportsters some people think they are a little big for the bike but I feel they look great. Sound is nice and throaty. I had V&H shortshots on before which were great but a lil to load and everyone has them on their sportys. The finish isn't bad except one spot. The cover where the pipes merge doesn't fit flush and immedialty rubs the paint off. I had some flat touch up paint so no biggy but somewhat of a design flaw. Mounting took about 2 hrs.I would recommend this item to a friend.
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Had fishtail 50 50 and needed space on fatboy for saddlebags , plus had loss of power over 100 on hwy, on acceleration ,noise instead of power. Bought Bassani RR long collector and thought they would be as loud but no less loud , no more cackling on release of throttle, tighter smoother but throaty sound, little more power,better smoother acceleration on starts and better still at hwy speeds , etc. Clean look , cops love it.....inconspicuousI would recommend this item to a friend.
Nice pipes - easy install - Great sound
My FLST had a set a drag pipes when I got it. They were too loud for my taste and not very appealing to the eye, so I decided to slap a set of these on. Took me about 2.5 hours. Sweet sound - mellow idle and nice growl under acceleration. Noticeable increase in low-end torque to boot.I would recommend this item to a friend.
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After replacing a stock head pipe and Screaming Eagle slip-ons. My 2010 FXGWG has a look of its own and not some look-alike. Great performance so far and a sound that is of its own. I have not yet have a chance to open the throttle, because of an engine up grade to a 103 ci S.E. stage II. I now have a look, sound, and performance that has not been copied yet by another local bike. The Black finisht is what sets this bike apart from others.I would recommend this item to a friend.
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Nice performance,sound,just too low or extends too far past axle for a lowered softail.Mine was lowered 3/4"I would recommend this item to a friend.
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He watched this winter as good, experienced staffers at Wake Forest, such as the video coordinator who had been there 11 years, packed a box and bid farewell. Most fans will never know what those individuals contributed.
You don't hear about the graduate assistants, the underpaid apprentices who worry as much as anybody when the coach leaves. They hope their position coach has their back on those days.
"For every football job out there, there might be 25 people who want that job," new Texas defensive coordinator Vance Bedford said. "It's really not that easy to go out there and find a new job."
You don't hear about the strength coaches, the recruiting coordinators, the administrative assistants and secretaries. At Texas, Strong has already replaced most of the strength and recruiting staff. Even the Longhorns' athletic trainer departed, and the football academic adviser was let go last week.
Thorough change was expected, sure. But when the same man runs a program for 16 years, and then suddenly he's done, a bunch of staffers are left nervously wondering what's next. So are the people they go home to.
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The short one is simple: He was Dan Dodd's offensive coordinator. Dodd got an offer in February to be an assistant at Arkansas State. A couple days later, the 32-year-old Preszler was promoted.
Dodd replaced a coach at ASU who replaced the running backs coach at Boise State, who'd left to coach running backs at Washington. The UW coach had followed Steve Sarkisian to USC to replace Robinson, Texas' new running backs coach.
That's how this often goes: Follow your head coach, move ahead one space. Thanks in part to the Texas shake-up, Preszler is rising. But he had no idea that was the reason.
The long version is a bit more inspiring. Dodd came to Capistrano Valley Christian School in 2011 for semi-retirement after 30 years of coaching. Preszler was working in a sports medicine clinic at the time, after a stint coaching at Huntington Beach High.
He'd heard of Dodd. The guy coached LaDanian Tomlinson at TCU and Matt Forte at Tulane. The guy knew football. So Preszler walked into CVCS one day and asked for a job.
"Coach, you don't know me from Adam," he remembered saying, "but I've come here to help you out. Let's try to build this thing."
This was an eight-man football team dying on the vine. Five kids showed up to the first 2011 team meeting. But word spread that a real coach was taking over, and together Dodd and Preszler put everything they had into reviving a broken program.
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