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Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
September 15, 2013
Islamabad, Pakistan.
The whole aim of practical politics of dissent by genuine gadflies to power is to prevent the future fait accompli that is being engineered by 'history's actors' in the present. This is why genuine dissent, that with real teeth and non-zero efficacy, cannot be permitted to exist and flourish. It is instead replaced with manufactured dissent as an essential part of statecraft itself when the illusion of dissent and public opinion is to be maintained in a 'free' democratic society.
Rehearsing crimes of power after these crimes are fait accompli; after all the barbers in town already know it; after their disclosure as the narrative of official history through FOIA declassification, whistle-blowing and deep-throat leaks, and in posthumous confessional diaries of monumental war criminals, none of which really reveal any real secrets, or only do so ex post facto when it is already a fait accompli; is either the job of the professional historian who relies on officialdom to write the official history pre-sanctioned by power by what it chooses to document and what it chooses to make-believe to posterity, or of manufactured dissent!
Let the twain: a genuine intellectual gadfly vs. fabricated dissent and its useful idiots, not be confused with each other!
The latter is the Superman who echoes the axioms of power underneath his supercilious dissent with it, or tells the obvious truth ex post facto, both to the applause of the instruments of power itself, while collecting all the well-intentioned activists and consciences around him. He is the collection-agent of power. His con-job is to ensure that dissent does not stray too far from home. The world is full of the latter, a modern necessity to complement the manufacturing of consent; to cunningly constrain dissent within acceptable limits when dissent is permitted in a 'free' society.
This brilliant Superman herdsman often comes anointed with super advanced degrees, titles, accolades, is well-published, most cited, and speaks with an MIT, Harvard or Oxford accent. He is as powerful in his dissenting "United We Stand" message to his tiny herd as the Superman orator is in his "United We Stand" message to the mainstream herd. The Superman herdsman of dissent is the more brilliant twin in the Hegelian Dialectic of manufactured consent vs. manufactured dissent.
Manufactured dissent is also easy to spot. It almost always states the obvious – rather than the un-obvious. It cleverly keeps the real secrets secret or obfuscated by not going there. It focusses on the effects and stays silent on the cause. It usually also runs with the foxes while hunting with the hounds. It happily eats from the same plate that it purports to spit into. And the most avant-garde of the lot even run with infantile absurdities to make all dissent appear infantile and absurd in the eyes of the mainstream public, lest the latter inadvertently stray from their own home pastures. And since Adolph Hitler had empirically demonstrated the truth of his statement: "The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over.", the Superman of dissent too repeats the same big lie of the establishment upon which consent is being engineered among the masses!
For instance, just look for all those who share the common establishment "truth": OBL and Al Qaeda successfully invaded the most armed to the teeth superpower in the world on 9/11, magically hijacked four airliners in the air with box-cutter knives within a matter of an hour, rammed them into two tall buildings and magically demolished three in a feat of demolition which before that day had never been carried out in the entire written history of mankind. All this was planned and orchestrated by an Islamofascist Ali Baba from the Hindu Kush mountains armed to the teeth with cellphones and AK-47s, in collaboration with an illusive database named "Al Qaeda". The names of the believers of this fantastic fable in the who's who of dissent is surprising. These include some of the biggest and most celebrated names in dissent to keep company with the Neo-cons, the Pentagon, the State Department, the World Bank, the IMF, the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, the United Nations and all its member countries, and the Bush-Obama Administrations: Noam Chomsky, Francis Boyle, the late Howard Zinn, former Congressman Ron Paul, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Scott Ritter, Dennis Halliday, Michael Moore, Helen Caldicott, Robert Fisk, John Pilger, Greg Palast, Amy Goodman, Daniel Ellsberg, Nelson Mandela, Arundhatti Roy of India, Tariq Ali and Pervez Hoodbhoy of Pakistan, etc.
Once the big lie is cleverly conceded to officialdom without question, all dissent with empire's barbaric acts against its proclaimed enemies is effectively made futile: "either you are with us or with the terrorists" (George W. Bush). Because, as the empire is now given the license to arguably claim, it is only protecting itself from the diabolically brilliant and most superior foe that is even able to penetrate the strongest superpower on earth's super militarized defenses on its own native soil! Then dissent all you want – so long as you keep that core lie intact in all your adumbration: "'No thank you.' We can let him know that the people of the world do not need to choose between a Malevolent Mickey Mouse and the Mad Mullahs." (Arundhatti Roy). The argument is cleverly moved away from forensically examining the crime as Sherlock Holmes might do, to the best way to deal with the criminals by presupposing who the criminals are: 'they attack us because we have been over there … I am suggesting that we listen to the people who attacked us … ' (former congressman Ron Paul). Thus both, the establishment chiefs manufacturing consent, and the dissent chiefs manufacturing dissent, end up continually reinforcing the same presuppositions of the system, the same big lie; the former by openly advocating the big lie, the latter by openly refraining from challenging the big lie. Both are propagandists; the former by commission, the latter by omission. British essayist Aldous Huxley captured the implication of silence and the crime of omission most elegantly in his Preface to Brave New World:
'The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects, by lowering what Mr. Churchill calls an "iron curtain" between the masses and such facts or arguments as the local political bosses regard as undesirable, totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the most compelling of logical rebuttals.' — Aldous Huxley, Preface (circa 1946) to Brave New World, 1931, Harper, pg. 11
That is how the Superman herdsman leads the pack of useful idiots in manufactured dissent. He craftily lowers the "iron curtain" of ignorance between the masses and such facts or arguments as the system regards as undesirable or necessary to enforce. And he cleverly echoes the core lies of empire in toto, or presupposes them in his argumentative and tedious dissent. The focus is most craftily shifted from the crime to ex post facto anti-war critique of empire's "imperial mobilization" – after "imperial mobilization" is a fait accompli:
"Of course as I told you, I never believe the government, or rarely believe the government. Do I believe the government version of what happened? Well, I am skeptical. Do I believe that the government was in the conspiracy to do this? I don't know. I don't know enough about the situation, and the truth is, I don't care that much. That's past. … the whole argument that the people are engaged in, about, was the government behind a conspiracy to blow up the two towers, to me that's a diversion from what we really have to do, deal with the fact that whatever, whoever was behind 9/11, the government took advantage of that, to take us to war, and to put us on a disastrous course, and it's that war, those wars, that disastrous course we have to deal with. I don't want to go back to the controversy that I think is endless controversy, and just gets in the way of dealing with the immediate situation." (Howard Zinn, November 18, 2008)
It is not merely a lucky coincidence for empire that the most prominent leaders of dissent all inevitably retain the big lie of empire intact, each according to their own genius mind. From the tag team of Noam Chomsky and the late Howard Zinn on the left, to the tag team of former US congressman Ron Paul and Fox News anchor Glenn Beck on the right – and a hundred and ten lauded names in between – the empire has the full gamut of respectable dissent field covered. There is something for every malcontent in the 31 flavors of dissent.
When brilliant antipodes, like the "vulgar propagandist" Prof. Bernard Lewis, and his nemesis, "arguably the most important intellectual alive", Prof. Noam Chomsky, agree on a sacred "truth" of empire, then those with an iota of neurons still firing on all cylinders are provided the opportunity to ponder the non sequitur. A WWF wrestling game being broadcast on all channels: in the lower right hand corner is empire's greatest scholar from empire's greatest university, Princeton, and in the upper left hand corner is empire's greatest detractor from empire's greatest technion, MIT…. ; hmmm…., sounds like they both work for the same bosses and consent is being engineered with "Operation Canned Goods" copycat of the Third Reich. It too had given Mein Führer the propaganda pretext to "goosestep the Herrenvolk across international frontiers." (Robert H. Jackson at Nuremberg) But then: "How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." (Adolph Hitler)
The Third Reich had in fact mobilized its entire Reichsdom on precisely this acutely pathological observation of people; itself fabricating the "conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being" (Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard – American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives, 1996) with its "Operation Canned Goods" that gave the German public their own "pearl harbor"; and Adolph Hitler: "a propagandist reason for starting the war". Mein Führer, by his own admission, well understood the victor's primacy imperative that can never imagine defeat at the peak of its own hubris: "The victor will not be asked afterward whether he told the truth or not. In starting and waging a war it is not the right that matters, but victory." (Adolph Hitler, quoted by William Shirer)
That Machiavellian modus operandi for engineering the public mind borrowed from the Third Reich is unfortunately not the end of it. Some convolutions are added to the establishment's "truths" to make discovery a tad more confusing than the aforementioned deconstruction recipe of shrewdly examining who else is echoing the big lie in conjunction with the establishment functionaries. To Machiavellianly preempt the eternal skeptics of establishmentarian "truth" irrespective of who brings it to them; to cleverly defocus their expected intransigent resistance to "imperial mobilization" by making them run on treadmills as otherwise "democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization" (Zbigniew Brzezinski, op. cit.); a flavor of manufactured dissent also dissents with the establishment's own "truths".
This equally diabolical breed of Superman gadfly deliberately introduces plausible sounding false "conspiracy theories" among the skeptics and the diehard recalcitrants. It is even pedantically referred to as inducing "beneficial cognitive diversity" in favor of the establishment. To see through their snake-oil takes a bit more sophistication and a mind attuned to the vagaries of power and its many incantations.
Which is why the majority of well-intentioned activists who had previously escaped from the underground dungeons of the manufacturing consent factory are routinely trapped by this new elitist collection agency! It is elitist because it is often composed of the intellectual elite and the self-proclaimed avant-garde in intellectual thought who feel they are ahead of the herd if they don't buy the establishment's lies. Adolph Hitler perceptively understood this skeptical public mind and typecast it as the second majority group in a nation: "Second, those who no longer believe anything;". The first and largest majority group he had observed are: "First, those who believe everything they read;". Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf about the second group:
"The second group is numerically smaller, being partly composed of those who were formerly in the first group and after a series of bitter disappointments are now prepared to believe nothing of what they see in print. They hate all newspapers. Either they do not read them at all or they become exceptionally annoyed at their contents, which they hold to be nothing but a congeries of lies and misstatements. These people are difficult to handle; for they will always be sceptical of the truth. Consequently, they are useless for any form of positive work." (Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1, Chapter X)
Hitler's phrase, "useless for any form of positive work", was most perceptive – for these are the easily swayed audience by the baseless "conspiracy theories" invented by the agents and assets of the establishment. This audience, dominated almost entirely by the same most vocal peace activists and rabble rousers who march emotionally in anti-war protests on weekends and holidays, achieves precisely the intended purpose of the establishment: they foolishly defocus the energies of dissent from homing in onto the first cause of war-faring dystopia and the real criminals who pull the strings for its fabrication from behind the facade of elected governments.
It is neither the acme of excellence to predict thunder after witnessing lightening, nor to herald the arrival of winter after seeing the falling autumn leaves. Nor is it the acme of excellence to 'see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd.' Neither is it the acme of excellence 'if you fight and conquer and the whole Empire says, "Well done!"' And Sun Tzu goes on in the Art of War: 'To lift an autumn hair is no sign of great strength; to see the sun and moon is no sign of sharp sight; to hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear.'
The acme of excellence for the genuine intellectual gadfly is to point the path to the un-obvious before anyone else can see it. To be the 'chief doubter of systems, of power and its incantations', to be a 'witness to their mendacity', to not fit 'into any role that might be assigned to him', nor fit into 'any of the histories written by the victors'.
In the age of universal deceit it is rare to find such an un co-opted mind that is also free from the cobwebs of conformist thought. It is even rarer to find anyone among the public who would believe him in his own time when something can be done to interdict the non-kosher plans of the 'history's actors'. The genuine gadfly to power is almost always either ignored, marginalized, or administered the hemlock which he drinks with great relish.
By himself, the genuine gadfly is the lonely songbird with a droplet of water in its beak rushing to douse the great fire lighted by Nimrod. By keeping it isolated and lonely, by preventing the drop from becoming a deluge, the songbird is shrewdly protected from realizing its aim. All the freedom of speech in vacuum and one still dies of asphyxiation! It is not the freedom to speak, but the freedom to be heard that is denied to the songbird. The journey of mankind from tyranny to tyranny is paved on the songbird's unheard songs. An empirical truism that is reflected in both: the fate of prophets of antiquity who were the 'chief doubter of systems, of power and its incantations' and 'witness to their mendacity', easily abandoned by their own peoples when not killed or exiled by the rulers; and the fate of prophets of modernity for whom more creativity has been brought to bear in keeping with the more sophisticated times.
New mental illnesses have been coined in the DSM handbook of psychiatry to consign the latter day gadfly to state hospitality, defined as suffering from 'oppositional defiant disorder' exhibiting a pattern of 'negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behavior toward authority figures'. New legal entitlements have been framed to label anyone who challenges power, as the 'terrorist', for what else but to share in that same fate to the great applause and patriotic gratification of the common herd.
In effect, we are back to the early crossroads of the Roman Era in our twenty-first century, and the world turned into a giant coliseum of entertainment for the masses. All roads today lead to one-world government – the empire of the oligarchy.
In the meantime, the dying songbird sings on unheard – while manufactured dissent lives on under establishment cover cornering both the dissent publishing market and the scholarly citation market with lame rehearsals of the obvious and the absurd; and history's actors continue to engineer future history unhindered. Ex post facto, the onlookers will become the new standard patriots just as Mark Twain captured it: "In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot". Costs nothing to be a patriot: the hallmark of manufactured dissent! It even makes a pretty good living under establishment cover peddling the study of what the history's actors leave behind.
George W. Bush's White House senior advisor had captured this grotesque reality most unabashedly for the New York Times correspondent in 2004:
'…"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."…' (Ron Suskind, New York Times, Oct. 17, 2004)
The future generation's manufactured dissent will use today's songbirds' songs as gospel truth written in god's own hand writing. It will rehearse these songs of truth ad nauseam to lead its own choir anew in immense sense of patriotic gratification just as it does today, cunningly ignoring the songbirds of its own time. Rehearsing history while echoing the core big lies and axioms of powers du jour will remain its claim to profession as well as fame just as it is today. That is if dissent is still permitted in the George Orwell's world under construction. The trend however appears to be more inclined in the long term towards the world prognosticated by Aldous Huxley where dissent is outright redacted from the very DNA of the standardized humanity. People made to actually enjoy their own servitude. The German philosopher Goethe had aptly summed it: "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes."
Even the common herd can feel the penetrating signs of it approaching faster than the hijacked airliners that ram into tall buildings without interdiction in the most armed to the teeth superpower in history – at the American airports for instance where very intelligent peoples in the most industrious and creative nation on earth continue to quietly subject themselves to indignities in the name of freedom which no one in their self-respecting mind ought to really subject themselves to. Pretty soon, most will even be happy doing it – if many aren't already!
A world without the songbird approaches even faster.
Case Studies of Top Ten Gatekeepers of Dissent from Left to Right among both the Western Massa class and its carefully cultivated useful idiot Eastern House Nigger class are in the sequel: Songbird or Superman – You Decide!
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[1] Superman refers to Nietzsche's superman; see Thus Spake Zarathustra – A BOOK FOR ALL AND NONE by Friedrich Nietzsche (download from http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/9/1998/ )
[2] For a detailed analysis of manufactured dissent as a Hegelian Dialectic, see: A Note on the Mighty Wurlitzer – Architecture of Modern Propaganda for Psychological Warfare by Zahir Ebrahim, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/05/note-on-mighty-wurlitzer.html .
[3] For an examination of the fascinating theory behind "conspiracy theories", see: Anatomy of Conspiracy Theory by Zahir Ebrahim, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2010/03/anatomy-of-conspiracy-theory.html ; see the revealing paper by President Obama's information Czar, Dr. Cass Sunstein, the Harvard Law Professor who openly advocated precisely the method of credibly crafting false conspiracy theories among the public in order to neutralize the ultimate skeptics of establishment's core lies, titled: "Conspiracy Theories", http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084585 ; see the forensic examination of this paper and its superficial critics in: A License to Kill: Did David Ray Griffin and Steve Lendman miss the real purpose of Cass Sunstein's "Conspiracy Theories"? by Zahir Ebrahim, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2010/10/zahir-responds-griffin-v-cass-sunstein.html .
[4] For the role of genuine gadfly to power as moral agents of change see Vaclav Havel's full quote in Responsibility of Intellectuals – Redux by Zahir Ebrahim, http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/03/responsibility-of-intellectuals-redux.html .
[5] For the parable of the Songbird and Nimrod see Of Ostriches and Rebels on The Hard Road to World Order by Zahir Ebrahim, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2010/12/of-ostriches-and-rebels-zahirebrahim.html .
[6] For understanding the empire of the oligarchy and how it is being fashioned in stages with "an end run around national sovereignty", see The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity, 7th Edition, August 2013 by Zahir Ebrahim, http://humanbeingsfirst.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/the-poor-mans-guide-to-modernity-7th-edition-2013-zahirebrahim-eread.pdf .
[7] For some arguably rich examples of respectable manufactured dissent from left to right who live and thrive under establishment cover, see Songbird or Superman – You Decide! by Zahir Ebrahim, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2013/09/songbird-or-superman.html .
More contemporary examples of both respectable and outlandish manufactured dissent can be found in: Manufacturing Dissent: Weapons of Mass Deception – The Master Social Science by Zahir Ebrahim, http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/p/manufacturing-dissent.html ; its Preamble section excerpts at length from Mein Kampf to examine Adolph Hitler's insightful characterization of the three types of public mind that is brilliantly harnessed by Western statecraft today for engineering consent.
The case of Paul Craig Roberts, the former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, an economist and self-proclaimed "Father of Reaganomics", a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service, and the darling of the Christian white man's dissent with the establishment now that Jews have replaced their former tormentors in running the world show, is particularly illustrative of both manufactured dissent as well as dissent for narrow vested interests; see: Rebuttal to Paul Craig Roberts': 'Washington Arrogance has Fomented a Muslim Revolution' by Zahir Ebrahim, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/12/letter-paul-craig-roberts-rebuttal.html .
The case of the distinguished former New York Times journalist Chris Hedges is similarly telling, as yet another former highly prized establishmentarian gratuitously echoing the axioms of empire in his new role as the dissenting conscience of America. What Chris Hedges cleverly omits and what he posits in his desire to soothe his conscience is deconstructed in: Response to Chris Hedges' amalgam of half-truths 'A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe' by Zahir Ebrahim, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2011/09/response-chris-hedges-decade-after-911.html , http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/p/gatekeepers-from-left-to-right.html .
The case of the distinguished Dr. Francis Boyle, the Hans Morgenthau student, lawyer and political scientist extraordinaire, groomed at Harvard and University of Chicago, serving as the axial pivot of egregious dissent against the villainy of imperial powers at the International Criminal Court of Justice and the World Court in the Hague, is even more illustrative. Like his Jewish confrere Prof. Noam Chomsky, the good Samaritan Christian too retains the core lies of empire even while bringing criminal charges for torture against its visible helmsman at the Hague. A mental midget or a brilliant Superman? It is always instructive to adjudicate for oneself. See Zahir Ebrahim's Response to Francis Boyle's '2011: Prospects for Humanity?' – Unlimited Imperialism and Nation-States but no Secret Rule by Oligarchy for World Government!, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2011/01/resp-francisboyle-2011-prospects-for.html .
Some illustrative examples of manufactured dissent that is really only an articulation of the white man's burden having been taken over by another more "superior race", and the grapes are now sour for the former "superior race", see: The White Man's Burden appears Uniformly Distributed among Jews Christians and Atheists – how can one tell the difference? by Zahir Ebrahim, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2011/02/white-mans-burden-uniformly-distributed.html .
Some illustrative examples of fabricated dissent among the "lesser peoples", the colonized mind, who willingly carry the white man's burden are in the FAQ: What is an Intellectual Negro? by Zahir Ebrahim, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-is-intellectual-negro.html .
[8] For Howard Zinn's demagoguery, diverting attention from the crime of 9/11 itself in response to a question from the public, see: http://prisonplanet.com/howard-zinn-i-dont-care-if-911-was-an-inside-job.html ; transcript from: http://youtube.com/watch?v=S-WQ5z53lW8 .
[9] The epithet "vulgar propagandist" is dissent Superman Noam Chomsky anointing establishment's Superman Bernard Lewis in the following interview: '… now, until Bernard Lewis tells us that, and that's only one piece of a long story, we know that he is just a vulgar propagandist and not a scholar.' — Interview to Evan Solomon, CBC, part-2, minute 5:50, December 9, 2003, http://youtube.com/watch?v=bieFwutoqvA . The epithet "arguably the most important intellectual alive" is establishment's mouthpiece the New York Times anointing Noam Chomsky. The incestuous self-reinforcement of imperial "truths" among these Superman and the instruments of the establishment who also principally share the same racial and tribal heritage, each playing their own assigned role in the Hegelian Dialectic of Dissent, should no longer be surprising. See Hegelian Dialectic of Dissent, op cit. endnote [2].
[10] For an example of dissent cornering the citation market, see: Chomsky Is Citation Champ, MIT news bulletin, April 15, 1992, http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1992/citation-0415.html
[11] For an example of making a lifetime of lucrative living out of dissent, see: Noam Chomsky, Closet Capitalist, by Peter Schweizer, Hoover Institution, http://hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/6222 ( or http://hoover.org/publications/digest/2912626.html ).
[12] For empirical evidence of the facade of elected governments and why the macro policy calculus of hegemony of the superpower does not change despite changing the front faces in the White House every four years, and the most lauded dissent's calculated inability to focus on the first-cause of that most visible dysfunction, see Response to American Congressman Dennis Kucinich: Impeachment alone does not solve the problem! by Zahir Ebrahim, June 13, 2008, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/06/impeachment-does-not-solve-problem.html ; and see Response to American criminal lawyer Vincent Bugliosi: Vanilla or Chocolate is merely the icing on the devil's cake! by Zahir Ebrahim, April 09 2009, http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2009/04/vanilla-or-chocolate-icing-ondevilscake.html .
[13] To understand the motivation for Pavlovian training of Americans at US airports beyond the obvious, see Zahir Ebrahim's letter to American Advice Goddess, Amy Alkon: http://print-humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2011/09/letter-amyalkon-tsa-trauma-and-lawsuit.html
[14] Supplementary reading: Propaganda by Edward Bernays, 1928, (download from http://whale.to/b/bernays.pdf ); watch BBC documentary on Edward Bernays at: http://humanbeingsfirst.wordpress.com/propaganda/#Edward-Bernays ; listen to sociologist and essayist Aldous Huxley explain the elements of the "Ultimate Revolution" at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962: 'we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably always will exist, to get people actually to love their servitude! This is the, it seems to me, the ultimate in malevolent revolution shall we say.', http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/VideoTest/hux1.ram
About The Author
The author, a justice activist, formerly a Silicon Valley systems architect (see engineering patents at http://tinyurl.com/zahir-patents ), founded Project Humanbeingsfirst.org in the aftermath of 9/11. He was, mercifully, most imperfectly educated in the United States of America, which might explain how he escaped the fate of "likkha-parrha-jahils" mass produced from its vast manufacturing consent complex with all his neurons still intact, and still firing on all cylinders. Bio at http://zahirebrahim.org. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com .
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It's truly magical how the tools work and it all comes from being the potency and magic that you are and always have been but haven't had the tools or acknowledgment to get there.
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When you begin to get your bars run, use the tools, and take classes the changes you begin noticing are that you are more yourself. All of the judgments, decisions, conclusions, computations, and points of view you have gathered from other people, that are limiting you or don't work for you, start to disappear.
That is huge, we don't even realize we are not being truly ourselves but the more you use the tools the more you start to see what YOU would be like in each and every situation. You start to have the building blocks you need to create your own reality and create a life beyond your dreams. There is no greater gift in the universe than to have you, all of you. Becoming way happier is a side effect of using the tools too.
If you've tried other modalities/ energy-work and it's not working as quickly or as dynamically as you desire I highly recommend getting your bars run and utilizing the access tools. I've had multiple people come to me that have tried everything but nothing is giving them quite exactly what they desire... once they begin getting bars sessions & using the tools their lives start to change in ways they always knew were possible but weren't sure how to get to. I believe this is because the access tools tackle the source of any issue or limitation and clear the energy that is preventing or stopping change from occuring.
It's really magical how the tools work and it's all comes from being the potency and magic that you are and always have been but haven't acknowledged or been aware of that you are.
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Do you remember the last moment in your life when you were totally relaxed and nurtured and cared for? Or has it been a little too long since you received healing and kindness without any judgment of your body or your being?
One of the life-changing components that happens naturally with each Bars session is the element of receiving. How often do we just let go, lower our barriers, and allow another person to truly gift to us? Learning to receive is a key in inviting more of what you're asking for into your life. The Bars facilitates receiving different than any other modality in this reality.
Symphony of Possibilities | $85 | 50 min:
The Symphony Sessions are about energetic empowerment and change and it can invite you to open up to LIVING in a completely different way. Every person has a unique capacity with receiving and gifting energies and a Symphony Session allows you to start to truly access what is true for you and your body -- beyond everything that you bought as real in this reality. The Symphony Sessions are based on Access Consciousness tools and the energetic transformation work created by Dr. Dain Heer.
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ESSE is designed to create changes in the structure and form of the body resulting in an ease with movement, function and the energetic body systems. Scientific research illustrates that the fascial system responds to a question. The tools of Access Consciousness invite you to be in the question in all aspects of your life and your body. ESSE sessions are based on the Access Consciousness tools and energetic transformation work created by Suzy Godsey.
All the connective fascial tissue of the body from the cellular level to the major body systems can be affected by this hands-on and energetic method of manual therapy. In this workshop you will be learning manual manipulative techniques combined with the energetics of ESSE. It can be perceived as a deep tissue work as well as energy work, combined with movement, deconstructing the glue of judgement throughout the body.
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"When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations."- David Icke


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friend co-worker Avi Arad. (Yeah, there's a story there, but we can't tell it. Gotta wait for the boss to regale us instead.)
by Meredith Woerner
Hollywood is hot for China. Both Looper and Iron Man 3 courted the Chinese audience by setting chunks of their movies in the far East. Now, Sony big wig and The Amazing Spider-Manproducer, Avi Arad, is cashing in and starting up a whole new movie franchise based around Chinese lore.
Variety is reporting that Arad is teaming up with Bruno Wu's Seven Stars Entertainment to develop multiple properties based on Chinese folklore. The collaboration is attacking the genre with hopes to release multiple live-action tentpole movies, animated TV series and more, all opening up heaps of merchandising opportunities.
Their first project centers around the the Rise of the Terracotta Warriors. There's no telling how Arad and friends will be using this lore, but fingers crossed they don't put the whole army in tights. Only time will tell if Chinese audiences are receptive to this bold Hollywood initiative, but there's a lot of beautiful Chinese fairy tales we wouldn't mind seeing on the big screen.
Speaking of beautiful Chinese fairy tales, does anybody out there remember the Hong Kong kung fu fairy tales of the '60s? Especially the ones directed by/starring Ti Lung? #!@% awesome!


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Prep schools can provide avenue to college basketball opportunities
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There are no easy A's anymore. In many cases, there never were.
And there are very few uncontested dunks, though that statistic still fluctuates wildly.
But for a high school basketball player and college hopeful who opts to spend a post-graduate year at a prep school, opportunities to succeed on and off the court still abound.
And many of those opportunities come right here. The New England Prep School Athletic Conference, especially its Class A division, is renowned for its depth of talent.
"It's the strongest underclassmen league in the country," said Jere Quinn, coach of the highly successful St. Thomas More program in Oakdale.
"As a league, there's no one who can touch us."
Quinn estimated that some 80 players in the league earned college scholarships last season. One of St. Thomas More's top rivals, the South Kent School, features UConn commitment Maurice Harkless and Kadeem Jack, another New York City product the Huskies covet.
"That's one of the attractions," Quinn said. "Kids want to play a competitive schedule on a yearly basis."
With so much talent playing right in their back yard, area college coaches sometimes get a leg up in landing those talented players.
"The good part about where we are geographically is there are some of the best academic and basketball prep schools in the country within the Northeast region," said Quinnipiac head coach Tom Moore, a top assistant at UConn before taking over in Hamden. "It's been a huge benefit to a lot of kids over the years."
Most high school graduates put off college for a year in hopes of landing bigger and better scholarship offers, but it's often more than that.
"The extra year is great even before the year starts," said Chris Evans, a Stamford High product who spent last season at The Taft School in Watertown. "You get another year of AAU after your senior year of high school. You're a lot more mature than your junior year and it shows that summer, I think."
Evans, a 6-foot-3 guard who was MVP off the Western New England Conference, is headed to Sacred Heart in the fall.
"It's a great bridge between high school and college," Evans said. "You're more independent at prep school. It's definitely tougher; no one is holding your hand. But also it's not college."
Tightening the rules
Stories in The Washington Post and New York Times in 2005 and 2006 helped lead to NCAA rules changes that helped close many so-called diploma mills. Now incoming athletes are required to earn at least 15 of their 16 "core" courses during high school before a fifth prep-school year, eliminating the ability for storefront-style prep schools to skirt the rules.
Although some unscrupulous educators took it to extremes, even above-board teachers and coaches found the rules that existed only five years ago somewhat odd.
Athletes at one point were allowed to earn several core course credits during a fifth year of high school.
"As bizarre as it was, a few years ago, the best advice you could have given a kid was to not graduate high school," longtime Sacred Heart coach Dave Bike said. "That was a dumb rule. I remember talking to (former NCAA President) Myles Brand at the convention about that. ... I was happy that rule changed."
It's not only college coaches who keep up with NCAA rules. Most prep school coaches know them by heart, too.
"I think it's imperative that any prep school coach understands NCAA rules and regulations," Quinn said. "Because unfortunately, we have a lot of kids that come to see us who have no concept of what's going on. And they change so quickly."
The days of diploma mills are dead. These days, basketball players who opt for a post-graduate year at a prep school aren't doing so just for an easy academic boost, they're going there to work hard on and off the court. In many cases, especially in Connecticut, that's the way it's always been.
Brandon Sherrod, the Stratford High star forward, doesn't have many -- if any -- academic deficiencies. He nearly had his choice of colleges to attend. But an injury that forced him to miss key periods in which to showcase his basketball skills to college coaches helped him make the decision to put off college. Sherrod is headed to the prestigious Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford this fall, joining a seemingly talented bunch assembled by coach Adam Finkelstein.
"It was pretty tough. I always wanted to go to college right after high school," Sherrod said. "But as the season came to a close, it was an even more appealing thing to me. Last July during the live (recruiting) period, I hurt my back. I wasn't able to have D-I college coaches watch me play. It's really like a second chance now that I'm going to prep school."
Evans, like Sherrod, was slowed by an injury when many college coaches' eyes were fixed on the top high school talent.
"I didn't really have a lot of schools in my senior year. I didn't play AAU after my junior year because of my knee injury," Evans said. "I knew I'd probably have to do a prep year. That summer before my prep year started was huge. I got a lot of interest from colleges."
How much interest a player draws often correlates to how much those players take advantage of their extra time in the spotlight.
"The jumps are incremental. It depends on the player, but there's a certain ceiling that each kid has, given their physical gifts," Finkelstein said. "Our goal is just to try and help them get as close to that ceiling as they can."
When that ceiling is eight feet high and a player believes he belongs in a mansion with 15-foot ceilings, sometimes there are reality checks.
"Some kids want to try to get recruited higher so they think if they go to prep school, their stock will increase tremendously," Bike said. "I don't believe that's the case. I think most of the time, we're going to get what we can get. And somebody else is going to get what they can get. I don't know if that part changes so much."
The best talent evaluators in college basketball may know ahead of time if a player has the right stuff. Sometimes the players themselves might not realize it, however.
"Our post-grads are typically kids who didn't maximize their potential. They were close, but didn't reach it," Quinn said.
"They're looking for a Division I scholarship or a little bit more exposure. They want to upgrade themselves as students and as athletes. And it gives them that extra year of maturation in all aspects of their lives."
Quinn currently coaches Andre Drummond, a 6-11 center from Middletown who is among the most coveted high school players in the Class of 2012. He plays on the post-graduate team, but Drummond will end up spending three years at St. Thomas More. Most of Quinn's players, and many who attend similar schools, only spend one year.
With their fifth-year players, prep school coaches often have a different plan.
"If you're here for a post-grad year, then you're here because you need to get better," Finkelstein said.
"So we're much more focused on development as opposed to the 'exposure' side of it."
In Sherrod's case, his development may include slightly more play on the perimeter. At 6-foot-6, Sherrod played mostly center at Stratford. At Choate, he may have the freedom to showcase his range more.
"In the CIAC, when you have a body-type like Brandon, you're obviously going to be a post player," Finkelstein said. "That's one of the differences between the levels of play. The size is probably the most immediate difference between our level and a public high school level. The other team's center is regularly 6-8 or 6-9.
"He was so physically dominant in the CIAC, it would have been foolish ... to his credit and to his coach's credit, they were smart enough to use that advantage," Finkelstein continued.
At Choate, however, Finkelstein expects Sherrod won't have to spend the entire game in the paint.
"There's parts to Brandon that he wants to show people what he can do. The difference is, in our league, that's what the matchup is going to dictate," Finkelstein said. "When he's been guarded by a 7-foot, 270-pound kid, we're going to want him to step away and face the guy up."
Tuition and room and board at many of the top prep schools can be near $40,000 -- as much as many colleges. It's sometimes difficult for many families to cover a price tag, though many schools offer full scholarships.
St. Thomas More is among those schools that do not.
"We offer minimal grants," Quinn said. "Typically, it's financial aid, families and extended families.
"A lot of our competitors full-scholarship the kids, but we don't do that. And I'm comfortable with that. Then the family has to sacrifice and everybody has to be part of this. It seems to make it more meaningful for the kids."
A fifth year is generally meaningful to a college coach, too.
"I think it's a great situation for kids. What's the hurry to get on with your life at 18 or 19?" Bike said. "To get that extra year of school and get ready for college a little bit, so you get out of college at 22 or 23? What's the big deal? I think it helps a kid for a number of reasons."
Dominique Langston, a 6-3 guard from Kolbe Cathedral who spent last year at St. Thomas More, is headed to Quinnipiac. His new coach likes the way Langston has developed.
"They did a very good job with him at Kolbe Cathedral both on the court and off," Moore said. "But when you play at a prep school where you have six or seven Division I teammates, the demands at practice every day can't help but make you better.
"There's really a strong place for prep schools in the development of basketball players from high school to college," Moore added. "In general, I feel that a kid who is taking the fifth year at some of these elite prep schools, they usually are further along developmentally -- basketball-wise, academically and socially. In general, you get a more mature kid and a tougher kid, a guy more ready to handle everything that comes his way in college."


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The REPLCOLS function replaces some or all of the character columns in one multiline TEXT value with the columns of another. The function returns a multiline TEXT value composed of the resulting lines.
Columns refer to the character positions in each line of a multiline TEXT value. The first character in each line is in column one, the second is in column two, and so on.
Return Value
TEXT or NTEXT
This function accepts TEXT values and NTEXT values as arguments. The data type of the return value depends on the data type of the values specified for the arguments:
When all arguments are TEXT values, the return value is TEXT.
When all arguments are NTEXT values, the return value is NTEXT.
When the arguments include both TEXT and NTEXT values, the function converts all TEXT values to NTEXT before performing the function operation, and the return value is NTEXT.
The number of lines in the return value is always the same as the number of lines in text-expression. When the columns text expression has fewer lines, REPLCOLS repeats its last line in each subsequent line of the return value.
REPLCOLS(text-expression columns [start])
The text expression in which you want to replace one or more columns.
A text expression containing one or more lines. This expression provides the columns to replace some or all of the columns in text-expression.
INTEGER, between 1 and 4,000, representing the column position at which to begin replacing. The column position of the first character in each line of text-expression is 1. When you do not specify start, replacement begins with Column 1. When you specify a starting column that is to the right of the last character in a given line in text-expression, the corresponding line in the return value has spaces filling in the intervening columns. See Example 8-80, "Joining and Aligning Columns".
Example 8-80 Joining and Aligning Columns
In the following example, the
citylist and
cityreps lines are joined so that the values are aligned, one under the other. The replacement begins at Column 11. When JOINCOLS were used instead of REPLCOLS, the
cityreps list would be misaligned.
The statement
SHOW citylist
produces the following output.
Boston Houston Chicago Denver
The statement
SHOW cityreps
produces the following output.
Brady Lopez Alfonso Cody
The statement
SHOW REPLCOLS(citylist cityreps 11)
produces the following output.
Boston Brady Houston Lopez Chicago Alfonso Denver Cody


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Mansfield Passport Offices
The following passport offices serve Mansfield, Ohio. Please select a passport office in Mansfield for contact information, hours of operation, passport photo information and passport appointments.
- Mansfield Post Office
200 N. Diamond Street
Mansfield, OH 44901-9998
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Duke Energy Foundation Awards $50,000 to Battle White-nose Syndrome in Bats
For Immediate Release
Austin, Texas (April 25, 2017) – The effort to save North America's imperiled bats has received a boost. Duke Energy Foundation announced today they are awarding $50,000 to support efforts by Bat Conservation International (BCI) to help with the recovery of the continent's threatened and endangered bat species. The grant will supply critical funding to address major threats to bats including the deadly fungal disease, White-nose Syndrome.
"Our goal is to help all of our bat species listed under the Endangered Species Act get off that list and prevent others from ever needing to be listed," says Katie Gillies, Director of Imperiled Species for BCI. "One of the greatest threats to our North American bats right now is White-nose Syndrome. Support from the Duke Energy Foundation enables us to further invest in solution-orientated research to help our bats survive this deadly disease."
White-nose Syndrome (WNS) has killed millions of bats in North America since it was first discovered in a single cave in New York in 2007. Today, WNS is found in 30 U.S. states and 5 Canadian provinces. The fungus that causes the disease, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, is continuing to spread westward at an alarming rate. It was detected in Washington State in March 2016, a 1,300-mile leap from its previous westernmost detection in Nebraska, and last month was detected for the first time in Texas.
"I can't think of another wildlife species that provides more value to people than bats," said Tim Hayes, biologist and environmental director with Duke Energy Renewables. "We fully support research to improve our understanding of White-nose Syndrome and to find solutions to reverse this alarming trend."
The support from the Duke Energy Foundation comes at a critical time, with the recent discovery of the fungus on three bat species in Texas, two of which have distributions that may carry the fungus further into the west. Work to minimize the impact of White-nose Syndrome is not only important for the future of North America's bats but its agricultural industry as well. Studies have shown that the value of ecological services by bats to agriculture is $1.4 billion dollars annually in Texas alone.
"The Duke Energy Foundation joins a growing number of amazing government and non-government partners that are pulling together for a coordinated response to this disease," explains Gillies. "With their help, we hope to fast track the development and deployment of proven WNS treatments and tools to minimize
impacts to our North American bats."
About Duke Energy Foundation
The Duke Energy Foundation provides philanthropic support to address the needs of the communities where its customers live and work. The foundation provides more than $30 million annually in charitable gifts. The foundation's education focus spans kindergarten to career, particularly science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), early childhood literacy and workforce development. It also supports the environment and community impact initiatives, including arts and culture.
Duke Energy employees and retirees actively contribute to their communities as volunteers and leaders at a wide variety of nonprofit organizations. Duke Energy is committed to building on its legacy of community service. For more information, visit Duke Energy Foundation
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Duke Energy is an S&P 100 Stock Index company traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DUK. More information about the company is available at Duke Energy
The Duke Energy News Center serves as a multimedia resource for journalists and features news releases, helpful links, photos and videos. Hosted by Duke Energy, illumination is an online destination for stories about people, innovations, and community and environmental topics. It also offers glimpses into the past and insights into the future of energy.
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In the third of our series looking at City players who claimed iconic status during the Manchester derby, we look at our skipper, Vincent Kompany....
The player…
Vincent Kompany
If there was ever a City captain made for the Manchester derby, it's Vincent Kompany.
The Belgian defender has battling our cross-city rivals since 2008, winning the majority of clashes he's featured in.
A derby veteran, he feels the pain like the supporters do if he's on the losing team and there's no finer sight than Kompany leading his team out, particularly at Old Trafford where he skippered three successive wins for the Blues.
It seems unlikely he will feature in the 172nd Manchester derby, but he will be back soon.
The Moment…
Etihad Stadium, 30 April 2012
Just a few weeks before, the title race looked as good as over for City after a 1-0 defeat at Arsenal allowed United to move eight points clear at the top of the Premier League with just six games to go.
At that stage, the Reds needed 11 more points to secure the title and their followers believed they could be crowned champions against City at the Etihad.
But the Blues dug in, kept winning and United began dropping points, losing to Wigan and drawing at home to Everton. The eight-point gap became just three and City's superior goal difference meant victory would swing the title pendulum back in Roberto Mancini's favour with two games left.
City were up for the battle while United looked as though they'd set up for a point that would keep them in control of their own destiny.
As the game approached half-time with the score still 0-0, a corner was awarded for the Blues. As the ball swung in, it was Kompany who climbed highest to power the ball past David De Gea and send the Etihad wild.
The celebration, sprinting towards the City fans in the South Stand was unforgettable – truly a 'cometh the hour, cometh the man' moment and the Blues claimed all three points and went on to win the title.


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More than eight out of 10 internet users believe browsing history should be kept private, according to a survey.
The poll, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust one year after US whistleblower Edward Snowdon leaked top-secret files revealing the activities of UK and US intelligence agencies, showed 85% believe it is "fairly important", "very important" or "essential" to keep browsing records private.
Only 12% believe it is not important, the survey conducted by Ipsos Mori showed.
In addition, respondents supported a call by the Don't Spy On Us campaign for senior judges rather than ministers to sign off on warrants for data collection of electronic communications, when asked where oversight of the intelligence agencies should lie.
Emma Carr, acting director of Big Brother Watch, said: "This research clearly highlights that the British public has little faith that politicians are properly monitoring how the security services are using surveillance powers.
"The Deputy Prime Minister, the Shadow Home Secretary and the Home Affairs Committee have all recognised that our surveillance law needs reviewing and oversight needs to be much stronger. Those who claim everything is fine are looking increasingly ridiculous."
Snowden leaked top-secret documents to a number of locations, including to the Guardian newspaper, revealing details concerning America's National Security Agency (NSA) and UK listening post GCHQ.
Critics have claimed Snowden's disclosures have aided terrorists, while others believe the move could be illegal.
Earlier this year, MI5 director general Andrew Parker warned in a speech that revealing details about the work of GCHQ was a "gift to terrorists", while Sir John Sawers, head of MI6, said terrorists were "rubbing their hands with glee".
Supporters believe the leaks exposed an abuse of powers among the security and intelligence services in the UK and US and had contributed to a much-needed debate on their oversight and role.
The Don't Spy On Us campaign is a coalition of freedom of expression and privacy campaigners including ARTICLE19, Big Brother Watch, English PEN, Liberty, Open Rights Group and Privacy International.
Results were based on a face-to-face survey of 1,958 Britons aged 15 and over conducted between 25 April and 3 May.


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This is an excerpt from Tennis Anatomy by Paul Roetert and Mark Kovacs.
For a tennis player, the shoulder is one of the most used (and sometimes overused) areas of the body. Typically, this makes it one of the most injured areas, especially in competitive tennis players. In addition to the repetitive demands on the shoulder, tennis also requires explosive movement patterns and highly intensive maximal-effort concentric and eccentric muscular work.
Groundstrokes require predominantly horizontal actions at the shoulder, using a combination of abduction and external rotation for the forehand backswing and backhand follow-through and a combination of abduction and internal rotation for the forehand forward swing and backhand backswing.
The tennis serve is a more complex sequence that uses a combination of horizontal and vertical movements. Horizontal abduction and external rotation occur during the backswing, with scapular retraction and depression into the loading phase. From the loading phase, scapular elevation, horizontal abduction, and shoulder extension move the arm toward contact. Internal rotation, shoulder extension, and adduction complete the follow-through. The muscles of the rotator cuff play a vital role in stabilizing the humerus in the shoulder during all tennis movements, but they are critical during the acceleration and follow-through phases of the serve (figure 2.3). The muscles of the rotator cuff aid in power production during acceleration and provide eccentric strength to help slow down the arm after contact during the follow-through. It has been reported that during the explosive internal rotation of the serve, shoulder rotation can reach speeds from 1,074 to 2,300 degrees per second. After contact, deceleration has to occur through eccentric strength of the rotator cuff and related musculature. At the professional level, male players reach speeds on the serve close to 140 miles per hour (225 km/h). Proper preparation of the shoulder musculature is critical.
Tennis volleys require smaller muscle and joint movements than either groundstrokes or serves. For a forehand volley, slight external rotation and slight adduction followed by abduction of the shoulder allow the player to complete the stroke. The backhand volley involves slight internal rotation and abduction followed by slight external rotation and adduction of the shoulder.
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ANCHORAGE - A controversial land swap proposal could open portions of an Alaska wildlife refuge to oil drilling, dividing Alaska natives and stoking opposition from environmentalists seeking to protect the bears, moose and birds that live there.
Supporters of the plan to exchange land in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, which lies just south of the more-famous Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, say they would like the plan to be approved by the administration of President George W. Bush before the election in November.
"The window is the election," Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young, a staunch backer of the plan, said at an Anchorage news conference. "We'd like to have an executive order out of the administration before they leave office."
The proposed land trade would give 110,000 acres of hydrocarbon-prone uplands within the refuge, plus mineral rights to another 97,000 acres, to Fairbanks-based Doyon Ltd. In exchange, the refuge would gain 150,000 acres of bird-friendly wetlands now owned by Doyon, plus 56,500 acres on which Doyon has pending land claims.
Doyon, owned by Athabascan Indians of interior Alaska, has long envisioned such a trade to give economic benefits to its shareholders while preserving traditional culture and the environment on which it depends.
"You can have both the subsistence lifestyle and the protection of that lifestyle, and you can have oil and gas exploration," said Norm Phillips, Doyon's resource manager.
But many people living closest to the potential development -- many of them Doyon shareholders -- oppose the plan because of the likelihood of oil pollution and the possibility of social upheaval such as a flow of drugs, alcohol and poachers over new roads.
"Usually, the indigenous people are at the losing end of any sort of oil development," said Dacho Alexander, first chief of the Gwichyaa Zhee Gwich'in Tribe in Fort Yukon, a village of 600 near the proposed exchange parcels.
Alexander said the dispute illustrates the perennial clash between corporate goals and noneconomic Native values.
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The Yukon Flats basin holds an estimated 173 million barrels of oil -- accounting for less than nine days of U.S. consumption at current rates -- along with 5.5 trillion cubic feet of gas and 127 million barrels of natural-gas liquids, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
It also holds unique ecological values.
Straddling the Arctic Circle, cradled by two mountain ranges and bisected by the Yukon River, the refuge encompasses boreal forests that support moose, grizzly and black bears and many other mammals.
Its network of lakes, streams, ponds and sloughs attract Alaska's highest concentrations of breeding ducks. It has some of Alaska's coldest winter days and, thanks to around-the-clock sunlight, scorching summer temperatures as high as 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the hottest for this latitude in North America.
Fran Mauer, a retired Fish and Wildlife Service biologist and prominent critic of the land exchange, says the trade plan violates the refuge's conservation mission.
"I just don't see that it's in the public's interest to do it," he said.
But Doyon officials say that no matter what land the corporation ends up owning, oil and gas drilling is inevitable in the Yukon Flats.
"Even if the land trade doesn't happen, Doyon is still going to move forward with exploration out there," Phillips said.
Reporting by Yereth Rosen; editing by Jim Marshall
© 2008 Reuters


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Is it that easy for Filipino expats to get hired in the PI? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Is it that easy for Filipino expats to get hired in the PI? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Philippines View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Captain_FilJoined: 06 Jan 2011Posts: 604Location: California - the land of fruits and nuts Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:13 pm Post subject: Is it that easy for Filipino expats to get hired in the PI? Having read the Philippines forums for a while, I'm starting to get the impression that Filipinos and Filipino expats enjoy immense ESL job opportunities in their native country. Am I mistaken? Or am I right? If balikbayan (expats) do indeed possess such advantages, then the Philippines may be the ideal place for me. Having been born there and been a fairly frequent tourist, I know the Philippines better than most other countries. The culture shock would not be so extreme if I were in China or Japan. And I can stay with relatives until I start receiving my paychecks. The Philippines is also a very cheap place to live (unlike Japan, etc.). So, is it true? Back to top tttompatzJoined: 06 Mar 2010Posts: 1951Location: Talibon, Bohol, Philippines Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:11 am Post subject: Rather than a Balikbayan stamp (which does not allow you to legally work) you can reclaim your citizenship (be a dual citizen (US/Philippine) and have all the rights and privileges of citizenship including the right to work without restriction. Having that US passport will put you in the "Native speaker" category enabling you to get work in the assorted Korean and Japanese language schools with wages in line with a foreigner rather than a local (50,000 pesos per month instead of 15,000). You won't bank a lot of money to send back to the states but you will enjoy a comfortable lifestyle while you are there for as long as you want to stay there. MOD EDIT Back to top Gringo GregJoined: 19 Jan 2003Posts: 264Location: Everywhere and nowhere Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:51 am Post subject: Why not find a job as a call center trainer? The pay and conditions are better than a language teacher. Back to top Captain_FilJoined: 06 Jan 2011Posts: 604Location: California - the land of fruits and nuts Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 6:22 am Post subject: Gringo Greg wrote: Why not find a job as a call center trainer? The pay and conditions are better than a language teacher. I once considered that option. But age discrimination could be a problem. Back to top Ajarn MigukJoined: 23 Jan 2003Posts: 227Location: TDY As Assigned Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 2:50 am Post subject: Here's a recent example of apparently what you can expect to be paid teaching in the Philippines: http://www.eslcafe.com/joblist/index.cgi?read=24177 If what it written is correct, the pay would be around $38 a month. Back to top tatsuo1Joined: 11 Jun 2009Posts: 75 Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:14 pm Post subject: philippines pay @Ajarn. How are you calculating a monthly pay of $38? The ad you refer to states 20K to 30K and uses the dollar sign rather than php. If the amounts are USD, then the monthly is over $1000 per month. With the php being about 40/USD, the monthly would be 40,000php per month. you can always check a foreign currency site for most recent php/USD. Back to top Ajarn MigukJoined: 23 Jan 2003Posts: 227Location: TDY As Assigned Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:18 am Post subject: The ad has been changed. It originally read: Benefits include: Salary range Php 20,000 to 30,000 in a year Paid Visa processing Round way tickets Providing house You can still find it appearing in its original version on another teaching site with "Php" and not the U.S. dollar sign: http://teachingandjobs.com/job/4135/tefl-jobs-in-philippine-at-ms-study/ It's possible that it will also be changed before long but right now it reads with "Php" and not the U.S. dollar sign. Regarding your final point, not to worry. I have visited currency conversion sites for many years and did so in calculating the exchange rate I included in my initial comments on this thread. 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County school officials said the new bus route changes going into effect this fall had everything to do with dollars and cents.
It's all part of a larger cost-cutting plan which has been in the works for more than a year. It's expected to save the district more than $1 million.
"Without it, our budget would not have worked for fiscal year," Carroll County Schools Superintendent Stephen Gutherie said. "We really ended up being able to honor employee-negotiated agreements and keep everything else in check without any significant layoffs or furloughs."
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COLUMBIA - Coastal Carolina Hospital in Hardeeville has won the latest round in a competition with MRI at Belfair, a free-standing Bluffton imaging facility.
The S.C. Court of Appeals this week affirmed a decision by the S.C. Administrative Law Court that favored the hospital's use of the diagnostic scanning technology.
The use of MRI scans has been growing across the state, with physicians using them to analyze afflictions of the spine, brain, and other areas. This decision means that the hospital gets to continue operating its MRI," said the center's attorney, Travis Dayhuff.
"Keeping this essential diagnostic tool at the hospital is obviously very important to Coastal Carolina and its patients."
Belfair could appeal to the S.C. Supreme Court, but Belfair attorney John Beach said that decision has not yet been made.
Coastal Carolina is located near Interstate 95 and mostly serves Jasper and Beaufort counties, operating an emergency room that frequently treats accident victims from the highway. It is about 14 miles away from MRI at Belfair.
In May of 2004, Coastal Carolina submitted an application to the state to construct a fixed MRI suite onto its existing hospital in Jasper County, estimated to be a $3.2 million project. The department approved the application about six months later. A subsequent issue was whether Coastal Carolina's changes to its MRI violated its so-called certificate of need.
In its 2005 decision, the Administrative Law Court pointed out that Beaufort County had 10 MRI units, including both mobile and fixed MRI units, and that hospitals encountered difficulties when they depended on a mobile unit. The decision noted that Coastal Carolina was open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, while mobile units and free-standing MRI providers, such as Belfair, had more limited hours of operation.
The state's certificate of need program requires a medical facility to get permission from the state if it wants to build a new facility, acquire a particular piece of medical equipment, or make some other capital expenditure. To be approved, the application must meet the standards of the State Health Plan.
The program is a point of debate among some in the S.C. Legislature who argue that medical facility executives should be free to expand if they think the demand for their services exists, rather than asking the state for permission to do so.
Last month's state register listed two applications submitted for Beaufort County. One is for a $3.7 million, 10-bed rehabilitation hospital from PACE Healthcare Commons. The other is for a $14.3 million, 32-bed long-term acute care hospital from PACE Healthcare Commons. Both are listed as Bluffton applications. In February the health care company announced its intentions to open a $78 million hospital to Bluffton.
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On May 29 "Arrested Development" returned for a fifth, and now a bit controversial, iteration. I have painful, personal memories of this FOX series, and they pretty much revolved around my relationship with Rupert Murdoch. Looking back, it's sort of humorous, so I thought I would share my memories with you.
My first exposure to "Arrested" was in winter 2003 when Sandy Grushow, who oversaw FBC and the 20th TV studio, gave me a copy of the pilot script from Mitch Hurwitz. I got to know Mitch a bit from my time at NBC, where he was a showrunner on both "Nurses" and "The John Larroquette Show." I was a big fan "Larroquette" and even put it behind the Super Bowl one year. I personally loved the darkness of it, but it never quite got over the ratings hump.
The "Arrested Development" script was intriguing and reminded me, and others at FOX, of a TV version of Wes Anderson's classic movie "The Royal Tenenbaums." I loved the narrator, and I believe Sandy told us that Ron Howard (who was also an EP of the show) had agreed to serve that function.
One problem, and it was a big one: The show did not feel like a FOX comedy. In fact, it really didn't feel like a comedy that fit on any network. Nevertheless, we soldiered on, made the pilot and put it on the end on our Sunday schedule in fall 2003. This was before the return of "Family Guy" and "Animation Domination," so following "The Simpsons," we had "The Bernie Mac Show," "Malcolm in the Middle" and then "Arrested." That was a pretty eclectic mix of comedies with little flow.
Although the quality of the show was outstanding, the ratings for "Arrested Development" were not very good, and the performance got on Rupert Murdoch's radar. "Arrested" went against Rupert's more populist sensibilities and to him represented everything that "Hollywood" was trying to shove down the throats of the American viewing public. He made that clear to us over the 2003-04 season. In spite of that, we ordered a full season of 22 episodes and let the show ride in its timeslot.
In the scheduling room that May, we all agonized over whether to order a second season of the show. The sentiment was overwhelmingly in favor of a second season, but we all knew at some point Mr. Murdoch would come into the room expecting us to present him with a fall schedule.
Finally, Peter Chernin, who was chairman and CEO of the whole megillah, said, "I am not going to be the person to cancel 'Arrested Development,'" and it was decided.
We put the show back on Sunday night at 8:30, sandwiched between "The Simpsons" and a concoction from our head of unscripted, Mike Darnell, called "My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss."
"American Idol" had now been on for three seasons, and with the "Death Star" on the schedule, we felt that we could afford to give "Arrested" a second chance.
It was sort of how we looked at "Homicide" when I was at NBC: With so much success, we could afford to protect a quality show. That was NBC and Bob Wright; this was FOX and Rupert Murdoch. He was about to enter the scheduling room, and my life scheduling "Arrested Development" was about to take a painful turn.
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