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According to bankers they are always careful in transactions and about the source of the money or the identity of the customer; however, have not faced any extra ban with regard to gold transactions.
ISTANBUL(BullionStreet): Major banks in Turkey denied any links over country's gold trade with Iran and said that it was business as usual for their gold trading desks.
According to bankers they are always careful in transactions and about the source of the money or the identity of the customer; however, have not faced any extra ban with regard to gold transactions.
Turkish bankers also said the trade with Iran was not being handled through them. They added that Iran is not carrying out its gold trade via the Turkish banking system and do not face any pressure regarding this issue.
It is the private sector selling gold to Iran. Interbank gold trading is not particularly common among Turkish banks, though lenders usually swap dollars for gold as the central bank allows them to keep a portion of their forex reserve requirements in gold.
Analysts however said banks are continuing to exchange gold in Turkey, despite U.S. pressure over the country's booming gold-for-gas trade with Tehran, which helps Iran cope with international sanctions.
Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said that the lira Iran received from Turkey for its gas was being converted into gold because sanctions meant that it could not transfer cash into Iran.
Turkey is Iran's biggest natural gas customer, but Western sanctions prevent it from paying Tehran in dollars or euros. Iran is instead paid in Turkish lira – of limited value on international markets but ideal for buying gold in Turkey.
Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan said last week that the gold sales to Tehran would continue, saying the trade was carried out entirely by the private sector rather than between states and was not subject to sanctions.
Gold exports from Turkey to Iran jumped to $6.5 billion in the first 11 months of 2012 from just $54 million for all of 2011, as the United States tightened sanctions over Iran's disputed nuclear program.
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HSBC says it's worried that UK might leave EU. So threatens to move HQ to Asia. Can anyone explain logic of that?— Andrew Neil (@afneil) April 24, 2015
Friday, 24 April 2015
Posted by North Briton at 4:21 pm
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Friday, 10 April 2015
The Kiss of Death
The Leader of the Opposition's decision to rule out a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union has seen him clasped, perhaps unhelpfully, in the toxic embrace of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair.
The man and his intervention were probably best summed up by Daniel Hannan MEP, writing for The Daily Mail on Tuesday:
The man and his intervention were probably best summed up by Daniel Hannan MEP, writing for The Daily Mail on Tuesday:
Well worth reading in full.As he put it towards the end of his premiership: 'The British people are sensible enough to know that, even if they have a certain prejudice about Europe, they don't expect their government necessarily to share it or act upon it.'Got that? You may want something; but you secretly yearn for politicians who will ignore you. There is the authentic voice of the Euro-integrationist: smug, vain and wrong.
Posted by North Briton at 1:18 pm
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Wednesday, 14 January 2015
Votre Nom ne est pas Charlie
"United we stand", puffed the headline of The Times on Monday morning, a chorus of agreement chirping from the front pages of both its quality and tabloid rivals on the newsstand.
"We are all CHARLIE" echoed a crumpled Metro a little later in the day, its bold message sallying upwards from the soiled floor of a Number 7 bus.
They were all reporting on the enormous Unity Rally in Paris, two-million strong, with almost almost fifty world leaders (as they like to style themselves) at its head, marching in defence of liberty, and in defiance of terror.
They were all reporting on the enormous Unity Rally in Paris, two-million strong, with almost almost fifty world leaders (as they like to style themselves) at its head, marching in defence of liberty, and in defiance of terror.
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What an embarrassing spectacle of self-aggrandizing cant it all was.
How many in these crowds would be brave (or rather, foolish) enough to wear a t-shirt bearing the "Je Suis Charlie!" legend while walking alone through Seine-Saint-Denis by lamplight? Not too many, I'd wager — but I suppose there's safety in numbers, especially when the anonymous crowd you're swirling through is protected by enough armed soldiers and gendarmes to re-occupy Helmand.
As for the gallant "world leaders" pretending to be in the vanguard, are these not the same people who roundly condemned Stéphane Charbonnier and his colleagues while they still walked among the living, every time they actually exercised their supposedly inalienable right to free speech by cocking a snook at the Holy Prophet?
Our own Deputy Prime Minister managed, in a crowded field, to come across especially sleazy, waxing lyrical on LBC that "You cannot have freedom unless people are free to offend each other."
This is utter dribble as far as the United Kingdom is concerned, of course, as the case of Michael Overd (charged with "causing offence" under Section 5 of the Public Order Act after comparing Muhammed to Christ unfavourably) or any number of other Christian street preachers will readily attest.
Indeed, had the late M. Charbonnier tried to publish his cartoons in this green and pleasant land, it seems a pretty safe bet that he would have been arrested for some species of "hate crime" long ago.
This is the country, after all, which barred the Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders from visiting to screen Fitna, a short film critical of Islam, with the then Foreign Secretary David Miliband justifying this on the grounds that it was "hate-filled" (though he had not actually seen it) and dismissing any question of free speech out of hand.
(This was a pretty singular denial of Mr Wilders's right, as a "European Citizen", to freedom of movement; a right which has not been refused even to convicted rapists and murderers such as Marek Harcar and Arnis Zalkalns — with fatal consequences.)
But particular scorn, it seems, should be reserved for the press. How can they have the gall to proclaim "Je Suis Charlie" when none of them — or their recreant colleagues in the broadcast media — have dared to publish a single one of Charbonnier's cartoons?
Clearly these images were absolutely central to the story, so why self-censor? Have our famously savage pressmen suddenly discovered religious convictions, or at least sensitivity? Not if the almost gleeful coverage of works such as Andres Serrano's tasteless Piss Christ is anything to go by — or, for that matter, the ghoulish manner in which the final, desperate moments of the late cartoonists' police protection officer were splashed across their front pages.
The broadcasters and journalists who have been indulging in unseemly displays of vicarious heroism this past week have, in fact, been terrorised into conformity, in the most literal sense of the term.
Charlie Hebdo refused to be silenced, and paid the ultimate price. That is what separates them from, and elevates them above, the rest of the commentariat.
So put down your silly pencil, monsieur. Votre nom ne est past Charlie.
Posted by North Briton at 1:49 pm
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Tuesday, 22 July 2014
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: "Jihad Brides"
The following Freedom of Information request has been sent to the Home Office and the Attorney General's Office:
3. Will foreign spouses of "jihad brides" be able to settle in the United Kingdom/become eligible for British citzenship through the various "family (re)unification" channels, or similar?2. Will children born abroad to "jihad brides" be able to settle in the United Kingdom/become eligible for British citizenship?1. Will such women be free to return to the United Kingdom whenever they please, without penalty?I would like to know the following:One of them posted a picture on Twitter of her toddler holding a Kalashnikov, describing him as "my mini mujahid". According to the Daily Mail, the father is a Swedish-born ISIS fighter: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/In recent weeks, the press have reported on "scores" of women holding British citizenship travelling to the Middle Meast, to marry fighters for groups such as ISIS.Dear Sir/Madam,re: Freedom of Information Request
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4. Will the authorities be unable to prevent entry into the United Kingdom of foreign jihadists such as the one mentioned in the above Daily Mail article, by virtue of their having EU/EEA citzenship?5. Will the authorities be unable to deport the children and/or partners of "jihad brides" who do travel to the United Kingdom, owing to the "Right to a Family Life" and related legal provisions?Yours faithfully,
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Wednesday, 9 July 2014
The Hatred of the Left Redux
|Horatio Chapple planned to follow
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This unpleasant tendency was on display again yesterday in the Socialist Worker's coverage of the inquest into 17-year-old Eton pupil Horatio Chapple's death.
Horatio was attacked by a polar bear on a hiking trip with the British Schools Exploring Society in Svalbard, an island in the Arctic Ocean north of Norway.
"Eton by bear?", ran the tasteless headline in its regular column, 'The Troublemaker':
"Horatio Chapple, an Eton pupil, was killed by a polar bear in 2011 while on an adventure holiday. ... Troublemaker has long supported campaigning for the environment. Now we have another reason to save the polar bears."
So that there are more of them around to maul to death teenagers wicked enough to commit the terrible crime of (through no fault of their own) attending a public school, presumably.
Might the writer of this unspeakably callous column have more sympathy for state school pupil Patrick Flinders, horribly disfigured by the same bear, on the same trip?
Perhaps, perhaps not. It may well be that Patrick is what the Left terms a "class traitor" for palling around with the likes of Horatio Chapple, and therefore equally undeserving of sympathy.
Posted by North Briton at 2:39 pm
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Thursday, 5 June 2014
There's Always a Catch
In his first debate with UKIP's Nigel Farage, there was one really concrete benefit to the public of EU membership which Deputy Prime Minister Clegg could hang his hat on: the abolition of roaming charges.
(Well, not now, but in the near-ish future — probably — and only after another classic, money-guzzling regulatory cock-up.)
"Just imagine!", we were urged, as though being presented a vision of a shining city on a hill, "no more those extortionate roaming charges when you go on holiday; when you want to send a text; when you want to make a call!"
Roaming charges are a pain, to be sure. None of the standard-issue, long-discredited hogwash with respect to "three million jobs" and "the top table" had held up, but this was a policy everyone could get behind, surely.
True, the price demanded in exchange for such beneficent regulation is high — open borders; a debauched democracy; a plundered Treasury; etc. — but it was something. Right?
As with so many things, sadly, while the EU is (prospectively) giving to holidaymakers with one hand, it has been taking with the other.
I discovered this for myself yesterday at an airport in Krakow, when I tried to purchase a bottle of Żubrówka — a very characteristic bison grass vodka, native to Poland — in the small duty-free shop.
Two prices were listed: one for around twenty-five Polish złoty, listed on a red label marked "duty free", and one for nearer sixty, listed on a blue label emblazoned with the EU's circle of stars. My partner and I figured that the former listing must represent the price in the shop, and the latter the ordinary price including duty — we were being show what a good deal we were getting.
In fact, it turned out that the former sum applied only to travellers leaving the EU — bound for the the supposedly resurgent Evil Empire in Russia, perhaps, or to sign up with the British jihad in Syria — while "EU Citizens" moving within the EU were gifted the dubious privilege of paying full price.
The European Union, it turns out, abolished duty-free sales for travel between its members way back in 1999. Ordinary Britons and British businesses didn't want this, of course:
In the end, Britain, France and Germany all tried to secure an eleventh hour stay of execution for European duty-free, but were unsuccessful. Jacques Santer's Commission forced the measure through, despite the fact that it was technically resigned, following the Edith Cresson scandal.
This was an early, concrete realisation Jacques Delors's dream, that the European Commission "should become a political executive", able to "define essential common interests" — and to Hell with the opinion of the member states' elected governments.
Fears that the move would damage British businesses proved to be well-founded, with its most famous casualty being the much-loved Channel hovercraft fleet.
Its owners bought a few extra years by selling off these icons of modern British engineering to museums and scrap merchants and replacing them with catamarans, but by 2006 the jig was up and the company went into liquidation, leaving former workers in fear for their pensions.
(So much for Mr Clegg's alleged Euro-jobs, incidentally.)
I confess that all of this had completely passed me by until now — I do not enjoy all the opportunities for regular, personally profitable foreign travel indulged by Euro-politicians, unfortunately. None of it leaves me with the impression that British tourists (or the tourism industry) are getting a particularly good deal out of the European Union.
With or without those roaming charges.
(Well, not now, but in the near-ish future — probably — and only after another classic, money-guzzling regulatory cock-up.)
"Just imagine!", we were urged, as though being presented a vision of a shining city on a hill, "no more those extortionate roaming charges when you go on holiday; when you want to send a text; when you want to make a call!"
Roaming charges are a pain, to be sure. None of the standard-issue, long-discredited hogwash with respect to "three million jobs" and "the top table" had held up, but this was a policy everyone could get behind, surely.
True, the price demanded in exchange for such beneficent regulation is high — open borders; a debauched democracy; a plundered Treasury; etc. — but it was something. Right?
As with so many things, sadly, while the EU is (prospectively) giving to holidaymakers with one hand, it has been taking with the other.
|The EU jobs myth has been
debunked time after time
I discovered this for myself yesterday at an airport in Krakow, when I tried to purchase a bottle of Żubrówka — a very characteristic bison grass vodka, native to Poland — in the small duty-free shop.
Two prices were listed: one for around twenty-five Polish złoty, listed on a red label marked "duty free", and one for nearer sixty, listed on a blue label emblazoned with the EU's circle of stars. My partner and I figured that the former listing must represent the price in the shop, and the latter the ordinary price including duty — we were being show what a good deal we were getting.
In fact, it turned out that the former sum applied only to travellers leaving the EU — bound for the the supposedly resurgent Evil Empire in Russia, perhaps, or to sign up with the British jihad in Syria — while "EU Citizens" moving within the EU were gifted the dubious privilege of paying full price.
The European Union, it turns out, abolished duty-free sales for travel between its members way back in 1999. Ordinary Britons and British businesses didn't want this, of course:
The duty-free lobby estimates that up to 100,000 jobs will be lost at ports and airports and amongst airline and ferry staff - with 30,000 jobs at risk in the UK alone. A spokeswoman for Luton airport in Bedfordshire called the decision "a major blow", arguing that 11% of the airport's total income came from duty-free. "This is likely to lead to higher costs for travel and it could hit jobs in the travel industry", she added. British Airways warned the abolition could translate into increased landing charges for airlines by about 15%.
In the end, Britain, France and Germany all tried to secure an eleventh hour stay of execution for European duty-free, but were unsuccessful. Jacques Santer's Commission forced the measure through, despite the fact that it was technically resigned, following the Edith Cresson scandal.
This was an early, concrete realisation Jacques Delors's dream, that the European Commission "should become a political executive", able to "define essential common interests" — and to Hell with the opinion of the member states' elected governments.
|Hovercraft Swift meets her end at
the breaker's yard
Its owners bought a few extra years by selling off these icons of modern British engineering to museums and scrap merchants and replacing them with catamarans, but by 2006 the jig was up and the company went into liquidation, leaving former workers in fear for their pensions.
(So much for Mr Clegg's alleged Euro-jobs, incidentally.)
I confess that all of this had completely passed me by until now — I do not enjoy all the opportunities for regular, personally profitable foreign travel indulged by Euro-politicians, unfortunately. None of it leaves me with the impression that British tourists (or the tourism industry) are getting a particularly good deal out of the European Union.
With or without those roaming charges.
Posted by North Briton at 1:00 pm
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Wednesday, 7 August 2013
"London no longer needs to be tied to a stagnating EU" — Kwasi Kwarteng MP
An incisive piece by Kwasi Kwarteng in yesterday's London Evening Standard.
The structures that made the City prosperous — a stable political environment, the rule of law, a measure of self-government — existed centuries before the EU was ever thought of.
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Sunday, 9 June 2013
Grand Conclave of the Lizard Men
The Prime Minister, alongside such luminaries as Chancellor Osborne, Shadow Chancellor Balls, Lord Mandelson and the ubiquitous Kenneth Clarke, will attend a meeting of the
sinister controversial Bilderberg Group today.
The North Briton prefers not to sail the wild shores of Conspiracy Theory — too many voyagers lose their minds to cabin fever — but the odd pleasure cruise isn't too harmful. Bilderberg attendees might not be space-faring reptoids, but the meetings do smack of the unhealthy intimacy between politicians of all persuasions which Peter Oborne warned against in The Triumph of the Political Class.
Anyway, here's some good, old-fashioned fuel for the fire, courtesy of JFK:
(True conspiracy buffs might be disappointed to learn that the late Mr Kennedy was, in fact, talking about international communism — not Bilderberg, the Council on Foreign Relations, or even the Bohemian Grove. Something of a let down!)
The North Briton prefers not to sail the wild shores of Conspiracy Theory — too many voyagers lose their minds to cabin fever — but the odd pleasure cruise isn't too harmful. Bilderberg attendees might not be space-faring reptoids, but the meetings do smack of the unhealthy intimacy between politicians of all persuasions which Peter Oborne warned against in The Triumph of the Political Class.
Anyway, here's some good, old-fashioned fuel for the fire, courtesy of JFK:
(True conspiracy buffs might be disappointed to learn that the late Mr Kennedy was, in fact, talking about international communism — not Bilderberg, the Council on Foreign Relations, or even the Bohemian Grove. Something of a let down!)
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Friday, 17 May 2013
With Friends Like These...
|The black banner of al-Qaeda flies over rebel-controlled Raqqa
In fairness to Abu Sakkar — real name Khalid al-Hamad — he thought the organ was a liver. So an honest mistake, then.
Sakkar, who commands one of the "Farouq Brigades" implicated in the indiscriminate shelling of Shi'ite villages in Lebanon and the persecution of Syrian Christians near Homs, remains unrepentant: "[A]fter what I did", he told TIME Magazine, "hopefully [government loyalists] will never step into the area where Abu Sakkar is."
Sakkar was not at all shy about his ruthlessness, saying of the Alawite population who subscribe to same Shi'ite sect of Islam as President al-Assad, "Hopefully we will slaughter all of them."
"I have another video clip that I will send to them", he added darkly. "In the clip, I am sawing another shabiha [government militiaman] with a saw; the saw we use to cut trees. I sawed him into small pieces and large ones."
Sakkar's antics co-incide embarrassingly with renewed efforts by our government to shore up the faltering insurrection, with David Cameron recently announcing his intention to double British support to the rebels. Arms cannot yet be sent — the European Union does not permit us to take that decision independently — but "non-lethal" aid can, and the money, body armour and armoured vehicles being shipped are doubtless just as useful as rifles and rockets would be.
Is it wise to tread this path of ever-increasing intervention? Ministers seem to have made up their minds that we "cannot stand idly by", but has anyone taken the time to perform an audit of previous foreign adventures where we were assured non-intervention was "not an option"?
Iraq, of course, is sliding deeper into the mire every day. Senior politicians say "civil war has already started". This has not been without consequence to neighbouring Syria, a popular bolt-hole for Iraq's Sunni insurgents. Indeed, the Free Syrian Army has accused Prime Minister al-Maliki's Shi'ite-dominated government of sending warplanes to attack them and sworn vengeance; a development which could have far more disastrous consequences than Israel's recent headline-grabbing strike against a Hezbollah convoy in the country.
|Fighters for the National Army of Cyrenaica, which
declared autonomy from Tripoli unilaterally this March
The uprisings we have sponsored or encouraged in North Africa are turning similarly sour, with political killings in Tunisia, violent persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, and the desecration of British war graves amid escalating tribal warfare in Libya.
Even in Kosovo, where our decision to back the Kosovo Liberation Army against Slobodan Milošević marked the beginning of Britain's modern love affair with liberal interventionism, our efforts have borne rotten fruit: Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi — alias "The Snake" — has been exposed by the Council of Europe as the the kingpin of an international mafia network dealing in arms, drugs and human body parts. Tales of the KLA murdering Serbs to sell their organs on the black market, which once seemed fantastic, have proved shockingly accurate.
However, our most extensive efforts have been in Afghanistan, where we have been trying to effect change for eleven long years. If the merits of liberal interventionism can be demonstrated anywhere, it should be there.
Some commentators have indeed expressed a cautious optimism. The BBC's James Landale, who has been accompanying prime ministers to operational theatres and hearing them briefed on "how well things are going" for years, hints that "there are straws in the wind that perhaps the mood is changing in Afghanistan." Senior Afghan commanders tell him the bazaars are "buzzing". The Taliban have been pushed into the desert. The new authorities created by the West have "a sense of control".
Could Afghanistan be the success story the Free Syrian Army — and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office — so desperately need?
Well, VICE has just released a documentary examining at the results of our lengthy programme of nation-building in that country. A much-expanded version of the Panorama report Mission Accomplished? Secrets of Helmand, the documentary is presented by British journalist Ben Anderson, and titled This Is What Winning Looks Like:
(A video podcast of Mr Anderson discussing the documentary with Eddy Moretti is available here.)
So, what do we find?
The Afghan National Army is viewed almost as a foreign force of occupation by southern Pashtuns, being comprised largely of the followers of Northern Alliance warlords like the dreaded General Dostum, who massacred up to 3,000 prisoners in the early period of the war.
The Taliban controls villages within walking distance of the Americans' main base in Sangin, though it is described in an ISAF press release worthy of Saeed al-Sahhaf as "transforming into a safe haven".
Worst of all are the National Police: corrupt, drug-addled and predatory; commanded by men who keep young boys as sex slaves while criminals use heroin money to build expansive villas worthy of Mexico's Narco Lords.
Is this the best we will be able to expect from the rebel coalition's cannibal commanders, after paying a price in blood and treasure our depleted armed forces and groaning Exchequer can no longer bear?
Burke warns us that those who do not learn from history's mistakes are doomed to repeat them. Mr Hague, a historian who has written engaging and insightful biographies of Pitt and Wilberforce, would be well-advised to take a hard look at our more recent past before committing us fully to a Syrian adventure.
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Saturday, 20 April 2013
The Power of Language (and Self-Delusion)
|North Korean rallies have always been
more Red Square than Third Reich
This is not ground-breaking footage of the country's mysterious hinterland or the ever-expanding Gulag described in the bestselling Escape from Camp 14, where "babies are born to be slaves".
Instead, it is just another semi-covert recording of the standard Potemkin tour of monuments, memorials and public works projects which visitors to the Hermit Kingdom always receive. A write-up of this surreal experience had already been ably penned by the notorious Peter Hitchens; folk devil to the Left and terror to Tories.
(In fact, Mr Sweeney seemed to ape Mr Hitchens very closely on occasion, even down to a roguish request for a copy of Orwell's 1984 at the Grand People's Study Centre.)
One striking innovation, however, was the early claim that this last great Marxist bastion is not a relic of the revolutionary Left at its 20th century worst, but "a far-right state; an ultra-nationalist state".
Many see North Korea as a communist state. One year ago, [portraits of] Marx and Lenin still had pride of place [in Pyongyang's main square]. But this year, on our trip, they've gone. ... So what sort of system is this?
Professor Brian Myers, a contributing editor to the studiously left-wing magazine The Atlantic, justifies the characterisation of the DPRK as "far-right" with reference to the fact that it has more men under arms than Hitler's Germany or Mussolini's Italy prior to the Second World War.
Where does this notion that large standing armies are exclusive to (or indicative of) right-wing regimes come from, though? Pronounced, strident militarism is a more or less universal feature in communist states; from the combat fatigues of the Castros to the parades of the People's Liberation Army.
John Everard, Britain's ambassador in Pyongyang from 2006-2008, is used to buttress Professor Myers's argument. The late Kim Jong-il, he asserts, "was an unabashed admirer of Hitler and copied him quite consciously, down to details like the Nuremberg marches, which are staged in Pyongyang to this day."
|The Dear Leader's true role models came from
places closer to home than Austria
The Numeremberg connection is even more tenuous. Vladimir Lenin institutionalised mass marches and rallies before Adolf Hitler was ever heard of, and they have long been used as tools of control and power projection in communist states.
The Romanian tyrant Nicolae Ceaușescu famously met his end after losing conrol of a rally in 1989. The Kims' paymasters in the People's Republic of China have been more successful, holding a particularly extravagant one for their state's 60th anniversay four years ago.
Curiously, Mr Everard had previously described North Korea as having been "created by Soviet Army officers". It was the men of the Red Army, not the Waffen SS, who took Kim Jong-il's father and "built [him] into a leader, [and] when they found that he commanded insufficient public respect, they built up around him a Stalinist cult of personality so that the country ended up being ruled by a god-king".
This brings us back to the portraits of Marx and Lenin. Their (very recent) disappearance co-incided with the removal of a third portrait. This one depicted North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung, the Great Leader who continues in the office of Eternal President within a glass coffin, modeled after the ones in which the corpses of Lenin and Stalin — his patron — were preserved.
In truth, however, it has never been common for foreign communists to be used in the propaganda of the DPRK. It would run contrary to the spirit of Juche, the rather poorly understood governing ideology of North Korea adapted from the Soviet brand of communism by Kim il-Sung.
This is best summed up in the following passage from the Great Leader's seminal 1955 speech On eliminating dogmatism and formalism and establishing Juche in ideological work:
[T]he form of our government should ... be fitted to the specific conditions of our country. Does our people's power have exactly the same form as in other socialist countries? No, it does not. They are alike in that they are based on Marxist-Leninist principles, but their forms are different. ... Many comrades swallow Marxism-Leninism whole, instead of digesting and assimilating it. It is therefore self-evident that they are unable to display revolutionary initiative. ... Marxism-Leninism is not a dogma, it is a guide to action and a creative theory. So, Marxism-Leninism can display its indestructible vitality only when it is applied creatively to suit the specific conditions of each country.
In short, Kim il-Sung believed that his Propaganda Department was too slavish in its imitation of the USSR and Maoist China. It would promote Soviet Five-Year Plans and hang paintings of Siberian landscapes, while local strategies and familiar scenery went neglected. He warned that if Koreans were not taught to admire their own leaders, educated in the history of their own revolution and inspired with an affection for their own particular homeland, the Party would not be able to carry them with it.
"If we mechanically apply foreign experience," he said, "disregarding the history of our country and the traditions of our people and without taking account of our own realities and level of preparedness of our people, dogmatic errors will result and much harm will be done to the revolutionary cause."
"To do so is not fidelity to Marxism-Leninism nor to internationalism; it runs counter to them."
So, was it failure on the part of Professor Myers and Mr Sweeney to appreciate these subtleties of Juche that explains their mischaracterisation of the DPRK as an "ultra-nationalist", "far-right" state?
I suspect not. It seems instead to be a consequence of the peculiar tendency of those with left-wing sensibilities disavow any regime with negative attributes. They use the Right as a sort of political dumping ground, into which they can deposit mercenary, laissez-faire capitalists, intolerant religious fanatics and atheistic totalitarians alike, despite their having nothing in common besides their obvious wickedness.
This control of the Left over political terminology is incredibly powerful. It leaves the public with the impression that the Right is defined solely by aggression, bigotry, dictatorship and selfishness. The widespread delusion that state socialism is "a good idea — in principle" has thus survived the depredations of its practical application in a way that fascism has not, because people like Mr Sweeney can always rationalise that far-left regimes like North Korea's are not really left-wing.
Some on the Right have begun to resist this paradigm, thankfully: Lord Tebbit has pointed out the absurdity of the BBC describing of hardline Marxists within the Chinese Communist Party as "conservative". Daniel Hannan has explained how the BNP's advocacy of state-ownership of industry and hatred of "banksters" makes it far-left, not far-right — and their leader agrees:
BNP: the patriotic labour party your greatgrandparents voted for!
— Nick Griffin MEP (@nickgriffinmep) November 4, 2012
And what of that terrible exemplar of right-wing extremism, the National Socialist German Workers' Party?
One suspects that conservatives in the cast of Edmund Burke would reject its one-party dictatorship and its revolutionary character. Modern libertarians, meanwhile, might take issue with its anti-capitalism and maintenance of strict gun control laws.
Perhaps it is significant that Sir Oswald Mosley progressed from Conservative backbencher to Labour Party minister before blossoming into leader of the British Union of Fascists?
For a more in-depth, rough-and-ready undercover documentary than Panorama's, try VICE Media's Inside North Korea:
Eagle-eyed viewers will notice in one of the videos that, somehow or other, North Korea has been penetrated by Teletubbies merchandise. Clearly, there are some Western evils even the Bamboo Curtain is not proof against.
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013
The Hatred of The Left
|What happened to that "innate sense of compassion"?
The passing of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher this Monday has generated a great upswell of bile from the political Left — that supposed font of compassion, fairness and equality.
"Rejoice!" rang the headline of the Socialist Worker, which also advertised a "Thatcher's Dead Special Pull-Out".
"Tramp the dirt down", tweeted Bradford MP George Galloway, ironically of the 'Respect' party.
David Hopper, the general secretary of the Durham Miners' Union who turned seventy on the same day, took to the airwaves to let viewers know he was "having a drink to it right now".
"It's a marvelous day", he added. "I'm absolutely delighted. It's my 70th birthday today and it's one of the best I've had in my life."
Meanwhile, the tasteless isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk — someone has actually taken the trouble to shell out for this domain name — has been amended to read simply YES, in towering letters.
"The lady's not returning", it gloats, before asking "How are you celebrating?"
|"Everything you need to celebrate the big day!"
Some people, it would seem, are celebrating in the streets. Public parties dominated by twenty-something students and petty criminals — who have never seen a hard day's work, never mind an actual coal pit — have now descended into violence, with at least six police constables injured (one seriously) and a charity shop in Brixton raided and vandalised.
(With the late Baroness's funeral still some time away, and revellers determined to mark the occasion in their own, hateful way, it seems likely that the worst is yet to come.)
Can all this venom be attributed purely to the "divisive" nature of Baroness Thatcher's premiership, or is it indicative of a broader left-wing psychosis?
Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan has recounted, in a piece titled 'Memo to my Leftie friends: you'd feel better if you tried not to hate us so much', how Conservative Home editor Tim Montgomerie once attempted to put this challenge directly in the pages of the desperately unpopular (but highly influential) Guardian newspaper:
"Do you really think", he asked, "that Tory politicians take some sort of sadistic pleasure from inflicting pain on public sector workers and benefit claimants? I ask because I'm encountering a large number of people in the Labour movement who are determined to peer into Conservative souls and find the blackest of motives."
Reading the replies in the 'Comment is Free' thread is instructive:
I suspect Osborne views public sector workers and benefit claimants in much the same way as I view livestock.
[H]ave you even met any Tories? They're like a cross between Fagin & Goebbels...
I don't belong to any party, but i can draw real comparison between Conservatives & Nazi's [sic].
"The idea that Conservatives want to take Britain back to a world of the Victorian workhouse ..." is absolutely correct.
[L]etting miners starve and hunger strikers die plus systematically decimating the working class doesn't quite compete with a bit of saliva on your blue rosette. [This in reference to Mr Montgomerie describing how a Labour activist spat in his face during the '92 election campaign.] No matter how many doors you open or how politely you eat your fucking soup.
I have always found [Conservatives] to be nasty, selfish, lying, despicable, evil, grasping, ignorant, duplicitous wastes of oxygen.
If the disgusting morons in the Tory party don't want people to think they take pleasure in stamping on the hopes of decent folk maybe they shopuld stop looking as if they're enjoying it all quite so much and start apologising for their rich city scumbag masters.
And, finally:
The Tories have opposed every progressive policy that sought to relieve the plight of the poor. If the Tories had their way we'd still have children working down the mines. ... Tories are only happy if they have some poor clod to look down upon and whom they can treat like shit. ... Tories are spivs by definition and are ruled by the motto - "I'm all right Jack - fuck you.
This last comment is particularly interesting insofar as it betrays gross ignorance of history: it was in fact a Conservative government under Robert Peel which put an end to the practice of employing young children (and women) underground in the mines in 1842.
The celebrated Tory reformer who had led the commission recommending this mines legislation, Lord Shaftesbury, would strike another blow against child labour in Britain with the 1875 Climbing Boys Act, piloted through Parliament by another Conservative government — this Benjamin Disraeli's.
For a more general flavour of the historic reforms in Britain which have been pioneered by conservatives, one could do worse than to give this video a few minutes of their time:
"Who controls the past controls the future", however, and "Who controls the present controls the past".
None of this information is helpful to the ideological adversaries of conservatism, who dominate the social narrative, so it disappears down the memory hole. Crude smears such as "If the Tories had their way we'd still have children working down the mines" could not be thrown around with such abandon if all the facts were on the table, after all.
Those 'Comment is Free' remarks date from way back in 2010, it must be said. The Left was still downhearted (and, up to a point, rightly shamefaced) following the end of New Labour's thirteen-year reign, and their rhetoric had lost much of its usual fire.
It has been rekindled in time for Baroness Thatcher's passing, three years later, however:
Genuinely delighted that people are actually toasting the news. Your pics are making my life #Thatcherisdead
— Amy Blacklock (@LpoolCityGirl) April 8, 2013
Just seen Maggie Thatcher's grave. Quite nice, but the dancefloor could of been bigger #dingdongthewitchisdead
— Paul Dean (@PaulDeanKop) April 9, 2013
The Thatcher in Hell Daily is out! paper.li/Thatcher_inHel… ▸ Top stories today via @lisybabe @labourleft
— Thatcher in Hell (@Thatcher_inHell) April 8, 2013
This is just a modest sampling of the rancour which has been offered up on social media, and relatively mild.
It comes as no surprise. While the conservative, broadly speaking, views opponents as mistaken but ultimately well-meaning on a personal level, the Leftist seldom seems able to see anything in his enemies but sheer malevolence.
Those with opposing views are not simply people who view the world through a different lens, they are demoniac — and thus must be either exorcised or eradicated.
It is this small kernel of unreasoning hatred at the heart of Leftism — a kind of "liberal bigotry" — which accounts not only for the sadistic, outspoken pleasure taken in the death of frail, sickly grandmother seen over these past days, but which leads, wherever the rule of law cannot restrain it, to its high-minded designs for egalitarian utopia inevitalbe transformation into something monstrous.
Comrades! The insurrection of five kulak districts should be pitilessly suppressed. The interests of the whole revolution require this because 'the last decisive battle' with the kulaks is now under way everywhere. An example must be demonstrated.
- 1. Hang (and make sure that the hanging takes place in full view of the people) no fewer than one hundred known landlords, rich men, bloodsuckers.
- 2. Publish their names.
- 3. Seize all their grain from them.
- 4. Designate hostages in accordance with yesterday's telegram.
- Do it in such a fashion that for hundreds of kilometres around the people might see, tremble, know, shout: "they are strangling, and will strangle to death, the bloodsucking kulaks".
Telegraph receipt and implementation.
Yours, Lenin.
Find some truly hard people
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Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Willful Ignorance?
|"I'm having a drink to it right now."
For the cigar-puffing general secretary of the Durham Miners' Association, the late Baroness Thatcher "perpetrated more evil in the north-east than anyone before or since."
"It isn't just about the coal mines. She set out to destroy unions. She decimated the industry, she destroyed our communities."
A damning legacy, to be sure, if we we could confirm the veracity of Comrade Hopper's charges.
But do they stand up to scrutiny?
This PDF from the 'Durham in Time' website provides us with a helpful timeline of pit closures in the region, from 1950 all the way to 1993. Surprisingly, given the strength of the prevailing narrative, it does not reveal a great 1980s holocaust of the Durham mines.
Instead, it reveals that Margaret Thatcher closed a mere 15 mines — while Labour's Harold Wilson shut down 58.
Durham is not an exceptional case. In fact, the Labour governments of the '60s and '70s closed down a substantially greater number of mines than Margaret Thatcher ever did, and put tens of thousands more miners out of work.
Indeed, they would have done more, but the Cabinet feared the electoral consequences. Labour chose, in the words of one senior figure, "political sanity over economic madness". The really dirty work, then as now, would be left for the Conservatives.
Was Harold Wilson's death marked by callous, vindictive jeering and lawless street parties, with the BBC taking every available opportunity to describe his disastrous, revolutionary premierships as "divisive"?
We should not really wonder at this apparent cognitive dissonance, however. It finds an almost exact parallel in the legend of "Thatcher the Milk Snatcher". This is used as a rod for Conservative backs to this day, despite the fact that it was Labour which began the process of "snatching" free school milk in 1968 — and from more pupils than the then late Baroness ever did, too.
We should instead wonder that the Left has made such an excellent job of conquering the past, with the Right acquiescing to be robed in the mantle of perpetual villainy with no more than a sigh of resignation.
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Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Chávez: A Retrospective
Commander Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías; patron to the Castro dictatorship, shill for the Chinese Communist Party and enemy of Britain and the Falkland Islanders, has died.
The following comment, posted in response to a CNN article reporting the announcement, seems a fitting eulogy:
The following comment, posted in response to a CNN article reporting the announcement, seems a fitting eulogy:
Rest in peace, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías. As a Venezuelan, I didn't agree with most of your policies and politics, but I do not rejoice in your death and I do respect the pain of your family and supporters.
In 1998, when you campaigned for the presidency — and promised to end corruption — despite my disappointment with the traditional parties, I did not support you because you had led a coup against president Carlos Andres Pérez. I didn't like Pérez, but he was elected by our people and attempting to overthrow him was proof that you did not respect the will of Venezuelans.
I didn't oppose 100% of what you did. I was grateful, for example, that you placed the issue of poverty on the table and you put the spotlight on millions of Venezuelans that until then had been excluded. I knew that the Cuban doctors in the slums were unprepared and unequipped, but I understood that they meant the world to the mother that knocks on their door at 3am.
I was also happy of the way most Venezuelans started to care about politics again (some because they supported you; others because they opposed you). The anti-politic feeling we saw in the 90's was precisely what got you elected. And I also kept in mind that a majority of Venezuelans did support you, so you certainly had a right to be in office.
These are my 10 reasons why I will not miss you:
1. Your authoritarian manner (which reflected a flaw probably most Venezuelans have), and your inability to engage in an honest dialogue with anyone that opposed you. Even from your death bed, you had a Supreme Court justice fired because she didn't agree with your politics.
2. Your disrespect for the rule of law and your contribution to a climate of impunity in Venezuela. In 1999, you re-wrote the Constitution to fit your needs, and yet you violated it almost on a daily basis. With this example, it is no surprise that crime exploded in Venezuela. In 14 years, our homicide rate more than tripled from 22/100K to 74/100K. While judges were busy trying to prove their political allegiance to you, only 11% of homicides led to a conviction.
3. Your empty promises and the way you manipulated many Venezuelans to think you were really working for them. In 14 years you built less public housing than any president before you did in their 5 year periods. Hospitals today have no resources, and if you go there in an emergency you must bring with you everything from medicines to surgical gloves and masks. The truth is that you were better at blowing your own trumpet than at getting things done.
4. The astounding level of corruption of your government. There was corruption before you got elected, but normally a government's scandals weren't made public until they handed power to the opposing party. Now we've heard about millions and millions of dollars vanishing in front of everybody's eyes, and your only reaction was to attack the media that revealed the corruption.
The only politicians accused of corruption have been from parties that oppose you, and mostly on trumped up charges. For example, Leopoldo Lopez was never condemned by the courts but you still prevented him for running for office. His crime? Using money from the wrong budget allocation to pay for the salaries of teachers and firemen — because your government withheld the appropriate funds.
5. The opportunities you missed. When you took office, the price of oil was $9.30, and in 2008 it reached $126.33. There was so much good you could have done with that money! And yet you decided to throw it away on corruption and buying elections and weapons. If you had used these resources well, 10.7% of Venezuelans would not be in extreme poverty.
6. Your attacks on private property and entrepreneurship. You nationalized hundreds of private companies, and pushed hundreds more towards bankruptcy. Not because you were a communist or a socialist, but simply because you wanted no one left with any power to oppose you. If everyone was a public employee, you could force them to attend your political rallies, and the opposition would not get any funding.
7. Your hypocrisy on freedom and human rights. You shut down more than 30 radio and television stations for being critical of your government, you denied access to foreign currency for newspapers to buy printing paper (regular citizens can't access foreign currency unless you authorize it), you imprisoned people without trial for years, you imprisoned people for crimes of opinion, you fired tens of thousands of public employees for signing a petition for a recall referendum and you denied them access to public services and even ID cards and passports.
8. Your hypocrisy on the issue of Venezuela's sovereignty. You kicked out the Americans but then you pulled down your pants for the Cubans, Russians, Chinese and Iranians. We have Cuban officers giving orders in the Venezuelan army. Chinese oil companies work with a higher margin of profit than any Western companies did. And you made it clear that your alliances would be with governments that massacre their own people.
9. Your hypocrisy on the issue of violence. You said this was a peaceful revolution but you allowed illegal armed groups like Tupamaros, La Piedrita and FBLN to operate. You gave them weapons. You had the Russians set up a Kalashnikov plant in Venezuela. You were critical of American wars but yet you gave weapons to the Colombian guerrilla, whose only agenda is murder and drug-dealing.
10. Your hypocrisy on democracy. Your favorite insult for the opposition parties in Venezuela was "coupists", but you forgot you organized a coup in 1992, and the military that was loyal to you suggested they would support a coup in your favor if the opposition ever won the presidential elections.
There was no democracy in your political party: you chose each of the candidates for the National Assembly and for city and state governments. When the opposition won the referendum that would have allowed you to change the Constitution in 2007, you disavowed the results and you figured out a way to change the articles and allow yourself to be reelected as many times as you wanted.
You manipulated the elections in 2010 to make sure the opposition didn't get more than a third of seats in Parliament even though they got 51% of the popular vote. Your democracy was made of paper, you made sure there were no meaningful checks and balances and all institutions were your puppets.
So no, Hugo I will not miss you. Rest in peace now, while we try to rebuild the mess of a country that you left us.
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Knit Midi Skirt
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Zammo was a cheeky chappy until he became addicted to heroin. The dramatic storyline remains in the minds of many who grew up with the show and spawned the musical hit Just Say No. His pals and long-suffering girlfriend Jackie helped him fight his addiction.
After leaving the show Lee Macdonald had a few minor roles in shows like Birds of a Feather, but never really made it. Now he runs a locksmith in Surrey, and has appeared on reality shows including Cirque de Celebrité and Celebrity Scissorhands.
Pretty blonde Fay had the pick of the schoolboys at Grange Hill, but caused a scandal when she had an affair with teacher, Mr King. She'd originally wanted to be a PE teacher, but failed her exams after her romance with Mr King went awry.
Alison Bettles left acting after Grange Hill and started a recruitment company. She's a trained beauty therapist and a mum of four. Two of her children have started acting, winning minor roles in Dr Who and EastEnders, so the family acting talent is very much in effect!
Scouser Ziggy wasn't exactly dedicated to his schoolwork - he spent most of his time at Grange Hill getting into trouble and mucking around (remember the donkey smuggling incident?), but his cheeky grin usually saw him alright.
George Wilson appeared as a heroin addict in Brookside (what's with Grange Hill and addictive substances?) and still works as an actor with a steady career in theatre. He's also turned his hand to writing, working on shows for Channel 4.
Robbie was Jackie's little bro and sidekick to Ziggy. The two were constantly getting into scrapes, and Robbie was also involved in lots of Gonch's scams. He later turned into a bad boy when he got involved with some football hooligans… And that face looks like butter wouldn't melt!
John Alford became a bit of a heart-throb with his role as fireman Billy Ray in London's Burning. But things soon turned sour for the star after he was convicted of drug dealing in the late 90s and was sent to prison. He recently appeared in Trust Me I'm a Beauty Therapist.
Poor Roland (or 'Ro-land', as he was known) was bullied about his weight, but didn't help matters by constantly eating. He later surprised everyone by bagging himself a French girlfriend, Fabienne. You go Ro-land!
Erkan Mustafa appeared in an episode of the Lenny Henry comedy Chef. He's also been on The Bill, and now has a career as a music and club promoter.
One of the most memorable characters, Tucker was the coolest kid in school. Leader of a gang that included Alan Humphries and Benny Green, he was the original rebel and starred in spin-off show Tucker's Luck.
Todd Carty went where all good Grange Hill kids go - EastEnders - where he played Mark Fowler for years. He then moved to The Bill, where he honed his evilness as bent copper Gabriel Kent. Most recently he was seen making a fool of himself on Dancing on Ice.
Grange Hill had nearly 10 heads over the years, but the only one anyone remembers is Mrs McCluskey. Stern but fair, she introduced some discipline into the wayward school. She also hated Mr Bronson as much as the kids!
Actress Gwyneth Powell has had a steady TV career, appearing in Heartbeat, Doctors, Peak Practice and Echo Beach. Most recently she made an appearance in A Touch of Cloth, once again playing Mrs McCluskey!
Justine started out as a rebel, but by sixth form she was one of the school's most respected pupils. Her friendship with Tegs Ratcliffe showed her softer side. She ended up editing the school mag and became an ambassador for Grange Hill. Good work Justine.
After the show, Rachel Victoria Roberts continued acting, starring in the first episode of Touch of Frost and appearing in The Bill. Since the late 90s Rachel has disappeared from the acting scene and now lives in South London with her kids.
Maria's school life was overshadowed by her bullying father. She ended up rebelling against his strictness by turning into a Goth and stomping about the school. Thankfully Justine Dean helped her see the error of her ways.
Luisa Bradshaw-White did the rounds of TV drama after Grange Hill, including Holby City, The Bill, A Touch of Frost and This Life. A spiritualist, she's turned away from acting over the last few years and now lives in Hertfordshire with her family.
A certain red-headed young actress played Natasha during the mid-80s. Patsy Palmer wasn't the first EastEnders star to start out in Grange Hill. Others include Letitia Dean, Daniella Westbrook, Susan Tully, Sean Maguire and Sophie Lawrence. They should have made Grange Hill the official school for EastEnders!
Patsy still has the red hair and pout, and puts them both to good use as the stonewashed denim-clad Bianca in EastEnders. Despite trying other roles, Patsy is and will forever be best known as Bianca. Altogether now… RICKY!
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The Mass of Christian Burial, celebrating the life of Josephine "Terry" Baggenstoss, age 73, of Albany will be 11:00 AM Monday, July 26 at the Seven Dolors Catholic Church in Albany. Burial will be in the parish cemetery. Terry died July 22, 2010 in her home surrounded by family. There will be a visitation from 48:00 PM Sunday and again after 1000 AM Monday at the Miller-Carlin-Brenny Funeral Home in Albany.
Born April 7, 1937 in Springfield, Massachusetts to Elmore and Orilla (Downer) Wakefield; she was later baptized Theresa Josephine. She spent her youth in Massachusetts and then Kennebunkport, Maine. She attained the rank of Airmen Second Class serving in the U.S. Air Force. While stationed in Shreveport, Louisiana she met John (Jack) Baggenstoss, also serving in the U.S. Air Force; and they married on October 3, 1958. Terry raised her family wherever the military planted them—Minot, North Dakota; Tucson, Arizona; Great Falls, Montana; eventually setting in Albany.
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Not sure, but it would be nice if there was some kind of system to maren in Rec. I don't think there is one in UL, but I'm bad at picking out things like that. It seems more just gibberish (sometimes I wonder if they were drunk or just like to hit random keys when they first started)
Giving it some sort of alphabet or whatever, might allow those who study the mares to translating it.
I don't like giving things and odd alphabet, if something says something at me, I at least know how to sounds, and the current alphabet would give phonetic meaning to it. Now, given maren CODECIES their own alphabet would be interesting. You may be able to speak the tongue, but can you read the language?
Be interesting if they hired a linguist or somebody to rewrite the language. I mean create not just a replacement for all the words but mixing up the grammar. Hell, with the alphabet, you shouldn't just make it a cipher with ours shift a few phonetic characters around and make things funky!
Of coures all of that would make more work for all the people playing the mares
Because only someone as deranged as me would have a rubber chicken Named Alfredo Sanchez
The maren language in Underlight was a structured language. Used english syntax and just a different vocabulary. But good luck trying to actually pronounce some of the maren words.
I used to be a maren translator when I played Underlight. If someone couldn't understand a Darkmare and actually wanted to know what it was saying, I'd get asked to help out. One you grasped a few key words, getting the gist of what was said gets easier. Eventually I was able to understand a lot of maren speech without looking at my reference papers.
I am curious to know how the maren language will be handled in Reclamation, too. Probably is a little tough, but finding the language used in Underlight on the internet could just make knowing maren too easy. I'd like to see a new language written up so Dreamers would have to go through the translation process again.
"I'm not insane. I just have a vivid imagination!"
I think Maren in UL was a collective fudge project among the GM team. This is just guessing here, but I suspect whenever they needed a new word, they'd make something up and just post it to some master list. The words largely seem to be horrifically mutated english words, or words related to the matter at hand, bok bok for chicken, sounds like the sound a chicken makes. Some word pertaining to time was something akin to "tok". Other words are just nonesense it seems.
It is a language from the ground up when I think about it. Someone really put work into that. It's not the first time someone ripped a language out of their rear.
it was probably all done by hand though. If I was a GM player though on a Darkmare account, I'd be asking for an ingame maren cuecard with word search. 'course I am not that, I suspect they just worked off of a printed sheet or a notebook or something. Just the good old fashioned way...
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I believe the only aspect of the "Maren Language" that was complete drivel was the filter that we were able to experience through the use of mediums such as player mares.
If one has collected an accurate version of the maren lexicon they would find that it does make a certain amount of sense, though not much.
I believe that many of the more annoying issues with translation and use of the lexicon occured when different members of the team, namely those driving the darkmares, began to add or otherwise change the lexicon based on their particular needs or goals at the time. We also have ourselves to thank for some of the lexicons perversion. Many players also added to or changed it, somestimes promoting the idea of a particular translation regardless of how inacurate it may have been. We as players are limited by our own talent in the field of languages I suppose, regardless of the intelligence we try to have our characters portray.
As for the suggestion of using a linguist to develop the language for Reclamation, I do not think that is needed. In fact any concerned member of the community could take advantage of numerous world buiding tools on the internet to develop such a language.
I do appologize that at the moment I do not have the information on one of the better programs I know of. But nevertheless I do know that they are out there. The one I am familiar with is able to build a new language based on english, or go so far as to create an entirely new alphabet with pronunciation and all sorts of other bells and whistles.
Perhaps we should consider such an endeavor ourselves considering the current state of the project. Afterall, I do not hold out much hope that the next J.R.R Tolkien is busting his or her buckles to come on board.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
If one searches online for "maren dictionary" one can dig up what a pretty fair sized version. A lot of it seems to be english words slurred. Though, the thing that I found mildly amusing were a few of the words were based off of something derived from the topic it pertained to. An example is "Bok-Bok" which is chicken, it word is obviously onamotopoetic. Another one was "Tok Tok", which, if I recall correctly corresponded to "time goes".
I have located one such lexicon here, http://members.fortunecity.com/poeul/index.htm There are links at the bottom of the page referring to recognized maren and translated maren.
Agian, as you've said, people have pushed their own translations. I have heard a few takes on the word commonly used by the AI mares, "prazah". The most accepted theory on it's meaning, and the one you'll find in Lexicons, is "die". I've heard some people who claimed it meant "peace." And agian, I've always wondered how much free reign the other GM staff had on the language expansion.
It would be convenient for them to port the language over to their newer endevour of a game, but if they intend to use a secondary language, using an entirely near one would force the dreamers to decipher it all over agian. This would return the mystique to the language, at least for a little while.
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Well for the most part, alot of the maren words had to be figured out by its use and the context of the statement. Not like the mare is suddenly going to translate for you, so some words were iffy in its meaning.
I don't mind the fact that some Lyrans ended up creating new words for the same meaning. Wasn't there like 3-4 words for dreamer? It wouldn't make alot of sense of the mares didn't have some "chaos" to their language. Consider it slang or something. If mares are created from the chaos of thoughts of the non-dreamers, then maybe the mares pick up local dialects that translate into their maren.
I don't think there was any real logic behind the creation of the words. Probably just used a random word generator or used a sound-like word (like Bok-Bok). Though I would be interested in hearing how the Lyra staff actually developed the language.
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