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"Innovation in Action" at Emmanuel College
In an ever-changing world, Emmanuel College provides an innovative academic environment that sustains the pace.
Emmanuel College welcomed Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ, known internationally for her tireless work against the death penalty, as the keynote speaker for the latest installment of the Wyant Lecture Series on March 30th.
Emmanuel College welcomed Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ, known internationally for her tireless work against the death penalty, as the keynote speaker for the latest installment of the Wyant Lecture Series on March 30th. She discussed "Dead Man Walking - The Journey Continues" with an audience in the Janet M. Daley Library Lecture Hall.
The Wyant lecture marked Sister Helen's second visit to the campus, as she previously spoke at one of Emmanuel's annual Sister Marie Augusta Neal Lectures. Sister Marie Augusta Neal, SND served as an inspiration for Sister Helen along both her spiritual journey and career as a writer. In her introduction, Emmanuel President Sister Janet Eisner, SND proudly welcomed Sister Helen back to the College, highlighting Emmanuel's own interpretation of Sister Helen's book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, through a theatre club performance. The book became a best seller, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and spawned an Oscar-winning movie and an internationally acclaimed opera.
"We are especially delighted to welcome Sister Helen back to Emmanuel," said Sister Janet. "It was very significant to me when 'Dead Man Walking' was performed here at Emmanuel, with our own students playing the roles of Sister Marie Augusta and Sister Helen. Seeing this play produced here was very moving because we know these two people so well. They have a very special place in our hearts."
Sister Helen opened her lecture with a brief background of her life and what led her to "wake up" to social justice issues. Growing up in the south in a rather privileged family, she alluded to her life as "a goldfish swimming in a fishbowl." She explained that she did not see, therefore she did not understand, the injustices of the world surrounding her. She acknowledged that at this early stage in her life she was asleep to the world around her and when you are not awake, you do not act.
"When we wake up on something, when we get it, it releases an energy that can last us the rest of our lives," said Sister Helen.
She admitted to the audience that she was always one to resist social justice issues; never moved to action by these issues because she did not understand them. It was not until she was forced on a retreat in 1980 featuring guest speaker Sister Marie Augusta Neal who discussed issues of social justice that Sister Helen was inspired to redirect her ministry. When Sister Marie Augusta explained that poverty was not God's will and that helping those in need was integral to the mission of the church, Sister Helen realized that Jesus was among the poor and she did not even know the poor in her own community.
Sister Helen reminisced on the retreat and meeting Sister Marie Augusta as a moment of "grace," where she learned something new and woke up to a reality that she did not comprehend before. She then moved into the St. Thomas Housing Project in New Orleans in 1981 and began working at Hope House, a center that assists public housing residents. She detailed to the audience the hardships of those living in her community; violence, deaths of friends and family, lack of educational support for youths, and many other day-to-day struggles. She began reading books by authors dedicated to social justice such as Martin Luther King Jr., Ghandi and Dorothy Day and started a newspaper called Flambeau, in reference to the flame used to light the Mardis Gras parades, expressing a Catholic voice for justice.
"The movements towards human rights always start with a small group of people sitting around thinking 'what are we going to do' and who then act on it," she said.
During this time, she was asked to correspond with a death row inmate and became his spiritual adviser. In his reply to her initial letter Pat mentioned that he had never had a visitor moving Sister Helen to go see him. She admitted to the audience that she was shocked when she saw his face, expecting him to look different, or less human, after the crimes he had committed.
"This is when I had another moment of grace," said Sister Helen. "I realized that no matter what he had done, he was worth more. He was worth more than the worst thing he had ever done in his life."
Sister Helen explained the injustices of the court systems, and the difficulties of those being prosecuted when it comes to obtaining a viable defense lawyer. She stated that many cases are "like a high school football team playing against the Green Bay Packers" and that the accused, even those who are innocent, often have no chance at justice.
She chronicled her time as a spiritual advisor and the difficulties of adjusting to the confusing reality of death row; her fear of speaking with the parents of the victims of the murder committed by the inmate in whom she was advising and the unexpected turn of events when the father of one of the victims expressed the guilt he felt about not wanting the murderer to receive a death sentence.
Ultimately, the inmate was found guilty and given the death penalty. Although he requested that she leave the room at the time of his death, Sister Helen refused, wanting to be sure there was one person in the room who loved him and knew that he was worth more. She explained to the audience that the strength she felt when she told Pat to look into her eyes as he died was unexpected.
"Grace comes up inside us when we need it, not ahead of time, but just when we need it," she said.
Since 1984, Sister Helen has divided her time between campaigning against the death penalty and counseling individual death row prisoners. This experience raised her concerns that some of those executed were not guilty, which inspired her second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, released in 2004. Today Sister Helen works with the Death Penalty Discourse Center, the Moratorium Campaign and the Dead Man Walking Play Project. She is presently at work on another book, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey to Death Row.
The Wyant Lecture Series features speakers in the Humanities, History and the Arts. The Louise Doherty Wyant professorship was established by the late Louise Doherty Wyant '63 and her husband, Dr. James Wyant, in honor of Sister Anne Cyril Delaney, SND.
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When dancing gets boring, she runs and hides from the cars. Or maybe she's hiding from Tom Hanks, who is also in this thing. [Image via Getty]
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Chewy Pretzel Bites
Listen, I make a lot of bread. We all know that. And I'm not shy about my love for carbs.
But these pretzel bites are hands down the most ethereal, glorious little morsels I have ever eaten. I've made the classic pretzel version a million times but they don't hold a candle in chewy softness to these pretzel bites.
We ate these for dinner one night, dipped in this (heaven help me!) and with a little spinach and fruit smoothie on the side so I didn't feel so guilty about the carb overload.
I ate more than my age in pretzel bites and that is about all I'll admit. And needless to say, my kids looooved them.
See below the recipe for a few step-by-step photos since I changed the recipe method a bit to accommodate the change from loopy pretzels to bites.
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Chewy Pretzel Bites
- 2 1/2 cups (10 1/2 ounces) all-purpose flour (see note)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
- 1 cup (8 ounces) very warm water
- 1/2 cup (4 ounces) warm water
- 2 tablespoons baking soda
- Coarse salt (optional)
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- In a large bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer, place the flour, salt, sugar and yeast. Mix to just combine. Add the water and mix well, adding more flour, as needed, a bit at a time to form a soft, smooth dough that clears the sides and bottom of the bowl. Knead the dough, by hand or machine, for about 5 minutes, until it is soft, smooth and quite slack. The goal is to get a really soft dough that isn't overly sticky. Lightly flour the dough and place it in a plastic bag; close the bag, leaving room for the dough to expand, and let it rest for 30 minutes or up to 60 minutes.
- Preheat your oven to 500°F. Don't be afraid of the high heat! This is what will help those pretzels to brown up perfectly and stay soft on the inside. Prepare two baking sheets by lining them with parchment paper or lightly greasing them (I've learned it helps to coat the parchment paper with cooking spray).
- Transfer the dough to a lightly greased work surface, and divide it into about four strips of equal length. Allow the pieces to rest, uncovered, for 5 minutes. While the dough is resting, combine the 1/2 cup warm water and the baking soda in a liquid measuring cup (deep enough to dip the pretzel bites into). Make sure the baking soda is thoroughly dissolved. Sometimes I have a hard time getting the baking soda completely dissolved, so I just lightly stir up the mixture right before adding each pretzel.
- Cut each strip of dough into about 6-8 pieces, about 1 to 1 ½ inches in width. You don't have to be completely exact, just eyeball it. Dip each pretzel bite in the baking soda solution (this will give the pretzels a nice, golden-brown color), and place them on the baking sheets. Sprinkle them lightly with coarse, kosher, or pretzel salt. Allow them to rest, uncovered, for 10 minutes.
- Bake the pretzels for 7-8 minutes or until they're golden brown. Bake one sheet at a time – it won't hurt the other pretzels to chill out for a little longer.
- Remove the pretzels from the oven, and brush them thoroughly with the melted butter. Keep brushing the butter on until you've used it all up; it may seem like a lot, but that's what gives these pretzels their ethereal taste. Eat the pretzels warm, or reheat them in an oven or microwave on low heat.
If using active dry yeast, increase the yeast to 1 tablespoon. Proof the yeast in the warm water and sugar (let it bubble and foam – maybe about 5 minutes) before adding it to the flour and salt. I often use half to 3/4 finely ground white whole wheat flour with good results – and sometimes I get crazy and use 100% whole wheat flour (always finely ground white wheat) but the bread is a bit more dense with 100% whole wheat flour. If using part or all whole wheat flour, add a few minutes to the kneading time to help develop the gluten.
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I have a 147WT and weigh 100kg, I love mine I think it's the perfect size for one board for me. I may get an extra wide 147 or maybe even an extra wide 157 when our lighter summer winds hit. 2 friends of mine one 83kg the other 90kg both have 142's and they love them as well.
When I first got my 147 I thought it may have been a little small - I think dwight may have even mentioned I should have got a 157 at the time, But now I am glad I didn't I am very happy with the 147!


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On May 8, the farm bill still wasn't finished but was close enough that the main political players lined up to backslap and announce the latest provisions. Later, President Bush would dampen the mood by promising to veto the bill. But before he did, the politicians stood in front of a blue board titled "FARM BILL: Investments for the Future" and took turns at the microphone. Smiling but defiant against suggestions they'd ignored calls for farm payment reform, the farm bill conferees were obviously exasperated that their message wasn't getting through.
"Last night, (I ran into) a bunch of guys from New York and New Jersey hanging out," said Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, House Agriculture Committee chairman. "I got to talking to them about the farm Bill. After all this, some of those guys thought the entire $300 billion in this bill went to farmers. That's the honest to God truth."
If the Bush administration has been the chief impediment to a new farm bill, Peterson then touched on the second: a press that's poorly educated on agriculture.
"The problem is we've got editorial writers still, to this day, writing that the whole $300 billion goes to farmers. The truth is, out of the $300 billion, something like $36 or $40 billion goes to farmers. The rest, the majority, goes to nutrition and conservation.
I implore my friends in the press to help us get people to understand just how this is structured."
"Hot off the press" numbers show "on the 10-year baseline, we're showing 73.5 percent of the spending in this bill goes to nutrition (up from 66 percent in the last farm bill). Sixteen-point-one percent goes to commodities, crop insurance and disaster (compared to 28.5 percent in the last farm bill). We improved conservation spending from 6.2 percent to 7 percent."
When the 2002 farm bill was passed, Congress received a lot of criticism from the press about spending too much money. "That same criticism will be (used) for this farm bill," acknowledged Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss. "But let me remind you of something before you're off to write about this: we saved well over $20 billion in the commodity title of the 2002 farm bill. I suspect that with this farm bill we'll see significant savings also.
"We developed a very market-oriented process so our farmers and ranchers could achieve their income stream from the marketplace versus it coming from Washington. That's what they want and what we want.
"We made real reform in all the commodity titles but none more significant than in payment limit provisions. We moved as far as we could towards the (Bush) administration on their request … as we did on a number of other issues."
Chambliss, a Republican, has promised to try and override any White House veto. With other Republicans also taking such a stand, does President Bush have the votes to sustain a veto?
It will be "very close" said Ed Schaefer, USDA secretary, during a May 9 press conference. Schaefer then played the populist and tied subsidy levels to U.S. families having trouble paying rising food prices. If politicians listen to such families "then we're going to sustain the veto."
North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad insisted those claiming a lack of reforms in the new bill "haven't read it. This bill ends the triple entity rule. This bill requires the direct attribution of all farm program payments – no more paper entities. There must be a living, breathing recipient and we'll know exactly how much they got under exactly what programs."
In addition, there are dramatic changes in the income limits to qualify: "from $2.5 million for a non-farmer down to $500,000. For a farmer, after $750,000 of income, there will be no direct payments."
Despite the conferees' attempts to preemptively handle farm subsidies and reform, the press wasn't dissuaded. After a handful of questions solely on those subjects, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin had enough.
"Give us a break," said the Senate Agriculture Committee chairman. "All these people that were writing me letters about payment limits … when they discovered last week that there'd be payment limits on conservation, all of the sudden payment limits weren't such a good idea.
"All the folks who have been writing and clamoring to put payment limits on farmers all of the sudden were organizing a protest because we were going to put payment limits on their programs.
"So, we were going to apply the same payment limits to conservation that we applied to farmers. We had a revolt."
The non-farm payment limit for conservation is $1 million. That includes a waiver that the USDA secretary can approve "if it's a project with special environmental benefits. If you're a non-farmer and two-thirds of your income is from farming … there is no limit.
"That's what you need to write about. Is the glass half full or half empty?"
Prior to the new farm bill, the income cap on non-farm income was $2.5 million. "We brought it down to $500,000. (Bush) says it should be $200,000 – we got closer to (his figure) than where we were. And on farm income there was no cap – none, zero. Now, the cap is $750,000. Keep that in mind."
Peterson, known for blunt language, simply accused people of "ginning up" controversy with the new legislation. It's "bad for America" when some "write editorials that are bogus and putting out information that's completely false to an unsuspecting public in urban settings who have no clue what this about. This has to stop."
Agendas are being driven and a lot of money spent to agitate against farm bill provisions, said Peterson. "Some of our friends that don't like what's going on now never complained when we were subsidizing corn and selling it below the cost of production for 20 years.
"Frankly, one of the big problems we have in this world is we sold food below the cost of production for 20 years. Now, we're having a big shock because it's going the other way. It would've been much better if … food prices (had followed) what the cost of production was.
"Look at who is paying the people writing these stories and you'll figure out what's going on."
The situation "gets my dander up, too," said Harkin. "Studies done by universities and others that have no dog in this fight point out that the savings on gasoline is somewhere between 29 and 40 cents per gallon because of ethanol.
"Food is higher priced. Not because of ethanol but because of other energy inputs. Look what we're doing to keep the price of gasoline down. Take away that ethanol and watch the price of gasoline go sky-high. They aren't writing about that, are they?"
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A catholic monastery devoted to the teachings of St. Benedict
(1) Father Columba is on his way to Houston
today, to begin tomorrow a four-day workshop on Gregorian Chant at
the University of St. Thomas. The workshop is sponsored by St.
Basil's School of Gregorian Chant, and their workshop brochure
describes Fr. Columba as "one of the world's greatest living
scholars of Gregorian chant." Congratulations, Fr. Columba, to a
tribute well deserved!
(2) Today Fr. Christopher Coyne, "formerly" a
priest of the Archdiocese of Boston, was ordained Auxiliary Bishop
of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. The liturgy took place at St.
John Church, Indianapolis. Among the monks attending were Fathers
Archabbot Justin, Barnabas, Bede, Jonathan, Julian, Denis and
Anthony, and Brother Mauritius, a monk from our mother abbey of
Einsiedeln, who is with us this year studying in our seminary. Also
present were Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, and about 16 other
(3) This evening we hosted the annual Service
Recognition Dinner for over a hundred of our co-workers. These
loyal friends joined us for Vespers, and then enjoyed a social and
fine supper with a dozen members of the monastic community,
including Father Archabbot Justin and Father Archabbot Bonaventure.
All of these men and women are blessings to us. May God bless them
and their families!
(4) Father Noël began the weekend retreat,
"Carnival Capers: Preparing for Lent," at our Guest House and
Retreat Center for some 17 participants this evening. The retreat
runs through Sunday noon.
(5) About 35 monks marched or rode down to The
UnStable for our occasional "pizza lunch" after Midday Prayer.
Fathers Prior Kurt and Patrick and third-year theology seminarian
Brian Lederer (Duluth) and first-year theology seminarian Timothy
Wyciskalla (Indianapolis) prepared some 15 large pizzas and
tendered the beverages.
(6) Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time-and the last
Sunday before Lent! Father Vincent, beginning his week as our Mass
Heb, presided and preached this morning. After Mass we exposed the
Blessed Sacrament on the altar, beginning our annual Day of
Adoration. We concluded Vespers this evening with Benediction and
by again reposing the Blessed Sacrament in the tabernacle.
+++ After Vespers we welcomed into our refectory the 30 or so
seminarians from the St. Luke Formation House who had prayed with
us. They enjoyed a brief tour of the monastery afterward.
(7) We welcomed Brother Hugh "back home" today.
For almost a year, he had been caring for his mother (RIP February
18) at the Little Sisters of the Poor in Evansville. May she, and
all the faithful departed-especially our deceased parents-know the
mercy of God and rest in peace.
(8) We transferred our customary "Wednesday
Evening Special Dessert" time to this evening, to better honor the
mood both of Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. Following desserts
and then Compline, Father Abbot Justin offered the community his
Lenten Conference.
+++ We also celebrated today the feastday of Father
(9) Father Abbot Justin presided and preached at
our Conventual Mass this Ash Wednesday. After blessing the ashes
after the homily, he received them from Father Prior Kurt, and then
distributed them to the Prior and the community. As they processed
to the abbot to receive the ashes, the monks dropped their Bona
Operas in a basket at the ambo. Fr. Abbot reviewed, annotated
and signed, and returned them to each monk by the close of the
+++ After Vespers we received the oblation of Mr. Scott Tretter,
of nearby Oakland City.
+++ And, even with the beginning of Lent, we remember to
celebrate the patronal feast day of Brother Dominic.
(10) Many of our seminarians left after their
last class this morning or afternoon to enjoy a "long weekend." The
faculty and administration enjoy this time as well! Classes resume
on Monday.
(11) It was an unusually quiet day here on the
hill, even with over 100 Boy Scouts from the Evansville Diocese
arriving in the early evening to begin a weekend retreat!
(12) Throughout the year, we have many college
seminarians visiting to "take a look at our seminary"-part of the
decision-making process by them and their vocation directors as to
which theologate they will attend. For these next few days, we are
hosting a brother monk, Brother Simon Baker of St. Benedict's
Abbey, Atchison, Kansas, who is considering our school for his
studies for the priesthood.
(13) Father Sean is our Mass Heb for this first
week of Lent but, as he was assisting at a parish this weekend,
Father Jeremy presided and preached at our Conventual Mass.
(14) We have set aside four Lenten Monday
evenings to tend to our spiritual education and formation. The
first of these sessions, presented after Compline by Father Harry,
offered an overview of the psalms in our monastic prayer and how
they have shaped our common prayer in the Opus Dei.
(15) Father Sean preached this morning on this
Ides of March, and in the evening Father Vincent began offering a
midweek retreat at our Guest House and Retreat Center. Twenty
participants have signed up for "The Return to God in the Rule
of St. Benedict."
(16) Among the guests and visitors to the hill
this past week were two prospective candidates for the monastery.
Both young men spent the better part of a week joining us in the
house for prayers, meals, work and recreation. We pray that God may
guide their discernment. And, in line with that, we pray for
vocations to our monastery each day at the conclusion of our "grace
after meals" at our main meal, and as part of our procession to the
Shrine of Our Lady of Einsiedeln at the end of I Vespers (Saturday
evening) each week.
(17) The violet vestments didn't have a green
trim on this feast of St. Patrick, but corned beef and cabbage was
on the supper menu.
+++ Happy feast day to Father Patrick!
+++ This evening the monastic community enjoyed an hour session
with Abbot Gregory Polan of Conception Abbey (Missouri), who
explained the rationale and some of the details behind the revised
translation of the Grail Psalter we will soon be adopting
for choir use. Abbot Gregory was an excellent person to do this for
us: the translation is largely his! We'll be familiarizing
ourselves with this translation in various ways over the next
months. (This is a different issue than the new Roman
Missal we'll be adopting-along with the rest of the
English-speaking Church-this First Sunday of Advent.)
(18) Today is the patronal feast day of our
Father Christian, who is in his second year pursuing doctoral
studies at The Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
+++ Some 33 participants began a weekend retreat this evening at
our Guest House and Retreat Center; Brother John Mark is directing
"Monastic Practices: Drawing Everyday Wisdom from the Monastic
(19) The Solemnity of St. Joseph-an O.P.
according to the ranking of liturgical feasts, and so Father Prior
Kurt presided and preached at our Conventual Mass.
+++ After Midday Prayer, we received the oblation of Raul and
Judy Longoria of Bartlett, Tennessee.
+++ And, happy feast day to Father Joseph!
(20) Father Julian, our Mass Heb, presided and
preached on this Second Sunday of Lent. The Archabbey Church was
rather full, as our weekend retreatants and other guests joined
+++ After Compline, we welcomed the Most Reverend Christopher
Coyne, the recently ordained auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of
Indianapolis. In anticipation of tomorrow's solemnity, we enjoyed a
modest social at "Jack's in the Commons."
(21) Auxiliary Bishop of Indianapolis
Christopher Coyne presided and preached at our Eucharist on this
solemnity of St. Benedict. Some six dozen oblates (who are on
retreat) and our seminarians joined us for Mass, so the Archabbey
Church was quite full.
+++ This was Bishop Coyne's first visit ever to Saint Meinrad;
he will be returning at the end of April to ordain one of his
seminarians and Brother Romain, a monk from the Monastery of the
Incarnation in Togo, West Africa, to the diaconate. The other
deacon candidates in our seminary will be ordained in their home
diocese throughout May and June.
+++ We celebrated the feast days of three of our confreres
today: Brother Benedict, Father Benedict and Brother Benjamin. May
God's grace sustain them in their monastic life!
+++ In the midst of our celebration, we received word that our
confrere, Archbishop Daniel Buechlein, OSB, archbishop of
Indianapolis, suffered a minor stroke. He is recuperating in an
Indianapolis hospital.
(22) The oblate retreat, which began Sunday
evening, ended at noon today. Father Adrian directed almost 80
oblates, 64 of whom stayed at our Guest House and Retreat Center.
During the retreat, we invested one oblate and received six final
oblations. May God continue to bless the many men and women who
associate themselves with the prayer and work of our monastery!
(23) Amy Halt of Bloomington, Illinois, was
invested as an oblate in the Archabbey Church after Vespers today.
Congratulations to her, and to all of our recently invested and
professed oblates.
(24) Thirty junior high students from Trinity
High School, Whitesville, Kentucky, began a 24-hour retreat on the
hill. We pray for them, and for all who come to the hill seeking to
strengthen their relationship with the Lord.
+++ The "slype" is the passageway that connects the Archabbey
Church and the monastery. It's that glass-enclosed area that, if
you walk outside the church before weekend Vespers or Sunday Mass,
you'll see the monks lined up, preparing to process into the
church. This week workmen have begun to repair and replace the
glass and the frames of the slype-the first major work done on this
structure since the dedication of the renovated Archabbey Church in
1997. The improvements will help keep the air conditioning in
during the summer and the heat during the winter.
(25) We had some scattered snow flurries this
morning, on this solemnity of the Annunciation of Our Lord. Father
Prior presided at our Eucharist (an "O.P.") and, at his invitation,
Father Julian preached.
(26) After Vespers, Scott Woods, a second-year
philosophy seminarian from the Diocese of Toledo, was invested as
an oblate novice. We congratulate him and welcome him to our oblate
(27) On this Third Sunday of Lent, Father
Joseph began his service as our Mass Hebdomadarian. (As is
sometimes the case, he also serves as our Heb and the Divine
+++ We celebrated the feast day of Father Rupert today. The
weather was not at its best, but Father still is in many ways; I
believe he went for his daily ride on his "tri-bike." God's
blessings, Father Rupert!
(28) As part of our Lenten observance, we
remained in choir after Compline this evening. Father Julian
offered a brief reflection on his favorite psalm, and then as a
community we alternated the psalm in our usual manner, using the
translation from the revised Grail Psalter from Conception
Abbey (Missouri) we will soon adopt. Brother John Mark also gave a
reflection on his favorite psalm, after which we prayed that psalm.
This exercise-we'll do this again next Monday-both familiarizes us
with the new translation and offers us a chance for some "common
(29) Father Richard went and returned from
Jasper Memorial Hospital today, having some minor surgery done. He
seems in good spirits and health!
+++ Father Paul Turner, a priest of the Diocese of Kansas
City-St. Joseph, is offering conferences this evening and tomorrow
morning to the seminary community regarding the forthcoming
translation of the Roman Missal. Father Paul is a prolific
author and a consultor for the International Commission on English
in the Liturgy. He received his S.T.D. in sacramental theology from
Sant' Anselmo, the International Benedictine University in
(30) Father Abbot Justin concluded the third of
three "mini-mission" talks at Saint Paul's Parish in Tell City this
+++ Work on the repair and remodeling of our slype
(31) Sixteen priests from the Archdiocese of
Louisville are enjoying their last full day of a five-day Ignatian
Retreat at our Guest House and Retreat Center.
+++ Father Richard continues to recover from his surgery earlier
in the week; this morning he vacated his temporary infirmary room
and returned to his own cell. We are blessed to receive excellent
care from our dedicated nursing staff, who presently assist seven
of our confreres who are now full-time infirmary residents: Brother
Benedict, Father Eric, Father Donald, Father Simeon, Father
Benedict, Father Aurelius and Father Mel. We keep in prayer also
our sick confreres off-the-hill, especially Archbishop Daniel, who
continues his rehabilitation from his stroke, and Father Severin,
whose cancer appears in remission.
No "question of the month" this time around, and so our tireless
research assistant has some time off. We do conclude with a quote
from the Rule of St. Benedict:
"So the one who needs less should thank God and not be sad. And
whoever needs more should be humble about his weaknesses and not
gloat over the mercy shown him."
Chapter 34, "Whether All Should Receive Necessities in Equal
Translation by Fr. Terence Kardong, OSB
Monk of Assumption Abbey
Each day the monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey write another page
in the long history of Benedictine monks throughout the world. Here
are recent events chronicled at Saint Meinrad.
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WASHINGTON — In the latest twist of the David Petraeus sex scandal, court records indicate that the former CIA director and Gen. John Allen intervened last September in a messy custody dispute on behalf of Jill Kelley's sister.
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Halvorson owns Logy Creek Farms in Toppenish, Wash., with sister Linda Suhadolink and brother Barry Halvorson. Together, they grow wheat, mint, potatoes and corn on 830 acres.
The family farm, from which they split in 2010, dates back to a romantic story in 1911, according to Halvorson. He said that his grandfather was, at the time, courting the woman who would become his wife. She lived in Toppenish, and he lived several miles away, in Carson.
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On password breaches and security processes
Today it was reported LinkedIn had a password breach. This is the most frustrating sort of security problem, because even if you're using all the security available on the longest most complex password you can generate, that doesn't help if someone else gets ahold of it. As more and more services are offered online, and then connected to other logins you already have, it's not just a minor password change when something happens to, for example, your Facebook password. Now you have to worry that whoever got access to Facebook now has access to all those other things. Do you even remember what ALL those other things are?
As part of the "security is a process, not a product" philosophy we use here at AgileBits, there are a variety of things to consider when you want to secure your online activity. One such thing is what I mentioned above: those other apps and services you authorized to use your login on Facebook or Twitter, or in today's current example, LinkedIn. It's a good idea to review those permissions periodically, and one handy way to do that is with a site called MyPermissions.
You can think of MyPermissions as a dashboard for reviewing and controlling your preferences across many of these sites at once. It's like cleaning out your closet and getting rid of all those things you have no more use for. Hopefully you won't have too many "I authorized THAT!?" moments, but if you do, revoking access is usually pretty easy.
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If you still have friends, family, or coworkers who just don't get why strong passwords are more important than ever, here's an analogy that might help: Using a really common easy password (password, Password1, 123456, etc) is the equivalent of leaving the windows down and the keys in the car. Using 1Password is locking the car, rolling up the windows, and having an excellent alarm system. Why would a thief bother with your car when there's one right next to it just begging to be stolen? Particularly when we are talking about logins that store credit card data (Amazon 1-click, anyone?), a nefarious person will be happier with the hundreds of numbers they can snag in less time than it would take to crack your password.
I know it's frustrating to have to keep track of all of this, but it's really no different than real life. I always think of the Public Service Announcement on television where a guy walks up to people in a coffee shop and starts trying to convince them to let him use their bank account for a wire transfer. Everyone turns him down and the ad says "If you wouldn't fall for it in real life, why fall for it online?" It seems like more work because most of us haven't been doing this our whole lives, so it's not second nature like "don't wave around the money you just got from the ATM" and other life tips we now consider common sense.
Having said all that, here are some useful information and steps to find your weakest links and strengthen them.
You can start by opening 1Password for Mac and selecting View > Layout > Traditional. Once there, then go to View > Columns > Password Strength, and make sure it's enabled. Now you can see, and sort by, the security of all your passwords. If you want to collect the weakest passwords, create a Smart Folder to show those. Go to File > New Smart Folder, and a search dialog will pop up in the top of your window. Make sure you set the search criteria in the bar at the top to search "Everywhere" and "Everything," and below that select the following:
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- Click Save, and retitle your New Saved Search something else (Mine is just called Weakest).
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- Now you've updated all of the ones that were the weakest. Hooray! Now right-click (or ctrl-click) on your empty Smart Folder and choose Edit Smart Folder… and bump up that number. Now if you have a few more showing, get those updated too.
Of course, I don't expect you to drop everything and blow your weekend on the exhilarating task of updating your passwords. But when you have a little time to spare, knock off a few here and there. The next thing you know, your weak passwords are history.
Other posts in this series
- More than just one password: Lessons from an epic hack (August 19, 2012)
- Password reuse strikes again, and a bit closer to home at Dropbox (July 31, 2012)
- Friends don't let friends reuse passwords (July 12, 2012)
- On password breaches and security processes (June 6, 2012)
- Two thirds of web users re-use the same passwords (June 7, 2011)
- Tips: How to Find Duplicate Passwords (April 29, 2011)
- When websites are breached, 1Password saves the day! (April 14, 2011)
- Security firm falls victim to password reuse (February 17, 2011)
- xkcd Hits Nail on Head (September 14, 2010)


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text: Latest News John Kirby quotes terrorists to lie about Russia John Kirby's latest insane outburst against RT's Gayane Chichakyan was worse than rude, it was deception. His lies were derived from reports by a well-known terrorist syndicate called The White Helmets. Published 2 years ago on November 20, 2016 By Adam 1,212 Views Share Tweet Recently, John Kirby lost his rag when challenged to name the sources which gave him 'information' implying that Russia had helped the Syrian Arab Army bomb civilian targets such as hospitals. His reaction was typical of Shakespeare's dictum, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks". As it turns out, Kirby was not quoting any government sources, he admitted as much. He claimed that the United States, her allies, Russia or Syria did not provide the information upon which he relied. Instead he stated that the claims he was making were based on findings from 'aid organisations'. Such a phrase, whilst linguistically innocuous, implies something very different in the context of the Syrian conflict. Many groups calling themselves 'aid organisations' are actually either terrorist sympathisers or terrorist organisations in all but name. One such organisation is the western funded White Helmets, an organisation whose crimes against humanity The Duran was amongst the first to expose. It is this organisation who filmed the savage, medieval beheadings of prisoners before disposing of the mutilated bodies. It is this organisation whose bearded members jump for joy, holding guns, whilst chanting for the death of legitimate political leaders like President Assad, it is this organisation which acts on behalf of Al-Qaeda's surrogate in Syria, al-Nusra. It is this organisation that provided the United States with false information about Russia which John Kirby was all too happy to parrot as though it was fact. Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashekov spoke of Kirby's insincerity in the following way: After three days it is absolutely clear for everyone that the allegedly bombed "hospitals" and "mobile clinics" in Aleppo exist only in US State Department spokesman John Kirby's imagination. This 'information blooper' will certainly remain a stain on Admiral Kirby's biography. He continued: We have repeatedly asked representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, other countries and international organisations to provide any information on the location of medical aid posts (hospitals) or schools in Syrian areas controlled by terrorists…The answer is always the same—no one has such information. There are only reports by the 'White Helmets' or anonymous local "journalists'. Kirby's outburst and the false report which he based his previous statements on, demonstrates not just a lack of transparency on behalf of the United Sates, but a totally dishonest position. To think that the most powerful country in the world has to rely on off-shoots of terrorist organisations in order to obtain false information with which to slander Russia, is beyond absurd and beyond pathetic, it is disgraceful. If the United States is as powerful as the world knows it is, the fact that it is relying on terrorist groups like the White Helmets for information, is demonstrative of a wanton act of deception. US intelligence could find the facts if it was the facts which they were interested in. Clearly, this is not the situation. They are interested in parroting terrorist propaganda which conforms to President Obama's wicked agenda. What's even more disgraceful is that many western mainstream media outlets take people like Kirby at face value when they speak of amorphous 'aid organisations'. They do not bother to investigate the fact that such 'aid organisations' are actually parts of terrorist syndicates working with a stated mission to wage war against the legitimate government of Syria. We now know the real reason John Kirby went insane when asked some sensible questions by RT's Gayane Chichakyan. He was caught relying on false information by terrorist sources. The sooner he and his ilk are gone forever, the better. Although it is still early days, I find it personally hard to believe that Donald Trump, who appears to be genuinely interested in fighting terrorism, would allow his inferiors to spout such lies. Time will tell, but nothing could be as bad as this. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Related Topics:SyriaJohn KirbyWhite HelmetsGayane Chichakyan Up Next Celebrities cry over election results, but not over war victims (VIDEO) Don't Miss "Merkel and Obama are in denial". Nigel Farage says Austria and Italy are next [Video] Advertisement You may like Major Syrian Army Assault On Southeast Idlib As Sochi Deal Unravels Reports of possible chemical attacks in Syria have Moscow on alert Istanbul Summit: Frozen conflict in Idlib, and Erdogan's two front war (Video) Click to comment Leave a Reply This comment form is under antispam protection This comment form is under antispam protection Subscribe Notify of new follow-up comments new replies to my comments Latest 'Iron' Mike Pence Stares-Down Putin In APEC Showdown Vice President Mike Pence and National Security Advisor John Bolton were seen shaking hands and chatting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Singapore. Published 18 hours ago on November 19, 2018 By Tyler Durden Via Zerohedge… Forget the All-Blacks 'Haka', ignore Foreman-Frasier, Drago-Balboa, and Ortiz-Liddell, the honor of the greatest (or perhaps most awkward) staredown in history now goes to US Vice President Mike Pence… Having been blamed for everything from Trump's election victory to USA soccer team's loss to England last week, Russia faced accusations all weekend and was reportedly confronted by the US contingent over "meddling." As The Sun reports, Pence and Putin "discussed the upcoming G20 Summit and touched on the issues that will be discussed when President Trump and President Putin are both in Argentina for the summit," according to the vice president's press secretary, Alyssa Farah. An NBC reporter tweeted: "New per the @VP's Office—> The VP's office says Vice President Pence directly addressed Russian meddling in the 2016 election in a conversation with Vladimir Putin on Thursday in Singapore. "The conversation took place following the plenary session this afternoon at ASEAN." But, it was the following clash of the titans that caught most people's attention. As the Russian president joined the that Pence shook Putin's 'deadly' hand, met his 'steely KGB-trained' gaze, and desperately tried not to smile or blink for 20 seconds as Putin appeared to chat amicably with the US VP… While Putin has (if his accusers are to be believed) grappled his opponents to death with his bare hands (remember he is a sinister KGB agent and jiu-jitsu expert); we suspect the only thing VP Pence has gripped tightly in his hands is his bible. Sadly, John Bolton then blew the tough guy act (or is he Mike Pence's 'good cop') as he does his best impression of a teenage girl meeting their popstar idol for the first time… Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Orthodox Churches begin to respond forcefully to Ukrainian situation Two jurisdictions, including one with a difficult history with Russia, move to condemn uncanonical acts in Ukraine. Published 20 hours ago on November 19, 2018 By Seraphim Hanisch Two local jurisdictions within the Eastern Orthodox Church announced their refusal to accept the legitimization of two schismatic groups in Ukraine, a move authorized by the Ecumenical Patriarch, but spurred by powers in the United States and Petro Poroshenko's secularist-oriented Ukraine. On October 11th, 2018, the Ecumentical Patriarch, Bartholomew I of Constantinople, authorized his legates to pronounce two schismatic Orthodox "churches" in Ukraine to be restored to canonical communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and by extension, across the entire Orthodox world. This move was strongly condemned by the authorities of the Russian Orthodox Church, which has the only canonically accepted church presence in Ukraine, a situation that the Ecumenical Patriarch himself agreed with only a few years ago. Russia moved to break communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, creating a split in the Orthodox Church, but a split that at first risked Russia standing alone in their statement of disapproval of the Ecumenical Patriarchate's actions. For a time the reaction of the other "local" Orthodox Churches was cautious, with the vast majority (excepting only the Greek Church in the USA) coming out in support of the canonical group in Ukraine, but without taking similar action to Moscow. That appears to be changing. On November 12 and 16, respectively, the Churches of Serbia and Poland issued strong statements. They both categorically refused to recognize the Ukrainian schismatic groups and they forbade their clergy to concelebrate with the "clergy" within these groups. The Serbs' statement on this was as follows: "The Assembly does not recognize the mentioned figures and their followers as Orthodox bishops and clergy and, consequently, does not accept liturgical and canonical communion with them and their supporters." The Polish Church made a similar announcement, but with even more force: "The Holy Bishops' Council forbids the priests of the Polish Orthodox Church from having liturgical and prayerful contact with the 'clergy' of the so-called Kiev Patriarchate and the so-called 'Autocephalous Orthodox Church,' which have committed much evil in the past," the statement reads. According to the Polish hierarchs, persons deprived of episcopal and clerical ordination cannot be leaders in establishing peace in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. "Only the observance of the dogmatic and canonical norms of the Church and the preservation of the centuries-old tradition will protect Orthodoxy from severe ecclesiastical consequences on an international scale. The Polish Orthodox Church prays fervently for the unity of the holy Orthodox Church and for peace for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church," the message further reads. And while yet officially under the omophorion of Constantinople, several Greek monasteries on Mount Athos, the Orthodox monastic republic that is the spiritual center of all of Eastern Orthodoxy, inserted special petitions in their services to pray for Metropolitan Onufry and the people of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – that is, the canonical group that is a highly autonomous, or independent, Church while yet under the Moscow Patriarchate. This is an interesting situation because in terms of ecclesial jurisdiction, Mount Athos is actually under the Ecumenical Patriarchate. However, the monasteries there often are known for taking the hardest of hardline stances when even their own Patriarchate takes actions they feel to be wrong: Thousands of Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox Christians go on pilgrimage to Mt. Athos, which is under the jurisdiction of Constantinople, every year. However, the Russian Church, of which the Ukrainian Church is an autonomous, self-governing part, broke communion with Constantinople on October 15, which the Ukrainian Church confirmed yesterday, due to unilateral Constantinople's interference in ecclesiastical life in Ukraine. "We know that the majority of the abbots of the Athonite monasteries do not agree with the anti-canonical decisions of the Phanar," Met. Anthony said. "In several monasteries—Greek ones, by the way—they have included a special petition in the Litany of Peace in the morning and evening services: 'For His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry with his suffering flock.,'" he explained, adding, "We are very grateful to the Athonites for their brotherly love and prayers." This is a story that it still developing, but the recent moves by Poland and Serbia may be outlining the path that other local Orthodox Churches will take. That move is to deny recognition to the schismatics that Patriarch Bartholomew lifted the anathemas and depositions for. If this step were to be taken by all the local Churches that have expressed support for the canonical Ukrainian Church, the result would be not much different than where the schismatics were on October 10th: Filaret Denisenko's group and Makary's group would indeed have communion with Constantinople, and presumably the Greek Orthodox Church in the USA, but with no one else. This move would be a severe repudiation of the Ecumenical Patriarch's repeated declaration that he has the sole authority to grant autocephaly to anyone anywhere in the Orthodox world (or even to take it away), which is a canonical absurdity. Given the substantial problems that Filaret Denisenko continues to create, such as refusing to be considered only a Metropolitan (this was the Ecumenical Patriarchate's order), and to still consider himself a patriarch, blessing a blasphemous "icon" that is really just a monument to Ukrainian ultra-nationalism and secularism (note the neo-Nazi wolfsangel and machine guns in the upper right of this photo: And given the ideations of Patriarch Bartholomew himself, who is also recently reported to be pushing towards creating unity with the Roman Catholic Church, while acting like a pope himself by insisting that all the local Orthodox Churches will accept his decisions, it does not look like this situation is going to go away by itself. However, by placing the problem of the schismatics squarely in Patriarch Bartholomew's hands (since he created the problem), the pressure created by other churches refusing to concelebrate with the Ukrainian schismatics may be enough to isolate the Ecumenical Patriarchate itself, rather than fulfilling the highly likely goal that the US, Ukraine and Patriarch Bartholomew may have had initially – to isolate Russia and create a situation where Russia is made to look like the bad guy, once again. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest How George W. Bush Corrupted America's 'News'-Reporting George W. Bush and his Republicans managed to take all of America's major 'news'-media, and to turn them into super-prostitutes. Published 22 hours ago on November 19, 2018 By Eric Zuesse Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org: In order to understand today's demonization of Vladimir Putin, one must go back to US President George W. Bush's propaganda for "regime-change in Iraq" and demonization of Saddam Hussein at that time. The US regime now has come to recognize that with Putin's high approval-ratings from the Russian public, the US aristocracy's dream of fomenting Putin's ouster by Russia's voters will not work; and, so, all foreign leaders who cooperated with Russia, such as Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Viktor Yanukovych, and Bashar al-Assad, were first targeted by the US regime for "regime-change," so as to isolate Russia and soften it up for the demanded US-takeover ('democracy', 'free market', etc., which Russia actually now already has, at least as much as America does); and, then, since that hasn't yet worked, came the US aristocracy's campaign to 'protect The West' by NATO troops and weapons surrounding Russia and forcing regime-change in Russia. It has escalated now to the point where World War III is more likely than ever it was during the Cold War. Regime-change in Russia will thus either occur by the democratic vote of the Russian public at some distant time and produce a Russian Government that's likely to be against the US regime in every possible way (which the current Russian Government is not), or else it will require a US-and-allied invasion of Russia, and that would destroy the world (but the US aristocracy want it anyway). However, America's aristocracy (or as they call it when referring to the same thing in low-income countries, "oligarchs") — basically just its billionaires — are very impatient; they want to control the entire planet during their own lifetimes, and care little (if at all) about what will happen to the planet after they're gone. (Look, for example, at their enormous resistance to doing anything against global burnout; protecting their fossil-fuels investments is 'more important'.) Their 'non-profits' are just tax-avoidance schemes that double as PR operations for themselves and as ways to get their names in print and on big 'non-profit' buildings, like the Pyramids were in ancient Egypt. (Those Egyptian aristocrats wanted permanent honors, but today's American ones want only to be recognized as being top-of-the-heap while they're still alive; it's a cultural difference.) Anyway, here is how George W. Bush and his Republicans managed to take all of America's major 'news'-media, which were highly prostituted even before he came into office, and to turn them into super-prostitutes like the very worst of them prior to his Presidency were. That very worst was most prominently recognized as having been the neoconservative (or pro-US-imperialism) Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel. Of course, it's rotten, today, no less than it was back in 2000, and here's a representative sample of that, displaying a classic propaganda-operation: This particular show aired on 5 September 2015 on Fox 'News', and interviewed their contracted expert: Watch the latest video at foxnews.com TRANSCRIPT, starting at 4:45: 4:45, Interviewer: The other place that nobody seems to want to go these days is Russia and China, and Russia and China are both the two countries that have really gotten behind Assad, and certainly try to prop him up and those kinds of things; and as we look at pictures from China's military day parade [posted onscreen], how much of this is Russia and China trying to slough off these refugees on Europe and everybody else … to try to gain political and global capital? McFARLAND: Well, in China I think less so, but Russia, certainly, because we've seen even in the last week that Russia has increased its military presence in Syria. Russia is trying to prop up the Assad government, like the Iranians are; and so Russia is sending military equipment; it's sending it by sea, it's sending it overland, it's sending it by air, to try to prop up the Assad government to continue the fighting. Q: To continue the refugee crisis? MCFARLAND: Oh, sure, exactly. They want their suckers to believe that the Government of Syria wants "to continue the refugee crisis" (which actually was resulting from the Democratic Party's President Barack Obama's policy, but Republican-Party billionaires want regime-change in Syria as much as Democratic-Party ones do and so this con is a bipartisan one) instead of to restore the peace and modest prosperity that had preceded the US-Saudi-Turkish-UAE-Quwaiti campaign to recruit and arm tens of thousands of jihadists into Syria to overthrow Syria's committedly non-sectarian and highly secular Government, headed by Assad. They want their fools to believe that Assad instead of Obama sought the overthrow of Assad. But no matter how stupid their pitch is, it's acceptable by their very conservative audience. Even when Fox News needs to cover-up evils of a Democratic Party regime in order to sic their suckers on hating Assad or any other ally of the arch-demon Putin, they do it, in order to service their Republican Party billionaires, who are just as eager to take over Russia — and its allies such as Syria — as Democratic Party billionaires are. And that's how bad Fox 'News' is, and was. But now they're all like that. THE BACKSTORY: Whereas back in 2002 and 2003, the US aristocracy's biggest push for "regime change" was to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq; and whereas in 2011 the biggest push for "regime change" was to remove Muammar Gaddaffi from power in Libya; and whereas next in 2011 the biggest push for "regime change" became to remove Bashar al-Assad from power in Syria; and whereas in 2013 the biggest push for "regime change" became to remove Viktor Yanukovych from power in Ukraine; the biggest push for "regime change" now is to remove Vladimir Putin himself from power in Russia. Media-lies have been crucial to them all; and here is how it's done — by spreading Fox's garbage over the rest of the major 'news' media: On 2 October 2003, the media-watch organization, worldpublicopinion.org, headlined "Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War:Study Finds Widespread Misperceptions on Iraq Highly Related to Support for War: Misperceptions Vary Widely Depending on News Source: Fox Viewers More Likely to Misperceive, PBS-NPR Less Likely." In fact, the people who received their news primarily through NPR or PBS exhibited the lowest rate of misperceptions at that time, and Fox News Channel viewers exhibited the highest misperceptions-rate: Whereas 77% of NPR/PBS listeners/viewers gave correct answers on all three factual news questions asked, only 20% of Fox News Channel viewers did; and whereas only 23% of the NPR/PBS audiences got one or more of these three factual questions wrong, 80% of Fox's did. So, the George W. Bush Administration forced NPR and PBS to adhere more fully to Bush's (the US aristocracy's) line. Bush lowered the best of the nation's news-edia down to the standards that already existed for the lowest. At NPR's "Morning Edition" on 20 May 2005, host David Folkenflik reported about the pre-Bush culture at the Corporation for Public Broadvasting and compared it to the new culture there. He said that, the "culture gap became evident as long as two years ago. At oneclosed board meeting, according to two former CPB officials, [the Bush-appointed CPB chief Kenneth] Tomlinson suggested bringing in Fox News Channel anchor Brit Hume to talk to public broadcasting officials about how to create balanced news programs." Word was now out, among journalists throughout the world, that President Bush aimed to turn his country's public broadcasting system into a domestic propaganda organ; and so, on May 30th, The New York Times headlined "Ombudsmen Rebuff Move by Public Broadcasting", and reported — datelined May 27th from London — that: "An [international] association of news ombudsmen has rejected an attempt by two ombudsmen from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to join their organization as full-fledged members, questioning their independence. The Organization of News Ombudsmen, which represents nearly a hundred print and broadcast ombudsmen from around the world, more than half of them from the United States, voted at its annual conference here last week to change its bylaws to allow full membership only to those who work for news organizations," which excluded representatives from CPB, because "it does not itself gather or produce news." Observed one member, who happened to be the ombudsman from NPR, "We want members who are responsive to readers, not to governments or lobby groups." The Los Angeles Times media critic David Shaw took a broad historical view of this matter, headlining May 29th "There's a 'Nuclear Option' for PBS' Woes" opining that no PBS at all would be better than a PBS that's a propaganda organ for the White House, and reminding readers: "The Bush administration is not the first to challenge the independence of PBS. Back in the 1970s, the Nixon administration was so estranged by PBS coverage of Watergate and the Vietnam War that it stacked the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with Nixon sympathizers. 'There were tremendous fights, with the Nixon administration trying to prevent public television from doing any public affairs programming at all,' Lawrence Grossman, the former president of PBS, subsequently told the New York Times. The Bush administration, which has already accomplished the heretofore seemingly impossible by becoming even more media-averse than the Nixon administration, seems determined to surpass the wizard of Whittier and Watergate in bringing the CPB to heel as well." Mr. Shaw, like other major-media commentators about the national media, had previously stood by in silence, during 2002 and 2003, while America's major media cavalierly spread amongst the US public, as virtually unchallenged, the false rumors coming from the Bush Administration, and from its allies such as the Bush-Administration-financed group of exiles, the Iraqi National Congress, saying that Iraq's leader Saddam Hussein had been proven to be storing huge quantities of weapons of mass destruction and to be working in cahoots with Al Qaeda to threaten the United States. However, now, just a few years later, these very same "news" media were so frightened at the rising extent of this Administration's control over their "news," that these commentators were publicizing what those fascists were doing to force them, 'journalists,' into a military lock-step. This change in atmosphere was stunning; America's press were now trying to extricate themselves from the prison they had only recently helped to construct for themselves. They didn't think that they might get caught up in the prison that they had helped construct to contain the general public. The United States had entered historic new territory after nearly 50 years of aristocratic/theocratic mass-indoctrination of the American people, which had occurred with the full support and cooperation of the nation's presslords. There was now doubt; the old arrangements finally started to become questioned. Things were no longer settled. This was a real change of mentality. Only recently, there had been a total passivity of the US press: it propagandized for the President's Medicaid prescription drug plan; it propagandized for his fabricated accusations against "Saddam's weapons of mass destruction"; it served as an extension of the White House press office on many other of the President's fraud-based programs. But this passivity was now finally replaced by a rising fear within the press, that the US might be transforming into a fascist state, which could threaten the press itself. The presslords themselves were at last becoming disturbed. However, this President was already near to his goal of a totalitarian lock-down. Consequently, what could the press do, at such a late date? They had already given him the rope to hang not just the public, but themselves. He took it. The American press that stenographically transmitted to the American public the US government's lies about "Saddam's WMD" is continuing as if it hadn't been sufficiently compliant. America's great victories in overthrowing Gaddafi and Yanukovych are now supposed to be followed by Assad, and then Putin. And European nations take this leadership as their own, instead of abandoning the US, abandoning NATO, and abandoning the US-controlled EU; abandoning all the mega-corporate, US-aristocracy-controlled, international-corporate fascist system — and now they willingly take in the millions of refugees from the bombs that the US had dropped in Libya and Syria, and that the US-installed rabidly anti-Russian government in Ukraine is dropping onto the areas of the former Ukraine that have rejected the US-imposed (in February 2014) government in Kiev. And the next target is Putin. So: that's the backstory behind the lie that Putin instead of Obama caused those millions of refugees pouring into Europe. And, in German 'news' media, Bashar al-Assad and ISIS are being blamed for it, because practically no German is so media-deluded (like America's conservatives are) as to think that Putin is to blame for it; and here is a German who states in very clear terms how rotten he thinks Germany's 'news' media are (though America's obviously are even worse) with those German media blaming "that the reasons for refugee-flows are Syrian President Bashar Assad and ISIS" instead of that "America is the cause of all these problems, American foreign policy." Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading JOIN OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL Your donations make all the difference. Together we can expose fake news lies and deliver truth. Amount to donate in USD$: 5 100 Validating payment information... Waiting for PayPal...Validating payment information...Waiting for PayPal... 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