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Oregon entered Saturday's game against Stanford averaging a national-best 54.8 points per game.
It left with 14 and a loss that at the very least has severely damaged its national championship hopes. Stanford upset the Ducks, 17-14, in overtime. Jordan Williamson nailed a 37-yard field goal to clinch the victory and topple the Ducks' season.
Stanford brought its bruising running back, Stepfan Taylor, and its bone-crushing linebackers to Autzen Stadium and gave the Ducks the kind of fight they aren't accustomed to.
In the end, Stanford was the team left standing.
Zach Ertz got control of Kevin Hogan's pass just before falling out of the back of the end zone to tie the game 14-14 after the extra point with 1:35 left.
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It couldn't have come a moment too soon as the Ducks were close enough to sniff out a win and keep their hopes alive.
Oregon's Keanon Lowe brought down a 28-yard touchdown pass from Marcus Mariota to answer Stanford's second-quarter score from a Hogan run.
With the game tied, 7-7, De'Anthony Thomas' 6-yard slippery touchdown run with 6:35 left in the third quarter looked like it would hold up. The Ducks started the drive at their own 5-yard line and marched down the field to set up Thomas' go-ahead score.
On the ensuing possession, Stanford fumbled and Oregon recovered. While the Ducks didn't score, they did take time off the clock, and with a game this close, minutes and seconds meant everything.
Not until the fourth quarter, after 10 plays, did Stanford tie it up.
The game went into overtime and that's something the Ducks, who have creamed everyone, had not experienced all year. It was something Stanford, on the other hand, was all too familiar with.
Stanford had already come close previously to disrupting the BCS picture in overtime. On a controversial play, it was stalled on a goal-line stand against Notre Dame in the extra period.
The Cardinal were determined not to go down that way again.
In overtime, Oregon got a chance first to go up. Alejandro Maldonado, however, missed a 41-yard field goal.
Stanford fumbled on its ensuing possession, but recovered. That gave Williamson the chance to lift his team to one of the biggest upsets of the season.
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Step back in time at the Marks Estate
If these walls could talk, the historic Clarence Hyde Cooke House, also known as The Marks Estate, would have an amazing story to tell. Built in 1932 for the heir to the Castle & Cooke fortune, this mansion on Old Pali Road has been through its fair share of noteworthy owners and events.
I was fortunate to see it in person yesterday, at one of a few rare brokers' opens, as the property is now for sale for $9.5 million (click here for details). We entered with two Beijing botanists, who made a special trek to get to this event so they could document the landscaping; apparently the eccentric botanist Joseph Rock, who is famous in China, had planted a variety of flora around the estate in the 1940s.
If the grand estate looks familiar, it's because it was designed by architect Hardie Phillip, who also designed the Honolulu Academy of Arts. You'll see the distinctive double-pitched "Dickey Roof," which is a signature element of architect C.W. Dickey.
Not much is said about the period that Cooke lived there, but the home was purchased in 1946 by Elizabeth and Lester Marks, who was a land commissioner for the Hawaiian Territory. Mr. Marks resigned in 1949 when when Governor Ingram Stainback decided to build a new Pali Highway up Nuuanu Valley, right through the middle of their estate. They sued to block the use of their land for the highway, but in 1956 the Territory bought the estate for $624,000 and allowed the Marks family to live in the home until 1976, when Mrs. Marks—by then a widow—was evicted. (Not to worry, she was able to land on her feet with a nice Black Point home.)
The State government then used the estate for office space, conferences, and special events, and it was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. After trying to sell it for years, the State finally auctioned off the property in 2002. It had been appraised for $4.5 million, but labor union Unity House Inc. was able to buy it for $2.5 million.
The current owner spends much of his time on the mainland and isn't able to devote as much time to the house as he would like, so has put it up for sale. If you get to look at the house and the sprawling grounds, you'll see that it shows like a museum, with antique art pieces—all sold separately—inside and out. In fact, there are some pieces that Clarence Cooke himself painted, which might make good conversation when you hold your garden soiree there. There's even an unusual Steinway piano, made (we think) in 1846, that is a work of art in itself. It still works, though, as you can see in this video.
The home has 10 bedrooms, seven full bathrooms and two half baths. The original carriage house, which can be used for modern cars, of course, still stands, as does the caretaker's cottage at the front.
Wear comfortable walking shoes, as the property spans 206,522 square feet. Just to get to the pool, you need to go around the carriage house, through a forested path, across a bridge and up a small hill.
There are other little unusual bits to the house, as you'll see in my additional photos, here. To get a sense of the history of this home, you can even check out its Facebook page and the old photos they've posted.
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As I mentionned, I am about to go see some puppies. HOWEVER, I have no intention of acquiring a puppy from her unless I am completely wrong about my assumptions. I am very skeptical. (PS: I have read the many sections on choosing a puppy and I am sorry if I might repeat things orask for confirmation but I am a newbie to the doggy world and I want to make sure I have understood everything correctly)
This is what I know:
- The puppies will be 9 weeks old. (I have read that puppies should be at least 8 weeks old but I remember somewhere mentioning 12 weeks was a much better age.)
- The parents are pedigreed and 'tested' for the classic CKCS ailments. However, it is not mentioned that they are MRI-scanned (so big red flag for me right there) I was told she has documents to demonstrate this but I expect that it will be simply vet clearance from a symptomatic dog rather than anything of real importance.
- The puppies are vaccinated and dewormed but not microchipped as far as I know.
- The grandparent is supposedly a major champion from I don't know when but she can show us this. (Quite frankly, it doesn't impress me in the least. That doesn't mean the puppies are healthy, and as far as I know, dogs are judged on beauty and not health right?)
- The puppies don't come with a pedigree. (But the parents are fully pedigreed etc. apparently)
Now, this is one thing I need clarified for me please...
Should ALL dogs have a pedigree? Or is the pedigree actually just a paper useful for showing and competing etc? I mean, what if I were a breeder and would want all my puppies to be adopted out as pets? Would I sell my puppies without pedigrees? I am asking because I don't actually understand the actual implications of a pedigree. Of course, it is nice to see the lineage and all, but does it actually mean that one breeder is better than another if they give or don't give the pedigree? Is there a valid reason why one might not sell puppies with pedigrees? I think that issue confuses me a little bit. Personally, I think if someone were to show me MRI scans etc. but tell me that the puppy doesn't come with a pedigree, I would be fooled into believing that it is no big issue. Can you set me straight on this please?
Anyway, I thought I would get your opinions so that you guys can help me read between the lines. I really appreciate it. Right now, my main reason for going is to show the breeder (and build some experience for myself) that there are people aware of the issues with the cavaliers and WANTING properly bred dogs, even if this means paying more. My other reason is to really get a feel for the dog and see how my boyfriend really reacts with one in front of him. I want to be sure that he didn't tell me 'yes' just to shut me up.
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One of the last links to the silent film era, Frederica Sagor Maas wrote the script for 1925's "The Plastic Age," which launched actress Clara Bow. But she watched in horror as her serious treatment on women and work was turned into a frivolous 1947 musical, "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim," starring Betty Grable.
It was Maas' final Hollywood credit.
Disgusted by the "shallow" industry, she and her screenwriter husband contemplated suicide before leaving the movie business altogether, she later wrote.
For Maas, living an exceedingly long life was the best revenge.
"It's my only consolation to think, 'All you lousy so-and-sos are all 20 feet under, and I'm still here.' It's a satisfaction, but not a great satisfaction," she told the San Francisco Chronicle in 1999.
Maas, who had long called San Diego home, was the third-oldest Californian when she died Thursday at 111, said Dr. Stephen Coles of the Gerontology Research Group, which validates claims of extreme old age.
She took a decade to write her memoir, "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood," published in her 99th year. The book portrayed young Hollywood as heartless and unethical.
The 300-plus-page tome recounted a tortured screenwriting career that began when she was 23 in an industry in which "many people worked just for the buck" and told tales on famous names. Legendary producer Irving Thalberg was "very, very overestimated," she wrote, and she "never met anybody" who liked or trusted Louis B. Mayer.
Both she and her husband, Ernest Maas, saw their ideas stolen and plagiarized, and they were blackballed by the industry after being wrongly accused of being communists, she wrote.
"Her book is perhaps the best muckraking memoir about early Hollywood," film historian Alan K. Rode said Friday. "She was one of the last living connections to silent film, and her autobiography is an irreplaceable record written from the rare perspective of a woman who lived through those times."
"She was frank, and she was funny," he said, "and she kept that kind of wit and cynicism past 100."
Frederica Sagor was born July 6, 1900, in New York City and studied journalism at Columbia University.
At 20, she was hired as assistant story editor at Universal Pictures in New York. When the bosses she later called "chauvinistic honchos" refused to help her become a screenwriter, she left for Hollywood. She was 23.
Film school was the movie theater, where she watched current releases over and over to understand the "rhythm of the scenes," she told National Public Radio in 1999.
In the late 1920s, she married Ernest, who was her writing partner. Her scripts for silent films include the 1926 movies "Flesh and the Devil" with Greta Garbo and "Dance Madness."
Maas had nearly 20 credits, including "His Secretary" in 1925 and "The Waning Sex" the next year. Both starred Norma Shearer, who was a good friend until Maas unsuccessfully warned her against marrying Thalberg.
"I enjoyed the writing part, but I didn't enjoy being a screenwriter," Maas told the San Diego Union-Tribune in 1999. "You don't get any respect."
Many of the screenplays she and her husband wrote between 1938 and 1950 were never produced. Hopeless, humiliated and having little money, the couple drove to a hilltop overlooking Hollywood with the intention of committing suicide in their Plymouth. Clutching each other, they started sobbing and realized that "none of these things mattered. We had each other," wrote Maas, who had no children. Her husband died in 1986.
She eventually became an insurance adjuster and said if she had it to do over again, she would "be a wash lady."


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The money will be used to upgrade traffic signals along the busy Murfreesboro Road corridor so that they turn green for buses. Buses also will be equipped with transponders that will allow passengers to check their cellphones to see when the next bus is arriving.
Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff said the bus stops also will be equipped with signs saying when the next bus will arrive.
"Having that level of certainty does amazing things to ridership," he said. "Getting home on time is the difference between having dinner with your kids or not. It's the difference between helping with homework or not."
Rogoff said he rides the bus to work every day, and in his neighborhood in the Washington area, all of the young people check their phones to see when to go to the bus s top. Meanwhile, the senior citizens watch the young people to know when the bus is coming.
The Murfreesboro Road project is really bus rapid transit light, because it does not involve dedicated bus lanes. Another project in the works that would dedicate lanes to mass transit, called The Amp, is facing well-organized opposition. Several protesters brought "Stop Amp" signs to the Friday announcement.
Rogoff said The Amp is under consideration for funding. While he would not speculate on the chances that it would win a federal grant, he said bus rapid transit is a smart way to go for cities like Nashville, because it is extremely cost effective.
Rogoff said the Nashville area is expected to grow by 1 million people by 2035.
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The Land of Israel was famously described in the Bible as a land flowing with milk and honey. That holds as true today as it did in the time of Moses and the Exodus, and Israelis have been busy the past two weeks enjoying that honey.
Honey is a major component in the celebration of Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year, which begins at sundown next Sunday. So it is fitting that in the weeks leading up to Rosh Hashanah, Israel hosts an annual nationwide Honey Festival.
Israeli families flock to locations throughout the country (most of them honey-producing villages) to sample the produce and learn the history of honey-making in the Holy Land.
Many of these villages have built special facilities just for the annual Honey Festival, including massive glass-sided bee hives where visitors of all ages can witness the process first-hand. Some have even constructed replicas of Bible-era villages where visitors can learn how their ancient ancestors produced honey.
There are also plenty of activities for the little ones, including sculpting with beeswax, making bee costumes, and, of course, eating lots of honey.
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Shanxi located at Mt. Taihang west, east of Yellow River. Name of the Shanxi, because of occupies Mt. Taihang west to acquire fame. Was called since old times ?Biaolishanhe?. Spring and Autumn Period time, most districts for Jin all, therefore abbreviation ?Jin?; The Warring States initial period, Han, Zhao, Wei three divide the Jin, because and calls ?the Three-Jin?. The entire province total area 156,000 square kilometers, the total population nearly 34,000,000 people, presently govern Taiyuan, Datong, Shuozhou, Yangquan, Changzhi, Xinzhou, Luliang, Jinzhong, Linfen, Yuncheng, Jincheng and so on 11 locally administered levels, altogether 85 counties, 11 county-level cities, 23 municipal districts. Provincial capital Taiyuan, provincial government in the Taiyuan Municipal government east street. Rich tourism resources in Shanxi Province, historical monuments, scenic spots more. There are more famous Yungang Grottoes, Mount Temple group Jinci, Yingxian Wooden Tower, Yongle Palace,Xuankong Temple , Hukou Waterfall, Temple state solution, such as Hongtong large tree.


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When Google bought Urchin Web Analytics back in March of 2005, a number of observers speculated about what the company would do. Urchin offered a service for $400 a month that helped users track the effectiveness of their online advertising strategies. Since Google makes most of its money from advertising, it wasn't too difficult to see the connections. Google slashed the price of Urchin's service to $199 a month, then, in November, it took the big step of making the service free. Of course, it also renamed it Google Analytics.
Despite the uproar it caused (more on that shortly), the move should not have been a surprise. Google has a habit of buying a company, taking the best it has to offer, remaking and renaming it, and releasing it for free to an excited public eagerly awaiting the next cool thing from the search engine giant. Google Earth is the example that comes to mind most quickly, but there have been others. If "Googlization" isn't a word, it should be.
Indeed, the analysts at least weren't surprised. "When they first announced Urchin, I speculated about a couple of possible outcomes," recalls Eric Peterson of Jupiter Research. "The most frightening for Web analytics companies was that they would do tag-based analytics, freely available and supported by the global Google brand, and that's exactly what they've done."
The issue is more complex. Not all of the web analytics companies are quaking in their boots about Google Analytics. Some may even be smirking a bit over the way the release turned into a bit of a fiasco during its first week. On the other hand, one Google watcher unfavorably compared the move to something Microsoft did a few years ago, which again brings Google's "Do no evil" motto into question.
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Web analytics measures and analyzes the traffic a website receives. It can help a company determine whether the money it is spending on advertising really is well spent, or should be redirected. It can answer such questions as: are we using the right keywords? How can we improve our website design? Is our email newsletter helping to draw in visitors? How do visitors come to our website, and from where (both in terms of online location and geographical location)?
Google Analytics tracks this information for you. You sign up for the service, which is integrated with Google AdWords. You do need a Google account of some kind to use the service (such as Gmail), but it doesn't need to be AdWords. You paste a bit of Google-provided JavaScript tracking code into each of the pages of your website that you want tracked, and you're ready to go.
So what does Google track? Well, it can track your keywords – all of them, from every search engine you have a campaign with, not just Google. That's not all. The company says it can track "All of your ads, email newsletters, affiliate campaigns, referrals, paid links, search engines, and keywords." That's a lot of information.
Fortunately, Google organizes it visually in ways that make it easy to digest. Pie charts and Flash files help. It's not just a snapshot taken out of context, either. For example, say you have an e-commerce website and you want to know not only how many visitors are buying the product you're currently promoting, but is the spike really due to the promotion? You can set up a "goal" with Google Analytics. That is, you give it a chain of URLs (pages you expect a visitor to visit in order), and Google will track users that follow that chain.
A related item that Google Analytics helps with is funnel visualization. This is what happens when visitors go through your website, apparently eager to buy something, but then abruptly bail out. Google Analytics has a feature that specifically addresses this. It "shows you the bottlenecks in your conversion and checkout processes – attributable to such factors as confusing content or maze-like navigation – so you can eliminate or work around them," according to one of the Google Analytics information pages.
You can find out where in the world your visitors are coming from, which Google shows you on a nice map. If you're interested in what companies visitors come from, Google can give you that information as well, to a more limited degree. It isn't perfect; it may only show the user's ISP, for example. You can even get a "top ten" list of various things, such as which companies visit your site most (of those who actually report a company, remember).
Once you have gathered analytics information for a while, you can start doing useful comparisons. For example, is the number of visitors to your site this Friday up or down from last Friday? Or from this time last month, or last year? Trying to analyze this kind of information has sometimes been known as "data mining," and it has been around for years. Back then it was something performed with records kept in a company's huge data warehouses; now it is available online, thanks to Google.
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The biggest winners from this move on Google's part are the small to medium-sized businesses who can't afford to spend money on web analytics software or services. Many companies don't even know what web analytics is or what it can do for them; they are also part of Google Analytics' target market. After all, if you're a company with limited resources, why would you spend $200 per month on a service you aren't even sure will give you a significant benefit?
The big losers from this move will be the web analytics companies that already target the small- and medium-sized business market. Companies such as WebSideStory, who sell their products to large businesses for, say, $40,000 per year, will probably not need to worry. But what web analytics firm's sales force can match Google's reach, when the search engine welcomes 380 million unique visitors every month (according to Nielsen/Netratings)?
That number of course doesn't even take into account the thousands of companies that are already using Google's AdWords service. In her analysis of the issue, Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek observed that "By offering a free service – and one that's tightly integrated with AdWords – Google is almost the de facto standard." That's not bad for a market Google wasn't even participating in less than a year ago.
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All of this may sound excellent for Google and the companies it hopes to serve in theory, but during the first week of the launch of the free version of Google Analytics, the reality came up a little short. The company stopped accepting new accounts when it reached 234,725. That number forces it to track a huge amount of information, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that a number of users experienced slow service, and others couldn't get through at all.
Google has had to display the following notice: "Google Analytics has experienced extremely strong demand, and as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. In the meantime, please submit your name and email address and we will notify you as soon as we are ready to add new accounts. Thank you for your patience." Perhaps it should have used the Gmail model of an invitation-only service, as some observers have suggested. Then capacity could be ramped up a little at a time, as needed, rather than having the demand hit Google's servers all at once.
The service has raised privacy concerns, precisely because of the amount of business-sensitive data that it sends through Google's servers. Lisa Wehr, CEO of SEO firm Oneupweb, notes that "Privacy is a huge concern. Google saying they place a huge importance on this sensitive information doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy. At the very least, they are going to use it in aggregate form."
This of course leads to the next question: if Google uses the information in aggregate form, what will they do with it? Remember, Google also charges for advertising. With this kind of information, they can show advertisers just how valuable it is to spend their money with the top search engine…and maybe raise their prices a little in the process.
If this sounds a little, well, evil, consider this: Microsoft faced a major lawsuit for bundling the Internet Explorer browser with Windows for free. The company put rival browser maker Netscape out of business by leveraging its monopoly position in one field (operating systems) to give it a decisive advantage in another, unrelated field (browser software). Google holds a dominant position in search engine advertising. Google Analytics is free, and integrated into AdWords. Is not Google thus taking advantage of its dominant position in an unrelated field to give it a decisive advantage over all of the web analytics companies trying to serve the middle market?
This point may be food for thought. It might even be fodder for a lawsuit. But one thing is likely: just as the predatory nature of the move didn't prevent people from using the Internet Explorer browser, it will not prevent small and medium-sized businesses from availing themselves of Google Analytics.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say a woman accused of pushing a man to his death in front of a New York subway train has been charged with murder as a hate crime.
Police arrested Erica Menendez on Saturday after a passer-by on a street noticed she resembled the woman seen in a surveillance video.
A spokeswoman for Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown says Menendez told authorities she hates Hindus and Muslims.
Subway shoving victim Sunando Sen was from India, but it's unclear if he was Muslim or Hindu.
Sen was killed Thursday. Witnesses say a muttering woman pushed him on the tracks as a train entered a Queens station and then ran off.
Menendez is in custody and can't be reached for comment. It's unclear if she has an attorney.
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At first glance, Monster High is just another trendy, fashionable doll line. However, looking at Monster High's symbolism and at the videos relating to it, we discover that it is communicating many specific messages to young children, particularly to young girls. We'll look at how this toy line is used to introduce children to some aspects of the Illuminati Agenda.
Monster High is a highly successful toy franchise that is somewhat similar to the Bratz doll line, as both are comprised of edgy, fashionable characters with attitude. Like many other toy franchises, Monster High is much more than a doll line: It is a multi-platform franchise comprised of toys, DVDs, a web series, music videos, video games, books, clothing accessories, and much more.
The brand distinguishes itself with its unique, twisted universe inspired by monster movies and sci-fi horror. All of the characters are either offspring of known movie monsters or some kind of undead zombies. While Monster High's slogan is "Be yourself, be unique, be a monster!", this franchise also communicates deeper messages to its young audience. In fact, a closer look at the stories in Monster High reveals that it is perfectly in sync with the Illuminati's Agenda as it promotes themes such as hypersexualization, superficiality, a culture of death and even Monarch Mind Control. As seen in previous articles on this site, these themes are abundant in mass media and, the fact that they are present in a doll line for kids further proves that there's a continuous effort to expose impressionable minds to a specific set of symbols and values.
This should not come as a surprise, as Monster High was created by the world's largest toy company, Mattel, with revenues of over $6.2 billion per year. The chairman of the board of directors, Robert A. Eckert, is a long-time member of the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderbergs, the two most powerful elite circles shaping the world today. As you might know, company representatives who attend these elite meetings are there because their brands can help push the elite's long-term Agenda. Powerful, world-reaching companies such as Mattel do not simply sell products, they sell a culture associated with them. Considering how children get attached and even obsessed with their dolls and the universe that surrounds them, what better way to reach young minds and to teach them the values of a New World Order future? Let's look at Monster High and the universe it introduces to young children.
The Monster High Universe
The world of Monster High is basically a high school populated with the offspring of famous monstrous figures like Dracula and Frankenstein. The characters wear outfits that lean strongly to the sexy side, making one wonder what kind of message this is delivering to Monster High's target audience: girls under the age of 10. Even more disturbing, the back story and symbolism associated with many of the characters strongly refer to dark concepts, such as Monarch Mind Control (if you don't know what that is, read this article). Indeed, most Monster High characters are either artificially created or a product of some kind of experiment and many of them do not really have a mind of their own. They are all literally dead and animated by some kind of unholy force. When one adds this fact to the symbolism and persona associated with each character, one starts to realize that Monster High is about a bunch of MK slaves. Here are some of the main characters:
Frankengirl is an artificial creation put together by a mad scientist (a MK handler?). Her story states that she 15 days old (yes, days, not years). In other words, her alter persona was created by her handler 15 days ago. Her head is held together by two screws, symbolizing her not having a mind of her own. The screws are of different color because they are of different polarity, negative and positive. This refers to the concept of duality that is always inculcated to MK Slaves. To further emphasize the concept of duality, her eyes are different colors, her hair is striped black and white and her bio page states that her favorite color is "black and white stripes".
Frankengirl can eletroshock herself and others – a reference to electroshock torture used in Monarch Mind Control to program slaves.
Operetta is the daughter of the Phantom of the Opera. She excels in the performing arts, such as singing and dancing. In some ways, she is the star entertainer of the group. Unsurprisingly, the symbolism associated with her fit right in with the symbolism associated with today's real-life pop stars – i.e: the inevitable One-Eye sign.
You'll notice that her guitar is shaped like a coffin as well, because, apparently, death is so cool.
Operetta practices her music in a place called the Catacombs. The symbolism of her hideout is quite blatant.
In short, Operatta appears to be telling young girls: "If you want to be part of the music business, you have to embrace this Illuminati imagery".
As we've seen in previous articles on this site, Sex Kitten programming is represented in popular culture with feline prints and cat-like attributes on attractive girls. The Werecat sisters are all about that.
The back story regarding the Werecat sisters is quite dark and similar to the story of many actual MK Slaves. The webisode named The Nine Lives of Toralei, describes how Werecat sister Toralei is an orphan roaming the streets who gets picked up, and locked up, by "the System".
"Some children live in foster homes, or with adopted parents, or in orphanages, or with caretakers and guardians. Because these children are at the mercy of the non-related adults, these types of children frequently are sold to become mind-controlled slaves of the intelligence agencies. In review, remember that because many of these organizations are controlled by the Illuminati; an Illuminati slave may often work for one of these front groups, while the Illuminati maintain control over the base-program."
– Fritz Springmeier, The Illuminati Formula to Create a Mind Control Slave
Is Monster High actually an MK programming site? Hmmm.
Relevant fact: Marilyn Monroe, the prototype of Kitten Programing was also declared a "Ward of the State" and lived in foster homes during her youth. Another relevant fact: The father of MK-Ultra, Josef Mengele, experimented on thousands of twins to perfect mind-control techniques.
The Monster High website contains numerous animated webisodes that are extremely popular (each one of them has racked up several million YouTube views). While the main goal of these video shorts is to sell dolls, there is nevertheless a lot of symbolism in them. Also, some videos refer to mind-control concepts in a rather blatant way. Let's look at some of these videos.
Dueling Personality
This video deals with the core of Monarch Programming: The creation of completely separate alter personas. Frankengirl's boyfriend, named Jackson, discovers that he has an alter personality that acts completely separately from him. At the beginning of the video he says:
"So every time I wake up in some dark alley alone and confused, its all because of him! I've got so much to say to that guy. But I can't even confront him about it … because he's me."
In the end Frankengirl breaks up with Jackson and his alter until they can "settle their differences". Why are children exposed to this? What's the point? I don't think many young girls relate to this story.
Anyways, Jackson's problems with his alter persona pop up in several other webisodes.
In the episode entitled "I Know What You Did Last Frightday", the headmistress triggers Jackson's alter persona using music – an actual MK technique – because she needs the creative Holt to paint a mural.
Undo the Voodoo
Another webisode focuses on Hoodude, a voodoo doll that is having a bad day and, because he's a voodoo doll, everyone at school is having a bad day.
Voodoo magic is yet another very important aspect of Monarch Mind Control that is represented in Monster High.
"In discussing how trauma-based mind-control is done, voodoo must be included as a component. Many of the Mind-controlled slaves have had voodoo as part of their trauma, and many had voodoo dolls placed into their Systems. When vows and oaths are made, an object is given to the satanic cult or the Illuminati for the Keeper of the Seals to guard. If the vow is broken voodoo magic can be used against the offender by using the object given in the sealing."
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti Review - Maxwell Architecture debuts at $150
What we know about Maxwell
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that many of you reading this review would not have normally been as interested in the launch of the GeForce GTX 750 Ti if a specific word hadn't been mentioned in the title: Maxwell. It's true, the launch of GTX 750 Ti, a mainstream graphics card that will sit in the $149 price point, marks the first public release of the new NVIDIA GPU architecture code named Maxwell. It is a unique move for the company to start at this particular point with a new design, but as you'll see in the changes to the architecture as well as the limitations, it all makes a certain bit of sense.
For those of you that don't really care about the underlying magic that makes the GTX 750 Ti possible, you can skip this page and jump right to the details of the new card itself. There I will detail the product specifications, performance comparison and expectations, etc.
If you are interested in learning what makes Maxwell tick, keep reading below.
The NVIDIA Maxwell Architecture
When NVIDIA first approached us about the GTX 750 Ti they were very light on details about the GPU that was powering it. Even though the fact it was built on Maxwell was confirmed the company hadn't yet determined if it was going to do a full architecture deep dive with the press. In the end they went somewhere in between the full detail we are used to getting with a new GPU design and the original, passive stance. It looks like we'll have to wait for the enthusiast GPU class release to really get the full story but I think the details we have now paint the story quite clearly.
During the course of design the Kepler architecture, and then implementing it with the Tegra line in the form of the Tegra K1, NVIDIA's engineering team developed a better sense of how to improve the performance and efficiency of the basic compute design. Kepler was a huge leap forward compared to the likes of Fermi and Maxwell is promising to be equally as revolutionary. NVIDIA wanted to address both GPU power consumption as well as finding ways to extract more performance from the architecture at the same power levels.
The logic of the GPU design remains similar to Kepler. There is a Graphics Processing Cluster (GPC) that houses Simultaneous Multiprocessors (SM) built from a large number of CUDA cores (stream processors).
GM107 Block Diagram
Readers familiar with the look of Kepler GPUs will instantly see changes in the organization of the various blocks of Maxwell. There are more divisions, more groupings and fewer CUDA cores "per block" than before. As it turns out, this reorganization was part of the ability for NVIDIA to improve performance and power efficiency with the new GPU.
Continue reading our review of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti and Maxwell Architecture!!
The biggest changes are seen in each of the new SMs, now called SMM (Maxwell indicator, previous Kepler based SM should be referenced as SMK) that can deliver 35% more processing power per CUDA core when shader bound. NVIDIA has changed scheduling on the SMM to be more intelligent, avoiding stalls more than previous implementations. This also means there is going to be more software-based work for the CPU to handle, but only by a handful of percent I am told.
These new SMMs were built to improve performance per watt as well as performance per area, a goal that all CPU and GPU designers have. NVIDIA was able to addresses them with changes to the control logic partitioning, workload balancing, clock gating, compiler-based scheduling, instructions per clock and quite a bit more.
Maxwell SMM Diagram
Rather than a single block of 192 shaders, the SMM is divided into four distinct blocks that each have a separate instruction buffer, scheduler and 32 dedicated, non-shared CUDA cores. NVIDIA states that this design simplifies the design and scheduling logic required for Maxwell saving on area and power. Pairs of these blocks are grouped together and share four texture filtering units and a texture cache. Shared memory is a different pool of data that is shared amongst all four processing blocks of the SMM.
With these changes, the SMM can offer 90% of the compute performance of the Kepler SMK but with a smaller die area that allows NVIDIA to integrate more of them per die. GM107, the first full shipping chip based on Maxwell, includes five SMMs (640 CUDA cores) while the GK107 GPU had two SMKs (384 CUDA cores) giving Maxwell a 2.3x shader performance advantage.
Other than the dramatic changes to the SM, the 2 MB L2 cache that NVIDIA has implemented on first version of Maxwell is the other very substantial change. Considering that the Kepler design had an L2 cache implementation at 256 KB, we are seeing an 8x increase in available capacity which should reduce the demand on the integrated memory controller of GM107 dramatically. Even with a 128-bit memory interface then, the GTX 750 Ti should not find DRAM performance to be a bottleneck.
NVIDIA has also improved the video capabilities of Maxwell by enhancing the performance of video encoding by a factor of 2x (users should see even less of a hit on performance when recording video with ShadowPlay now) and decoding by 10x.
A new power state called GC5 has been built to reduce the GPU's power usage during light workloads like video playback. API support is the same for Maxwell as it is for Kepler, meaning that that DirectX 11.2 is not fully supported.
GM107 - Maxwell's First Implementation
Though you can likely deduce many of the features of GM107 by looking at the data above, there are still some details about GM107 to share. With a single GPC, five SMM units and two 64-bit memory controllers, NVIDIA assures us this is the full implementation of GM107.
With 128 CUDA cores per SMM and 5 SMMs total, we get 640 total cores, a 66% increase over the 384 cores found in the GK107 Kepler GPU that was in the GeForce GTX 650. To be fair though, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti has 768 CUDA cores but at nearly 2x the TDP. The base clock of 1020 MHz and Boost clock of 1085 MHz are actually quite reserved; clocks with a modest overclock were easily touching the 1300 MHz level!
Peak theoretical compute performance hits 1.3 TFLOPS (a 60% increase over GK107) even though memory bandwidth remains essentially the same. This again is why the inclusion of the 2 MB L2 cache is so critical for efficient optimization of the Maxwell architecture.
GM107 is still built on 28nm process technology from TSMC but increases the die size by 25% over GK107 and uses 43% more transistors. Considering the 60% compute edge Maxwell has over Kepler in this segment the 25% area change indicates a big focus from NVIDIA on area and performance efficiency. Add to that NVIDIA's ability to get 2x the performance per watt for Maxwell over Kepler on the same 28nm process and it's easy to be impressed.
Future Maxwell GPUs?
If you are wondering where the high end products on Maxwell are, you aren't alone. All NVIDIA would tell us for now is that they would arrive "at a later date."
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So, obvious first question:
Any improvements in scrypt performance w/ Maxwell? ;-)
There is some, but not a whole lot. We are looking at doing some testing today on the currency applications but the lack of optimization could be a hold off.
Thanks Ryan, can't wait for your results!
Oh, the simple days when one could choose a GPU based on its game performance ... I don't miss them, not one bit.
Not much in the way of graphs or pages of analysis but 265 KH/s and about 300 KH/s overclocked. Of course they were probably limited in the same way Ryan was when overclocking.
Thanks for the link, 265 kH/s at (or below) 75W don't seem half bad!
Any chance this card supports hdmi 2.0? is there anything coming out soon that will?
Just confirmed that the GeForce GTX 750 Ti does NOT have HDMI 2.0. They won't talk about future products though...
Are you comparing it to a plain 650 Ti or a 650 Ti Boost in the article/benchmarks?
This is the NON Boost GPU. The GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost is EOL so I didn't think it should get in over the still available GTX 650 Ti.
Yes, but I was interested since I purchased the 650 Ti Boost and looking at the Non Boost versus the Boost 650 Ti it looks like the 750 Ti isn't much over the 650 Ti Boost. (From an upgrade and price/performance perspective.)
Power consumption is nice to see, but not too much concern in a 650 Ti or 750 Ti size card, more of an interesting when the bigger cards come out.
If they did not EOL the 650 Ti Boost the comparison/benchmark charts comparing it to the 750 Ti would look a little weird I think.
Maxwell 2nd level high end should be very interesting. I'm hoping for Titan Black performance at $500 and 200 watts.
I have a couple of questions.
Is it absolutely certain that if this card had a dp output that it would support g-sync? or is that an assumption at this point?
When overclocking, does the mem or gpu clock increase affect the performance more?
Finally, do you have the power numbers on the overclock?
G-Sync support is confirmed yes, as long as a DP connection is present.
GPU clock definitely affects the perf more.
Ah, I didn't make a graph of power under the overclock! But power jumped from 184 watts to 202 watts (full system).
Hmm, I find it interesting that it scaled down so well when the Kepler architecture did not (with power consumption) I am really wondering how it scales into enthusiast territory considering these tweaks improved mainstream so much.
"One feature that the GTX 650 Ti card does NOT have is support for SLI which is quite disappointing."
I believe you meant the "750"
Thanks, fixed!
Ryan, long time viewer here. Great intro into maxwell. I just wish you guys still included bar graphs because the line graphs can be hard to compare one card to another if there is only say a ten or twenty percent difference .
I have had this feedback a few times. We are going to integrate that again soon.
Ryan, please update this with GPU-Z 0.7.7. It reports the GM107 specs correctly.
Would this card be an improvement over my 2 560Tis, or should I wait for the next Maxwell cards?
No, if you are running 560 Ti's in SLI, I would wait.
Would this card be a good improvement over a single 560ti card?
Would I be better trying to get a second 560 for sli?
Would this card be an upgrade from my GTX 260?
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hi so im looking into a $500- $600 maybe a little more and was wondering if i should get this card or should i wait for the amd r7 265?
Ryan how do you make those "FPS by Percentile" charts in Excel? I'd like to do the same on my own, using fraps
Any Cuda testing like Blender Rendering? Would be nice to see performance improvements from Computing side.
I don't agree with your remarks Mr. Shrout. In the Skyrim, Metro Last Light and Bioshock Infinite graphs, 750 ti's frame latency rises higher than 260x in the frame time variance graphs while they are at a clear tie in Crysis 3 and Battlefield 4. You also did not comment on the frame spikes in Bioshock.
So what would you say 570 or 750?
Looking to make a Dell OptiPlex 780 SFF into a Steambox. The system accepts upto 16gb ddr3 (4x4gb sticks), It is currently running a q6700 core2quad (95w). I have been looking at using this card, however the psu is 234 watts. The 12v rail though is 17A so assuming looking at 204 watts for the motherboard, ram, video card and cpu fan. The only other components hooked in are a bluray laptop drive and a 320gb 5400rpm 2.5 hdd from a chromebook underneath it. I did a live talk with dell and confirmed that they sell a hd 7750 1gb ddr3 video card for it you can order and add. So my question is, would a q6600 bsel modded to 3ghz, 2x4gb sticks of ddr3 and a gtx 750ti with that bluray drive and hdd work? If not I have a E8400 CPU I can use instead which would reduce the wattage down by 30watts since its rated 65 instead of 95.


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LOS ANGELES - Faculty Chairman Tony Bernardo announced the winners of the annual UCLA Anderson teaching awards. The selection was conducted by UCLA Anderson's Teaching Improvement Committee comprised of Randy Bucklin, Bill Cockrum, John de Figueiredo, Kevin McCardle and Victor Tabbush. Winners were honored at an afternoon reception on June 9.
- Robbins Assistant Professor Award: Bruce Carlin
- Citibank Teaching Award: Charles Corbett and Aimee Drolet (co-winners)
- Neidorf "Decade" Award: Eric Sussman
Prof. Bernardo also announced that Maia Young is the winner of the Eric and "E" Juline Faculty Excellence in Research Award recognizing excellence in research among the school's assistant professors. Selection for this award was conducted by UCLA Anderson's Research Committee comprised of Mike Hanssens, Ed Leamer and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam. Eric Juline, on hand at the reception to congratulate the winner, noted the importance of encouraging young talent in an organization. On behalf of the Research Committee, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam complimented Prof. Young on the breadth and depth of her research.
Sandy Jacoby is this year's winner of the J. Clayburn La Force Faculty Leadership Award recognizing outstanding service by faculty. The La Force Award selection committee is comprised of Ed Leamer, Jack McDonough and Eduardo Schwartz. It was noted that Prof. Jacoby works quietly behind the scenes to conduct the business of the school while continuing to be a distinguished scholar.
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Saturday, February 09, 2013
Live By the Sword, Die By the Drone
The far left and the far right agree on few things, but they both agree that America's wounds in the War on Terror are self-inflicted. America creates terrorism through its foreign policy and fights terrorism thereby perpetuating terrorism. Islamic terrorism is just a figment of our foreign policy. Put down the sword, is the implication, and the fighting can stop. Keep fighting back and eventually more planes will fly into your skyscrapers as blowback for all the fighting back that you did before.
Moral equivalence would have it that all swords are created equal, much as gun control advocates insist that a rifle in the hands of a hunter is no different than a rifle in the hands of a serial killer. A gun is a gun and a sword is a sword. If you own one, you're likely to use it. And if you use it, then you are utterly evil, regardless of the reason you use it and the purpose that you use it for.
But not all swords are created equal and neither are all wars. There are swords of conquest and swords of peace. Swords of war and swords of last resort. To the left, the size of the sword is all that matter. The party with the larger sword is always the bully and the party with the smaller sword is always the victim. A police officer who carries a bigger gun than a mugger is more culpable in any confrontation between the two because disproportionate firepower carries with it disproportionate responsibility and disproportionate guilt. The sole exception to this broad moral standard is when a government of the left is the one wielding the bigger guns.
Whose sword was it then? In the school of thought embraced by such students of history as Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Ron Paul and the rest of the gang, the sword is the massive steel blade of empire that is borne by the strongest power. Like white privilege, it is one of those things that exists and acts even when the wielder is unaware of it. Like a car left parked outside for a month, its foreign policy continues accumulating terrorist tickets even when it isn't aware of it. And the terrorist tickets are eventually cashed in for a terrorist attack, which it richly deserves because though it may seem as if it came out of the blue, it's actually blowback for the crime of having the bigger sword.
Followers of this school of thought style themselves realists. Their sword of empire realism however fails to encompass the history and ambitions of over a billion people, their theology, their dreams and their internal conflicts. To the realists, over a thousand years of Islamic history hardly carries any weight compared to the doings of ARAMCO and the CIA. There is a certain unrealism to such realism. The realist may be a cynic, but if he, like the World War II Trotskyist labor unions in the UK who told their members that the American soldiers weren't coming to fight Hitler but to break up labor strikes, follows a realism mired in petty cynicism that cannot see past last week, then his realism is really ignorant cynicism masquerading as history.
History does not begin with Standard Oil or the Crusades. A view of history as ethnocentrist as that might have been forgivable for a manifest destiny conservative, but is a rather surreal offering from self-proclaimed realists who want us to consider the views of the other side, but refuse to consider the history and the past of the other side.
The revisionist history of the realists blames America by beginning with America. America is the axis around which the world revolves. There was no Islam before America and if America sinks into the ocean, the realists must assume that Islamic terrorism will go with it, unless the Zionist Entity sticks around and continues infuriating the otherwise peaceful peoples of the Middle East whose brief history of violence only commenced in 1948 or 1917.
But what if the sword is not the red, white and blue rhinestone spangled sword of Americanism, the steel-forged blade of manifest destiny, with a bald eagle on the hilt and the blood of the oppressed gushing like oil from its blade? What if history does not begin with America and what if the sword that is held above the wall is not America's sword to put down?
Anti-war activists, like anti-gun activists, cannot spend too much time contemplating the other side. The anti-war position automatically picks the other side and because of the innate whiff of treason in such a choice, it must justify that treason by utterly damning and demonizing its own side. It cannot afford nuance at home, though it often calls for it abroad, because to concede complexity is to endanger its own moral standing. The only thing standing between the anti-war movement and treason is its ceaseless effort to demonize its own government, soldiers and people as monsters. If it lowers that sword of invective for a moment and accepts that they are less than monsters, then its moral standing falls apart.
The anti-war movement can only maintain its moral standing through extremism and hate. Its activism is an eternal war fought against an endless war whose existence justifies their existence.
Each war, whether it is against Communism or Islamism, tribal warlords or world powers, reaffirms their thesis that their country is a bloody monster, an empire of skulls ruled over by warlords who live by the sword and then die by it. Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania and the Maine, September 11 and the Pueblo Incident all blend together into one false flag operation; a single continuous historical event with a single explanation. And the explanation is the Great American Sword that sets up bases to extract oil, drugs and arms deals along with all the other trappings of empire. It is the answer that answers everything. Even the question of why the wars don't stop.
And what of the sword of Islam, its hilt inlaid with emeralds, its blade clotted with infidel blood, which was sweeping across the world a thousand years before some Virginia farmers got together to discuss theories of government? What was it that made that sword rise and fall, before the oil companies and the Israeli lobby, before arms dealers and neo-conservatives, and all the other crutches on which the realists hobble their lame revisionist history?
Is Islamism a toy monster, a jack-in-the-box that pops out when you turn the handle of imperialism long and hard enough, or is it a self-animating empire of its own? Are its emirates a CIA plot or the work of aspiring sultans and caliphs looking to claim their share of the wealth and women that the followers of Islam have always deemed to be their fair share for fighting Allah's wars for him? Is Islamic terrorism a phenomenon that exists only as a response to American foreign policy, or is it the work of men animated by a fervent vision of history and a love of power? Whatever the realists may say, human nature says otherwise.
If the realists are forced to take Islamism seriously, rather than as a childish response to the Gulf War, Israeli housing or French cartoons, then they will have to measure the Sword of Allah against the Colt of Uncle Sam, not just in terms of firepower, but in moral standing. It will not be enough to say that America is responsible because it fires the first shot and swings the biggest sword. It will not be enough to tear down their own country because it has the biggest guns. Not if the hate and violence of the other party predated the existence of the guns and the gunpowder and dates back to the time when the Servants of Allah made their swords by quenching them in the bodies of their slaves.
Right now it isn't so much a matter of live by the sword, die by the sword, as it is a case of live by the sword, die by the drone. While the sword-wielders close in for close combat, hoping to swarm all that superior firepower with sheer numbers, the wielders of the Colt and the drone practice a more distant form of killing, whether it is the sniper art of Chris Kyle or the truly distant kill of the drone.
When you are standing beneath the wall trying to get up into the castle, then you send out your cannon fodder up the wall angling for a foothold. But when you are holding the wall, then you do your killing from a distance, sparing the lives of your scarce men and keeping the barbarians from reaching inside your gate. That is the war of sword and colt or of sword and drone. It's a bloody and messy war, but opting out of it is not an option.
Uncle Sam did not raise the sword. Uncle Mohammed did, more years ago than anyone can count, and the sword has never been lowered since. As long as Mohammed is at the gates, Sam cannot put down the sword and spend all his time discussing monetary theory or social justice. Not if he expects to still be wearing his head by morning.
A war is not a dance, though there is some circling and some tricky steps, it is not a mutual agreement, but a historical collision. It does not take two to wield a sword. It does however take two to achieve a stalemate. It is this stalemate, a war that falls short of war, whether it is a Cold War or a War on Terror, that the anti-war movement hates and needs. It is this indefinite endless war that animates its thesis and sustains its ideology.
The Muslim world has chosen to live by the sword and the free world must learn to use the sword, if it is not to live under their swords. But there is a difference between these two swords, between the Sword and the Colt, which made all men equal, and the sword and the drone. It is the same as the difference between Sparta and Athens and between Mecca and Jerusalem.
A great nation does not live by the sword; it uses the sword to keep its way of life free from those who do live by the sword.
In such a society where many professions are possible, most free from risk of death, the man who picks up the sword, who pledges to hold the sword so that others may work, not only does not live by the sword, but also makes it possible for his entire society to live free of the sword.
The death of such a man is a tragedy for those who understand that the sword can only be opposed by a sword, and that freedom is won at the cost of resisting slavery, but is a cause for celebration to those who imagine that when the last of their countrymen who carries a sword dies, the endless war will finally end.
24 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Daniel, that was beautiful.
Thank you.
Rest in sweet peace, CPO Chris Kyle. ~♥~
- 10/2/13
- Anonymous said...
If either side in the Mid-East were to disarm unilaterally, there would be peace.
If the Arabs disarmed, it would be a slow return to a normal society for all, as the Israelis became able to trust.
If the Israelis disarmed, they would die.
- 10/2/13
- Edward Cline said...
Good essay on the necessity of defending oneself and one's country against aggression. It reminded me of a scene from the first Indiana Jones movie, when Harrison Ford, trying to find the romantic interest who's been kidnapped, is blocked in a bazaar by a smug master swordsman who first displays his dazzling skill with his sword by treating it as though it were the supreme juggling act. Jones's bullwhip would be no match against it, and he knows he'd be cut to pieces by the sword if he tried to drop-kick the show-off. So he takes out his pistol and shoots the guy. That scene outraged many people, because it was "unfair," because they felt cheated that Jones didn't find some ingenious way of neutralizing the menace. But time was short and besides, he was being threatened by the sword. That's the morale to be deduced from Greenfield's essay here. I include a YouTube link to the scene here.
- 10/2/13
- Anonymous said...
Your work is brilliant and so very much appreciated. Please keep 'em coming.
- 10/2/13
- Some dude said...
" To the left, the size of the sword is all that matter"
It would have been more accurate to say "When the left wishes to protest against a powerful opponent, they pretend that the size of the sword is all that matters, when it is their ally who carries the bigger sword, they say it is the principle that matters. To the left, the only truth is power, the only good is their controlling of power, the only evil is opposing their aquisition of power."
- 10/2/13
- BMW-Dick said...
Thank you for this.
- 10/2/13
- Kirk said...
Daniel,I do not comment very often on your articles but I read them every day. Today my comment is not about your most recent essay but about your essay from 10/4/11, The Power of Weakness and how it relates to this Fugitive Los Angeles Policeman and his relation to the left.Everyone should read this or read it again.100% correct.BTW Great essay today.
- 10/2/13
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
thank you
- 10/2/13
- Anonymous said...
"The Muslim world has chosen to live by the sword and the free world must learn to use the sword, if it is not to live under their swords. "
I fear for the masses who live under Muslim regimes in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the banlieues of Paris. I fear for them because most feel they have no choice but to live under "the Swords," and, if given a choice, they would migrate or convert in a second.
And also because probably a majority of the populations of places like Malaysia, Indonesia, Kuwait and Libya have never wielded "the Sword" against their fellow men. These are fine global citizens, and offer much in the way of commerce, knowledge and culture to us in the West.
The multitudes who live their days under the Muslim label are being used as cover by Islamist terrorists and their partners in the Global Left.
The acknowledgement of which puts added pressure on the West to restrain its reaction to the affronts of the minority of radicals hiding in this human thicket.
Which only serves to say that, when Americans go to aim their "Colts" at "Muslim Terrorists," they'll need to be like Bruce Willis in DieHard and take the time to distinguish between the hostage-takers and their hostages.
- 10/2/13
- IgorR said...
To a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail. To the people who hate America everything looks like America's fault.
- 10/2/13
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Igor, indeed
Steve, they do need to go after the leadership and especially the money men
- 10/2/13
- Anon345 said...
Daniel, what exactly is your point? Because the point of the anti-war movement has not been refuted - Americans are dying for nothing. It does not make Americans any safer to send our troops to kill towelheads in the Middle East. It actually makes us less safe, as the orphans of war that are created will then be easily recruited by terrorists. If self-described patriots were actually concerned about national security, then they would advocate to end the importation of Muslim immigrants. Instead, the GOP says nonsense like we should give amnesty to illegal aliens.
Not to mention the fiasco that is Libya. A secular leader was overthrown, and now Islamists are in control. They even ethnically cleansed the nation of blacks. Now they want to do the same in Syria? As if the Islamists wont once again pick up the pieces. The best thing the US can do is leave the entire region. No matter what happens, at least Americans will stop dying. Prolonged occupation will only bankrupt us, like what happened to the Soviet Union.
Again, if we are at "war" with Islam, then the goal should be to secure our borders and stop importing Muslim, including the Somalian refugees. Yet the government has no clue who is actually in the US. We have people like Ayman Kamal Sulmane, who snuck into the US pretending to be Mexican. How many others were successful?
- 10/2/13
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Killing people who want to kill you by definition makes you safer.
The "Orphans of War" story is nonsense. Terrorism doesn't come from orphans, it comes from wealthy and organized movements staffed by university graduates who believe that Islam should rule the world.
That's an ideology, not orphans.
I am all for ending the importation of Muslim immigrants, and that will help end domestic security threats, but in a world where cheap but devastating attacks are becoming easier to pull off, it's not a complete solution.
I am not for occupation, but I am for quick devastating attacks on Islamist targets.
- 10/2/13
- Edward Cline said...
"I am not for occupation, but I am for quick devastating attacks on Islamist targets."
And the Islamic targets would include, not only the leadership and the money men, the "rebel" groups and gangs, but things such as Iran's nuclear program. That program is something that should be turned into a collection of giant Sheffield glassware bowls. We don't need to "occupy" Islam's conquests in the Mideast and the Far East to defeat Islam, to emasculate it, to enfeeble it.
- 10/2/13
- Anonymous said...
Oh, wow, Eward Cline! That is one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. I laughed out loud. Guess I'm about the farthest thing from a PC leftist as one can get, eh?
Thank you.
- 10/2/13
- Anon345 said...
Every Muslim wants to kill all Americans? You actually believe that nonsense? Islam cannot possibly take over the world. It has no foothold in either East Asia or Latin America. And even in sub-Saharan Africa, the Christian populations are hostile to Islam. The only place Islam is spreading is Europe, and thats because of their ridiculous immigration policy.
As for orphans, my point is its easy to recruit women and children when you murder their families at weddings and funerals.
I dont care how Islamists run their countries. They can never fight the US head-to-head, as the US is unrivaled both in the air and on the seas. And as long as the US clamps down the borders, guerrilla warfare is neutralized as well.
As for Israel, I dont care about it either. Its neither a US state nor a US territory. And we dont have a treaty with them. The country is too dependent on the US military, and they are mistaken if they think that will continue in the future. The US fiscal status is dismal, and the the US will soon withdraw from the Eastern Hemisphere out of financial necessity. When the American people have to choose between welfare and military adventurism, they will choose welfare without hesitation. And at that point, Israel will be on its own. Especially now that the US demographics has changed, with Latinos become a significant power bloc in their own right. They have no more sympathy for Israel than black Americans and Asian Americans. White evangelicals will no longer be able to shield Israel.
Its poetic justice really that the hypocritical American Jews who adamantly fight against a US border fence being built, deportations, and any semblance of immigration control are in fact actually setting the seeds for Israel being cut off in the future.
- 10/2/13
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
If you want to have a serious discussion, don't put words in my mouth. No one said all Muslims want to kill Americans or mentioned Israel.
Whether or not Islamists can take over the world, the point is that they aspire to
Islamist terrorists don't come from orphans, they come from political organizations, largely based around universities... much like Communists do.
They aren't going to fight the US head to head, but they can find ways to launch cheap and dirty attacks, especially if they get their hands on WMDs. Ending immigration will make it harder, but not impossible.
Your comments about American Jews could just as easily apply to Liberal Protestants.
- 10/2/13
- Anonymous said...
Nice piece, as usual, but sometimes a banana is just a banana. Crazy people just do crazy things.
- 10/2/13
- LEL said...
anon is a typical paulbot.
- 10/2/13
- Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog said...
Yes you're right
- 10/2/13
- IgorR said...
Anon345 confuses incompetence with futility. Pointing to an incompetently waged war will not prove that the war was not worth fighting. The theory of "just war" has prevented the US from winning any major conflict for decades. Were it practiced during WWII the US would have lost.
The West generally has become suicidal in various ways. In any conflict, self-interest, while not completely lost, has either become a relatively minor consideration or so convoluted by conflicting sub-interests and self-imposed constraints as to make the success of the mission an ill-defined goal that's not only not achieved but isn't even describable in understandable terms. When fifth columnists or confused mental midgets wage war on America's behalf, good ol' Uncle Ron and good ol' Rev. Wright both have a great time pointing out how it's all good ol' Uncle Sam's fault and their points are not that as easy to disprove as they should be.
- 10/2/13
- VA_Rancher said...
A most EXCELLENT essay. Your understanding of this conlict is great. Your compassionate close for Chris Kyle, a warrior indeed and in deed, was touching.
God Bless you and yours.
Chris Kyle, RIP...
- 11/2/13
- Anonymous said...
Two things:
Chris Christie has taken up the cause of Internet Gambling, so Ron Paul won't have to tote that smelly burden alone.
Todd and Sarah Palin came down to Texas to attend Chris Kyle's funeral.
- 11/2/13
- Gould K.L. Brownlee said...
Attacking Islam in its own countries is perfectly insane. Their countries are weak, backward (oh excuse me, "developing") and completely harmless to countries built by Europeans. Where Islam is dangerous is when we let them into our countries. It is within our borders that Islam damages us, and actual terrorist attacks are only part of it. Islam is being used by a hostile, uncivilized Left to destroy our civilization. That is why the response to 9/11 was to open the doors to even more Islamic parasites.
Of course the Left bleats about understanding them and celebrating them and being grateful to them for blessing us with their presence, but the blunt truth is that the Left is the enemy of the West and is using nonWhite cultures as weapons. Islam is one of the most destructive and it can only do its destruction from within and with the help of a traitorous Left and a cowardly GOP.
Because Islam is so visibly destructive and so obvious an enemy, our ruling elites must be seen to be doing something about it. But because our rulers are either traitors or cowards, they cannot attack our enemies on the actual battlefield; which is within the borders of the U.S. and Europe.
So we must attack Islam thousands of miles away and pretend that these wars will somehow transform low-IQ, third-world savages into something indistinguishable from coffee-sipping, pinky-lifting libtards in Portland, Oregon.
If we keep these third-world savages out of our country and leave them alone in their countries we will have no problems. At all. Israel will still have a problem, but that is their problem, and they can deal with it. Or not. This is the blunt truth.
The ONLY solution is to admit that we have been insane to allow millions of nonWhites into our White countries, and then we must send them home; almost every one of them. It would be a good idea to "encourage" our domestic Blacks to toddle on home to a dynamic and bustling Africa. Just look at the stories in National Geographic. I'm sure any day now, Africa will astonish the world. Maybe not. We certainly need to take the pledge never to send another penny to that continent-sized Detroit.
Then we must leave them alone except for some buying and selling for mutual benefit. Or perhaps the occasional punitive expedition when they try to throw White tourists in prison in order to extort money. This kind of extortion is time-honored in Mexico, one of our very worst enemies.
The solution is simple. Admittedly it's not easy, especially with the large number of cowards and traitors in our government. Our own president, that affirmative-action parasite Obonzo, is one of the most devoted enemies of his own country. We'll have to give up that kind of luxury too. We can no longer afford to be sanctimonious Leftist twits.
- 12/2/13


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Noting the WHO "has led efforts to reduce health disparities for women, ethnic, racial and religious minorities, those with disabilities, and others who have struggled to attain the health care they need," Nils Daulaire, assistant secretary for global affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, writes in the Huffington Post's "Gay Voices" blog, "We think it is timely for WHO to take this same leadership role for the [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)] population." He notes that "[d]uring the May 2013 WHO Executive Board meeting, the topic of what WHO should be doing on this front was scheduled to be discussed," but "[u]nfortunately, history was made in another way when a number of African and Middle Eastern countries called for the item's deletion from the agenda. Never before in the history of WHO has one Executive Board member asked that an item, legitimately placed on the agenda by other Member States, be removed."
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