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FORT WORTH, Texas - The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood attack wants to represent himself at his upcoming murder trial, which means he could question the nearly three dozen soldiers he's accused of wounding in the shooting rampage.
Maj. Nidal Hasan's request, announced Wednesday by Fort Hood officials, is to be considered at a pretrial hearing next week. The request prompted the military judge, Col. Tara Osborn, to delay jury selection to June 5, about a week after it was scheduled to start.
Hasan, an American-born Muslim, faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the Nov. 5, 2009, attack on the Texas Army post, about 125 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
Military law allows defendants to represent themselves, but the judge will ask Hasan's attorneys to stay throughout the trial in case he asks for their help, according to court-martial guidelines. Two of Hasan's three Army attorneys have represented him since shortly after his arrest.
Hasan's attorneys and military prosecutors have said they are not allowed to comment about anything related to the case.
In 2011, Hasan cut ties with his previous lead attorney, John Galligan, a civilian who is a former military judge. Galligan declined to comment Wednesday on why he stopped representing Hasan and said he didn't know why his former client suddenly wants to represent himself.
At a hearing earlier this month, Hasan told Osborn that he wanted to plead guilty. But Army rules prohibit a judge from accepting a guilty plea to charges that could result in a death sentence. Osborn also denied his request to plead guilty to lesser murder charges, citing legal issues that could have arisen because his death penalty trial still would have proceeded.
Witnesses have said that after lunch on Nov. 5, 2009, a gunman wearing an Army combat uniform shouted "Allahu Akbar!" - "God is great!" in Arabic - and opened fire in a crowded medical building where deploying soldiers get vaccines and other tests. He fired rapidly, pausing only to reload, even shooting at some soldiers as they hid under desks and fled the building, according to witnesses.


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Q: Does alt_disk_copy convert JFS filesystems to JFS2? A: Yes! Starting at 6100-04 , a new flag was introduced that would convert JFS filesystems to JFS2. We now have the -T which does the conversion. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1011055 Here's an example of converting rootvg file systems from JFS to JFS2 using alt_disk_copy . My lab system was migrated from AIX 5.3 to 7.1 via nimadm . Unfortunately, nimadm does not convert JFS file systems to JFS2 during the migration. So, in this case, even though... [More]
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Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber call for change
In the wake of a traffic accident that took the life of a paparazzo, Miley Cyrus is backing up Justin Bieber's call for legislation.
The 20-year-old singer/actress, who's also frequently captured by paparazzi cameras as she goes about her daily activities, posted on Twitter Tuesday that the death of the photographer who died trying to take pictures of Bieber should be a turning point.
"Hope this paparazzi/JB accident brings on some changes in '13," Cyrus posted Tuesday, the day of the accident. "Paparazzi are dangerous! Wasn't Princess Di enough of a wake up call?!"
The deceased photographer was hit by oncoming traffic on Tuesday when crossing the street after taking photos of the occupants inside Bieber's parked white Ferrari. The 18-year-old pop star wasn't in his vehicle; it was a friend, 19-year-old rapper Lil Twist, who was behind the wheel.
According to a rep, the 19-year-old, whose real name is Christopher Moore, was pulled over for a routine traffic stop and didn't witness the paparazzo being hit by an oncoming SUV truck. Moore was unaware that he was being followed by photographers, and, along with Bieber, has sent his condolences to the family.
"While I was not present nor directly involved with this tragic accident, my thoughts and prayers are with the family of the victim," Bieber said in a statement. "Hopefully this tragedy will finally inspire meaningful legislation and whatever other necessary steps to protect the lives and safety of celebrities, police officers, innocent public bystanders, and the photographers themselves."
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Ethan is the youngest of my three boys. He turned 7 in December of 2007, and my wife and I bought him a new Browning Bar .243 for Christmas.
Just a few days later, the weather in Alabama called for severe storms and possible tornadoes. Looking at the radar, I noticed a break coming before another severe storm would come through. Chomping at the bit to try out his new gun, Ethan and I decided to scout a tract of private land we had access to and find a spot for a good setup.
We left the house at about 8 a.m. and arrived at our hunting location just 15 minutes later. On the way, Ethan had told me he wished he was God. I asked him why, and he said, "Because I would come back as a human and pray that I would get a 12-point at 65 yards."
With fatherly amusement, I told Nathan that if there was such a buck there whose time had come, maybe God would bless him with the opportunity to take it.
The area was an old swamp that had almost dried out from that year's record drought. Being the only water left in the area, it looked like a natural deer magnet. It was obvious that several deer were visiting the water hole, and there were new rubs and scrapes everywhere.
I told Ethan that I had seen everything I needed to see and that we should sit down and watch for a while.
A half hour later, the wind picked up, blowing directly into the bedding area. A move was in order, so we went 200 yards into the woods and found several trails leading out to the water hole. The spot had potential, so we set up a ground blind for the following morning and decided to sit for a while.
After things were quiet for a time, Ethan insisted on using his can call. I grunted with my grunt tube while he used The Can. About 5 minutes later, I saw antlers and a brown body walking from right to left in front of us about 100 yards out.
said, "Oh, my God, Ethan, what a buck! Get your gun up!"
I helped Ethan get his new rifle settled on some shooting sticks as the deer walked into an opening about 80 yards away. Then it turned and started walking straight toward us.
That's when I got my first good look at the antlers. It was the biggest buck I had ever seen in the woods. The rack was tall and much wider than the deer's body. The first thing to go through my mind was that Ethan would never hit it. I said, "Ethan, do you want me to shoot?"
Of course he said no, so it was all up to him. I closed my eyes and said a quick prayer as Ethan struggled to find the buck in the scope. He said, "Where is it?"
It took all my willpower not to yell, but I whispered fiercely, "He's right there! Just look through your scope and he will walk right into it."
Next I heard, "I don't see him ... Oh, my God!"
Regaining some of my composure, I said, "Wait until he picks up his head."
The deer was quartering to us, straight up the trail that runs just a few feet from the blind. It picked up its head, and I told Ethan to shoot — but he didn't. The deer puts its nose back to the ground and I said, "Don't shoot now or you will shoot its antlers off."
Meanwhile, the buck looked up again and I said, "Shoot!" — still nothing.
Finally, Ethan whispered, "I can't shoot him walking." By this time my heart was pounding out of my chest.
The giant buck finally decided to stop and look around only 40 yards in front of us. I said, "Shoot him!" and Ethan fired the gun.
The buck spun around and ran. I got the impression it was hit pretty good and said, "You got him!" as it ran out of sight into the woods.
Ethan said, "That is a mounter right there!" I looked down to see tears in his eyes as he said, "Hug me."
When we walked up to where the buck had been standing, I couldn't find anything. Still shook up, I said, "Let's walk back to the blind and make sure we're at the right spot." After checking and returning, I still couldn't find hair or blood.
Next I located the buck's tracks and began to follow them. After about 30 yards, now with tears in my eyes, I told Ethan, "Man, I think you missed."
He looked up and said, "No, I didn't. I saw the hair puff up where the bullet hit, and I had it right on him."
I stopped, looked up, closed my eyes and said, "Lord, please let this amazing young man find this deer."
I followed the tracks with still no sign before finally finding a spot of blood about the size of a quarter. Five feet farther was a lot more. I hit my knees, closed my eyes and gave Ethan another hug, silently thanking God.
Ethan's buck lay about 30 yards up the trail. I told him, "Boy, you just killed the biggest buck I have ever seen." After counting the buck's 10 points, I told my son, "I guess you owe God a big 'thank you.' He traded you two points and gave you 25 yards."
A crowd had gathered by the time we got home. Everyone told Ethan he could hunt the rest of his life and never see a buck like that again. I think some day he'll realize just how special his trophy is, but he was plenty excited even without that realization.
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As from his first show, Martin Margiela renders his models unrecognizable for the maison's recent 2009 Spring/Summer women's ready-to-wear offering. By covering their faces with cotton gauze, the house intends to focus attention on the clothes.
Editorial from Arena Homme Plus 30: Hard Times. While the magazine celebrates its 30th issue, Maison Martin Margiela marks its 20th year in women's wear and its 10th in menswear
Left: hand-painted recycled five-pocket classic cut jeans (2001 F/W Artisanal line), hand-painted recycled boots (1999 F/W). Right: over-dyed recycled and reworked cotton college sweatshirt with hand-stitched leather elbow patches (2000 S/S Artisanal line), over-dyed recycled and reworked five-pocket classic cut jeans with leather knee inserts (2000 F/W Artisanal line), hand-painted recycled boots (1999 F/W). Cotton gauze veil from first Martin Margiella collections (1989 S/S)
Right: cotton recycled aviator's boiler-suit retailored into short jacket (1995 F/W Artisanal line), cotton recycled battle-pants turned inside out and retailored into multi-pocket chinos (1998 F/W Artisanal line)
Cotton hand-finished coat (2005 F/W Replica, provenance: England, period: 1970)
"When Jenny [Meirens] and Martin started out, they collected furniture from all over the place, from the street, from flea markets, from stores all over the world. They had no money and it was all in different styles, so to make it seem coherent it was all painted white."
Above is an image from their website: mannequins shrouded in white cloth. The concept of anonimity and concealment pervade the maison's collections, its atelier, and is fiercely defended by Martin Margiela himself, who has become an enigma because of his refusal to appear before the press.
Maison Martin Margiela celebrates its 20th anniversary this month with an exhibition at the Antwerp Mode Museum, which shows until February 8, 2009.
Close-up of recycled boots, painted white like the house's whitewashed furniture
At the Antwerp exhibit: mannequins behind what appears to be clear plastic
Martin Margiela also uses tape to recycle items found in vintage chests. In this instance he uses gaffer tape for a jacket, belt, stilletos, and bags from the 2005 F/W women's Artisanal collection. A t-shirt from the 2008 F/W men's RTW collection is emblazoned with the letter M, which looks as if it were taped.
In these mood images for the 2004 F/W men's RTW, the eyes of models and mannequins are covered with tape. Faces cannot show expression; only clothes give impressions.
After white gauze, paint, and tape, Martin Margiela, in logical development, produces shades that cover the eyes as tape would: a one-piece visor named Incognito.
It has been mentioned that the maison's desire to remain low-key has given other designers free rein to reference Margiela's influential designs and innovations.
Margiela emerged as a designer during the latter part of the eighties, when other superstar designers basked in the limelight and more often than not overhshadowed their own creations. Margiela decided he wanted a different path.
Above: pieces from Artisanal lines made from gloves. Below: gloves on dresses by Comme des Garçons, from its 2007 women's F/W collection
No brand logos can be found on Margiela's clothes, only four diagonal stitches outside and a patch of numbers inside. The numbers stand for different lines.
"0": Garments, fabrics, and accessories reworked by hand as garments for women and men
The reworking of clothes and objects as newly conceived garments and accessories has been a primary creative outlet for the Maison Martin Margiela ever since its second collection for women for Autumn/Winter 1989-90.
These items, given that they are handmade, have always been referred to as our "Artisanal" production and, for the past few years, Line "0". The numbers 0 to 23 are printed on their label which is either sewn into, embossed, or stamped on the garment or accessory. The zero on that label has been encircled to denote that they belong to this particular Martin Margiela collection.
Each garment or item is made or reworked totally by hand at the Maison Martin Margiela's in-house atelier in Paris. The great amount of time dedicated to each piece, in some cases three to four days, and the scarcity of the vintage raw materials used requires that the total number of editions produced of each piece is extremely limted. Each piece is therefore entirely unique.
"10": A collection for men
"10" should be seen as a wardrobe consisting of garments which have different functions yet which each of which should be given a similar value and importance.
Traditional jackets are proposed to be worn with jeans or cotton trousers and a T-shirt or sweater rather than as a classic suit with a shirt.
Every garment has been received the same attention and detail, whether it be a traditional jacket or a jeans jacket.
All the lined garments have traditional interior details such as three different types of lining at the arm gussets and labels giving special care instructions particular to the garment.
Coats, cabans, jackets, waistcoats and jeans jackets all have real horn buttons.
"14": A wardrobe for men
"14" is the vision of Maison Martin Margiela on a wardrobe for women, the second label of men's clothes, it was first introduced for Spring/Summer 2005. "14" compliments "10" the House's collection of men's ready-to-wear garments.
The garments of "14" evoke timelessness. Its foundation is that of a personal approach to dressing fixed on a taste rather than a seasonal approach to design or a particular age group.
A selection contrasting men's garments, its sensibility bridges that of traditional, sartorial, and structured clothing.
Extra care and craft have been attributed to construction, fit, the choice of fabrics, hand finishing, and the perfection of the interior and exterior detailing of all its garments.
Left: 2007 S/S, Vintage basketball style sneakers in white canvas are opened to create a waistcoat. Once their rubber soles have been removed the sneakers are opened out, laid flat, and assembled on a tailor's dummy to create this garment. The original laces randomly hang from the metal eyelets and serve to close the waistcoat where necessary. Waistcoat : 22 hours
Right: 2007 F/W, A choice of two of many styles of men's footwear, from biker boots to sneakers, are dissected and reassembled together to create one new pair of men's boots
Left: 2007 F/W, A vintage blouson is reworked, the weave of its tweed opened to create fringing and biker style motifs, so that it imitates the form and detailing of a leather biker jacket
Right: 2007 S/S, Vintage sports bags are used as the fabric of a blouson. A few sports bags are required to create one zipped jacket. All of the original details of the bags - zips, pockets, straps, and piping - are maintained to embellish the final garment. Blouson : 57 hours
Left: 2007 F/W, Links, cut from jackets in contrasting sheepskins, are reworked into the structure of a vintage sheepskin coat
Right: 2007 F/W, Three leather waistcoats fused together to give the appearance of a pin up face in different shades
2006 F/W, The belts of vintage leather trench coats are assembled to create jeans and a blouson. These belts of varying leathers and colors are placed together on a tailor's dummy and stitched together to create a sleeveless blouson. All of the original detailing of the belts has been maintained including some of their original buckles that remain to belt the new garments. The suppleness of jacket and trousers is assured by opening the belts so that their original thickness be reduced. Blouson = 38 hours, trousers = 48 hours
From 2006 S/S: Khaki cotton jacket and trousers made from military satchels
Left: 2007 F/W, Circular discs, in varying tones of faded vintage denim, are applied as sequins to a pair of vintage bleached jeans
Right: 2006 F/W, Velvet evening waistcoats are reworked as a trouser. These waistcoats in dark colours ( brown, anthracite, and black) are opened and reassembled on a dummy to be sewn up as a trouser. The straight trouser leg is uneven in length. The new trouser features all of the original waistcoat detailing such as pockets, satin piping and buttonholes, and buttons. Trouser = 46 hours
2006 F/W, Discs cut from men's suits in varying tones of dark colors and fabrics are assembled as waistcoats. Discs cut from the suit's outer fabric are folded, gathered and flattened, and assembled and stitched by hand to create the front panel of the waistcoat's. Its back is constructed of similar discs cut from the suit's lining. These waistcoats are proposed in two color combinations: dark grey with an anthracite back or evening black with an ecru back. Waistcoat = 32 hours
Left: 2006 F/W, Men's dress socks are used as the material of a cardigan. Men's evening socks, found unused as part of a dead stock, in blacks and browns and of varying motifs are assembled directly on a tailor's dummy either right way round or inside out. They are then hand stitched to create a light, tight fitting, formal cardigan. Cardigan = 39 hours
Right: 2007 S/S, A bathrobe is created using vintage unused bath towels of varying weaves and motifs. Before assembly by hand as a bathrobe on a tailor's dummy these towels are firstly overdyed in dark colours to create a patchwork of textures, stripes, and embroidered emblems. Robe = 27 hours
Left: 2007 S/S, A few hand painted oil canvases, depicting pastoral scenes and animals, create a waistcoat. Each painting is removed from its stretcher, softened and coated to fix its oils and gesso. The paintings are superimposed in places to create the garment for which the raw edges of the canvases are now visible. The finished waistcoat, once finished, is lined in poplin. Waistcoat = 25 hours
Right: 2007 S/S, A trench coat is tailored from calico shopping bags. Fabric shopping bags, bearing the logos of the shops from which they came, are bleached back to a camel colour. Up to forty of these bags are required to create one coat. Even the storm flaps, belts, and belt-loops are cut from the bags. Trenchcoat : 42 hours
Left: 2006 F/W, Cummerbunds are combined to create an evening jacket. Dark and light colored cummerbunds are assembled by hand on a tailor's dummy and used to create a cropped evening jacket. The fact that the original state of cummerbunds remains intact ensures that all of their original detail remains visible on the finished garment. Jacket = 45 hours
Right: 2007 F/W, Western style motifs are cut away by hand from the body of its fabric to embellish a vintage man's dinner jacket
Left: 2008 S/S, The plastron of a vintage shirt is embroidered with various buttons in mother-of-pearl, metal, and plastic, composing the drawing of an eye. T-shirt = 20 hours
Right: 2008 S/S, A leather jacket is made of footballs. The balls are cut up, flattened, and applied on leather similar to the rubbery inner tube of the ball. Jacket = 35 hours
There are more sartorial suprises in the "10" line.
From 2003 F/W: Reworked biker waistcoat in leather, t-shirt with a reversed V-neck, painted denim jacket "2tones grey", and artisanal printed t-shirt
From 2004 S/S and F/W: Reversed moleskin trench coat with printed t-shirt, checked artisanal trousers with belt taken from a pair of vintage jeans, artisanal assembled sleeveless inside-out norwegian sweater, and vintage checked trousers artisanally reworked into a top
From 2005 F/W: Vintage sheepskin pilot caps reworked as a leather blouson, reversible belt made from 60s ties, red waistcoat with leather colorcard patches, and vintage 60s neckties reworked as a waistcoat
From 2005 S/S and 2006 F/W: Mismatched sides of two vintage suede blousons, artisanal reversed denim jacket, reversible sheepskin coat, and spencer jacket with a leather collar worn with a replica cotton voile shirt
From 2006 S/S and F/W: Leather jacket with stripe and patch in fake leopard fur, jacquard zipped sweater, and sandals and boots in denim
From 2006 S/S. From 2007 S/S: Cotton jacket with inspired western details worn with a printed shirt and for the last outfit: studded waistcoat, iridescent jeans, ridged leather belt, and brogues in iridescent leather
From 2007 S/S and F/W: Leather patchwork spencer, replica leather blouson, spencer closed by a red cummerbund, and printed cotton shirt
From 2008 F/W
From 2008 F/W. From 2008 S/S: Evening shirt with a pleated bib and cotton poplin black shirt with a bib
All in all, Martin Margiela's attention to detail, structure, and fabric, plus his ingenious innovations, rehabilitations, and modifications, show that he is a true artisan - one of the last few, if not the last, left in fashion.
From 2006 S/S Replica: Trenchcoat with covering placket, provenance: Germany, period: 1982; photographer's parka with hood and adjustable cuffs, provenance: Berlin, period: 1979
The process with which he relentlessly resurrects and reinterprets past designs reveals most explicitly the real nature of fashion, even of art itself: that everything has already been said; it is merely a matter of saying it again with new eyes, exaggerating, cutting down, or fusing together according to the changing perceptions of the times.
From 2005 S/S Replica: Trenchcoat, provenance: US, period: 1966; from 2006 S/S: Unlined safari jacket, provenance: US, period: 50s
He apparently leads the fashion pack because, through his works, he is the most candid in this admission, the most blunt. Even in his Artisanal lines, it is as if he says that all the materials we will ever need are already at hand; any changes or modifications are deemed minimal.
From 2005 S/S: Waiter's waistcoat, provenance: France, period: currently in us; from 2006 S/S: cotton cardigan with shawl collar, provenance: Ireland, period: 1981; from 2006 S/S: den's fitted leather jacket with "lowered lapel", provenance: Italy, period: 70s
Above all, it is about revision.
But this does not mean that everything needs to be changed. Margiela also allocates space in the maison for unadulterated and unabashed Replicas, in recognition of perfect craft.
From 2005 S/S Replica: Blazer jacket, provenance: The Netherlands, period: 1975; from 2006 S/S: sports jacket with back vents, provenance: Italy, period: unknown; from 2005 S/S: sports jacket, provenance: US, period: 1960
Each season "14" contains a group of "Replica". These clothes the Maison Martin Margiela has found and loved yet felt that they should remain exactly as they are. They are slavishly reproduced and carry a second label explaining their origin, function, and period. The role of Maison Martin Margiela as designers on these pieces is thereofre reserved to ensuring that the choice of fabric and their construction resemble the original as closely as possible. What were "one off" vintage garments therefore become available to many, in their exact size and new!
From 2005 S/S Replica: Sailor trousers, provenance: US, period: 1970; from 2006 S/S: classic trousers with fixed flaps, provenance: Scandinavia, period: unknown; from 2005 S/S: smoking trousers, provenance: France, period: 1930
For all his invention and quiet revolution, ironically, Martin Margiela is the most grounded among the designers. His work is the most organic and the styles he introduces and reintroduces are understood by his buyers, unencumbered by intrusive marketing and excessive image building.
From 2006 S/S: Evening shirt with "bow tie collar", provenance: Stockholm, period: 1976; from 2005 S/S: club shirt, provenance: France, period: 1968; from 2005 S/S: dinner shirt, provenance: London, period: 1950
It appears that Maison Martin Margiela creates clothes for the joy of it, and that is what people buy. Plain and simple.
From 2005 S/S: Tubular underwear t-shirt, provenance: Germany, period: 1975


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MISS is back again with more CHANAILS for their MISS Nails Did 2012 calendar. Nothing says spring like flowers and if you're going floral – whether on your jeans, kicks or nails – they might as well be Chanel-inspired. Since color is huge for spring, and in particular for 2012, we opted for bright vintage Chanel gift wrap for our background and authentic Chanel camellia brooches to accompany our CHANAILS. I hope you're having a great spring and let's get ready for summer!
Download the free MISS May 2012 "Nails Did" calendar and desktop by clicking here.
Chanel wrapping paper and camellias: Liz Baca
Photographer: Amanda Lopez
Nail Artist: Liz Baca
Nail Assistant: Lila Robles
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Video game classes for teens to be offered at Denver University
The iD Gaming Academy will be offering a summer program for teens age 13-18 at the University of Denver starting this summer (July 22-Aug. 3). Other schools offering the classes include Stanford, Emory and Harvard.
Students will be exposed to a variety of experiences including, but not limited to:
3D modeling, game programming and level design.
Small, personalized classes of just eight students or fewer (guaranteed).
Tour a major game design studio.
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Graduate with an online portfolio.
Game Development for iPhone
Would seem to be a great avenue for youngsters interesting in experiencing some of the processes involved in such a career path.
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A car caused traffic chaos on Scotland's busiest motorway today (Wednesday) after smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames.
Witnesses looked on as the white Vauxhall Corsa was gripped by a raging blaze after ending up on the central reservation of the M8 at around 12.34pm.
The incident happened near Glasgow Royal Infirmary, causing two lanes of the M8 Westbound to be closed, with one lane of the Eastbound also shut.
A passer-by said an unmarked ambulance was on the scene within seconds, with a paramedic rescuing the female driver from the car.
She was taken to hospital as a precaution.
Vehicles were able to move again once the fire was extinguished but the car was still there an hour later.


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I have come a long way in three years. I was so naive. I couldn't wait to vote the Republicans out of office, so I registered myself as a Democrat and woke up at 5am to go stand proudly in line to vote for Obama. Like many of us since then, I now realize what a sucker I was. I had high hopes that Obama was going to nationalize the banks when he took office and start loosening the hold the bankers have around our throats. Well, that didn't happen, and instead he went after health care. We all know what he has and has not done since, with the latter more than overwhelming the former. So I got frustrated, as most of us have, that nothing changed with Obama. I got determined to educate myself and find out what the real problems are, and what the real solutions are.
I started watching a lot of MSNBC. At first, I stuck with Hardball with Chris Matthews. While that kept me informed as to what the two political parties were up to, I was far from satisfied. Then one day I tuned in a little early and caught a little of Dylan Ratigan. His personality turned me off a little at first, but the next time I saw his show I was mesmerized. Hooked. Here was a guy who was finally speaking about the real issues, the fundamental structural problems underlying the mess we are in. If you know the show, much of what I am about to say will sound like repetition, but these are what I think the real problems in America are.
There are 6 industries which own the US government, the military-industrial complex (e.g. Lockheed Martin), health care (Big Pharma, health insurance), banking, energy (oil, Halliburton), agribusiness (think Monsanto), and telecommunications (e.g. the phone companies that rip us off). The heads of these industries use their spectacular wealth to buy politicians. In fact, 94% of our elections are now won by the candidate who raises the most money. Obama was no exception. Yes, he raised more money from small donations than anyone had before, but he also raised more money from LARGE donations than ever before. Goldman Sachs was his single biggest campaign contributor in 2008. We all know that if a candidate tries to go against any of these industries, they use their fabulous wealth to take out attack ads so that they don't stand a chance (think swiftboating). As long as our two political parties play by the rules, they can divide up the country in any other, meaningless way they want.
They have a very cozy relationship, these plutocrats. The politicians look the other way while the rich engage in insider trading. They even call up their friends on Wall St. and give them insider information as to policy changes which have financial ramifications (and then engage in a healthy amount of insider trading themselves). Then the rich spend huge amounts of money in lobbying efforts to convince the politicians as to how the laws should be written. They have managed to rig, to their vast benefit, the tax code, trade policies, and banking regulations to siphon money from the American people and into their pockets. They pay lower taxes (or none at all) than average American individuals and businesses. They trade with countries like China which can make products far cheaper than we can make it here, eliminating American jobs while flooding the markets with cheap goods (think Walmart). But the banking "industry" seems to have benefited to even more egregious levels.
Our US government has allowed a $700 trillion, completely invisible and unregulated swaps market to exist without requiring all of these transactions to take place on a visible (and regulatable) exchange. There are no capital requirements, which means they can trade without having anything of value to put up as collateral. And when their bets go bad, the Fed just sends them a check to the tune of $29.6 trillion of our tax-payer money so far since the crisis began. And I thought we had a deficit! Where are we getting all of this money from? Are we just printing it?
Meanwhile 1 in 15 Americans now live in poverty. 18% of us are unemployed (that's the "real" unemployment figures), and that's not even counting the underemployed. Incomes are falling, debt is mounting. People are left homeless while foreclosed homes sit empty. Income and wealth inequality are at their highest levels since the Great Depression. Meanwhile our elections are being put up for auction and neither political party will stand up to these powerful ruling interests. If this isn't a state of unjust affairs, then I don't know what is. These are issues that shouldn't even be restricted to the left, we are all being oppressed. But while we on the left are waking up, those on the right are drifting towards a libertarian philosophy which plays right into the hands of the rich. With no government around, who could possibly stand up to the rich?
We need to retake our government, not break it down into uselessness. And we need large-scale structural solutions to address these mounting problems. We need systematic and system-wide changes to our democracy and our government. We need to weed out waste and abuse of power at all levels. We need to eliminate subsidies for oil companies and stop sending money without strings attached to the bankers. We need to break up the banking cartels so that never again will an institution be "too big to fail". We need real regulations on the banking industry, and that begins with having capital requirements and putting the swaps market on a visible exchange. If we change the way Wall St. does business, they will make money honestly and contribute real value to America rather than being fueled by the need to create more and more debt. We need to restructure debt to help out students and homeowners. And to that end I would suggest literally bailing out the American people. If we are going to print money, why not give it directly to Americans so that they can use it to pay off their debts to the banks?
We need to eliminate superpacs and overturn the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court that makes corporations people and money into protected free speech so that the rich can't talk more loudly than everyone else. We need a real energy plan, and we need to improve our energy efficiency so that we can approach a % in the 90's like other modern industrialized nations have rather than the 34% efficiency we are now sitting at. We need real environmental regulations, and we need to completely restructure our educational system so that we can keep up with the rest of the world. And we need to end privatized profit but socialized risk for the wealthy, and incentivize investment in America and it's people.
The political discussion has been framed by our politicians as being about ballooning debt. While certainly this is a huge problem, I am quite certain that if we address the real problems in America, our national debt problem will also be solved. If we stop war-mongering and being the arms-dealers to the world, we won't have huge costly wars to pay off. With an economy that puts people to work, our social programs will have plenty of funding to continue operations, keeping Americans healthy and financially supported throughout old age.
We are really running out of time. The changing environment is going to make all humanity come together, one way or another. We can come together now and make the necessary changes to our lifestyle and our society so that we can all live on this earth in peace, or the catastrophe to come will be marked by the most violence, starvation, and suffering the world has ever known. And the US needs to lead the way. When the catastrophe comes, humanity will largely blame Americans for it, and rightly so. There will be enough blame to go around, but the American people can do something about it now, while we still have time. If we do not raise our heads up out of the herd and take our country back from the oligarchs who hold us as slaves and hostages, the lion's share of the moral responsibility for the future of humanity will be ours to bear.
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Your analysis seems to partially recognize that we live under the dictatorship of the capitalist class, but then you just ignore that fact. You understand that the capitalist class (those are people who own the means to produce goods..factories, farms etc..) can simply relocate "their" money, ergo jobs,to China, etc.. where goods can be produced cheaper and prices driven down, but you think that you're going to be able to regulate them? That's liberal nonsense, totally delusional. If you approach a suit-dummy capitalist and say "I'm going to raise taxes on you, or make you pay your workers more etc.." they will just look at you, tell you to fuck off, and ask if you really want any jobs in your country or not? They will sometimes allow you to tax them if they feel it is in their interest$, such as calming unrest, but then they simply will raise prices. Capitalist politicians are simply the spokespeople for the capitalist class and have no power to do anything at all against the interest$ of the capitalists. If you start to really piss them off they will whip up their fascist base on you in a heartbeat (Christian fascists, "proud to be an Amerikans" people who're generally under heavy influence of the rich White culture, etc..) and roll back production, roll back jobs, raise prices, any number of buttons at their disposal to turn the common people against you and polarize society in their favor. In short, your analysis, while certainly well-meaning, has enormous blind spots in it.
This Ratigan cat serves the interest$ of the capitalist class by channeling people's righteous outrage into ideology that stands no chance whatsoever for our liberation. Of course the capitalist class knows there will be lefties, and with a useful idiot like Ratigan they can make people think that just taxing the rich is the way to go. They can handle this very easily as I pointed out. Alarm bells should ring for you when you're watching his program and see all these ads from the capitalists keeping him on air. If he were saying something that made them angry they'd pull their ads in a second. The far right couldn't ask for better leadership for the left than a liberal pos like Ratigan.
Your analysis is divorced from the reality that only labor produces wealth, nothing else. Any gains in income made for the Amerikan people will be taken from the blood of the third-world, who is continuously robbed at gunpoint by the capitalist class in order to produce the Amerikan way of life. Until you really understand why the vast majority of humanity lives on less than $3 a day, while Amerikans expect jobs making $10 an hour, then your analysis will be far off where it needs to be. Look at the mental gymnastics you're having to do in order to believe that Amerikan's deserve $10 an hour jobs..why do you believe this? Do you honestly believe that Amerikans work harder and deserve it (lol)? Or is is because we llive in the house with the most vicious gangsters known to humanity, who now and historically, have been the most ruthless in their exploitation of the earth and its inhabitants?
Attempting to have people who are overwhelmingly all in the top 20% of the world in terms of wealth (The entire population of the United Snakes) have more than they already do is fascism and social-imperialism. Amerikans deserve less, not more. Amerikans have to learn to live with less, not more. The Amerikan lifestyle is destroying our planet. Amerikans are 5% of the world's population and consume 25% of the world's resources. Amerika, indeed the entire first-world as we know it much come to an end. This won't happen by rallying Amerikans around leadership that says that they actually deserve more, not less. First-world people who are seeking fundamental change, fundamental change that can only be brought about when goods begin to be produced for need rather than profits, that's to say the means of production are transferred from the ownership of individuals to common ownership, need to realize that they are behind enemy lines, that the culture and people's they are dealing with have grown accustomed to the third-world plantation, chattel slavery, and genocide enabled lifestyles they've led and will fight to the death in order to maintain it. There are a few in the first-world who will stand in true solidarity with the third-world, but not enough to make up a potential revolutionary force. Attempting to lead revolution here would be to simply invite a bloodbath. Not only will the capitalist class come down on you with the armed forces they command, but the common people will be against you as well. The fate of humanity, the fate of our planet lies in the masses of Africa, Latin America, and South Asia rising up under revolutionary leadership to destroy the first-world as we know it. The duty of first-worlders who want to see a new world that is not based on exploitation and oppression is to support the struggles of the third-world masses to rise up under revolutionary leadership, to throw out the puppet regimes and all first-world interest$ front their countries and pave the way for a new world based on the principle of "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need."
I do not support every aspect of this group's leadership, but nonetheless here are some good videos explaining more about where I'm coming from:
Sendero, you have a very one-sided perspective. While there are many things I can agree with you on in your analysis, there are many things I would disagree with as well. Firstly, and most egregiously, the Marxist principle "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need." If you think about this rationally, it means the opposite of a meritocracy. The neediest receive all the benefits while the strongest and most talented have the lion's share of the benefit of their work taken from them and given to others. Again, this is very one-sided. A balanced approach requires taking care of the needs of the unfortunate while also rewarding the talented, hard-working, and strong for their efforts. This means that there does need to be a redistribution of power, but not one which prioritizes need above any other consideration. Only an organismic perspective satisfies these demands. The most powerful should not be allowed to get so far ahead of everyone else that they can abuse their power to the detriment of the whole society, and the least powerful should be empowered so that they have power comparable to the lower middle. The overarching principle of a just society should be that one should do what is in the interests of both the individual and the society, putting these two in as perfect a balance as possible.
Getting back the the body of your critique, firstly I say fine, let the capitalist class relocate to China, etc. Their machinery can stay, and the people as a whole can work for themselves instead of for a master class. Either they submit to regulation, or we can create our own jobs without them, and far better. They are a drain on the society, not a boon.
While I agree with you that the fascist right is the tool of the capitalists, they are not completely blind. Enough people voted Obama in, and had he the wherewithal he could have nationalized the banks, and came close to doing so had he not relinquished his moral authority. He was mostly just naive, not ill-intentioned. And this goes for virtually all the politicians as well as the populace, or they would realize that they were heading down the path of living in a military-state resembling Nazi Germany. The politicians are voting for their own arrest warrants.
Nowhere did I say that Americans deserve $10 an hour jobs. I also agree with you that America makes its living off of the backs of the rest of the world's population. We are living in a very unethical, and unsustainable, society. I think the rest of the world needs to be brought up and we should all be living in basically the same standards, but I am optimistic that should America lead the way down the moral path, it is possible that the whole world could be living a far better lifestyle than they currently do. I see no reason why it is impossible for us as a species to still be capable of great feats of civil engineering, while still taking care of the environment and the other species on the planet and ensuring that all humans live a minimum standard of existence. But for the short-term, that is, until we as a species get our act together, you are right, Americans do need to learn to live with less, not more.
And while I see the merits of the rest of your arguments (I see nothing here which is completely absurd), I am far less pessimistic as to what would be required to bring about change in this country and in the world. I don't see the bloodbaths that you envision, nor the third world war pitting the world against the US. I am not the hard-core Marxist you appear to be. And your use of the letter "K" is fucking annoying. I'll watch these videos a bit later.
Capitalism is a system and it has a nature that can be known. Those who're most ruthless in their exploitation and oppression of the people are awarded with the ability to set prices and to expand. You can run all the suit-dummies away that you want but you certainly can't expect them to go peacefully and you certainly can't expect to do anything when boatloads of cheap goods show up at your ports to supply a population that will now be broke because you ran off all the suit-dummies and "their" money. You can't even get White Amerikans to work at restaurants, and of course not in the fields, but you expect to get them to work at these abandoned factories for little to no pay? First of all, who will supply the raw materials to have these factories function? How will you come to take over the means to produce raw materials? How will you afford to import any?
You will never get the Amerikan people --(that's short for the Amerikkkan people in reference to the racism that is built into the fabric of the capitalist system Amerika represents and the fact that "America" has no right to exist…the correct spelling of Amerika was first put forth and popularized by the Black Panther Party, the most advanced revolutionary force this country has ever seen.) --to accept a "lesser" standard of living peacefully. You will unleash overt fascism if you piss the suit-dummies off too bad. You see what is being whipped up by the suit-dummies just in response to the Obomber, can you imagine what it would be if you really pissed them off? We already see militias rising up around churches and elsewhere, you see fascist suicide terrorist attacks being carried out (google Jim Adkisson), you would see this on a grand scale when you push them to a point. You would do well to see what gave rise to the Nazi's and see that it is playing out again right here before your eyes, with the help of the liberals of course.
As for "meritocracy." First off all, I would rather work my ass off so that someone could be lazy and live a life with dignity and have a secure survival than to work my ass off so that some suit-dummy can buy some jewelry or some shit. Second, if you leave the mechanisms in place that allow for any one person to gain an elevated $tatus over others you will end up at capitalism to the extent that you ever got away from it. Capitalism is constantly on a trajectory towards imperialism no matter what stage it finds itself. Those who are the most ruthless in their exploitation are rewarded with the elevated $tatus that allows them to mold society largely to their liking. They are enabled to put forth what is considered "normal" in society and play on people's natural fears as social animals. Furthermore, whose fault is it that some are "better" than others and "deserve" to rule $$$ over others, and have special privileges? Are certain people genetically superior and just deserve it, or is it the system to blame when there is such an unequal contribution? To those who are enabled to contribute "more" what are their motivations in contributing? To gain an elevated $tatus over others, or to lift up humanity with their contributions? It is real easy to look around at how society is now and call some people lazy and assume that it's just in their genes or something, but did you stop to consider that the reason some people seem "lazy" now is that the options that are before them are options ruled over by ruthless vampires otherwise known as capitalists? To all those who you consider lazy, how many would refuse to work if you gave the land and all the materials they needed to build houses and told them to go build some fit shelter for them and their communities to live in? It is in our nature to want to work. It's the system that we live under that makes the people what they are, under a different system and a different culture people will be happy to work because they know that the work they're doing is going to lift up all of humanity, not just some vampire suit-dummies who treat you like crap if you can even find work. Furthermore they will not be stuck doing to same unfulfilling work day-in-day-out, but rather can be trained to do all sorts of different work, and be afforded time to pursue their own interests. Mao said "If a worker doesn't want to work, must be something wrong with the management."
Again, you cannot regulate the capitalists. You cannot say, hey you have to let us use your land to produce food..they can stop or roll back production at any time and tell you to fuck off, and without a People's Army you can't do a damn thing. They will create conditions in society so bad that the common people will turn against you and rush to do the will of the capitalists so that they may eat etc… Until you are prepared to go to the capitalists and to tell them to fuck off, that you're taking their factories, farms, the means to produce raw materials etc.. and you are prepared to immediately begin providing the material requirements of life to people, the capitalists have a million buttons at their disposal to crush you with. You will never even get to the point of running them off in mass without a People's Army, but even if you did and you allow for individuals to own the means of production you will simply be putting those individuals up against a world market dominated by those with enough capital and those who're ruthless enough to set atop this whole system…they can even take a loss to push you under.
You waste every breath and thought when speaking of capitalist politicians. They are all the scum of the earth. I would not be president if you paid me. There would be absolutely nothing I, or anyone, could do to stop the suffering of the masses. Again, there can be NO fundamental change for the better in the world while individuals are allowed to own the means of production. Capitalists are forced to play by the forces of capitalism. If they will not or can not exploit the earth and its inhabitants to the maximum degree possible, they will happily be pushed aside by capitalists who can and will. Even if you are to "regulate" one section of capitalists, say you passed a maximum rent of $250 a month law, then all the other vampires would simply jack up their prices as soon as they knew more blood is in the water. You could never do a maximum 250 rent law because the capitalists would simply board the place up and wait until they made conditions so bad that they will get their way again…anyways.. You are fighting for this liberal heaven that cannot exist. You cannot hem and haw when dealing with these monsters, they rule society, they control whether or not goods even get produced at all, ..you have to jump up on the table as say "we'll bury you" and you have to be prepared to do it.
Well if you noticed I never said anything about preserving capitalism, nor did I equate a meritocracy with capitalism. But I wouldn't be a part of your communistic society either. I happen to think there is a vast middle ground that goes largely unrecognized. All societies are organismic, but there are a great many ways to organize, and great variations in how to structure an economy and a power structure. You seem to think that it has to be one way or the other, that any concessions or middle ground is a slippery slope towards evil. This is idealism at its worst. Every virtue is a mean between two vices, there is no perfect structure, there is only an optimal structure. And an optimal structure does not do away with markets entirely in favor of your worker's paradise. There is a good reason why that has never existed either. I agree with you that the structure of a society plays a great role in the behaviors of it's people, but there are genetic differences between us as well which you seem to dismiss. There will always, and should always, be an unequal distribution of power, because some people just are more powerful than others, but this does not mean that inequality should be allowed to approach the levels seen today in capitalistic societies. Power between individuals should be at least comparable to each other, and not so out-of-whack that a person can have literally billions of times more power than another.
I happen to think that, with a far more direct democracy, and with a great deal more experimentation with economic and power structures, humanity can do just fine with markets under the control of a democratic government. You seem intent on doing away with democracy itself in favor of the kind of authoritarian-communistic governments which always arise from the philosophy you espouse. We as a species have only just begun to try out new forms of governments, so to suggest that there is only two forms of government and that one is evil and the other is pure and good is both premature and flies in the face of all the evidence.
Yes Wanderer, I understand that your mind is in liberal-la-la-land. Yes, there are only two roads for humanity. One road is revolution to place the means of production into common ownership, socialism, on the way to a communist world where goods are produced 100% for need, there is no government as all antagonistic social divisions are overcome (all governments are simply means by which one class rules over others), there is no money because the means of production are held in common and goods are produced 100% for need worldwide. The other road is for the means of production to be held by individuals. This road is forced to play by the rules of capitalism..those rules (take a look around will yah?) dictate that whichever capitalist pays their workers the least, whichever are willing to degrade the environment more, whichever are able to profit more, will be rewarded with the elevated $tatus that allows them to rule society to their liking, to arm and command forces to due their bidding etc… There is no other way, period. It's not about "my thing" versus "your thing" it's about a scientific analysis.
I have no idea where you pull the anti-democracy nonsense other than capitalist distortions of communism. Would you go to a theist to learn about atheism too? Socialism is a million times more democratic than capitalism, and democracy can only truly exist once we've reached communism. You are as deluded as they come if you think voting under capitalism changes anything. The capitalist class $elects whoever they believe will lead people to serve their interest$ better, in the last $election that was Crock Obomba, because they felt resistance was growing to their system in a manner that could affect their profits, ergo they felt they may have needed to toss us some more crumbs to calm us down, but they quickly realized that just the thought of more crumbs was enough to squash enough resistance that they could continue full steam ahead in empire-building.
Your distorted view of communism probably has you believing that communism is about someone standing at a podium pounding their fist and demanding everyone just do as they say, and then they just do it...Well, I tried this and it doesn't work : ) People become leaders of revolutionary movements because what they're putting forth represents the will of the people. As is the case in Nepal now, when revolutionary leadership fails to represent the interests of the people there are splits and new leadership begins to arise.
If you think there are only two roads that humanity can take, then you have proven my point that you see things only in black and white and that you have simply taken a one-sided perspective. Why is it that people so often fail to see the subtleties and intricacies between two extremes? That you are so one-sided is made even more obvious by your continuing to state that I am somehow a capitalist when I have stated repeatedly that I am not. In fact I happen to think socialism is just fine as a middle way, and we in America would do well to stop lambasting it as somehow evil when the rest of the advanced world accepts socialism in principle and in practice. We in the US accept socialism in practice but are blind to this, and reject it in principle only, which is just stupid.
"There is no other way, period. It's not about "my thing" versus "your thing" it's about a scientific analysis." Hah, what a joke! I don't think you know what in the hell you are talking about.
"You are as deluded as they come." Yep, right back atcha. Have fun trying to convince people to become communists, you and the libertarians have so much in common it's ridiculous!
Except for one thing... Obama never promised, mentioned or even hinted at ever having any desire whatsoever to nationalise banks. I have no idea where you would get that concept from.
I do think it's a little unfair to blame someone for not doing something that they never ever had any intention of doing.
We at least need to be rational in our criticisms...
TNT, the idea of nationalizing the banks was discussed even among Obama's inner circle. Read "Confidence Men" and get yourself informed.
Are you equating bank bailouts / improved legislation / increased taxation with nationalisation? Cuz I've just read several dozen reviews of this book, and several overview pages, and can see not even hints of 'nationalisation'. I don't generally read documents who's sole purpose appears to be to the sullying of one political character, no matter which party they're from.
Also, to discuss theoretical concepts such as nationalisation in the privacy of little groups is entirely different from making a public promise and then breaking it.
The public cannot blame a leader for a non-existent promise.
I am really curious why YOU (not the book) had the impression that he would nationalise banks. I was living in the USA during that entire period and before, paid close attention to his politics, and never saw any such promises.
TNT, YOU have a pretty funny idea of what it means to be rational. First of all, "The public cannot blame a leader for a non-existent promise." Really? So as long as a leader doesn't make any explicit promises about what (s)he's going to do, they can do anything they damn well feel like? Like permitting torture, or waging war on countries without provocation, etc.? That stuff is all cool? We can't blame them for doing whatever they want with the trust of the public? You've got some pretty bizarre ways of thinking.
And let's say for arguments sake that nationalizing the banks was what was in the best interest of the country, and let's say further that the financial collapse didn't happen only a few months before the elections (when it was not in Obama's interests to make big claims about what he would do as President since he was already winning the election), but happened after he became President. Does it matter that he didn't make any promises to that effect, or is it rational to hope that he would do what is best for the country? And why are you making such an irrationally-big fucking deal out of this anyway? All I said was that "I had high hopes that Obama was going to nationalize the banks when he took office". Did I SAY he made any such promises? No, I fucking well didn't. And instead of reading reviews and overviews, you should read the book itself before you accuse me of making things up about it.
Nationalisation of health care had 1000x more feasibility potential than 'nationalisation' of banking, and the citizens of the USA have amply demonstrated that they're not ready for such a beneficial nationalisation. Any idea of nationalising the banking system in the USA is SO infeasible, I wouldn't waste time on it.
And thanks but no thanks, there are much more valuable readings to me than character smearing books.
Put yourself in a president's shoes (any, even community organisations) and see if you're going to chose battles that have a chance of succeeding, albeit small, or campaigns that you know ahead of time will fail.
I'll be rational. Obama signed into law an unconstitutional bill that allows the U.S. military to arrest U.S. citizens, without charges, without access to an attorney, indefinitely, and secretly. Obama took an oath to uphold the Constitution. Oh, and he took it on the bible.
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Stored away in the rare-book library at Yale University is a late-medieval manuscript written in a cramped but punctilious script and illustrated with lively line drawings that have been painted over, at times crudely, with washes of color. These illustrations range from the fanciful (legions of heavy-headed flowers that bear no relation to any earthly variety) to the bizarre (naked and possibly pregnant women, frolicking in what look like amusement-park waterslides from the fifteenth century). With their distended bellies, stick-like arms and legs, and earnest expressions, the naked figures have a whimsical quality, though their anatomy is frankly rendered—something unusual for the period. The manuscript's botanical drawings are no less strange: the plants appear to be chimerical, combining incompatible parts from different species, even different kingdoms. (Click on the images to expand.) Tentacled balls of roots take the forms of animals, or of human organs—in one case, sprouting two disembodied heads with vexed expressions. But perhaps the oddest thing about this book is that no one has ever read it.
That's because the book—called the Voynich manuscript after the rare-book dealer who stumbled upon it a century ago—is written in an unknown script, with an alphabet that appears nowhere other than in its pages. The writing system is oddly beautiful, full of looping and fluid curves. A series of distinctive letters, called "gallows" for their resemblance to a hangman's scaffold, are sometimes conjoined with other letters, or have been embellished with elaborate curlicues by a scribe. What these glyphs signify—whether they represent phonetic information or numeric values or something else—is anyone's guess. Judging by its illustrations, the manuscript seems to be a compendium of knowledge related to the natural world, including a section about herbs, a section apparently detailing biological processes, various zodiac charts, and pages devoted to the movements of celestial bodies, such as the transit of the moon across the Pleiades. The writing flows smoothly hesitation from one letter to the next; based on the handwriting, it's thought to be the work of at least two and as many as eight practiced scribes, and possibly required years of labor.
I first learned of the Voynich in 2010. I was completing an M.F.A. in fiction at the University of Virginia, and, anticipating dismal job prospects, had decided to try my hand at a Dan Brown–style thriller. It was to be about "Book M," a likely apocryphal Rosicrucian encyclopedia of arcane wisdom written, in the early fifteenth century, in "magical language and letters" by Christian Rosenkreuz and the seven other founders of the order. The protagonist of the novel discovers that the Voynich, which dates from the same time, is in fact the long-vanished "Book M," whose secrets will, if discovered … well, you know the plot. I spent a sweltering summer in Virginia trying to learn how to write a pulpy thriller (it's a lot harder than it looks) while devoting more and more of my time to researching the Voynich. I made an electronic facsimile of the book for my iPad using high-resolution scans of the pages, and spent hours—which turned into days and weeks—flipping through the pages, captivated by the smallest details in the margins. A tiny drawing of a corpse holding its stomach next to discarded morsels of food, on the recto of Folio 66, sent me rushing to the university library to look up poisonous plants, which led me to research medieval pharmacopeias, which led to trade routes between Europe and India crossed by Arab merchants.
By the end of the summer, my novel was no nearer to completion. But a breakthrough on deciphering the Voynich seemed closer than ever.
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I wasn't the only one who believed that he could crack the book's secrets. The first person said to have owned the manuscript was the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, who reportedly was intrigued enough to buy it from its previous owner for six hundred ducats, around ninety thousand dollars in today's money. (According to the manuscript's radiocarbon dating, the book was already nearly two centuries old at the time of his purchase.) Rudolf was a devotee of the unusual—he collected dwarfs and stocked an entire regiment in his army with "giants"—and his fixation on alchemy and the occult made Prague under his rule a center for both mystical and proto-scientific inquiry. One prominent figure in Rudolf's court was Jacobus Horcicky de Tepenec, the imperial pharmacist, keeper of the royal gardens, and the next owner of the Voynich manuscript. Tepenec had reportedly earned the emperor's favor by curing him of some grave disease. An elixir he manufactured and sold was so in demand that he became the Renaissance equivalent of a snake-oil baron, rich enough that even the emperor turned to him for loans.
Nearly everything about the Voynich manuscript has been contested over the years, and its past ownership is no exception. But a decade ago, the indefatigable Voynich expert René Zandbergen (on whose research I've drawn heavily here) was browsing a set of archives from the seventeenth century when he stumbled across a letter that identified the manuscript's next owner: Georg Baresch, an alchemist in Prague in the first half of the seventeenth century, who had spent twenty years attempting to decipher the script. Despairing of a solution, the alchemist had sent a few sample pages to the cryptanalytic celebrity of the day, a Jesuit polymath in Rome named Athanasius Kircher, who famously—and incorrectly, as it turned out—claimed to have decoded the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt. The manuscript intrigued Kircher, and he tried to convince Baresch to part with it. Baresch refused. Instead, it fell to Baresch's friend Marci, who inherited the manuscript when Baresch died, to pass on the rest of the manuscript to the Jesuit scholar. Marci was himself a well-known scientist, and served as physician to the Holy Roman Emperor, despite having once been branded a heretic for speculations on the science of conception and development of the human embryo. In the letter accompanying the Voynich manuscript, Marci describes his late friend's obsession with cracking the script: "To its deciphering he devoted unflagging toil, as is apparent from attempts of his which I send you herewith, and he relinquished hope only with his life."
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Whether the Jesuit scholar made any progress with the manuscript is unknown; after the book made it to Rome, it was hidden in Jesuit holdings for nearly three centuries. During the Church's suppression of the Jesuits, the manuscript was likely transferred to the personal library of the head of the order, Peter Beckx, to shield it from papal confiscation. At any rate, Beckx's ex libris adorned the book when Voynich bought it, in 1912.
Much can be written about Wilfrid Voynich. An ethnic Pole from the Russian Empire, Voynich was imprisoned in Siberia for revolutionary activities. He escaped, via Manchuria and China, to London, where he met his future wife, Ethel Boole. Boole, the daughter of the famous mathematician George Boole, who became a popular novelist, was enmeshed in Russian revolutionary activity in London; the bookshop that Voynich set up with her was rumored to be a secret front for organization against the tsarist regime. Whatever the reasons for his entrée into the rare-book business, he apparently took to this work and excelled at it. On a buying trip to a place that, in a 1921 lecture on the manuscript, Voynich described vaguely as "an ancient castle in southern Europe" (later identified as the Villa Madragone outside of Rome), Voynich stumbled upon the "cipher manuscript," and immediately recognized the book's significance. Based on Marci's letter found with the manuscript, Voynich became convinced the book was the work of the brilliant thirteenth-century Franciscan friar and Englishman Roger Bacon. And, with the belief that proving Bacon's ownership would fetch a high price for the work at auction, Voynich enlisted William Newbold, a professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and a cryptography enthusiast, to attempt to decipher it.
Newbold's story is a particularly apt illustration of the perverse sway that the book has over its would-be conquerors: the professor spent the last years of his life and his fading eyesight on a solution that involved viewing the text under a magnifying glass and copying down the ink patterns that seemed to form each letter—tiny squiggles that Newbold believed to be the text's actual content, written in anagrammed micrographic shorthand code. Although in hindsight his deciphering seems absurd (the squiggles had been formed naturally as the ink dried and cracked), it is also characteristic of the many claimed solutions to the Voynich manuscript, involving years of grinding labor and a certain amount of wishful thinking.
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One of those who helped to discredit Newbold's theories was a man named William Friedman. Perhaps the greatest cryptologist of the modern age, Friedman led the decipherment of the Japanese Code Purple during the Second World War and helped to create the N.S.A., becoming its first chief cryptologist. He'd discovered code-breaking through his future wife, Elizebeth, a gifted cryptanalyst, while they were living on a sprawling Midwestern farm owned by an eccentric millionaire, a man who paid them to analyze Shakespeare's works for hidden codes that would reveal the true author to be Sir Francis Bacon (a theory that the couple was able to disprove). In the closing days of the Second World War, William and Elizebeth Friedman gathered a group of experts awaiting demobilization, and together they devoted an enormous amount of time to deciphering the Voynich. But after efforts spanning three decades, Friedman declared that cracking the manuscript's code was impossible. He impishly concealed his theory about the work in an anagrammed footnote that he appended to an unrelated paper—the Voynich, he asserted, was an example of a constructed language, albeit dating from before such languages were first created in the Western world.
If crowds have any wisdom, soon we should see the fruits of a more recent deciphering project: Internet crowdsourcing. An online community has grown up around the manuscript, fostered by a network of blogs and an often fractious e-mail Listserv. On this list, amateur and professional art historians, computer programmers, linguists, theoretical physicists, carpenters, and disabled veterans swap theories and observations about the manuscript. One retired locksmith communicates with the list in some sort of camel-case code. Although the group is geographically diverse, with messages arriving at all hours of the day from various time zones, most of its membership seems to be male and over fifty, and it has more than its share of oddballs. On this score, no one is judgmental: we're all happy to spend hours debating the finer points of stretching sheepskin to make parchment, or sparring about whether the manuscript is nothing more than a practical joke.
Indeed, the theory that this whole thing is a fraud comes up frequently. The mysterious text can't be solved, or so the thinking goes, because there is nothing to solve. Instead, the book is a fake, either modern or medieval, containing pages of meaningless symbols.
The hoax hypothesis can't be ruled out. But if the Voynich is a fake, it's an elaborate one. A twentieth-century scam artist would have to have located a hundred and twenty sheets of blank six-hundred-year-old vellum in anticipation of the invention of radiocarbon dating (which did not yet exist when the manuscript first reëmerged, in 1912). Scholars remain deeply divided over the question of whether the text is likely to be meaningful. But the distribution of letters and words is anything but random, even demonstrating statistical features generally associated with natural-language texts—features that weren't discovered until the nineteen-thirties. And although a single word has yet to be decoded, recent studies have shown distinct vocabularies coinciding with the manuscript's division into sections, like "herbal" and "astronomical," so that certain words found with plant illustrations do not appear near astronomical diagrams, and vice versa—exactly what you'd expect from a meaningful text organized by topic.
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But if most Voynich devotees reject the notion that the text is meaningless, the reason is perhaps as much emotional as scholarly. We've all devoted so much time to cracking the text—some on the list have been at it for decades—that discovering it is gibberish would be tragic. At the heart of the drive to decode the document is a deep and secret desire for transcendent meaning. At the very least, to discover something more than nonsense or a shopping list or a treasury of monks' dirty jokes from 1426.
But as much as each of us strives to be the one to crack the code, I think few of us would truly like to see it solved. Wilfrid Voynich was wrong that deciphering the manuscript would make it more valuable: the book's resistance to being read is what sets it apart. Undeciphered, the manuscript exists in a sort of quantum indeterminacy—one that collapses into a single meaning the moment the text is finally measured and understood. And no matter how thrilling such a text might be, it will remain a disappointment for being closed off, completed—for being, in the end, no longer a mystery.
I never did finish my novel involving the manuscript. I doubt I ever will. Nor am I any closer to decoding the Voynich. That will be done by someone else, a person more accomplished at such things. But until then, I'll take pleasure in living in a world where, in spite of all our gadgets and progress, a six-hundred-year-old book remains unreadable and unread.
Reed Johnson is a Jefferson Fellow in Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Virginia, and is at work on a new novel that has nothing to do with the Voynich manuscript.


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