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Volume 89 Issue 24 | pp. 22-23
Issue Date: June 13, 2011
Issue Date: June 13, 2011
Coal Evolution In China
Chemical production is highlighted at recent catalysis conference in China
The phrase "clean coal" elicits varied responses. To some, it's a helpful slogan to encourage the use of an abundant raw material. To others, it's a misleading oxymoron that discounts the environmental impact of a low-efficiency fossil fuel. But as energy demand surges with returning economic growth and concerns about the safety of nuclear power continue, discussions about coal seem to be evolving toward the need to optimize its use because it cannot be dismissed . . .
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In the preview of this episode, a trainer with a Shiftry appeared, can someone edit the article? --Bisasam 16:14, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
I also saw an Alakazam in the preview :-) --Brillux 21:19, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, in the long preview on the official site, there is an Alakazam (Kenny's?), Empoleon (probably Jun's) and Marowak. --Bisasam 07:53, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
The Alakazam isn't Kenny's as he left the group at the end of the last episode. Watchermark 17:54, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
The guy with Farfetch'd
Didn't he have a name? --Maxim 14:06, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Dawn's First Round Oppoent
Doesn't Hakase, the Trainer that Dawn is up against in the first round resembles Dr. Akihabara? He's the guy from EP038, and is used in the template for No Dub name. He is also seen leading the line just in front of the "Twerps" when they walk in.
I know that my Japanese is bad: But doesn't Hakase mean "Professor?"Big Nutter 14:47, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, it does. Anyway, if they do look similar, add it in the trivia with a picture if you can get it. J-J-M 15:35, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
Why are there quotation marks around the first sentence? Pokabu82 20:42, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- Because that is a direct quotation from the episode. The narrirator said it at the beginning. --Pokemaster97 20:43, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- Oh... Thanks! Pokabu82 20:49, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- Glad to help! --Pokemaster97 20:50, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
- Oh... Thanks! Pokabu82 20:49, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


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text: So, I have a new double bass student. She's 10, and her family doesn't really have a clue about music, and also she isn't in any groups or anything at school. I am a jazz bass player, at least that's what I went to school for. How would you approach this student? Go into basic arco and arco playing? Go into pizz and playing in that style? I'm not really sure how to call this one. Any ideas?


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In today's paper we highlight the case of a 'neighbour from hell' who has caused anguish to those living nearby.
After repeated warnings, advice from the council and offers of support she has been evicted from her home.
It is a sad state of affairs when action like this has to be taken. But it is a decision that cannot have come too soon for those affected by the behaviour.
Our homes are our own private space but that doesn't mean we have the right to act without thinking of others.
Streets, blocks of flats, neighbourhoods and suburbs would all be nicer places to live if people considered their neighbours' feelings more often.
The vast majority of people behave well and live in harmony with those close by. It shouldn't be difficult to do that.
However, there's always the occasional case – as we have reported today – where one person or family causes everyone else to suffer.
Often it takes a long time for a resolution to be found as the various procedures are worked through by the authorities and evidence is gathered.
There is no excuse for not being a good neighbour and those who aren't can have no excuses if they suffer the consequences.


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Adventure photography doesn't get any better than this. Waterproof, shockproof, dustproof and coldproof plus an inventive LED lens lighting feature for unparalleled macro photography from a compact. The way bad Pentax Optio W90 adventure cam looks every bit as tough as it is. 12.1 megapixel sensor and wide angle 5X optical zoom (28-140mm equivalent) ensure detailed images of any subject near or far. Waterproof to 20 feet for reliable underwater photography. Shockproof to 4 feet to withstand the rigors of extreme use. Coldproof to sub-freezing temperatures for use in chilly wintery, snowy activities. Dustproof for use in dry, sandy climates.
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Submitted by John Riley a Expert
Date Reviewed: December 6, 2012
Strengths: Waterproof, crushproof, cold resistant and very compact. Buy the pentax Neoprene case to go with it - it hardly adds any bulk and gives good protection and fast access. It's a very liberating experience to have a carry-anywhere camera that can be used in all conditions. My picture of the inside of a working dishwasher has caused some interest, but eqyually well I've shot images from the street floor covered in water, driving rain, and when doing camera club talks pop the camera into a bowl of water to make the point. The W90 is more waterproof than I am, but snorkling and modest diving would allso be possible. Not for me though, I'll stick to using the camera freely in the wettest of conditions on land! The lens is excellent at close and middle distances, there are plenty of shooting options, and the auto macro setting is very useful. The camera will select macro mode if we get too close for standard AF. Quality at macro distances is superb. My W90 is the rather nice green version, so it looks good as well.
Weaknesses: Infinity is not the best area of performance for the lens. It's much better at morer modest distances, but given its take-anywhere uses, this is probably not an unreasonable compromise. The flat glass cover for the lens also needs to be kept scrupulously clean, so in the very long term it gets more cleaning than camera lenses normally would. No scratches after 18 months or so, but eventually it may take its toll. This would be equally true of any waterproof camera.
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I always wanted a camera that I could literally take and use anywhere. The Pentax W90 fits the bill very nicely. And indeed it does go everywhere with me. I reviewed it for ePHOTOzine and liked it so much that I bought one. If you want a tough camewra that you won't worry about to carry in your jacket pocket, one that will withstand the kids jumping on it, one that you can use in rain, sleet, snow, ice and even underwater, this is it. If you want excellent results for medium range (groups of people) down to macro and super macro (1cm) distances, this is it. If you want A3 landscape prints for exhibition, this is not it, stick to the DSLR.
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Price Paid: $189.00
Purchased At: www.srsmicrosystems.
Similar Products Used: Many compact cameras, mostly not waterproof. For quality results, my favourite alternative would be the Olympus XZ-1, but that isn't waterproof.
Type of photography: Other
Submitted by Adriana Vale a Casual
Date Reviewed: May 1, 2012
Strengths: Macro
Weaknesses: Noise
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I purchased the Pentax W90 mainly for it's Macro picture taking abilities. I love taking macro pictures! With the Microscope mode I am able to get within 1 inch of a subject and take an incredible picture. I also love taking pictures underwater in the ocean. This is where I ran in to problems with the Pentax W90. I had to return my first 2 Pentax W90 cameras due to malfunctioning after being inserted in to the water; inserted meaning just breaking the surface of the water. But as they say, three times is a charm, right? In this case, yes it was. The 3rd Pentax W90 that I received has lasted 2 years now.
I have not been satisfied with the picture quality in low light scenarios. This is where the Pentax W90 has disappointed me more times than I not.
I am currently researching a rugged point and shoot cameras that offers better image quality. I do plan on returning to my Pentax W90 for those extreme Macro shots that I adore.
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Price Paid: $280.00
Purchased At: CompUSA
Similar Products Used: Olympus Tough
Type of photography: Outdoor
Submitted by Roger Spitzer a Intermediate
Date Reviewed: July 9, 2011
Strengths: Lightweight, convenient for pictures while kayaking, canoeing or just hiking in the rain.The zoom works well and the macro mode works very well.
Weaknesses: Difficulty controlling the focus spot, flash is useless on the water. Should only be used down to 2-3 feet and not for long periods of time.
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I had this camera for about 2 years for using on my kayak. The picture quality is not as good as non-waterproof cameras, but if you take your time you can get some high quality shots. The macro mode produced some of the best results. I had used it several times in depths down to about 3 feet without a problem, but when I took it down to about 8 feet the seal succumbed, water leaked in, and that was it for the camera. It often focuses on the water in front of the subject, which is why you need to take your time and watch the focus spot indicator. The flash is almost useless on the water, as the light bounces back into the lens and makes the shot a bright blur 90% of the time. It performed nicely when I visited Niagra Falls and didn't have to worry about the camera getting wet under the falls.
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Duration Product Used: 11-20 years
Price Paid: $260.00
Purchased At: Adorama
Similar Products Used: Pentax W30
Type of photography: Outdoor
Submitted by Marcio a Intermediate
Date Reviewed: June 2, 2011
Strengths: Nice look.
Easy to carry.
Weaknesses: Very fragile.
Is not realy waterproof.
Bottom Line:
I bought the camera last year. Used it for a long time, but not under water. The first time I used it under water it stopped working. The water came in by the power switch. I bought another, and the first time that the camera fell, the it's broke the lcd. I get so angry that i dind't think 2 times and threw the camera on the wall. I will never buy another pentax again.
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Duration Product Used: 6-10 years
Price Paid: $350.00
Purchased At: Best Buy
Similar Products Used: Sony DSC-W310
Type of photography: Sports
Submitted by matrix04 a Intermediate
Date Reviewed: April 26, 2010
Strengths: macro and macro 1mm pics
security : the belt strap that bring is very secure
very fast shooting
camera body is corrugated and rough avoids slipping from your hands when are wet
very fast picture playback
can go 20 ft deep
zoom 5x
shock proof 4ft
Weaknesses: very low quality in pictures and video in any light conditions
camera lens is always exposed
and as explained in the manual they cant "garantee the waterproof after a hit or fall to the camera" so much for shock proof
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i bought this one saturday and return it sunday i was very dissapointed with the image quality when i took interior pictures it doesnt matter what setting was the camera the were blur and also grainy and ironicly one of the settings is for blur avoiding i also tried in the sports setting and same issue the i took a video and turned all the lights in my house and it was all grainy it looked like a old tv with bad signal next morning i went out and took some video and pics with natural light and the poor quality of the suposed hd video still the same i have to say that in macro pics is excellent
i really dont recomended its to much money to pay for the low quality received
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Duration Product Used: 2-5 years
Price Paid: $300.00
Purchased At: walmart
Similar Products Used: olympus 1030 sw
olympus 6000
Type of photography: Outdoor
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text: Editors' Review by Seth Rosenblatt / November 08, 2008 This software alarm clock earns big points for its extensive features and flexibility. Talking Time Keeper lets you schedule alarms, set timers, and check world times. It comes with seven voices, one male, five female, and a Morgan Freeman sound-alike. You can download more from the developer's site. There are options to create your own voices and program skins, but the extensive alarm features are the real strength here. For example, you can set picture alarms with MP3 audio and schedule programs to launch at a certain time. There's even an interactive global day-and-night map with accurate sunrise and sunset times. The main-menu interface is compact and intuitive, and it supports skins for greater customization. A simple screensaver displays the current time and the world map. A 24-hour clock is supported, too. We didn't like that we couldn't preview voices from within the preferences window, and that there was no support for importing appointments from other calendars. Mouse-over tooltips would've gone a long way towards identifying the function of various arrows and buttons. Nevertheless, we think Talking Time Keeper is a reasonable download for those who want a time manager with a human touch. read more + Explore Further Time Keeper Alarms Talking Clock Sponsored Products Category Category Desktop Enhancements Subcategory Alarms & Clock Software Publisher's Description From Mark Judge: Talking Time Keeper is a fully featured desktop time package. Its features include the ability to announce the time using real voices, including celebrity sound-alike voices (either at the click of a button or at specified intervals, or using Command Line parameters), plus chimes (including Grandfather Clock mode), alarms and timers, which display messages and pictures, run programs, shutdown your PC, speak, and play sounds and MP3s, all with a snooze option. The application includes a calendar displaying upcoming alarms; more than 250 world-time locations (editable); a day-and-night world map; the phases of the moon; stopwatches with lap timers; and atomic time synchronization. The program also includes a voice-building tool (all you need is a microphone), and a skin building tool. You can decide exactly what is heard or displayed, and even add a personal touch by displaying a photo. Also included are screen saver and world day and night wallpaper options. read more +


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Volume 86 Issue 17 | p. 65 | Awards
Issue Date: April 28, 2008
Issue Date: April 28, 2008
Jin Receives Solid-State Award
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Song Jin, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the winner of the 2008 ExxonMobil Solid-State Chemistry Faculty Fellowship.
The award, given by the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry and supported by the ExxonMobil Foundation, recognizes significant contributions to solid-state chemistry by an untenured faculty member at a U.S. institution.
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Weekend thefts continue to plaque the Salvation Army and put them behind in helping those in need.
Employees with the agency arrived to find clothes and shoes scattered across its back loading area Monday. The mess wasn't the first time workers have had to clean up to start the day.
"Since we have moved back this has happened pretty much every week," said director Michelle Miles.
The local Salvation Army moved back to 2200 Lackey Drive last year following a short stay at a location on U.S. Highway 72.
"We can't afford a $5,000 surveillance system," added the director as she and four other employees cleaned Monday. "Right now, we are wasting manpower to clean this up every week."
Clothing and other items dropped off by the community outside of the building have been gone through on a regular basis when no one with the agency is around.
"Some people are going through and taking what they want and leaving a mess to clean up," said Miles. "They aren't only stealing from us, but they are also stealing from the community."
Individuals are also rummaging through the organization's garbage dumpster after business hours. They use a pallet at the back of the building to climb through the dumpster.
"Anything we throw away is not worth having," said Miles. "If someone needs shoes or clothing all they need to do is let us know."
The problem has become so bad that garbage trucks have not been able to get through to collect the agency's garbage each week.
"These people stealing aren't doing it out of need," said the director. "They are doing it because they are plagued with greed."
Miles is advising donations be dropped off during business hours or limited to items that can be placed in the Salvation Army's two drop boxes at the back of the building.
Business hours are Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
"We are tired of this happening all the time," said Miles. "We intend to prosecute anyone we find doing it from now on."


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France's #Toulouse killings and the Salafist-Far Right alliance
As I write this, the standoff continues in Toulouse, France between French police and Mohammed Merah, the alleged murderer of several Muslim French soldiers and Jews. One of the most salient facts about the killer, a professed Islamic radical seeking to avenge various indignities committed against Muslims by the West, is that he was a member of an outlawed French Salafist group called Forsanne Alizza, or the Knights of Pride. The group, which has expressed sympathy for Al Qaida's cause, was banned in January after its leadership was accused of training members "for armed combat."
Now that the Toulouse killer has been unmasked as a radical Muslim, and not a white Christian Islamophobe like Anders Behring Breivik, the French extreme right can breathe a sigh of relief. Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Front leader vying for the French presidency, is apparently seeking to ride the tragedy all the way to victory. Today, she declared, "The Islamic fundamentalist threat has been underestimated in our country and political-religious groups are developing due to a certain laxism."
But a glance into the recent activities of Forsanne Alizza exposes the irony of Le Pen's words. Indeed, Forsanne Alizza has been engaged in an open alliance with neofascist figures and extreme right-wing Catholic groups who emerged from the core of Le Pen's National Front party and who comprise some of her most loyal supporters.
The de facto Salafist-neofascist alliance was forged in October 2011 when two right-wing Catholic groups, Action Francaise (French Action) and Renouveau Francais (French Renewal) staged a morality crusade against a performance in Paris of Romeo Castallucci's play, "On the Concept of the Face of God." At first, the rightists tried to halt the performance of the play on the anti-religious discrimination grounds. Their grievances focused on a scene of a son cleaning his father's feces off the floor while images of Jesus Christ flashed on a projection screen. After failing to stop the play, the groups organized a 10-day protest vigil outside Theatre de la Ville, attempting to stop ticket holders from entering through various means of intimidation. Before one performance, seven far-right activists were arrested while attempting to enter the theater with concealed knives, teargas, and stones.
In footage below, Catholic right activists chant "France, Youth, Christianity," during a October 29, 2011 demonstration against "Christianophobia" outside Theatre de la Ville:
Among the demonstrators at the Theatre de la Ville was Xavier Beauvais, a schismatic ultra-conservative Catholic priest with pronounced anti-Semitic tendencies. As the blog Culture Bot noted, Beauvais has lionized Leon Degrelle, a Belgian extremist who joined the Nazi SS during World War II then led various neo-Nazi outfits in the decades after. Filling out the protest ranks were members of Renouveau Francais, a far-right group that endorsed Marine Le Pen for President in 2007, and which earned an important show of support from Bruno Gollnisch for its campaign against Castalluci's play.
Who is Gollnisch? He was the closest ally of Marine Le Pen's father, Jean Marie, and unsuccessfully challenged Le Pen fille for the National Front's leadership position in 2011. Gollnisch is also a Holocaust revisionist who was placed on probation and slapped with a hefty fine by a Lyon court for denying the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz, among other specious claims. Gollnisch has been a regular speaker at conferences of American Renaissance, an American white nationalist group that brings an assortment of extreme racialist figures from Jared Taylor to Sam Dickson to Philip Rushton together each year to promote biological determinist theories about the genetic superiority of Anglo-Saxon whites (read my report from the 2006 gathering of AmRen here).
Another key supporter of Renouveau Francais' crusade against Castalluci's play was Alexandre Gabriac. Gabriac served as a central committee member and regional councilor in Le Pen's National Front until photos emerged showing him delivering a Nazi sieg heil salute, prompting Le Pen to expel him from the party. Despite calls from National Front cadres to forgive Gabriac, Le Pen was in the process of an intensive image makeover designed to increase her appeal among Jewish voters inclined towards National Front's anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant positions. Since embarking on her campaign for the presidency, Le Pen has taken a stridently pro-Israel line, earning her a 20-minute meeting last November with Israel's Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor. She was not going to let a mid-level Nazi sympathizer stand in the way of her ambitions.
Gabriac was present along with 300 Catholic rightists at the October 29 protest at Theatre de la Ville. There and during a march earlier that day in Paris, the right-wing Catholics were joined by members of the Salafist splinter group Forsanne Alizza. According to the French blog, Poisson Rouge, Forsanne Alizza issued a press release on its website calling for members to protest with the Catholic fundamentalists. And so Forsanne Alizza activists marched side-by-side with members of Renouveau Francais and Action Francaise, echoed their chants, and expressed solidarity against "Christianophobia."
At 1:03 in the video below, a Forzanne Alizza leader explains (in French — translation coming soon) why his group joined the protests against Castalluci's play:
Though Le Pen will spend the coming weeks holding forth about the supposed failure of the French government to crush Forzanne Alizza, there was a time when some of her most committed political-religious partisans united with the group that allegedly helped inspire the Toulouse killer in a crusade against the thing they hated more than anything else — more than Islam and even mass immigration. That thing was liberalism itself.
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Lifting the Hood Off Rick Perry: Was His Family In The Ku Klux Klan?
Texas Governor Rick Perry has opened a new issue to try to lift his floundering campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, insinuating that President Barack Obama just might not be an American citizen. Asked if Obama was born in the United States, Perry told Parade Magazine, in an interview published on October 23, "I have no reason to think otherwise." But he then qualified his answer, stating, "Well, I don't have a definitive answer."
Perry's comments on Obama's background are puzzling, considering that the President has produced a long form birth certificate proving his U.S. citizenship. For those Republicans who have become known as "Birthers," Obama's documention is not enough. To them, he will always be under suspicion as an alien. Whether it is his brown skin, Arabic middle name, or African father that feeds the doubters, he remains the source of heavily publicized right-wing conspiracy theories, now given credence by Perry. According to an October 12 PPP poll, 39 percent of registered Republicans still do not believe Barack Obama was born in the United States.
But by channeling the paranoia, Perry may have opened himself up to unsettling questions about his own background and family history. In his stump speeches since announcing his candidacy, Perry almost invariably touts his humble roots, describing a hardscrabble but wholesome childhood in Haskell County, Texas, the origin of his small-town traditional values. Yet the New York Times has reported the pervasiveness of racist attitudes in Haskell County, where white residents referred to the segregated area on the other side of the tracks as "Niggertown." The Times story followed the report in the Washington Post on the Perry family ranch in West Texas, where the governor often entertained guests, called "Niggerhead."
But both papers missed an additional important historical fact: Haskell County was home to an active, large and influential chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The genealogy of a prominent farmer and longtime resident of Haskell County, Oran Ewan Webb, refers to the Klan as a central facet of life in the county, noting:"There was a meeting of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at the O E Webb farm four miles east of Haskell on Monday night September 29, 1924. Public lectures were given by speakers of state reputation. Every officer of the Haskell County Klan was present. (Notice from Haskell newspaper)."
During the 1920′s, the Klan virtually controlled Texas state politics. According to the Texas State Historical Association:
"With a membership of perhaps as many as 100,000, the Klan used its united voting block to elect state legislators, sheriffs, judges, and other local and state officials. Its greatest success, however, was in securing the election of Earle Bradford Mayfield to the United States Senate in 1922. The following year the Klan established firm control of city governments in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Wichita Falls, and the order probably had a majority in the House of Representatives of the Thirty-eighth Texas Legislature, which met in January. By the end of 1922 the paid membership swelled to as many as 150,000, and Kluxers looked forward to even greater triumphs."
Though Klan membership declined steadily after the Great Depression hit Texas, local chapters remained active throughout the civil rights era. The Times reported that when Perry entered Texas A&M in 1968, some students posed for yearbook photos in Klan robes, while others formed a dairy group called the "Kream and Kow Klub" — KKK. Today, an underground Klan chapter operates in West Texas, and in 2010 its members left fliers in a parking lot at Texas Tech University.
Perry may continue to believe, or pretend, that he does not have a "definitive answer" to the question about Obama's citizenship — even though the state of Hawaii does. But he must have a "definitive answer" to another question closer to home — whether members of his family belonged to the Klan, or attended Klan rallies. It is an indisputable fact that the Klan was a central component of the cultural and political heritage of Perry's hometown. Were members of his family ever members of the Klan? The national press has begun to put Haskell Country's disturbing history of racism in the spotlight. Given Perry's gesture to the "Birthers," it is now time to learn more about his background. What exactly were his family's ties to the Klan, if any, and if so, why has he kept the information hidden from the public for his entire political career?
Video: Rick Perry religious ally predicts "death camps," second Holocaust for Jews
America's Breivik Complex: State terror and the Islamophobic right
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Few political terrorists in recent history took as much care to articulate their ideological influences and political views as Anders Behring Breivik did. The right-wing Norwegian Islamophobe who murdered 76 children and adults in Oslo and at a government-run youth camp spent months, if not years, preparing his 1,500 page manifesto.
Besides its length, one of the most remarkable aspects of the manifesto is the extent to which its European author quoted from the writings of figures from the American conservative movement. Though he referred heavily to his fellow Norwegian, the blogger Fjordman, it was Robert Spencer, the American Islamophobic pseudo-academic, who received the most references from Breivik — 55 in all. Then there was Daniel Pipes, the Muslim-bashing American neoconservative who earned 18 citations from the terrorist. Other American anti-Muslim characters appear prominently in the manifesto, including the extremist blogger Pam Geller, who operates an Islamophobic organization in partnership with Spencer.
Breivik may have developed his destructive sensibility in the stark political environment of a European continent riveted by mass immigration from the Muslim world, but his conceptualization of the changes he was witnessing reflect the influence of a cadre of far-right bloggers and activists from across the Atlantic Ocean. He not only mimicked their terminology and emulated their language, he substantially adopted their political worldview. The profound impact of the American right's Islamophobic subculture on Breivik's thinking raises a question that has not been adequately explored: Where is the American version of Breivik and why has he not struck yet? Or has he?
Many of the American writers who influenced Breivik spent years churning out calls for the mass murder of Muslims, Palestinians and their left-wing Western supporters. But the sort of terrorism these US-based rightists incited for was not the style the Norwegian killer would eventually adopt. Instead of Breivik's renegade free-booting, they preferred the "shock and awe" brand of state terror perfected by Western armies against the brown hordes threatening to impose Sharia law on the people in Peoria. This kind of violence provides a righteous satisfaction so powerful it can be experienced from thousands of miles away.
And so most American Islamophobes simply sit back from the comfort of their homes and cheer as American and Israeli troops — and their remote-controlled aerial drones — leave a trail of charred bodies from Waziristan to Gaza City. Only a select group of able-bodied Islamophobes are willing to suit up in a uniform and rush to the front lines of the clash of civilizations. There, they have discovered that they can mow down Muslim non-combatants without much fear of legal consequences, and that when they return, they will be celebrated as the elite Crusader-warriors of the new Islamophobic right — a few particularly violent figures have been rewarded with seats in Congress. Given the variety of culturally acceptable, officially approved outlets for venting violent anti-Muslim resentment, there is little reason for any American to follow in Breivik's path of infamy.
Before exploring the online subculture that both shaped and mirrored Breivik's depravity, it is necessary to define state terror, especially the kind refined by its most prolific practitioners. At the dawn of the "war on terror," the United States and Israel began cultivating a military doctrine called "asymmetrical warfare." Pioneered by an Israeli philosophy and "practical ethics" professor named Asa Kasher and the former head of Israeli military intelligence, Lt. Gen. Amos Yadlin, and successfully marketed to the Pentagon, the asymmetrical warfare doctrine did away with traditional counterinsurgency tactics which depended on winning the "hearts and minds" of indigenous populations. Under the new rules, the application of disproportionate force against non-combatants who were supposedly intermingled with the "terrorists" was not only justified but considered necessary. According to Kasher and Yadlin, eliminating the principle of distinction between enemy combatants and civilians was the most efficient means of deterring attacks from non-state actors like Hamas and Hezbollah while guarding the lives of Israeli soldiers.
Asymmetrical warfare has been witnessed in theaters of war across the Muslim world, leaving tens of thousands of civilians dead in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip. The strategy was formalized in the Dahiya district of southern Beirut in 2006, when the Israeli military flattened hundreds of civilian structures and homes to supposedly punish Hezbollah for its capturing of two Israeli soldiers.
From the ashes of the Israeli carpet bombing campaign emerged the "Dahiya Doctrine," a term coined by an Israeli general responsible for directing the war on Lebanon in 2006. "IDF Northern Command Chief Gadi Eisenkot uttered clear words that essentially mean the following," wrote Israeli journalist Yaron London, who had just interviewed the general. "In the next clash with Hezbollah we won't bother to hunt for tens of thousands of rocket launchers and we won't spill our soldiers' blood in attempts to overtake fortified Hizbullah positions. Rather, we shall destroy Lebanon and won't be deterred by the protests of the 'world.'" In a single paragraph, London neatly encapsulated the logic of state terror.
While Israel has sought to insulate itself from the legal ramifications of its attacks on civilian life by deploying elaborate propaganda and intellectual sophistry (witness the country's frantic campaign to discredit the Goldstone Report), and the United States has casually dismissed allegations of war crimes as any swaggering superpower would (after a US airstrike killed scores of Afghan civilians, former US CENTCOM chief David Petraeus baselessly claimed that Afghan parents had deliberately burned their children alive to increase the death toll), the online Islamophobes who inspired Breivik tacitly accept the reality of Israeli and American state terror. And they like it. Indeed, American Islamophobes derive frightening levels of ecstasy from the violence inflicted by the armed forces against Muslim civilians. The Facebook page of Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer's hate group, Stop the Islamicization of America (SOIA), is Exhibit A of the phenomenon.
During a visit to SOIA's Facebook page, which is personally administered by Geller and Spencer, it is possible to read rambling calls for killing "the diaper heads" and for Israel to "rule the whole Middle East." A cursory glance at the website will also reveal visual propaganda reveling in the prospect of a genocide against Muslims. One image posted on the site depicts American and British troops dropping a nuclear bomb in the midst of thousands of Muslim pilgrims in Mecca. "Who ya gonna call? Shitbusters," it reads.
A second image portraying a nuclear mushroom cloud declares: "DEALING WITH MUSLIMS — RULES OF ENGAGEMENT; Rule #1: Kill the Enemy. Rule #2: There is no rule #2." Another posted on SOIA's Facebook page shows the bullet-riddled, bloodsoaked bodies of Muslim civilians splayed out by a roadside. "ARMY MATH," the caption reads. "4 Tangos + (3 round burst x 4 M 4′s) = 288 virgins." However pathological these images might seem to outsiders, in the subculture of Geller and Spencer's online fascisphere, they are understood as legitimate expressions of nationalistic, "pro-Western" pride. Indeed, none seem to celebrate violence against Muslims by anyone except uniformed representatives of Western armies.
The anti-Muslim fervor of Geller, Spencer and their allies reached a fever pitch during the controversy they manufactured in 2010 over the construction of the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" in downtown New York City. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, in North Carolina, a right-wing Republican ex-Marine named Ilario Pantano made opposing the mosque the centerpiece of his campaign for Congress, proclaiming that New York was "forsaking Israel" by allowing the mosque's construction. During the height of the his campaign, a report relying on documented evidence and confirmed testimonies revealed that while serving in Iraq in 2004, Pantano had executed two unarmed civilians near Fallujah, firing 60 bullets into their bodies with his M16A4 automatic rifle — he even stopped to reload — then decorated their corpses a placard inscribed with the Marine motto: "No better friend, No worse enemy." The incident did not hinder Pantano's campaign, however. His Democratic opponent never mentioned it, Pam Geller hailed Pantano as "a war hero," and he swiftly became a cult hero of the Tea Party.
Pantano lost his bid for Congress, however, another US military veteran closely allied with the Islamophobic right won a surprise victory in Florida: Republican Representative Allen West. While serving in Iraq, West was discharged from the military and fined $5000 after he brutally beat an Iraqi policeman, then fired his pistol behind the immobilized man's head. As in Pantano's case, reports of the disturbing incident only helped propel West to victory. In fact, West boasted about the beating in his campaign speeches, citing it as evidence of how hard he would fight for his constituents if elected.
Though Breivik's hatred for Muslims clearly spurred him to violence, he wound up murdering scores of the non-Muslims. He believed they were enabling an Islamic takeover of Europe, or what he called the creation of "Eurabia," and that the "traitors" deserved the ultimate punishment. In homing in on liberal elements in Norway, Breivik borrowed from the language of right-wing figures from the United States, labeling his targets as "Cultural Marxists." Initially introduced by the anti-Semitic right-wing organizer William Lind of the Washington-based Free Congress Foundation, the term "Cultural Marxism" was a catch-all that defined a broad array of leftist types, but especially those who preached "political correctness" towards immigrants, homosexuals, and other oppressed groups including the Palestinians. "Let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionists, against all cultural Marxists/multiculturalists," Breivik wrote in his manifesto. The killer also sought to differentiate between good Jews (supporters of Israel) and bad Jews (advocates for Palestinian rights), claiming that "Jews that support multi-culturalism today are as much of a threat to Israel and Zionism as they are to us."
Breivik's characterizations of the left (and of left-wing Jews) echoed those familiar to right-wing bloggers and conservative activists in the US, particularly on the issue of Israel-Palestine. The only difference seems to have been that Breivik was willing to personally kill sympathizers with Palestinian rights, while American Islamophobes have prefered to sit back and cheer for the Israeli military to do the job instead. The tendency of the American right was on shocking display this June when the Free Gaza Flotilla attempted to break the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip (during the previous flotilla in 2010, nine activists were killed by what a United Nations report described as execution style shootings by Israeli commandoes). As the debate about the flotilla escalated on Twitter, Joshua Trevino, a US army veteran and who worked as a speechwriter in the administration of George W. Bush, chimed in. "Dear IDF," Trevino tweeted. "If you end up shooting any Americans on the new Gaza flotilla — well, most Americans are cool with that. Including me." While Trevino hectored flotilla participants, Kurt Schlicter, a former American army officer and right-wing blogger for Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace site, joined the calls for bloodshed. "Sink the flotilla," Schlicter wrote on Twitter. "Enough screwing around with these psychos."
Neither Schlicter or Trevino saw any reason to apologize for inciting the murder of fellow Americans, nor did Trevino appear to face any consequences at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, where he serves as Vice President. Instead, Trevino earned a rousing defense from prominent conservative personalities like Erick Erickson, a paid CNN contributor who lauded "the correctness of Josh's opinion" that Israel should kill American leftists. Indeed, no one from inside the American right's online media hothouse condemned Trevino, Schlicter or Erickson, or even brooked a slight disagreement. Meanwhile, the incitement against Palestine solidarity activists has continued, with pro-Israel operatives Roz Rothstein and Roberta Seid writing this July in the Jerusalem Post that "Flotilla Folk are not like other people."
When the smoke cleared from Breivik's terrorist rampage across Norway, American Islamophobes went into intellectual contortions, condemning his acts while carefully avoiding any criticism of his views. While making sure to call Breivik "evil," the ultra-nationalist commentator and former Republican presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan insisted that "Breivik may be right" about the supposed clash of civilizations between the Muslim East and the Christian West. Pipes, for his part, accused Breivik of a "purposeful" campaign to discredit him by citing him so frequently in his manifesto, while a panicked Geller claimed that Breivik "is a murderer, a mass murderer. Period. He's not anything else."
The comically revealing reactions by American Islamophobes to Brevik's killing spree demonstrate the politically catastrophic situation they have gotten themselves into. All of a sudden, their movement was under intense scrutiny from a previously derelict mainstream media. And they were likely to be monitored to an unprecedented degree by federal law enforcement. These same figures who influenced Breivik had been printing open calls for terrorist violence against Muslims and leftists for years — while a few went a step further on the battlefield. Before Breivik killed 76 innocent people, they had generally gotten away with it.
Why were America's Islamophobes able to avoid accountability for so long? The answer is not that their yearnings for righteous political violence had not been fulfilled until Breivik emerged. The truth is far more uncomfortable than that. America's Islamophobic right was only able to make so much political headway because a broad sector of the American public had tolerated and even supported the kind of terror that they openly celebrated.
Anders Behring Breivik, a perfect product of the Axis of Islamophobia
When I wrote my analysis last December on the "Axis of Islamophobia," laying out a new international political network of right-wing ultra-Zionists, Christian evangelicals, Tea Party activists and racist British soccer hooligans, I did not foresee a terrorist like Anders Behring Breivik emerging from the movement's ranks. At the same time, I am not surprised that he did. The rhetoric of the characters who inspired Breivik, from Pam Geller to Robert Spencer to Daniel Pipes, was so eliminationist in its nature that it was perhaps only a matter of time before someone put words into action.
As horrific as Breivik's actions were, he can not be dismissed as a "madman." His writings contain the same themes and language as more prominent right-wing Islamophobes (or those who style themselves as "counter-Jihadists") and many conservatives in general. What's more, Breivik was articulate and coherent enough to offer a clear snapshot of his ideological motives. Ali Abunimah and Alex Kane have posted excellent summaries of Breivik's writings here and here and a full English translation is here. It is also worth sitting through at least a portion of Breivik's tedious video manifesto to get a sense of his thinking.
From a tactical perspective, Breivik was not a "lone wolf" terrorist. Instead, Breivik appeared to operate under a leaderless resistance model much like the Christian anti-abortion terrorists Scott Roeder and Eric Rudolph. Waagner and Rudolph organized around the Army of God, a nebulous group that was known only by its website and the pamphlets its members passed around in truck stops and private meetings. If they received material or tactical support, it occurred spontaneously. For the most part, they found encouragement from like-minded people and organizations like Operation Rescue, but rarely accepted direct assistance. Breivik, who emerged from the anti-immigrant Norwegian Progress Party (which built links with America's Tea Party) and drifted into the English/Norwegian Defense League sphere of extremism, but who appeared to act without formal organizational support, reflects the same leaderless resistance style as America's anti-abortion terrorists.
While in many ways Breivik shares core similarities with other right-wing anti-government terrorists, he is the product of a movement that is relatively new, increasingly dangerous, and poorly understood. I described the movement in detail in my "Axis of Islamophobia" piece, noting its simultaneous projection of anti-Semitic themes on Muslim immigrants and the appeal of Israel as a Fort Apache on the front lines of the war on terror, holding the line against the Eastern barbarian hordes. Breivik's writings embody this seemingly novel fusion, particularly in his obsession with "Cultural Marxism," an increasingly popular far-right concept that positions the (mostly Jewish) Frankfurt School as the originators of multiculturalism, combined with his call to "influence other cultural conservatives to come to our…pro-Israel line."
Breivik and other members of Europe's new extreme right are fixated on the fear of the "demographic Jihad," or being out-populated by overly fertile Muslim immigrants. They see themselves as Crusader warriors fighting a racial/religious holy war to preserve Western Civilization. Thus they turn for inspiration to Israel, the only ethnocracy in the world, a country that substantially bases its policies towards the Palestinians on what its leaders call "demographic considerations." This is why Israeli flags invariably fly above black-masked English Defense League mobs, and why Geert Wilders, the most prominent Islamophobic politician in the world, routinely travels to Israel to demand the forced transfer of Palestinians.
Judging from Breivik's writings, his hysterical hatred of the Labor Party's immigration policies and tolerance of Muslim immigrants likely led him target the government-operated summer camp at Utoya. For years, the far-right has singled Norway out as a special hotbed of pro-Islam, pro-Palestinian sentiment, thanks largely to its ruling Labor Party. In 2010, for instance, the English Defense League called Norway a future site of "Islamohell," "where unadulterated political correctness has ruled the roost, with sharp talons, for decades." Yesterday, when the Wall Street Journal editorial page rushed to blame Muslim terrorists for what turned out to be Breivik's killing spree, it slammed the Norwegian government for pulling troops from Afghanistan and demanding that Israel end its siege of Gaza. For his part, Breivik branded the Labor Party as "traitors."
There is no clear evidence that Breivik's support for the Israeli right played any part in his killing spree. Nor does he appear to have any connection with the Israeli government. However, it is worth noting that in November 2010, the Israeli government joined the right-wing pile on, accusing the Norwegian government of "anti-Israel incitement" for funding a trip for students to New York to see the "Gaza Monologues" play. Then, the day before Breivik's terror attack, which he planned long in advance, Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stor visited the Labor Youth camp at Utoya. There, he was met with demands to support the global BDS movement and to support the Palestinian Authority's unilateral statehood bid. "The Palestinians must have their own state, the occupation must end, the wall must be demolished and it must happen now," the Foreign Minister declared, earning cheers from the audience.
Breivik's writings offer much more than a window into the motives that led him to commit terror. They can also be read as an embodiment of the mentality of a new and internationalized far-right movement that not only mobilizes hatred against Muslims, but is also able to produce figures who will kill innocent non-Muslims to save the Western way of life.
46% of Jewish Israelis support settler "price tag" terror, Congress blames Palestinians for incitement
The police investigation into the Itamar murders remains under a gag order. No individual Palestinian has been accused or even named as a suspect by the police. However, the resident of the neighboring Palestinian village Awarta, who have suffered for years from settler pogroms, are being collectively blamed and punished. According to a report by three International Solidarity Movement volunteers living under curfew in Awarta, Israeli soldiers and settlers have rampaged through the village in recent days, seeking murder suspects and the satisfaction that comes with retributive violence.
The soldiers reportedly destroyed property, stole money, defecated on the floors of homes, and blindfolded and beat residents, leaving one 28-year-old man so badly injured he had to be smuggled to a hospital in Nablus. Afterwards, approximately 300 masked settlers descended on the town and attacked its residents, breaking the arms of two men.
"Why do you have to punish all this people?" an ISM activist asked one of the soldiers. "We have to punish these people so they will understand," the soldier reportedly replied.
Jewish settlers from East Jerusalem filmed themselves humiliating a local Palestinian man, or, as they called it, "lower[ing] the confidence of Palestinians in the neighborhood]."
The one-two punch of settler "price tag" attacks carried out under the watch of the army and with the encouragement of state-funded religious nationalist rabbis is common all over the West Bank. Most Jewish Israelis view the army with reverence, and are reluctant to criticize its conduct under any circumstance. And though settler violence is considered a matter of controversy in Israeli society, a new poll shows that a staggering number of Israelis support the pogroms meted out by fanatical settlers against defenseless Palestinians.
A new Ynet-Gesher survey of 504 Jewish Israeli adults revealed that 46 percent of Israelis support settler "price tag" terror. Only 33 percent of those polled believed that price tag attacks were "never justified." A sectoral breakdown shows that a wide majority of religious nationalist and ultra-Orthodox respondents support the attacks: 56 percent of "traditional" types, 70 percent of those identifying as Orthodox, and 71 percent of the religious nationalists declared price tag violence to be justified. The most remarkable finding, in my opinion, is that 36 percent of secular respondents support settler terror. Even though 56 percent are against the practice, this is a remarkably high number for a population segment that lives primarily inside the Green Line. (The poll results and Ynet article detailing its contents are only in Hebrew at the moment).
68 percent of all of those polled stated their belief that rabbis had the power to stop price tag attacks (for fairly obvious reasons, this opinion is shared by only a minority of religious nationalist settlers). In Safed, a mixed city in Northern Israel that is home to Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, local Orthodox youth have staged a string of vigilante attacks on Palestinian-Israeli residents. The attacks include the stabbing of a Palestinian Christian man, the torching of Palestinian cars after a Jewish-Arab dialogue meeting, and a wave of racist vandalism. The violence follows Eliyahu's declaration that the "seducing" of Jewish girls by Arab men was "a form of war" and his drafting of a letter forbidding renting property to Arabs. (55% of Jewish Israelis support the content of Eliyahu's letter).
Above: Settlers assault Palestinian girls on their way to school in occupied Hebron
Eliyahu recently admitted that the Shin Bet beseeched him to speak out against price tag terror after the Itamar murders. "I told [the Shin Bet agent], if you expect me to stop someone engaging in 'price tags,' you're mistaken," Eliyahu said. "I don't work for you. But I want to tell you that unless the government takes action, the public will feel a need to take action. And if you don't act, even if I stand with my arms wide open, I won't be able to stop those who would act."
While taxpayer funded rabbis like Eliyahu (he is literally a state employee) incite with impunity against Palestinians, and cheer on the terror attacks that flow from their words, letters are circulating through the US Congress condemning the Palestinian Authority for incitement. One of the letters, co-authored by Senators Kirsten Gilibrand (D-NY) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) — Kirk is arguably AIPAC's greatest tool in Congress — demanded that the Palestinian Authority "stop allowing the incitement that leads to such crimes [as the one committed in Itamar]." Though no individual Palestinian has been named as a suspect in the crime and the PA has condemned the murders, top lawmakers like Gilibrand and Kirk have already convicted every Palestinian, providing congressional cover for more destructive raids, vandalism, and price tag terror.
Anti-Muslim Hate Rally Organizer Eliezrie to Teach "Kabbalah of Love" at Jewish Federation Vegas Mega-Event
It should be clear to anyone who has seen the video of the anti-Muslim hate rally in Yorba Linda that the organizers of the event are extremely dangerous and demented people. If their pathological racism was not apparent before the video surfaced, then it is confirmed now. So why is the Jewish Federation and a who's who of established Jewish organizations, from Birthright Israel to the New Israel Fund to JDate (even Rock The Vote is involved somehow), hosting one of the hate rally's key organizers this weekend at a major gathering in Las Vegas billed as "an entertaining, interactive and educational celebration that will draw over 1,500 Jewish young adults (ages 22-45) from across North America?"
Last week, Rabbi David Eliezrie of the Yorba Linda chapter of Chabad was among a mob of local extremists who screamed racial epithets at immigrant families. On Monday, however, the rabbi will lead a session at "Tribefest" on "the Kabbalah of Love." "Love has always been a central theme in Jewish teachings," the event description reads. "In an interactive experience we will explore the mystical and classical sources about love." How touching.
Israelis target Macy Gray with racist diatribes AFTER she agrees to play Tel Aviv (and who are the "assholes?")
The Israeli media is filled with reports about Macy Gray confirming her plans to perform in Tel Aviv in March. This should have been an occasion for Israelis to celebrate their continuing ability to behave as a normal society despite occupying millions of people, holding Gaza under siege, maintaining an apparatus of racism against its non-Jewish citizens. But in a poorly calculated stunt designed to wash her hands of human rights concerns, Gray had first asked her "fans" if she should perform despite what she called Israel's "disgusting" treatment of the Palestinians. Within hours, thousands of people who had no prior interest in Gray or her music flocked to her Facebook page (they only had to "like" her page in order to post) to register their opinions. Gray, who appeared to have every intention of performing anyway, remarked after announcing her plan to go to Tel Aviv, that some of those urging her to boycott were "assholes."
Under normal circumstances, Gray's roundhouse attack on some supporters of BDS and her subsequent pledge to perform in Tel Aviv should have pleased nationalistic Israelis. However, her initial criticism of Israel's occupation has invited a firestorm of racist, sexist and generally hateful diatribes from Israelis. Indeed, many Israelis are more furious with Gray for performing inside their country than for refusing to come. Several internet forums, including one called "Don't Betray," have sprouted up to incite public anger at artists such as Gray who have criticized Israel — even if they agree to perform in the country. Meanwhile, the talkback sections of articles in the Hebrew media about Gray's Tel Aviv shows have provided a forum for the most extreme screeds about the singer.
I have collected and translated a sampling of talkbacks from an article in the Hebrew edition of Ynet, the online version of the Israeli paper Yedioth Aharonoth, which highlight the attitude of some Israelis towards Gray. The talkbacks are almost entirely negative towards Gray, with many urging her to cancel her show for daring to criticize Israel, while others call her a "nigger" and denigrate black music as "contaminated." Gray might be vaguely aware of Israel's systematic abuse of Palestinians, but is she aware of the racism towards black Africans inside Israel, including Ethiopian Jews? Has she considered how she might be treated if she were living in Israel? And who are the "assholes" anyway?
Some of 500+ comments from the talkback section to the Hebrew Ynet article provocatively entitled "Gray is against Israel but not canceling:"
THe ugly niggers are joining the Darfurians entering here. All of you go away. wedontwantyou
Go find whoever is going to shag you you fucking whore. Every piece of garbage opens their cunt on us. muslimit
David from Safed: She should take all her brothers the Sudanese and Eritreans and fuck off here.
Another "afro american." Nice name that the niggers made for themselves. Max
Black music is inferior music that fits you. No name [Another commenter calls him a racist.] "No name" replies: What is racist about that? To say "black" is racist?
Who wants you? You look like a monkey. Mikhal
It's really disgusting that Israel is going to see black!!! music. Disgusting. Contaminates your soul. Ayela
Don't come we don't need your ugly fat ass here. Dude
Blacks and Muslims always go together. Brainless fraternity of people. Shai
[Responding to other commenters denying that any occupation exists]: Right, what chutzpah of us to survive in the jungle around us, as if she can't understand the jungle. M
They [Americans] killed thousands of innocent people in Iraq but they come to complain here. moshe
What Israeli fans does she have here? Leftist garbage maniacs [bastards] need to be killed whoever comes to her show. victor
What Palestinian people? What peaceful people? Maybe terrorism? Maybe right of return on your expense? Bruriera Hess
Don't give us favors. IF she's contemplating coming Israel should cancel the show. Dontgiveusfavors
I returned the ticket. And you? Anee
Maybe they will let her perform in Gaza. Raymond
Go to Gaza, perform and fuck for the Hamas. May your name be cursed. pessey
When you're being spit at at least you have to get a kleenex to clean it up. hamitnaseh
Fuck you who wants you here anyway? Sharon
[Quote by David Ben Gurion]: "It doesn't matter what the goyim will say it matters what the Jews will do." LT
Sweetheart, don't come here. We don't want you. Who do you think you are talking about us? IsraeliJewishFighter
Those who are "disgusting" towards the Balestinians [mocking the Arabic pronounciation of Palestinian] are the Balestinians themselves. Hineh
Please don't cancel. What are we going to do without your show? My Asshole
On the origins of Palin's blood libel gaffe
I was just recently on the Young Turks with Tina Dupuy discussing Palin's blood libel gaffe, the murder of Judge John Roll, and extremism in Arizona. Here is a clip:
David Samel has more at Mondoweiss on the exploitation of the blood libel by Alan Dershowitz, who has stepped forward to defend Palin (he apparently doesn't want to be robbed of one of his favorite smear tactics).


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Published on 09 July 2010 04:30 PM
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is to invest £700,000 in a new three year programme designed to encourage older people to take part in the arts.
Jointly funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland's Arts & Older People Programme will provide new opportunities for older people to engage with the arts, by joining a workshop or trying out a new arts activity.
Through funding new, innovative, community-led projects across art form areas such as dance, painting, crafts, storytelling, music and song, the programme will highlight and tackle the social justice issues older people face on a daily basis.
The first round of funding opens on 8th July, with grants of up to £50,000 available to arts organisations, as well as community and voluntary groups.
Research has revealed that 21% of people in Northern Ireland aged 65 and over feel lonely often or always. Sixteen per cent do not leave their homes more than once a week and 7% never leave their homes¹.
However those that participated in arts activities experienced positive results, reporting an improvement in their overall mood and confidence, as well as helping to relieve stress, worries and pain².
Rosemary Kelly OBE, Chairman of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, explained: "We know that the arts have the power to raise self-esteem, confidence and motivation and can have a positive effect on an individual's wellbeing. The arts have an important role to play in helping older people to find their voice, providing the tools to express the issues which affect them on a day-to-day basis, such as poverty, isolation, loneliness and mental illness.
"Over the course of the next three years it is our hope that through the arts this programme will help build a fairer, more inclusive society and improve the lives of those living in some of the most disadvantaged, deprived and marginalised areas of Northern Ireland."
Ken Logue, Programme Executive of The Atlantic Philanthropies' Ageing Programme, said: "Atlantic's Ageing Programme is ultimately focused on ensuring that our society becomes a place where older people are genuinely included and respected. Older people in Northern Ireland continue to face discrimination and structural barriers to meaningful civic engagement. Our goal in supporting the Arts & Older People Programme is to encourage the arts community to identify and explore new ways of helping older people make their own voices heard. A key element of this Programme will be to harness the potential of the arts to make sure those voices are heard in the debates and discussions about policy which most affect older people today and in the future."
Eileen Mc Clory is the choreographer of The Crescent Elderflowers Dance Company, a community theatre group for women over 60 that meets weekly in the Crescent Arts Centre. Speaking at the launch of the Arts & Older People Programme, she said: "In my role I see first-hand the benefits that participation in the arts can bring to a person's life. By coming along to our weekly classes, the ladies have an opportunity to exercise, as well as meet new people and have some fun. They leave the class with a feeling of well being and in good humour. The Arts Council's new funding programme will enable more older people to take part in the arts by funding projects which target their needs and fit their interests."
¹ Help the Aged, 2007 ² Arts Care research carried out at the Mater Hospital, 2006
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quoted from deej himself. is he threatening my life or something? if not, can we please dispense with all the dopey pr stuff? it's great they have ambition, but there's no way this game will deliver on half this nonsense. it's becoming less of a tangible and more of a "feeling" passing into the ether. the only way this game has any chance to live up to this kind of hype is if it turns into jesus christ himself. "Here at Bungie, you don't finish our games. Our games finish you."
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Edited by Ultron: 8/29/2014 3:01:14 PMThe only way to finish Destiny is : You got all the items You played all the class You got all DLC You killed every one in the world You did every single difficulty setting You use every single weapon and kill/headshot every single different mob in the game Ya..... the PR TALK is lame and stupid at the end. I finish Destiny if I did the raid in the hardest difficulty setting.
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If you followed the sell suggestion in my tweet on December 29th, you should be completely out of LITE now. (BTW, because it's more timely than a post, I'm planning to publish my sell suggestions solely on Twitter going forward, so be sure to follow me @marketchameleon.)
Although, the weekly chart still looks good, we trade using the daily time frame where the trade went against us. The last thing we want to do is get stubborn and start rationalizing a reason to hold. That said, you may want to keep an eye on it to see if it flashes a compelling 821x buy signal in the future.
In the meantime, enjoy the festivities tonight and see you next year. Happy New Year!
Ideally, we would all have $100k+ in our trading account. That way we could allocate at least $10k into 10 different positions as I suggest in my eBook. Commissions would be a rounding error on trades of that size. Obviously though, that's not realistic for everyone. We all have to start somewhere and scraping together even $10,000 to invest is no small feat and an accomplishment one should be proud of.
Unfortunately though, it's very difficult to grow an account of that size. With 10 positions of $1,000 a piece, commissions become much more of an issue. For example, taking into account a single entry and exit at $9.99 a trade at TD Ameritrade, you would start out each trade 2% in the hole! If you stagger your entry or exit, a strategy I sometimes advocate, you will have to make even MORE, just to break even!
All that said, here are my recommendations for those trying to grow a small account:
Passive Investment via VTI
Passive investing is not something we generally advocate here at DIY Investor. However, actively trading a small account is a great way to potentially have commissions and small losses grind the size of your account down to a nub. This is a case where it MAY be appropriate to consider putting that money into a low cost ETF that provides exposure to the ENTIRE US stock market. For this approach, I recommend the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) that sports a rock bottom fee of only 0.05%. Further, you could look to add to this position anytime the stock market sags. Obviously, this tactic is not without risk. You could happen to buy in at a multi-year stock market top and be forced to extend your hold time out for years or even DECADES just to be made whole. That said, the US stock market has an uninterrupted history of rising over the long haul and the ~2% annual dividend yield will help smooth out the bumps to some extent.
Reduce the number of positions and focus on ETFs
Instead of having 10 positions of $1k each in a $10k account, you could look at dividing the account into 4 positions of $2,500 each with at least 3 of these positions invested in ETFs (or cash). To state the obvious, stocks are risky; especially the high valuation, growth stocks that I prefer. Any of these companies can unexpectedly preannounce lowered earnings or growth guidance, announce a secondary offering, or have a scandal involving upper management come to light. In any of these types of situations, you could easily be facing a double-digit gap down overnight. With 10+ positions, a single blowup won't have an outsized impact on your account the way it would if you only hold a few positions. One way to mitigate this risk, is to shun concentrated exposure in a single stock in favor of an ETF. ETFs provide instant diversification. They aren't likely to fall apart the way an individual stock can. The flipside though is that ETFs generally won't have the explosive upside potential of a growth stock. For example, with an ETF you're not likely to see a near 15% gain in two weeks like we are with OCLR, our 821x model trade. But again, never forget that your primary job as a DIY Investor is to manage risk. Throwing caution to the wind because you let greed get the best of you is a fantastic way to blow up your account!
Add margin to double your purchasing power
If you know how grow to your investment account, it follows that the more money you have to invest, the more money you will make. Multi-millionaires from Warren Buffet to Donald Trump understand this and are therefore not shy about leveraging debt to compound their wealth at an accelerated pace. We can employ this very same tactic by adding margin to our trading account. With margin, the cash and securities in your account amount to a 50% down payment on a line of credit provided by the brokerage; effectively doubling your purchasing power. It should go without saying that while margin allows you to grow your account balance twice as fast, it can also destroy your investment capital at double speed as well. Use margin responsibly, if at all.
That said, if you are disciplined, I believe deploying margin is an excellent strategy for growing a small account. You can use it to increase your position size and/or add more positions. If you would like to pursue this tactic, one online broker stands head and shoulders above the rest; Interactive Brokers (IB). As I write this, an IB margin loan rate on an account size of less than $25,000 is 1.91% compared to TD Ameritrade's 8.75%. Furthermore, the commissions are also significantly lower, provided you're not completely inactive.
I used to have five trading accounts at five different brokers. Now, not counting my IRA, I basically ONLY use Interactive Brokers. Only you can decide if it's appropriate to use margin in your account, but it is nice to have the option available. Whatever you do, never forget: USE MARGIN RESPONSIBLY!
It's been a good run, but the sun has set on our model trade. As my family and I are out in the hill country of western Puerto Rico housesitting and taking care of our friend's animals we received an 821x sell signal in NTG today. Even though it appears to be oversold in the short term, I recommend selling AT LEAST half to lock in our hard fought 6% gain, which includes the fat dividend we received in August. If you decide to hold half, I would sell it if NTG closes even one penny below yesterday's low of $19.03.
As far as the market as a whole, it's at a crossroads right now. The violent pullback of the last few days could be nothing more than a healthy retest of the breakout zone before the next leg higher. On the other hand, we might be witnessing the beginnings of a failed breakout which could lead to a fast move lower. Let's continue to monitor price action for clues and stay flexible. In the meantime, the proper course of action is to honor the sell signals in your individual holdings to both lock in profits/limit losses and raise cash.
After I get situated back at my place later this month, I will make a video with a new official model trade. For now, I have a handful of 821x trade ideas that I hope you find helpful. Have a good week!
SUPN – buy with a limit price of $22.51
ADS – buy with a limit price of $213.21
XBI – buy with a limit price of $63.54 (biotech ETF)
Inverse ETFs: (I would NOT get aggressive with these)
EFZ – buy with a limit price of $32.36 (short European stocks)
SH – buy with a limit price of $38.86 (short the S&P 500)
Remember, I only track one 821x model trade at a time for educational purposes. IT NEVER MAKES SENSE TO PUT YOUR WHOLE ACCOUNT INTO A SINGLE TRADE. Please refer to the section on position sizing in the 821x Trading Manual.
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"Turn that off, it's time to go to sleep", my wife said. But I couldn't pull my eyes away from my phone. The market that had closed the regular trading session just shy of all time highs a few hours earlier, was now plummeting faster than I had ever witnessed before. The "expert" consensus was wrong. The majority of British voters wanted to leave the European Union.
The "Brexit" whipsaw underscores the importance of staying flexible. A bearish macro pattern of lower highs and lower lows that had controlled the weekly chart of the S&P 500 for most of the last year was broken a couple of weeks before the Brexit vote. Bullish! The post Brexit crash sliced through TWO potential higher lows AND the 200 day moving average. Bearish! The snapback rally that followed reclaimed ALL of the moving averages in just 3 days. Bullish! I don't think I ever flipped my stance back and forth from bullish to bearish faster.
A few weeks on, with the S&P 500 now at all time highs, it's easy to say that the Brexit whipsaw was just a bunch of noise that was best ignored. Keep in mind though that one of these days we may see the beginnings of a REAL crash. Never forget that complacency can quickly wipe out all of your hard earned gains and then some.
So where does the market have the potential to go now? The S&P 500 has just carved out an ENORMOUS bullish "W" formation visible on the weekly chart. As I mentioned before when discussing the two smaller W's that make up the bottoms of this larger W formation, the potential measured move is calculated by adding the height of the W to it's top. I calculated a conservative height that ignores the "tails" of the weekly candlesticks as well as a more aggressive target which includes the full height to draw in the rectangular "measured move zone" in the chart below.
As you can see, a move to the potential measured move zone is good for better than 220 points or 10% over the next year! As long as the S&P 500 continues making higher highs and higher lows above it's moving averages we will maintain a bullish stance… but as always, stay flexible.
(watch video below for market recap and trade details)
KGC – buy with a limit price of $5.19
(If KGC does not get filled we will track NTG instead:)
NTG – buy with a limit price of $18.56
Other 821x buy ideas:
Domestic equities and ETFs:
FN – buy with a limit price of $36.27
PRMW – buy with a limit price of $11.49
IIIN – buy with a limit price of $38.74
MLM – buy with a limit price of $189.13
CDK – buy with a limit price of $55.85
CRTO – buy with a limit price of $45.63
SMH – buy with a limit price of $56.59 (semiconductor ETF)
XLE – buy with a limit price of $68.24 (energy sector ETF)
International ETF (Columbia):
GXG – buy with a limit price of $9.19
High Yield Bond ETFs:
HYG – buy with a limit price of $84.47
JNK – buy with a limit price of $35.53
I only track one 821x model portfolio trade at a time for educational purposes. Remember, IT NEVER MAKES SENSE TO PUT YOUR WHOLE ACCOUNT INTO A SINGLE TRADE. Please refer to the section on position sizing in the 821x Trading Manual.
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"News" that George Soros is shorting stocks grabbed headlines once again this week. I don't see why this is getting people so worked up. Soros has supposedly been making big bearish bets since the beginning of the year. He's been warning of a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis and apparently has a 2.1 million share put option against the S&P 500.
I have no clue if George Soros is right. However, I do know that "news" like this does nothing to help us make money. We make money when we position our trades in the direction of the 8 and 21 day moving averages. Right now these moving averages are rising, so we are bullish and long stocks. In fact, this week the S&P 500 poked through the highs of last November, essentially negating the macro pattern of lower highs and lower lows that has controlled the big picture over the last year.
The only argument bears can make now is that this was a failed breakout which will lead to a fast drop lower.
I will grant that this is a possible scenario. However, the weight of the evidence we have right now still points to higher prices.
If Mr. Soros and the bears turn out to be right, we will have plenty of time to change our stance and position our portfolios accordingly. We would lock in profits and raise cash as our holdings give us 821x sell signals one by one. We could look to move some money into other asset classes such as bonds and/or gold. Finally, we may take bearish bets against stocks alongside Soros by purchasing inverse ETFs,
We will have sufficient early warning.
We have a plan of action.
There is no reason to fear.
A dangerous misconception many DIY Investors have is that our job day-to-day is to "make money". Obviously, that is the outcome we are hoping to achieve, but it is not what we actually do. Remember, we have no control over the direction of the market or of our holdings at any point in time.
No, our primary job is to manage risk. Day in, day out this is what we are actually doing. The stock market can provide life changing monetary rewards, but with those rewards come enormous risks. The only way to safely gain exposure to the rewards of trading is to strictly define and manage the risk you are taking.
There are two primary ways we do this:
Our position sizing tool combines these concepts. I encourage you to play around with it so you can get a good handle on how much you are risking on any given trade.
There is, however, another often overlooked component of risk management that is perhaps even MORE important than the ones above: patience.
By this I mean having the discipline to allow marginal or higher risk trade ideas go without you while patiently waiting for the BEST, low risk, high probability setups.
Warren Buffett has a famous quote that's relevant: "The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything — you can wait for your pitch."
The fact is, every time we enter a trade we are putting our money at risk. Therefore, we should always take a moment beforehand to ask ourselves, "is the perceived reward worth the risk?" Be picky. Be patient. I promise you, it will pay off.
This concept comes to mind when looking at a chart of the S&P 500. The market has just run 15% higher in about two months. It's just below a declining trend line that connects the closing highs from last July and November.
If the current rate of ascent continues, we could be looking at new all-time highs in just a few weeks! However, what is most likely to happen? Personally, I think that after such a big run and at an important trend line, it's more likely that the market will pull back in this area. This doesn't necessarily mean that we should get short. The market doesn't HAVE to pull back. And if it does, keep in mind that it would actually be bullish for the market to put in a definitive higher low before breaking the macro pattern of lower highs and lower lows.
The bottom line is we have a short term bullish market still within a larger bearish look. These mixed messages are about to come to a head so I believe the best course of action right now is patience. It makes no sense to increase exposure to risk in the face of this uncertainty by taking big bets here. Let's continue to manage our open positions and patiently observe market action in this pivotal area. There will be plenty of time to pounce when the outlook becomes clearer.
In case you hadn't noticed, the S&P 500 has had a MONSTER rally since February 11, rising over 14%. Just since the beginning of March, the index has risen over 137 handles!
Knowing this, look at the headlines below:
Has any of the hand-wringing about the, at times, anemic volume of this rally been helpful? ABSOLUTELY NOT!
I understand the disbelief. When I calculated the potential measured move of the bullish "W" formation in the S&P 500 on March 5th, I was skeptical that it would actually be reached. Yet here we are.
Sure this rally is getting long in the tooth. Sure the 200 day moving average is still declining. But we make money when price remains above the 8 and 21 day (exponential) moving averages. Before this rally comes to an end, we are going to AT LEAST need to see a close below the yellow line in the chart above. Getting bearish before that happens makes no sense. These simple principles apply to anything you are trading.
Volume is noise. Tune it out and focus on what makes you money which is price. Like Brian Shannon, one of my virtual mentors, is known for saying: Only Price Pays. Profits made on low volume are just as valid as profits made on high volume.
So turn down the volume and listen closely to what the price action is telling you.
Stubbornly defending what you believe to be right in the face of harsh opposition is an admirable quality. It takes strong inner fortitude to enable someone to not be swayed to and fro by the opinions of others.
As admirable as this quality can be when dealing with others, it is possibly one of the WORST traits you can have when dealing with the market. Allow me to explain.
No matter how smart you are or how much research you do, there is no way to be right 100% of the time. The only reason you buy a stock is because you believe it will increase in value. However, before you put one penny at risk make sure you know where you will cut your losses. If your trade gives you your predetermined sell signal, have the humility to admit you were wrong. Don't be stubborn. Don't rationalize. Don't hold and hope. Hit the eject button and sell. Yes it sucks to book losses, but it's not worth the risk to continue to hold. If the stock is any good it will setup again and give you another buy signal down the road. If not, you can watch it implode from the sidelines.
It makes sense and sounds easy to do when talking in the abstract, but the fact is, even billionaire hedge fund managers can be prone to stubbornly digging in their heels when they have a trade going against them . Case in point: Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management and his dogged determination in defending one of it's top holdings, Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX).
In fairness, being a "contrarian" has always been a part of Ackman's shtick and he IS a billionaire, but wow, from a distance this looks like pig-headed obstinance on a grand scale. When VRX got cut in half from August to October 2015 Ackman doubled down and increased his stake. Then, earlier this year when VRX was hovering around $90, he added to his position again! Now after another bloody week. VRX has just one tenth of the value it had seven months ago.
I know that there are many different ways to make money in the market, but WE NEVER ADD TO LOSING TRADES in the 821x system. We take our loss and move on. Why would we want to tie up fresh money in a down trending stock?
As Bill Ackman can attest, stubbornness when trading can be quite expensive.
"If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right." - Bill Ackman


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Ester L ázaro is a Staff Scientist at the Public Research Institutions at the Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC), in Madrid, Spain. She obtained her B.A. degree and her Ph.D. degree in biology (speciality biochemistry and molecular biology) from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. In 1999 she joined the Molecular Evolution Department at the Centro de Astrobiología, where she carries out her professional activity. Her current research is devoted to the study of the dynamics and molecular basis of adaptation, using RNA viruses as experimental model
Biography Updated on 28 August 2012