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Written by: Medley-Russell
Recorded: 11 February 1963
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith
Released: 22 March 1963 (UK), 10 January 1964 (US)
Available on:
Please Please Me
Anthology 1
On Air – Live At The BBC Volume 2
John Lennon: vocals, rhythm guitar
Paul McCartney: backing vocals, bass
George Harrison: backing vocals, lead guitar
Ringo Starr: drums
The thrilling closer to the Please Please Me album, Twist And Shout showcased The Beatles at their primal, glorious, rock 'n' roll best.
Twist and Shout was written by Phil Medley and Bert Russell. It was originally recorded by the Top Notes in 1961, although a version by The Isley Brothers released the following year became more popular.
It entered The Beatles' live repertoire in 1962 – a live version from Hamburg's Star-Club in December that year is available on bootleg recordings. The earliest known version, however, was recorded for the BBC's Talent Spot radio show on 27 November 1962 at the corporation's Paris Studio, London.
Unfortunately the recording has since been lost. The Beatles recorded Twist And Shout nine times in total for the BBC, none of which appeared on the Live At The BBC collection.
The best-known version, of course, was recorded for the Please Please Me album. The session took place on 11 February 1963, when it was the last of 10 songs recorded for the album that day.
Twist And Shout continued to be part of The Beatles' live set following the album's release. It was the final song at their Sunday Night at the London Palladium performance on 13 October 1963, widely held to signal the start of Beatlemania.
They also performed the song at the Royal Command Performance on 4 November 1963, and for their February 1964 appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
For our last number I'd like to ask your help. The people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'd just rattle your jewellery. We'd like to sing a song called Twist And Shout.
Royal Command Performance, 1963
The Beatles continued to perform Twist And Shout until the end of their August 1965 US tour, which culminated in a performance at the Cow Palace, San Francisco, on 31 August. An incomplete recording of the song, taken from a radio report of the show, survives on bootleg.
In the studio
Twist And Shout was recorded on 11 February 1963 after 10pm, the time the Please Please Me album session was scheduled to have ended. Producer George Martin wanted a show-stopper with which to close the album, and he had just one song in mind.
I knew that Twist And Shout was a real larynx-tearer and I said, 'We're not going to record that until the very end of the day, because if we record it early on, you're not going to have any voice left.' So that was the last thing we did that night. We did two takes, and after that John didn't have any voice left at all. It was good enough for the record, and it needed that linen-ripping sound.
Over coffee, biscuits and warm milk, The Beatles and the production staff decided that the only option was the band's biggest crowd-pleaser: their cover of Twist And Shout, a hit for The Isley Brothers from the previous year.
With time against them and Lennon's voice on the verge of giving up, they knew they had to get it right first time.
By this time all their throats were tired and sore – it was 12 hours since we had started working. John's, in particular, was almost completely gone so we really had to get it right first time, The Beatles on the studio floor and us in the control room. John sucked on a couple more Zubes [throat sweets], had a bit of a gargle with milk and away we went.
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn
The Beatles treated the control room staff as their audience, pretending they were in a live performance and hyping themselves up accordingly.
John was stripped to the waist to do this most amazingly raucous vocal. The next morning Norman Smith and I took a tape around all the studio copying rooms saying to everybody: 'What the hell do you think of this!'
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn
John Lennon gave the throat-shredding performance of his career. McCartney and Harrison joined for the harmonies, and all the band – not least Ringo, with his powerhouse drumming – played with an intensity that still sounds remarkable. Culminating in McCartney's triumphant 'Hey!', the exhilarating recording was the closest The Beatles ever got to matching the intensity of their club shows of the time.
The last song nearly killed me. My voice wasn't the same for a long time after; every time I swallowed it was like sandpaper. I was always bitterly ashamed of it, because I could sing it better than that; but now it doesn't bother me. You can hear that I'm just a frantic guy doing his best.
Only two takes of Twist And Shout were recorded. The first made it to the album; by the second Lennon's voice had gone, and the session came to a halt.
Chart success
Twist And Shout was released as a single in the US on 2 March 1964 by the Tollie label. It reached number two on the Billboard chart.
In the UK the song was the title track of The Beatles' first EP, which topped the charts following its release on 12 July 1963. The other songs on the EP were A Taste Of Honey, Do You Want To Know A Secret and There's A Place.
In Canada Twist And Shout was the title track of the second Beatles album released by Capitol. It was issued on 3 February 1964.
Well, shake it up, baby now (shake it up baby)
Twist and shout (twist and shout)
C'mon c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, baby now (come on baby)
Come on and work it on out (work it on out, whoo)
Well, work it on out honey (work it on out)
You know you look so good (look so good)
You know you got me going now (got me going)
Just like I knew you would (like I knew you would)
Well, shake it up, baby now (shake it up baby)
Twist and shout (twist and shout)
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, baby now (come on baby)
Come on and work it on out (work it on out, whoo)
You know you twist it little girl (twist little girl)
You know you twist so fine (twist so fine)
Come on and twist a little closer now (twist a little closer)
And let me know that you're mine (let me know you're mine, whoo)
Well, shake it up, baby now (shake it up baby)
Twist and shout (twist and shout)
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, baby now (come on baby)
Come on and work it on out (work it on out)
You know you twist it little girl (twist little girl)
You know you twist so fine (twist so fine)
Come on and twist a little closer now (twist a little closer)
Aand let me know that you're mine (let me know you're mine)
Well shake it, shake it, shake it, baby now (shake it up baby)
Well shake it, shake it, shake it, baby now (shake it up baby)
Well shake it, shake it, shake it, baby now (shake it up baby)


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September 2, 2011
The Vatican and Fascism in the 20th century
The book Mit Gott und dem Führer by Church historian Karlheinz Deschner ("With God and the Fuehrer [Hitler]") states that with respect to Fascist Germany, the Vatican:
"...war der erste Freund des Regimes und lange Zeit auch der einzige"
translation: [the Vatican] was the first friend of the regime and, for a long time, also the only one.
Fourteen years ago the U.S. Government de-classified the now famous "La Vista Report" of May 15, 1947, a top-secret U.S. Army Intelligence report documenting the Vatican's role in aiding the escape of numerous high-ranking Nazi war criminals, among them Ante Pavelic, fascist leader of wartime Croatia; Franz Stangel, Commander of Treblinka; Eduard Roschmann, "the Butcher of Riga"; Klaus Barbie, "the Butcher of Lyon"; SS General Walter Rauff, inventor of the mobile gas truck; Adolf Eichmann, "architect of the Holocaust"; and tens of thousands of others. Writing about the document prior to its release, internationally renowned Nazi hunter Charles R. Allen Jr. noted that in light of the revelations contained in this and other classified documents about the role of the Vatican in the Holocaust it would be logical and proper that
"A commission of inquiry into these concerns including Jewish and Catholic scholars ought to be established to locate and examine all documentation in all relevant archives so that collectively they may determine what role both the Vatican and US Intelligence played in aiding and abetting the escape of some of history's most notorious murderers. (1)
...The "La Vista Report" was documentary evidence that opened a window on a suppressed chapter of the Holocaust: the role of the Vatican in the Holocaust.
The Vatican's report "We Remember, a Reflection on the Shoah (Holocaust)," issued this past March makes it abundantly clear that the Catholic Church is determined to do all that it can to shut that window as tightly as it can, and to keep it shut forever....
...Far from suggesting that the Vatican did anything wrong, the document instead tries to portray the role of the Church during the Holocaust in a mostly positive light, insisting that "many" members of the Church did "give every possible assistance" -- implying that those who didn't were a minority, and going on to claim that the Vatican categorically condemned and opposed fascism and Nazism, making reference to pronouncements that at best are equivocal. It also claims that "Jewish communities and Jewish leaders expressed their thanks for all that had been done for them...," a cynical manipulation of a half-truth if there ever was one. And to top it all off the document tries to argue that fascism and genocide were incompatible with Catholic teachings:
"...the work of a thoroughly neo-pagan regime. Its anti-Semitism had its roots outside of Christianity...." (2)
Certainly not the view of the tens of thousands of Catholic clergy all around the world who warmly embraced fascism and joined its ranks from Berlin to Detroit (Have they forgotten our own "dear" Father Coughlin?).
What all of this amounts to is a staggering lie of gigantic proportions, a total whitewash of the crimes committed by the Catholic Church and the Papacy before, during and after the Holocaust. It is worthwhile that we now review some of the media response to this deliberate falsification of history before we examine some of the facts this most recent Vatican document conveniently "forgot" to mention. The Vatican document is the result of a sophisticated public relations campaign aimed at improving its image with both Jews and the American public by shirking responsibility for its crimes before, during and after the Holocaust while pinning all of the blame on others. This necessarily involves a deliberate falsification and suppression of the historical record.
The New York Times was correct when it predicted that the document would try to put as much distance between itself and the Holocaust as possible. Even anti-Semitism is portrayed as the result of "wrong-headed Christian thinkers," not the papacy or its clergy.(3) As one CNN reporter put it, "the Pope has steered clear of blaming the church itself."(4)
Thus, the Vatican's "memory" is highly selective. The "errors" the Vatican is willing to recall are limited only to those of omission, not commission.. In other words, the errors of the Church during the Holocaust are defined only as the silence or indifference of the Church in the face of crimes of genocide, a failure to speak out. The Vatican --and apparently many journalists -- would like us to believe that this is the limit of wrongdoing. Defined out of the discussion are complicity in or support for these crimes -- not to mention active participation in deportations, expropriations, forced conversions, and mass murder of a specific people, that is to say, genocide itself. As long as the role of the Vatican in the Holocaust is defined in this way, it safely avoids serious examination of the much worse crimes it did commit.
...By placing blame on wrong-headed individuals in the Church and denying any wrong doing by the Pope or Vatican, the Church is shifting responsibility from its leaders and from the institution itself to the rank and file followers, in effect side stepping all blame whatsoever. Thus, the Church really is completely innocent -- it's the sheep, not the shepherd who are responsible!
But nowhere has the truth been hijacked and suppressed more than in regard to that one chapter of the Holocaust that historians still hesitate to confront: the Vatican's role in fascist Croatia. The story of the Holocaust in wartime Croatia is absent from many scholarly discussions of the Holocaust and from most Holocaust museums in this country. It is an odd omission considering the fact that if one defines the Holocaust from the first mass murders of civilians, then the Holocaust itself began in Croatia with the first murders of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies by the Croatian fascist regime in April 1941 -- some nine months before the Wannsee Conference, more than two months before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. It is like a book whose first chapter is torn out.
What then are the political reasons for the systematic and deliberate suppression of the history of the Holocaust in Croatia? There are several, and they are all connected to vital geo-political considerations of the leading Western powers....
But all of these justifications pale in comparison to the importance placed on suppressing the truth about the Vatican's and the Catholic Church's role in the Holocaust in fascist Croatia. For in Croatia, the question of what role the Catholic Church played in the Holocaust is not limited to the relatively minor issues of whether they did or spoke out enough against it -- here the question concerns the role of the Church and the Vatican in running concentration camps and in carrying out a religiously inspired genocide. Nowhere is the role of the Vatican more worthy of investigation, and nowhere has that role received less attention.
Since the Ustasha wished Croatia to be a vassal of the papacy, Catholic clergy held high positions at every level of the fascist government. In the majority of towns and villages throughout the newly created fascist state, Catholic clergy became the official Ustasha authority. A certain number of seats in the fascist "Sabor" were reserved for Bishops including Stepinac and Sharich. Pavelic included several priest-advisors and a personal confessor in his cabinet. In its inaugural radio address to the nation on April 11, 1941, the new fascist government instructed the population to apply to their local priest for further instructions, indicating again that the fascist take-over was planned in advance with the complete knowledge of the Church hierarchy. (29) When Pavelic fled the country in 1945 he turned over the reigns of state leadership to Stepinac. Thus, it truly was a clerical-fascist state in praxis as well as theory.
-- "What Is The Vatican Hiding? The Vatican's Complicity in Genocide in Fascist Croatia: The Suppressed Chapter of Holocaust History." by Barry Lituchy
This article goes on to explain in detail why the Catholic Church supported Austria and Germany in World War I, and how it viewed Serbia's Orthodox presence in Yugoslavia.
Vatican complicity in the holocausts in Germany and Yugoslavia
The French cardinal Eugene Tisserant, a Slavonic expert, told a Croat representative on March 6, 1942,
"that it is the Franciscans themselves, as for example Father Simic of Knin, who have taken part in attacks against the Orthodox populations so as to destroy the Orthodox Church in banja Luka...." [Cornwell, p. 259]
-- Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, by John Cornwell
The Bishopric News no. 2, 1942 recorded a directive that said:
"Our work is legal because it is in accord with official Vatican policy ... that the Eastern Orthodox Church be converted to the Catholic faith".
In Germany, the blame lay on both the Protestant and Catholic Churches, however, in Yugoslavia, Catholicism was the only Christian sect guilty for the large scale destruction of the Serb, Jewish and Roma populations. In its extermination of these groups, it was helped by the Hanjar, the Islamic Nazis.
What is the Vatican hiding?, by Barry Lituchy:
The exact number of Catholic priests who worked as commanders or guards at these camps in Croatia is unknown. However, there is no question that there were hundreds, if not thousands. In a surprising number of cases Catholic priests were named commanders or staff officers of concentration camps. These appointments were reported in the Catholic press during the war. Thus, we read in Novi List in 1941 that Father Stepan Lukic was named camp adjutant of the Zepce concentration camp, Priest Ante Djuric Commander of all camps in the Drvar district, and Father Dragan Petranovic commander of the camp in Ogulin. The active participation of clergy in running concentration camps in Croatia was known by the German, Italian, British and American intelligence services, as well as the Vatican. The U.S. intelligence report of February 23, 1943 entitled "Massacres of Serbs in Croatia" speaks bluntly of
"the bloody hands of the Catholic clergy in the camps."(52)
The Croatian Catholic Church and the Vatican were directly involved in helping the fascist regime in Croatia carry out a triple genocide against Serbs, Jews and Romas from 1941 to 1945 in every possible way. By the time they were done, they had killed one million people. The Catholic Church assisted the Croatian fascists in every aspect of their murderous rule, from open political and financial support, to serving in their military units in every phase of the war, to serving in their government, to participating in arrests, expropriations, deportations, forced conversions and mass murders of racially persecuted peoples. Catholic Priests even served as concentration camp commanders in some of the worst death camps of World War II. And it was all done with the full knowledge and support of Pope Pius XII and the Vatican.(19)
The Ustasha operations were carried out with incredible acts of sadism and torture.
...As the noted historian of fascism Ernest Nolte has put it, "Croatia became during the war a giant slaughterhouse."
...Croatia became at this time, as Croatian historian Antun Miletic has said, "a land of concentration camps."
...the main concentration camp system in Croatia which opened in August 1941, Jasenovac. It was at Jasenovac that between 600,000 and 700,000 Serbs, at least 30,000 Romas and 25,000 Jews were systematically murdered between August 1941 and April 1945. Of all of the death camps during the Holocaust Jasenovac was the third largest overall in terms of victims. Jasenovac holds a number of ghastly distinctions for its cruelty. It possessed some of the largest camps for women and children during the war - the names of some 20,000 children murdered there have been collected thus far. It was noted also for its extreme brutality every known method of murder and torture was employed there, as well as a few unknown anywhere else. There are very few examples in human history that can compare with the scale of murder, terror and barbarism conducted at Jasenovac. And yet it is not even mentioned at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. Why?
The answer lies with the Catholic Church. What was the Church's reaction to and role in all of this? How deeply involved in genocide in fascist Croatia was the Catholic Church and the Vatican? In response to the persecution of the Jews and Serbs the Croatian clergy rallied around the regime and provided endless articles and pamphlets justifying their extermination. Stepinac had the racial laws published in his own publications. Writing in response to the publication of the racial laws of April and May 1941 the Catholic weekly "Hrvatska Strazha" in its editorial of May 11, 1941 welcomed the legislation as necessary for "the survival and development of the Croatian nation."
"Defense from Judaism, from that destructive worm, was started by the Fuhrer and Duce [Mussolini].... Our Poglavnik [Croatian fuehrer, Pavelic] has also announced a regulation on the protection and honor and blood, and we would add, on the protection of the survival and development of the Croatian nation, and with it the Poglavnik wants to prevent the dangerous worm from eating away at the tree of our Croatian national life."40
German, Italian, British and American intelligence reports (as well as Croatian accounts) suggest that between 600,000 and 700,000 were killed there [at the Jasenovac concentration camp complex]. Aside from intelligence reports, we have the testimony of survivors and of a few of the perpetrators as to the crimes committed there by the Catholic clergy. Testimony was collected by a Yugoslav War Crimes Commission and obtained during the trials of various Ustashi. A key witness was the parish priest of Jasenovac, Juraj Parshich, who along with survivors testified to the barbaric murders committed at Jasenovac by numerous priests, among whom the most infamous were Zvonko Brekalo, Pero Brzica, Anzelmo Chulina, Father Brkljanic, and the Jesuits Zvonko Lipovac and Father Cvitan. However, there was one priest who has carved out a special place for himself in the annals of sadism, barbarism and genocide. His name before the war was Vjekoslav Filipovich, a Franciscan priest who some say was excommunicated. During the war he went from wearing priestly robes to an Ustasha officer's uniform, and bore the name Miroslav Majstorovich. He directed numerous actions against Serbian villages in which he played a conspicuous part in the killings. Before one such attack in the town of Drakulic he strangled a Serbian baby in his hands. Then he went to Jasenovac where he served as Commander for four months, from September 1942 to the beginning of January 1943. At the War Crimes investigation prior to his trial, Filipovich testified that during the four months of his command "according to my own calculations between twenty and thirty thousand were liquidated in the Jasenovac."(53)
See more:
The La Vista Report, a declassified U.S. State Department Report from 1947
What is the Vatican hiding? by Barry Lituchy
The Role of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia's Holocaust
The Vatican's Holocaust by Avro Manhattan
Christianity in Europe during WWII
The case of the Archbishop Stepinac published by the Embassy of the Federal Peoples Republic of Yugoslavia, Washington, 1947
See also the following sections:
[color=#FFBFFF]Protestant and Catholic Churches supported Hitler and fascism, including how both Churches in Germany:
- helped track down Jews, including Christian Jews among their own congregations.
- worked with the Nazi state to murder people with disabilities.
- used forced labour and so now have to pay into a compensation fund for Nazi victims
The Catholic Ustashe included genocidal clergy
Photos of Protestant and Catholic Nazi clergy in Germany and Catholic clergy in the Ustashe
which links to images of German and Ustashe clergy participating in Nazism, of Ustashi being welcomed in the Vatican, as well as Catholic Ustashi priests forcibly baptising the Orthodox Serbs.
Hate literature written by priests: clergy writing anti-Semitic literature in Nazi Germany and clergy inventing and promoting race ideology in then Yugoslavia.
Some German books on Church participation in Nazism and its Christian origins
Hitler's Pope: Pius XII and Fascism
"His Holiness, Pius XII, the best anti-democrat in the world,"
as he was in 1950 (!) proudly titled by Ecclesia, official organ of the Spanish Catholic Action in an attempt to pay him the greatest tribute a Catholic paper could pay
"an accomplice to Nazi murderers."
-- Israel's Chief Rabbi, Meir Lau - on the actual historical role of Pope Pius XII in the Holocaust
From: What is the Vatican hiding?, by Barry Lituchy, which cites CNN
In 1917, Eugenio Pacelli, later to become Pope Pius XII, resided in a nunciature in Munich, directly opposite to what was later to become the Brown House, the cradle of Nazism. There he showed his first inkling of his unsympathetic feelings toward the Jews when he refused to come to the assistance of Jews and calling them a "Jewish cult." [Cornwell, p.70]. In a typewritten letter, he described
"a gang of young women, of dubious appearance, Jews as like all the rest of them, hanging around in the offices with lecherous demeanor and suggestive smiles." [Cornwell, p.75]
Link, citing Hitler's Pope by John Cornwell.
"To the Illustrious Herr Adolf Hitler, Fuhrer and Chancellor of the German Reich!
Here at the beginning of Our Pontificate We wish to assure you that We remain devoted to the spiritual welfare of the German people entrusted to your leadership.... During the many years we spent in Germany, We did all in Our power to establish harmonious relations between Church and State. Now that the responsibilities of Our pastoral function have increased Our opportunities, how much more ardently do We pray to reach that goal. May the prosperity of the German people and their progress in every domain come, with God's help, to fruition!"
-- Pope Pius XII to Hitler, after being elected Pope
Hoping to beatify Hitler's Pope to uphold doctrine of Papal infallibility
Pope John Paul II's response to the question of the wartime Pope's culpability reveals the real design behind the Vatican's report. John Paul II has consistently defended Pius XII, often in a truculent manner. The current Pope [referring to John Paul II] has made it clear that he will do his part to uphold the doctrine of Papal infallibility. One of his speeches during a trip to Germany in 1995 even contained a passage attacking all criticisms of Pius XII as "cheap polemics."(6) This kind of attack is part of a pre-emptive strategy aimed at creating an unreceptive climate for scholarship or discussion dealing with the role of the Vatican. Once again the Church finds itself fighting to prove that the world is flat.
-- What Is The Vatican Hiding?, by Barry Lituchy
Had Pius XII been a regular government official, he'd most likely have been convicted for his numerous crimes.
Yet, he was a Pope. The many well-founded and documented allegations have cast grave suspicion on the wartime Pope. Weighed down with the monumental and impossible task of upholding the 1870 doctrine of Papal infallibility, John Paul II decided that if only he could beatify Hitler's Pope Pius XII, then the whole Catholic Church and its flock would align itself with the idea that Pius XII could not been have guilty of anything as grave as the charges stacked against him. Indeed, Pius XII would then have all the Church's millions of loyal members on its side in blindly denying the facts: denying the evidence by shouting down the truth - a mere numbers game.
The Lateran Treaty with fascist Italy's Mussolini signed under Pius XII's predecessor
Mussolini told the press at Ouchy:
My spirit is deeply religious. Religion is a formidable force which must be respected and defended. I am, therefore, against anti-clerical and atheistic democracy, which represents an old and useless toy. I maintain that Catholicism is a great spiritual power....
-- Mussolini As Revealed in his Political Speeches, by Quaranta, p.XII.
[Pope] Pius XI, in his own words a "man with no love for democracy," helped to bring Mussolini's Fascist Party to power in Italy and in 1926 solemnly declared:
"Mussolini is a man sent by Divine Providence."
And in 1932 the Pope Pius XI blessed Mussolini at St. Peter's.
In Italy, the Holy See signed a pact (drafted by Pacelli's brother and Pietro Gasparri) with Mussolini in February 1929, known as the Lateran Treaty. Hitler had taken note of the Lateran Treaty and hoped for an identical agreement for his future regime. [Cornwell, pp.114-115]
The Vatican encouraged priests to support the Fascists and the Pope [Pius XI] spoke of Mussolini as "a man sent by Providence." The Church has a history of pacts with criminal states as the Holy See signed treaties with monarchs and governments regardless of slavery, inhumanity, or torture they may have induced upon fellow human beings.
Even Mussolini's attack on Ethiopia on October 3, 1935 was not condemned by the Holy See. Nor did Pius XI restrain the Italian hierarchy from war enthusiasm. "O Duce!, declared the bishop of Terracina, "today Italy is Fascist and the hearts of all Italians beat together with yours."[Cornwell, p.175]
From: The Reich Concordat between Hitler and the Vatican, citing Hitler's Pope by John Cornwell.
In 1935 Fascist Italy attacked and invaded Abyssinia. Since the population of Italy lacked enthusiasm for this agression, the pope hastened to declare a new crusade. For example the Archbishop of Tarent, holding a Holy Mass on a submarine, declared: "The war against Abyssinia should be viewed as a Holy War, as a crusade," which also opened "Ethiopia, the land of infidels and schismatics, to the Catholic Faith."
In 1936 the nation's churches and clergy were enjoined to celebrate Italy's victory in Ethiopia. The considerable Christian population in Ethiopia was mostly non-Catholic, hence the Pope's reference to it as a land of schismatics.
The Concordat with Nazi Germany
Pius XII's (then Eugenio Pacelli) efforts as Papal Nuncio in Germany were central to bringing Germany's Catholic Center Party close to Nazism in the 1920's, and then to cementing the agreement between the Vatican and Hitler known as the Concordat of 1933. Pacelli's support for Hitlerism in its early stages is historical record, and preventing the disclosure of the full scope of this support is one of the reasons the Vatican will not open its archives from this period.
From: What Is The Vatican Hiding?, by Barry Lituchy
In the 1920s Pacelli presented his credentials to the Weimer government where he stated,
"For my part, I will devote my entire strength to cultivating and strengthening the relations between the Holy See and Germany."
-- Pacelli, later to become Pope Pius XII
Pacelli's stay in Germany with his familiarity with their political, religious, and racist views must have influenced his later work to unify Catholicism with Germany.
In the 1930s, Pacelli and his associates negotiated with the Nazis to form a contract which got signed in 1933 as the Reich Concordat with the approval of the Pope. ...After the agreement, Hitler, mimicking Pacelli fourteen years earlier stated,
"I will devote my entire strength to cultivating and strengthening the relations between the Holy See and Germany."
-- Hitler [Cornwell, p. 136]
...According to John Cornwell, this papal endorsement of Nazism [the Concordat] helped seal the fate of Europe which makes it plausible that these Catholic prejudices bolstered aspects of Nazi anti-Semitism. [Cornwell, p. 28]
The Concordat and the following Jewish persecutions resulted in the silence of the Pope and the bishops. ...Most bishops and Cardinals were Nazi sympathizers as were bishop Wilhelm Berning of Osnabruck and Archbishop Grober of Freiburg (Pacelli's choice for emissaries).
On April 25, thousands of Catholic priests across Germany became part of an anti-Semitic attestation bureaucracy, supplying details of blood purity through marriage and baptism registries in accordance with the Nazi Nuremberg laws which distinguished Jews from non-Jews. Catholic clerical compliance in the process would continue throughout the period of the Nazi regime. [Cornwell, pp.154]
...After Kristallnacht (where Nazis broke Jewish store windows and had synagogues burned) there issued not a single word of condemnation from the Vatican, the German Church hierarchy, or from Pacelli. Yet in an encyclical on anti-Semitism,
titled Humani generis unitas (The Unity of the Human Race) by Pope Pius XI, a section claims that the Jews were responsible for their own fate. God had chosen them to make way for Christ's redemption but they denied him and killed him. And now, "Blinded by their dream of worldly gain and material success," they had deserved the "worldly and spiritual ruin" that they had brought down upon themselves. [Cornwell, p. 191]
Pacelli became a crowned Pope [Pius XII] on March 12, 1939. The following month on April 20, 1939, at Pacelli's express wish, Archbishop Orsenigo, the nuncio in Berlin, opened a gala reception for Hitler's fiftieth birthday. The birthday greetings thus initiated by Pacelli immediately became a tradition...
By this time Pacelli could call on the loyalty and devotion of a half-billion people, of which half the populations of Hitler's new Reich had become Catholics, including a quarter of the SS. At this time bishops, clergy, religious, and faithful had bound themselves to the Pope, and by his own self estimation, served as the supreme arbiter of moral values on earth. [Cornwell, p. 215]
From: The Reich Concordat between Hitler and the Vatican, citing Hitler's Pope by John Cornwell.
Endorsing Ustashe Croatia
As soon as the new fascist state of Croatia was born, a campaign of cold-blooded terror began, as noted by John Cornwell in his book Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII (Viking, London, UK, 1999):
"(It was) an act of 'ethnic cleansing' before that hideous term came into vogue, it was an attempt to create a 'pure' Catholic Croatia by enforced conversions, deportations, and mass exterminations. So dreadful were the acts of torture and murder that even hardened German troops registered their horror. Even by comparison with the recent bloodshed in Yugoslavia at the time of writing, Pavelic's onslaught against the Orthodox Serbs remains one of the most appalling civilian massacres known to history" (p 249)
Furthermore, as Cornwell notes, Pius XII had not only "warmly endorsed" Croat nationalism, he had, before the war in November 1939, described the Croats in a speech as "the outpost of Christianity" of whom "the hope of a better future seems to be smiling on you".
Pavelic and Pope Pius XII "frequently exchanged cordial telegrams" according to Dedijer [The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican], one on New Year's Day 1943, saw the Pope give his blessing to Pavelic:
Everything that you have expressed so warmly in your name and in the name of the Croatian Catholics we return gracefully and give you and the whole Croatian people our apostolic blessing (Dedijer, p 115).
From: The Role of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia's Holocaust
A vow of silence - Did gold stolen by Croatian fascists reach the Vatican? - U.S. News and World Report, March 30, 1998:
Other reports mention Ustashas meeting with Vatican officials or even living in the Vatican. The British Foreign Office reported in January 1947 that Pavelic himself, by that time a wanted war criminal, was living "within the Vatican City." An earlier report by Gowen, in October 1946, noted that Pavelic was in Rome and in contact with Draganovic.
Documents include accounts of Ustashas being hidden at the pope's summer residence at Castel Gandolfo and being seen driving in Rome in cars with Vatican license plates. The recently declassified Golik memo reports that Ustashas ate at the papal mess and that Father Golik was "declared to be in close contact with the Vatican."
The Vatican's tolerance of the Ustasha during the war was no secret. On the recommendation of Zagreb Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac--who had blessed Pavelic at the opening of the Croatian parliament--the pope established informal diplomatic relations with the independent state of Croatia, and his envoy made regular rounds of Ustasha headquarters. In 1941 and in 1943, at a time when his excesses were known, Pavelic was granted two private audiences with Pius XII. The pope explained that he received the Ustasha leader simply as a Catholic, not as head of the Croatian state. The pontiff's decision was widely reported--and widely deplored--at the time. In July 1941, Francis D'Arcy Osborne, the British ambassador to the Vatican, wrote:
"[Pius's] reception of Pavelic ... has done more to damage his reputation in this country than any other act since the war began."
See more:
Hitler's Pope, by Catholic historian John Cornwell.
Cornwell was allowed extensive access to Vatican files relevant to the Holocaust which apparently had not been studied previously by a non-Vatican researcher. He explains that he was planning to write a book defending Pope Pius XII (hence the access) but changed his mind when he saw the data. [Link]
The abridged version of Hitler's Pope published in Vanity Fair is available online.
Today the Catholic Church has undertaken a campaign of suppression and propaganda to belittle Cornwell, Goldhagen, Romus or any researcher that dares to uncover the reality of the atrocities committed by Roman Catholic Christians.
Link, which also shows how it's not just the Catholic Church that's trying to suppress and deny valid findings and even retaliate on those who bring these uncomfortable facts to light. The Protestant Churches have been trying to do the same with regards to their support for Nazism in Germany.
What Is The Vatican Hiding?, by Barry Lituchy
Christianity in Europe during WWII: The Reich Concordat between Hitler and the Vatican
Ein Jahrhundert Heilsgeschichte. Von Leo XIII. 1878 bis zu Pius XI. 1939. Die Politik der Päpste im Zeitalter der Weltkriege by Church historian Karlheinz Deschner
"A century of Salvation history. Of Leo XIII 1878 up to Pius XI 1939. The Politics of the Popes in the times of the World Wars."
Die Vertreter Gottes. Eine Geschichte der Päpste im 20. Jahrhundert. by Karlheinz Deschner
"God's representative. A history of the Popes of the 20th century"
Die Politik der Päpste im 20. Jahrhundert by Karlheinz Deschner
"Papal politics in the 20th century", also available as one of 15 essays in Deschner's Opus Diaboli.
Mit Gott und dem Führer - Die Politik der Päpste zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus by Karlheinz Deschner
"With God and the Fuehrer - Papal politics during the time of National Socialism" (the Fuehrer was Hitler's title and Nazism is short for National Socialism)
The section Popes of long ago shows how many pontiffs of past centuries have been downright evil, thus Pius' behaviour is in no way an aberration.
Supporting other dictatorships
The eagerness with which the Vatican came to terms with the Hitler regime could be expected from the history of its penchant for "forging diplomatic links with conservative or even fascist regimes [because] it found most aspects of right-wing regimes congenial," to convey the point in the words of Professor of History Michael R. Marrus.
Professor Friedrich Heer [historian], in his magnificently researched God's First Love, backs him up, as do many other historians.
From: Catholic Reaction To The Nazi Holocaust, by Dr. Michael Hakeem, FFRF
Having lost its "strongest bulwark" [Austria] with the end of the first World War, the Vatican turned to Mussolini and fascist Italy to defend it and its long range goals. Likewise, the Vatican threw its support behind Mussolini's imperialist ambitions for fascist Italy. ... Why did Hitler create two independent clerical-fascist states which considered themselves vassals of the papacy? The answer to this question explains why historians hardly ever mention Slovakia and Croatia in their discussions of World War II or the Holocaust: because the Vatican was a silent partner in the Axis alliance, as well as in the Holocaust.
-- What is the Vatican Hiding, Barry Lituchy
Besides Nazism in Germany, Italy and Croatia there are a number of other European countries that suffered markedly under the fascist tyranny of Catholics: Spain under ruthless fascist Catholic dictator Franco and Slovakia under the priest Tiso.
Catholicism had links to government organizations, right-wing nationalism, including Fascism and Nazism. Moreover, most every right-wing dictator of the period had been brought up a Catholic: Hitler, Horthy, Franco, Petain, Mussoline, Pavelic, and Tiso (who has served as a Catholic priest).
From: Christianity in Europe during WWII
Contrary to their claims today, the fascist regimes in Europe from the 1920's to the 1940's had been widely supported by the majority of Christians, including the Nazi rule in Germany. Other examples were the Italian Fascism under Mussolini, the rule of Spanish Catholic dictator Franco (and a similar one in Portugal), the Clerofascist rule of Tiso in Slovakia, and the war-born Ustasha regime in Croatia, a part of Yugoslavia.
From: The Christian Horror Picture Show
When Gen. Francisco Franco seized control of Spain during the civil war in the 1930s, for instance, he worked with the clergy to spread a "National Catholicism" that enforced his social and political codes.
Spain and the rise of Catholic Fascist Franco
The Spanish people, stricken with poverty and a high rate of analphabets (about 80% of the population), had swept away monarchy, proclaimed a republic and elected a left-wing government in 1931. Separation of State and Church was made a reality, religious freedom was granted and civil marriage adopted. Some of the Church property - which was estimated at one third of the nation's wealth - was nationalized. To fight the "Antichrists," a violent, relentless Catholic opposition was promptly started on a large scale throughout Spain.
By 1934 Catholic organizations already planned a coup d'état, having been in touch with the Fascist Government of Italy. On July 17, 1934 the Spanish Army rose in many Spanish towns. The Spanish Civil War had begun. As soon as the revolt broke out, a General Franco made haste to let the pope know that his coup had succeeded. The papal banner was unfurled over the rebel headquarters at Burgos, and the pope [Pius XI] had Franco's flag raised over the Vatican.
This was the beginning of a world-wide Catholic offensive against Republican Spain. Bishops in Italy, Germany and other countries published pastoral letters urging Catholics to help. The pope spoke. The Spanish Civil War, he said, was a foretaste of what
"is being prepared for Europe and the World unless the nations take appropriate measures against it."
-- Pope Pius XI, 12/25/1936
Mussolini sent thousands of troops, Hitler sent warplanes, warships, tanks, and soldiers. The Spanish people fought a bitter, relentless fight from 1936 until 1939. Before the demolition of yet another young democracy in Europe was complete, Pius XI died.
"His Holiness, Pius XII, the best anti-democrat in the world," as he was in 1950 (!) proudly titled by Ecclesia, official organ of the Spanish Catholic Action in an attempt to pay him the greatest tribute a Catholic paper could pay, earlier in his career, as we have seen, had helped Hitler to come to power in Germany. His policy as a pope was faithful to his predecessor. When the Spanish republic was finally defeated by Catholic troops under Franco, would-be dictator of Spain, the pope sent a special message to the victors:
"With great joy we address you, dearest sons of Catholic Spain, to express our paternal congratulations for the gift of peace and victory with which God has chosen to crown the Christian heroism of your faith ... We give you, our dear sons of Catholic Spain, our apostolic benediction." [4/17/1939]
Church property and all medieval (!) privileges of the Church were restored. No other religion was allowed. Protestants and ex-Catholics were sent to concentration camps for refusing to attend divine service. Freethinkers, democrats, Socialists and Communists were deprived of civil rights, imprisoned, or shot. In the foreign field, Catholic Spain promptly supported Hitler and Mussolini, the former receiving a letter from Spanish dictator Franco on February 26, 1941:
"We stand today where we have always stood, in a resolute manner and with the firmest conviction, [therefore] you must have no doubts about my absolute loyalty to this political concept and to the realization of the union of our national destinies with those of Germany and Italy."
Slovakia under Catholic Nazi Tiso
Jozef Tiso, head of the Nazi puppet state of Slovakia, was a Catholic priest and vocal antisemite. He had delivered a highly anti-Semitic speech in August 1942 and presided over the deportation of Slovak Jews to Auschwitz. He was tried and executed as a war criminal.
When in 2000 Zilina in Slovakia wanted to commemorate this Catholic Nazi priest with a plaque, the Federation of Jewish Communities denounced the decision as "an attempt to rehabilitate fascism." The organization accused Tiso of having perpetrated criminal acts during the war, which led to the deportation and ultimate extermination of over 60,000 Jews from Slovakia. The American Embassy gave its support to the Jewish body's statement.
Chapter 21 of The Vatican's Holocaust, by Avro Manhattan:
[Description of a picture of Slovakia's tyrant, the Catholic Nazi Tiso shaking hands with Hitler]
Hitler welcomes Mgr. Tiso, a Catholic priest, whom he made Chief of State of Nazi sponsored Slovakia—January 20th, 1941. Mgr. Tiso, leader of the Catholics of Slovakia, cooperated with Hitler in the final disintegration of the Republic of Czechoslovakia.
Before the Second World War he led Nazified Catholics against the Central Government of Prague. He was in continuous contact respectively with Pope Pius XII, from whom he took political directives, and Adolf Hitler, with whom he plotted for the ultimate military occupation of the Republic of Czechoslovakia.
Like Ante Pavelich, who helped to bring about the disintegration of Yugoslavia to set up his Independent Catholic State of Croatia under Nazi protection, so Mgr. Tiso worked incessantly for the final ruin of Czechoslovakia to create the Independent Catholic State of Slovakia, which he ruled as a Nazi Quisling State.
Although he never matched the terrorization of Croatia, nevertheless
Mgr. Tiso set up a Catholic Dictatorship in which the Church was declared supreme and where Catholic-Nazi doctrines were ruthlessly enforced upon all and sundry. After the fall of Hitler, Mgr. Tiso was liquidated by the Allies. Pope Pius XII protested, saying that Mgr. Tiso had been a martyr for "religious freedom."
More on how Nazism in countries like Slovakia were used to inspire the emergence of Nazism in the Croatian region of former Yugoslavia.
About that same Tiso that Pope Pius XII defended:
Monsignor Tiso, head of the Slovak State, who delivered the first trainload of Jews to Auschwitz [Link]
See the books:
Mit Gott und den Faschisten. Der Vatikan im Bunde mit Mussolini, Franco, Hitler und Pavelic by Church historian Karlheinz Deschner
"With God and the Fascists. The Vatican in league with Mussolini, Franco, Hitler and Pavelic"
(Referring to the Catholic fascist dictators of Italy, Spain, Germany and Croatia respectively.)
Kirche und Faschismus, Karlheinz Deschner
"Church and Fascism"
Die Politik der Päpste im 20. Jahrhundert by Karlheinz Deschner
"The politics of the Popes in the 20th century"
Mit Gott und dem Führer by Karlheinz Deschner
"With God and the Fuehrer [Hitler]"
Chile's Pinochet and the Vatican
Though Fascist governments eventually died out and the Vatican made sure to distance itself from them, later dictatorships under Catholic tyrants would yet again be given the Vatican's full support.
For example, Chile's Catholic dictator Pinochet who tormented Chileans. He was caught and was to be extradited to Spain where he could be put on trial for his crimes against humanity. The Vatican pleaded with international authorities to prevent his extradition - on humanitarian grounds, no less, arguing that the criminal was unwell. This farce might have been more believable, had the Vatican (and its fascist Nuncio to Chile, cardinals and archbishops) also pleaded with Pinochet for humane treatment of the Chilean people when he was still dictator. But the Vatican hadn't done that, because Pinochet was working for the Church and in a Church-approved manner in his position as tyrant.
More on Pinochet and the Vatican:
Pinochet's men in the Vatican:
Besides the Papal Nuncio in Chile, this article also names some of the cardinals and archbishops on both sides of the Atlantic who were involved in upholding dictatorships in Chile and Argentina:
Cardinal Angello Sodano, Papal Nuncio (Vatican's Ambassador) in Chile during Pinochet's dictatorship, and with whom he maintained a close friendship, based on political affinities. He arranged the visit of John Paul II to Chile in 1987, and was behind each of the Pope's gestures of legitimisation towards the dictator. Years later, Sodano replaced Cardinal Casaroli as Vatican's secretary of state, a position that he currently occupies.
...To mark Pinochet's golden wedding anniversary, he sent the couple a personal letter of congratulation, full of praise. After meeting in Castelgandolfo with the Chilean Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, in November 1998, Sodano wrote to the British government, asking that mercy be shown towards his friend the general, citing humanitarian reasons, reconciliation between Chileans, and, ultimately, the sovereignty of the Chilean State.
At the head of the Roman Congregation for the Divine Cult and the Sacraments is another admirer of Pinochet: the Chilean Cardinal Jorge Medina, who was Archbishop of Valaparaíso ... his declaration of August 3rd, 1990:
"Democracy does not automatically mean that God would want it to be put into practice."
Another powerful man in the Vatican is the Colombian cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo...
...another character who has played a key role in the religious legitimisation of dictatorships: the Italian Cardinal Pio Laghi, who was absolutely committed to helping the Argentinian military regime when he was the head of the Apostolic Nunciature in Buenos Aires. ... The Argentinian church actively collaborated with the repression through the military chaplains. ... Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo (the group of mothers and widows whose husbands and children were 'disappeared' during the regime) have appealed to the Italian judicial system to accuse Cardinal Laghi of complicity with the military dictatorship. But their accusation is doomed to fail, because Laghi is currently president of the Holy Congregation for Catholic Education and enjoys immunity under the Letran Accords.
The Vatican opts for impunity
'Did we deserve to be savagely tortured? It was before 1988, yes, but it was pure horror' - The Guardian, April 8, 1999
the [British] Law Lords' decision to grant General Pinochet immunity from crimes committed before 1988.
It also briefly mentions some of the terrible suffering of the Chileans under Pinochet.
Tha'ts you Catholic Church
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Far from bulshit it historical truth.
Still dogging the question did you and your wife ever used contraceptives and digressed from the church teachings.
Did you confess your sin
The ignoramuses at the mainstream media are at it again. Pope Benedict XVI, we are told by the UK Telegraph, will soon "end the Catholic Church's absolute ban on the use of condoms," this after "decades of fierce opposition to the use of all contraception." "Until now," according to the folks at the AFP, "the Vatican had prohibited the use of any form of contraception — other than abstinence — even as a guard against sexually transmitted disease."
: The Church teaches that contraception within marriage is a mortal sin; and, of course, sexual intercourse outside of marriage is also a mortal sin.
How many times have you confess this mortal sin greeney2
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A rambling account of a day-long bughunt.
Yesterday a colleague discovered that when running under ecto, PCL's ascii-format pcd writer output files with corrupted colors... many of the points were incorrectly black. This pcd writer packs four bytes into a float and serializes the float with standard c++ streaming operators. This program was executed by a python script; at length Eitan discovered that if he simply omitted the import of ecto_ros, without recompiling, the files were uncorrupted.
My first thought ODR violation, which results in Undefined Behavior, AKA Nasal Demons, bugs that manifest themselves in absolutely whatever way they choose. Probably it has nothing to do with the pcd writer per se, we thought. It might be a locale issue, i.e. that it was running on this colleague's desk, we thought... we were wrong.
It was completely reproducible, but difficult to debug: the process loaded a python interpreter, ecto, ecto_pcl, ~20 PCL shared libraries, maybe ten more ROS shared libraries, ecto_ros, 12 OpenCV shared libraries... something like 80 total. The import of ecto_ros accounted for roughly 50 of them.
Well the ODR violation is tough to track down as much of this code is already compiled; you can't easily preprocess translation units and compare them. Getting everything checked out and built would have been a several hour exercise, during which time the problem would probably have disappeared, leaving us back where we started. We looked at ldd output, rpaths, tried to run nm on shared objects and saw that they were compiled release and stripped. We fired up valgrind and gdb and chased irrelevant global-destructor-time invalid deletes in ROS libraries, walking the stack but not seeing much.
We constructed a standalone binary that loaded a pcd file and saved an ascii version... at first, no error, until we linked against ecto_ros. Good, we can reproduce it. We constructed a test harness that recompiled our binary, executed it, and compared the checksum of the saved file to one known to be uncorrupted. Thinking of ODR violations, we wanted to see if there were duplicate but differing files on the include path, i.e. two copies of sensor_msgs/PointCloud2.h, but this path was thirty directories long, and again we couldn't easily see the preprocessed source that had been compiled in to the shared libraries we were running with.
We whittled away at the list of libraries; comment out, recompile, relink, rerun. We were down to OpenCV, pcl, and a couple of ROS libraries that were required by pcl. That is still twenty-something libraries.
Many iterations later, we had narrowed it down to OpenCV, which had been used inside ecto_ros for some nodes that convert between sensor_msgs/Image and cv::Mat. Next, of those 12 OpenCV libraries, just the presence of libopencv_core.so.2.3.1 in the link list would toggle the bug.
We built OpenCV from scratch and compiled against that. We see the corruption. We next attempted to somehow reduce the contents of this library until we find the code that toggles the bug... but this code isn't being executed anyway, and after some effort we discovered that we weren't going to be capable of subdividing this codebase due to missing symbols when linking at runtime... Our only option would be to manually comment out the bodies of all the functions in all the translation units.
In desperation, we did what any reasonable software engineer would do, we randomly flipped compile flags. To our astonishment the debug version of libopencv_core did not provoke the buggy behavior, but the release version did. This, despite the fact that no code inside this library was ever being run.
Was it assert() statements with side effects that negated the error condition, run at dlopen() time because they're found in the constructors of static objects? Other nefarious code compiled in by NDEBUG? SSE optimization flags? We tested each: No, no, and no. Twenty recompiles or so later, the culprit was isolated:
Google demonstrated its omniscience by turning up a site called programerror.com as the first hit for gcc fast-math. Another hour later we'd found that, of the various -f flags that -ffast-math enables, the specfic offender was -funsafe-math-operations. Excerpt from the gcc docs:
Allow optimizations for floating-point arithmetic that (a) assume that
arguments and results are valid and (b) may violate IEEE or ANSI
standards. When used at link-time, it may include libraries or startup
files that change the default FPU control word or other similar
optimizations. This option is not turned on by any -O option since it
can result in incorrect output for programs which depend on an exact
implementation of IEEE or ISO rules/specifications for math
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require the guarantees of these specifications. Enables
-fno-signed-zeros, -fno-trapping-math, -fassociative-math and
The default is -fno-unsafe-math-optimizations.
So. -ffast-math would appear to be rather evil. If you use this flag to build your library, programs who link against you that expect correct math may break, and if they do, they will be consistent about it, but it will be very tough to figure out why.
So. If you've skipped to the bottom of this message, the short story is: DO NOT USE -ffast-math.


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When a teenager coldly confessed to his role in the assassination of four people, who were found beheaded and hanging from a bridge in Central Mexico last year, the nation was stunned. From new mothers to older Mexicans who have watched violence spiral in the past decade, they hoped that the shocking case would at least be a wakeup for a society that appears increasingly inured to murder.
This week, however, many of them are reacting bitterly to the sentence that was just handed down. Edgar Jimenez, better known as "El Ponchis" and dubbed by the media here as the "boy killer," received three years in juvenile detention, a sixth of which he has already served. It is the maximum that the state of Morelos allows for minors.
"He might be a child, but he is a criminal," says Maria Mojica, who says she is saddened by the violence that seems to overshadow everything else about this nation. "This will not instill fear in others who commit crimes."
Young people are increasingly the perpetrators of violent crime in Mexico. Sometimes they are forcibly recruited and threatened by drug gangs. Other times the allure is too great, and drug money looks like an easy out in the face of few opportunities and impunity rates that are well over 90 percent. And while the sentence for Mr. Jimenez is considered too light by many, hardly dissuading others from killing for money, his case has underscored how much institutions have deteriorated in many parts of the country.
"Our system is not strong enough to enforce [the law]," says Elena Azaola Garrido, a criminal justice anthropologist at the Center of Research and Higher Education for Social Anthropology in Mexico City. "Children can take a chance because they see most are not captured. There are inadequate policies to tackle this."
The killings and kidnappings that Jimenez was charged with riled Mexico last year, after the boy confessed on camera to his participation in the killings for a major criminal organization. He said he was threatened and drugged while committing crimes. "I slit their throats," Jimenez said.
Jimenez was born in San Diego, where his mother lives, but brought to Mexico by his father when he was a baby. He dropped out of school. He was arrested last December while attempting to board a flight to Tijuana with his sister.
The three-year sentence was not a surprise: it is the maximum allowed for Morelos, outside Mexico City, where the crimes were perpetrated. While organized crime cases are federal, there are no mechanisms in place to try minors at that level.
'It could have been a warning'
Still those Mexicans who sought to make the stunning case a lesson on consequences for other children were disappointed.
"This could have been a warning for others," says Alicia Garcia, walking in the park with her son and dog on a brisk morning, who adds that even though the laws are different for minors and adults, "he committed the crimes of an adult."
Teens and those even younger have long joined gangs in Central America, perpetrated horrific violence in Brazil, formed armies in Africa, and killed for cults, for revenge at school, and themselves.
But as violence worsens in Mexico, children here are increasingly vulnerable to the drug groups that are behind tens of thousands of murders in recent years throughout the country.
One of the most vulnerable is the group dubbed ni-nis, youths who neither work nor are in school. In a July 24 editorial in its magazine, the archdiocese of Mexico recently said that there are potentially millions of such children who could be recruited by criminals with easy money. At a recent US Agency for International Development (USAID), US Department of State and Organization of American States (OAS) conference on youth development and crime prevention, OAS head José Miguel Insulza said that one of three young people in the region neither works nor studies.
"(They) are the most vulnerable to the lure of crime," he said.
The conference noted that governments need to work harder to change the image of youths from generators of violence to positive agents of change and need to create programs that allow them to realize their potential.
Ms. Azaola says that many young children like Jimenez are demonized, but that a whole host of institutions are to blame.
"The media is just talking about a three-year sentence not being enough. They don't also talk about the conditions in which this little boy grew up," she says. "We have to look at the responsibility of families and institutions that failed to protect and give him any rights."


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Here is a class photo from what is believed to be a 2nd Grade Class taken outside the old Plain City School in Plain City, Weber, Utah. I have at least two family members in the photo, Paul Ross and Ruby Sharp. Ruby is still alive and provided much of the information for this photo but could not name all the individuals. I have added family history to the individuals below, question marks either denote an unknown person or dates (which probably means the person is still alive).
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Frank Howard Hadley (1921-2008)
Ryan Kent Jenkins (1922-2002)
Golda Lucinda Illum (1921-2000)
Ruby Elaine Sharp (1922-Alive)
Lloyd Christian Olsen (1921-2000)
Atholeen Jane England (1922-1986)
Alice Maw (1922-2004)
Lucille Hadley (1922-2010)
Myrene McFarland (1922-1997)
Verla Lund (1922-1933)
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Almost everyone knows what LOL means. The text acronym for laugh out loud has become so ubiquitous that it has entered popular parlance and even the Oxford dictionary.
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Ed Russ -- When I Get Alone With God
Other Recordings From Ed Russ: That I May Know Him
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Russ is an excellent singer. This is one of my favorite male solo recordings.
His dad, Gayle Edward Russ is also an excellent male soloist..
Ed Russ does a lot of the production work on most of the music that is
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Teens and moms!
I was late calling my mother yesterday. Occasion phone calls must happen before noon wherever she is. But time, time in a casino doesn't the work the same way. I never know the time here. So I phoned her past noon and I knew it would be trouble. She would find a way to profit, of course she would. But first, like a junkie, she made me tell her about every table game, my wins and losses. I could hear her mouth watering on the other end.
Some mothers teach their daughters how to bake. How to sew. How to dress a table. My mother's gift to me was gambling. The best gift ever. I should have thanked her earlier yesterday. I should have and I didn't. And now I must pay. She probably planned it that way.
Yesterday in Vancouver it was a Mother's Day for teens!
Twilight/New Moon stars Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning, and Cameron Bright were spotted with their moms downtown, and also the adorable Selena Gomez with her arms wrapped around mom in a publicly affectionate moment. My mother would slap me if I ever did this.
I love this Selena Gomez. If I had to go back to being 16, I'd want to look like her. She is the cutest.
Also attached – photos of Selena with Joey King, her costar in Ramona and Beezus. Joey plays Ramona.
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Protect: secure DNS requests
As part of the Protect integrated security system, Yandex Browser uses DNSCrypt, a technology to protect users against interception and substitution of DNS requests.
Note. By default, DNSCrypt encryption is disabled.
DNS hijacking risks
In order to access an internet site, you need to know the IP address. But it's easier for users to remember domain names (the letters comprising the site address) than to remember the string of numbers that make up the IP address. DNS is a widely-used system for getting the IP addresses that correspond to domain names.
When a user enters a website address, this is what happens:
- The browser sends a request specifying the domain to a special DNS server.
- The DNS server returns a response with the appropriate physical IP address.
Attention. The DNS server request and response are transmitted openly, without encryption.
The lack of encryption means that:
- The internet provider or network administrator can find out which sites a user is visiting.
- Attackers can tamper with the response from the DNS server and redirect the user to a malicious site. For example, instead of going to a bank's website, a user might end up on a fake site that steals passwords.
DNSCrypt technology in Yandex Browser
This is how DNSCrypt technology works:
- DNSCrypt encrypts requests sent from your computer using elliptical cryptography.
- Encrypted requests are send to the DNS sever, which supports the DNSCrypt protocol.
- The DNS server then sends the encrypted IP address to your computer.
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Uniform look for Qt and GTK applications
Qt and GTK+ based programs both use a different widget toolkit to render the graphical user interface. Each come with different themes, styles and icon sets by default, among other things, so the "look and feel" differ significantly. This article will help you make your Qt and GTK+ applications look similar for a more streamlined and integrated desktop experience.
To get a similar look between the toolkits, you will most likely have to modify the following:
- Theme: The custom appearance of an application, widget set, etc. It usually consists of a style, an icon theme and a color theme.
- Style: The graphical layout and look of the widget set.
- Icon Theme: A set of global icons.
- Color Theme: A set of global colors that are used in conjunction with the style.
You can choose various approaches:
- Modify GTK+ and Qt styles separately with the tools listed below for each toolkit and aim for choosing similarly looking themes (style, colors, icons, cursors, fonts).
- Use a special theme engine, which intermediates the modification of the other graphical toolkit to match your main toolkit.
Styles for both Qt and GTK+
There are widget style sets available for the purpose of integration, where builds are written and provided for both Qt and GTK+, all major versions included. With these, you can have one look for all applications regardless of the toolkit they had been written with.
Breeze is the default Qt style of KDE Plasma. It can be installed with the breeze package for Qt5, the breeze-kde4 package for Qt4, and the breeze-gtk package for GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3.
Once installed, you can use one of the many GTK+ configuration tools to change the GTK+ theme.
Adwaita is the default GNOME theme. The GTK+ 3 version is included in the gtk3 package, while the GTK+ 2 version is in gnome-themes-standard. adwaita-qt is a Qt port of the Adwaita theme. Unlike #QGtkStyle, which mimics the GTK+ 2 theme, it provides a native Qt style made to look like the GTK+ 3 Adwaita. It can be installed with the adwaita-qt4AUR and adwaita-qt5AUR packages for the Qt 4 and 5 versions, respectively.
To set the Qt style as default:
- For Qt4, it can be enabled with Qt Configuration (
qtconfig-qt4), choose adwaita under Appearance > GUI Style. Alternatively, edit the
/etc/xdg/Trolltech.conf(system-wide) or
~/.config/Trolltech.conf(user-specific) file:
... [Qt] style=adwaita ...
- For Qt 5, it can be enabled by setting the following environment variable:
QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=adwaita. Alternatively, use qt5ct package. For more detailed instructions, see Qt#Configuration_of_Qt5_apps_under_environments_other_than_KDE_Plasma.
Theme engines
A theme engine can be thought of as a thin layer API which translates themes (excluding icons) between one or more toolkits. These engines add some extra code in the process and it is arguable that this kind of a solution is not as elegant and optimal as using native styles.
This Qt style uses GTK+ 2 to render all components to blend in with GNOME and similar GTK+ based environments. Beginning with Qt 4.5, this style is included in Qt. It requires gtk2 to be installed and configured.
This is the default Qt4 style in Cinnamon, GNOME and Xfce, and the default Qt5 style in Cinnamon, GNOME, MATE, LXDE and Xfce. In other environments:
- For Qt4, it can be enabled with Qt Configuration (
qtconfig-qt4), choose GTK+ under Appearance > GUI Style. Alternatively, edit the
/etc/xdg/Trolltech.conf(system-wide) or
~/.config/Trolltech.conf(user-specific) file:
... [Qt] style=GTK+ ...
- For Qt 5, it can be enabled by installing qt5-stylepluginsAUR and setting the following environment variable:
For full uniformity, make sure that the configured GTK+ theme supports both GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3.
This Qt 5 platform theme applies the appearance settings of GNOME for Qt applications. It can be installed with the qgnomeplatform-gitAUR package. It does not provide a Qt style itself, instead it requires a style that support both Qt and GTK+.
This platform theme is enabled automatically in GNOME since version 3.20. For other systems, it can be enabled by setting the following environment variable:
Tips and tricks
KDE file dialogs for GTK+ applications
kgtkAUR from the AUR is a wrapper script which uses
LD_PRELOAD to force KDE file dialogs in GTK+ 2.x apps. Once installed you can run GTK+ 2.x applications with
kgtk-wrapper in two ways (using GIMP in the examples):
- Calling
kgtk-wrapperdirectly and using the GTK+ 2.x binary as an argument:
$ /usr/bin/kgtk-wrapper gimp
- Modifying the KDE .desktop shortcuts files you can find at
/usr/share/applications/to prefix the
Execstatement with kgtk-wrapper.
- e.g. with GIMP, edit the
/usr/share/applications/gimp.desktopshortcut file and replace
Exec=gimp-2.8 %Uby
Exec=kgtk-wrapper gimp-2.8 %U.
Using a GTK+ icon theme in Qt apps
If you are running Plasma, install kde-gtk-config and select the icon-theme under System Settings > Application Style > GTK.
If you are using GNOME, first check if dconf-editor is installed.
Then, run
dconf-editor and look under org > gnome > desktop > interface for
icon-theme key and change it to your preferred icon theme.
If you are not using GNOME, for example if you are running a minimal system with i3-wm, first install dconf-editor.
Then, run
dconf-editor and look under org > gnome > desktop > interface for
icon-theme key and change it to your preferred icon theme.
Since, you are not using GNOME, you might have to set the value of
DESKTOP_SESSION in your profile. To do that execute the below code in a terminal and restart your system.
$ echo 'export DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome' >> /etc/profile
export DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome somewhere in your
~/.xinitrc or, if you are using a Display manager in Xprofile.
Improve subpixel rendering of GTK apps under KDE Plasma
Qt applications do not use QGtkStyle
Qt will not apply QGtkStyle correctly if GTK+ is using the GTK+-Qt Engine[broken link: invalid section]. Qt determines whether the GTK+-Qt Engine is in use by reading the GTK+ configuration files listed in the environmental variable
GTK2_RC_FILES. If the environmental variable is not set properly, Qt assumes you are using the engine, sets QGtkStyle to use the style GTK+ style Clearlooks, and outputs an error message:
QGtkStyle cannot be used together with the GTK_Qt engine.
Another error you may get after launching
qtconfig-qt4 from a shell and selecting the GTK+ style is:
QGtkStyle was unable to detect the current GTK+ theme.
According to this thread, you may simply have to install libgnomeuiAUR to solve this issue. This has the added benefit that you do not need to edit a file every time you change your theme via a graphical tool, like the one provided by xfce.
Users of Openbox and other non-GNOME environments may encounter this problem. To solve this, first add the following to your
.xinitrc file:
... export GTK2_RC_FILES="$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0" ...
Then specify the theme you want in the
~/.gtkrc-2.0 file using a dedicated application[broken link: invalid section] or manually, by adding:
... gtk-theme-name="[name of theme]" ...
Some tools only insert the following include directive in
... include "/usr/share/themes/SomeTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc" ...
which apparently is not recognized by all versions of QGtkStyle. You can hotfix this problem by inserting the
gtk-theme-name manually in your
~/.gtkrc-2.0 file like above.
If these steps do not work, install gconf and run this command:
gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme [name of theme]
If you further want to set the same icon and cursor theme, then you have to specify them, too.
gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme Faenza-Dark
This sets the icon theme to Faenza-Dark located in
/usr/share/icons/Faenza-Dark. For the cursor theme you first have to set the gconf value.
gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/cursor_theme Adwaita
Then you will have to create the file
/usr/share/icons/default/index.theme with the following lines:
[Icon Theme] Inherits=Adwaita
Themes not working in GTK+ apps
If the style or theme engine you set up is not showing in your GTK applications then it is likely your GTK+ settings files are not being loaded for some reason. You can check where your system expects to find these files by doing the following..
$ export | grep gtk
Usually the expected files should be
~/.gtkrc for GTK1 and
~/.gtkrc2.0 or
~/.gtkrc2.0-kde for GTK+ 2.x.
Newer versions of gtk-qt-engineAUR[broken link: archived in aur-mirror] use
~/.gtkrc2.0-kde and set the export variable in
If you recently removed gtk-qt-engine and are trying to set a GTK+ theme then you must also remove
~/.kde/env/gtk-qt-engine.rc.sh and reboot. Doing this will ensure that GTK+ looks for its settings in the standard
~/.gtkrc2.0 instead of the
~/.gtkrc2.0-kde file.


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Yesterday, scrappy Presbyterian College from Clinton, South Carolina waddled into the Dean Dome to get predictably stomped by the Tar Heels. That still didn't stop coach Roy Williams from tossing a Blue Hose fan for...yelling at his team during free-throws.
During the post-game press conference, Williams puts on his best shit-kicker car salesman smile and explains to reporters that he had the fan removed because he doesn't think that "anybody should yell anything negative at our players. Period." One reporter continued to probe about what the fan said — "was it vulgar?" — but Roy just summarily disposed of the question and threatened to end the presser if there were anymore questions about it.
According to one reader, the disruptive Presbyterian fan yelled — brace yourselves — "Don't miss, Deon!" when Deon Thompson was at the free-throw line. As you can tell from the video, the fan wasn't pantsless or anything like that and appears rightfully confused when two smokeys start yanking him out of the aisle.
Go ahead, Dukies. Unload.
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Hi HG, I'm trying to explore the world of seafood. I've heard that some fish, like salmon, are very high in fat. Can you give me the lowdown? Wondering in Washington
Hey Wondering,
Great question... I love fish! Some are very low in fat, like tilapia, cod, and sea bass. A 4-oz. cooked portion has 120 - 145 calories and 1 - 3g fat (PointsPlus® value 3*). And some are known as fatty fish or oily fish, like trout and most types of salmon. A 4-oz. cooked portion of these has 215 - 260 calories and 10 - 15g fat (PointsPlus® value 5 - 7*). Here's the important part: While some fish are fattier than others, they're actually packed with healthy fats, a.k.a. omega-3s. These are known for their heart-health benefits. The American Heart Association actually recommends that people eat fish rich in omega-3s at least twice a week. We all need fat in our diets, so make it the healthy kind! When dining out, keep your meal guilt-free by ordering the omega-heavy fish broiled, baked, grilled, or steamed. No need to add extra fat by having it sautéed or fried in oil. Skip buttery or creamy sauces too. If the fish portion is gigantic, don't eat it all. (Take the rest home.) And fill out your meal with lots of steamed veggies! Wanna DIY with HG recipes? Whip up this Crispy Creamy Salmon Bake or Scoopy Salmon Salad. For breakfast, enjoy a Foxy Lox-Topped Waffle! And this Sesame Salmon & Snap Peas en Foil pack is OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD good! Happy chewing!
Hungry Girl, I keep hearing about extreme dieting -- fasting, cleanses, etc. -- among celebrities as a way to lose weight quickly. What do you think about these crazes? Extremely Curious Emily
Hi Emily,
First of all, it's called extreme dieting for a reason -- it's severe and can even be dangerous. Here's what you need to know... Celebs often have expensive health professionals on call. You may be tempted to try a starlet's get-into-superhero-shape diet, but keep in mind that celebrities preparing for a role are usually monitored by health professionals throughout the process. This kind of precaution isn't realistic for the average person. Fasting and cleanses could actually lead to weight gain. Abstaining from food slows down your metabolic rate, so your body will go into "store fat" mode once you resume your normal diet. Not ideal! If you want to lose weight, you're MUCH better off adopting lifestyle choices you can maintain. Clean-eating basics. The type of detox I DO support is "clean eating." While there are many packaged foods that I love, when I want to really clean up my diet, I tend to stick with the all-natural stuff: fresh fruit (Fuji apples, strawberries, and raspberries are some of my favorites), lean protein (like grilled chicken and shrimp cocktail), and lots of veggies (I love enormous salads and steamed sugar snap peas). I also cut down on starchy carbs. And I drink TONS of water. It's a good way to flush out your system and keep yourself hydrated. Stick with the plain stuff, or add a squirt of lemon. Overall, if you want to jump-start your weight loss, my suggestion would be to skip the fad diets and go for tried-and-true healthy eating and calorie counting. Speaking of which, click here for a great calculator to help determine your calorie needs!
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We've seen a couple of big imagery releases in the past few days:
Google Earth has updated various imagery all over the world. You can read details on the Google Earth Blog, or view this page to see the updated areas via the Google Earth Plug-in. Here are some neat things that users have already found in the fresh imagery.
Bing Maps has updated imagery in the US, UK and Canada. In particular, they've added a ton of fresh imagery in Vancouver in anticipation of the 2010 Olympics, which begin in February. You can use the Bing Maps World Tour application to see all of the updated areas.


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While AI is the future foundation for analytics, Forrester finds that for now, rules still rule in text analytics platforms.
SAS® advanced analytics solutions, powered by artificial intelligence, help businesses uncover opportunities to find insights in unstructured data. As a result, SAS is ranked a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI-Based Text Analytics Platforms, Q2 2018. The report also notes the "comprehensive" visual user interface of SAS.
"Text analytics can help solve a number of complex business problems such as detecting fraud and assessing customer feedback," said Mary Beth Ainsworth, AI and Language Analytics Strategist at SAS. "SAS gives organizations the power of natural language processing, machine learning and linguistic rules in a visual dashboard to reveal data insights."
SAS Visual Text Analytics uses intelligent algorithms and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to automatically extract relationships and patterns within unstructured data, therefore eliminating the need for manual analysis. The NLP tools help users in sentiment analysis, speech to text, natural language understanding and natural language generation.
The Forrester report states: "SAS's brand speaks for itself as a leader in advanced analytics; as a result, SAS Visual Text Analytics comes with a number of machine learning models. Users can also leverage other capabilities of the platform, such as forecasting and optimization, to deliver predictive, prescriptive, and actionable analytics."
"SAS's brand speaks for itself as a leader in advanced analytics; as a result, SAS Visual Text Analytics comes with a number of machine learning models."
The Forrester Wave™: AI-Based Text Analytics Platforms, Q2 2018
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Reflecting this morning…
To Write or not to Write…
To Post or not to Post…
Back in 2009, someone sent me a wedding picture of Frobe Caron and his wife Evelina Couet.
I can't recall if he or she gave me permission to post it on this blog.
This is why I prefer not to post it here.
It is a beautiful wedding picture just like my maternal grandparents's wedding picture.
Rosina Quesnel and Euclide Sauvé
My grandparents got married in 1919. Rosina was a widow with eight children. Her first husband had died in 1918.
I hope my distant cousin, who I sent a link to this blog, has not been scared away with this passion of mine for ancestors and old pictures.
I sure hope so.
I invited him also on my Ancestry site which is private. Sandy warned me back in 2009. People would take pictures and copy information without asking permission first. Some were not even related to the people in the pictures.
Some people, when told politely, we even rude…
Go figure.
As a footnote to all this, I am now more careful with information I post on this blog so not to scare people away.
As a footnote to this footnote, this is what I found out by myself about Frobe and his lovely wife back in 2011.
I think I can post it here…
Frobe Evarist Rosario Caron
b. 29 Oct 1897, New Bedford, Bristol, MA
d. 10 Mar 1980, New Bedford, Bristol, MA
spouse: Evelina Couet
b. 2 Nov 1897, New Bedford, Bristol, MA
d. 4 Jul 1980, New Bedford, Bristol, MA
15 May 1922, St. Hyacinth Catholic Church, New Bedford, Bristol MA
Occupation: Tile setter
WWI Veteran
Member of Disabled American Veterans
Member The Blind Veterans Association
Both were born in 1897 and both died in 1980.