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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that a nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic and P5+1 nations will likely not be announced today, marking yet another deadline postponement in the tense negotiations. Talks are now expected to continue into Tuesday.
However, a deal announcement may still be expected soon, despite a statement by the White House that "some sticking points" remain "unresolved," among them the issue of a UN weapons embargo, reported Fox News.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani indicated progress by tweeting that "#IranDeal is the victory of diplomacy & mutual respect over the outdated paradigm of exclusion & coercion. And this is a good beginning."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the negotiations, though stressing that Israel had no intention to try to stop an agreement.
"We never committed ourselves to preventing an agreement, certainly not one that the major powers are ready to sign at any price. We did commit ourselves to prevent Iran from arming itself with nuclear weapons – and indeed, were it not for our efforts over the years, Iran would already be able to develop atomic bombs," he said at the Knesset on Monday, Yedioth Achronoth reported.
"Even over the weekend, as Iran continued to receive more and more concessions at the negotiating table, Iranian President Rouhani led a march of hatred in the streets of Tehran in which the masses cried, 'Death to America! Death to Israel!'" Netanyahu said.
"If the concessions continued even after these unequivocal calls for the destruction of those conducting the negotiations, it seems that there are those who are ready to make an agreement at any price – and this bad agreement is unavoidable," he added.


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Jane Jacobs's name often comes up in discussions of the viability of modern urban life. Understandably so, since her Death and Life of Great American Cities probably has had more influence on urban planning debates than any other single work. But there was another Jane—Holtz Kay—whose name comes up often in slightly smaller yet very influential circles. A Jane who worked tirelessly for decades in the trenches of architecture and urban design criticism, historic preservation, civic activism and environmental journalism and was, among many other distinctions, The Nation's longtime architecture critic.
Perhaps it was her long admiration of Lewis Mumford, beginning with her 1960 Radcliffe senior thesis and first interview with him, that pushed her to range widely while paying close attention to the details of everyday life. She visited Mumford, physically and in her writing, several times over the decades. In her 1977 American Institute of Architects Journal interview she takes us inside Mumford's work, legacy, household organization and daily life. She brings to life the breadth of his intellect, work habits and Amenian surrounds while also giving voice to Sophia—"wife, intellectual companion, life-support…breadwinning partner of his youth, the amanuensis of his old age." But it was not a wholly blind devotion, as this splendidly succinct paragraph from her 1982 Christian Science Monitor review of his autobiography reveals:
"In his autobiography as in his life, Mumford's far-reaching intellectual aspirations and pessimistic moral outlook bring him both success and failure — failure because it is our Joshuas, not our Jeremiahs, who bring society's walls tumbling down; success because his reach for ethical suasion gave him access to the centuries."
Jane Holtz Kay published scores of articles; idea pieces, reviews, interviews, opinion, criticism and critique ranging from architecture, building crafts and "car-burbs" to Olmsted, urban design and zoning—and many topics in between. Her publications alphabet ranged from AIA, Alternet and Appalachia to Sierra, Smithsonian and Technology and Urban Ecology, with contributions to The Chronicle of Higher Education, Columbia Journalism Review, Harvard Business Review, Ms., Orion, Preservation, The Progressive and Grist, among others. Her list of publications at The New York Times fills four webpages. Ditto for The Nation. She was the author of Lost Boston (1980), a remarkable architectural and social history march through centuries of destroyed heritage yet with hope about preservationist efforts. Its hundreds of evocative illustrations include a Park Street "T" subway station political poster—a homage to her liberal father's 1950s failed Congressional bids; Preserving New England (1986 with Pauline Chase Harrell), a tour of landscape and townscape; and her most influential work, Asphalt Nation (1997), exploring the transportation waterfront, from the environmental destruction of our over-dependence on automobiles to the many promising reform efforts that were underway in the 1990s.

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Episode #71
I spend a lot of time in front of my Macs -- 8 to 10 hours on most days. And this is the way things have been for the better part of the last twenty years. Since I'm inherently quite lazy and computers are supposed to improve my productivity, I'm always on the lookout for a product or technique that will save me time, effort, or keystrokes. And so, gentle reader, here are some of the programs and procedures I use to save time effort every time I turn on one of my Macs.?
When I think of saving effort, the first program that comes to mind is QuicKeys. QuicKeys is a "macro" utility that creates "shortcuts." Put another way, it provides tools that let me automate almost any repetitive action on my Mac and trigger it with a single keystroke or menu selection. For example, I have shortcuts for all of the applications I use regularly. So Control-F1 activates GarageBand; Control-F2 activates System Preferences; Control-F3 activates Photoshop (see Figure 1); Control-F4 activates Microsoft Word; and so on and so on. This way it takes me but a fraction of a second to begin using any of the dozen or so programs I use daily -- the four I just mentioned plus Mail, Safari, iCal, Address Book, RapidWeaver, SOHO Notes, and a few others.
Figure 1: The shortcut that activates Photoshop when I type Control-F3.
Another way QuicKeys saves me time is by letting me add keyboard shortcuts to menu items that don't have their own keyboard shortcuts. I know you can (allegedly) do this with the Keyboard System Preference pane, but my experience with that technique has been that it doesn't usually work the way I expect it to work. With QuicKeys it always works the way I intend it to. For example, I type Control-minus to "zoom" the active window. In other words, Control-minus does the same thing as clicking the green "zoom" gumdrop found on most windows in most programs. Control-left arrow and Control-right arrow switch to the previous or next application (like Tab or Shift-Tab), but hide all other visible applications at the same time.
I also use QuicKeys shortcuts for oft-used folders. So typing Command-Option-Control-W opens and activates my "Work" folder, where most of my documents live, even if I'm working in another program. So that single keystroke switches programs (to the Finder), opens the Work folder (if it's not already open), and makes it the active window. Sweet!
Yet another way I use QuicKeys is to store things I type frequently such as my snail-mail address (with and without tabs between items) and my e-mail address.
There's a lot more QuicKeys can do -- it can create application specific or universal shortcuts; it can create timed shortcuts; it can create on-screen palettes for your shortcuts; and much more. And you can build your shortcuts step-by-step (see Figure 2), or you can record what you do and play it back with a single keystroke.
Figure 2: You can build shortcuts step-by-step by selecting items
from a menu as shown here, or record them in real time (not shown).
(Click the thumbnail for a larger image.)
I have used this program for many, many years. And I truly believe it's saved me literally millions of keystrokes over the years. It is among the most useful utilities I own and one of my very favorites. Don't take my word for it...download the 30-day trial and give it a shot. If you take the time to get to know it, I'm certain you'll find it as indispensable as I do.
QuicKeys. Startly Technologies. $79.95.
Moving right along, another extremely useful little utility is Karl Hsu's Deja Menu. What it does is display the entire menu bar of the active application right under your cursor when you press its hot key. So in my case, when I press Command-Option-` (tilde). Figure 3 shows what Deja Menu looks like when I do it while Microsoft Word is active.
Figure 3: Deja Menu pops up the active applications entire
menu right under the cursor (Microsoft Word menus shown here).?
It's a one trick pony but its trick is a real timesaver, especially if you have two large displays like me. And not only is it a freebie, but instead of suggesting a donation the author says, "If you like DejaMenu, do something nice for someone :)." That's pretty cool.
Deja Menu. Karl Hsu. Free.
Well, that's all for now. Please let me know if you liked this column. I've got a bunch of other time and effort saving utilities I would be happy to share with you in a future column if you found this column useful.
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Russell Brand loses his cool when Jon Snow names him a 'Tory stooge' live on TV
Russell Brand lost his cool on live TV as he was quizzed about his calls for a "revolution".
The actor and comedian got hot under the collar after newsman Jon Snow accused him of being a Tory stooge.
Brand went face-to-face with the Channel 4 News anchor to discuss his campaign to legalise drugs.
The comic, 38, wants to overthrow Britain's political system but is backing a petition calling on MPs to debate the reform of UK drug laws.
And he was left looking naive as Snow tore into his "confused" manifesto.
He asked how Brand could ever expect to change drug laws if he refused to vote.
"You know that parliamentary democracy doesn't truly help people. Don't tell me that politics works. Just don't"Russell Brand
Struggling for answers, the star raged: "I came on here to promote (the drug law campaign) and we don't even need to promote it.
"I don't even need to be here. I refuse to be drawn on this subject.
"You know that parliamentary democracy doesn't truly help people. Don't tell me that politics works. Just don't."
But Snow, 66, then accused the comic of doing the Government's work for them.
He said: "There's confusion here Russell. You say you don't vote, but you are asking people to sign a petition so that politicians, that you don't want them to vote for, are going to have to debate.
"In effect you are doing the Government's work for them because the very people you are saying don't vote are young people suffering from the cuts."
Brand replied: "That's not what I'm doing. I'm demonstrating that politicians are completely out of touch."
At one point the funnyman accused Snow of trying to stitch him up as the debate descended into a spat.
He raged: "Look – listen, you. Let me talk. (Drug law reform) is more important than you, an entertainer, getting me, another entertainer, to cook up a wacky version of politics so you can make me look a bit daft."
Asked if he still wanted a revolution, Brand replied: "You know I do. That's the reason that I'm here.
"I want a revolution in the way we regard addiction as a disease, the way we treat drug addicts."


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33 U.S. Code § 1274 - Watershed pilot projects
The management of municipal combined sewer overflows, sanitary sewer overflows, and stormwater discharges, on an integrated watershed or subwatershed basis for the purpose of demonstrating the effectiveness of a unified wet weather approach.
The control of pollutants from municipal separate storm sewer systems for the purpose of demonstrating and determining controls that are cost-effective and that use innovative technologies to manage, reduce, treat, recapture, or reuse municipal stormwater, including techniques that utilize infiltration, evapotranspiration, and reuse of stormwater onsite.
Efforts of municipalities and property owners to demonstrate cooperative ways to address nonpoint sources of pollution to reduce adverse impacts on water quality.
The development of an integrated water resource plan for the coordinated management and protection of surface water, ground water, and stormwater resources on a watershed or subwatershed basis to meet the objectives, goals, and policies of this chapter.
The development of a municipality-wide plan that identifies the most effective placement of stormwater technologies and management approaches, to reduce water quality impairments from stormwater on a municipality-wide basis.
Efforts to assess future risks and vulnerabilities of publicly owned treatment works to manmade or natural disasters, including extreme weather events and sea-level rise, and to carry out measures, on a systemwide or area-wide basis, to increase the resiliency of publicly owned treatment works.
The Administrator, in coordination with the States, shall provide municipalities participating in a pilot project under this section the ability to engage in innovative practices, including the ability to unify separate wet weather control efforts under a single permit.
Not later than October 1, 2015, the Administrator shall transmit to Congress a report on the results of the pilot projects conducted under this section and their possible application nationwide.
2014—Pub. L. 113–121, § 5011(1), struck out "Wet weather" before "Watershed" in section catchline.
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–121, § 5011(2)(A), in introductory provisions, substituted "to a municipality or municipal entity" for "for treatment works" and struck out "of wet weather discharge control" after "the following areas".
Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 113–121, § 5011(2)(B), substituted "to manage, reduce, treat, recapture, or reuse municipal stormwater, including techniques that utilize infiltration, evapotranspiration, and reuse of stormwater onsite" for "in reducing such pollutants from stormwater discharges".
Subsec. (a)(3) to (6). Pub. L. 113–121, § 5011(2)(C), added pars. (3) to (6).
Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 113–121, § 5011(3)–(5), redesignated subsec. (d) as (c), substituted "October 1, 2015," for "5 years after December 21, 2000,", and struck out former subsec. (c) which authorized appropriations to carry out this section.
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This 1-day conference provided an opportunity for those working in the disability / social care sector to network, share information and hear from a range of experts on a range of themes
Author(s): Rees, D.; Burns, D.; Kirkpatrick, V.; Daly, M.; and Tierney, E.
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Key Words: Intellectual disability, Early Intervention, Child and Family Centred Service
Author(s): Kevin Barnes, Programmes Coordinator
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Author(s): Tierney, E., Quinlan, D. & Browne, S.
Department: Research Department and Nursing Department, COPE Foundation
Author(s): Sile Reynolds, Senior Occupational Therapist
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Author(s): Jacintha Flynn
Department: Cope Foundation
Keywords: Independent living; Mild intellectual disability
Author(s): Mary Wilson,Deirdre Quirke, Yvonne McCarthy,Maryrose O'Driscoll,Catherine Tierney and Richard Burke.
Department: Brothers of Charity and Dept of Applied social studies U.C.C.
Keywords: Groupwork, learning disability, empowerment, partnership, inclusion and lifelong learning.
Reported: Groupwork Vol.14 (1),2004,pp.xx-xx Whiting & Birch Ltd,2004
Author(s): Aine Kelly PhD, Sean Carey PhD, Siobhan McCarthy, MSocSc.
Department: Research Department, St John of God Hospitaller Services. St Patricks College, Drumcondra, Dublin.
Keywords: Special Schools, Challenging Behaviour, principal stress
Reported: NABMSE, Kildare Education Centre, Friary Road, Kildare Town, Co Kildare (www.nabmse.org).Or from St John of God Hospitaller Services, Library.
Author(s): Jean Whyte and Aine Kelly
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text: School of Music to Present Faculty Brass Concert Share Tweet Email LinkedIn 04/24/17 Top News University Wide All Inclusive Professors Lee University faculty members Gordon James, Bill Pritchard, Dr. Doug Warner, and Dr. Nathan Warner, along with Lee graduate student Jordan Bailey, will present a brass concert on Monday, May 1 at 7:30 p.m. in Pangle Hall.The evening will feature works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Elmer Bernstein, Eric Ewazen, and Michael Tilson Thomas. As Principal Horn of the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, James has been playing and teaching horn for over 30 years. He is currently an adjunct horn instructor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Southern Adventist University, and Lee University. Pritchard serves as a tuba and euphonium professor and orchestral coach at Lee, in addition to being a low brass professor at Georgia College and State University. He began teaching in Atlanta in 2001 while he was a member of the Army Ground Forces Band. He currently plays tuba with the Midtown Brass Quintet, the Georgia Brass Band, the New Atlanta Philharmonic, and the Ludwig Symphony, among others. Dr. Doug Warner is chair of the department of music performance studies and professor of music at Lee. He has been Principal Trombonist of the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera since 1985. From 1986 to 1997, he was a member of the King's Brass, a touring ensemble with which he recorded four albums. Dr. Nathan Warner, an assistant professor of music at Lee, has performed with the Chattanooga Symphony, the Knoxville Symphony, Lady Antebellum, Doc Severinsen, Peter Cetera, Clay Aiken, Slide Hampton, Lou Marini, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Olivia Newton-John, and Franki Valli and The Four Seasons, among others. Prior to Lee, he was Instructor of Trumpet at the Manhattan School of Music Pre College in New York City.Bailey is studying music performance at Lee. He is involved in Lee's Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and Brass Choir. He recently performed in the orchestra for the Lee Theatre production of "Oliver!"The Monday evening concert is free, non-ticketed, and open to the public. For more information about the event, email email@example.com or contact Lee's School of Music at (423) 614-8240.


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What WWDC Means for You
Today I had the opportunity to give a quick talk at Extreme Coffee about some of the new tech introduced at WWDC. It was one of those "you had to be there" kind of talks, but I figured I'd share the slides in case they come in handy for anyone else.
I covered Extensions, Handoff, Cloud Kit, and the concept of Size Classes. The talk was aimed at devleopers who may have heard about these features, but didn't necessarily know a whole lot about what they are or how they work.
If you are in the Toronto area and are interested in having me give this talk to your company, organization, or meetup, drop me a line.
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Artist Series: The Beach Boys
Good vibrations abound as The Beach Boys turn our Iowa winter into summer at the beach. Take off your coat, sit back and feel the sun as they take you back in time with "California Girls," "Help Me Rhonda," "I Get Around," "Surfin' USA," "Then I Kissed Her," "Don't Worry Baby" and more with hit after hit. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, named Rolling Stone Magazine's Band of the Year and winners of numerous Grammy Awards, The Beach Boys are giants of American music. Check this off your bucket list and breathe in The Beach Boys.


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WASHINGTON — Still beset with doubts about the fairness of presidential elections in the Philippines next month, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee withheld a decision Friday on sending congressional observers.
Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said a group of private professional election observers will visit the Philippines next week and report to the committee Jan. 23. ``Clearly those observers and the discussion of the committee will be important in determining what . . . role this committee or the Senate might play in observation of the election Feb. 7. It is too early to tell (about congressional observers).``
President Ferdinand Marcos, in power 20 years and accused of widespread corruption, is challenged by Corazon Aquino, whose husband, opposition leader Benigno Aquino, was assassinated in 1984.


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Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Knight Riders, IPL 2018, Jaipur
Chawla's Powerplay stifle proves gamechanger
Apr 18, 2018: The legspinner bowled three overs in the Powerplay, something he has only ever done once previously across 135 IPL matches, and had D'Arcy Short tied up in knots
Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Knight Riders, IPL 2018, Jaipur
Kuldeep, Chawla, Rana lift KKR to top of table
Apr 18, 2018: Spin limited Rajasthan Royals to 160 and an aggressive batting approach then helped Kolkata Knight Riders chase down their target with six balls remaining
Ranji Trophy 2017-18, Group B, Round 6, 4th day
Kerala storm into contention after sensational win
Nov 20, 2017: The race for the knockouts continues to be a three-way fight between Kerala, Gujarat and Saurashtra
Ranji Trophy 2017-18, Group B
Chawla, Desai quickly wrap up win for Gujarat
Nov 4, 2017: Kerala cruised home after KC Akshay's nine-for while Saurashtra leapt to the top of the table after handing Jharkhand a thrashing
Ranji Trophy 2017-18, Group B, 4th round, 3rd day
Chawla, Desai leave Haryana reeling
Nov 2, 2017: Parvez Rasool claimed a match haul of 11 wickets in Thiruvananthapuram, while Ravindra Jadeja went wicketless in Rajkot
Ranji Trophy 2017-18, Group B, 4th round, 2nd day
Pujara back to old ways, scores 12th double-century
Nov 2, 2017: He now holds the record among Indian batsmen, going past Vijay Merchant. Meanwhile, Kerala and Gujarat fought back after making low totals to claim first-innings leads
Ranji Trophy 2017-18, Group B, 3rd round, 3rd day
Chawla nine-for hands Gujarat bonus-point win
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Ranji Trophy 2017-18, Group B, Round 3, 1st day
Chawla five-for puts Gujarat on top against J&K
Oct 24, 2017: Jharkhand, meanwhile, bowled Haryana out for 208, while fifties from Jalaj Saxena and Rohan Prem led Kerala through an attritional day against Rajasthan
Ranji Trophy 2017-18
Jackson 181, Jadeja 150* power Saurashtra
Oct 14, 2017: Group B round-up: Piyush Chawla's five-for helps defending champions Gujarat skittle Kerala for 208; Rajasthan steady against Jharkhand
India domestic news
Pitches, not Kuldeep, reason for Gujarat move - Piyush Chawla
Aug 17, 2017: Piyush Chawla's experience will be handy for a young side looking to build on recent Ranji success, says Gujarat captain Parthiv Patel
All-time IPL XI : The spinners
Apr 22, 2017: Pick your two spinners for our all-time IPL XI and help put together the team with our panel of experts
Countdown : 6 days to go
Mar 30, 2017: The quotes from nine seasons of the IPL that caused laughter, embarrassment and controversy
Vijay Hazare Trophy 2016-17, Group B
Jadhav's 64-ball 113 roughs up Delhi
Feb 28, 2017: A round-up of the Vijay Hazare Trophy Group B matches played on February 28, 2017
Uttar Pradesh v Baroda, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy final, Mumbai
Raina and spinners hand UP maiden T20 title
Jan 20, 2016: Defending a par score of 163, UP snatched control and never lost it in the middle overs as left-arm chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav and legspinner Piyush Chawla beguiled the opposition with variations
Tamil Nadu v Uttar Pradesh, 3rd quarter-final, Vijay Hazare Trophy
Sathish helps TN seal a low-scoring thriller
Dec 24, 2015: Allrounder R Sathish sealed a thrilling one-wicket win for Tamil Nadu to take them to their first Vijay Hazare semi-final in five years
Vijay Hazare Trophy 2015-16, Group D
Chawla, Chaubey topple Saurashtra
Dec 16, 2015: A round-up of all the Group D matches of the Vijay Hazare Trophy on December 16, 2015
UP v Punjab, Ranji Trophy, Group B, Kanpur, 4th day
Chawla, Nath help UP hold on for draw
Nov 26, 2015: Half-centuries from Akshdeep Nath and Piyush Chawla saved Uttar Pradesh on the last day, as the team held on for a thrilling draw against Punjab in Kanpur
Ranji Trophy 2015-16
Piyush definitely has to raise the bar - Raina
Nov 22, 2015: UP's Piyush Chawla has been out of form with the ball going into their match against Punjab, and captain Suresh Raina wants him to turn things around
Kolkata Knight Riders v Dehi Daredevils, IPL 2015, Kolkata
Batting promotion a tactical move - Chawla
May 8, 2015: Piyush Chawla said the decision to promote him to No. 4 was tactical, so Knight Riders could have a left-hand batsman to upset the rhythm of Daredevils' legspinners
May 4, 2015: The batsmen with most runs in the IPL without making a fifty
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18:01 Willem Popelier
My interest would be mainly in the reception of the selfie. Since I did a lot of my research for my selfie book on how people think it should be done, I stumbled upon many examples of how the practice of selfie-taking is regarded by many. There seems to be a distinct moral issue surrounding selfies: those who make selfies are often regarded as stupid. If I mentioned that I was working on a project on selfies, I often had to defend my choice of topic.
Willem Popelier, The Do-It-Yourselfie Guide, 2014.
18:04 Willem Popelier
A good example is the video of the girls making selfies during a Major League Baseball game. They're criticised by the sports narrators with statements such as 'This is parenting in 2015'. We tend to dismiss selfies as stupid or irrelevant. At the same time we can't stop giving more and more attention to people who make a lot of selfies. This fascinates me. #showingandblaming
19:47 Karin Bareman @willem
It's interesting that the making of selfies gets documented to such an extent and that people despite the disparaging comments still look at it and engage with it.
21:12 Raymond Frenken: @willem
I'm also interested in the reception of the selfie. The Alpha Chi Omega sorority girls, who were criticised by the sports commentators, immediately responded not by defending their behaviour, but by re-framing themselves as philanthropists (they had committed themselves to 'A New Leaf', a non-profit supporting victims of domestic violence). Take note: the girls had supported this good cause for a long time, so their selfie-taking wasn't motivated by the media frenzy; nevertheless, the underlying message is: we are not #selfish, we are generous.
Screenshot of FB post by the sorority about the good cause
07:20 Daria Tuminas: #showingandblaming #dangerousbusiness @willem, @karinb
These subjects come together. Selfies are dangerous. It could destroy your reputation (Obama, Thorning-Schmidt and Cameron taking images at Mandela's memorial service), or you can even get death threats (Breanna Mitchell who posted a selfie from Auschwitz).
Obama group selfie
Auschwitz selfie
10:10 Raymond Frenken:
During her visit to a refugee camp, Merkel made selfies with the residents and was criticised for it. She reacted on a talkshow: "With selfies there is less distance than with a regular photo, that's an inherent part of the selfie. Do you really think that 100,000 people will leave their homeland because one such selfie exists?"
Merkel and refugee photo
10:18 Raymond Frenken: @daria
It's the act / ritual / performance of taking a selfie that evokes moral judgments, not so much the resulting selfie itself. Or even: that which arouses contempt, is the picture of one taking selfies at a place or event judged inappropriate (neither the picture above, showing Merkel and a refugee, is a proper selfie, nor is the picture of Obama, Thorning-Schmidt and Cameron).
10:29 Willem Popelier: @raymond
A great example. We often blame the selfie act, without seeing the actual image that was made. It's very easy to reject the action of taking a selfie, if you as a viewer do not see the resulting image, but feel that you're left out of the 'conversation' of the selfie.
10:29 Willem Popelier: #showingandblaming
A small case study: the girls at the baseball game made selfies because there was a T-Mobile selfie game going on during the game. In other words, the people in the stadium were challenged to making selfies. So what we see are girls acting as desired, but blamed for that nonetheless.
11:07 Daria Tuminas: @raymond #showingandblaming
Exactly! In some cases the making of selfies is inappropriate. And the ones who judge can only see the selfie or just the act of taking one – so the judgment is based on how appropriate the act is in given surroundings. But then we need some documentation of the selfie-making. How should we name this strange phenomenon? Some kind of witch-hunting for selfie-makers.
11:11 Daria Tuminas: #showingandblaming
The strange thing is that we can also be criticised for a smile. It's not bad that Obama and the team made a selfie, but it's bad that they smiled. Imagine them crying in a selfie. What would be the reaction to that? Is a sad-selfie even possible? Maybe they just put up a selfie smiley face for genre requirement?
11:20 Willem Popelier:
A smile for a selfie is a primal reaction. I don't think it's a genre requirement but rather a general reaction to the camera. Get a camera in front of people and the first reaction is to smile: 'Cheeeeese!'
11:31 Raymond Frenken:
This smile shows relief: 'Syrian refugee Lailav Khalil, 15, shows a selfie on her mobile phone, after arriving on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos. Oct. 3, 2015.'
See How Smartphones Have Become a Lifeline for Refugees
11:41 Willem Popelier:
From 2009 to 2011, I worked on my project Showroom Girls. Back then the term selfie wasn't in use yet. When I now explain the project without mentioning that the girls made 'selfies' (they made photos on a showroom computer), the reaction is less strong than when I state they made SELFIES.
Willem Popelier, from the series Showroom Girls, 2011.
11:41 Willem Popelier:
It's interesting to read online reactions to my work. They're very predictable and almost always in the #showingandblaming direction. For instance in the case of Showroom Girls, it's discussed whether I (as an artist) am morally allowed to show the images (selfies) by two girls to the general public. See the articles on Gawker and especially the reactions underneath, where I'm being called a creep, a stalker, and even a pedophile.
The focus is on how wrong I am, instead of wondering whether maybe the girls are morally wrong or stupid to take so many images of themselves on a public computer. This was before there was a general notion of 'selfie' and the profusion of online self-representation.
11:41 Willem Popelier:
The reactions on the article published by The Daily Mail on my selfie book offer something quite different, namely a focus on how wrong it is to make so many selfies, that the act of taking selfies is wrong. This article was published last summer, when everybody was well aware of the concept of the selfie. So the focus here is not on me, but on the act of making selfies. (On a side note: the article was published in the WOMEN section.)
12:01 Suzan Geldhoff:
Very interesting that you experienced a shift in tone and focus in the writings about your work, Willem! Usually these things go so gradually you don't really notice, but you had an indicator (your own work).
12:10 Suzan Geldhoff:
It made me think of Noah Kalina and his selfie series that he edited in a video and published on YouTube / Vimeo in 2006 (he was so revolutionary back then, using new media / technologies like that and started a trend). And I also thought of Justin Bieber who uploaded himself performing in his bedroom to YouTube in 2007, which led him to be discovered. These are early examples of the (positive) effect of putting yourself out there via selfies and social media. So not #showingandblaming but the first examples of #showingandbecomingfamousinapositiveway
Screenshot video Noah Kalina, Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 12.5 years, 2000-2012, YouTube.
12:19 Willem Popelier:
Bieber still applies the same strategies of embracing happiness and promoting positivity with selfies. See for instance his music video for the song 'Beauty and a Beat': it's filmed as if it were a selfie-shot, but if you see the whole video, at one point (1:47) he lets go of the camera which then suddenly 'floats' after which we're back in the standard music video atmosphere for a while.
Screenshot video Justin Bieber, Beauty and a Beat ft. Nicki Minaj, 2012, YouTube.
12:26 Suzan Geldhoff:
Bieber still applies the same strategies of embracing happiness and promoting positivity with selfies. See for instance his music video for the song 'Beauty and a Beat': it's filmed as if it were a selfie-shot, but if you see the whole video, at one point (1:47) he lets go of the camera which then suddenly 'floats' after which we're back in the standard music video atmosphere for a while.
13:02 Daria Tuminas:
Bieber still applies the same strategies of embracing happiness and promoting positivity with selfies. See for instance his music video for the song 'Beauty and a Beat': it's filmed as if it were a selfie-shot, but if you see the whole video, at one point (1:47) he lets go of the camera which then suddenly 'floats' after which we're back in the standard music video atmosphere for a while.
14:22 Karin Bareman: @all
Regarding the inappropriate times and places of taking selfies, are you guys familiar with 'Purity and Danger' (1966) by Mary Douglas? The main point she makes is: 'Dirt is matter out of place.' It relates to religion, all that's considered sacred and profane, but where dirt is matter out of place, is where the exciting stuff happens, where a culture or religion touches upon pain points, taboos, tensions etc.
14:40 Karin Bareman: @willem
I find it interesting that both you yourself and your project gets judged so strongly. But then, again, someone like Richard Prince, Jock Sturges and Sally Mann get judged quite harshly too for showing young girls in a particular way. Has it got to do with the genre of the selfie or with the (self) portrayal of young girls? Are we touching upon a particular cultural pain point here? Is there a perceived danger to the purity of the girls? #purityanddanger
14:56 Suzan Geldhoff: @karinb
The weirdest thing about the judgment of 'Showroom Girls' is that the privacy aspect of the girls is very well guarded by Willem the artist. I think the criticism has something to do with the sensibility in the USA regarding young girls and pedophilia, sex offenders etc. Which is absurd in the context of Willem as an artist. You could even perceive Showroom Girls as a warning for young girls, to be on guard in terms of putting their personal information (and face) out there. Which also leads me to believe that the criticising party didn't look very careful at the project and just decided to jump on the perv bandwagon (which gives them probably more traffic on their website, since it's a hot topic). Creating drama and controversy where there is none.
17:49 Daria Tuminas: @karinb
Another great example of photographers being judged for making / presenting images of young girls is Bill Henson.To figure out the answer to your question, was @willem judged because of the 'girls' or because of the 'selfies'? @willem How much were you judged for other selfie related works? Do you collect the comments people make? Surprisingly, these two 'naive' subjects – girls and selfies – can carry danger for an artist. Especially when combined together….
18:10 Daria Tuminas:
Very interesting case of a teenage girl in Fayetteville, North Carolina, who found herself both the 'perpetrator' and the 'victim' of the same crime, because she sent sexually explicit photos of herself to her boyfriend.
18:13 Daria Tuminas:
So, you can be judged in a proper court even if you made your own sexy selfie and happened to be underage. Nice.
10:13 Suzan Geldhoff: @daria
Yeah, in some countries underage sexting means distribution of child pornography.
10:39 Daria Tuminas: @suzan
It seems like the themes of 'girls' and 'selfies' combined is a bomb for the 'white knights of the internet', as you called them. But also selfies of girls made by themselves are judged, and not only by the selfie-hunters anymore, but by means of the criminal code. I was surprised that a girl can be judged herself for her own selfie, becoming victim and criminal at the same time.
10:47 Willem Popelier:
First I want to comment on all the posts surrounding these rather pornographic 'selfies'. When I started researching and collecting selfies in 2008-2009, I was interested in the apparent fact that people (mostly teenagers) made these very exposed portraits. Not before long, I amassed a huge collection of images that were more and more pornographic. I questioned why people would post these images of themselves online. Of course many images are posted by others, which to me was a very important and interesting aspect too. The notion is that there's no control concerning these images.
10:53 Willem Popelier:
Back then most people online used the term 'selfshot'. The term has gotten 'pornofied' and when you search for it now, on Tumblr for instance, you'll find mostly pornographic material. It's also interesting to see that the term 'selfie' now is appropriated for images that are objectifying, or even pornographic, as with the images of fashion label American Apparel.
11:25 Willem Popelier:
When collecting and working on 'selfshot' images, I was wondering what the gender aspect was. The sexual poses that were made in front of mirrors, were quite typical. Were they typical female or male poses though? I came up with a sketch for a work that never saw the light of day, bearing the working title 'Mirrors'.
Willem Popelier, from the series Mirrors (working title), 2010.
14:35 Karin Bareman: @daria @willem @suzan
What sprang to mind is an article I read long ago, called 'Pornography, Ethnography and the Discourses of Power'. The main point is that the ethnographic gaze of the anthropologist is similar to the pornographic gaze.
14:37 Suzan Geldhoff: @karinb
Still very relevant, unavoidably brings us to the white male gaze.
14:37 Karin Bareman:
The gaze of the white knights of the internet looking at selfies on the internet and fat-shaming them, the girls taking back agency, the schools and by extension the state interfering with consensual sexting and having a moral and legal opinion on the whole thing… I definitely think that power and purity and danger of girls is especially something at play, but I haven't yet figured out how exactly.
14:43 Karin Bareman: @all
I find the whole legal discourse interesting as well. The internet and social media present so many challenges, legally speaking, and developments are happening so quickly that the law struggles to keep up. Often there are no legal precedents for these instances. So it all comes down to a moral judgment, for example with the teenagers prosecuted as criminals as well as being the victims.
14:51 Karin Bareman: @willem
I presume you're familiar with the work of Evan Baden? He had models re-enact girls taking selfies. I don't find the work particularly interesting visually, but if my memory serves me right, it only contained girls. I know we figured out that the vast majority of selfies are taken by young white women, but still, where is the critical attention on the guys? I also really like that you question whether poses are male or female, the mirror project is really fascinating in that regard.
Evan Baden, from the series 'Technically Intimate', 2008-2010.
13:45 Daria Tuminas: @karinb
Thank you for bringing up 'Pornography, Ethnography and the Discourses of Power!' It definitely needs and update to current realities – it was published in 1989 and it raises many important questions, but what I found applicable to the discussion about the sexy selfies in particular is this:
QUOTE from 'Paradoxical qualities of porno', in Christian Hansen, Catherine Needham, Bill Nichols, 'Skin Flicks: Pornography, Ethnography, and the Discourse of Power', Discourse, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1989, pp. 64-79, Wayne State University Press.
13:46 Daria Tuminas:
The idea of never being pleased entirely and the perpetuation of the conditions of desire.
14:04 Daria Tuminas:
In that article the men are the ones who look at and use a female body etc. All that gaze stuff. What I find interesting is that in porn there is indeed almost no male body, and definitely not the face. Only the Phallus (see aforementioned article). While selfies, the ones @willem published here, do show the body. In porn movies the director or producers are the ones who reproduce the same pattern over and over again. These naked male selfies contradict the porn tradition: hello, the male body can also be the object of a gaze (male, female or their own?).
About your story that some people think you're gay based on the project. If one makes selfies and shows the body, one is literally opening our eyes to the male body. We're used to the concept of the gaze that is only directed at the female body. And that's where the confusion maybe happens? And where do the similarities in poses come from? From the body language vocabulary we know is a body exposed to the gaze? And is it thus a female vocabulary? But of course it's much more complex.
18:07 Willem Popelier: @daria
My art students (mostly female) make lots of nudes, and often only of women. When I ask why they don't make nudes of men, they always say that the naked form of men is less beautiful. Then I always ask if they're straight or gay (most of them are straight), to question why they think the female body is more beautiful when practicing a profession (photography) and the male body is only beautiful in private time. (It sounds quite crude but I hope you understand my point.) I think this has to do with the 'training of the male gaze' via images in society, with everyone, including women. And, indeed, it's of course much more complex.
16:11 Daria Tuminas
Could you compare a random selfie maker with artists who produce many self-portraits, but who also pay attention to other themes? Aren't selfies despotic in the sense that they prevent you from producing something else rather than a selfie? Does a selfie maker leave out other visual experiences or ways of image production or ways of looking at reality and at photography making? How often do selfie makers get attracted to the photographic process itself and become art or documentary photographers? Or do they perhaps get less interested in photography, and more in something else. In short: could Rembrandt have become a Kim Kardashian if he had had a smartphone – just because the selfie blocks one from seeing differently than seeing through the 'selfie-glass'?
12:48 Karin Bareman @daria:
Do you really think there is such a distinction between artists making self-portraits and selfie makers? Simply because they engage with other genres? I'm sure that even the most respected and established photographers we know of make selfies too. Partially because it's a little addictive, partially because you want to share experiences with others, and partially – in the case of the artists – because most of us want to know who is the person behind the art. In that sense it can almost be used as a marketing tool. I think it's more about which channels you use. Selfies are made mostly to be uploaded to social media, but other genres less so. Then, again, I can imagine Richard Prince coming up with a selfie exhibition where he sells his selfies for ridiculous sums. He's already got an Instagram account and the project…
And by making that distinction don't we elevate the artist a little too much to the tortured hero status? Just thinking out loud…
18:37 Daria Tuminas @karinbareman:
Selfie versus self-portrait. I neither said these are different nor that they're the same )) But maybe now is a good time to talk about this issue. Is a selfie the same as a self-portrait? This question reminds me of another one: Is digital photography also photography? The discussion started immediately after the public release of digital photography. In 'The Reconfigured Eye' (1992), theorist William J. Mitchell talks about the post-photographic era. And Jacques Clyssen, in 'Digital (R)evolution" (1995), proposes new terms, such as damp pictures (silver-based photography) and dry pictures (referring to the magnetic base of electronic or computerised photos). The story continues with para-, trans-, and extra-photographies. The point is to figure out how digital photography differs from analogue. Different theories discussed the technical differences, ways of distribution, how manipulation got easier, the shorter production time, among other things. The boom of book studies bearing titles like 'After Photography' or 'Is Photography Over?', conferences and exhibitions show that for some reason people want to 'invent' a new paradigm. It's important to note that no new term arrived from the users' side. Nobody talks about 'dry pictures', even experts don't. Yet, it's all photography still.
What about selfies?
On the one hand, we may claim: Yes, it's a good old self-portrait. Democratised. And just as with the digital versus analogue debate, we could discuss how the genre got changed by technical aspects. How did the possibilities for distribution change? What's the difference between an artist working on a series of self-portraits, an artist doing selfies, and a vernacular selfie-maker? (Without making a hero figure of the artist, we can admit that there are artistic and vernacular practices and they're not the same.) On the other hand, what distinguishes a selfie story from the story of digital photography is that the phenomenon has a name. Selfie is a separate term. And it came from users, not from theorists. The new term announces and confirms the arrival of a new phenomenon. We're totally free to say: it's a different thing than a self-portrait. No wonder the word itself has been celebrated in different countries. That doesn't happen every day. On a side note: there are no 'landscapies' or 'still-lifies'.
Selfies are rooted in vernacular photography. In that sense a selfie maybe doesn't inherit from the tradition of the self-portrait, which is completely artistic. Maybe it's us who want to place selfies in an art-historical context, because the word reminds us of the term 'self-portrait' and because the subject is "oneself in an image". The roots of selfies may come from a completely different place than the artistic genre.
Thinkers tried to say: digital photography is not photography. Now we try to say: a selfie is a self-portrait. Why don't we accept it being a different thing? This time it actually can be true, without speculative headings like 'self-portraits are dead'. I wonder if it's perhaps our mistrust of the selfie? Maybe its 'non-seriousness' makes us want to connect it to something 'serious' – like the respectable tradition of the self-portrait.
19:09 Suzan Geldhoff @daria:
I like the observation of selfies coming from vernacular photography and artist's self-portraits from art photography. I do think that they're wildly different (historically), yet of course there's also a grey area of artistic selfies where these two intentions overlap.
19:15 Daria Tuminas:
Here's a strong point, from the essay 'What's the Difference between a Selfie and a Self-Portrait?' by Alli Burness, founder of the Museum Selfies tumblr: "Art historian James Hall notes the term 'self-portrait' only came into common practice during the early twentieth century, with "the traditional 'Portrait of the Artist' and 'Portrait by/of Himself'" being preferred terms until that time. Which leads one to wonder whether it is anachronistic to refer to Rembrandt's self-representational images as 'self-portraits'?"
19:17 Suzan Geldhoff @daria:
Interesting info on the self-portrait term! I had not realised before that this too is a relatively young term!
19:27 Daria Tuminas @suzan:
In discussing selfie versus self-portrait it's important to keep in mind that these are just terms that have their own history. In a way it's funny that it took self-portraiture so long to being shaped into it's own genre. In Hall's book we also read: "[…] It is in the Christian Middle Ages […] that we see the start of a coherent tradition of self-portraiture". While for selfies it took about what? A few years? And again: definition by experts versus definition by users.
18:00 Willem Popelier @daria
One can indeed wonder whether it's anachronistic to refer to Rembrandt's self-representational images as 'self-portraits'. It's even more anachronistic (and in my view stupid) to have an exhibition called "Dutch Self-Portraits – Selfies from the Golden Age" (Mauritshuis, The Hague, 8 October 2015 – 3 January 2016).
23:20 Karin Bareman @daria
You raise an interesting point with regards to the dry and damp pictures and their analogy with digital and analogue photography. But there is actually one distinction that did enter the discourse: the wet darkroom and the digital darkroom… and didn't Stephen Mayes write an article recently in which he states that digital photography is a different art form? But I guess that ties in with your point that it's also a way to attract attention.
23:22 @daria
But wouldn't you say that vernacular photography feeds into art photography and vice versa? Think of Lee Friedlander for example.
23:23 @daria
And, in the same vein, doesn't the tradition of the self-portrait feed into the selfie on a subconscious level? And the other way around?
21:43 Suzan Geldhoff
Here's an example where the lines between selfie and self-portrait are very blurry. It's a work by Zeynep Beler from 2014: http://jahjoma.tumblr.com/post/126500458883/jahjoma-selfie-portrait-oil-on-canvas
I think it's pretty interesting since it combines mirror selfie, selfie in general and self-portrait. And all without revealing her (facial) identity. And the juxtaposition of a more classic medium with such a hyper-contemporary subject, that we're not used to seeing in this medium, makes it really vibrant I think.
15:33 Daria Tuminas @karinbareman:
You suggest that vernacular photography feeds into art photography and vice versa and that the tradition of the self-portrait potentially feeds into the selfie on a subconscious level. My question would be: Is there empirical evidence? We can easily trace how the vernacular is being appropriated and reflected on by art: artists talk about it outspokenly and then there are the works themselves. But how can we traces the influences from art and self-portrait to the vernacular and the selfie? Selfie-makers and mass audiences aren't as outspoken. Besides, many people simply never go to museums and aren't interested in art history. And if you do go to a museum or look at art online, you have to be very focussed on finding self-portraits so to become influenced by them. The history of self-portraiture isn't the hottest subject in the media. It's symptomatic that the book 'The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History' by James Hall, published by Thames & Hudson, a publishing house aimed at a wide audience, appeared only in 2014, quite late for selfie-makers to be influenced by it. Well, maybe there are some influences now, but again – how can we trace it? So, I don't see how self-portraiture feeds into selfies. Besides: what is a self-portrait? Rembrandt or Jeff Koons? Gilbert & George? Tracey Emin? What constitutes the tradition of self-portraiture you're talking about?
15:38 @willem:
"Selfies from the Golden Age" – that sounds hilarious! Funnily, there are two questions now, leading us into a conundrum: whether a selfie could be a self-portrait and whether a self-portrait could be a selfie.
I also wonder, what is the difference between these two questions? We perceive the title of the show at the Mauritshuis as ridiculous because perhaps we feel it's about two very different concepts?
17:41 Karin Bareman @daria:
I can't provide empirical evidence for how art feeds into vernacular photography in general and selfies in particular. Frankly speaking, I'm not sure how to collect that kind of evidence. You're correct in saying that a large part of the population does not go to art museums or expresses interest in art history. However, I still believe it to be true. Art and art history inform other media such as TV, film, graphic design, fashion, advertising, and so on. We're surrounded by images all the time, and somehow subconsciously we try and make sense of it, and probably use visual conventions whilst making photographs in general and selfies in particular. Kim Kardashian is a case in point, the selfie where she photographed herself full body in the mirror in a white swimsuit whilst looking over her shoulder. The way she positions her face is identical Vermeer's famous painting 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'. I'm sure she had this painting not consciously in mind, but does that make the influence any less valid? I don't think so…
12:04 Karin Bareman
I'd like to raise a point in relation to Daria's #trueselfie subject and the astronaut's selfie in outer space where you don't see his face or body at all.
The point is: if, for the sake of argument, good portrait photography allows the viewer to glimpse the true persona of the subject portrayed, where do selfies fit in? I already thought about this for an article I wrote, for Emaho Magazine, about furries, people wearing fur suits, for fun, in their spare time. It also brings to mind an anthropological theory, by Edmund Leach, regarding communication involving masks, the stage, performance etc.1 Is the selfie a form of performance? And how does this tie into the marketing/branding aspect of the selfie? It also follows and twists something Susan Sontag had written about photographs, that they serve as proof that the programme has been carried out and that fun was had.
21:09 Daria Tuminas:
Talking about the selfie as performance, we have to distinguish the public and group selfie from the private selfie. Are both performances? And then regarding public & group selfies (for example the case discussed in the #showingandblaming thread, about a group of Arizona State University students who attended an Arizona Diamondbacks game where they took many selfies): The taking of selfies is documented, filmed or photographed by the media or others. This way it's almost like a documented performance. Something that exists as documentation, and we may not even know what the actual performance was like, or which selfies were taken.
21:10 Daria Tuminas:
Selfie-taking as performance is highly repetitive. The same thing happens over and over again.
21:17 Daria Tuminas:
Selfie-taking as a type of performance can also be compared with flash mobs – people have an agreement to do something in public space simultaneously. That's why the video showing the girls from Arizona State University went viral – they were ALL doing something AT THE SAME TIME. Does maybe any action performed by people at the same time & in the same space look weird and almost theatrical?
19:43 Karin Bareman:
While thinking about performance, I also had to think about performance pieces and performance artists. The actual art work is the performance, but most people only get to see it as documentation, in the form of film or photography. So, is performance being democratised just like portrait photography was once democratised? Moving portraiture away from the elite to the masses?
09:01 Daria Tuminas:
Democratisation of a performance? An interesting idea. So, that's a form of public behaviour in groups, very present and noticeable to others, which distracts and makes you want to see it. At the same time, the participants probably don't notice they're participating in some group action or group performance. They are locked into a phone, and from inside the group it's not recognised as spectacle.
09:04 Daria Tuminas:
Even if a number of people don't know each other (let's say they are random travellers on a train), but if they're all doing selfies, we'll recognise it as performance, something theatrical, as a spectacle.
09:11 Daria Tuminas:
How much deliberate creativity is there in group selfies? I've tried googling some artistic group selfies and failed. So, we should also be aware that the recognition of it as performance is just in the eye of the beholder, while selfie takers' behaviour may not be intended as such.
[12.10.2015] 14:13 Karin Bareman:
How much deliberate creativity is there in group selfies? I've tried googling some artistic group selfies and failed. So, we should also be aware that the recognition of it as performance is just in the eye of the beholder, while selfie takers' behaviour may not be intended as such.
[12.10.2015] 14:17 Karin Bareman:
Performance may be in the eye of the beholder and may not be deliberate, but does that make it less of a performance? It almost makes me think of the synchronised movements done by fish or herds of cattle. But I am not a biologist :-)
10:09 Daria Tuminas:
What might be democratised is not a performance but an expectation of what could be a performance. The perception of it.
11:59 Raymond Frenken @everone:
Yesterday, I read this brilliant New York Times interview with Rihanna by Miranda July.
"Suddenly Rihanna threw her hand into the air, making a peace sign. I whipped my head around and saw an older white man trying to sneak a photo of her by taking a selfie — a selfie that was in fact an 'otherie'. She was smiling but I felt annoyed on her behalf and held up my middle finger. That'll show 'em. ''I'm so sorry,'' the man said. His whole table of people eating shrimp cocktail looked mortified. ''I've never done anything like that.'' ''It's O.K.,'' she reassured him. ''You're lucky I wasn't eating, 'cause that would have been an ugly picture.''
Read more: http://t.co/w3mtpEdiJO
The selfie-taking dude is pop music reporter Joe Coscarelli, https://twitter.com/joecoscarelli
His selfie with Miranda July & Rihanna:
13:15 Suzan Geldhoff
I like it that the act of the selfie as performance really shines through here in Rihanna's reply. (Miranda July's reaction, I think, is more emotionally driven and not so much choreographed.)
18:21 Daria Tuminas
Miranda's reaction is not pure emotion. I'd suggest it being a meta-performance, an action that reflects on the situation. Rihanna perhaps plays a role, while Miranda is able to see the picture from the side, imagining how the peace gesture and the middle finger compose a controversial image if seen together. She may have been annoyed as she was writing, but there was a clear intention – to get into the image with a particular message, considering every condition and every 'player'.
15:18 Daria Tuminas
When talking about performance, we should not forget about this story: http://time.com/3982506/immigrant-instagram-migrant-journey-abdou-diouf/ :
"An Instagram account that purported to show the tribulations of a Senegalese migrant embarking on an illegal journey to Spain turned out to be a campaign set-up to promote a photography festival. Launched a week ago, the account claimed to show how "Abdou Diouf" left his native Dakar in Senegal to find a better life in Europe. The pictures – all self-portraits – showed Diouf at various stages of his "trip"… The account went viral this weekend after the Huffington Post wrote about Diouf's journey. However, as international attention turned to Diouf's mysterious postings and his use of popular, yet unrelated hashtags, the account was revealed as fake."
15:23 Daria Tuminas
It's proper acting + constructing a story of a 'migrant' + playing with the viewer's expectation that a selfie is inherently 'truthful', shot at the spot. Manipulation with filters may be part of the game, the manipulation of the story is not. It reminds me of the discussion about photography and it's 'truthfulness' in the early stage of theoretical reflection about the medium.
15:36 Daria Tuminas
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) – 'Daguerreotype': "The Daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process which gives her [Nature] the power to reproduce herself".
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) – 'The Pencil of Nature': "The plates of the present work are impressed by the agency of Light alone, without any aid whatever from the artist's pencil. They are the sun-pictures themselves, and not, as some persons have imagined, engravings in imitation".
The fact that photography allowed for the mechanical reproduction of reality (as opposed to manual) completely blew the minds of all thinkers who up to the early 1990s connected the nature of photography to its 'innate honesty'. It's a myth, of course, but carefully created, cherished, and supported throughout the history of critical thinking about photography. Thanks to the brilliant metaphors crafted by the pioneers of photography, the medium was perceived as Nature reproducing herself, as 'sun-pictures'. There was an immense trust in the medium. And now something similar seems to happen with the selfie – it's so vernacular and democratic that we tend to forget it can be used for different purposes. We've already learned how to distrust advertisement photography, art and, finally, documentary. But do we still unconsciously put belief in the selfie? The 'Migrant Journey' is build upon this trust.
12:30 Karin Bareman @raymondfrenken
I really liked the fact that Rihanna totally photo bombed this man's selfie. Is it a selfie? Is it a portrait of Rihanna? Can we speak of a hyper-awareness of Rihanna regarding her own portrayal? Is it like a meta-performance? Can we see photo bombing as a form of performance? Almost like a phenomenon of #antiselfie?
12:42 Karin Bareman @daria
Regarding the fake Instagram account of the migrant which was presented as real by the Huffington Post: there are so many issues at play, that we can almost have a field day. Remember that I recommended looking at Nick Davies' book 'Flat Earth News'?
This is a book by a journalist who did journalistic research into journalism itself. In a beautiful way he describes how journalism is deteriorating, because there are no more local reporters on the beat covering newsworthy events. So, there's no more fact checking, no news is found anymore from the bottom up. All you get is churnalism and clickbait. This particular story is a perfect example. It looks good and interesting, the Huffington Post falls for it and forgets about fact checking. Other news outlets follow suit, until someone finally does the digging that should have been done by these media in the first place. But there's also the aspect of photographs being conveyors of truth. We were also saying about selfies that they get mostly taken to show that the programme was executed and fun was had (Sontag), but here it's flipped around. By showing himself as part of the journey, "Abdou Diouf" proves he was there and lived through it. Even when fake. The use of 'selfies' makes it seem more authentic than, for example, your average photo-documentary about migration (excuse us Ad van Denderen). People can identify with selfies on a personal level. And I'm probably still missing out on a million other levels carried by this story.
17:29 Daria Tuminas
This case is about a person who documented a performance while he also became part of it. We know about many selfies just because somebody was there documenting the process of the selfie-making, while we don't get to see the selfies themselves.
17:38 Daria Tuminas
The continuation of our discussion about performance must be a deliberate action. Perhaps not, but I tried to point out what it is that we expect from a performance in the public domain. We are trained by numerous happenings, flash mobs, pranks etc. So, regardless of intention, one could regard them as a group of performers.


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Jan 12, 2017 | Atlanta, GA
The surface lot (W31) that serves the Paper Tricentennial Building has been reconfigured to include new vehicle access from 9th Street. This change is intended to better integrate the lot into the larger GT parking system, providing access to buildings and dormitories to the south. With this change comes additional security and safety concerns for the lot. As such, GTPD and PTS will be making the following operational changes. Please note these changes reflect input from the PTB community.
Starting Spring Semester, January 9, 2017
1. The sliding vehicular gate on 10th Street will be closed from 6pm to 6am. During this time all vehicles will enter and exit the lot via 9th Street. There will be no vehicular access on 10th Street (Access for groups can be pre-arranged through Parking and Transportation Services). Signage will be located on the gate informing customers of the time restrictions.
2. The pedestrian entrance on 10th Street will be restricted access from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. During this time, pedestrian access will be restricted to the RBI receptionist and BuzzCard holders only. The gate will remain open 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays. Signage will be located on the gate informing customers of the time restrictions.
3. Both the vehicular and pedestrian gates will remain closed on weekends and Institute holidays.
4. An additional ADA parking space will be located inside the parking lot between the pedestrian gate and 10th Street.
5. The spaces near the fountain will be visitor parking ONLY with a two-hour time limit. The spaces inside the gate will be shared between permit holders and visitors and there will be no time limit. The following visitor fee schedule for FY2017 will be:
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Summer/Fall Semester 2017
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text: I guess it can generally apply to anywhere I see my work interfere with my personal life when I do not ask for it. If someone tries to sell me on something at a store I usually listen to the pitch and wait for the close and see how good they are, it sucks for them cause all I do is judge. But that is not what is interfering with my personal life, because I am putting myself in a situation to be sold in. One place I hate to see marketing: Facebook! My personal page is so locked down, no fan pages, no groups, all privacy settings to the max. Facebook is my generation, I was a freshman at college (5 years ago) when it first appeared, and got my account not knowing what it was. It has and will increasingly become an integral part of a newer generations life. It has connected parties statewide, made events huge (Anyone go to Floatopia 2009 or heard of it? If you were there I want to talk to you. I had something to do with that, a large part, and the event was a grass root, viral Facebook event out of control. 12k people on the beach. One nice party) Saying that, it is a huge venue for making money and thankfully I haven't joined any of your BS groups but I know my friends are cause I see it on the right hand side and explore them only to see them obvious fabricated pages. No, I do not report them. I hope IM'rs don't turn it into another annoying Myspace and I know the fraud team at FBook is stricter but us IM'rs have a way to manipulate the system. So, not hating on anyone but thats one place I am untouchable (unlike when I post on CL personally) and plan to keep it that way. Also, Skype. That is one place I will say it. F YOU IF YOU TRY TO SPAM IM ME OVER SKYPE! And yes, this is the pot calling the kettle black


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The U.S. of O.
The Obama cult is back!
Yesterday we had some fun at the expense of the Obama campaign's latest effort to attract voters whose age and IQ are both in the 18 to 29 range. The campaign instructed its followers to write messages on their right hands then upload to Facebook or Twitter photos of themselves pledging allegiance to the Dear Leader. The hashtag, #forall, echoes the final words of the real Pledge of Allegiance.
Seeing this in action, it's creepier than we first realized. National Review's Daniel Foster highlights a photo of campaign manager Jim Messina with writing on both his hands: "Obama" on the left, "Care" on the right, positioned so you read them in that order. The smile on his face is terrifying; he looks like somebody who shouldn't be allowed near the immature people for whom the campaign is meant.
The Washington Examiner notes that actress Jessica Alba, in a campaign email, makes it explicitly a pledge of allegiance to Obama:
"Growing up, my classmates and I started every day with a ritual: We'd stand up, put our right hand over our hearts, and say the Pledge of Allegiance," explains Alba. "To me, that gesture was a promise. A promise to be involved and engaged in this country's future. A promise to work for liberty and justice--and for affordable education, health care, and equality--for all."
Along similar lines, blogger Jeryl Bier calls attention to a tweet from @BarackObama, the campaign account, promoting "a poster to say there are no red states or blue states, only the United States." That's a line from then-state Sen. Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention.
Click on the link and you end up on a page at Store.BarackObama.com, which offers prints of four campaign artworks. Two of them, titled "Our Stripes," are a parody of the American flag. The red and white stripes are shown as streaks of paint, which strikes us as inoffensive artistic license. But the blue field with 50 white stars is replaced with the "O" campaign logo. It's not the United States of America anymore, but the United States of Obama.
Bier also observes that the Obama parody flag has only nine stripes: "I wonder which of the four original colonies went for McCain in 2008?" But if you construe the white spaces above and below the "flag" as stripes, that brings the total to 11, which would fit with excluding Georgia and South Carolina. No red states indeed.
It seems we have a president who thinks the national symbol is the bald ego. Bier notes that the campaign previously used the "no red states, no blue states" slogan on Twitter, to promote a T-shirt. It shows a colorful map of the 48 contiguous states--well, of some of the 48 contiguous states. Obama's face blocks Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and South Dakota; almost all of Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota and North Dakota; about half of New Mexico, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming; and the southeast corner of Montana. If his head gets much bigger, it will eclipse the entire country.
Bush League Journalism
The writer formerly known as Wonkette has a piece in London's Guardian rehearsing the familiar argument that it's racist to require photo ID to vote. But she does come up with one novel analogy:
Asking Americans if they support measures against voter fraud is like asking if they support measures against adults suiting up for Little League baseball. The problem is that there are probably more cheaters in baseball than voting: a recent analysis found cases of alleged voter fraud running about one for every 16,000 voters. What's more, voter ID laws work in such a way that a no-adults-in-Little-League equivalent would ban not just grownups from playing, but also anyone who looked adult-ish and didn't show up for practice with documentary evidence of minor status.
This is odd for a couple of reasons. Most obviously, it's entirely incomprehensible to people in the United Kingdom. Baseball is an American invention, which has spread to Asia and Latin America. But the British have never heard of the sport, much less of Little League.
What's more, if you check the official Little League rules, it turns out players are required to present at least three forms of identification to prove both age and residency. When will Eric Holder investigate this terrible injustice?
Hey, Maybe That Was Terrorism After All
"Intelligence sources tell Fox News they are convinced the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was directly tied to Al Qaeda--with a former Guantanamo detainee involved," the network's website reports:
That revelation comes on the same day a top Obama administration official called last week's deadly assault a "terrorist attack"--the first time the attack has been described that way by the administration after claims it had been a "spontaneous" act.
Good for them, we guess, for figuring out the obvious in less than a week and a half. More interesting is that according to Fox's sources, "Sufyan Ben Qumu is thought to have been involved and even may have led the attack":
Qumu, a Libyan, was released from the U.S. prison [sic] at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2007 and transferred into Libyan custody on the condition he be kept in jail. He was released by the Qaddafi regime as part of its reconciliation effort with Islamists in 2008.
Breitbart.com notes that in April 2011 the New York Times reported that Qumu was "now an ally of sorts":
Today, Mr. Qumu, 51, is a notable figure in the Libyan rebels' fight to oust Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, reportedly a leader of a ragtag band of fighters known as the Darnah Brigade for his birthplace, this shabby port town of 100,000 people in northeast Libya. . . .
Qaddafi has cited claims about Mr. Qumu's past in statements blaming Al Qaeda for the entire Libyan uprising. American officials have nervously noted the presence of at least a few former militants in the rebels' ranks.
Alliances can shift quickly in such a treacherous part of the world. In his time, too, Gadhafi (as we spell his name) was both an enemy of America and "an ally of sorts"; the Times piece notes that in the middle of the preceding decade, "the United States was working closely with Colonel Qaddafi's intelligence service against terrorism," even though Gadhafi had instigated terrorist attacks against U.S. targets earlier.
It was the Bush administration that released Qumu, but the news that he might have been behind the attack underscores why the Obama administration was so eager to deny that this was a planned act of terror: because it calls attention to its own failure to provide adequate security to U.S. diplomatic personnel assigned to a dangerous place.
- "In 2009, President Obama wisely sought rapprochement with Muslims. Speaking in Cairo, he endorsed an approach of mutual respect and promised that, while he would never hesitate to confront extremism, America never would be at war with Islam. He also challenged Muslims to establish elected, peaceful governments that respect all their people. Few would have predicted then how many Arab nations would now be struggling to meet that standard."--editorial, New York,Times, Sept. 20
- "Mitt Romney and the Republicans . . . haven't gotten the message that Washington cannot, and should not, try to impose its will on the fragile Arab democracies."--same editorial
Have the Chicoms Gone Soft?
NPR reports that the Chinese are objecting to an artwork in America's Pacific Northwest:
The mural in downtown Corvallis, Ore., is big: 10 feet high and 100 feet long. One side shows a peaceful countryside setting in rural Taiwan. The other shows police beating protesters in Tibet and a Buddhist monk setting himself ablaze in protest.
"You burn yourself to death. Painful. And we cannot ignore that," says David Lin, the Corvallis businessman who commissioned the mural. Human rights groups say more than 50 people, many of them monks, have self-immolated over the past three years.
The Chinese consulate in San Francisco sent a pointed letter to Corvallis' mayor insisting the mural be removed before it "tainted" U.S.-China relations.
The mayor, Julie Manning, wrote back that "the mural reflects protected speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution" and later took a "cordial" meeting with consular officials, in which she made clear that "she couldn't order the painting destroyed and she wouldn't even if she could."
The NPR piece is entirely sympathetic to the muralist, and it makes the Chinese officials look heavy-handed and foolish. Perhaps if they staged a riot, they'd get more respectful treatment from America's cultural and political elite.
Non Sequitur of the Day
"If President Obama wanted a 'government-centered nation,' the stock market wouldn't have doubled."--E.J. Dionne, Washington Post, Sept. 20
Two Reichs in One!
- "Why Romney and Ryan Are Going Down"--headline, RobertReich.org, Sept. 16
- "Four Reasons Why Romney Might Still Win"--headline, RobertReich.org, Sept. 20
Homer Nods
The Internal Revenue Service limits the deduction for charitable contributions to a maximum of 50%. Thus, contrary to an item yesterday, it would be impossible for a high-income taxpayer to reduce his tax liability to zero through charitable contributions alone.
Out on a Limb
- "Trying to figure out where the presidential race might be at present is total guesswork, based on data that don't correlate and are being gathered according to suspect means. So here's mine: Obama is ahead and Romney is behind. But not by much, and within the margin of error."--John Podhoretz, Commentary website, Sept. 19
- "Can Romney Still Win? Of course--Just Not the Way Things Are Going"--headline, Yahoo! News, Sept. 20
We Blame George W. Bush
"Tom Latham Blames Eric Cantor on Farm Bill"--headline, Politico.com, Sept. 19
Another Show of Weakness From the Obama Administration
"State Department: No Secret Plan to Invade Canada"--headline, NBCNews.com, Sept. 19
Alternate Titles for '4'33" '
"The Siren Song of American Imperialism"--headline, Puffington Host, Sept. 20
The Second Draft of History
- "Stinking Up Wall Street: Protesters Accused of Living in Filth as Shocking Pictures Show One Demonstrator Defecating on a POLICE CAR"--headline, Daily Mail (London), Oct. 9, 2011
- "Occupy: A Movement That Didn't Satisfy"--headline, Puffington Host, Sept. 19, 2012
To Serve Man
"Stabbing Survivor Grilled by Man Accused of Stabbing Him, Strangling Mom"--headline, "Good Morning America" website, Sept. 18
Goldilocks' Revenge
"3 Bears Killed in Separate Crashes"--headline, Times Union (Albany, N.Y.), Sept. 20
Hey, Kids! What Time Is It?
- "Time for Patriotic (Liberal) Millionaires to Belly Up to the Buffet"--headline, LegalInsurrection.com, Sept. 19
- "Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road"--headline, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 20
Questions Nobody Is Asking
- "Is Sleep Deprivation the Reason the Romney Campaign Is Blowing It?"--headline, Puffington Host, Sept. 19
- "Goats--Minneapolis' Latest Weapon in War on Buckthorn?"--headline, Star Tribune, Sept. 19
- "Which 2-0 team is the real deal, #Eagles or #Cardinals?"--tweet, @ESPNStatsinfo, Sept. 19
Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking
"Yes, We Still Need a Women's Movement--for the Sake of Everybody"--headline, Puffington Host, Sept. 19
Breaking News From 1912
"McCain 'Outraged' by Teddy's Losing Streak"--headline, Politico.com, Sept. 19
Breaking News From 1950
"Segregation Prominent in Schools, Study Finds"--headline, New York Times, Sept. 20
Breaking News From 1998
"Monica Lewinsky Ready to Reveal Clinton Sex Secrets"--headline, FoxNews.com, Sept. 20
Bottom Stories of the Day
- "High Rents Hitting Middle-Class New Yorkers"--headline, Crain's New York Business, Sept. 19
- "Former Teamsters Face Racketeering, Extortion Charges"--headline, Boston Herald, Sept. 19
- "Microsoft Fixing Security Bug in Internet Explorer"--headline, Associated Press, Sept. 19
- "Canadian Poetry's Unlikely Renaissance"--headline, Globe and Mail (Toronto), Sept. 20
Chronic Affluenza
Wealth is a sickness, argues palindromic Kansas City Star columnist Lewis Diuguid, citing "a decades-old article by Philip Slater in Quest magazine":
Slater wrote that rich people are hopelessly addicted to their own wealth.
Not only that, but most other Americans are enablers. Slater calls them "closet addicts." They seek to join what the Occupy Movement derides as the 1 percenters.
"Money, like heroin or cigarettes, is certainly an addiction, and one to which few of us are altogether immune," Slater said.
It's why the Republican-controlled House and the timid Senate have opposed President Barack Obama's efforts to raise tax rates on people making more than $200,000 a year. Obama has been labeled a socialist for wanting them to pay their "fair share" in a nation with a wealth addiction, starting with the first Europeans landing in the Americas 520 years ago.
OK, three points: First, if wealth is a sickness, aren't progressive tax rates a form of invidious discrimination against the handicapped?
Second, why should we care about poor people who don't have medical insurance? They're the least likely to be affected by this dread disease.
Third, it stands to reason that the cure for the disease that is wealth is poverty. By this measure, the Obama administration has to be considered a great success.
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A United Eurasia: the Globalist Elites' Worst Nightmare
from The Wealth Watchman
The Emerging Alliance
My brothers, I've tried to lay out many articles here at the "Truth HQ", which deal with the strategy and importance of the "Eastern Bloc", those countries that have arisen to stand tall against the banking beast of the West. Their membership is growing more numerous by the day, and their accomplishments, in such a short space of time, have done humanity such a great service, by breaking the U.S./U.K. stranglehold on both the financial system, and on the world military scene.
This strategy of theirs is nuanced, and highly-organized, encompassing several continents, numerous currencies, and which is blending needed solutions that have a foot in the political, as well as the economic, and cultural. The BRICS, as we have seen, is one of the main arms of this new Eastern geopolitical alliance.
The BRICS, though formed less than a decade ago, are already changing the world and changing the course of history, for the better. Yet, the globalist Western powers are not taking this new challenge lying down!
Schemers Gonna Scheme!
The City of London, and DC, are constantly scheming, constantly fomenting wars, coups, hatching terror plots, all in order to divide and conquer the East. Spreading division and death, is more than a hobby for them, it's a passion! It's a way of life! In the grand scheme though, not all the servants of the dark powers have had equal standing. Some schemers are, "gifted", shall we say? They're touched by an extra, special, evil intelligence, and thusly, have become more indispensable to elite than others.
Take, for instance, this low-life servant of the bankster Dark Lords:
Brothers, you know that old phrase, "you can't judge a book by its cover"?
You do? Oh, good! Scrap it!
Because if you're thinking:
"Whoa Watchman, that guy looks like he'd drown a baby kitten with his bare hands, just for the thrill of it!",
You'd be absolutely, dead-on right!
Some people you can read, just by looking through their eyes, into the window of their soul. He's one of them. As this man's soul is surely, a vapid, desolate wasteland, tortured with thoughts of hate, fear, envy, and murder.
His name is Zbigniew Brzezinski(pronounced Bruh-zin-skee), and his hilarious vocational description of "politician, critic" on wikipedia is….erm, somewhat misleading.
A more apt vocational description of his hidden talents might include a laundry list of traits, like: Terrorist Mastermind, Extortionist, Trustee and Founder of the Trilateral Commission, War-monger Extraordinaire, Torture and Deep State Apologist, Expert Liar, and just an all-around, Irredeemable, Shadow Government puppeteer!
In fact, this dude has been livin' the "Thug Life", since the days you were in your PJ's, watching Saturday morning cartoons! Come to think of it, you probably saw a pretty close caricature of him in those cartoons too, if you watched RoadRunner shorts growing up.
For just like Wile E. Coyote, ever the schemer, and self-proclaimed, "super genius", this man eats, drinks, breaths, and sleeps one thing: carving up and eating the RoadRunner!
Except for him, the RoadRunner, which he lives to destroy, is Russia!
The Bird he wants to dominate is the Eastern Bloc!
And the fledgling dream he seeks to strangle in its baby crib…..is a united Eurasia!
Yes, "Wile E. Brzezinski" has a serious "tick" in his gears upstairs, for just as the Coyote in the old cartoons couldn't seem to shake his RoadRunner obsession, no matter what he did, or where he was…
Brzezinski's tortured soul dreams about dominating and destroying Eurasian sovereignty. It is literally all. he. thinks. about…morning, noon, and night!
A Life of Organized Crime
This guy is one of the most wicked, maniacal monsters planet earth has to offer! We're talking high-octane evil! He's spent literally decades of his life, scheming and trying to formulate the best, strategic way, that the two-headed Western banking Dragon can sow chaos, discord and disunity among the peoples of the East.
Except, whereas the Coyote used things, like:
Acme Anvils
Or Wing Suits….to obtain his prey.
"Wile E. Brzezinski"prefers using more…"nuanced" forms of engagement, like Acme political coups, false flags, and wars!
Wholesome, feel-good things like that sure make this crafty, old coot smile up a storm! See?
For example, ya know how the modern "Madrasa Movement" sprang up in the 80's in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which reoriented and radicalized many in the Islamic world, directly contributing to the worldwide terror threat from swell organizations such as ISIS, Al-Nusra, or Al-Qaeda in the Islamic world today?
Yeah…that was totally ole "Wile E. Brzezinski's" idea! Here he is, training Mujahideen fighters, telling them about the "justness" of their cause. Presh!
In fact, the man brags about it openly, as if he was showing you a picture of his grandson! His creation of a modern, revived, radical Islamic movement is the shiny, "1st Place" Tee-ball trophy on his mantle, a precious family heirloom!
Not only that, but he actively helped lure the Soviet Union into Afghanistan, hoping that war would break out, and he was thrilled when it did! He wanted to mire down the Soviets in an unwinnable war(never mind that the war cost millions of actual lives!), in order to establish his masters in the City of London and DC, as the unrivaled superpower on earth.
Please understand, it wasn't communism that he and his globalist masters hated! Indeed, the globalists have taken many pages from the play books of fascism and communism. The banksters don't hate tyranny, after all, that's their bread and butter! No, they hate the thought of someone running a criminal enterprise which they themselves don't run from the top. That's all the Cold War was about: removing a competitor, not freeing the world.
From hatching illegal operations like Operation Gladio, or Operation Gladio 2, to hyping up false flags, to lighting the geopolitical tinderbox, in the hopes of starting a New Cold War, this man's very existence has been to drum up conflict on false pretenses, while pretending he wants peace! All with the intent of removing 'up-and-coming' challengers to his beloved "New World Order"(which is really just the same, old bankster Order that the world has known for several centuries now).
But just when you thought, "geez, this man couldn't possibly get any more cuddly!"….let me tell you that he also absolutely adores the police, torture, and surveillance state, too! He's been one of the premiere defenders of the NSA's blanket spying of planet earth! In fact, he recently called Edward Snowden an "objective traitor", and when asked whether or not civil liberties had been hurt in the United States by the NSA's activities, his response was:
"I doubt that civil liberties in any significant fashion, have been compromised."
Yes, the man's lying skills are the stuff of legend, and go beyond the rookie status of "pathological". His lies are in a league of their own, because he's always "in character", and never breaks, flinches, or deviates from his pre-conceived script! His delivery is flawless! Whatever it takes to subdue Eurasia, is what he's already formulating his next several books and think tanks around!
Ok, Watchman, that's like half a dozen times you've mentioned this term, "Eurasia". What is Eurasia, and why the heck would folks like "Zbig" care about it?