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The Tomatoes of Wrath September 26, 2011Posted by rogerhollander in Agriculture, Human Rights, Immigration, Labor.
Tags: agricultural industry, agricultural workers, agriculture, chris hedges, ciw, collective bargaining, fair food, farmworkers, fieldworkers, florida labor, florida tomatoes, immigrant workers, immokalee, labor, labor standards, publix, roger hollander, slave labor, trader joe's, whole foods
It is 6 a.m. in the parking lot outside the La Fiesta supermarket in Immokalee, Fla. Rodrigo Ortiz, a 26-year-old farmworker, waits forlornly in the half light for work in the tomato fields. White-painted school buses with logos such as "P. Cardenas Harvesting" are slowly filling with fieldworkers. Knots of men and a few women, speaking softly in Spanish and Creole, are clustered on the asphalt or seated at a few picnic tables waiting for crew leaders to herd them onto the buses, some of which will travel two hours to fields. Roosters are crowing as the first light of dawn rises over the cacophony. Men shovel ice into 10-gallon plastic containers from an ice maker next to the supermarket, which opens at 3:30 a.m. to sell tacos and other food to the workers. The containers—which they lug to pickup trucks—provide water for the pickers in the sweltering, humid fields where temperatures soar to 90 degrees and above.
(Illustration by Mr. Fish)
Ortiz, a short man in a tattered baseball cap and soiled black pants that are too long and spill over the tops of his worn canvas sneakers, is not fortunate this day. By 7 a.m. the last buses leave without him. He heads back to the overcrowded trailer he shares with several other men. There are always workers left behind at these predawn pickup sites where hundreds congregate in the hopes of getting work. Nearly 90 percent of the workers are young, single immigrant men, and at least half lack proper documents or authorization to work in the United States.
Harvesting tomatoes is an endeavor that comes with erratic and unpredictable hours, weeks with overtime and weeks with little to do and no guarantees about wages. Once it starts to rain, workers are packed back onto the buses and sent home, their workday abruptly at an end. Ortiz and the other laborers congregate at the pickup points every morning never sure if there will be work. And when they do find daywork they are paid only for what they pick.
"I only had three days of work this week," Ortiz says mournfully. "I don't know how I will pay my rent."
Ortiz, who along with many others among these migrant workers sends about $100 home to Mexico every month to support elderly parents, works under conditions in these fields that replicates medieval serfdom and at times descends into outright slavery. He lives far below the poverty line. He has no job security, no workers' compensation, no disability insurance, no paid time off, no access to medical care, Social Security, Medicaid or food stamps and no protection from the abusive conditions in the fields. The agricultural industry has a death rate nearly six times higher than most other industries, and the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that of the 2 million farmworkers in the United States 300,000 suffer pesticide poisoning every year.
"We are standing on the threshold of achieving significant change in the agricultural industry," Marc Rodrigues, with the Student/Farmworker Alliance, tells me later in the day at the CIW office in Immokalee. "But if the supermarkets do not participate and support it then it will not go any further. Their lack of participation threatens to undermine what the workers and their allies have accomplished. They represent a tremendous amount of tomato purchasing. They wield a lot of influence over conditions in the field. For those growers not enamored of the concept of workers attaining rights and being treated with dignity, they will know that there is always a market for their tomatoes with no questions asked, where nothing is governed by a code of conduct or transparency. If we succeed, this will help lift farmworkers, who do one of the most important, dangerous and undervalued jobs in our society, out of grinding poverty into one where they can have a slightly more decent and normal life and provide for their families."
The next major mobilization in the campaign will take place at noon Oct. 21 outside Trader Joe's corporate headquarters in Monrovia, Calif. This will follow a week of local actions to target supermarkets across the country. To thwart the campaign, the public relations departments of Trader Joe's, Publix and other supermarkets are churning out lies and half truths, as well as engaging in unsettling acts of intimidation and surveillance. Publix sent out an employee posing as a documentary filmmaker to record the activities of the organizers.
"Publix has a cabal of labor relations, human relations and public relations employees who very frequently descend from corporate headquarters in Lakeland, Fla.—or one of their regional offices—and show up at our demonstrations," says Rodrigues. "They watch us with or without cameras. They constantly attempt to deflect us: If we attempt to speak to consumers or store managers these people will intercept us and try to guide us away. These people in suits and ties come up to us and refer to us by our first names—as if they know us—in a sort of bizarre, naked attempt at intimidation."
If you live in a community that has a Whole Foods, which is the only major supermarket chain to sign the agreement, shop there and send a letter to competing supermarkets telling them that you will not return as a customer until they too sign the CIW Fair Food Agreement. Details about planned protests around the country can be found on the CIW website.
Workers in the fields earn about 50 cents for picking a bucket containing 32 pounds of tomatoes. These workers make only $10,000 to $12,000 a year, much of which they send home. The $10,000-$12,000 range, because it includes the higher pay of supervisors, means the real wages of the pickers are usually less than $10,000 a year. Wages have remained stagnant since 1980. A worker must pick 2.25 tons of tomatoes to make minimum wage during one of the grueling 10-hour workdays. This is twice what they had to pick 30 years ago for the same amount of money. Most workers pick about 150 buckets a day. And these workers have been rendered powerless by law. In Florida, collective bargaining is illegal, one of the legacies of Jim Crow practices designed to keep blacks poor and disempowered. Today the ban on collective bargaining serves the same purpose in thwarting the organizing efforts of the some 30,000 Hispanic, Mayan and Haitian agricultural laborers who plant and harvest 30,000 acres of tomatoes.
The CIW, which organized a nationwide boycott in 2001 against Taco Bell, forced several major fast food chains including Yum Brands, McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, Whole Foods Market, Compass Group, Bon Appétit Management Co., Aramark and Sodexo to sign the agreement, which demands more humane labor standards from their Florida tomato suppliers and an increase of a penny per bucket. But if the major supermarkets too do not sign this agreement, growers who verbally, sexually and physically abuse workers will be able to continue selling tomatoes to the supermarkets. This could leave at least half of all the fields without protection, making uniform enforcement of the agreement throughout the fields difficult if not impossible.
"Supply chains are very opaque and secretive," says Gerardo Reyes, a farmworker and CIW staff member. "This is one of the reasons a lot of these abuses continue. The corporations can always feign that they did not know the abuses were happening or that they had any responsibility for them as long as there is no transparency or accountability."
One of the most celebrated modern cases of fieldworker slavery was uncovered in November 2007 after three workers escaped from a box truck in which they had been locked. They and 12 others had been held as slaves for two and a half years. They had to relieve themselves in a corner of the truck at night and pay five dollars if they wanted to bathe with a garden hose. They were routinely beaten. Some were chained to poles at times. During the days they worked on some of the largest farms in Florida. It was the seventh such documented case of slavery in a decade.
"As long as the supermarket industry refuses to sign this agreement it gives the growers an escape," says Reyes. "We need to bring the pressure of more buyers who will sign the agreement to protect the workers. We have gotten all of the major corporations within the fast food industry and food providers to sign this agreement. Two of the three most important buyers within the industry are on board. But if these supermarkets continue to hold out they can put all the mechanisms we have set in place for control at risk. If Wal-Mart, Trader Joe's and other supermarkets say the only criteria is buying from those growers who offer the lowest possible price then we will not be able to curb abuses. If the agreement is in place and there is another case of slavery then the growers will be put in a penalty box. If we do not have the ability to impose penalties then there will always be a way for abusive growers to sell. The agreement calls on these corporations to stop buying from growers, for example, that use slave labor. Without the agreement there is no check on these practices."
"Supermarkets, such as Trader Joe's, insist they are responsible and fair," Reyes goes on. "They use their public relations to present themselves as a good corporation. They sell this idea of fairness, this disguise. They use this more sophisticated public relations campaign, one that presents them as a friend of workers, while at the same time locking workers out of the discussion and kicking us out of the room. They want business as usual. They do not want people to question how their profits are created. We have to fight not only them but this sophisticated public relations tactic. We are on the verge of a systemic change, but corporations like Trader Joe's are using all their power to push us back."
Members and supporters of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers will march from a Trader Joe's store at 604 W. Huntington Dr. in Monrovia, Calif., to the market chain's headquarter a mile away, starting at noon Oct. 21. The farmworkers organization is demanding that Trader Joe's support the human rights of the men and women who harvest tomatoes sold in its stores. For more information, click here, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com or telephone (510) 725-8752 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (510) 725-8752 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.
Chris Hedges writes a regular column for Truthdig.com. Hedges graduated from Harvard Divinity School and was for nearly two decades a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of many books, including: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. His most recent book is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.
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Well, expecting that Aldi (a hyperconservative German family that owns Trader Joe's) will budge is kind of unrealistic, noble as it may be. Even more extremely than Whole Foods, Trader Joe's sells a feel-good lifestyle for liberals who'd rather not think too long or too hard about where their money is going.
Of course the laborers deserve to be treated fairly. But really, who in his/her right mind and with three functioning taste buds buys tomatoes from a supermarket to begin with?
Sorry Chris, this is all the price of supporting illegal immigration. Until these workers adopt the methods and restrictions of Caesar Chavez they will continue to be exploited. And there will continue to be cases of virtual slavery discovered.
How anyone can call themselves Progressive and support the exploitation of these workers is beyond understanding.
You have a point, however, buying the produce is not the same as actually supporting the business's involved and helping them exploit these poor workers. And the thing that strikes me most is remembering what Chavez said about it's not just the undocumented that suffer, it's the American worker too. Our fields are not just serviced by the undocumented, no matter what the Right say's.
But, you have a point, none the less.
Good point indeed. If we tried to consume only products produced by people who were paid American standard-of-living wages, there would be nothing. People can understand the situation and purchase responsibly as much as possible, but all that's accomplishing is salving their personal consciences — like ecologically correct consuming ("It's not my fault; I bought only green socially responsible stuff"). It won't help to have lived that way once the big crunchdown begins in earnest.
The business wing of the right wing says that they have to offsource jobs because the American workers are paid so much more than third world peasants. They say that it's because American workers are selfish (not because our way of life is barely affordable even with "living" wages) and that if we had real competitive community spirit, we'd give up all that minimum wage b.s. and enthusiastically join in on the race to the bottom, assured that because we're God-blessed Americans we'd somehow come out on top.
Two wrongs don't make a right. "Nearly 90 percent of the workers are young, single immigrant men, and at least half lack proper documents or authorization to work in the United States." I'll bet it's considerably more than 50%. The workers don't belong here. They are exploited by big and small Agra business. The tomato industry makes billions for its wealthy owners. We have to pay $2 a pound in the grocery store for tomatoes. Losers: American consumers & Illegals; Winners: Wealthy Agra Business owners
Simple solution is to grow your own. I grew cherry tomatoes this years. It was fun and easy. I'm not a gardener. I think we should be given tax credits for planting fruit trees. Zucchini is easy to grow and produces so much that the excess could be given to food banks. If the masses started to grow food big time, prices would come down. Grocery stores would not be able to charge so much.
Supporting our illegal problem is not a solution. Illegals need to fight for their rights in their own countries. If we stopped illegal immigration and tomatoes rotted in the fields and the price of ketchup skyrocketed then we would start growing our own. Local small organic farms would spring up. The price of tomatoes would go down. We would not have an illegal problem and the only losers would be those getting rich charging $2 for tomatoes.
I don't know what is worse, your suburban-bourgeois-liberal self-absorbed smugness or your complete lack of understanding understanding of basic economics.
The Mexican/central American workers worker's alternative is either to come up here for work or watch themselves and their families starve. Understand? What would YOU do if you were in their situation?
Those Mexican/Central American workers have been governed by "masters" installed and protected by higher and mightier masters in New York (and the politicians they own in Washington DC) for more than a century. Any overthrows during that time would have resulted in a subsequent US-approved master replacing the previous one.
"…most of us have more solidarity with the poor Mexican/Central American workers…"
I do not agree. I believe you're claimed solidarity is a liberal myth. Jobs, jobs, jobs are on the minds of most Americans. Illegals flood the job market and suppress wages. Jobs Americans won't do, they would do for more money. No more money is offered because 'Manuel' the laborer from south of our border will work for slave wages.
Tomatoes need to rot in fields year after year till wages and working conditions improve. It would be a form of strike that will never happen because 'Manuel' and his friends are waiting every morning at 6 am in parking lots across the south to work for slave wages. Gandhi marched to the sea and made salt. We could certainly grow a few tomatoes! (tomatoes – cook and add salt and you have ketchup; cook and add sugar you have tomato soup)
Illegal immigration needs to be dealt with. No more kicking the frijoles can down the road. I'm all for putting the no vacancy sign on the Statue of Liberty. We no longer have a western frontier to explore and settle. We need all the jobs we can get for our own children and our own ex-slaves. All liberals are not bleeding hearts.
SJRyan: You appear to be morphing into Thomas More here!
As for me, I will write that letter to Publix. There must be ten Publix supermarkets in Gainesville, and many cater to "upscale" community members. The university, added to two hospitals, seems to fuel a complex of well paid employees and the shelves at Publix all but glitter like gold. The extra penny or so is NOTHING to this operation or the vast majority who shop at Publix.
I will be writing a letter in support of this initiative.
Some in this forum are so adamant that they can only accept radical, immediate solutions. These are not likely to happen. By discarding what CAN be done, they show no respect for, nor tolerance of increments that just might make a difference in someone else's life. Sure, I'd love to see Wall Street overthrown, the covert government coup disabled, the MIC put on virtual house arrest, the tax money collected directed at matters that actually improve human lives… but in the meanwhile, maybe small acts of decency can insure that a few more might not find themselves in slavery.
I would like to point out that it is hard to do as you say when they are harnessed to NAFTA, etc. no less than our own workers.
Can we afford to subsidize business in using the undocumented? No. Should they be allowed to come here illegally. Of course not. Now that those things are out of the way, how does anyone blame someone for trying to support their family? We cannot and must not blame these exploited workers for our faults. And the fault is ours.
One question. If you were a corn farmer and your government agreed to a trade agreement (NAFTA) that put you out of the business of farming and just across the border were business's, a government and other's for political reasons that enticed you to come here illegally but offered to pay you far more than you could get at home (nada) and not to enforce their laws so you could work and they could pay you slave wages there (but to you is a high wage), what would you do?
I know exactly what I would do.
I would suggest reading Barry Estabrook's Tomatoland which talks about the terrible working conditions of the migrant farm worker and the poisons that are sprayed on the fields and by "accident" the workers themselves.
I believe that a shorter version was published in Gourmet under the title: The price of tomatoes.
I am not positive of this, but in most cases the greatest cost of doing busiess is usually employees wages… I am going to (assume) that would be true for the tomato business.
So,,, a field worker is paid (fifty cents) to pick 32 ponds of tomatoes, the same wages as they were paid in 1980… Something is very, very wrong here.
Two years ago a can of Cambell's tomato soup cost between 55 cents up to 65 cents… Now the price is more than a dollar and in some supermarkets a buck and a quarter… That steep rise is for all varieties of canned soups however…The price of all canned tomatoes, spaghetti sauses, has also about doubled in just two years.
One would think, it would be fair to have doubled the field workers wages in the past two years, or at least a fair pay hike.
Someone is makeing LOTS, tons of unfair profit… Who? __ Who really controls the price of food? __ Fuel cost is currently about the same as two years ago and a lot less than four years ago, it isn't just the cost of fuel that has raised the price of food so high.
Is it all due because they started using a FOOD crop (corn) to make ethanol, (instead of hemp), and the price of corn very quickly went way up and so then did all other food prices go way up? __ I'd like to know. why the cost of food has skyrocketed in two to three years time.. .
And Trader Joes?__ We love TJs,,, much lower prices for almost everything and a great selection of breads, spices, unusual food items, etc… Paper bags too.
As WayneWR pointed out, the price of food in the US (not just food containing tomatoes) has doubled during the past two years While wages for the workers producing the food have been flat or declining.
Note that many third world nations have seen food costs more than double during the same period.
Doubling the cost of food in the US is the result of several factors, including the following:
Skyrocketing medical insurance costs for the workers producing, processing, transporting and selling food.
Serial regressive Federal Reserve monetary policy combined with unregulated speculation of the commodities (including fossil fuel) needed to produce, process, and transport food.
Higher electrical power costs caused by security costs and risk-shifting from owners to ratepayers.
A weak US dollar.
I just thought of something else… When I was a teen, in the 50s, living in New Jersey, when harvest time came, all of us school kids, college students picked tomtoes, cukes, apples and peaches, blueberries, etc… I was paid 50 cent for every half a bushel of apples back then., never saw any pickers from Mexico or South America.
What the heck has happened to us here in America? This isn't the America I grew up in.
Perhaps Chris Hedges needs to do a bit more research as to where the majority tomatoes sold in Trader Joe's come from (Mexico). This sort of sloppy action really muddies the waters and reeks of 'activism for hire' along the lines of what the American Conservative Union did at the behest of FedEx against UPS a few years ago (notice the admonition to shop at the ultra-faux progressive Wal-Mart of chain markets, Whole Foods?). While Trader Joe's & their owner, Aldi Nord, are no paragons of shopping virtue by any stretch of the imagination, it will be a cold day in Hell before I ever step foot into John Mackey's 'Whole Paycheck.'
Well ~~Nate~~ where do you think the tomatoes sold at Trader Joes, other than perhaps 'organic' grown come from? __ Have you done any resarch on that? __ How do you know how much research ~Chris Hedges~ has done or has not done on the tomato subject?
I know one thing,,, about 40% of our food is now imported and most of our veggies now arrive from Mexico and or South America… And Wal-Mart can kiss my rear. I hate walking a half mile to get from the auto parts to the cookie jars and seeing 90% of the stores junk comes from China… We once found swollen cans of diced carrots in a Wal-Mart.
Got a red vested "May I Help You" fellow to see it and he immediatly cleared the shelves… He said those canned carrots came from China… Scary huh?
What a perfect microcosm of our entire corrupt and contemptible system. Most people are still under the destructive assumption that corporations "give" us jobs. That the market will regulate itself and pay workers what they are "worth". Any study of capitalism, whether historical or contemporary, will reveal how corporations always have and always will maximize profits by ANY means necessary. Of course, that is their raison d'etre. Employers will do as little as possible, until they are forced to do more. It is what you get when you order a system based on greed and avarice.
The had a civil war once over shit like this.
You had people, your own citizens, suffer incredible hardship and destitution like this in the Lesser Great Depression.
The plight of the migrant worker, whether illegal immigrant or American born poor, has been popularized by the "liberal' intelligentsia since the 1980's.
So either shit or get off the pot. Either these people are human beings deserving of basic dignity, or they are utterly expendable slaves who exist only to fuel the Corporations. Decide. Now.
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LinuxWorld, Harbinger of Death?
In San Francisco, the LinuxWorld 2005 Conference & Expo packaged both good and horrible news for the open source community that develops Mambo software, an extremely popular CMS (Content Management System) that web developers use as an easy interface to build websites. As for the good news, Mambo received the 2005 award for Best Open Source Solution.
However, the bad news from the conference is fragmenting the whole Mambo community. Miro International, the corporation backing Mambo, had formed a new entity to restructure the entire development effort. The new entity is a nonprofit organization, called the Mambo Foundation. The foundation had just been approved during the conference, and it was not what the core developers had expected. The development team saw it as a strike against their open source principles and involvement in Mambo. The community quickly splintered; the core developers took Mambo's code and started their own CMS project apart from Miro. The new CMS, Joomla, is becoming a Mambo "counterculture."
That LinuxWorld announcement was on August 10th. Now, a month later, the dust has started to settle and we can see how things are panning out. Let's take a look at what the new Mambo Foundation means to the community and for open source corporations in general.
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The Mambo Backstory, a Very Brief History
Miro International is an Australian company which started developing the Mambo CMS in 2000. It released the code almost immediately as open source, forming a community of developers that helped it to flourish. Miro then forked the project, taking Mambo's code and making a commercial CMS; they called it Mambo 2002 and later renamed it to Jango. For quite a while one volunteer, Robert Castley, oversaw the Mambo open source project. The rest of Miro's focus was on Jango and selling CMS related products.
Since then, Mambo solidified itself as a superior CMS, with more brand-power and larger user base than Jango. The CEO of Miro, Peter Lamont, says that Robert Castley resigned due to "work and family commitments, combined with the increasing responsibility of a growing open source project." Castley was replaced by Andrew Eddie, Mambo's second Director of the Mambo Project Team. The bonds between Mambo and Miro were very loose. Mambo's evolution was determined by the developers' needs, and it was coordinated by the MSC (Mambo Steering Committee). According to Eddie, "Miro had merely played a back seat roll, providing Mambo with valuable infrastructure and sometime legal support." Miro was left out of the formula, but it had contact though the MSC. This loose structure works for small development teams, but Miro may have decided it was not working any longer.
Miro started Mambo, but after a few years its primary (and perhaps exclusive) involvement in Mambo was financial. The company held Mambo's copyrights and trademarks, paid for Mambo's web hosting and downloads, funded its promotion, and hosted the Mambo community. The company also was in the line of fire when Connelly filed copyright lawsuits against Mambo for reportedly using his code. Aside from the legal problems, however, the costs of maintaining Mambo were not unreasonable. Still, it isn't exactly surprising that Miro executives have a feeling of ownership and responsibility about the successful project.
However, the community of developers, who work for the love of the software, also feel responsible for project. They took the initiative to guide, code, and debug Mambo. Each developer spends roughly 4 or more hours each day working on the software; because the work is done for free, they feel very personally about it. The software was directed and developed with the blood and sweat of the community, not Miro.
With Mambo's accomplishments in CMS software, Miro definitely saw the importance of the project growing. Many third parties wished to contribute financially to the project. However, they did not wish to contribute to a corporation like Miro. The lawsuits also showed everyone that Miro, by holding Mambo's intellectual property, was subject to any lawsuits against the software. Also, the way trademarks were drawn up, Mambo advocates could not even print their own t-shirts. Brian Teeman and Andrew Eddie, the two developer representatives on the MSC, presented the idea of a nonprofit organization to collect these contributions and hold the intellectual property. This is how the foundation was proposed originally. It was to be a link between Mambo and Miro that made these things less complicated.
In addition to this, Miro may have viewed the development effort as poorly organized, as the community may have growth beyond its ability to manage itself. This was not an express purpose of forming the nonprofit organization, but offering more structure was an open possibility.
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Creating the Mambo Foundation
The idea of using a nonprofit organization to direct Mambo, while keeping it separate from Miro International, started in April. In discussions, the idea sounded good to core developers Brian Teeman and Andrew Eddie. Reportedly, they decided something like the Mambo Foundation was very useful and could help keep CEO Peter Lamount involved with his project.
To create the structure of the foundation, Miro held a meeting for the MSC (Mambo Steering Committee) in Australia. Brian Teeman and Andrew Eddie flew themselves there so that they could contribute. The MSC formed an agreement that Miro would file a letter of intent to transfer copyrights and trademarks to the foundation. It was also understood that the foundation would do fund raising activities to help support Mambo. It was still undetermined if Miro would have any direction in governing Mambo's development, so the matter was left open ended.
Andrew Eddie backed the idea of Miro becoming more involved in Mambo. He described Mambo as rising steady in popularity, but it was reaching a plateau of users (mostly hobbyists and open source activists). He said in an interview:
To give Mambo credibility as a serious open source solution for government or education markets, it needed commercial support and training facilities. I think this is were Miro saw to the opportunity to be able to actively give back to the project for the betterment of Mambo. It's really a win-win situation for all involved. (source)
He also viewed the foundation as a very positive thing. In providing direction for the project, it would keep developers from changing things users wanted to remain and to provide better focus in the development, instead of constantly changing APIs and interface tweaks. He believed Miro was not trying to pull Mambo back "into the fold," and he emphasized Mambo's involvement:
It is a misconception that Miro actually "left the fold"…They have always been there but gave the project it's own free will to go as it please, for better or for worse…There is a misconception that Miro is taking over the project. This is simply not true. They are adding a layer to Mambo that is attractive to a particular area of the market. The code, the features, the release plans are still all in the Open Source camp. (source)
In short, the Core Development Team originally saw a lot of promise in Mambo Foundation. They had been fully involved in drafting the foundation documents. As Miro proceeded through the legal process to form the nonprofit, developers assumed that the foundation documents they agreed on remained unchanged.
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The Development Team Abandons Miro
The trouble seems to have started with Miro taking their own spin on the MSC's agreement. Of course, the Core Development Team was not informed that anything had been changed or added, so they did not find out until LinuxWorld Expo. Brian Teeman explained to me his reaction to the situation:
Foundation documents were drawn up with the full agreement of the entire MSC as the result of a two day long meeting held at Miro's offices in Australia. As far as Andrew Eddie and myself were aware, it was these foundation documents, drawn up by a highly respected IP lawyer, that were registered with the Victoria State in Australia. Every time we checked on the progress of this application for the creation of a non-profit foundation, we were informed that it was working its way through the legal process. During the San Francisco LinuxWorld Expo, the Victoria State website showed that the Foundation's application for incorporation had been approved. I brought this to the attention of the rest of the MSC with an announcement of joy that the application was successful. The following day the Mambo Development team received the news from Mr. Lamont that the actual foundation that had been created was not the one that the MSC had approved.
The Letter to the Community
On August 17th, the entire Core Development Team responded to Miro's creation of the Mambo Foundation. They felt as if Miro had undermined their agreement and had omitted from the process of shaping the governing organization, and they saw the foundation as opposing fundamental open source principles. Every one of them resigned, and they signed a letter to the Mambo community explaining why. This is the second half of it:
We believe the future of Mambo should be controlled by the demands of its users and the abilities of its developers. The Mambo Foundation is designed to grant that control to Miro, a design that makes cooperation between the Foundation and the community impossible.
The Mambo Foundation was formed without regard to the concerns of the core development teams. We, the community, have no voice in its government or the future direction of Mambo. The Mambo Steering Committee made up of development team and Miro representatives authorized incorporation of the Foundation and should form the first Board. Miro CEO Peter Lamont has taken it upon himself to incorporate the Foundation and appoint the Board without consulting the two development team representatives, Andrew Eddie and Brian Teeman.
Although Mr. Lamont through the MSC promised to transfer the Mambo copyright to the Foundation, Miro now refuses to do so.
What we will do: We will continue to develop and improve a version of this award-winning software project currently released under the GNU General Public License. We wish Miro and the Mambo Foundation well and regret that we are not able to work with them. (source)
It seems that the major problem for the developers was that the MSC's agreement was not stricktly followed in how the foundation was formed, and they felt Miro was pulling control of the project away.
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The Board of Regents
The core developers assumed they would have a chance to be part of the board, but only Andrew Eddie was made a board member (though for some reason he was never told about this). Miro claims that only 2 of the 5 Board members are Miro employees, so Miro is not trying to use the board as a tool to take control. They also said being on the board will be so time consuming that it would require developers to leave the core team, but they never really gave any developers the choice.
On a quick side note, Miro invited Robert Castley back to be one of the board members. He accepted and stuck with the Mambo board, even after Joomla was formed. However, he soon re-reigned. Miro supporters say his reason for this was the ridicule and harassment from those who supported the developers, some calling him Miro's "Golden Boy." However, Joomla supporters disagree and point to the foundation using more of his time than he expected and not being originally informed of what the foundation was.
How Miro Angered the Core Developers
The developers felt isolated from the decision making process. This was an area they once had control, but it is now difficult for a developer to have any input. Becoming an "ordinary member" of the foundation carries a $10 fee. This $10 allows the person to have a voice in voting for who is on the Board of Regents. To be involved in decision making, they need to be in the upper levels of the Mambo Foundation. This can be accomplished two ways. First, they can be nominated and then approved by those on the board, or they can pay the Mambo Foundation $1,000.
Miro claims that the $1,000 fee is for those who have a commercial interest in directing Mambo to suit a need, and that developers need to pay nothing to work on their own free plug ins. However, this does not satisfy many in the community. They demand a voice over the architecture they use. They want to be the ones to gauge what is most feasible and beneficial from a developer's perspective, and allow everyone to contribute to the process. This is why the core developers were concerned that this was a departure from open source philosophy.
Contributors who code, write documentation, and help in other ways can become "active members" for free. But because it is financially free does not make it openly free. To become an active member, a person must go through an application process and be approved by the Board of Regents. This removes power from the lead developer, who should be able to appoint community developers that have proven their ability to work on the project. Existing members of the community also have to go through the approval process, possibly being judged by people who do not know Mambo and the community as well as they do.
Finally, the developers expected Miro to hand over all Mambo copyrights to the foundation, but that didn't happen. The original agreement of the MSC declared that the intellectual property would be fully transferred. However, when the development team asked to see Miro's letter of intent to transfer the copyrights, the response they received was vaguely, "Don't you trust us?" Miro executives became suspicious that the developers wanted to take control of the copyright and revised their plan; they are granting the foundation an irrevocable license to the copyrights instead of giving them up. It's not clear what made them believe the developers were trying to do take this material or how they could accomplish it under the terms of the MSC's foundation documents.
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The Developers' Immediate Response
To oversimplify things, these conflicts sound like a result of horrible communication. Both Miro and the core developers seem to have good intentions, and both could have done a little more to recognize that. The problem seems to arise from Miro revising the foundation documents without developers in mind. But Miro says the core developers did not voice their concerns about how the foundation was implemented until they wrote the resignation letter. Needless to say, this isn't a way to resolve differences. Miro did listen to objections that people presented after the developers left. On August 22nd, five days after all the lead developers resigned, Peter Lamount announced that he had begun to transfer Mambo's intellectual property to the foundation.
Over the past few days, a few people in the community took the time to come to me directly to help me understand why it was so important that the Foundation should own Mambo's copyright and trademark outright, and not just a license. Transferring the copyright was an easier decision to make now that there is a responsible structure to manage it. (source)
Perhaps more could have been accomplished if the developers had tried to communicate the problems to Miro. Brian Teeman commented that he and other developers saw no reason to try working with the company, because their trust in Miro was destroyed when the company changed the Mambo Foundation from the MSC's plan.
Also, in a way, the Core Developer Team failed the developer community just as Miro did not meet the developers' expectations. The core developers did not consult or discuss anything with the community to resolve what they should do. The developers' lawyers, The Software Freedom Law Centre, advised them not to disclose certain things, but it is still unfortunate that decision was not more of a community effort. In short both sides have made questionable changes, despite their intentions.
The Mambo Community Reacts
The Core Development team, as they mentioned, decided to simply take the Mambo code they had been working on and keep developing it on their own. The code is issued under the GPL, and the team confirmed with their lawyers that they could start their own project using it. The only things they have to remove are the Mambo logos and the Mambo name. Everything else is starting out the same and continuing the way it would have originally.
The letter-writers started their own website as a platform to rally support, OpenSourceMatters.org. Advocates of their cause posted links, arguments and flames on Mambo's message boards to direct people away from Mambo. It's also worth mentioning that none of the signatories of the developers' letter were involved in this. Miro responded by deleting all posts related to the renegade site and banning offending users. This only caused further outrage.
Some forum users managed to talk to Miro employees about the Mambo Foundation, but after a couple days, Miro got tired of responding and stopped. Peter Lamont told interviewers that Miro still welcomed feedback, but so far only 2 people had contacted the company outside the forums. Meanwhile, they never announced other means to contact the company, leading the developers to feel like they were being shut out.
As Miro was deleting posts, banning users, and ignoring questions directed to them, they launched MamboLove.com. The website was a love-filled attempt to advocate Mambo, and was basically a copy of SpreadFirefox.com. This was a means to bond the community by giving them "love points" for link referrals, and it was also a means of cementing the Mambo brand.
The core developers recruited factions on OpenSourceMatters, and within a few days over a thousand people had joined the site to express support. The new community received free server hosting and software from donors. The site has since announced the name of their new project, Joomla, and recently found a new logo. The site has also published extraordinarily simple directions for upgrading to the new Joomla 1.0 CMS.
Now is the time for Mambo and Joomla to differentiate themselves from each other, without losing current Mambo users. How the two groups develop their product in the next few months will help determine which is more distinctive and useful to users. Let's see what the companies have announced they will prioritize.
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The Future Direction for Mambo and Joomla
The Mambo Foundation held a poll to see where everyone wanted to begin development. The results of this democratic approach have just been released:
480 responses were received, the vast majority from developers. The responses showed a clear preference for developing Mambo functionality along more robust lines. Respondents seemed to indicate a desire to see an increase in functionality, even if it came at the cost of additional complexity.
The most commonly requested new feature was, perhaps not surprisingly, an increase in the capabilities of the Mambo user management system. Another hot topic was the inclusion of enhanced multi-lingual abilities, reflecting Mambo's increasingly strong role overseas, in non-native English countries. (source)
Joomla is a bit vaguer on their exact areas for development. Suffice it to say, their roadmap says the next few months will be spent in these areas: "UI Enhancements, Administrator Translation, New Features."
This is also a time for the two parties to promote their brand, and Mambo has gotten heavy handed in this aspect. Besides releasing MamboLove.com, Miro has tried promoting more Mambo Days and community events. Joomla promoted each step of their creation, from the announcement of their name to the contest for their logo. The contest has finally finished, and Joomla is ready to re-brand their software.
A Test for Both
This will be the test for both companies. Mambo stands the test of completely restructuring and starting with an all new team; if the foundation lives up to expectations though, it will allow Mambo much more flexibility and usefulness than Joomla to commercial uses. It could more easily allow investors to request features, and perhaps the foundation could offer certification classes.
Brian Teeman also says that the Joomla developers are very excited to own the project's copyrights and not have to go through a corporation to get needed money; their slight restructuring resembles the purpose of the original Mambo Foundation that the MCS had agreed on. An important aspect of understanding Joomla is that it is not a fork in the software. Joomla has all the core developers working in the same structure as they did before. They are only using a different name. As confusing as it sounds, Mambo is effectively the fork from Mambo. The Mambo everyone knows has been repackaged as Joomla and will continue as it always had. If Joomla succeeds in its attempt to re-brand Mambo, they may pull over the user base with them.
However, most people will be watching the first several releases of both to determine which one will be a stronger CMS. Still it's sad to see such an issue rip apart a thriving open-source community. In the past, some project forks have rejoined. However, Mambo and Joomla sound so polarized that it seems unlikely. The people who are really losing are those who rely on the software. Many have already declared that they are now avoiding both CMS makers, since this makes the community appear very unreliable.


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Texas rhino hunt auction winner fears for his safety
A Texas man who paid $350,000 for the right to hunt an endangered African black rhino said he's had to hire full-time security due to death threats he received after winning the auction. VPC
A man who paid $350,000 for the right to hunt an endangered African black rhino says he fears for his safety
DALLAS — A U.S. man who paid $350,000 for the right to hunt an endangered African black rhino says he fears for his safety.
Corey Knowlton said that after being revealed as the winner of a controversial Dallas Safari Club auction, he's received death threats — so many that he says local law enforcement and the FBI are now working to keep them safe.
STORY: Black rhino hunting permit auctioned for $350,000
Knowlton, who has hunted around the world, said there has been a lot of anger and some confusion.
He leads expeditions for both everyday Joes and billionaires looking to hunt, and has been a fixture on The Outdoor Channel. His Facebook page is filled with photos of large deer he's tracked and killed — wild boar, a bear, even a massive shark.
The Safari Club auctioned the permit to raise money for efforts to protect the black rhino.
Knowlton said his goal was to support conservation efforts for the black rhino. That's where the money from his bid will go.
But critics feel that the chance to kill one is no kind of reward — and they're letting him know it.
Still, Knowlton said the hunt is well-managed, and insists he will be targeting an aggressive older male that he says is terrorizing the rest of the herd, and would already be a target.
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Postcards from Google Earth is a series of screenshots artist Clement Valla took from Google Earth. These uncanny landscapes document technical anomalies in the software, which uses a technology called texture mapping. Like patterned wrapping paper covering a plain white box, a texture map is a flat image applied to a 3D model, thereby adding detail, color and surface texture. In the case of Google Earth, flat images taken by satellite are pasted on a 3D model of the globe. This massive collage of satellite images from various sources is stitched together (favoring daylight images with no clouds) to create the illusion of continuity.
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Guidelines for a Letter of Agreement
There is no set format for a letter of agreement. However, most typically cover the following areas:
- Nature of the Project
This includes what the freelancer will be responsible for, such as writing a newsletter or designing an organizational logo, and what the client will be responsible for, such as providing background materials and arranging for printing services.
- Description of the Specific Product the Freelancer Will Deliver
This can be very simple, such as a four-page newsletter containing 1,800-2,200 words. If the freelancer will be responsible for any other project-related products or services, such as photography, this should be specified.
Project Costs
The cost of a project is usually based on the estimated number of hours a writer or other freelancer will work. Sometimes the project cost is a range (such as $1,200-$1,500) and includes a maximum amount the client will pay. Other projects, especially those that are less concrete in nature, are open-ended, meaning the freelancer will be paid a specified hourly rate for every hour he/she works. Be sure to include any other expenses, such as mileage or long-distance phone costs, that the client will pay in addition to the freelancer's fee.
This should list specific dates, such as when the first draft is due and when the final draft is due.
Terms of Payment
This should outline how the freelancer will be paid. In a new professional relationship, it is common for the client to pay up to half down at the beginning of the project and the balance within 15-30 days after the final product is delivered. (This is another good reason to check references.)
- Other Potential Considerations
If there are copyright concerns, consult an attorney.
Every letter of agreement is different, depending on the needs of the client and the work requirements of the freelancer. These guidelines and the sample letter of agreement that follows are intended to serve only as a guide. They are not intended to cover all possible issues. Consult with an attorney for more specific information.
Sample Letter of Agreement
March 1, 2007
Mr. Steve Smithee
Smithee & Company
1010 Main Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64105
Dear Mr. Smithee:
The purpose of this letter of agreement is to outline the scope of the writing services that [FREELANCER NAME] will perform for Smithee & Company.
Services to Be Rendered
[FREELANCER NAME] agrees to write a four-page brochure describing the engineering services of Smithee & Company. Information for the brochure will be provided, on a timely basis, through existing corporate materials as well as through interviews with Steve Smithee and other appropriate Smithee & Company staff.
Smithee & Company 1) will provide all photos, charts and other graphics to be included in the brochure, and 2) is responsible for printing and other production costs related to the brochure.
Services will be performed at the rate of $60 per hour. I estimate that this project will take between 25 and 40 hours and cost between $1,500 and $2,400. If fewer than 25 hours are required, Smithee & Company will be charged only for the actual hours [FREELANCER NAME] works on the project.
Additional Costs
The estimated fee outlined above includes a first draft and one edit of the four-page brochure. Hours for additional edits and/or a longer brochure will be billed at the rate of $60 an hour.
All hours in excess of the estimated project maximum (40 hours) listed in the Fee section must be approved in writing by Smithee & Company.
[FREELANCER NAME] will deliver a first draft of the brochure to Smithee & Company by Wednesday, March 26. The final edited version (including hard copy and a computer disk in Word) will be delivered by Monday, April 2, as long as Smithee & Company staff members are available on a timely basis to discuss changes to the original.
Terms of Payment
$750 will be paid to [FREELANCER NAME] within five days after the signing of this letter of agreement. Smithee & Company will be billed for the balance at the end of the project (tentatively April 2) and payment in full will be due within 15 days.
Freelancer Name
Freelancer Address
City, State & Zip Code
Phone Number
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Writing to an invisible audience, sweeping your heart out into a boundless Universe not knowing who is listening to it beat or whether the thump will be embraced or cast aside, is a courageous act. Fortunately for me, at some point during the writing of my last book, In Sweet Company: Conversations With Extraordinary Women About Living A Spiritual Life (Jossey Bass), I became aware of an invisible listening presence around me, a group of like-minded souls who urged me onward and supported me as I wrote. This was no woo-woo affair. No visions or voices or sugarplums danced round my head but rather a subtle embrace that nested beneath my conscious awareness. Then one day, a few months after ISC was published, I was in Houston giving a workshop based on the book and I suddenly became aware I was meeting – and would continue to meet—those who, on a soul level, had been helping me birth this book. I was, nor had I ever been, nor would I ever be, alone.
Since that time, I have met my "posse" at conferences, in workshops I've led, in bookstores, via my website, email, and e-newsletter, on Facebook and through this blog. Knowing you are out there has made it very easy to write to an invisible audience because, on the deepest level, I see you – and I know you see me. I have blogged about things that help to develop this kind of relationship with and confidence in the Unseen for I believe putting ourselves out there in this crazy world really is a courageous act — whether we are a writer or not. We all need to know we are heard. We all need to know we are loved. We all need to make a contribution.
Thus, in this my last blog for Beliefnet.com, I want to thank you for reading what I wrote – for your comments, for the smiles that cross your faces and the nods of your heads that occur when something I write resonates with you. I have a wonderful new book I am putting the finishing touches on, and a million other thoughts that will surely stream through my e- newsletter to share with you. Should you want to keep in touch, please email me at email@example.com.
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… we grow in our understanding of God as we come to understand our own stories more fully. — Rabbi Laura Geller, IN SWEET COMPANY: CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN ABOUT LIVING A SPIRITUAL LIFE
Recently a small group of kindred spirits gathered together at our house to celebrate the successful conclusion of a project we had worked on for many long hours. Candles muted the dining room in soft light. The food was beyond beyond. We told stories. We laughed a lot. It was a beautiful evening, an evening to remember.
A few days later, still carrying our closeness in my heart, I happened to watch a documentary that set out to prove that—despite our affinity for acquisition and competition—human beings are actually hardwired for cooperation. According to scientists, philosophers, and poets interviewed in the film, compassion and collaboration may well be embedded in our DNA.
The film looked at this idea from several perspectives: Scientists working with mirror neurons described how the same area in our brain lights up whether we perform an action or watch another perform that same action; that is, our brains have an "empathetic" and an imitative response to the actions of others. Scientists studying the body's chemical response to compassion and cooperation reported a measureable increase in the surge of feel good chemicals (endorphins) released into our blood stream when we are happy or inspired. And that feeling of being "all choked up" or the prideful swelling in our chest that occurs when we witness the heroic or caring acts of others, is the vegas nerve's natural biological response to altruism.
Beyond our physiological responses to compassion and cooperation, the film also explores the effects of our thoughts and actions on others—the idea that we live in a participatory universe. A discussion about quantum entanglement—what Einstein first called "spooky action at a distance"—demonstrated how electrons and molecules previously connected with each other "cooperate"—that they spin in the same direction, at the same rate, at the same time long after they have separated from each other, even when they are separated by great distance. Another scientist spoke about experiments with 65 random number generators installed around the world, computers that continually spit out an arbitrary sequence of numbers or symbols. When events like 9/11 or the earthquake in Japan occurred, when the mind of the world became aware of—perhaps, concerned about—an epoch-making event, the generators no longer behaved randomly; they produced a sequential pattern.
All these studies are, of course, open to interpretation. Yet, two things impressed me about the reporting: That all of this action within and without us takes place unconsciously, without our knowing; and that several days after our little dinner party, when I was still feeling the happy effects of our entanglement, I (randomly?) came across a resource that scientifically affirmed the lasting goodness I carried in my heart. Imagine what would happen if we actively, consciously participated in this process! It gives a whole new meaning to being "in sweet company."
Check out the film at www.Iamthedoc.com. Your thoughts?
"… for me, spiritual practice is making the bed, defrosting dinner, and so on. It's not magical or removed; it's about how I discover and reveal myself as I do things that are ordinary." — Miriam Polster, IN SWEET COMPANY: CONVERSATIONS WITH EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN ABOUT LIVING THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
One Saturday afternoon when I was eight, when the last sun of Autumn bleached the sidewalks of Detroit a pale gray, I drove with my Dad, a mechanical and electrical engineer, to the home of a longtime client whose sputtering furnace was in need of immediate repair. Dad was doing the man a favor coming out to his house on a weekend. He invited me to assist him in this kindness.
I remember walking the cement driveway that led to the back the house, the tufts of brown grass that grew in the cracks in the concrete. Dad rapped on the sliding glass door off the patio. The man slid the door open, greeted him warmly, and ushered him inside. I turned to follow him into the house. "You stay here, honey, and play on the patio," he said, "while I go down into the basement and look at this thing. I won't be too long."
I sat on the patio and followed a trail of red ants with my eyes. I watched the wind spin leaves around the yard. I found a good stick. After a while the patio door slid open and my Dad walked outside. He was very quiet. Stilted. Almost wooden. I looked into his face. There were tears in his eyes.
He averted my gaze and walked back down the driveway toward the car. I ran after him, struggling to keep pace. When I caught up to him I grabbed his thick, freckled hand. I tried to comfort him. I also wanted to know what had made my Daddy cry.
When we reached the car, he opened the passenger door and I climbed onto the seat. I looked at him, into his eyes, and he sighed. "It used to be that a man's handshake could be trusted," he said. He closed the door, walked around the car and slid behind the wheel. We drove quietly home.
The value of a promise. A father's tears. A daughter's standard. In these ways, I honor my father.
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Alex Jones
August 07, 2003
DARPA, the shadowy government agency attempted the public
launch of what can only be described as a running-man style
betting parlor where private individuals and companies
profit by correctly predicting where terrorism will occur.
DARPA is the same agency that announced the Total
Information Awareness Network (TIA) in 2002, a big brother
network using the Pentagon integrated with local police to
spy on the activities of all Americans.
Both DARPA programs use the new world order pyramid symbol
in their logos. The pyramid logo for the Total Information
Awareness Network is even complete with the image of the
all-seeing eye of Lucifer radiating the earth.
The Department of Defense announced that their futures
market casino would be named the Policy Analysis Market
(PAM). PAM removed the content of its website after a
massive public backlash. The market allowed individuals to
log into the government system with a secret code similar to
a Swiss bank account number and place bets on what US city
would be nuked by North Korea in the next year, what Middle
Eastern leader would be assassinated or how many US troops
would die in Iraq.
Senator Byron Dorgan D-ND called the plan useless,
offensive, and "unbelievably stupid." He went on to say,
"can you imagine if another country set up a betting parlor
so that people could go in�and bet on the assassination of
an American political figure, or the overthrow of this
institution or that institution?"
Within 48 hours of the plan being announced, the scheme was
canceled, the website was taken off-line and Admiral
Poindexter, the five-time convicted felon, was forced to
resign. For many there was a collective sigh of relief. The
truth is that Admiral Poindexter is nothing more than a
minion of a wicked system and his ouster only serves as a
public relations ploy to make the population think, "Oh, it
was Poindexter who had all of those Big Brother ideas, not
the government. We can all go back to sleep now�"
Shortly after Congress funded the Total Information
Awareness Network, they still needed to claim that they had
voted it down. Two weeks after announcing that the program
had been de-funded (which wasn't true), the Associated Press
ran the headline, "US May Adopt Florida Anti-Terror
Database." It just so happens that Florida's
anti-terror/crime system was designed by DARPA and, in
truth, is nothing more than an already operating
subdirectorate of the Pentagon. It turns out that dozens of
other States already have the same system in place. And the
best part is the name of the program, which the Feds
designed, which they are now claiming that they just
stumbled upon and are now adopting. It's called the matrix.
In truth, the matrix was set up decades ago as the local
data collection point for the NSA's Echelon system. They
have been taking all of your personal data for years and
uploading it to Fort Meade. Divorce records, credit card
purchases, phone bills, gun records, where you work, you
name it public and private they greedily grab it. You see,
they built this control grid a long time ago. They're just
announcing it to you now.
In 1998 the Austin-American Statesman reported that DARPA
had paid to have the State and City put in hundreds on
face-scanning cameras and microphones in Austin, Texas.
Infowars.com has posted hundreds of articles over the last
six years where DARPA and the Defense Department are
involved in mandating that the States adopt uniform
biometrics on state licenses and ID cards, RFID tracker
chips to replace the bar-code, and cameras that recognize
individuals by their faces, walk, vehicle type or license
plate number.
Long before the September 11th attacks, DARPA was building
the architecture of a cashless society control grid. After
September 11th when citizens complained about the Total
Information Awareness network plans to spy on them, the
continuity government agency claimed that it de-funded the
program. The truth is, DARPA simply changed the name to
Terrorism Information Awareness and got increased funding
from Congress through dozens of other sub-agency projects.
Let's take a closer look at what DARPA's Policy Analysis
Market or gambling system really does:
1. It trains the American people that betting on death is
okay, even patriotic. This is exactly what the Romans did
over 1900 years ago as they bet on which gladiator would
survive or how long a Christian would live when thrown into
a pit of lions.
All of this is very similar to the movie, The Running Man,
where the bloodthirsty masses are kept in line with a
twisted and sadistic game show wherein enemies of the state
fight for their lives.
2. Most importantly it legitimizes insider trading and sets
the precedent that the government not only regulates but
owns futures markets. Insider trading is where someone
inside a system who has proprietary information uses that
information to profit at others' loss. So what is it when
the Pentagon runs a futures market that bets on the outcome
of the hundred year war that has been announced by President
Bush? By its very definition it is insider trading.
3. The establishment elites love to hide their crimes in
plain view and that is exactly what this futures market is.
You see, the globalists got caught doing the same thing on
September 11th. Between September 5 and September 10th
record put options, a highly risky form of speculation where
you bet against a stock, were purchased against United and
Delta airlines stock. The levels of put options were the
highest ever recorded. In the first few days after September
11th the media said that they would be able to figure out
who carried out the attacks by tracing who placed these puts
in the futures market. When the bets led back to the former
Deputy Director of the CIA, Buzzy Kronguard, the FBI, and
Fortune 500 companies, the story was immediately shut down.
With an official Pentagon futures market where you can only
bet on attacks, this legitimizes what has always been
extremely illegal. Of course it also allows terrorists (i.e.
the government) to know where the next terrorist attack will
be, to place bets on it and to profit in the billions of
dollars from tragedies and crimes they commit.
Surveys show that on US college campuses over 70% of all
science funding comes directly from DARPA. DARPA is the
successor to ARPA, a federal bureaucracy created in 1958 to
push forward scientific research with potential military
applications. I find it interesting that in 1960 outgoing
President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangerous undue
influence that the military-industrial complex was having in
America's infrastructure, and especially on college
There are thousands of facets to this nightmare agency, but
there are several more that we will look at today. One was
reported on in the August 5, 2003 Boston Globe. The paper
ran the headline, "Defense Department funding brain-machine
work." The project is developing technology that "promises
to directly read thoughts from a living brain - and even
instill thoughts as well." It does not take much imagination
to see in this the makings of a "matrix-like cyberpunk
dystopia: chips that impose false memories, machines that
scan for wayward thoughts, cognitively augmented government
security forces that impose a ruthless order on a
recalcitrant population."
The technology has already been installed in five airports
in the US. CBS news reported on the high-powered MRI systems
that scan travelers' brains as they walk through the airport
checkpoint at Boston Logan. The technicians are trained to
determine what aggressive thought patterns look like and to
single out passengers for questioning. They are then put
under another brain scanner that supposedly detects lies and
are asked questions. This gives new meaning to the term
"thought crime."
DARPA was also instrumental in developing machines that
pierce your clothes and give crystal-clear images of your
naked body. For eight years we have seen mainstream media
reports cover this technology and the FCC's approval for
police helicopters to have DARPA-funded ground penetrating
radar mounted on them to surveil US cities.
While newer systems of ground penetrating radar remain
classified, the older systems have been demonstrated on
national television so we can all appreciate our new slave
status. Viewers are treated to a black and white x-ray style
view of people walking around in their homes. What ever
happened to the Fourth Amendment barring search and seizure
and the invasion of privacy without a warrant?
DARPA is also getting Congressional approval for a fleet of
drones fitted with similar scanning systems to feed
streaming data 24 hours a day back to the FEMA continuity of
government bunkers.
And finally, on DARPA's own website, they promote the
"Centibots." These tiny 5-pound robots have their own
artificial intelligence and hunt fugitives or provide
surveillance and security for government agencies in wolf
packs of twenty. They are identical in many aspects to the
police spiders in Minority Report.
Despite DARPA's incredible size and influence over our every
day lives and its stated desire to micromanage and control
every human on earth, the average American has no idea that
it even exists. Spread the word: DARPA is the enemy of free
people everywhere and must be exposed if were are to defeat
this tyranny that is the new world order.
Copyright 2003 Alex Jones/Infowars.com
"Does the Brotherhood exist?" "That Winston, you will never
know. If we choose to set you free when we have finished
with you, and if you live to be ninety years old, still you
will never learn whether the answer to that question is yes
or no. As long as you live, it will be a riddle in your
mind." -- 1984 by George Orwell


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Karl Malden, a versatile Oscar-winning actor who built a six-decade Hollywood career playing heroes and heavies -- and, often, relatable ordinary men -- yet who was certain he was best known as a commercial pitchman for American Express, has died. He was 97.
Malden died Wednesday of natural causes at his Brentwood home, said Mila Doerner, a daughter.
He received his Academy Award for playing Mitch in the 1951 film "A Streetcar Named Desire," a role he originated on Broadway. Two decades later, he starred in the 1970s TV series "The Streets of San Francisco" with Michael Douglas, then in his late 20s.
In a statement to The Times, Douglas called Malden a "mentor" whom he "admired and loved" deeply.
For more than 20 years, Malden was the spokesman for American Express travelers checks who turned "Don't leave home without them" into a national catchphrase in a series of commercials that debuted in 1973.
In a company that has become known for its celebrity spokespeople, Malden "was one of the first and most memorable," Joanna Lambert, a company vice president, told The Times in an e-mail.
Johnny Carson spoofed Malden's sober-faced ads on "The Tonight Show," and Malden often recalled that people were always throwing a version of the tagline -- "Don't leave home without it" -- back at him.
With his unglamorous mug -- Malden had broken his bulbous nose twice playing sports as a teenager -- the former Indiana steel-mill worker realized early on the course his acting career would take.
"I never thought I was salable," Malden recalled in a 2004 interview. "I learned in my second year of drama school that I was not a leading man -- I was a character actor. So I thought, I'd better be the best character actor around."
In a movie career that flourished in the 1950s and '60s, Malden played a variety of roles in more than 50 films, including the sympathetic priest in "On the Waterfront," the resentful husband in "Baby Doll," the warden in "Birdman of Alcatraz," the pioneer patriarch in "How the West Was Won," Madame Rose's suitor in "Gypsy," the card dealer in "The Cincinnati Kid" and Gen. Omar Bradley in "Patton."
The variety of the roles established Malden, former Times film critic Charles Champlin once wrote, "as an Everyman, but one whose range moved easily up and down the levels of society and the IQ scale, from heroes to heavies and ordinary, decent guys just trying to get along."
Eva Marie Saint, who worked with him in 1954's "On the Waterfront" and became a good friend, called Malden "a consummate actor."
He "never changed, he always became the character. If you watch his work, he never falls, there's never a false move," she told The Times on Wednesday.
Malden was a longtime holdout on television roles until he agreed to play Lt. Mike Stone on the ABC police drama "The Streets of San Francisco." It ran from 1972 to 1977 and earned him four consecutive Emmy nominations.
He won his sole Emmy for portraying a man who begins to suspect that his daughter was murdered by her husband in the fact-based 1984 miniseries "Fatal Vision."
Although he could find his American Express fame "frustrating," the commercials gave him an actor's luxury: financial independence.
"I don't have to jump at anything and everything that comes my way," he said in 1989.
He was born Mladen Sekulovich in Chicago on March 22, 1912, the son of an immigrant mother from the nation that later became Czechoslovakia and a Serbian father, who was a milkman.
Malden spoke little English until his family moved from their Serbian enclave in Chicago to the steel-mill town of Gary, Ind., when he was 5.
Malden's father staged Serbian plays at church and in Serbian organizations in Gary. As a teenager, Malden often appeared in them and in plays in high school. He also played high school basketball.
After graduating in 1931, he spent three years working in a steel mill before deciding to enroll in the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago.
At the school, he underwent strenuous training to rid himself of the remains of his Slavic accent. Malden also helped build scenery, took acting classes and appeared in plays.
The most important thing he learned, he later recalled, "was to enjoy working on a part."
After graduating from Goodman in 1937, he was too broke to pay $5 for his diploma. He worked briefly as a milkman in Gary, then headed for New York with $175 in savings.
In Manhattan, he met Harold Clurman and Elia Kazan of the Group Theater, a legendary repertory company, and debuted on Broadway in 1937 as a fight manager in a company production of Clifford Odet's "Golden Boy."
Kazan, who would play a prominent role in Malden's stage and film career, urged young Mladen Sekulovich to change his name. The actor devised his stage name by taking his maternal grandfather's first name and turning "Mladen" into "Malden."
He acted sporadically on radio and appeared in eight plays, but most ran for less than a month. There were long spells of unemployment, Malden recalled in his 1997 memoir, "When Do I Start?"
But there was an upside: In 1938, he married Mona Graham, an actress he had met when they were students at the Goodman School. They had two daughters, Carla and Mila, and remained together until Malden's death.
"I'm the happiest man in the world because of my family," Malden often said.
During World War II, he spent two years stateside in the Army Air Forces, mainly acting on Broadway in "Winged Victory," the Moss Hart show that raised millions for emergency relief. Malden also appeared in the 1944 film version.
Back in New York after the war, Malden's worries about restarting his stage career proved unfounded.
Kazan asked him to play a drunken sailor in Maxwell Anderson's "Truckline Cafe," which featured a young actor who mumbled during rehearsals: Marlon Brando.
In 1947, Malden broke through on stage playing the partner of a man (played by Ed Begley) who profits by making faulty parts for warplanes in the Arthur Miller drama "All My Sons," directed by Kazan.
Malden followed that up with an even greater stage success: his role as Blanche DuBois' awkward suitor in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," the Kazan-directed play that turned Brando into a Broadway star.
In his memoir, Malden said Brando "brought a reality to the stage that the theater had never witnessed before."
"Playing with Marlon consistently brought out the best in me," Malden wrote. "I guess, in the final analysis, it is impossible to beat genius, but it can be great fun to try to match it."
Malden played Mitch on stage for about two years, then reprised the role in the 1951 movie version, also directed by Kazan.
For his role as a tough waterfront priest in the 1954 Kazan film "On the Waterfront," Malden received a supporting actor Oscar nomination.
The character was based on Father John Corridan, whose church was near Hell's Kitchen on the Hudson River. Malden wore Corridan's hat and coat in the film and spent 11 days with the priest, who told him, "Just don't make me holier than thou; make me a human being."
A speech Corridan had delivered on the docks provided the core of the film in which Malden's waterfront priest encourages longshoremen to testify against union corruption.
As Malden recalled in 1991 in The Times, Corridan "was a Jesuit priest who taught law to the longshoremen. . . . The scene in the hold of the ship, he wrote at least 80% of that speech. A man came to him and said, 'Father John, I can't get a chit to go to work. Now I haven't gotten a chit in two months.' He says, 'You go in there and demand a chit even if you take it out of his hands. . . .' And the man did, and two days later he was found in the East River," nearly dead.
The man survived, but the next morning Corridan stood on a box on the dock and delivered the sermon that inspired Budd Schulberg's screenplay.
"Some people think the crucifixion only took place on Calvary. They better wise up," Malden's priest says in the film. "Every time the mob puts the crusher on a good man, tries to stop him from doing his duty as a citizen, it's a crucifixion."
Kazan also directed Malden in the 1956 movie "Baby Doll," Tennessee Williams' controversial story about the unusual marriage between a middle-aged man (Malden) and his teen bride, played by Carroll Baker.
Malden was one of the original members of the Actors Studio, formed by Kazan and others in 1948 after the Group Theater disbanded in 1941. After Kazan named names before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952, Malden remained friends with the director.
Because of Kazan's testimony, Malden wrote in his book, many mutual friends who turned on Kazan also refused to speak to Malden.
The actor, who claimed to have always been apolitical, wrote that he "never believed that politics had a place in art, that is to say, not in artistic relationships."
Malden said as much in 1999 when, as a member of the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he proposed that Kazan be awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement.
Film festivals, critics associations and the American Film Institute had refused to bestow similar honors on Kazan in his later years because of his House testimony.
"When I got up to talk, I suspected that there would be a big fight, but no one debated it at all," Malden later told The Times. "I said that I'm nominating a dear friend, and as far as I'm concerned, there's no place for politics in any art form. An award like this is about your body of work, and when it comes to a body of work, Elia Kazan deserves to be honored."
When Malden finished speaking, The Times reported, he was greeted by a rousing burst of applause.
Malden served as president of the academy from 1989 to 1992, during which he led the effort to remodel the academy theater in Beverly Hills and helped raise an endowment fund for the academy's Center for Motion Picture Study in the historic waterworks building in Beverly Hills.
As academy president, Malden also was required to speak at the annual Oscar-night ceremony seen by millions around the world.
There were no television cameras in 1952 when Malden accepted his best supporting actor Oscar for "A Streetcar Named Desire."
The day of the Oscar ceremony at the Pantages Theater, he was making the B-movie "Operation Secret," a World War II drama starring Cornel Wilde, at Warner Bros. He hadn't even planned to attend the ceremony.
But, Malden told The Times in 1991, someone from the front office went down to the set and said, "You're going to the Oscar show. You go to the wardrobe and get yourself a tuxedo. You're going."
Malden's wife and family were home in New York, and he drove to the ceremony alone in an old green rented Chevy. Embarrassed to see the limousines pulling up to the Pantages, he parked two blocks away.
As Malden recounted, "I had a coat because in New York you had a coat -- a topcoat -- and I walked in. Nobody knew me.
He put his coat in the adjacent seat before Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall sat down. When Malden's name was called as a winner, he asked Bogart to watch his coat.
"He said, 'Get up there kid, take your Oscar.' . . . . About a half-hour later, I see Bogart holding an Oscar," for best actor in "The African Queen."
The first thing I said to him is, 'What did you do with my coat?' He said in nice words, 'Forget your coat, hold on to the goddamn Oscar.' "
In addition to his wife of 70 years and his daughters, Malden is survived by three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Times staff writer Valerie J. Nelson contributed to this report.