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Connection, Intimacy, Beauty, Love
by Allyce Torres
Connection, Intimacy, Beauty, love
These are the words that we've proposed as topics for our new blog series to span over the next few months. All of them are values we Halcyon-ites hold very firmly. They're words that are exciting. Evocative. Cool. Awesome.
Except for what the HELL do they actually mean?!
Belileve me, as someone who has been in theatre since I was four, I hear these words a lot. I can give you dictionary definitions, two page interpretations, and even BFA acting-journal-approved explanations of each of these terms. But at the end of the day, that's all it is. Talk.
I think if you ask most theatre companies, they would say, "Yes, we're down with love/connection/intimacy/etc." And I would be hard pressed to find anyone who said otherwise. But the problem is, not many know how to actually walk the talk and actually implement those values into their art and business any further than a superficial level. For an art form that is supposed to be so basically human, it sure can seem elite.
So, needless to say, as much of a self-proclaimed Bleeding heart as I am, I went into this a little jaded. It was hard for me to see how we as a company would be able to actually achieve what most theatres simply talk about in every level of our business model and artistic practice.
It came time to test it when we had our first Ceyx Performance of the season. During the series, we- as a company- reach out to various artists in the Chicago-land community who have unique and diverse skill sets and ask them to showcase their talents with us for a night. (This time around: Artist Frank Waln and Hoop Dancer Sam Sampson, Improvised Jane Austen, Brothers Lovish and Mahi, and our own Artist in Resident Robert Salazar.)
This was also our first night implementing our new Radical Hospitality Program.
There are lots of super fancy ways to break down Radical Hospitality (Check out the link here to see more about how we do it) but the basic gist is that, at every performance, a set amount of the house will be set aside as free seating to be given out on a first-come first-serve basis and in order to guarantee seating, you can call the box office or purchase them online. Basically, if anyone wants to see a show with us, they can- regardless of financial standing. As a company that firmly believes in Eradicating Borders, this kind of policy makes perfect sense. I was already standing behind it, but I was completely unprepared for the true effect it would have.
On that Friday night, as I stood helping with concessions and set up, I saw our radical hospitality take life in the diverse (in every sense of the word) faces that flowed into the space. I already knew the performances were going to be DOPE, but the magic and energy that came from the audience was what made the night stellar.
Sitting there, in the theatre filled with performers of differing backgrounds (watching them snap instagram pics together and promoting each other after meeting an hour before), my fellow Halcyonites who worked so hard to get the night together, and a room full of Albany Park teens, Parents on a night out, College students, kids, and several other members from the community- I felt it. I felt all those airy-fairy words come together.
THIS is connection/intimacy/love/beauty not just in our words, but in our practice. For an hour, we were just a group of humans, celebrating, honoring, and entertaining together and it was entirely fueled by the fact that everyone was welcome.
We say we open our doors to everyone, and by implementing radical hospitality into our event programming, we prove and ensure that we really mean it.
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Why is it that we spend so much time planning the colour scheme of our living rooms, browsing sofa show rooms and trawling the internet to find the perfect rug, but often neglect lighting? In any room, lighting is a functional necessity, but it can also be the finishing touch to your design. However, in the family hub of your home, the way you light your living room can change the ambience and transform the space.
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There are no design guides that say you can only have one light, but if you're an interior design novice, then you might be wary of trying different styles. However, you can never have too many lights, so layer it up with a combination of ceiling, wall mounted sconces, floor and table top lamps.
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Whether the interior design of your living room is monochrome, retro, or offers a taste of the orient, lighting can add a new dimension to your theme. Don't be afraid to experiment here, whether with texture, shape, design or colour. Rather than choosing a run of the mill lampshade, use your lighting to express elements of your design.
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Not only do you want to display your beautiful lighting, but you need to put it somewhere that's practical. Before you purchase, consider where you would put the light, what it would be used for, if it's up to purpose and if it's the right size. If you have children, placement is also important to avoid hazardous trailing cables.
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Using an instrument on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, called the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, or HMI, scientists have overturned previous notions of how the sun's writhing insides move from equator to pole and back again, a key part of understanding how the dynamo works. Modeling this system also lies at the heart of improving predictions of the intensity of the next solar cycle.
Using SDO, scientists see a performance of explosions and fountains on the solar surface. Shots of solar material leap into the air. Dark blemishes called sunspots grow, combine and disappear as they travel across the sun's face. Bright loops of charged particles - captured by magnetic fields dancing around the sun - hover in the atmosphere.
This dynamic display is all powered by a complex, ever-changing magnetic current inside the sun known as the dynamo. This magnetic system flips approximately every 11 years, with magnetic north and magnetic south switching poles. This process is an integral part of the sun's progression toward a pinnacle of solar activity, known as solar maximum.
The team's recent results show that, instead of a simple cycle of flow moving toward the poles near the sun's surface and then back to the equator, the material inside the sun shows a double layer of circulation, with two such cycles on top of each other. The results appear online in the Astrophysical Journal Letters on Aug. 27, 2013.
"For decades people have known that the solar cycle depends on the poleward flow or material, changing the magnetic fields from one cycle to the next," said Philip Scherrer, principal investigator for HMI at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. "We mapped out what we believed to be the flow pattern in the 1990s, but the results didn't quite make sense."
Since the mid-1990s researchers have been observing movement inside the sun using a technique called helioseismology. The technique makes use of the fact that waves course across the sun, back and forth, oscillating with an approximately five minute period. Such waves are similar to the seismic waves that spread out under the ground during an earthquake.
By monitoring the oscillations seen at the surface of the sun, scientists can gather information about the material through which the waves traveled, including what the material is made of and how fast and in what direction it is moving.
Such observations quickly showed scientists how material inside the sun rotates from east to west: material moves more slowly at the poles than it does at the equator. The observations also soon showed that material moved from the equators toward the poles within the top 20,000 miles of the sun's surface - but the flow back toward the equator from the poles was not detected.
Early models of all this moving material, therefore, assumed that the equator-ward flow was much lower, only occurring at the bottom of the convection layer of the sun that houses these flows, some 125,000 miles down.
"Scientists have used this assumption to describe the solar dynamo," said Junwei Zhao, a helioseismologist at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., who is the first author on the paper. "And now we have found that it isn't right. The flow patterns we have found are sharply different."
Zhao and his colleagues observed two years worth of data from HMI, which differs from one of the best previous helioseismology instruments - the Michelson Doppler Imager on board the joint European Space Agency/NASA mission the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO. SOHO observed the sun in low resolution on a regular basis, but only observed it in high resolution for a couple months each year. HMI observes the sun continuously with 16 times more detail than SOHO.
Using this data, Zhao compared the helioseismology results measured at four different heights within the sun's surface, and found these results were not consistent with what the normal convention would expect. The team proposed a way to make these four sets of measurements agree with each other.
This new method not only brought the four data sets into harmony, but also helped find the long-sought equatorward flow inside the sun. The team found that the flow toward the poles does indeed occur in a layer at near the sun's surface - but the equatorward flow isn't at the bottom.
Instead, the material seeps back toward the equator through the middle of the convection layer. Moreover, deep down inside the layer is a second stream of material moving toward the poles, making what the scientists refer to as a double-cell system in which two oblong flow systems are stacked on top of each other.
"This has important consequences for modeling the solar dynamo," said Zhao. "We hope our results on the sun's interior flow will provide a new opportunity to study the generation of solar magnetism and solar cycles."
Zhao and his colleagues have provided their new map of the sun's interior to scientists who simulate the dynamo. The next steps will be to see how such new models jibe with the observations seen on the sun and how it may improve our ability to understand the constant dance of magnetism on the sun.
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Julius Caesar Speech Analysis
Act II, Scene 1, lines 10-34
Act II, Scene 2, lines 13-26
Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,
Yet now they fright me. There is one within,
Besides the things that we have heard and seen,
Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.
A lioness hath whelpèd in the streets,
And graves have yawned and yielded up their dead.
Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds
In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,
Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol.
The noise of battle hurtled in the air.
Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,
And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
O Caesar! These things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them.
Thematic Subject:
"If this were true, then should I know this secret"
(Before she says this, Brutus says "You are my true and honorable wife")
Context: Calpurnia has a bad dream about Casear dying and worries for his safety.
Audience: Calpurnia is talking to Caesar.
Context: Brutus is at his home after Cassius has tried to persuade him to join the conspiracy. He tries to justify joining it by worrying what Caesar will do if he becomes emperor.
Audience: Brutus is talking to himself.
a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger; concern or anxiety
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
, Shakespeare reveals the theme that fear can control one's thoughts and actions through the words of Brutus, Calpurnia, and Portia.
Connection to Thesis
It must be by his death, and for my part
I know no personal cause to spurn at him
But for the general. He would be crowned.
How that might change his nature, there's the question.
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder
And that craves wary walking. Crown him that,
And then I grant we put a sting in him
That at his will he may do danger with.
Th' abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
Remorse from power. And, to speak truth of Caesar,
I have not known when his affections swayed
More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber upward turns his face.
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.
Then, lest he may, prevent. And since the quarrel
Will bear no color for the thing he is,
Fashion it thus: that what he is, augmented,
Would run to these and these extremities.
And therefore think him as a serpent's egg—
Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous—
And kill him in the shell.
Connection to Thesis
"I never stole on ceremonies"
"Besides the things that we have heard and seen"
Calpurnia says that she's never believed in dreams and that they didn't personally witness what she is describing.
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Act II, Scene 1, Lines 291-302
"If this were true, then should I know this secret.
I grant I am a woman; but withal
A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife:
I grant I am a woman; but withal
A woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter.
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so father'd and so husbanded?
Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em:
I have made strong proof of my constancy,
Giving myself a voluntary wound
Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience.
And not my husband's secrets?"
Loaded words:
"drizzled blood upon the Capitol."
"dying men did groan."
"ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets."
"Fierce fiery warriors fought"
"And I do fear them."
Context: Portia is worried because Brutus refuses to tell her his secret.
Audience: Portia is speaking to Brutus.
"He would be crowned.
How that might change his nature, there's the question."
"And then I grant we put a sting in him
That at his will he may do danger with.
Th' abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
Remorse from power."
"But 'tis a common proof
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,"
"And therefore think him as a serpent's egg—
Which, hatched, would as his kind grow mischievous—
And kill him in the shell."
"I grant I am a woman; but withal
A woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter.
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so father'd and so husbanded?"
"Giving myself a voluntary wound
Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience.
And not my husband's secrets?"
"Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em:"
"It must be by his death, and for my part
I know no personal cause to spurn at him
But for the general."
"scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend"
Brutus is afraid of what will happen if Caesar becomes emperor
He uses mainly logic to show how Caesar might become corrupt
EX: Compares Caesar to a "serpent"--he should "kill him in the shell" before he hatches and grows "mischievious"
His fear for the future with Caesar as emperor causes him to decide that Rome would be better off without him and join the conspiracy.
In Conclusion...
In all three of these situations, the speaker is influenced by fear and was unsuccessful in their actions caused by their fears for one reason or another.
Brutus is afraid of Caesar gaining too much power, so he decides to join the conspiracy. He helps with the assassination and because of this is later killed.
Calpurnia is afraid that her dream will come true and Caesar will be hurt, so she tries to get Caesar to stay home from the Capital. However, he doesn't heed her advice and is assassinated.
Portia is afraid that Brutus doesn't trust her anymore because he won't reveal his secret to her, so she stabs her leg to prove herself and eventually commits suicide.
This shows that one should be cautious of how fear affects them to prevent these types of occurrences.
"I have made strong proof of my constancy"
"Th' abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
Remorse from power."
"O Caesar! These things are beyond all use"
Calpurnia is afraid for Caesar's safety because of her horrible dream.
She uses pathos to show Caesar how this dream has affected her in an attempt to get him to be cautious.
Her fear causes her to try and cause Caesar to stay at home to prevent anything bad from happening.
*There is barely any usage of logos because she is describing her dream.*
**There is not a lot of pathos, because Brutus is very logical thinker**
Connection to Thesis
Portia is worried that Brutus is concealing something from her.
She's afraid the secret could be bad, dishonorable, etc.
She uses ethos, logos, and pathos to try and convince Brutus that she is worthy of his secret.
EX: Stabbing herself in the leg
Her fear due to her uncertainty causes her to hurt and eventually kill herself.
Brutus is saying that the only cause he himself has for joining the conspiracy is for the public good.
Brutus uses loaded words such as:
Portia claims that even though she is a woman, she has a good reputation and is Cato's daughter and Brutus's wife.
Portia tries to cause Brutus to feel pity and reveal his secret to her by stabbing herself in the leg.
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If you are a young Muslim American and head off to the Middle East for a spell in a fundamentalist "madrassa," or religious school, Homeland Security will probably greet you at the airport when you return. But if you are an American Jew and you join hundreds of teenagers from Europe and Mexico for an eight-week training course run by the Israel Defense Forces, you can post your picture wearing an Israeli army uniform and holding an automatic weapon on MySpace.
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"Upon arrival, the participants experience an abrupt change into army life: wearing uniforms, accepting army discipline, and learning the programs and lessons integral to the program," the Let Israelis Show You Israel Web site reads. "The program includes military content such as: navigation, field training, weapons training, shooting ranges, marches and more, as well as educational content such as: Zionism, Jewish Identity, history and knowledge of the land of Israel. All of this is taught in Hebrew in an intensive eight weeks."
"The participants finish the program after completing a short, intensive, exhilarating military experience that allows them to taste Israel in a way that they never could before—as part of the Israel Defense Forces," the site reads. "They leave the program with a feeling of belonging and a strong connection to Israel, and many return to Israel to continue the connection that was created in the framework of the Marva course."
There are, of course, gushing testimonials about the program.
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How have we reacted when we discovered that American Muslims were being taught in a foreign country to fire machine guns at paper figures and simulate military maneuvers? And what about the summer schools in Gaza organized by Islamic Jihad designed to train young Palestinians in the basics of military life? These Gaza camps, uncovered in 2001, were widely denounced by Israel as proof that the Palestinians were teaching their children to hate and kill.
The argument in favor of camps in Israel, as opposed to camps in Pakistan, is that these young men and women are not going to come back and use what they have learned to harm Americans. They are not terrorists. Muslims, however, have not cornered the market on terrorism and violence. Radical Jews have also been involved in terrorist attacks in Israel and the United States.
I discovered an American in Israel in 1989 named Robert Manning. A huge, burly man, Manning was living in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Kiyrat Arba. When I found him he was carrying a pistol, a large knife strapped to his leg and an M-16 assault rifle. He was part of a Jewish terrorist group called Committee for Protection and Safety of the Highways that set up ad hoc roadblocks and pulled Palestinians from cars to beat and often shoot them. He was a follower of Meir Kahane, the leader of the Jewish Defense League, who was implicated in terrorist attacks in the United States and Israel. Manning served as a reservist in the Israel Defense Forces in the West Bank.
Manning was wanted in California for murder. He had been charged in a 1980 mail-bomb killing as part of his involvement in the Jewish Defense League. The bomb was intended for the owner of a local computer firm, but the package holding the device was opened by the firm's secretary, Patricia Wilkerson, who was killed instantly by the blast.
Manning, full of bluster and a bitter racism toward Arabs, used as his pseudonym the name of the FBI agent in charge of his case, a bit of humor that backfired on him by confirming my suspicion of his identify. I obtained the picture from his California driver's license and showed it to his neighbors at Kiyrat Arba. They identified him from the photo. I wrote an article affirming that Manning, heavily armed and an active member of the Israeli army, was living in a Jewish settlement. The Israeli government, until that moment, said it had no information about his location. He was extradited in 1993 and sentenced the next year to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 30 years. He is in a maximum-security prison in Florence, Colo.
Those who go through the Marva summer program are indoctrinated as thoroughly as Muslims who go overseas and are told they are part of a greater jihad for Islam. The results, given Israel's close alliance with the United States, may not be negative for those in power in the United States, but it may be very negative for those Americans defined as the enemy, especially Muslims, should we suffer another 9/11. The program inculcates hatred and a belief in the efficacy of violence to solve the problems in the Middle East. It identifies Israel with militarism. It feeds the idea that a Jew born in Brooklyn has a birthright to settle in Israel that is denied to an American of Palestinian descent.
Jerusalem, aside from being one of the most beautiful cities in the world, is one of the most literate, creative and intellectual. Do these young men and women really know the best of Israel by spending eight weeks playing soldier and glorifying the military? Is the cause of Israel advanced by mirroring the twisted militarism of Islamic fundamentalists?
Terrorists arise in all cultures, all nations and all religions. We have produced more than our share. Ask the people of Vietnam or Iraq. The danger of a military program such as these is that it solidifies a mind-set of us and them. It romanticizes violence. It widens the divide that leads to conflict. It makes dialogue impossible. There are great Israeli institutions, from the newspaper Haaretz to the courageous Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem to Peace Now. A summer working for them, rather than wearing an army uniform, unleashing bursts of automatic fire in the desert and singing Israeli patriotic songs, might actually help.
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By alan winters, April 18, 2009 at 4:23 pm Link to this comment
Israel is more than just a tiny, insignificant country in the Middle East. President Obama and his cohorts have not learned that. Israel is the bulkhead preventing Islamic floods from covering the earth. Europe is already flooded with Islamic ideology. Africa, many parts of Asia and the Americas are no strangers to Islamic violence, intolerance and obsessive hatred.
Our US increasingly dictates, that Israel must adhere to the US's plan for Middle East "peace," otherwise America will withhold its support. The US-Israel relationship is mutually beneficial. The US as well as the rest of the world, needs Israel as a barrier against the Islamic fanaticism that threatens the Middle East and all civilization.
Iran acknowledges the importance of Israel, which accounts for Iran's preoccupation with destroying this obstacle to controlling the region. Europe and now America's obsequious response of to Iran's continuing claims of destructive devices, excludes the choice of a military response. Iran sees a bunch of cowards and indeed we have become that! The world did not learn the important lesson of forceful preemption with the Iraqi Osirak reactor in 1981.
With his statements about not being at war with Islam, our President assures the terrorists that they may continue "diplomatic talks" while building their weapons of mass destruction. It is ridiculous to assume that appeasement will have any effect other than to bolster the sinister intentions of those committed to our destruction. To the Moslem, appeasement is recognized as weakness to be exploited.
Israel is the front line of the worldwide conflict against this enemy. Only Israel can decide what steps must be taken for its survival. Too many third party "advisors" are demanding that Israel follow some dictates. For Israel to acquiesce to this foolishness would be devastating to the world
By RichardRose, October 16, 2007 at 5:40 pm Link to this comment
Boy this story's comments have devolved by into mainly a propaganda campaign by two bigots, one named after a fart and one just Robert.
Alert to you two. Rational people have long left this story, why don't you two go to a Nazi meeting or something.
I am on to the next story.
By Brian S, October 14, 2007 at 8:55 pm Link to this comment
Rural people worldwide can act with paranoia and unexpected rage. This isn't just Jews. There are psycopaths, sociopaths, and lunatics in every human culture, and they tend to seek power, so they can be found in leadership roles at all levels of society.
But Islamic expansionism has been successful everywhere it has gone—no exceptions. On the other hand, all religions are based on myth, legend, and folklore and mostly kept in place by power elites for the purpose of control.
Of course, even if religion is banned, similar systems crop up, like Maoism, which again is just a method of central control over people's minds.
Most of the Western religions have evolved a bit more, but take a look at any Islamic country. There is no freedom and no liberty, and certainly no emancipation of women. They are simply less evolved in some respects at this point in time.
But don't be lulled—Robertson and Dobson are also dangerous—just not terrorists. But some people in a parochial setting acting on herd instinct out of fear is actually pretty natural.
By Brian S, October 14, 2007 at 12:44 am Link to this comment
Robert, If you leave Israel alone, they'll leave you alone. I would live among Israelis any time rather than among Muslims—in any country. Some experience poisoned you somewhere along life's path, I think.
I guess Mr. Hitchens' readership wasn't as high as he liked, so he decided to lob a huge word grenade into the ether. I promise you, Mr. Hitchens, that you'd be a lot more welcome in Israel than any Muslim country—being an atheist and all. Jews are much more tolerant of people than Muslims.
Like the U.S., Israel occasionally does stupid stuff if a wingnut lands at the helm, but most of the time, if you just leave them alone and don't kill a bunch of innocent people, they'll both mostly leave you alone. Not so with Islamic countries. Try being a Christian, atheist, Buddhist, etc. and see how Islamists treat you.
Bob, my friend, you are missing the boat.
By Inherit The Wind, October 13, 2007 at 5:17 am Link to this comment
Robert on 10/12 at 9:33 pm
ITZW…I am really laughing at your deranged fanatic behavior…you need some help badly! You are sly as a snake.
Go ahead and post another one of your zionist fits posts!
You think that you are clever and crafty. You did NOT divert the TOPIC at all!
You are just a plane ole FOOL.
Still all sizzle and no steak, eh Abu?
Insults and name-calling, but no facts.
You just REFUSE to address the West Bank enforced adherence to Islam (through violence and police intimidation), don't you? I guess you keep evading it because you KNOW it shoots down everything you've claim. Arab border towns in Israel were OFFERED the choice to be part of the Palestinian Authority—they chose to stay Israeli! This is why.
Evade, insult, accuse, evade.
You are a toy balloon: Remove the skin and there is nothing but stale hot air.
By Inherit The Wind, October 12, 2007 at 6:37 pm Link to this comment
Robert on 10/12 at 4:14 pm
Inherit The Zionist Wind(ITZW)...Your deranged comment made me laugh. ITZW, you are NOT fooling anyone here; your sneaky ways and habits are well known on truthdig. Your mind is severely infected with that evil zionism…just as Nurit Peled-Elhanan calls it MIND INFECTION.
ITZW…keep spewing your stupid frothy garbage. You sound like that other deranged zionist fanatic, lefty=ephraim/pesach. Check on him…he may be in the same psyche ward.
Happy trails…your head is forever locked in that zionist box!
Abu, your insults and curses cannot hide the FACT that you have NO answer to me. Your beloved Palestinians what to create a Taliban dictatorship and YOU want to help them. And you have NO answer to that because you KNOW it's true.
How does objecting to Taliban tactics by the Palestinian police make me "sneaky", "deranged" or filled with "frothy garbage".
Tell me, Abu, what the hell is SO great about another repressive Taliban Islamic regime. You love it so much? YOU go live there! Bet THEY won't let you post on Truthdig.
In a week you'll be DYING to get into Israel, and away from the new Taliban-niks weeping "Please, please, PLEASE let me in….I'm AMERICAN!"
If you're lucky, the Israelis won't know who you are, how you've called for their nation's destruction and the "deserved" death of innocent women and children whose only crime was to be born Jews. Because if they know who you are, they'll say "Go back to your Al Fatah and Hamas friends! You are not welcome in Israel even if you ARE American." I'll be happy to help them spot you for what your are—a sworn enemy of Israel.
By Inherit The Wind, October 12, 2007 at 3:34 am Link to this comment
Your implication is a) that SOMEHOW, because NPR is reporting it, it's not "true", but you have no basis for that implication, and b) even if it is true (which it is) it's OK—because the Likudniks might do the same. c) You CLAIM (with no basis) that the Israeli Police are doing the same thing as the Palestinian Morality Police.
Of course you can't document c), and, of course, you are saying it's FINE for the Palestinian Morality Police to beat people for violating Ramadan.
You can't escape your own words, Abu.
You attack NPR because you have NO basis to challenge their story. You are a nut who doubts NPR but believes paranoid racist Michael Rivero instead.
You have no credibility, because you are nothing but a tin-foil-hat paranoid anti-semite.
Go back to posting on "whatwefantasizehappened.com" with Michael Rivero
By Inherit The Wind, October 11, 2007 at 7:28 pm Link to this comment
Here's a FINE example of that which I'm sure Robert (the hypocrite) would approve of: Today, NPR, National Public Radio, reported that West Bank "Morality Police" are beating and arresting any seen violating Ramadan—eating, drinking, or smoking.
Now THAT'S "Human Rights"—the right to make DAMN sure no one DARES to violate the precepts of your religion!
By alan winters, October 11, 2007 at 11:03 am Link to this comment
Your moral equivalence is appalling. Jews don't teach hatred, intolerance and murder, whereas Arabs do. That's a big difference. Guns can be used for murder (Arabs) or defense (Jews).
Those who repeat the mindless mantra, zionism = racism, are displaying their abysmal ignorance or bigotry. Now everyone knows that you don't know your history or the truth. If you kept your mouth or keyboard silent, then no one would know how ignorant you are.
By Brent W, October 10, 2007 at 7:02 pm Link to this comment
Robert, people in military situations do all sorts of things we consider inhuman because they are operating based on orders they've been given and they are running on adrenaline.
You can point out all the horrific things that have been done by Jews to Palistinians, but it still doesn't successfully Jews. Jews don't routinely stone women to death, kill their daughters who fall in love with non-Jews, mutilate their daughters' and wives' sex organs, blow themselves up where a lot of innocent people are likely to be wounded or killed, and so on.
As much evil as is done by Jews, you will not convince me that they are the bad guys in the Middle East conflict. Muslims will never give up any of the property they successfully captured at any time in history.
I'm not privy to the source of your raw hatred of Jews, but the statistics don't exist to convince me that those following Judaism are somehow more deadly and destructive than Islamics. Islamics are slowly conquering the entire world, and the Jews are hanging on to a little patch of earth by their teeth.
By Inherit The Wind, October 10, 2007 at 10:12 am Link to this comment
Next, Robert will be citing George Lincoln Rockwell as an authority.
And claiming I won't accept "the Truth"!
Slackman69 is his crony in this.
Here's the Truth: George Lincoln Rockwell is dead. And I don't miss him.
By Inherit The Wind, October 10, 2007 at 9:03 am Link to this comment
Michael Rivero is the "TRUTH"???? No wonder you can't think straight.
The truth is you hate Jews, hate Israel, and will find ANY excuse and any propaganda to support that absurd hatred, even if you have to make it up, or use "information" that is clearly forged.
Your mind is closed. No fact in the world will open it. And nothing useful comes out.
By Claire M, October 9, 2007 at 7:39 pm Link to this comment
I generally agree with your conclusions, but not this time. Islam is presented as a "civilization alternative" by the Muslim Brotherhood, and Bin Laden compared Islam to capitalism—not to any "religion" in the Western sense. In fact, Islamics have taken credit for voting as a bloc in the 2000 elections and potentially pushing Bush into power in Florida, according to the American Muslim Political Coordination Council. That organization also noted that Muslims will gain political power in the U.S. due to "birth, immigration, and reversion to Islam."
Even when "moderate," Islam is inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution, and if Muslims gain enough power, they will replace it with Sharia. So any comparison of Muslims with guns to Jews with guns is like comparing apples and oranges.
Try being an atheist with Muslims in control.
By Georgia Littleton, October 9, 2007 at 3:25 pm Link to this comment
There is one glaring difference between young American Jews joining such a programme and young Palestinians going to training camps. Palestinians are training for Jihad, which involves murder of innocent people.
Non Credo so just because American kids go to a summer camp and train with the IDF they are being militarily traitorous? Get over yourself. Tell me something - how do you view Muslims going to Pakistan to be Jihadis?
By RichardRose, October 9, 2007 at 3:03 pm Link to this comment
Equating Islamic training in terrorism, with Jewish training as military members to help protect there territory is just wrong. Does this writer have hate in his heart or is he just failing to understand the big picture? Its an apples to oranges comparison. Now if he compared it to Muslims training for duty in Saudi's army it would be apples to apples.
Here is what the media will NEVER tell you. To the Muslims ANY land that was once Muslim is forever Moslem's, this applies to Israel, as well and equally as it does to France and Spain etc. Israel gets all the attention due to media bias and the proximity the Jewish nation has to the Muslim's countrys.
But lets pretend Islam was to conquer Israel, they would be hot on the trail to Spain and France, suddenly that would be Palestinian or some such made up group's land also or so they would claim.
Islam teaches they must rule the world and that is what the so called terrorists are fighting for, political control. But according to Quran they must invite you to Islam before killing you. Thus the bin Ladin calls for Americans to revert to Islam.
Now is the picture clearer to you?
By Inherit The Wind, October 9, 2007 at 1:45 pm Link to this comment
Number of sources Robert has cited that were biased, propagandistic, or openly anti-Semitic: 100%
Number of legitimate, mainstream sources with verifiable information that Robert has cited: 0%
(Typically, Robert would have you think that Michael Rivero's pschotically paranoid, anti-semitic, tin-foil-hat whatreallyhappened.com is a source to be taken seriously. All of Robert's sources are the same kind of useless propaganda.)
By IMPACT, October 9, 2007 at 12:53 pm Link to this comment
I have read many articles ,many books on history but that doesnt make me a historian,i am not a devout religon beliver,but say the jews arent a race of people is similar as saying the arabs arent a race,but unlike the arabs or the chrisitans ,jews have been single out for special action ,since before the romans, nebucanezer and even before him
the difference is i belive they are a survivalist race,expert at suviving all that be fell them,,we should learn from them,they arent weak any longer they are military strong highly motivated and have probally the worlds finest airforce and special forces,who have been in constant action since 1948
just an opion
By James Hippolite, October 9, 2007 at 11:57 am Link to this comment
There is no moral equivalence: Jewish youth volunteering for military service in defence of their people is completely different from Islamic youth being indoctrinated to hate and kill ALL infidels.
Islam hates Israel for this simple reason: its existance (in spite of heavy resistance and in fulfilment of prophecy) proves YHWH is not Allah.
By Jason B., October 9, 2007 at 5:51 am Link to this comment
There is absolutely no moral comparison between Jewish teens volunteering on IDF programs and Muslim youths training to become terrorists. To believe otherwise is simply ignorance of the facts.
By fred, October 9, 2007 at 5:14 am Link to this comment
What a load of rubbish.
By Some1, October 9, 2007 at 3:38 am Link to this comment
Why aren't you including a similar recommendation that Muslim youngsters participating in terror summer camps ought to go to human rights projects instead? is it because you know that no such things exist in the Palestinian nation and you are wishfully repressing this knowledge, or is it because you don't mind Muslim 'freedom fighters', only Jewish ones? which? and doesn't it strike you that the latest Jewish terrorist example you could find to prove your delusional "no us and them" paradigm dates back to the eighties?
I haven't seen a single even handed protest of those whining about the summer activities of Jewish youngsters, even though they (the Jews) aren't been made to jump through fiery hoops while singing death to the enemy, as their Muslim comrades are. Apparently that last is less worrying to the Left.
By Paul Glass, October 9, 2007 at 2:56 am Link to this comment
How can you compare Jewish teens volunteering on IDF programs and Muslim youths training to become terrorists.
The former is comparable to, for example, South Africans volunteering to serve in the British Armed Services ie soldiers being trained to prtotect their countries and its citizens
The latter are being taught to be terrorists to shed innocent blood in the pursuit of misguided fundamentalist ideals
By Inherit The Wind, October 7, 2007 at 7:01 pm Link to this comment
Is there a more obvious Holocaust denial nazi than Baker41?
This piece of shit spews out everyone of the neo-nazi lies and distortions about the Holocaust.
None of it's new—it's the same lying bullshit they've been spewing for the last 10-20 years.
"poorly documented event"
There isn't a crime in history that's as well-documented. The Nazis were METICULOUS record keepers of who was deported, where, when they died, how they died, what equipment was used, when it was installed, who built it, where it was built, when and how it was shipped to the death camps, how much was paid, etc. etc. etc. It was a GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATIC function in a society known for being the most meticulous for that. There are literally 10's of millions of documents, warehouses and warehouses full. The problem for REAL scholars is getting a handle on just how VAST the documentary record is.
"poorly documented"? The ARROGANCE of assuming that people are SO stupid and naive as to believe that is unbelievable.
Go back to your red neck hole-in-the-woods. That home-made moonshine you been drinking has got some BAD stuff in it that rotted your brain! Lucky it didn't make you go blind.
By baker41, October 6, 2007 at 9:21 pm Link to this comment
There are no deniers of the holocaust. But there are plenty of individuals who question the numbers of Jews who died during the war and how they died etc.
By Inherit The Wind, October 5, 2007 at 7:14 am Link to this comment
Holocaust denial has been around for years. It's become the cause celebre of the white-supremacist and neo-nazi movements.
Despite the Holocaust being the best and most heavily documented crime in history, these people work very hard in denial. Why? Are they just stupid and ignorant? Or is the purpose much deeper?
The "scholars" of denial are very clever. They write books with lots of footnotes and references and cross-references. But if one looks carefully, one will see that the legitimate references (newspapers, memoirs and documents) are simply to uncontested facts. However, when they are discounting the Holocaust, they reference works by other deniers, not facts that corroborate the position. Those other deniers, in their turn practice the same thing. So there's never any ORIGINAL sources showing the Holocaust didn't exist. It's very clever.
In fact, it's very similar in tactics and strategy to the "Intelligent Design" movement.
Neither movement really has a scholarly basis—that much is clear. But neither has any intention of being scholarly, only of creating in the lay public's mind the false idea that the scholars of the field are debating this "important" question. They aren't.
Legitimate historians range from arch-conservative to Marxist left-wingers, so there's a broad range, yet NONE of them question the existence of the Holocaust anymore than they question the existence of the Sun. The "controversy" is a complete and total phony to get the MSM to cover it. Get on O'Reilly, get on Oprah, get the ideas out there. The same is true of "intelligent design".
But there's a nefarious difference. The "ID" people are really just Christian fundamentalists who want SOME way to force us to pretend the earth is 6000 years old—and to teach it in schools. This is bad but it's not a fight to the death.
But the neo-nazis have a far worse purpose. Hitler and his biological racism, phony "Aryans" (Iranians are the TRUE Aryans) all crash and burn on the giant rock of the Holocaust—it says to all men and women: Nazis believe that murder is their calling, mass, mechanized murder by the millions. THIS is what we all face if they return.
So the success and re-emergence of nazi-ism, this anti-American disease we CRUSHED in 1945, depends TOTALLY on getting enough people to believe that the biggest planned murder in history NEVER HAPPENED!
And if enough people are fooled into believing it never happened, why, then there's NO reason why nazi racism and the cult of race hatred cannot be brought back into the mainstream. Just play on people's fears.
But they can't do that because the Holocaust reveals what they truly are: Agents of death, destruction, tyranny and dictatorship. Many nations in Europe consider joining, acting on, displaying symbols of, etc. as a CRIME, and treasonous.
I believe every holocaust denier, ever white-supremacist, and every American nazi is a traitor to the United States of America, and is determined to bring the USA and our Constitution down. Hear me, GNCarlo?
I believe that people who knowingly use information and articles from neo-nazi and white-supremacist websites fall into the same category—like Robert, who CONSTANTLY cites propaganda from such places (Like Michael Rivero's Whatreallyhappened.com).
By Lee Byfield, October 4, 2007 at 11:03 pm Link to this comment
Thank you, gncarlo for making it clear that you are a Nazi sympathizer and Holocaust denier. My great-grandfather left seven siblings in Poland when he came to America. Why are there no descendants today? Where is the large family I would expect to find in Poland?
This blog started about a biased article about a summer experience in Israel for Jews from around the world; it has deteriorated into rantings from a Neo-Nazi.
I have great respect for Robert Scheer from his writings and his radio commentaries, but if Truth Dig is here for Nazis to mouth off, encouraged by Chris Hedges' offensive article, I guess I have to find a more suitable outlet to follow.
By Inherit The Wind, October 4, 2007 at 9:01 pm Link to this comment
What is it about Truthdig that attracts all these white-supremacist neo-nazi KKK morons?
Hagee predictably made reference to the Holohoax,.....Since he is admittedly a believer in the Jewish version of recent European history, vis a Holocaust believer, and that Hitler gassed six million Jews,
You nazi bastard, gncarlo. You know damn well it happened. And it wasn't just 6 million Jews. There were 4 million Russian POWs murdered, 1/2 million Catholics, and 3 million assorted "subversives", gypsies, gays and anyone else the Nazis wanted to kill.
The Holocaust is the best and most documented crime in history. Pearl Harbor isn't nearly as well-documented. The Nazis were METICULOUS record-keepers and there are literally MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of documents. NOBODY in Nazi Germany did ANYTHING unless it was documented in triplicate and signed-off by all the right people. The documentation is SO massive researchers and scholars have troubles getting a handle on it. There were 9 million Jews in Europe before the war. All 9 million didn't emigrate. 6 million were turned into carrion. Jewish culture in Europe vanished, and its American arm, without the European powerhouse, went into a decline from which it never recovered.
Recently, in Ken Burns' "The War", a good ol' boy from the South (I think Alabama) who opened one of the camps said anyone who thinks it didn't happen was full of shit (like goose-stepping-carlo). He was there. He saw it. It happened. Even the Germans and Poles know it happened.
Goose-step back into your hole, Goerring-Carlo or get your head out of your nazi butt.
I swear, why does Truthdig put up with all these nazi turds?
By Anthony, October 4, 2007 at 8:09 pm Link to this comment
To Lefty
Try using your right hand some time.
Your right Israel does need al the help it can get. Because no one else in this world gives a shit about them. Maybe you can help lefty as his hand is propably getting sore.
Non Credo
Lefty , he prefers to use his left hand, is the one who started using Patton as his holy than thou patron to extol the crimes of the Zionist pigs.
By Neoconned, October 4, 2007 at 10:46 am Link to this comment
#104598 by Howard on 10/04 at 6:27 am
In 1948 when partition happened Israel was immediately attacked by 9 countries….from all sides!
You mean a perfect example of RAPE AND MURDER from the IDF, you lying Stern Gang Facist!!!!!
You are so pathetic, you are a Joke. You are no better than Hitler with his lies about Jews. Now isn't that Ironic!!!!!
By RdV, October 4, 2007 at 5:01 am Link to this comment
To WriterOnTheStorm regarding your thoughts on taking the high road:
Nah. They are bullies to be sure, but ignoring them doesn't make them go away. They should be confronted and challenged head-on, not ignored. They would prefer that you ignore them so they can continue to peddle their lies and disinformation. Use it as an opportunity to broadcast the facts because they are all about controlling the flow of information and framing the issue.
By Leeron, October 3, 2007 at 11:50 pm Link to this comment
Truthdig, since all the other posters here, busy spilling their anti-Israel and anti-Jewish bile can't answer, perhaps we can get a follow-up from Hedges himself?:
True or false?
True or false?
Thats a fact anyone can easily verify.
Agree or disagree?
By seekingAkira, October 3, 2007 at 8:17 pm Link to this comment
The war there has been going on for thousands of years…
come home - out of that region - and let's have some tea together again.
By J Wittenmeyer, October 3, 2007 at 9:21 am Link to this comment
The bottom line:
By Neoconned, October 3, 2007 at 7:22 am Link to this comment
#104336 by Akira_Maritias on 10/03 at 5:51 am
Ignore Lefty as he needs Psychiatric help.
As for Lilmamzer: She is just a shamless apologist for rape and murder that is secular Zionism. Which, strangley enough is hiding behind Judaism.
There are many nobel Jews in the world who have made contributions to humanity. Lilmamzer and her supremacist friends are not part of that nobility. Indeed, they bring disgrace to Judaism, even as they call themselves Jewish.
I just hope there isn't a backlash (blowback) from all the Machinations of these gangsters hiding behind Judaism (when it suits them).
By L. Thomas, October 3, 2007 at 7:19 am Link to this comment
In response to 'greenback' who wrote:
"Truthdig, maybe follow up on this story with some coverage of all the Israeli soldiers who have laid down their weapons in protest to the slaughter of innocent Palestinians."
To whatever extent this is true, I can only say that it's Wonderful! These Israelis should be praised and held in the highest esteem by all! (instead, they are probably 'held' by the IDF/Massad for questioning). I would even say that such soldiers on either "side" are much more deserving of Nobel Prize-like honors than all of the politicians put together!
By RdV, October 3, 2007 at 6:46 am Link to this comment
Seymour Herst, who is Jewish (I am sure the Zionist here will refer to him as a "Self-hating Jew" for not goosestepping along with the Likud program)suggested that Hillary Clinton echoes the AIPAC agenda to satisfy NY Jews and to pander for the big money.
How come we can't hear them and how come the Jews we do hear are strident in their hate towards Muslims and unquestioning in their support of the Fatherland, Israel?
By RdV, October 3, 2007 at 6:30 am Link to this comment
Posted by Lefty:
"Chris Hedges, you are either: 1) a genetic defective who has no instinct for survival and would impose your willingness to be exterminated in a genocide upon all others faced with such bigotry and hatred against them, 2) a sick, demented provocateur, or 3) an arab, islamist, fundamentalist, propagandist, troll, masquerading as something you are not.
In any event, your premises and conclusions are utterly idiotic"
Why would anyone who shares the same views of NeoCons of the Right (the latest example being policy advisor, Ms Cagan quoted as "hating all Iranians"), the most fanatical Christian fundamentalists anticipating Armageddon, DLC Democrats bowing at the altar of AIPAC, align themselves with Likud and attack anyone who condemns the racist policies of Israel-identify themselves as a "Lefty"?
By Ryan, October 3, 2007 at 2:04 am Link to this comment
"Although both the Israelis and the fundamentalist Islamist train their youth in military methods"
Fundamentalist Islamist? Are you really attempting to insinuate the reaction to 50 years of Israeli terror against Palestinians is from "fundamentalism"?
"there are some BIG distinctions! The Israelis do not take 5 year old children and brain wash them, by making them read the Koran 8 hours a day"
Huge numbers of Palestinians killed are Christians. Apparently you
"teach them to become suicide bombers, have them indiscriminitly slaugter hundreds of civilians on buses and in market places, or wage continuous threats towards the United States."
Lets get some real world going on here. You act as though the Palestinians are just some happenstance neighbors of Israel, whom have nothing else to do but
Laughable. Christians and Muslims are routinely attacked, harrassed and persecuted in Israel, among them, many American Christian who visit the region. "Jewhad" against gentiles is nothing new. In fact, its rather old and every-increasing.
"They"? Who are "they"? You seem to keep wiping out the borders of your
"The Israelis dont slaughter each other for being from different sects of Judiasm."
o, they are rather in love with themselves. They just slaughter people of OTHER religions.
"And, the Israelis didnt kill over 3,000 American on 911."
Their loyalists in AIPAC and JINSA have caused that many deaths by aiding the attack on the Iraqis.
But, then, Im not speaking directly to you. You already know all of this.
By Charles Lee, October 3, 2007 at 12:11 am Link to this comment
Here's another feeble and ridiculous attempt to manufacture moral equivalency for the most heinous and evil people on the planet. This column turns facts and history upside down and backward.
There is absolutely NO comparison to an Israeli Army training program and any madrassa.
The Marva program helps prepare Jews, all of whom are entitled to Israel citizenship, for legitimate, uniformed service in Israel's armed forces. Israel's armed forces defend Israel against a continuously hostile and surrounding Arab/Muslim enemy, who having had their butts kicked in several wars they started to anihlate Jews and Israel, now prefer to hide among civilians - most of whom willingly hide them - both for protection and for use as propaganda when the inevitable civilian casualties occur - including by Arab/Muslim fire and suicide bombings.
Madrassas are where young Arab Muslims and other Muslims go to memorize the Koran and get taught that Jews are apes, and that it is God's will for them to go out and intentionally murder as many non-Muslim innocent civilians as possible. Of course thet are also taught how to abuse rights - that they do not have in their native countries - that the infidels provide and protect, in order to position themselves, not as uniformed soldiers in a legitimate military, but in local disguise to murder innocent people.
Israel's armed forces exist to pervent the anihlation of its citizens and its very existence. Madrassas exist to encourage and train Muslims to murder and attempt the anihlation of anyone they deem non-believers or in violation of their bizarre, primitive, savage system of religious law.
Meir Kahane has nothing to do with the Israeli Army or the Marva program.
Hedges' ridiculous column is typical of the America- and Israel-hating traitor left, full of false innuendo, equivocation, misinformation, and disinformation.
By Leeron, October 2, 2007 at 10:21 pm Link to this comment
While a lot of people are busy spewing their hateful rhetoric, soundbites and slogans, let's return to the substance:
True or false?
True or false?
That's a fact anyone can easily verify.
Agree or disagree?
By Anthony, October 2, 2007 at 10:07 pm Link to this comment
Lefty Said
Those Jews who follow the Believers will be helped and will be treated with equality. (Social, legal and economic equality is promised to all loyal citizens of the State).
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Cliftonville are no different from any other top side in the Danske Bank Premiership - they must strive for consistency or glory will elude them.
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Hopes were raised that another title bid could be in the offing but performances have failed to strike fear into opponents. Boss Gerard Lyttle knows his men must start delivering, starting with a difficult assignment at Ballinamallard United today (3pm).
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