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|The Saker
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Gold - Chart Patterns in Different Currencies
|Tom McClellan: The price bottom associated with gold's 13-1/2 month cycle was ideally due in July 2014.
Thursday, July 3, 2014
July 12, 2014 = Mercury's Maximum Western Elongation + SuperMoon
Of all the planets Mercury is the smallest and closest to the Sun, and has a fast orbital period of 88 Earth days on average. Despite the small size and the slow 59-day-long rotation, Mercury has a significant magnetic field, strong enough to deflect the solar wind and to create a magnetosphere that can trap solar wind plasma. Mercury was a Roman god who travelled between the worlds of gods, humans and the dead. In astrology Mercury is generally associated with mental activities and faculties of the mind, and in astrofinance Mercury is the planet of trading, commerce, and intellect. However, seen from Earth, Mercury's orbit around the Sun is 116 days on average (+/- 32 days). Also seen from Earth, it reaches a maximum Eastern and a maximum western elongation. These moments frequently coincide with a changes in trend in financial markets (see also HERE).
On July 12, 2014 Mercury will reach the maximum western elongation on its orbit (HERE). On the same day there will be a SuperMoon (HERE) making a series of aspects to Pluto, Uranus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter between July 11-12. This should have at least some short-term impact on the financial markets. On July 15 (Tue) both the geocentric and heliocentric Bradley Indices are at their highs of the year 2014 (HERE). Saturn is the Lord of Karma, and after 150 days of retrograde motion, will station direct on July 20 (Sun). Uranus is the Lord of the unpredictable, revolution, and progression and will turn retrograde the next day, July 21 (Mon). Ray Merriman remarks on this period: "Equity markets are prone to upheavals during such bouts of cosmic thunder."
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Perspectives on Gold
|Charles Nenner on Gold - June 26, 2014 (HERE)
|Gold Cycle Model - Econocasts - June 27, 2014 (HERE)
|Martin Armstrong on Gold (HERE)
|Calculated and charted with Sergey Tarassov's TimingSolution
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Modern Money Mechanics - The Alchemy of Neo-Feudalism
|"Modern Money Mechanics" was a booklet published
and distributed by the Federal Reserve Bank of
Chicago, originally written by Dorothy M. Nichols
in May 1961. Described as a "workbook on bank re-
serves and deposit expansion", the text offers a
detailed description of the basic process of money
creation out of absolutely nothing in today's glo-
bally established fractional reserve banking schemes
such as the Federal Reserve System and the European
Central Bank (see also HERE).
However, that is not true: Modern Money Mechanics explains how money is created the instant it is borrowed. In other words, debt creates money. All the so called 'Western' governments create bonds (= public debt), give them to private bankster-cartels called 'independent central banks' or 'commercial banks' which use that debt to create money. There is no other value attached to it. It is the act of borrowing which causes it to spring into existence. Also all other banks are creating money based on a borrower's promise to pay (the IOU = I Owe You). They create money by 'monetizing' the public and private debts of businesses and individuals.
In his book 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' G. Edward Griffin elaborates on this in the example of the US:
"The entire function of this machine is to convert debt into money. It's just that simple. First, the Fed takes all the government bonds which the public does not buy and writes a check to Congress in exchange for them. (It acquires other debt obligations as well, but government bonds comprise most of its inventory.) There is no money to back up this check. These fiat dollars are created on the spot for that purpose. By calling those bonds "reserves," the Fed then uses them as the base for creating 9 additional dollars for every dollar created for the bonds themselves. The money created for the bonds is spent by the government, whereas the money created on top of those bonds is the source of all the bank loans made to the nation's businesses and individuals. The result of this process is the same as creating money on a printing press, but the illusion is based on an accounting trick rather than a printing trick.
|Alain Soral explaining the root of the matter in two
minutes and calling for regime change (HERE & HERE).
[…] The federal government adds ink to a piece of paper, creates impressive designs around the edges, and calls it a bond or Treasury note. It is merely a promise to pay a specified sum at a specified interest on a specific date […] this debt eventually becomes the foundation for almost the entire nation's money supply. In reality, the government has created cash, but it doesn't yet look like cash. To convert these IOUs into paper bills and checkbook money is the function of the Federal Reserve System.
|Money as Debt (HERE)
There is no money in any account to cover this check. Anyone else doing that would be sent to prison. It is legal for the Fed, however, because Congress wants the money, and this is the easiest way to get it […] The process is mysteriously wrapped up in the banking system […] The Federal Reserve check is then deposited in one of the Federal Reserve Banks […] These checks become the means by which the first wave of fiat money floods into the economy."
In other words: Only the obligation of the state to borrow money that was created by private banking cartels out of virtually nothing, and to pay interests on this money, allows the progressive transfer of the wealth of the state and the people into the hands of financial oligarchies that own and control the banking system. A good part of all taxes imposed today by liberal western democracies are in fact but constant and direct neo-feudal tributes to parasitic financial oligarchies.
Posted by Time-Price-Research at 5:42 AM
Labels: Alain Soral, ECB, FED, Fiat Currency, Fractional Reserve Banking, G. Edward Griffin, Imperialism, Modern Money Mechanics, Neo-Feudalism, Oligarchy, OT, Private Central Banking, Quantitative Easing
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Update: SP500 and VIX - Intermediate Term Delta Projections
|Apparently there was an inversion in the ITD. So in early June a low in the VIX and a high in stocks
should be expected. Source: Time-Price-Research (Tuesday, February 18, 2014)
|Updated Delta count for S&P 500: (Friday, May 23, 2014)
|Also the LOW in the SoLunar Tides on June 1 points to a HIGH in equities on that date
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Trading with Nothing for Something – The International Monetary System is a Global Financial Guantanamo based on Fraud, Usury and Oppression – Contemporary Islamic Perspectives on Fiat Money and Fractional-Reserve Banking
|Money must have intrinsic value ... Fiat currency and
banking are acts of crime ... (HERE)
"... Money must have intrinsic value due to it being the measure and store of the value of things. A form of 'money' that is open to total artificial manipulation and subjective valuation will not be able to perform these two functions of money.
... Fiat currency and banking are acts of crime, in fact, among the worst crimes in human history. Banking institutions must be held accountable for the continuous campaigns of wars and colonialism – today, corporate colonialism – which are undeniably their biggest and lucrative money-making opportunities. They have left behind clear fingerprints and traces for the world to see. They are also directly responsible for the impoverishment of countries shackled by unpayable debts owed to internationally recognized bloodsucking money lenders and financiers.
... The monetary system based on fiat currency ensures that the amount of debts created will always be far more than the actual money supply, which means that many will never be able to repay the original sum, what more the interest. Many will be forced to default, declare bankruptcy and watch as their possessions are confiscated before their eyes. This does not happen to individuals only, but also to countries and nations which are forced to sell their resources for a measly price due to their inability to repay their international debts.
|Muhammad Mahathir - Ex-Malaysian Prime Minister (1981–2003), 2008:
"Quantitative Easing is a privilege for the rich nations only. When
Greece lost money, it could not print currency notes or issue cheques
to pay debts.Greece needs to borrow money from European countries to
repay loans. Again no currency notes would be involved. The amount lent
would be credited to the Central Bank of Greece which then would issue
cheques to the commercial banks... Rightly both the United States and
United Kingdom should be bankrupt. To recover they should be selling
all their banks, industries and other assets at fire-sale prices. That
was what the Asian countries were forced to do after the currency
traders forced many of them almost into bankruptcy. But the bankrupt
powerful countries of the West don't have to do that. They carry out
Quantitative Easing, print money and refinance their banks and bankrupt
industries. And they talk about transparency in business practice." (HERE)
... The criminal act of banking (lending other people's money on interest without their consent and earning through that without any risk of loss or without any labor involved) cannot be separated from fiat currency. Without fiat currency, banks today will not be able to function as how they are functioning. From the very beginning, it was the introduction of promissory notes (which have now devolved to fiat currency) that allowed the banks to engage in this misuse of the money that was entrusted to their safe-keeping by the unsuspecting masses. Both the practice of banking and the use of fiat currency are based strongly on Riba [usury].
... Fiat currency today cannot be a measure of value or a store of value as it constantly loses its illusory 'value' due to it not having natural or intrinsic value. In reality, it is nothing presented as something. This is why fiat money and chronic inflation are not separable; both are the results of each other. Nothingness will only return to nothingness and history is a witness to this.
|Imran N. Hosein (2013) - The International Monetary System: "When the poor are
permanently poor, and the rich permanently rich, that is oppression! All around the world
today that oppression exists, and is constantly increasing - the poor grow poorer and the
rich richer. Riba [usury] is the cause! A predatory global elite, centered in the West, but
also around the world, is constantly sucking the wealth of mankind and impoverishing the
masses through riba. Their ultimate objective is to utterly enslave all of mankind in a new
sophisticated slavery.Political, legislative, judicial and legal systems, the media etc.,
are all created by the oppressor, and all function to preserve the system of economic
oppression. Television is used to transport the masses to fantasy-land so that they remain
unaware while riba is used to enslave them." (see also HERE & HERE & HERE)
... This fall in its purchasing power does not happen based on real situations where the money supply circulating in the nation naturally exceeds the goods and services available in the same nation. The resultant increase in the price of goods and services is due to the artificial creation of money out of nothing. This artificial creation of money out of thin air - one of it - is due to what bankers call Fractional Reserve Banking. This has never ceased to happen since banking took control of the money supply of a country and as a result, the price of goods and services are deliberately forced to be raised and as an inevitable result, the value of the money in our possession (purchasing power) keeps falling. This is intended rip off [Al-Bakh].
... We do not need to bring down, attack or destroy the banking industry. The usurers will themselves bring the banks down since usury is baatil [falsehood], and baatil is bound to perish. What we have to do is to bring the haq [truth] and haq does not need the majority to give it any extra strength.
... Many shops and traders around the world have started to accept the Dinar [gold] and Dirham [silver] as payment. Some have also started using it as their mahar and some have went a step further by signing business contracts with the Dinar and Dirham being the capital as well as the profit."
Tarek El Diwany, 2014: "An economically educated person should ask why a man would go to prison for creating money at home, while the bankers do it for a living. Still the question goes unanswered. Why does the crime of counterfeiting become a respectable profession through the act of incorporation as a limited company? Can you give me one example in Shari'ah where something that is haram [forbidden] becomes halal [legal] by the granting of a commercial license?"
Posted by Time-Price-Research at 8:21 AM
Labels: Central Banking, Fiat Currency, Fractional-Reserve Banking, Geopolitics, Gold, IMF, Imperialism, Imran N. Hosein, Islam, Muhammad Mahathir, Neo-Feudalism, Oligarchy, OT, Quantitative Easing, Silver
Sunday, March 23, 2014
March 18, 2014 – Historic Turning Point: The Apex of Globalism and the Ascent of a Multi-Polar World System
Vladimir Putin: Against the equality of good and evil.
[…] After the dissolution of bipolarity on the planet, we no longer have stability. Key international institutions are not getting any stronger; on the contrary, in many cases, they are sadly degrading. Our western partners, led by the United States of America, prefer not to be guided by international law in their practical policies, but by the rule of the gun. They have come to believe in their exclusivity and exceptionalism, that they can decide the destinies of the world, that only they can ever be right. They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle "If you are not with us, you are against us." To make this aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international organisations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore the UN Security Council and the UN overall.
[…] I understand those who came out on Maidan with peaceful slogans against corruption, inefficient state management and poverty […] However, those who stood behind the latest events in Ukraine […] resorted to terror, murder and riots. Nationalists, neo-Nazis, Russophobes and anti-Semites executed this coup […] We understand what is happening; we understand that these actions were aimed against Ukraine and Russia and against Eurasian integration […] We have every reason to assume that the infamous policy of containment, led in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, continues today. They are constantly trying to sweep us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because we call things like they are and do not engage in hypocrisy. But there is a limit to everything. And with Ukraine, our western partners have crossed the line.
[…] It is at historic turning points such as these that a nation demonstrates its maturity and strength of spirit. The Russian people showed this maturity and strength through their united support for their compatriots. Russia's foreign policy position on this matter drew its firmness from the will of millions of our people, our national unity and the support of our country's main political and public forces […] Obviously, we will encounter external opposition, but this is a decision that we need to make for ourselves. Are we ready to consistently defend our national interests, or will we forever give in, retreat to who knows where? […] Russia will also have to make a difficult decision now, taking into account the various domestic and external considerations. What do people here in Russia think? Here, like in any democratic country, people have different points of view, but I want to make the point that the absolute majority of our people clearly do support what is happening.
In his 2013 annual Presidential address to the Federal Assembly Vladimir Putin clearly expressed:
[…] Today, many nations are revising their moral values and ethical norms, eroding ethnic traditions and differences between peoples and cultures. Society is now required not only to recognise everyone's right to the freedom of consciousness, political views and privacy, but also to accept without question the equality of good and evil, strange as it seems, concepts that are opposite in meaning. This destruction of traditional values from above not only leads to negative consequences for society, but is also essentially anti-democratic, since it is carried out on the basis of abstract, speculative ideas, contrary to the will of the majority, which does not accept the changes occurring or the proposed revision of values. We know that there are more and more people in the world who support our position on defending traditional values that have made up the spiritual and moral foundation of civilisation in every nation for thousands of years: the values of traditional families, real human life, including religious life, not just material existence but also spirituality, the values of humanism and global diversity. Of course, this is a conservative position. But speaking in the words of Nikolai Berdyaev, the point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.
The President of Russia is leading the global resistance against the Empire of Wall Street and the City of London. He stopped their genocidal depredation in Russia. This is why they hate him, why they attempt to kill him, why the corporate media is cheering thugs of the ilk of Yulia Tymoshenko and Mikhail Khodorkovsky as if they were heroes of democracy. Since 25 years the imperial 'West' is waging wars, destroying nation after nation, producing failed states, terrorism, chaos and millions of casualties. This was the second NATO-coup in Ukraine within a decade. The road to Moscow leads through Kiev. But this time around Vladimir Putin's Russia was prepared, and not alone: After the latest coup in Ukraine, Crimea hastily joined Russia on March 18, 2014 before becoming subjected to IMF-looting or another 'civil war' orchestrated by NATO. The unification of Crimea and Russia is backed by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). This military and economic alliance was founded in 1996 responding to globalizing NATO-savagery. Today the SCO comprises 6 member states, 5 observer states, 3 dialogue partners, and 3 guest attendances of 5 non-Western civilizations (Russian, Chinese, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist - 4 nuclear powers among them) from the South China Sea to the Baltic Sea and from the Persian Gulf to the Bay of Bengal. In terms of potential, production, infrastructure, economic growth and prosperity, this is the most successful and promising alliance in recorded history. This is not an empire. It is an alliance of sovereign states and their relations are governed by international law. This is the very opposite to the poisonous 'one-world'-gospel of the globalists and the 'clash-of-civilization'-ideology of the liberals.
|Pro-Russian protesters hold a banner reading "Odessa for referendum!" stage
a rally in the center of the Ukrainian city of Odessa on March 23, 2014
|The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland, is the central bankers'
central bank. It is the centre of control of the world financial system, the Vatican of
globalization. The BIS not only owns the FED and the ECB, but is also the largest share-
holder in some other 80 central banks around the globe, as well as the largest shareholder
in the IMF and other multilateral financial institutions. And who owns the BIS? It is a
private cartel of only 8 families. The Americans, the Japanese, the Germans, the French,
the Italians, etc. owe trillions of dollars to this cartel. Of course they will never be
able to pay back. But this is just perfectly fine. From the very inception the Euro was
not even based on fractional reserve banking but on thin air plus the ability of the state
apparatus to tax the 99.9% of the population and to cater hundreds of billions of interests
every year to the cartel. This is perfectly fine since this money buys real assets, commodi-
ties, services, everything. Globally. A supertanker of crude, a shipment of cars, quadril-
lions of working-hours - all for a bunch of paper or digits created in cyber-space. And if
one doesn't agree with this sort of deal, the overlords of money will send in the hit-men,
the jakals, the drones, color revolutions, mercenaries, Al-Qaeda, NATO. This sort of
banking and the scam of interests on the money are the very essence and holy spirit of
globalized neo-feudalism.
If this is now indeed the "beginning of the end" for the globalist's Empire, this is still only the very beginning of a long and most dangerous process: The next big NATO war will be the end-game for absolute rule of a cynical world hegemon over the 99% of the global rest. Some Empires die more or less peacefully, destroyed by economic ruin, over-stretch and social implosion; others prefer to doom in an orgy of violence.
Posted by Time-Price-Research at 6:27 AM
Labels: BIS, BRICS, China, Crimea, ECB, Eurasia, FED, Fourth Political Theory, Geopolitics, IMF, Imperialism, Multi-Polar World, NATO, OT, Russia, SCO, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, WWIII, Zionism
Friday, March 14, 2014
Alexander Dugin: Liberalism as Nihilism - The Coming War as Concept
|Credits: Alexander Dugin (March 10, 2014)
"The War on Russia in its Ideological Dimension."
Liberalism fights against all forms of collective identity, and against all types of values, projects, strategies, goals, methods and so on that are collectivist, or at least non-individualist. That is the reason why one of the most important theorists of liberalism, Karl Popper (following Friedrich von Hayek), held in his important book, The Open Society and Its Enemies, that liberals should fight against any ideology or political philosophy (ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Marx and Hegel) that suggests that human society should have some common goal, common value, or common meaning. (It should be noted that George Soros regards this book as his personal bible.) Any goal, any value, and any meaning in liberal society, or the open society, should be strictly based upon the individual.
[...] After the victory of 1991, liberalism stepped into its implosive phase. After having defeated communism as well as fascism, it stood alone, with no enemy to fight. And that was the moment when inner conflicts emerged, when liberal societies began to attempt to purge themselves of their last remaining non-liberal elements: sexism, politically incorrectness, inequality between the sexes, any remnants of the non-individualistic dimensions of institutions such as the State and the Church, and so on. Liberalism always needs enemy to liberate from. Otherwise it loses its purpose, and its implicit nihilism becomes too salient. The absolute triumph of liberalism is its death.
[...] Modern Russia is not anti-liberal, not totalitarian, not nationalist, and not communist, nor is it yet too liberal, fully liberal-democrat, sufficiently cosmopolite, or so radically anti-communist. It is rather on the way to becoming liberal, step by step [...] However, in the global agenda of liberalism as represented by the United States and NATO, there is a need for another actor, for another Russia that would justify the order of the liberal camp, and help to mobilize the West as it threatens to break apart from inner strife. This will delay the eruption of liberalism's inner nihilism and thus save it from its inevitable end. That is why they badly need Putin, Russia, and war. It is the only way to prevent chaos in the West and to save what remains of its global and domestic order. In this ideological play, Russia would justify liberalism's existence, because that is the enemy which would give a meaning to the struggle of the open society, and which would help it to consolidate and continue to affirm itself globally. Radical Islam, such as represented by al-Qaeda, was another candidate for this role, but it lacked sufficient stature to become a real enemy. It was used, but only on a local scale. It justified the intervention in Afghanistan, the occupation of Iraq, the overthrow of Gaddafi, and started a civil war in Syria, but it was too weak and ideologically primitive to represent the real challenge that is needed by liberals.
Russia, the traditional geopolitical enemy of Anglo-Saxons, is much more serious as an opponent. It fits the needed role extremely well – the memory of the Cold War is still fresh in many minds. Hate for Russia is an easy thing to provoke by relatively simple means. This is why I think that war with Russia is possible. It is ideologically necessary as the last means to postpone the final implosion of the liberal West.
Posted by Time-Price-Research at 12:28 AM
Labels: Alexander Dugin, Communism, Cycles of War, False Flag Operation, Fascism, Fourth Political Theory, Geopolitics, George Soros, John Stuart Mill, Karl Popper, Liberalism, NATO, Nihilism, OT, Russia, Vladimir Putin
Monday, March 3, 2014
Moon and Stocks - The Four Lunar Month Cycle
|Markets repeat directly or inversely somewhere between (+/- 2 days) the 4 Lunar Month Cycle (118.12 Days)
and the average synodic period of Mercury (116.88 Days). More on the Delta Phenomenon HERE - Please note:
Inversions of polarity oftentimes occur +/- 2 weeks around equinoxes and solstices (HERE)
Sunspots and Stocks - The Short-Term
|'Daily Sunspot Numbers' and 'F10.7 Flux' e.g. @ NASA's OMNIWeb
In the late 1990s Jeffrey Owen Katz and Donna McCormick examined the effects of sunspots especially on the S&P 500 and Minnesota Wheat. They developed several profitable trading strategies generating entries and exits based on solar activity alone. However, they concluded: "We personally do not believe solar influences directly determine the market. We do suspect that they act as triggers for events that are predisposed to occur, or as synchronizers of already-present market rhythms with similar periodicities." Well ...
Posted by Time-Price-Research at 1:00 AM
Labels: 10.7 cm Radio Flux, Al Larson, Bradley Siderograph, Donna McCormick, Geomagnetic Forecast, Jeffrey Owen Katz, KP Index, Market and Solar Activity, Solar Cycle, Space Weather, Sunspots
Sunspots and Stocks - The Big Picture
|Most people think the Sun rests at the centre of the solar system, and
that the planets orbit it. This is almost correct, but not quite (HERE).
The tidal and electro-magnetic forces exerted on the Sun by the motions of the other planets – primarily by Jupiter and Saturn - are the cause for the cyclic solar activity. Outside of the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn combined contain 92% of the total planetary mass and 86% of the angular momentum. The Sun's radius is 0.0044 astronomical units, while Jupiter and Saturn can move the barycenter as much ~2.2 solar radii away from the center of the Sun. The total angular momentum in the Solar System is constant, while the angular momentum of each individual part of the system referred to the Center of Mass is variable. When Jupiter and Saturn are in conjunction with the Sun, the barycenter is far outside of the Sun. But when both of them are on opposite sides, the barycenter is inside the Sun. Jupiter's magnetosphere extends well beyond Saturn's orbit. If it were not for the presence of the solar field itself, Jupiter's magnetosphere would reach the centre of the solar system. Saturn also has a large magnetosphere, approximately about one-fifth of Jupiter's. The variation in the Sun's motion about the Center of Mass is charcterized by a periodicity of 178.770 years: Every 16 loops about the barycenter the Sun repeats a very similar path. The slight time derivative or torque to this 178.770 year cycle, a time dependant periodic function of +/- 1.05 years is called the torque cycle, determined by nine subsequent synodic periods of Jupiter and Saturn (9 * 19.858 years = 178.720 years) and used by Theodor Landscheidt to forecast sunspot cycles.
|Mikhail Gorbanev (2012): Probably, the earliest recorded hypothesis about the relation between the
solar and business activity was presented in a paper by German astronomer Wilhelm Herschel in 1801,
calling attention to an apparent relationship between sunspot activity and the price of wheat. In
1875 British economist and statistician William Stanley Jevons suggested that there was a relation-
ship between sunspots and business cycle crises. He reasoned that sunspots affect Earth's weather,
which, in turn, influences crops and, therefore, the economy. In 1934 Argentinian Carlos Garcia-
Mata and Felix I. Shaffner revisited the evidence about the links between solar activity and business
cycle in the US. They did not find support for Jevon's theory about cyclical solar activity affecting
crops. However, they uncovered a statistically significant correlation between the fluctuations in
non-agricultural business activity in the US and the solar cycle.
|Mikhail Gorbanev (2012): Solar maximums are good predictors of US recession, effectively predicting at
least 8 out of 13 recessions between 1935 and 2012. Recessions occurred in the months around and after
the solar maximums much more often than in other periods. Out of 13 recessions in this period, 8 started
in the 2 years around solar maximums, counting from 3 months before until 20 months after them. What
about the remaining 4 recessions that occurred in 1935-2012, including the Great Recession of 2008-09?
The brief recession of 1945 was likely caused by reduction of the US government supply and military orders
in the end of the WWII. And the similar causes likely triggered the recession of 1953-54 after the end of
Korean War (historically, the recessions quite often happened after the end of major wars). The painful
recession of 1974-75 was caused by the oil price shock. And the Great Recession of 2008-09 was triggered
by the collapse of sub-prime lending in the US, which exposed massive overvaluation of the housing stock
and flaws in mortgage lending and securitization practices.
|Mikhail Gorbanev (2012): In the 64 years from 1948 to 2012, all 6 periods of sunspot maximums overlapped
with minimums of the US unemployment rate. Moreover, each time the dynamics of unemployment changed
from the declining trend to a rapid increase, with the unemployment rate peaking 2-3 years after the sunspot
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On November 14, 1999 , Kelley McEnery Baker, 24, died after she took an ecstasy pill. Kelley had graduated from high school, took some college courses and was finding her way in the world. According to her mother, Kate Patton, Kelley had used alcohol and marijuana in the past, but until her death, there had been no conversations about the drug ecstasy-her mother had never even heard of it. For all of her life, Kelley had been a typical teenager-cheerleader, hanging out with friends, facing the same things many suburban teenagers do every day. After deciding that college wasn't for her, Kelley spent time with a group of people who traveled with the Grateful Dead. What her mother didn't know until after Kelley died was that a local drug dealer had taken advantage of Kelley's naiveté and convinced her to sell Ecstasy to other users.
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The Hershey Bears (35-31-3-6) missed out on a chance to earn a spot in the Calder Cup playoffs starting next week, but they were bounced by the Binghamton Senators (43-24-1-7) on the road Saturday night. Forwards Garrett Mitchell and Casey Wellman tallied goals for the Chocolate and White, but two penalties from defenseman Cameron Schilling and center Michael Latta over a span of three seconds proved costly.
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Hershey goalie Philipp Grubauer made another start between the pipes for the Bears, recording 20 saves on 23 shots. He was opposed by Senators goaltender Marc Cheverie, who totaled 24 saves on 26 shots.
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Books and Edited Volumes
Meer, N. (under contract) Despots After Political Death: Case Studies in Developing Legal Frameworks. Palgrave.
Meer, N. (2014) Race & Ethnicity. Sage
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Meer, N. (ed.) (2013) Racialization and Religion. Routledge
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Meer, N. (2010) Citizenship, Identity & the Politics of Multiculturalism. Palgrave.
(reviews 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 and a discount flyer available here)
Triandafyllidou, A., Modood, T. & Meer, N. (eds) (2011), European Multiculturalism(s): Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges. Edinburgh University Press. (review available here and here)
Meer, N. & Gabler, J. (2011) Sociology For Dummies. Wiley.
Martineau, W., Meer, N. and Thompson. (eds) (2012) The Politics of Misrecognition, special issue of Res Publica, 18 (1), pp: 1-106
Meer, N. (ed.) (2013) Racialization and Religion, special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies. 36 (3), pp: 385-515 (also published as an edited book for Routledge). (Download Flyer)
Meer, N., Martineau, W. & Thompson, S. (eds) (2012) Misrecognition and Ethno-Religious Diversity, special issue of Ethnicities, 12 (2), pp: 131-248.
Meer, N. and Nayak, A. (2013) (eds) Race Ends Where? e-special issue of Sociology.
Journal Articles
Meer, N., Mouritsen, P., and Faas, D. (in press) 'Retracing the 'retreat'? Exploring post-multicultural and civic turns in the Netherlands, Britain, Germany and Denmark', American Behavioural Scientist.
Meer, N. (2014-in press) 'Is Islamophobia a post-colonial category?', Patterns of Prejudice.
Jones, S. H., O'Toole, T., DeHanas, D. D., Modood, T., and Meer, N. (2014) 'A 'System of Self-appointed Leaders'? Examining Modes of Muslim Representation in Governance in Britain', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, DOI: 10.1111/1467-856X.12051. Download here
Dobbernack, J., Meer, N. and Modood, T. (2014) 'Misrecognition and political agency. The case of Muslim organizations in a General Election, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Download here
Meer, N. and Modood, T. (2014) 'Cosmopolitanism and integrationism: is multiculturalism in Britain a zombie category?', Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2013.875028 Download here
Meer, N. and Modood, T. (2013) 'Beyond "Methodological Islamism"? A Thematic Discussion of 'Islamic' Immigrants in Europe', Advances in Applied Sociology, 3 (7), 307-313. Download here.
Meer, N. and Nayak, A. (2013) 'Race, Racism and Contemporary Sociology', Sociology. Download here.
Meer, N. (2013) 'The Role of Race, Culture and Difference in Antisemitism and Islamophobia', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36 (3), 385-398. Download here.
Meer, N. (2013) 'Scales, Semantics, and Solidarities in the study of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36 (3), 500-515. Download here.
Martineau, W., Meer, N. and Thompson. (eds) (2012) 'Theory and practice in the politics of misrecognition', Res Publica, 18 (1), pp: 1-9. Download here
Meer, N. & Modood, T. (2012) 'How does Interculturalism contrast with Multiculturalism?', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 33 (2), pp: 175-197. Download here.
Modood, T. & Meer, N. (2012) 'Assessing the divergences on our reading of interculturalism and multiculturalism', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 33 (2), pp: 233-244.Download here
Meer, N.,Martineau, W. & Thompson, S. (2012) 'Misrecognition and ethno-religious diversity', Ethnicities, 12 (2), pp: 131-141. Download here
Meer, N. (2012) 'Misrecognising Muslim consciousness in Europe', Ethnicities, 12 (2), pp: 178-197. Download here
Meer, N. (2012) 'Complicating 'Radicalism' – Counter-Terrorism and Muslim Identity in Britain', Arches Quarterly, 5 (9), 10-20. Download here
Meer, N. & Modood, T. (2012) 'For "Jewish" Read "Muslim"? Islamophobia as a Form of Racialisation of Ethno-Religious Groups in Britain Today', Islamophobia Studies Journal, 1 (1), 36-55.
Meer, N. & Modood, T. (2011) Analysing the Growing Scepticism Towards the Idea of Islamophobia', Arches Quarterly, 4 (7), 116-128. Download here.
Meer, N. (2011) 'An Overview of Muslim-State Engagement in the UK', Anglo Files, 158, 16-32.
Meer, N., Dwyer, C. & Modood, T. (2010) 'Beyond 'angry' Muslims - the representation of Muslim voices in the British press', Journal of Media and Religion, 9, 216-231. Download here.
Meer, N. (2010) 'The impact of European Equality Directives upon British Anti-Discrimination Legislation', Policy & Politics, 38(2), 197-215. Download here.
Meer, N., Dwyer, C., & Modood, T. (2010) 'Embodying Nationhood? Conceptions of British national identity, citizenship and gender in the 'veil affair',' The Sociological Review, 58(1), 84-111.
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Meer, N. (2009) 'Identity articulations, mobilisation and autonomy in the movement for Muslim Schools in Britain', Race Ethnicity and Education, 12(3),379–398. Download here.
Meer, N. & Modood, T. (2009) 'The multicultural state we're in: Muslims, 'multiculture', and the Civic re-balancing of British multiculturalism', Political Studies, 57(1), 473-479. Download here.
Meer, N. & Modood. T (2009) 'Refutations of racism in the "Muslim Question"', Patterns of Prejudice, 43(3/4),332-351. Download here.
Meer, N. & Mouristen, P. (2009) 'Political Cultures Compared', Ethnicities, 9(3), 334-360.
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Meer, N. (2008) 'The politics of voluntary and involuntary identities: are Muslims in Britain an ethnic, racial or religious minority?', Patterns of Prejudice, 41(5), 61-81. Download here.
Meer, N. & Noorani, T. (2008) 'A sociological comparison of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim sentiment.', The Sociological Review, 56(2), 195-219. Download here.
Meer, N. & Modood, T. (2008) 'British multiculturalism and her Muslims', Global Dialogue, 9(3), 87-99.
Meer, N. (2007) 'Muslim Schools in Britain: challenging mobilisations or logical developments?' Asia-Pacific Journal of Education, 27(1), 55-71. Download here.
Meer, N. (2007) 'Less equal than others? Thirty years after the Race Relations Act', Index on Censorship, 36(2), 114-118. Download here.
Meer, N. (2006) '"Get off your knees" - Print media public intellectuals and Muslims in Britain', Journalism Studies, 7(1), 35-59. Download here.
Heim, D., Hunter, S. C., Ross, A. J., Bakshi, N., Davies, J. B., Flatley, K. J. & Meer, N. (2004) 'Alcohol Consumption, Perceptions of Community Responses and Attitudes to Service Provision', Alcohol and Alcoholism, 39(3), 220-226. Download here.
Book Chapters
Meer, N. (forthcoming) 'Pluralism and National Identity', in: V. Harrison and D. Hare (eds) The Pluralism Handbook: Theory and Application. Acumen Press
Meer, N. and Modood, T. (forthcoming) 'British Muslims in Twenty First Century Britain: Structural and Cultural Perspectives', in: R. Mason (Ed) The State and Relations with Muslim Minorities in the USA, Europe and Asia in the Modern Era. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Massoumi, N. and Meer, N. (in press) 'Multiculturalism and Citizenship', in: H-R Heijden (2014) (Ed.) Handbook of Political Citizenship and Social Movements. Edward Elgar Press.
Meer, N., Uberoi, V. and Modood, T. (in press) 'Nationhood and Muslims in Britain', in: N. Foner and P. Simon (in press) Fear and Anxiety over National Identity. New York: Russell Sage
Meer, N. and Modood, T. (2013) 'Interacting Interculturalism with Multiculturalism: observations on theory and practice', in: M. Barrett (2013) Interculturalism and Multiculturalism: Similarities and Differences. Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing.
Meer, N. (2013) 'Racialization and Religion', in: N. Meer, N. (Ed.) (2013) Racialization and Religion. Routledge
Meer, N. (2013) 'Semantics, Scales and Solidarities', in: N. Meer (Ed) Racialization and Religion. Routledge
Meer, N. and Modood, T. (2013) 'Contemporary developments in European citizenship regimes', in D. Kiwan (Ed.) Naturalization Policies, Education and Citizenship: Multicultural and Multi-nation Societies in International Perspective. Palgrave
DeHanas, D. O'Toole, T., and Meer, N. (2013) 'Faith and Muslims in Public Policy', in: D Singleton (Ed) Faith With It's Sleeves Rolled Up. London: Faith Action Books.
Meer, N. and Modood, T. (2013) 'The 'civic re-balancing of British Multiculturalism', and beyond... ', in: R. Taras (Ed.) Challenging Multiculturalism: Managing Diversity in Europe. Edinburgh: EUP
Modood, T. and Meer, N. (2013) 'Framing Contemporary Citizenship and Diversity in Europe', in: R. Taras (Ed.) Challenging Multiculturalism: Managing Diversity in Europe. Edinburgh: EUP
Meer, N. (2012) 'Negotiating faith and politics: the emergence of Muslim consciousness in Britain', in W. Ahmed & Z. Sardar (eds), Muslims in Britain: Making Social and Political Space. Routledge.
Modood, T. and Meer, N. (2013) 'Multiculturalism', in The Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics. Oxford University Press.
Modood, T. Dobbernack, J., and Meer, N. (2012) 'Great Britain', in: R. Zapata-Barrero and A. Triandafyllidou (eds.) (2012) Addressing tolerance and diversity discourses in Europe A Comparative Overview of 16 European Countries. CIDOB. Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. Available on-line here: http://dcpis.upf.edu/~ricard-zapata/Book%20Accept%202012.pdf
Triandafyllidou, A., Modood, T. & Meer, N. (2011) 'Introduction: Diversity, Integration, Secularism and Multiculturalism', in A. Triandafyllidou, T. Modood & N. Meer (eds), European Multiculturalism(s): Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges. Edinburgh University Press.
Meer, N. & Modood, T. (2011) 'The multicultural states we're in', in A. Triandafyllidou, T. Modood & N. Meer (eds), European Multiculturalism(s): Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges. Edinburgh University Press.
Modood, T. & Meer, N. (2011) 'Framing Multicultural Citizenship in Europe', in A. Triandafyllidou, T. Modood & N. Meer (eds), European Multiculturalism(s): Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges. Edinburgh University Press.
Uberoi, V., Meer, N., Modood, T. & Dwyer, C. (2011) 'Feeling and Being British and Muslim', in T. Modood & J. Salt (eds), Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness. Palgave. Download here
Meer, N. (2011) 'Overcoming the Injuries of Double Consciousness', in S. Thompson & M. Yar (eds) The Politics of Misrecognition. Ashgate. Download here.
Meer, N. & Modood, T. (2011) 'Diversity, Identity, and Multiculturalism in the Media', in G. Cheney, S., May. & D. Munshi (eds) Handbook Of Communication Ethics. Routledge.
Meer, N. & Modood, T. (2010) 'Refutations of Racism', in: M. Malik (ed.) Anti-Muslim Prejudice Past and Present. Routledge.
Meer, N. & Modood, T. (2010) 'Contemporary developments in cases of Muslim-state engagement', in A. Triandafyllidou (ed.) Muslims in 21st Century Europe: Structural and Cultural Perspectives. Routledge.
Meer, N. & Modood, T. (2010) 'Islamophobia as cultural racism? Martin Amis and the racialization of Muslims', in A. K. Vakil and S. Sayyid (eds)Thinking Through Islamophobia. Hurst & Co.
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Meer, N., Sala Pala, V., Modood, T. & Simon, P. (2009) Cultural Diversity, Muslims, and Education in France and England: Two Contrasting Models in Western Europe, in: J. Banks (ed.) The Routledge International Companion To Multicultural Education. Routledge. Download here.
Book Reviews
Meer, N. (2012) Review of R. Richardson and Julian Petley (2011) Pointing the FInger: Islam and Muslims in the British Media in Journal of Islamic Studies. Download here
Meer, N. (forthcoming) Review of M. Steven Fish (2011) Are Muslims Different? in Social Forces
Meer, N. (2012) Review of P. Morey and A. Yaqin (2011) Framing Muslims, in Journal of American Studies, 46 (2), 537-8. Download here
Meer, N. (2010) Review of Hopkins, P. & Gale. R. (eds), Muslims in Britain: Race, Place and Identities, in Ethnic & Racial Studies, 33(3), 558-559. Download here.
Meer, N. (2006) Review of Hewitt, N., White Backlash and the Politics of Multiculturalism, in Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 35(4), 402-403. Download here.
Meer, N. (2006) Review of Quaraishi, Muslims and Crime: A Comparative Study, in Maghreb Review, 32(1), 43-47


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13 2 / 2013
Pope Resigns an Lightning Strikes St. Peter's Basilica
Okay, just a bizarre coincidence, but it is kind of incredible that a Pope resigns (first) in almost 700 years and within hours, a bolt of lightening strikes St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. From the Gothamist:
Alessandro Di Meo, one of two photographers who captured the ominous event on camera, told the BBC he was met with much skepticism after his photo went public. "I understand that the picture may be incredible," he said. "Photos of lightning have always been done, but the only difference, in this case, is that it is the right place and at the right time." But the cries of "fake" persisted, until video footage of the lightning strike finally emerged (see below).
But you have to wonder what people would have thought 700 years back - today it is a cry of "It's Photoshopped!" Back then, it would have meant something entirely different. The last Pope to step down resulted in much deadlier drama - he was hunted down by his successor and died in prison. So a bolt of lightning is on the tame side. Whew!
31 1 / 2013
Gun Violence in American Cities
Since we had the Congressional hearings today with the incredible testimony of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, it's worthwhile looking at a map of gun violence in United States cities compared to the rates in other countries. I am a realist here - I don't see a reason for high capacity clips and assault rifles but the data is clear that most gun violence is due to handguns.
NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelley was on CNN tonight and admitted as much - shootings here would drop less than 3% with a ban on assault rifles as it's concealed handguns that are the weapon of choice. But tracking sales and background checks would help - as would addressing mental health issues. Ultimately, there is no single answer here.
The sports announcer Bob Costas was on The Daily Show January 28th and said in response to the recent controversy he stirred up: it is the culture of violence and permissiveness that needs to change. Smoking has gone from being cool to seriously not cool and we've managed to limit verbal bullying of people without taking away the First Amendment. But in too many subcultures in the U.S. it's cool or hip to have a gun … and in some cases to use it (or at least threaten to). This is what has to change dramatically.
The map on gun violence in American cities published in the Atlantic comes from a number of sources - data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with work done by Zara Matheson of the Martin Prosperity Institute using additional data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and collated by The Guardian. Of course, the map is comparing urban areas to entire countries but it still reveals the staggering level of gun violence there is in some cities. New Orleans, sadly, takes the top honors for having the highest gun homicide rate, the same as Honduras:
A few more details from the article by Richard Florida:
The pattern is staggering. A number of U.S. cities have gun homicide rates in line with the most deadly nations in the world.
- If it were a country, New Orleans (with a rate 62.1 gun murders per 100,000 people) would rank second in the world.
- Detroit's gun homicide rate (35.9) is just a bit less than El Salvador (39.9).
- Baltimore's rate (29.7) is not too far off that of Guatemala (34.8).
- Gun murder in Newark (25.4) and Miami (23.7) is comparable to Colombia (27.1).
- Washington D.C. (19) has a higher rate of gun homicide than Brazil (18.1).
- Atlanta's rate (17.2) is about the same as South Africa (17).
This level of violence should has no place in the United States. But like the issue of smoking, laws and restrictions are only part of a much larger, and much needed, cultural change.
24 1 / 2013
It's Cold in New York
New York City Ice Bridge in 1871
If you live in New York or much of the United States, you've noticed the weather this week - temperatures (in Fahrenheit) down near single digits at night. Having to sleep in the living room of my small West Village apartment with its leaky windows (I'm having issues with the ceiling in my bedroom - long story) it's been one of those pile-every-blanket-you-have-on-the-bed kind of weeks.
But temperatures now pale in comparison to what people endured in the 19th century. Ice regularly blocked the rivers, and ice bridges formed (or were built) by enterprising New Yorkers on a regular basis. It seems that a few individuals were even able to skate to work from Brooklyn. The Gothamist has some great images and accounts of the cold weather and its impact on a very different New York. There are stories of people getting stuck on ice floes as the ice bridges broke up and having to rescued by tug boats, and young boys who charged for use of their ladders to get down to river and back up on the other side (perhaps like the umbrella sellers of our own era that appear every time it rains).
But the absolute best story is the enterprising soul that built a tavern on the North River one winter and dispensed food and drink to those walking across. Honestly, if it's so cold that you can walk across the Hudson River to Hoboken, you do need a place to stop for a bite to eat. With ferries not running and the tunnels to a yet-to-be-built Penn Station still a few decades away, you can visualize people having to drag their luggage across the ice to catch a train from the New Jersey side down to Philadelphia or beyond. I'm trying to imagine how a modern day 1010 Wins radio station with it's every ten minute traffic and transit news would have described this.
But (local) weather and (global) climate are not the same so we still seem to be in an era of massive global warming. Yesterday, the news pointed to a new study that concluded that glaciers in the Andes have melted at an unprecedented rate since the 1970's, receding from 30% to 50%. Regardless what you see as the cause, global warming is a reality.
So don't despair, we'll soon be back up to our seasonal temperatures (if not warmer) and New York will seem downright balmy.
22 1 / 2013
Funny Images and GIFs from the Inauguration
Watching the Inauguration, one thing was undeniably clear: we live in a world awash in technology, where every moment is a media moment, where everyone carries a camera and digital video device through their smart phone. You almost have to wonder how people survived earlier inaugurations where the only cameras were in the hands of the credentialed press corp.
What would Jefferson and Adams had done if they could have put aside their quill pens and picked up Smart phones? With years of animosity between them (before the touching correspondence of their final years), you can only imagine the Tweets, the Instagrams, the Facebook posts that might have flown back and forth. Not that the other "Founding Fathers" got along all that well with each other. Twitter would have been overburdened with its servers going down just like they did on this year's Inauguration.
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) (L) takes a photo as he arrives during the presidential inauguration on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol January 21, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Two quick observations:
- Technology is a great democratizing force - perhaps in ways we do not fully understand but definitely in terms of human behavior. In this Inauguration (and one assumes even more so for those that follow), everyone takes photos and videos with their Smart phones - not just those in the audience, but celebrities and others on stage. Heck, even Piers Morgan of CNN was going on about how he did a Smart phone video of an event he was covering. Wherever there's a crowd, people are holding their phones above their heads, recording what they see for later.
- Taking photos with your Apple iPad just doesn't make sense. Okay, maybe the iPad Mini, but not the full size one. It just looks ridiculous and it's hard to manipulate. Just because you can take a photo with an iPad doesn't mean you should.
Red Fedora iPad Guy at Inauguration. Image; mashable.com
Sasha Yawns.
Anyways, you can have a laugh at other photos and GIFs put together over at mashable.com. I doubt anyone at the Inauguration did not have at least one awkward moment, one badly timed yawn, or at least one inappropriate glance at someone else. In truth, that's the way human existence has always been.
It's just that now we record every single moment of human existence (at events like this), both on stage and off.
Of course, most of this will look somewhat silly four years from now - in the next inauguration in January 2017, people will be wearing Google Glass devices and other wearable video recorders. You won't have to hold your phone above your head. Though on second thought, it may look even more unusual - people may have to hold their eyeglasses above their heads in order to get an unobstructed shot.
We'll see soon enough.
16 1 / 2013
Pace of Technology Change
On the pace of Technology change, by Kevin Kelley, posted over at PopTECH:
Five hundred years ago, technologies were not doubling in power and halving in price every eighteen months. Waterwheels were not becoming cheaper every year. A hammer was not easier to use from one decade to the next. Iron was not increasing in strength. The yield of corn seed varied by the season's climate, instead of improving each year. Every 12 months, you could not upgrade your oxen's yoke to anything much better than what you already had.
Whatever you learn today, you will need to relearn tomorrow.
(Source: marginlines.com)
16 1 / 2013
The Flood of Tributes for Aaron Swartz
Even if you didn't who Aaron Swartz was before his suicide the other day, you probably do now. A tech prodigy (co-developer of RSS code and the website Reddit) and thoughtful young activist who fought to fulfill the real potential of our communications revolution - who Lawrence Lessig called an "incredible soul" - Swartz was facing up to 35 years in jail and millions in fines for taking documents via MIT's network from the non-profit JSTOR repository. JSTOR was willing to settle; it seems that MIT was not. Clearly the Department of Justice was determined to prosecute this case to the bitter end.
I didn't know Aaron but have followed his work for years. Some of the tributes by those who knew him can be found at the Guardian site.
Whether or not Aaron's suicide is directly attributable to the legal case against him is hard to say - I tend to think that it is is but we never truly know the source of the inner demons in someone else's mind. The family feels strongly that the court case is to blame.
What is truly frightening in all of this is the disproportionality of our intellectual property and copyright law. Mind you, Aaron was facing far more time in jail than if he had gone out and shot someone, robbed a bank, trafficked slaves, or threatened the President. Think Progress has a summary of the time you face for these crimes - if we learn anything from Aaron's tragic death, it should be that the fear (largely from the corporate world) of the incredible ability to share ideas and resources in the digital age has spurred to a profound overreaction to protect intellectual property. Whatever Aaron did - even if one does draw the conclusion that it was outright theft - it does not measure up to the following.
Here is some of the list from Think Progress:
To put these charges in perspective, here are ten examples of federal crimes that carry lesser prison sentences than Swartz' alleged crime of downloading academic articles in an effort to make knowledge widely available to the public:
- Manslaughter: Federal law provides that someone who kills another human being "[u]pon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion" faces a maximum of 10 years in prison if subject to federal jurisdiction. The lesser crime of involuntary manslaughter carries a maximum sentence of only six years.
- Bank Robbery: A person who "by force and violence, or by intimidation" robs a bank faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. If the criminal "assaults any person, or puts in jeopardy the life of any person by the use of a dangerous weapon or device," this sentence is upped to a maximum of 25 years.
- Selling Child Pornography: The maximum prison sentence for a first-time offender who "knowingly sells or possesses with intent to sell" child pornography in interstate commerce is 20 years. Significantly, the only way to produce child porn is to sexually molest a child, which means that such a criminal is literally profiting off of child rape or sexual abuse … .
- Selling Slaves: Under federal law, a person who willfully sells another person "into any condition of involuntary servitude" faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years, although the penalty can be much higher if the slaver's actions involve kidnapping, sexual abuse or an attempt to kill … .
- Helping al-Qaeda Develop A Nuclear Weapon: A person who "willfully participates in or knowingly provides material support or resources … to a nuclear weapons program or other weapons of mass destruction program of a foreign terrorist power, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be imprisoned for not more than 20 years."
- Violence At International Airports: Someone who uses a weapon to "perform[] an act of violence against a person at an airport serving international civil aviation that causes or is likely to cause serious bodily injury" faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years if their actions do not result in a death… .
May his passing help us rethink our priorities and ensure that the Internet is a place of freedom.
(Source: marginlines.com)
15 12 / 2012
Gun Violence in America - the Newtown Tragedy
More gun violence. My heart goes out to those affected by the tragedy in Newtown Connecticut as 20 small children and seven adults die in one of the worst massacres in U.S. history. One recoils at the horror of what the children in that school went through; and it's impossible to fathom the pain and suffering that the families, the communities and so many others will feel.
At the same time (or the same day more or less), a man in China walked into a primary school in the Henan province village of Chengpin and attacked 22 young children and one adult. We don't know what was troubling him, but the difference was that all the children are still alive.
He used a knife.
Here, someone picks up a Glock semiautomatic pistol and puts on a military vest before entering a primary school to shed blood. Glocks seem to be a favorite of those bent on a deadly rampage, used in killings in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Colorado. Perhaps because they're so effective.
But I don't see an easy answer to the gun violence here. It goes beyond access to the weapons themselves - it's not video games, movies, or television but something else. Those are all the easy targets, the easy answers to something we do not understand.
For now, a short piece by Roger Ebert from his review of Gus Van Sant's Elephant, and reposted in Kottke.org:
Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking sound bites to support it. "Wouldn't you say," she asked, "that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?" No, I said, I wouldn't say that. "But what about 'Basketball Diaries'?" she asked. "Doesn't that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machine gun?" The obscure 1995 Leonardo Di Caprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office (it grossed only $2.5 million), and it's unlikely the Columbine killers saw it.
The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. "Events like this," I said, "if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn't have messed with me. I'll go out in a blaze of glory."
In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, the NBC Nightly News and all the other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of "explaining" them. I commended the policy at the Sun-Times, where our editor said the paper would no longer feature school killings on Page 1. The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.
Everybody was happy, indeed.
Sadly, we'll probably make ourselves happy again, finding something easy to condemn for the shooting, bemoaning the gun violence we hear about so frequently and missing the deeper issue entirely. But there will be no comfort for the people in Newtown.
(Source: marginlines.com)
23 11 / 2012
Black Friday - Americans Go Shopping
Thanksgiving is over and now Black Friday is here - an American social phenomenon I've never quite understood. I get waiting in line for a good deal (though it would have to be a really good deal) yet this seems much more about the mass psychology than any real bargains. The numbers are fairly staggering: in 2011, an estimated 226 million people spent an average of $398 dollars each. But did they get a deal?
A study in an October Wall Street Journal article revealed Black Friday shoppers often pay more than they would have if they waited until closer to Christmas or even bought what they wanted three or four weeks prior to Thanksgiving. Yes, there are many cases where there's an increase in prices in the weeks leading up to the infamous Friday ordeal.
After crunching two to six years' worth of pricing data for a number of typical holiday gifts, The Wall Street Journal has turned up the best times to go deal hunting — and they almost never involve standing in the freezing cold all night.
It turns out that gifts from Barbie dolls to watches to blenders are often priced below Black Friday levels at various times throughout the year, even during the holiday season, and their prices follow different trajectories as the remaining shopping days tick down.
Watches and jewelry, typical last-minute quarry for well-heeled shoppers, get more expensive as the season progresses, according to Decide Inc., the consumer-price research firm that gathered and analyzed the data for this article. Blenders, which might sit around for months if they aren't bought in the holiday window, get much cheaper at the end.
The results reveal a lot about how retailers plot pricing strategy ahead of the year-end shopping frenzy that can account for a fifth or more of their sales. They also highlight how the industry has managed to use more sophisticated technology to turn Black Friday into a marketing bonanza by carefully selecting items for deep discounts while continuing to price broader merchandise at levels that won't kill profits.
So a few deep discounts can lead to a "marketing bonanza" as prices generally do not fall that much. Quite possibly the scarcity aspect factors into this - that limited quantities create the illusion of value greater than the actual discount.
So my plans for Friday? Go for a walk, see some art, and spend a little time in a cafe writing. And avoid the stress and the chaos that will be particularly acute in Manhattan. Hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving.
(Source: marginlines.com)
19 11 / 2012
Time-lapse Video of Planes Landing at London Heathrow
A very cool short time-lapse video of planes lining up for a landing at London's Heathrow airport. Speeded up 17x, the jumbo jets appear as small toys buffeted by the wind. There's enough time-lapse videos out there, but this one is nicely done with a matching soundtrack. They look like puppets on strings.
(Source: marginlines.com)
07 11 / 2012
The Political Pundits Who Blew It
Election night is ending and the networks have called it for Obama. Politico has a quick view of the many pundits who were off - some very, very off - base in their predictions.
No doubt there will be much more analysis of who was right and wrong in the coming weeks but in the heat of the final night of a long election year (really more than 18 months), it's a fun read.
Here's some of the quotes from those who were most off-base:
Newt Gingrich:"I believe the minimum result will be 53-47 Romney, over 300 electoral votes." – Oct. 25, on Fox News. Karl Rove: Romney 285, Obama 253. "If crowds at his recent stops in these states [NV, WI and PA] are any indication of his supporters' enthusiasm, Mr. Romney will likely be able to claim victory in these states as well." — Nov. 5, on his website. Fox News contributor Dick Morris: Romney 325, Obama 213. "It will be the biggest surprise in recent American political history. It will rekindle the whole question as to why the media played this race as a nail biter where in fact I think Romney's going to win by quite a bit." — Nov. 4, on Fox News. Conservative columnist George Will: Romney 321, Obama 217. "The wild card in what I've projected is I'm projecting Minnesota to go for Romney." — Nov. 4, on ABC's "This Week." UnskewedPolls' Dean Chambers: Romney 311, Obama 227. "Despite the pattern of skewed polls, most of them commissioned by the mainstream media, the overall electoral landscape is looking more and more favorable for Romney." — Nov. 1, on examiner.com. The Washington Examiner's Michael Barone: "Bottom line: Romney 315, Obama 223. That sounds high for Romney. But he could drop Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and still win the election. Fundamentals." — Nov. 2, writing in The Washington Examiner. CNBC's Larry Kudlow: "I am now predicting a 330 vote electoral vote landslide. Yes, that's right — 330 electoral votes." — Oct. 25, on CNBC. Rush Limbaugh: "All of my thinking says Romney big. All of my feeling is where my concern is. But my thoughts, my intellectual analysis of this — factoring everything I see plus the polling data — it's not even close. Three hundred-plus electoral votes for Romney." — Nov. 5, on his radio show.
(Source: marginlines.com)
23 10 / 2012
Memoto Lifelogging Camera - Will You Record Every Moment?
Take a look at Memoto. A long look … this may be a game-changer.
Lifelogging has been around for some time - at least two decades if you look at the work Steve Mann with his "wearable computer" and "reality mediator" inventions. I remember watching Mann walk through the streets of Florence, Italy in the early 90's and thinking this is just too cumbersome to be practical. But you knew the technology would shrink and with the advent of Smart phones and the pending Google Project Glass, we've gone from chest-mounted cameras and batteries to the latest innovation that may put lifelogging firmly on the map - Memoto's lifelogging camera.
Memoto is a Swedish company and their new product is an incredibly small and beautiful camera (think Apple here) that you wear around your neck or clip on your shirt or blouse. The device is postage-stamp size and drop-dead simple:
The Memoto device measures 36x36x9mm and contains a five-megapixel camera, a GPS unit, an accelerometer and 8GB of storage – enough for two days' worth of photos, seeing as the device takes a photo every 30 seconds. It will cost $279, or nothing for early backers who give $199 or more. The user will need to hook the device up to their computer every couple of days, both to upload the photos and recharge the battery. The photos will go onto Memoto's servers and be made accessible for time-lapse-style playback through Smartphone apps. (Gigaom)
They launched the project on Kickstarter today and reached their $50,000 goal in five hours. At this point, they're over $131,000 with 37 days to go. And they've stretched the goal to $150,000 and will allow backers to crowdsource the color of one of the models. $199 now gets you one when it comes out at a serious discount to the retail cost.
On one level, this kind of stuff can freak you out - every moment of one's life recorded, and your life becoming the recorded moments of others. But on the other hand, it is deeply fascinating. Yes, I put my money down so I'm a backer. I want one as soon as they come out.
Here's the nicely done video from Memoto on the device and the possibilities of lifelogging:
We've come a long way from the early years of Steve Mann's clunky devices (state-of-art at the time). I have no idea what lies at the end of this road (privacy, anyone?) but it's fascinating.
(Source: marginlines.com)
22 10 / 2012
Facebook: Visualizing a Viral Photograph
A visualization of Facebook activity and how a photograph goes viral. The short video below reproduces the acts of hundreds of thousands of individuals on Facebook as they share a photograph, Famous Failures, first posted on Star Trek actor George Takei's Page.
Each visualization is made up of a series of branches starting from a single person. As the branch grows, re-shares split off on their own arcs, sometimes spawning a new generation of re-shares, sometimes exploding in a short-lived burst of activity. The two different colors show gender, and each successive generation becomes more and more white as time goes by.
The data is taken from a three-month period from July to September 2012 and utilized Facebook news feeds. Our activity appears almost fractal in the video, or perhaps we are collectively like a budding flower in what we do.
You can see two other videos on the Facebook Stories site; all three were done by Stamen, an art and design studio based in San Francisco. If you are interested in the details of how the project was completed over a two-week period, Stamen has an account on their blog at Facebook: Evolution of the Flowers that is worth reading.
19 10 / 2012
A Remix Manifesto on Copyright
Great video on copyright law, remix and free culture. Disney was one of the great mashup artists of his time and way ahead of everyone else in the use of technology to remix culture. But through the lobbying of corporations, the concept of copyright went from supporting creativity to a situation where a new generation of digitally literate kids are in regular violation of the law. This isn't about stealing music and down downloading movies illegally; it is about fair-use and that the law needs to adapt to the new landscape of the digital revolution.
I'm not that hopeful in the short term, but perhaps down the road, Lawrence Lessig may be the inspiration for kids to effect change. After all, it's the world they are inheriting and right now it's a contradictory mess between the forces of innovation on the one side and legal codes that were written for a wholly different era.
17 10 / 2012
Debate Nearly Leads to Fistfight
When politicians nearly come to a fistfight at a debate (forget Obama and Romney circling each other last night - that wasn't even close), you know the end result will be a new political ad and this one is very effective. The episode was a forum for a very bitter race between two redistricted democrats in a congressional race in California, featuring Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA).
You can find more details at the LA Times if you're interested (and as you might expect, the candidates do not actually disagree that much). You can almost get into each others face at a debate, but you cross a line when your arm goes around your opponent's shoulder or neck. What next? Actual slug fests for those running for office?
More than a few have noted that the American psyche has its coarse edges though other countries have had entire Parliaments descend into fistfights. Perhaps we should cherish our modicum of restraint before it completely disappears.
(Source: marginlines.com)
26 9 / 2012
Truck Crash – Driver Goes Through Windshield – and Walks Away
I usually don't post crash videos like this of a truck crash (they're everywhere on the Web) but this particular one is remarkable. From Russia, a near head-on collision that sends the driver of one truck through his windshield with his blanket. And he's thrown out, well, not gracefully, but almost like a practicing gymnast stepping off the pummel horse at the end of a routine. And yes, he walks away from the incident, a little dazed but completely intact.
The accident was caught by a dashboard cam, which is starting to appear more frequently as it can resolve insurance claims for accidents. With all of the technology being added to motor vehicles (including rear-facing cameras and seats that provide warning alerts), one might anticipate that the days of freewheeling driving will become a thing of the past.
If Google cofounder Sergey Brin's prediction is right, within five years Google will have self-driving cars available for the public. Google has already driven over 300,000 miles with the vehicles. But with greater power and flexibility will come demands for increased accountability - it won't do for a driver to say, "I didn't cause that accident, my car did it on its own."
Welcome to a world of dashboard cams and route and driver sensors.
But I digress. Back to Russia, and one lucky person, in a country where for now luck is still an essential commodity for a career as a truck driver. (from kottke.org)
(Source: marginlines.com)


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The papers of colonial governor James Glen (1701-1777), who served as Governor of South Carolina from 1738 to 1756, include official government documents, papers concerning relations with Native American Indians, business papers relating to his ownership of a South Carolina rice plantation, and correspondence between Glen and South Carolina planter, John Drayton (1713-1779).
This collection contains diaries of James Kershaw, 1791-1825, with meteorological observations, recipes, and home remedies, including advice for treatment of pimples, boils, baldness, and unwanted hair. The papers record observations, 17 September 1811, of a solar eclipse, accounts of debts paid, January-April 1812, including prices of cotton, molasses, and sugar, and typed abstracts of recipes, 1936, copied from the diaries.
This book describes the history of Bamberg, South Carolina, with maps, photographs, and text regarding the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras; more specific chapters discuss the buildings, businesses, schools, churches, occupations and people of the 1890s.
Genealogical charts and other information document the Copeland and various other families of Bamberg County, South Carolina, through the 1930s, and also record Copeland family connections with the Castanedo and related famililies of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Materials towards a history of the Baptists in the provinces of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia is an original manuscript written by Morgan Edwards (1722-1795). Edwards intended to publish a history of the Baptists in the original thirteen colonies, but only two volumes were published during his lifetime: Pennsylvania in 1770 and New Jersey in 1792. In recognition of his research, interviews, and personal archives, Edwards is often characterized as the first Baptist historian in America.
A collection of colorful illustrations satirizing both doctor and patient, illness and treatment. Notable artists represented in the collection include Louis Crusius, M.D., James Gillray, and Louis Boilly.
The poems of Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) are read and studied by students and scholars in a variety of disciplines (American literature, African-American Studies, African Studies, and Women's Studies), but the first edition has not previously been freely accessible in a digital facsimile without a fee or subscription. Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (London, 1773) is the first book published by an African-American author, and the frontispiece portrait of Wheatley is the only surviving work by the African-American slave artist Scipio Moorhead (born ca. 1750).
The Richard Furman and James C. Furman collection contains over 750 letters and 18 sermons of Richard Furman (1755-1825), the namesake of Furman University and his son, James Clement Furman (1809-1891), the University's first president who served from 1859-1879.
In 2011 Robert B. Ariail donated an extraordinary collection of historical astronomy to the University of South Carolina and the South Carolina State Museum. Over the past half-century, Mr. Ariail built a collection that encompassed both historic telescopes and astronomical instruments, now at the State Museum, and more than 5,000 rare books and other published items, now housed in the University's Irvin Department of Rare Books & Special Collections.
The University of South Carolina libraries have been acquiring works by Scottish authors since the early nineteenth century. With the addition of the extensive G. Ross Roy Collection in 1989, South Carolina now has major research holdings across a wide range of Scottish writing. Indeed, in the words of one recent visitor, it is "the best Burns collection in North America."
Divers have been exploring the rivers and coastal waters of South Carolina since the early 1960's when SCUBA as a sport was in its infancy. The South Carolina State Legislature first enacted an Underwater Antiquities Bill in 1968 which was intended to protect historic shipwrecks and other submerged cultural resources. In 1974 a Hobby Diver Program was developed that enabled divers to be licensed to recover artifacts on a limited basis while reporting finds to the State archaeologists.


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