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"I Want a World of Peace": In exclusive interview UK Labour head Jeremy Corbyn opposes bombing Syria
Three months ago, Jeremy Corbyn shocked the world when he was elected head of the Labour Party in Britain, becoming the country's opposition leader, vowing to return the Labour Party to its socialist roots, championing the renationalization of public transportation, free university tuition, rent control and a national maximum wage to cap the salaries of high earners. Corbyn has been a longtime antiwar activist who once chaired the Stop the War Coalition. Last week he voted against authorizing Prime Minister David Cameron to begin bombing Syria. A day before the vote, Cameron accused Corbyn of being a terrorist sympathizer for opposing airstrikes. At the U.N. climate summit in Paris, Amy Goodman sat down with Jeremy Corbyn in his first U.S. TV/radio interview since being elected Labour leader. He discusses why he opposed the bombing of Syria, his refusal to drop a nuclear bomb anywhere if he were prime minister, and his call to determine who is funding ISIL.
AMY GOODMAN: We're broadcasting live from COP21, the U.N. climate summit in Paris, France. Three months ago, Jeremy Corbyn shocked the world when he was elected head of the Labour Party in Britain, becoming the country's opposition leader. Corbyn vowed to return the Labour Party to its socialist roots, championing the renationalization of public transportation, free university tuition, rent control and a national maximum wage to cap the salaries of high earners. Corbyn has been a longtime antiwar activist who once chaired the Stop the War Coalition.
Well, last week, he led the charge to vote against authorizing British Prime Minister David Cameron to begin bombing Syria. A day before the vote, Cameron accused Corbyn of being a
"terrorist sympathizer" for opposing airstrikes. I sat down with Jeremy Corbyn last night in Paris in his first U.S. TV/radio interview since being elected Labour leader.
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. We're in Paris, France, with the head of the Labour Party of Britain, the opposition party in Britain. He was just elected a few months ago. Jeremy Corbyn, it's great to have you with us.
JEREMY CORBYN: Happy to be with you, Amy.
AMY GOODMAN: So, how did you do it?
JEREMY CORBYN: Well, we launched a campaign for the leadership of the Labour Party after the general election defeat in May. We were all—obviously, all very sad at losing the general election. And I felt that we lost for a number of reasons. One was that we weren't offering a sufficiently radical alternative to the austerity agenda being put forward by the Conservative and Liberal Democratic government. And I was asked by colleagues in Parliament and a number of people outside if I was prepared to contest the leadership election. I did. Initially, we were completely written off by the media. I don't know if you do gambling, but we were given odds of 200 to one. So it was a good investment.
And we launched our campaign by taking part in public debates in Hastings and then traveling around the country. And we did a hundred events in different towns and cities all over Britain. And a lot of people came together—young, old, all groups, everybody. And the support grew, because what we were offering was an opening up of politics in Britain. And the result, you know: We won with 60 percent of the vote, the highest-ever vote cast in a party election in Britain. And the membership of the Labour Party has now reached 400,000, which has more than doubled in six months. So it's been an interesting time.
AMY GOODMAN: Now, you've just had a major vote that you lost, and it was around the bombing of Syria. You were opposed. Other members of your party were for and against. Your thoughts on what this means? And almost immediately, Britain started bombing Syria.
JEREMY CORBYN: I've been in Parliament since 1983, and I've been involved in many issues over the time. Indeed, we first met when I was opposing the Iraq War in 2003. What happened in Paris was appalling, disgraceful, disgusting. And this afternoon I was at one of the cafés that was affected, and signed a remembrance book there. Is the response to that to start bombing Syria, or is the response to that to actually bring about and speed up a political dialogue, which at the end of the day is the only thing that's going to bring about peace in Syria? I support the political dialogue, not the military intervention.
I realized this was going to be a difficult issue in the British Parliament, a difficult issue within my own party. And I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them. And so I decided that I would allow all our members of Parliament a free vote on the subject—they can make up their own minds on it—and also consult the public. And so, what I did was wrote an email to all 400,000 of our party members, and we got a huge response, which was 75 percent against bombing. And I invited members of my parliamentary group—you'd call it a caucus—to vote against, and three-quarters—well, 60 percent—of them did, and a smaller number voted for the bombing. And of my own Shadow Cabinet, a majority voted against the bombing. And I hope this will be seen as a sign that the Labour Party is looking to peaceful solutions to the world's problems. But above all, we're going to hold our government to account. I know the vote went the way I didn't want it to, and I know the bombing started a few hours later.
AMY GOODMAN: What would a diplomatic solution look like?
JEREMY CORBYN: A diplomatic solution would look like this. The Vienna process involves the Syrian government, all the neighboring governments—of Iran, of Iraq, of Turkey. It involves all of those—and Jordan, of course. In involves all the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. It involves Russia, involves the European Union. It involves the USA. It's not going to be easy, any of this. But are we going to go into a proxy war between all those competing groups in already what is a four-way civil war in Syria, or can we bring enough of them together to get at least a ceasefire in the Syrian civil war and real isolation of ISIL for its money, for its arms and for the way it sells its oil?
AMY GOODMAN: Talk about the role of Saudi Arabia.
JEREMY CORBYN: Well, I've been concerned about the sale of weapons within the region, a massive sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia. And I've also raised, a number of occasions, the issue of human rights in Saudi Arabia. And indeed, in my speech to our annual party conference in Brighton in September, I raised the issue of a British prison contract that was being sought in Saudi Arabia and also the question of the death penalty on Mohammed al-Nimr, a young man who was guilty of nothing more than going to a protest. That speech and the brilliant work of many, many, many other people—not just me—helped to ensure that Britain withdrew from the prison contract. And an older man, a British prisoner, who was in prison in Saudi Arabia, has been released, and others have not been executed. We've got to keep up the pressure.
But I'm also concerned about the issues of where the financial support for ISIL comes from. And so what I've done is asked our government, as indeed we ask all governments, look into your banks, look into your banking system. Who is laundering this money? Look at the manufacturers' labels on those weapons that are used byISIL. They didn't all come from nowhere. Somebody's been selling those weapons. But also, look at the question of how we treat communities across the world, so that we isolate ISIL for what it is, but we don't blame people in the Muslim community or any other communities. Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism are all part of the same degree of intolerance. We've got to oppose those and bring communities together.
AMY GOODMAN: Jeremy Corbyn, Prime Minister David Cameron called you a "terrorist sympathizer" for opposing the airstrikes. You've demanded an apology.
JEREMY CORBYN: He was asked many times to apologize. Indeed, I paused my own speech in Parliament to invite him, said, "Prime Minister, this is not a time for these kind of remarks. Can you please apologize now for it? Not just to me, but to all the people that maybe have the same kind of opinion that I do." He declined to do so. People can judge for themselves. I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace. And I think it demeans his office to make remarks like that.
AMY GOODMAN: You occupy the same position that Tony Blair once did—Tony Blair, the prime minister who issued a kind of culpa around Iraq, the invasion of Iraq, by saying that—well, let's go to a clip.
FAREED ZAKARIA: When people look at the rise of ISIS, many people point to the invasion of Iraq as the principal cause. What do you say to that?
TONY BLAIR: I think there are elements of truth in that. But I think we've, again, got to be extremely careful; otherwise we'll misunderstand what's going on in Iraq and in Syria today. Of course, you can't say that those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015.
AMY GOODMAN: That was Tony Blair responding to Fareed Zakaria's question onCNN whether in fact ISIS came out of the invasion of Iraq. Your response?
JEREMY CORBYN: I thought it was interesting. I fundamentally disagreed with Tony Blair, when he was leader of my party and prime minister, on the question particularly of Iraq. And it's interesting that in his interview on CNN he did say that one of the effects of the war in Iraq has been the growth of irrational forces like ISIL. Indeed, President Obama said something broadly similar about his thoughts on the long-term effects of what had happened in the whole region since Iraq. And I think we have to remember not just Afghanistan and Iraq, but also think of Libya. The West went in to bomb Libya to protect the people of Benghazi against an apparent immediate threat from the forces led by Colonel Gaddafi. They then went on to a bombing campaign across the whole country. All of the state infrastructure was destroyed. All the system of government was destroyed. And we now have a huge country which is dominated by a series of competing factions and is an ever-present problem for everyone in the region, for Tunisia and other countries around there. Again, it was Western policy that decided on that, just as much as Western policy after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 went on the de-Baathification policy, which actually destroyed all civil—normal civil structures of society, which have taken more than 10 years to rebuild, and they're not rebuilt yet.
AMY GOODMAN: According to The Independent, an unnamed general said the armed forces would stage a coup or mutiny if you became prime minister.
JEREMY CORBYN: Well, I've asked for the source of this remark. None has been forthcoming. I have written to the secretary of state for defense to ask him to remind everyone that we live in a democracy, where members of Parliament are elected, from which government is formed, and that government is elected to run the country with a democratic mandate. It is up to all those that work in the public sector to recognize that democratic mandate. That includes generals.
AMY GOODMAN: A lot of controversy around a BBC question whether you would drop a nuclear bomb, to which you said no. Can you expand on this?
JEREMY CORBYN: Well, I've spent my life opposing nuclear weapons, and I was asked if I would be prepared to use nuclear weapons, and I gave the answer I think everybody expected me to give. And so, that is my view.
AMY GOODMAN: How did it feel—for so many years you've been involved with the Stop the War Coalition, along with the late Tony Benn—that it was his son, Hilary Benn, who spoke out for the bombing of Syria in the Parliament?
JEREMY CORBYN: Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone. He taught me a great deal. He taught an awful lot of other people a great deal. And he did something that I haven't done: He kept a good diary of everything he did and learned from it. So, perhaps I should do the same. I don't think one should ever start on the family connections one way or the other. Everybody makes their own mind up. Everybody makes their own decisions. And I would never involve myself in that
sort of argument.
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89% Of Scientists Believe Genetically Modified Foods Are Safe
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A Pew Research Center study on science literacy, undertaken in cooperation with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and released on January 29, contains a blockbuster: In sharp contrast to public skepticism about GMOs, 89% of scientists believe genetically modified foods are safe.
That overwhelming consensus exceeds the percentage of scientists, 88%, who believe global warming is the result of human activity. However, the public appears far more suspicious of scientific claims about GMO safety than they do about the consensus on climate change.
Some 57 percent of Americans say GM foods are unsafe and a startling 67% do not trust scientists, believing they don't understand the science behind GMOs. Scientists blame poor reporting by mainstream scientists for the trust and literacy gaps.
The survey also contrasts sharply with a statement published earlier this week in a marginal pay-for-play European journal by a group of anti-GMO scientists and activists, including Michael Hansen of the Center for Food Safety, and philosopher Vandana Shiva, claiming, "no scientific consensus on GMO safety."
A huge literacy gap between scientists and the public on biotechnology is one of the many disturbing nuggets that emerged from the Pew Research Center survey, which was conducted in cooperation with the AAAS, the world's largest independent general scientific society. The full study, released on January 29, is available here.
This survey, the first of several reports to be released in coming months, compares the views of scientists and the general public on the role of science in the United States and globally.
The eye opening take-away: The American population in general borders on scientific illiteracy. The gap between what scientists believe, grounded on empirical evidence, often sharply differs from what the general public thinks is true. The differences are sharpest over biomedical research, including GMOs.
- 88% of AAAS scientists think eating GM food is safe, while only 37% of the public believes that's true—a 51-percentage point gap
- 68% of scientists say it is safe to eat food grown with pesticides, compared with 28% of citizens—a 40% gap.
- A 42-percentage point gap over the issue of using animals in research—89% of scientists favor it, while only 47% of the public backs the idea.
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The American general widely credited with turning around the war in Iraq takes command Friday of U.S. forces throughout the Middle East and Central Asia - putting him in charge of U.S. military efforts in Afghanistan, as well as Iraq and the surrounding region. VOA Pentagon Correspondent Al Pessin reports on the new challenges facing David Petraeus.
It is not difficult to find praise for General David Petraeus' year-and-a-half in Iraq, during which violence dropped 80 percent and U.S. troops began to hand over responsibility to the new Iraqi forces in large parts of the country.
This is how retired General Gordon Sullivan introduced Petraeus at a conference of soldiers, veterans and their supporters in Washington earlier this month.
He said, "You have a very unique opportunity today to listen to this great soldier, scholar, commander, thinker, athlete and leader of troops, a great American and a great American soldier, General David Petraeus."
Such praise appears to slightly embarrass General Petraeus, who is always quick to say he shares any credit with U.S., coalition, and Iraqi troops.
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Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., recently ousted five churches across the U.S. because they allow women to serve as pastors — including Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., one of the convention's largest member churches.
The SBC's policies state, "While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture."
The other four that were expelled are New Faith Mission Ministry in Griffin, Ga.; St. Timothy's Christian Baptist Church in Baltimore; Calvary Baptist Church in Jackson, Miss.; and Fern Creek Baptist Church near Louisville, Ky., according to the Baptist Press, the official news service of the Southern Baptist Convention. A sixth church, Freedom Church in Vero Beach, Fla., was removed for issues related to sexual abuse allegations.
Observers outside of the faith say this convention's executive committee decision will contribute to a growing schism between conservative and moderate members of the SBC.
The move has also drawn criticism from within and outside of the religion.
Monique Moultrie, an associate professor of religious studies at Georgia State University, told NPR, "I think it is interesting that more swift movement was made towards removing these churches from their union, but there has not been as swift a response to the churches with leaders who were found to be predatory abusers of women and children."
The Southern Baptist Convention was rocked by the emergence of widespread sexual abuse problems, with some survivors coming forward in 2018. And last summer, the Justice Department announcedseveral of the denomination's "major entities" are under investigation in the wake of its multiple problems related to clergy sex abuse.
Beth Moore, once a Southern Baptist, previously sold out popular arenas all over the country with her women-focused Bible study events. She made headlines when she left because of disagreements over the SBC's approach to harassment and abuse.
She told NPR's Weekend Edition she believes the SBC's leadership focusing on female pastors is a diversion tactic from those bigger issues.
What disfellowship means for these churches
The SBC pointed NPR to the convention's bylaws for clarity on how the ousted churches will have the opportunity to appeal the executive committee's decision in June during the annual meeting in New Orleans,
Until then, the disfellowship effectively means those churches no longer have a vote or say in the direction of the SBC.
New Faith Mission Ministry, Calvary Baptist Church and Saddleback didn't respond to NPR's requests for comment on the ouster.
In an interview with Morning Edition , the Rev. Linda Barnes Popham of Fern Creek Baptist said this move by SBC leadership seems to be over power and control.
"I, myself, and our church would be considered very conservative. So therefore, it has to be more than that. It has to be something about power," she said.
Popham said she has been serving as her church's pastor for 30 years. She said SBC leadership investigated her role as pastor three years ago, and her church was not punished.
"I'm not sure who the exact folks are who've spearheaded this movement to get rid of female pastors," she said. "Why now? I mean, is it to divert attention away from all the sexual abuse scandals? I don't know."
Pastor Minnie R. Washington of St. Timothy's Christian Baptist Church said in an emailed statement to NPR that the church has had no relationship with the SBC and is not under their authority.
"We are not tributary to them, nor have we ever supported them. And our church has never needed anything at all from them," Washington said.
Washington said that she counts her ouster "an honor and a privilege."
"Perhaps those individuals will remember that their first preacher/teacher was their mother," Washington said. "And in Timothy's life it was his mother and his grandmother. St. Timothy's Christian Baptist Church of Baltimore Maryland follows Jesus Christ and not the SBC."
And Saddleback's founding pastor, Rick Warren, who retired last year, said on Instagram that the church would respond in "OUR time & our way thru direct channels."
Some members of the community turned to social media to criticize the executive committee's decision.
Dwight McKissic, senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, wrote on Twitterthat the disfellowship of Saddleback specifically wasn't about adhering to Baptist teachings.
"It's driven by power, male supremacy; and it stinks in the nostrils of God," he said.
The debate over female leadership has been happening for a long time
According to Matthew Gabriele, the chairman of the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech, the SBC has always been a conservative organization slow to embrace or acknowledge societal change. Historically, the SBC has been reluctant to embrace LGBTQ communities and has resisted the civil rights movement.
"I think that you're seeing the continuation of a trend in which there's a particular type of leadership that has led them for a while and they're fighting against the moves that society seems to be making or even that some of their churches are making right now," he said.
Moultrie, of Georgia State, added that the SBC has long preached "gender complementarianism," the belief that women and men are divinely gifted and ordained by God for different roles. And since 2000, the SBC has explicitly stated that the role of senior pastoral leadership was restricted to men.
The data indicate Southern Baptists are losing members
The SBC's continued stance against female pastors may actually contribute to more members leaving to join a growing number of nondenominational churches in the U.S, said Eric McDaniel, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
"I would expect, especially with the growth of nondenominational churches and the growth of female leadership amongst white religious conservatives, for this to have an effect on the denomination," McDaniel said.
Christianity Today reportedin November that there are "3.4 million more people in nondenominational churches than there are in Southern Baptist ones."
It added that, "If 'nondenominational' were a denomination, it would be the largest Protestant one, claiming more than 13 percent of churchgoers in America."
And research indicates that the number of nondenominational churches surged by about 9,000 congregations over the last 10 years, according to reports citing data by the U.S. Religion Census.
McDaniel said the trends indicate that people who do stay with denominational churches "are the ones who are really the fundamentalists." For women in the Southern Baptist faith who are seeking more opportunities for leadership, a nondenominational church is likely a preferable choice.
"It provides more opportunity for female religious entrepreneurs to kind of create their own congregations, have their own leadership," he said. "You are seeing this kind of take shape now."
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How aging affects communication between neurons is not well understood, a gap that makes it more difficult to treat a range of disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
A new study from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) offers insights into how aging affects the brain's neural circuitry, in some cases significantly altering gene expression in single neurons. These discoveries could point the way toward a better understanding of how aging affects our cognitive ability and new therapeutic targets for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease.
"Although we don't know exactly why, we do know there is a signaling imbalance as we age, and we've captured these changes at the single neuron level," said Sathyanarayanan V. Puthanveettil, a TSRI assistant professor who led the work. "If we could identify the underpinnings of this mechanism, we may be able to target the specific mechanism to affect or reverse the aging process in human neurons."
To record the electrical and physiological properties of single neurons, the scientists created a new method and applied it to the marine snail Aplysia californica, a widely used animal model. Many Aplysia gene expression signatures have counterparts in the human genome.
Using this methodology, which was published in the Journal of Visualized Experiments, the scientists were then able to focus on neuron R15, a burst firing neuron that is implicated in the regulation of water content and reproduction, showing how its response to the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and gene expression changed with age.
In a study published in the journal PLOS ONE, the team described specific changes in burst firing and action potentials—which play a central role in cell-to-cell communication—during the aging of R15, suggesting that changes in the response to acetylcholine during aging has been conserved during evolution in organisms from snails to mammals.
In another study, published in published in BMC Genomics, the team revealed unexpected information about gene expression during R15 aging.
"Aging brings bidirectional changes in the gene expression," said Puthanveettil. "Some gene expression goes up; some goes down. This was surprising, particularly that some gene expression went up—something you don't necessarily associate with aging."
The study also noted that more than 1,000 DNA sequences are regulated differently in mature versus old R15 neurons. Among the specific biological pathways that are altered are networks involved in: cell signaling and skeletal muscular system development; cell death and survival; cellular function maintenance and embryonic development; and neurological diseases and developmental and hereditary disorders.
To confirm these findings, Puthanveettil and his colleagues also isolated and examined three other Aplysia neurons. Interestingly, while all the neurons showed changes in gene expression with age, these changes weren't necessarily similar among the neurons. Also the magnitude of change was specific to individual neurons.
The scientists are now investigating how and why aging affects neurons differently.
Notes about this neuroscience and aging research
The first author of the Journal of Visualized Experiments study, "Aplysia Ganglia Preparation for Electrophysiological and Molecular Analyses of Single Neurons," is Komol Akhmedov of TSRI. Other authors include Beena M. Kadakkuzha, also of TSRI.
The first authors of the PLOS ONE study,"Decreased response to acetylcholine during aging of Aplysia neuron R15," are Komol Akhmedov and Valerio Rizzo of TSRI. Other authors include Beena M. Kadakkuzha of TSRI, Christopher J. Carter and Neil S. Magoski of Queen's University, Canada, and Tom R Capo of the University of Miami.
The first author of the BMC Genomics study, "Age-Associated Bidirectional Modulation of Gene Expression in Single Identified R15 Neuron of Aplysia," is Beena M Kadakkuzha of TSRI. Other authors include Komolitdin Akhmedov, Mohammad Fallahi and Anthony C Carvalloza of TSRI and Tom R Capo of the University of Miami.
The studies were supported by the National Institutes of Health (grant Number 1 R21 MH096258), the Whitehall Foundation and the State of Florida.
Contact: Eric Sauter – Scripps Research Institute
Source: Scripps Research Institute press release
Image Source: The image is credited to Komolitdin Akhmedov, Valerio Rizzo, Beena M. Kadakkuzha, Christopher J. Carter, Neil S. Magoski, Thomas R. Capo, and Sathyanarayanan V. Puthanveettil/PLOS ONE and is adapted from the PLOS ONE research paper.
Original Research: Full open access research for "Decreased response to acetylcholine during aging of Aplysia neuron R15" by Komolitdin Akhmedov, Valerio Rizzo, Beena M. Kadakkuzha, Christopher J. Carter, Neil S. Magoski, Thomas R. Capo, and Sathyanarayanan V. Puthanveettil in PLOS ONE. Published online December 27 2013 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084793
Abstract and video research for "Aplysia Ganglia Preparation for Electrophysiological and Molecular Analyses of Single Neurons" by Komol Akhmedov, Beena M. Kadakkuzha, and Sathyanarayanan V. Puthanveettil in JoVE. Published online January 13 2014 doi:10.3791/51075
Abstract for "Age-associated bidirectional modulation of gene expression in single identified R15 neuron of Aplysia" by Beena M Kadakkuzha, Komolitdin Akhmedov, Tom R Capo, Anthony C Carvalloza, Mohammad Fallahi and Sathyanarayanan V Puthanveettil in BMC Genomics. Published online December 14 2013 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-14-880
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"Lincoln is theology, not historiology. He is a faith, he is a church, he is a religion, and he has his own priests and acolytes, most of whom . . . are passionately opposed to anybody telling the truth about him . . . with rare exceptions, you can't believe what any major Lincoln scholar tells you about Abraham Lincoln and race."–Lerone Bennett, Jr., Forced into Glory, p. 114
The author of the above quotation, Lerone Bennett, Jr., was the executive editor of Ebony magazine for several decades, beginning in 1958. He is a distinguished African-American author of numerous books, including a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. He spent twenty years researching and writing his book, Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream, from which he drew the above conclusion about the so-called Lincoln scholars and how they have lied about Lincoln for generations. For obvious reasons, Mr. Bennett is incensed over how so many lies have been told about Lincoln and race.
Few Americans have ever been taught the truth about Lincoln and race, but it is all right there in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (CW), and in his actions and behavior throughout his life. For example, he said the following:
"Free them [i.e. the slaves] and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this . . . . We cannot then make them equals" (CW, vol. II, p. 256.
"What I would most desire would be the separation of the white and black races" (CW, vol. II, p. 521).
"I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races . . . . I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong, having the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary" (CW, vol. III, p, 16). (Has there ever been a clearer definition of "white supremacist"?). Forced into Glory: Abr... Best Price: $10.30 Buy New $67.21 (as of 03:55 UTC - Details)
"I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races . . . . I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people" (CW, vol. III, pp. 145-146).
"I will to the very last stand by the law of this state [Illinois], which forbids the marrying of white people with negroes" (CW, vol. III, p. 146).
"Senator Douglas remarked . . . that . . . this government was made for the white people and not for the negroes. Why, in point of mere fact, I think so too" (CW, vol. II, p. 281)
Lincoln was also a lifelong advocate of "colonization," or the deportation of black people from America. He was a "manager" of the Illinois Colonization Society, which procured tax funding to deport the small number of free blacks residing in the state. He also supported the Illinois constitution, which in 1848 was amended to prohibit the immigration of black people into the state. He made numerous speeches about "colonization." "I have said that the separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation . . . . such separation must be effected by colonization" (CW, vol. II, p. 409). And, "Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and . . . favorable to . . . our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime" (CW, vol. II, p. 409). Note how Lincoln referred to black people as "the African," as though they were alien creatures. "The place I am thinking about having for a colony," he said, "is in Central America. It is nearer to us than Liberia" (CW, vol. V, pp. 373-374).
Bennett also documents how Lincoln so habitually used the N word that his cabinet members – and many others – were shocked by his crudeness, even during a time of pervasive white supremacy, North and South. He was also a very big fan of "black face" minstrel shows, writes Bennett.
For generations, the so-called Lincoln scholars claimed without any documentation that Lincoln suddenly gave up on his "dream" of deporting all the black people sometime in the middle of the war, even though he allocated millions of dollars for a "colonization" program in Liberia during his administration. But the book Colonization After Emancipation by Phillip Magness and Sebastian Page, drawing on documents from the British and American national archives, proved that Lincoln was hard at work until his dying day plotting with Secretary of State William Seward the deportation of all the freed slaves. The documents produced in this book show Lincoln's negotiations with European governments to purchase land in Central America and elsewhere for "colonization." They were even counting how many ships it would take to complete the task.
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Lincoln's first inaugural address, delivered on March 4, 1861, is probably the most powerful defense of slavery ever made by an American politician. In the speech Lincoln denies having any intention to interfere with Southern slavery; supports the federal Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution, which compelled citizens of non-slave states to capture runaway slaves; and also supported a constitutional amendment known as the Corwin Amendment that would have prohibited the federal government from ever interfering in Southern slavery, thereby enshrining it explicitly in the text of the U.S. Constitution.
Lincoln stated at the outset of his first inaugural address that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Furthermore, "Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this and many similar declarations and had never recanted them; and more than this, they placed in the [Republican Party] platform for my acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to the balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend . . ." By "domestic institutions" Lincoln meant slavery.
Lincoln also strongly supported the Fugitive Slave Clause and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in his first inaugural address by reminding his audience that the Clause is a part of the Constitution that he, and all members of Congress, swore to defend. In fact, the Fugitive Slave Act was strongly enforced all during the Lincoln administration, as documented by the scholarly book, The Slave Catchers, by historian Stanley Campbell (University of North Carolina Press, 2011). "The Fugitive Slave Law remained in force and was executed by federal marshals" all during the Lincoln regime, writes Campbell. For example, he writes that "the docket for the [Superior] Court [of the District of Columbia] listed the claims of twenty-eight different slave owners for 101 runaway slaves. In the two months following the court's decision [that the law was applicable to the District], 26 fugitive slaves were returned to their owners . . ." This was in Washington, D.C., Lincoln's own residence.
Near the end of his first inaugural address (seven paragraphs from the end) Lincoln makes his most powerful defense of slavery by saying: "I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution . . . has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service [i.e., slaves]. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable" (emphasis added).
The Corwin Amendment, named for Rep. Thomas Corwin of Ohio, said:"No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which shall authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any state, the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor [i.e., slaves] or service by the laws of said State." Slave Catchers Best Price: $12.00 (as of 06:35 UTC - Details)
After all the Southern members of Congress had left, the exclusively-Northern U.S. Congress voted in favor of the Corwin Amendment by a vote of 133-65 in the House of Representatives on February 28, 1861, and by a vote of 24-12 in the U.S. Senate on March 2, two days before Lincoln's inauguration.
Lincoln lied in his first inaugural address when he said that he had not seen the Corwin Amendment. Not only did he support the amendment in his speech; it was his idea, as documented by Doris Kearns-Goodwin in her worshipful book on Lincoln entitled Team of Rivals. Based on primary sources, Goodwin writes on page 296 that after he was elected and before he was inaugurated Lincoln "instructed Seward to introduce these proposals in the Senate Committee of Thirteen without indicating they issued from Springfield." "These proposals" were 1) the Corwin Amendment; and 2) a federal law to nullify personal liberty laws created by several states to allow them to nullify the Fugitive Slave Act.
In 1860-61 Lincoln and the Republican Party fiercely defended Southern slavery while only opposing the extension of slavery into the new territories. They gave three reasons for this:
(1) "Many northern whites . . . wanted to keep slaves out of the [new territories] in order to keep blacks out. The North was a pervasively racist society . . . . Bigots, they sought to bar African-American slaves from the West," wrote University of Virginia historian Michael Holt in his book, The Fate of Their Country (p. 27).
(2) Northerners did not want to have to compete for jobs with black people, free or slave. Lincoln himself said that "we" want to preserve the territories for "free white labor".
(3) If slaves were brought into the territories it could inflate the congressional representation of the Democratic Party once a territory became a state because of the three-fifths clause of the Constitution that counted five slaves as three persons for purposes of determining how many congressional representatives each state would have. The Republican Party feared that this might further block their economic policy agenda of high protectionist tariffs to protect Northern manufacturers from competition; corporate welfare for road, canal, and railroad-building corporations; a national bank; and a giving away, rather than selling, of federal land (mostly to mining, timber, and railroad corporations). Professor Holt quotes Ohio Congressman Joshua Giddings explaining: "To give the south the preponderance of political power would be itself to surrender our tariff, our internal improvements [a.k.a. corporate welfare], our distribution of proceeds of public lands . . ." (p. 28).
Lincoln called the Emancipation Proclamation a "war measure," which meant that if the war ended the next day, it would become null and void. It only applied to "rebel territory" and specifically exempted by name areas of the The Fate of Their Coun... Best Price: $3.50 Buy New $8.00 (as of 06:35 UTC - Details) South that were under Union Army control at the time, such as most of the parishes of Louisiana; and entire states like West Virginia, the last slave state to enter the union, having been created during the war by the Republican Party. That is why historian James Randall wrote that it "freed no one." The apparent purpose was to incite slave rebellions, which it failed to do. Slavery was finally ended in 1866 by the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, with virtually no assistance from Lincoln, as described by Pulitzer prize-winning Lincoln biographer David Donald in his book, Lincoln. On page 545 of his magnum opus David Donald writes of how Lincoln refused to lift a finger to help the genuine abolitionists accumulate votes in Congress for the Thirteenth Amendment. Stories that he did help, such as the false tale told in Steven Spielberg's movie about Lincoln, are based on pure "gossip," not documented history, wrote Donald.
Lincoln Promises War Over Tax Collection
In contrast to his compromising stance on slavery, Lincoln was totally and completely uncompromising on the issue of tax collection in his first inaugural address, literally threatening war over it. For decades, Northerners had been attempting to plunder Southerners (and others) with high protectionist tariffs. There was almost a war of secession in the late 1820s over the "Tariff of Abominations" of 1828 that increased the average tariff rate (essentially a sales tax in imports) to 45%. The agricultural South would have been forced to pay higher prices for clothing, farm tools, shoes, and myriad other manufactured products that they purchased mostly from Northern businesses. South Carolina nullified the tariff, refusing to collect it, and a compromise was eventually reached to reduce the tariff rate over a ten-year period.
By 1857 the average tariff rate had declined to about 15%, and tariff revenues accounted for at least 90% of all federal tax revenue. This was the high water mark of free trade in the nineteenth century. Then, with the Republican Party in control of Congress and the White House, the average tariff rate was increased, by 1863, back up to 47%, starting with the Morrill Tariff, which was signed into law on March 2, 1861, two days before Lincoln's inauguration by Pennsylvania steel industry protectionist President James Buchanan. (It had first passed in the House of Representatives during the 1859-60 session).
Understanding that the Southern states that had seceded and had no intention of continuing to send tariff revenues to Washington, D.C., Lincoln threatened war over it. "[T]here needs to be no bloodshed or violence," he said in his first inaugural address, "and there shall be none unless it is forced upon the national authority."
And what could "force" the "national authority" to commit acts of "violence" and "bloodshed"? Lincoln explained in the next sentence: "The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and Lincoln Best Price: $1.25 Buy New $6.00 (as of 03:10 UTC - Details) places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere." "Pay up or die; the American union is no longer voluntary" was his principal message. In Lincoln's mind, the union was more like what would become the Soviet union than the original, voluntary union of the founding fathers. He kept his promise by invading the Southern states with an initial 75,000 troops after duping South Carolinians into firing upon Fort Sumter (where no one was harmed, let alone killed).
The Stated Purpose of the War
The U.S. Senate issued a War Aims Resolution that said: "[T]his war is not waged . . . in any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those [Southern] states, but to defend . . . the Constitution, and to preserve the Union . . ." By "established institutions" of the Southern states they meant slavery.
Like the U.S. Senate, Lincoln also clearly stated that the purpose of the war was to "save the union" and not to interfere with Southern slavery. In a famous August 22, 1862 letter to New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley, he wrote that:
"My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." Of course, Lincoln's war destroyed the voluntary union of the founding fathers and replaced it with an involuntary union held together by threat of invasion, bloodshed, conquest, and subjugation.
The Very Definition of Treason
Treason is defined by Article 3, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution as follows: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." The most important word here is "them." As in all the founding documents, "United States" is always in the plural, signifying that the "free and independent states," as they are called in the Declaration of Independence, are united in forming a compact or confederacy with other states. Levying war against "them" means levying war against individual states, not something called "the United States government." Therefore, Lincoln's invasion and levying of war upon the Southern states is the very definition of treason in the Constitution.
Lincoln took it upon himself to arbitrarily redefine treason, not by amending the Constitution, but by using brute military force. His new definition was any criticism of himself, his administration, and his policies. He illegally The Real Lincoln: A Ne... Best Price: $4.25 Buy New $7.48 (as of 07:05 UTC - Details) suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus (illegal according to this own attorney general, Robert Bates) and had the military arrest and imprison without due process tens of thousands of Northern-state citizens, including newspaper editors, the Maryland legislature, the mayor of Baltimore, the grandson of Francis Scott Key who was a Baltimore newspaper editor, Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio, his chief critic in the U.S. Congress, and essentially anyone overheard criticizing the government. (See Freedom Under Lincoln by Dean Sprague and Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln by James Randall).
More than 300 Northern newspapers were shut down for criticizing the Lincoln regime as documented by James Randall, the preeminent Lincoln scholar of the twentieth century.
Lincoln's Real Agenda: A Mercantilist Empire
Lincoln began his political career in 1832 as a Whig. Northern Whigs like Lincoln were the party of the corporate plutocracy who wanted to use the coercive powers of government to line the pockets of their big business benefactors (and of themselves). They proclaimed to stand for what their political predecessor, Alexander Hamilton, called the "American System." This was really an Americanized version of the rotten, corrupt system of British "mercantilism" that the colonists had rebelled against. Its planks included protectionist tariffs to benefit Northern manufacturers and their banking and insurance industry business associates; a government-run national bank to provide cheap credit to politically-connected businesses; and "internal improvement subsidies," which we today would call "corporate welfare," for canal-, road-, and railroad-building corporations. So when Lincoln first ran for political office in Illinois in 1832 he announced: "I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by many friends to become a candidate for the legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. I am in favor of a national bank . . . in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff." He would devote his entire political career for the next twenty-nine years on that agenda.
The major opposition to Lincoln's agenda of a mercantilist empire modeled after the British empire had always been from the South, as Presidents Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, and Tyler, among others, vetoed or obstructed Whig and later, Republican, legislation. There were Southern supporters of this agenda, and Northern, Jeffersonian opponents of it, but it is nevertheless true that the overwhelming opposition to this Northern, Hamiltonian scheme came from the Jeffersonian South.
Henry Clay was the leader of the Whigs until his death in 1852, and Lincoln once claimed that he got all of his political ideas from Clay, who he eulogized as "the beau ideal of a statesman." In reality, the Hamilton/Clay/Lincoln "American System" was best described by Edgar Lee Masters, who was Clarence Darrow's law partner and a renowned playwright (author of The Spoon River Anthology). In his book, Lincoln the Man (p. 27), Masters wrote that:"Henry clay was the champion of that political system which doles favors to the strong in order to win and to keep their adherence to the government. His system offered shelter to devious schemes and corrupt enterprises . . . He was the beloved son of Alexander Hamilton with his corrupt funding schemes, his superstitions concerning the advantage of a public debt, and a people taxed to make profits for enterprises that cannot stand alone. His example and his doctrines led to the creation of a party that had not platform to announce, because its principles were plunder and nothing else." Lincoln Unmasked: What... Best Price: $5.95 Buy New $9.85 (as of 07:10 UTC - Details)
This was the agenda that Abraham Lincoln devoted his entire political life to. The "American System" was finally fully enacted with Lincoln's Pacific Railroad Bill, which led to historic corruption during the Grant administration with its gargantuan subsidies to railroad corporations and others; fifty years of high, protectionist tariffs that continued to plunder Agricultural America, especially the South and the Mid-West, for the benefit of the industrial North; the nationalization of the money supply with the National Currency Acts and Legal Tender Acts; and the beginnings of a welfare state with veterans' pensions. Most importantly, the system of federalism that was established by the founding fathers was all but destroyed with a massive shift in political power to Washington, D.C. and away from the people, due to the abolition (at gunpoint) of the rights of nullification and secession.
Lincoln' Biggest Failure
Slavery was ended peacefully everywhere else in the world during the nineteenth century. This includes Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York, where slaves were once used to build slave ships that sailed out of New York, Providence, Hartford, Providence, and Boston harbors. There were still slaves in New York City as late as 1853.
Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Fogel and co-author Stanley Engerman, in their book, Time on the Cross, describe how the British, Spanish, and French empires, as well as the Swedes, Danes, and Dutch, ended slavery peacefully during the nineteenth century. Whenever slaves did participate in wars in Central America and elsewhere, it was because they were promised freedom by one side in the war; the purpose of the wars, however, was never to free the slaves.
The British simply used tax dollars to purchase the freedom of the slaves and then legally ended the practice. The cost of the "Civil War" to Northern taxpayers alone would have been sufficient to achieve the same thing in the U.S. Instead, the slaves were used as political pawns in a war that ended with the death of as many as 850,000 Americans according to the latest research (the number was 620,000 for the past 100 years or so), with more than double that amount maimed for life, physically and psychologically. (Lincoln did make a speech in favor of "compensated emancipation" in the border states but insisted that it be accompanied by deportation of any emancipated slaves. He never used his "legendary" political skills, however, to achieve any such outcome, as a real statesman would have done – minus the deportation).
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The Lincoln regime reversed that progress and paved the way for all the gross wartime atrocities of the twentieth century by waging war on Southern civilians for four long years. Rape, pillage, plunder, the bombing and burning of entire cities populated only by civilians was the Lincolnian way of waging war – not on foreign invaders but on his own fellow American citizens. (Lincoln did not consider secession to be legal; therefore, he thought of all citizens of the Southern states to be American citizens, not citizens of the Confederate government).
General Sherman said in a letter to his wife that his purpose was "extermination, not of soldiers alone, that is the least part of the trouble, but the people" (Letter from Sherman to Mrs. Sherman, July 31, 1862). Two years later, he would order his artillery officers to use the homes of Atlanta occupied by women and children as target practice for four days, while much of the rest of the city was a conflagration. The remaining residents were then kicked out of their homes – in November with the onset of winter. Ninety percent of Atlanta was demolished after the Confederate army had left the city.
General Philip Sheridan similarly terrorized the civilians of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. All of this led historian Lee Kennett, in his biography of Sherman, to honestly state that "had the Confederates somehow won, had their victory put them in position to bring their chief opponents before some sort of tribunal, they would have found themselves justified . . . in stringing up President Lincoln and the entire Union high command for violation of the laws of war, specifically for waging war against noncombatants" (Lee Kennett, Marching Through Georgia: The Story of Soldiers and Civilians During Sherman's Campaign, p. 286).
About All Those Statues
Professor Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was perhaps the most famous academic libertarian in the world during the last half of the twentieth century. A renowned Austrian School economist, he also wrote widely on historical topics, especially war and foreign policy. In a 1994 essay entitled "Just War" (online at https://mises.org/library/just-war), Rothbard argued that the only two American wars that would qualify as just wars (defined as wars to ward off a threat of coercive domination) were the American Revolution and the South's side in the American "Civil War." Without getting into his detailed explanation of this, his conclusion is especially relevant and worth quoting at length:
"[I]n this War Between the States, the South may have fought for its sacred honor, but the Northern war was the very opposite of honorable. We remember the care with which the civilized nations had developed classical international law. Above all, civilians must not be targeted; wars must be limited. But the North insisted on creating a conscript army, a nation in arms, and broke the 19th-century rules of war by specifically plundering and slaughtering civilians, by destroying civilian life and institutions so as to reduce the South to submission. Sherman's famous march through Georgia was one of the great war crimes, and crimes against humanity, of the past century-and-a-half. Because by targeting and butchering civilians, Lincoln and Grant and Sherman paved the way for all the genocidal horrors of the monstrous 20th century. . . . As Lord Acton, the great libertarian historian, put it, the historian, in the last analysis, must be a moral judge. The muse of the historian, he wrote, is not Clio but Rhadamanthus, the legendary avenger of innocent blood. In that spirit, we must always remember, we must never forget, we must put in the dock and hang higher than Haman, those who, in modern times, opened the Pandora's Box of genocide and the extermination of civilians: Sherman, Grant, and Lincoln.
Perhaps, some day, their statues will be toppled and melted down; their insignias and battle flag will be desecrated, and their war songs tossed into the fire.
Perhaps, some day. But in the meantime, and for the past 150 years, the mountain of lies that has concocted the Lincoln Myth has been invoked over and over again to "justify" war after war, all disguised as some great moral crusade, but in reality merely a tool to enrich the already wealthy-beyond-their-wildest-dreams military/industrial complex and its political promoter class. As Robert Penn Warren wrote in his 1960 book, The Legacy of the Civil War, the Lincoln Myth, painstakingly fabricated by the Republican Party, long ago created a "psychological heritage" that contends that "the Northerner, with his Treasury of Virtue" caused by his victory in the "Civil War," feels as though he has "an indulgence, a plenary indulgence, for all sins past, present, and future." This "indulgence," wrote Warren, "is the justification for our crusades of 1917-1918 and 1941-1945 and our diplomacy of righteousness, with the slogan of unconditional surrender and universal rehabilitation for others" (emphasis added). Robert Penn Warren believed that most Americans were content with all of these lies about their own history, the work of what he called "the manipulations of propaganda specialists," referring to those who describe themselves as "Lincoln scholars."


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During our last visit to the shop, we asked the guys at C & G Trailers to install our solar system for us. But rather than buying a complete turn-key solar system, we did some shopping around and put together a basic system of our own.
As some of you who have solar systems, or have looked into them, might know that it is an expensive investment. But the benefits of having a solar array charging silently away at your batteries are truly magical. Unlike generators that need to be refueled and maintained, solar panels last practically forever. They have no moving parts and require no regular upkeep. The fact that they turn our abundant sunshine to usable energy stored away in our RV batteries for later use is a modern day miracle.
As opposed to charging your batteries using an AC extension cord, a solar system bypasses the inverter and charges the batteries directly. That means there is no energy lost during the AC to DC conversion. It is very efficient and obviously an environmentally friendly alternative. Something every solar system should also have is a good quality charge controller. A charge controller monitors the level of charge you have in your batteries and provides the right amount of voltage going into them so they do not get damaged. In a pinch, you can wire solar panels directly into your 12-volt batteries but you are taking the risk of permanently damaging your cells.
A high quality, modern charge cotroller should also be of the MPPT variety. That stands for Maximum Power Point Tracking. As compared to the traditional PVM (Pulse Width Modulation) charge controllers, the MPPT controllers will maximize the amount of amperage and voltage coming into your system and can generally give you a 10-20% boost in the number of amps you are putting back into your system. Think of that as similar to getting 10-20 percent more watts in your solar panels which can mean a pretty significant cost savings.
When we installed our solar system, we purchased the parts individually buy finding the parts we wanted. To be able to completely replenish the batteries daily in an Airstream of our size, we would need at least a 200-watt system. We typically do not boon dock for more than a few days and did not see the need to install such a large system right away. You will also need to carefully consider the size of the panels as they need to fit the space constraints of your roof. We started with just two 50-watt panels that fit nicely in front of the AC unit.
Using the existing solar wiring from the factory, we asked our friends at C&G Trailers to mount and wire the solar panels. Instead of purchasing and installing a complete system, which would have cost close to $2000, the installation of the panels was only a couple hundred dollars. A new set of wires were connected to the batteries and both were lead out to the space directly above the TV and behind the fridge.
To complete the system, I purchased a Blue Sky 2000E MPPT Solar Controller from an online retailer and carefully cut out the space required to install the panel. I taped the area with blue painter's tape during the cutting process to avoid scratching the surfaces around it. After first testing and then connecting the wires, we were in business.
Here is a video of how the system works in a sunny afternoon.
We are so far very happy with our solar charging system. It will not completely eliminate the need for our generator or electrical hookups but it keeps our batteries nicely topped off when she isn't being used plus we now have the luxury of not having to run our generator every day when we are boon docking. With the way we installed our system, we spent a fraction of what a turn-key system would have cost and still have room to upgrade to more panels in the future.
Here are the components we bought for our system:
1. 2 x 50W Mono-crystalline Solar Panel
2. 1 x Blue Sky 2000E MPPT Charge CoTntroller
Our total cost of the system came to just about $700. $350 for the solar panels, $200 for the labor and parts of mounting and wiring by C & G Trailers and $150 for the charge controller. That is 1/3 of what a system like this would cost if bought as a package.
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LONDON — Charlie Watts, the iconic drummer for The Rolling Stones, has died at the age of 80.
Publicist Bernard Doherty confirmed Watts' death in a statement provided to the media, including The Associated Press and the BBC, on Tuesday.
In the statement, Doherty said Watts passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier Tuesday, surrounded by his family. A cause of death wasn't immediately announced.
The publicist went on to say that Watts was a "cherished husband, father, and grandfather," and that he was "one of the greatest drummers of his generation."
In his statement, the publicist said privacy is being requested for Watts' family, band members, and close friends during this difficult time.
Earlier this month, a spokesperson for the musician told the AP that Watts would likely miss the band's upcoming U.S. tour to allow him to recover from an unspecified medical procedure. The representative added that the procedure was "completely successful," but Watts needed time to recuperate.
The Stones are set to resume their No Filter tour on Sept. 26. Understudy Steve Jordan was set to replace Watts at the shows.
It's unclear at this time if Watts' death will affect the tour.


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When two high school athletes who were born male but identify as female took first and second place at Connecticut's girls indoor track championship this year, it wasn't just a local news story.
To some, it was a story of triumph and courage. The winner, a junior from Bloomfield High School, set a girls state indoor record of 6.95 seconds in the 55-meter dash, and went on to win the New England titles in both the 55-meter dash and the 300-meter dash.
To others, it was a story of shock and disappointment: Is this the end of women's sports?
To Selina Soule, a 16-year-old runner from Glastonbury, it was personal.
A junior, Selina missed qualifying for the 55-meter in the New England regionals by two spots. Two spots, she said, that were taken by biological boys.
Had the boys who identify as girls not been allowed to compete, Selina would have placed sixth, qualifying to run the 55 in front of college coaches at the New England regionals.
Instead, she placed eighth, watching the 55 from the sidelines after qualifying in only the long jump, an event in which the transgender athletes didn't compete.
"It's very frustrating and heartbreaking when us girls are at the start of the race and we already know that these athletes are going to come out and win no matter how hard you try," Selina told The Daily Signal. "They took away the spots of deserving girls, athletes … me being included."F
While the debate over transgender athletes and fairness is complex, the situation in Connecticut has brought forth another complicating layer: Plenty of parents and high school girls appear to object to the participation of biological boys in girls sports, but fearing public bullying and backlash, they're not speaking out.
Publicly, at least.
The stakes of remaining silent are high: Policies are being formed in real time at the local, state, and federal levels regarding transgender individuals, student athletes, and sports.
Most prominently, on March 13, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced HR 5, the Equality Act, a bill that would add "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" as protected classes under federal civil rights law.
The legislation would create a civil right for male athletes to self-identify as females at any time, critics say, without any evidence of physical changes to their bodies.
A Voice for the Voiceless
When the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, or CIAC, said biological boys who identify as girls can compete as girls in sports, most track athletes remained mum.
Connecticut is one of 17 states that allow transgender high school athletes to compete without restrictions, according to Transathlete.com, a website that tracks state policies in high school sports across the country.
Encouraged by her mother, Bianca Stanescu, who has been in the forefront in challenging the state policy, Selina is one of the few students, if not the only one, giving a voice to countless others who appear to feel the same way.
"Everyone is afraid of retaliation from the media, from the kids around their school, from other athletes, coaches, schools, administrators," Selina explained. "They don't want to drag attention to themselves, and they don't want to be seen as a target for potential bullying and threats."
In a visit to the Nutmeg State, The Daily Signal spoke with four other track athletes from two high schools in Connecticut. Echoing Selina's sentiments, they asked to remain anonymous.
"I think it's a very important thing for people to really understand where we're coming from, instead of just immediately going to, 'We're transphobic,'" one said. "Just the way that our society is built, it snaps on people so quickly."
"We live in such a cruel world, and society is just so hard to figure out sometimes," another girl told The Daily Signal. "You never know what the reaction is going to be. It's so hard because you want your voice to be heard … but, how can you know what to say that will affect things positively, instead of people twisting what you're saying and turning it against you?"
'An Equality Issue'
The girls' parents, too, expressed a high level of concern for protecting their daughters' identities, not even wanting to identify them by high school.
Connecticut is made up of small towns, the parents explained, and given the relatively small number of athletes affected, people can connect the dots.
"There's really nothing else you can do except get super frustrated and roll your eyes," the first girl said, "because it's really hard to even come out and talk in public just because of the way with the far left, and how just immediately you'll just be shut down."
"It's not like we're saying that we don't like transgender people," she added. "It's just an equality issue where these girls are trying their absolute hardest to try and get those good things on their college resumes, and then it just gets completely taken away from them because there's a biological male racing against them."
The athletes say they don't fear only being bullied or portrayed as a bigot. They also hope to attend college, and are afraid their politically incorrect views could hurt their prospects.
"I personally want a future in athletics in college," a third girl told The Daily Signal, "but I feel like if there's a coach that disagrees with my personal opinion, or a board that disagrees with it, then they'll already have a predisposition with me and then it'll affect maybe playing time or my ability to get into that college."
"We have college down the road—I'm scared that that could get impacted," a fourth girl said. "Sometimes the coaches will just like look at the lists … and if you're not No. 1 then they won't choose you."
"I have heard opinions where coaches are just going to look at your times, and that they don't really care where you place," the first girl added. "But college coaches are going to these bigger meets, and when they don't see you there, they're not necessarily focusing on you. They're focusing on the people that are there."
"It kept Selina from getting to New Englands, where she had the opportunity to be running in front of college coaches, which is just unfair," she added.
Uncomfortable Opinions
The athletes' hesitation to speak out publicly begs the question:
How did society get to the point where high school girls now fear their uncomfortable opinions could prevent them from being admitted to the very institutions where uncomfortable opinions are supposed to be explored?
Whatever the answer, few could blame them, given the vitriol on display in today's public square.
Business Insider removed a writer's article defending the casting of Scarlett Johansson to play a transgender man in an upcoming film, for example. The publication said the article violated its "editorial standards," and the writer later quit.
Authorities in Canada allegedly threatened to arrest a father if he refers to his biological daughter as a female in private or in public because she identifies as a boy.
And in schools, The Daily Signal has documented multiple cases of biological girls being forced to share locker rooms or bathrooms with boys, despite their safety concerns and discomfort.
But again and again, those on the "wrong side" of this conversation are too afraid to speak out.
'Door Is Open for Any Other Sport'
Selina's mother, Stanescu, told The Daily Signal that she has done "everything that I thought would be possible to help this and just open a conversation" about what's happened in Connecticut and what could happen should Congress pass the Equality Act.
"The doors have been shut over and over again," Stanescu said. "People are afraid to speak."
In addition to potentially instating a nationwide bathroom requirement, health care mandate, and a "preferred pronoun" law based on gender identity, the Equality Act would enshrine in federal law the right of biological boys to compete as girls in all sports.
If the measure passes, Stanescu warned, "women will be completely eradicated from sports."
What's happening in Connecticut, she added, will happen across the country—and not just in track and field.
"Yes, it has been affecting track and field in Connecticut, but the door is open there for any sport, and that is something that could become also a safety issue," Stanescu said. "It's taking away the opportunity to win for the girls, but in sports that have physical contact, [it] could become a serious safety issue."
"It could be potentially very dangerous if you have a transgender female that's competing in basketball, soccer, lacrosse, field hockey because they are so physically superior to females," her daughter Selina added.
Selina says all this while making clear she supports athletes "being true to themselves."
"I have friends in school who are transgender and I know when they are struggling to come out or deciding to come out, I was there supporting them," she said. "And when they were freshly out, I was caring towards them. I was never rude or disrespectful."
But the situation in sports has "nothing to do with their gender identity and how they feel," Selina said. "It has to do with what is right and what is fair in athletics."
Looking forward to her senior year, Selina said she hopes to run track in college. She referred to the long jump event as her "safe haven" where "the results were fair no matter what, because it was girls competing against girls."
"But now, unfortunately," she said with a disappointed look on her face, "one of those athletes has started to compete in long jump. So now none of my events are safe."


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This repaint was released by ELKP.
To install WAP-7 GZB 30483 in Trainz Simulator Android, you can follow these steps:-
- Download the WAP-7 locomotive file from the darKnights website for free.
- Extract the contents of the downloaded loco file to a folder on your android phone using the Z-Archiver app.
- To ensure proper working of the given model, download the dependency folder given with it.
- The loco is password protected, so to get the password, click on the password button given along with the locomotive.
- Then cut/copy the loco file along with the dependency.
- Then navigate it to Android > Data > com.n3vgames > Files > User Data > Original.
- Create a New Hash / paste it in a existing hash folder.
- Then delete the 'assests.tdx' file from user data panel.
- Also delete another 'assests.tdx' file from Files > Trainz Resources > Prebuilt.
- Remove the game from the recent tabs & clear cache.
- To ensure the loco is downloaded properly open game & go to rail yard.
- Scroll through the list to find out the newly downloaded locomotive.
- If the loco is visible then enjoy it using in your routes.
If the locomotive is not visible, then follow these steps:-
- After ensuring that the downloaded locomotive is not visible, close the game & remove it from the recent tabs.
- Open Z-Archiver. Check the hash where you have pasted the loco.
- Case-1:- If it's still there then there's a possibility of missing dependency.
- In that case ensure that you have installed the dependency folder correctly.
- Check again using the above steps.
- If still it is not working then download the "All In 1 Dependency" folder given in the website.
- Check again in the game following the above steps.
- Case-2:- If the loco file is missing from the hash where you pasted it, then there's a possibility that already a locomotive exists with the same kuid number.
- To solve the problem follow the steps. Download "Quick Edit" app.
- Once again extract the loco to the hash folder along with the dependency.
- Then open the locomotive file. Open the 'config.txt' file given in it through the Quick Edit app.
- Search for the kuid number. Change 1-2 digits of the existing number out of your choice.
- Save it. Delete the 'assets.tdx' file once again & open the game.
- Your problem will be solved. If not then repeat the steps few more times.
- You can now enjoy the loco in your game.
- If you're still facing problems, then contact us through the given contacts.
- HD Textures
- Dual Tone Horn
- Engine Sound
- Interior View
- Increased Acceleration
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