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Registered voters nationally are not satisfied with how President Barack Obama is handling the nation's economy. According to this McClatchy-Marist Poll, four in ten voters — 40% — approve of how the president is dealing with the country's economy while nearly six in ten — 57% — disapprove. Only 3% are unsure. Mr. Obama's approval rating on the economy is the lowest of his presidency. His previous low was last September when just 41% gave him a thumbs-up on the issue…
There has been a change among Democrats and independents on this question. While 71% of Democrats approve of how the president is handling the economy, 27% disapprove. This is a 12 percentage point increase in the proportion of Democrats who disapprove since January. Among independent voters, 34% approve while more than six in ten — 63% — disapprove. Here, too, there has been a jump in the proportion of voters who are dissatisfied with how Mr. Obama is dealing with the economy. In January, half — 50% — shared this view.
His approval came back to near even in January at 44/48 but that was at a moment when 54 percent thought the worst was behind us economically. A few months of tepid growth and soaring gas prices later and 57 percent now think the worst is yet to come. Conventional wisdom has it that he's a favorite to win if the economy's improving come election day, but every period of false-start optimism like we're seeing here weakens that logic. At some point, the blather about "recovery summer" and "recovery winter" will take on such a boy-who-cried-wolf overtone that he'll need a loooong stretch of significant improvement before the election to convince voters it's for real and we're back on track.
Twenty-one percent (21%) of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, April 24. It's the fourth week in a row that the measurement has gone down, with confidence in the nation's course now reaching the lowest point of the Obama presidency…
Leading up to Obama's inauguration, the number of voters who felt the country was heading in the right direction remained below 20%. The week of his inauguration, voter confidence rose to 27% and climbed into the low to mid-30s until mid-May of that year. Since then, belief that the country is heading in the right direction has been trending lower.
Re-read that last part. His high-water mark among likely voters who think the country's on the right track is around 35 percent and he hasn't been there in fully two years, even during the recent ephemeral spurt of optimism. His numbers are also at an all-time low in Pennsylvania, where 52 percent now say he doesn't deserve reelection. Honestly, after blowing almost $800 billion on the stimulus and ramming through the persistently unpopular boondoggle we knows as ObamaCare, he should consider it a bona fide achievement that his numbers aren't worse. What else could he do to alienate voters that he hasn't done? Pass amnesty, maybe? Send ground troops into Libya?
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Seven students from the Academy of Finance at Williams High School made a clean sweep of awards in the seventh annual fall North Carolina High School Business Plan Competition. The Hop on the BUS! High School Business Plan competitive event is a statewide annual event open to all high school students.
Winning teams are listed below. Teacher Rhonda Farmer worked with each group.
First place
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To enter the competition, student teams submitted full business plans judged by small business experts from across the state. Ten teams were selected as semi-finalists and created video presentations of their business plans to be reviewed by a second panel of judges. Scores from each written business plan and video presentation determined the top three award-winning teams. This was the first time in the competition�s history that three teams of students from the same high school captured first, second and third place awards.
TWO SISTERS from Eastern Alamance High School wrote essays that earned awards from the Mebane Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1920.
Emma Thompson won first place, and her essay will advance to a state competition with winners to be announced in February. Kat Thompson won the second-place award. Both received a cash award from the local post.
Coach and teacher Shawn Watson from Eastern Alamance was named at the 2012-13 Veterans of Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year from the local district and received a cash award from the local post. He will compete for the state honor in February.
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Gorakhpur Doeacc CCC Certification via NIELIT
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You might have heard about Doeacc CCC course or CCC Certification at some point of your life. But have you wondered what it actually is? Briefly speaking, it is a course that helps people in understanding the world of computers. If you are someone who have not used computers till date, then this is the course you should go for. But I will reserve the details of course for now. In the introduction, I want to discuss the current scenario of the country in which we live.
India is still a developing country but it has gained a lot of potential in the last decade. All in all, the era of internet and globalization has affected this country in a very positive manner. These days almost every youngster carries a smartphone, at least in the urban places. The reach ability of high speed internet is so far limited to cities but the condition is doomed to change in future. Big companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook are already interested in spreading their network to the untouched chunk of population that mainly resides in rural India.
It is said that adaptation and evolution is important for survival in forest. Well, this rule is also applicable to the individuals living in human societies. We have to change with time and scenario, else we will be left behind. And, as it is proved, the current trend is of internet as a means of communication to the world.
Government agencies like SSC and UPSC are already shifting to online means of accepting applications. It is expected that in the coming time the government will stop accepting applications made through hard paper.
Well, learning computer is just not beneficial for applying government jobs only. Internet and computer sector itself has opened up the doors of a vast range of new opportunities to the Indian population. Now one can even earn sitting at home by writing blogs or doing other kind of technical stuff. In fact, there are hundreds of bloggers in India who are earning really good amount of money.
Moreover, computer skills make your chances of selection for a job better. These days every employer expects its employees to be fluent when it comes to computer stuff. Ability to create documents, send/read emails, make presentation and browse internet are a must in the contemporary world.
When I was studying in school, people belonging to the age group of 20-25 years used to rush to get a degree of a simple computer course. This shows how much necessary it is for you to learn computers.
What is CCC Computer Course in Gorakhpur?
Okay, so enough of the background. Let's move on to the real thing. The letters "CCC" in the phrase "CCC Computer Course" stand for Course on Computer Concept. This course is especially designed for a common man to attain basic computer literacy.
Even though India is producing millions of IT professionals but there is still a large chunk that does not even know how to power on a desktop. There is a myth in the society that if someone is literate then he or she knows how to use a computer or a smartphone. But my friends that is not the actual case. Consider this thing, smartphones are present in India since the last decade and for computers that time period can be extended to a maximum of two decades. Now the question is what about people who were already in college or who had already completed their education before 1990.
The biggest problem in India is that not all schools are enough equipped to offer computer classes to their students. I know of a school in New Delhi that charges a hefty amount to parents in the name of school fee but still fails to offer practical computer classes to students. Now think what about the condition of schools in rural India. A good number of schools in villages do not even have a proper roof, let alone the fact of having a computer lab.
Till class 5, I also studied in a school where there were no computers. And I am talking about the last decade here.
So, in this context, how can we expect a child from rural India to have fluency in computers. But as I said adaption and evolution is a rule that everyone has to follow. The good thing is people are not empty handed.
Since the last decade, small institutes who offer basic computer education have sprung all over the country. These types of institutes are doing a very good job of helping people to attain computer literacy. But they also fail to cover the larger chunk of society.
There is a trend of parents sending their children to these institutes in order to get a job. The majority of people applying for basic computer courses belong to the age group of 10-18 years. Well, you might ask what is wrong with this? Children are future of this country and they are studying so What? Yes, I know sending school children to learn computers is a good thing and I am not opposing that. My concern is about that age group that does not think of getting computer knowledge.
Have you seen any 20+ year old guy attending a computer class? Most probably the answer would be "No".
This is the reason why so many people remain unemployed. I am not being harsh here. Moreover, I am not giving a guarantee that possessing computer knowledge will surely get you a job. But it does open up a wide range of opportunities.
Even a simple typing course can make you eligible for the post of Junior Typist or Stenographer in government sector. If you are good at computers, then you can even apply for a computer operator at any office. Nonetheless, you will also have the option to open up a shop in the nearest market by offering some computer related services. Photography shops, document shops, ticket booking shops are examples of shops that offer computer related services.
Saw that? What I was hinting towards? Computer knowledge gives you so many options to choose from. After attaining computer literacy, you will not remain at the mercy of government jobs. You can stand on your own and start a business.
It does not matter if you did not learn computers in school. Do it now. Apply for the CCC Computer Course now. You will never regret your decision.
This course is offered by DOEACC, which is a government body focused towards educating the masses with latest computer technologies for the greater benefit. The DOEACC CCC Course is provided at various places throughout the country.
One interesting thing is that this course can be conducted by any institute that currently conducts any of the O/A/B/C level courses. The duration of this course will be roughly 1 year and the total time spend will be 80 hours. Alternatively, this course can also be offered as a 10-day full time intensive course.
The whole CCC certification course covers a total of 8 topics. You will be spending 25 hours on theory classes, 50 hours on practical classes and 5 hours on tutorial classes. The specialty of this course is that it not only gives the people basic understanding of computers but also makes them literate enough to use computers as professionals.
I was really impressed after going through the detailed syllabus of this course. Do not worry, this course will not put any sudden burden on your mind. It is designed by experts and jumps from one topic to the another in a very systematic way. After getting enrolled, the first few classes will be based to give you a perfect background of computer history. These introductory classes are supposed to make you comfortable towards the future topics.
Before moving on to the actual use, the students will be taught the basic functionality of computers. The course will guide you through the different hardware that work behind the scenes. In these introductory classes, you will also be give a brief practical session.
The transition from hardware to software part is very smooth. The Doeacc CCC Course is like walking up a staircase. Its subject matter is quite rich. Interesting thing is, you will also be given the basic concept behind various computer programming languages.
After the course is completed, you will be fully equipped to write documents, use internet, send emails, create presentations and even use a computer for your income.
The biggest advantage of this course is that it provides a big platform to the students to jump upwards. If you want to learn more technical stuff and go deeper into programming and designing stuff, then the knowledge gained from this course is going to help a lot.
When the course is finished, the students will be required to appear for examination. After clearing the exams, you will be provided with your CCC provisional certificate. The original certificate will take some time but till then this provisional certificate will do the job.
Is CCC Certificate Valuable?
So, as we have discussed the background of this course, now is the time to assess things. Is the CCC certification course worthy enough that you should spend your valuable time and money on it. In short Yes!
In my opinion, it is really a great course that is designed to give basic computer knowledge to the masses. I am really overwhelmed by the subject matter. The students will find this course as a piece of cake. If they are attentive in the class and really like computers, then they will not face any problem in clearing the exams.
The CCC certificate DOEACC that you will get in the end will be of real value. It will help you clear the basic requirement in many government jobs. It will act as a legal proof that you have basic computer knowledge.
But this certificate is more valuable. It equips the people with the right tools that can help him or her in standing on his or her own feet.
How to apply online for CCC Course in Gorakhpur?
First you will have to get enrolled for the course from an institute that offers CCC Course. After completing that course you will have to fill the online examination form. To do that just follow the below simple steps:
- Log on to the official website which is http://student.nielit.gov.in/
- From the sidebar in the right side click on Apply Online button, you will be taken to the next page
- Now in the second box click on Course on Computer Course (CCC)
- Agree to the terms and conditions, then click on the "Agree and Proceed" button
- Now a form will appear in the window, carefully fill it
- You will also be required to upload your photograph, signature and left hand thumb impression
- After filling the form click on the "Submit "button
- In the new page you will be required to cross check everything, if you are sure that all the details are correct then click on "Final Submit" button.
- Next you will have to pay the fee.
When the payment is made, you will be enrolled for the examination. Now you can download the Admit Card.
How to Check CCC Results in Gorakhpur?
The steps to check Doeacc CCC course exam results are very simple. I have listed them below.
- Log on to the official website which is http://student.nielit.gov.in/
- From the sidebar in the right side click on "View Results" button, you will be taken to the next page
- Now in the second box click on Course on Computer Course (CCC)
- Select the Examination name and fill the other details
- After filling up the form click on "View" button
Pros and Cons about DOEACC CCC certificate
In my opinion there are no cons of DOEAC CCC certificate. It helps the people attain basic computer literacy and makes them eligible to many jobs. After getting the certificate, people can also choose to pursue their dream of becoming an IT professional by getting enrolled for advanced courses.


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EMERALD ISLE � Katie Nickels first learned CPR as a sixth grader as part of a babysitting class but had never used it in a real-life situation.
Until this week.
Nickels, now 17, answered a call for help Tuesday evening in Emerald Isle and is credited with performing CPR on 3-year-old Lilly Russell, who had fallen into a pool and was unresponsive.
�I was freaked out, but I knew I had to be calm,� she said in an interview Friday.
She said after being certified in CPR two subsequent times, she was confident in using the skills she learned.
�I was pretty confident because I had learned CPR three times,� she said.
After performing two rounds of CPR, Lilly started breathing on her own again and was transported to medical care. Lilly was stable at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville Friday and expected to recover.
�I�m very proud and glad I could be there,� she said.
The Town of Emerald Isle and Emerald Isle EMS recognized Katie for her actions during an informal ceremony Friday at the town administration building.
She was presented with a certificate of appreciation from the town and made an honorary member of Emerald Isle EMS.
�It was a heroic effort for a 17-year-old to step up and help a 3-year-old,� EMS Chief Susan Walker said.
Walker said she rode in the ambulance with Lilly during the rescue call and commended Katie for doing just what she was trained to do.
�She did it perfectly,� said.
But Katie didn�t act alone.
On the evening of July 2, two families vacationing in the same community crossed paths.
According to information from the town, Emily Russell of Charlotte was playing with her daughter at the house they had rented. She was putting away her camera after snapping a picture of her and Lilly at the edge of the pool and when she turned around Lilly was face down in the water.
She pulled her daughter out of the water and started screaming for help.
Katie, who lives in Wake Forest and has been on vacation with her family in Emerald Isle, had just come in from a day at the beach when she was summoned by her sisters, Carly Nickels, 19, and Lacey Nickels, 15, who were among those who heard the screams for help and assisted.
Carly had learned CPR in high school but knew her sister, Katie, was certified.
�I�m so glad she was there to help,� she said.
Their mother, Sharon Latinik, was also on scene to help until emergency medical personnel could arrive.
Mayor Art Schools commended everyone who came out to assist the Russell family, from the Nickels family and neighbors who responded to Russell�s call for help and emergency responders who provided care until Lilly arrived at Carteret General, where she was taken before being transferred to Vidant.
�This is a prime example of how what we have learned, even years later, can be of benefit,� Schools said.
For Katie Nickels the reward for learning CPR is knowing that Lilly is expected to recover.
Billy and Becky Broom of Cary said their great-niece remains in stable condition and is improving.
�She gets a little better each day but still has a long way to go,� Billy Broom said.
They are thankful Katie was there to perform the life-saving CPR for Lilly.
�It�s like she was meant to be there, that�s the way we see it,� Becky Broom said.
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The most recently released labor statistics reminded us that we are in the middle of either a pre-recession downturn or one of the weakest economic recoveries in history. Either way, it�s not good news.
The most recently released labor statistics reminded us that we are in the middle of either a pre-recession downturn or one of the weakest economic recoveries in history. Either way, it�s not good news.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor reported December�s unemployment rate at 7.8 percent. Technically, this was not a tick upward from November�s 7.7 percent report since November�s number was revised to 7.8 percent.
The Labor Department also reported a relatively paltry creation of 155,000 jobs. That�s a small number but a range the nation has become all too used to. Lowering unemployment will at least require regular job creation of 300,000 to 400,000 jobs a month. The weak stream of new jobs means the nation has to decide if this is the �new normal,� or if there are measures to be taken to return the U.S. economy to past glory.
Manufacturing and construction were up in December�s numbers but not by enough to show anything more than a short-term blip.
Just how bad is the overall economy?
Calculated Risk is a business-and-economics blog that has documented the Great Recession, which ended in mid-2009 and its aftermath. After the jobs report on Friday, Calculated Risk blogger Bill McBride drew up one of his graphic representations showing that the number of jobs still has not returned to peak employment levels in 2007. McBride compared this recovery to all recoveries following every recession since World War II ended. What�s unusual is how long this recovery is taking to return jobs to a normal, pre-recession level.
Most of the recoveries got America �back to normal� in 26 to 30 months, if not sooner. The 2001 recession took longer � almost four years, but fewer jobs were lost then. Deep recessions often saw quicker recoveries. The deep 1981-1982 recession � the Great Recession�s only real competitor � saw America lose 3 percent of its jobs but return to normal in 24 months.
The economy as a whole is not growing well. The National Association for Business Economics only expects 2.1 percent growth in 2013. That probably won�t substantially lower the unemployment rate. What this means is the Great Recession wasn�t just terrible � it produced a terrible recovery too.
It should be noted, as well, that most American workers will be hit with a tax increase this year in the form of a return to the pre-2011 percentage level for the payroll tax. And the wealthiest Americans will pay higher income tax rates � a fact that doesn�t bode well for job creation.
Lawmakers and policymakers, be advised: Your work is cut out for you in 2013.


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WASHINGTON (AP) Byron Mullens scored 27 points, Ramon Sessions had 20 and Ben Gordon added 19 as the Charlotte Bobcats earned their seventh win of the season and kept the Washington Wizards winless with a 108-106 double-overtime victory on Saturday night.
Last season, the Bobcats went 7-59 in the lockout-shortened season, the lowest winning percentage in NBA history, but have already equaled that victory total in their 12th game.
Washington fell to 0-11 despite the spark supplied by Nene, who energized the Wizards during most of his 29 minutes, but in the end, the Bobcats pulled out the win.
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What will Clancy Pendergast's defense look like at USC? Don't get attached to any single idea.
During stops in the NFL and NCAA in his 22-year coaching career, Pendergast has been flexible, known to adjust based on his personnel and the opponent. Given the complexities of Pac-12 Conference offenses, it won't be surprising to see USC play a 4-3 defense one week, then shift into some 3-4 elements.
Maybe even some Cover 0?
USC officially hired Pendergast as its new defensive coordinator Friday to replace Monte Kiffin. It's not the big-name hire that some expected, but Pendergast could be a solid, pragmatic move for USC, which also reportedly lost linebackers coach Scottie Hazelton to Nevada on Friday.
Pendergast, 45, spent three seasons as the defensive coordinator at Cal. His units were the stingiest in the Pac-12 (in terms of points allowed) in 2010 and 2011 but things went steeply downhill in 2012, when Cal struggled with a young defense. Pendergast got fired last month, along with Coach Jeff Tedford.
In a statement, Coach Lane Kiffin called Pendergast a "perfect fit" for USC.
"He plays an attacking-style defense with multiple looks," Kiffin said, "and, having spent the last three years in the Pac-12, he knows how to defend the various kinds of offenses that we see in this conference."
Kiffin also cited Pendergast's trip to the Super Bowl in 2009 as defensive coordinator of the Arizona Cardinals. Pendergast spent the next season with the Kansas City Chiefs, then returned to college. The highlight of Pendergast's time at Cal might have been a loss, albeit a noble one.
In 2010, Cal held Oregon's dynamic offense to 317 yards in a 15-13 loss. Only one other time in the past three seasons has Oregon's offense been held under 19 points.
In that game, Cal used a Cover 0 defense, which forces cornerbacks to cover receivers without any help from safeties. Cal put almost every defensive body in the box at the line of scrimmage in an attempt to slow down Oregon's read-option running game. It worked, at least for one year.
On the other hand, Oregon scored 43 points against Cal in 2011 and 59 in 2012. The Ducks scored 62 points against USC and Monte Kiffin's defense in 2012.
Pendergast, who was not available for comment Friday, is generally known to implement blitzes and man-to-man defenses. That would serve as a contrast to Monte Kiffin's softer zone scheme, which persistently had difficulty stopping mobile quarterbacks and spread offenses.
"Man am I excited for this!" safety Gerald Bowman posted on Twitter.
Pendergast was on campus Friday to meet with recruits. On the same day they settled on a defensive coordinator, the Trojans lost another assistant coach.
Hazelton, who spent one season in charge of the Trojans' linebackers, has been hired as the defensive coordinator as part of a new staff at Nevada, per an initial report by CBS Sports.
Hazelton, 39, will join new Nevada coach Brian Polian. Hazleton came to USC last February after five seasons at North Dakota State. The Bison won a NCAA lower-level championship in 2011 and, with Hazelton as their coordinator, had one of the division's best defenses.
It's not yet known whether USC's staff will undergo further changes with Pendergast now aboard.
Pendergast has USC history. In 1992, he was a young defensive assistant under Coach Larry Smith.
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Professor, Department of Medicine (Gastroenterology)
Professor, Department of Surgery
Dr. Lawrence J. Brandt's research interests include ischemic and vascular disorders of the gastrointestinal system, inflammatory bowel diseases, colitis, geriatric gastroenterology, AIDS, and endoscopic technique. Amongst his contributions are: the performance of the first non-operative gastric polypectomy; the demonstration that gastrointestinal bacteria produce cobamides from dietary vitamin B12 that may inhibit vitamin B12 absorption; that metronidazole can heal and maintain healing of perineal Crohn's disease; that most cases of newly diagnosed IBD in the elderly are actually ischemic colitis misdiagnosed as ulcerative or Crohn's colitis; the classification of ischemic colitis and description of its natural history; the first demonstration of laser-induced regression of Barrett's epithelium; the development (and U.S. patent) of a cytology balloon [to diagnose infectious esophagitis in AIDS patients]; and use of fecal transplantation to treat chronic and recurring C. difficile colitis. Long-standing major interests are the patient-doctor relationship and the way that a patient's psychologic makeup influences his/her illnesses and treatments.
Dr. Brandt has been on the editorial boards of numerous journals and has authored or edited more than 350 scientific publications and six books, the latest of which, Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease (8th edition), just won first prize in the British Medical Association's Medical Book Competition. He currently is Associate Editor for the Focal Points section of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He has received many other awards and honors, chief among which are the Distinguished Educator Award of the American Gastroenterological Association, the Distinguished Educator Award of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the Clinical Achievement Award of the American College of Gastroenterology and the William Dock M.D. Master Teacher Award of the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Brandt is a Master of the American College of Gastroenterology (MACG) and served on the Board of Trustees of that organization for 13 years, before being elected President of the ACG, 1992-1993. Dr. Brandt has been Visiting Professor at many institutions throughout the United States , and has given over 500 lectures nationally and internationally. He is an honorary member of the Argentine and Dominican Republic's Societies of Gastroenterology. He was invited to join the Davidoff Society of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1990, recognizing his excellence in teaching and was named the Montefiore Staff and Alumni Association's Honoree in 1999. In 2007, he was named Best Teacher in the Department of Medicine by the house-staff. He also just finished 3 terms as a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) subspecialty section in Gastroenterology. Dr. Brandt has been listed every year in Best Doctors in America since 1994 and he has been in Who's Who in America since 1998.
After receiving his M.D. degree from the State University of New York Health Sciences Center in Brooklyn, Dr. Brandt did his postgraduate medical education at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York including fellowship in Gastroenterology. He then served in the Army as a gastroenterology specialist and was stationed in Stuttgart, Germany. After his military discharge, Dr. Brandt joined the staff of Montefiore Medical Center, where he currently is the Chief Emeritus of Gastroenterology and Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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Nature interviews Dr. Lawrence Brandt about the first randomized clinical trial for treating severe intestinal infections with fecal transplants.
The Washington Post quotes Dr. Lawrence Brandt regarding new guidelines for managing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Dr. Brandt is professor of medicine and of surgery at Einstein, and chief of gastroenterology at Montefiore Medical Center.


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David R. Jennings
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As 2012 winds down, here is a look back at some of the stories that have shaped Broomfield this year. Whether related to business, transportation, politics or health, these stories will continue to impact the future of the city and county. Stories are listed in no particular order.
Businesses pick Broomfield to relocate and expand
Broomfield saw both large and small companies make Broomfield home this year, bringing opportunities for jobs and a higher regional profile.
Mrs. Fields Famous Brands, the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth and the Colorado operations of CraftWorks were some of the larger names to relocate to Broomfield.
Mrs. Fields announced its move to Broomfield from Salt Lake City earlier this year, employing about 35 people in its office in Arista.
In November, the company announced plans to open a flagship TCBY store, as well as a flagship Mrs. Field's store, also in Arista. The two stores are expected to roll out new products and serve as a research and development site by March.
CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries Inc. also claimed Arista as its new home this year. The brewpub and restaurant group, which runs eateries such as Old Chicago and Rock Bottom, will move its headquarters from Louisville to Broomfield in February.
Meanwhile, Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth agreed to move its headquarters to the Oracle campus, promising to bring up to 400 jobs to the region by 2018 in exchange for $479,262 in tax incentives from Broomfield.
In the retail market, H&M, a Swedish clothing chain known for budget-based fashion, opened to long lines at the FlatIron Crossing Mall in August.
The Business Resource Center also opened in July. The BRC, a new partnership between the Broomfield Chamber of Commerce, Broomfield and the North Metro Small Business Development Center, aims to help create and sustain local business through workshops, consultations and other resources. In its first few months, the BRC has helped create or retain seven jobs and create five business start-ups.
Businesses close doors in 2012
Though 2012 ushered in good news about Broomfield's business climate, some businesses did not make it through the year.
Target closed its 116,000-square-foot store on Midway Boulevard in January, because of dwindling business and competition with nearby Super Target stores. Most of its 80 employees transferred to other Target stores.
Another large store, the Kmart near 120th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard, has been closed since April. The store was one of about 100 stores that Sears Holdings Corp. planned to shutter nationwide.
Beau Martinez, Broomfield's economic development director, said the city continues to work with potential retailers who are eyeing the two shopping centers. He said he feels confident 2013 will see bidders make a move on one or both of the properties.
Meanwhile, in the Village at FlatIron shopping center, Bloom Restaurant closed in June. With a string of empty storefronts in the Village, the shopping center is expected to get a makeover sometime next year. Tentative plans include adding more parking and tearing down several buildings.
Some small businesses also felt the strain of the economy. Herb's Meats, a specialty butcher shop and deli that had been in the Boulder and Broomfield area for 36 years, closed in June.
The store, which moved to Broomfield in 2010, had received a tax incentive to help the business transition.
U.S. 36 construction begins, causes traffic delays
The cone zone cropping up along U.S. 36 is the first phase of activity in the U.S. 36 Express Lanes project, the 17-mile reconstruction effort meant to alleviate congestion and provide users with more commuting options.
Until the project is complete sometime in 2015, Broomfield drivers and bus riders will have to get used to years of construction-related delays and detours. Recent lane closures, night work and bridge work periodically slow traffic, and Broomfield streets such as Commerce Street will remain closed for a significant portion of construction.
The project envisions a redesigned highway with a bus rapid transit system, express lanes, a dedicated bike lane for cyclists and a system to display real-time traffic updates. The road work will span from from Federal Boulevard in Westminster to Table Mesa Drive in Boulder.
The Colorado Department of Transportation and the Regional Transportation District said the project will be completed in two phases.
The first phase, which focuses on the 10-mile stretch from Federal Boulevard to 88th Street in Louisville, likely will affect Broomfield the most. Plans includes barrier installation and temporary road widening in the westbound lanes, and some Broomfield utilities will have to be moved to make way for the work. Crews will continue bridge work on several bridges, such as Wadsworth Parkway, 112th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard.
Commuters can see the most updated list of closures and delays in the area at us36expresslanes.com.
Shooting, bomb threat at East of Sweden Saab shop
A dispute between former roommates turned deadly after Mary McGrath was shot dead Oct. 12 in Broomfield.
Police believe the suspect, 62-year-old Lawrence Crouch, shot McGrath in the chest at the East of Sweden Saab repair shop where she worked.
An arrest affidavit indicated Crouch planned McGrath's murder in advance and had packed two handguns that morning before leaving the extended-stay motel where he had lived for the past year.
Crouch told police he also planned to kill an employee at the Lakewood motel where he lived, then kill himself. He abandoned the plan when the employee did not show up for work.
Crouch had been friends with East of Sweden's owner, Bob Wisdom, since 1992. Crouch told police he wanted McGrath dead because she took advantage of Wisdom.
Witnesses to the shooting said they thought Crouch might have placed a bomb in his car. The Adams County Bomb Squad was called to the scene shortly after Crouch's arrest, where they retrieved a gin bottle filled with soap found in Crouch's car.
Crouch, who will be arraigned Jan. 31, faces murder and attempted murder charges as well as charges of attempted arson, possession of explosives or an incendiary device and crimes of violence.
Residents call for end of backyard chicken ban
Barnyard egg-layers became the subject of a city debate this year after some residents asked Broomfield to lift its ban on backyard chickens.
City council members are split over whether or not residents of single-family homes should be allowed to raise chickens. Some council members see backyard chickens as a sustainable way to keep food on the table and a property owner's right to responsibly raise the animals. Other council members said allowing chickens would open the door to neighborhood disturbances, complicate the municipal code and become a slippery slope for residents who might want the freedom to raise other animals, such as turkeys or goats.
The topic has drawn the attention of many residents who turned up to council meetings to show support for a change in the rules.
City Council will take its first vote on the matter during a Jan. 8 meeting.
Broomfield municipal code does not allow people to keep the animals on residential properties. Chickens can only be raised on agricultural-type properties.
If council approves a change to the municipal code, residents might have to obtain a license and would only be allowed to keep the animals in the back yard, not front or side yards. No roosters would be allowed, and chickens could be banned by neighborhoods with enforceable covenants.
Other possible rules include setting a limit of three chickens per family.
Broomfield candidates win some, lose some in House and Senate races
Democrat Dianne Primavera is headed back to the state Capitol after regaining the House District 33 seat she lost in 2010. The Broomfield resident edged out Republican newcomer David Pigott in the Nov. 6 election.
Primavera, 62, is returning to the seat she held in 2006 and 2008 before losing to Republican Don Beezley in 2010. She said she will focus on supporting small businesses, protecting funding for education and working to create bipartisan support for bills.
Another Broomfield Democrat, Lee Kemp, didn't have the momentum he needed to snag the Senate District 23 seat despite his presence in the community as an RTD board member for eight years. In the race for the seat typically held by Republicans, Kemp lost to Republican Vicki Marble, a Fort Collins business owner. This will be Marble's first time in office.
During her campaign, Marble pledged to repeal several business regulations instead of proposing new bills and said it was important to cut government spending.
Shooting raises questions about mental health care
The shooting in June of a 21-year-old mentally ill man led to a wider conversation about what resources should be available to those with mental illnesses, their families, law enforcement and the community.
Broomfield police shot and killed Kyle Miller near his home June 28, after he pointed an Airsoft gun at officers. Though Miller's family told dispatch he carried an Airsoft gun, the bright orange safety tip had been removed, making it look real.
Miller's brother called 911 that morning after discovering Kyle had stabbed himself. Miller had schizoaffective bipolar disorder and had been depressed because he recently lost his job.
An independent investigation concluded the two officers involved in the shooting would not face charges in the incident.
The Miller family wants the department to undergo more mental health training, but Broomfield Police Chief Tom Deland said officers each year routinely get in-service training dealing with Crisis Intervention Team topics.
CIT training teaches police officers how to handle people who are in the middle of a psychiatric crisis.
Local mental health experts, such as the Boulder chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, said mental health groups, law enforcement and families must build relationships to keep open lines of communication to give mentally ill people the best available treatment.
Another hurdle is decreased federal and state funding, which puts a strain on local resources, national NAMI reports indicated.
The conversation could be changing, however. The recent shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary has sparked a national conversation about mental health, and Gov. John Hickenlooper has proposed reforms that could include opening several 24-hour walk-in centers for mental health care and a state mental health crisis hotline.
Residents on lookout for coyotes as part of study
Broomfield residents this year are keeping a keen eye on coyotes to help with a larger study on the animals' habits.
Broomfield is one of several cities participating in a two-year Denver Metro Area Coyote Behavior Study, which aims to learn more about coyote behavior and the best ways to coexist with the animals. Broomfield got more involved in research and response to coyotes after an aggressive coyote bit or confronted several children in the Anthem area. Broomfield reaffirmed its efforts in June after a woman walking her dog at The Field said two coyotes began following her.
Utilizing federal, state and local resources, the behavior study intends to track coyotes in Broomfield, Jefferson and Adams Counties via radio collars over the next two years. In the process, researchers will collect information on the animals' behavior, how they live in urban and suburban environments and how they respond to human efforts to scare them away from neighborhoods.
Some Broomfield residents have volunteered to log their encounters and sightings of coyotes, whether the experience be positive, negative or neutral.
One goal is to use the information to establish clear boundaries between humans and coyotes that can prevent attacks or unwanted confrontations.
Broomfield has urged residents to "haze" coyotes they cross paths with by yelling or throwing rocks. The idea is to scare the animals without hurting them.
Contact Enterprise Staff Writer Staff Writer Megan Quinn at 303-410-2649 or email@example.com


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Politicians who had their campaign accounts plundered by former Burbank-based campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee may not get much in restitution, but a civil action has freed up $2.5 million in funds frozen in bank accounts during the federal investigation.
First California Bank had frozen the accounts of dozens of politicians whose money was handled by Durkee. A Superior Court judge recently ordered the accounts unfrozen and the money left over distributed to its owners.
The money was what was left in the accounts after Durkee misspent up to $7 million, said Atticus Wegman, an attorney pursuing civil action against Durkee on behalf of federal and state legislators.
Prosecutors seek 97-month prison term for Burbank accountant
Tangled financial web emerges in fraud case against Kinde Durkee
-- Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times


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On September 8, 2007 in Sydney, Australia, the antiglobalization movement mobilized once again against neoliberal economic policies, this time to oppose the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit. Just as during the protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, Washington, in 1999, the streets were filled with an array of groups, such as environmentalists, socialists, and human rights advocates. And also just like in Seattle, there was a "Black Bloc"—a group of militant activists, usually left-wing anarchists, who wore masks and dressed all in black.
In Sydney, the Black Bloc assembled and hoisted banners proclaiming "Globalization is Genocide." But when fellow demonstrators looked closely, they realized these Black Bloc marchers were "National-Anarchists"—local fascists dressed as anarchists who were infiltrating the demonstration. The police had to protect the interlopers from being expelled by irate activists.
Since then, the National-Anarchists have joined other marches in Australia and in the United States; in April 2008, they protested on behalf of Tibet against the Chinese government during the Olympic torch relay in both Canberra, Australia, and San Francisco. In September, U.S. National-Anarchists protested the Folsom Street Fair, an annual gay "leather" event held in San Francisco.
While these may seem like isolated incidents of quirky subterfuge, these quasi-anarchists are an international export of a new version of fascism that represent a significant shift in the trends and ideology of the movement. National-Anarchists have adherents in Australia, Great Britain, the United States, and throughout continental Europe, and in turn are part of a larger trend of fascists who appropriate elements of the radical Left. Like "Autonomous Nationalists" in Germany and the genteel intellectual fascism of the European New Right, the National-Anarchists appropriate leftist ideas and symbols, and use them to obscure their core fascist values. The National-Anarchists, for example, denounce the centralized state, capitalism, and globalization — but in its place they seek to establish a system of ethnically pure villages.
In 1990, Chip Berlet showed in Right Woos Left how the extreme Right in the United States has made numerous overtures to the Left. "The fascist Right has wooed the progressive Left primarily around opposition to such issues as the use of U.S. troops in foreign military interventions, support for Israel, the problems of CIA misconduct and covert action, domestic government repression, privacy rights, and civil liberties."1 More recently, the fascist Right has also tried to build alliances based on concern for the environment, hardline antizionism, and opposition to globalization.
Fascism has become increasingly international in the post World War II period, particularly with the rise of the internet. One of the most obvious results of this internationalization is the continual flow of European ideas to the United States; for example, the Nazi skinhead movement originated in Britain and quickly spread to the United States. In trade, Americans have exported the Ku Klux Klan to Europe and smuggled Holocaust denial and neo-Nazi literature into Germany.2
The National-Anarchist idea has spread around the world over the internet. The United States hosts only a few web sites, but the trend so far has been towards a steady increase. But it represents what many see as the potential new face of fascism. By adopting selected symbols, slogans and stances of the left-wing anarchist movement in particular, this new form of postwar fascism (like the European New Right) hopes to avoid the stigma of the older tradition, while injecting its core fascist values into the newer movement of antiglobalization activists and related decentralized political groups. Simultaneously, National-Anarchists hope to draw members (such as reactionary counter-culturalists and British National Party members) away from traditional White Nationalist groups to their own blend of what they claim is "neither left nor right."3
Despite this claim, National-Anarchist ideology is centered directly on what scholar Roger Griffin defines as the core of fascism: "palingenetic populist ultranationalism." "Palingenetic," he says, is a "generic term for the vision of a radically new beginning which follows a period of destruction or perceived dissolution." Palingenetic ultranationalism therefore is "one whose mobilizing vision is that of the national community rising phoenix like after a period of encroaching decadence which all but destroyed it."4
For the National-Anarchists, this "ultranationalism" is also their main ideological innovation: a desire to create a stateless (and hence "anarchist") system of ethnically pure villages. Troy Southgate, their leading ideologue, says "we just want to stress that National-Anarchism is an essential racialist phenomenon. That's what makes it different." 5
Why should we pay attention to such new forms of fascism? There is no immediate threat of fascism taking power in the established western liberal democracies; the rise to power of Mussolini and Hitler in the 1920s and 1930s occurred in a different era and under different social conditions than those that exist today. Nonetheless, much is at stake.
These new permutations have the potential of playing havoc on social movements, drawing activists out from the Left into the Right. For example, when the Soviet Union collapsed, a number of non-Communist left-wing groups suddenly emerged in Russia offering the promise of a more egalitarian society sans dictatorship. However, the group that became dominant was the National Bolsheviks, who are probably the most successful contemporary Third Position fascist group (see glossary). Catching the imagination of disaffected youth by taking up many left-wing stances and engaging in direct action, they successfully obliterated their rivals by absorbing their demographic base en masse. The left-wing groups disappeared and the National Bolsheviks remain a powerful political movement today with a huge grassroots and youth base. As they grow older, they will remain influential in Russian politics for decades.
Even when small, Jeffrey Bale suggests it is important to pay attention to these fascist sects because they can serve as transmission belts for unconventional political ideas, influence more mainstream groups, and link up into transnational networks.6
Over the years, the antiglobalization movement has also created an opening for these Left-Right alliances. The Dutch antiracist group De Fabel van de illegaal pulled out of the antiglobalization movement in 1998 because of its links with far right forces. Pat Buchanan, the paleoconservative politician who holds racist and antisemitic views, spoke on a Teamsters Union platform during the demonstrations against the IMF/ World Bank in Washington D.C. in April 2000.7 Meanwhile, racists like Louis Beam (who has worked with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations) and Matt Hale (of the World Church of the Creator) praised the Seattle demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in 1999.8
At the same time, parts of the anti-imperialist Left (including some anarchists) have built alliances with reactionary Islamist movements such as Hamas and Hezbollah, called for open acceptance of antisemitism, and embraced nationalist struggles.9 This history prompts many cosmopolitan anarchists to worry that the overtures of newstyle fascists to radical Leftists could meet with some success.
The National-Anarchists have their origin in the National Front, a far right British party with an impressive 1977 dark horse electoral success based on their xenophobic anti-immigrant platform. After the election, the group fractured into many internal factions before splintering into different sects. Troy Southgate, the main English-language National-Anarchist ideologue, is a veteran of this internecine maze. He joined the National Front in 1984, and subsequently joined a splinter group that eventually split again before becoming the National Revolutionary Faction (NRF), a small cadre organization openly calling for armed guerilla warfare.10
In the late 1990s however, the NRF started to morph into the National-Anarchist movement; the two were referred to interchangeably for a number of years, until the NRF disbanded in 2003.11 Southgate's ideology does not seem to have changed substantially with the shift, and he continues to circulate his NRF-era essays.
The NRF's only known public action as "National-Anarchists" was to hold an Anarchist Heretics Fair in October 2000, in which a number of fringe-of the-fringe groups participated. However, when they attempted a second fair, a variety of anarchists and anti-fascists blocked it from being held. After the same thing happened in 2001, Southgate and the NRF abandoned this strategy and retreated to purely internet-based propaganda.12
The fair reflected Southgate's adaptation of the Trotskyist practice of entrism — the strategy of entering other political groups in order to either take them over or break off with a part of their membership.13 Southgate argues, "The NRF uses cadre activists to infiltrate political groups, institutions and services… It is part of our strategy to do this work and, if we are to have any success in the future, it is work that must be done on an increasing basis."14 He claims that the NRF infiltrated the 1999 Stop the City demonstration and the 2000 May Day protest, as well as activities of the Hunt Saboteurs Association and the Animal Liberation Front.15
Beyond its tactical uses, entrism is a philosophy for the National-Anarchists as they recruit members from the Left and in particular anarchist groups. Instead of simply calling themselves "racist communitarians," they purposely adopt the label "anarchist" and specifically appropriate anarchist imagery. Examples include the use of a purple star (anarchists typically use either a black star, or a half black star, with the other half designating their specific tendency, i.e., red for unionists, green for environmentalists, etc.), or a red and black star superimposed with a Celtic cross (the latter being a typical symbol of White Nationalists). The allied New Right factions in Australia and the UK also use the "chaos symbol" —an eight pointed star —which they adapt from left-wing counter-cultural anarchists.
The fascist use of the "black bloc" political formation at demonstrations is also an appropriation of anarchist and far left forms. In recent years, German fascists calling themselves Autonomous Nationalists have marched in large black blocs, waving black flags (a symbol of traditional anarchism), and even appropriated the symbolism of the German antifascist groupings.16
As far back as 1984, Pierre André Taguieff, an expert on the European New Right, condemned the "tactic of ideological scrambling systematically deployed by GRECE," a rightwing think tank that embraced some leftist critiques of advanced capitalism while promoting core fascist ideas.17 Here we see that ideological scrambling deployed on a grassroots level.
It needs to be stressed that, despite the name, National-Anarchists have not emerged from inside the anarchist movement, and, intellectually, their origins are not based in its ideas. Anarchists typically see themselves as part of a cosmopolitan and explicitly antinationalist left-wing movement which seeks to dismantle both capitalism and the centralized state. They seek instead to replace them with decentralized, non-hierarchical, and self-regulating communities. Although similar to Marxists, anarchists are just as adamant in their opposition to racism, sexism, and homophobia as they are to capitalism. In the United States, anarchists were key players in the formation of labor unions, were the only political faction to support gay rights before World War I, were leaders in the free speech movement, and were active in helping to legalize birth control. The White Nationalists' embrace of the anarchist label and symbolism is more than little ironic, since anarchists have a long history of physically disrupting White Nationalist events, for instance by groups like Anti-Racist Action. Anarchist military units were even formed to fight Franco in Spain and Mussolini in Italy.
The National-Anarchists claim they are not "fascist." Still, Troy Southgate looks to lesser known fascists such as Romanian Iron Guard leader Corneliu Codreanu, and lesser light Nazis like Otto Strasser and Walter Darré. Part of Southgate's sleight of hand is to claim to be 'against fascism' by saying he is socialist (as did Nazis such as Strasser) and by supporting political decentralization (as do contemporary European fascists such as Alain de Benoist). Sometimes he proclaims fascism to be equivalent to the capitalism he opposes, or promoting a centralized state, which he also opposes.
Southgate is undoubtedly sincere in his aversion to the classical fascism of Hitler and Mussolini, and has cited this as a reason for his break from one of the National Front splinter groups. He sees the old fascism as discredited, and an abandonment of the true values of revolutionary nationalism. But his ultimate goal, shared with the European New Right, is to create a new form of fascism, with the same core values of a revitalized community that withstands the decadence of cosmopolitan liberal capitalism. This cannot be done as long as his views are linked in the popular mind to the older tradition.
One of the two main influences on National-Anarchists is a minor current of fascism called Third Position. The origins of Third Position are in National Bolshevism, which originally referred to Communists who sought a national (rather than international) revolution. It soon came to refer to Nazis who sought an alliance with the Soviet Union. The most important of these was "left-wing Nazi " Otto Strasser, a former Socialist who advocated land redistribution and nationalization of industry. After criticizing Hitler for allying with banking interests, he was expelled from the party. His brother, Gregor Strasser, held similar views but remained a Nazi until 1934, when other Nazis killed him in the Night of the Long Knives.
A number of postwar fascists continued this train of thought, including Francis Parker Yockey and Jean-François Thiriart.18 They saw the United States and liberal capitalism as the primary enemy, sought an alliance with the Soviet Union, and promoted solidarity with Third World revolutionary movements, including Communist revolutions in Asia and Latin American, and Arab anti-Zionists (particularly those with whom they shared antisemitic views). Thiriart's followers in Italy formed a sect of "Nazi-Maoists" based on these principles, and after a gruesome August 1980 bombing in Bologna which killed 85 people, 40 Italian fascists fled to England, including Robert Fiore.
Fiore was sheltered by National Front member Michael Walker, editor of the Scorpion.19 This paper subsequently spread Third Position and New Right ideas into Britain's National Front, and Troy Southgate openly credits it as a major influence.20 Third Position ideas also spread through the National Front via the magazine Rising.21 After a 1986 split, this new influence resulted in a reconfiguration of the party's politics. Prominent members visited Qadafi's Libya, praised Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini and forged links with the Nation of Islam in the United States.
Southgate claims to have abandoned Third Position fascism.22 This is a duplicitous claim. He has rejected a centralized state, and therefore its ability to nationalize industry or create an "ethnostate." Nonetheless, National-Anarchists retain the two main philosophical threads of Third Position. The first is the notion of a racist socialism, as a third option between both capitalism and left-wing socialism like Marxism or traditional anarchism.23 The second is the stress on a strategic and conceptual alliance of nationalists (especially in the Third World) against the United States. Just as the National Front praised the Nation of Islam and Qadafi, the National-Anarchists praise Black and Asian racial separatist groups, and support movements for national self-determination, such as the Tibetan independence movement. Unlike many White Nationalists (such as the British National Party), National-Anarchists are pro-Islamist —but only "if they are prepared to confine their struggle to traditionally Islamic areas of the world."24
As Chip Berlet and Matthew Lyons note, Third Position fascism influenced U.S. groups such as the White Aryan Resistance (WAR), the American Front and the National Alliance; Christian Identity pastor Bob Miles also held similar views.25 Often overlooked by commentators is the American Front's affiliation with Southgate's NRF, which he boasted of for years.26 Like the National Front, U.S. fascists Tom Metzger and Lyndon LaRouche also forged ties with the Nation of Islam.27 More recently, the National Alliance has incorporated Third Position politics. They attempted to cross-recruit left-wing activists by launching a fake antiglobalization website, and, in August 2002, held a Palestine Solidarity rally in Washington D.C.28
An early attempt to directly transplant National-Anarchist ideology to the United States was made by political provocateur Bill White. Starting his political odyssey as a left-wing anarchist, White briefly adopted a National-Anarchist stance at the height of the antiglobalization movement. He penned an infamous article for Pravda online in November 2001, which falsely claimed that National-Anarchists were part of anarchist black blocs.29 Later White linked up with the National Alliance before embracing the undiluted Nazism of the National Socialist Movement.
Currently there are two U.S. websites directly affiliated with the National-Anarchists.30 One is the work of a prolific Christian ex-Nazi skinhead, while the Bay Area site has established a regional "network." It is this small group that claims to have taken part in demonstrations for Tibetan independence and protests against the Folsom Street Fair.
Additionally, as an identity within the White Nationalist scene, National-Anarchists continue to attract a number of followers in the United States. For example, one of the early collaborators of the Oregon-based magazine Green Anarchy affiliated with their perspective.31 U.S. National-Anarchists also frequently enter into discussions on Stormfront, the main internet gathering place for White Nationalists. There they defend their racial-separatist and antisemitic credentials to traditional fascists, many of whom look upon Third Position politics with skepticism, if not outright hostility. Apparently hearing White Nationalists promoting Islamist, Communist, and anarchist thinkers is as difficult for some of the Right to digest as it is for the Left.
Besides Third Position fascism, the other major ideological influence on the National-Anarchists is the European New Right, especially the thinker Alain de Benoist. National-Anarchists have adopted his ideas about race, political decentralization, and the "right to difference."
Benoist founded the think-tank GRECE, and has spent his life creating an intellectually respectable edifice for a core of fascist ideas. Like Southgate, Benoist loudly proclaims that he is not a fascist, but scholars such as Roger Griffin disagree. Griffin says that the New Right "could by the end of the 1980s be credited with the not inconsiderable achievement of having carried out a 'makeover' of classic fascist discourse so successfully that, at least on the surface it was changed beyond recognition."32
Benoist extended the notion of an alliance of European nations with the Third World against their main enemies: the United States, liberalism, and capitalism. But against the fascists who desired a united Europe under a super-state, Benoist instead calls for radical federalism and the political decentralization of Europe. Roger Griffin describes this vision as:
The pluralistic, multicultural society of liberal democracy was to give way, not to a culturally, coordinated, charismatic, and, in the case of Nazism, racially pure, national community coterminous with the nation-state, but to an alliance of homogeneous ethnic-cultural communities ethnies within the framework of a federalist European "empire."33
Benoist also incorporates many sophisticated left-wing critiques, sometimes sounding like a Frankfurt School Marxist. Today he denounces capitalism, imperialism, liberalism, the consumer society, Christianity, universalism, and egalitarianism; he defends paganism, "organic democracy," and the Third World. He questions the role of unbridled technology and supports environmentalism and a kind of feminism.34 He also rejects biological determinism and embraces a notion of race that is cultural.35 Southgate follows practically all of these positions, which are not necessarily present in Third Position.
Because of these views, the European New Right is very different from the U.S. New Right, whose Christianity and free market views are anathema to the Europeans. The Europeans are closer to the paleoconservative tradition in the United States, and connect with The Rockford Institute, publisher of Chronicles.
Benoist's main intellectual formulation is the "right to difference," which upholds the cultural homogeneity and separateness of distinct ethnic-cultural groups. In this sense, he extends the anti-imperialist Left's idea of "national self-determination" to micro-national European groupings (sometimes called "the Europe of a Hundred Flags"). The "right to difference" has influenced the anti-immigrant policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front in France, and a number of GRECE members joined this party, even though Benoist himself rejects Le Pen.36
Benoist has also influenced U.S. White separatism. Usually based around the demand for a separate White nation in parts of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, this became a popular idea in White Nationalist circles starting in the early 1980s.37 This decentralized regional perspective was matched by decentralized organizational schemas which emerged at the same time. Louis Beam advocated "leaderless resistance," and the "lone wolf" strategy for far-right terrorism38, while Christian Identity Pastor Bob Miles started referring himself as a "klanarchist."
Inverting language, Benoist claims that he is an antiracist. Racism, he argues, is a function of universalistic ideologies like liberalism and Marxism, which purportedly wipe out regional and ethnic identities. He says "Racism is nothing but the denial of difference."39 But Taguieff, a keen observer of the European Right, identifies a "phobia of mixing" at the core of this form of racism. It is part of the "softer, new, and euphemistic forms of racism praising difference (heterophilia) and substituting 'culture' for 'race.'"40
The influence of these New Right ideas on the National-Anarchists is explicit. In Australia, the National-Anarchist group is for all practical reasons coextensive with "New Right Australia/New Zealand" and at one point they claimed that "New Right is the theory, National-Anarchism the practice."41 In Britain, Troy Southgate has been involved in New Right meetings since 2005.42 But while Benoist claims that he does not hate immigrants, repudiates antisemitism, and endorses feminism, the National-Anarchists show what New Right ideas look like in practice: crude racial separatism, open antisemitism, homophobia, and antifeminism. The "right to difference" becomes separate ethnic villages.
The New Right also has had a limited influence on elements of the Left intelligentsia. In the United States, the influential journal Telos (known for disseminating Western Marxist texts into English) moved rightward in the 1990s as its editor showed sympathy for Europe's New Right and published Benoist's works.43 It continues to publish Benoist, and explores the thought of Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt. Many Leftists now consider the once venerable journal anathema.44
Although Benoist advocates decentralized federalist political structures, the Australian National-Anarchists make clear that he does not go so far as to advocate anarchism itself.45 Instead the claim to "anarchism" apparently stems from Richard Hunt's notion of "villages." Originally an editor at the British magazineGreen Anarchist, which advocated an intensely anti-industrial environmental ethic, Hunt was expelled from the editorial collective for his right-wing views before founding Green Alternative, which is seen as an "ecofascist" publication.
Hunt adopted an apocalyptic, Mad Max-esque vision of a post-industrial society. Southgate comments that "to say that we have been hugely influenced by Richard Hunt's ideas is an understatement," and Southgate took over the editorial helm of Hunt's magazine when he fell ill.46
Hunt's critique also reverberated with the environmental strain of classical fascism, such as the views of Hitler's agriculture minister Walter Darré. Southgate openly gushes over Darré's "Blood and Soil" ideology in one article47 while white-washing him in another, referring to him merely as a "nationalist ecologist."48 Many other contemporary fascist groups, especially WAR in the United States, also embrace environmentalism.
The National-Anarchists are quite open about their antifeminism and desire to exile queer people into separate spaces, but tend to hide their deeply antisemitic worldview. Troy Southgate says of feminism, "Feminism is dangerous and unnatural… because it ignores the complimentary relationship between the sexes and encourages women to rebel against their inherent feminine instincts."49
The stance on homophobia is more interesting. Southgate said:
Homosexuality is contrary to the Natural Order because sodomy is quite undeniably an unnatural act. Groups such as Outrage are not campaigning for love between males — which has always existed in a brotherly or fatherly form — but have created a vast cult which has led to a rise in cottaging, male-rape and child sex attacks… But we are not trying to stop homosexuals engaging in this kind of activity like the Christian moralists or bigoted denizens of censorship are doing, on the contrary, as long as this behaviour does not affect the forthcoming National-Anarchist communities then we have no interest in what people get up to elsewhere.50
What this means in his schema is that queer people will be given their own separate "villages." The recent National-Anarchist demonstrations in San Francisco were against two majority-queer events, the Folsom Street Fair and the related fair Up Your Alley. Their orchestrator, "Andy," declares that he is a "racist" who hates queer people.
Andy also denies the charge of antisemitism against National-Anarchists, claiming that they merely engage in a "continuous criticism of Israel and its supporters,"51 as do the majority of Leftists and anarchists. Once again, this is a typical disingenuous attempt by National-Anarchists to duck criticism. Antisemitism is an important element of the political world views of Southgate and Herfurth.
Southgate actively promotes the work of Holocaust deniers, including the Institute for Historical Review, and holds party line antisemitic beliefs about the role of the international Jewish conspiracy. As a dodge, he sometimes uses the euphemism "Zionist"; for instance, he says "Zionists are well known for their cosmopolitan perspective upon life, not least because those who rally to this nefarious cause have no organic roots of their own."52 In another interview he says that, "there is no question that the world is being ruthlessly directed (but perhaps not completely controlled) by International Zionism. This has been achieved through the rise of the usurious banking system."53 And he describes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (a forgery which is the world's most popular antisemitic text) as a book which "although still unproven, accords with the main events in modern world history."54
Meanwhile, his Australian counterpart Welf Herfurth is even more explicit in his neo-Nazi antisemitic views. In one speech, he describes the Holocaust as an "extrapolation" that "has been an enormously profitable one for the Jews, and one which has brought post-war Germany and Europe to its knees," before referring to Israel as "the most powerful state in the Western world." Herfurth concludes that "by liberating Germany from the bondage to Israel and restructuring a new Germany on the basis of a new 'volksgemeinschaft,' the German nationalists will liberate Europe, and the West as well."55
Recently new groups of National-Anarchists, recruited through Southgate's internet activism, have made the leap from contemplating their idiosyncratic ideas on the internet into making them the basis of really-existing politics, by joining demonstrations in Australia and San Francisco. Web pages and blogs continue to pop up in different countries and languages.
The danger National-Anarchists represent is not in their marginal political strength, but in their potential to show an innovative way that fascist groups can rebrand themselves and reset their project on a new footing. They have abandoned many traditional fascist practices—including the use of overt neo-Nazi references, and recruiting from the violent skinhead culture. In its place they offer a more toned down, sophisticated approach. Their cultural references are the neo-folk and gothic music scene, which puts on an air of sophistication, as opposed to the crude skinhead subculture. National-Anarchists abandon any obvious references to Hitler or Mussolini's fascist regimes, often claiming not to be "fascist" at all.
Like the European New Right, the National-Anarchists adapt a sophisticated left-wing critique of problems with contemporary society, and draw their symbols and cultural orientation from the Left; then they offer racial separatism as the answer to these problems. They are attempting to use this new form to avoid the stigma of the old discredited fascism, and if they are successful like the National Bolsheviks have been in Russia, they will breathe new life into their movement. Even if the results are modest, this can disrupt left-wing social movements and their focus on social justice and egalitarianism; and instead spread elitist ideas based on racism, homophobia, antisemitism and antifeminism amongst grassroots activists.
Fascism: Fascism is an especially virulent form of far-right populism. Fascism glorifies national, racial, or cultural unity and collective rebirth while seeking to purge imagined enemies, and attacks both left-wing movements and liberal pluralism. Fascism first crystallized in Europe in response to the Bolshevik Revolution and the devastation of World War I, and then spread to other parts of the world. Postwar fascists have reinterpreted fascist ideology and strategy in various ways to fit new circumstances. Third Position: Third Position politics are a minor branch of fascist thought. It rejects both liberal capitalism and Marxism for a kind of racially based socialism. Its main precursors are the National Bolsheviks, who were a fusion of nationalism and communism, and the Strasser brothers, key figures in the "left-wing" of the Nazi party. Third Positionists tend to support national liberation movements in the Third World, seek alliances with other ethnic separatists, and have recently supported environmentalism. The Public Eye, Winter 2008, Vol. 23 No. 4, pp. 1, 12–19.
Fascism: Fascism is an especially virulent form of far-right populism. Fascism glorifies national, racial, or cultural unity and collective rebirth while seeking to purge imagined enemies, and attacks both left-wing movements and liberal pluralism. Fascism first crystallized in Europe in response to the Bolshevik Revolution and the devastation of World War I, and then spread to other parts of the world. Postwar fascists have reinterpreted fascist ideology and strategy in various ways to fit new circumstances.
Third Position: Third Position politics are a minor branch of fascist thought. It rejects both liberal capitalism and Marxism for a kind of racially based socialism. Its main precursors are the National Bolsheviks, who were a fusion of nationalism and communism, and the Strasser brothers, key figures in the "left-wing" of the Nazi party. Third Positionists tend to support national liberation movements in the Third World, seek alliances with other ethnic separatists, and have recently supported environmentalism.
The Public Eye, Winter 2008, Vol. 23 No. 4, pp. 1, 12–19.


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Hockey players, athletes and Quebec personalities were out in droves this Grand Prix weekend, as Montreal's scene was alive and high-kicking. Hollywood actors were greatly missed, however, even though many were expected at various events around town.
At a McLaren party at the Ritz on Friday, rumours swirled that Jennifer Lawrence and Hugh Jackman, who were in town shooting X-Men, might show up (they did not). The night before, high-rollers at a G.H Mumm Champagne event at Le Pois Penché bemoaned the news that Will Smith had cancelled his private shindig at the W Hotel.
Finally, Saturday night, another famous Hugh — actor Hugh Grant — arrived at Ferrari's coveted VIP party at the St. James Hotel. The paparazzi swarmed, women swooned and just about everyone whipped out their smartphones to take a pic (or 10) of the star.
"He's good, he's really good. He has so much character," said Maia Azzi, junior product manager for Armani at L'Oréal, chatting on the red carpet with her girlfriends, all dressed to the nines.
The trio recalled Grant's movies: Bridget Jones, About a Boy.
At one point in the evening, the Rolling Stones were expected at the St. James Hotel, but they never made it to the party. Miss America, Mallory Hagan from New York, did attend, however. She mingled the night away, donning her crown and all.
Does she wear it all the time?
"Not when I sleep," she joked. (She eventually removed it.)
X-Men director Bryan Singer also attended the Ferrari party at the St. James Hotel.
Grant stopped by Montreal hot spots Buonanotte and Cavalli over the weekend as the actor was one of Ferrari's Grand Prix VIP guests.
"They're good at showing a good time," Grant said of his hosts.
The actor was last in Montreal in 1985.
Other than Hugh Grant, Paul Walker from the Fast and Furious films, and Jesse Palmer of The Bachelor fame, Montreal's hot spot restaurants saw few Hollywood stars this year. Rather, the restaurants rollicked and raged thanks to athletes and race-car drivers and, of course, corporate clients galore.
At Buonanotte on Saturday night, Magnums of vodka were everywhere along with raised seafood platters with lobster heads, as companies like Playboy and Red Bull entertained top clients.
"It's like Christmas party season, but during the (spring) time," Buonanotte owner Massimo Lecas said of the corporate presence at the restaurant during Grand Prix.
Lecas explained why such companies keep coming back to his restaurant year after year: "It's a tradition that we built. We were probably the first ones to pioneer catering to that type of clientele, and then it kept going thanks to word of mouth."
Buonanotte was booked solid all Grand Prix weekend long. On Sunday, the restaurant was scheduled to throw its annual Grand Prix closing bash.
At Globe, Beatrice (formerly known as Bice), and the new Queue de Cheval, a similar scene of private and corporate parties prevailed.
Yet while patrons wined and dined, owners and staff spoke on the sly into cellphones and walkie talkies, swapping their big warm smiles for wide-eyed panic about looming threats from Montreal police.
According to restaurant owners on Peel St. and St. Laurent Blvd., Montreal police were on hyperactive duty for Grand Prix weekend, a time when many of these restaurants are making up for slow business during the winter months.
On Thursday, at around 1:30 a.m., Cavalli's was shut down for violating its capacity. Patrons were told to leave, even if they had open tabs. The incident eerily echoed one from the previous weekend. On that Saturday at 12:15 a.m., the SPVM shut down Globe (also owned by Lecas) and seized the restaurant's entire stock of alcohol while customers were also in the midst of wining and dining. After a hearing at the Superior Court of Quebec, the SPVM immediately returned Globe's alcohol bottles.
Lecas, who made headlines this year with the Pastagate language debacle, knocked on a wooden portion of the bar at Buona Notte Saturday night.
"I don't want to jinx myself, but so far tonight everything's good," he said.