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Youth alpha launch party on Friday the 18th of January, introductory session on Sunday the 27th of January. Please feel free to invite youth in the age bracket 11-14 along to the launch this Friday.
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Youth Alpha Launch
We will be running a Youth Alpha course starting on Sunday evenings, the course will be run jointly with the parish churches. There will be a launch event at youth club on Friday the 18th of January and the introduction session is on Sunday the 27th of January. For more information please contact us!
January Squeeze
Celebrating Christmas At Herstmonceux Free Church
Sunday 23rd Dec 4pm
Carols by candlelight, followed by light refreshments. There will be no morning service.
Christmas Day 10:45am
Join us for a 45 minute service as we celebrate Christmas Day.
Sunday 30th Dec 10:45am
Normal Sunday morning meeting.
Sun 6th Jan 10am
Squeeze Breakfast club at Herstmonceux Village Hall. Breakfast, newspapers and crafts.
Twinkle Twinkle Christmas Lights
The one who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. John 1, v 9.
Christmas tree lights – don't you love them when they are up! Never mind trying to find them in the loft. Then plugging them in before they go on the tree to see that they work. They did when you put them away and they come with a guarantee – they will not work when you get them out. They need a bulb replaced – so where's that spare one? I'm sure we had two or three!! But lost they are. Off to the shops to get some spare bulbs that cost more than the whole set.
At last they are up and working, and don't you just love them. They reflect the Christmas Gift of a Child who would grow and become our Saviour. Jesus, among whose names is Light of the World. And yet we forget the Christ in Christmas. Do the twinkling lights distract us from the True Light? A light that does not fail us and as our relationship with Jesus grows, so we can reflect his light.
I think Christmas is a time not only for busyness but for reflection:
To reflect on the Baby who was fed in a feeding trough.
To reflect on the Christ Light.
To reflect on Christ's provision of the Gift of Life.
You see, it's simple to plug in those tree lights. It's simple to plug into the Light of the World. Jesus. The Christ in Christmas. He has already sent the Invitation to you – Reflect and Respond if you please. He is so pleased to lighten your Christmas this and every year.
Happy Christmas and New Year to you all. Pastor Jim Beveridge
Handicrafts at the December Squeeze were very much on the festive theme: giant snowflakes carefully snipped from folded sheets of paper appealed to the ladies-who-used-to-dressmake; wine glasses and jam jars took on a new purpose at the hands of glass painters.
Those who lacked Christmas cards or table decorations had the opportunity to make their own from materials provided.
CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT: Sunday 23rd December at 4pm. Please bring tinned foodstuffs for local homeless.
CHRISTMAS DAY: Tuesday 25th December at 10.45am.
Squeeze Breakfast Club: Sunday 6th January 10.00am – 12.00
in the Village Hall. All ages are welcome


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This week we are looking at trailer moving gadgets. Anyone who has worked in the trucking industry is aware of the problem, all of the prime movers are out on the road and this one trailer needs to be moved for some reason. Bigger fleets can usually afford to run some kind of yard truck, either an ageing ex-highway prime mover or a dedicated custom built yard tug. However, for many it's a matter of waiting for the first truck to return to the yard to get the job done. These gadgets do seem to offer an alternative.
Here's another example of the kind of thing available elsewhere in the world, this time with added complexity, remote control. This suggests the next stage would be a robot yard gadget shifting trailers around to a preset program, squeezing trailers into tight spaces with precision:
This one is claimed to be able to handle trailers weighing up to 23 tonnes. This means it's not going to capable of shifting your loaded B-double sets around the yard:
However, if you need something shifting from A to B, here is the ultimate tool, also likely to cost the ultimate price. This system from Mammoet will shift anything anywhere:


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Once upon a time there were terms like 'Flower Power' 'Make Love Not War', 'Peace' [always accompanied by the two-fingered V sign], 'Flower Children', and 'Summer of Love' to name but a few that were part of life's landscape. The people that were most often identified with those terms were called 'hippies'. Or maybe I should change that to – the people who were described as members of that generation that embraced those terms were called hippies by the establishment media. Yeah, those were the days.
43 plus years later, those terms, except for peace are not in vogue any longer. We don't hear them in conversation very much these days. But we STILL have hippies. It's probably true that most of them are what you'd probably now call older folks.
One of them would be Jane Fonda. She appears in the new film Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding which I had the pleasure of seeing at the 2012 Sarasota Film Festival Day 5 which was today. Fonda hasn't done a lot of film work over the last 20 some years, but she brings her A-game out for this one. She plays a grandmother known as Grace who was not only once a hippie – but for all intents and purposes – still is. She's got a grown daughter Diane (Catherine Keener) a somewhat uptight New York lawyer who hasn't spoken to Grace in 20 years; and Diane has two nearly adult children of her own – Zoe in her very late teens, and Jake in his late middle teens (Elizabeth Olsen and Nat Wolff) who have never met their grandmother. Fonda in real life is 73.
Diane has some issues, and due to circumstances that don't need a detailed explanations here beyond the fact that her husband has just told her that he wants a divorce, she packs up and takes herself and her kids up to her Mom's (Fonda) place in the country in what is supposed to be just a weekend to chill out and collect her thoughts.
I can hear the question forming in your heads – so, yes, that's right – this film is set mostly in the vicinity of Woodstock, NY. While time hasn't exactly stood still, the age of hippies and rock music, pot, free love, and protest is still flourishing in that area in upstate New York.
So off they go to grandma's house. Fonda's Grace hasn't seen her daughter Diane in 20 years. There's a bit of a awkward reunion with Grace saying she'd just dreamt about her daughter last night. Not quite cringeworthy but it didn't ring true.
But the kids are quite excited about their grandma, who is very very cool to them. Before the weekend is over Grace will have smoked pot (home grown by Grace) with her grand-kids, and helped them on their way to losing their virginity.
Then slowly but surely, but with a major hiccup that I won't tell you about, Grace and Diane work out the kinks, and before you know it, the city dwellars are on their way to discovering much about themselves, about being a grownup no matter what your age is, and of course – about romance.
Yes, they all meet romance head on upstate. For Diane, there's Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Jude, a carpenter-slash-songwriter. Morgan will soon be appearing in the new TV Series Magic City on the Starz network. Zoe will meet Chase Crawford in the role of a butcher named Cole. And young Jake, a virgin as well as a fledgling film maker – he's never without his handi-cam, will meet Tara, a coffee shop waitress played by Marissa O'Donnell.
They've set each of them up with polar opposites. This of course is a sure signal that all will be well by film's end. And even if there's nothing bravura about the script (there's absolutely no risk taking) – even if you want to call it a by-the-numbers light weight comedy/drama/romance, or simply a-feel-good film – it still works and is a delightful film.
This is not to say they everything is thumbs up. For example there's a full moon celebration otherwise known as a Girls Night Out. They meet out in a field. There's no men, there's the full moon, plenty of baying at that moon too. But the key element is the Truth or False Game where each of the women must tell a story or stories – which the group then votes on whether they think the story is True or false, and who ever is wrong has to drink up some tequila. That was good – but the chanting, dancing, and mild attempt to paint this as sort of a women's independence type of deal didn't fully work.
One other small point – Fonda as Grace drops names all the time in the film. She tells us that Jerry [Garcia] of The Dead was looking right at her throughout while performing a particular song at the Woodstock Festival in August of 1969 – and it was probably true. She claims she had a threesome with Leonard Cohen (most likely true). And she says that Diane was born at the Woodstock Festival during Jimi Hendrix's set (totally false). Soon every one is drunk.
Of course there was plenty of music in the film. I didn't know most of the music but when The Band's song The Weight showed up on the soundtrack – I not only knew it, but I also thought it was super.
One other small gripe is the absolute lack of originality in the various plot threads. You'll know the result of each relationship as soon as you meet the parties involved. However Grace does do one thing that you've not seen in films recently. She raises a few chickens (for the eggs) and allows them to be free-range. This doesn't mean they have plenty of room to run around in their huge cages. Instead it means they have free run of the house. As in inside the house. As Grace says about the chickens, "They're God's creatures – who am I to tell them where they can go and not go."
I'm awarding Peace, Love, & Misunderstanding a four point zero. I think the film will stand up and be appreciated across three generations beginning with today's kids who have reached the end of their teen years, their parents, and their grand-parents. So if you are a baby boomer born in the 40's and 50's this is a perfect film for you.
Having said that – if your grandparents fit into that group – then take them with you when you go to see this lovely and most enjoyable film. The film was directed by Bruce Beresford, and written by Joe Muszynski and Christina Mengert.
I may be wrong, but I thought I saw Katherine McPhee of NBC's Smash in this film as singer performing at a local concert. If you see the film please let me know if you concur. [Edit – McPhee was not listed in the full cast/credits on the IMDB, but she was mentioned in Jane Fonda's blog entry about the film, as well as in Wikipedia. Thanks to reader FD for the follow up.]


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Set in the beautiful rolling hills of the finger lakes region of upstate New York, The US Vintage Grand Prix at Watkins Glen is a thrill ride in classic cars. With cameras mounted in cars, on cars and in multiple camera positions around the historic Watkins Glen Race Track you can almost smell the rubber burning from the priceless antique and classic cars racing nose to tail on the track. We will also take you to the Grand Prix Festival of Watkins Glen. The festival celebrates the first post WW2 road race in the USA in 1948. Thousands of spectators line the race course through the streets and countryside to see the recreation of the original race now run by hundreds of antique, classic and some of today's fastest cars. A special bonus is just discovered footage of the final Formula One Grand Prix at Watki ns Glen in 1982.
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Swing Highlights | The Fashion Gala
Back in November, we presented some dance favorites at a fashion Gala in Berlin. It included restyling a piece first performed by Paolo & Laurentina back in 2006. With a bit of new material mixed in, here are the Highlights. YouTube...
Ballroom Highlights at Fashion Gala Berlin
These Highlights of Ballroom dance specialists Lou & Heather were filmed at The Fashion Gala in Berlin New Jersey in 2017.
Highlights from A Century of Swing
Highlights from our Century of Swing Show at a senior center in Denville featuring 1920s & 1930s style solo jazz, partnering and chorus line work.
Music Of The Night Ballroom Showcase
Ballroom Dancers Lou & Heather Showcase to Music of The Night
Bye Bye Paris at Fashion Awards Gala
Lindy Hoppers Paolo & Laurentina showcase to Bye Bye Paris at the Fashion Awards Gala in Berlin.
Rockin Robin at Fashion Awards Gala
Lindy Hoppers Paolo & Laurentina showcase to Rockin Robin at the Fashion Awards Gala in Berlin. 2017


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"Mineral Vision" selected for OA Foundation's Electronic and Experimental Prize09. February 2015
Mineral Vision has been selected to be shown in the JUSTECH 15 exhibition in JUSTMAD, an emergent art fair, together with works of Marina Corach (Mexico), Jorge Luis Vaca Forero (Colombia), Anaisa Franco (Brasil) and the group formed by Citlati Herna?ndez (Me?xico), Nicola?s Villa (Colombia), Ona Sallas i Batle (Espan?a) & Andre?s Costa (Chile).
Read the jury statement here (spanish only): http://arteelectronico.net/fallo-del-jurado-justech-15-y-premios-oa-foundation-de-arte-electronico-experimental/


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This section is aimed at helping you clear your mind about the emotive subject of borrowing money.
It offers a checklist of all the different ways now open to almost all of us to obtain credit; reminds you of some pitfalls to avoid; and helps you make the best decisions for yourself when you are considering taking a loan.
The same principles can be applied to all forms of credit and borrowing. Most of them are dealt with here. The biggest loan of all for most of us is for our home).
This section deals with:
� Using credit and coping with borrowing and repayments
� The price of borrowing
� The warning signs in relation to credit and debt
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|Featured Series of the Month award in July 2015.
|This article is about a/an series page in Power Rangers: Atomic Force.
|Atomic Force
|Number of episodes:
|First episode:
|Project A.T.O.M., Part 1
|Last episode:
|Power Rangers: Atomic Force/Theme Song
|Adapted from:
|Kaku Sentai Genshiranger
|Original airing:
|November 9, 2010
|Production Order
- "Through the power of science we defeat the alien foe, Power Rangers: Atomic Force!"
- —Atomic Force Rangers
Power Rangers: Atomic Force is an ongoing fanfiction by WolfsbaneX, begun in late 2010 and set in the same year in Universe Gamma. According to plan, it will cross over with Power Rangers: Beasts of Myth, at some point in a separate story. It is an "adaptation" of Kaku Sentai Genshiranger.
Five years ago, an alien called Gelato started his conquest of Earth. He sent battalions of his Gel Troopers to destroy city after city, all of whom defended themselves to no avail. This continued until, in a place called Five Hills, Dr. Adrian Fisher created the Proton Stinger, a laser charged with protons. The weapon was effective and could easily take out a full battalion. Dr. Fisher was pleased with his work, but a traitor stole the Proton Stinger and its prints before it could be duplicated. The doctor fell into a state of distress until he stumbled upon the Morphing Grid. With his knowledge of nuclear mechanics, he infused its power with the three parts of the atom, creating the Red, Blue, and Green Atomic Morphers. He now looks for three worthy enough to operate them.
|Seymour Russell
|Andrew Davis
|Gwen Montgomery
|Jack Steel
- Dr. Adrian Fisher
- Marcus Regalia
- Quinn "Rebel" Regalia
- Tyndall Fisher
- Rob No-Legs
- Haleigh
- The Time Walker
- Gelato
- Biomecha
- Keidsp
- Generex
- Blulk
- Feralequin
- Gel Troopers
- Gel Assassins
- Gel Scouts
Gel Shockers
- Hydrotox
- Petrooze
- Gelico
- Spindle
- Sanswarp
- Spazwarp
- Dimwarp
- Biolash
- Melton
- Elitor
- Threshpoint
- Slugshot
- Leecor
- Feer
- Atomic Morphers ♦♦♦
- Vortex Gauntlet ♦
- Atom Laser (Blade, Rifle) ♦♦♦
- Fission Cycles ♦♦♦
- Vortex ATV ♦
- Gamma Mode (Gyroblade) ♦♦♦
Legend: ◆ pilot Zord, ✶ team-controlled Zord, ❖ aux Zord
- Atomic Megazord ✶
- Proton Flyer ◆
- Neutron Runner ◆
- Electron Manta ◆
- Ancient Atomic Megazord ✶◆
- Spino Zord ◆
- Cranio Zord ◆❖
- Pentacera Zord ◆❖
- Dino Pharaoh Megazord ✶
- Vortex Sphinx ◆
- Warrior Mode
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|Upload Date
|Project A.T.O.M. Part 1
|9 November 2010
|Three young adults make their way to Five Hills, where they are taken to Fisher Labs and made a unique offer.
|Project A.T.O.M. Part 2
|Having accepted their new powers, Seymour, Andrew and Gwen face their first Gel Shocker, Hydrotox.
|Red Redemption
|Seymour begins his training as Red Ranger, meeting several other Fisher Labs employees.
|Black and Blue
|Andrew befriends fellow genius Tyndall Fisher, struggles with his traumatic past, and all three Rangers discover new abilities.
|Seeing Double
|Gwen plays hooky via self-duplication, and ends up fighting a Gel Shocker infiltrator alone in Fisher Labs.
|Gamma Timewarp Part 1
|Gelato sends the Warp Brothers against the Rangers, and the trio find themselves marooned in the Cretaceous Period.
|Gamma Timewarp Part 2
|With a little local help and their wits, the Rangers return to the present, just in time for Dr. Fisher's newest upgrade.
|Ballad of the Wheelchair
|Seymour's cockiness nearly gets the better of him as Gelato sets his sights on a mysterious figure called the Time Walker.
|Beating the Clock
|Gelato himself comes to Five Hills, and Andrew makes a shocking discovery about his past.
|Chained by Lies
|Rebel and Marcus's parents come to visit. The problem? They've been told their children are Rangers too.
|Stolen Part 1
|Two of Andrew's old enemies, Melton and Elitor, attack the city, just as Dr. Fisher's newest project goes missing.
|Stolen Part 2
|Project and thief found, Fisher faces a difficult decision as the Gel Shockers' deadline begins to run out.
|Ballin' the Jack
|The Rangers wonder what to do with Jack, but their decision is abruptly followed by a bomb threat by Threshpoint.
|The New Guys
|As Jack adjusts to Ranger life, Biomecha and the Time Walker finally make their moves.
|Relations and Revelations
|25 September 2012
|The newly-revealed Time Walker explains his history and the source of his powers, only to be interrupted by a Gel Shocker attack. Andrew goes directly to Gelato's Ship to rescue the newly-taken human prisoners.
- This story contains leftovers from another idea: Power Rangers: Prisoners of War.
- Despite the Pit being a nickname for Fanfiction.net, it was totally coincidental.
- The books in Andrew's collection were all books the author had to read in his Junior (11th grade) year.
- The Gel Scouts were semi-inspired by Symbiote in the Spider-Man comics.
- The original plan for "Ballad of the Wheelchair" was to have Seymour write Rob a song, but it just didn't fit.
- The Time Walker's powers are inspired by the Omega Ranger from SPD, and the chapter "Chained by Lies" by the episode Boom.
- In writing "Relations and Revelations," many ideas were thought about, but never actually established. A few of which were Andrew finding out that Biomecha wasn't actually Haleigh, or that Biomecha was still on Gelato's side, a short Gwen and Jack heart-to-heart, and a more explosive battle on the ground.
See Also
Kaku Sentai Genshiranger - the Sentai counterpart
Power Rangers: Beasts of Myth - the companion story and eventual team-up
|WolfsbaneX/Remus the Wolf
|Power Rangers: Atomic Force • Power Rangers: Beasts of Myth • Power Rangers: Team Troubles • Power Rangers: Yokai • Power Rangers: Zone Wars
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Music Top 10s
A work in progress- a "top 10" of really great albums that flew under the radar:
Dandy Warhols – "Welcome to the Monkey House"
You may have heard a couple tracks from this 2003 release on the radio and TV. "We Used to be Friends" was the theme song for the show Veronica Mars and "You Were the Last High" had some radio rotation. Other than that, it seems there were no real accolades to speak of, although the album is excellent. It was produced by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran which, no doubt, made "Welcome to the Monkey House" more retro, 80s synth-happy than previous Dandy Warhols releases.
Tin Star – "The Thrill Kisser"
VAST – "Visual Audio Sensory Theater"
"Lost Highway" soundtrack
As a longtime Nine Inch Nails fan, this album was an instant must-have when released in 1997. It featured a couple new NIN songs (including "The Perfect Drug"), was arranged by that group's principal member, Trent Reznor, and also included work by other bands I enjoyed: Smashing Pumpkins, David Bowie, Rammstein, and Marilyn Manson. What I came to discover, though, was that the overall blend of styles on this soundtrack was really pretty remarkable/magical. I enjoyed the rock-oriented tunes, of course, but also enjoyed (and continue to enjoy) the mysterious, brooding Angelo Badalamenti tunes and the lighter style of offerings like Lou Reed's "This Magic Moment." I own probably only a dozen soundtracks or so, but this one easily takes the cake as my absolute favorite.
Orgy – "Punk Statik Paranoia"
Overall, Orgy is not exactly a great band, but I really like them anyway. In fact, they are tied with Tool for the most concerts by a single band I have attended – both at six. Whereas Orgy's first two albums felt like experiments in a band defining its very experimental sound, "Punk Statik Paranoia" is well produced, heavily guitar driven, and upbeat. It just rocks in a way that Foo Fighter's "In Your Honor" does… it's a great album to put on your MP3 player for when you go to the gym. Unfortunately, I heard the remix of the song "Pure" that plays during Orgy's "Trans Global Spectacle" tour DVD before hearing the original album version. In fact, I love the remix so much that I could never really give the album version a fair chance, and it's hard to find, too (the CHR-Modern Rock Mix).
Teddybears – "Soft Machine"
Songs from this album were used in a ton of commercials, but you've probably never heard of the group. "Soft Machine" is super catchy and mostly upbeat, dance/electronic/rock type music that's great for a workout or as a lead-in to the weekend on a Friday night.
Muse – "Origin of Symmetry"
"Origin of Symmetry" was released in 2001 and immediately preceded Muse's breakthough album "Absolution." There is something raw and underproduced about this album, although some of the arrangements are rather incredible. In a way, that kind of indie, carefree production value is reminiscent of Nirvana's "Nevermind" although, stylistically, the two albums are very different.
Bruce Springsteen – "The Rising"
Ten years ago, I never would have imagined that "The Boss" would, one day, be included on any such list. One of my cousins unexpectedly passed away last year, and he had to have been one of Springsteen's biggest fans ever. He was always quoting songs and asking random music trivia about the E Street Band that I could never answer. When I graduated high school, my cousin gave me a copy of "Greetings from Asbury Park." I listened to it once and never listened to it again. Sure, it's appears on Rolling Stones' list of "greatest albums of all time," but it just wasn't my thing.
In 2002, I heard a song from "The Rising" on the legendary, but now defunct, Cincinnati-area radio station 97X (WOXY). I told my cousin about it, and he practically ran out and bought me the CD. I was blown away by it. The whole album is thematic of 9/11, but it's very touching, and the production is really tight. The contributions on guitar by Steven Van Zandt and Max Weinberg on drums are pretty captivating, especially on "Worlds Apart."
Sure, the album was nominated for a Grammy, but I think it's power and emotion have since been forgotten about, much like that feeling of pride and community felt at the end of 2001. No judgment, no blame for that latter comment… just merely an observation.
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Before you begin, be sure to unplug the external power going to the hard drive and to discharge all potential static built up on you/your clothing by touching a grounded, metal object that is not the hard drive…. seems like simple stuff, but it's really important.
1) Turn the hard drive over. Gently wedge the flat-head screwdriver between the hard drive enclosure's base plate and the main body of the enclosure. Begin to slowly pry so that the side of the enclosure begins to bow outward. Continue until the base plate pops out. Keep the popped out side close to seam (so the still-attached side of the base plate doesn't get bent). Perform the same pry technique on the other side of the base to fully remove the plate. [click on any of the photos to enlarge]
2) Now that the hard drive is exposed, you will notice three, small aluminum brackets on both sides of the drive. Bend those upward – this can be done by hand.
3) Use the Phillips screwdriver to remove the four screws binding the hard drive to the enclosure. Once removed, bend the aluminum screw brackets upward.
4) With the exception of the power and data cables, the drive is free at this point. Carefully turn the enclosure over so that the drive slips out of the case. Gently pull the slack out the cables that are still plugged into the drive and begin wiggling the power cable out (the transparent connector with four wires).
5) Once the power connector is unplugged, do the same for the data cable. Do not be forceful with the ribbon cable. Through trial and error, I have broken these cables before, and they aren't fun to try to fix. Additionally, you don't want to end up with bent pins on the hard drive itself. If the ribbon connector doesn't come off easily, unplug the other end from the board attached to the enclosure. Since the drive will then be free, you will have plenty of leverage to remove the cable from the drive.
At this point, the drive is completely free from the enclosure. Congratulations!
If you enjoyed this article, please consider leaving a comment or sharing below!
Also, see my LaCie Rugged Hard Drive Disassembly post here.
MSN/Innovation News Daily (whatever that is) posted a rather interesting article last week entitled "'Smart bullet' hits targets a mile away." The gist is that Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico has developed a bullet that uses fins to constantly readjust its course towards a target pinpointed by a laser beam. Pretty cool, huh? But what are the implications brought on by new warfare technology, and do we really need it?
Articles related to the aforementioned one (linked at the bottom of this page) speak of topics like the U.S. Army placing an order for "suicide drones" and a new grenade/launcher combination that's being assessed in Afghanistan. Suicide drones are capable of relaying reconnaissance information back to operators on the ground and can also be used as a missile, if needed. The new grenade launcher looks more like a small, automatic assault rifle than ever, and the projectile that goes along with it can be programmed to explode at precise distances.
Although this kind of technology seems pretty incredible/kinda awesome, we have to continue to ask "We need this equipment to fight whom?" The military-industrial complex really starts to seems like a complex when we assess how we Americans constantly and continually police the globe. What would really be awesome would be diplomacy and to look past the rhetoric that people hate Americans "because of our freedom." Education and critical thinking help provide that much-needed chance to take a step back and think "Ya know, it can't really be as simple as that." And it's not.
Consider another perspective: let's say your neighbor commits some sort of heinous crime, then disappears without a trace. Before you know it, people are speculating that he has fled the town, the county, maybe even the state. Ten years pass and the police are still camped out in your backyard. I image you would be irate. After all, you didn't invite these visitors to occupy your yard, and you can't figure out how to get rid of them. After all, it is your property.
Many Middle Eastern people were sympathetic over 9/11… we know that. We've seen them. We've heard their voices. We know most of them aren't terrorists. But it also has to be less-than-comforting to have convoys of soldiers, armed to the teeth, rolling around their towns in these destructive machines, playing a perpetual game of Whac-A-Mole.
Something about no longer having to actually confront, who you believe to be, the enemy is alarming. Simply enough, in the days of yore, if someone shot at you, you shot back. The enemy was pretty well defined. You knew who and where they were, hunkered down on the other side of the battlefield. Now, we fly aircraft outfitted with small, black-and-white cameras having resolution only great enough to show people carrying… things. And we shoot at these people from meters, and sometimes kilometers, away. But what exactly are they carrying? Guns? Cameras? Does anyone know or really care?
When these incidents – these mistakes – take place, the government has a tendency to go on the defensive. Dispensing half-truths and other fabrications seem to be the priority, rather than acknowledging that people are fallible. It happened with the Reuters photographers that were gunned down by Apache helicopters in Baghdad. It happened when Pat Tillman was killed by "friendly fire" in Afghanistan. It came to light when Jessica Lynch contradicted our government by clarifying that she was never able to fire a single shot from her jammed M16 rifle when her convoy came under attack in Iraq.
The same people who try to write history, whether or not what's being written is factual, are the same people developing advanced weaponry. Through psychology and force they remain in power. And when fraud is revealed, more propaganda is thrown around by asserting with scary words like "terrorist," "espionage," "traitor," and "insurgent."
I would like to make a note here that our troops are not responsible for this culture. They are young, impressionable men and women who are trained to be tough and to dehumanize the enemy. Our soldiers on the front lines are under constant stress, knowing that a threat to their lives could be just around the corner. PTSD is rampant among troops returning home, and the constant warfare dictated by our government is screwing up the minds of these young adults for the rest of their lives. It is insanely irresponsible to go to war based on "bad intel" and to then keep fighting anyway. To date, 4,000+ U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq. That's more than all the people killed in the 9/11 attacks. Interesting, considering 9/11 and the purported presence of "WMDs" were used as justification to invade Iraq. As we all know, no weapons of mass destruction were ever found, and no evidence has ever been uncovered linking Iraq to 9/11 in any capacity.
Another "defense" program recently in the works has been the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet program. The selling point for this aircraft was that it would save the military money, as it could be used by the Marines, Air Force, and Navy, rather than developing a new jet for each of those branches. However, what is a "money saver" is actually the Pentagon's most expensive program ever, at $382 billion for 2,443 F-35 jets. 2,443 jets for what? Are these to patrol our borders? As we worry about what is happening on the other side of the globe, drug violence is spilling over into the United States. Farmers along the U.S./Mexico border have been killed, and it's speculated that a number of abductions and killings in Arizona, Georgia, Texas, and Alabama are cartel-related. (CNN)
If we really want to do some good, we could take some of our drones out of the Middle East, and do some reconnaissance work over the Mexican villas that the drug cartels are operating out of. We could also stop spending money in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop spending so much money on seven-hundred-some overseas military bases in over half the world's countries, and stop pumping money into Israel and Egypt so they can keep acquiring weapons. The term "national defense" means less than ever these days. It's become a convoluted catchphrase used to justify a whole host of actions that have very little, sometimes arguably nothing at all, to do with actually defending a nation.
Imagine what better use we could make of reallocating money intended for "defense spending." Our schools are in serious trouble. We have people living on the streets, eating out of trash cans. Emergency services are being cut in towns across the nation. Our infrastructure is eroding in many places. But focus on a greater good and "taking care of our own" gets replaced by meddling in affairs across the globe. We also "invest" billions of dollars annually in other countries to promote pro-Americanism. That's not the official decree but, believe me, recipients of U.S. aid are not random countries asking for a handout.
U.S. Army Orders First Suicide Drones
New Video Showcases Army's Grenade Launcher
'Smart bullet' hits targets a mile away
Pentagon's F-35 Fighter Under Fire in Congress
The Mexico drug war: Bodies for billions


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Nathan's Letter Dated April 22, 2103
Miracles! Haha I feel like this is almost always the title of my email. But, seriously, this week was full of miracles. I don´t know if you remember about all of the investigators that we are teaching as of right now, but all of them are doing so well! Abel y Elinor both received a testimony of the Book of Mormon the first night that we left them to read and pray. Every time we share they are just so excited and they just want to learn so much. Esteban is doing really well as well, he is going to institute and is reading the Book of Mormon and the New Testament every day. Felipe finally, finally accepted to get baptized in three more weeks. We are still working with Tania, it is still difficult to teach her due to family complications.
Other exciting news for this week is that we will be having interviews with the mission president on Friday. Also, I do believe that mother's day skype calls are coming up soon, it will be nice to talk to the family again. It seems like just last week that we were talking during Christmas.
So this week I have been studying the nature of God the Father. It is so comforting to know that He "has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth" and that "man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend". God is perfect in His love, mercy, and grace. He is also perfectly just. We can have faith in Him because He is perfect.
I hope we can all prepare ourselves to live with our Father again after this life.
Elder Hales
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Pasteur, Louis (1822 1895)
French Chemist & Microbiologist. Born in Dole, France. Discovered that most infectious diseases are caused by germs - known as "germ theory of disease". However, he is most known for developing the sterilization process that is know as pasteurization at the bequest of Emperor Napoleon III.
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When I read Joseph Wakim's call for tolerance and love in the Sydney Morning Herald a couple of days ago, I was subjected to an involuntary double-take. Meaning that I didn't want to question my first impressions, but I had to.
Wakim is identified as a former Victorian Multicultural Affairs Commissioner and the founder of the Australian Arabic Council. He is not a neutral observer of events. He has skin in a game of vested interests played with PR spin. I know this because I was once a spin doctor myself.
He used all the right words and phrases to make me want to agree with him. But by the end of the piece I knew I'd have to read it again carefully. He was wrong about almost everything. Not just wrong, but led down that path by articles of faith that defy logic and subvert any sense of what Australian national identity and tolerance are all about.
Referring to St Martin Place hostage-taker Man Haron Monis, Wakim said: 'If he carries a gun, it is a siege. But if he also carries an Islamic flag, it is terrorism.'
No, no, no! Carrying a gun, and even threatening people with one, does not make for a siege. Our police carry guns every day, and so do bad guys. A siege is defined as such by what it actually entails: an armed standoff.
Nor does carrying an Islamic flag mean anything in itself. It becomes terrorism only when its symbolism is linked to terrorist aims or actions.
Monis was a lunatic using various dishonest trappings of Islam to perpetrate crimes. He was not an ideologically committed Islamist.
Looking at this another way to clarify the meaning of symbols, if a surgeon wields a scalpel in an operating theatre, he is a surgeon performing surgery. If I wield a scalpel in my home workshop, I am not a surgeon, but rather an amateur hobbyist using a sharp blade for a purpose other than surgery.
Wakim may have been trying to counter the dimwits in Australian and international media, and their credulous consumers, who were looking to fan some kind of hysteria about terrorism as a result of the Monis lunacy. But that's a fool's errand. Such media and their idiot followers will just invent alternative threats to justify their bigotry. Always have. Always will. Wakim's response to that fear mongering served more to suggest that it was the major Australian response rather than the annoying background noise of idiot children.
As best as I can tell the vast majority of Australians were unheard about the St Martin Place tragedy, and about the anti or pro Muslim public screeching that ensued.
Wakim is wrong to suggest, in an astonishingly artless way, that the fear mongering he mentions should be countered by touchy-feely displays of love, or by empty rhetoric about understanding. Serious people meet fear mongering, terrorism, and other lunatic depravity by applying reason. That may involve a degree of tolerance, but also the full force of the law. And the force of arms if necessary. What it should not involve is trivialising major problems as stepping stones for sectarian, political agenda.
Indeed, I think Wakim fails to understand how great a disservice many Australian Muslims do themselves by refusing to understand where they are now, and why they face hostility from some of their new neighbours. Long story short, it is because they appear to many Australians to be Muslims first and Australians only as some distant fraction of a priority. And, right or wrong, they seem to be more noisy and demanding than their small numbers appear to justify.
The first step in countering such perceptions is not to demand tolerance and understanding before considering some significant features of Australia's history and political foundations. That wouldn't be a bad idea for the kneejerk anti-Muslim brigade either.
Australia is a Westminster style democracy, strongly infused with the 19th century British political traditions that make Australia a model of liberal democracy unsurpassed by any other nation.
Australia cannot be understood as the reams of nonsense written about the vaccuous and ineffective notion of multiculturalism, nor as the sum of outcomes accruing to the horse trading between the various claims and demands of interest groups and the major political parties.
It requires instead an understanding of at least 500 years of European history, 200 years of Australian history, and a passing familiarity with some political philosophy.
Beginning with history, secularism is the norm in Australia because of the Catholic schism in the 16th century, and the horrendous, brutal wars waged in the name of religion afterwards. The European settlement to these wars was to back away from pursuit of religious dominance. Paradoxically, this is only possible by guaranteeing everyone's right to worship according to their consciences, but only on condition of everyone being subject to a rule of law that strictly prohibits the imposition of religious tenets on anyone else. This means religion is a private matter, and to be seriously questioned every time it enters the public arena with demands to affect or control the lives of others.
English thinker Thomas Hobbes described such a state of affairs in his mammoth treatise, Leviathan. That work presupposed that All English people were Christian of one flavour or another, and that the master of them all was the state, embodied by the monarch. This idea was significantly enhanced by another English thinker, John Locke, who argued forcefully that the legitimacy of the state depends on the consent of its subjects to be ruled to their common advantage. The most important concept here is 'common' advantage, which rules out all special status or privilege. Equally important was Locke's theory of religious toleration, which proposed, among other things, that conscience cannot be dictated by decree or violence.
Locke probably also assumed all Europeans to be Christians, but he defined freedom of conscience in terms that imply the right to freedom from other people's consciences. This is an important distinction in secular societies, because it clarifies the right of people without any religion at all not to be subjected to the insanity of squabbling sects pursuing internecine feuds.
In the 19th century, yet another English thinker, John Stuart Mill added a final cornerstone to the British tradition of liberal democracy: the idea of physical and intellectual liberty as a right for all people. Not in the mealy-mouthed, sense of the slave-owning, patriarchal American colonies when they drafted their constitution, but with an ambit of every skin colour, belief, and gender. That last part is particularly significant when it comes to Muslim demands for toleration, but more of that later.
The Australian colonies were not quite slave-owning, but not far from it, relying on predominantly Catholic convict labour, short shrift for the native inhabitants, and ruled by predominantly Protestant, privileged British soldiers and pastoralists. By the time of Federation in 1901, however, these nasty origins had mellowed a little, permitting the Australian Constitution to include section 116:
The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.
There was, at that time, most likely an assumption that Australia would always be controlled by predominantly white Anglo-Saxon Christians. The 'free' exercise of religion therefore refers to not having to hide religious affiliation, and not to any inferred freedom from civil laws or acceptable social behaviour. There is no question under Australian law that all literal interpretations, much favoured by ill-educated fundamentalist religionists, that 'free' means free from all civilised constraints, is wrong.
The secular Australian state is not hostile to religion, nor devoid of its symbols, but Western civilisation is predominantly Christian, and some of the customs and practices of Christianity are interwoven into our culture. Like Christmas and Easter holidays, for example. While these are not mandatory religious observances, they are an expression of a majority socio-cultural outlook.
Some statistics should clarify this reality.
Australian census information for 2011 shows that 25 per cent of Australians declared themselves Catholics, 22 per cent as having no religion, 20 per cent as 'other' Christian, 17 per cent as Anglican, and 7 per cent spread across all other religions (about 10 per cent of responses were blank or unclear). Buddhism is the largest non-Christian religion. Only 2.2 per cent of Australians declared themselves as Muslims. That means Christians comprise 62 per cent of the population, and the largest group behind them are those declaring they have no religious belief.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics showed a correlation I find to be not entirely coincidental: the higher the level of education, the more likely it was people declared themselves as having no religion. This does not always mean such people do not believe in a god, or in spirituality; what it does mean is they do not wish to be regarded as members of any codified religion.
The Christian majority nevertheless does not make Australia a Christian nation the way Iran is an Islamic state. Australia is a secular society in which a religiously neutral body of law applies to everyone. This is called the rule of law, derived from its British foundations. It is, among other things, the guarantee that no religious sect can gain advantage over any other, and that people like me are protected from the insanities pursued in the name of religion.
If our rule of law were to become a ghettoised multi-tiered affair, in which every special interest group demands its own rules and privileges, and some of them succeed, we cease to be a democracy governed by the rule of law. Therefore I see every claim for special recognition as a subversion of who we are as a nation. And that is why I believe Australian multiculturalism, in theory and practice, has been a calamitous failure, leading solely to a rent-seeking, divisive tribalism. This isn't multiculturalism. It is an ambit segregationism encouraging Australian society to become splintered into hostile camps who eye each other with suspicion and envious greed about perceived unfair advantages. Sometimes it also creates an astonishingly recidivist, sectarian readiness to commit repugnant hate crimes.
An American friend recently told me that she perceives her society to be riven by tribalism, in which everyone belongs to some group or another, and therefore demands either absolute agreement with that tribe's ideas, or regards others as hostile enemies. No in between. No neutrality. You can see this in politics, where Democrats and Republicans will never agree with each other, even when they do. In fact they will both confect reasons for disagreement if it looks like they might have to cooperate for the good of the country. Tribalism can be seen, too, in good American cops never speaking out against bad cops because they feel obliged to show solidarity only with their tribe, and everyone else is regarded as the enemy. And then there a racial and gender divides.
We have that kind of tribalism in Australia too. Its manifestation in Australian politics has provided me with some darkly humorous moments. At times I have expressed views that saw me labelled a 'pinko', 'socialist', 'commie', 'ideologue' – sometimes all at once – and at the same time as a 'fascist', 'reactionary', 'racist', 'sexist', 'running dog'. What did I do to deserve these accolades? I expressed opinions that were not reducible to any single party-political or ideological camp. And yet my position is that different ideas, some of which are apparently contradictory, can exist and be supported at the same time. This is called pluralism, and it offends mostly those who represents a rigidly fixed ideological position, or who eschew reasoning in preference to unthinking kneejerk responses.
Seen from a pluralist approach, which I think should displace silly notions of café multiculturalism, no one is ever entirely right or wrong. Social and political issues invariably throw up what are known as 'wicked' problems, defined in 1973 by German and American social policy planning academics Horst Rittel and Melvyn Webber in a joint paper as the difficulty of resolving complex kinds of problems whose resolution might well create other problems as a consequence.
Looking at anti-Muslim opinion in Australia, this is immediately recognisable as a wicked problem.
Reactionaries and xenophobes must be confronted with the reality that we are, as a nation, too silent about having helped to create some of the terrorism about which we seem so concerned. How? By committing troops and materiel to an American colonial war, driven by commercial interests, in which Australia was and remains highly visible as the source of death and destruction visited on dirt poor, badly educated peasants in far away lands. I'm talking about the brutal killings of innocent civilians that are euphemistically described as collateral damage, and that vastly outnumber the killing of actual enemy combatants. It is these killings I suspect as the driving force of Islamic militance among young men and women who might never have taken up arms otherwise.
Worse, we are fighting wars created by American foreign policy decades ago when they installed dictators about whose utility they then changed their minds. One example alone explains how most of our involvement in far away wars could have been avoided. In the 1980s America changed the balance of power in the Soviet imperial war in Afghanistan by supplying the Mujahideen with Stinger surface to air missiles. Millions were spent on covert support for defeating the Soviets. But when Soviet forces withdrew in 1989, Congress refused to fund the rebuilding of the nation, missing a critical opportunity for making the newly liberated Afghanistan an ally, or at least a friend. Instead it became the breeding ground for the Taliban, one of the most barbarous contemporary associations of thugs under the nominal umbrella of Islamicism.
Whether with or without knowledge of this background, Australia became party to an unwinnable war against the legacy of American foreign policy in that region. This involved raining fire and death of many people who had no idea why we were doing that, or why they should recognise they were collateral damage in a conflict between foreigners and local warlords.
Worst of all, we entered into these wars without any clear idea about our objectives, targets, or exit strategy. Our leaders wrote a blank cheque to fund an American war with Australian tax dollars and no clear commercial benefits for the Australian private sector, the way there were for American corporations.
Is it really so hard to imagine, then, that the people we killed had relatives who reacted the same way we would if attacked? They rally around the only unifying ideology they have: Islam. Ours is the nation. As would be the case here, smart operators move in to redefine and revise older understandings of Islam to create a newly militant version for martial purposes.
Unfortunately Australia is currently shy of smart operators. Instead we are lumbered with entitled would-be Republicans who allow American policy to be dictated to them, and therefore imposed on us in the form of totalitarian measures of population control and PR spin designed to make us afraid of each other.
There is no way of wishing this mess away now, no matter how much some people enjoy futile finger pointing. We are committed to the fight against groups who don't employ strategies that would allow us to conveniently defeat them in conventional military operations. We can win only by being smarter and tougher. But being smarter also means not becoming internally divided and turning authoritarian thumbscrews on our own population the way the Abbott Government has with its completely unnecessary terrorism legislation.
The Abbott Government has also done much to revive class conflict as a fault line in Australian society by seeking to punish the economically weak to maintain the perks for the wealthier social strata. This plays out as resentment between recent migrants and local mendicants who see themselves fighting for the same scraps from the big tables. That makes them rivals, and physical proximity makes for violent confrontations.
However, the most egregious failing in addressing social divisiveness can't be sheeted home to the Coalition alone. It can be located in the diffuse but damnably negative source that is the unwritten ideology of multiculturalism, which has served as a limpid excuse for an astonishingly incompetence, for more than two decades, of successive immigration ministers and departmental bureaucrats. An incompetence that is manifested by an absence of immigration and migrant integration policy, skills, and implementation strategies that are neither so grotesquely inhumane that they make some of us puke with disgust, nor so ridiculously uncontrolled that we can't protect national interests.
The consequence has been the disaster that is our approach to illegal immigration and the 'ghettoisation' of migrant populations concentrated in urban Australia, usually in the more run-down suburbs where all they have is contact with each other, our bureaucracies, and other disadvantaged Australians. It is an almost Kafkaesque scenario in which we expect people with little or no English to organically become Australians through paperwork, social security payments, and the goodwill of others who see them as competitors for support services. Something tells me this will never work.
And so it has been with recent Middle Eastern migrants, who see no social anchor other than an already familiar Islamicism. What I'm saying is that radicalisation of Australian Muslims is at least partly a product of astonishingly incompetent administration of immigration policies that rely solely on lip service to a nebulous ideology of multiculturalism with no actual thought or expertise to realise its high-sounding ideals.
If this weren't enough, the progressive or left side of politics in Australia has created for us the most crushingly authoritarian barrier to open public dialogue about these issues. That barrier is political correctness, driven like a secular religion by armchair zealots who will hysterically overreact to every opinion not seen as deferential to their own, shouting down dissent without regard to the substance of opinions and arguments, devaluing in the process the epithets of 'racist', 'sexist', and 'xenophobe'. Political correctness has become almost a sport for some who like to award themselves brownie points for being the most visibly correct of the them all, while acting like complete idiots in the pursuit of unconscionably intolerant absolutism. This lynch mob all but prevents any public discussion about the problem we have with Australian Muslims because mentioning ethnicity or ideological alignment as a vector for crime, dysfunction, or other problems is prohibited.
Political correctness has also destroyed education at all levels, blanking out knowledge of our history and politics in favour of ideological rearguard actions against an Empire that has passed away. By all means, criticise British colonialism and its consequences, but teach what it was first, so that critical analysis is possible, and criticism of what is not known cannot be mistaken for education rather than indoctrination. The effect of this erosion of education is ignorance. The effect of ignorance is usually intolerance.
I cannot persuade myself that governments of all flavours are not aware of this continuing trend in turning high schools into our own version of madrassas, and universities into vocational training bazaars devoid of the impetus or skills to teach undergraduates enough about the history and political economy of their own country to allow them to vote for policies they understand, and to recognise the social, political, and cultural contexts in which they will practice their new found professional skills.
Ignorance thus fostered, of course, leaves governments of both flavours free to deliberately create and exploit social division. A side product is also the creation of support for the most bizarre xenophobic political groups that would never get a look-in if there were open and rational public discussion. The kind of discussion that doesn't reduce every issue to a simplistic bipolar opposition. The kind of discussion that is not subject to fearful self-censorship lest the politically correct commissars summon their version of the Basij.
All of this may seem like a substantial departure from Wakim's opinion piece, but it isn't. I think the sermon Wakim is preaching is aimed at the acolytes of political correctness and their views on multiculturalism. It is a demand, in the nicest terms, for an uncritical surrender to tolerating the intolerable. It is playing the system. It is the same shameless misuse of tragedy to advance a political cause as exercised by the Prime Minister, the NSW Premier, and all sections of the media (not just the Murdoch Tea Party propaganda machine).
I call this unfortunate to be polite about the thoughtless stupidity of Wakim and the big battalions of political correctness in pursuing a strategy that will damage rather than help their joint cause. By eschewing critical analysis and a rational approach to addressing perceived and real problems, instead focusing on tolerance for Muslims, they encourage minority hate groups and media commentators to succeed with messages of malicious divisiveness.
Worse, they alienate people who should be their natural allies. Like me. I began this commentary by identifying Wakim's stated credentials. Let me offer some of my own. I'm one of the 22 per cent of Australians with no religion. I am one of the first generation immigrants that comprise 25 per cent of the Australian population. And I am from the 11 per cent from a non-English speaking background. I'm educated to postgraduate level. It's true that my white skin and genitals may have opened doors for me that remain closed to people with other skin colours and genitalia, but getting to wherever I am, which I don't regard as privileged at all, has made me a staunch advocate of an egalitarian liberalism, a humane liberalism, and above all, or a human decency when it comes to dealing even with enemies and distasteful people.
I wanted desperately to agree with Wakim when he argued that criticism of marginalised young Muslim hotheads drives them into ISIS recruiters' open arms. But that's an absurd distortion of the truth: the most high-profile, persistent advocates of religious and political intolerance in Australia today are Muslim clerics. The names Manteghi Boroujerdi (Sheikh Haron), Junaid Thorne, Taj El-Din Hilali, Feiz Mohammed, and Samir Mohtadi (Samir Abu Hamza) come readily to mind.
They preach a mediaevalist conception that directly contradicts the social contract on which Australia rests: in return for protection of life, limb, and property we surrender to the state our right to act as mercenary thugs, and in return for social goods (like medical care, for instance), we are obliged to accept responsibility for our words and actions (including our inactions), and sometimes to serve our country.
Wakim is implicitly asking us to tolerate hate speech from Muslims, while condemning it when it comes from others. He's asking us not to talk openly about odious Muslim excesses, apparently as a kind of emotional blackmail where the payoff is the fantasy that our silence will lead to fewer Muslims signing up to kill us. The reality is that sociopaths cannot be controlled or cured by tolerance.
That said, however, I think Australia's Christian majority has been remarkably more tolerant than it's given credit for. I have never been kind in my opinions about Christianity, and remain a wary observer waiting for the next idiocy they will visit on us. However, if Australian Christians were more like the American fundamentalist literalists, many Muslims would have died in hails of gunfire by now. Instead the gunfire comes mostly from Muslims targeting other Muslims. And other Australians, too, are much more tolerant than sensationalist headlines would suggest. What incidents have there been, for example, of Buddhists preaching the murder or rape of Muslims? What about people with no religion? That's me. When have we ever sought anything but to be free of religious sectarian nonsense?
Wakim's opinion piece avoids what I regard as an incontrovertible truth. Some of the hostility Muslims feel from other Australians would reduce enormously if two things were curbed: Muslims putting allegiance to Australia second to their religion; and the contemptible public display of Muslim misogyny, paraded quite openly in the form of women covered in cloth from head to toe.
The first issue is pretty clear-cut: if you don't want to be Australian, you ought to consider why you are here, but while you are here, preaching the murder or rape of other Australians is, and should be treated as, intent to commit criminal offences. We don't need special terrorist legislation to do that. It is a long established criminal offence that requires only vigorous prosecution.
The second issue is not so simple. In 2010 I wrote a comment piece that I find the burqa confronting, but do not believe the state should legislate against such attire. It was serious talking point at the time. I have not changed my mind since 2010.
My reasons for being confronted by hidden faces is based partly on Western notions about honesty and trust being tied into an absence of concealment, and partly by the idea that religionism should not be rubbed in my face publicly.
My strongest objection, however, is its symbolic assertion of a deeply ingrained misogyny that abrogates human rights altogether.
When Muslim men demand that their daughters, sisters, and wives cover themselves to prevent lustful attention from men, they declare openly that they don't trust themselves to act with responsibility, restraint, and decency, but are given over entirely to barbaric instincts, and must be expected to rape women on whim. To justify such barbarism in themselves, Muslim men find women guilty of being the cause of their irresponsible criminality.
How can non-Muslim Australians feel safe from self-declared impulse-driven, opportunistic criminals?
Moreover, even less openly barbarous Muslims appear to find in the Koran justifications to control and command their female relatives as semi-slaves. Not equal to men in any regard.
The deep sense of unease arising from these considerations is not at all dispelled by murderous blackmail. The kind that accompanies the exercise of free speech in Western societies any time Islam and its sacred cows are critiqued, satirised, or condemned. Riots and death threats as symbols of Islam do not at all enhance tolerance for Muslims anywhere.
An unwritten but pervasive tenet of politically correct multiculturalism seems to be that I have no 'right' to object to different 'cultural practices', meaning of course that I must not speak my mind about wicked problems. That's just horseshit!
It is a simple fact that every time any group in Australia suffers abrogation of their human rights, my human rights are also diminished. This is because once we start to segregate our society into different classes with different rights, even if that works to my advantage at some stage, we have accepted that any human right can be arbitrarily revoked or subverted. From there it is a short road to rule by arbitrary fiat rather than rule of law. I can't and won't be tolerant of anything leading down that path. Doing so would diminish me as a man.
In that context I am convinced that I have not just a right, but a responsibility to demand from other Australians the maturity to act with lawful responsibility and human decency. Disadvantaged or disaffected Muslims are not exempt from that expectation, and I believe I'm in the company of a majority of Australians who find no excuse at all for crime, no matter if it is committed in the name of a phoney religionism.
There are undoubtedly those who would say to me that not all Muslims are as I have described them. That 'most Muslims are peaceful and decent people'. But that's a platitude without any more foundation than saying most Christians are paedophiles just because we know that some have been.
The reality is that any people defined solely by their religion and its practices cannot be anything at all but how their religion represents itself in public. Moreover, religions cannot be respected. Only individuals can earn that tribute by their words and actions. This is the case for all people, not just Muslims.
I instinctively liked Wakim's homily to the common Australian ground of flowers and mourning, but rationally I see it as the same empty, quietist resignation to barbarism as the Christian admonitions to render unto Caesar, and to turn the other cheek.
Our mission must be to reduce the occasions on which we mourn, and to prevent such mourning from becoming a media circus dragged into every imaginable, self-serving agenda.
I have a different vision of a common ground for all Australians. My common ground with my fellow Australians will never be religion, or its absence. It is and always will be that we recognise each other as Australians before anything else. That recognition is also a realisation of responsibility and obligation to the nation and each other. It does not include a right to demand support or tolerance for segregation, divisiveness, special privilege, or lack of human decency.
My friends, known and unknown, are others who display integrity, responsibility, and a sense of duty to maintain Australia as an open, pluralist society with strong liberal democratic ideals and practices, independent from our friends, allies and enemies alike.
When we come to wicked problems, instead of dividing into implacably opposed camps, our first and continuing effort should be to question our assumptions and fixed positions to work out whether there are better ideas to be tested. That cannot happen if all discussion is restricted to only two paths.


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SECAUCUS, N.J. – A New Jersey Transit police officer is being hailed as a hero for pulling a man from the tracks and out of the way of an oncoming train last week.
NJ Transit said in a statement that Officer Victor Ortiz responded heroically when he pulled the man from the tracks at Secaucus Junction on Friday morning, seconds before the arrival of a train.
"Officer Ortiz's selfless and heroic actions demonstrated a level of bravery and a true sense of compassion and purpose that often goes unrecognized but is ever present in our law enforcement community," the agency said.
Ortiz told The Record newspaper he received a report of a disorderly passenger about to exit a train.
The man repeatedly asked why police were called. Ortiz said he asked the man to sit down while he spoke to the conductor, but that he walked down the platform and jumped onto the tracks, saying he didn't want to go to jail.
Ortiz said he checked to see that there were no oncoming trains before following the man, who ran to another set of tracks.
"At that point he's like, 'I just want to die, I just want to die,'" Ortiz told WCBS-TV. "He pretty much went down on his knees and down on his arms. At that point I said, 'You're not going to die, you're not going to die.'"
Ortiz struggled with the man and said he called central communications to stop the oncoming train, but its horn blew.
"I knew at that point the train's not going to stop in time," Ortiz said.
Video showed Ortiz eventually overpowering and dragging the man to safety moments before a train pulls into the station.


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