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Ukraine Defends Its Sovereignty
Against the EU and the new cold warriors
Remember the "Orange Revolution"?
You'll be forgiven if you don't: Ukraine's "color revolution," organized, financed, and planned in the West, blends into the rainbow gallery of failed Western-backed regime-change operations launched in the wake of the Soviet Union's fall: Yugoslavia (2000), which rid the world of Slobodan Milosevic and yet failed to permanently install a "pro-Western" government; Georgia's "Rose Revolution" (2003), which ensconced the lunatic Mikhail Saakashvili in power; Kyrgyzstan's 2005 "Tulip Revolution," which adopted the color pink as its emblematic tint, that ended in a bloody uprising and fueled continuing chaos; Lebanon's "Cedar Revolution," which tried to impose this template in yet another (2005) attempt to install a "pro-Western" regime with backing from "pro-democracy" groups in the US and Europe. The Cedar-ites succeeded in driving Syria from Lebanon, but failed in their attempt to neutralize Hezbollah and seize power in their own right.
The "Orange Revolution" was different, however, in that it had a powerful narrative that went beyond mere talking points: the charismatic leader of the revolution, Viktor Yushchenko, former Prime Minister under the pro-Soviet government of Leonid Kuchmas, and once head of the Bank of Ukraine. He arose as the West's "golden boy," a "reformer" lionized by the Western media who was famously "poisoned" with dioxin, a highly unusual method of murdering someone, to say the least – on a par with the mysterious deaths of Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat by means of polonium poisoning.
On the strength of alleged election fraud on the part of the Ukrainian authorities in favor of Viktor Yanukovich, the pro-government pro-Russian candidate, and his alleged poisoning – purportedly at the hands of Vladimir Putin and the KGB – Yushchenko was elevated to the presidency in a 2004 run-off election. However, the Orange revolutionaries soon started devouring their own, as the movement split into different interest groups aligned with this or that dubious oligarch and the economy continued its downward slide.
Yushchenko's popularity also slid rather precipitously, as the alleged "poisoning" was increasingly called into question, including by his former chief advisor – and godfather to his child – David Zhvania, who contends the evidence for the poisoning was faked. A number of individuals, including a former prosecutor, have since come forward with more evidence that the "poisoning" was a stunt designed to discredit the opposition and propel Yushchenko into office. I wrote extensively about the "poisoning," raising doubts about its authenticity and the scientific evidence that seemed to verify it. Lothar Wicke, the chief medical officer of the clinic that examined Yushchenko, said from the beginning that there was no evidence of poisoning, and claimed to have been threatened by Yushchenko's supporters.
Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" – financed in large part by Western "pro-democracy" government agencies, including NED/USAID in the US and their British and European equivalents – was really the beginning of a new cold war with Russia. A renewed East-West confrontation had been brewing ever since Putin threw out the thieving "pro-Western" oligarchs who surrounded Russian President Boris Yeltsin and started challenging the Western agenda of global dominance.
A big issue has been the alleged "energy blackmail" engaged in by Putin, a favorite Western story line which depicts the Russian bear as cornering the poor helpless Ukrainian maiden and forcing her to submit to unspeakable economic practices, such as paying market prices for Russian oil and gas. Back in the Bad Old Days, when Ukraine was part of the USSR, Ukrainian energy – along with most other staples, such as food – was subsidized by the central authorities in Moscow. After the fall of the Communists, the practice was continued – until Putin got into office. It was he who initiated the "blackmail" campaign by doing what Westerners had been demanding he do since he took office: instituting market prices in basic commodities, including oil and gas.
Yushchenko and his sometime ally, Yulia Tymoshenko – now in jail for corruption – blamed the Russians for practically all of Ukraine's many problems, playing into the ultra-nationalism that has percolated just below the surface since the fall of the Soviets. They looked to the West, and specifically the European Union, as the only viable future for their country, and even talked of entering NATO.
The failure of the economy to improve, and the authoritarian impulses of the Orange revolutionaries, both played into the country's growing disillusionment and the reversal of fortunes that put Yanukovich back in power. When Yushchenko, the former Hero of the Orange Revolution, ran for a second term in 2010, he received a little over 5 percent of the vote, and was eliminated in the first round.
If you thought this meant the end of the Western attempt to tear Ukraine out of the Russian orbit, think again: these people never give up. And they seem to have learned their lesson, this time refraining from personifying their cause in a fallible human leader, such as Yushchenko – or the even more flawed Tymoshenko – and instead latching on to an abstraction – the EU – as the flag around which to rally their troops.
EU "associate" membership for Ukraine has long been in the planning stage, delayed in part by the country's economic condition and in part by the unpopularity of the "European idea" in the eastern pro-Russian provinces. The issue came to a head at the recent EU summit, where Ukraine's ascension to second class "associate" status was supposed to have been the centerpiece. Yanukovich's refusal to sign the treaty threw the Euro-crats for a loop, painfully puncturing their pretensions – which have taken a hard beating of late. Angela Merkel scolded Yanukovich at the summit: "We expected more," she reportedly told him.
What she expected was Ukraine's total capitulation to the EU's demands that the country "reform" its judicial process so that "selective prosecution" of the Euro-crat's favored politicians ceases and the "right" people are put in jail. Also demanded: the "reform" of Ukraine's electoral system, which unfairly favors candidates popular with the Ukrainian people rather than the EU's in-country sock puppets.
Yet why should Yanukovich sign the EU treaty – aside, that is, from the bromides about "joining Europe"? If he had signed, then why did the Ukrainians, alongside their Russian compatriots, bother fighting the Germans during World War II, finally succeeding in driving them out of the country after unthinkable losses? Why did they throw off the Russian yoke after the USSR disappeared – only to surrender their hard won sovereignty to yet another amalgam of socialist states?
The Eurocrats have their Ukrainian fifth column out in the streets of Kiev, attacking government buildings, engaging in hand-to-hand fighting with the police, and deploying the aggressive tactics we have come to know so well from the "color revolutions" of the past. Yet this Orange movement is dried up and rotten to the core, a juice-less phenomenon which holds up as a political ideal the faceless bureaucracy of Brussels, which is rightly hated from Greece to Spain to what used to be the free country of England. Good luck with that!
The pro-EU hooligans in the streets of Kiev are pawns in a larger game: the new cold war with Russia. This battle is being waged with the Europeans in the front lines and the Americans finagling and maneuvering behind the scenes, eager for vengeance against the one man who has successfully defied and outsmarted them at every turn: Vladimir Putin.
The end of the first cold war changed many things, but one indisputable fact of geography remained constant: the lands of the former Soviet Union constituted the single largest landmass out of the control of the Western powers. With the temporary power vacuum in the Kremlin, the West quickly moved in on the ruins, but their success, as in Ukraine, was limited.
Although the old Russian empire shrunk back to its historical dimensions, the remaining shards of the Soviet entity did not fall like ripened fruit into Western hands. While Russia itself, under the Yeltsin regime, was firmly in the grip of "pro-Western" advisors and the oligarchs who benefited from the government's "privatization" program, the history of these former Soviet satellites militated against a quick Western takeover. They had resisted the Germans, they had fought against the Russians, and they weren't about to give up their sovereignty to a bunch of slick Western-backed operators with plenty of cash to throw around.
The EU summiteers had to content themselves with inaugurating the entry of Georgia and Moldova into "associate" EU status – two countries which are the least European of any other EU candidate, with the possible exception of Turkey. If Georgia is part of Europe, then so is Mongolia – and that about defines the parameters of the EU's ambitions, as the Eurocrats seek to extend their authority over a territory approximating the old Roman empire at its height. The next step for Georgia and Moldova is full EU membership – and assimilation into NATO's military machine.
Pointed like a dagger at the heart of Russia, the Western military-political advance into the steppes of Eurasia is a challenge that isn't going unanswered in Moscow. Yes, we really are going backwards in time: retro chic rules in the realm of Russo-American relations.
Ordinary Americans, naturally, derive no benefit from this renewed rivalry: indeed, we suffer, as international tensions drive commodity prices – like oil – through the roof and the ever-present threat of war looms large. Who profits? The weapons-makers who will outfit Georgia and Moldova with all the latest NATO-approved hi-tech military hardware. The banks who will make loans to "pro-Western" governments, and who will sell their debt: the politicians who will ride the wave of anti-Russian feeling whipped up by the Western media and piped into places like Ukraine by our "democracy-promoting" government.
The EU is a failed socialist experiment that exists to fund a huge (and hugely arrogant) bureaucracy and impose a bloodless ideological abstraction over and above the authentic nationalisms it seems to subsume. It is deeply authoritarian in that it provides no mechanism for member states to withdraw, and its super-centralist model is a prescription for tyranny if ever there was one. When a referendum is held on EU membership, and the results aren't to the pro-EU side's liking, the election is simply ignored and the Eurocrats mount yet another campaign until the "right" result is achieved.
Good for Ukraine and Yanukovich for resisting this incipient version of the old USSR, albeit this time a creature of the West. The EU must call off their hooligans in Kiev and stay out of Ukraine's business: and that goes double for the US, which should stay out of it (which of course it isn't) and leave the Ukrainian people to decide their own fate.
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60 Responses to "Ukraine Defends Its Sovereignty"
The European Union is just an economic organization expending its territory importing cheap labor from all over eastern Europe, thus far it's been a very good business for the European vulture capitalism. Sweden is where some of the Eastern European people are homeless sleeping under the bridges even during the winter time, so as many other Swedes or otherwise.
80 som million people in Europe are unemployed, in Sweden the number is over a million where the population is just over 9 million. Swedish right wing social democrats have sold Sweden to highest bider, atlas Copco, Alfa Laval, Volvo, Saab and all other Swedish industrial proud is no longer there.
The Neo liberals all over Europe doing more harm to existing European economy than ever before, and the growth in job and overall economy is at a still stands since 2002, Neo fascism so as over all poverty is on the rise at a rapid pace and the Swedish or the English model of Neo liberal economy is the evidence of the matter.
NATO is a militarism regime helping the European Union to expend its territory as they have done in Yugoslavia, the idea behind dividing Eastern European nations is to demolish the existing industry in eastern countries and bringing in the western European industry and economy replacing the entire economic infrastructure and dividing the countries wealth and cheap manpower among themselves; in another word, making each and every country a "modernized" slavery system which is the idea. Otherwise, the European themselves contesting the new comers and people of Ukraine or others are not welcome as a European to join the European Union. Central or north European countries simply have no room for immigrants, nor the present economic system can afford to pay the costs of social living as the number of immigrants grows, the austerities in England, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Greece and etc, although are in different amount or social economic system but the saving for the "government" and those who the governments are working for (capitalism) speaks the truth that: EU economic situation is nothing but big bubble with a small hole appearing to get much larger by the day. One of the reason for EU economy being able to continue (as is today thus far) is the USA market and Americans interests for expensive junks or good European products.
Somebody must think that I am stupid.
don't worry. there's one or two people who come here only to give thumbs down to all posts. Things will change once the real readers go over your post.
Yes, good for Ukraine in asserting their soveriegnty against the neo-communist EU/NATO tentacles. For 70 years they like the Russian people suffered under the zio-communist USSR where Stalin's terror apparatus caused the death of millions of Ukrainians in the engineered famine, the Holodomor, or execution by hunger in 1932-33. Little is heard in the West about this actual holocaust and genocide as opposed to the one we're all familiar with. The Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda, meaning 'Freedom' is in favor of their nation's independence and opposed to EU membership just like the Golden Dawn Party in Greece. Ukraine should maintain its ties with Putin's Russia and its trade bloc and stay out of the corrupt, decaying EU.
The basic error has been in excluding Russia from any prospect of joining the EU. That, along with the British led neo-liberalism that has profited elites in all of it's member states. The US government has succeeded in oerverting the course of the EU toward a super-Switzerland, accessing the network of corruption from the Cold War and pandering to petty nationalism and habits of glory seeking colonialism. The only reason the USA does not sponsor UKIP and other anglospheric xenophobes is that Britain in the EU tent pissing in suits it better then Britain pissing from with out. You will find litle of libertarianism in the jingo movement for British withdrawal. The liberty of Britons resides in belonging to a pacific and limited comunity, autonomous in its needs. An EU with Russia in rather than a congerie of nation states set at each others throats by neighbours.
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logical step would be to limit any politician to – say 10 years – at a post. And only people with some real labor market experience should be eligible. (30 years of age and with some real work experience.)
Another thing is this quite obvious trend, that leaders are not accountable. They should be at least economically responsible for errors. Even when only making errors, they shold be punished. Zero tolerance against the top! And not just vice versa, as is common in the "developed" countries.
Well, think about it: One does not reward leaders by assisting into making them sick – socially and psychologically, – like they tend to be, or become today.
"Why did the Ukrainians, alongside their Russian compatriots, bother fighting the Germans during World War II…" Shame on you, Justin Raimondo. You know very well that in the aftermath of the Holodomor, the greatest ethnic cleansing in Europe's history, that the Ukrainians welcomed the Germans. Well over a million volunteers fought side by side with the anti communists. You know that the West delivered captured Ukrainians over to the Soviet Union for summary execution in Operation Keelhaul.
Get out of bed with Lazar Kagonovich and Uncle Joe. From the early 20s the communist leadership that was not descended from Christians, a clear divide within that leadership, pursued Genocide. Stop denying the history of the consequences of that crime. Ukrainians did not support Moscow. You dishonor their heinous sufferings.
This crude mangling of history is unlike you and deserves correction.
I agree Justin that this is nothing more than a cynical and tasteless geo-political move to separate Russia and the Ukraine. I mean, why else would the EU be rejecting trilateral talks between Russia/EU/Ukraine? Why does it have to be an either or situation? The western media continues distracting from the actual reasons the Ukrainian government won't sign on the dotted line by instead focusing on "Putin's bullying" when in fact it's the other way around.
The association agreement has been so heavily misrepresented that many have ben led to believe that this is EU membership instead of a trade agreement. How else can you explain the chants of "freedom" and "democracy" from protesters and their supporters when the actual deal being offered would only accelerate the Ukraine's death spiral? I also have the suspicion that the agreement is being heavily misrepresented in the Ukrainian media as well by focusing all of the rage on Russia and either ignoring or downplaying the tangible and logical reasons why Yanukovych won't sign it.
Spot on. There is no prospect of poverty stricken Ukraine joining the EU. The influence of oligarch money and servility to the US play a part in the policy of the leading EU states (there is no EU policy). Also a sort of the neo-marxist doctrine of liberating the Third World to force western wages down to produce revolution: but now outsourcing is tonforce wages down to deliver a globalist paradise. Of course it won't be allowed to force down the wages of the asset-stripping swine who advocate such equalising sacrifice!
AFAIK, all slovenian and croatian governments may be deemed pro-western. in the last 22 years croatia was twice governed by socialists. these two governments also wanted croatia to join EU.
i also think that most serb politicians want serbia to join europe.
but i think EU is frightened to let serbia in!
i am both sad and glad that croatia joined EU this year. and for two reasons:
1) croatia needs badly EU because of rise of fascism and negative influence of catholic church.
2) sad because it weakens socialists, human, right activists, and the rights of minorities; primarily those of the serbs.
"amalgam of socialist states"?? all european countries have very strong asocialist parties. nearly all are bellicose; tho, somewhat less than usa!
egalitarian [not in utopian manner] structures of society and governance appear to me saner, more just/peaceable than any other.
i invite JR to explain or tell us on what a principle he rejects them?
he should also tell us how the 'socialist' [means: so-called] states are failing, say, women?
ok, socialists may fail socialism, fascists fascism, libertarians libertarianism, etc., but socialism, fascism, libertarianism, republicanism, communism remain virtually the same!
so, why then criticize socialists only; especially in lands in which 60-70% of voters cast a ballot against socialists!
JR doesn't distinguish implementation of ideas from people who implement them.
Good article but the link to MP Daniel Hannan as demonstration of the notion of the EU being a "failed socialist experiment" was disappointing. Really, is that all there is to say, are those really the "facts" behind this idea? There are many intelligent ways to talk sense about the causes of UK & EU failures but Hannan's bedtime story is not quite one of them. One has to weigh up failure and success factors carefully which is the hardest thing.
As it stands, the US and EU both have a serious debts and financial problems, both can be called "experiments" with outcomes which remain highly debatable. But it's the US and UK who have too long argued from a position of "financial exceptionalism" and are actually still doing that to the day, with Hannan being more an exponent of just that.
can 'higher' classes ever respect 'lower' classes? no, they can't and never will! and as 'lower' class or classes get poorer, more dependent and 'higher' classes [usually only two: 'elite' and very rich people] gather ever more info-miltary-politico-educational powers, we can expect 'terrorism'!
is this resultant that libertarianists fret about; thus, want the army at home to fight against 'lower' classes?
so war on poor people would be ok, but not against syria or iran?
The governments of the European Union are not "working for" capitalism. To the contrary, the EU exists to thwart capitalism by granting privilege to politically-favored corporations. This is NOT capitalism.
The European Union is, first and foremost, a government-imposed territorial monopoly on central-bank bank-note issue. That is, the EU is, and always was, first and foremost, about imposing the euro. They can print money. You can't. It's as simple as that. Yet somehow the stench of Marx's dead corpse still fogs people's minds and manages to draw attention away from this actual form of exploitation.
The typical American Empire reaction and the article should really have been signed Nebojsa Malic! I suspect the whole thing is a three-way set up between the EU, Ukraine and Russia. An association agreement is not membership. An association agreement with the EU and a free trade agreement with Russia are complementary, not two incompatible alternatives. The EU and Russia are the best of friends and, like Ukraine, the EU depends of Russian energy, particularly gas. Both Ukraine and Russia want visa-free access to the EU labour market for their citizens and since many Russian citizens are in fact Ukrainians, the association agreement will open the EU door to many Russians. Equally, the trading arrangements will facilitate access of Russian goods to the Russian market. In fact, the combination of the two agreements amounts to a tacit association agreement with Russia and Belarus. And the professional wrestlers-type "squabble" has certainly smoked out the supporters of the dying American Empire!
If you or others think that the present EU governing buddy is about socialism or even a functioning social democracy your assumption is wrong as the present Neo social democrats in France, what they are looking for is to demolish the Eastern European independents. The Neo liberals in Europe is about "Neo colonialism" as EU in corporation with Saudis and USG destroyed Yugoslavia to create new territories among themselves, the new created Balkan countries economy is divided among Germans and Swedish economic corporations and bankers of all kind, the Balkan nations are up to their neck in debt to these banks and corporations and EU is after wanting to do the same with Ukrainian people. EU governments, including the Neo social democrats, are hired by EU vulture capitalism, once again, the Swedish, English, Spanish, Greece, Portugal are the evidence of the matter.
Putin is putting the Soviet Union back together
and all the 'freedom-lovers' in the West are going crazy.
It was inevitable – geography is history.
(Wonder how much those Kiev demos are costing the NED?)
As a thought experiment try this. In the second to last paragraph of the article, if one substitutes "US" for each occurrence of EU, "capitalist" for socialist, and with a few corresponding minor changes the resulting paragraph would still be an accurate description of political reality:
"The US is a failed capitalist experiment that exists to fund a huge (and hugely arrogant) bureaucracy and impose a bloodless ideological abstraction over and above the authentic stateism it see(k)s to subsume. It is deeply authoritarian in that it provides no mechanism for member states to withdraw, and its super-centralist model is a prescription for tyranny if ever there was one. When a referendum is held on US policy, and the results aren't to the pro-Fed side's liking, the election is simply ignored and the Fedocrats mount yet another campaign until the "right" result is achieved."
Existing political systems – Capitalist/Facist, Socialist/Communist – are failing all but those with wealth and power and their cronies. What is actually being implemented globally, disguised by various names, is a two class system of those with wealth and power (supported by "useful idiots" and guardians), and a vast sea of slave laborers. The Ukraine's leaders may have postponed losing their independence, obtained relatively recently by the collapse of the Soviet system, but it's only a temporary reprieve until the election of leadership more amenable to globalist demands can be engineered by globalist forces.
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We are hung up on names and labels. Socialism, capitalism, neo-this or that. We are the world in transition and are trying to retrofit what we see into the stuff we learned. It is not working. In fact, I believe capitalism from its inception was an extention and transformation of feudalism. There were times when the barrons went wild, causing financial catastrophies and wars, and their poo was always cleaned up by "the people". After clean up, they will go and do it again. Like now. Todays corporations and financial cartels, the Lords of the West, are on the rampage, and in spite of the damage they have done, they are not going to pause — onward! They are going for broke! The problem is, we have crazed feudal lords, and NO SOVEREIGN to balance them out. EU is a clear example of few dozen priviledged corporations appointing the European Commission and giving tasks to the Commission, and through it, the nations. The rest of it is mearly a political theater. In US, the same. We need to forget labels based on national model, like capitalism or socialism. The feudal/colonial corporate model of British Empire is more suitable to today's realities.
As far as I know, Freedom party is FOR EU, and their leader is calling on the "international community" to punish Yanukovic! In fact, they are a crazed bunch attracting unstable youth that is tired of poverty and lack of perspective. The problem for Ukraine is that, just like Serbia, lives in the permanent state of "waiting". It is like a would be bride waiting for her EU lover to come and take her away from all the misery. But the lover promises and never delivers. And Ukraine and Serbia, in their perpetual state of waiting, realized that Europe does not really want them except on a "special" basis, as a polygon for experimentation with economic and legal institutions, and some future geopolitical games, while their economies would die. As the standard of living has been visibly rising in Russia, Ukrainians are paying the price of staying outside of Eurasian economic integration growing opportunities. Ukrainian simple economic interest is not on the side of EU.
' "The US is a failed capitalist experiment that exists to fund a huge (and hugely arrogant) bureaucracy and impose ….." '.
not so! clearly, US system of rule and structure of society is an exact copy of that of all empires i know of: egyptian, sumerian, russian assyrian, persian, roman…
so, what a failed experiment! in US, it's a 'brilliant' success for the two top classes!!
THIS is why Ukraine has a problem, and why the efforts by EU/US might bear fruit in the end. No, Raimondo has notning to be ashamed off. Perpetuating the mythology of various factions in Ukraine — their guilt and suffering, is a virtual maze of truths, half-truths, fabrications and murderous craze. It is easy to undermine any country that is incapable of coming to terms with its own past. That was the case of Tito's Yugoslavia, and is dangerously similar to situation in Ukraine.
Catholics in Ukraine and Catholic Croatians never had to face the crimes they committed by alliance with Hitler against their orthodox christian neighbors. Vatican never had to face their role in it. British protegee in WWII, Tito took on the task of suppressing Serbs, and covering up for Croatians. In Ukraine, the crimes of catholics have been papered over by accusing Russia of anything real or fanciful. Ukraine got Krimea as a present from Russia, why not give it back? The famous Holodomor was a famine that killed millions in Russia, and more people in Kazahstan then in Ukraine — and no deliberate attempt at killing Ukrainians. Give Galicia to whoever wants it — let it join EU. And Ukraine will be spared civil war.
"Existing political systems – Capitalist/Facist, Socialist/Communist – are failing all but those with wealth and power and their cronies. What is actually being implemented globally, disguised by various names, is a two class system of those with wealth and power (supported by "useful idiots" and guardians), and a vast sea of slave laborers".
i agree! but what you described is not a novelty; it's as old as the hiils. classful society was first established in ME or possibly in indus valley. greeks and romans copied it from the ME empires and we, german and slav tribes from the latter, say, 17-13 hundred years AD.
we could say that US is split into only two classes, but i think it is more adequate/accurate to say US is divided in several classes.
and, of course, the top class being master of all others!! note also, that US society is divided ethnically, racially, religiously, intergender.. so that 12 very united individuals could easily rule with iron fist 320 mn americans..
what we see in US, is a near-total dictatorship of a minority, say 10-20% of the pop [itself being striated] against a vast majority!
Croatia and Slovenia are both a MESS. A day before becoming a member, and amidst celebrations, Croatia signed up the capitulation in the form of destroying its shipbuilding and ship servicing and maintenance facilties. And on it goes. Population is UNHAPPY, DEEPLY UNHAPPY. And you can see it by irrational Ustasha explosions in sports events — where masses can express their unhappiness by saluting to the glory of their "successful" days. It is more a reaction to their misery, then expression of hate, but in reality, there is no tangible difference between the two. Rage requires a scapegoat, and in Croatia, that would always be Serbs. Croatians are too scared to point finger at the master, even if the master is killing them by starvation. Slovenia is not infected by that virus, but it is too small to suceed against EU machinery, unless it joins the likes of Hungary, and finds a refuge in company of those who are actively fighting the slavery.
And where is the "egalitarian" structure of society ruled by money. Forget the "isms" — they are all theater and the product of idle intelectualism. The fight is never about ideas, but about the structure of society that best suits the elite in control of its levers (money, production, trade, miltary, agricuture, etc.), and these levers depend on historic and geographic circumstances. Today, we see the subjugation of every lever to the financialization controls. The problem of the Lords of the Financial Rings is the following. People have to work in order to eat. They are not deterred, though. Give people enough GMO garbage, and in a few generations masses of people will not reproduce, and the numbers will go down. In the meantime, keep up with some wars, and that will reduce the numbers.
partisans have slain in croatia during the ww2 and after thousands of croats which coworked with german and italian occupators.
they have also slain at least 60k ustashas [by ustasha count about 120k] which surrendered to british forces in austria.
this fact is one cause for such deep hate between socialists and followers of pavelich going on right now.
you should stop propagating such brazen lies.
and even serb partisans have slain thousands of serb fascists [chetniks] and other collaborators with german forces!!
btw, there was no warfare or hate between croats and serbs for good 1300 years.
but once serbs began to avow conquest of croatia in the 19th century, croats began to hate serbs fascists.
i do not feel a bit sorrow that croatia had [or if it had] expelled about 200k serbo-wallachs from croatia.
"Rage requires a scapegoat, and in Croatia, that would always be Serbs".
this is pure hate mail. [all] croats would always hate [all serbs] you are spewing hatred, racism, intolerance, hopelessness.
'And where is the "egalitarian" structure of society ruled by money'. the statement makes no sense. it appears contradictory or even nonsensical. you also left out [deliberately, didn't you!] that without egalitarian structure of governance an about equal wealth for all individuals cannot exist.
in short, we cannot have about equal, say, education/healthcare for all without about equal political power for all!
eg, i estimate that an ethnicity i call ashke'm may have 10-50 times more political power [thus obtain or get somehow hold of a lot of more money than, say, latinos] than all blacks put together.
this means that that ethnicity can buy/obtain more/better education, police protection, political power, hope, prestige, etc. than the lowest earning ethnicity [or a race, really] like blacks.
so, to repeat: structure of society cannot be separated from the structure of governance.
money, itself, doesn't have to influence, shape, or change the two structures.
it does tho in just about all countries, but in different degrees,
in a society of individuals with equal political power, money/classes as a problem evanesce overnight!
ruling class knows what i am talking about. so do libertarians! but they love the status quo!
How does Guest get away with such a long post? I've submitted posts 1/4th as long and get a message that they need to be shortened or to use multiple posts.
Apparently my point was too subtle. Of course the EU government isn't really about socialism or "even a functioning social democracy." My point is that these are the myths by which it is sold to the plebeian. To maintain and expand their coercively-imposed authority, governments make promises they can't keep. When they inevitably fail to keep those promises—when the authority they have accumulated is inevitably used to enrich the "vulture capitalists" while the true economic engines of prosperity are wrecked, they act surprised, make excuses, and demand even more authority.
A system of smaller sovereigns is economically healthier than large ones, if for no other reason that their power is geographically limited. But in the battle for power amongst them, rooting for any side in the name of e.g. a "functioning social democracy" is a mistake. It is the very idea of government as the solution that is the problem.
Same here–inquiring minds want to know.
Everything you said is true. I don't know why you got those thumbs-down. People need to read real history, not the Allied victory propaganda and other garbage fed to us by the zio-media for the past 70 years.
It appears Svoboda is pro-EU, unfortunately–my mistake. I was under the impression they were like GD in Greece or Jobbik in Hungary because they were anti-zionist. They won't have much 'freedom' in the new Soviet European Union.
Yes, let's riot in the streets to get rid of your national currency in favor of the Euro. You have to be kidding me. They must be getting paid to do it.
The EU has nothing to do with socialism, and is in fact using the Euro to destroy social democracy throughout Europe. Loading down nations with unpayable sovereign debts and then using austerity for the masses to pay off bankers is not socialism. It's a form of state capitalism.
It is true that the EU bankers uber alles, screw the people policies are being helped along by the parties of the left:
What do we have here? Libertarians who support violent authoritarians!
The whole paleo-libertarian crowd has long served the pro-Russian authoritarian Party of Regions, whose helmeted gestapo spent the weekend violently beating hundreds of peaceful protestors.
James George Jatras launched the American Institute in Ukraine on behalf of the Regions party as early as 2003, earning $100,000 for that service provided.
Doug Bandow has been on the Party of Regions' payroll as early as 2009, earning $3,000 for his speaking appearances.
I hope Raimondo is getting in on the cash for such a beaming endorsement of authoritarianism.
I invite you to visit Ukraine for a week to witness the "worker's paradise" created by Yanukovych.
I invite Philip Giraldi, who has praised Alyaksandr Lukashenka's government on Antiwar, to spend EVEN ONE MONTH living in that other "worker's paradise," Belarus. You would crap your pants!
Bianca, I see you are a product of 70 years of Bolshevik brainwashing.
But as time goes on, your breed will become extinct.
There are thousands of Russian chauvinists like Bianca who sit in their Brooklyn apartments collecting welfare and talking about how horrible it is in Croatia and Slovenia.
If Russia is so wonderful, WHY DON'T YOU GO LIVE IN YOUR RODINA, BIANCA?
The fact is that YOU ARE DEEPLY UNHAPPY to be smearing and defaming other nations rather than critically examining your OWN PEOPLE'S UGLY HISTORY.
her beloved serbia is in worse conditions than slovenia and croatia.
keep it coming Bianca.it seems that the quality of the visitors,here,is going down lately.
There was ho such a thing as "Russian yoke" in Ukraine. It's yet another myth of the west's Russophobic propaganda. My both parents come from Ukraine and if I read this to them they wouldn't know what I am talking about. My father went to a Ukrainian school in the utterly Russian Lugansk (!!!)not even Lvov), he had it in his Soviet passport that he is Ukrainian (actually, half) because the official made him re-write the passport form when he saw that my then 16 y/o father wrote "Russian" in the nationality line. There were Ukrainian books, films, schools, opera, radio, TV channels etc. Ukrainians were just regular Soviet people, not some Russia-exploited slaves as they have been led to believe recently
Иди на хуй, мудак
Заткнись, свинья, мы до тебя доберемся и повесим, фашистский уебок
Felix, do you live in Brighton Beach or Bensonhurst?
I won't go на хуй. But if you love Russia so much, why don't you go there?
Typical Russian coward — you don't even put your full name.
For those of you who don't speak Russian, Felix (the peaceful, loving Russian) just threatened "to find me and hang me."
Please, go ahead. You know my full name. I live in Kyiv, Ukraine.
But like a typical Russian coward, won't put your full name.
Oksana, I'm sure it was torture for your father to go to a Ukrainian school in Ukraine.
But your story is hardly believable.
Never would the Soviet bureaucracy adopt a policy of forcing someone to put their nationality as Ukrainian.
The article is nonsense because polls have consistently shown slight support for the EU within Ukraine, versus the Russian-dominated Customs Union. Moreover, the current parliament is controlled by Yanukovich's party not because it won the majority of the voters' support but because the "Orange" group split their vote three ways. Imagine if, in America, the Democrats won a bunch of senate seats in elections where their candidate won 40% of the vote, while a Tea Party Republican got 35% and a Republican got 35%, and that these Democrats then proceeded to do stuff that the 60% of the voters really hated.
Thus, the massive protests – the government which was elected with a minority of the votes has taken a course that the majority of the population opposes.
The idea that the pro-EU supporters are some minority of paid Western Quislings is simply bizarre.
While certainly Ukraine would face economic catastrophe in the shirt-term, in the long-term convergence with the EU would not be bad. People point to Greece as a nightmare, but forget that Poland has done quite well. Ukraine would not do as well as Poland for various reasons, but is more like Poland than it is like Greece.
It's easy to be anti-EU once you're in the EU. If Hungary was faced with the prospect of union with Russia I'm sure Jobbik (which is comparable to Svoboda) would be pro-EU also.
There are two issues with your posted writing. 1- "Freedom party", freedom from what? 2- who is behind the "freedom Party", if it was the majority of the people than they wouldn't come up with the slogan "freedom Party" they would have won the election right out, by just calling it "freedom" doesn't mean that other "party" is going to free people from what is not there for people to be free from. Freedom starts with a nation independent and self reliant, freedom stands for the country sovereignty. European Union although is a union but is not free from the rule of capitalism economic slavery system, when that happens than you can call it a Union of the people for the people and by the people, same goes for USA.
Those FEMEN bimbos in Paris publicly urinating on Yanukovich's picture didn't help anyone's cause, either.
> Give people enough GMO garbage, and in a few generations masses of people will not reproduce.
The article is also quite unlibertarian as is talks in masses and nations. It also seems to say that "democracy" with all scare quotes you can ever have (as well as the beatings and economic destitution that go with it) is okay as long as they do it and they should not attempt to break out of it as long as this means signing contracts with the less-than-libertarian EU trade superblock.
Pretty patronizing, IMHO. But Justin has some special chip on the shoulder in things ex-Eastern Block.
Bianca: "The famous Holodomor was a famine that killed millions in Russia, and more people in Kazahstan then in Ukraine"
A masterful way of putting it.
"Honest my'lord. I really didn't deliberate kill that family, as I also killed three additional families down the road. It was all a mistake and I am sticking to that story!"
I won't even start with how Ukraine and Belarus and the newly created Poland got the Attila treatment from Lenin's attempt to export the Revolution by force of arms into Europe in 1920. This on top of the utter devastation wrought by WWI. Villages razed, Jews strung up, the works. Check out "Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe 1920" for a nice chapter of history that is never brought up in school. This is also how Trotsky got his status.
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Regina Charboneau has done it again! She's given me a great recipe to share with you. These chicken wraps are super easy to prepare and great for when you are on the go. There is no need to knock yourself out preparing the chicken. Regina says a store bought rotisserie chicken is perfect for this recipe.
On each flour tortilla spread 2 tablespoons of the Thai chili-garlic spread.
Top with half a cup of shredded roast chicken, 1/2 cup mixed greens and sprinkle red onion.
Roll the tortilla up, wrap in plastic wrap and then cut in half.
Leave wrapped in plastic in the fridge until ready to serve.
You can make Thai Chile Garlic Spread by combining 2 tbs. of Thai garlic chili paste and 6 tbs. of mayonnaise.
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Review: I think the food was good. I had an egg, cooked with truffle essence, it was very odd but nice... With soldiers and truffle butter or something... Accompanied with a massive salad, full of grated carrots, beetroots and healthy things! For dessert, a chocolate tart with sarrasin flour, (buckwheat) which was delicious! I think they have a different "plat du jour" everyday. So ask the waiter what they have... They divide their option as their origins, for instance if they have a have a thai option and spanish optin 9they often have 2 options), they'll call it "La thailandaise, ou l'espagnole and then a desciption of what it is, the dish of the day, if you will.... I though the price was reasonable. It's ok as a cafe if you're in the area or on your lunch break.(20min from Bellecour, going through Guillotiere bridge) Very healthy for Lyon! A good option indeed! Their produce is all organic which is great to know, and it's eco friendly and local, as much as they can use local products... They're very family orientated as well, the ambiance is cosy and relaxed, no fuss... The staff is friendly and speak good English. They also have fresh juices. the patisseries are succulent. I defo recommend it! Have fun in Lyon, people! It's my hometown, so knowing that people open businesses like this fills my heart with joy! Lyon is the gastronomy capital city of France after all!
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Since emerging on the scene in the mid-'80s, Lyle Lovett has never been shy about his quirky sense of humor.
The Texas troubadour has written songs about penguins, skinny legs and penned the lyrics "fat babies have no pride."
But one of his cleverest insights arrived last year, not in a song but an album cover: the stark image of him standing in a desert, tied up with a rope, looking forlorn beneath the title "Release Me."
It was the last album in his contract with label Curb/Lost Highway. After nearly three decades, he wanted out.
"The marketing guys from Lost Highway called up laughing when they saw the cover," Lovett said.
The album was filled with mostly cover songs, tributes to fellow Texans Townes Van Zandt and Eric Taylor.
"The only song I learned for the record was 'Release Me.' I'd always loved that song, but I did it really as a joke to be able to name the album that," he said. "But I was really proud of the way the track came out and to get to do it with k.d. (lang)."
It fit perfectly and made the album work as a whole, something he has always strived for, even in an age of 99-cent singles.
Over the years, swinging between blues, country, gospel and jazz, Lovett has played more than a dozen shows in Sonoma County, whether doing spare acoustic shows with Guy Clark and John Hiatt or taking over every inch of the stage with his 14-piece Large Band.
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Sleigh Bells
So what did it take to make the Quadros cut? It's pretty simple, I have to like the act's music. The more positive things I can write about, the better chance they will end up here. Sure, I've added a couple bands I'm not too thrilled with, just because I knew their material well, but as we're counting down the days until the festival, there are several bands I really enjoy who I haven't written about yet.
Enter Sleigh Bells, who created one of my favorite albums from last year, Treats. You've probably already heard it, and formed an opinion of the band, but at least you can agree/disagree with the ordering of my suggested tracks. If you haven't heard Treats, you must lead a very busy life. The best part about this album is the unique sound. Who else sounds like Sleigh Bells? The album has so far held up over time, meaning a lot of my favorites from 2010 have already been forgotten, yet I still find time to listen to Treats occasionally.
So what's their live performance like? First off, it's hard to imagine a woman with a mic, and a man with a guitar, can pull off all the different sounds you hear on the album, because, well, they can't. One good thing about this fact, it's (nearly) impossible for the show to be a true train wreck, since so much of the music is prerecorded. Wouldn't it be cool to see five or six musicians on stage recreating the album live? While I didn't care for their performance last fall, I still appreciated hearing their music being played so darn loud. I'm getting amped to see them again. And since the question was asked 43 times on the Sasquatch Message Board, Sleigh Bells set time is so short because Treats is their only album, and is 32 minutes long.
Suggested Tracks:
1. Crown on the Ground
2. Infinity Guitars
3. Rill Rill
4. Tell 'Em
5. Treats
6. Straight A'S
I caught Skrillex at Coachella last month, and wrote four paragraphs in my Day 1 Coachella review, which can be read here. I doubt you'll see Korn, and the light show in the Banana Shack will be elementary compared to the insanity of the Sahara at Coachella, but it should be a fun show.
Suggested Tracks:
1/2. Do Da Oliphant (into) ---> With Your Friends
3. Reptile's Theme (from Mortal Kombat)
4. Rock 'N' Roll
5. My Name Is Skrillex
6. Fucking Die 2 (I really enjoy a good love song)
7. Kill Everybody (sexy, seductive)
The Antlers
The Antlers are an indie rock band from Brooklyn. They burst on the scene following the strength of their 2009 album, Hospice, which received critical acclaim. I don't really know anything about this band, but I know once Hospice caught my ear after about three listens, I wanted to hear it every morning for two weeks. I saw them live, before I became obsessed with Hospice, but they didn't keep my attention. Maybe it was the most spectacularly beautiful performance of their career, but after Phantogram got my dancing shoes twitching, the Antlers didn't match my mood.
Their songs are pretty mellow, actually, very depressing is a better description. The phrase "hospice" doesn't exactly conjure up swell thoughts. You won't pass crowds of people blaring the Antlers in the campground while shotgunning beers, and Foo Fighters fans need not apply. If you walk by their performance, you might not even want to stay. If their music has clicked with you though, you're going to appreciate the slightly smaller crowd, and the beauty theses songs can offer. Their new album Burst Apart is as lovely as Hospice.
Suggested Tracks:
1. Sylvia
2. Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out
3. Two
4. Parentheses
5. No Widows
6. The Universe Is Going To Catch You
7. Bear
8. Putting The Dog To Sleep
Talkdemonic is a duo with a cute chick playing the viola, and her dad who mostly plays the drums. What? Okay, that was a joke, it's not really her dad on the drums, He might not be that much older than her either. Speaking of jokes, I caught the National a couple times last fall, the
second of which, Talkdemonic was an opener. Front man for the National, Matt Berninger, is pretty much a character, so he cracks a lot of jokes. Bands are basically required to thank their
opening band(s), and talk about how much they like hanging out with them and touring with them, and that sort of thing. So when one of the guitar players was thanking the openers, Matt followed it up with, "except Talkdemonic," joking about how much they don't get along. The thank yous came up again near the end of show, and again Matt pointed out, "except Talkdemonic." It was pretty obvious he was joking, but even more obvious to me because he used the same crack against a different opener the night before in Seattle. Hopefully they have a sense of humor.
Truth is, outside of their friends and family, I'm one of the biggest Talkdemonic fans attending the festival. I actually own three of their albums. Yeah, they have that many. There are no vocals, so it's just whatever they can play live on top of studio recorded material. It's great music to work to, lyrics being occasionally distracting. If you happen to catch their set at Sasquatch, tell the old dude I'm sorry.
Suggested Tracks:
1. Hillside Monarch
2. Ending The Orange Glow
3. Manhattan '81
4. Black Wood Crimson
5. Bering
Sasquatch 2014 lineup:
Sasquatch! 2015 Lineup:
Kendrick Lamar, Robert Plant, Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney, Lana Del Ray, Ryan Adams, Of Monsters & Men, The Decemberists, Tame Impala, St. Vincent, Flume, Spoon, James Blake, Chromeo, Hot Chip, SBTRKT, Schoolboy Q, The New Pornographers, The War on Drugs, The Glitch Mob, Little Dragon, Gogol Bordello, Father John Misty, Run the Jewels, Jose Gonzalez, Jenny Lewis, Milky Chance, Twenty One Pilots, MØ, Kiezia, Real Estate, Future Islands, Odesza, Royal Blood, Ab-Soul, Shovels & Rope, Glass Animals, Sohn, Jungle, Sharon Van Etten, Action Bronson, Perfume Genius, Dilated Peoples, Cashmere Cat, Sylvan Esso, Temples, Rustie, Milo Greene, Woods, Shakey Graves, Courtney Barnett, Slow Magic, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Benjamin Booker, The Budos Band, The Knocks, King Tuff, Sam Lachow, Dan Mangan + Blacksmith, Fences, Phox, San Fermin, Black Pistol Fire, Alvvays, Fuzz, Strand of Oaks, Raury, Will Butler, The Districts, Twin Peaks, Ruen Brothers, Kate Tempest, Quilt, Merchandise, Hiss Golden Messenger, Nothing, Bishop Nehru, Ex Hex, Diarrhea Planet, Ought, Lizzo, Natalie Prass, Tala, Rose Windows, Blank Range, Grynch, My Goodness, The Young Evils, The Maldives, Kinski, S (Jenn Ghetto), Porter Ray, Black Whales, Cataldo, Manatee Commune, Smokey Brights, Thunderpussy, Shaprece, Vox Mod, Djao, Ayron Jones & The Way, Murder Vibes, Doug Benson, Leslie Jones, Pete Davidson, Cameron Esposito, Chris Gethard, Nick Thune, Emmett Montgomery, Yogi Paliwal
Friday, May 20, 2011
Quadros 8: Sleigh Bells, Skrillex, The Antlers, Talkdemonic
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2 comments:
- Snave said...
These are all great write-ups! I wish I could have seen all the bands. I took a bunch of photos and posted about 125 of them, and included write-ups of my own. Take a look, and enjoy. I know everyone won't agree with my perspectives on some of the artists, but that's part of what's great about a festival like Sasquatch... everyone gets something different and special from it! - Snave, "Various Ecstasies" weblog
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|A Radical Proposition: The Brief but Exceptional History of the Seattle School Clinic, 1914-21.
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|This article examines the history of the Seattle school clinic (1914-21) and the efforts of public school administrators to institutionalize a full-service medical program for poor and working class children. At its height, thirty-six volunteer physicians and thirteen partially paid dentists organized within nine departments performed a range of diagnostic and "corrective" surgical procedures, including tonsillectomies, circumcisions, and eye surgeries. These practices were not funded by other public school systems across the United States, almost all of which delineated between prevention and treatment services. This article explains the exceptional nature of the clinic, examines the institutional tensions instigated by the expression of medical authority within the schools, and considers how clinic technologies influenced state-school-child relations.
|Stephen Woolworth
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I made my first video in 2002 after making chapbook zines & going on reading tours with bands for a couple of years. The first screening of that three channel video piece, "speed freaks do bach" occurred at a modern dance & performance salon in Manhattan. Each channel of the 3 channel installation played on the LCD screen of a video camera to articulate the triptych structure that I was still learning how to make on a computer. The following year, the Brooklyn Art Council incorporated the final version of that installation into their "New Brooklyn" show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Over the next few years, I made some more videos heavily influenced by my fascination with the work of classic avant garde filmmakers like Stan Brakhage, Rudy Burkhardt, and Harry Smith.
These videos screened in a variety of places like the Anthology Film Archive, the Camac d' Art in Paris, PDX Fest in Portland and the High Energy Constructs gallery in Los Angeles, I relocated to Portland, OR to investigate a long time curiosity with the West Coast.
I went back to school to learn the many facets of film production to fulfill a lifetime curiosity. In 2007, I directed (one with Adam Long) two music videos for my favorite Portland bands, Aweather and Swan Island.
Both have been well received and "Night Owl", the video for Swan Island was voted "Best Film of the Week" on MTVu. Early this year, I directed a commerical for the Art Institute's Annual Fashion Show at the Portland Art Museum. Besides airing on 'actual television', it was voted 'Best Commercial' in the Collegiate Nationals.
Currently, I am in the last stages of pre-production for "Umbrella", my first short narrative.
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2005 was the last time I uploaded an AMV and I've had two on hiatus that I worked on and off on for years that were finally completed. Life and computers just seem against me making AMVs sometimes. It can never just be easy >.>
Looking to do some OP exchanges! You're free to pick either of the two below (or do both and post two of your own).
More effort and focus went into the above, but if it's not your cup of tea feel free to pick the following, also recently completed after like 5 years.


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Sony to let PSP Go buyers download UMD games
updated 01:55 pm EDT, Thu June 4, 2009
PSP Go UMD Good Will Plan
Sony today indicated that it would let new owners of its upcoming PSP Go download digital copies of games they already own on UMD. Hardware marketing director John Koller tells Gizmodo that Sony is developing a "good will" program which would be limited to either when the games or the PSP Go units were purchased. Koller likens it to Blu-ray's Portable Copy, which gives owners of the physical media a free second copy optimized for digital players.
The executive interprets the program as a logical necessity for the PSP's audience. As a significant minority of buyers are usually owners of previous models, the good will system is necessary for any of this group that would want to trade up from an earlier PSP model without losing access to their existing game libraries.
"We'll be unveiling that [program] soon [because] we actually think there's a significant group that will be upgrading from the 1000," Koller says. "In the past, we've seen a 20-25% trade-up factor, and I assume that's going to be the case here. We've modeled that."
Whether or not the service will incur a charge isn't mentioned, although it's assumed the conversion would be free or at most incur a small fee.


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Housing Starts Fall - Again
In a not surprising development, although the media is always stunned by anything that has a negative sign in front of it, housing starts declined by 10.6% in the last month after an uptick in March. Of course, the expectations from economist was for a rise of 2.7%. As I said, to us, this is not a surprising development considering that household formation still remains at depressed levels as more and more individuals under the age of 35 are doubling up or living with parents. In most universes, unless you are a Nobel prize winning economist, simple math and physics do apply.
With an excess supply of existing homes on the market, not to mention the flood of shadow inventory sitting on the banks balance sheets waiting to get foreclosed on, not only do we continue to expect that home prices will decline by another 15% but home starts will remain at depressed levels for some time to come. The shear gravity of vacancies, lack of mobility, tighter credit and reduced income will pull at any significant rebound in the real estate market for some time to come.
The real issue, however, is buried in the details. Residential construction was down by 23%.
There Has Never Been An Economic Recovery With Home Building
Why is residential construction important. Every dollar that is put into building a new home has a multiplier effect, historically of $4 or $5. When someone starts the process of building a home it employs architects, contractors, suppliers, manufactures, framers, roofers, masons, plumbers, so forth and so on. That is just for one house. Construction has historically been a huge component of economic recoveries but it is an ingredient that is sorely lacking in the current environment. No amount of QE or POMO's will supplant the impact that is received from building a new home. This weakness was reflected in yesterday's release of the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index which remains at some of its lowest recorded levels in the history of the index.
There was also weakness across the board with rest of the numbers as well. Groundbreaking last month was depressed by a 24.1 percent tumble in volatile multi-family homes, where starts for buildings with five or more units dropped 28.3 percent. Single-family home construction fell 5.1 percent.
New building permits dropped 4.0 percent to a 551,000-unit pace last month. April's permits were revised down to a 574,000-unit pace and economists had expected overall building permits in April to remain unchanged at the previously reported 585,000-unit pace.
Permits were held down last month by an 8.8 percent drop in the multi-family segment. Permits to build single-family homes slipped 1.8 percent.
The End Of The Wrong American Dream
Along the path to individual insanity in the American society the idea of the "American Dream" was skewed from seizing an opportunity in America and using the capitalistic system to build a heritage for one's family to owning a "McMansion" where the average individual was leveraged to the hilt and the house payment was as much as 50% of the individuals income versus the historical levels of 15%. American's, and not without the express help of Alan Greenspan promoting Adjustable Rate Mortgages in 2004, attached their future, and their retirement, to owning a home that in most cases they couldn't really afford. With an entire cable television channel dedicated to ever form of housing pornography one could imagine from house swapping, flipping, trading and pimping - it was never hard to believe that before long that house of cards would eventually fall.
That process has begun, but unfortunately for Jim Cramer who has now twice called for a bottom in the housing market, it will be some time before we will be talking about a sustainable and organic recovery in the housing market.


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It's possible you can fix this by unplugging a USB device or
changing the Boot setup in your PC's BIOS, but if you need a boot
disk to get your PC back into Windows XP, I've got you covered. This boot
disk will work around any issues with the hard drive boot sector, or missing
boot files; but won't make a difference if you haven't installed Windows
yet, have a bad hard drive, or an incorrect BIOS configuration. You'll need
a blank floppy, cd, usb and a computer to make it on. Then you can
fix this from Windows XP, instead of trying to run DOS commands from the
setup CD.
No: I need to boot Windows Vista, 7, 8, or 9. OR Installing XP to a netbook. OR A more detailed explanation of booting.
Update 2014-02-20: The most up to date version of this page is at http://ntldrismissing.com
Get a blank floppy/cd-r/usb (whatever is on it will be erased), and put it into a working computer. Tip: If you can't go to a friend or neighbors, try a library, or a Kinkos.
Floppy fixntldr.exe | CD-R
fixntldriso.zip | USB
For WinXP 64 bit: Floppy 64ntflop.exe | CD-R 64ntiso.zip | Files 64ntfile.zip
Backup copies of these files available at http://ntldrismissing.com What if? My backup system isn't Windows, but a Mac / Linux or another OS.
*Floppy: Double click fixntldr.exe. Click OK to overwrite the blank floppy disc in the working computer, you should see some screens about writing a new floppy disk. (You can
download fixntldr_RawRite.zip if
you want to use your own version of RawRite.
*CD-R: Note: Burnable DVD+R may not work. Right click fixntldriso.zip and "Extract All" then right click fixntldr.iso and follow the prompts to "burn" the content to CD. If using Windows XP you'll need a program to burn the ISO file, "ISO Recorder" is a great free program. Watch my "Make CD" YouTube video. When done, the CD should look like this.
*USB: Walk through of screenshots - USB or Watch my "Make USB" YouTube video.
Put the new disk you have just created into the computer that gets the NTLDR is missing error message, turn the broken computer off.
Power on the broken computer with the floppy/cd-r/usb inside it/plugged into it (if the computer was already on, restart it). Once your computer gets past the BIOS screen your computer should try to access the boot disk and you should see a black screen with white letters (What if I don't see this screen?). that says:
1ST TRY THIS seleccione esto primero
2ND TRY THIS essayez ceci en deuxieme
3RD TRY THIS wahlen Sie diesen Third
4TH TRY THIS selezioni questo fourth
5TH TRY THIS selecione este fifth
6TH TRY THIS seleccione este sexto
7TH TRY THIS essayez ceci en septieme
8TH TRY THIS wahlen Sie dieses achte
9TH TRY THIS selezioni questo nono
10TH TRY THIS selecione este decimo
(I threw in some Spanish / French / German / Italian / Portuguese for international flavor.)
This file is set up to automatically select the "1ST TRY THIS" choice after 30 seconds. Try it first, if it was the wrong selection, you will likely get one of these four errors:
Error 1. Windows could not start because file
Error 2. Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.
Error 3. I/O Error accessing boot sector file multi(0)disk(0)fdisk(0)BOOTSECT.DOS
Error 4. Immediate reboot
If you did get an error, try option 2. Most computers will boot with either option 1 or option 2. Of course if option 2 doesn't work, try option 3, etc, until you have tried all 10.
If none work, you can try pressing F8 at the "1st Try This" selection screen, it will give you a prompt where you can select Safe Mode, and then try the "1st Try This" option again. Safe Mode is a special "minimal" version of Windows that doesn't load certain parts of the operating system that might have caused the problem. (What if none of the options worked?) .
If you got back into Windows, stop whatever you are doing and backup your most important information from this computer.
Hi, I'm Miles Comer, I'm glad you got back into Windows, but stop trying to fix this computer. Give yourself a pat on the back for getting this far. Now let's get all those baby pictures put somewhere safe. A super easy way is by making a copy of them "in the cloud" using a service like Dropbox. If you signup with this promo link of mine: http://db.tt/D5BQcbf they will give me some free space because I told you about them. It's like a way you can help me back, and you don't even have to pay anything.
Now that you are done backing up the most important info, try to change back whatever you were last doing and boot normally, it that doesn't work, put the floppy/cd/usb and boot back into Windows. Download fixntldr.zip, double click to open it, and copy "ntldr", "boot.ini", and "ntdetect.com" to: "My Computer > Local Disk C:\", and if it asks to overwrite, let it overwrite. Right click each file, choose properties, uncheck the Read Only attribute, and click OK.
If you can't see these files, you need to go into Control Panel > Folder Options > Tab: View > clear the checkbox for "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)".
How to get the boot.ini screen to boot Windows within a second
If you copy the file over and boot up and get a "NTLDR is compressed" error message, be sure to uncheck "compress contents to save space" as an option on the "Local Disk C:\" drive.
(What if the bootdisk worked, but I can't get into Windows without it?) .
(What if I want to do further research?) . (Can I read other peoples questions and your answers? Sure: http://m-ntldrismissing.blogspot.com/ )
All done? Hi, I'm Miles Comer (on twitter as @ntldrismissing ) and I developed this "solution" back in 2002 when I had to fix my relatives computer without me standing over their shoulder. If I fixed it for you, might I humbly suggest you use a credit card or PayPal to donate for $5 or whatever amount you choose.
PayPal email address: firstname.lastname@example.com
If you don't have a credit card or pay pal account, you can mail a check to me, just send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll let you know my mailing address.
If you want to say "thanks, it worked for me", just add a comment to this blog post "Sing your praises here".
The cost to run this site for a year is pretty cheap (thanks freeservers.com), the part that takes effort is attempting to quickly respond to anyones requests for additional information, but getting the "You got $5" email from Paypal sure does put a smile on my face and keep me energized and motivated.
Speaking of, I've gotten a handful of people asking "how much money do you make from donations?", and just from a quick glance at my email, it looks like I get about $15 a month from donations. So once a month, dinner is on you guys :-)
A free way to help me would be to link back to my webpage. Either from your own web page, or if you belong to any discussion forum that has to do with computers, or has a lounge section, why not let everyone know I helped you out by making a post and in that post, link back to my webpage? Use this address in case I change something in the future:
Help me and you by backing up your data with Dropbox: Dropbox is a free program that will automatically backup everything you put in the "My Dropbox" folder. If you don't already have a free "Dropbox" account. If you sign up with this link: http://db.tt/D5BQcbf I get additional space to store stuff. Dropbox is a program that creates a folder called "My Dropbox" and anything you put in that folder gets backed up to their website, and if you have more than one computer, or like an iPhone / iPad, Android, or Blackberry, it will sync the folder to all the devices. So if your computer dies on you again, these "most important documents on dropbox" will be available on the other computers, or on the website.
The free Dropbox account is 2 gigs. I personally paid $100 to get 50 gigs for a year. And when I say "I paid" I mean "Your donations paid", so thanks again :-)
Oh and one more thing about Dropbox, is my Mom has her own free 2 gig dropbox account, I can make a new folder called "Miles and Mom's shared files" and then share it with her dropbox account, if she accepts, whenever I want to send her a file, I just put it in the "My Dropbox Miles and Mom's shared files" folder, and moments later, it appears on her computer. It's great for sharing all those pictures directly from my digital camera, and I don't have to upload them to a website first.
So again, if you don't have it, you should, free 2 gig Dropbox account, and put your most important 2 gigs of files there.
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Camping with 2 Boys
June 13th, 2010
Friday I took the day off for us to go camping. Due to the birth of Oliver, our last time camping was in 2008. Back then, Terah had asked me what I wanted for father's day, and I suggested camping. Except when she was pregnant last year (and then Oliver was little), we have sort of had a standing plan to go camping twice a year: around father's day and my birthday. She says that's way more camping in a year than anyone needs.
Anyhow, Jacob doesn't remember the last time we went camping; he was not quite 2 at the time. I explained that we would sleep in tents, and he'd get one just his size. He laughed at that. Then I explained that he would get a bag to sleep in, and he thought that was hilarious. He kept talking about tents — and even more so about sleeping bags — until he actually got to be in one.
It seems like each time we go camping, we wind up somewhere else. We've camped at Kanoplis Lake and Marion Park and Lake in the past few years. But this time we went to Cedar Valley Reservoir near Garnett, KS. It was a nice place to be, with some "wilderness camping" areas far from any RV hookups (though right next to a gravel driveway where we could park).
Almost as soon as we got out of the car, Jacob found a partially-burned stick left in a fire ring. So of course his hands were black pretty quick. He kept track of that stick the whole time we were there, and used it for everything he could think of. His favorite use, though, was at the lake to splash water:
The lake really was his favorite feature. He loved to throw rocks and sticks in it with me, to splash himself, and to stick his feet in. Oh, and to splash me.
The pier was also a great thing for him — he at first thought it was a boat, then really wanted to go. I made him hold my hand the whole time, and he liked walking on it. But he was frustrated that he couldn't reach the water.
Somehow, Jacob acted as if he could sit in the hot sun for hours, just making small splashes with a stick. I, on the other hand, felt the 90-degree heat strongly, and eventually we found a shady spot to play in the lake.
Oliver enjoyed crawling around on a blanket or on the grass. Though Terah put a stop to that after she noticed that he came across a pile of fish heads and was about to reach for one and put it in his mouth.
We cooked over a campfire Friday night and Saturday morning. It took me a lot longer to start a fire than normal. Part of the problem was that there had been a lot of rain in the area, and it was humid, so there was little kindling to be found. Plenty of larger pieces of wood, so once the fire got going, it burned nicely. We cooked brats, brought along some homemade bread, had grilled foil-wrapped potatoes, and had stir-fry vegetables. Oliver got to eat with us too, of course:
Terah is a big believer in smores, so after supper we made some smores — Jacob predictably got sticky from the marshmallows and chocolate.
Jacob started asking when I'd set up the tent almost as soon as he found his stick. All afternoon he kept asking. Finally we got it set up, and of course he was so excited that he played inside it for an hour before he fell asleep.
Terah had bought a $4 lantern at Walmart to give to him to use in his tent. I told him that there would be a "surprise lantern" in his tent for him to use. And he loved his lantern. It could turn on, off, and flash red. At one point he asked me, "Dad, do you have a surprise lantern too?" "No, I will just use my flashlight." He looked a bit sad about that. For about 5 seconds. Then he turned on his lantern again. Here he is with it, still playing happily about 2 hours after his bedtime:
And in the morning, of course he was still wanting that, but also wanted to play with his digital camera (a kid's version that also has a simple game or two on it). Without leaving the tent, of course.
Oliver was getting hungry while we worked on breakfast, so I gave him some bread to munch on.
We used our cast iron skillet to fry some bacon for breakfast. Then Terah made some pancakes in the skillet (with the bacon grease). Greasiest and best pancakes ever. After that, we had some fried and scrambled eggs. After that, we had more smores (I wasn't kidding about Terah being a big believer in them.)
Jacob decided that he wanted to play in the other tent. He enjoyed playing with Terah, Oliver, and the air mattress (that Terah appreciated as much as I thought it took up too much space in the car). There's a little window on the back that can open to a screen or open completely. Jacob and Oliver enjoyed looking out of it while open. Or rather, Jacob enjoyed that, while Oliver enjoyed licking it.
I had my Droid with me to keep an eye on the weather. The forecast for several days had called for a 20% chance of storms on Saturday. I checked Saturday morning at 7, and it still called for 20% chance of storms after 1PM. We decided we'd pack up our tents after breakfast so we could stay as long as we liked — or leave on short notice if we preferred. Clouds seemed to be building, though, so I checked the forecast again at maybe 9. Now it called for 60% chance of thunderstorms and heavy rain before 1PM. Guess I shouldn't have been surprised; it is Kansas after all.
As I had the first tent about 90% put away, it started to rain. We rushed to get the rest of the stuff in the car, and by the time we did, it was raining heavily. We had planned to spend at least part of the afternoon there, but decided we'd look for another place to stop on the way home.
We stopped first at Garnett's North Lake, as the rain had let up for awhile. We spotted a fishing pier that Jacob wanted to walk on, but the bridge out to it was underwater, so we passed on that. While Terah fed Oliver in a shelter, Jacob and I played on some swings. Then we walked down to that lake. Jacob carefully came to an abrupt stop and looked both ways at each disused road between us and the lake, saying "OK" when it was clear to go.
The rain picked up again, so we started heading towards home. It got quite heavy, with thunder and everything, which Jacob didn't care for at all. Both boys went to sleep, though.
We stopped at Marion Reservoir on the way home. Jacob hadn't been able to play in the lake at Garnett (the place we stopped had a bank that was too steep) and so we played there. He waded into the water at the swimming area, and predictably enjoyed — yes — throwing rocks into the lake.
When we got home, I set out the wet tent and tarps (it's not good to store that stuff wet) to dry — there hadn't been rain at home yet.
Camping's a lot of work, but it was a good family activity. I'm looking forward to our next time, and hope we can choose a weekend a little less hot and damp.
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Island Treasures Southern Charm
Hilton Head IslandOnly 12 miles long and five miles wide, Hilton Head is a maritime jewel off the southernmost coast of South Carolina, about 40 miles northwest of Savannah, Ga. Remarkably, golf wasn't introduced to this thickly forested barrier island until 1956 when the first course, the Ocean Course, opened. The course is in Sea Pines Resort, a 5,500-acre residential and recreational development pioneered by Charles Fraser, son of a timber magnate, who's heralded as modern Hilton Head's founding father.
Sea Pines Resort is a model of wise planning in a spectacular natural setting. Clean roads snake through a lush forest of pines and hardwoods that drape like huge umbrellas over widely spaced luxury homes and condominium rental complexes. The resort includes Harbour Town, a village of restaurants, shops and a circular yacht basin.
Sea Pines also has a large tennis complex and four other golf courses, led by world-famous Harbour Town Golf Links, home of the PGA Tour's MCI Heritage, which is held every year right after The Masters. Created by Pete Dye with Jack Nicklaus consulting and opened in 1969, the course is a favorite among Tour professionals. The Heritage is the single biggest event on the Hilton Head calendar and a major draw for tourism.
Towering directly over Harbour Town is a 200-foot-tall, candy-striped lighthouse, the island's most visible landmark. Visitors climbing to the top of the lighthouse are rewarded with a spectacular view of Calibogue Sound to the south and west and Harbour Town Golf Links' signature finishing hole.
Just to the southwest is Daufuskie, a sparsely populated island popularized by Pat Conroy in his novel The Water Is Wide. Accessible by ferry or private helicopter, Daufuskie reflects a bygone era of the Old South. There are no traffic lights on the island, but it does have three of the best golf courses in the Hilton Head area. These include two courses at the Daufuskie Island Resort by Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf/Jay Morrish, and Haig Point, a private Rees Jones product.
Hilton Head is warmed by the Gulf Stream. It has an average temperature of 70 degrees F that assures a year-round golf season. Plus, there's no shortage of things to do on Hilton Head. The island has more than 200 stores, some of which are at Shelter Cove, the island's lone shopping mall. There are over 250 restaurants on the island serving every type of cuisine, especially seafood fresh off the boat.
In addition to nature and boat tours, biking is very popular on miles of trails and the hard-packed sand beaches. Visitors to Hilton Head and its environs quickly notice the absence of billboards and other intrusive features of modern commercialism. Hilton Head's nightlife is somewhat tame, for sure, as it's primarily a family destination. And though a couple of popular dance spots and sports bars are sprinkled throughout the island, Hilton Head is designed to offer a respite from a frenzied world.
Golf Tips Selects Hilton Head Island's Best Places To Play
Hilton Head proper is made up primarily of plantation-style communities. Some have resorts and all have private homes. In addition to Sea Pines, these include Palmetto Dunes, with three fine golf courses and two hotels, the Marriott Beach and Golf Resort and the Hilton Oceanfront Resort. Also, Port Royal Plantation includes the Westin Resort and three courses, which are ideally suited for casual resort play and outings. Hilton Head Plantation doesn't have a resort hotel, but boasts one private and three semiprivate courses, including the Country Club of Hilton Head and Oyster Reef, both Rees Jones creations.
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