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Today is Independence Day in the United States, a day when we honor America's Founding Fathers. It is interesting to look back in history to see how America's iconic figures have been appropriated for causes that are directly opposed to our country's democratic tradition.
The German-American Bund was a pro-Nazi movement comprised primarily of ethnic Germans living in the United States who were fanatical supporters of National Socialism in Germany and wanted to import Nazi ideals to the United States. At its height of popularity in 1939 the German-American Bund had over 50,000 adherents with a nationwide network of 'Gaus' and training camps. The Bund was loyal to Adolf Hitler, naturally, but also celebrated George Washington as one of its heroes. The Bund organized its national meetings to coincide with Washington's birthday, and the largest event, which was attended by more than 20,000 members, took place in New York's Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939. The centerpiece of the event was a 30-foot tall image of George Washington (see photo above). At the event, George Washington was honored as "America's first Fascist" - as well as a leading anti-Semite:
In fact, George Washington's alleged anti-Semitism celebrated by the German-American Bund was based on false quotes. Washington welcomed Jews to America, and in his Good Will Address to the Hebrew congregation of Newport Washington promised the immigrants freedom from all bigotry and discrimination.
In his book Hitler & America (see my review) the historian Klaus Fischer wrote that Hitler's confidants wisely advised him to steer clear of the German-American Bund. Hitler's true American friends were the isolationists in the Republican Party.
Fake journalist Udo Ulkotte has done it again. He has come out with yet another book replete with conspiracy theories, lies and deliberate distortions - this time "proving" that journalists, politicians and Muslim immigrants are conspiring to "Islamicize" Germany. It is destined to become a best-seller.
Fortunately, Stefan Winterbauer at Meedia has read the book so that you and I don't have to:
Man sollte sich also lösen von dem, was die Ulfkottes sagen und meinen. Aber man muss sich mit "Mekka Deutschland" trotzdem beschäftigen. Weil, wenn man den Bestellungen auf Amazon glaubt, wieder viele Leute dieses Buch kaufen und lesen werden. Und weil das, was Ulfkotte da schreibt wirklich gefährlich und hetzerisch ist. Ulfkotte vergiftet mit seinen Veröffentlichungen das öffentliche Klima, er spielt bewusst mit Ressentiments und Vorurteilen, er zündelt.
(One needs to distance oneself from whatever the Ulfkottes say and believe. However, we still do need to deal with "Mekka Deutschland". Because, if the sales figures on Amazon are to be believed once again many people will buy and read this book. And because what Ulfkotte writes is really dangerous and inflammatory. Ulfkotte poisons the public opinion with his books, he deliberately plays with our fears and prejudices - he's a rabble-rouser.")
In his review, Winterbauer examines a number of the "facts" Ulfkotte uses in the book to support his basic premise and exposes them as lies and distortions. Maybe with Mekka Deutschland Ulfkotte is hoping to revitalize the moribund Pegida demonstrations.
I often read the reader comments on the online editions of American, UK and German news outlets. Sometimes the comments are thoughtful, even informative, but most are simply snark and invective. However, I find the comments on the German media sites especially vicious. In particular, any article or opinion piece dealing with NATO, the United States, Russia or the Ukraine crisis is sure to elicit the most vile and offensive comments. To be sure, some of these comments are contributed by the Russian troll factories. But most are certainly coming from German readers who are influenced by the many conspiracy sites that dismiss the entire mainstream media in Germany as Lügenpresse - a term used by the Nazis. A book by the fake journalist Udo Ulfkotte - Gekaufte Journalisten - in which he accuses the German press of being in the pocket of the CIA became a number one bestseller in Germany.
The result of this poisoned atmosphere is described in detail by Götz Hamann in Die Zeit:
Die Botschaft könnte vom "Islamischen Staat" stammen: "Man möge ihm die Hände mehrfach brechen oder gleich abhacken." Doch sie stammt nicht vom IS, sondern von einem deutschen Bürger, einem Leser. Er erging sich in Verstümmelungsfantasien, weil er sich über einen Text von Steffen Dobbert geärgert hatte. Dobbert, Redakteur bei ZEIT ONLINE, hatte über Russlands Präsidenten Wladimir Putin geschrieben.
(The message could have come from the Islamic State: "I wish someone would break his hands repeatedly, or just chop them off." But it wasn't from ISIS; it was from a German citizen, a reader. He reveled in his fantasies of mutilation because he was angry about a piece Steffen Dobbert had written. Dobbert, an editor of Die Zeit Online had written about Russia's president Vladimir Putin.)
Es kommt sogar vor, dass einer Journalistin mit dem Tod gedroht wird. Nachdem Ronja von Rönne in der Welt einen Essay über den organisierten Feminismus geschrieben hatte, richtete der Frankfurter Pfarrer Hans-Christoph Stoodt die Worte an sie: "Adel ist was für die Laterne. Ça ira, von Rönne." Der Theologe spielte damit auf ein französisches Revolutionslied an, das von dem Wunsch handelt, der Adel möge verrecken, sei es am Baum, sei es auf dem Schafott. Beim Cybermobbing, so der Medienwissenschaftler Burkhardt, gehe es dem Angreifer stets darum, den Betroffenen "durch öffentliche Isolation symbolisch zu töten".
(It also happens that a journalist is threatened with death. After Ronja von Roenne wrote an essay in Die Welt about organized feminism, a priest in Frankfurt - Hans-Christoph Stoodt commented: "Aristocracy belong on the lanterns. Ca ira, von Roenne." The theologian was referring to a song from the French Revolution, which expressed the desire that the aristocracy would be wiped out - hung from a tree or the scaffold. According toe the media researcher Burkhardt, cyber-bullying has the goal of "symbolically killing"the affected party by public isolation.")
But maybe it's not always "symbolic" killing. Recently some journalists in Dortmund received death notices from neo-Nazis, and their private addresses were made public in the hope that they would be harassed - or worse. '
On a personal note, I am not a journalist but I was recently "cyber-bullied" by Albrecht Müller - publisher of the anti-American conspiracy site NachDenkSeiten - when he published my name, address, telephone number and e-mail address - in clear violation of the German Privacy Law (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz). So far, I haven't received any death threats - Sorry to disappoint, Herr Müller.
German Left Party ("Die Linke") leader Oskar Lafontaine used the American social media Web site Facebook to blast the United States for standing in the way of Russia and its territorial ambitions in eastern Ukraine. Here is his Facebook post:
Der US-Kriegsminister ruft die Europäer dazu auf, sich der russischen "Aggression" entgegenzustellen. Dabei hätten die Europäer allen Grund, sich der Aggression der USA entgegenzustellen. [...] Wir brauchen eine europäische Außenpolitik, die den kriegstreibenden US-Imperialismus eindämmt! Fuck the US-Imperialism!
(The US Secretary of War (sic!) is imploring Europeans to stand in the way of Russian "aggression". But Europe has every reason to stand in the way of aggression on the part of the United States. We need a European foreign policy that contains the warmongering US-imperialism. Fuck the US-imperialism!")
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Vice President of the European Parliament in Brussels, commented on Lafontaine's Facebook outburst:
"Mit diesen absurden Beschimpfungen ist Oskar Lafontaine endgültig im Lager der Verschwörungstheoretiker angekommen. Wer angesichts der schweren Völkerrechtsverletzungen durch Russland und mit dem menschlichen Leid in der Ostukraine vor Augen nichts Besseres zu tun hat, als den USA Aggression und Kriegstreiberei zu unterstellen, diskreditiert sich selbst. Lafontaine lässt sich damit bereitwillig in Putins Desinformationskampagne einspannen. Dabei vollbringt er das zweifelhafte Kunststück, sogar noch über die russische Propaganda hinauszugehen. All das zeigt, dass die Linke auch 25 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung in außenpolitischen Grundfragen nichts gelernt und nichts begriffen hat.
("With his absurd insults Oskar Lafontaine is now squarely in the camp of the conspiracy theorists. In view of the serious violations of international law by Russia and the visible human suffering in eastern Ukraine, whoever has nothing better to do than to accuse the US of aggression and war-mongering only discredits himself. Lafontaine has now willingly allowed himself to be part of Putin's campaign of disinformation. But he's now done the remarkable thing of going beyond the Russian propaganda. This only shows that 25 years after the reunification the Left Party has learning nothing and understood nothing with respect to the fundamental questions of foreign policy.")
I originally published this blog post in July of 2012 following the massacre of innocent people at a movie theater in Colorado by a deranged young white man with a Glock semi-automatic pistol. This week a 21-year old white racist murdered nine black people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. The young man used a .45 caliber Glock semi-automatic pistol.
No doubt I will be republishing this post at regular intervals.
While families in Colorado mourn yet another senseless mass killing, the finance department at Glock Ges.m.b.H. in Deutsch-Wagram is popping champagne corks. These are halcyon days for Austria's Deadliest Import. The Glock has cemented its position as the weapon of choice for mass killers - and not just in America:
Norwegian far-Right extremist Anders Behring Breivik used a Glock 17 to kill most of the 67 people he shot dead during his massacre on the island of Utoya a year ago this Sunday.
Sweden's Peter Mangs, the man accused of being behind to more than a dozen shootings of immigrants in the city of Malmo, owned a Glock 19.
Germany's Robert Steinhäuser, who killed 17 people in the 2001 Erfurt massacre, used a Glock 17.
But only in America does this deadly mayhem lead to a spike in the sales of Glock pistols. For the United States is the only place where any lunatic can walk into a gun store and purchase a Glock. And the more Americans are gunned downed by Glock owners, the more people want to own Glocks.
It is no mystery why Glocks are coveted by mass kilers. Glocks are excellent killing machines which can easily be optimized with enhanced magazine clips:
According to Paul Barrat, the author of Glock: The Rise of America's Gun, the magazine is the main attraction.
"This magazine is so large, it actually sticks out the bottom of the handle of the gun, of the grip," he told an American radio station earlier this year.
"And you can fire it very quickly, and you can get off that large number of rounds before you have to reload." The weapon is now used by two-thirds of US police departments and has featured in countless films.
Thanks to the cowardice of politicians and the power of the NRA, people can now take their Glocks practically everywhere in the US: churches, taverns, state houses, - even airport lobbies.
Americans, there is an excellent chance that there will be a Glock in your future - or at least the bullet from one.
The results of this recent survey must have made Vladimir Putin very happy indeed:
A survey published by the Pew Research Center on Wednesday showed that the majority of Germans would be against their country using military means to defend a Nato ally against Russian aggression. Despite the notion that an attack on one is an attack on all being enshrined as Clause 5 in the Nato Charter, 58 percent of Germans said they would be against helping a Nato member on the border with Russia militarily.Only 38 percent of Germans said they would agree with the triggering of clause 5 under such circumstances.
Fortunately for the people of Estonia, Latvia and Poland the majority of Americans (and Canadians) DO support NATO and Clause 5. And the United States is prepared to show its support not just with words:
In a significant move to deter possible Russian aggression in Europe, the Pentagon is poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 American troops in several Baltic and Eastern European countries, American and allied officials say.[...]It would be the most prominent of a series of moves the United States and NATO have taken to bolster forces in the region and send a clear message of resolve to allies and to Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, that the United States would defend the alliance's members closest to the Russian frontier.
This move by the US was condemned by many on the Left as a "provocation"; among the critics are Sahra Wagenknecht, Putin's representative in the Bundestag, and Jakob "Appease Putin Now!" Augstein, columnist for Der Spiegel. Still, there were a few brave souls, such as Clemens Wergin, who dared to express appreciation for the US acting against Russian aggression in the region:
Europa hat es sich komfortabel eingerichtet mit seiner verfrühten Friedensdividende und seinem latenten Antiamerikanismus. Doch die Wahrheit ist, dass Europa ohne Amerika als Sicherheitsgarant nicht in der Lage ist, Russlands imperialen Gelüsten glaubhaft die Stirn zu bieten.
("Europe feels good about itself with its premature peace dividend and its latent Antiamericanism. But the reality is that without America's guaranty of security Europe would hardly be in the position to counter Russia's imperial designs.")
For years students in Germany dreamed of spending a few semesters on the bucolic campuses of American colleges and universities; not many Americans would venture to German universities, due to the language challenges, the overcrowded classrooms and the difficulty in navigating the institutional bureaucracies. But now the trend is reversed, or at least equalized: approximately the same number of Americans are matriculating at German universities as German students coming to the US to study. The main reason behind this trend is not difficult to discern: cost. Tuition, fees and living expenses at a private college in the US can easily cost between $40,000 and $60,0000 per year. Tuition at a university in Germany is zero, and a foreign student can get a generous stipend courtesy of the Federal Government (DAAD).
One other attraction for American students which didn't exist when I was a student in Germany: more and more courses are being offered in English:
Attraktiver geworden ist das Studium in Deutschland sicherlich auch, weil mehr und mehr Studieninhalte auf Englisch angeboten werden. Der Hochschulkompass der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz listet 1020 Studiengänge an deutschen Hochschulen, in denen hauptsächlich auf Englisch gelehrt wird.
But there are other benefits for Americans who study in Germany. The American professor Mark Roche has studied both the American and German systems and sees advantages for self-motivated students at German universities, where students are not nearly as pampered and spoon-fed as they are at an American liberal arts college:
Was können die Vereinigten Staaten lernen? Erstens sind Flexibilität und Unabhängigkeit des Studenten, beides Merkmale der deutschen Universitätstradition, wichtige Prinzipien des Lernens. Studenten lernen mehr, wenn sie Selbständigkeit und Initiative beweisen müssen. Deutsche Studenten hatten die Freiheit, sich geistigen Fragen gleichsam organisch zu widmen, mithin auf ganz andere Weise, als dies die Schülermentalität an den meisten amerikanischen Universitäten nahelegt. Dort werden viele Hausaufgaben verteilt, die den Studenten nicht dazu auffordern, sich in ein Thema um seiner selbst willen zu vertiefen oder aus eigenem Antrieb die weiterführenden Fragen, die sich aus dem Studium ergeben, zu verfolgen.
("What can the US learn? First that flexibility and independence - the hallmarks of the German university tradition - are guiding principles in learning. Students learn more when they have to show self-reliance and initiative. Students in Germany had the freedom to pursue intellectual issues organically, in a completely different manner than the pupil mentality that one sees at American universities. There a lot of homework is assigned which doesn't compel the students to research a topic in depth on their own or, at their own accord look into other issues that arise from the initial research.")
Germany could also benefit from these American students as well as students of other nationalities to contribute their creativity and different perspectives to the workforce once they complete their studies. Unfortunately, very few German companies hire foreign students, so most end up leaving Germany which generously paid for their education.
Hannah Kushnir teaches high school in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf section of Berlin. She writes in Der Tagesspiegel about her experience as a Jew in Germany today. Her observations are instructive and rather depressing.
As a student Frau Kushnir tended to keep quiet about the fact that she was a Jew:
Von selbst habe ich mein Jüdischsein schon seit dem Gymnasium nicht mehr thematisiert. Zu lehrreich war mir der Geschichtsunterricht bei Herrn S., dessen Teil der Abiturvorbereitung darin bestand, uns einzutrichtern, Israel sei unrechtmäßig errichtet worden. Zu lehrreich auch die Kommentare: "Ach, du bist Jüdin? Das sieht man ja gar nicht so" oder, genau entgegengesetzt: "Du bist Jüdin? Stimmt, das sieht man aber!"
("I never wanted to make a big deal about the fact that I was Jewish. The history lessons taught by Herr S. as preparation for the Abitur were instructive when he kept hammering home that the founding of Israel was unjust. The commentary of my classmates was also instructive: "What. you're Jewish? You don't look it at all." or "You're Jewish? Oh yes, I can tell!")
Now she is teaching in a school where a large proportion of the students come from immigrant families, or families with low educational attainment. It is not good to recognized as a Jew. Frau Kushnir relates what happened when another Jewish teacher made a mistake at school one day:
Meine Kollegin vergaß eines Tages, dass sie noch ihren Davidsstern um den Hals trug. Fataler Fehler. Seither fallen permanent antijüdische und antiisraelische Sprüche im Unterricht. Auf der Straße wird ihr "Du Jude, verrecke" hinterhergerufen.
Thema Israel oder Judentum im Ethik- oder Geschichtsunterricht? Besser nicht, da startet gleich eine kleine Intifada im Klassenraum. Da ist einer Christ? "Du Hund!" Beliebtestes Schimpfwort auf dem Schulhof und im Unterricht? "Du Jude!" Das ist ja inzwischen an vielen anderen Schulen auch so.
("One day my colleague forgot that she was wearing a Star of David necklace. Fatal mistake. Since then one hears anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli comments in the classroom. On the street they shout at her "Die, Jew". Better not bring up the topic of Jews or Israel when teaching ethics or history or else you'll start an Intifada in the classroom. He's a Christian! "You dog1." But the most popular insult on the playground or in class? "You Jew!" And that is not uncommon at many schools in the meantime." )
But what really disturbs Frau Kushnir is the indifference to this behavior.on the part of the other teachers and the school administration:
Ich frage mich: Hören nur meine Kollegin und ich das? Wo ist das Empfinden der "Anständigen" (Zitat Angela Merkel), der anderen Lehrer, die auf die Verfassung der Bundesrepublik geschworen haben, wo das Empfinden der deutschen Schüler? Und was sagte die Schulleitung, der von diesen Vorgängen berichtet wurde? Sie sagte tatsächlich: "Nun seien Sie mal nicht so empfindlich!"
("I ask myself, "Is it just me and my colleague that are hearing these things? Where is the sensibility of the "decent ones" (quoting Angela Merkel), of the other teachers, who have sworn to uphold the constitution of the Federal Republic? What about the sensibility of the other students? And what did the principal say when informed about these incidents? These were her exact words: "Just don't be so sensitive!".)
Well, to me it's a big deal when you hear shouts of "Du Jude, verrecke!" on the streets of Berlin today.
I've been silent thus far about the passing of Günter Grass earlier this year. I love his early works: Die Blechtrommel is on my list of the 10 greatest German novels. I admire Grass as a novelist; as a public figure - not so much. I met him once at the Goethe Institute in Boston where he gave a reading from his novel Der Butt. After he finished reading he took some questions from the audience. The young woman I was with asked a question in unsteady German about the author's depiction of women in his novels. Grass ridiculed the young woman for asking the question and proceeded to make disparaging comments about "feminists" in general - much to the delight of his adoring fans who roared with laughter. My friend was totally humiliated and from that moment I had little patience for Grass and his constant moralizing, his fake persona as the "Conscience of Post-War Germany."
So I guess I was one of the few who wasn't shocked when Günter Grass revealed in 2006 that he had been a member of the notorious Waffen-SS in his youth. For half a century he had concealed this basic fact about his life while he lectured the German nation about facing up to its Nazi past. When, in 2012, he came out with that awful poem attacking the state of Israel, unleashing a firestorm of anti-Semitisim in Germany, whatever moral authority he thought he still had was gone.
What motivates me to write this is the fact that last month Beate and Serge Klarsfeld - "the Nazi Hunters - received Germany's highest honor - The Order of Merit (das Bundesverdienstkreuz) for their lifetime work of seeking justice for the victims of the Holocaust. The Web site Publikative.org reminds us of a controversy that took place in 1968 between Germany's best-known writers at the time, Günter Grass and Heinrich Böll,
Beate Klarsfeld is probably best-remembered in Germany for something she did in 1968. Klarsfeld was outraged that Kurt Geog Kiesinger - a former member of the Nazi Party - had become Chancellor of Germany and decided she needed to draw the attention of the world to Kiesinger's Nazi past:
The first attack on Kurt Georg Kiesinger backfired: Beate Klarsfeld published an article in France in 1967 in which she denounced the Nazi past of the then German chancellor. It had no noticeable effect - except that her employer, the Franco-German youth organization, summarily fired her. The second attempt also fell flat: When Klarsfeld shouted down Kiesinger from the public gallery of parliament in April 1968, ushers rushed in and led her out.
Spectacular actions were needed, the then 29-year-old Klarsfeld decided. At the CDU party congress in West Berlin, half a year later, she made her grand entrance: Just as Kiesinger prepared to begin his keynote address, she climbed onto the stage and slapped the chancellor in the face, shouting "Nazi! Nazi! Nazi!"
The next day Heinrich Böll sent the young woman 50 red roses in gratitude for her brave act. But Böll's gesture did not sit well with Günter Grass, the former Waffen-SS member and "Moral Conscience of the German Nation." In a speech which was later published in Die Zeit, Grass publicly chastised his colleague:
"Da kam eine junge Frau aus Paris gereist und ohrfeigte den Bundeskanzler öffentlich. Nein, es bestehe kein Anlass, Beate Klarsfeld rote Rosen zu schicken."
("A young woman traveled from Paris and slapped the chancellor in public. No, there isn't and reason to send 50 red roses to Beate Klarsfeld.")
Heinrich Böll was quick to respond to Grass's criticism:
In recht schulmeisterlicher Weise hat Günter Grass in einer Rede, die die ZEIT abdruckte (…), festgestellt, es habe kein "Anlaß bestanden, Beate Klarsfeld Rosen zu schicken". Nun, mir erscheint diese Feststellung ziemlich anmaßend, peinlich und, da öffentlich getan, ganz und gar fehl am Platze. Ich frage mich mit der mir zustehenden Bescheidenheit, ob es Günter Grass zusteht, festzustellen, ob und wann ich Anlass habe, einer Dame Blumen zu schicken. Ich hatte Anlaß und bin bereit, den Anlaß allen Schulmeistern unter meinen Kollegen öffentlich kundzutun. Ich war diese Blumen Beate Klarsfeld schuldig. Meiner ´Generation´ wegen, den Toten und den Überlebenden,
(Like a stern schoolmaster, Günter Grass pointed out in a speech that was printed in Die Zeit that there was no reason for sending roses to Beate Klarsfeld. Well, I find this comment rather arrogant, embarrassing, and, since it was done in public, highly inappropriate. With some modesty I ask what business it is of Günter Grass if I have any reason for sending flowers to a lady. I did have a reason, and I'm prepared to openly announce my reason to all my schoolmaster colleagues. I owed these flowers to Beate Klarsfeld - because of my generation, those who died and those who survived.)
So who was the true "Moral Conscience of the German Nation" -Günter Grass or Heinrich Böll?
Read Jochen Bittner's New York Times Op/Ed piece: Günter Grass's Germany, and Mine
Anyone who regularly reads the Web sites of the mainstream German media outlets cannot help but be struck by the huge number of pro-Russian commenters. Putin certainly has his fans in Germany, but sometimes the grammar or odd word choice arouses suspicion that not all of these commenters are German.
The respected weekly Die Zeit has been hit hard by these "troll" commenters and recently pointed to Kremlin as the source of the anti-West vitriol in the reader forums:
Allerdings verdichten sich die Hinweise, dass der Kreml im Kampf um die öffentliche Meinung aufgerüstet hat. Soziale Netzwerke und Kommentarleisten wichtiger Medien sind im Visier der russischen Propaganda-Maschine. Vor allem in Deutschland, England und den USA hat eine Debatte über manipulierte Kommentare begonnen, doch so vielfältig die Verdachtsmomente sind, so dürftig sind die Beweise.
(Certainly there are indications that the Kremlin has been arming itself for the battle for public opinion. The Russian propaganda machine has set its sights on social media sites and reader commentary sections of important media properties. The debate concerning the manipulation of comments - especially in Germany, England, and the US - has already begun. But despite the high degree of suspicion, concrete proof is difficult to come by.)
Well, now we have plenty of concrete evidence (Beweise). The New York Times Magazine is publishing a fascinating piece by Adrian Chen, a journalist and writer, who managed to penetrate the Internet Research Agency, a vast disinformation operation financed and run by the Kremlin. The "Agency" hires thousands of well-educated Russian young people who are paid generously to "troll" social media sites and reader forums in Russia, Europe and the United States to wreak havoc.
One of these paid trolls - a young woman named Ludmila Savchuk, described in detail her work at one of the agency sites in St. Petersburg:
Every day at the Internet Research Agency was essentially the same, Savchuk told me. The first thing employees did upon arriving at their desks was to switch on an Internet proxy service, which hid their I.P. addresses from the places they posted; those digital addresses can sometimes be used to reveal the real identity of the poster. Savchuk would be given a list of the opinions she was responsible for promulgating that day. Workers received a constant stream of "technical tasks" — point-by-point exegeses of the themes they were to address, all pegged to the latest news. Ukraine was always a major topic, because of the civil war there between Russian-backed separatists and the Ukrainian Army; Savchuk and her co-workers would post comments that disparaged the Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, and highlighted Ukrainian Army atrocities. Russian domestic affairs were also a major topic. Last year, after a financial crisis hit Russia and the ruble collapsed, the professional trolls left optimistic posts about the pace of recovery. Savchuk also says that in March, after the opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was murdered, she and her entire team were moved to the department that left comments on the websites of Russian news outlets and ordered to suggest that the opposition itself had set up the murder.
And the St.Petersburg Agency operation - huge as it is - is just the tip the iceberg:
Savchuk's revelations about the agency have fascinated Russia not because they are shocking but because they confirm what everyone has long suspected: The Russian Internet is awash in trolls. "This troll business becomes more popular year by year," says Platon Mamatov, who says that he ran his own troll farm in the Ural Mountains from 2008 to 2013. During that time he employed from 20 to 40 people, mostly students and young mothers, to carry out online tasks for Kremlin contacts and local and regional authorities from Putin's United Russia party. Mamatov says there are scores of operations like his around the country, working for government authorities at every level. Because the industry is secretive, with its funds funneled through a maze of innocuous-sounding contracts and shell businesses, it is difficult to estimate exactly how many people are at work trolling today. But Mamatov claims "there are thousands — I'm not sure about how many, but yes, really, thousands."
It is interesting to read the readers' comments to Adrian Chen's article. "The Agency" is hard at work.


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The Forest of Hands and Teeth
by Carrie Ryan
A zombie book that focuses on theme and character development instead of just hack and slash.
Loved it, except the ending.
Mary has grown up with stories of the ocean and of villages outside of here own. She always wanted to see the ocean and the buildings that touched the sky, but they held her back. The dead that roam the forest with an eternal hunger for human flesh. Her fenced in village has kept her safe, but not her father. He was bitten and choose to live freely in the woods as an unconsecrated. Every since the loss of her husband, Mary's mother has never been the same. Mary was supposed to meet her mother at the fence after she was done washing the clothes at the river, but her friend Harry appears and ask her to be his wife. Stunned, Mary stops what she is doing to talk to him some more when all of the sudden, the sirens flare, warning of a breach. Mary and Harry run to try and help, and to get to safety when the sirens stop. Everyone is confused, but soon Mary wishes she didn't spend that extra minute with Harry as she realizes her mother stepped to close to the fence and was bitten. Her brother is away, so Mary has to decide if they should kill her mother, or if they should send her into the woods. Mary lets her live in the woods as an unconsecrated because she knows her mother would be happy to live among her husband forever. Mary feels as though it was Harry's fault, so she steers clear of him.
Her brother is upset Mary let her mother roam free in the village, so he refuses to take custody of her, and Harry doesn't want to marry her anymore, so she is left to live with the sisterhood. The sisterhood lives in the abbey in the center of their village. They are the doctors, the bankers, the scribes, and most importantly, the ones who keep the gospel strong in the village. Being forced to live with them means chores, reading the scriptures, chores and, reading the scriptures. One time while doing chores, she finds Travis, Harry's brother, who she actually wanted to marry. He has broken his leg and will never be able to walk the same. She continues to visit him in is room, where he is half conscious. She tells him of the ocean and all the other stories she was told as a child. As she falls asleep in her own bed one night, she hears crying next door, and talks to the person through the wall. The girls name is Gabrielle, and she comes from outside the fence, which means there is other villages out there. She goes to find Travis, to whisper in his ear all the things she has learned from Gabrielle. She finds him awake, and they begin talking to each other, visiting more and more often. They find they are falling in love, but Mary is not allowed to be married and Travis is engaged to Mary's best friend. She decides to leave him. One day she walks outside and sees Gabrielle through her window. She has long black hair and a red colored vest, but Mary has never seen such a bright red before. The next day she goes to talk to Gabrielle, only to find that she is gone. When she goes back to her room, she bumps into sister Abby, and sister Abby tells her that Harry has come for her, he wants to Marry her. The next day Harry, Mary, Travis, and Cass get married. Harry to Marry, and Travis to Cass. As the celebration of two newlywed couples dies down, they retreat to their new homes only to be disturbed by the sirens, and this time its real. Everyone knows which unconsecrated tore down the fence, the fast one with the bright red vest. Mary, Travis, Harry, Cass, Mary's new puppy, and a little boy escape into the fenced in path. Now Mary has to find where Gabrielle came from, or else everyone will die.
Mary has always wondered if there is anthing beyond her village, beyond the unconsecrated infested world. She has always dreamed of the ocean and the stories her mother has told her. Her father was taken by the uconsecrated years before, and her mother walks the gates surronding the village looking for him. While mary is washing clothes by the stream alarms go off, its her mother. Her mother went to far this time, went a little to close now she will be united with her husband forever roaming the woods. Mary flees to her big brother, Jed, for comfort. Jed though decides to give her to the sisterhood. Mary is horrified at the new life that awaits her. Sister Tabitha notices her discomfort and threatens the life of an unconsecrated if she does not join th esisterhood. Mary given no choice joins. While studying she learns the love of her life, Travis, may die from a terrible leg injury. Mary stays with him every night, one night while staying with him she discovers the sisterhood has brought another person, from outside the village into the village. Mary trys to communicate with her but fails. She notices her door is unlocked , mary opens it only to find she is gone. One day mary and travis are looking out beyond the fence and travis says he will marry Mary instead of Cass. Mary waits for him to come but he never does, she ends up having to marry Harry. On the day Mary and harry are to be bonded the sirens go off. It turns out the girl in the bedroom didn't disappear, the sisterhood turned her into an unconsecrated! She's back , but different from the others faster smarter. She soon infects half of the village. Mary cant make it to the treetop safe houses. She makes a dash for the mysterious gate leading to the outside, while running travis , harry, Cass , and her brother and pregnant wife. After miles of walking they finally come to an old abandoned town, but not without losing Jed's wife to an unconsecrated. Mary and Travis get stuck in a house while the others go to the towns huge treetop houses. Over time the unconsecrated finally break in the house. Mary and Travis make a fast escape to the treetops to be reunited with the others. The safe haven doesn't last long though a fire burns it down, but yet AGAIN they escape. Travis gets bitten and infected therefore resulting in him getting his head chopped off by his girlfriend Mary, Bummer. They keep on walking Cass is going crazy, harry MOURNING OVER HIS DEAD BROTHER, AND Jed OVER HIS dead wife. They finally make it to an opening in the fence. Mary decides to go through resulting in the death of her brother. She wakes up on the shore, of the ocean! She meets a man and together they walk off into the sunset.
Overall I loved everything about this book. It was an amazing work of art. Though sometimes it was quite predictable I still loved it. Mary's character was unique and brave. She represent curiosity, courage,and loyalty. Her works was amazing! strongly recommend for those of you who love zombies!
I love dystopian stories and when these stories have the added bonus of zombie-like creatures, I am all in. So I was fully prepared to love The Forest of Hands of Teeth by Carrie Ryan. I did enjoy the story, but unfortunately there were a few things that held me back from total love. I found the characters were a little off. Mary came off a little too desperate and obsessive. Also she was a little too much in her head when she needed to be more about the action. The two brothers, Travis and Harry, were so much alike that I could hardly tell them apart which made it difficult to understand why Mary loved one but not the other. Jed, supposedly Mary's loving brother, treated her very harshly in the beginning, yet expected Mary to understand and fully back him when he held something back from the group . Probably Cass, Mary's supposedly best friend, came off as the most understandable as she had a reason for her coldness toward Mary.
There were a few plot-points in the story that made me pause and scratch my head and at times I felt the story was a little disjointed. But this YA story definitely held my attention and kept me engrossed and the pages turning. So the question is, am I going to continue on with this trilogy? The answer is simple, you bet I am, after all it's a dystopian with zombies!
Do you ever finish a book and think, WTF did I just read? If you have, than you know what I was thinking when I finished The Forest of Hands and Teeth. I couldn't coherently put into words how I felt about this book. I'm still not one hundred percent sure if I liked this book enough to give it this high a rating, but since I'm itching to read book two, I figured it meant something. One thing I do know for sure: Carrie Ryan is clearly one sadistic author.
4 Reasons Carrie Ryan is One Sadistic Lady
~ She spent three-fourths of the novel making me hate every one of the main characters, but by the end of the novel I had somehow forgiven them all for being such selfish, greedy characters and making their own desires more important than the lives of their loved ones. I had forgiven Mary for making her dreams more important than her loved ones and for being whiny and unsatisfied with generally everything. Jed for being the world's worst big brother, Cass for letting jealousy ruin the best thing in her life and blindly following the Sisters without asking why. Harry and Travis for making a girl more important than family. (Bros before hoes, dudes!)
~ She heaps one bad thing after another on her MC's ~ I honestly don't know how authors can be so cruel to their main characters. I would grow way too attached and make them all live in a plastic bubble. This is probably why I am a reader and not an author.
~ She left unanswered questions that left me unsatisfied: How did the Unconsecrated (zombies) "return"? Why? When? I hate unanswered questions. I hope she answers my questions in the next couple of books or else I will be deeply disappointed.
~ That horrible cliffhanger.
Can you see why I am so confused by my feelings for The Forest of Hands and Teeth?? On one hand, it was entertaining and Ryan's writing hooked me almost instantly. On the other, I just wanted to punch all the characters until they started thinking like ration human beings. *sigh* If the second book, the Dead-Tossed Waves doesn't wow me, I probably won't be able to continue the series for fear of losing brain cells from repeatedly bashing my head into the wall. Until then, give The Forest of Hands and Teeth a try to see how you enjoy it.
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Scott Westerfeld is the author of three sets of books for young adults, including the Uglies series, the Midnighters series, and a series of stand-alone novels set in contemporary New York, including So Yesterday, Peeps, and The Last Days. Both Uglies and Peeps were named Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association in 2006. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of The Forest of Hands and Teeth:
Teenagers love a good apocalypse. Who doesn't? All those annoying rules suspended. Society's pretenses made irrelevant. Malls to be looted. School out forever.
But in The Forest and Hands and Teeth, Carrie Ryan's marvelous debut novel, the post-apocalypse is defined more by constraints than freedoms. The book begins seven generations after the Return, an undead plague that has ended civilization as we know it. Of course, a zombie outbreak usually means shotguns and mall looting--the very essence of freedom. But more than a century on from the Return, the malls have already been looted, and shotguns are a distant memory. The novel's heroine, Mary, lives in a village surrounded by one last vestige of industrial technology: a chain-link fence, beyond which is a vast forest full of shambling, eternally ravenous undead--the forest of hands and teeth. No villager ever goes outside this fence, unless they want to die. (And given this bleak scenario, some do.)
Mary's world is bounded not only by the fence but by the archaic traditions of her people, which are enforced by a religious order called the Sisterhood. Marriages, childbirth, death, every stage of life must be controlled to sustain the village's precarious existence. Even the houses are circumscribed--literally--with passages of scripture carved into every entrance to remind the inhabitants of the rules that sustain human life amid the horrors of the forest.
After so long an isolation, the village is beginning to forget. Some doubt that there really was a time before the Return, with giant cities and wondrous technologies. Others believe that nothing at all exists beyond the forest of hands and teeth. And nobody but Mary and her slightly mad mother believes in something called "the ocean," a huge and unbounded space beyond the reach of the undead.
Mary is the sort of teenager who dreams of bigger things. Not just the ocean, but epic romance and adventure beyond the fence, maybe even other villages somewhere out there, safe behind their own fences. She believes that answers can be found to questions like, What made the Return happen? And what was it like before?
Escaping the confines of home for the greater world is, of course, one of the great themes of teen literature. But few heroes in any genre have faced an obstacle as daunting as the forest of hands and teeth. Though Ryan's writing is as lyrical as her title, this novel is driven by the same grim relentlessness that animates any good zombie film. Elegant prose and undead hordes combine to create a story where high drama feels completely unforced, where tension is constant, and where an image as simple as the open sea is achingly romantic.
Zombies have been metaphors for many things: consumerism, contagion in an overpopulated world, the inevitability of death. But here they resonate with a particularly teenage realization about the world--that social limits and backward traditions are numberless and unstoppable, no matter how shambling they may seem at first.
And yet we must try to escape them anyway, lest we wither inside the fence.--Scott WesterfeldAmazon Exclusive: A Q&A with Carrie Ryan We had the opportunity to chat with Carrie Ryan over e-mail about her first novel, The Forest of Hands and Teeth. Here's what Carrie had to say about George Romero, the growing popularity of young adult fiction, and how she's preparing for the zombie apocalypse.
Amazon.com: You have said you began your writing career intending to write "chick lit." How, then, did you come to write The Forest of Hands and Teeth, which, on first glance, is a far cry from that genre?
Carrie Ryan: In college many of the short stories I wrote were fairly dark but I'd always heard the advice that you should write what you read and at the time I loved to read romantic comedies and chick lit. So when I decided to attempt a novel, that's what I tried to write even though it didn't fit my natural tone. In fact, when I first tried to write a romantic comedy I had to constantly pull myself away from writing dark (and the reason I never tried to sell that book is because too many characters die which wasn't very comedic!). Even the young adult chick lit I was working on tended to be dark--the main character interned at a coroners office and was surrounded by death.
So writing The Forest of Hands and Teeth was more of me embracing my true voice. I think I'd been scared to just indulge in it before, afraid that there wouldn't be a market for it (and in fact, even when I was writing The Forest of Hands and Teeth I was convinced it wasn't saleable). As soon as I jotted down the first line I decided to write it the way I wanted--to experiment and push the bounds and not worry about the market or what other people would think. This was the story I realized I had to tell when my fiancé suggested, "write what you love."
Amazon.com: Your book has drawn inevitable comparison to the archetypal zombie flick, Night of the Living Dead. How does Mary's world differ from the world George Romero created more than 40 years ago? Are the movies what first got you hooked on zombies?
Ryan: George Romero has really sparked a lot of imaginations and while any book or movie with zombies inevitably owes a massive debt to Romero's world, I tend not to think of The Forest of Hands and Teeth as a "zombie book," but rather a book that happens to have zombies in it. The Forest of Hands and Teeth, which takes place generations after the apocalypse, is really about a girl struggling with growing up, desire, and a controlling society set against the backdrop of a world with zombies (called "Unconsecrated") constantly pushing against the fences. The characters have already come to terms with the Return (the zombie apocalypse) and know nothing else: this is their world and they've accepted it.
Romero's movies, on the other hand, deal more directly with the zombies--the plot arc of Night of the Living Dead is having to reckon with and defend against a zombie apocalypse as it occurs. In Romero's world the characters are still trying to fight against the zombies, still trying to reclaim the world of "before." In my book, the "before" time is lost, beyond memory, and the Unconsecrated are not so much the focal point as a part of the setting.
I do think watching the remake of Dawn of the Dead sparked my interest in zombies and led to my watching other zombie movies, including Romero's. One of the things I love the best about his movies, and something that inspired me, is that while they may appear to be simply zombie flicks on the surface, they're actually a commentary on society and are often a reflection of societal fears.
Like many other authors and directors, I wanted to use zombies as a mirror for the characters in my book. In the end, though, what influenced me most was the idea of a girl growing up trapped in a village that has forgotten everything and her hope that there could be something more beyond the menace in the Forest surrounding them, and that's what The Forest of Hands and Teeth is really about.
Amazon.com: Many young adult books with post-apocalyptic settings have been gaining a wide adult fan base--Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games and Susan Beth Pfeffer's Life As We Knew It are a couple of examples. Why do you think these books are attracting a wider audience?
Ryan: It's been really exciting to see so many young adult books find such popularity with adult readers and I've loved re-introducing both my mom and sister to the young adult section. In the past I think readers have "graduated" to adult books and there's been this feeling that young adult books are "just for teens" and are therefore somehow lighter and less substantive. While there have always been phenomenal young adult books published every year, it's really felt like there's been a renaissance recently: more books that are pushing the boundaries in every way.
Not only are a lot of sophisticated young adult books being published, but they're accessible to everyone--most adults can remember those years of their life and tap into those emotions and feelings. But even more, so many of these books also tap into adult emotions and feelings: how to survive, figuring out what matters in life, struggling with changing relationships. These books make us question our decisions and ourselves and, especially in the current atmosphere of apprehension in the world, people are looking inward to what really matters to them.
Ultimately, I like to think that the bottom line is there are just really really great books in the young adult section and that great books will find a wide audience, no matter where they're placed.
Amazon.com: In The Forest of Hands and Teeth, no one seems to know how the Unconsecrated (the zombies that live outside the village gates) first came into existence. What do you suspect would trigger the zombie apocalypse?
Ryan: This is actually one of my favorite parts of any zombie book or movie: seeing how the apocalypse is triggered. There are so many different ways it can happen (and has happened)! Aliens, séances, military and medical experiments gone wrong, parasites, environmental mishaps. You name it, it's caused the zombie apocalypse (I'm still waiting for a movie with chocolate overindulgence as the trigger!)
But I actually made a conscious decision to leave the cause of the Return a mystery in The Forest of Hands and Teeth. One reason is that I wanted to show how knowledge and history could erode so drastically over time. The characters in my book have been so isolated and controlled that they think the ocean is a myth; they have no conception of the world before the Return.
Ultimately, I recognized that the cause of the Return doesn't matter to the characters or the story. There are so many books and movies that focus on why and how such an apocalypse occurs but my book takes place so long after the event that it's meaningless. I really wanted to draw that distinction between my world and other zombie worlds: that it doesn't matter how or why or what triggered the zombie apocalypse, just that it happened and that's the world they live in now.
Amazon.com: So, how are you preparing for the zombie apocalypse?
Ryan: We're not at all prepared! It's funny, shortly after seeing my first zombie movie I dreamt there was a zombie apocalypse and how I would handle it if stuck in the apartment I was living in at the time. Even after waking up I kept trying to figure out how I would survive (how to defend myself, get water, find help, etc.). I've since thought through similar issues with every place we've lived sort of as a fun thought experiment and I've come to the conclusion that we were much safer when we lived in a top floor apartment than our one-story house with too many windows!
To prepare, I just continue to read books, watch movies and am currently trying to train my puppy to be a zombie-sniffing dog.
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Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
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LE MANS, France — Dani Pedrosa won the French Grand Prix on Sunday for his second victory of the season and took over the MotoGP championship lead from Marc Marquez.
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Children at Play
Prendergast's printmaking was limited to monotypes. Produced between 1891 and 1902, these prints are very similar in style and subject to his oils and watercolors of the same time, though often executed with less detail. The monotype process is, in fact, very much like a painting on paper: a single impression is made from an image drawn or painted on an unworked printing plate.
- Artist: Maurice Brazil Prendergast, American, 1858-1924
- Medium: Monotype with colored inks on wove paper
- Dates: ca. 1895-1897
- Dimensions: sheet: 10 9/16 x 14 13/16 in. (26.8 x 37.6 cm) image: 7 5/16 x 11 7/16 in. (18.6 x 29.1 cm) (show scale)
- Signature: Signed lower right, in plate: "Prendergast"
- Collections:American Art
- Museum Location: This item is not on view
- Accession Number: 46.66
- Credit Line: A. Augustus Healy Fund and Dick S. Ramsay Fund
- Rights Statement: No known copyright restrictions
- Caption: Maurice Brazil Prendergast (American, 1858-1924). Children at Play, ca. 1895-1897. Monotype with colored inks on wove paper, sheet: 10 9/16 x 14 13/16 in. (26.8 x 37.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund and Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 46.66
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1989 Toronto International Film Festival
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|1989 Toronto International Film Festival
Festival poster
|Opening film
|In Country
|Toronto, Ontario, Canada
|Hosted by
|Toronto International Film Festival Group
|Festival date
|September 7, 1989–September 16, 1989
The 14th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 7 and September 16, 1989. In Country by Norman Jewison was selected as the opening film.[1]
|People's Choice Award
|Roger & Me
|Michael Moore
|Best Canadian Feature Film
|Bruce McDonald
|Best Canadian Short Film
|Stealing Images
|Alan Zweig
|International Critics' Award
|Jesus of Montreal
|Denys Arcand
Gala Presentation[edit]
- In Country by Norman Jewison
- Drugstore Cowboy by Gus Van Sant
- Life and Nothing But by Bertrand Tavernier
- Mystery Train by Jim Jarmusch
- The Killer by John Woo
- The Seventh Continent by Michael Haneke
- My Left Foot by Jim Sheridan
- Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover by Peter Greenaway
- Sweetie by Jane Campion
- Apartment Zero by Martin Donovan
- Under the Glacier by Guðný Halldórsdóttir
- Monsieur Hire by Patrice Leconte
- Aviya's Summer by Eli Cohen
- A Dry White Season by Euzhan Palcy
- Needle by Rashid Nugmanov
- Chattahoochee by Mick Jackson
Canadian Perspective[edit]
- Roadkill by Bruce McDonald
- Stealing Images by Alan Zweig
- Jesus of Montreal by Denys Arcand
- Where the Spirit Lives by Bruce Pittman
Midnight Madness[4][edit]
- Dr. Caligari by Stephen Sayadian
- Lenny Live and Unleashed by Andy Harries
- Opera by Dario Argento
- Carnival of Souls by Herk Harvey
- Alien Space Avenger by Richard W. Haines
- Funny by Bran Ferren
- Over Easy by Ignacio Valero
- Shimmelsteen by Michael Wolfe
- No Such Thing As Gravity by Alyce Wittenstein
- Whoregasm by Nick Zedd
- Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Over-Fiend by Hideki Takayama
- Heavy Petting by Obie Benz
- Roger & Me by Michael Moore
- Eat the Kimono by Kim Longinotto & Jano Williams
- ^ "No Cancon on TIFF's opening night". The Globe and Mail (Toronto). August 23, 2012. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
- ^ "TIFF Awards". tiff.net, October 16, 2013.
- ^ "TIFF People's Choice prize heralds film industry kudos". CBC News. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
- ^ "History of the Toronto International Film Festival's MIDNIGHT MADNESS Programme". Retrieved October 18, 2013.
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"And it's deep to left center field...Andruw Jones on the run...This one has a chance!...HOME RUN! Mike Piazza! And the Mets lead, 3 to 2!"
- Shea Stadium, September 21, 2001
Babaganoosh, I love your signature. I'm a huge Mets and Mike Piazza fan. I was there at the game on Sept. 21st. I can tell you that home run brought tears to my eyes and still does every time I watch it.
holy crap, you were AT that game? Jealous me... I have it on DVD and I watch it all the time. You could not have asked for a better game that night. I remember there was a lot of talk about whether they should even be doing it, so soon after the attacks, but it was exactly what the city needed to jump-start the healing process. And...Mike Piazza. How cool.
Yes, I had to be there. I was actually going to a lot of games back then. I too have the game on DVD and watch it often.
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