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The Return Of The Silk Road – 21st Century Style
The original silk road, spanning back to the the Han Dynasty, oversaw immense change to the way the world traded. The expansion occurred through China, Japan, Persia, Europe, and Africa. These nations hold 2/3rd's of the world's population currently. Now, in the 21st Century, we are once again seeing the power of globalisation and the start of a new economic landscape.
$1 trillion. That is a figure that I cannot even fathom, let alone ever get my hands on. That amount is what China are spending on the initiative called the '21st Century Maritime Silk Road', or the 'Belt and Road' initiative. There are many names that you can call it but the proposal is still the same. Lead by China's Xi Jinping, the manifestation before us will transform the world. It will enable trading and co-operation between Eurasian countries and the People's Republic of China, along with railways, ports and road being made as well as other infrastructures. Of course, it will boost tourism immensely in all countries involved, something that has been affected due to global threats, such as terrorism. 6 corridors will exist, some for example, mentioned below:
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The project has already started in areas. DIFC – Dubai International Financial Centre, has already spoken of the support towards OBOR. Eisa Kazim, governor of DIFC, "China is a strategic partner of the UAE and, today, its most important source of imports." The bilateral trade between the UAE and China would have a great effect, and with the upcoming World Expo 2020 occurring in Dubai, we can expect big things from all involved! In Abu Dhabi, during the end of July, China's Jiangsu province signed a $300 million deal with Abu Dhabi's Ports to develop operations in Khalifa Port. The Chinese companies involved handle sectors of metals, banking to nature. It truly is a diverse project, and many areas are being involved. On the other side of the globe, the initiative is brewing in Haiti, with China planning to invest $30 billion in Haiti's infrastructure according to Haitian Press Agency.
As you can tell, this project is going to take a lot of money and time to complete, but will the end result make everyone happy?
Benefits are pouring out of this global project for many countries involved. Pakistan has an ongoing electricity problem, with power cuts occurring daily for many, leaving much of the nation in sweltering heat, without lights, and other vital necessities. China has stepped in to aid Pakistan and the electricity deficit, with help from previously arising from the China-Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC). China is spending around $46 billion in Pakistan to build power plants around the nation to combat these shortages. With this, more employment opportunities will arise, better living standards for the people of Pakistan and will strengthen ties between the two nations.
The European parliament published a 12-page document from 2016 regarding the project, which launched in 2013. It includes the positives and negatives, with the first pages mentioning how when the plan was launched, China was in a political mess, and to this date, are still in political war. Japan, Vietnam, and the Philippines were at loggerheads with China, and not much has improved since then. Some outcomes that can arise from the global project is the promotion of Chinese currency – with 65 countries involved and over 4.4 billion people, of course the Renminbi, meaning the "people's currency", will see a major boost in the economy.
Clingendael, a think tank by the Netherlands Institute of International relations, published a document of their own, in 2015. This document highlights the significant consequences of China becoming increasingly important economically, politically and geographically. It mentions how China is very involved in the shipping trade, with the highest numbers of vessels at sea. Also, China is moving their focus onto the African Regio – a place where the US is not so focused in. This is a smart move from China, as they are aware how to work the economic landscape in their favor.
However, there are concerns regarding the project. Do all the nations involved have common aims? Are China simply pushing the 'China Dream'? OBOR is said to have 5 priorities: Infrastructure, trade and investment, global use of the Chinese currency, cultural exchange and lastly, policy co-operation. It will be interesting to see how this project will pan out over the next few years and to see if these 5 priorities will remain of utmost importance.
If we look at who China has a positive relationship with, it is the Sino- Russian ties, which are very pleasant right now, and look to stay that way. There was interest to include North and South Korea, however this will be highly unlikely due to the latest August 2017 sanctions by the United Nations Security Council on North Korea.
As with anything China do, there is criticism surround the project. Some say there is a political agenda for China to 'trump' USA (excuse the pun), in terms of global power. It would be quite dangerous to underestimate the power of China in the world. America has always viewed itself as the best, with Pax Americana being the be all and end all. Yet, China's influence is creating debate between nations and rightly so! China is very diplomatic in matters, picking their friends and foes in a smart way. Their military is 2nd after the USA, but in terms of economy, technology, and innovation, (not to mention population!) they are paving the way. Their influence in the Asia region as well as the MENA (middle east and north Africa) region is rising rapidly. I say, watch this space carefully and see how this unfolds for the global economy.
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NASA has halted its rover Curiosity on Mars for a few days while engineers on Earth attempt to figure out what caused an electrical fault in the robot.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro's Grand Jury report on Catholic priests and sex abuse dates to the 1940s but hangs justice on the gallows of Salem, 1692.
As hard as this may be to read or hear, it must be understood. Common sense is now officially suspended when it comes to Catholic priests and sexual abuse. A moral panic has taken its place. It is especially painful – even catastrophic – when the Catholic media and the highest levels of Church governance suspend a search for truth and settle only for the fastest means to smother the fires of scandal. We have lost our way.
If that Pennsylvania Grand Jury report had been written in New Hampshire, I would be found in its pages with the most horrifying and lurid stories presented as credible and substantiated truth. The case against me began with a wild and irresponsible letter from a state social worker, Sylvia Gale, with information from an unnamed source within my diocese that I was a priest in Florida where I molested two brothers, one of whom was murdered and his body mutilated.
Another accuser – also John Doe – said that I held a gun to his head while forcing him to commit a lurid act. Continuing with this theme, the accuser at my trial, Thomas Grover, said in a police report that I pulled a gun on him and chased him through a Catholic cemetery as he ducked behind headstones dodging bullets. In another police report he seemed to forget telling that story and said that I chased him down the highway in my car while brandishing a gun out the window.
Thomas Grover's brother, David Grover, said that I raped him repeatedly during overnight stays in my rectory when he was 12 years old (I arrived at that parish two weeks before his 18th birthday). Later, in another report, he said that at age 16, I took him to another parish where he was raped by the two unnamed parish priests. He said he went with me "because we had a positive relationship and he had no reason to suspect anything was wrong." He apparently forgot age 12.
None of these events ever took place, but all of them were part of the prosecutorial fodder presented to a grand jury. Today, all of these claims have been fully debunked. No one but the most bigoted observer intent on indicting both the Church and priesthood still believes any of this.
In recent weeks since the emergence of that one-sided and agenda-driven PA Grand Jury report, some of my supporters have multiple times had to post information in my defense. Among the results of that effort has been this statement from an FBI investigator who was not part of my prosecution:
"In the course of my three-year investigation of this case, I have found no evidence to support that Father MacRae committed these crimes, or any crimes. Indeed, the only 'evidence' is the statements of the accusers themselves which has been convincingly discredited by their own family members and others." FBI Special Agent Supervisor (Ret.) James A. Abbott.
Now consider what Catholic author David F. Pierre, Jr wrote in these pages in "Catholic Media Joins the Sex Abuse Pile-On." The Catholic press has been echoing the sentiments of some our Church leaders who are less interested in the real and the unreal than they are in putting out the fires of suspicion.
In this, David Pierre has been nothing short of courageous. I know firsthand the tenacity necessary to stand before a tidal wave with an opposing point of view only to see it washed away in hysteria. Dave Pierre has written a two-part challenge to the PA Report that is stunning in its facts. Part one is "Pushing Aside Media Hysteria: We Uncover Pennsylvania's Dishonest Grand Jury Report" (TheMediaReport.com Aug. 18, 2018).
I only saw a printed copy after we posted Dave's guest post, but it left me with a haunting and disturbing sense of déjà vu. David exposed stories that in any other time would have raised questions about the report's credibility and motives. Just think rationally for a moment about these claims:
- A priest washed out the mouth of a 9-year-old boy with holy water after forcing him into a sexual assault?
- Another priest sodomized a boy with a crucifix?
- Another priest sexually assaulted a boy multiple times on an airplane?
- Some 300 priests assaulted over 1,000 people and the Church knew it but did nothing?
Does any of this seem even remotely implausible? If these accounts are accepted without evidence, it is only because we have over time heard so many such sensational stories that the unbelievable has become the norm by which we believe. Most of you have grown up in the Catholic Church. Do we now settle for justice without reason, without evidence, built upon rumor and innuendo? As Mr. Pierre reveals, these stories never took place.
Let me be clear that there have been real accounts of real victimization by priests who have set aside fatherhood to commit incest, one of the most destructive crimes known to manhood. We do nothing to learn and assess the nature of such an offense or to address recompense for the harm it leaves in its wake when moral panic becomes our loudest and only response.
It seemed the strangest timing, and it appeared in an equally strange place. A week before Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro released his scathing 884-page report about Catholic priests going all the way back to World War II, New York Times columnist Emily Yoffe published "The Price of 'Zero Tolerance,'" a term that she characterized as follows:
"For several decades, political leaders have embraced zero tolerance as a response to all social ills – crime, drugs, sexual violations… In every case, the indiscriminate rigidity of this deeply misguided approach has backfired. 70 million Americans now have a criminal record… sex offender registries created to stop monstrous serial predators now include 900,000 people…"
What made this so strange was that just a week later, the newspaper that carried it also heavily hyped a sex offender registry declaring a class of individuals to be "monstrous serial predators." Few, if any of these individuals have ever had a trial, have ever been convicted, or have ever served a sentence. Most are dead. Those who are not dead were silenced.
Having been asked by many readers to weigh in on this, I have been posting a statement about that now infamous Grand Jury Report on Catholic Priests. My statement appeared at The Wall Street Journal online and various other publications, but some of the Catholic sites that have been bludgeoning priests over this report have declined to publish it.
Last week, a reader in Canada asked me to publish the statement on These Stone Walls because, she said, it is the clearest thing I have read" on this topic. What follows is a somewhat more nuanced version of that statement.
What the PA Attorney General has done is an unconstitutional abuse of the Grand Jury system. A Grand Jury is convened for the purpose of weighing evidence and formulating charges for criminal prosecution. It is a strictly prosecutorial affair, and only the prosecutor's side of the affair is considered. It is for good reason that legal observers often say, "A prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich" through a Grand Jury.
We have to read the small print in the media coverage of this report to learn that it is unlikely that any of the accused will face charges or a trial because the statute of limitations for charging them has expired. Pundits and victim advocates are blustering on cable news that this is a reason to change or eliminate statutes of limitations.
They are attempting to dupe you into taking their side in this. These victim advocates know that the U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled that revised criminal laws, like statutes of limitations, cannot be changed and then applied retroactively. A defendant has a Constitutional right to "fair notice" of the penalties of a crime before committing the crime.
The only statutes of limitations that can change and then apply retroactively to old cases are civil statutes that will allow for lawsuits in decades-old cases. That is the real target because this is now all about money. Thus far in the United States alone, $3.5 billion has been paid to those who claim to have been abused 20, 30, up to 50 years ago.
Remember the innocent and helpless 16-year-old who today says he was groped by Cardinal McCarrick. He is 63. In Pennsylvania, few, if any, of the accused Catholic priests, will face a trial to determine justice – guilty or not guilty – which in the normal course would follow a Grand Jury indictment.
Now, one of the most abused victims in this story is justice itself. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has convicted an entire class of people – Catholic priests – by taking a giant leap across all the ordinary vestiges of justice to let the one-sided account fed to a Grand Jury by prosecutors stand as the unabridged truth and final justice.
What Attorney General Shapiro has done (at taxpayer expense) is to try the prosecution's case in the press because it cannot be legitimately tried in a court of law. There is to be no defense, no cross-examination of witnesses, and no witnesses at all except those that support the prosecution's case.
It is the result of a trial that is supposed to be the final arbiter of justice in America, not the result of a Grand Jury. This is not a reflection of justice as it exists in 21st Century America. It is justice standing at the gallows of Salem, circa 1692. This report is shameful, one-sided, and unethical, and has all the makings of a rare, but classic American witch hunt.
For certain, there are real victims in this story, and my heart goes out to them. It always has. I know many, many victims of unspeakable childhood abuse. In this prison, I have lived among them for 24 years. Trust me on this – no one in the Attorney General's office cares one iota about their plight.
And, as if this mockery of justice that once stood as a proud American ideal is not enough, at least one Pennsylvania Catholic bishop is taking the gallows of Salem 1692 a step further. The PA Report has redacted the names of accused priests to whom no defense has been afforded. Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik has announced, however, that he will voluntarily publish a list of their names. The Archbishop of Boston did the same in 2002. So did the Bishop of Manchester.
By taking this step, these bishops have created their own private "Megan's Law" list. In the normal course, a sexual offender has to register with civil authorities and be shamed on such a published list only after being convicted of a crime in a court of law – either through a jury's review of the evidence or a plea of guilty from the accused. Not many of the priests on the list will have experienced that version of justice.
In a published Letter to the Editor in The Wall Street Journal (August 22, 2018) Father James Connell from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee had this to say about what happened in PA:
"Is Pennsylvania the only place where the Catholic Church has behaved so horrifically? Hardly. Convincing documentation does not exist elsewhere as clearly as it does in Pennsylvania. Many more grand juries need to be impaneled and empowered to find and declare the truth."
I think David F. Pierre, Jr. will agree with me that this is an especially scary thought. History has many examples of those who seek immunity from injustice by collaborating with it. If you read nothing else in this story, read a post of mine that will now seem hauntingly familiar. It's a story forged from the same motives and carried out with similar result. It's a story about history repeating itself: "Catholic Scandal and the Third Reich: The Rise & Fall of a Moral Panic."
Editor's Note: Please share this post. You may also wish to read these other accounts from the Pennsylvania justice story:
- The Lying, Scheming Altar Boy on the Cover of Newsweek
- Will Fr Charles Engelhardt's Prosecutor Take a Plea Deal?
- Trophy Justice: The Philadelphia Msgr William Lynn Case
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" I can eat whatever I want, my metabolism is so fast it doesn't affect me"" Or "I workout so I can eat whatever I want." OR "How can you eat like that AND maintain a body like that?
Many of you readers have been on one side or the other of these quotes. If you find yourself saying the first two quotes and replying to the second you're going to want to read this and be in for a game changer. Excess chronic tummy bloat?Trouble losing the tummy fat?These can all be due to inflammation via visceral fat.
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Imagine you're running and you fall on your knee, it stiffens up and you lose range of motion. Look down and what do you see, your knee the size of a softball and extremely inflamed. Our response should be to rest it and find ways to control the inflammation. So now imagine the same thing but within our organs. Excess inflammation around our organs causes the surrounding muscles to tighten and a decreased range of motion INTERNALLY.
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Uric Acid and the Acidic Foods to Avoid With Gout Diets
» Tue Sep 27, 2016 9:29 pm
Uric Acid - the Acidic Foods to Avoid With Gout Diets
Most people when choosing a gout friendly diet will look to cut out or reduce foods high in purine, as metabolizing purine in the body leads to increased levels of uric acid, which is the cause behind gout symptoms. However, high purine foods may not be the only foods to avoid with gout.
You should be aiming to reduce your body's pH level slowly.
You can monitor these changes by purchasing a home urine or saliva testing kit.
Try to balance your diet to include 70% of foods alkaline in nature and 30% acidic.
Therefore, a constantly low pH value can cause your body to decrease it's processing of uric acid, leading to hyperuricemia. Hyperuricemia is a medical term for a raised uric acid level in the blood, and can lead to gout. As the levels of uric acid become higher there is nowhere for any more uric acid to go, so it is deposited in crystal form in the spaces and connective tissues between the joints.
Acidity is Measured Using a Ph Value Ranging Between 0
14, with 0-6 being acidic, 7 is neutral and 8-14 is alkaline. Where gout is concerned it is less about the pH value of the food, rather what that food does to the pH level of the body during and after digestion.
Some researchers have established a link between body acidity and gout.
The more acidic your body is, the higher the possibility of developing gout.
Conversely, having a more alkaline system encourages rapid uric acid elimination.
Red meats Shellfish Legumes Offal Mushrooms Yeast extracts Processed meats To tackle raised uric levels in the blood it is wise to restrict your intake of these foods until your gout is under control and uric acid levels have stabilized. We were rather indecisive on where to stop in our writings of Purines. We just went on writing and writing to give a long article.
Uric acid is formed during the processing and breaking down of purines in the body.
This is a natural substance that is produced during cellular building and is also found in a lot of the foods we eat.
Purine-rich foods include:
As the body becomes more acidic, uric acid elimination slows down dramatically.
This is due to the pressure the body comes under trying to process both the uric acid and the acidic foods.
The kidneys become strained and are less effective in expelling excess uric acid.
Usually gout strikes the big toe joint or one of the other joints in the foot or ankle, although it can rear its ugly head in any joint. The reason that gout occurs most commonly in the foot or ankle is because those joints furthest away from the heart and uric acid crystallizes in lower temperatures. The value of this composition is achieved if after reading it, your knowledge on Uric Acid Level is greatly influenced. This is how we find out that the meaning of Uric Acid Level has really entered you!
Acidic Foods that Impact the Ph of Your Body are:
Beef Lobster Pheasant Ice Cream Processed Cheese Barley Processed Flour The initial stages of this article on Purine Rich Foods proved to be difficult. However, with hard work and perseverance, we have succeeded in providing an interesting and informative article for you to read.
Some Nuts Soybean Soda Cocoa Yeast Hops Table Salt Sugar Fried Food Like anything, it is not a good idea to drastically change your diet overnight. The best way for your body to process the changes is to introduce amendments slowly that your body can get used to the different foods and keep its processing running on maximum.
Gout is a Medical Condition Which Poses a Serious Threat to Your Health
Gout is known to have an impact that will last a very long time. These effects of the gout can also continue between the gout attacks as well. Joint damage is one of the most common effect of the gout. Other gout complications that may have serious long term effect on your body are: nerve damage in the ares of the gout attacks, kidney stones and even problems with the function of your kidney.
The deposit of uric crystals is one of the complications that you can have when suffering from gout.
These tophi get formed in the joints of your hands and feet.
This gout complication usually causes deformities, damage the tissue that surrounds the area of the gout.
As a result you might suffer from destruction of your joint, constant pain and more worse, compression of your nerves.
This is just one of the many gout effects.
It takes about ten years for a gout patient to develop a chronic gout stage.
At this stage, the gout has already cause serious damage to your joints.
Of course, we are talking about the joints that have been affected by the gout.
Furthermore, at this stage, some damage to your kidneys may have also been cause by the gout.
More than half of the gout patients that have reached this stage also suffer from tophi, which are crystals of uric acid.
Studies show that a number of three gout patient out of four suffer from tophi by the time they have reached the twentieth year of their gout.
However, having some joints problems may happen sooner than expected in many gout patients.
Diet is thought by many gout patients to be the reason why they developed this medical condition in the first place. Some foods and the use of alcohol is what many blame for a gout and it' s long term complications. However, your gout can only be controlled by lowering the uric acid found in your blood. Moreover, the levels of this acid are the ones to blame for a gout attack in the first place. These levels can also indicate with some doubt, if you might suffer from another gout attack or not. However, the best thing for you is to talk to your doctor about your gout. It might also be wise for you to change some things in your diet, if you and your doctor believe that will change
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Gout Treatment - the Truth about Gout
Our society is such that on a daily basis we unknowingly introduce our bodies to countless foreign substances. We are so conditioned to our way of life that we are not conscious to the fact that almost everything we eat, drink, breathe and put in or on our bodies is full of any number of food dyes, additives and preservatives. We routinely ingest toxic and often deadly chemicals such as chlorine and fluoride or heavy metals like mercury and lead. The air we breathe is no better, containing an array of noxious manmade chemicals, any number of which if inhaled in large doses would be considered lethal. When the body is unable to effectively deal with this foreign invasion, it sends in lymphocytes, flooding your system with these disease-fighting white blood cells. Lymphocytes, which are produced in your bone marrow, are part of your immune system and help to fight off such things as infectious disease and foreign materials. When your body is consistently subjected to these foreign substances however, it essentially goes into a state of constant alert. Eventually, this endless battle overwhelms the immune system to the point it can no longer differentiate between what is normal and natural and what is foreign, initiating a condition known as an autoimmune disease. Arthritis, including gout, is one such disorder.
To Restore Proper Alkalinity We Must First Change Our Diet
Low carbohydrate (no refined wheat, sugar etc.), lots of organic fresh vegetables and fruits and plenty of fresh, clean, preferably ozonated or at least filtered. With gout you must also avoid all purine and uric acid-forming foods such as all meat, eggs, and fish as well as tea, coffee and of course, all alcohol. If your body is severely acidic or you are overweight, you may need to first detoxify your body using one of the many safe cleanses. This helps remove accumulated toxins so your body can once again function properly. Drinking lots of water daily and cleansing your body regularly is essential to controlling the acidic build-up responsible for arthritis. As your acid levels decease, so will your inflammation and pain.
As a Nation, We are Slowly Killing Ourselves With Food
The biggest cause of body acidity is diet. Foods like refined sugar, hydrogenated oils, refined wheat, alcohol, caffeine, processed meats, soda, preservatives, artificial sweeteners and all fast food are extremely acidic. Obesity aside, the typical American diet promotes acidosis and disease. Arthritis and gout in particular, is directly linked to what you eat.
Natural Approach
Nature provides everything we need to support and nourish our bodies. The typical Western diet unfortunately consists of mainly nutrient deficient, highly refined and processed foods. Fast food for a fast life. It is no wonder that by medical standards, over 60 percent of all American adults are obese, 30 percent morbidly so. Obvious health issues aside, studies show a direct link between obesity and osteoarthritis. In fact, this risk can be up to 10 times higher for extremely overweight individuals.
Many cases, arthritis can also be triggered by age and longstanding inferior nutrition. Overtime, our joints and the surrounding ligaments, tendons and cartilage can become worn with wear. The cartilage, which is a gel-like substance found between the bones, acts as a shock absorber, protecting the ends of the joints. When the essential enzymes normally produced by our bodies to repair this cartilage are insufficient, severe degeneration can occur. In order for these enzymes to be produced, the cells must be functioning properly. If your body is depleted of fundamental nutrients or overwhelmed by toxic substances, this reparative process will ultimately fail.
The Answer is Simple..
You can't put a price on your well being. You have options and changing your lifestyle and diet is the first step toward regaining your health. Despite what we were taught as children, disease is preventable not inevitable.
You are overweight, your doctor may explain the typical health issues associated with obesity (heart attack, diabetes etc.), but traditional medicine does not yet make the real and most important connection between diet and health. The human body, like all things organic, has a very sensitive acid-base balance. By nature, the human body is deigned to function at optimal levels when it is slightly alkaline (pH of 35 - . Anything below a pH of 7 is considered acidic. While certain areas and fluids of the body are more acidic than others, blood levels should be kept somewhat alkaline. When your body becomes too alkaline however, a condition known as alkalosis develops. By the same token, if it is too acidic, acidosis results. Every cell within the human body is slightly alkaline. During the many and often complex metabolic processes they undergo, they create an acidic byproduct known as free radicals from which they then derive energy to function. If this waste material is allowed to build up however, it can trigger acidosis, which ultimately damages cell membranes, DNA and the basic cellular mechanisms needed to function properly. One such process is oxygen synthesis. When your body is too acidic, your red blood cells cannot transport sufficient oxygen to other cells. They begin to break down and die, a process that leads to inflammation as free radicals take over. While inflammation itself is not necessarily a bad thing as it neutralizes harmful microorganisms, when it becomes chronic, you can develop any number of diseases including arthritis. We also know an acidic, anaerobic (lacking oxygen) body is the perfect breeding ground for fungus, mold, bacteria, and viruses. Simply put, disease cannot live in an oxygenated body. So, if your pH levels are normal, you cannot get sick. In this sense, your pH level is truly your first defense against disease.
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Researchers have classified over 100 variations of arthritis including such things as juvenile arthritis, fibromyalgia and lupus.
Most commonly however, people suffer from four main types of this disease: osteoarthritis, rheumatoid and infectious arthritis or gout.
The Bottom Line
Any way you look at it, gout is a
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NEW YORK, June 11 -- Spike TV will celebrate the work of legendary action movie star David Carradine with a marathon featuring some of his iconic characters on Saturday, June 13 (2:00pm-3:00am ET/PT). A Golden Globe(R) and Emmy(R)-nominated actor who was given a star on Hollywood Blvd's "Walk of Fame," Carradine's career spanned five decades with dozens of memorable roles ranging from the "Kung Fu" television series (1972-1975) to Quentin Tarantino's classic "Kill Bill" films. Carradine also appeared in the highly-rated Spike TV original film, "Kung Fu Killer," last August.
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When this chapter in the saga begins, The Bride has already encountered some of her targets, as she continues battling her way up the chain of command, knowing it will ultimately lead her to her main goal: her chance to kill Bill.
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Set in late 1920s in China, before Communist rule, "Kung Fu Killer" tells the story of White Crane (Carradine), an orphaned son of Western missionaries who was raised as a Wudang monk to become a spiritual leader and master in martial arts and his ultimate journey for revenge and justice.
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If the mission doesn't kill him, his sexy partner just might. Dimitri Raast and Megan Donaldson have a common enemy—the head of an organisation that specializes in human trafficking and sexual slavery. They have similar motivation—Dimitri's sister was taken by the organisation, and Megan's sister is threatened by it. They have the same goal—eliminate their...Read More ➝


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HOLLYWOOD — The Prisoner's bold ambition and cult celebrity earned the '60s show a spot in TV history. Now the creative team rebooting the sci-fi spy classic for the 21st century is hoping to recapture both the dystopian fear and the cultural cachet of the original.
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Rather than replicating the source material's essentially British mainframe, the team is going international, in cast, location and geopolitical concern. Instead of juxtaposing totalitarian surveillance society against bright color schemes, ubiquitous marching bands and enforcer balloons called Rovers, the new Prisoner miniseries is striving toward domestic normalcy in a world torn apart by terrorism, technology and the idea that being an individual just isn't what it once was cracked up to be.
"We're all total fans of the original, but we couldn't copy it," producer Trevor Hopkins told a crowd gathered Thursday at the Universal Hilton to preview the new Prisoner for the press. "We wanted to reinterpret it as a thriller. We wanted it to be as unfathomable as the original."
Though just 17 episodes of the original Prisoner aired in 1967 and '68, the show went on to become one of the most influential sci-fi series in television history, thanks to the brilliant political and pop-cultural instincts of creator and lead actor Patrick McGoohan, who died Tuesday. The series' subversive innovation has since inspired television shows (Lost, Battlestar Galactica and even The Simpsons), comics (Grant Morrison's The Invisibles) and music.
The show casts a long shadow, and Hopkins and director Nick Hurran refer to their upcoming* Prisoner* miniseries as "a reinterpretation" of the original. They've brought on some big names to drive the action: James Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) plays Number Six, the unnamed agent held against his will in a resort called The Village that masquerades as a social utopia. Ian McKellen plays the Village's top administrator, Number Two.
(Wired.com talked with McKellen and Caviezel, as well as co-stars Ruth Wilson, Lennie James and Jamie Campbell Bower during Thursday's press preview. Look for those interviews in the near future.)
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The updated Prisoner, due to air in November, is a joint production of Britain's ITV and America's AMC, which maintained an online diary tracking the show's production, which wrapped in December. Judging by the short clip aired Thursday in Hollywood, the miniseries will chart a new path to a similarly surreal climax.
Instead of rebooting the influential series in Portmeirion, Wales, where the initial narrative took place, Hopkins and Hurran transplanted the action to Namibia, specifically the strange colonial German village of Swakopmund. With the Atlantic Ocean on one side and inhospitable desert on the other three, the location worked perfectly to evoke The Village's dual identities. It's a nice place to visit, sure, but you'd never want to be imprisoned there.
The initial series' "theme is taken on by a man waking up somewhere he can't get out of," Hurran told the crowd. "The desert provides the prison that was Portmeirion, but the issues of family, control and freedom remain. In that way, there are parallels. Number Six has to assimilate to satisfy the powers that be."
Neither Caviezel (pictured, left) nor McKellen (right) deeply researched the original, thinking that a new, darker time called for a different Prisoner. Both credit Bill Gallagher's script with wielding more influence on their roles than previous actors who played the characters.
"The original went out on British TV just once. If you didn't see it when it was broadcast, you didn't see it," McKellen explained. "I caught up with it when it was in rerun, and was immediately intrigued. The original look was charming and unnerving at the time.
"But I didn't come to this with any sentiment for the original. When you have a script as literate as Gallagher's, an awful lot of your work is done for you. Once I put the clothes on and said the lines, everything seemed to fall into place. Frankly I'm more attracted to this Village."
Caviezel said he hadn't even heard of the original Prisoner before he was offered the part of Number Six, but the mention of McKellen's participation piqued his interest in the production he now praises.
"This project is cinema for television," Caviezel said. "It was like shooting a regular film with a brilliant filmmaker."
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While the new version will no doubt be calibrated for the scientific and geopolitical tangles of the 21st century, the original series served up a countercultural counterargument to the two-toned Cold-War espionage of Patrick McGoohan's previous TV program, Danger Man.
Like the show itself, The Prisoner's genesis is murky. Among the show's fandom, there exists a theory that Number Six is simply Danger Man's globalist fixer, John Drake, a secret agent who eschewed violence and women in favor of wit and wisdom.
The notoriously reclusive McGoohan refuted the Drake-Number Six connection, but it is nearly impossible to overlook given an analysis of both series, which still resonate in our era of Total Information Awareness. Indeed, in *The Prisoner, *information is The Village's most prized asset.
Danger Man started out as a cloak-and-dagger franchise, with McGoohan's Drake globe-hopping and putting out political fires as an Irish-American NATO operative. The show appeared in 1960 in half-hour installments, and was a minor success in Europe.
As a spy, Drake was an anomaly: As a rule, he mostly refused weaponry and always avoided sexual promiscuity, relying instead on power plays to solve problems across the continents.
Through much of Danger Man, Drake enjoys a comfortable relationship with his superiors, who usually served as comic relief for McGoohan's quips. The show was canceled shortly after American funding failed in 1962, only to be resuscitated in 1964. But times had changed — for the worse.
The assassination of JFK, the Cuban missile crisis and the pop-culture rise of secret agents, from James Bond to The Saint's Simon Templar, revived interest in Danger Man. The show was dramatically altered and extended to a full hour. Character and plot development were hammered out more finely, and Drake, once a mildly irritated company man, became yet another pawn in an intelligence game over his head. Bosses became corrupt opponents, and Drake's insistence on democracy and fairness took a back seat to nefarious machination.
During this evolution, McGoohan became an international star and, at one time, the highest paid actor in Britain. After the show's fourth season, he quit Danger Man and moved on to The Prisoner.
The original Prisoner begins with Number Six striding into his superior's office and resigning from his post in a fit of controlled rage. Shortly after, he is extraordinarily rendered to a remote prison disguised as a holiday resort. But unlike Danger Man's black-and-white intrigue, The Prisoner reflected the social and political upheaval of the late '60s in brightly colored tableaus.
Now, instead of bristling at his superiors, Number Six was directly battling them, using his physical and mental prowess to defeat them. In the case of co-star Leo McKern, who played Number Two in the show's two-part finale, McGoohan actually gave his opponent either a heart attack or a nervous breakdown. (Reports differ, but you get the picture.)
But rebellion always comes at a price. During the acclaimed run of The Prisoner, Number Six is tortured, battered and even body-snatched: In the episode "Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling," his mind is transplanted to another man's body. Number Six repeatedly escapes The Village only to be returned to it in the end, trapped like an animal, overcome by a restless energy he cannot expend, and betrayed by nearly everyone around him.
McGoohan was even persuaded into exile in America because of The Prisoner's subversive, controversial final episode, "Fall Out." He never ventured too far out of that self-imposed seclusion, save to appear in a handful of films and TV shows.
For his part, McGoohan was, like his characters John Drake and Number Six, aghast at the creep of the surveillance state. His views on technology, weaponry and the panopticon were prophetic given current affairs. As he explained in a 1977 interview:
"We're run by the Pentagon, we're run by Madison Avenue, we're run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don't revolt we'll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche.... As long as we go out and buy stuff, we're at their mercy.
"We all live in a little Village," McGoohan concluded in the same interview. "Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners."
Decades later, he has proven to have been correct not only about his time, but ours. Our 21st century panopticon stretches from reality TV all the way to the Patriot Act and Guantanamo Bay, and it will be interesting to see how the new Prisoner tackles issues like these.
UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect the passing of original Prisoner actor Patrick McGoohan, who died Tuesday.
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