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Several Aboriginal activists yesterday condemned remarks President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) made on Wednesday, when he said that complete autonomy for Aborigines would only bring isolation, and that Aborigines should be valued for their talent in sports and music.
"We Aborigines cannot agree at all with the discriminatory remarks that Ma made against the country's Aborigines during a Chinese Nationalist Party [KMT] Central Standing Committee meeting on Wednesday," Indigenous Peoples' Action Coalition of Taiwan (IPACT) convener Omi Wilang told a news conference in Taipei. "We strongly condemn the remarks. He should apologize for them."
Other activists at the press conference supported Omi's call, and shouted in unison for Ma to apologize.
"This is not the first time that Ma has made discriminatory remarks against Aborigines," Assembly of the Atayal Nation -secretary-general Utux Lbak said. "As it becomes a universal value around the world to respect indigenous peoples' rights to the land and autonomy, the president is falling far behind the global trend."
The activists were "livid" because Ma, in his capacity as KMT chairman, told the KMT Central Standing Committee meeting that "ceding territories" to Aborigines to create autonomous regions is not what was best for Aborigines, since it could isolate them.
He also said the public should value the talents of Aborigines more, such as in sports or in music, and that Aborigines may need "some degree of protection."
"How is [the government] 'ceding territories' if autonomous regions are created? Aboriginal traditional domains are all our territories, it's the several foreign regimes [that ruled Taiwan over the course of history] that took our lands," Utux said. "We're not asking [the government] to cede territories, we are only asking for our basic rights."
Former Examination Yuan member Iban Nokan, on the other hand, criticized the Aboriginal autonomy bill drafted by the Executive Yuan, which incorporated Ma's ideas about Aboriginal autonomy.
"The Executive Yuan's draft autonomy bill is more about creating Aboriginal cultural preservation areas under current local government systems than creating authentic autonomous regions," Iban said. "We Aborigines want our own autonomy, not Han people's version of Aboriginal autonomy."
As long as Ma does not change his Han-centric and Han supremacist mentality, "I don't have any expectations for the Executive Yuan's version of the autonomy bill," he said.
However, KMT Legislator Liao Kuo-tung (廖國棟) of the Amis tribe, who is also a member of the KMT's Central Standing Committee, defended Ma's remarks and the government's version of Aboriginal autonomy.
"Ma was elaborating on his Aboriginal policies and he was very sincere about implementing autonomy, as he promised during the presidential campaign [in 2008]," Liao said, adding that there was no need to pay so much attention to Ma's choice of words.
Liao said he supports Ma's idea of implementing autonomy on a trial basis in the initial stage.
"If you try to pour too much stuff into the autonomy bill, it will become chaotic," he said. "I think it's a better idea to have a basic framework first, and then amend the law as necessary later on."


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June 24, 2015
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The Great American Myth
The Great American Myth
Always there have been men whom the world could not willingly let die. Such were Friedrich Barbarossa and Holger Danske. Such was the elusive Comte de Saint-Germain--that "odd man," who, said Horace Walpole, "professes that he does not go by his right name," and whom Andrew Lang styled "a will-o'-the-wisp." Such was Ahasuerus, whom the Bishop of Schleswig met at Hamburg in 1542 and who was encountered near Salt Lake City by the Mormon O'Grady as late as 1868. Such were the Duke of Monmouth, Goffe the Regicide, Alexander the First of Russia, Jack Sheppard, the "Lost Dauphin" of France.
In a corner of the Luxembourg Gardens, amid the early chill of a December morning of 1815, Marshal Ney was executed by a firing-squad. But years afterward, in the distant Carolinas, folk recognized the "Bravest of the Brave" in the person of a mysterious school-teacher. Far-flung but vain was official search for Johann Salvator, Archduke of Austria, who had vanished with the bark Santa Margarita. Yet rumors were to tell of him as a miner in Canada and a grocer in Texas; as factory worker in Ohio, soldier with the Boers, patient in a New York hospital.
Rudolf of Habsburg and Lord Kitchener alike reached certainly their mortal end, but, with Arnold's Scholar Gipsy, each
. . . long was seen to stray,
Seen by rare glimpses.
Saturnine Ambrose Bierce, enigmatic Lawrence of Arabia were both in common talk held back from Orcus and somewhere con-


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Submit a petition to Council
Find out about submitting a petition to Council; including what is a petition, how should it be worded, who should sign a petition, how Council considers petitions, Standing Orders Local Law and an example of a petition.
Ratepayers and residents are encouraged to participate in Council's decision-making process. One of the ways the community can request Council consider an issue is by presenting a petition.
What is a petition?
A petition is defined as a formal written request, signed by many people, appealing to an authority in some cause. The cause or subject of the petition must be something that the Council has the authority to deal with or has a decision-making role. Typical examples are:
- Request for a footpath to be constructed
- Request for playground equipment on a reserve
- Request for action to resolve a traffic problem.
Issues relating to police matters, for example, are not matters in which Council has any jurisdiction and requests concerning these types of issues need to be directed to the relevant authority. In these cases, you may choose to send a copy of the final petition to Council for its information.
How should the petition be worded?
Petitions should be worded carefully so that any potential signatories are able to clearly understand the purpose of the petition. The request or subject of the petition must be printed on the top of every page containing signatures of support. The petition should also be addressed to the Shire President and include a summary of reasons supporting the proposal.
The petition must be expressed in respectful and temperate terms and may be rejected if it is offensive or derogatory to the Council.
Who should sign a petition?
In accordance with Council's Standing Orders Local Laws, the Council will consider petitions made by electors or residents of the district. If the petition is presented to the Council meeting by an Elected Member, they must be familiar with the nature and contents of the petition. Therefore, discussing the petition with your local Elected Member and gaining his or her support for the proposal is important.
Of course, the other important factor is the number of supporters you can get to sign the petition. The more signatures, the stronger the argument in favour of the proposal. However, it is not appropriate to get just anyone to sign the petition. Signatures should be confined to ratepayers and residents of Shire of Serpentine Jarrahdale, aged over 18 years and must be limited to those people affected by the proposal.
How will Council treat the petition?
When you have collected as many signatures on the petition as possible, it can be handed to the Elected Member with whom you have discussed the petition, posted to the Chief Executive Officer, who will arrange for an Elected Member to present your petition at the next Council meeting or you can attend the Council meeting to present the petition yourself.
Should Council resolve to accept your petition, the matter may be referred to an officer for a report to be prepared on the issue.
The person who submits the petition will be advised in writing of the decision of Council in respect to the proposal and it is the responsibility of that person to relay that outcome to the people who signed the petition.


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Excerpts from The Great Heroin Coup
by Henrik Kruger (1981)
Drugs Intelligence & International Fascism
Quote from The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia:
"Heroin Kingpin Santo Trafficante Jr. boarded a jet in the summer of 1968 to seek his new fortune. Trafficante liked what he saw in his Southeast Asian tour. With enough trained chemists, his Mob could be supplied with heroin at fraction of what was then paying out to the Corsicans. But first the smuggling networks had to be worked out and the Corsicans had to be eliminated. That was a job for President Nixon and his White House staff, the BNDD, a White House death squad, and the Central Intelligence Agency."
The Role of Nixon
Control of this effort was placed in the hands of a relative unknown, a young and inexperienced Egil Krogh, a newcomer. Krogh was less than satisfied with existing narcotics efforts, especially those of the CIA, whose intelligence reports, according to Federal Narcotics head Ingersoll, were decisive for the work of the BNDD (Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs). Krogh wanted the White House instead to handle the BNDD's intelligence work. Nixon's staff would then decide which drug traffickers to pursue. Krogh's dissatisfaction was expressed to E. Howard Hunt, who immediately proposed an Office of National Narcotics Intelligence (ONNI) where all narcotics intelligence reports would be analyzed and follow up actions decided.
Hunt told Krogh he could enlist for the office experienced CIA figures, starting with Lucien Conein as its head. Nixon, however, chose William C. Sullivan instead. Once second to J. Edgar Hoover in the FBI, Sullivan had managed Division 5, which investigated espionage, sabotage and subversion. He also directed Operation CoIntelPro, the bureau's vendetta against dissident political and cultural groups like the Black Panthers, and had been Nixon's choice to direct the Huston Plan's elaborate surveillance of U.S. citizens. Hunt nevertheless found a niche for his friend. Conein was assigned to the BNDD as a "strategic intelligence officer" and came to control overseas narcotics intelligence, originally the domain of ONNI, while Sullivan concentrated on domestic affairs.
The White House now controlled narcotics intelligence at home and abroad, but that still wasn't enough. Nixon's staff also sought to control enforcement itself, and that required effective strike forces. In January 1972, the White House set up the Office for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (ODALE) according to a plan conceived by G. Gordon Liddy. It became the domestic strike force under Mile Ambrose – whose government career ended with news of his pleasure trip to the ranch of a Texan indicted for narcotics and gun running. ODALE soon became notorious for its record illegal raids, no-knock entries into private homes and beatings of innocent people. Many called them the American Gestapo.
U.S. Narcs proceeded to wipe out the Corsican's Turkey-Marseilles-U.S.A. pipeline, especially in South America ignoring Southeast Asia completely. In Vietnam, meanwhile from 1969 to 1970, pot sniffing dogs banished grass from the barracks and 90% pure heroin suddenly became available. 14-year old girls stuffed it in GI's pockets for peanuts. By 1971, Congress found that 15% of all GI's returning from Vietnam were addicted. Thus, when agents of French Intelligence were compromised bringing in loads welded into Mercedes bodies, and New York's finest bragged of bagging the French Connection. The only heroin shortage came from there being 4 times more junkies on Election Day of 1971 than when Nixon was inaugurated.
That Nixon might have been involved is lent credence by the following quote from Dan Moldea: "a former Nixon aide, not privy to the Haig investigation, says that one his associates in the White House mentioned to him sometime during the impeachment summer, that someone high up, maybe General Alexander Haig, was interested in Nixon's possible 'organized crime involvements'. That conversation involved a massive payoff from those in the Army Service Club scandals in Vietnam during 1969 and 1970, The aide says that the service club scandal ripoffs involved the Mafia and millions of dollars and that the main focus of 'someone high up' in the White House was on whether 'the top mafia guy' who ran 'all these things in Southeast Asia' had made payoffs to Nixon. The crime figure, he says, was 'the one who was apparently known as the so-called mastermind or architect of the Southeast Asian drug trade, and was a very powerful and very well known as a mob leader. According to the government narcotics experts, the central figure in the Indochina Golden Triangle narcotics traffic was Santo Trafficante."
In my opinion, the central manipulator in the whole narcotics scheme was the CIA or rather a faction within it. It is erroneous to treat the Agency as a monolith. Various lobby groups have their own agents in the company, generating internal power struggles that reflect political polarizations external to the CIA. Equally certain is the fact that one should take the agency's new benign face with a grain of salt. Within the agency there remains powerful groups promoting continued support of 'old friends' in Latin America and Southeast Asia. The China/Cuba Lobby has traditionally been one of the most influential within the CIA and there is little reason to believe the situation has seriously changed. In addition to the CIA's new official policy there is also an unofficial one. It manifests itself in such matters as the manipulation of the DEA to perform what previously had been CIA dirty work, and in toleration, if not encouragement of a large, apparently independent army of Cuban exile terrorists, available for action in Latin America at the request of the presiding dictators.
The evidence suggests that the forces behind the unofficial policy were able to place many of their loyal CIA agents in the DEA, and in such private intelligence agency covers as Intertel and Wackenhut, where they continue their tasks while letting the agency wash its hands. Intelligence is still gathered by the CIA, but some of the dirtiest operations are now performed by 'former' agents. We cannot of course, discount the possibility that the unofficial policy is in fact executed by former agents who had either been purged from the agency or left in protest against its new moderate political line. However that implies that a renegade CIA faction now runs an independent service, aided by lobby interests ie. Not Intertel but as an even more powerful third force. If that is so, I can come up with only one lobby group with the relevant motives as well as the power to back them – The World Anti-Communist League (WACL). The League can mobilize CIA agents closely associated with the China/Cuba/Chile Lobby, especially the large contingent of former agents from the Nazi Gehlen organization, Hitler's intelligence agency which became the BND, the West German equivalent of the CIA.
CIA 'Old Boys' Work DEA Scam
E Howard Hunt and Lucien Conein pulled off the great heroin coup. Hunt secured Cuban exiles including Barker and Manuel Artime to kidnap and assassinate the independent French Narcotics-for-guns traffickers in Paraguay and the rest of South America, while Conein focused White House attentions exclusively on the Corsicans, with whom he had previous experience as a member of Operation Jedbergh.
Creation of the DEA was intended not consolidate but to obfuscate. To quote Customs Official Ron Rosenbaum:
"BNDD and Customs are finally getting somewhere, they break up the French Connection, and they're getting big conspiracy cases. Suddenly they [the White House] step in and there is this big shake up, and by the time people get back to work the Mexican Connection is set up, protected and doing big business. What does this say to you?"
Mexican heroin included not just the brown mud locally produced to provide cheap stuff for new users in the States; it included regular transshipments of No. 4 China White from Southeast Asia for the veins of the most discriminating users. The emergence of the DEA was the next to last phase, Hunt and Conein's CIA agents moved into DEA intelligence and operations. Conein located 12 Latino CIA agents in his Special Operations Group alone. His forces were directed mostly against small time independents, the biggest Cuban network led by Santo Trafficante remained untouched.
That brings us to the last, political phase of the heroin coup, which began with the DEA's 1974 takeover of the CIA's Latin American torture apparatus and ended with the formation of CORU, a terrorist army. The brutalities financed by the heroin coup continue. The DEA protects major narcotics dealers. The latter support – financially through gun running – anti-Communist paramilitary groups which work hand in hand with Latin American police and military forces, whose death squads and torturers are supervised by agents of the DEA. There is reason to believe that there are 2 'wings' of the DEA – one of them 'clean' and out to bust the other, crooked one – and the split is dated right from the formation of the Agency under Nixon.
Final Consolidation of the DEA
In July of 1973, Nixon's narcotics forces were essentially consolidated according to Reorganization Plan No. 2 worked out by former CIA agent Walter Minnick and Egil Krogh. The DEA formed from the ranks of BNDD, ODALE, ONNI and Customs Intelligence. 4,000 operatives including 50 CIA agents (among them Cubans from the ODALE hardcore), 500 customs agents and most of the BNDD staff made the DEA a powerful new agency. No bureau has been as plagued by scandal as the DEA has in 7 years of existence. The exposes and charges run the gamut from trafficking in drugs, teamwork with the Mob, and protection of major traffickers, to thievery, gunrunning, torture and assassination of drug traffickers.
When Lucien Conein became the head of the DEA's Special Operations Branch he allegedly carried out an assassination program after setting up the DEA's Special Operations Group (DEASOG) under cover of the B. R. Fox Company housed on Connecticut Avenue in Washington DC. DEASOG shared its Washington office with an old friend and colleague of Hunt and Conein's from OSS China, the weapons dealing soldier of fortune and specialist in assassination, Mitch Werbel III. Werbell had been a business partner of Conein's as late as 1974 and they had worked together on providing the DEA with assassination devices. Among Werbell's other associates were Frank Sturgis, the leaders of the Cuban Exile and Robert Vesco, who, like Werbell, has been charged with bankrolling narcotics smuggling.
Assassination, it can be argued became a modus operandi under Richard Nixon. The CIA carried out extermination campaigns in Vietnam, Guatemala, Argentina and Brazil – aided in Latin America by local military death squads. The White House appears to have sponsored a secret assassination program under the cover of drug enforcement. It was continued by the DEA, which seemingly overlapped with the CIA in the political arena. Until 1974 the training of torturers and members of Latin American death squads came under the auspices of the CIA and USAID's Office of Public Safety. Some 100,000 Brazilian policemen, for example, were trained and 523 of them were chosen for courses in the USA. They were trained at the International Police Academy in Georgetown and at a secret CIA center in the same city on R street, under cover of International Police Services Inc. When school was out the prize pupils returned home to moonlight with the death squads.
After Tupemaros guerillas kidnapped and killed the U.S. police advisor Dan Mitrione in Uruguay, Washington's schools for foreign police came into the limelight and Congress cut off their funding. Nonetheless, training programs and direct assurance through supervision continued. A 1976 investigation authorized by Senator James Abourezk revealed that the U.S. torture academies had not been in fact completely closed down. According to Jack Anderson, Abourezk found such a school had been in operation since 1974 in Los Fresnos, Texas at the site of a former bomb school. Another journalist, William Hoffman, later confirmed the existence of the school for torture at the same site and that it had since moved to Georgia, where it was known as the Law Enforcement Training Center. Interestingly, Conein's friend Werbell runs his own large training center in Georgia called The Farm. It's used for, among other things, the training of law enforcement officials.
Much of the old police support apparatus was simply transferred to AID's International Narcotics Control Program (INC) which was controlled by the DEA. In 1974, the DEA utilized 400 agents in Latin America or roughly the number of advisors recalled from the OPS program. INC's budget for technical equipment abroad jumped from $2.2 million in 1973 to $12.4 million in 1974.The politics of the new drug effort was exposed in 1974 when the man behind Argentina's notorious death squad, the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance (AAA), Social Minister Lopez Rega, appeared on TV with U.S. Ambassador Robert C. Hill to publicize the two nation's anti-narcotics collaboration with the words "The Guerillas are the main users of drugs in Argentina. Therefore the anti-drug campaign will automatically be an anti-guerilla campaign as well".
It's striking how close the various extermination and repression campaigns have been to the narcotics traffic. The Meo Army deployed by the CIA in Laos smuggled large quantities of opium. Lopez Rega and his Argentine AAA henchmen were eventually exposed as keys to a cocaine ring. One of the chief AAA hatchet men, Francois Chiappe, was a lieutenant in the Ricord-David heroin network. He had excellent connections in Peronist circles. A former OAS Commando Delta member in Algeria, he remained in touch with other OAS figures assembled in the Paladin Group, a fascist terrorist combine founded in Spain by the Nazi war criminal Col. Otto Skorzeny. It was among the organizations to which Juan Peron's grey eminence. Jose Lopez Rega, formed the dreaded AAA terror death squad.
When the Peronist Hector Campora became President of Argentina in May 1973, Chiappe was released and immediately recruited back into the AAA. When Peron himself returned a month later from 18 years of exile in Spain, an enormous crowd gathered at Ezeisa airport on June 20 to greet him. Among them was a large contingent of Monteneros and other Leftists, security police were well aware of their presence. Police and AAA terrorists led by Col. Jorge Osinde attacked the demonstrators with machine guns and hand grenades. 100 were killed and 300 were badly wounded. The AAA's prisoners were dragged to the airport parking lot and tortured. Two of the more zealous hatchet men were Chiappe and former OAS Colonel Jean Gardes.
Many of the Corsicans booted from SAC fled to Spain to join the Paladin Group where they learned to work side by side with former OAS agents. Paraguay's most ruthless officers were exposed as heroin profiteers, and finally as we go to press we learn that dictator, Pinochet, assumed control of Chile's cocaine trade, then turned it over to his secret police, the DINA, who work with the Cuban Exile group operating under the DEA.
Mitch Werbell and The Mexican Connection
Alberto Sicilia Falcone, "The Mexican Connection" who was not even Mexican but a Cuban Bay of Pigs veteran, turned up in Mexico in 1973 at the hub of a gigantic heroin and marijuana establishment. He was arrested when it was discovered that he was trading China White for guns to destabilize the Mexican government under Echevarria. On July 2 1975 Sicilia-Falcone was arrested. Under heavy interrogation he claimed to be an agent of the CIA and that the drug ring had been set up on orders from and with the support of the agency. Part of his profits were to go toward the purchase of weapons and ammunition for distribution throughout Central America for the destabilization of 'undesirable governments'. If true, the U.S. heroin addicts were again footing the bill for clandestine paramilitary operations and Anti-Communist terror campaigns. Sicilia-Falcone and his Syndicate associates were not short of funds, police found two Swiss bank account books in his possession to the tune of $260 million. In the Sicilia-Falcone case the CIA and DEA struggled bitterly against one another. It was sympathetic of the split within the DEA's own ranks, a split rooted in the effective control of its narcotics division by transplanted agents of the CIA. Since the DEA's emergence, many agents have resigned in disgust.
Mitch Werbell, as former Number 3 White House Narc under E. Howard Hunt, Conein and Nixon was permitted to operate with impunity. In August of 1976 Lucien Conein's chum Mitch Werbell (whose BR Fox Company served as cover for Conein's Special Operations Group) was brought before a Miami federal court on charges of conspiracy to smuggle 50,000 pounds of marijuana a month from Colombia to the United States. Werbell was found innocent and released, just like the Thai opium smuggler and CIA agent, Puttaporn Khramkhruan before him in 1973. He went home to Georgia to pursue his weapons business and law enforcement training camp. According to writer, Hank Messick, 1978 he was involved in Far Right politics with the likes of Major General John K. Singlaub (who was relieved of command after outspoken criticism of President Carter) and members of the American Security Council – the key US link to the Far Right's national umbrella organization, the World Anti-Communist League (WACL). As reported recently in the New York Times, the beneficiaries of his anti-terrorist training have included members of the Far Right and Anti-Semitic U.S. Labor Party.
Werbell owns 8 companies, most of them dealing in firearms used by law enforcement and intelligence units. One of the firms, Studies in the Operational Negation of Insurgents and Counter-Subversion (SIONICS), specializes in the production of M10 and M11 silenced machine pistols. The latter 2 weapons, designed by Gordon Ingram and Werbell, are about the ultimate weapons for terror and extermination. Their sales agent was Werbell's Military Armament Corporation. Together with the Anti-Castro Cuban arms dealers Anselmo Allegro and the mercenary, Gerry Hemming, Werbell founded the Parabellum Corporation in 1971 in Miami. Parabellum was licensed by the government to sell arms to South America. It was also the firm from which Frank Sturgis planned to obtain weapons for Cuban Exiles who were going to disrupt the Miami 1972 conventions.
In 1974 Werbell – according to a motion filed by his own lawyer when Werbell, his son and his company Defense Services Inc. were charged with illicit weapons sales – was involved 'in a conspiracy among the CIA, Robert Vesco, and various corporations to finance clandestine guerilla activities in Latin America." Vesco wanted to purchase Werbell's stock of 2,000 silenced M10 machine pistols. When Werbell failed to secure an export license, he devised a plan to smuggle the weapons to Vesco. The two later negotiated the construction of a factory in Costa Rica which would be licensed to fabricate pistols. Intriguingly in the same period someone was negotiating with a U.S. firm for rights to fabricate in Mexico, fully automatic weapons for clandestine activities in Latin America. That individual was Mexico's Cuban Exile Heroin Czar, Alberto Sicilia-Falcon, and among the weapons he purchased were the Ingram M10 and 9mm Parabellum.
Although the M10 and M11 could be acquired through special US permission, large numbers of silenced M10's turned up in the hands of European right wing terrorists from 1975 to 1977. Pierluigi Concutelli, leader of the Italian terrorist group Ordine Nuovo, was arrested in Rome in 1977, police found a silenced M10 in his apartment, which he had used to murder the Roman magistrate Vittorio Occorsio. The magistrate had been shot on the streets of Rome in July 1976 after announcing he would expose the close collaboration between Right Wing groups and the Mafia. However, it was among Spanish terrorists in particular that Werbell's machine pistols appeared in quantity. Most notably, a sizeable consignment of M10's sent to Spain under license from US authorities had been purchased by the Spanish Intelligence Agency DGS, who had allegedly coordinated the terrorist attacks.
The fugitive billionaire Vesco employed a large contingent of trained Cubans to run his Costa Rican operation. His weapons negotiations coincided with the efforts of the fanatic Anti-Castro leader Orlando Bosch who assembled many of the Cuban cells into the terror group CORU, that would later carry out wet work assassinations for several Latin American regimes. During Bosch's 1975 drive, a wave of murder struck Miami's Cuban exile haven. Most victims were opposed to Bosch, and with them removed CORU was firmly established in June of 1976.
Vesco also once employed narcotics agents, in 1972 two bugging specialists from BNDD flew from Los Angeles to New Jersey to sweep Vesco's house and office of surveillance devices. The sweeping tour had been arranged by an admitted friend of Vesco's who had also been involved in supplying the fugitive with 2,000 machine guns and helping him establish a weapons factory in Costa Rica.
Heroin and The Strategy of Tension
The great innovative leap beyond the Corsican's they displaced is that they are fully prepared to utilize the heroin traffic, not just to make money but to promote a strategy of tension. The 'strategy of tension' was a concept invented by Benito Mussolini as a way of turning around the Marxist idea of class struggle. Mussolini preached collaboration between workers and capitalists, but in capturing power he welcomed class struggle because the strategy of tension would exploit turmoil and chaos to win over weary middle elements who just wanted peace. When his black shirted Fascisti attacked the communists, it only created more demand for severe law and order measures from the police that he controlled.
It took Mussolini about 6 years to come to power. In his final days of government consolidation he turned against liberal newspapers and other voices of dissent. Locking them up became a moderate alternative to the continued violence of the extreme Fascisti whom Mussolini claimed he had to pacify. This would not be politically possible today, yet by maintaining the plausible deniability of complicity between the three working parts of the War on Drugs politicians (The Big 5 Bloc: Tobacco, Alcohal, Prisons, CIA/Police and Pharma), narcotics agencies and drug cartels, today's far right wing rising to power on a tide of violence. The beauty of it is while 85% of drug busts continue to be for weed, none of the heat for diverting enforcement from heroin backfire on the narcotics agencies.
All 3 levels exploit the air current together. The top – War on Drugs Bloc – (**Editor: The Consortium**) directs the next level down – DEA and Narcotics Officials – against petty groups, individuals and non-conformist states, while keeping outside factors like the press from focusing on the bottom level, which was formed with the trained commando groups – Cuban Exiles, Ex-Iranian and South American intelligence assets, and trained members of various crime syndicates to distribute the heroin and influence the entertainment and media world.
Instead of compromising right wing reputations or upsetting their strategy, the very smack traffic they're protecting fosters the street crime which new right wing politicians can, in turn, use to get elected or re-elected, by calling for more police, more prisons, more foreign operations and more law & order.
Heroin Fascism (**aka Narcostatism**), which was supposed to be far away or 'over there', confined to Iran, Afghanistan or the Golden Triangle of Burma, has come home to New York's Lower East Side with a sense of vengeful economic super exploitation and increasingly cavalier repression of the populace. Not only does it eliminate non-conformists and undesirables, the whole combine sets up sympathetic vibes in widely separated scenes, so that normal people with common sense who wouldn't listen to the War on Drugs Bloc, and maybe even disparage the DEA, end up being conditioned into surprisingly right wing attitudes in order to 'get ahead' within the system.
When we look at the flood of heroin now coming in from the Iran-Afghanistan-Pakistan Golden Crescent, it is said to be ten times more than the early '70s flow from the Golden Triangle, and a hundred times more than the Corsican flow from Turkey. The situation has passed its breaking point, how long can the great heroin scandals of 1981 continue to be obfuscated and covered up depends on the sincerity of the investigator and reporters who are supposed to print the truth.
– The Green Chazzan


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My old friend John M. asked for a bit of a primer on basic global water issues so over the course of the next few entries I'm going to do a big picture overview of the issues and some of the terminology. I don't want this to be seen as a lecture…it's a discussion and if there's an issue I haven't covered or if you think I might have something incorrect let me know. Send me an email or post a comment.
The source of most of this information is from personal and professional experience, research, reading and the 2003 United Nations World Water Development Report: Water for people, water for life". Here is a link: http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/wwdr/
I'll also offer some suggestions for reading…but I want to keep each of these postings short and sweet and not put anyone to sleep.
GLOBAL WATER BASICS: [fanfare music please…]:
Finite resource:For the most part, the amount of water in the hydrological cycle is the same as it was thousands of years ago. There are some who believe that environmental degradation issues such as rainforest deforestation have depleted some amount of water in the hydrological cycle. But for discussion sake lets call it about the same as it was before the industrial revolution. What has definately changed is human population.
- The global population is pushing past 6.2 billion people;
- Water demand does not grow linearly but exponentially. In the last 100 years the world's population has tripled but water usage has grown six fold;
- Water is needed not just to drink but for agricultural irrigation, energy generation, and industrial manufacturing;
- A depleted water resource on a large regional scale is not a simple thing to correct. It is not like waiting for a big rainfall to fill up your cistern. We'll talk about the Colorado River and its lost delta as an example in another entry.
Here are some pictures of the dying Aral Sea. It was once a freshwater sea but its waters were diverted for crop irrigation without thought to downstream consequences. The remaining vanishing waters are highly toxic with pesticides and the growing desert sands are also toxic.
fishing vessels that once fed families are now adrift on a growing desert…
Scarcity: Water is not distributed evenly around the world and not necessarily where the people are.
- Canada has 10% of the world's freshwater and 1% of the worlds population;
- Population centers are becoming more urbanized [high concentration of people in small geographic area]. The need for water grows. Los Angeles has extended its straws for water hundreds of miles and through mountain ranges to get water [Colorado River for example].
Water purity and health: Human and industrial waste become more and more of an issue as our population grows. Treating the waste is paramount and in developed countries we are doing this….but in developing countries this is not always the case.
- In developing countries four-fifths of all the illnesses are caused by water-borne diseases, with diarrhea being the leading cause of childhood death.
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These are some of the overarching issues under which most of the global issues fall:
- Our freshwater is essentially a finite resource that is controlled by the natural hydrological cycle. It is not unlimited but it appears so…the paradox of plenty is paucity of attention;
- The availability of freshwater, its uneven concentration throughout the world, and the human needs for freshwater are the issues we need to address
We'll talk about the geopolitical conflicts already in play and those emerging, human health and sanitation, water mining, desalinization, conservation, education.
I get passionate about this issue because this is a fundamental carrying capacity issue that affects all countries and our shared sense of security. For years some forward thinkers have been saying the wars of the 21rst century will be about water. Check out some of these articles:
We can avoid these conflicts if we can be forward thinking and take action early. If the issue of national security feels too esoteric for you remember what happened at the New Orleans Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. There was no potable water and the veneer of humanity that surrounds our souls was stripped off and civilized behavior crumbled.
No water…no civility…no civilization
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text: Jeff Rogers is an Associate Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics at the Baylor College of Medicine. His research is focused on the genetics and genomics of nonhuman primates. These species are widely used as animal models of disease because they are so similar genetically and physiologically to humans. For studies of neurobiology and behavior, infectious diseases, metabolic diseases and other common health problems, nonhuman primates provide unique and valuable experimental models. As the impact of genetics on biomedical and basic biological research increases, the need for detailed information about the genomics of nonhuman primates also grows. His laboratory is working on various aspects of primate genomics, including both basic comparative analyses and targeted research using primate models of human disease, with special emphasis on the genetics of brain function and risk factors for psychiatric disorders. He is also investigating the genetic underpinnings of nonhuman primate neurobiology and primate models of risk for psychiatric disease. In collaboration with psychiatrists and neurobiologists, we study individual variation in behavior among macaques and baboons, and the underlying neurobiological mechanisms. He serves as the Chair of the NCRR-NIH Working Group for Primate Genetics and Genomics and has published widely in prestigious journals including Science and Nature.


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March 2018 marked the 11th year that I moved to England as well as my 21st birthday which means I have now lived in England for more than half of my life. Moving to England in March of 2007 clearly marked the next chapter in my life.
I had to learn everything to do with education from the very basic when I joined the school in year 6. Like a toddler, I was shown how to start to write from the left side of the page which was difficult because for the five years prior I wrote Dari which starts from the right-hand side. Like a toddler, I was also shown different colours to learn their names. It was only six years later that I found out that I have red-green colour-blindness which means some of the colours they were showing to me I could not even differentiate which made it even more difficult. I am talking to you Purple and Blue. I was given books that were aimed at three-year-olds to help me build up my vocabulary and confidence in talking to other people, but it just made it worse because, in the beginning, I couldn't even read those books.
I was taught English for an hour a day separately from different students for a year. In just that year with patience that I could not even imagine someone could have, my English teacher had helped me learn enough English to be able to hold a conversation with someone. Once I was able to learn to have a full-length conversation the need to learn English separately from everyone else was not needed. For the greatest English teachers are your friends who you speak with the majority of the day. Yes, I did learn swear words before I learnt any other words of English from my friends but that's the case with any other language. Swear words are the gateways to learning new languages.
Then came secondary school where I was now placed in English classes that had students who could read, write and understand English that was beyond my reach. I struggled with English in my GCSE. I remember the first coursework that I handed I got an E and that too by just a couple of marks. Coming from an Asian family that was simply unacceptable. My first year of GCSE I had an E in English Literature and a D in English language. The government then announced that if a student does not pass their GCSE English and Maths they must retake the GCSE. Not wanting to retake the exam I re-did all my coursework's again in a span of 9 months, I gave drafts after drafts to my teacher. Again, having an amazing teacher who would stay back a couple of hours a week helped me in finishing my coursework after school. In the end, I did not get A* or As in English, I just got a C in English GCSE which meant that I did not have to retake it and I was done with writing English essays or, so I thought.
Then came college, like many people I thought the best way to secure a job in the future was to study science and maths even if they are not my strongest subjects. I thought that if I picked these subjects for my A level I would have a guaranteed job in the future or, so we were taught in the assemblies and workshop that were held in my school. But I also deep down wanted to do Journalism, but I never researched it and thought to pick Media and Geography was my best option if I wanted to get into Journalism later. So, for the first year of my A levels I picked, Maths, Physics, Geography and Media an odd combination of subjects that all of my friends and teachers pointed out, but they were not aware of the fact that I wanted to do Journalism. And not so surprisingly I failed my first year miserably. I spent the whole of the year trying to learn Maths and Physics, neglecting both media and geography but even then, my worst result was for Maths.
After failing the year, I had to repeat AS all over again. This was my first ever academic failure. I had let down a lot of people. Then I had a conversation with my cousin, where I told her that I wanted to be a Journalist. But to be a journalist I had to improve my English with encouraging words from my cousin, I chose English, Politics and Media for my A levels.
From learning how to write the alphabet on the correct side of the page to writing 3000-word essays it has been a long and painstakingly hard journey. English is something that I am still trying to learn to get to grips with, I still have grammar issue with my writing, spelling errors, sentences that make no sense whatsoever.
Hopefully one day I will get to a point where I won't need spelling and grammar check on Microsoft word because most of the time it doesn't even work.


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Slovenia 2012 - Eva Boto - Verjamem
Finally we've got a top notch ballad in the competition proper. As much as I loved the Prusnik sisters and their delightfully kooky ways, and reckon they'd have lit up Baku like a beacon of fun, Verjamem was clearly the best song in the Slovenian final by a street.
Very much in the tradition of the more successful Balkan buildo ballad of recent years, despite her young age Miss Boto has both the voice and the personality to carry it off, and could well table their best result in years.
I'm not sure if this this song can mount a realistic title challenge, but it's certainly one of the outsiders to watch.
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If you're going to hustle a king's ransom,
make sure the crown isn't cracked.
make sure the crown isn't cracked.
Baby Ruth by Mark Slade
Danny sat at the table, staring a hole in Rose. He sighed and reached into the left pocket of his hoodie. He produced a plastic bag and briefly flashed it to Rose.
She saw the baggie contained finely cut white powder she desperately needed. Rose trembled, wiping tears dampening the dark circles under her eyes.
Danny looked around the café to make sure no one was watching. He laid the baggie on the table and pushed it toward her, clutching it tight when Rose reached for it. He had a devil-may-care smile on his face.
A smile Rose did not care for.
"Are you a good babysitter?" Danny asked.
Rose hesitated to answer. "Yes," she said, trying hard not to fidget with her hair.
"Are you sure?"
"What makes you so good?" Danny said, then chuckled.
"Can I have the stuff, please?"
"Tell me," Danny insisted.
"Just give me what I paid for," Rose said through clenched teeth. She tried to pull the baggie from Danny's grip.
"Give me an answer, cunt." Danny wasn't smiling anymore. "Or I'll take this and give it to another junkie……for free."
Rose trembled again. Her whole body shook at the thought of not having her medicine. Then there was the thought of the shame she'd feel if her parents knew she'd become a junkie and was no longer in college; that she no longer lived in a dorm and was using her monthly allowance to buy drugs.
"Tell me." Danny glared at her with a horrible, scummy smile returning to his ashen face.
"Because…." Rose tried to explain. "Because……"
"Yes?" Danny raised an eyebrow. An almost demonic, high-pitched giggle followed.
"Because….I watch over people's children. I'm attentive and caring. I take care of other's children…..almost as if they were mine."
Danny laughed.
"I never let anything bad happen," Rose added.
Danny let go of the little baggie and Rose snatched it off the table. She quickly slipped the baggie down the front of her sweat pants.
Danny watched with an almost perverted stare. "Well," he said after a lengthy silence. "You're about to let something bad happen."
"How's that?" Rose shot back. "What do you mean by that?"
"Me and Karl." Danny sniffed the air, sat back confidently in his chair. "We're branching out into other areas of opportunity."
"Which are?"
"The Rosenblums," Danny said. He watched a waitress bend down to clear a table of plates and glasses. Her skirt rose up to reveal no panties under her black tights. Danny was pleased with the view.
"What about them?"
"Rich. Right?"
"Looks that way."
"They have a baby girl. Ruth is her name, I believe."
Rose sighed. "You don't want to do this."
"Do what?" Danny laughed. "Go on. Tell me what I shouldn't do."
"Take that child," Rose whispered. "And…what…sell it?"
"Don't be stupid, you cunt," Danny snarled. "What kind of monster do you think I am?" He leaned in. "We're going to ransom the baby. All right? Sell a child? That's just plain evil."
"How are you going to get inside—"
"We aren't." Danny had that evil smile on his face again.
"No," Rose shook her head. "No way."
"You are going to bring the child to us."
"We've been watching. Karl and me. Every Saturday night. We sit outside that big house and watch Mr. and Mrs. Rosenblum leave while you sit there and take care of Baby Ruth."
"Look….those people are not what you think…….they are a little….unusual….. the woman isn't well……" Rose tried to reason with Danny. Suddenly, she realized she didn't want, nor have, to reason with him. He was a natural born psychotic, working his way up the ladder of criminal activity. She could just get up and leave anytime. She had her medicine and didn't need to listen to him rattle off his sick scheme.
Rose stood up and kicked her chair away from her.
Danny took a burner phone from the right pocket of his hoodie. He dialed. It rang a few times before a woman answered the phone.
Rose knew her mother's voice very well.
"Hello?" Rose's mother said.
"I'll just tell your parents you're a junkie," Danny said, pleased with himself. "Or….you help Karl and me."
"Hello? Hello? Who's there?" Rose mother continued.
"How did you get her number?" Rose asked.
"Hello? Hello? Look….if you don't answer I'm hanging up! I've heard about you silly telemarketers." Her mother was screaming now.
"Wasn't hard," Danny said. "Karl looked her up on Google."
Danny hung up and placed the phone back in his pocket.
"Good," he said. "We'll be parked outside the Rosenblum's house tomorrow night. We'll wait for them to leave and you bring us Baby Ruth. That simple."
Karl and Danny sat in a beat up, four- door '99 Mazda. The blue paint had rusted off the front end and the driver's side. They needed a car in a hurry and found a junkie on the north side of town who not only owed them money but was one hit away from death on a crack pipe. They entered the junkie's house while his family slept. They ate his KFC leftovers and drank his Red stripe. He didn't even know his car and keys were missing.
They watched the Rosenblums leave their house. Mr. Rosenblum led his frail, feeble-minded wife to their BMW and they sped off, haphazardly swerving to miss another car.
"Holy shit," Karl said, shaking his head.
Danny laughed. "He's been giving it to her in the ass too much. That's her problem."
A few minutes later, Rose came trotting from the house with the baby wrapped in a pink blanket.
Danny rolled the passenger-side window down and took Baby Ruth.
Rose stepped back from the curb and away from the car with a strange look on her face.
There was no baby wrapped in the pink blanket. Rather, a plastic baby doll with no eyes, no mouth, and no hair.
"What the fuck?" Danny yelled.
A car sped toward them.
It was the BMW, with just Mr. Rosenblum inside. He pulled up beside them, rolled his window down, and pulled a Glock. He fired twice and sped off, leaving Karl with no face and Danny with a hole in his neck, fighting for air.
It was the BMW, with just Mr. Rosenblum inside. He pulled up beside them, rolled his window down, and pulled a Glock. He fired twice and sped off, leaving Karl with no face and Danny with a hole in his neck, fighting for air.


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#77 – Pardon me, I know this sounds rude and offensive, but I just have to say you have an amazing body. It would look fabulous in my crawlspace.
#78 – Does this rag I just pulled out of my pocket smell like chloroform to you?
#79 – You look so beautiful I just want to kiss you. But first, can you sign these forms in triplicate stating your assent to me kissing you? Also, we'll need to find a late night drive-through notary office before we can get down to business.
#80 – You'll probably never do any better than me. I'll probably never do any better than you. Let's just give up and be together already. It's not like anyone else is kicking down the door for us.
#81 – Oh, you like my outfit? Good because the 1970s called and they said they will never take it back.
#82 – Let's make some bad decisions. Put me at the top of the list.
#83 – I look way better in the dark. In fact, there are no lightbulbs in my place.
#84 – Can I just take a quick selfie with you so all my social media followers will assume I have something going on even though I clearly don't?
#85 – Maybe's there's a python in my pants. Maybe it's just a lowly worm. Pants roulette, baby. Pants roulette.
#86 – I'm the best man I know but I admit I don't know many people.
#87 – Let's make this quick. I have to get back to Gotham City and fight the Joker. Shh, don't tell anyone I told you that.
#88 – Am I ugly or are you just very judgmental?
#89 – I love to workout. Every day I curl two pints of Ben and Jerry's right into my pie hole.
#90 – Our children would no doubt look like hideous mutants.
#91 – Get out of my dreams…and into my pants. No, wait! My car! Sorry, I always screw up that song.
#92 – Do you have a photo of your mother? I'd like to know up front whether or not you'll still be bone-able in twenty years.
#93 – Are you a member of PETA? Good, because I'm one dirty animal that needs to be saved.
#94 – I look much better in my gimp mask. Trust me.
#95 – Baby, you should stop smoking. You're hot enough already.
#96 – Where are your friends? Before I date you I need to know you are the hottest one in the batch.
#97 – I can haz vagina?
#98 – McDonald's on me baby. Your choice of one item on the value menu, or you can have a Happy Meal but I get to keep the toy.
#99 – Maybe I'm a frog. Maybe I'm a prince. You'll never know until you kiss me, girl.
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Jewelry is a topic many are passionate about, whether it is for personal use or for a loved one. Given that there is a diverse array of jewelry on the market, and each involves special tips for care and wearing, it is helpful to have a bit of information. The tips provided here will assist you in your quest to know more about caring for jewelry.
You should always store your jewelry very carefully. Precious metals and certain gemstones will tarnish if they are exposed to humidity, so keep the away from this. Don't just box all the pieces together in a pile. This can damage fragile jewelry, and make it difficult to find the necklace you want because it's tangled with other pieces.
Jewelry is best stored in an area with low humidity. Keep your jewelry in a drawstring bag or in a box that is made for jewelry. Humidity quickly tarnishes both precious and non-precious metal. It's possible to restore precious metals through polishing, but lesser-quality metals may suffer permanent damage.
Arm yourself with a magnet and a magnifying glass when shopping for sterling silver jewelry. You can tell if a piece of silver is sterling or not by using a magnet. Sterling will not react to the magnet, but non-precious metals will be attracted. You can generally tell genuine sterling silver by its stamp, which will look something like ".925 ster." If your silver is not marked, it could be because it is not real!
What color gold do they seem to favor – white or yellow? Do they normally wear a bracelet? What type of earrings do they prefer – drop and dangle or studs? Take a mental note of this important information. These types of observations will provide a starting point to purchase an item they'll cherish.
Always ask the jeweler about an insurance policy before buying a new piece of jewelry. These policies dictate whether or not the jeweler will replace or fix your item of jewelry if it is damaged. For more expensive pieces, look for a jeweler that offers insurance for lost or stolen items.
Keep your jewelry from getting tarnished to preserve its best appearance. Avoid wearing your jewelry near water. Metals will often tarnish or rust when in contact with water. You can give your jewelry an additional layer of protection by applying a thin coat of clear nail polish to it.
Special care is required for costume jewelry. Stones in costume jewelry are usually held in place with glue instead of a physical setting. Costume jewelry should never be immersed or make contact with harsh chemicals. The best way to care for your jewelry is to use one damp cloth to wipe it followed by a dry one to dry it. Done regularly, this process will keep your costume jewelry looking great.
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Julian McMahon hits the beach in tiny swim trunks as he goes for a swim on Saturday (December 4) in Queensland, Australia.
The 42-year-old Nip/Tuck alum walked with a Speedo-clad friend after a swim.
Julian recently dished to Australia's Sunday Morning Herald that he enjoyed shooting Bait 3D near where he vacationed as a kid, on the Gold Coast!
"It's fascinating that this happened the way that it did," Julian shared. "It's been a good place to come back to. We grew up just down the street – The Capri in Surfers Paradise. We spent three months here every summer when we were kids. And my dad and my mum spent a lot of time up here.


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Agyness Deyn invented the hip supermodel. In a sea of faceless waifs, she was all peroxide pixie cut, rock and roll boyfriends and generally not giving a shit. Aggy always had the attitude to propel herself far beyond the "seen and not heard" category. It therefore comes as little surprise that she owns the role of Flo, the heroine-addicted stripper in Luis Preito's British reboot of the Danish cult film, Pusher. Generously laden with sex, violence, and, of course, narcotics, Pusher follows a week in the life of a drug dealer, a career that if you had any interest in pursuing before you saw the film, you certainly will not afterwards.
Deyn plays a raunchy train wreck so convincingly that Nicolas Winding Refn (director of the original and later, Drive) recently announced he would be making a sequel that focuses exclusively on her' character. It's enough to make us reconsider all our preconceived notions regarding supermodel-turned-actresses. Deyn recently announced her retirement from the world of modeling, but don't expect her to be playing shuffleboard and doing pool aerobics in Miami anytime soon. She has films roles lined up from now until the end of time. We caught up with the quick-talking Manchester beauty to talk about the film (which is currently available "on demand" and in theatres on the 26th), hanging with strippers, and her finest model moments.
Tell me how you got the role of Flo. Did someone approach you or did you go after it?
Well I have an agent and I auditioned. I originally auditioned for the role of Danaka, which is the drug mule. I sent them a tape; my sister taped me on her mobile phone. The director really liked it so they brought me in. I thought I would be reading for Danaka, but they asked me to read for Flo. I was really happy about that because I had fallen in love with Flo when I read the script. I was like, Wow, that's the main role. Shit. I'd actually have an arc, which was really great. I was just so happy to be given the opportunity. I had done short films before and I was just really excited because I knew that this was what I wanted to do. To be given this opportunity, for someone who has no experience, you need that person that believes in you. Luis is Spanish so he didn't know that I was a model, and he told me that when we started shooting. I was so relieved. When he told me that I thought, wow, I've totally earned my place on the team. I did have a thought that maybe I just got this because I'm known for something else. It was great.
Yes, most people know you from your modeling. Do you think that helps or hinders your transition into acting?
I think it could go for me or against me, depending on the person. I think that at the end of the day if you don't deliver the work that's a problem. If I just deliver and work hard I don't really have to think about that. If people have these preconceived notions it doesn't matter as long as I can deliver.
I heard that you shadowed an erotic dancer in preparation for this role. What was that experience like?
What I came away with was that these women are athletes. It's so skillful. It's a job that requires thinking on your feet and making bold decisions, and I found it, in a way, to be so courageous. The moment you try that you realize, oh my gosh, it's not that easy. I just came out with a lot of respect. It is about art. People pay to cherish a woman's body and I think that that's a nice thing. I came away with it not having to be a sleazy thing.
Were you familiar with the original Pusher going into it?
I knew it but I hadn't watched it when I got the script. It's a cult classic. I knew Nicolas' work, he's done really amazing films, so that was a really exciting factor as well. And Luis told us not to watch it before we started shooting. There are so many things that are different about Flo and the place, it's set in London but the backbone of the story is the same. Also you don't want to replicate someone else's performance. I think it was good that I didn't watch it.
Have you watched it since?
I haven't yet, but I've meant to. I've just been doing my stuff but I'd love to go back and see the differences.
I've heard there's going to be a sequel that focuses on your character. Can you tell me about that?
It's kind of funny because at first it was just a conversation. Nicolas actually said that to an English newspaper in London, which blew me away, really. I have so much respect for him as a filmmaker and his taste, and for him to want to produce a film that's kind of original, it's such an honor. In the original trilogy they didn't follow Flo. I feel really honored that we're going to do that.
That's a real testament to how successful you were with this role.
When you enjoy it so much you just want to keep on doing it. I get so much enjoyment from the job so I do want to just keep on doing it. To have projects lined up for the next year, one after another, it's like woah. That's why I'm doing this, because it's exciting.
I read this morning you have "officially" retired from modeling. Can you talk a bit about that decision?
It makes it seem like I'm in retirement, which isn't the case. It's really funny. There's so much crossover. Like filmmakers do fashion commercials. There's just some real crossover. I'm not retired, it's just that I'm not doing it much because I'm doing something else. I'm not going to do fashion weeks, but it's not like I'm never ever going to model ever again, that's quite a bold statement. If you wanna write that that's hilarious. My agent called me and was like, "You're retired!"
It must feel empowering to even be able to retire from an industry where girls are usually forced into retirement.
Over a few years I've slowed it down just in the fact that I'm pursuing a different career. I feel so lucky that I got the opportunity to model. I got spotted on the street. I don't know what I would have been doing if I hadn't modeled. I loved it but I think after 12 years of whatever you do, you would like to mix it up a bit.
What do you think of the industry now? I think you kind of paved the way for more "alternative" models with personality, and now it seems like there's loads of models like that.
Wow, that's nice. I don't really know to be honest. I do know that when I started, when I'd go to castings and stuff, I'd feel a lot different, especially because I worked for five years before I started working with Steven Miesel and those kinds of people. I was working for five years before I got a New York agent and then I started doing different types of work. And for five years it was a struggle and I wasn't getting the work. I'd get maybe one show a season and it would be like Vivienne Westwood, who uses girls like me. I suppose it does feel different. I feel like the next generation everywhere young women are starting to stand up, but if you think about someone like Stella Tennant, she was always different.
When you look back on your modeling career, are there any specific experiences that really stand out?
Working with Steven Miesel I suppose because that was creating a fantasy world. It is acting, it is like playing a role. I remember doing a story for Italian Vogue that was an insane asylum shoot.
I absolutely love that shoot.
Right? It was incredible. It was so fun to do it because you got in this role. That's the part that I loved. Acting for me is like taking something like that and taking that to the next level. That was the most enjoyment that I got out of my job, being involved in this vision of creating this girl and this world.
Do you find your experiences as a model helped to prepare you for an acting career?
I don't know whether they helped prepare me, I just think that they helped me realize that I love doing that. I love getting into the headspace of somebody else.
Other than the sequel to Pusher, what else is on the horizon for you?
In the New Year I start Terence Davies' new film. I play the lead in his movie Sunset Song, also starring Peter Mullan. I'm so excited. It's pre-war. It's based on a really famous Scottish literature book. It's funny really, some of my Scottish friends studied it in school. I'm excited to start working on it.
It's a totally different role for you.
She's such an amazing woman, such a heroine, and she's overcoming so many things in her life. That's what I love to watch in a film. You know, roles like Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice.
I want to cry just thinking about that movie.
I know, right? It's so intense watching that film. I love movies like that where women are conquering something in themselves or conquering their situation. I feel like positive role models in culture and movies are so important for young women. For me, that's what I seek, to be inspired by other women. That's what I want to do in my roles.


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tackling life with a spatula in one hand and a sewing needle in the other, while (hopefully) dressed to kill.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
cash flow
On the car ride down we had a few talks though about money and priorities and life. Bunny's bank account doesn't really have much in the way of buffer between his income and his share of regular expenses. On top of that there have been extra expenses lately (he had another dentist visit this weekend that kind of cleaned him out) and he's been stressed.
Part of it's my fault. We view all of our money as "our" money, whether it's in my account or his account, but his accounts look pretty sad lately. I've been procrastinating pretty hardcore on the budget and on getting all of our figures to him. I mean, I know where the money goes, I know what savings to be expecting but everything's all over the place with our money right now and I need to start untangling and simplifying.
We've been putting off joining the accounts until my name change is complete legally as an attempt to simplify. It's a little unfair though, because I bring in more money on a regular basis than he does and the expenses that have traditionally been his are way higher than mine. Essentially his regular income just covers the bills and his spending with a tiny bit to spare, whereas my paycheque covers my loans, my fun money, our joint entertainment with significant savings every cheque.
The big stuff is all in place: we have the money to cover our fixed expenses, we have freedom with our money and we save pretty aggressively. What we don't have right now is a plan for exactly what we should be expecting in savings and expenses. I know pretty well what we spend on ourselves but it's been a long time since we've taken a critical eye to it. We also have all our savings lumped into two catagories one account where we put aside money for the taxes on Bunny's freelance, and my account that is combination emergency fund, house savings and short term savings goals. We need to tease out little spots to, say, save for the vacation we've both been craving for years, even if it's just a jar on the dresser that we each stash some personal money in every other week.
So the next week or two I'm trying to dedicate some extra time into putting the numbers together and presenting things to him. We're in good financial shape, really, it's just that our different bank accounts give two very different views of things and don't actually reflect our financial philosophies.
How do you handle family money? Are accounts together, separate or a bit of both? Are you living up to your ideals?
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We have separate accounts... But we consider our finances to be fully joint. Until last September we transferred my full salary to our common savings' account, while all of our expenses come from the boy's account.ReplyDelete
We have been planning to join accounts for a long time, since our finances are joint anyway, we just haven't come around to it.
It is hard not to be providing any income, feeling like I'm not really giving anything, then I have to remind myself that I am, and that I am still looking for a way to get employed soon in one way or another.Replies
Sounds like your bank accounts are pretty similar to ours! I get a fair bit of a laugh out of how long we've put off joining our accounts compared to how long we've shared our finances equally.Delete
I so feel you about feeling like less of a financial contributor. I had a lot of guilt when I was laid off last year while Bunny was in school. There are more ways than just bringing in income to contribute to a relationship, even financially. In the midst of things it can be very hard to feel that way though. :(
- Anonymous23 January 2013 at 11:57
It sounds like you could do with an overhaul. Who knows, maybe some hidden funds appear that could give your vacation-plan a little jumpstart. It will probably be very nice for Bunny to actually see the financial breathing room you have reflected in a number on his bankaccount.ReplyDelete
We have a bit of both. We each have a personal account, and then we also share one.
Before I quit my job, we would each put a certain amount of money in the joint account every month. For the mortgage and the bills and the bills. We would also put gifts in there that people gave to both of us (such as the wedding money from my parents). Beloved makes about three times as much as I did, but because he's a frugal person, I could pay approximately 40% of the mortgage + bills and still pay less than when I lived alone, so that's what we agreed on as fair payment. I think I could have negotiated to pay less, but my pride did not let me :)
We don't really keep tabs on what happens with the money in the private accounts, although we have a general idea on where and how we save and spend. Most of his saved money goes into mutual funds and IRAs and such. Previously most of my saved money went into paying off my student loans (at an accelerated rate, because I didn't have that much debt and I saved much more than the minimal payments). When those were paid off, I kept the money as a cash reserve (about six months of total household expenses).
Now that I don't work for a few months, I 'live' off that cash, while Beloved takes care of the mortgage and the major bills, while I still pay things like my phone bill, health insurance and other insirances. Beloved has a cash emergency fund too, so even if I manage to deplete all of my saved cash, the household won't be at risk.
The construction as it is right now, does not quite reflect the legal realities of the situation. We've agreed that pre-marriage assets and debts remain separate, while income made after the date of marriage is shared. So, technically, I paid off private debt with shared money. Technically, all investments Beloved has made since the wedding date are ours, not his. Because of the tremendous complications of having a non-US resident's name attached to US investment accounts, we keep those in his name. We do have a pre-nup set up that makes completely traceable what invested money is private and which is joint.
I figure that after the big move to the US, we'll only keep the joint bank account here and find a new strategy to go with our situation in the US.
I think this somewhat complicated and not always entirely transparant situation works for us because we have very similar financial strategies. We're both frugal and we're both avid savers. If one of us had been more spendy than the other, I think we would have been less lenient with managing the finances.Replies
We are in need of an overhaul (next week there's a little update planned about the situation, though we still have a long way to go). Really beyond re-evaluating the budget and finding places to save one of the biggest things we need to do is get into the one account system - which is what we both want to be on.Delete
It certainly sounds like a lot of people have somewhat complicated joint finances! You guys definitely have a lot of extra complications to deal with when it comes to everything related to immigration and citizenship and the financial hurdles there. Sounds like you have a very thought out plan there though!
- Anonymous23 January 2013 at 23:39
David and I went joint before we were married - just in the lead up. Switching things over to my married name was stupid easy. Like, fax over copy of marriage license and new driver's license. They might have emailed me a document I had to sign and fax back, but I don't remember.ReplyDelete
If you're hesitant to switch to joint, that's fine, but don't worry too much about the name change. It was really, really easy. (I'm with Scotia.) Actually, changing every single thing was that easy, once I got the marriage license sent to me. Don't let the process intimidate you too much - it's pretty easy in English speaking Canada, at least compared to what I hear it's like in the States.Replies
I think part of the whole issue with the joint bank accounts for me is I want to do it all under the married name, and while I've completely switched over socially there's a part of me that's not quite ready to switch it officially. It's a hesitancy I didn't expect, and it's strange because I've so embraced using his last name on everything other than my ID and banking information anyhow.Delete
Either way, I think I've got to untie the two issues (joint accounts/name change) in my mind and just get ready to dive into whatever decision I feel right about.


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I Love You More Than Anything
I love you more than anything, so much that I forgot to love myself also.
Cry as much as you want, but when you stop make sure that you never cry for the same person again.
I miss the old you, your sweetness, your loving voice. I miss you. I don't want you to change, please come back to me.
It's so hard to be the second priority of the person who is you're first priority.
It's hard to get mad for no reason. It's hard to understand that which is complicated. The hardest of all is to love a person who doesn't care at all.
You don't have to love someone else just to show to that you can forget him. In the end, you are the one who'll end up hurt.
Sometimes, even though you are in pain, you choose to be quiet.
Heartbreak is painful, but it's more painful if you don't tell them that you love them.
I am still waiting for you until my heart voluntarily quits.
Sometimes those wonderful memories also give us sadness, pain and regret.
I hate rain, because it brings back the memories of when you left me.
It's hard to love more than you can give. You change for him and fight for him, while he does nothing but make you cry.
If only my tears had the power to say what you need to hear, I would cry forever.
Just because they are avoiding you, doesn't mean they'll leave you. There are just things in life that you need to keep at a distance to avoid being hurt.
Sometimes the reason why your happy is also the reason why you hurt so much.
Two things could happen if keep someone at a distance. Either they will find you or they will forget you.
Tears are like sweat, they fall when you're tired.
Don't hold on to someone if you know they would just let you go.
Missing you by my side tonight, cuddling each other and holding hands. What can I do, but wait for you. I guess I will continue this in my dreams.
I know there are many people who loves you and even if i am gone, your world will not stop. But i hope you'll know that if you're gone, I don't know how my world will spin again.
They say, "your life starts when we met the person we will love" An then they asked me." Does your life starts?" I told them." its over, he left me already."
No matter how slow you walk, if he is not willing to chase after you he will never reach you, even if you stop.
How will I find room for someone else if you took all the space in my heart.
Don't force things that you know are never going to happen.
It is really painful when you love someone too late.


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We are currently building up a stock of tools for you to use on your own projects in the Dyson Centre. Though this will take some time.
(We'd appreciate it if you would please not help yourself to the tools intended for the Structural Design Course or the Integrated Design Project, as it prevents these lab activities running properly if any of the 30 sets of tools are in place for the start of the classes.)
Thus far we have in place (very early days):
- 2 heavy duty metal working tool boxes containing:
- 12" hacksaw with 24tpi blade, and blade cover*!
- Scriber, and tip protector*!
- 12" ruler (dual metric and imperial) and cover*!
- 6" junior hacksaws
- A stock of spares:
- 12" hacksaws with 24tpi blades, and blade covers*! (4)
- Spare blades (bi-metal HSS, 24tpi)
- 6" junior hacksaws
- Scribers, and tip protectors*! (?)
- 12" rulers (dual metric and imperial) and covers*! (?)
- We have also ordered:
- Power drills (2)
- Drill bits (170 in various sizes from 1 to 10mm in 0.5mm steps)
- Screwdrivers
- Sash clamps (4)
- Safety glasses (though there are plenty you can borrow in the Dyson Centre)
- Craft knives
- Engineers' squares
- Metric taps and dies (M3, M4, M5, M6, M8, M10, M12) with a tap and a die holder.
- Pliers
- Mole grips (ie vice grips)
We are working on the obvious omissions from the above (list below), but please feel free to highlight other things you think we should be getting:
- Tape measures
- Cutting mats
- Files
- G-clamps
- Toolmakers clamps
- Wood saws
- Hammers
- Centre punches
- Spare taps and dies (for example)
- Tapping drills (3.3mm, 4.2mm, 6.8mm, 10.2mm - already ordered are 2.5mm, 5.0mm and 8.5mm)
- Rest of list still to come!
* Note: covers and top protectors prevent people from being stabbed or cut when they put their hands in the toolbox, and prevent tools from scratching each other, so please don't loose them!
RLR, 19 November 2015


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Rituals of Decolorization
What if... you follow your little naive and pathetic moment and wish for a world where the colour of your skin doesn't matter at all?
How could we get closer to that? What helpful techniques, methods, rituals could be already there or what would we have to develop ourself to make sure to get rid of racsim?
I've met with actress Melissa Holley and Tash Manzungu and chosed a setting on the german countryside at a backyard and a garden. In this peaceful and conservative setting we tried to play around with white and black colour until there was a unifying color.We tried to develop rituals that you have to do to loose the idea of skin color and get over a discrimination by the color of your skin.
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