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Traditionally, the aim of OT and NT textual criticism has been to determine the original text (or autograph) of the canonical books. However, some contemporary critics have challenged the operating assumption. Take Bart Ehrman:
Assume, for a second, just for the sake of the argument, that chapter 21 and 1:1 — 18 were not original components of the Gospel. What does that do for the textual critic who wants to reconstruct the "original" text? Which original is being constructed? All our Greek manuscripts contain the passages in question. So does the textual critic reconstruct as the original text the form of the Gospel that originally contained them? But shouldn't we consider the "original" form to be the earlier version, which lacked them ? And if one wants to reconstruct that earlier form, is it fair to stop there, with reconstructing, say, the first edition of John's Gospel? Why not go even further and try to reconstruct the sources that lie behind the Gospel, such as the signs sources and the discourse sources, or even the oral traditions that lie behind them? B. Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus (HarperCollins, 2005), 61-62.
There are many problems with that example:
i) Textual criticism is scarcely unique to the Bible. Producing critical editions of Shakespeare's plays involves the same notion–an original text.
ii) It's true that words like "original" or "autograph" are vague without further definition. These are terms of art in textual criticism.
iii) Ehrman's statement is silly and confused. It willfully confounds textual criticism with source criticism. But there's no good reason to conflate the two. A preliminary, unpublished draft is not a different edition of the same book, but an earlier compositional stage. The question at issue is not the stages of composition, or sources (if any) which may have fed into the composition, but the final product. Not a rough draft, but a final draft. The text that the Bible writer issued and intended for popular consumption.
iv) Here's how one textual critic defines it:
When we speak of the original text, we are referring to the "published" text–that is, the text as it was in its final edited form and released for circulation in the Christian community. For some books of the NT, there is little difference between the original composition and the published text. After the author wrote or dictated his word, he (or an associate) made the final editorial corrections and then released it for distribution. Philip Comfort, "Texts and Manuscripts of the New Testament," P. Comfort, ed. The Origin of the Bible (Tyndale, 1992), 183.
If that involves collaboration between the author and a scribe, we could dub the original or autograph the authorized text. Say a scribe takes dictation in shorthand. After he writes it out in longhand, the author reviews the transcript, edits it, the scribe then produces a final draft, incorporating the corrections. If the revision meets with the satisfaction of the author, he signs off on that. If we postulate that the scribe is inspired, then that simplifies the process.
v) This is not an arbitrary definition. The books of Scripture aren't diaries. The author isn't writing to and for himself. Rather, he produces a text for wider circulation. The autograph doesn't consist of his notes, but the edition he intended for popular consumption and issued for general distribution. That's how it was meant to function.
vi) But suppose, for the sake of argument, that there was more than one authentic edition in circulation, or more than one authorized copy in circulation. Why does Ehrman think that would be a problem? They'd all be authentic literary products of the writer. All of them would meet with his approval. They'd all be authoritative. It's not as if the prologue and epilogue of John contradiction what's in-between.
vii) However, we can approach the identification from the other end: Instead of asking, What is the original?, we can ask, What is not the original?
The traditional objective of textual criticism is to strip away changes in the text that were introduced by subsequent scribes. What is unoriginal, what is not the autograph, are changes or variations added to the text by someone other than the author or the author in collaboration with his amanuensis. That's a clear-cut distinction. A principled distinction, not an ad hoc distinction.
To take a secular illustration, consider an editor who tampers with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to eliminate the racist slurs, without alerting the reader to his changes.
viii) I'd mention a further qualification. Some changes don't affect the sense. Suppose a 4C scribe spelled a few words differently than the author or his amanuensis. Recovering the autograph hardly requires us to recover the original spelling. It's the same word. I don't think there was standardized spelling back then. It would be mindlessly pedantic to insist that restoring the autographic text requires us to identify and "correct" changes that have no bearing on the semantic content of the text.


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Securely erase a SATA HDD/SSD without a host device, or dock your drive for easy access. Make the most of your SATA drives. This standalone eraser dock lets you erase your 2.5" and 3.5" solid-state drives or hard drives without connecting to a host computer, making it easy to re-use or re-purpose your SATA drive. For added peace of mind, the dock offers a printed confirmation when data has been securely erased.
The eraser dock also gives you a single-bay dock for your SATA drive with fast USB 3.0 performance, also known as USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5 Gbps). Using industry-recognized erase modes, you can rest assured that the standalone eraser securely cleans, erases or sanitizes the data from your 2.5" or 3.5" SSD or HDD.
The eraser dock supports nine erase modes including: Quick Erase, Single and Multi-pass Overwrites, Custom Erase, Secure Erase and Enhanced Secure Erase. The Multi-pass Overwrite (3-Pass Full Disk Overwrite) erase procedures meet the requirements of DoD (5220.22-M) standards.
The eraser dock lets you connect to a serial printer to print a record of the erase procedure, and confirm that the erase has been successfully completed. This feature is ideal for IT technicians, system administrators or any departments needing confirmation when erasing sensitive or confidential information. For your reference, the printed receipt clearly shows you the time and date of erase, as well as the erase mode used.
For IT technicians or business professionals who need to check files or test different hard drives, the dock lets you hot-swap drives in and out as needed. The dock features a single SATA bay with a top-loading design for easy drive access, which makes it easy to quickly back-up or transfer data to a hard drive or solid-state drive.
With support for SATA I and II and large capacity drives (tested up to 6TB), this docking station is compatible with virtually any 2.5" and 3.5" SATA SSD or HDD drive.
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The Medical Multimedia Filter Module is a suite of state-of-the-art DirectShow filters for compressing and decompressing video and audio data inside DICOM files. This feature-rich product was designed to eliminate the complexity from converting cine images and video streams to DICOM objects including X-ray Angiography (XA), Ultrasound (US), Visible Light (VL), Secondary Capture (SC) and much more. This Filter Module utilizes the most advanced compression algorithms used in the industry and approved by the DICOM standard including MPEG-2, Motion JPEG, and JPEG2000.
The Medical Multimedia Filter Module includes two main components: the Writer and the Reader.
The writer component includes the DirectShow filters that are used for creating DICOM objects with compressed video and audio data.
Key Features:
Ability to create DICOM files with both video and audio using MPEG-2 compression. The user can adjust the different attributes of the MPEG-2 stream including bit rate and quality factor.
Ability to create DICOM files with video data (cine images) using lossy and lossless JPEG and JPEG2000 compression with the option to adjust quality factor.
Add video data to either an existing DICOM file or create a new one from a set of predefined DICOM classes or IODs.
Accepts 8-bit RGB, 24-bit RGB, 16-bit UYVY or 16-bit YUY2 data.
Includes a number of video processing filters including:
Auto Contrast
Auto Intensity
Auto Level
Video Text Overlay
Video Crop
Can be used with an existing application that uses DirectShow, or programmatically from the LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging toolkit.
Examples of DICOM objects that can be created using the Writer component:
Secondary Capture Multi-Frame True Color Image Storage.
Video Endoscopic Image Storage.
Video Photographic Image Storage.
Video Microscopic Image Storage.
Ultrasound Multi-frame Image Storage.
X-Ray Radiofluoroscopic Image.
X-Ray Angiographic Image Storage.
Secondary Capture Multi-frame Grayscale Byte Image Storage.
Secondary Capture Multi-frame Grayscale Word Image Storage.
MPEG2 encoding in DICOM:
MPEG-2 is a high quality video compression and is primarily targeted for applications that require higher bitrates or high bandwidth usage. The DICOM standard uses MPEG-2 lossy compression with middle range quality, which typically delivers between 30 Mbytes and 60 Mbytes per minute of video.
The DICOM MPEG-2 objects created using the writer fully adhere to the rules of MPEG-2 encoding in DICOM which are described by the new transfer syntax MPEG-2 Main Profile @ Main Level (1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.100).
Some of the typical modalities that can take advantage of MPEG-2 encoding in DICOM include Endoscopy, Cardiology and Micro-surgery.
DirectShow filters included as part of the Writer component:
LEAD DICOM Writer Filter.
LEAD MPEG-2 Standard Video Encoder.
LEAD MPEG-2 Multiplexer.
LEAD MCMP-MJPEG Video Codec.
LEAD Auto Contrast Filter.
LEAD Auto Intensity Filter.
LEAD Auto Level Filter.
LEAD RGB Converter.
LEAD Video Text Overlay Filter.
LEAD Video Crop Filter.
The reader component includes a set of DirectShow filters that register into the Windows collection of multimedia drivers and integrates with any application using DirectShow. Existing video software, such as Windows Media Player and Ulead Media Studio, can utilize these filters to play video (cine) data in a DICOM file.
Key Features:
Can be used with any existing application that supports DirectShow, or programmatically from the LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging toolkit.
Ability to play or Cine any DICOM file with any type of compression including MPEG-2, lossy and lossless JPEG and JPEG2000.
Fast and optimized video decompression.
Playback options include control of the stream speed by changing the frame playback rate. In addition to the basic stream and speed control functionality, LEADTOOLS developers can "preview" a LEAD DICOM dataset in memory before saving to disk.
DICOM Cine Playback - DICOM Cine Loop:
A cine loop is the continuous display of a set of images or frames that convey the effect of motion and is considered a very useful diagnostic tool. With the help of the reader the user can treat DICOM cine as a regular video file:
Play: start or resume DICOM cine play.
Pause: pause DICOM cine play.
Stop: stop play mode and go to the beginning of the video clip.
Previous Frame: display the previous frame in the cine loop.
Next Frame: display the next frame in the cine loop.
DirectShow filters included as part of the Reader component:
LEAD DICOM Read Filter.
LEAD MPEG-2 Video Decoder.
LEAD MPEG Audio Converter.
Support Includes
|Additional Medical Imaging : C++ Class Library
|DICOM DirectShow Filters
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Media Foundation .NET | C API | Transforms


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MS 601 Monitor Speaker System
The MS 601 compact broad dispersion 6.5" cabinet includes a vertical/ horizontal mounting bracket attached to the enclosure for easy installation.
The all weather bass driver has been designed with particular emphasis on vocal fidelity.
The bass performance from the polypropylene cone driver is stunning with excellent power handling. A 25mm polymer dome tweeter faithfully reproduces upper harmonics and is protected by a sophisticated x-over protection network. Power handling is a conservative 100 watts RMS with high efficiency, 200w peak handeling. The boxes versatility is enhanced by the addition of a multi tap transformer for 100/70 volt installations.
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|40 W / 30 W / 20 W / 10 W + 8Ω Direct
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|Dome Tweeter, Silk Membrane, 25 mm Voice Coil
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Solarvest BioEnergy closes private placement
Solarvest BioEnergy Inc. (TSX-V: SVS) closed previously announced financing, issuing convertible debentures units for the aggregate gross proceeds of $1,000,000.
Solarvest BioEnergy Inc. (TSX-V: SVS) closed previously announced financing, issuing convertible debentures units for the aggregate gross proceeds of $1,000,000.
Alaska Hydro Corporation intends to close a private placement of up to 4,000,000 units at $0.05 per units for gross proceeds of up to $200,000
Blockchain Power Trust (formerly Transeastern Power Trust) (TSX-V: BPWR.UN; TEP.DB) completed brokered private placement of 90,047,832 units at $0.48 for gross proceeds of $43,223,000
Westport Fuel Systems Inc. (TSX/NASDAQ: WPRT) signed a US $20 million secured term loan agreement with Export Development Canada
Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX: ACB; OTCQB: ACBFF; FSE: 21P; WKN: A1C4WM) and Micron Waste Technologies Inc. (CSE: MWM, OTC: MICWF, Frankfurt: 7FM2) signed a non-binding term sheet for Aurora to make a strategic investment in Micron, and for both companies to collaborate on the optimization of Micron's technology for the treatment of organic waste generated in the cultivation and production of cannabis products.
BlueOcean NutraSciences Inc. ( TSX-V: BOC) intends to proceed with a private placement of up to 7,500,000 units at $0.08 for gross proceeds of up to C$600,000.
Earth Alive Clean Technologies Inc. (CSE: EAC) completed a second tranche of $1,300,000, in the private placement offering of secured convertible debentures
Green 2 Blue Energy Corp. closed a non-brokered private placement financing of 1,025,000 units at $0.10 per Unit for gross proceeds of $102,500
Boralex Inc. (TSX: BLX) completed $53.3 million financing for the Moose Lake wind farm in British Columbia
Dundee Sustainable Technologies Inc. (CSE: DST) completed non-brokered private placement of 14,285,714 units at $0.035 per unit for gross proceeds of $500,000
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archived @ http://www.sudoc.fr/074493981
La soutenance de ma thèse de doctorat de Sciences Cognitives a eu lieu le vendredi 7 février 2003 à 10h30, à l'ONERA, centre de Toulouse, 2 av. E. Belin, 31 Toulouse. The defence of my doctorate thesis in Cognitive Sciences took place February 7, 2003 at ONERA, Toulouse.
Le jury était composé de / The jury was composed of:
- Prof. Michel Imbert, Université Paul Sabatier,
- Prof. Jeanny Hérault, INPG, RAPPORTEUR
- Dr. Yves Burnod, Directeur de recherche INSERM, RAPPORTEUR
- Dr. Simon Thorpe, Directeur de recherche CNRS, CO-DIRECTEUR
- Prof. Manuel Samuelides, SUPAERO, DIRECTEUR
How to decipher vision's spiking code? Study of the parallel, asynchronous and sparse flow in ultra-rapid visual processing
We build and study dynamical models of visual coding as a parallel and asynchronous flow of information coded thanks to their exact succession in time. We will at first base the mechanisms of this code on the biological processes on the scale of the neurone and synapse. In particular, synaptic plasticity (Perrinet and Samuelides, 2000, Delorme and Al., 2001b; Perrinet et al. ., 2001) may induce the non-supervised extraction of coherent information in the flow of the neuronal impulses (Perrinet and Samuelides, 2002). Coding by the latency of the first spike can defines a code in the optic nerve based on multi-scale architecture. We extended these results by using an ecological approach allowing thanks to the statistics of natural images (Atick, 1992) the quantization of analog value by the spikes' rank. This visual code is based on a hierarchical feed-forward architecture (Van Rullen, 2001) which is distinguished, in addition to its simplicity, by its mathematical and computational performances. We will meet the needs for an effective model of Vision by defining a theory of over-complete event representation of the image (Perrinet and Samuelides, 2002). This formalization leads then to a strategy of a sparse spike code by defining lateral interactions (Perrinet and Samuelides, 2002c). Thanks to a reinforcement learning rule, this strategy can then be extended to a model of an adaptive cortical column which shows emergence of representation dictionaries, like those of Olshausen and Field (1998). Moreover, this paradigm adapts particularly to the construction of a saliency map. These techniques allow emergence of new tools for image processing and active vision which are particularly adapted to distributed computing architectures (Perrinet and al., 2003).
- Laurent Perrinet. Comment déchiffrer le code impulsionnel de la vision ? Étude du flux parallèle, asynchrone et épars dans le traitement visuel ultra-rapide, URL . 2003 abstract


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Lorenzo is a private pilot!
Lorenzo, who is 18 years old, became a private pilot today after he passed his PPL Skills test!
Lorenzo started his flight training in May 2016 and he flew with almost all the instructors of the team.
Congratulations young Captain, and good luck for the ATPL now :-)


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The Planning Board is responsible for the preparation and adoption of the Master Plan, which is the guide for development of the community. It reviews and recommends adoption of all amendments to the Land Development Ordinance.
The Planning Board also reviews all proposed subdivision of land for compliance with Article VII of the Land Development Ordinance, which contains all standards for development of new streets, sewers, and utilities.
The Planning Board is charged under the Land Development Ordinance with the responsibility to review all site plans, parking projects and major building projects for proper design and drainage according to standards.
The following materials can be obtained from or reviewed in the Planning Board Office:
• Copies of the Master Plan can be purchased and/or reviewed.
• Applications for Site Plan and Sub-divisions can be obtained.
If you have any further questions, please contact Judy Fuller in the Planning Board Office at 732-747-0241 ext. *212.
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We'll be running essays about food memories on Feed52. Today, cookbook author Lukas Volger remembers his mother.
Growing up, I loved to cook with my Mom. We were a team when she hosted dinner parties or planned holiday meals, and every Sunday when she'd sit down at the table to map out the following week of dinners, drawing inspiration from a stack of clipped coupons she stored in an envelope that was always near to bursting, I sat with her and helped brainstorm menu ideas. She wasn't necessarily an adventurous cook, mostly because she wasn't comfortable improvising in the kitchen—she liked to follow recipes—but she loved when she found a recipe that worked. Many of her favorites were passed onto her by friends, or clipped from the newspaper, magazines like Ladies' Home Journal and McCall's, or any of her Junior League of Boise cookbooks.
She also subscribed to Bon Appetit and Cooking Light, and during the overlap when she had subscriptions to both magazines (she later cancelled Bon Appetit because she thought it was getting "too weird"), we'd read them together. In the winter we'd sit by the fireplace in the family room, and in the summer we'd sit on lawn chairs in the back yard, shifting around as the patches of sunlight moved, flipping through and earmarking those magazines, swapping them when we finished.
As far as the actual cooking went, I enjoyed making the foods she wasn't inclined to make herself. She had a thing against yeast, believed that it had a thing against her, and so this meant that I wanted to experiment with bread. I made sandwich bread that was spongy, baguettes that were dense, and cinnamon-swirl bread that somehow failed to be sweet. I also loved baked goods: biscotti, lace cookies, and, once, a three-layer chocolate-strawberry cake. I mostly followed recipes, too, but as I got a little older I experimented. I was prone to fits of inspiration that were good ideas in theory, but failed in execution. One time I added a secret ingredient to our standard chocolate chip cookies. Fresh out of the oven, I gave one to Mom and dared her to guess what that ingredient was. She took a bite and immediately started coughing. "Cloves," she said, guessing correctly.
What I also enjoyed around this time, besides the cooking, was the typing up of the recipes. Mom would have a friend over and they'd start talking about what great thing they cooked recently. There were her Mexican Roll-Ups, a blend of cream cheese, olives, and chilies that she'd spread onto flour tortillas, roll-up, and slice, serving the pinwheels with a bowl of salsa for dipping. Or, "You won't believe it. It's two cans of black beans"—here she'd start numbering the ingredients on her hand—"a jar of salsa, and a can of Progresso black bean soup. That's it! I'll give you the recipe." I was always lingering near the kitchen, so after she dug it up from her recipe box or manila folder stuffed with Xeroxes and clippings, I'd snag it from her, skip downstairs to the office, and happily type it up for our guest. Sometimes I'd take liberties as I typed, explaining a step or ingredient in greater detail, or omitting words I thought were unnecessary. (I inherited this editing instinct from my dad, an accountant, who would read all my English papers in junior high with a red pen in his hand.)
These lemon bars are the first recipe I ever "wrote." That's a generous way of describing the process, as they're essentially the marriage of two different lemon bar recipes I'd tried. The topping is from Cooking Light. In that recipe they seem to have excised all but the bare minimum of butter from the crust so that what remains is something like a vaguely sweet, stale pita. But the topping is tangy, not too sweet, and gelled in a way that I still think is terrific. (I'm not a big fan of super custardy textures.) The other recipe, and I can't remember its source, has a crust that's rich and tender, but its topping is much too sweet, and, more offensively, it jiggles. So it felt like a stroke of genius, at the age of 15, to assemble my own take on lemon bars this way. They immediately became "Lucas' Luscious Lemon Bars"—a name that, okay, I penned—and went down as an original contribution to the family's culinary heritage.
I made them many times as a teenager. But over time, as I replaced them with new favorites from an ever-increasing repertoire, they worked their way to the back of the file folder. Then the other day I was thinking what might be a good way to observe Mother's Day, one of the more difficult holidays since she died almost 7 years ago. I saw a lemon bar recipe floating around on Facebook, and that brought this one swiftly to mind.
It might seem misguided to pick one of "my" recipes to share on Mother's Day. But in every way I strive to give my mom the autonomy I didn't consider recognizing until after she died—essentially, that she was more than just my mom, that she had a whole life besides me; on the 1-year memorial of her death I decided to tattoo her initials on my right shoulder, deliberately choosing "PZV" over "MOM"—I keep coming to the line in Meghan O'Rourke's book The Long Goodbye: "A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her." That is what defines her and, I might add, what explains my limitation of being able to think of her in any other way. So when it comes down what I want to celebrate her for, and what she meant to me, this recipe and its genesis neatly encapsulates how I remember her the most fondly. She gave me permission.
This recipe is as much a blueprint for a budding recipe writer as it is for life: Hold onto what works, get rid of what doesn't. If you're lucky you'll end up with Lucas' Luscious Lemon Bars. If you're even luckier, they'll be your mom's favorite lemon bars. They may not actually be ingenious, but she'll boast of your ingeniousness to anyone who'll listen, and she'll remember them for the rest of her life.
Lucas' Luscious Lemon Bars
Makes 16 squares
Crust: 1 cup flour 1/4 cup confectioners sugar Pinch salt 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened slightly and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
Filling: 3 eggs 3/4 cup sugar 1/3 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice, from about 1-1/2 large, heavy lemons 3 tablespoons flour 2 teaspoons lemon zest, from 1 large lemon 1/2 teaspoon baking powder Pinch salt
Confectioner's sugar, for dusting
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Book Review – The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid, 1923-1931 (KSL/ABSC, 2010) by Philip Ruff
Every recruit to the SWP (if they still get recruits) should read this book before they pay their membership fees. It demolishes the illusion that the "Bolshevist Leninism" advocated in exile by Trotsky was somehow different from the murderous totalitarianism practised by Stalin.
Aptly titled, The Tragic Procession is a fascinating and heartbreaking chronicle of the repression meted out to revolutionaries in Russia by the Bolshevik government, refracted through the pages of the Bulletin edited in exile by Alexander Berkman – issued first by his own Joint Committee for the Defense of Revolutionists Imprisoned in Russia, and from 1926 by the IWMA's Relief Fund for Anarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned or Exiled in Russia.
Between February 1917 and the spring of 1918, Russian Anarchism enjoyed a legal existence for the first, and only, time in its history (prior to the collapse of the USSR). Though split on the question of support for the Bolsheviks, anarchists of all tendencies had taken part in the overthrow of Kerensky. They worked enthusiastically in the Soviets, and were represented in the All Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK). Many of them were captivated by Lenin's writings after April, 1917, particularly his famous work "The State and Revolution", which had re-examined Marx's theory of the state and concluded that the existing bourgeois state must be abolished (along with the standing army, police and courts) and replaced with a society modelled on the Paris Commune. Believing the Bolsheviks to be sincerely dedicated to this task, Soviet Anarchists were even prepared to temporarily bend their anti-statist principles, in the cause of seeing the revolution triumph, by supporting the dictatorship of the proletariat.
As the Soviet state grew stronger, the contradictions between Bolshevik and anarchist aims became more irreconcilable. On the night of 12 April, 1918, Lenin's Cheka supported by Latvian riflemen, launched an offensive against the Moscow anarchists, with raids against twenty-six anarchist centres in the city, and closed down the printing presses of the Moscow Anarchist Federation and its paper "Anarkhiya". Caught by surprise, some of the anarchists were captured without a shot being fired, or put up only a token resistance. Elsewhere, the well armed Black Guard detachments were only overcome by full-scale military assault. Those who still dreamed of seeing Anarchy in their lifetime pinned their hopes on a "third revolution" against Communist dictatorship, based on the Makhnovist insurgency in Ukraine and the Kronstadt revolt of 1921, but by the end of the 1920s the anarchist movement in Russia was completely outlawed.
Alexander Berkman arrived in Russia with Emma Goldman in 1919, after being deported from the USA. At first they were inclined to give Lenin the benefit of the doubt. But the massacre at Kronstadt finally convinced them of the true nature of Lenin's new autocracy. They were expelled to Germany in 1922, among the last of the Russian anarchists allowed to leave. From then on anarchists in Russia were subject to a continual cycle of repression, imprisonment and exile to remote provinces, where they were forced to survive as best they could. Berkman dedicated the remainder of his life to bringing practical aid and solidarity to the comrades he left behind. This book stands as testimony to his efforts.
It would be difficult to do justice to the wealth of detailed information which the Bulletin published about persecuted Russian revolutionists (not only anarchists) – please, read the book yourself – while fellow-travelling intellectuals outside Russia were so besotted with the fatal attraction of Leninism. But a few gems beg to be mentioned in passing, if only because they are news to me. I didn't know for instance (despite having written a book about Latvian anarchists) that the Latvian anarchist group in New York remained active, sending contributions to Berkman, as late as the end of 1930. Or that the London branch of the Anarchist Red Cross (Secretary E. Michaels) was still supporting Berkman's work until at least 1931. An honourable mention (page 77) as another contributor, also in 1931, goes to Leah Feldman – a veteran of the anarchist underground in Russia and the Makhno movement in Ukraine, who in 1936 passed on the flame to our own Albert Meltzer (co-founder of the Anarchist Black Cross), and was still supporting anarchist action groups (First of May Group, Murray Defence Campaign) well into the 1960s and 70s. And it's interesting to note that Nestor Makhno himself is listed (page 27) as receiving financial support ($76) from Berkman's fund in 1926.
In November and December 1930 the Bulletin printed reports of a new generation of "politicals" appearing in the prisons: 'mostly young persons… who we, the "old guard", do not know. Many of them call themselves Anarchists, and one wonders in what manner they have learned of our ideas. For you must consider that there is no Anarchist literature in Russia, none that the average person can get hold of. And there are but few organizations or groups of our comrades, and all underground, at that. Often this new element is merely a rebellious contingent, whom the GPU simply designates as Anarchists. In prison, fortunately, some of them actually become enlightened Anarchists, with a clear and intelligent conception of our ideals. Thus at a certain transfer point I came upon a young man who belonged to a student organization of Anarchists-Syndicalists. He seemed a man of an entirely new type that is growing in Russia. Not an Anarchist by temperament, but one whom actual conditions and an independent and critical mind have led to new conceptions of life and society. […] their militant spirit was not the determining factor in their Anarchist viewpoint. On the contrary… social conditions of dictatorship have developed in them a clear and logical tendency to seek for other, more practical and rational ways of making and living the Revolution.' (p. 62)
Thus it was, inside and outside of the Gulag system, that against all odds anarchists survived in Russia until emerging in 1989 – not just despite, but in part precisely because of the repression of all who questioned the moral authority of a dictatorial state. The Tragic Procession of Russian Anarchism after 1918 was ultimately vindicated (thanks in no small part to people like Alexander Berkman) by outliving the dictatorship which sought to consign it, as Trotsky claimed, to the "dustbin of history".
Philip Ruff
[Philip Ruff is the author of Pa stavu liesmu debesis : Nenotverama latviešu anarhista Petera Maldera laiks un dzive [A towering flame : the life & times of 'Peter the painter'] which was reviewed in our last issue.
The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid. Published by The Alexander Berkman Social Club and Kate Sharpley Library: 2010. 9781873605905 $12/£8
In KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 73, February 2013
Confronting Dostoevsky's Demons : Anarchism and the Specter of Bakunin in Twentieth-century Russia by James Goodwin [Book Review]
Goodwin examines different responses to Bakunin after the Russian revolution: celebration as revolutionary precursor; demonisation as the Anti-Marx; studied as the only way to even mention anarchist ideas. Chapter four (In defense of Bakunin: Aleksei Borovoi and the anarchist conception of Demons) covers the manoeuvres of anarchists in 1920s Russia. It disproves the idea that they simply disappeared, and provides information on exactly what they did do.
'Arguably the highest point in the anarchists' transition from anti-Soviet agitation to more subtle propaganda , Voice of Labor [Golos Truda] became the most significant and enduring producer of anarchist literature in the 1920s, publishing more than sixty titles between 1919 and 1926. One of its first and most important achievements was a five-volume publication of Bakunin's works from 1919 to 1922 that featured some of Bakunin's sharpest criticism of "state socialism," most of which were not printed in Russia again before the perestroika period of the late 1980s.' (p103)
The 50th anniversary of Bakunin's death (the Bakunin jubilee of 1926) sparked new anarchist plans.
'Borovoi's elaborate plans for the Bakunin Committee reflect the great hopes and ambition which the Bakunin jubilee inspired in the minds of some surviving anarchists. With its provisions for a Bakunin museum, permanent commissions, and regular publishing activity, it is likely that Borovoi envisioned the Bakunin Committee as a genuine institution within Soviet culture, one that provided a more purely "anarchist" alternative to the Kropotkin Museum, from which the original anarchist contingent had become all but completely estranged by 1926.' (p120-1) '[T]he anarchists' subtle but obvious strategy of self-vindication … was deployed most extensively in a collection of anarchist writings edited by Borovoi and published by Voice of Labor in honour of Bakunin that summer. Consisting of eighteen articles by fourteen different authors, the collection represented by far the largest and most diverse compilation of anarchist texts to emerge throughout the entire Soviet period. Its format reflected the need to subordinate its principal aim of outlining a history of anarchism, as acknowledge in the preface, to the purpose of commemoration. Its title, Sketches on the History of the Anarchist Movement in Russia, therefore included the dedication To Mikhail Bakunin, 1876-1926.' (p123)
Interestingly, it was not only inside Russia that Bakunin was being invoked: '[A]s anarchists and Bolsheviks observed Bakunin's 1926 jubilee in Moscow, Maksimov prepared four installments of Bakunin's "teachings," as he called them, in the form of fictitious "conversations" between a modern enquirer – represented by Maksimov himself – and the revived Bakunin, whom Maksimov returned to the living after a fifty-year slumber. Eliciting classic utterances by Bakunin on the need for a sweeping, anarchist revolution and the way to realize it, Maksimov offered a creative and original alternative to the scholarly paraphrase of Soviet Marxist studies.' (p127)
Confronting Dostoevsky's Demons is a specialised but intelligent and valuable contribution to the history of anarchism in Russia.
Confronting Dostoevsky's Demons : Anarchism and the Specter of Bakunin in Twentieth-century Russia by James Goodwin Peter Lang, 2010. ISBN: 9781433108839 £55/ $90.
In KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library No. 73, February 2013
Nestor Makhno Rides Again [Book review]
Nestor Makhno – Anarchy's Cossack: The Struggle for Free Soviets in the Ukraine 1917-1921 by Alexandre Skirda, published by AK Press and the Kate Sharpley Library.
Nestor Makhno is probably the most frequently and unjustly maligned figure in anarchist history because he symbolises libertarian revolt in the Ukraine against both White and Red autocracy.
This book is overdue: no biography of Makhno has appeared in English since Michael Malet's in 1982. Nestor Makhno – Anarchy's Cossack was first published in French that year, after 18 years of research, and updated in 1999 and 2001. In 400+ pages Skirda covers a remarkable range of sources, from Makhnovist memoirs to very early and very late Soviet material. Skirda is obviously sympathetic to Makhno, but everything is firmly grounded in the evidence of his research, and no myth about Makhno is left unexamined. As usual, Skirda's not afraid to share either his opinions or his dry humour. The result is a substantial and illuminating study of Makhno's life. It also gives much new information on the Makhnovist movement – and its enemies. The chronological account is followed by several important analytical chapters. These cover Makhno's character, the relationship between Anarchism and the Makhnovschina, the allegations of 'banditry' and anti-Semitism against Makhno, sources, and the fate of Makhno's partner Galina Kuzmenko and their daughter Elena (Lucie). Finally, thirty pages of documents from the Makhnovists are reprinted.
Early life
Makhno came from a poor peasant family in the town of Gulyai-Polye, at the very bottom of the tsarist social pyramid. If that didn't incline him to revolt, in his memoirs (quoted on p.19) he repeats the advice given him by a workmate who'd violently interrupted some gentry beating another stable lad: 'Little Nestor, if one of your masters should ever strike you, pick up the first pitchfork you lay hands on and let him have it…'
The revolution of 1905 politicised him, and by 1906, in his late teens, he was involved in the Gulyai-Polye anarchist group. After 1905 an epidemic of combat groups undermined tsarism. The Gulyai-Polye group was no exception: propaganda was combined with expropriations and gun battles with the police. Arrested in 1909 and tried in 1910, Makhno was first sentenced to death, then reprieved and given hard labour for life. His time in prison was significant in several ways. He met Arshinov, the anarchist worker who was to become an almost lifelong comrade, and devoured the prisoners' collective library. Less good, though prophetic in a way, was meeting (in his own words) 'intellectuals who seek from the socialist idea and from their militancy only the means of ensconcing themselves as masters and governors.' (p.31) Also, Makhno's uncompromising attitude earned him several visits to solitary where he picked up the tuberculosis that later killed him.
The February revolution of 1917 overthrew tsarism and unleashed the creative energies of workers and peasants. It also freed Makhno from Moscow's Butyrki prison. He returned home to throw himself into social reconstruction alongside survivors of the Gulyai-Polye anarchist group, pushing for social revolution and expropriation of the landowners. Makhno always remained consistent in his revolutionary programme: destruction of the forces of repression and encouraging peasants to the take the land, workers the factories, and calling free soviets (ie meetings) to coordinate their activities.
… and Civil War
Though the tsarist system had collapsed, there were plenty of candidates itching to restore power and put the workers and peasants back in their place. Makhno and his comrades encouraged and initiated the resistance to their plans. The first Makhnovist insurgents harried the Austro-German occupation, and the old landowners who returned with it. At this early stage the Makhnovist was of dealing with prisoners was set, which was much more discriminating than other groups in the civil war:
'The Varta members [Police] and members of the band of landowners were shot out of hand for, despite warnings, they had persisted in their repressive activities. As for the Austrian soldiers, they were fed then released on promising to fight no more against the revolutionary peasants; they were issued with provisions and a bottle of vodka but stripped of their kepis – this symbolic act indicated their "demilitarization."' (p.62)
After this, the Makhnovist Revolutionary Insurgent Army fought the Whites who wanted to restore either tsarism complete or the Constituent Assembly. The Bolsheviks were happy to see Makhno fight the Whites. But once the Makhnovists had broken Denikin's White forces at the battle of Peregonovka (September 1919) they were forced to defend themselves against the Bolsheviks, who could not tolerate anything outside the power of the party. The Makhnovists had to be crushed as soon as possible: the libertarian idea threatened their hold on power, and their hold on their soldiers. A whole regiment came over to the Makhnovists, declaring:
'During our two years' service with the Red Army, we reached the conclusion that the whole social regime of our lives relied wholly upon the rule of commissars and that in the last analysis it would lead us to slavery without precedent in history
'Because they conduct an implacable fight against the wealthy and the lords; because they stand for free union and soviets among the workers and peasants, without the dictatorship of any party; because they fight so that the workshops, factories and land may pass into the hands of the workers and peasants; because the Makhnovists fight for all these goals, we also find ourselves at their side because of these very same aspirations, we, yesterday's Red soldiers and today's free revolutionaries' (p.183) [1]
The Makhnovists made a second alliance with the Bolsheviks to defeat the White General Wrangel (1920). The moment he had fled the Crimea, the Red Army were ordered to turn their machine guns on their recent allies. As the Bolshevik Yefimov confessed: 'A good explanation needed to be devised to explain why, after an agreement had been concluded, the Red Army nonetheless had to wipe out the Makhnovists.' (p.240) [2] Nothing held the Bolsheviks back this time. Many Makhnovists died fighting or were executed by the Cheka. Makhno had to fight is way to exile in Rumania. With a handful of survivors, he crossed the border in August 1921.
Makhno's significance
Makhno had the essentials of a partisan: caution to avoid defeats and bravery; cunning to make and take chances of victory. However, he couldn't have held out for so long against so many enemies without popular support. This support was fundamentally political. The peasants and revolutionaries who joined and supported Makhno were not all anarchists, but they knew he was on their side. He was fighting for what they wanted: not rights on paper, but land and freedom. The Makhnovist movement embodied their slogan 'For the oppressed, against the oppressor, always!'
Myths and Legends
Skirda reports some of the popular legends which attached themselves to Makhno. Most of these (entering the enemy's camp in disguise, the helpful stranger) are the sort that have been told about local heroes from Robin Hood to Pretty Boy Floyd. Other myths, however, were deliberately created to demonise him and the movement generally.
Bolshevik propaganda created a stereotyped ogre of Makhno. As could only be expected of someone capable of the 'sin' of opposing the Bolshevik Party, (Dzherzinsky, head of the Cheka, p.185) he must be a bloodthirsty bandit. Evidence was irrelevant 'it was primarily a political argument, essential in order to dismiss one's adversary and deny him right of reply.' (p.337)
Equally the Bolshevik Party (when it suited their interests) portrayed Makhno as an anti-Semite for the same reason: 'to cheaply dismiss the professed aims of the movement, only to acknowledge later on, once their defeat had been finalized – as indeed the Bolsheviks did – that such charges had had no substance to them.' (p.341) Skirda provides ample quotations from the Bolsheviks themselves (as well as independent writers) to back this up. As Cherikover says 'of all these armies, the Red Army included, it was Makhno's army which behaved best toward the civilian population generally and the Jewish population in particular.' (p.339) [3]
Among some anarchists, the image persists that even if Makhno did fight for freedom, he was violent, uncivilised and generally bedevilled with 'personal failings'. The culmination of this is the idea that Makhno was busy drinking himself to death during his exile in Paris. Skirda questions this view, arguing that Voline (the ultimate source for many of these claims) is not the neutral or friendly witness some assume. While Makhno and Voline had worked together during the years of the Makhnovist revolt, they were hardly best mates. Their relationship worsened in exile, taking opposite sides in the debates about organisation of the 1920's. Thus Voline, while he did know Makhno, had fallen out with him. Much of Voline's testimony was also given when Makhno was dead and could not respond. While he was alive, Makhno probably gave as good as he got in the slanging match, including accusing Voline of arranging to be 'captured' by the Cheka!
Some may accuse Skirda of trying to romanticise Makhno in challenging this view, but the evidence for it is weak or lacking, what good does it do maintain it? Skirda paints a different view of these years of exile where, despite poverty, tuberculosis and unhealed wounds, Makhno wrote extensively, both on his experiences and about coming struggles. He notably warned the Spanish comrades that communists there 'will follow in the footsteps of the Jesuit Lenin or even of Stalin, not hesitating to assert their monopoly over all the gains of the revolution.' (p.282) [4]
Nestor Makhno – Anarchy's Cossack restores a great deal of forgotten history, both in Makhno's life and in the Makhnovist struggle for the third revolution against 'socialist' absolutism. It's an excellent introduction to this piece of anarchist history, and the Russian Revolution in general. If the Russian experience bears out the anarchist contention that a revolution controlled by the party will only benefit the party, then the history of the Makhnovist movement refutes the Bolshevik idea that the masses cannot defend or direct themselves without the leadership of their vanguard. History will be better placed to judge the likes of Lenin and Trotsky thanks to this reminder of the revolutionary alternative to Bolshevism.
Makhno himself knew that the best form of defence was attack. Hopefully Skirda (or do we have another volunteer?) will now turn his hand to a history of the Bolshevik Party and its role in strangling the revolution.
T. Chanka
[1] 'Appeal' by 522nd Red Regiment, published in Volna [Detroit], December 1921, no. 24, p. 15-16.
[2] 'The operations against Makhno from January 1920 to January 1921' in Collection of Works from the Military and Scientific Association in the Military Academy [in Russian], Moscow: 1921. Book one, p.192-212.
[3] quoting Voline, The Unknown Revolution, p.675 (p.699 in the English edition.)
[4] 'Letter to the Spanish Anarchists' published in Probuzdeniye [Detroit] June-October 1932. (Also reprinted in The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays)
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"Freedom" review The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid
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The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid [Review]
This is a beautiful document, showing real care and devotion to anarchist history. It is a well-produced facsimile of the bulletins of the anarchist aid organisations after the Russian revolution and Bolshevik repression, between 1923 and 1931. The indefatigable spirit of Alexander Berkman runs through the bulletins and we can see the efforts made by the relief committees in the statements of accounts at the back of each one.
It won't win any converts, but a useful historical document.
The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid
Kate Sharpley Library £8
Review by Martin H. From: Freedom v.71, n.11 (11 September 2010) www.freedompress.org.uk.
Wisdom earned the hard way – "The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid" [Review]
It is not news to report that the Bolsheviks destroyed the anarchist movement in the Soviet Union. But how, and what were the consequences? These reprinted bulletins from the Joint Committee for the Defense of Revolutionists Imprisoned in Russia and the Relief Fund of the International Working Men's Association for Anarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned or Exiled in Russia show it as it happened. They 'shed a little light on the struggles of our comrades and keep their names alive' (p.x)
So, who were the anarchists? If you have already read up on Russian anarchist you'll recognise some of the veterans like Aron Baron, Olga Taratuta and Lea Gutman, or foreigners like Francisco Ghezzi. But the bulletins also report on unknown anarchists and comrades who only came to anarchism in the 1920s: Polya Kurganskaya, F.G Mikhailov-Garin (a blacksmith), Kira Sturmer, Maria Polyakova. Alongside the anarchists the bulletins contain the stories and voices of Socialist Revolutionaries, Social Democrats, Zionists and peasants.
These bulletins are also part of wider anarchist history, showing solidarity in action: a pound from Leah Feldman; a pound and fourteen shillings collected by S. Mainwaring in South Wales; donations from Carl Nold in Detroit, L. Antolini (of Chicago), Chaim Weinberg of Philadephia. It's hard to tell which is more striking: what small resources they had, or what they managed to achieve with them.
Much of this is down to the tenacity of Alexander Berkman: 'Obtaining verifiable information on prisoners and their whereabouts filled Berkman's daily life. Rumours, counter-rumours, hopes, fears, and confusions distinguished each day.' (p.ix) It's apt that the Alexander Berkman Social Club have both co-published this work and provided the excellent introductory essay.
It is very easy to talk about 'ends and means' but coming from Alexander Berkman we should recognise wisdom earned the hard way. Berkman was loyal to the idea of revolutionary social change but critical of the totalitarian path. He did not merely criticise the Bolsheviks but organised support for anarchists and socialists suppressed by the Communist Party. This book reminds us that history is about people, as well as historical forces. A stateless person (having displeased the 'democratic' rulers of the USA and the 'proletarian' rulers of the USSR) Berkman's efforts for Russian anarchists got him expelled from France in May 1930. As Henry Alsberg said 'he has spent his whole life lavishly in active rebellion' (1).
The introduction ends with suggested further reading where more on Bolshevik repression and the anarchist (and socialist) response can be found. This list will grow if researchers examine the IWMA Bulletins (where Russian anarchist prisoner news was published from 1932 onwards) and the archives of the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam which 'bulge with letters and dossiers of incarcerated anarchists, their names followed by such grim annotations as "beaten in Butyrki," "repeated hunger strikes," "killed in prison," "shot by Kiev Cheka," "beaten for resisting forced feeding," and "fate unknown."' (2)
This is a fascinating work of remembrance and a valuable primary source for recovering the history of the anarchist movement in Russia, and of the broader Russian revolutionary movement.
1, in Alexander Berkman 60th Birthday Celebration pamphlet (1930).
2, Paul Avrich, The Russian Anarchists, p.235
Berkman, Alexander.
The Tragic Procession: Alexander Berkman and Russian Prisoner Aid.
Alexander Berkman Social Club and Kate Sharpley Library: 2010. 96 pages.
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Just try putting up a web site that reports government corruption or criminal acts of government judges, agents, or cabinet members. Watch what happens. You may get a visit from the IRS inquiring about your unreported income, or perhaps a safety inspector shows up at your business, or your comments get edited - or outright deleted. Living and working in China for six years I learned a lot about internet censorship. Indeed, China's great firewall blocks access to over 1,000 websites. But guess what... our own American government will actually delete even more sites as Google's 2012 transparency report confirmed over the last three years. See: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/18/tech/web/google-transparency-report/
The war is on to control what you see online. This is why the SOPA and CISPA legislation was truly drafted. How and what you think, and how you vote is mostly determined by the news you "believe" to be true. Just look at how the media played along with the Bush administration in their many lies and deceptions that led us all to condone the illegal invasion of Iraq and the slaughter of over 600,000 people, most of them civilians. We allowed our government to wreak massive destruction of a nation that will not recover for another 50 years so companies like Haliburton and Bush cronies could earn over $50 billion and steal the Iraqi oil reserves. This was only made possible through deceptive information manipulation. Over 8,000 innocent children were murdered or maimed as a result. All these people died for lies - because the truth was censored out by our own damn government!
Recently it was confirmed that our government maintains and pays hundreds of "journalists" on the staff of respected newspapers around the globe to keep the news "Pro American" and to hide all the embarrassing pimples covering the face of Washington. See http://reportersforhire.com/
and http://yournewswire.com/cnn-journalist-governments-pay-us-to-fake-stories-shocking-expose/ Just like all the many online scams, Uncle Sam relies on paid "shills", fake testimonials and reviews - that are all bought and paid for. To those running the show in America, the image we see (and too often believe) is far more critical and important than the reality. The case of 911 fiasco was the ultimate news fraud the world has ever seen, and responsible for launching the new American crusade against self-created "terrorists". Without fabricating ever-present threats and "enemies of America", to distract the tax-paying public, we might actually start paying attention to the missing $2.3 Trillion of our tax money, or to American war crimes, or election frauds. That would not be very convenient for our leaders, now would it?
This is why internet censorship has become their new clandestine priority now that the NSA was partially exposed (Thank you Edward Snowden). But Snowden did not tell us the whole story. I will, as I personally learned the hard way. More on that below in few minutes.
The cases of Wikileaks and Bradley Manning epitomize what happens when the "wrong" news is allowed to reach the public. The truth-tellers are severely demonized and smeared to even transform legitimate witnesses into criminals. The days of investigative reporting are almost gone forever and now relegated to second and third tier publications like Rolling Stone magazine and "crazy conspiracy web sites" like JimStonefreelance.com which are not shy at making allegations that are usually long overdue - and well documented. Investigative reporters are now an endangered species.
Look at the once-credible news sources of the "wrong news". You will find a pattern of muck-raking and criminalization of anyone who dares to point a finger and tell the truth. Ted Gunderson, Gene "Chip" Tatum, Rodney Stich, Mike Rupert, and myself have privately and publicly tried to expose the largest drug smuggling operation in the world - funded and directed by U.S. government agencies, and instead of prosecuting the smugglers, the whistle-blowers are targeted and the media is told what to report about any "crazy allegations" made. Like Tatum, I was discredited with fake criminal charges as a U.S. Treasury agent.
I personally met an employee of former NY mayor Guilliani, (when we both shared a Brooklyn federal jail cell) who beyond any sliver of a doubt, can prove the mayor knew of the 911 "attack" more than two weeks previous, yet no reporter is allowed to interview the man who is jailed on fake criminal charges, just in case he made some independent claims online somewhere. Now sitting in a federal prison for 10 years with a false conviction, he won't be posting anything any time soon. He swore he was instructed by Guilliani two weeks in advance to arrange for the collection and removal of over 100,000 tons of steel from Manhattan to India for recycling "on or about September 15th of 2001." This is newsworthy don't you think? Yet nobody even tried to interview this Indian fellow or his girl-friend who was also picked up and jailed on fake charges.
The censorship machine is large, well-organized, and very efficient. Their black ops teams track and stifle people everywhere they can. If they cannot stop the story from breaking they will ensure the sources are smeared or killed as in the case of reporter Michael Hastings. But not all censorship is big news. Even at small expat forums in China and elsewhere censorship is unleashed to mold and redirect opinions as I recently discovered my own identity was fabricated and impersonated and then my impersonated user name made false statements to smear and discredit me. When moderators are told or paid to censor on forums they usually comply or resign. Either way, the posts are censored, edited, or deleted. At thebeijinger.com an operation owned and operated by an American, I can prove over 500 posts related to scams, drones, banksters, corruption, and American war crimes were deleted over the last 5 years if anyone cares to challenge me on this assertion? (I saved many screen shots of what has been deleted)
How to stop the bastards from raping and censoring the internet? Not easy - but possible. There are five things you can do:
1. Stay informed. Visit the EFF.org and ACLU.org web sites once a month and read - don't just glance. What you learn in each visit is more than what average citizens learn in a lifetime about government censorship.
2. Get active - a little or a lot. Become a volunteer or at the very least, share links within your circle of friends. If you are passionate about what you learn, start blogging and write "letters to the editor"
3. Ignore main stream media, and find the most local, trustworthy, and unbiased news source possible since what CNN and mainstream media reports will never be more than 75% accurate nor unbiased.
4. Help Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, obtain their freedom or asylum. They did the right thing and are being persecuted for doing so. Help with donations to their legal team and blog about them wherever possible. They are true American heroes. Without them you would never even hear about American war crimes or stories like this one here http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/06/wikileaks-releases-secret-tisa-docs-the-more-evil-sibling-of-ttip-and-tpp/
5. If you know of government crimes, corruption, or atrocities, put in online in as many places as possible or send it to Wikileaks or Jim Stone to spread the word. http://126.96.36.199/
Remember this, we cannot be economically enslaved to the elite if we force the truth to the surface for all to see. We have all been snookered and used for our votes and tax money. You want to change the status quo? A vote for Rand Paul would be a good start IMO. He just saved us from the NSA (at least temporarily) IMHO, every incumbent in Congress should be voted out if they voted for the Patriot Act or took contributions from Big Oil. Drastic problems require drastic solutions. The internet must remain free, unbridled, and uncensored. Protect it as you would your infant child.
No matter what passport you hold, no matter what God you pray to, and no matter what color your skin may be, we all face the same dragon that must be slain... Censorship. Unite brothers and sisters of the world and together we can ensure that truth prevails.
No matter what passport you hold, no matter what God you pray to, and no matter what color your skin may be, we all face the same dragon that must be slain... Censorship. Unite brothers and sisters of the world and together we can ensure that truth prevails.
P.S. My apologies, I had promised to share some undisclosed information related to Edward Snowden's revelations, but this post ran kind of long. My next post will tell you about what I personally learned about NSA capabilities that Ed failed to mention. You can read it here at https://afewthoughtsfrombruce.wordpress.com/


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It turns out there's some irony to the controversy that erupted last summer around Electronic Arts' Medal of Honor reboot.
When media and politicians learned that players would be able to take on the role of the Taliban in the game's online multiplayer modes (the word "Taliban" has since been scrubbed and replaced with the less offensive nomenclature "OpFor," or Opposing Force) they criticized the game and its developers for showing disrespect toward military personnel engaged in an ongoing war.
The rub is that now that the game has been released it's clear that few other first-person shooters paint America's fighting forces in such flattering hues.
Medal of Honor is an unabashed ode to the courage of U.S. troops – specifically SEALs, Tier 1 Operatives, and Rangers – fighting in Afghanistan. From its patent leave-no-man-behind-no-matter-the-cost message to its closing, glowing dedication to enlisted men and women, no one who plays the campaign mode could tenably argue that that the game is anything but a love song to America's currently serving military and fallen troops – a thoroughly foul-mouthed but unquestionably honourable and principled bunch of professional warriors, according to what we see.
What's more, developer Danger Close cautiously skirts anything that could be considered even remotely controversial in the game's story. Rather than tell a tale about a frustratingly fruitless search for a terrorist mastermind, or explicate the difficulties of determining peaceful Afghans from warlike Taliban – and illustrate the consequent civilian death toll – they have instead focused on a fight for a patch of barren rocky land that has no more apparent worth than Hamburger Hill. In fact, simply by invoking that notorious Vietnam War battle I have offered more political commentary on the current conflict in Afghanistan than have the makers of this game.
Of course, one can't blame Danger Close for this approach. To try anything more daring would be to invite a level of public backlash that would make last summer's media storm seem like a mild drizzle. Still, proponents of games as a medium for the expression of progressive thought will be disappointed.
- The Goods Platforms: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 (reviewed), Windows PC Publisher: Electronic Arts Developers: Danger Close, DICE ESRB: Mature The Good: Many rousing and immersive single-player missions. The harsh Afghan countryside in the campaign is beautiful. Multiplayer amalgamates several familiar and appealing elements from other games. The Bad: Deliberate avoidance of controversial narrative elements is plainly evident. Campaign bugs lift players out of the experience. Online play could prove difficult and frustrating for new players. Multiplayer maps lack the arresting visual flair of campaign missions. The Verdict: Fun manages to outweigh frustration in this flawed and controversial modern military shooter.
Gamers expecting one of the great military shooters of 2010 might be let down, too.
Though the campaign has many stirring moments – desperate retreats, last-second rescues, all-out rushes on enemy lines – that will fail to rouse only the most jaded video game combatants, something about it feels just a little bit off.
Some of this has to do with the predictability of our enemies. They seem to have two modes of action, either rushing headlong toward the player with no regard for personal safety or holing up behind cover, taking turns popping their heads out above or beside whatever box, rock, or barrier they happen to be using for protection.
It doesn't help that there are far too many obvious bugs for a triple-A title. Weapons with muzzles that flash without actually being fired, paper-thin rocks that you can walk into and which offer no cover, allies who block your way from exiting a building until you throw a grenade at them to make them leap away – these are all issues that suck the player out of the experience, killing any sense of immersion or momentum they might have had.
Still, I'd be lying if I said I didn't have fun. The best parts of the campaign are those that wander slightly outside the well-defined box of your average shooter. Like a long-range sniping sequence across a valley that sees a lengthy delay between pulling the trigger and bullet impact. Trying to take a bead on targets as they desperately attempt to hone in on your position proves a thrilling experience, and reminded me of tense sniper sequences in movies like The Hurt Locker and Enemy at the Gates.
I also enjoyed a gunship mission that offers players a much-needed chance to let loose after the previous mission, which concludes with a heart-pounding last-stand sort of battle. It begins with a couple of gunship pilots engaged in authentic military chatter as they attempt to verify an enemy position on long-range camera, then turns into a frenetic game of cat and mouse as your helicopter and another dodge RPGs while laying waste to whole enemy encampments.
But the most memorable aspect of the campaign may simply be its setting. Once we get out of the town in which the story begins the game takes on a distinct visual tang, presenting us with stark deserts, dark caves, and low mountain ranges along the Pakistan border that look and feel just like what we've all seen on the news. In no other game have I witnessed the sort of desolate yet arresting vistas on display here.
Sadly, this bleakly beautiful countryside is mostly absent from the multiplayer portion of the game, which was developed by DICE and is set primarily in small urban areas, bases, and settlements, all of which seem to have the same textures and colours and consequently end up blending together. Even now, having spent hours exploring these locations just the previous evening, I can scarcely tell them apart in my mind.
Of course, a greater concern for EA than indistinguishable maps is whether Medal of Honor can overcome the inevitable comparisons players will make between it and Activision's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the game by which all modern military shooters are measured by mainstream gamers.
The good news is that Medal of Honor has its own online personality, even if it is more or less a mongrelised version of others.
As in the Call of Duty games, players can level up and customize their soldiers' gear, selecting from a selection of better weapons and attachments that offer noticeable advantages over those just starting out. However, this system of rewards, which also includes some fairly meaningless medals and ribbons awarded for player performance, is rudimentary when compared to recent entries in Activision's franchise, which offer a seemingly never-ending series of challenges and objectives designed to make players experiment and try new ways of playing.
Meanwhile, fans of DICE's Battlefield games will recognize this game's three basic soldier classes – sniper, special ops, rifleman – and be immediately at home with modes like Sector Control, which has players fighting to capture and hold flags in a trio of semi-defendable positions. Variants of other modes, such as Combat Mission – which sees coalition forces working to secure a series of objectives held by terrorists – and the self-descriptive Team Assault , have been seen in a wide variety of other military-themed shooters and ought to be fairly familiar to almost everyone.
This is all fine and dandy, especially given that this is a reboot of the series designed to expand the brand to new players. Oddly, though, other aspects of online play almost seem geared for much more experienced shooter fans.
Smallish maps mean that open ground is almost always within line of sight of one of the 12 players you're fighting against, and carelessly entering this space – as rookies are prone to do – is tantamount to a deathwish. Plus, support abilities such as mortars and rocket fire – which come available only to players who are already playing very well – may crush the spirits of newbies who keep getting blown up and wondering when they'll have a chance to put their finger on the trigger of these decidedly deadly weapons.
That said, I'm not sure hardcore players are flocking to Medal of Honor. Servers are already filled with plenty of higher level players, but I've seen little of the sort of teamwork or cooperation that is the hallmark of veteran shooters. My headset remained completely silent most matches, and most of my allies either rushed enemy areas in uncoordinated groups or took up camping in random hidey-holes, waiting to take pot shots at passers-by rather than try to stealthily stalk their enemies.
Still, it's very early. It could simply be that the online community has yet to find its collective groove.
In the end, the greatest obstacle to players enjoying online play – and indeed the whole of the Medal of Honor experience – is their own preconceived notions. It isn't a bad game, as many seem to have been anticipating, but rather just derivative and noticeably rushed. It's a reasonably entertaining mid-tier military shooter that happens to have the marketing hype – and, unfortunately for all concerned, the expectations – of a triple-A blockbuster.


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Amazon has started telling people to send in their cloud data by mail. No, really. Swear to God. It's not just us enamored of how much better people look by candlelight. Because of dead-slow bandwidth on burgeoning datasets at the customer end Amazon Web Services (AWS) has invented a new Import/Export service that it started testing the other day in the US.
The limited beta offers to accelerate moving large amounts into S3 using portable storage devices sent back and forth by post.
Amazon gets it and uploads it, bypassing the Internet using its high-speed internal network and vetted personnel.
It intends to add an export facility and then move on to Europe.
It claims it could be more cost-effective than the user upgrading his connectivity because "It is now relatively easy to create a collection of data so large that it cannot be uploaded to offsite storage (e.g., Amazon S3) in a reasonable amount of time," it says, particularly in the scientific space.
Amazon figures the service can be used for data migration, offsite backup, disaster recovery and direct data interchange – in other words if you regularly get content on portable storage devices from your business associates, they might as well sent it directly to Amazon.
Pricing includes an $80 fee for each storage device plus $2.49-an-hour for the time it takes to upload the data, with partial hours being billed as full hours.
Amazon says that if you've got a T1 line and 1TB of data you'd better use the mail otherwise it'll take you 82 days to upload it. On a T3 connection it'd take three days. It figures the breakeven point would be 100GB and 600GB, respectively. If you've got a 100 Mbps connection, it suggests it would be more economical to use the Import/Export service if you've got 5TB. If you're got a 1,000 Mbps connection then your breakeven would appear to be 60TB
Amazon's very favorite device has an eSATA interface. USB2's okay but either's got to use the FAT32, ext2, ext3 or NTFS file system and fir an 8U rack. Otherwise you've got to negotiate with them. Amazon says it'll return the device.
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These smaller pieces of content are very shareable, which is incredibly useful if you have social media distribution in mind. Small in stature but they can provide huge value to your content marketing strategy. How appealing and digestible they are depends on how well they are crafted and presenter to their consumer.
To make an impact with your social media marketing you need to make a great impression with colourful content. It is more and more important as an online marketer to deliver a visual feast for the user. This is essentially selling an experience of the online content. One of the most powerful ways to do this is through the use of colour.
Colour plays a pivotal role in micro content consumption and socia media marketing.
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The impact of colors affects more than our sense of sight (hold on – here comes the science bit).
Humans process visual information first through their eyes. Then the information that they see visually reaches their brains. Sight is the ability of the eyes to focus and detect images of visible light through the retina of each eye. This in turn generates electrical nerve impulses for all the varying colors, saturations and hues.
The nervous system is the body's electrical wiring. It consists of a complex collection of nerves and cells called neurons. The nervous system in Humans coordinates all voluntary and involuntary actions. It also transmits signals to and from different parts of our bodies.
There are two types of photoreceptors: rods and cones. Rods are very sensitive to light, but do not distinguish colors. It is the Cones that distinguish the different colors for a person. Colours have a direct effect on influencing mood and behaviour in Humans. In particular it is colours that are in harmony with one another that appeal the most.
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With thanks to their nervous system humans are all affected equally by colour psychologically. It has been scientifically proven that different hues affects specific psychological states. This in turn influences different behaviors. Irrespective of race or gender all humans are all impacted in the same manner. This in turn means their behaviour is predictable.
In turn colours heavily influence how online users see brands.
Colour is of vast importance when considering your brand's identity. Shopping, afterall is the art of persuasion by retailers.
Colour sells but only the correct combination of colours will persuade the potential buyer to purchase.
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The very first colour principles appeared in writings form the 15th century. They were written by the Italians Leone Battista Alberti and Leonardo Da Vinci. However a tradition of "Colour Theory" only really began in the 18th century. It kicked off around the controversy of Issac Newton's theory of colour (Opticks, 1704). And also the nature of primary colours.
Color harmony provides a sense of order. Colour can have a massive emotional impact on us. Warm colors are stimulating whilst cool ones feel more still and soothing. Clever application of color can make all the difference to the consumer.
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Colour Theory can be directly applied to your Social Micro Content. It also has a tremendous impact on your social media marketing, brand and sales online.
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Leave the Girl Scouts alone
A Girl Scout in California last week drew quite a bit of attention last week after she came up with a very clever marketing ploy. The 13-year-old entrepreneur had the bright idea of selling Girl Scout cookies near a marijuana dispensary, where she sold 117 boxes in two hours.
And so, if you heard some recent complains from the right about the Girl Scouts, you might have thought it had something to do with this nontraditional cookie strategy. But as is it turns out, conservatives are actually complaining about the Girl Scout for entirely different reasons.
During the controversy over Chick-fil-A's stance on gay rights issues, Fox News pundit Todd Starnes said that people boycotting the restaurant chain are "un-American" and warned that "the days of persecution are upon us."
But apparently boycotts aren't "un-American" as long as Starnes supports them, as today he endorsed the Religious Right boycott of the Girl Scouts over bogus accusations that Girl Scout cookies fund Planned Parenthood.
A few hours after Fox News' Todd Starnes endorsed a boycott of the Girl Scouts, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly complained on his show about the "homosexual overtones" surrounding a Girl Scout spokesperson.
It may seem odd, if not ridiculous, to think Girl Scouts could be at the center of a culture war, but this has been going on for a while.
We last talked about this a couple of years ago, but the push seemed to begin in earnest in 1994, when James Dobson's Focus on the Family published a memorable attack on the Girl Scouts, insisting the group "lost their way" after the Scouts made a religious oath optional for membership.
I also remember a 2005 piece from Amanda Marcotte, which doesn't seem to be online anymore, but which documented various conservatives complaining about "radical lesbian feminists" having taken over the Girl Scouts.
In 2012, even the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops entered the fray.
At issue are concerns about program materials that some Catholics find offensive, as well as assertions that the Scouts associate with other groups espousing stances that conflict with church teaching. The Scouts, who have numerous parish-sponsored troops, deny many of the claims and defend their alliances.The inquiry coincides with the Scouts' 100th anniversary celebrations and follows a chain of other controversies.Earlier this year, legislators in Indiana and Alaska publicly called the Scouts into question, and the organization was berated in a series aired by a Catholic broadcast network. [In 2011], the Scouts angered some conservatives by accepting into a Colorado troop a 7-year-old transgender child who was born a boy but was being raised as a girl.Some of the concerns raised by Catholic critics are recycled complaints that have been denied by the Girl Scouts' head office repeatedly and categorically. It says it has no partnership with Planned Parenthood, and does not take positions on sexuality, birth control and abortion.
Gladys Padro-Soler, the Girl Scouts' director of inclusive membership strategies, told the AP at the time, "It's been hard to get the message out there as to what is true when distortions get repeated over and over."
Conservative criticism of the Girl Scouts became so common that Comedy Central responded with the appropriate derision: "Don't be fooled by those cute little outfits or merit badges. The Girl Scouts aren't just selling you a pack of cookies – they're selling you a pack of lies, with a light coating of toasted coconut communism. Why do the Girl Scouts teach survival skills? It's clearly an attempt to build some kind of liberal tween militia. Volunteering and 'helping' others? Just another strategy to mobilize the working poor and other key Democratic voting blocs."
The piece, which was published in 2011, was obviously sarcastic. But the right's preoccupation with the Girl Scouts still hasn't gone away.


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In recent months we have been exploring the subject of respect; respecting ourselves and respecting others, so we can work together to become more tolerant and understanding of our differences. Our visual art reflects this subject."
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