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My friend Peter von Ziegesar, who wrote a very affecting memoir about his brother that you should buy and read (I did!), speaks to PEN America:
My friend Peter von Ziegesar, who wrote a very affecting memoir about his brother that you should buy and read (I did!), speaks to PEN America:
Peter Cole, "On the Slaughter":
On the night of July 7, the gates opened, even as they were being closed, when the Israel Defense Forces launched what it calls for export Operation Protective Edge. (A more literal translation of the operation's catchy Hebrew name would be Firm Cliff—with "cliff," according to the Hebrew equivalent of the OED, evoking in its primary definition the high place in the wilderness off of which a scapegoat is cast each year on the Day of Atonement. Words, as we know, have powers often lost on those who speak them.)
Like most academics, I read articles and books. Unlike most academics (maybe, I don't really know), reading has become harder and harder for me. Not simply because of the distractions that come with department politics, administrative duties (come July 1, I'm chair of my department), advising grad students, and teaching. I wish it were as noble as that. No, the reason I find it so difficult to read these days, now years, is the internet.
Which is why I was so relieved to read this wonderful post by Tim Parks about how difficult it is now to read.
Every reader will have his or her own sense of how reading conditions have changed, but here is my own experience. Arriving in the small village of Quinzano, just outside Verona, Italy, thirty-three years ago, aged twenty-six, leaving friends and family behind in the UK, unpublished and unemployed, always anxious to know how the next London publisher would respond to the work I was writing, I was constantly eager for news of one kind or another. International phone-calls were prohibitively expensive. There was no fax, only snail mail, as we called it then. Each morning the postino would, or might, drop something into the mailbox at the end of the garden. I listened for the sound of his scooter coming up the hairpins from the village. Sometimes when the box was empty I would hope I'd heard wrong, and that it hadn't been the postino's scooter, and go out and check again an hour later, just in case. And then again. For an hour or so I would find it hard to concentrate or work well. You are obsessed, I would tell myself, heading off to check the empty mailbox for a fourth time.
Imagine a mind like this exposed to the seductions of email and messaging and Skype and news websites constantly updating on the very instrument you use for work. In the past, having satisfied myself that the postman really had come and gone, the day then presented itself as an undisturbed ocean of potential—for writing (by hand), reading (on paper), and, to pay the bills, translating (on a manual typewriter). It was even possible in those days to see reading as a resource to fill time that hung heavy when rain or asphyxiating heat forced one to stay indoors.
Now, on the contrary, every moment of serious reading has to be fought for, planned for.
I, too, remember when reading was an effortless way to pass the time. And what my work routine looked like as a result. Writing in the morning, reading in the afternoon, writing in the evening. Reading was easy. It required less concentration and stamina, so I did it during the lazy hours after lunch. My most alert times—just after my morning coffee and during my insomniac hours—were reserved for writing.
Nowadays, it's the reverse. Writing absorbs me, so I do it in the afternoons, maybe the evenings. But reading, as Parks writes, has to be planned for. I have to wrest my reading time from the come-hither arms of the internet, so I do it in the morning.
Here's how I do it. After I drop off my daughter at school or summer camp, I jump on the subway. I ride the rails for three to four hours. Maybe the F train: out to Coney Island, back through Brooklyn, into Manhattan, out to Forest Hills, and then back. Or if I'm pressed for time, just the Q train: again out to Coney, back through Brooklyn, into Manhattan, out to Astoria, and back. Or if I'm in the mood for a change, the B or the D trains: they ultimately take me to the Bronx and back.
I take nothing with me but my book and a pen. I take notes on the front and back pages of the book. If I run out of pages, I carry a little notebook with me. I never get off the train (except, occasionally, to meet my wife for lunch in Manhattan.) I have an ancient phone, so there's no internet or desire to text, and I'm mostly underground, so there are no phone calls.
When I get back, I sometimes post about my little rides and what I'm reading on Facebook: Schumpeter in Queens, The Theory of Moral Sentiments in the Bronx, Hayek in Brooklyn. The more incongruous, the better, though sometimes I find some funny or interesting parallels between what I'm reading and where I'm riding and what I'm seeing.
But the joking on Facebook covers up my dirty little secret: I ride the rails to read because if I'm at home, and not writing, I'm on the internet. "It is not simply that one is interrupted," as Park writes; "it is that one is actually inclined to interruption."
I'm not sure why it's reading that requires these Odysseus-like acts of self-denial (sometimes I also use the Freedom program to read), while writing does not. I suspect it has something to do with what Parks says: "The mind, or at least my mind, is overwhelmingly inclined toward communication or, if that is too grand a word, to the back and forth of contact with others." When I write, I feel like I'm in communication with others: not only my imagined readers, but also my imagined interlocutors—the people I'm arguing with, the theorists I'm arguing about, that professor in grad school whose comments still spark my imagination. It's nothing as grand as what Machiavelli described in his letter to Vettori:
On the coming of evening, I return to my house and enter my study; and at the door I take off the day's clothing, covered with mud and dust, and put on garments regal and courtly; and reclothed appropriately, I enter the ancient courts of ancient men, where, received by them with affection, I feed on that food which only is mine and which I was born for, where I am not ashamed to speak with them and to ask them the reason for their actions; and they in their kindness answer me; and for four hours of time I do not feel boredom, I forget every trouble, I do not dread poverty, I am not frightened by death; entirely I give myself over to them.
But it's definitely company.
Reading feels much more solitary. It can be boring and passive, and when it's not, when I find something interesting that excites me, I want to share it with everyone. If I'm reading at home, I rush to the computer, and post about it on Facebook or here on my blog. And then I don't get off. For hours. When I'm on the train, there's nothing to do, but note it on the back page, and stay on. For hours.
Countering Thomas Piketty's critique of inherited wealth, Tyler Cowen suggests that such dynastic accumulations of private wealth may be a precondition of great art:
Piketty fears the stasis and sluggishness of the rentier, but what might appear to be static blocks of wealth have done a great deal to boost dynamic productivity. Piketty's own book was published by the Belknap Press imprint of Harvard University Press, which received its initial funding in the form of a 1949 bequest from Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., an architect and art historian who inherited a good deal of money from his father, a vice president of Bankers Trust. (The imprint's funds were later supplemented by a grant from Belknap's mother.) And consider Piketty's native France, where the scores of artists who relied on bequests or family support to further their careers included painters such as Corot, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Degas, Cézanne, Monet, and Toulouse-Lautrec and writers such as Baudelaire, Flaubert, Verlaine, and Proust, among others.
Notice, too, how many of those names hail from the nineteenth century. Piketty is sympathetically attached to a relatively low capital-to-income ratio. But the nineteenth century, with its high capital-to-income ratios, was in fact one of the most dynamic periods of European history. Stocks of wealth stimulated invention by liberating creators from the immediate demands of the marketplace and allowing them to explore their fancies, enriching generations to come.
But the Belle Époque (and its predecessor) has got nothing on the CIA.
The Central Intelligence Agency on Friday, April 11th posted to its public website nearly 100 declassified documents that detail the CIA's role in publishing the first Russian-language edition of Doctor Zhivago after the book had been banned in the Soviet Union. The 1958 publication of Boris Pasternak's iconic novel in Russian gave people within the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe the opportunity to read the book for the first time.
The declassified memos, letters, and cables reveal the rationale behind the Zhivago project and the intricacies of the effort to get the book into the hands of those living behind the Iron Curtain.
In a memo dated April 24, 1958 a senior CIA officer wrote: "We have the opportunity to make Soviet citizens wonder what is wrong with their government when a fine literary work by the man acknowledged to be the greatest living Russian writer is not even available in his own country [and] in his own language for his people to read."
After working secretly to publish the Russian-language edition in the Netherlands, the CIA moved quickly to ensure that copies of Doctor Zhivago were available for distribution to Soviet visitors at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. By the end of the Fair, 355 copies of Doctor Zhivago had been surreptitiously handed out, and eventually thousands more were distributed throughout the Communist bloc.
As it happened, Pasternak went on to win the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature, the popularity of his novel skyrocketed, and the plight of the great Russian author in the Soviet Union received global media attention.
Subsequently, the CIA funded the publication of a miniature, lightweight paperback edition of Doctor Zhivago that could be easily mailed or concealed in a jacket pocket. Distribution of the miniature version began in April 1959.
These declassified documents about Doctor Zhivago are just the latest in a long line of revelations about how central the CIA was to the cultural and aesthetic life of the twentieth century. Was there a better patron of abstract expressionism—of Pollock, Rothko, De Kooning, at least on the global scale—than the CIA? And while the Saunders thesis of the cultural Cold War (the thesis long predates her, of course, but she helped popularize it after the Cold War) has its problems and its critics, the CIA did fund literary magazines like Encounter, even Partisan Review when it seemed like it was going to go belly up, international tours of symphony orchestras and jazz ensembles, and art exhibits around the world.
And while we're on the topic of government patronage of the arts, let's not forget the Bolsheviks, who managed, before the full onset of Stalinism and Socialist Realism, to fund, support, and inspire some pretty damn good avant-garde art. (And some not so good art: Ever since I learned that Ayn Rand developed some of her most enduring aesthetic tastes by attending, with the help of cheap tickets funded by the Bolsheviks, weekly performances of cheesy operettas at the Mikhailovsky state-run theater, I've held Lenin responsible for The Fountainhead.)
My most prized print is the poster of a 1971 exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of "Russian Art of the Revolution." It features El Lissitzky's Sportsmen, which he did in 1923. (I managed to salvage it from the garbage after the office of a former colleague was cleaned out.) While eclipsed by the later exhibit at the Guggenheim, the Brooklyn Museum show was the first of its kind, I believe, in the States. In any event, it gives a good sense of what Soviet support for the arts achieved.
Cowen's argument has a long history, but it's not clear to me why he believes it's dispositive. When it comes to funding for the arts, there's more than one way to skin a cat.
I've been reading a work of American history for the last few weeks, and it's making me crazy. I really think history took a wrong turn when its practitioners decided to opt for narrative over analysis. Not because that's a methodologically unsound choice—it's not—but because most of the people who've made it are just not up to the job. You've got these self-styled writerly historians, writing stories that are larded with "the telling detail" that doesn't tell you anything at all. It's just page after page of chazerai. Guys, if you're going to be a Writer, take this lesson from a guy who knew a thing or two about writing:
Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.
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On Facebook, Josh Mason made a good observation: "The problem isn't so much that most historians aren't Balzac, as that they've chosen a form that you need to be Balzac to pull off." Is that too much to ask?
Greg Grandin writes in The Nation:
Born in 1927, Gabriel García Márquez was 87 when he died last week. According to his younger brother, Jaime, he had been suffering from complications caused by chemotherapy, which saved his life but accelerated his dementia, a disease that apparently ran in his family. He'd call his brother and ask to be reminded about simple things. "He has problems with his memory," Jaime reported a few years back.
Remembering and forgetting are García Márquez's great themes, so it would be easy to read meaning into his senility. The writer was fading into his own solitude, suffering the same fate he assigned to the inhabitants of his fictional town of Macondo, in his most famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Struck by an insomnia plague, "sinking irrevocably into the quicksand of forgetfulness," they had to make signs telling themselves what to remember. "This is a cow. She must be milked." "God exists."
The climax of One Hundred Years of Solitude is famously based on a true historical event that took place shortly after García Márquez's birth: in 1928, in the Magdalena banana zone on Colombia's Caribbean coast, not far from where the author was born, the Colombian military opened fire on striking United Fruit Company plantation workers, killing an unknown number. In the novel, García Márquez uses this event to capture the profane fury of modern capital, so powerful it not only can dispossess land and command soldiers but control the weather. After the killing, the company's US administrator, "Mr. Brown," summons up an interminable whirlwind that washes away not only Macondo but any recollection of the massacre. The storm propels the reader forward toward the novel's famous last line, where the last descendant of the Buendía family finds himself in a room reading a gypsy prophesy: everything he knew and loved would be "wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men…because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth."
It's a powerful parable of imperialism. But the real wonder of the book is not the way it represented the past, including Colombia's long history of violent civil war, but how it predicted the future.
One Hundred Years of Solitude first appeared in Spanish in Buenos Aires in May 1967, a moment when it was not at all clear that the forces of oblivion had the upper hand. That year, the Brazilian Paulo Freire, in exile in Chile and working with that country's agrarian reform, published his first book, Education as the Practice of Freedom, which kicked off a revolution in pedagogy that shook Latin America's top-down, learn-by-rote-memorization school system to its core. The armed and unarmed New Left, in Latin America and elsewhere, seemed to be in ascendance. In Chile, the Popular Unity coalition would soon elect Salvador Allende president. In Argentina, radical Peronists were on the march. Even in military-controlled Brazil, there was a thaw. Che in Bolivia still had a few months left.
In other words, the doom forecast in One Hundred Years was not at all foregone. But within just a few years of the novel's publication, the tide, with Washington's encouragement and Henry Kissinger's blessing, turned. By the end of the 1970s, military regimes ruled the continent and Operation Condor was running a transnational assassination campaign. Then, in the 1980s in Central America, Washington would support genocide in Guatemala, death squads in El Salvador and homicidal "freedom fighters" in Nicaragua.
Political violence was not new to Latin America, but these counterinsurgent states executed a different kind of repression. The terror was aimed at eliminating not just opponents but also alternatives, targeting the kind of social-democratic solidarity and humanism that powered the postwar Latin American left. Hundreds of thousands of people were disappeared and an equal number tortured. Hundreds of communities were, like Macondo, wiped off the face of the earth.
It is this feverish, ideological repression, meant to instill collective amnesia, that García Márquez so uncannily anticipates in One Hundred Years. "There must have been three thousand of them," says the novel's lone survivor of the banana massacre, referring to the murdered strikers. "There haven't been any dead here," he's told.
A year and a half after García Márquez published that dialogue, a witness to the October 2, 1968, Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City cried, "Look at the blood… there was a massacre here!" To which a soldier replied, "Oh lady, it is obvious that you don't know what blood is." Hundreds of student protesters were killed or wounded that day by the Mexican military, though for years the government denied the extent of the slaughter. Even the torrential downpour in One Hundred Years is replicated at Tlatelolco: as Mexican tanks rolled in to seal off the exit streets, one witness recalls that "the drizzle turned into a storm…and I thought that now we are not going to hear the shooting."
As a young writer, García Márquez felt constrained by the two genre options available to him: either florid, overly symbolic modernism or quaint folklorism. But Gaitán offered an alternative. Upon hearing that speech, García Márquez "understood all at once that he had gone beyond the Spanish country and was inventing a lingua franca for everyone." García Márquez describes the style as a distinctly Latin American vernacular that, by focusing on his country's worsening repression and rural poverty, opened a "breach" in the arid discourse of liberalism, conservatism and even Marxism.
García Márquez flung himself through that breach, developing a voice that, when fully realized in One Hundred Years, took dependency theory (a social-science argument associated with the Latin American left that held that the prosperity of the First World depended on the impoverishment of the Third) and turned it into an art form.
If Castro is autumn's patriarch, Allende is the democratic lost in history's labyrinth. Drawing on his by then finely tuned sense of historical existentialism, García Márquez presents Allende as a fully realized Sartrean anti-hero, alone in the presidential palace, "aged, tense and full of gloomy premonitions." The Chilean embodied and confronted an "irreversible dialectic": Allende's life proved that democracy and socialism were not only compatible but that the fulfillment of the former depended on the achievement of the latter. Over the course of his political career, he was able to work though democratic institutions to lessen the misery of a majority of Chileans, bringing them into the political system, which in turn made the system more inclusive and participatory. But his life, or, rather, his death, also proved the opposite: democracy and socialism were incompatible, because those who are threatened by socialism used democratic freedoms—subverting the press, corrupting opposition parties and unions, and inflaming the military—to destroy democracy.
Read it all here, at The Nation, and then make sure to buy Grandin's latest book The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World—the true story behind Melville's Benito Cereno. That old cliché about truth being stranger than fiction? There's a reason it's a cliché…
From the Haggadah:
And they did us evil, those Egyptians. They made us seem malevolent, as it is written: Behold, the nation of the children of Israel has become too many and too massive for us. Let us find a solution for this before they further multiply.
Two points. First, the evil that the Egyptians did to the Jews was to construe them as malevolent, as wicked. Second, their wickedness consisted in becoming a massive nation within a nation. The Egyptians understood the wickedness of the Jews, in other words, by virtue of the demographic challenge they posed to the Egyptian nation.
I'm not big on readings of the Haggadah that seek to extract contemporary political instruction from the text. Often those sorts of exercises seem more facile than fertile. But it's hard for me not to see a kind of parable of contemporary Israel/Palestine in this passage.
Where a generation ago the Palestinians were construed as wicked primarily in terms of the terrorism they were supposed to threaten Israel with, nowadays the threat is understood to be almost entirely demographic. Even if every Palestinian were to lay down his or her arms, their mere existence as a people within the borders of Israel is understood to be a malignant growth within the nation. Actually, according to Wikipedia, that understanding of the demographic threat has always been there; it just has become more prominent in recent years, perhaps because of the cessation of most forms of violent conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
This understanding of the demographic time bomb—itself a revealing phrase—is something that unites Zionists of all stripes. A few years ago, writing in Commentary, Michael Oren identified "the Arab demographic threat" as one of "seven existential threats" facing Israel.
Estimates of the Arab growth rate, both within Israel and the West Bank and Gaza, vary widely. A maximalist school holds that the Palestinian population on both sides of the 1949 armistice lines is expanding far more rapidly than the Jewish sector and will surpass it in less than a decade. Countering this claim, a minimalist school insists that the Arab birthrate in Israel is declining and that the population of the territories, because of emigration, is also shrinking.
Even if the minimalist interpretation is largely correct, it cannot alter a situation in which Israeli Arabs currently constitute one-fifth of the country's population—one-quarter of the population under age 19–and in which the West Bank now contains at least 2 million Arabs.
Israel, the Jewish State, is predicated on a decisive and stable Jewish majority of at least 70 percent. Any lower than that and Israel will have to decide between being a Jewish state and a democratic state. If it chooses democracy, then Israel as a Jewish state will cease to exist. If it remains officially Jewish, then the state will face an unprecedented level of international isolation, including sanctions, that might prove fatal.
Ideally, the remedy for this dilemma lies in separate states for Jews and Palestinian Arabs. The basic conditions for such a solution, however, are unrealizable for the foreseeable future. The creation of Palestinian government, even within the parameters of the deal proposed by President Clinton in 2000, would require the removal of at least 100,000 Israelis from their West Bank homes. The evacuation of a mere 8,100 Israelis from Gaza in 2005 required 55,000 IDF troops—the largest Israeli military operation since the 1973 Yom Kippur War—and was profoundly traumatic. And unlike the biblical heartland of Judaea and Samaria, which is now called the West Bank, Gaza has never been universally regarded as part of the historical Land of Israel.
Notice the stress Oren puts on "ideally"—even he thinks a two-state solution to the "demographic threat" isn't likely— and the challenge he sees in removing the settlers from the West Bank (and the small numbers of settlers he mentions).
Now here's the more liberal Peter Beinart speaking recently at Columbia:
You cannot permanently hold people without a passport, without the right to vote for the government that controls their lives, and the right to live under the same legal system as their neighbors who are of a different religion or ethnic group. Israel either solves that problem, by giving Palestinians a state of their own which you and I both want or– or– Israel will ultimately have to give citizenship and voting rights to Palestinians on the West Bank in the state of Israel, which will mean the end of the Jewish state of Israel.
And it is because of my fear of that that I write much of what I do on this very subject.
Beinart's more optimistic, I think, about the prospects of a two-state solution. But the same understanding of a demographic time bomb is there.


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Core Solution Report by Song Chengxiang
Today's blog post is super-short.
Partly because I've got a LOT on my plate that I've been juggling… tons of wonderful creative stuff I'm working on (more on that later), AND, because I feel wrecked. I'm recovering from either exhaustion and/or some form of food poisoning. It's been a challenging and wonderful week, and I am looking forward to continuing my recovery back to full health.
Anyway, earlier this week, Song Chengxiang released his "Core Solution Report." In a nutshell, he points out that all of the "lack" we feel in our lives (lack of happy relationships, lack of financial abundance, lack of anything) stems from us trying to fix and suppress the symptoms in our life, instead of the CORE problem.
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What I really like about his approach is that he tackles the topic from both the conscious and subconscious minds (just like I do with Inscribe Your Life®). I find that few people creating programs really understand the importance of working with BOTH the conscious and subconscious, so I'm always pleased when I get to share with you great resources from people who have insightful information AND use multiple modalities.
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- China To Cap Coal Use By 2020 To Meet Game-Changing Climate, Air Pollution Targets – "The Chinese government announced Wednesday it would cap coal use by 2020. The Chinese State Council, or cabinet, said the peak would be 4.2 billion tonnes, a one-sixth increase over current consumption. This is a staggering reversal of Chinese energy policy, which for two decades has been centered around building a coal plant or more a week. Now they'll be building the equivalent in carbon-free power every week for decades, while the construction rate of new coal plants decelerates like a crash-test dummy."
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- State of the Climate: Global Analysis – The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for October 2014 was the highest on record for October, at 0.74°C (1.33°F) above the 20th century average of 14.0°C (57.1°F). The global land surface temperature was 1.05°C (1.89°F) above the 20th century average of 9.3°C (48.7°F)—the fifth highest for October on record. For the ocean, the October global sea surface temperature was 0.62°C (1.12°F) above the 20th century average of 15.9°C (60.6°F) and the highest for October on record. The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for the January–October period (year-to-date) was 0.68°C (1.22°F) above the 20th century average of 14.1°C (57.4°F). The first ten months of 2014 were the warmest such period on record.
- Study shows the media has a clear bias — in favor of dogs
- The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state – "The 19th Century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote about characters who justified murder in the name of their ideological beliefs. For this reason, John Gray argues, he's remained relevant ever since, through the rise of the totalitarian states of the 20th Century, to the 'war against terror'."
- Poverty is a hard sell for newspapers flogging braised endives – "Leftwing papers have to strike an uneasy balance between the lure of aspirational advertising and their mission to report."
Sunday, 23 November 2014
China To Cap Coal Use By 2020
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Saturday, 22 November 2014
And even the banking regulators were in on the act
The Bank of England has opened a formal investigation into whether its officials knew of – and even facilitated – the possible manipulation of auctions designed to inject money into the credit markets to alleviate the financial crisis.The probe, which started in the summer, has been revealed just a week after the UK central bank published a report that criticised its own response to the foreign exchange rigging scandal.Lord Grabiner QC, a senior British advocate who led the separate forex inquiry, has been asked by the BoE to head the new investigation. He is to probe whether a series of money-market auctions held by the central bank in late 2007 and early 2008 were rigged, and whether officials were party to any manipulation, according to people familiar with the issue.
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Abbott's own team are getting uneasy about him as leader
The supporters are getting restless. Tony Abbott is disappointing them.
The number one cheer leader this morning:
These extracts give the flavour:
It's a simple lesson that Mr Abbott has failed to grasp: talking points and three-word slogans can never suffice. "Australia is open for business" does not constitute a narrative or provide inspiration. "Team Australia" has hokey appeal, but it, too, does not work as an explanation for complex national security issues.Limply, the Prime Minister is losing the battle to define core issues and to explain to voters what he is doing and why. At stake is his political credibility, no less. Mr Abbott risks becoming a "oncer" if he allows his opponents to constantly control the agenda.… Other than in some formal set pieces, he has lost his authoritative voice. Of course, it is no use blaming ill-equipped, tyro advisers. The Prime Minister's Office is too dominated by Peta Credlin, his chief of staff, including on media strategy.… Where is the intelligent Rhodes scholar who has an easy rapport with Australians in any setting?This communications malady is endemic. The Coalition's failing media strategy is damaging its electoral standing and making it difficult to bed down policy responses to problems it was elected to address. The economy is where this ineptitude is most marked; the selling of the Abbott government's fiscal repair job has been a debacle.… In opposition, the Coalition had overegged the crisis alarmism. In truth, the debt overhang is a medium-term issue …Certainly, Mr Abbott was right to recognise that the electorate had lost patience with the extravagant verbiage of the RuddGillard era. But there is a sweet spot between overblown rhetoric and the dot-point banalities pumped out by the PMO and the Coalition's advisers.… Without a clear narrative, the task will be beyond him; his communications strategy is in disarray. The Coalition needs skilful media personnel and new roles for its best ministerial performers; it must communicate like a team that knows what it is doing. Short-term tactical wins may offer a mood hit in the executive wing, but they are not the key to sustained governing. Mr Abbott must regroup, trust himself and speak with purpose. Right now, his insipid default setting is losing the people.
Interesting that the criticism is all about the poor salesmanship. There's still a long way to go before the disappointed ones start realising that it is the product not the sales pitch that people increasingly don't like.
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Friday, 21 November 2014
How the Democratic Party Lost Its Soul
- How the Democratic Party Lost Its Soul - "The trouble started when the party abandoned its working-class base."
- Global triumph conceals a house of disorder – "It says something about our politics that Jacqui Lambie and Ricky Muir are now part of the Coalition of Common Sense that is actually (on this occasion at least) making more sense than the government."
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- Around the Globe, Private Label's Appeal Goes Beyond Price – "Long gone are the days of no-frills packaging intended only for those on a tight budget—private labels, also known as store brands, are no longer viewed simply as low-cost alternatives to name brands. They're increasingly high-quality products that fulfill consumer needs across a variety of price points."
- Steve FitzGerald on Gough Whitlam, Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou – "The 'big ideas' about which so much has been said and written in the last few weeks, came from the big learning, the foundation of Gough's weltanschauung. And the big target. Not for Gough the small target. No temporising, no pussy-footing politics or ducking and weaving to dodge negative opinion polls, no fudging principle to make oneself look more like one's opponents. You could brief him. You could contribute ideas. But it was the courage and fortitude of the big target that turned the big ideas into the big public policy reform."
- Inflation Paranoia Will Never Die, No Matter What the Evidence Says
- Job authority increases depression symptoms in women, decreases them in men
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In Victoria is the election all over bar the voting? Maybe, but the Greens are providing plenty of interest
Two opinion polls today on the Victorian state election with one showing Labor on course for a comfortable win and the other suggesting a crushing defeat is in store for the Coalition government.
This morning Galaxy:
This afternoon Roy Morgan:
Both pollsters are showing the Greens doing well – Galaxy has them with a primary vote of 13% while Morgan puts their support at a staggeringly high 19.5%.
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Gary Morgan says:"Opposition Leader Dan Andrews has grabbed a significant lead with a week to go before the Victorian Election with the ALP (55%) well ahead of the L-NP (45%) on a two-party preferred basis. A victory for the Labor Party will mean the Liberal Government of Ted Baillieu and Denis Napthine will be the first one-term Government in Victoria since John Cain Snr. in 1952-1955."Although the two major parties are almost level on primary vote: ALP (35.5%) cf. L-NP (35%), the high expected Greens vote (19.5%) would ensure a strong flow of preferences to the ALP. If the high expected Greens vote is maintained over the final week of the campaign a strong Greens vote gives the Greens a good chance of winning their first lower house seat at a Victorian Election in one of the Inner Melbourne seats of Brunswick, Melbourne, Northcote or Richmond."The Liberal Party's negative advertising against Labor Leader Dan Andrews has provided Andrews with 'free' publicity and not given electors any positive reasons to vote for the Coalition."
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Cartoonist captures Tony Abbott's election losing mistake
Tony Abbott transformed into Julia Gillard the liar. This morning's cartoon in the Melbourne Herald Sun says it all .
Ms Gillard did not recover from breaking breaking her no carbon tax in a government I lead promise. The same fate awaits Tony Abbott over the spending cuts for the ABC and SBS.
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Thursday, 20 November 2014
When they put on a banker's hat otherwise honest people become dishonest
Readers of my Ticket Clippers postings will not be surprised by this latest piece of academic research. A new study by Alain Cohn, Ernst Fehr, and Michel Maréchal from the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich shows that bank employees are in principle not more dishonest than their colleagues in other industries. The findings indicate, however, that the business culture in the banking sector implicitly favors dishonest behavior.
The scientists recruited approximately 200 bank employees, 128 from a large international bank and 80 from other banks. Each person was then randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions. In the experimental group, the participants were reminded of their occupational role and the associated behavioral norms with appropriate questions. In contrast, the subjects in the control group were reminded of their non-occupational role in their leisure time and the associated norms. Subsequently, all participants completed a task that would allow them to increase their income by up to two hundred US dollars if they behaved dishonestly. The result was that bank employees in the experimental group, where their occupational role in the banking sector was made salient, behaved significantly more dishonestly.
A very similar study was then conducted with employees from various other industries. In this case as well, either the employees' occupational roles or those associated with leisure time were activated. Unlike the bankers, however, the employees in these other industries were not more dishonest when reminded of their occupational role. "Our results suggest that the social norms in the banking sector tend to be more lenient towards dishonest behavior and thus contribute to the reputational loss in the industry," says Michel Maréchal, Professor for Experimental Economic Research at the University of Zurich.
Social norms that are implicitly more lenient towards dishonesty are problematic, because the people's trust in bank employees' behavior is of great importance for the long-term stability of the financial services industry. Alain Cohn, who recently joined the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago as a postdoctoral scholar, suggests concrete measures that could counteract the problem: "The banks could encourage honest behavior by changing the industry's implicit social norms. Several experts and supervisory authorities suggest, for example, that bank employees should take a professional oath, similar to the Hippocratic Oath for physicians." If an oath like this were supported with a corresponding training program in ethics and appropriate financial incentives, this could lead bank employees to focus more strongly on the long-term, social effects of their behavior instead of concentrating on their own, short-term gains.
The full article Business culture and dishonesty in the banking industry is published in the journal Nature behind a paywall but here is the abstract:
Trust in others' honesty is a key component of the long-term performance of firms, industries, and even whole countries1. However, in recent years, numerous scandals involving fraud have undermined confidence in the financial industry. Contemporary commentators have attributed these scandals to the financial sector's business culture but no scientific evidence supports this claim. Here we show that employees of a large, international bank behave, on average, honestly in a control condition. However, when their professional identity as bank employees is rendered salient, a significant proportion of them become dishonest. This effect is specific to bank employees because control experiments with employees from other industries and with students show that they do not become more dishonest when their professional identity or bank-related items are rendered salient. Our results thus suggest that the prevailing business culture in the banking industry weakens and undermines the honesty norm, implying that measures to re-establish an honest culture are very important.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Adam Scott keeps putting his name in the Bay Hill record book, each round moving him closer to another handshake with The King.
One day after Scott opened with a record-tying 62 in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, he hit his stride around the turn Friday with five birdies in an eight-hole stretch to leave everyone else far behind. Even with a three-putt bogey on his final hole, Scott still had a 4-under 68 for a seven-shot lead.
He was at 14-under 130, matching the 36-hole record at Bay Hill first set by Tom Watson and Andy Bean in 1981. And his seven-shot margin at the halfway point shattered the previous record held by Tiger Woods in 2002 and Paul Azinger in 1988.
Scott sounds like he's not the least bit satisfied.
The challenge might be just to start again and try and play a great 36 holes, he said. Start fresh and try to be the leader after the next 36.
That would merit a visit with Arnold Palmer, the tournament host known simply as The King in golf circles. Scott has spoken glowingly all week about his first invitation to Bay Hill when he was 20. Walking off the first green, Palmer was in a cart to greet him with a handshake, and Scott was amazed that Palmer knew his name.
Now he's the Masters champion, and the 33-year-old Australian is playing like one.
J.B. Holmes (69), Chesson Hadley (68) and Francesco Molinari of Italy (70) were tied for second at 7-under. Keegan Bradley had the low score of the blustery second round with a 67, putting him in a group at 138 that included Brandt Snedeker (71) and Jamie Donaldson of Wales (71).
I think I'm 10 behind and playing pretty well for two rounds, said Snedeker, who was off by two. He's playing pretty phenomenal. He's going to be a tough guy to catch. A guy that hits it as good as he does and seems to have a complete game like he has, and the way he's playing now, he's not going to come backward. Seems like an awfully special week if you can get close to him.
Scott played in the afternoon, when the course began to get firm under two days of full sunshine, and the pace on the greens began to quicken. No one ever got closer than his three-shot lead to start the round, though there were two pivotal moments.
He holed a 15-foot par putt on the first hole to calm his nerves, and he hit a gorgeous shot out of the rough from 167 yards and made a 12-foot birdie on the ninth. He went to the back nine 1-under par for his round, and he took off from there.
Scott hit a 7-iron to 4 feet on No. 11, got up-and-down for birdie on the par-3 12th, nearly holed a tough chip from behind the 14th green to save par, and then made consecutive birdies with a 30-foot putt on the 15th and a 7-iron to pin-high for a two-putt birdie on the par-5 16th.
CHAMPIONS: In Saucier, Miss., Fred Couples shot a 6-under 66 to take a two-shot lead after the first round of the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic at Fallen Oak.
Couples, 54, continued his run of good play after winning the Toshiba Classic in Newport Beach, Calif., last weekend. He has also had recent success at Fallen Oak, winning in 2012.
Jeff Maggert shot a 68 in his Champions Tour debut, joining Kenny Perry, David Frost, Jay Haas and last year's tournament champion Michael Allen in second place. Couples started the day on No. 10 and made five birdies over his first eight holes. It was Couples' 12th straight round in the 60s on the Champions Tour, one shy of the record set by Hale Irwin in 1999.
LPGA: In Phoenix, Mirim Lee remained atop the JTBC Founders Cup leader board in her third LPGA Tour start.
The 23-year-old South Korean player shot a 5-under 67 to take a two-stroke advantage over 16-year-old Lydia Ko into the weekend at Desert Ridge's Wildfire Golf Club.
A three-time winner on the Korean LPGA, Lee played the final eight holes in 5 under, making an eagle and three birdies to reach 13-under 131. She opened with a 64 on Thursday for a one-shot lead.
Ko, the Canadian Women's Open winner as an amateur the last two years, shot 66. The first-year pro played a late six-hole stretch in 6 under with an eagle and four birdies.
55 US Open winner Jack Fleck, 92, dies
Jack Fleck, who produced one of golf's greatest upsets by beating Ben Hogan in a playoff to win the 1955 U.S. Open, died Friday in Fort Smith, Ark. He was 92.
He had been the oldest living U.S. Open champion.
The Edwards Funeral Home said Fleck died after a brief illness.
Hogan appeared to be on his way to a record fifth U.S. Open title in 1955, closing with a 70 to finish at 7-over 287. He already was being congratulated by players who figured no one could catch him. But Fleck, an Iowa club pro in his first year on the PGA Tour, made two birdies over the final four holes for a 67 to force a playoff.
Fleck shot 69 in the playoff to beat Hogan by three shots.
It was like someone who had never won a tour tournament beating Tiger Woods today, Fleck said in a 2002 interview with The Associated Press.
Fleck won only two other events on the PGA Tour. He also won the Senior PGA Championship in 1979.


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Today, Paléo Festival Nyon is unveiling the poster for its 40th edition. It represents a multi-coloured visual universe, featuring colourful figures that mirror the heterogeneous nature of the Festival's audience.
Keen to explore new graphic horizons for its 40th anniversary, Paléo invited five graphic design agencies from Switzerland to take part in a competition for the creation of its visual identity for 2015. The winner is BaseDesign from Geneva, an agency specialised in brand identity and who won over the jury with their playful and highly colourful project. Part of an international network of creative studios, active for over twenty years in Brussels and New York, BaseDesign have distinguished themselves by an original approach that gives pride of place to the synergy between strategy, experience and intuition.
The idea that guided the process of creation of these visuals could be resumed in one phrase: "Paléo is my Festival!" For Hervé Rigal of BaseDesign, Paléo is part of our own personal and collective stories and in some ways belongs to each and every one of us, through the different souvenirs that link us to it. By including a series of illustrations representing a host of emblematic instants from the Festival, the agency wanted to include diversity and lived experiences, but also pay tribute to the spectators and staff of Paléo.
The numerous handmade drawings and their lively, seventies-inspired colours are a reminder of posters from the past, a timely nod in the direction of the event's origins. Developed according to the style of the "exquisite corpse", these very diversified illustrations, in which childhood images are mixed with trash details, offer a great variety of combinations and nuances. By drawing a composite portrait of the people who have made it possible for the Festival to exist, the poster and its various derivatives aim at a form of identification and appropriation by its audience. As with the Festival's line-up, everyone will surely find something to enjoy.
To celebrate its anniversary, Paléo has chosen to pay tribute to its audience and staff, the people that have been its lifeblood for the past 40 years.
Following the rains of the last days, the rain contingency plan «Diluvio» is effective. All the car parks around the Festival are unusable and therefore totally closed. The motorists will be directed to parking in the city of Nyon where the free shuttle bus service will be strengthened. In all events, we would ask everyone to kindly follow the directions now in place and behave with patience and courtesy.
Festivalgoers are strongly encouraged by the organisation to use the public transport system, a reliable way to reach the Festival site. Paléo would like to take this opportunity of reminding the public that the public transport system now in place serves all of Western Switzerland. In the Lake Geneva area, special trains run at night towards Geneva and Lausanne, then Fribourg and Montreux. In the Nyon district, buses run between the site and numerous localities. Finally, the special TCS bus network covers the rest of Western Switzerland.
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Pour raisons médicales, Gaëtan Roussel sera malheureusement dans l'incapacité de se produire comme prévu demain sur la Grande Scène. Il espérait être en mesure de pouvoir assurer son concert malgré l'accident survenu lors de son dernier show à Paris. Il se réjouissait de revenir au Festival et regrette vivement que ce ne puisse finalement pas être le cas.
C'est le Suisse Bastian Baker, qu'on ne présente plus, qui le remplacera. Il renouera ainsi avec la Grande Scène et le public de Paléo qui l'avait consacré l'année dernière.
Le Festival est complet mais 1500 billets seront mis en vente chaque matin, dès 9h00, sur paleo.ch, ainsi que dans les points de vente Ticketcorner. Aucun billet ne sera vendu sur place.
Merci de votre compréhension et au plaisir de vous retrouver demain!
The incredible variety of food from here and all over the world is one of the attractions of Paléo Festival. With more than 110 food stalls to choose from, deciding what to eat on site is no easy task. To help you find your way around, we have produced a map of the food stalls for the festival site and another one for the Pl'asse which not only gives their location but also tells you what specialities are on offer.More infos about the food stalls of Paléo
With only two weeks to go before the start of the 39th edition of Paléo Festival Nyon, the compilation "Andes" takes you to the highest summits of the legendary South American mountain range in an encounter with the artists appearing at the Village du Monde as ambassadors of these mythical lands.
Nicknamed "The Dragon's Back" because of the many sharp peaks that adorn its spine, the Cordillera of the Andes is the longest mountain range in the world. It stretches from the Caribbean to Tierra del Fuego for a total distance of over 7000 kilometres, down the western coast of the South American continent, passing through seven countries: from Venezuela to Argentina, via Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Crossing through equatorial, tropical, subtropical and temperate zones, this immense mountain range experiences wide variations in climate, geological formations and plant life. Birthplace of the Inca Empire, the Andes have served as a backdrop to an incredible explosion of musical styles, languages, dialects, beliefs and customs.This compilation, with its sixteen carefully selected tracks, will take you on a journey of discovery of Andean artists, who combine the traditional musics of different regions, such as joropo and cumbia, with contemporary electronic sounds, rock, hip-hop, ska and reggae. Under the influence of their many rhythms, sometimes urban, sometimes distinctly ancestral, you won't be able to resist trying out a few new dance steps.
The CD of the 2014 Village du Monde, produced in partnership with Disques Office and Radio Télévision Suisse, is now available at the price of CHF 25.- from shop.paleo.ch, at the Paléo Shop, from your local record store and in the Festival's boutiques.
01. Cumbia All Stars - Quiero Que Amanezca Enero02. Cimarrón - Quitapesares03. Family Atlantica - Manicero04. Plaza Francia - La Mano Encima05. La Yegros - Viene de Mi06. Chico Trujillo - Loca07. Karamelo Santo - En la Oscuridad08. Che Sudaka - Almas Rebeldes (live)09. La Chiva Gantiva - Vivo10. Meridian Brothers - El Gran Pajaro de los Andes11. Matanza - Tiembla12. El Hijo de la Cumbia feat. La Dame Blanche - La Revancha13. Dengue Dengue Dengue! - Simiolo14. Frikstailers - Murga del Guachin15. Palenke Soultribe - Blanco y Negro16. Crew Peligrosos - Esto Tiene Lo Suyo
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Photos and Description of this 2 bedroom holiday villa in Draguignan - Montfleurie
2/3 Bedrooms (3rd bedroom on mezzanine floor), 2 bathrooms, sleeps 4/6.
Situated 55min west of Nice airport and 15min from junc 36 on the A8. From our Villa it is only 30 minutes drive to the Riviera coast. ( St Tropez, St Raphael, Frejus, Cannes ) Our house occupies an acre of south facing woodland and offers privacy and seclusion. It has a large living room and dining area that opens onto a covered terrace which overlooks the valley vineyards and the village of Figanieres. The house is central for visiting the Riviera coastline and the inland attractions of the Gorge Du Verdon and Lac de St Croix. St Endreol golf course is 15min drive away or there is tennis, cycle rental and horse riding in Figanieres. The 10m x 5m infinity pool occupies a magnificent hillside location and provides superb panoramic views of the surrounding countryside. The house is continually up-graded and has been recently refurbished and furnished to a high standard. Local restaurants are within walking distance and there are numerous restaurants at Les Arcs, Le Muy and Draguignan all within 15min drive. Excellent Wine Domaines are 10min drive away and all offer Wine tasting.
Golf Course locations: Montfleurie is centrally located for golf enthusiasts with 8 courses from 15 mins to 45 mins drive. The nearest is St Endreol at La Motte and is 15 mins away. It is a Championship Course in a superb setting & players of all levels would find it a pleasure. Golf Roquebrune is 25 mins away & is a very challenging course. The 2 courses at St Maxime, Beauvallon Golf Club and Sainte-Maxime Golf Course, and the 2 courses at St Raphael. Golf De l'Esterel and Golf de Valescure can all be reached in 35 Mins. Golf de Barbaroux at Brignoles is 40 mins away. All courses offer green fees by the day and reductions for multiple days (5 to 10 days). All courses offer lower green fees at the twilight time (3hrs before sunset), so it is worth enquiring when booking. At St Raphael there is also a family golf club. It has a 9 hole par 29 course with 2 putting greens and other facilities include tennis, archery, a pool, mountain bikes & a children's club. If any client requires further information I can research on their behalf.
Golf Courses details: ( All Green fee's on request ) Saint-Endreol at La Motte is a par 72 over 6219 metres and is appropriate for all levels. Golf Roquebrune is a par 72 course with some technical challenges. The Green fees at this course are particularly good. Golf Beauvallon Golf Club at St Maxime was built in 1927, it is a par 70 over 5919 metres. It's neighbour is Golf de Sainte Maxime and is a par 71 course over 6102 metres. There are 2 courses at St Raphael, Golf de l' Esterel is on the hills above the coast and is a par 71 over 5825 metres. The other St Raphael course is Golf de Valescure, it also has a tennis club. It is a tricky par 68 over 6051 metres & was built in 1895. Golf De Barbaroux near Brignoles is a par 72 over 6367 metres with many water holes & dog legs, it is something to get your teeth into. If clients require further information, please ask.
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Recent saturation of rain likely built up to fatal mudslide
Saturday's fatal mudslide between Arlington and Darrington can likely be traced to the large amount of rain that Snohomish County has received this month.
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Saturday's fatal mudslide between Arlington and Darrington can likely be traced to the large amount of rain that Snohomish County has received this month, saturating the ground and making the terrain unstable, according to the sheriff's office and weather experts.
The mudslide hit about four miles east of the tiny town of Oso. The National Weather Service doesn't keep statistics for Oso, but it does for Arlington, which is about 12 miles southwest.
As of March 19 — the last day for which the weather service has a report — Arlington had recorded 7.14 inches of rain for the month, meteorologist Johnny Burg said. That's just two inches shy of the wettest March on record for Arlington, and that total — 9.23 inches — was for the entire month.
Darrington, another city not far from Oso, received close to an inch of rain on Wednesday alone, Burg said.
Slides and floods have long threatened Oso and other nearby communities. In January 2006, Snohomish County declared a state of emergency when a mudslide blocked the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River, diverting water and threatening about a dozen homes in the Steelhead Drive area.
At that time, about 300 yards of a hillside slid into the river.
The Army Corps of Engineers, assisted by others, fortified the new channel with logs and rocks along the river's edge, hoping to keep the Stillaguamish from nearby homes and yards.
Flooding on the Stillaguamish also threatened homes in 2010 and 1995, among other years.
Because of the danger of a landslide, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) began repairs in 2006 to protect drivers along a stretch of State Road 530, building a wall and installing drainage to stabilize the hillside. Those repairs, completed in 2012, were "not far" from Saturday's slide, but were a little to the west, said Bart Treece, a WSDOT spokesman.
As with the 2006 slide, Saturday's slide sent debris crashing into the Stillaguamish's North Fork, creating a natural dam.
The National Weather Service declared a flood warning for the North Fork at 2:18 p.m., and later posted a flash-flood watch into Sunday to warn of a torrent should the debris give out.
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Warsaw officials announced Monday that the Norfolk Southern railroad crossings at Center Street and Main Street will be closed starting July 21 for three or four days, depending on the weather.
After those two crossings are finished, the crews will move to the Market Street crossing. Officials said it will likely close for one or two days.
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The Belgian director of the Democratic Republic of Congo's famous Virunga National Park has been shot and seriously wounded in an ambush.
Emmanuel de Merode's vehicle came under fire as he was travelling from the eastern city of Goma to the town of Rumangabo, according to a statement issued by the park.
Some of eastern DR Congo's numerous armed groups are based in the park.
More than 130 park rangers have been killed in Virunga since 1996.
Lawless region
Mr De Merode was shot in the chest, North Kivu Provincial Governor Julien Paluku told AFP news agency.
"He's in a stable but critical condition," the park said on its Twitter account.
Mr De Merode was driving unescorted from Goma to Rumangabo when gunmen ambushed his vehicle, according to Mr Paluku.
Goma is about 30km (20 miles) from Rumangabo, the headquarters of Virunga National Park.
The park – Africa's oldest – is home to 480 of the world's 790 remaining mountain gorillas.
It is one of the most ecologically diverse places on Earth and is on the UN list of World Heritage sites in danger.
The east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is a mostly lawless region, hit by conflict between the government and various armed groups.
Rumangabo – about 50km (30 miles) north of Goma, the main city in the east – had one of the three biggest military bases in the country before it fell to the rebels last year,