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Red Brigade wrote: Of course they have. The people of Libya are rising up massively to bring back the direct democracy of the Jamahiriya that existed thanks to the benevolence of comrade Gaddafi, who was just a symbolic figurehead and had no real power at all and was beloved by everyone except for the Al-Qaeda puppets. Oh wait, the people who captured Bani Walid contacted the NTC, who agreed to recognise them as the only authority over the town, and for now it just means one more town that the NTC can't control directly in the post-war power vacuum. The funny thing is that I originally hit "Reply" to respond to the digression about WWII, but I was "distracted" by the above post. I just want to say that at this point, registering one's disgust with Dagoth Ur's (apparently orthodox Trotskyist) position on World War II is kind of pointless, because it only dignifies that kind of nonsense unnecessarily. But like all worthless orthodox Trotskyist opinions, it is interesting to note that it's just a bunch of weird posturing that has nothing to do with reality. What would it concretely have meant for the communist resistance movements in occupied Europe to consistently say: "As soon as the fascists are significantly weakened, we should stop opposing them, because the US, who just liberated us, are now the main major threat"? At what specific moment would that be, anyway? Right after Stalingrad? Let's say that in 1944 (after years of communist calls for a second front), the western Allies are planning D-Day and they ask the French resistance to sabotage key German facilities. In the ortho-Trot opinion, they should have said: "Sorry, can't do that; the Red Army has already reached the Romanian border, and Nazi Germany is doomed. We'll just sit here and allow the Germans to implement murderous scorched-earth strategies until the Soviets have finally made it over here." Brilliant stuff.
[quote]Oh wait, the people who captured Bani Walid contacted the NTC, who agreed to recognise them as the only authority over the town, and for now it just means one more town that the NTC can't control directly in the post-war power vacuum./quote]
Simplifying matters a bit, no? Bani Walid and Sabha were the last towns to fall. Historically these areas were the core of anti-colonial resistance against the Italians and were only effectively under colonial control years after the coastal areas of the country. NATO and the NTC may control the coastal areas, but there is significant evidence to suggest that their control is weakest in these areas, and the relative weakness of authorities in Niger means that the Tuareg and other Gaddafi loyalists can just sit on the other side of the border and wait. You act as if this is unimportant and just a minor footnote, or the last gasp of resistance. I highly doubt that that is the case. That said, I appreciate your commentary on the earlier debate, I had decided to leave it alone but I think you nailed it. Strangely, up until now I assumed you were a trotskyist. "The present is a time of struggle; the future is ours."
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 14 Jan 2010, 05:46 Ideology: Other Leftist Party Member Matthijs wrote: Libya was a direct democracy. The people of Libya ruled through People's Committees and Basic People's Congresses. Workers Self Management was also practiced. The Italian activist Yvonne Di Vito even compared Libya to an African Switzerland. It's funny how one of the NTC's biggest allies is the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group which openly supports and works with Al-Qaeda. It's also funny how most of the NTC supporters are Libyans that were living abroad or how the NTC used soldiers from Tunisia and Egypt. The Prime Minister of the NTC is an American Citizen. Also I guess the NTC's torture and killing of blacks in Libya is fine. "Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg Long Live The Bolivarian Revolution! RIP Muamar Qadafi RIP Hugo Chavez
Yes, it's absolutely delightful that blacks are being lynched, because I totally support the NTC, as I have repeatedly stated in, umm, zero posts on this forum and anywhere else? Oh wait, it seems that I didn't say that anywhere, and that you pulled it out of your ass.
A large part of the NTC, by the way, consists of people who were, up until very recently, officials in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Of course, that's not possible, because the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya was a stateless, classless utopia run by direct democracy, so of course they didn't have "officials", but yet here they are, and the same people still largely run Libya in the absence of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. Funny that. I googled this "Italian activist" Yvonne di Vito, and, besides finding the same video on all the usual looney-fringe websites, I finally managed to find out who this woman is: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... bings.html Hey wow, she is the wife of an Italian guy who arranged Ghaddafi's escort service, and personal friend to Ghaddafi. I'm sure that someone who has been acting as the Madame of the rich and powerful has a keen political insight on life at the bottom in Libya. Next up on Russia Today, it's Ghaddafi's nurse, Ghaddafi's mistress and Ghaddafi's swimming pool guard explaining the finer points of direct democracy in the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. After that, we have an exclusive interview with Alejandro from the Korean Friendship Association explaining how people's power works in North Korea. At the risk of having one big post full of sarcasm, I do want to mention one thing in all seriousness, and that is the "Al-Qaeda" thing. It's one of the issues in which vulgar "anti-imperialist" leftists have developed an amazing kind of doublespeak. Compare: On 9/11: "Al-Qaeda doesn't really exist as such, that is just a simplification used to justify the bombing of Afghanistan and Iraq. Al-Qaeda is not some kind of centralised organisation, and it cannot be somehow defeated by invading countries." On Libya: "Like Gaddafi said, all his opponents are Al-Qaeda operatives." Weird. @Aurelian: fair enough, the history behind those towns is a bit more complex. It is true that the NTC and co. are not consolidated everywhere; but I think the fact remains the same. There does not seem to be much organised resistance. Instead, what we have is a power vacuum, and in places like Bani Walid, local tribal leaders try to get more power for themselves. The NTC can't enforce its claims there (yet), so they recognise these people as the legitimate authorities and try to work out a deal. So you can tell me where exactly "Gaddafi loyalists" come in to this. The main tactic used in NTC in-fighting at the moment is to label one's opponents as "Gaddafi loyalists", but that doesn't make it true. Who would fight for a zombie leader anyway? I think at this point, it is fair to say that there will be a lot of bloody struggle going on in Libya, one of the many fruits of the brilliant intervention by NATO of turning an uprising into a destructive civil war (which Red Brigade thinks I support, but that is a rather small thinking error compared to the idea that Libya was "an African Switzerland"), but "Gaddafi loyalists" will have very little part in it, simply because there aren't all that many of them in the end, and if they exist, it's probably along tribal lines rather than because of their commitment to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. But of course, I don't have a crystal ball, and I might be proven wrong.
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 13 Feb 2008, 15:25 Ideology: Other Leftist Politburo Matthijs wrote: You do realise that Libya had the highest human development index in Africa before the civil war, right? Or do you not consider the HDI to be at all valid? Your anti-Gaddafi sentiment is about as irrational as RB's talk of direct democracy, which in all fairness did exist to a certain degree. Have you not heard of media spin and misrepresentation of the truth? One thing that makes me laugh is the talk of Gaddafi stock piling gold as a show of how excessively he lived in the Western media. It never gets mentioned that he was actually stock piling gold as a means to support a new pan African currency based on a gold standard. It's so sad that even Leftists end up swallowing the bullshit. Quote: Of course the HDI is not valid. HDI includes the GDP per capital. Therefore, in an oil country as Libya, the total wealth increases artificially the HDI. If you compare with Tunisia and its dictator Ben Ali, Tunisia has practically the same HDI. Yet, it has much less oil. So it means that Tunisia's HDI is actually better. However, we know that this country is not socialist and suffers from heavy poverty and inequalities. The Gini coefficient would be a better index, but you can't find it because Gaddafi had no interest in giving it. "Mao was just a degenerated Trotsky." Dagoth Ur "fishing is part of agriculture" Gred OP-Bagration wrote: I disagree on that, I've noticed a number of posters commenting on how any country with oil wealth is guaranteed to trickle down. FYI Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Ecuador are all oil-producing countries, yet all are still mired in poverty. Plus Equatorial guinea is said to have a high HDI for same reasons... so we really need to begin looking at how well wealth was distributed. While many in Libya in the west in particular complained of unemployment there did not appear to be anyone starving to death, did anyone notice that? The protests tended to reflect certain peoples dissatisfaction with the government in terms of restrictive policies as opposed to impoverishment. They say a picture is worth 1000 words, and I think you'll find most of the pictures in Libya point to a modern developed country. The other point brought up about how many former Gaddafi government ministers were part of the NTC is actually more related to opportunism, particularly many in the government were likely to be indicted on corruption charges (as part of the proposed reforms) and this same group were the defectors. Lets be clear, there was construction all over the country, Libya was giving loans elsewhere in Africa, and there were many in universities, certainly some were built and expanded in Gaddafi's rule. I'm not even citing anything from Mathaba or whatever here, just looking at this taking a step back. I don't believe Libya was paradise on earth, but checking out the many videos of the country, there are a lot of nice cars, well kept buildings, modern infrastructure, and the water system that was built in the desert. I think it is hard to argue that a great deal of good was accomplished there even if Gaddafi had negative sides. @ Mathijis: Lets employ a bit of historicity here, if your enemy says you did it, and you say you did it, then you probably did it. Both sides acknowledge there are many Gaddafi supporters still out there. Where exactly do you think those 1.7 million people who came to support him in Tripoli went? Where are all the loyalists who held out in Ghadames, Sabha, and Bani Walid? Maybe some of those people will come to accept the NTC, but judging by the revolt against the NTC by former militias, it does not create a situation where the Gaddafi loyalists will give up per se. All the independent journalists in Libya such as Voltaire Network, global research, Lizzie phelan have concluded as much and even RT was giving some good reports before the "end" of the civil war. Seriously, do you just get all your information from al-Jazeera "The present is a time of struggle; the future is ours."
Quote: This is exactly what I said. HDI proves nothing. Maybe you didn't read what I wrote. Quote: Nobody was starving to death in Tunisia also. There was poor people and unemployement in both countries, especially in Benghazi suburbs. Quote: And what about Saudi Arabia? This country is exactly the contrary of socialism, but it has some great cars. So, do you support them? "Mao was just a degenerated Trotsky." Dagoth Ur "fishing is part of agriculture" Gred
No, my point is this. When Gaddafi came to power, it was like Equatorial Guinea, next to no redistribution, whereas now its a lot better. You can hate all you want, but the fact of the matter is he was very popular FOR SOME REASON for at the very least the first twenty years. You don't stay in power for 40 years "mercilessly repressing innocent people" as Western academics might point out, clearly he did a lot of good in the country, there is material evidence of that everywhere. There are many poor people in Saudi Arabia, don't let the news fool you. The problem with Saudi is they have more money than they know what to do with, comparing Saudi and Libya is a bit unfair no? If we review the economic history there are many reasons outside Gaddafi's control which might point to why that country is much wealthier.
I understand its questionable to reference claims of Gaddafi supporters, they are probably over stating the social welfarism in Libya. On the other hand, its not totally contrived, and you should be wary to accept BBC accounts of Libya = Tunisia. "The present is a time of struggle; the future is ours."
I don't think people who rebelled really care about what it was before Gaddafi, rather about what it could be without him. He obviously gave much money to his friends, people in Tripoli and the al-Gadafa. But in the end, he failed.
"Mao was just a degenerated Trotsky." Dagoth Ur "fishing is part of agriculture" Gred
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 14 Jan 2010, 05:46 Ideology: Other Leftist Party Member Matthijs wrote: Libya was not 100 precent run by 100 precent pure direct democracy. For example Libya had a national General People's Congress which was made up of representatives from local Basic People's Congresses. There was also the General People's Committee which was elected by the General People's congress of members from different Basic People's Congresses, the General People's Committee also had a General Secretary who was considered Head of Government. So it was not a pure direct democracy there were still parts of representative democracy in the government. But there were also a lot of aspects of direct democracy. Like the Basic People's Congresses (Conference) which all adult Libyans were members of and allowed to voice their opinion in. Libya also practiced forms of worker's self management. Matthijs wrote: I can understand not taking her as a very reliable source after finding out who her husband is. But RT is still a reliable alternative to the mainstream media in America. Especially on Libya, they have interviewed lots of people on Libya, and have sent journalists to Libya. Plus they would report on different positive things that Gaddafi did for Libya and Africa, like the Pan-African gold currency that FC mentioned. Of course more mainstream media sources in the west especially America will not report on things like this. Matthijs wrote: I believe that Al-Qaeda caused 9/11, and i'm still against the Afghan and Iraq wars. I don't buy into the conspiracy theories like that and I don't know many leftists or anti-imperialists that do.
Gaddafi gave lots of money to African nations and Pan-African organizations like the African Union. He also gave money to different revolutionary and anti-imperialsit organizations, other then the IRA. "Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg Long Live The Bolivarian Revolution! RIP Muamar Qadafi RIP Hugo Chavez Quote: USA are doing the same with United nations and many countries. Quote: In the 1980's he assassinated Thomas Sankara and helped the invasion of Liberia in 1989, then of Sierra Leone. 400 000 people died in these wars. He was also an imperialist. "Mao was just a degenerated Trotsky." Dagoth Ur "fishing is part of agriculture" Gred
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 14 Jan 2010, 05:46 Ideology: Other Leftist Party Member OP-Bagration wrote: Yeah but the USA does not support African unity like Gaddafi did. The USA works against African unity, and any type of third-world unity. The assassination of Patrice Lumumba should of made this clear. OP-Bagration wrote: How did he help assassinate Thomas Sankara this is the first time i've ever heard something like that. Would you like to give a source or elaborate on that. By invasion of Liberia and Sierra Leone do you mean the Liberian and Sierra Leone civil wars? Because Libya never invaded them Gaddafi did mistakenly support Charles Taylor and the NPF, but Libya never invaded either country. Gaddafi was not an imperialist. "Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg Long Live The Bolivarian Revolution! RIP Muamar Qadafi RIP Hugo Chavez matthijs wrote: How does responding to an argument dignify it? It's a liberal tendency to not try to defeat an idea you know to be wrong. matthijs wrote: As soon as you beat the nazis clearly. One threat down, one way bigger one to tackle. Not that I would have continued world war two against the Americans (militarily) but calling their intervention in Europe "liberation" is to lie and to ignore the imperialism they brought with them in tow. The only liberators during world war two were the anti-nazi soldiers themselves. And to a lesser degree the USSR. matthijs wrote: I never said to leave the nazis alone. If your enemies want to kill each other let them, but don't forget they're both your enemies. matthijs wrote: Better than your strawmen though. لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا الله مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ الله - يا عمال العالم اتحدوا Red Brigade wrote: I've heard this claim too. The assassination of Sankara has more to do with the politics of Cote D'Ivoire wanting a cheaper source of labour, and for the rulers in the north to maintain power they need a numeric superiority enhanced by people moving in. Reality check: Cote D'Ivoire is one of the staunchest allies of America and France on the African continent. I'm not sure what Gaddafi did or didn't do, but lets be real, France has 45% economic ownership of Cote D'Ivoire, care to hazard a guess what % of Burkina Faso's economy they owned? Liberia, Uganda, and Central African Republic are three examples of leaders we can disagree that it was not wise to support, but then again, we do have the gift of retrospect, and these people were seen as a force of change and liberators at the same time. Many viewed Idi Amin as someone who would upset the British establishment and change the imbalance between Asians and Africans. He did do that, a long with many other negative things. There is a good article by Yoweri Museveni on Gaddafi which partially explains these events. Gaddafi was a creditor country on the African continent, but the key maneouvering of this so-called Arab Spring is about brining Libya into the Arab grouping of nations as opposed to African, which is why many African nations and popular movements have been the strongest supporters. Its not about coming out in full force with a green flag, but calling Gaddafi an imperialist shows you take imperialist propaganda at face value. He made some controversial decisions we can criticize, but outright labelling an imperialist is fundamentally flawed. His loans were not making ridiclous scores of money for Libya, and many in Africa view him as a hero, why is it when anyone in the developing world regards some populist as a hero it is because they are "misguided" they know what they want, and he acts in their interests. Western interests are to portray him as an idiot because they can discredit him in world opinion, we all know he is not an idiot though. It just takes a bit of objectivity here... "The present is a time of struggle; the future is ours."
Matthijs wrote: Your narrative runs like a neo-con denunciation of RT as foreign propaganda. In fact, most of the people they interview are independent journalists, analysts, people from think tanks, activists, and overwhelming academics and university professors, often times from the United States. They just show more activist views, unless you think that's not objective? "The present is a time of struggle; the future is ours."
Fellow Comrade wrote: Now we get to play "Fun with statistics with Fellow Comrade" (certainly better than being accused of "anti-Gaddafi sentiment" as if that's some kind of venereal disease!). I consider HDI as valid as you do, but I'm sure you would not award the same generosity to the corruption index, unemployment rates, press freedom index, etc. Tunisia was also a relatively prosperous country, so maybe we can cry about the overthrow of comrade Ben-Ali next. A new pan-African currency based on the gold standard? Well, that makes sense! Too bad Gadhafi is dead, or he could have accompanied Ron Paul on the campaign trail. Aurelian wrote: And what if you emphatically deny that you "did it", like the guys in Bani Walid? The fact of the matter is that "Gadhafi loyalist" is mostly a popular slander method used in intra-NTC conflicts. The key words in all your ~*pertinent questions*~ about the "many Gadhafi supporters" are of course all in the past tense. They came to support him, they held out. I don't know where the "1.7 million people in Tripoli" went, but they're clearly not at the square any more. Reality check: Tripoli has a population of 1.8 million. If 94% of the population of Tripoli (and one-third of the entire population of Libya) supports Gadhafi, how on earth could they possibly lose? Even if you only had guns for a fraction of them (Gadhafi apologists at one point claimed that he was arming the general population to beat back the imperialist rebs, whatever happened to that?). Even if they were all unarmed, the rebels would have had to commit a genocide of epic proportions to stand a chance of winning the city. I had never heard of Lizzie Phelan up until very recently, but reading this article by her says enough. I mean, really? I don't necessarily believe in "objectivity", but it's impossible to take someone seriously who simply writes propaganda for the lowest common denominator. Lizzie Phelan calling the rebels "rats" is about as credible as Ronald Reagan calling Gadhafi a "mad dog". I realise that I just argued against attacking the source in the Syria thread, but you can always find "sources" that make you wonder. No matter if it's Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck on one side, or Lizzie Phelan and Voltaire Network (which backed 9/11 conspiracy theories) on the other. I don't think you should get all your information from al-Jazeera, just as I don't think you should ever get all your information from one exclusive news medium. But if you had to choose between al-Jazeera, Fox News or Press TV, then obviously the first option would be vastly superior to the other two combined. It's not like you have to make some binary choice between either propaganda from the imperialists or from "anti-imperialist" crackpots. Everyone is welcome to consume news media in the way they see fit, but I would recommend critically watching as much as possible, with an additional instinctive "filter" against the Glenn Becks and Lizzie Phelans of this world. @Red Brigade: sorry I can't write a very detailed response, because you mention a lot of things that we can simply agree to disagree on, but one thing: Red Brigade wrote: Does that include such leading lights of anti-imperialism as Austrian fascist leader Jörg Haider? I'm honestly curious about this.
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Defected to the U.S.S.R.: 14 Jan 2010, 05:46 Ideology: Other Leftist Party Member Matthijs wrote: Im guessing the money and support given to Jörg Haider was most likely because of some of his anti-American stances. It was also probably so Jörg Haider and the Freedom Party of Austria would spread support for Libya in Austria. But it was still wrong of Gaddafi to give him that money. Also Gaddafi's son was much more closer to Jörg Haider than Gaddafi was. There are also a lot more left wing groups that Gaddafi supported, such as the ANC, PLO, IRA, PFLP, Polisario Front, Red Brigades, Red Army Faction, NPA, The Muslim Brotherhood and many more. He even supported the Trotskyist Workers Revolutionary Party, and their printing press. Also Lizzie Phelan is not that bad of a journalist, she spent a lot of time in Libya during the conflict. I don't agree with calling the rebels names, but she is still a good journalist. Last edited by Red Brigade on 11 Feb 2012, 22:18, edited 1 time in total.
"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg Long Live The Bolivarian Revolution! RIP Muamar Qadafi RIP Hugo Chavez
I am shocked that AFRICOM is not being discussed here, the US Empire is rapidly expanding in Africa, which the ultimate result will be less democracy. They key actors in AFRICOM are all US-friendly regimes, and I think its questionable to be referring to Nigeria or Senegal as model democracies. or, what about Jean Bricmont who wrote Humanitarian Imperialism? http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/04/21/libya-in-the-face-of-humanitarian-imperialism/ If you can debunk the 10 claims in this article below, then do so: http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_7783.shtml Quote: Last edited by Snowdon on 11 Feb 2012, 22:17, edited 2 times in total.
"The present is a time of struggle; the future is ours."
I have seen many neo-cons balk at the idea of creating a currency, but we know Gaddafi's history, he believes in south-south cooperation and pan-african unity, and he backs it up time and time again. Why would he not propose such a currency? He wants Africa to unite, and why not? You might question his ideas, but there is no doubt he would do something like this and certainly wanted to. Chavez created a currency, so why would Gaddafi not? Its possible, and many would have backed him. Gaddafi working with Angola, South Africa, Zimbabwe definitely is worrying to the United States as it could strengthen Africa-africa trade and start creating another pole of power in the world. Don't you think that when NATO decides to intervene somewhere it has more to do with power politics than any 'democracy' or 'freedom'?
Do you know what a bomb is? Have you examined the damage in the country? when people get bombed they lose morale after a time, no one holds out forever. I mean, what does it take to convince you there were Gaddafi supporters, if they held out for 5 years? I'm sure the 1.7 million in Tripoli came from outside the city as well, you making statistics on the spot does not make it untrue. NATO applied pressure and at some points they appeared worried they might not win. 50,000 troops versus the rebels, defectors, ex-pats, special forces, and whoever else was there we just don't know. They really drummed up how unprepared the rebels were, and all these ways they just couldnt get the gaddafi forces because they were blending in with the city. NATO thought it would be a much shorter victory, and they underestimated support for Gaddafi, and stuck to that line throughout the whole conflict. It was obviously very divided, maybe Gaddafi had more supporters but probably not by much, people are just getting on with their lives and they don't want any more war... that doesn't then mean that this is some great victory for the Libyan people. You're talking shit man, Lizzie Phelan is not Glenn Beck, and I don't understand why al-Jazeera, being funded by Qatar, a country attacking Libya, should be the purveyor of accurate information? Its like accepting American war propaganda about how the Viet Cong are evil marauders. Come on man, you can't take information on any given conflict by one of the aggressive nations involved? Now I understand why you don't believe in objectivity. The claim he was arming supporters was from al-Jazeera actually. I am only suggesting some alternative sources, there are many other independent media organizations that have taken a view contrary to al-Jazeera. If BBC and al-Jazeera have been proven to be capable of errors in reporting too. Do you really believe what the BBC puts out on Tibet? The imperialist sources are naturally going to use spin tactics on any kind of reporting that revolves around something they don't like. Fox may wrap it up differently, but RT, al-Jazeera, BBC they all do the same thing. I don't believe in getting all information from RT, but dismissing all information they release is questionable. There are volumes of books which examine western propaganda, I think you should give them a read because they really got the blinders on you. Ok, lets pose a similar question, where are all Aristide's or Sankara's supporters. These rebels have been lynching people and ethnically cleansed a town. We are also considering the entire country has been bombed, British special forces, Qatari forces went in, and who knows what went between border crossing in Tobruk, do you know? Gaddafi was an obstacle to American, British, and French imperial designs in the African continent, Qatar is just reaping some benefits. The trade agreements signed with foreign companies gave a good more percentage of oil wealth to Libya than these new agreements will. Funding all kinds of projects across Africa and giving loans, is as much a rival as China. I found it hilarious when al-Jazeera or BBC started interviewing Africans on what they thought of Libyan war they all came out strongly against it and they had to end the interview. "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." -Malcolm X... think about it. "The present is a time of struggle; the future is ours."
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On the way home I saw lots of corn that is chest high... and a few fields that it looked close to over my head already...we always figured we'd have a good corn crop if it was "knee high" by the 4th of July
Yep I can see less and less now my corn privacy fence has reached 5-6 feet already... Used to really enjoy it more when we were younger and had a pool It's amazing what hybrids and engineering have done to corn and other crops.
They're second cropping Soybeans. This will be an ideal year for it if we get some rain to germinate the seeds.
Agreed - its a sometimes used "extra" cash flow trick for farmers - not a good thing to do very often, but every now and then the soil and risks of weather make it worth while.
Actually a really nice night...especially for fireworks. It's cool, the full moon is bright...the earlier rain dampened the ground a bit.We could see the fireworks display at Sterling from here.The finale reminded me of an old war movie....lots of ferocious booms.The very end seemed a bit odd though....a bunch of booms yet no visible display. Made me wonder if something went awry.Seems like just about every neighbor around us bought lots of fireworks...they're still going at it.Someone placed some sort of tube in the park that shot off multiple aerial displays but after a few shots, it must've fell over because it started firing in all directions sideways and the crowd scattered with panic.I could do without the fishflies though.Saw what looked like a candle floating under a bag...it was pretty high in the sky though so I'm not exactly positive.
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Ceriux's Nub Tutorials [Compiling a quake 1 .mdl]
So here's the list of tools i use:
1: a modeling program your used to, be it milkshape, 3ds max, or blender.
2: (this tutorial isnt for blender specific so you will need a tool for conversion) i use milkshape 3D
3: a tool to texture your model. idc if its paint just something.
4: quark - another conversion tool.
5: qme for misc. bs.
next your going to need a good directory to place all your stuff.
our directorys follow like this.
base: "C:\qmdl"
next we'll put our objs here.
obj srcs: base: "C:\qmdl\obj"
next, textures.
texture: "C:\qmdl\tex"
and lastly animations.
animation: "C:\qmdl\smd"
ok now that we're finished with all that and you've made sure all of your files are in the correct folders. lets get started assuming you already have your model made and in obj format. open up milkshape then go to "file>import>WAVEFRONT Obj..."
should look like this.
next, make sure everything is grouped as one. by going to the groups tab selecting all faces and pressing regroup.
then make sure your texture is a TGA and go to the materials tab. make sure that the path is pointed to the tga and that you also have your 256 quake palleted .bmp ready for later.
ok... to get the thing to compile to a format we can actually use we need to do a couple more steps... ( i know this looks like a lot... but its really not once you get used to it and get into a work flow using this the process is actually pretty fast)
ok next step. go into the "model" stab and select "joint" and place one some where close to your model preferably somewhere below it but close. select all of the vertecies and the joint and go to the joint TAB.
then go to tools>quakeIII arena> Generate control file.
in the set up your directories.
this is what mine looks like:
save that as what ever your going to save you md3 as in your base directory.
then go to file>export> quake III arena... export it as the same name as the .qc file you generated.
next open up quark.
and open your md3 in it.
after you have your .md3 open go to toolbox tab>texture browser
and then click "used skin textures" in the left side list. then click edit > import files> make file links. and import the bmp version of your texture. in the list click it copy it then go back to tool box>(your model name) tab.
after your back to your models tab, go down on the bottom left and look for "skins" paste your copied bmp there and delete the tga.
then go to file save as quake1.mdl
almost done, just open your model in qme, you'll notice a few things. but the only one im going to address is that the skin is wrong it looks all wrong.
its ok, just import your bmp again and replace the one that was there when you saved your new .mdl DONE.
here's the source for anyone who wants take a look at how i had set up everything.


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CAIRO (AP) — Supporters and opponents of Egypt's president on Sunday grew more entrenched in their potentially destabilizing battle over the Islamist leader's move to assume near absolute powers, with neither side appearing willing to back down as the stock market plunged amid the fresh turmoil.
The standoff poses one of the hardest tests for the nation's liberal and secular opposition since Hosni Mubarak's ouster nearly two years ago. Failure to sustain protests and eventually force Mohammed Morsi to loosen control could consign it to long-term irrelevance.
Clashes between the two sides spilled onto the streets for a third day since the president issued edicts that make him immune to oversight of any kind, including that of the courts.
A teenager was killed and at least 40 people were wounded when a group of anti-Morsi protesters tried to storm the local offices of the political arm of the president's Muslim Brotherhood in the Nile Delta city of Damanhoor, according to security officials.
It was the first reported death from the street battles that erupted across much of the nation on Friday, the day after Morsi's decrees were announced. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, identified the boy as 15-year-old Islam Hamdi Abdel-Maqsood.
The tensions also dealt a fresh blow to the economy, which has suffered due to the problems plaguing the Arab world's most populous nation since Mubarak's ouster.
Egypt's benchmark EGX30 stock index dropped 9.59 percentage points Sunday in the first trading session since Morsi issued his decrees. The losses were among the biggest since the turbulent days and weeks immediately after Mubarak's ouster in a popular uprising last year. The loss in the value of shares was estimated at close to $5 billion.
The judiciary, the main target of the edicts, has pushed back, calling the decrees a power grab and an "assault" on the branch's independence. Judges and prosecutors stayed away from many courts in Cairo and other cities on Sunday.
But the nation's highest judicial body, the Supreme Judiciary Council, watered down its opposition to the decrees on Sunday. It told judges and prosecutors to return to work and announced that its members would meet with Morsi on Monday to try to persuade him to restrict immunity to major state decisions like declaring war or martial law or breaking diplomatic relations with foreign nations.
Morsi supporters insist that the measures were necessary to prevent the courts, which already dissolved the elected lower house of parliament, from further holding up moves to stability by disbanding the assembly writing the new constitution, as judges were considering doing. Both the parliament and the constitutional assembly are dominated by Islamists. Morsi accuses Mubarak loyalists in the judiciary of seeking to thwart the revolution's goals and barred the judiciary from disbanding the constitutional assembly or parliament's upper house. Continued...
Opposition activists, however, have been adamant since the crisis first erupted that they would not enter a dialogue with Morsi's regime before the decrees are rescinded.
Protesters also clashed with police at Cairo's Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the mass protests that toppled Mubarak, and in the side streets and avenues leading off the plaza. The Interior Ministry, which is in charge of the police, said 267 protesters have been arrested and 164 policemen injured since the unrest began a week ago, initially to mark the anniversary of street protests a year ago against the nation's then-military rulers. Forty-two protesters were killed in those demonstrations.
The ministry did not say how many protesters were injured in the latest clashes in Tahrir, but security officials put the figure at 260.
Hundreds of protesters staging a sit-in in Tahrir have vowed not to leave before Morsi rescinds his decrees. The two sides also have called for massive rival protests Tuesday in Cairo, signaling a protracted struggle.
Morsi's office issued an English-language statement late Sunday defending his decrees and repeating the argument he used when addressing supporters Friday outside his Cairo palace — that they were designed to bolster the country's transition to democratic rule and dismantle Mubarak's old regime.
"The presidency reiterates the temporary nature of the said measures, which are not meant to concentrate powers," it said. The statement also pledged Morsi's commitment to engaging all political forces on the drafting of a new constitution. Secular and Christian members withdrew from the panel drafting the document, alleging that the Islamists who dominate the body have hijacked the process to produce a charter with an Islamist slant.
Nader Omran, of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party, said any changes to the decrees were "out of the question" but Morsi might "make pledges, vows or addendums explaining his position to clarify the decrees."
He said Morsi would hand over his legislative powers to parliament's upper chamber once a new constitution is adopted in a nationwide referendum and ahead of parliamentary elections. The presidency did not confirm the claim, but doing so would leave the Egyptian leader with the state's executive and legislative powers until around April.
The move also has caused some internal discord among the Morsi camp, with one aide, Samer Marqous, already resigning to protest the "undemocratic" decree.
Another Morsi adviser Ayman al-Sayyad wrote on his Twitter account that the president met Sunday for the second time in as many days with his 17-member advisory council and three of his assistants. Continued...
"I think it (the meeting) produced a genuine realization of the gravity of the situation ... We were candid today in our meeting with the president and we now expect practical steps on the ground." He did not elaborate.
Leading Egyptian democracy advocate Mohammed ElBaradei, a Nobel Peace Laureate and a former director of the U.S. nuclear agency, warned Saturday of increasing turmoil that could potentially lead to the military stepping in unless Morsi rescinds his new powers.
Egypt's liberal and secular groups — long divided, weakened and uncertain as Islamist parties rose to power in the months after the revolution — are seeking to rally in response to the decrees as the stakes are high. The fractured opposition came together as the engine of the 18-day uprising that forced Mubarak to step down after 29 years in power, bringing millions out on the streets, but they have failed to recapture that energy after months of setbacks.
Morsi, meanwhile, already has backed down twice in high-profile battles with the judiciary in the five months he's been in office. The U.S.-trained engineer failed to challenge the court ruling dissolving parliament's powerful lower chamber and had to rescind his decision to fire the country's attorney-general, Mubarak-era appointee Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud, in October. He fired him on Thursday as part of his edicts.
Associated Press writer Aya Batrawy contributed to this report.
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Earlier this month, the Union High School JROTC drill team competed in the 2nd annual Justin Spears Invitational Drill Meet at Triton High School and won the overall trophy.
The team performed well in all of the events which included squad armed and unarmed competitions, platoon armed and unarmed competitions, a color guard competition, and an unarmed exhibition competition. Their high-scoring wins in these individual competitions led to them being named the overall winners.
Sgt. Maj. Steve L. Jones of Triton High School visited the Union High School JROTC drill team Thursday, Nov. 29 and presented them with their trophy. He spoke to them about the importance of JROTC and how they can do great things if they press on and don't give up.
Jones spoke fondly of the recent drill meet saying,"It's such an honor for these two schools that are so close to spend time together. The brotherhood of JROTC lives on," he stressed.
Jones added that he knew Union's win was special for Sgt. Maj. Al McKoy, coach of the Union High School JROTC drill team, since they won at McKoy's high school.
"I'm certainly proud of what they've accomplished," attests McKoy. "I push them to the limit to win. I expect them to win every time we go to compete, and they've done very well."
As pleased as McKoy is, there are probably none prouder than the students themselves. "It is an honor to be a drill team commander, especially of such a good team," says Rogelio Bonilla, Union High School JROTC drill team leader.
"I consider it a privilege to be in command of such a team as ours and to have the responsibilities that I'm in charge of," adds Logan Hobbs, executive officer of the Union High School JROTC drill team.
Union High School's JROTC drill team will compete again Dec. 1, 2012 in the Southview High Drill Meet in Hope Mills.
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ALLEN PARK — The Jeff Backus era with the Detroit Lions ended quietly on Thursday afternoon.
It was a fitting end for a tough, humble, low-key left tackle who just wanted to play football. Until he didn't.
Jeff Backus was born to play football, teammate Dominic Raiola once said.
Backus, who just completed his 12th season, issued a statement which included these words: "It's a bittersweet moment, but I'm content knowing I gave everything I had, played as hard as I could and tried my best to live up to the standards I believe in.'
It ended with the simple thought, "I will always be a Lion at heart.''
The news was announced in the media workroom by team president Tom Lewand. No blinding lights, no retiree on the podium surrounded by family with a tear in his eye.
"I can almost assure you he is out fishing somewhere right now,'' Lewand said.
The 35-year-old Backus, who had one year remaining on his contract, started at left tackle since he was drafted in the first round out of the University of Michigan in 2001.
He missed just one game in that time. That was last season with a hamstring injury.
"What really stands out for me with Jeff is his first of all his toughness. The guy is unbelievably tough, he has a super-human pain tolerance,'' Lewand said. "We're told he's got a hamstring injury that could last several weeks and he's out there the following week playing. He's defying medical logic at times.''
Backus set an NFL record for consecutive starts with his durability and longevity despite the fact that he was part of just one winning season (2011).
In his only playoff appearance in January 2012 at New Orleans, Backus tore his biceps late in the game. It was serious enough to require surgery.
"He was trying to wrap it and go back in the game, it was like a minute left in the game and we were down two or three scores,'' center Dominic Raiola said following the game. "So just that will give you a little example in the mind of Jeff Backus.''
Lewand said there's a legendary story about when Backus was working out at Michigan and he felt extreme stomach discomfort, but continued on.
"It turns out he had a ruptured hernia that was protuding through his belly,'' Lewand said. "That was the kind of guy that Jeff is. I don't think his facial expression changed, I don't think it did. It didn't in 12 years.''
Even though he was in his 12th season, there was no downslide of Backus' play last season. He allowed just one sack per Pro Football Focus.
"He was always about getting the job done. I don't know if there was anybody who's work ethic better embodied this city and this state than Jeff Backus,'' Lewand said. "He showed up to work every day and when he committed to do something he did it with every ounce of talent and energy and effort that he had.''
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Bibliothèque du Château de La Plagne
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Platinum HouseMarch 11, 2013
Paris, France
Live AuctionLot 24: CAMPO (Antonio). Cremona fedelissima citta et nobilissima colonia de Romani rappresentata in disegno col suo contado et illustrata d'una breve historia delle cose piu notabili (...) et dei ritratti narurali de duchi et duchesse di Milano... Milano,
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Bibliothèque du Château de La Plagne
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ANIMA An Anatomy of a Personified Notion by James Hillman, with excerpts from C.G. Juing and original drawings by Mary Vernon, Spring Publications, 188 pp, $22.00
Myths love to enchant us with the figures of innumerable maidens, such as the Gopi girls of Krishna, the Houris of Persian paradise, or the multiple daughter of the Sun who show Paramenides the way to truth.
--James Hillman
Jung's legacy is rich, variegated, ongoing. Many outstanding practitioners populate the Jungian and neo-Jungian landscape. Unique among them is James Hillman. Hillman is provocative, even subversive; deep rooted while towering, multi-faceted, striped, dappled and many hued. Indeed, engaging Dr. Hillman is much like the challenge a climber confronts in the task of ascending a new mountain; more poignantly of gaining the dimension of experience by assimilating the way of the mountain.
Hillman does not so much attempt to teach us however, or serve up formulas for explorers, or even answers, as to stimulate a desire to learn and arouse the intelligence to imaginatively venture forth and think. As can be expected by such an introduction, James Hillman is personally held in high esteem—offering, I might say, something of a dialogic playground; an active engagement promising excitement—and I value him along side other favorite pathfinders of psychology, such as RD Laing, Stan Groff, Michael Eagon and several of the key guides and new shamans of ecopsychology.
This present title, ANIMA, like others from the full body of Dr. Hillman's decades of dedicated work, opens the way to his refreshing, surprise-embedded, even occasionally startling, while unique and reflective style and content. Hillman's prose flows like the musings of a disciplined, subtly impassioned and oft bemused troubadour of the psyche.
One of the more seductive qualities of James Hillman's work is his assertion that new language is needed for remapping the periodically institutionalizing (shall I say also fossilizing?) science of psychology, as well as for such significant and ultimate categories of experience as death, the underworld and modes of communication, symbolization and relationships with other than human realities—archetypes and animals. The Hillman suggestion; actually more of a pressing invitation; invokes a similar sensibility and feeling-thought beyond the ordinary found in a small but potent and mysterious poem by Wendell Berry: "To know the dark, go dark."
With both Hillman and Berry, the searcher after the other half of the encircled Yin-Yang Dynamo, of the Mystic Mountain of the West, of the Valley of Fertile Shadow and the Glacier Lake of the Blue Androgyny and Firebird of the Alchemic Sun, encounters thinking on the edge; or what Buber would have called the "between;" a beckoning alternative to the limitations of normalcy and a meeting rich roaming outside the boxes of habitual confinement and numb-downed, dumb-downed, social dwarfism.
ANIMA An Anatomy of a Personalized Notion is not a particularly new publication (from the perspective of market driven fad and fashion); I am using the 1993 sixth edition; but the title's appeal and merit endures. Throughout there are strategically placed original drawings by Mary Vernon, many of which are ripe with humor, both lightsome and shadowy. On page 110 is a series of black lines and small smudges depicting what could be a grouping of grasses or a clump of weeds. Underneath the image is a one liner from Jung, "The gods have become diseases…" Throughout there are quotations from Carl Jung, on the left side pages interfacing with running reflections and responses by James Hillman on the right. Such is Hillman's structure, such the mode of conveyance he would have his readers travel. Here is an example.
Jung (pg.158): "The Christian principle which unites the opposites is the worship of God, in Buddhism it is the worship of self (self-development), while in Spitteler and Goethe it is the worship of nature symbolized in the worship of woman. Implicit in this categorization is the modern individualistic principle on the one hand, and on the other a primitive poly-daemonism which assigns to every race, every tribe, every family, every individual its specific religious principle."
Hillman: "In this fantasy of soul, Christian and Pagan constellate and compensate each other. The fantasy of barbarian hinterlands, Wotan, Dionysus, and the "poly-daemonic" unconscious that has not been Christianized—all contrast strongly with the fantasy of the individualized "uni-personality" of soul which is the guide of individuation toward unified wholeness. Anima is thus anima naturaliter Christiana, the soul as naturally Christian because of her uni-personality definition. But!—should the contrast between the one and the many be placed within the model of compensation, then the more the soul image coalesces into unity, is not the likelihood increased at the same time of ever more psychotic and barbaric threats behind the thin wall?
"To say it another way: a unified, unconscious anima constellates its opposite, polygamous consciousness, in the masculine ego. The multiple unconscious animus constellates its opposite, monogamous consciousness, in the feminine ego. Archetypally, what is going on is project in a reverse direction…
"By evoking the Christian-Pagan conflict, I am trying to make explicit the historical background in Jung's fantasy regarding this question. I am trying to grasp why he had to insist on unity of anima in face of evidence that could just as well have turned it the other way. But evidence is not the determining factor, neither in our discussion nor probably in Jung's notion. There is something deeper at work, the subjective factor, which partly formes the empirical ground of every anima definition."
This way of thinking goes hand in hand with Hillman's view that the soul is a way of seeing and soul-seeing is a psyche point of view activity messaged and motivated from the dark realm of archetypes with that territory's poly-personated masks, voices and stories.
Charles Hampden-Turner in the first chapter of MAPS of the MIND, evaluating the archetypal psychology of James Hillman refers to this as "the view of polycentrism." Polycentrism is either a puzzling or an engaging term. So let us take it to suggest the configuration of self or personal identity as that circle with a center that is gypsy like and everywhere, and that thus even our inner monologues are dialogues played out before observant and overhearing witnesses.
Now to a second, wrap up set of Jung contra Hillman quotations from the book ANIMA.
Jung (pg.166): "The transformation of libido through the symbol is a process that has been going on ever since the beginnings of humanity and continues still…The age-old function of the symbol is still present today, despite the fact that for many centuries the trend of mental development has been toward the suppression of individual symbol-formation.:"
Hillman: "Anima is the function that gives psyche to multiplicity by being the psychological correlate to polytheism and the individual symbol formation. Anima enables the many not to become one but to become psychic materia… Anima refers to the viewpoint of soul that we bring (or she brings) toward experience.
(And) "The archetypal field presents a polycentric picture, a theater of personified powers always implicating one another. The perspective that would clearly etch out their distinct lines reflects the monotheistic consciousness of the scientific and philosophical approach; the perspective that would speak of them ambiguously and in images reflects the polytheistic, hermetic, or anima consciousness of the psychological approach."
But now, like Virgil to Dante at a certain level in the ascent, I relinquish further guidance to a higher power—James Hillman. Should you wish to travel on: Pilgrim, take up the book!
Helllo Billy. Thanks for sharing your reflections. I am not a member of the Baha's Faith but have some little knowledge of it; respect and appreciate the good that path offers and your thoughts on the "embrace of paradox".
Warm regard, in friendship and solidarity for the Earth - david
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Found my rare right outside of Uldaman cave entrance in Badlands. It was paired with a rare black rat as well. There were 3 battleable pets in this area (right near the wooden cliff walls) @ 42,10. One was un-battleable, I think because it was stuck behind the wood. The other two were fine and one was my rare! I searched for days off and on in Tanaris and it took just 30 mins in Badlands. It happens a lot to me like that...see my comments on "Chicken" too.
A lot of them in badlands, NW of Camp Kosh
just got a common for the achieve in badlands, not worried about rariety for it at this time.
Found mine (rare) just outside Thistleshrub Valley as a second with a Stinkbug (also most likely rare). 4th fight with this critter in this area yeilding 1 common, 2 uncommon and 1 rare.
I managed to capture an uncommon out in Badlands, however most of what I see out there are poor quality, and its only been a handful I have seen. This was about 30 or so mins of farming out there for the various critters that could be found.
I did managed to also find some in the excavation site, but all those down there were of poor quality.
Have you guys caught a rare? I've been farming for hours and hours in Tanaris, without luck :( only get up til uncommon no fair! :(
I got mine at Lost Rigger Cove. There were 2 of them that I saw. Not sure of respawn times.
Be careful, he's a bit squishy for a lvl 16 pet.
Found one in tanaris at 40,90 uncommon one, not seen anymore so far.
Found mine in Badlands no probelm. Usually around the base of mountains/hills.