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By Andrea Shalal-Esa
WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (Reuters) - When computer "hackers"
working for the U.S. Navy succeeded in breaking into the
computer logistics system that controls the Lockheed Martin Corp
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter earlier this year, they did
the company a favor: allowing it to fix a critical vulnerability
in the $396 billion program.
Now, as the Marine Corps prepares to set up its first
operational squadron of F-35s next week, some experts say other
security risks may lurk within such a large and highly networked
weapons support system.
One concern: Lockheed shored up political backing for the
F-35 by choosing suppliers in nearly every U.S. state. But
having such a large and widely dispersed group increases
exposure to cyber attacks, said Ben Freeman, national security
investigator with the non-profit Project on Government
"Even if Lockheed has top-notch cyber security, it's still
vulnerable if its subcontractors are vulnerable," he said.
The military's move toward greater use of so-called
autonomic weapons systems, which rely heavily on computers,
promises to revolutionize the way weapons are maintained and
operated, but also carries a new level of cyber risk.
And the weapons designers are having difficulty keeping up
with the hackers. While it often takes years to field new
weapons systems, cyber threats are evolving and changing on a
daily basis, said Raphael Mudge, a former Air Force engineer and
independent cyber expert.
"You have to be continually assessing the risk," he said.
The heightened concern comes as computer attacks are on the
rise. Lockheed cyber experts said Monday that the company had
seen a large increase in the number and sophistication of
attacks on its networks. It accused governments that it did not
name of targeting and breaking into the networks of its
Lockheed officials said millions of suspicious emails were
directed at the company each day, including a handful that were
considered advanced persistent threats from foreign nations.
But Lockheed's complex maintenance and support system for
the F-35, known as ALIS, or Autonomic Logistics Information
System, is under attack on another front, too.
The Pentagon is talking to Lockheed competitors this week
about running that system and others needed to operate and
maintain the new plane, in an effort to rein in F-35 maintenance
costs estimated at up to $1.1 trillion over the next 50 years.
If the Pentagon ousted Lockheed from running the system it
built, the defense giant could lose billions in anticipated
revenue. With a price tag in the billions of dollars, ALIS is
large enough to be considered a major weapons program on its
Lockheed is trying hard to hold on. It says it has fixed the
ALIS problems the Navy found and has its own cyber experts
checking its own networks and any issues involving suppliers.
Defense consultant Robbin Laird downplayed concerns about
ALIS performance or security in general, saying that all modern
weapons systems rely on computer networks and improve over time.
He said the benefits of the automated logistics systems would
pay off in huge savings over time.
Still, the Pentagon will meet this week with more than 160
companies interested in competing with Lockheed on ALIS and
other aspects of sustainment.
Joe DellaVedova, Pentagon spokesman for the F-35, said so
many companies responded to the government's invitation to a
two-day forum on procurement opportunities that a third day was
added. The goal, he said, was to inject competition into the
F-35 program to reduce its "life-cycle costs."
The F-35 program has been restructured three times in recent
years, in part to try to cut costs. Earlier this year the
Pentagon said "no more money" would be put toward cost overruns
and the military would buy fewer planes if costs rose.
The Defense Department also is bracing for sequestration, a
process that would cut the military's budget by $50 billion a
year over a decade, on top of more than $50 billion in annual
cuts already on the books.
Lockheed executives plan to attend the Pentagon meetings
this week and say the company uses competition to choose among
suppliers on the program. Its in-house work only accounts for
about 30 percent of the total cost of the plane, Lockheed says.
Laird said it made sense for Lockheed, as the jet
manufacturer, to continue running ALIS since maintenance data
could improve production and increase parts reliability. "To
treat this as if it were a classic sustainment program is to
miss the whole point," he said.
Lockheed runs ALIS from a large, darkened control room in
Fort Worth, Texas. ALIS gives pilots access to their mission
plans, but they don't need the system to fly the radar-evading
F-35, which will replace nearly a dozen different warplanes now
in service worldwide. However the system allows the military to
track, diagnose and predict the health of planes in the fleet,
not unlike modern "smart cars" that prompt drivers to check tire
pressure or change the oil.
Lockheed says ALIS will revolutionize the way military
airplanes are serviced and maintained, saving billions of
dollars over the life of the program.
But increased sophistication brings greater security risk.
Lockheed said it uses in-house "hackers" to test vulnerabilities
in its networks and notifies suppliers if it finds any.
Still, the company was not aware of the Navy's stealthy
penetration of the system while it was happening. Tom Burbage,
Lockheed's general manager for the F-35 program, acknowledged
that the Navy's cyber-expert "red team" took Lockheed by
"It was meant to be a covert surprise, and it was," he told
Reuters. "It's classified. It was need-to-know. We didn't know
any of the details until we eventually got people who were
cleared who got the details."
The problem the Navy exploited, according to several people
familiar with the program, centered on the fact that ALIS
includes both classified and unclassified data streams, and the
two were not properly separated to prevent intrusions.
Burbage said Lockheed developed a "fairly straightforward
fix" that did not require major adjustments to the ALIS system,
which is now at about 94 percent of its final capability. He
said the Pentagon's initial ALIS specifications did not require
separating classified and unclassified data, since cyber threats
were less prevalent in 2001 when the F-35 program began.
The latest version of ALIS has been in use at Edwards Air
Force Base in California for several months, Burbage said, and
will be used at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada when Lockheed
delivers four F-35s for testing next month or early January.
The Navy "hacking" had threatened to derail plans by the
Marine Corps to set up its first operational squadron of F-35
fighters at an air base in Yuma, Arizona, next week.
The Marines will be the first military service to start
using the planes, probably around 2015, because their existing
fleeting of F/A-18 fighters and Harriers is aging and expensive
to maintain.
"It was a serious concern. We didn't think we'd be where we
are today for another three months," said Col. Kevin Killea, who
oversees aviation requirements for the Marine Corps. He said the
system must be in place for Marine Corps pilots to begin flying
the jets at the base in December.
Marine Corps and industry officials will formally kick off
the operational squadron at the Yuma base on Nov. 20, although
they are still waiting for final approval for pilots to start
local area flights in late December.
"Everything is on schedule now," Killea said, adding
Lockheed had done "good work" to fix the logistics system and
keep the Marine Corps plans for the Yuma base on schedule.


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The UFC's first ever trip to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, was a success at the gate after selling out in just 30 minutes, and a few high-profile fighters cashed in on some impressive paydays.
UFC Hall of Famer Chuck Liddell, who lost in UFC 115's main event, earned $500,000 and former PRIDE champ Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic earned $150,000 for victory in the evening's co-main event.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) requested and today received the figures from the Vancouver Athletic Commission.
Liddell and Filipovic accounted for 49.42 percent of the event's $1.285 million payroll.
UFC 115 main-event winner Rich Franklin ranked just behind Filipovic with a $140,000 payday.
UFC 115 took place June 12 at GM Place in Vancouver and aired on Spike TV and then pay-per-view.
Other top earners from the card include Ben Rothwell ($100,000), Carlos Condit ($52,000) and Martin Kampmann ($93,000).
The list of total paydays from the Vancouver Athletic Commission includes:
Rich Franklin: $140,000 (includes $70,000 win bonus)
def. Chuck Liddell: $500,000
Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic: $150,000 ($75,000 win bonus)
def. Pat Barry: $11,000
Martin Kampmann: $50,000 ($25,000 win bonus)
def. Paulo Thiago: $18,000
Ben Rothwell: $100,000 ($50,000 win bonus)
def. Gilbert Yvel: $30,000
Carlos Condit: $52,000 ($26,000 win bonus)
def. Rory MacDonald: $8,000
Evan Dunham: $26,000 ($13,000 win bonus)
def. Tyson Griffin: $28,000
Matt Wiman: $28,000 ($14,000 win bonus)
def. Mac Danzig: $24,000
Mario Miranda: $12,000 ($6,000 win bonus)
def. David Loiseau: $12,000
James Wilks: $30,000 ($15,000 win bonus)
def. Peter Sobotta: $4,000
Claude Patrick: $12,000 ($6,000 win bonus)
def. Ricardo Funch: $5,000
Mike Pyle: $38,000 ($19,000 win bonus)
def. Jesse Lennox: $7,000
Now, the usual disclaimer: The figures do not include deductions for items such as insurance, licenses and taxes. Additionally, the figures do not include money paid by sponsors, which can oftentimes be a substantial portion of a fighter's income. They also do not include any other "locker room" or special bonuses the UFC oftentimes pays.
For example, as MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) previously reported, UFC officials handed out $85,000 "fight night" bonuses to Franklin (Knockout of the Night), Filipovic (Submission of the Night), and Condit and MacDonald (Fight of the Night).
In other words, the above figures are simply base salaries reported to the commission and do not reflect entire compensation packages for the event.
For complete coverage of UFC 115, check out the UFC Events section of MMAjunkie.com.
(Pictured: Chuck Liddell)

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Hold Ya Head: What will grab our attention after Jun Lin's head is recovered?
I remembered Yoshihiro Hattori when I first read about the murder of Trayvon Martin this past March. Yoshihiro was a 16-year old Japanese exchange student who was fatally shot by a man in 1992 when he had knocked on his door in search of directions to a Halloween party. Upon his arrest, the killer Rodney Peairs claimed that he was only 'defending' his home from the 'intruder' who was 'was acting in a menacing, aggressive fashion…like a stranger invading someone's home turf".
While there was indeed a brief moral panic over Yoshihiro's death in American and Japanese news broadcasts during the months following his murder, news cycle frenzy began to die down and soon enough everyone just forgot.
Yoshihiro's murder isn't a special case.
Rather he joins the numbers of other murdered international students of colour like 23-year-old York University student Qian Liu, 21-year old Coquitlam College student Amanda Zhao Wei and 33-year old Concordia student Jun Lin.
The murders of these three international students of colour is no coincidence, but rather their murders are symptomatic of a culture and society that just does not value things like social investment, protection, and accountability, especially when it comes to the murders of people of colour.
At the moment, the murders of international students of colour is receiving massive signal boosts within our news feed cycles. While often narrated by horror, fascination, disgust and sensationalism, these fast fix news stories often leave out how factors like race play a part in the murders of international students of colour.
In earlier eras, imagery of racist brutality and war atrocities moved nations to act and to change domestic and foreign policy in the interests of global justice. These contemporary images of the murders of people like Yoshihiro, Qian, Jun and Amanda moved all of us with collective outrage, but only, it seems, for a short time.
Where is this collective outrage today?
Having observed the ongoing discussions of Jun Lin's recent murder unfold both on internet forums, the blogosphere and on livestream TV channels like CP24, a recurrent comment that I find to be particularly disturbing and the point of contention for this post is when people are documented as saying that Jun's murder doesn't matter because it was a 'random, rare, freak incident', and that one horrific incident shouldn't tarnish the image of abundant safety in Canada.
Incidentally, Jun's murder was neither random, nor was it rare and it has everything to do with how a person of colour goes about their daily survival in a country like Canada.
Like the murders of Amanda and Qian, Jun's murder should be seen in the broader context of a deeply racist, colonial nation that has historically and continues to see people of colour as a resource to be exploited, mined and pillaged in as many ways as possible. While many would be quick to dismiss this very real truth about this attitude of Canada towards people of colour and Indigenous people as "hate" and even sometimes as "reverse racism," Blogger Zuky notes that those who call every mild criticism "hate" are likely those who have never been on the receiving end of real hate, visceral hate, encompassing hate, normalized hate or legally violent and institutionalized hate. Zuky adds that, these same critics who complain about "the race card" tend to think "hate" is a blip of individual feeling rather than as a pervasive network of mutually-supporting destructive forces whose scaffolding is built right into their psyches.
In fact, it is remarkable to note that Canada is the very same nation that simultaneously woos and lures international students to Canadian institutions but suddenly gets grumpy when those same international students want to extend their stay in Canada and live with us on the basis of equality. According to this sticky thread of logic then, international students of colour can never really belong in Canada since any form of belonging or entitlement to safety, accountability and protection is racialized to exclude them and is a time-limited session to boot!
York University, a campus which has a notorious reputation for ongoing sexual assaults, murders, rapes and robberies that university administration has not yet done enough to combat, is a peculiar case when it comes to the safety of international students of colour.
Curious about the kinds of support and services that York offers to its international students, I heard through word of mouth that York International, the department responsible for York's international students provided information sessions throughout the year on how to do a job search and improve student writing skills. But upon consulting the actual York International website myself , I found no information or links related to safety issues encountered by international students, which is odd as Qian Liu did just get murdered at York a little over a year ago…
Having noticed how the public dissection of Jun Lin's killer's personal life grabbed more attention than Jun's horrific end, another important thing that becomes explicitly clear is just how reluctant certain media broadcasters become when telling the Canadian public about the precarious living situations of these international students. And of course, how could they not be reluctant when international students, particularly those from China (as of 2011, students migrating from China made up 52.7% of the number of international students coming to Canada to study at Canadian universities and colleges) are some of the biggest sources of cash for Canadian universities and colleges who otherwise have to struggle to acquire funds from the provinces, former students and private donors.
As noted in the demography.matters.blog, every year receiving countries of international students like Canada eagerly take advantage of international students as sources of additional income in light of funding cutbacks at colleges and universities by charging international students fees that are many times higher than those charged to students who are Canadian citizens. Since most provinces have deregulated tuition fees, post-secondary institutions can charge international students more than three times the fees Canadian students pay!
Not only are the fees for tuition, living costs, insurance, meal plans and travel costs much higher than what a domestic student can expect, but an unspoken knowledge as to why acquiring an international student is such a campus recruiter's wet dream is the notion that showing off students of racialized backgrounds in academic departments makes a university both look and feel good about themselves. So as an international student of colour, while you may or may not receive the financial support from Canada once your funds from your home country start dwindling away and while the upkeep of your personal safety is rarely ever a guarantee, rest assured that your skin colour is making your chosen university look marketable and progressively-chic.
How this all relates back to Jun Lin is that despite being a lucrative resource for Concordia University and Canada by extension, he ended up paying the most horrific price of all with his life. While Jun's killer was captured relatively quickly because of the public panic over how Jun met his gruesome death, it is hard not to deduce that as an international student, Jun was disposable.
In his essay about the political and social aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Henry Giroux says that to be considered a disposable person means having no institutional support and being left to fend for yourself. It can be said that the living situation of international students who come to study in Canada is indeed a situation where they are literally left to fend for themselves and their safety. Nevertheless, Giroux adds that not only do these disposable peoples have to fend for themselves in the face of life's tragedies but are also supposed to do it without being seen by the dominant society.
These disposable people were Jun Lin. They were also Yoshihiro Hattori, Amanda Zhao Wei and Qian Liu.
The case could even be made that because Jun Lin was not a Canadian citizen and only temporarily here for his studies, it would have been easier for folks to look the other way, had Jun not been murdered in such a gory way. While there are specific legal implications in place between sender nations of international students that receiving nations of international students have to account for when an international student dies on their shores, there is no excuse for why there aren't established safety measures in places to protect international students from violence while they are in Canada.
Having said this, I believe it becomes obvious that if international students are the ones funding the public image and bank balances of Canadian universities and colleges, they deserve safety, protection and accountability. They deserve the same care and respect as a domestic university/college student and thorough community safety measures in place to ensure that their stay in Canada, however long that be, is carried out in a safe space.
Jun, Qian, Amanda and Yoshihiro died because they were all rendered invisible by their student communities and seen as disposable goods by their post-secondary institutions. Their deaths should remind us both the difficult day-to-day struggles of surviving as a person of colour in a white supremacist society and culture and of the need for us to care and look out for one another.
So if you are reading this as an international student, know that the onus of safety should not be on you alone. If you are reading this as a friend, acquaintance, family member or colleague of an international student, proactively seek out ways you can support, care for and cherish them.
Lastly, the demography.matters blog posted a formal apology by Canadian college, Hamilton Mohawk College to the chinese community in Hamilton following the news cycle introduction of Jun Lin's death. If anything, this non-apology apology is worth a definite eye-roll. Enjoy!
"Please believe [us], Canada is a country with good public security protection. Canadians are very friendly. This individual case is not big enough to influence the trust between people of China and Canada… [it's a] country worth of the trust of foreign students and parents."


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I would like to welcome and introduce INK's newest member, Carla Killough McClafferty. Carla will participate in both INK Think Tank (the database of nonfiction books searchable by curriculum standards), and INK Link: Authors on Call (the videoconferencing group).
Carla, who lives in Arkansas, is the author of award-winning nonfiction books of history and science including The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon; In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry; Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium; and The Head Bone's Connected to the Neck Bone: The Weird, Wacky and Wonderful X-Ray and her latest, Tech Titans. You may contact Carla at firstname.lastname@example.com.
I asked Carla to be a guest blogger in my slot this month. She addresses the third most common question I get from children at schools, "Where do ideas come from?" In case you're wondering, the most popular question is, "How old are you?" to which the teachers always say, "Don't ask that! That's not polite." (I tell them anyway.) The second most common question is, "How much money do you make?" to which the teachers say even more forcefully, "Don't ask that! That's really not polite." (I tell them how much I make on the sale of one book.) But when they ask, "Where do you get your ideas?" their teachers relax and coo, "Oh, that's a nice question." Here is Carla's story of how she got the idea for one of her recent books.
Book ideas are everywhere. Some ideas come from unlikely places; others develop through a lot of thought and planning. Sometimes a book idea comes along when you least expect it. It comes as a sweet surprise (like finding a row of Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies in the freezer that I'd forgotten about). That's how it happened for my 2011 book, The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon.
One day I watched a History Channel special I'd recorded titled, "The Search for George Washington." Being a nonfiction author, I'm a big fan of shows that give me the "facts." This program described how the three figures of George Washington in the Education Center of Mount Vernon were created. It explained how experts conducted a forensic study of George Washington in order to determine what he looked like at the ages of 19, 45 and 57. During the science phase of the project they studied priceless artifacts with a spatial laser scanner, which appealed to me since my first career is as a Radiologic Technologist.
The project included aspects of science, technology, history, and art. As I watched, I was mesmerized. I thought, "This would make a great book." Then immediately I thought, "This would be a perfect book for me." And it was.
That day I knew thousands of books had been written about Washington. But I also knew that to write nonfiction books for a trade publisher I had to find a way to write about this familiar subject it in a way that has never been done before. No book on Washington had ever been written using cutting-edge modern technology to reveal new details about the man. The idea for The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon came to me that day nearly fully formed--a sweet surprise.
Now excuse me while I search the freezer for cookies.
While Carla is searching for more Thin Mints, here is what I tell children in answer to their question about ideas:" Ideas are everywhere. You just have to keep your eyes open, your ears open and your mind open." One the many sources of ideas is books by other authors. Just as a History Channel show gave Carla the idea for her book on George Washington, perhaps her book will give you an idea for a book of your own.


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These six music videos by the band Gatekeeper debuted last week on the blog 20jazzfunkgreats. The videos are a dark, hallucinogenic romp, featuring slick computer graphics and repurposed scenes from horror and anime films. The videos are directed and edited by Thunder Horse Video, with the exception of "Mirage" which features original computer animation by the team lenox-lenox. All the songs are off their new EP Giza on Merok Records.
Chapter 1, the Discovery (2009) - Félix Luque Sánchez
Chapter I: The Discovery is an impenetrable, geometric object and a series of videos restaging the moment of its discovery, as if it were a scene from a sci-fi movie, where the hero is suddenly confronted with an alien, slightly chilling figure.
The videos are broadcast in the first room. Images show the dodecahedron in places which are fictitious and devoid of any human trace. No matter the context, the alien entity reproduces the same light and sound animation, expressing a state of waiting by emitting a signal of presence. The sculpture itself waits for visitors in the second room. As the viewer gets closer, the machine detects the movement and "tries" to engage in communication made entirely of light and sound code. If the sculpture is surrounded on all its vertical faces, it will respond by releasing its maximum energy.
Chapter I: The Discovery questions the viewer's perception about the truthfulness of what is shown, right from the visioning of videos with synthetic images and ending up in an encounter with an interactive object which co-opts information flows, sound and light transmission.
50 Posts About Cyborgs
Curated by writer Tim Maly of Quiet Babylon, the tumblr blog 50 Posts About Cyborgs assembles links to material on the cyborg in celebration of the term's 50th anniversary this month.
Soviet Sci-Fi Animation in the 1980's
In the years leading up to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, several of its animation studios were releasing experimental short films based off short stories penned by prominent, American science fiction authors. This post assembles some of these futuristic and otherworldly animations.
Здесь могут водиться тигры, 1989
Here There Be Tigers (Based on the story by Ray Bradbury)
Director: Vladimir Samsonov
Studio: Ecran
A Photo Essay of Brody Condon's "Case"
Organized by the artist Brody Condon, Case is a deadpan reading of the classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson in a rehearsal-like atmosphere. Combining Gibson's 1980s dystopian techno-fetishism with early twentieth-century abstraction, faux "virtual reality" scenes will unfold via moving Bauhaus-inspired sculptural props accompanied by the Gamelan ensemble Dharma Swara.
Case premiered at the New Museum on November 22nd. It will also be performed in summer 2010 in a small outdoor community theater in rural Missouri. The actors for the November 22nd performance include Ray Radtke, Sasha Grey, Lionel Maunz, Sto, Tony Conrad, Sindri Eldon, Peter Segerstrom, Melissa Baxter, Rachid Outabia, Emily Mahoney, Brandon Stosuy, Jee Young Sim, Guil R. Mullen, Brody Condon, and Mallory Blair. The script was prepared by the writer Brandon Stosuy, with sound design by Peter Segerstrom, and graphic props by Breanne Trammell. The event was commissioned and presented by Rhizome and Performa 09.
Below you will find a photo essay of the six-hour long performance, that documents the performance, musicians, and actors at various stages of Case. All photographs were taken by Kristianna Smith.
Interview with Brody Condon
Scheduled for its New York premiere this Sunday, November 22, Case is an experimental adaptation of the 1984 novel Neuromancer by William Gibson. Considered a classic work of the literary genre cyberpunk, Neuromancer tells the story of Case, a fallen super hacker whose glory days have long since ended, leaving him in a drug-addled, regret-ridden state that lifts when a mysterious entity offers him a second chance. Charged, kaleidoscopic, and prescient, Neuromancer dilates on virtual reality, artificial intelligence and a globalized world through the intricacies of Case's story. Case (2009), conceived and produced by artist Brody Condon, will be a day-long installation and performance that, in the artist's words combines "Gibson's 1980s dystopian techno-fetishism with faux 'virtual reality' scenes that will unfold via moving Bauhaus-inspired sculptural props accompanied by the Gamelan ensemble Dharma Swara." I asked Condon a few questions in advance of the New York premiere so readers, near and far, could get a sense of how this ambitious work will unfold on Sunday.
Case is commissioned and presented by Rhizome and Performa 2009: the New York Biennial of performance art, whose theme this year is futurism. It will take place at the New Museum on November 22 from 1-6pm. Viewers may come and go; there is no set time required to stay. Advance tickets are available here: http://www.newmuseum.org/events/384.
Lauren Cornell: Why were you inspired to adopt Case's story in 2009?
Brody Condon: One core theme of Gibson's novel is addiction and transcendence, and is embodied by the hacker Case. The performance will feature Ray "Bad Rad" Radtke, an infamous Midwestern hell-raiser and activist, reading as the main character. This work started as a series of interviews with Ray, which I mashed ...
AIDS 3D's "Digital Awakening" at K44 Gallery
The artist statements written by Berlin-based American artists AIDS-3D read as simultaneously post-apocalyptic and utopian. They are primarily concerned with the unfulfilled promises of emergent technologies and the ways in which our daily lives revolve around these media. Alienation, self-preservation, reproduction (sexual and otherwise), and the construction of lifestyles are common themes in their work, which takes the form of performances, sculptures, and installations frequently employing lasers, electroluminescent cable, and relics from a recent past promoting the heights to which novelties of various origin will change the world. On September 20th, the duo will open the show "Digital Awakening" at Athens, Greece-based K44 Gallery, in which they will elaborate two radically different future scenarios, one in which Earth suffers "a disastrous energy crisis leading to war, famine and the breakdown of the global capitalist system" and an another where "humanity lives in a techno-utopia, where communication tools and futuristic technology fueled by alternative energy have allowed us to fully transcend into a scientifically maintained balance." Considering the potential impact of current directions in the field of energy production, these fictional accounts may not be the work of utter fantasy. - Marisa Olson
A Spiritual Movement?
Many of the artists recently covered on Rhizome have shared an interest in spirituality, particularly as it intersects with mythology and ethos. Call it new media three-point-something, this sect of artists is also significantly prolific and a new show at Prato, Italy gallery Project Gentili surveys very recent work by a handful of the most interesting, including Maurizio Bianchi, Brody Condon, Deva Graf, Shane Hope, Xavi Hurtado, Michael Jones McKean, Dexter Sinister, Damon Zucconi, and AIDS-3D. Entitled "Pole Shift," the show alludes to a recent resurgence in New Age attitudes and interest in the metaphysical; particularly the conjecture that the earth might undergo an axial adjustment, causing a relocation of its poles. (Some worry warts link this prediction with the fear that an expiration in the Mayan calendar in the Gregorian year 2012 signals not only a pending geographic shake-up, but also an apocalypse.) Appropriately, many of the works in the show combine technology and a keen interest in systems with an end-of-an-era, eleventh-hour-type fervency sure to keep viewers on the tips of their toes. After its preview in Italy, the show will be reincarnated in nearly the same shape at Art-Forum Berlin, October 25-December 15. Assuming the world hasn't turned upside down by then, the show's worth adding to your art tour itinerary. - Marisa Olson
Rhizome 2009 Commissions: Announced!
We are pleased to announce the international group of artists who will receive grants through the Rhizome Commissions Program, this year.
Their projects will culminate in a variety of forms, from performance, to sound, to interactive websites and installation, to works that manifest across multiple disciplines. Each one pushes forward the field of contemporary art engaged with technology. All works will be completed by Summer 2009 or earlier, with information available on Rhizome.
The next call for commissions will take place in January 2009. Commissioned artists receive a grant and are invited to present their work at Rhizome's affiliate, the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Marfa Webring, Jona Bechtolt, Claire Evans, Aaron "Flint" Jamison
In Marfa Webring, the artists Claire Evans, Jona Bechtolt and Aaron "Flint" Jamison will attempt to alter the Google search results for the town of Marfa, TX by creating a Webring and, then, (with the cooperation of the town's permanent residents) investigating the results of this action on the daily life of the town.
Case, Brody Condon
Brody Condon will re-create William Gibson's cyberpunk classic Neuromancer at a red barn theatre in rural Missouri with a local, former political activist in the role of the protagonist.
Untitled (Plate Tectonics), Andy Graydon
Andy Graydon explores sound as a building material. The project begins with field recordings taken at New York City arts institutions and manifests as phonograph records and a website where visitors are encouraged to add their own ambient recordings of installation and performance spaces.
Versionhood, Kristin Lucas
The artist Kristin Lucas recently changed her legal name from Kristin Sue Lucas to Kristin Sue Lucas and, thus, in her words, created "the most current version of Kristin Sue Lucas." In Versionhood, Lucas will consult ...
The Tomorrow People
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Is it Getting Hot in Here? Investigate the Greenhouse Effect
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AbstractHas the temperature in your house felt hotter or colder recently? This could be due to the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect states that gases in the atmosphere, such as CO2, might increase the surface temperature of Earth. In this science fair project, you will build a small model of Earth and use it to see how the temperature varies, compared to outside of the model. If you select this science fair project, you will be a part of the effort that is working to figure out what role greenhouse gases have in shaping our Earth's atmosphere.
The objective is to build a simple and small greenhouse and investigate how trapped infrared radiation affects the temperature within.
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This project is based on the project titled "Creating a Greenhouse: How much will the Temperature Rise Inside a Greenhouse from the following source:
- Loret, J and Tanacredi, J eds. Experiment Central: Understanding Scientific Principles through Projects. El-L Volume 2, United States of America: UXL, 2000. 294-300.
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Do you know the cause of the last ice age? Do you know why the last ice age started and why it ended? This question puzzled scientists in the nineteenth century, and many of them put a lot of effort into figuring it out. In 1824, Joseph Fourier, the famous French mathematician and physicist, discovered that gases in the atmosphere might affect the surface temperature of Earth. He called this the greenhouse effect. Fourier reasoned that energy, in the form of visible light from the Sun, can easily penetrate the atmosphere to reach the surface of Earth and heat it up, but heat can't easily escape back into space. Our atmosphere absorbs the heat coming from Earth, called infrared radiation, and radiates some of it back to Earth. This is why we are warm, instead of a lifeless and frigid planet.
In the mid-nineteenth century, John Tyndall was also trying to figure out what started and ended the ice age. In the course of his investigation, he looked into which gases in the atmosphere could trap heat. He found that water vapor and carbon dioxide (CO2), two components of the atmosphere, could trap heat. In fact, even though there are only a few parts in 10,000 of CO2 in the atmosphere, even a trace amount can affect how much heat the atmosphere radiates.
At the end of the nineteenth century, a Swedish scientist, Svante Arrhenius, performed a complicated calculation that showed that cutting the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere could lower the temperature by 4–5 degrees. That would be sufficient to cause an ice age. At the time of the last ice age, geochemical events may have caused variations in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. According to Arvid Hogbom, a friend of Arrhenius', human activity at the end of the nineteenth century was adding CO2 to the atmosphere at about the same rate as geochemical processes. Arrhenius predicted that at that rate, there would be global warming in a few centuries. He didn't realize that humans would continue to increase their rate of CO2 production. Being too warm didn't bother Arrehenius because he lived in chilly Sweden!
The study of climatology and the effects of excess CO2 are very complicated. Just as water moves through the water cycle on Earth, CO2 moves through the carbon cycle. Carbon dioxide cycles in water, vegetation, air, soils and living creatures. How all of these carbon cycles interact can help in finding a possible answer to global warming. In this science fair project, build a model of Earth, a simple greenhouse, and investigate how heat is trapped in the model and how the temperature varies. You will compare the temperature inside and outside the model Earth at different times of the day. See for yourself how the greenhouse effect works!
Terms and Concepts
- Greenhouse effect
- Infrared radiation
- Radiate
- Atmosphere
- Geochemical
- Rate
- Climatology
- Global warming
- What is the greenhouse effect? How does it work?
- What are the different layers of the atmosphere?
- What are the various gases that make up the atmosphere?
- What are some examples of natural geochemical processes?
- What are some examples of human activity that could possibly release CO2 into the atmosphere?
- Wikipedia Contributors. (2008, September 29). Greenhouse effect. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved September 29, 2008.
The following website explains, in great detail, the history of the greenhouse effect and the famous scientists who contributed to this area of science. It also has links to other useful articles.
- Weart, S. (2008, June). The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect. Retrieved September 19, 2008.
For help creating graphs, try this website:
- National Center for Education Statistics. (n.d.). Create a Graph. Retrieved October 20, 2008.
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Materials and Equipment
- Wood board, 1" X 6" X 20" (4) . You can purchase a 1" X 6" x 8' board at your local hardware store and have them saw it into pieces for you.
- Nails, 2 inches long (8)
- Hammer
- Safety glasses, like the one available from Amazon.com.
- Adult helper
- Sheet of transparent plastic or glass, 24" X 24", ¼ inch thick. You can purchase this from your local hardware or plastic store. You can also find this online at www.tapplastics.com. Plastics are usually sold with a sticky coating on both sides. Peel this coating off prior to starting the project.
- Thermometer that can take measurements up to at least 60°C (2), these can be purchased from an online supplier such as Amazon.com
- Lab notebook
- Graph paper
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Experimental Procedure
- Put on your safety glasses. Have an adult helper assist you. Hammer two nails through each end of one of the wood boards. Don't hammer the nails completely through. Just hammer the nails 1 inch into the board. Repeat with a second wood board.
Figure 1. Wood board with two nails hammered in at both ends.
- Place the four wood boards into a square so that the two boards with the nails are opposite each other.
- Carefully hammer the nails into the adjoining wood boards. Make sure that the boards are straight and not crooked, and that the ends are flush. You should have a simple four-sided wood frame that sits flush to the ground.
Figure 2. Hammering the nails in.
Figure 3. The finished wood frame is not crooked and sits flush to the ground.
- Take your wood frame and lay it outdoors in a sunny location where it will not be disturbed for seven days. Try to find a location that is on top of soil and not on concrete or brick. Place one of the thermometers inside the wood frame.
- Drape the wood frame with the square plastic sheet. Make sure that the plastic covers and overlaps the entire wood frame. There should be no gaps between the wood and the plastic. This model represents Earth and our atmosphere. The ground and the wood frame model the Earth and the plastic sheet represents the atmosphere.
- Place the second thermometer outside of the wood frame, next to it. Place it so that it is not under the plastic. This model represents Earth without an atmosphere.
- Record the temperature inside and outside of the model at three different times of the day, for seven days, in your lab notebook. Use a data table, like the one shown below. Try to take temperature readings at approximately the same times each day. Record the weather for each day that you take temperature readings in your lab notebook.
- Plot your data on a scatter plot. Label the x-axis Time of Day and the y-axis Temperature. If you need help creating a graph, try Create a Graph. Plot the data for all seven days on the same plot. Make one plot for the outside data and one plot for the inside data. Is there a difference between the inside data and the outside data? How large is the difference? Is there a dependence on weather?
|Inside Temp. (°F or °C)
|Outside Temp. (°F or °C)
If you like this project, you might enjoy exploring these related careers:
Climate Change AnalystHow is climate change affecting Earth? What will the changes mean for society? If these are questions that peak your curiosity, then you might be interested in a job as a climate change analyst. Climate change analysts evaluate climate data and research to determine how shifts in the climate will affect natural resources, animals, and civilizations. They use this information to make suggestions about what individuals and governments can do to ensure a higher-quality life for everyone in the face of a changing environment. Read more
Environmental ScientistHave you ever noticed that for people with asthma it can sometimes be especially hard to breathe in the middle of a busy city? One reason for this is the exhaust from vehicles. Cars, buses, and motorcycles add pollution to our air, which affects our health. But can pollution impact more than our health? Cutting down trees, or deforestation, can contribute to erosion, which carries off valuable topsoil. But can erosion alter more than the condition of the soil? How does an oil spill harm fish and aquatic plants? How does a population of animals interact with its environment? These are questions that environmental scientists study and try to find answers to. They conduct research or perform investigations to identify and eliminate the sources of pollution or hazards that damage either the environment or human and animal health. Environmental scientists are the stewards of our environment and are committed to keeping it safe for future generations. Read more
MeteorologistThe atmosphere is a blanket of gases, surrounding Earth, that creates our weather. Meteorologists study the measurements and motion of the atmosphere, and changing events within it, so that they can predict the weather. This weather forecasting helps the general public and people who work in industries such as shipping, air transportation, agriculture, fishing, forestry, and water and power better plan for the weather, and reduce human and economic losses. Read more
- Move the model to a shady spot and repeat the experiment. What changes do you notice?
- Prior to taking your earliest measurements, place two bricks inside the model. How does having the bricks inside the model affect your later measurements?
- Place the model on different surfaces (concrete, black or white poster board) and see how this affects your temperature readings.
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Aaron Rodgers admits he's biased. The Packers quarterback became friends with Alex Smith eight years ago during the 2005 NFL draft process. That may be why Rodgers is sticking up for him now. Interviewed by the NFL Network on Monday, Rodgers made his claim for Smith as a quarterback.
"He comes in, he's (got a) 70 percent completion (percentage), he's (got a) 100-plus quarterback rating. Last year, he's like barely over one percent interception percentage," Rodgers said. "He's a great quarterback, he just needs to go somewhere he gets appreciated for the skills he has and hopefully he gets a chance next year."
If Colin Kaepernick stays as the starter, Smith is likely to go elsewhere. The 49ers are locked into paying Smith his $7.5 million 2013 salary by April 1st. The 49ers can either release him before April or try to trade him between when the new league year starts, which is going to be around March 12, and the beginning of April.
Teams that might be interested include the Jets, Cardinals, and Jaguars. Smith, however, probably wants to avoid a team that doesn't have a strong offensive staff. As Rodgers noted, Smith has already gone through instability at the start of his career.
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A QUEENSLAND company that overestimated the traffic on Brisbane's financially failed airport toll road has been hired to predict the traffic on Melbourne's proposed $10 billion east-west toll road.
Queensland-based Veitch Lister Consulting predicted in July that Brisbane's Airport Link M7 would attract 120,000 vehicles a day toll-free when opened, taper off to 85,000 vehicles within six months and eventually sink to 60,000 vehicles a day.
But the road, which opened four months ago, carried just 53,000 vehicles a day last month, less than two-thirds Veitch Lister's forecast.
Veitch Lister was not employed by the operator, BrisConnections, to do the modelling but did it independently. Its forecasts eclipsed BrisConnections' own, which predicted that the road would gradually ramp up to 160,000 vehicles a day.
Victorian Greens leader Greg Barber said the toll road's poor results - which last month forced BrisConnections into a trading halt on the stock exchange after its shares hit 0.04 cents - called into question the Victorian government's assertion that the east-west link would carry up to 100,000 vehicles a day. ''The east-west tunnel will end up being a bigger white elephant than the north-south water pipeline,'' he said.
The problem of so-called ''optimism bias'' when modelling toll traffic has been so endemic that the federal government this year reviewed the problem.
The Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics wrote in a report: ''In general, the forecasting performance for toll roads in the world has been found to be poorer than for toll-free roads. There is an asymmetrical pattern of forecasting errors, that is, consistent overestimation. Australia is no exception.''
Investors have recently sued several consultants over inflated traffic forecasts on toll roads in Brisbane and Sydney.
But Mike Veitch, the chief executive of Veitch Lister, defended the company's modelling, saying it was free from optimism bias because it was not involved in any competitive bid to build the east-west link.
''It's not rocket science,'' he said. ''Australia has a long history of toll roads … One should be able to derive a model that fairly accurately predicts what a new toll road will carry.''
He said the modelling as part of the business case for the east-west link used 2011 census data on population, land use and employment.
The Linking Melbourne Authority, which is preparing the business case, said the modelling was also considering what effect a proposed railway line to Doncaster and the proposed Melbourne Metro tunnel would have on traffic. These figures would also help determine how the project was funded.
''Victorian government forecasts for toll road projects have proven to be extremely accurate in the past,'' an authority spokeswoman said.
Brian Negus, head of public policy for the RACV, said traffic modelling should not be part of any bid to run the east-west link, to prevent optimism bias.
''A lot of forecasts of past toll road projects have been too optimistic because the winning bid is the one that forecasts the most traffic,'' he said.
''There needs to be an independent approach to forecasting traffic, where a figure is provided to bidders who must finance, deliver and operate the projects off those figures.''


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The Woodlands G.R.E.E.N.'s next Going Green Sustainability Lecture: "Solar Energy—Beyond Consumer Rates; What's Next in Developing Community Energy Projects?" is scheduled for Thursday, September 28, at 7:00 p.m. The lecture will be held at HARC, 8801 Gosling Road, The Woodlands, TX 77381.
City of Houston Solar Energy Projects
HARC has worked with the City of Houston on a wide range of solar energy projects. Through its partnership with the City of Houston, HARC helped the City demonstrate leadership in clean energy and environmental performance.
Solar energy projects have included:
Department of Energy Solar America Cities Program
The U.S. Department of Energy named Houston as one of the 25 U.S. Solar America Cities working to accelerate the adoption of solar energy technologies for a cleaner, more secure energy future. Through the Solar America Cities effort, the DOE is working to rapidly increase the use and integration of solar energy in communities across the country. This program focused on a stakeholder-driven process to identify barriers and solutions to solar energy in the area, that resulted in an action plan to address these barriers.
DOE Sunshot Initiative Rooftop Solar Challenge
After the Solar America Cities Program, the DOE created the Sunshot Initiative Rooftop Challenge grant to tackle the twin challenges of reducing non-hardware costs and reducing market barriers. For this opportunity, San Antonio, Austin, and Houston teamed up, and are partnering with relevant stakeholders to make changes to improve market conditions for rooftop PV. The Challenge focused specifically on rooftop PV in the residential and commercial sectors, and emphasized streamlined and standardized permitting and interconnection processes. One of the tasks under this project is to provide information to homeowners, builders, and others on best practices related to best managing installations on historic homes and on homes affected by homeowner associations.
ICMA Podcast with Jennifer Ronk: http://icma.org/en/icma/newsroom/podcasts/Article/101953/Houston_Solar_America_Cities
Solar in Action: Houston Texas: http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/51051.pdf
George R. Brown Solar Demonstration Project
At the time of installation, the George R. Brown PV system was the largest commercial solar demonstration project in Houston. Primary funding for the George R. Brown Solar Pilot
Program was provided by the Houston Architecture Foundation through the support of the Houston Endowment, Inc. Additional project funding was provided by BP and CenterPoint Energy.
The turn-key installation included the design, installation, and commissioning of one 51.3-kW DC crystalline module array and a 49-kW DC amorphous thin-film system. along with a publicly
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1002 Washington Renewable Energy Demonstration Project
The City of Houston converted a 190,000 square foot, former warehouse, built in 1924, to a multi-department office building that serves as the City of Houston's One Stop Permitting Center and Green Building Resource Center. This project, funded by the State Energy Conservation Office, included the installation of four 1.5 kW wind turbines, the installation of a 100.72 kW DTSC Monocrystalline PV System, a 6.1 kW DTSC polycrystalline PV system, and the re-location of forty 165 Watt polycrystalline PV panels from the lod permitting building to the new location. An educational kiosk that provides information on renewable energy produced and building energy use was also designed and installed. Finally, HARC wrote an iPhone app that can report building energy use.
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U.S. stocks struggled for direction in quiet trading Monday, with many traders still on summer vacation and investors waiting for signals from the Federal Reserve about help for the economy.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell to a small loss, the Standard & Poor's 500 darted between small ups and downs, and the Nasdaq composite index nosed higher.
Investors waited for clues from the Federal Reserve on whether it will take additional steps to help the U.S. economy. Chairman Ben Bernanke delivers a closely watched speech in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on Friday.
With many European lawmakers on summer break, the debt crisis there has trudged alone. The U.S. economy is sluggish, but not dramatically improving or worsening. China has shown signs of a slowdown, but not a recession.
In Europe, reminders of the underlying strain were clear, even without any major developments.
Over the weekend, Germany's economy minister and finance minister both said they wouldn't give Greece a break on deadlines for adopting spending cuts that Germany has asked for.
On Monday, Germany's central bank head said that he opposed a bond-buying plan that could lower borrowing costs for countries like Spain and Italy but that would require Germany foot most of the bill.
French President Francois Hollande, usually a little more lenient with Greece, said Saturday that Greek leaders should be willing "to go all out" to meet the spending cuts and other obligations they agreed to for bailouts.
Bigger events lie ahead. German courts will decide next month whether Germany is constitutionally allowed to keep participating in bailouts. And an important debt report on Greece isn't due until late September at the earliest.
In early trading Monday, the Dow was down 30 points, about 0.2 percent, to 13,128. The S&P 500 was down less than a point to 1,410.38. The Nasdaq composite was up a point to 3,071.
Many investors are still on vacation until after Labor Day, and the ones who aren't have had to scrounge for developments to read the market.
Of 18 trading days this month, the Dow has moved more than 1 percent only once. On five days it has been virtually flat, moving less than one-tenth of a percentage point.
Shares of Hertz and Dollar Thrifty both rose after Hertz announced it would buy its rival. Hertz shares jumped 13 percent, or $1.64, to $14.79. Dollar Thrift jumped 7 percent, or $5.95, to $86.95.
Luxury jeweler Tiffany rose 6 percent, climbing $3.56 to $62.06, after reporting higher profits and revenue. Though the company did trim predictions for the rest of the year, and sales fell in the Americas and Europe, revenue in Japan jumped.
Apple was up after a California court on Friday ruled that South Korea-based Samsung had copied some of the features and designs of Apple's iPhone and iPad. Apple stock rose 2 percent, or $14.15, to $677.37.


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March 2, 2002
Third World Kaplan and the Empire of Gloom
Robert D. Kaplan has made a name for himself writing politically tinged travelogues from various Third World pest-holes and global hot spots for the Atlantic Monthly. Now, in his new book, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (New York: Random House, 2002), he stakes his claim to advise us well, provisionally "us" on how "we" should run the world. At the very least the book is symptomatic of a felt need on the part of US imperial leaders, or their cheerleaders, for a compelling doctrine to justify what they wish to do anyway. I shall look at it in that spirit.
As befits such a work, Kaplan addresses himself to the failings of human nature revealed in history. For taking a gloomy view of human nature, Kaplan is said to be "conservative," a usage that helps empty the word of what little real content it has had for several decades. Never mind that. Conservative or otherwise, Kaplan holds that the ancient writers are the best authorities on such matters as human nature, fate, doom, and the like.
The endorsements on the jacket and the people mentioned in the acknowledgements will help the discerning reader get his bearings on the book. Newt (Future Man) Gingrich, Henry the K, William S. Cohen, Michael Lind, Francis (G. W. F.) Fukuyama, and John Gray, founder and president of the Weltanschauung of the Month Club, all praise the book. These are not good omens, except perhaps for neo-pagans in training.
The book defies summary because Kaplan constantly moves the goalposts and changes his own rules in the name of realism, pragmatism, moderation, whatever, and the latter undergo some sea-changes as well. I shall do my best to tease out the main themes. Kaplan gets off to a running start with a dire assessment of the current situation, which is meant to prove that nothing has changed much in history. "Global capitalism" hanging in the air, undefined is fueling "populist rage," since capitalism is not "equitable" (an assertion dropped, rather than argued).
This circumstance threatens us with new "populist" and "utopian" movements akin to Bolshevism and Nazism in the 20th century. Bad, angry masses mobilized by bad ideas wrecked that century. Evidently, they did this in an institutional vacuum, as states and politics go rather unanalyzed in this connection.
Now come some warnings about terrible new enemies who "will not fight according to our notions of fairness" but who will attack "asymmetrically" (the new buzz word). Thus, "[i]f our soldiers cannot fight and kill at close range, our status as a superpower is in question" (p. 9). Clearly, we must draw on the unchristian wisdom of the ancients to understand these things, but first we must take a detour with Winston Churchill.
Churchill, it seems, understood these things and thought like an ancient. His account of the suppression of the Mahdi is held up as great moral instruction. Kaplan sums up the man's Churchill's not the Mahdi's greatness: "Churchill's unapologetic warmongering arose not from a preference for war, but from a breast-beating Victorian sense of imperial destiny…." (p. 25). ). In other words, having an empire means constant warfare, so one prefers empire itself, rather than the wars as such, to not having empire at all. Very clear, I guess.
Churchill naturally brings us around to Titus Livy, ancient Roman virtue, sacrifice, law, and imperially imposed order. Hannibal turns out to be Hitler (p. 32) and luckily far-seeing forerunners of FDR overcame "provincial isolationists" and rallied Romans to defeat him. All this led to executive dictatorship but happily republicanism "survived as an ideal" in much the way that American "freedom" survived the Cold War albeit as a mere rhetorical device.
Somehow, Sun Tzu now comes into play to show how bureaucratic order delivered ancient China from interstate warfare. Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War is mined for insights about "fear (phobos), self-interest (kerdos), and honor (doxa)" (p. 47). All Kaplan takes from the famous dialogue between the Melians and the Athenians is the rather startling thought that a "completely amoral foreign policy" might work out poorly (p. 49). One supposes, therefore, that a moderately amoral policy has much to recommend it.
For old Sun Tzu and Thucydides "war is not an aberration" (p. 50). Cheery lot, they are. But now we are getting somewhere and soon embrace the neo-pagan insights of Machiavelli, the better to throw aside Christian silliness about morality. The insufficiently pagan Shah of Iran is duly scorned for having "to compromise with street anarchy" (p. 53). Actually, the Shah shrunk from unleashing the secret police on his people to the extent advised by the steely-eyed US proconsuls.
Yitzhak Rabin, by contrast, is praised for being successfully ruthless, which explains, one imagines, the present peaceful disposition of everyone in that part of the world. The wicked Pinochet of Chile, however, "lack[ed] Machiavellian virtue" because he used "excessive violence" (p. 55). One can only guess whether Francisco Franco looks a proper Machiavellian under Kaplan's microscope.
Machiavelli lucked out by rejecting private Christian virtue in favor of public, pagan virtue. Self-educated, he missed out on "the scholastic abstractions that tainted the culture of his age" (p. 57). Hypocritical Tridentine Catholics smeared the poor fellow's reputation (p. 59), but we neo-pagans can get past that.
Public pagan virtue provides us with the stones to emulate that wonderful statesman Lincoln, "who was sufficiently ruthless to target the farms, homes, and factories of Southern civilians in the latter phase of the Civil War" (p. 61).
With Lincoln, we turn to suitably amoral moderns who did the right thing, even though there is according to Kaplan no objective morality but only reason of state. (So if there is no objective morality, how do we know they did the right thing?) To break out of the "determinism" offered by the medieval Catholics and the Marxists (p. 70), we must read Isaiah Berlin another bad sign.
More importantly, we must read Hobbes and Malthus. Hobbes teaches that the natural state of man is on what evidence? a war of each against all. Thus, we must submit to a Leviathan state, within the frame of which we enjoy whatever freedom is actually possible. Absent the social Covenant, says Hobbes, "no action can be Unjust" (quoted, p. 83), a piece of impertinent nonsense from which Kaplan derives really Zbig, I mean "big," consequences.
The state causes freedom, it seems, and Little Jamie Madison and Alexander Hamilton appear as character witnesses for it. The American Revolution "is impossible to imagine" absent "the philosophy of Hobbes and Machiavelli" (p. 87) and the Founders were all pagan virtuosos. They "substituted the arenas of party politics and the marketplace for actual battlefields" (p. 87, my italics), as if they were mighty Social Engineers and as if they had any choice in the matter!
But the state giveth and the state protecteth and the state cannot be held to mere "private morality," which is the whole point, really, for Kaplan. Most of our ancestors did not actually sign up for these premises. But, returning to the flow of the book, Thomas Malthus takes a bow for warning us (by inference) about angry Third World males and telling us about ecosystems (pp. 88-95). Malthus' real economic insights fall by the wayside, because economics is, generally, beneath the notice of well-read pagans.
With a bow to the Holocaust and Immanuel Kant, we are told that "isolationism" and American "idealism" are just two sides of the same coin (p. 102), totally unsuited for making pagan foreign policy. TR, Serbia, and "the future of NATO" (p. 107) are mentioned, even if no reason is given why the latter should have a future. Suddenly Kaplan wants to fuse "Judeo-Christian" values with the heroic pagan ones (p. 109), having spent much of his time ridiculing Christian thought up to this point (pp. 46, 51, 56, 57, 61, 62, 63, 70, 109, 114, 115, etc.).
The nightsoil intersects the cooling device, at last, in chapter nine. Here we learn that to deal with warlike humanity, we must take up Churchill's burden. The distinction between civilian and military leadership will blur, even more than in the heroic Cold War; wars will come and go all of them undeclared. Even better, wars will take place "within states" and international law will go by the board (p. 118).
We shall be ruled by a new "aristocracy of statesmen, military officers, and technocrats…, motived, one hopes, by ancient virtue" (p. 121). Ah yes, one would indeed hope so, but since virtue has already been defined as pagan ruthlessness, perhaps this isn't as good a bargain as it might appear.
The childish moralizing of the mass media may be a problem for the neo-pagan world-improvers. Kaplan makes no suggestions here, even though "[t]he power of the media is willful and dangerous" (p. 129). This cheered me immeasurably, for Kaplan has finally noticed a form of power that might be dangerous amidst all his calls for toughness, aerial bombardment, and urban counter-insurgencies.
The last chapter meditates a bit on the Emperor Tiberius, whose career is conveniently divided, unlike Gaul, into two parts. Tiberius I was a likeable fellow who caused prosperity. Tiberius II, however, apparently lost track of his pagan virtues while cavorting at Capri, and became bad. This does not seem to make Kaplan question the imperial form of rule.
On the world's loom, weave the Cons doom, or so one might think. It has fallen to "us" that is, the US to build the, ahem, new world order of "governance" (that sounds so much nicer than World Government). Kaplan writes that this happy outcome will rest on peacekeeping missions, war crimes tribunals, and democracy but not too much of the latter, since the pagans need some room to work in.
In the interim, American patriotism must be kept alive so as to swindle the masses into backing and paying for this realistic, pragmatic, pagan creation of order. Bring on the Fourth of July fireworks. Down the road, all this backward American nationalism can wither away. Our critics at Free Republic might wish to ponder the role Kaplan has chosen for them in this process.
The utter, well-nigh ruthless, partisanship of Kaplan's treatment of historical and contemporary figures is quite stunning. There is no thesis in this book. There is merely lawyer's history and special pleading in the interest of the present ruling class. The morality of actions in foreign affairs is entirely to be judged by consequences. This threadbare utilitarianism goes nowhere, but it would take a separate essay to do it justice (provided there is justice outside Kaplan's and Hobbes' Leviathan state).
Kaplan's argument meanders and waffles on anything substantive. We mustn't believe in determinism, yet he predicts the future. Realism is flawed, but we must be realists to some undisclosed extent. Morality is after-the-fact but we must sometimes intervene to do good on the basis of justice, which doesn't actually appear to exist objectively. There is no ontological order in Kaplan's world, not the least glimmering of economic insight, no political theory.
He shreds the constitution, belittles democracy, defames the founders as pagans, but informs us that we are prosperous because we enjoy "the rule of law" (p. 9). He must have an odd notion of what law is. He equates Hitler and Hannibal but also announces that "medieval popes," Mohammed, and Hitler were "armed prophets" (pp. 32, 60). Does this make Hannibal a pope or a prophet? Between Kaplan and Hobbes and Calvin and Hobbes, I think the choice must be clear.
Throughout this Case for the Ruling Class Restated, Kaplan waves his hands in the general direction of an unspecified "West." The "West" takes in Greece and Rome, skips the Christian Middle Ages somehow, and shows up again in the British and US Empires. How convenient. How unconvincing. But necessary: you can't have Augustine, Aquinas, Mariana, Grotius, and the like messing with morality, can you?
Like the two Marxists right out of Monty Python, who wrote a treatise on "pre-capitalist modes of production" and then had to write a corrective sequel to sort out the forces and relations of production, Kaplan will need to write another, longer book just to rectify the contradictions and inconsistencies in his present book. That, or he can go back to reporting from the imperial frontier on the latest triumphs or setbacks of his preferred foreign policy. It is the business he has chosen.
We, apparently, have no choice in the matter, and hence Kaplan's attack on constitutional details, "democracy," and freedom of the press.


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