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Canadian, 71, female, WASP, writer, former college English teacher, librarian. A relative newcomer to Palestine/Israel issue.
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- Bias in the Great Library at Alexandria?
Roha, MRW,
"As for global warming, Liu, et al, just published an important paper in the Chinese Science Bulletin that examined a 2,485-year Tibetan tree ring. The scientists were able to ascertain the long arc of climate change." MRW
I hope I've got this straight, i.e. that you both consider a 2500 year time span adequate for assessing the "long arc of climate change."
Well, I sure don't. There have been many ice ages in earth's history. How can we possibly know where we are in this much longer arc of climate change? We can't, imo.
I''ve been fascinated by the new understanding of how the American Scablands were created. Here's Wiki on this topic:
"At the end of the last Ice Age (the Wisconsonian Ice Age), a branch of the Cordilleran ice sheet moved out of Canada into the Idaho panhandle region. There it formed a 2,000 feet (610 m)-high ice dam that blocked the mouth of the Clark Fork River, creating glacial Lake Missoula, which impounded greater than 2000 cubic kilometers (500 cubic miles) of water. The lake extended up the valleys eastward for over 200 miles (320 km). The periodic rupturing of the ice dam resulted in the Missoula Floods – cataclysmic floods that swept across Idaho and Eastern Washington, and then down the Columbia River Gorge approximately 40 times during a 2,000 year period. The flood front swept in a wave across Idaho and Washington at speeds approaching 100 kilometers per hour (65 miles per hour), and Glacial Lake Missoula drained in periods as short as 2 days.[2]
The Columbia River channel downstream was blocked by the Okanogan lobe of the Cordilleran, impounding water in Glacial Lake Columbia. As a result the floods could not continue down the Columbia River, being forced instead to flood over the highlands of Eastern Washington, vastly transforming the landscape by forming the Grand Coulee, Moses Coulee, the Channeled Scablands, Dry Falls, Palouse Falls and many similar features. The cumulative effect of the floods was to excavate 210 cubic kilometres (50 cu mi) of loess, sediment and basalt from the channeled scablands of eastern Washington and to transport it downstream.[2] Over a period of 2,000 to 2,500 years, the repition of ice dam failure and flood was repeated 40-60 times, leaving a lasting mark on the landscape."
I watched and listened to the 2 Eben Moglen videos. A very compelling lecturer, indeed. His message is this:
We all need personal portable web servers in which our own files, messages, etc. (he uses the term "logs") are kept---logs that are not stored anywhere else on the web. He calls this personal web server a "freedom box" as in free from governmental and corporate spying.
Well, let's have one, I say! What are the odds, do you think, of such a device coming on the market? How far has EM come in the development of the freedom box? The videos are a year or so old.
MRW, RoHa, re Carbon in the atmosphere
The excerpt below comes at the end of "Keystone XL: Game over?" published on the RealClimate.org website:
"Commentators who argue that the Keystone XL pipeline is no big deal tend to focus on the rate at which the pipeline delivers oil to users (and thence as CO2 to the atmosphere). To an extent, they have a point. The pipeline would carry 500,000 barrels per day, and assuming that we're talking about lighter crude by the time it gets in the pipeline that adds up to a piddling 2 gigatonnes carbon in a hundred years (exercise: Work this out for yourself given the numbers I stated earlier in this post).
However, building Keystone XL lets the camel's nose in the tent. It is more than a little disingenuous to say the carbon in the Athabasca Oil Sands mostly has to be left in the ground, but before we'll do this, we'll just use a bit of it. It's like an alcoholic who says he'll leave the vodka in the kitchen cupboard, but first just take "one little sip."
So the pipeline itself is really just a skirmish in the battle to protect climate, and if the pipeline gets built despite Bill McKibben's dedicated army of protesters, that does not mean in and of itself that it's "game over" for holding warming to 2C. Further, if we do hit a trillion tonnes, it may be "game-over" for holding warming to 2C (apart from praying for low climate sensitivity) [my bold], but it's not "game-over" for avoiding the second trillion tonnes, which would bring the likely warming up to 4C.
The fight over Keystone XL may be only a skirmish, but for those (like the fellow in this arresting photo ) who seek to limit global warming, it is an important one. It may be too late to halt existing oil sands projects, but the exploitation of this carbon pool has just barely begun. If the Keystone XL pipeline is built, it surely smooths the way for further expansions of the market for oil sands crude. Turning down XL, in contrast, draws a line in the oil sands, and affirms the principle that this carbon shall not pass into the atmosphere."
"(apart from praying for low climate sensitivity)" We must all start praying?? Is that it? Is that all we've got?
I sure as hell hope not!! What about implementing some Risk Management strategies, like the one outlined here.
Since the earth is entering a cooling phase of its climate cycles,...
Are you referring to the El Nino and La Nina cycles, RoHa?
If so, I believe these two alternating cycles are not the chief factors impacting global warming.
Global Carbon Emissions Reach Record 10 Billion Tons, Threatening 2 Degree Target
ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2011) — Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased by 49 per cent in the last two decades, according to the latest figures by an international team, including researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia.
Published Dec. 4 in the journal Nature Climate Change, the new analysis by the Global Carbon Project shows fossil fuel emissions increased by 5.9 per cent in 2010 and by 49 per cent since 1990 -- the reference year for the Kyoto protocol.
On average, fossil fuel emissions have risen by 3.1 per cent each year between 2000 and 2010 -- three times the rate of increase during the 1990s. They are projected to continue to increase by 3.1 per cent in 2011.
Total emissions -- which combine fossil fuel combustion, cement production, deforestation and other land use emissions -- reached 10 billion tonnes of carbon* in 2010 for the first time.
Half of the emissions remained in the atmosphere, where CO2 concentration reached 389.6 parts per million. The remaining emissions were taken up by the ocean and land reservoirs, in approximately equal proportions.
My concerns about the long term viability of the internet revolve around server farms and climate change. These farms take vast quantities of water for cooling the servers and more and more servers are built each year. How is this sustainable?
Also, what happens to this fragile network when we start getting more and bigger storms each year, which is bound to happen as the earth warms?
Canadian funnyman Rick Mercer's career was made after his video "Talking to Americans" was released. It's quite hilarious and provides ample evidence that most Americans know absolutely nothing about their northern neighbour.
The U.S. government pours money into weapons and wars, not education and health care. Most Americans are ill-informed and poorly schooled.
- Republicans want Jerusalem? Herzl promised pope, kaiser and sultan to leave it outside Jewish state
Happy Winter Solstice one and all. The real meaning of this week's festivals, I say.
I've no names to give you, but they would have been wealthy Jews and Christians. I believe English Christians were the first Zionists.
"The question is how states as new as Israel, which is 63 years old, and with Israel's challenges, which are immense, have fared in similar circumstances."
Excerpt from Lobbyist Hophmi, trying to change the topic.
Phil, this is an excellent bit of 'gathering together' research. Well done.
- Busted by Goldberg, Klein now says commas caused war in Iraq, not neocons
Bad punctuation causes wars. This is why I am so pernickety about correct grammar.
Is there a way to giggle and frown simultaneously? I may have just found it.
"A catechism, Joe: How many Christian Zionists do you know personally? How many are in the Democratic party, or in the media, and how many have sent you sharp notes when you criticized Israel?" Weiss
I'm guessing that for Klein the answer to all 3 questions is 'none'.
But how much do any of us really know about Christian Zionists and their role as powerful lobbies in Canadian and U.S. politics?
Christian Zionists only watch and listen to church news we've been told here. We can't reach out and talk to these folks; as a result we must concentrate our energies on their very un-Christian leaders, e.g. Haggee and company. Know thy enemies and follow their money, I say.
In order to get some idea of the actual number of Christian rapturists, it would be useful to find out how many Scofield Reference Bibles are sold each year.
Here's an excerpt from Is the Pretribulation Rapture Biblical? by Brian M. Schwertley:
"The person most responsible for the rather widespread acceptance of Pretribulationalism and Dispensationalism among Evangelicals is Cyrus Ingerson Scofield (1843-1921).
C. I. Scofield published his Scofield Reference Bible in 1909. This Bible, which espoused the doctrines of [John Nelson]Darby in its notes, became very popular in Fundamentalist circles. In the minds of many a Bible teacher, fundamentalist pastor and multitudes of professing Christians, Scofield's notes were practically equated with the word of God itself. If a person did not adhere to the Dispensational, Pretribulational scheme he or she would almost automatically be labeled a modernist.
Today there is a whole plethora of books advocating the pretribulation rapture theory and the Dispensational understanding of the end times. Given the fact that among professing Christians the pre-trib rapture is still wildly popular, a comparison of this theory with scriptural teaching is warranted. We will see that the typical arguments offered in favor of this theory are in conflict with the Bible."
- Former Israeli general: Provoke a settler attack, then shoot the 'Jewish terrorist'
Yep, pz's head is jam-packed with little green footballs.
Jews are good, Muslims bad. To quote you, annie, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
pdz77, have you actually read that nytimes.com piece?? It's a load of crap!
seniorpunk, you sound like another solidarity activist who visited mondo a while back. He too was critical of us stay-at-home mondo seniors who flap our gums and DO nothing. Your criticism has some merit, I suppose, but imo not much.
Many of us are 'word warriors' writing letters to politicians, signing petitions, holding up signs at rallies, doing battle against Zionist propagandists who invade the MW site. Many of us don't have the money to get over to Palestine, many have family commitments that don't allow for extended periods away from home.
Still, I'd like to get your opinion on a mondo initiative that I think would useful: an area of the web site set aside for petitions, political letter-writing campaigns, and a constant coverage of BDS activities. Thanks.
Allison, thanks for this important story.
Here is former IDF general Uri Saguy quoting Israeli philosopher and anti-Zionist Yeshayahu Leibowitz:
"In the first stage, [Leibowitz] said, we shall see euphoria, upon our return to our ancient sites. Next, we shall see the emergence of messianic, radical and dangerous nationalism. In the third stage, we shall see Israeli society becoming more brutal and the emergence of a police state."
What goes around comes around. Isn't that the phrase?
- Eldar: ethnocentrism has called on religious and secular alike
"Since +972 Magazine has no financial resources, we decided that we had no choice but to censor ourselves. None of the contributors to this site is permitted to express a position either against or in favour of the global BDS (Boycott, Divest and Sanctions) movement. Since +972 is also responsible for the comments, we delete any mention of BDS in the comment threads. I have never expressed my opinion on the matter in any public forum, and now I suppose I never will."Lisa Goldman at +972
This is bloody outrageous! People, we need a series of high-profile 'free speech' lawsuits against Israel Firsters in countries around the world.
Canada has such a lawsuit going now. If successful, it will set a legal precedent by establishing for the first time that criticism of Israel and Zionism is not Judeophobia.
MRW, I'm ashamed of you :=) telling Canadian Liza Goldman that she is "cowed." Biding her time, thinking up new moves, is a more likely scenario.
- Our second Christmas of protests in Adelaide-- now kids ask, 'What is Palestine?'
Margaret Cassar, What an achievment! Thank you!
It's curious that Christian Zionists have been your worst tormentors. Here you are in a previous post describing their actions:
"Most worrying has been the revelation that Christian Zionists play a powerful role on the ground in countries like Australia in stifling debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict."
"Our Christian Zionist counter-protesters have used an arsenal of techniques to scare us away from the Mall. They turn up in groups and loudly proclaim a most un-Christian hatred and condemnation of the protesters and many other sections of the Australian community."
"This particular group usually arrives with Israeli flags, soap boxes, a full size cross on wheels and loud speakers to stridently broadcast their repugnant views to hapless shoppers in the Mall. Some verbally abuse the protesters and all promote a similar message, "You are doing the devil's work and you need to repent or you will end up in hell." Protesters have been called murderers and we have witnessed certain protesters being targeted in an attempt to provoke violent reactions."
In Canada, it is Jewish Defence League thugs who perform this role. I'm glad you've succeeded to a large extent in silencing this very un-Christian mob.
I've had a quick glance through Daniel Rich's previous comments.
I think he has written a sardonic comment. It's difficult to tell sometimes if an online commenter is being flippant; s/he should always leave a clue.
- What my God chip says about Jerusalem
Here is news of two successful lawsuits against rabid, land-thieving Zionists in Israel:
Israel court rules against evicting two East Jerusalem Palestinian families.
Judges reject claims that the homes had been sold to new owners who wanted the Palestinian families out.
By Nir Hasson link to haaretz.com
"The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court has rejected two separate lawsuits seeking the eviction of two Palestinian families from homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan.
In both cases, the plaintiff said the homes had been sold to new owners who wanted the Palestinian families out. Two judges rejected those claims Thursday.
The Faraj family in the home owned by the Yad Yaffe organization. The court ruled the family are protected tenants.
The lawsuits were filed by two groups closely linked to Elad, an organization supporting Jewish settlement in the area, and to Elad chairman David Be'eri, who is also the Israel representative of one of the groups seeking the eviction.
"Elad and its chief are doing their best, and using all methods possible to Judaize Silwan," said Muhammad Dahleh, who represented the Palestinian families in both cases. "They use various judicial entities such as a company registered in a God-forsaken Caribbean island. Only the steadfastness of the local inhabitants and their supporters, and a public and judicial struggle, can stop the explosive situation from deteriorating only a few yards from Al-Aqsa."
One of the suits was filed by Lowell Investments, which is registered in Australia's Cocos (Keeling ) Islands and already owns several buildings in Silwan.
The company said a member of the Karin family had sold it the house, and presented the court with an audio recording of an elderly member of the family who said the house was owned by the man who sold it.
But Judge Yechskiel Barkali ruled that at best, the seller owned a 16th of the house and said the tape did not prove that he was the sole owner.
The court annulled the sale agreement and awarded the family with court expenses and attorney fees of NIS 23,200.
Second win for Palestinians
The other suit was filed by Yad Yaffe, a nonprofit organization registered as focusing on "research of the Bible, the Mishna and the Talmud." The association sought to evict the Faraj family from an area next to the City of David, saying it had bought the house and the Palestinian family had moved in illegally.
Judge Rachel Shalev-Gertel ruled that the family was protected by the Tennant Protection Law and criticized Be'eri's testimony, saying it was "tendentious, and ignored facts that he was naturally aware of."
The plaintiffs were represented by Zeev Scharf, a lawyer who has previously represented Elad.
The group said those who have the right to the property would study the rulings and act accordingly.
"Because of the obvious sensitivity," the group said, "Elad does not speak publicly about real estate deals it is involved in."
In another recent ruling, the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court ordered Emek Shaveh, a group of archaeologists that regularly criticizes Elad, to pay Elad NIS 1,000 in a libel suit. Elad had sought NIS 1 million."
I've never been religious and it took 30 years to figure out the importance of spiritualism so now I've been meditating quite a bit more and it works.
I'm pretty much in the same boat, Charon. I've meditated regularly, 20 minutes or so a day, for a number of years, and I am well aware of its life-altering benefits.
But I balk at the word "spiritualism" as I do all "isms."
"If I cannot be myself, at least don't drag me into the public sphere to act like something I am not.
I recall the time you ventured into the public sphere on mondo to call me a Judeophobe. I had quite a time getting you to retract that serious slander.
You, WJ, should screw up your courage and do whatever it takes to help get this wretched business sorted out. Israel is bad for Jews! The insane settlers, Spitting Jews, and cowardly Israeli politicians are teaching people around the world to hate Jews.
- Friedman line, 'Congress is bought and paid for by Israel lobby,' is shot heard round the world
...the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Hey watch your talk bud, I'm a Canadian. Newcomers need to know, hops.
Perhaps it would helpful to point out to new readers that both eee and hophmi are hasbarists (propagandists) for the Israel Lobby. It's their job.
- Newt's New York visit for funds was about Israel
Here on mondo, we don't much care if they are Democrats or Republicans. To us they are 'liberal' Zionists, a contradiction in terms.
Many of them will soon be deserting you Israel Firsters in droves.
- Settlers attack Israeli military base and set fire to Jerusalem mosque
This is a huge story, and Netanyahu's rebuke will only make it worse.
- Why did it take 6 years to talk about the Israel lobby?
Newcomers to mondo may be interested to know that hophmi is a lobbyist for the Israel Lobby. He accuses me of "playing dirty" by announcing this on Mondoweiss. My answer to him: We are not engaged in a game on this site.
The Israel Lobby is a cancer that must be excised from the body politic in countries around the globe. The ill-conceived Zionist colonial project in Palestine has put people everywhere in grave danger.
You'll find another Israel lobbyist ("eee") on this thread. Phil and Adam might consider insisting that all lobbyists identify themselves as such in their commenter profiles, and that they make a donation to Mondoweiss before they start spewing their lies.
I encourage all newcomers to make a donation. In the short time I've been here, Mondoweiss has grown by leaps and bounds, and as Phil states in his fundraiser appeal "it doesn't run on fumes."
- #IsraelKills: Activists take to Twitter to protest Tamimi death
I sure do a lot of googling on mondo, seafoid
Here's a definition of 'Khalas' "From A Beginners Guide to Arabic"
"One word you must know... Khalas, meaning finished - used all the time, and even by people with a good knowledge of English.
Thanks Allison, Mustafa Tamimi's death will not go in vain.
- 'If we lived in any other country we'd be honored for this work' -prisoner Ghassan Elashi of Holy Land Foundation
Thanks Allison for bringing this miscarriage of justice to our attention.
I wish Ghassan Elashi and his daughter Noor all the very best in their legal battle to rectify this disgraceful U.S. court decision.
- Obama ad attacks Romney, Gingrich and Perry for wanting to cut aid to Israel
"We have hundreds of recipients of foreign aid. Is this the only one that counts?"
Apparently so.
- Gingrich has opened an important door
"It shouldn't surprise that Ireland appears to be the most pro-Palestinian country in western Europe. It is the European nation in which the experience of occupation and humiliation loom largest in historic memory."
Excellent article, Scott McConnell.
It's not just South Africa that sets out a modern formula for a peaceful resolution in Palestine.
- Keep Mondoweiss going strong -- make a donation today
MONDOWEISS Winter FUNDRAISER: More Suggestions
For commenters and readers who want to pitch in and do some fund raising, the most important points it seems to me are these:
Mondoweiss Objectives: 2011 Winter Fundraiser
1. To stop the atrocities perpetrated daily against Palestinians by violent and brainwashed IDF youths, and by murderous, land-thieving, illegal settlers who live on the hilltops.
2. To help Palestinians win their 100-year old struggle to free themselves from the Zionist invaders who occupy their lands.
3. To make citizens aware of the growing political power of the Israel Lobby, as in its growing ability to influence votes in the U.S. Congress. e.g. the 23 standing ovations for Netanyahu. Provide url to Friedman quote re "buying votes." )
4. Money Target, winter 2011: "Our target is $40,000. And half of that is matching funds from generous large donors. So we need $20,000 from readers during this holiday season. Our reader fundraising drives account for nearly half our yearly budget, the rest comes from individual donors. We do not receive finding from foundations or organizations. All contributions are tax-deductible, thanks to our sponsor, the Center for Economic Research and Social Change." Phil Weiss
The Mondoweiss website is growing by leaps and bounds and the level of discussion in the comments sections is often astonishing. Check it out!
During the last fundraiser, I contacted the offices of two of the wealthiest men in America, through windows on one of their web sites.
I needed an attention-grabber, and I would be talking to staff. So I typed in two sentences:
(1) Is X concerned about the growing power of the Israel lobby in American politics?
(2) If so, would he consider a donation to Mondoweiss? (I used the url, not the word.)
I thought this a bit skimpy, and I didn't want to leave the impression that this was an official mondo message, so I added one of my seemingly inexhaustible supply of English idioms:
I am a commenter on Mondoweiss, and I am writing to you off my own bat.
After a thank you, I typed my name.
I don't know if either man gave a donation, but I do think my attention-grabber was pretty good.
My monthly contribution will keep rolling on Phil. I assume there's nothing I need do about it??
Things are sure picking up steam on the site. Kudos all round!
Cheers, Patm
- The lobby blinks! Democratic insiders throw Josh Block under the bus
we have to make sure we communicate in such a way that makes clear that this is a moral issue wrt american support for israel and israeli actions.
I agree, annie. And its not just Americans who need to act.
The damage done by the Zionist project in Palestine has affected people around the globe. Here in Canada we are now lumbered with an Israel Firster Prime Minister, a right-wing evangelical Christian who is putting the rights and freedoms of Canadians in great peril.
We need to attack this issue all fronts: moral, economic, religious.
We need to convince Jews AND Christians of the righteousness of our cause. And we must continue to involve Muslims; they are our allies in this struggle and know well how right we are to take up this struggle.
Drat, I forgot to include the url to the Corrigan libel suit article.
"I've been saying for years that it should be a crime to falsely slander a person with the tag of antisemite.''
I've got some good news from Canada on this subject, taxi.
Frist paras from Is criticism of Israel or Zionism anti-Semitic?
"London Immigration lawyer Ed Corrigan said his libel case against Will Hector for calling him "one of the worst anti-Semites in Canada and an idiotic spammer," in an email to the Law Union of Ontario (LUO) List forum, will be a precedent setting legal decision on the question: "is criticism of Israel or Zionism anti-Semitic?"
Mr. Corrigan is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Citizenship and Immigration and Immigration and Refugee Protection. He has had extensive experience representing Palestinian refugees, winning around 88 per cent of those refugee claims.
The Law Union of Ontario is an organization of lawyers and law students which is active on legal issues and human rights issues in the province of Ontario and across Canada. Mr. Corrigan participated in Israel-Palestinian debates through the LUO List forum.
Mr. Hector, who has practised law as a private lawyer, was a member of the LUO when he sent the email, as part of an ongoing debate about Israeli-Palestinian issues."
This is a libel lawsuit involving a highly-regarded lawyer and a serious slander in a respectable venue. The suit has backing from heavy-hitters in Canada. Mr. Corrigan may very well make history with this suit.
Many Canadians are fed to the teeth with ill-mannered Zionist goons, and mad as hell at our Israel Firster PM Stephen Harper.
I have to give a hat-tip to my husband for bringing this to my attention.
- Gingrich says Palestinians are an 'invented people'
"The Palestinians recently self determined themselves as a nation. Before 1948 most viewed themselves as part of greater Syria.
Have a look at this ancient map of greater Syria. Palestine is clearly indicated, right where you Zionists don't want it to be. Will you ever stop telling lies, 3e?
There are two nations, the Jewish one and the Palestinian one and they have to reach an historical compromise and live in peace.
There is a difference between a 'Jewish' nation and a 'Palestinian' nation. Can you tell us what that difference is 3e?
- Why the tight security at J Street president's Syracuse talk?
Thanks, Ira Glunts.
I've just read your friend Pat's Carmeli's telling article and left a comment.
- 70-year-old Palestinian professor is now a political prisoner --updated
I got word of this outrage from my Toronto Jewish activist newsgroup. Nobody has yet come up with plan to launch a campaign to get him out of jail. Let us know if you hear of one.
Here is another item from the newsgroup about the Jewish Nation Fund that would certainly bring cheer to Professor Abdel Haq:
"JNF losing the battle for its reputation"
- A Lebanese shepherd looks at the land of Palestine
Anyone here think they're capable of this?
I'd like to think so too, taxi. There is the precedent of South Africa.
The odds would be greater if the US stopped bankrolling the Zionists. Having to fend for themselves in the Arab world perhaps would make them more susceptible to peace proposals.
What some find inspiring, others find utterly depressing.
Is it because you have never been taught the true history of the Zionist project in Palestine that you find this information depressing es1982?
We know that in Israeli schools the truth is not told, that textbooks are full of lies.
Zionist hasbara is also full of lies.
The damage done by this ill-conceived colonial project has now circled the globe. Wouldn't it be wonderful to find a way out of this mess we are all in.
The out-of-the-box solution I like is the notion of a Republic of Jerusalem, with the capital in Jerusalem.
- Wasserman Schultz's new talking point: Romney is invested in Iran
I believe someone said recently on mw that the Dems would far rather fight Newt than Romney. The thinking was that because the Florida Reps had a sizzling VP candidate on the hook Romney and this Florida guy would be unbeatable in that vital state.
- Israel isn't good for the Jews anymore
"I don't think that implies that the ordinary term "indigenous" has been reserved for exclusive use by any particular group or that it's other original meanings have become archaic."
We could help send the original meanings of 'indigenous' into the obsolete category by not using the word in our own writings except in reference to indigenous peoples.
In terms of length of existence in different areas of planet earth, the 3000 or so years of biblical history we hear so much about on MW is a blink of the eye compared to that of indigenous peoples.
Scientists now claim that the indigenous people of Australia go back at least 40 thousand years. In North America the debate still goes on, and the figures ranges from 18 to 40 thousand years, and beyond.
Hostage, your Cherokee cousins are correct, the phrase "indigenous peoples" is used around the world to depict peoples who were present on the lands that our imperialist ancestors invaded and colonized. To refuse to use "indigenous" in any other context seems to me a small but worthy effort to atone for the sins of our fathers.
Thanks for the Leon Pinsker link.
Judeophobia is of course not an "inherited predisposition." It is learned behaviour. People are taught to be haters.
So, hostage, you are a stickler for dictionary definitions, not willing to budge an inch for a just cause.
Then riddle me this: Why do you use the word 'anti-Semitism' and not 'Judeophobia'?
"so demographers are only taking a wild-assed guess about the exact numbers of indigenous Jews here.
john h, that turn of phrase is quite inappropriate in North America. The word "indigenous" is reserved exclusively for the First Nations of Canada and for the native peoples of the U.S.
Remember, there are very likely natives from both countries reading mondo, and to hear you use that word would cause them great distress.
Forgive me, that date at the top should of course be 1917.
Tony Greenstein, welcome aboard. There was one member of the 1817 war cabinet who refused to sign the Balfour Declaration, the Jew Edwin Montagu. Here are his reasons:
Memorandum of Edwin Montagu on the Anti-Semitism of the Present (British) Government – Submitted to the British Cabinet, 23 August 1917
"I have chosen the above title for this memorandum, not in any hostile sense, not by any means as quarrelling with an anti-Semitic view which may be held by my colleagues, not with a desire to deny that anti-Semitism can be held by rational men, not even with a view to suggesting that the Government is deliberately anti-Semitic; but I wish to place on record my view that the policy of His Majesty's Government is anti-Semitic in result will prove a rallying ground for Anti-Semites in every country in the world.
This view is prompted by the receipt yesterday of a correspondence between Lord Rothschild and Mr. Balfour.
Lord Rothschild's letter is dated the 18th July and Mr. Balfour's answer is to be dated August 1917. I fear that my protest comes too late, and it may well be that the Government were practically committed when Lord Rothschild wrote and before I became a member of the Government, for there has obviously been some correspondence or conversation before this letter. But I do feel that as the one Jewish Minister in the Government I may be allowed by my colleagues an opportunity of expressing views which may be peculiar to myself, but which I hold very strongly and which I must ask permission to express when opportunity affords.
I believe most firmly that this war has been a death-blow to Internationalism, and that it has proved an opportunity for a renewal of the slackening sense of Nationality, for it is has not only been tacitly agreed by most statesmen in most countries that the redistribution of territory resulting from the war should be more or less on national grounds, but we have learned to realise that our country stands for principles, for aims, for civilisation which no other country stands for in the same degree, and that in the future, whatever may have been the case in the past, we must live and fight in peace and in war for those aims and aspirations, and so equip and regulate our lives and industries as to be ready whenever and if ever we are challenged. To take one instance, the science of Political Economy, which in its purity knows no Nationalism, will hereafter be tempered and viewed in the light of this national need of defence and security. The war has indeed justified patriotism as the prime motive of political thought.
It is in this atmosphere that the Government proposes to endorse the formation of a new nation with a new home in Palestine. This nation will presumably be formed of Jewish Russians, Jewish Englishmen, Jewish Roumanians, Jewish Bulgarians, and Jewish citizens of all nations – survivors or relations of those who have fought or laid down their lives for the different countries which I have mentioned, at a time when the three years that they have lived through have united their outlook and thought more closely than ever with the countries of which they are citizens.
Zionism has always seemed to me to be a mischievous political creed, untenable by any patriotic citizen of the United Kingdom. If a Jewish Englishman sets his eyes on the Mount of Olives and longs for the day when he will shake British soil from his shoes and go back to agricultural pursuits in Palestine, he has always seemed to me to have acknowledged aims inconsistent with British citizenship and to have admitted that he is unfit for a share in public life in Great Britain, or to be treated as an Englishman. I have always understood that those who indulged in this creed were largely animated by the restrictions upon and refusal of liberty to Jews in Russia. But at the very time when these Jews have been acknowledged as Jewish Russians and given all liberties, it seems to b! e inconceivable that Zionism should be officially recognised by the British Government, and that Mr. Balfour should be authorized to say that Palestine was to be reconstituted as the "national home of the Jewish people". I do not know what this involves, but I assume that it means that Mahommedans and Christians are to make way for the Jews and that the Jews should be put in all positions of preference and should be peculiarly associated with Palestine in the same way that England is with the English or France with the French, that Turks and other Mahommedans in Palestine will be regarded as foreigners, just in the same way as Jews will hereafter be treated as foreigners in every country but Palestine. Perhaps also citizenship must be granted only as a result of a religious test.
I lay down with emphasis four principles:
1. I assert that there is not a Jewish nation. The members of my family, for instance, who have been in this country for generations, have no sort or kind of community of view or of desire with any Jewish family in any other country beyond the fact that they profess to a greater or less degree the same religion. It is no more true to say that a Jewish Englishman and a Jewish Moor are of the same nation than it is to say that a Christian Englishman and a Christian Frenchman are of the same nation: of the same race, perhaps, traced back through the centuries – through centuries of the history of a peculiarly adaptable race. The Prime Minister and M. Briand are, I suppose, related through the ages, one as a Welshman and the other as a Breton, but they certainly do not belong to the same nation.
2. When the Jews are told that Palestine is their national home, every country will immediately desire to get rid of its Jewish citizens, and you will find a population in Palestine driving out its present inhabitants, taking all the best in the country, drawn from all quarters of the globe, speaking every language on the face of the earth, and incapable of communicating with one another except by means of an interpreter. I have always understood that this was the consequence of the building of the Tower of Babel, if ever it was built, and I certainly do not dissent from the view, commonly held, as I have always understood, by the Jews before Zionism was invented, that to bring the Jews back to form a nation in the country from which they were dispersed would require Divine leadership. I have never heard it suggested, even by their most fervent admirers, that either Mr. Balfour or Lord Rothschild would prove to be the Messiah.
I claim that the lives that British Jews have led, that the aims that they have had before them, that the part that they have played in our public life and our public institutions, have entitled them to be regarded, not as British Jews, but as Jewish Britons. I would willingly disfranchise every Zionist. I would be almost tempted to proscribe the Zionist organisation as illegal and against the national interest. But I would ask of a British Government sufficient tolerance to refuse a conclusion which makes aliens and foreigners by implication, if not at once by law, of all their Jewish fellow-citizens.
3. I deny that Palestine is to-day associated with the Jews or properly to be regarded as a fit place for them to live in. The Ten Commandments were delivered to the Jews on Sinai. It is quite true that Palestine plays a large part in Jewish history, but so it does in modern Mahommendan history, and, after the time of the Jews, surely it plays a larger part than any other country in Christian history. The Temple may have been in Palestine, but so was the Sermon on the Mount and the Crucifixion. I would not deny to Jews in Palestine equal rights to colonisation with those who profess other religions, but a religious test of citizenship seems to me to be the only admitted by those who take a bigoted and narrow view of one particular epoch of the history of Palestine, and claim for the Jews a position to which they! are not entitled.
If my memory serves me right, there are three times as many Jews in the world as could possible get into Palestine if you drove out all the population that remains there now. So that only one-third will get back at the most, and what will happen to the remainder?
4. I can easily understand the editors of the Morning Post and of the New Witness being Zionists, and I am not in the least surprised that the non-Jews of England may welcome this policy. I have always recognised the unpopularity, much greater than some people think, of my community. We have obtained a far greater share of this country's goods and opportunities than we are numerically entitled to. We reach on the whole maturity earlier, and therefore with people of our own age we compete unfairly. Many of us have been exclusive in our friendships and intolerant in our attitude, and I can easily understand that many a non-Jew in England wants to get rid of us. But just as there is no community of thought and mode of life among Christian Englishmen, so there is not among Jewish Englishmen. More and more we are edu! cated in public schools and at the Universities, and take our part in the politics, in the Army, in the Civil Service, of our country. And I am glad to think that the prejudices against inter-marriage are breaking down. But when the Jew has a national home, surely it follows that the impetus to deprive us of the rights of British citizenship must be enormously increased. Palestine will become the world's Ghetto. Why should the Russian give the Jew equal rights? His national home is Palestine. Why does Lord Rothschild attach so much importance to the difference between British and foreign Jews? All Jews will be foreign Jews, inhabitants of the great country of Palestine.
I do not know how the fortunate third will be chosen, but the Jew will have the choice, whatever country he belongs to, whatever country he loves, whatever country he regards himself as an integral part of, between going to live with people who are foreigners to him, but to whom his Christian fellow-countrymen have told him he shall belong, and of remaining as an unwelcome guest in the country that he thought he belonged to.
I am not surprised that the Government should take this step after the formation of a Jewish Regiment, and I am waiting to learn that my brother, who has been wounded in the Naval Division, or my nephew, who is in the Grenadier Guards, will be forced by public opinion or by Army regulations to become an officer in a regiment which will mainly be composed of people who will not understand the only language which he speaks – English. I can well understand that when it was decided, and quite rightly, to force foreign Jews in this country to serve in the Army, it was difficult to put them in British regiments because of the language difficulty, but that was because they were foreigners, and not because they were Jews, and a Foreign Legion would seem to me to have been the right thing to establish. A Jewish Legion makes the position of Jews in other regiments more difficult and forces a nationality upon people who have nothing in common.
I feel that the Government are asked to be the instrument for carrying out the wishes of a Zionist organisation largely run, as my information goes, at any rate in the past, by men of enemy descent or birth, and by this means have dealt a severe blow to the liberties, position and opportunities of service of their Jewish fellow-countrymen.
I would say to Lord Rothschild that the Government will be prepared to do everything in their power to obtain for Jews in Palestine complete liberty of settlement and life on an equality with the inhabitants of that country who profess other religious beliefs. I would ask that the Government should go no further.
""secular and atheist Jews" To me, that means Israeli Zionists"
Hostage, this line was meant as a snark to eee, and has come back to bite me. I'm sure there are seculars and atheists in Israel who are not Zionists.
The news that Rabbi Froman has inoperable cancer and will soon be lost to the peace movement in Israel is saddening. Here is more from your link:
"What is most interesting about Froman, and part of the reason he can befriend Hamas leaders like Sheikh Yassine, is that Froman's allegiance is not to a state or nation. He sees himself as a Jew more than an Israeli. His allegiance is to his tradition and to the land in which his forefathers and mothers lived. He has no interest in political power or even nationality. For that reason, he was entirely prepared to continue living in Tekoah under Palestinian sovereignty, yet another example of his deeply principled, even iconoclastic vision of Jewish-Muslim co-existence.
He is a man of God, a man of the Book. Not a man of the gun. Not a man of political power, but of spiritual power. All of this runs completely counter to the prevailing Israeli ethos, so he is viewed as a maverick or irrelevant by the majority of Israelis. The Shabak views him as a dangerous man and even disrupted his plan to hold a news conference with a Hamas affiliated journalist with whom he planned to present a joint peace plan.
Apparently, Shabak is terribly threatened by Israeli settlers who talk peace. It prefers settlers who refuse any compromise or concessions. Froman also met with Turkey's president after the Gaza flotilla massacre in an attempt to further reconciliation."
I am surprised you equate the two as if there were no Zionists in Israel that are religious. john h,
When I wrote ""secular and atheist Jews" To me, that means Israeli Zionists, full stop," I did not intend to include religious Jews. But now I'm not so sure.
It seems to me the word 'religious' has been debased in Israel.
Do you consider the murderous, land-thieving settlers religious?
Or the Hasids who turn out in droves to spit on and throw filthy diapers at people who upset them?
Of course there are righteous Jews in Israel. But they're sure not in positions of authority these days.
Thanks for looking up the stats.
Yes, Bumblebye, cultural Jew.
I'm down with that term, as annie might say.
"There are so many secular and atheist Jews in Israel (about 40-50% of the Jewish population)...."
john h, here's another one of 3e's statistics that needs checking out. Can you provide a source for this statement 3e?
"secular and atheist Jews" To me, that means Israeli Zionists, full stop.
Call me old-fashioned, MH, but I think 'Christian atheist' is a 'contradiction in terms', so too 'Jewish atheist' and 'Muslim atheist'.
You raise two crucial questions, the same questions you have raised before:
What moral or aesthetic qualities of Jewish or Christian or Muslim culture make it desirable to create states and countries marked by a special affinity with one of these? What justifies imposing the costs of this creation on those of other traditions?
Here's a link to the seven laws of noah. I confess I've never had much time for the Noah legend.
Not everyone needs to be a Jew.
Certainly not you, 3e. How can an atheist be a Jew? Judaism is a religion, not an ethnicity, race, or nationality. Why can't you get that through your thick skull?
The Republic of Jerusalem where Jews, Christians, and Muslims live together in harmony. What could be a better solution, annie?
I saw your notice of Ami Kaufman's article in a post the other day, and I have promoted it on four different threads. It is a dynamite article. Thank you.
The education statistics Kaufman cites are appalling.
The few Jews left will be Orthodox and nearly all of the world's Jews will be living in Israel.
I don't understand these two sentences at all, NormanF. They don't add up!
I agree, Krauss. Phil's essay is beautifully written.
Israeli Jews as something other than 'Zionists.' It sure as hell won't be 'Palestinian.
Why not call P/I the Republic of Jerusalem, with Jerusalem as the capital?
Here is taxi outlining this idea in a comment addressed to Sumud:
- Another Israeli hankering to be in the Diaspora
"I'm appalled by this man's – and his grandmother's – blatant anti-Semitism! ;-)"
eljay, you need to watch the video "Defamation."
Or do you? Your wink makes me wonder.....
More on Israel's brain drain, an excerpt from Ami Kaufman's "Israel's bizarre decision to give up on education – and its future":
"Israel's problems, of course, don't stop at grade schools. The higher education system is in total chaos. I've also had the opportunity to hear Manuel Trajtenberg, the chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel...
Trajtenberg, ... is fighting a losing battle as well. Besides aging faculties, low results and more – Trajtenberg is fighting the biggest brain drain a Western country has ever seen.
The numbers are staggering (2007):
- 25% of active Israeli researchers reside in the U.S.(!!!). This is astonishing compared to other countries: Nearby Canada has "drained" only 12.5% of its faculty, Holland 4.3%, Italy 4.2%
- 33% of Israeli computer science researchers reside in the U.S.
- 28.7% of Israeli economists reside in the U.S.
What does all this mean? That Israel has decided what its national priorities are: Less basic and quality education. The ones that are educated are leaving because they can't make it here, and they're not coming back. Israel has given up.
Taking these conditions into consideration, the anti-democratic legislation, the nationalism and the religious coercion taking over Israel is not only well under way – it has a bright future."
- Israel trades $100 million in frozen PA funds for nuke-ready submarine
Alfred Adler: "We should not be astonished if in the cases where we see an inferiority [feeling] complex we find a superiority complex more or less hidden. On the other hand, if we inquire into a superiority complex and study its continuity, we can always find a more or less hidden inferiority [feeling] complex."
The Prussian king, Friedrich Wilhelm II was a grandson of England's Queen Victoria. In a well-regarded biography of QV (the name and author of which I can't remember and can't find at Amazon) suggested that had QV been kinder to Wilhelm II the Great War might never have happened.
Wilhelm II had withered arm and was apparently "plagued with insecurities." QV never invited him to go sailing at Cowes and there were other slights as well which I've forgotten.
Excerpt from the "Oxford Companion to Military History: Wilhelm II"
"Wilhelm II (1859-1941), Kaiser of Germany, Wilhelm helped lay the foundations for WW I, and in consequence gambled away his throne, bringing to an end the German empire—the Second Reich—established by his grandfather and namesake in 1871. His father, Frederick, had married Queen Victoria's namesake daughter, which was probably the origin of his love-hate relationship with Britain (and his uncle Edward VII and cousin George V). Plagued with insecurities and physically fragile (he had a withered arm), he perceived his father's liberalism as a weakness and resolved to rule with a firm hand. Had Frederick not died of throat cancer just months into his reign, he and Victoria might well have established a constitutional monarchy, which Wilhelm would have found difficult to undermine."
Read more: link to answers.com
- Welcome Annie Robbins as Writer at Large
"Man acquitted after confession obtained by Shin Bet torture"
Ma'an News Agency dateline December 7, 2011
So this is news hot off the press!
But I'm still confused. What about the brother? Is he to be acquitted as well? I suppose we'll get that news in due course.
Thanks annie, kate, john h.
DanM has nothing to say, apparently
"The decision to acquit Hamida of all charges is unprecedented in Israeli military courts, Barghouth said." Ma'an news
Well thank heavens Hamida was acquitted, annie. But was that it for the trial? Are they back at square one trying to figure out who committed these murders? Is it possible it was an internal conflict that will now be swept under the rug?
".., when it was the Palestinians who did it."
Do you have a source for the Itamar massacre trial, DanM?
I didn't realize the case had gone to trial. Thanks.
"It's hard to have a conversation with people that dedicated to an intellectual orthodoxy."
What would "an intellectual orthodoxy" be, hops. Do tell us.
I second LeaNder's comment, annie.
- Beinart says Israel must give citizenship to Palestinians under occupation
What if Zionism and Israel's history were analysed without the word "Jewish" entering into it?
Simple question, mooser. There wouldn't be a history to analyse. Those daft Jewish Zionists wouldn't have got project Israel off the ground.
"That is stunning, patm."
I sure thought so, seafoid. I believe I posted the url to the article in three different threads this am.
It's game over for the "only democracy in the middle east." Or so it seems to me.
Now, in a few years, when a real left-wing government is elected, things won't magically get solved. There will still be a lot of problems and things will take time, but at least there will be more hope for things to get better than under the current government.
Wishful thinking, es1982. Read this article on the deplorable state of education in Israel. There isn't a hope in hell that the voters will elect a real left-wing government.
- Bill Kristol says jump, Romney and Gingrich say How high?
....a second type of "growing anti-Semitism" that is the result of the inability to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This is the plain unvarnished truth. I doubt he would be fired for such a remark as this.
- A point for the Israel lobby theory, from Panetta
".....in a system where the riff-raff have a say through the ballot box."
What Israel needs is an Education lobby.
Israel's bizarre decision to give up on education – and its future, by Ami Kaufman,
Truly mind-boggling.
- Game changer: Hillary says Israeli restrictions on women remind her of Rosa Parks and Iran
"Many of us Jews, including many more modern Orthodox Jews, are not big fans of these [Hasidic] communities...."
Hophmi, what do you as a liberal Jew make of Ami Kaufman's "Israel's bizarre decision to give up on education – and its future"? It seems to me that Israel will be over-run with Hasidic communities in the near future.
The grade school education statistics in Kaufman's piece are mind-boggling. And here are his last paras, on higher education and the brain drain:
"Israel's problems, of course, don't stop at grade schools. The higher education system is in total chaos. I've also had the opportunity to hear Manuel Trajtenberg, the chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education in Israel...
Trajtenberg, ... is fighting a losing battle as well. Besides aging faculties, low results and more – Trajtenberg is fighting the biggest brain drain a Western country has ever seen.
The numbers are staggering (2007):
- 25% of active Israeli researchers reside in the U.S.(!!!). This is astonishing compared to other countries: Nearby Canada has "drained" only 12.5% of its faculty, Holland 4.3%, Italy 4.2%
- 33% of Israeli computer science researchers reside in the U.S.
- 28.7% of Israeli economists reside in the U.S.
What does all this mean? That Israel has decided what its national priorities are: Less basic and quality education. The ones that are educated are leaving because they can't make it here, and they're not coming back. Israel has given up.
Taking these conditions into consideration, the anti-democratic legislation, the nationalism and the religious coercion taking over Israel is not only well under way – it has a bright future."
Ami Kaufman has a mind-boggling story up on 972.mag
"Israel's bizarre decision to give up on education – and its future"
"As Israelis, Palestinians and the rest of the world deal with the crimes of the occupation and the possibilities of one state or two – Israel's choices in education show it has already decided to give up on the state that already exists"
- Kristol accuses Obama of wanting the Jewish state to disappear
Do we have the technical know-how to make a petition or borrow the existing mechanisms?
Yes, existing mechanisms do exist. One of the biggest is: Avaaz
"Avaaz—meaning "voice" in several European, Middle Eastern and Asian languages—launched in 2007 with a simple democratic mission: organize citizens of all nations to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want." (from their About file.)
They are already on the Palestine case. Check them out:
- Panetta's last words to Israel: 'Get to the damn table... Get to the damn table'
I'd just add Canada in that combination of neo-conservative gov'ts who are pushing hard for war with Iran.
And you'd be right to, stevieb.
- Roll over Ben-Gurion and tell Jabotinsky the news (even Tablet's had enough)
Phil. Thanks for getting the underlining under the urls in mondo articles.
A great improvement
why isn't it ever talked about that maybe one of the reasons american jews like it here is all the rest of us? why does assimilation pose such a threat when a jew can be around us and still be jewish, because they can. it doesn't rob a person of jewishness to hang out with us. it's just weird, the whole thing is weird. don't we even matter?
excellent post, annie
Jewish Zionists do seem awfully self-absorbed, that's for sure.
- A Warsaw Ghetto with guns (my recent trip to Israel/Palestine)
I will ask you a question, nimbod. But first, welcome to mondoweiss.
From what you say in your post, I'm assuming that you are a university prof in Israel. So my question is this:
What do you make of the statistics in Ami Kaufman's Dec. 5, 2011 article, "Israel's bizarre decision to give up on education – and its future."
Do you consider the situation described in this article 'normal'?
A very vivid portrait, Phil. Thanks for writing it.
Alas, annie, it is Sherborne, Dorset, a county in England.
I don't believe the TV series has ever been shown on the CBC.
Here's the first para of the article:
The Bishop of Sherborne, Dr Graham Kings, chaired discussions on the ground-breaking TV series The Promise with filmmaker Peter Kosminsky. The story interweaves the history of Britain's involvement in the founding of the State of Israel with current events, seen through the eyes of Erin, an 18-year-old girl retracing events in her grandfather's diary.
- Marcus warns, US Jews could abandon Israel over treatment of women (ixnay about alestiniansPay)
"Ackerman ….He is serving two governments in an official capacity."
These people won't pay any attention to the Article 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Statute of the International Criminal Court.
What we need is evidence of ordinary run of the mill crimes like money laundering. Do they collect salaries from both governments? Is this legal?
Follow the money, I say.
Well they are looting several other countries too.
I'll say it's troubling. Have at it Hostage! Surely the WZO is not immune from prosecution if indeed they are committing crimes.
"In the special instance of this play, I want to hide my genitals even more than any other time."
I've read two sources about this line; both indicate that it is his circumcised penis he is ashamed of and wants to hide.
One source is online: google the line you quote and you will find it in Jacques Kornberg's bio of Hertzl.
The second source is in Chapter 2 of "The Returns of Zionism" by Gabriel Piterberg.
- Israeli forces uproot 100 olive trees and 'arrest' a farmer's tractor to extend wall in Occupied Territories
Canada's right-wing Tories are going very hard at our unions, MH. Here's the start of a wsj article on the Ohio vote.
"COLUMBUS, Ohio—Voters on Tuesday defeated by a wide margin a law that would have restricted the powers of unions representing teachers, police officers and other public-sector workers.
The law would have stripped the state's 350,000 public employees of most of their collective-bargaining rights and forced workers to pay at least 15% of their health-care costs. With 97% of precincts reporting, 61% of voters in a referendum voted against the Republican-backed law, known as Senate Bill 5, while 39% supported it."
Kate, there is much of interest in this list.
1) "The rise of Israel's radical religious right" is a good primer for mw newcomers.
link to alternativenews.org
2)"Netanyahu looking to weaken settlers' influence in Likud" This piece brought to my mind the old saying about "closing the barn door after the horse escapes."
link to haaretz.com
3) Israel is going to hand over the Palestinians' tax monies it collected. Whoopee!
link to maannews.net
The news from Gaza and the West Bank is as bad as ever. eg. Gaza has been without power for 13 days.
Some successes on the BDS front: eg. British trade unions are very supportive.
My thought on this: Too bad everywhere in the West trade unions are being hammered into extinction.
- No freedom in the land of false prophets
Free, Free, Palestina!
- Roger Cohen says our foreign policy has been 'Likudized'
Israel itself is becoming more and more Likudized.
Amira Hass writing on 30/11/11:
The Zionist ultra-Orthodox are cashing in their I.O.U.
- Why is Charlie Rose hugging Seth Klarman?
The word that gets my goat is 'Shiksa'.
I learned recently in Israel Shahak's 1994 "Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The weight of Three Thousand Years" that the Spitting Jews consider me a prostitute simply because I'm the wife of a non-Jew. How nasty is that?
Yes, annie, the word "Judeophobia" gives rise to an important symmetry. There's our fourth reason.
I'm pleased to see a few commenters using the term "Judeophobia" instead of "anti-Semitism. I've begun to use "Judeophobia" on a regular basis.
Here are my reasons: 1) it is the correct term 2) it is an action that will give comfort to Palestinians and other Arabs. 3) it will tick off Zionists everywhere, but especially in the Israeli government where, I'm told, the term is 'red-lined'.
Adherents of Judaism just happen to be a minority in the world and like all other minorities on the face of the planet they tend to "stick together".
Yes, yes, yes, Avi G.
This is the basic, rock bottom, real world truth of the matter.
- Now they care
"Israel has been brutalized by its occupation of Arab territories since 1967. …"
The "1967" is important too. He knows he's relatively safe stopping at this date.
- Ann Lewis and Bill Kristol do 'playful banter' at AIPAC summit
Thus Barney Frank, a big liberal, says he privately opposes settlements but he won't go public unless Jeff Halper can find 5,000 Jews in his district who will support him.
Yesterday I heard Bernie Frank announce his intention not to run in 2012.
Perhaps now we'll hear his real views on Israel.
- Could Ron Paul's Iowa surge finally open up political debate on Israel and Iran attack?
"i'll say this for the guy, he's totally unafraid…."
Hey, what are they gonna do to the guy? Make him old? (I get to say things like this.)
"I smiled at him. AMERICA, I said quietly, just like that. WHAT IS IT? THE SWEEPINGS OF EVERY COUNTRY INCLUDING OUR OWN. ISN'T THAT TRUE? That's a fact."
Leopold Bloom speaking in the great Irish writer James Joyce's "Ulysses".
You can go back further than WWI.
American Philippine war:
link to en.wikipedia.org
Spanish American war:
link to en.wikipedia.org
Mexican American war:
link to en.wikipedia.org
War of 1812 with the British in what is now Canada
link to en.wikipedia.org
"btw, that is my big beef with the new MW – embedded links are hard to see….anyone else have that problem, or is just my backlight?"
I agree, Dan, they are hard to see.
- Mondo... Beyondo
hey, what's not to love about geoengineering, mrw?
The Royal Society has been working on Geoengineering & Geoengineering Governance Rules & Regulations for many years. The Royal Society Geoengineering Working Group is almost entirely made up of those that want to conduct research and implement many different types of Geoengineering Experiments.
Geoengineering (or the new term, Climate Remediation officially coined on October 4, 2011, by the Bipartisan Policy Center which is a private congressional lobbying group), also has under its umbrella genetically modified trees, plants, seeds, crops, etc. The intention is to drive a carbon tax which will fund many private corporations who will engage in a myriad of geoengineering schemes and make huge sums of money under government and other contracts or to fund under a U.S. government budget in 2012.
Since research, scientific knowledge experiments, and military actions are not covered under most international treaties and conventions...it opens the door for these experiments to be used around the world. Solar Radiation Management is one such experiment that will only "mask" temperature or global warming...this is not a fix. Once started it cannot be stopped as the warming it "masks" will then show up immediately and fast. The water vapor, sulfur or aluminum oxides gases, used to make small particles in the atmosphere will need to be used continously...as the particles will fall back to Earth on a constant basis...polluting air, water, soils, causing acid rain and other problems.


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STANFORD, Calif.- Fourteen student-athletes have been honored with this year's Award of Excellence, honoring graduating seniors whose undergraduate activities demonstrate the strong potential for continued service to the university and the alumni community.
Presented by the Stanford Alumni Association, this award is designed to recognize the top 10-percent of the senior class with this honor. Service might include involvement in athletics, clubs, drama and musical productions, fundraising, journalism, public service, religious organizations, residential education, social and political organizations, student government or University committees.
Nominations were submitted by faculty and staff from across campus. This year's Class of '14 was represented with 150 honorees, with the recipients recently honored at a reception at the Alumni Association. Their names will also be listed in the program for the Class Day Lecture, which is hosted by the Alumni Association and takes place during Commencement Weekend.
Student-athletes included among this year's award winners are as follows:
Kristie Ahn (women's tennis)
Allison Arnold (women's swimming and diving)
Christina Bax (women's rowing)
Hope Burke (field hockey)
Tyler Gaffney (football)
Noah Garcia (men's swimming and diving)
Molly Hayes (women's lightweight rowing)
Joe Hemschoot (football)
Toni Kokenis (women's basketball)
Robbie Lemons (men's basketball)
Kyle Meyer (wrestling)
Chiney Ogwumike (women's basketball)
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In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high. Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other. The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form. The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub. He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house; the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one was touching the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub was touching the other wall; their other wings toward the center of the house were touching wing to wing. He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.
He carved the walls of the house all around about with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms. The floor of the house he overlaid with gold, in the inner and outer rooms.
For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided. He covered the two doors of olivewood with carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; he overlaid them with gold, and spread gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.
So also he made for the entrance to the nave doorposts of olivewood, four-sided each, and two doors of cypress wood; the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, overlaying them with gold evenly applied upon the carved work. He built the inner court with three courses of dressed stone to one course of cedar beams.
In the fourth year the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid, in the month of Ziv. In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.


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I really enjoy it here. This really is one of the most beautiful cities I've visited in Asia.
The people here are more reserved. You'll see a lot of men wearing green pith helmets made of compressed paper. The women in Hanoi are quite stunning, though don't wear ao dai (traditional outfits) as much as they do in Saigon.
In general things are less accessible to the tourist in Hanoi than Saigon, but that is changing.
Trees are everywhere. Lakes, too. Traffic is more chaotic, though at about 10PM the streets are almost abandoned. Hanoi is early to bed, early to rise: at 5AM walk around Hoan Kiem lake and you'll see thousands of people exercising.
I do my best to explore what this city has to offer. If you need any advice, or any topics covered that you don't see here, please feel free to e-mail me here at VT.
Everybody who has visited me understands now why I live here.
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Thanks alot,PEz!For sharing your knowledge about bar in Hanoi!I used to think it is not vn'cultures,and don't acccept it!But now,gradually we embace it!But still don't like much!Hope that meet u in one of reccomended places!;-)
the buses are nice??? i had to take a bus sometimes to get to the national university and there were literally 200 people crammed in there... not really, what i'd call "nice" ;-) your cyclo tip is great, that's one of the most awful tourist traps
Your tip re taking a cyclo is very interesting, although I would maybe agree that all the aparent agro would make it more pleasant to walk!
Wow - thanks for the great pics and advice. I would be visiting Hanoi next month!
G'day mate Great stuff , thanks, arriving 31 Jan 05 for month or so.. maybe see you at a bar !
Pez, I believe I've seen this chap on a 3 wheeler xe om! Thanks for your advice, Pez, I didn't know he was a cheat till I read your tip.
have just come back from Hanoi and I saw the tortoise myself and got some pictures. The locals did not think it was very well and thats why it was spending so much time grabbing air from the surface. It surprised me how big it was.
Always great to hear from someone who lives in the actual place. Thanks mate.
very nice pages...greetings from ireland..:}
Hey, I'm living in Hanoi but it's so nice to see your page about my HN. Thanks a lot.
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I was on the conference call with a number of questions, but either the attendees or the conference operator ignored my requests, entered as Star 1. Only one person got through. I do not know if there were others who were ignored.My questions were as follows:Please explain the significant increase in REO holdings compared to two months ago. the holdings increased from about 250 to about 360.Please explain what your specific lines of business are, which lines are expected to be the major producers, and any estimates you have for future income from each of those lines of business. Are there any lines you expect to exit in the near future and any you expect to add in the near future? When do you expect to turn the corner with respect to repeatable net profits and positive cash flow?These are reasonable questions from share holders. I was ignored. Were you?
I think a couple of those ques have been anws in past CC. I would assume that Originations would be the "flagship" business and all the other segments of the company will "piggyback" off of the business the orignation creates. I'm sure they would contribute the REO to the lack luster economy. My big concern is revenue. Seems like the cash flow should be increasing. I follow other Mortgage bankers and it seems as if we arent even doing half of what others are doing. But I will say that many didnt have to fight their way back like Impac. (and still fighting)
like always the CC was short but we are still expanding 2million in expenses....double what it was last quarter. Lets hope all the expanding pays off. My bet is that it will!! GLTA!
Have you tried sending those questions to IR? Please share their replies with us. TIA.
I spoke with Mr Justin Mosio, their IR Guy and got the following answers, which I am paraphrasing:1. The apparent substantial increase in REO properties was due to the change in the way properties were listed. In the new list, properties which are available and properties in escrow are listed. In the old list, properties in escrow were not included. My impression is that the change was needed since a large number of in escrow properties fall out.2. There is no present intent to leave or enter new market or business areas.3. The focus of the company will be to originate and sell mortgages, and they are opening new offices/locations to do so.With the very turbulent existing conditions and uncertainties, the company is unwilling to provide any guidance with respect to growth or profitability.


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Hi everyone,
Been planning on converting my Trek 7.2 FX for touring, and figured I would be making the purchases sometime in the next month. The bike is stock except for Shimano SPD pedals and a computer have been added. I want to use the bike for fairly long haul solo touring, as I am taking it with me to Africa when I leave for the Peace Corps in November. I want to buy everything I need in one swoop since my LBS has 0% financing for purchases over $500.
Here is my list so far:
Front/Rear Racks
Front/Rear Panniers (The LBS is recommending JANDD mountaineering Panniers, anyone use these?)
Front/Rear Fenders
Bar Ends
Handlebar Bag
Headlight/Rear Flasher
Anything else obvious that I am missing? Would like to have everything purchased and worked out by the end of summer.
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Shapeways: Bring your creativity to life in 3D http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php Shapeways: Bring your creativity to life in 3D Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83222&th=17663#msg_83222 <![CDATA[Later today, we'll be releasing our weekly release of fixes. Included will be fixing Shop Image issues. So, for now, wait patiently. And if any issues continue or arise after the release, feel free to post them here. I'm locking the other threads so we can see exactly which issues weren't yet fixed.]]> Youknowwho4eva 2014-01-15T15:33:13-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83239&th=17663#msg_83239 <![CDATA[Hi, apart from the default image problem, there is an issue with adding shop section.
 Cheers
 Vijay]]> Dotsan 2014-01-15T19:09:02-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83264&th=17663#msg_83264 <![CDATA[Images working now.]]> WillLaPuerta 2014-01-16T01:57:47-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83266&th=17663#msg_83266 <![CDATA[Nope, images not working. If I add a new image it is still loading as the default and cannot be changed.

 ]]> lensman 2014-01-16T02:35:49-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83269&th=17663#msg_83269 <![CDATA[doesn't work here :(

 WillLaPuerta , how did you get it to work?

 @Vijay, adding multiple shop sections has been fixed on the 9th already.
 What issues are you having?]]> MitchellJetten 2014-01-16T07:41:57-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83278&th=17663#msg_83278 <![CDATA[it appears to be working for me now!]]> Jettuh 2014-01-16T13:31:44-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83281&th=17663#msg_83281 <![CDATA[Little bit of extra information.
 When uploading a new picture and selecting "Photo" instead of "Render" will make it work at my accounts.

 Our dev will fix this ASAP.]]> MitchellJetten 2014-01-16T13:40:59-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83284&th=17663#msg_83284 <![CDATA[Well, it was working. Now that I've set the materials it's refusing to show the image I chose as the default anywhere. Not on the model page and not on the store page. Is there a problem with selecting "Multiple Materials Shown"?]]> WillLaPuerta 2014-01-16T14:49:27-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83285&th=17663#msg_83285 <![CDATA[OK, so I don't think it's the Multiple Materials thing, since I set tried setting the default to a different image with a specific material and it's still not working. The weirdest thing is that it's using a different image for the Models page (and store page) and for the individual model page itself and both of them are wrong. Also it's only going wrong with one model: http://shpws.me/qnxs All the others that were acting up before and started working after the fix are still working after I changed the material setting.]]> WillLaPuerta 2014-01-16T15:05:08-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83290&th=17663#msg_83290 <![CDATA[We're gonna fix this today with an ER.

 Repro:
 1. Go to Edit Details page of model.
 2. Upload picture and make it "Render" + make it default.
 3. Go back to MyModels
 4. Default picture is SW render
 5. Go to Edit Details page of model
 6. Change "Render" to "Photo"
 7. Go back to MyModels
 8. Yay, default picture is correct

 Cheers
 Mitchell]]> MitchellJetten 2014-01-16T15:59:53-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83298&th=17663#msg_83298 <![CDATA[This has now been fixed! Thanks for waiting guys, we appreciate it!]]> natalia 2014-01-16T17:20:41-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83308&th=17663#msg_83308 <![CDATA[For some reason the default photo fix is not working for us.

 It really seems random :

 - some models don't show the default photo on the shop page
 - some models don't show the default photo on the shop and model page

 We'll just let it rest for a few days before trying to change the default photos again.
 Deleting pictures, uploading them again and redoing the captions isn't all that bad if you have to do it once but doing that multiple times really isn't fun.

 We do have to mention that the default picture works for our 2 new product which makes us really happy !]]> FabMeJewelry 2014-01-16T18:46:39-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83336&th=17663#msg_83336 <![CDATA[What I had to do today - and this may have been corrected - is when I uploaded a new photo that I did NOT want to be the default I simply had to check off "Photo" not "Render" and did NOT choose a Material. When I did choose a material that seemed to make it go automatically as default.... Like I said, that may have been corrected now.

 ]]> lensman 2014-01-16T21:11:14-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83351&th=17663#msg_83351 <![CDATA[OK, so I decided to give it some time and see if the fix just needed things to update, but it's still not working here.]]> WillLaPuerta 2014-01-17T00:14:19-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83368&th=17663#msg_83368 <![CDATA[Still have problems with it.

 It seems not to work, if you set an Image to default where no Material is selected, while other images has a selected material.

 It also not seem complete not work if yo set on material to "Multiple materials".
 ]]> wedge 2014-01-17T14:31:50-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83516&th=17663#msg_83516 <![CDATA[When will the shop image issue be resolved ?
 It's still not working for us :)]]> FabMeJewelry 2014-01-20T21:01:21-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83535&th=17663#msg_83535 <![CDATA[We fixed it last week FabMeJewelry.

 Your issue is a bit different, i'll look into this.

 So the default picture on your shop page appears to be selected by the first picture with that default material.

 Example:
 *Check this model
 *all pictures have "Stainless Steel"
 *your default material is "Stainless Steel" so he selects the first picture with that material (so if second picture was WSF, and you selected default material WSF,, it would have shown that picture).
 * check the edit detail page, and select a different material for the pictures, you will see it works and the correct pic is shown.

 I'll have our dev team investigate this :)]]> MitchellJetten 2014-01-21T08:02:52-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83536&th=17663#msg_83536 <![CDATA[Thanks Mitchell,

 I will try this first thing tonight !]]> FabMeJewelry 2014-01-21T08:32:27-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83537&th=17663#msg_83537 <![CDATA[So instead of having your customers wait till tonight, i "fixed" (read: work-around) the 5 models for you.

 Instead of having them as "Photo -> Stainless Steel | Description: Stainless Steel"
 I changed the non default pictures to "Photo -> Select Material | Description: Stainless Steel"

 Cheers,
 Mitchell]]> MitchellJetten 2014-01-21T08:45:11-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=83539&th=17663#msg_83539 <![CDATA[That's awesome, everything looks great now :)
 Now i can dedicate this evening to design a wedding ring for my colleague, thanks a lot Mitchell !]]> FabMeJewelry 2014-01-21T10:08:11-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=84238&th=17663#msg_84238 <![CDATA[I still had to manually fix this for my shop.

 One model of mine has 5 images: the shapeways render, my render, and three photos. They are all of the "sandstone" material. I wanted the first photo to be the one that is used for the shop page, but instead, the shop page was always showing my first render (the 2nd listed image). Changing the material on my first rendered image from "Sandstone" to "Select a Material" was the only way that I could get the 3rd image (my first photo) to be the one chosen for my shop page. So, apparently, this is still not fixed.]]> TinyMtn 2014-02-03T01:06:08-00:00 Re: Shop Image Issues http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=84571&th=17663#msg_84571 <![CDATA[hmmmm the title is shop image, but seems to deal with problems with images for one product.

 Nevertheless. I've tried to change my shop banner. And it seems to work. It's changed in the shop settings form. If I view the shop from this page it's also changed. But when I do a reload of the page or open the shop in an anonymous browser window the shop banner still remains the old one.
 (and yes I have cleared my cache and the old picture is also visible on my mobile)

 It seems that one update during the last week was successful but every change during the last days was not.

 Woody54
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I'm still searching but have yet to find a supplier of the old style handlebar mounted water bottle holder(s) that used to be seen on older road bikes. Does anyone know of a source? Thx, PG.
I'm still searching but have yet to find a supplier of the old style handlebar mounted water bottle holder(s) that used to be seen on older road bikes. Does anyone know of a source? Thx, PG.
I bought one at the Trek store in Madison Wi that came with a bottle. It was a Trek part if I remember right. Check with your local Trek dealer.
Treks, 87-560, 92-970, 95-930, LeMonds, 04 Tourmalet, 04 Arrivee, 06-Versailles
If you're just going for the look or function then Minoura makes two products that can be used to mount a cage to a handlebar:
I've used both and they work well. The second one may be a tight fit for some stems but it holds the bottle a little lower. Use chrome steel cages to complete the period look.
I think a77impala is thinking of an adapter that attaches to your bars and then you can attach any cage to that adapter. Yellow Jersey in Madison sells them for about $15.
TA made a version in the 70s, they go for $30-$50 on ebay. I see one every few weeks.
The older ones without the bottles go for about $70, with aluminum bottles, about $150. They are on ebay about every 4-6 weeks. I would have had some cheaper but the moronic seller forgot to take me off the bidding block list (I was on because he didn't ship to the US, he said he would take me off but never did).
There are some repros on ebay right now from a seller who sells through his website too. He may have a source if you want to ask.
Thanks folks for all your help. The Minoura ones are what I'm looking for. PG.
Though admittedly not authentic, the Minouras capture the overall period-correct look and feel of traditional handlebar-mounted water bottles pretty well on my 48-year old bike.
"Early to bed, early to rise. Work like hell, and advertise." -- George Stahlman
Capo [dschaw'-poe]: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger, S/N 42624
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1981 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069
I use one of the minoura units and I like it a lot. You can adjust it to a nice level potion that works will for a cup of coffee on the way to work.


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Thank you to the Johnson County Museum of History volunteers, presenters and sponsors who made our annual Heritage Day a great success. We simply couldn't do it without your hard work and dedication.
Brenna Cundiff, director Johnson County Museum of History
Thank you to all the team players at Hickory Creek at Franklin for making our car wash a big success in giving back to our community. A big thank-you to those who came out in our community and had their vehicles washed and contributed to our fundraiser. Hearts and lots of bubbles, team players.
Cindy Shelton activity director
Hickory Creek Franklin
Hearts to the county officials for the roundabout at the intersection of Fairview and Morgantown roads. No more long lines of waiting traffic. Now who gets the darts for the broken concrete — designers, construction company, heavy vehicles, etc.?
Dr. Dick Huber
Whiteland Elementary School PTO would like to send out giant hearts to the following businesses for supporting our most recent fundraiser: Rascal's Fun Zone, Kasey's Pizza Spot, Goodies Cupcakery, Franklin Skate Club and Pizza King Station. Your support is a great incentive for our families and students to participate in the fundraisers, which provide additional technology and equipment in the Whiteland Elementary School classrooms.
Wendy Preilis
Whiteland Elementary School PTO
Many huge hearts to everyone who participated in the Dining to Donate on Oct. 15 at the Franklin Applebee's. With your help, we were able to raise $96.10 for Relay for Life. We would also like to thank Applebee's and their staff for their great service during our event.
Sally Hood co-captain, Relay for Life team "In His Steps"
The fourth annual Interchurch Food Pantry of Johnson County Chili Cook-Off on Oct. 13 was a huge success thanks to our sponsors, chili donors, silent auction donors and to all the volunteers who worked tirelessly to make this event possible. Winners were: First place, Aunt Judy's Country Kitchen; second place, Richard's Kitchen and Market; third place, Ann's Restaurant. A big thanks to Mount Auburn Methodist Church for allowing us to use their wonderful facility. Attendees also enjoyed our entertainment: The GLADtones Barbershop Quartet and Judy Weise at the piano, the great chili, desserts, drinks and silent auction.


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Having pleaded guilty to theft charges in December, Rickey Charles Goodrich used his position as chief financial officer at Pearl Jam's management company, Curtis Management, to steal $380,000 in the four years before he was fired in September 2010.
Seattle Police determined Goodrich's thefts cost the management company $566,000, including investigative expenses. Goodrich, a 55-year-old resident of Novato, Calif., admitted to owing his former employer hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Goodrich pleaded guilty to six counts of first-degree theft. King County prosecutors were prepared to ask that Goodrich be sentenced to six months in jail, if he paid back the band prior to Friday's hearing. He failed to do so.
Initially facing 33 theft charges, Goodrich transferred money from company accounts to pay his debts. He also used band credit cards to pay for personal expenses, including family vacations and wine.
Goodrich was hired by Pearl Jam Touring Co. in 2005 as the band's accountant and financial officer. He was hired on at Curtis Inc. the following year, and assumed control over all financial matters related to Pearl Jam's tours.
Concerned about Goodrich's management of various funds, the band's manager conducted a review of "cash flow issues" at the touring company and Ten Club -- Pearl Jam's fan club, which Goodrich also had a hand in managing -- that had cropped up by late 2009.
Investigators hired by the band's manager found Goodrich claimed to have paid thousands of dollars to band members and crew that were largely unaccounted for. Investigators ultimately identified several large, suspicious wire transfers from the management company initiated by Goodrich, which went to pay his personal debts.
Confronted by investigators, Goodrich initially claimed to have cleared the "loans" with his supervisor but later repaid $55,000 to the company. Reviews conducted by the band's investigators are alleged to have shown Goodrich also charged $134,000 in purchases to the company credit card.
Goodrich is expected to report to the Department of Corrections early in March. He was sentenced by King County Superior Court Judge Roger Rogoff .