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For one reason or another, some games dont make it outside Japan but Musou Stars (Warriors All-Stars) is a bit of a peculiar case since it got an English translation a few months after its initial release for the PS4 and PC but the PSVita port was left behind.
This game is a hack n slash title developed by Omega Force, published by Koei Tecmo and is a cross-over based on the Warriors series of games. The game takes place in a kingdom that relies on a magical spring for its survival but after the king dies, the spring begins the wither and you have to find a way to save the spring and the kingdom. When it comes to characters, the game features 30 playable ones that come from a wide range of game series including Dead Or Alive, Nioh, Ninja Gaiden and more.
Back to the homebrew-related stuff, the English patch was initially released about 3 days by froid_san on Reddit in the form of rePatch files. As distributing the patched files themselves is illegal, a Windows patcher was released (also on Reddit) which is the legal way to go about installing patch.
Currently, the patch includes the most important things namely translations for text/images from the PC version although the games credits and title on the Vitas save pop-up window are still in Japanese. Froid_san also notes that some text may appear squashed and dialogue windows have a word wrapping issue but from this video demonstrating the patch in action, it seems to work pretty well and the game is perfectly playable.
To grab and install the English patch for Musou Stars, check out this link and follow the instructions! Froid_san has also just released an English patch for The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince but theres no installer for it yet so no links will be provided. UPDATE: An installer has been released here.


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According to Coach Kruger, whose Rebels are 20-8 with two regular season games left, building confidence doesn't necessarily mean going soft.
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Given the historic vitriol of this presidential campaign, it has been pretty easy to overlook something else historic that makes my heart nearly burst with pride:
It was 53 years ago, six years before Barack Obama was born, that Rosa Parks was ordered to get out of her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, because of the color of her skin, and today a man of color -- the embodiment of Martin Luther King's dream -- stands on the threshold of the presidency.
This could have not happened in the so-called Party of Lincoln, which has become a lily-white canker on the body politic, but it could happen in America.
Godspeed to you, Mr. Obama.
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Friday, August 29, 2008
Godspeed To You, Barack Obama
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- Alexa said...
Rosa Parks ... what a courageous soul she was. "ENOUGH!" she said, as she transformed an ordinary action -- taking a seat on a city bus -- into an iconic moment.
I'm a Canadian citizen, and I'd give anything to be able to vote in the US election. The rest of the world is holding its collective breath as we await the outcome...
- jj mollo said...
I'm no Republican, but ... do the names Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Alan Keyes and Clarence Thomas ring a bell? You may not like those particular personnel choices, but it's fair to say that the GOP is certainly capable of supporting an African American for high office. People care more about ideology than race these days. If Mitt Romney were black instead of Mormon, I believe he would have won the nomination easily.


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I used to date a guy that was convinced that every single guy was trying to fuck me. Every time we went out, he'd end up having a hissy fit if I spent too long talking to one particular guy, they were flirtatious or just happened to look in my direction. It drove me insane and we had horrific arguments over it and thankfully I told him to beat it, but I know that had he been accusing me cheating, things would have been far worse.
It's one thing if you are cheating but often, when people are accused of cheating, it exists only in the insecure, possessive, jealous person's mind. No matter what answer you give, it's not the right one and you could claim you're not cheating till the cows come home but they don't want to believe it.
I'm not a cheater. I've been cheated on before and it is one of the most devastating things you can experience in a relationship especially if you love hard like I do. I would never want to inflict that of pain on someone. I'm the type of guy that if I felt like I was going to be inclined to look outside of my relationship I would just leave.
So if you're not cheating what would cause your partner to think you were.
When people make accusations of cheating it tends to stem from 3 places:
Fear and insecurity based on past experiences or your past that have them feeling paranoid
Mistaking certain behaviours from you as indicators of cheating -hypersensitivity
They are cheating
Past Experiences – Theirs and Yours
Relationships need to be based on trust and honesty which means that you are both likely to share your pasts, even if they don't exactly place either of you in a glowing light. If you've admitted that you cheated, especially if it was several times or in several relationships, it is understandable that a person can feel a little nervous about whether or not you have changed or if this is a serial habit.
If they have been cheated on in the past, this can be a devastating experience with far reaching effects, however I have stated repeatedly on this blog that you should not be in a relationship if you're carrying major emotional baggage and this issue exceeds the maximum weight. If you're so badly affected that you can't trust anyone then you need to work on your issues and preferably alone. Whilst most people will be understanding of past issues, this patience will wear thin when you have to keep defending yourself and being punished for their experiences. You'll want to move the relationship forward and they're stuck in the past. Whilst they may make noises to the contrary, your partner is showing signs of not trusting you – they don't trust relationships, they don't trust themselves and they are having difficulty trusting what you say and do. They may not see it that way, but this is how it is.
Is there anything you can do?
Whilst it doesn't matter what you say or do with some people, I would certainly be conscious of whether there is anything that you are doing to enable your partners behaviour.
Are you a flirt?
Do you blow hot and cold?
Do you have a wandering eye?
Are you a naturally secretive or withdrawn person? Maybe even emotionally unavailable?
If you have something to take responsibility for in this, it may be time for you both to have a discussion about what you are both doing together as it sounds quite destructive.
Been super busy at work lately? Maybe a bit too absorbed in your own stuff? Privately worried about something and finding yourself being closed off? Got a surprise in the pipeline and being secretive?
Sometimes people mistakenly jump to the wrong conclusions. I don't expect you to walk on eggshells however, being part of a relationship means that you need to be sensitive to each others needs and natural insecurities, and this means that you should be careful of behaving in a way that inadvertently ends up hurting the other persons feelings.
Relationships involve a contribution from you both and you can't just decide to shut off and return to the relationship when you feel like it.
They are cheating
In my experience, this is something that tends to happen when it's the guy who is being paranoid and this is because certain types of men tend to base their accusations of what they think you're doing on their own actions. Otherwise it's just plain old guilty conscience.
Most of the time it's paranoia when people are repeated accusers of cheating so I wouldn't go running to accuse them of cheating unless you have good enough reason to suspect it.
The darkside of being made guilty without cause or trial
Some people when they find themselves on the receiving end of someone who is accusing them habitually of cheating, eventually decide that if the person isn't going to believe them, they might as well do it and be guilty as charged. Whilst I understand the frustration, this is not the way to handle the situation. If you feel like you want to do this, you've reached your own breaking point and it's either time to walk away, or tell your partner to resolve their issues and commit to the relationship and trust you or leave you alone and end the relationship. Don't give them any further chances to take out their issues on you and they are either forced to confront their issues or be on their own.
As a general guideline, if you are with someone who is constantly accusing you of cheating, or just being out of control with their jealousy and possessiveness, this is a MAJOR RED FLAG and you you either have to walk away and cut your losses or force the person to deal with themselves. You'll find more often than not that it's easier to walk away.
What can you do if you didn't cheat, but they keep insisting you were unfaithful?
Take a close look at your relationship.
Is your partner controlling and possessive? That isn't a healthy relationship. Is it possible he/she is cheating? Is it possible they are really unhappy and don't know any other way to say it? Could you two be distanced by something that your partner is interpreting as unfaithfulness? Address these issues.
Look at your own behaviors.
Are you distancing or emotionally unavailable? Do you communicate what is going on for you so your partner is aware? Are you a flirt? Do you give reason for your partner to be afraid? Do you do things that enable your partner to think you could be cheating? Talk with your partner about what things he/she is seeing which bother them and admit if you are doing them.
Understand there is nothing you can do to change your partner's mind if they don't want it to change.
If they can't believe you when it is clear you aren't cheating, this is a huge red flag! The relationship needs major work, or you need to get out.
Lastly, avoid the "fuck-its".
This is the thought "Well, I keep being accused of it, so fuck it I'm going to cheat." Don't act out in frustration. If you feel this way, then it is time to leave or get your partner into real relationship work with you.


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Hey everyone! So as most of you know from following me on social media (Instagram @minimintndblog and Facebook : Mini Mint ND) I was recently on a weekend trip to Copenhagen, Denmark. I had such a magical experience there that I want to share and urge you all to consider it for a possible Christmas trip
Getting there
How often do we see airlines like are lingus and Ryanair having cheap seat sales and we are all too lazy to actually go and book something, even for a weekend! So I bit the bullet and booked a super cheap trip (€50 return) To be fair I had a good excuse for choosing Copenhagen because one of my best friends was on Erasmus there so it was a no brainer. I drove up Friday and flew out friday evening at 4 then flew home Sunday night. It was a two night- two day quick trip but we managed to pack a lot in.
I LIVE by booking.com for hotels and tripadvisor.com whenever I'm organising any accomodation and most of the time they don't steer me too far wrong (apart from that time in El Nido, but we said we wouldn't talk about it again lol) Copenhagen is extremely expensive and it took me ages to find a hotel that was decent and clean aswell as being central without having to sell my kidneys to afford it. For all the students reading I'm going to really recommend Cabinn Express hotel. It is located about a 10-15 minute walk from the centre and all the attractions, we walked the whole city because everything is actually very close to each other. The hotel was spotless and the room had a cruise ship theme which we loved.
What we did
- Walked, literally everywhere. We explored the Christmas markets, the palace, Nyhavn, the Opera House and several parks.
- Tivoli. We got the unlimited ride pass which is about €50 but you can go on all the amusements you want, as many times as you want. Hands down one of the most magical places I have ever seen. You can see more on : https://www.tivoli.dk/en/
- Overfor in Fredericksburg. This was beside our hotel and we went when we landed at about 10 at night simply cause it was the only place open. It doubles as a late bar though it can be expensive.
- Mazzolis in Tivoli. Unreal. The restaurant can get very busy in evening time so make sure to book a reservation to avoid disappointment. It's set up like an old carousel and the food is spectacular.
- TGI Fridays. It's located on the Main Street. Sunday we were shook from the night before and we just wanted comfort food we did a bit of shopping on the Main Street too such as Zara and H&M.
To be quite honest, Copenhagen is very expensive. You would want to be bringing a lot of spending money with you and if you're a student I wouldn't recommend going for longer than two nights. We fit everything in and still managed to have time to stroll and just soak up the atmosphere. I don't know what it would be like in summer but as a winter weekend getaway I would 100% recommend for Tivoli alone.


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Obama Decides Dead Civilians Don't Matter As Much As They Used ToPosted: October 2, 2014 in Children, Human Rights, Middle East, News, Syria, USA, Video, war
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America "Attacking" The Terrrorists It Fostered – James Corbett on Press TVPosted: September 18, 2014 in News, Video, Western Censored News
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The Truthseeker: NATO's 'Gladio' army in UkrainePosted: June 18, 2014 in News, Video, Western Censored News
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14 juin 2014 – The openly Nazi core of Kiev's new army; WikiLeaked cables set Ukraine 'nationalists' in NATO 'dirty wars' abroad; and the 'psychopaths' who run CIA special operations.
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Abby Martin goes over a few of the most outrageous CIA operations around the world, such as the agency's efforts to destabilized Latin America through a series of coups and assassinations and even an attempted character assassination through a CIA producer porno film.
Chris Hedges Asks Noam Chomsky: What's The New Paradigm For Resistance? + TranscriptPosted: June 18, 2014 in Human Rights, News, Video
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Australia's assimilation shame: Indigenous children still being stolenPosted: June 13, 2014 in Australia, Children, Documentary, Human Rights, News, Video
Tags: Assimilation, australia, Australias Disgrace, Indigenous, Stolen Generations, White Australia Policy
This week on ABC Q&A Liberal "elder" and former NSW Opposition Leader Peter Coleman advocated the policies of assimilation – the breeding out of First Nations' Peoples – a feature of the White Australia Policy and the Stolen Generations. Rather than Coleman's voice being a relic of the past, John Pilger shows his abhorrent racist ideas, which are based on the principles of eugenics, are still widely practiced in Australia today, especially in the Northern Territory.
THE TAPE IS SEARING. There is the voice of an infant screaming as he is wrenched from his mother, who pleads:
"There is nothing wrong with my baby. Why are you doing this to us? I would've been hung years ago, wouldn't I? Because [as an Australian Aborigine] you're guilty before you're found innocent."
The child's grandmother demands to know why
"… the stealing of our kids is happening all over again."
A welfare official says:
"I'm gunna take him, mate."
This happened to an Aboriginal family in outback New South Wales. It is happening across Australia in a scandalous and largely unrecognised abuse of human rights that evokes the infamous Stolen Generation of the last century.
Up to the 1970s, thousands of mixed race children were stolen from their mothers by welfare officials. The children were given to institutions as cheap or slave labour; many were abused.
Described by a Chief Protector of Aborigines in 1933 as the "breeding out the colour", the policy was known as "assimilation". It was influenced by the same eugenics movement that inspired the Nazis.
In 1997, a landmark report, 'Bringing Them Home', disclosed that as many 50,000 children and their mothers had endured
'… the humiliation, the degradation and sheer brutality of the act of forced separation … the product of the deliberate, calculated policies of the state.'
The report called this genocide.
Assimilation remains Australian government policy in all but name. Euphemisms such as "reconciliation" and "Stronger Futures" cover similar social engineering and an enduring, insidious racism in the political elite, the bureaucracy and wider Australian society.
When, in 2008. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised for the Stolen Generation, he added:
"I want to be blunt about this. There will be no compensation."
The Sydney Morning Herald congratulated Rudd on a 'shrewd manoeuvre' that
'… cleared away a piece of political wreckage that responds to some of its supporters' emotional needs, but changes nothing.'
Today, the theft of Aboriginal children – including babies taken from the birth table – is now more widespread than at any time during the last century.
As of June last year, almost 14,000 Aboriginal children had been 'removed'. This is five times the number when 'Bringing Them Home' was written. More than a third of all removed children are Aboriginal — from 3% of the population. At the present rate, this mass removal of Aboriginal children will result in a stolen generation of more than 3,300 children in the Northern Territory alone.
Pat (not her real name) is the mother whose anguish was secretly recorded on a phone as four Department of Child Services officials and six police descended on her home.
On the tape, an official claims they have come only for an "assessment". But two of the police officers, who knew Pat, told her they saw no risk to her child and warned her to "get out of here quick". Pat fled, cradling her infant, but the one-year-old was eventually seized without her knowing why. The next morning a police officer returned to apologise to her and said her baby should never have been taken away. Pat has no idea where her son is.
Once, she was "invited" by officials to bring her children to "neutral" offices to discuss a "care plan". The doors were locked and officials seized the children, with one of the youngest dragging on a police officer's gun belt. Many Indigenous mothers are unaware of their legal rights. A secretive Children's Court has become notorious for rubber-stamping removals.
Most Aboriginal families live on the edge. Their life expectancy in towns a short flight from Sydney is as low as 37. Dickensian diseases are rife; Australia is the only developed country not to have eradicated trachoma, which blinds Aboriginal children.
Pat has both complied with and struggled bravely against a punitive bureaucracy that can remove children on hearsay. She has twice been acquitted of false charges, including "kidnapping" her own children. A psychologist has described her as a capable and good mother.
Josie Crawshaw, the former director of a respected families' support organisation in Darwin, told me:
"In remote areas, officials will go in with a plane in the early hours and fly the child thousands of kilometres from their community. There'll be no explanation, no support, and the child may be gone forever."
In 2012, the Co-ordinator-General of Remote Services for the Northern Territory, Olga Havnen, was sacked when she revealed that almost $80m was spent on the surveillance and removal of Aboriginal children compared with only $500,000 on supporting the same impoverished families.
She told me:
"The primary reasons for removing children are welfare issues directly related to poverty and inequality. The impact on families is just horrendous because if they are not reunited within six months, it's likely they won't see each other again. If South Africa was doing this, there'd be an international outcry."
She and others with long experience I have interviewed have echoed the Bringing them Home report, which described an official 'attitude' in Australia that regarded all Aboriginal people as 'morally deficient'.
A Department of Families and Community Services spokesman said that the majority of removed Indigenous children in New South Wales were placed with Indigenous carers. According to Indigenous support networks, this is a smokescreen; it does not mean families and is control by divisiveness that is the bureaucracy's real achievement.
I met a group of Aboriginal grandmothers, all survivors of the first stolen generation, all now with stolen grandchildren. "We live in a state of fear, again," they said.
David Shoebridge, a State Greens MP told me:
"The truth is, there is a market among whites for these kids, especially babies."
The New South Wales parliament is soon to debate legislation that introduces forced adoption and "guardianship". Children under two will be liable – without the mother's consent – if "removed" for more than six months.
For many Aboriginal mothers, like Pat, it can take six months merely to make contact with their children. "It's setting up Aboriginal families to fail," said Shoebridge.
I asked Josie Crawshaw why:
"The wilful ignorance in Australia about its first people has now become the kind of intolerance that gets to the point where you can smash an entire group of humanity and there is no fuss."
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How China, the West and the ABC buried the real story of the Tiananmen Square massacrePosted: June 13, 2014 in Asia Pacific Region, Human Rights, News, Video, Western Censored News
Tags: china, Coverup, Media Manipulation, misinformation, Propaganda Wars, Tiananmen Square Massacre, Western funded propaganda
Adam Henry 5 June 2014, 8:30pm
Source: Independent Australia
Historian Dr Adam Hughes Henry says Western media – and notably our own ABC – are presenting a self-serving and grossly distorted account of the 1989 'Tiananmen Square massacre'.
READING THE ABC ONLINE NEWSWIRE, I am provided with a significant amount of information outlining the 'Tiananmen Square massacre', much righteous indignation from western observers and pundits, and calls for the Chinese Communist Government to come clean about these events, including by luminaries such as Hamish MacDonald.
Yet this is a confusing situation.
On the one hand, a tyrannical Communist Government is certainly not a far-fetched narrative bereft of numerous facts that could outline such a story with little difficulty. Neither is the tragic story of human rights in China — there are numerous examples of the kinds of injustices that occur and continue to occur and they are well documented.
On the other hand, it occurs to me that amongst all of this condemnation over the 'Tiananmen Square massacre', is this not the same government which nations like Australia and the rest now consistently praise for those sweeping economic reforms; whose economic growth is held to be some kind of validation of the neo-liberal fundamentalism that has engulfed the globe? There is no mention of the irony of this in any of the ABC coverage I have examined.
Are they suddenly a different type of government, a nicer, friendlier type of authoritarian regime?
Why then do we trade so extensively with such a nation, why do our mining companies grow fat from Chinese purchases, what exactly did the great economic reforms allow China to provide to the world economy that makes neo-liberal advocates swoon?
I should like to come back to this, but first I'd like to outline some well documented points about Tiananmen and the Western reporting of this event.
Throughout the ABC coverage online, there was not one specific mention of crucial pieces of information that effectively deconstruct the standard western analysis of the 'Tiananmen Square massacre'. These pieces of information are all easily found in this digital age and it is difficult to fathom exactly how the ABC might have omitted any – and indeed all – references to them.
The simple story of a pro-democracy protest by university students in Tiananmen Square and their subsequent massacre by members of the Chinese armed forces fits neatly into Western perceptions of what occurred and highlight the selectivity of the Western human rights condemnation. Consistent throughout the ABC coverage is the moral high ground occupied by the West, as per the standard requirements of mainstream journalism — an unquestioned truism.
According to a former U.S. correspondent who covered the protests, Jay Matthews, and a number of other sources, the Western reporting of what happened in Tiananmen Square was littered with misinformation and numerous inaccuracies.
The falsehoods that became part of the preferred Western narrative of the event quickly becoming embedded in news reports throughout the Western world. Matthews highlights, that despite numerous inferences otherwise then and now, no students – as far as we know – were actually killed in Tiananmen Square and that those that had stayed to the end were allowed to leave the square by security forces.
Just to make this clear: there was no wholesale massacre of protesting students in Tiananmen Square.
Why then does it feel that, by coming to this reasoned conclusion using solid evidence easily accessible to those who care to look, one enters into a world of atrocity denial?
I would suggest this is because it runs counter to the preferred Western narrative of 'The Tiananmen Square massacre' and its righteous indignation and selective empathy with the thwarted attempt to be 'free'.
Students did die that night and this is, of course, awful — but so did far greater numbers of non-students, in and around the connecting suburbs and streets not far from Tiananmen.
There was a massacre, but not the one the Western media propagated through its careless reporting and continues to peddle.
As Black and Munro noted in 1993:
The phrase "Tiananmen Square massacre" is now fixed firmly in the political vocabulary of the late twentieth century. Yet it is inaccurate. There was no massacre in Tiananmen Square on the night of June 3. But on the western approach roads, along Chang'an Boulevard and Fuxingmen Avenue, there was a bloodbath that claimed hundreds of lives when the People's Liberation Army found its path blocked by a popular uprising that was being fuelled by despair and rage. To insist on this distinction is not splitting hairs. What took place was the slaughter not of students but of ordinary workers and residents – precisely the target that the Chinese government had intended.
In reading the ABC coverage, the focus on the students perpetuates the idea that they and only they were the targets of the crackdown.
In fact, the workers of the surrounding suburbs were also protesting that night and supported the student protests, and were the true target:
The official conspiracy theory demanded other threats and other scapegoats – "outside elements" with "ulterior motives." This meant dissident intellectuals and workers. After their ruthless repression under Mao, the intelligentsia had been granted a kind of historic compromise by Deng. But by the spring of 1989, they had come to be seen as the agents of bourgeois liberalization, of China's "peaceful evolution" toward Western-style pluralism. After Tiananmen, they would be singled out for punishment. The working class, meanwhile, had become the carrier of an even more dangerous virus – the Polish disease…The students initiated the Tiananmen movement, and they brilliantly out maneuvered and embarrassed a leaden-footed government. But after the mass demonstrations of mid-May, the threat from the students was dwarfed by the intervention of much broader social forces.
Again, this is not difficult to verify, nor is the information obscure. They were angry at the economic reforms — the same reforms that have since turned Chinese workers into sweatshop fodder for Western corporations to much Western applause and rampant government corruption.
The treatment of the workers – and any protesters who found themselves in the streets around Tiananmen – was a violent and furious struggle against the security forces. Again easily documentable and easy to verify.
Totally ignored by the ABC is that the main target of the crackdown was not actually the students – who would certainly feel unjust political persecution following Tiananmen – but the workers in the surrounding areas, where the violent clashes actually took place in the streets and many people were killed by the security forces, were the carriers of the 'Polish disease'.
Where is their story on the ABC, why are we not told why they were protesting, what were they protesting against, what happened to them?
No doubt, the Australian Embassy and many foreign correspondents saw terrible things that night in the streets and suburbs, but surely not a massacre of unarmed students gathered peacefully in Tiananmen Square. What they actually saw is provided in fragments, fragments that do not tell any reader the real context of the crackdown.
Why is it that the far greater and more significant workers protests and workers resistance is not the main focus of the story, or at least given some serious copy? Why is it that they have simply been written out of the ABC coverage and, in fact, appear to be irrelevant to their coverage.
If a wholesale massacre of students in Tiananmen Square remains a primary component of the 1989 story – and indeed this was the story seemingly told by the Western media almost immediately – and the university students (as the peaceful face of a pro-democracy movement) ruthlessly crushed are the worthy victims, what of the workers?
Could it be that the student protests appealed far more to the foreign correspondents and the West?
This could all be neatly understood in much the same simple way as what was happening in Eastern Europe; they were not really expressing historical and cultural dissent from decades of tyranny and corruption, or asserting their human rights as citizens, freedom of expression as unique human beings, or as workers tired of being exploited by governments — what they were really asking for, as far as we were concerned, was Western style democracy; or, in other words, to be just like us.
This would no doubt be natural conclusions by the Western media because, after all — who wouldn't want to be just like us?
Yes, it is true that the Chinese Government is an authoritarian and corrupt regime, however – as demonstrated by the relationship with numerous other corrupt and authoritarian regimes – foreign multinationals and governments from the enlightened and freedom loving west apparently think nothing of creating military and or financial partnerships that not only prop up these regimes and protect them, but guarantee strategic gains and massive exploitative profits for shareholders while perpetuating human misery. The continued cost is to block, as a matter of daily diplomatic and economic practice, the very freedoms and human rights crushed so ruthlessly by the Chinese Government in 1989, which of course we condemn.
They will censor and attempt to whitewash the history of 1989 in order to preserve their order and control, but then so have we. They have been assisted in their propaganda efforts by the Western media whose inaccuracies, then and now, maintain the focus on a 'Tiananmen Square Massacre' of unarmed students by security forces.
The main story, missed or ignored by the Western media appears to be the suppression and destruction of the workers in and around Tiananmen Square. Through its inaccurate and selective condemnation, the Western media have effectively helped the Chinese Government to bury the story of 1989.
As a detailed 1989 study of U.S. media coverage highlights:
…this study nonetheless concludes that some of the media should have come closer to a rounded appreciation of the events of June 3-4 within the first week. Wildly inflated casualty figures and the use of the geographically erroneous catch phrase "Tiananmen Square massacre" gave the Chinese government a pretext for deflecting the central moral issue raised by its brutal response to the protesters. If some of the media were wrong about how many people died, and where, were they also wrong about the significance of the killings? No, they were not. But the exaggerations and the error of geography permitted that question to be raised, and undercut the media's credibility in some quarters.
Surely, even a most cursory moment of philosophical reflection would provide a some obvious conclusions for the ABC – the successful crackdown in 1989 made certain that
- the Chinese communist party would continue its rule without challenge; and
- that the so called economic reforms, routinely applauded by the West, would continue to be implemented on Chinese workers, no matter what the human cost.
There is no need for Western media condemnation of the human cost of the economic reforms buttressed by the crackdown. The result was a cheap Chinese workforce with few rights – let alone strong human rights – paid a pittance, who work under oppressive conditions for numerous Western multinationals under the watchful eye of the Chinese Communist Party — the same people we hypocritically condemn for the 1989 crackdown.
Not one Australian journalist and, particularly, the ABC appear at all interested in the very stark contrast between the tear stained reaction of the Australian Labor Party to events in China in 1989 and events much closer to home.
I can personally vouch for this.
I pitched a very reasonable and detailed program idea 'The Tale of Two Massacres' to the ABCs Hindsight program on Radio National; their response was, without explanation, to cease responding to my very genuine emails.
Is this comparison between the Australian Government reaction to Tiananmen and East Timor so outrageous, so beyond the pale, that the response from a top ABC current affairs radio program should be the coldest of shoulders?
Apparently so.
In 1989, Australia signed the Timor-Gap Treaty with Indonesia — a treaty that, in the clearest breach of international law, recognised the acquisition of territory by blatant and illegal armed aggression. It also ignored the maintenance of illegal Indonesian control by the most horrendous and ruthless of methods.
In 1991, the Labor Government did not publicly cry over dead East Timorese of the Dili Massacre; in fact, they downplayed the event and continued the Australian love affair with Suharto's New Order Regime — aka one of the most corrupt, anti-human rights and murderous regimes of the 20th Century.
The student protesters of the 'Tiananmen Square Massacre' are worthy victims, the workers and residents irrelevant, while the Timorese and Indonesian victims of Suharto and his brutal military regime are to be conveniently forgotten.
Should we wait with bated breath for any comparable ABC expose on the Timor Gap or Dili Massacre as prominent and as outraged as we have seen recently on the ABC over Tiananmen?
The Western reporting of what was a most significant Chinese event in 1989 – the worker and student protests – has so distorted what actually happened, that it has promulgated the preferred Western narrative at the expense of the whole historical truth.
The current ABC coverage is little better; in fact, given the materials around to examine any or all of these points, a few of which are provided in this article, it is arguably worse.
I agree with Hamish MacDonald, it is never too late for the Chinese government to come clean over their repressive crackdown in 1989 and after — but I would also add, it is never too late for MacDonald, fellow journalists, and programs such as Hindsight to want get it right too.
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Gasland (2010)Posted: June 13, 2014 in Australia, Documentary, Emergencies, Environment, Health, UK, USA, Video
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Eyewitness Report: The 2014 Syrian Presidential ElectionsPosted: June 13, 2014 in Documentary, Human Rights, Syria, Video, Western Censored News
Tags: Assad, Eyewitness Report 2014, syria, Syria 2014, Syrian Elections 2014, Syrian Presidential Elections, Western Funded Terrorism
Syria held its first democratic presidential elections on June 3, 2014. While the US Government and it's allies condemn the election, international observers from a wide variety of countries contradicted them. What the international observers saw on the ground across Syria was enthusiastic throngs of Syrians rushing to the polling stations setup in their areas to cast their ballot.
GRTV Documentary by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, one of the international election observers that went to watch the voting process during the Syrian Presidential elections, this is what he witnessed in the Mediterranean Syrian Coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus.
Nazemroaya is an award winning author, well known Geo-political analyst and sociologist.
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Joe's Fair Go and his new class warPosted: June 13, 2014 in Australia, Health, Human Rights, News, Video
Tags: #BustTheBudget, australia, Budget 2014, Budget fail, Joe Hockey
In a speech last night, Joe Hockey said his unpopular Budget is fair and that everyone who opposes it is engaging in class war. Bob Ellis comments.
IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL, a 27-year-old woman in a country town who loses her job as a waitress on a Friday and finds she is pregnant the following Monday.
Under Joe Hockey's new rules, she will get no money for six months, and must fend for herself until the baby is born and, after it is born, will get no Paid Parental Leave either, because she has no job.
What is happening to her is "fair" Joe Hockey says and complaining about her is
"… the class war rhetoric of the 1970s."
Some of us would think it was unfair — and if there's a class war on, he's declared it.
Joe would argue that the woman can, in her ninth month, move to another town and work for the dole, away from her family and their support system, and give birth in the workplace, but some of us would find this unfair also.
Joe would argue this is an 'isolated case', probably no more than twenty women will be in this position in the next two years — but the trouble is, 10 million women will have heard of it and will vote his Government out because of it.
This inability to join the dots characterises Joe.
He may be the most incompetent politician in our history. He is certainly the most incompetent Treasurer.
He imagines $7 is no great sacrifice to an old woman in a nursing home with a chronically treatable condition who must go to the doctor twice a week, spending $20 on two visits and four bus fares. He imagines she too is an isolated case and 10 million women will not hear of her.
But of course they will. And they will not find her treatment by him "fair".
Read the full article and see further video via: Independent Australia
#BustTheBudget – Messages of solidarity from around the worldPosted: June 13, 2014 in Australia, Video
Tags: #BustTheBudget, Abbott Fail, Australian Workers, Budget 2014, Fair Go, Hockey Fail
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#OpMundial2014 – Brazil – FIFA World Cup 2014Posted: June 12, 2014 in Human Rights, News, Video
Tags: #OpMundial2014, Anonymous, Brazil 2014, FIFA World Cup
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FOWR: Dr. Toby Watson on the effects of psychiatric drugsPosted: June 10, 2014 in Health, News, Video
Tags: Dr Toby Watson, health, mental health, Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatry
On June 1 during the second hour of Flow Of Wisdom Radio, my guest was Dr. Toby Watson. He was able to answer some questions about the effects of psychotropic drugs from the perspective of being a psychologist.
One point brought up during our conversation is that most doctors are misinformed and not getting the correct information from pharmaceutical companies.
If they go to their medical practitioner 9 out of 10 times they will walk out with a prescription.
He also stated that general practitioner's get very little training on psychotropic drugs in which they do most of the prescribing.
I also asked Dr. Watson if doctors receive kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies to prescribe medication.
Dr. Toby Watson's website is http://www.abcmedsfree.com
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Dead in the Water (Israel's attack on the USS Liberty in 1967)Posted: June 10, 2014 in Documentary, News, Video, Western Censored News
Tags: conspiracy, Dead in the Water, False Flag, Global power, Israel, USS Liberty, Western Financed Terrorism, Western Propaganda Wars
The USS Liberty after the Israeli Raid
08 JUNE 1967 : The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy torpedo boats, on June 8, 1967, during the Six-Day War. It left 34 U.S. sailors dead. It has been said that it was a tentative of False Flag from the Zionist State to be blamed on Egypt in order to force the US to attack Egypt and therefore Soviet Union. There was a full cover-up by the U.S. Government of Lyndon Johnson, not to accuse or protest against Israel.
The Cover-Up still stands Today.
Zionist attack on western civilization
Psychiatry in the Military: The Hidden Enemy—Full DocumentaryPosted: June 9, 2014 in Documentary, Health, Human Rights, News, Video
Tags: Documentary, mental health, Pharmaceuticals, Psychiatry in the Military, The Hidden Enemy
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The Hidden Enemy – Inside Psychiatry's Covert Agenda
Full Documentary. This documentary shows how the army is exploited as Psychiatry's testing ground for drugs and other inhumane "treatment" which have resulted in exponential growth of military suicides. Currently, more US soldiers die from suicide than from combat.
"The battlefield is safer than psychiatry. You understand that? Statistically you are less likely to be shot by an enemy than to be killed by a pharmaceutical drug. That's the truth about psychiatry." —Mike Adams "Health Ranger" creator of http://www.naturalnews.com
Our military are being prescribed the following drugs (list not complete): Seroquel, Paxil, Prozac, Abilify, Wellbutrin, Modafinil, Methylphenidate, Xanax, Dexedrine, Effexor, Haldol, Adderal, Stelazine, Depakote, Thorazine, Zoloft, Ambien. 23:16
"You take your meds and you can just start feeling it going down and you're just like bam you're just a zombie….
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VIDEO — Donetsk, Lugansk proclaim independence from KievPosted: May 14, 2014 in News, Russia, Video
Tags: civilians, Donetsk, Lugansk, Proclaim independence from Kiev, russia, Ukraine, Video
May 12, 2014
Donetsk People's Republic has declared itself a sovereign state. It follows a referendum on the status of the area which has seen massive anti-government protests in recent. Lugansk has followed suit in declaring itself a sovereign state just after announcing the results of its referendum.
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VIDEO — Preventing a Referendum: Yatsenyuk Regime kills Ukrainian Civilians in KrasnoarmeyskPosted: May 13, 2014 in Human Rights, News, Russia, Video, Western Censored News
Tags: Civilians killed, Krasnoarmeysk, Referendum, Ukraine, voting, Yatsenyuk Regime
May 11, 2014
The coup-installed US-backed Yatsenyuk regime has killed Ukrainian citizens trying to exercise their democratic rights to vote peaceful in a referendum. Instead of allowing inhabitants of Krasnoarmeysk, in Donetsk Oblast, vote on their future, the US-backed Yatsenyuk regime has sent armed forces to prevent them them from voting under the pretext of anti-terrorism operations.
Who are the real terrorists? Unarmed civilians trying to vote or those so-called "EuroMaidan leaders," like Arseniy Yatsenyuk, sending troops to threaten and kill them?
Welcome to Nulandistan…
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VIDEO — John McCain's "Democratic" Friends: Yatsenyuk uses Militias to Kill Civilians, Prevent VotingPosted: May 13, 2014 in News, Russia, Video
Tags: Covert Wars, Kill Civilians, Military Psychological Operations, Militias, Prevent Referendum, PSYOPS, russia, Ukraine, Usa, Yatsenyuk
May 11, 2014
On May 11, 2014 voting in a referendum was suppose to take place in several regions of Ukraine. Instead, the coup-installed US-backed Yatsenyuk regime killed Ukrainian citizens trying to exercise their democratic rights to vote peaceful in the referendum. Instead of allowing inhabitants of Krasnoarmeysk, in Donetsk Oblast, vote on their future, the US-backed Yatsenyuk regime has sent armed forces to prevent them them from voting under the pretext of anti-terrorism operations.
Who are the real terrorists? Unarmed civilians trying to vote or those so-called "EuroMaidan leaders," like Arseniy Yatsenyuk, sending troops to threaten and kill them?
Welcome to Nulandistan…
A nightmare brought to you by the European Union and Washington, D.C.
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South-East Ukraine: Crisis Diary (Unique Documentary Shot by Ordinary People)Posted: May 12, 2014 in Human Rights, News, Russia, Video
Tags: Civil Disruption, Documentary, People of Ukraine, South East Ukraine, Ukraine
Sheriffs Across U.S. Rise Up Against Obama RegimePosted: May 11, 2014 in News, USA, Video, Western Censored News
Tags: Disarmament, Sheriffs Dept, United States executive orders, Usa
Documentary: The Great CullingPosted: May 1, 2014 in News, Video
Tags: chemicals, Documentary, health, humanity, The great culling, Video
The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. Covertly, insidiously, mercilessly, a global depopulation agenda has been launched.
As this plays out, the vast majority of the human race will be removed from the gene pool. Genetically annihilated. Will you and your genetic lineage survive?
It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the air we breathe – chemicals that have the known effect of reducing fertility and shortening lifespan.
This documentary is the first of a three-part series. It shows how additives to our drinking water, such as fluoride, supposedly to combat tooth decay, in reality are covert doses of death. It also shows how you can protect yourself and your family.
Film-makers Paul Wittenberger (What In The World Are They Spraying?) and Chris Maple explore WHAT are the real threats to your life, your offspring and your…
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Fractured Country – An Unconventional Invasion (must-see)Posted: March 22, 2014 in Australia, Environment, Health, News, Video
Tags: australia, coal seam gas, CSG, Fractured Country, health, Lock the gate alliance, NSW, NT, Pilliga, QLD, SA, Shale gas, Tara, Unconventional Invasion
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Lock the Gate Alliance
'Fractured Country: an Unconventional Invasion' is a new film from Lock the Gate Alliance (Australia) about the risks to communities from invasive gasfields. This is the full version of the documentary.
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Bush Arrives In South Africa
President Bush is now on the ground in South Africa, the second stop of his five-country tour of Africa. — He landed at Waterkloof Air Base outside of Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday night.
Mr. Bush will be meeting on Wednesday with South African President Thabo Mbeki to discuss AIDS, trade, and the Zimbabwe political situation.
Earlier Tuesday the President met with leaders in Senegal and took a tour of an old slave island where Africans were held before they were shipped to America.
Visiting a site where slaves were processed before their forced trip to American homes and fields, Mr. Bush called slavery "one of the greatest crimes of history."
The journey to Goree Island was the emotional highlight of Mr. Bush's daylong visit to Senegal, the first leg of his five-nation Africa tour.
Mr. Bush toured a slave house, built by the Dutch in 1776, where Africans were held, weighed, fed and often punished before making the long trans-Atlantic journey to America's colonies. They left through what is known as "The Door of No Return."
"Liberty and life were stolen and sold," Mr. Bush said after touring the house.
"Human beings delivered, sorted, weighed, branded with marks of commercial enterprises and loaded as cargo on a voyage without return," Mr. Bush said. "One of the largest migrations in history was also one of the greatest crimes of history."
The president recited a litany of Africans and African Americans who made contributions to American society, from the arts to politics: abolitionist Frederick Douglass, slave-poet Phillis Wheatley and Martin Luther King Jr.
"The stolen sons and daughters of Africa helped to awaken the conscience of America," he said.
Mr. Bush did not apologize for slavery but noted Americans throughout history "clearly saw this sin and called it by name."
Before the trip, Condoleezza Rice, Mr. Bush's national security adviser, gave no indication that the president would apologize for slavery. She told a pre-trip briefing last week that, "there is plenty of blame to go around about slavery."
The legacy of slavery is one reason why the president in under pressure to send U.S. troops to bring peace to Liberia. The nation was founded in 1821 by freed slaves and has traditionally had close ties to the United States.
The president's dilemma on whether to send troops loomed over his African tour.
Speaking to reporters during a meeting with Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and the heads of seven other West African democracies, Mr. Bush said he had not yet decided on the United States' involvement in Liberia. He also repeated his demand that Liberia's president, Charles Taylor, relinquish power.
Mr. Bush said the group had "a good discussion" on Liberia. Among the leaders was President John Kufuor of Ghana, the head of the 15-country Economic Community of West African States, which has been deeply involved in talks over how to stabilize Liberia.
"We're now in the process of determining the extent of our participation," Mr. Bush said. "The U.N. is going to be involved but the U.S. will work with ECOWAS."
Upon arrival in Senegal Tuesday morning, Mr. Bush headed straight into a Presidential Palace meeting with Wade, an ally in his anti-terror campaign.
After that session, Mr. Bush and Wade met with their West African democratic counterparts: Kufuor, Mathieu Kerekou of Benin, Pedro Pires of Cape Verde, Yahya Jammeh of Gambia, Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali, Mamadou Tandja of Niger and Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone.
Clusters of curious onlookers gathered on dirt roads to watch Mr. Bush's motorcade pass by, many standing with their arms folded across their chests, some clapping and waving.
Few people ventured out and shops and homes were shuttered downtown Dakar as security was tightened during Mr. Bush's visit. Dakar's main highway was closed off, and people living along the route Mr. Bush was taking were told to keep their windows closed.
"It's the first time I've ever seen the city like this," said Yaya Badji, 28, a guard. "All economic activity has stopped."
The scene was in stark contrast to the reception given Mr. Bush's predecessor, President Clinton, on his first Africa trip, in March 1998. Thousands of people lined Senegal's streets to cheer, jump, clap, wave, sing and play drums for Mr. Clinton. His visit to Ghana drew the largest crowds of his presidency, estimated at 500,000 people.
Mr. Bush's five-day trip to Africa, his first to the continent as president, also takes him to Botswana, Uganda and Nigeria.
The president wants Liberia's Taylor to step down to pave the way for peace in his war-torn country. Taylor says he is considering asylum in Nigeria, but apparently wants to see U.S. peacekeepers arrive before he leaves.
Mr. Bush has sent a U.S. military team to the capital city of Monrovia to assess the humanitarian situation before making a decision.
Nearly one-third of Liberia's 3 million people have been forced from their homes by fighting since rebels took up arms against Taylor in 1999. The three years of fighting are the latest round in an on-and-off insurrection that Taylor, then a warlord, started in 1989. Taylor is also wanted in neighboring Sierra Leone for backing rebels there who committed atrocities against civilians.
In another example of the bloodshed that forms a dismal backdrop to the African success stories the president is touring, a human rights groups said righting between rival tribal and rebel factions in a volatile northeastern Congolese province killed an estimated 5,000 civilians in the nine months to March.
Mr. Bush chose his itinerary to represent the new Africa he hopes will emerge from such carnage.
The leaders of South Africa, Nigeria and Senegal want Western assistance for a plan they have formulated to rescue Africa; Botswana, a prosperous southern African nation, is actively confronting the AIDS scourge. Uganda, a thriving east African power, is seen as an important ally in confronting potential terror networks in the region.
Many African leaders see Mr. Bush's visit as a key part of a strategy to combat rising anti-American sentiment and the image of Washington as an international bully.
Mr. Bush is expected to discuss Africa's importance to his administration and to promote programs to boost U.S.-Africa trade, foster democracy in African nations, and tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic that is devastating in sub-Saharan Africa.


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Shawn Stockman, one of the prominent members of the American award-winning vocal group, Boyz II Men, aired his dirty linen in public when he apologised to his wife and fans for infidelity on Instagram.
Stockman, who has been married to Sharonda Jones for 15 years, shared a heartfelt video with his 48,000 Instagram followers and sought for their forgiveness.
He said, "I'm apologising on record to my family and to anyone else that I have hurt." Although he didn't go into detail about his infidelity, he mentioned that he was "doing things outside of his marriage" he was not supposed to be doing.
He also posted another since-deleted video to his Instagram account on Thursday further apologising to his wife and followers, and seeking their forgiveness.
Most of his followers seemed supportive of his honesty and offered countless words of encouragement.
Reports of Stockman's alleged infidelity came to the fore for the first time in 2010.
At the time, popular US gossip site, bossip.com, reported that he had been cheating on his wife for the past nine years with another woman, and justifying his adultery by his Israeli faith. The faith allows its male followers to marry up to seven women.
The website also cited a source, claiming swimsuit model, Avonte Cherie, began a relationship with Stockman before he married his wife Sharhonda Jones in 2001.
Cherie and Stockman continued their relationship through the course of his marriage because Stockman claimed his Israelite faith allowed for multiple wives or partners.
Unfortunately, according to the source, Stockman's wife has been oblivious to this fact.
Even though the trend of celebrities "confessing" to and "apologising" for infidelity on social media is not a new trend in the United States, in Nigeria, it has yet to be widely adopted.
Indeed, not a few will forget in a hurry the public apology that Maje Ayida, the estranged husband of Nigerian media personality, Toke Makinwa, made on Instagram in July 2015,after his marriage allegedly fell apart due to infidelity.
In his Instagram video, Ayida said his behaviour had caused a lot of anguish to everyone involved, and he still loved wife.


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CAS holds 'Adyo', recognizes best student researchers
Aiming to promote the culture of research among the students of College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), the CAS Student Council and the CAS Office of Research and Publication held the 2016 Interdisciplinary Research Conference on March 18, 2016.
With the theme 'Adyo: Taking Social and Scientific Research to the Next Level', this year's research conference featured the best student research selected through blind review of CAS research council.
Angelo Joshua C. Luciano and John Claude Renan of BS Biology were hailed best student researchers with their study 'Aquatic Insect Diversity as Water Quality Indicator in Pagsipi-Bunggo-Camatian River, Lucban, Quezon.'
Another pair of researchers from BS Bio, Larrisse O. Lipit and Verinna Charisse B. Mangonon, bagged the third place with their study 'Antibiotic Resistance of Salmonella in Contaminated Chicken Eggs and Poultry Environment.'
Meanwhile, Djacmar Al P. Jacela and Christel Ann D. Regulacion of Bachelor of Arts in Communication won 2nd place with their study 'Banat-Buto: A Documentary Film on the Lives of Working Children in Tayabas, City, Quezon.' They were also hailed as the best research presenter.
Prof. Jerry Esperanza from the University of Rizal System, Prof. Maria Portia Olenka Placino from the University of the Philippines – Diliman, and Mr. Ronera Jose Rea, who earned his masters from the Ateneo de Manila University, served as panel of evaluators.
Winners in the conference will represent the college in the upcoming SLSU Intercollegiate Research Conference.
CAS Interdisciplinary Research Conference was first held in 2010 and it has become a tradition in the college aiming to provide a venue for students to share the findings of their research and to have a university based network among themselves. //Pelasalome Alayan
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Atari has sued Nestle, accusing it of "blatantly" impinging on its intellectual property by featuring the 1970s video game Breakout in a Kit Kat ad without its permission.
In a lawsuit filed yesterday in San Francisco, California, the games biz accused Nestle of "blatant invasion and misappropriation of its intellectual property rights related to the iconic Breakout video game."
The game was developed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wosniak in 1975, following Atari's hit game, Pong. Jobs said the $5,000 he was paid for Breakout served as seed money for his nascent company, Apple.
"Forty years later Nestle decided that it would, without Atari's authorisation, leverage Breakout," read the filing. "To be clear, this is not a case where a good faith dispute could exist between the rights holder and alleged infringer.
"Instead, Nestle simply took the classic Breakout screen, replaced its bricks with Kit Kat bars, and invited customers to "Breakout"* and buy more candy bars.
"Adding insult to injury, Nestle's Breakout campaign was comprehensive, and the infringement continues to this very moment. Kit Kat ads centred on the exploitation and misuse of the Breakout name, and the Breakout look, feel, sound, and imagery remain on Twitter, under Nestle's Twitter handle, and on Facebook, on Nestle's Facebook page, for all the world to see."
The filing said that Nestle has denied Atari the licensing fees it would have charged Nestle for use of Atari's intellectual property in the widely distributed Kit Kat Breakout campaign, had Atari agreed to such use.
Nestle said: "This is a UK TV advert that ran in 2016. The ad no longer runs and we have no current plans to re-run it. We are aware of the lawsuit in the US and will defend ourselves strongly against these allegations."
You can watch the TV ad here. ®
* Sub-vulture pedant note: Really, one should use two words here for the verbal phrase "break out"; it's only a Breakout – or even B/break-out – when it's a noun. Subs' desk has no comment on the merits of the lawsuit, but this is a pretty egregious violation of grammar.


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|Zoe, a female Rat Terrior with Addison's disease
She is active and playful but is always famished. Her water intake has also increased on the medication, but she isn't showing any incontinence.
My major concern is that she has lost her hair on all four legs and belly, and now it is progressing up her shoulders, hind quarters, and to her head!
Her lab tests are within normal range according to her vet, who wants to take a wait and see approach. I thought she may be getting too much prednisone, but my vet is afraid to cut back for fear of her "crashing" and developing an adrenal crisis.
Any thoughts on this? Zoe could sure use the help before all the other dogs start teasing her!
My Response:
Based on the clinical features of increased appetite, increased thirst, and hair loss, it is most likely that Zoe is being overdosed with the prednisone and has developed iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome (glucocorticoid excess).
In support of that, the daily maintenance dose of prednisone or prednisolone in dogs with Addison's disease is only 0.1-0.2 mg per kg per day. So at 8 kg (Zoe's body weight), that calculates out to 0.8 mg to 1.6 mg per day. This is only 15-30% of the dose that she is now receiving every day. When you think about that, it's no wonder that she is showing signs of glucocorticoid (prednisone) excess!
Remember that the adrenal glands in dogs with Addison's disease have failed so we must replace the missing hormones. These dogs will require lifelong replacement with both a mineralocorticoid (e.g., Percoten-V) and glucocorticoid (e.g., prednisone) hormone. Both the mineralocorticoids and glucocorticoid dosages must be individualized for that particular dog.
The dosage of the mineralocorticoids can best be determined by monitoring the serum electrolyte concentrations (sodium, chloride, and potassium); the dosage is increased to decreased, as needed to normalize the circulating electrolyte concentrations.
Prednisone (or prednisolone), a common glucocorticoid used to treat dogs with Addison's disease, is ideally started at physiological dosages (0.1-0.2 mg/kg/day). This dosage should be adjusted up or down as needed, as some dogs show exquisite sensitivity to the adverse prednisone's effects. The amount of prednisone that enhances the dog's well-being (normal activity level and appetite) but prevents side effects (increased thirst, panting, polyphagia, hair loss) may be very small.
If a dog's serum electrolytes are normal on Percorten replacement therapy, dogs with Addison's disease aren't going to develop serious adrenal crisis, even if the prednisone dosage is lowered too much for a day or two.
My Bottom Line:
Your dog is receiving too much glucocorticoid supplementation. With time, even a mild overdose will lead to signs of iatrogenic Cushing's syndrome, which may include hair loss, increased thirst and urination, and increased appetite. I'd taper the dose down to 1 mg per day over the next couple of weeks. The prednisone is available as a 1-mg tablet, which would make dosing much more convenient.
If the hair loss doesn't resolve after two to three months, I'd recommend that your veterinarian check a serum thyroid panel. Some dog's with Addison's disease will also develop concurrent hypothyroidism, which commonly leads to hair loss in dogs.
- Church DB. Canine hypoadrenocorticism. In: Mooney CT, Peterson ME, eds. BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Endocrinology. 3rd ed. Quedgeley, Gloucester: British Small Animal Veterinary Association, 2004; 172-180.
- Kintzer PP, Peterson ME. Treatment and long-term follow-up of 205 dogs with hypoadrenocorticism. J Vet Intern Med 1997;11:43-49.
- Klein SC, Peterson ME. Canine hypoadrenocorticism: part I. Can Vet J 2010;51:63-69.
- Klein SC, Peterson ME. Canine hypoadrenocorticism: part II. Can Vet J 2010;51:179-184.