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Thanks for stopping by today, and be sure to visit the other quilters for lots more wickedness!
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
A Wicked Welcome
Thanks for stopping by today, and be sure to visit the other quilters for lots more wickedness!
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ahhh great minds think alike.. You will have to go see my witches. :)ReplyDelete
Yours is awesome!
Wickedly witchy! I think you did a marvelous job and thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
You have a Wickedly Cute witch! Love your wall hanging!ReplyDelete
Oh so cute! It looks great! I love the embroidery that you added!!ReplyDelete
Great paper pieced witch and that saying is perfect!ReplyDelete
Oooh its lovely - thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Lovely project, thanks for sharing...ReplyDelete
A wicked witch indeed! It looks amazing (and yes, I mean the quilting too!). Did you know Maaike is working on a new book, they are still writing it, but it is coming!ReplyDelete
A wicked witch very cute. Thanks for sharingReplyDelete
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The Wickedly Witch Of The West. So darn cute!! Thank You!ReplyDelete
Hi EllenReplyDelete
There's a lot of wicked stuff on your blog. I can't decide what I like best, but the spider table topper is creeeeeepy and since I'm a cat person, your pillows are screechingly awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Your wickedly witch is perfect.I love paperpiecing pattern,thanks for sharing!!ReplyDelete
Your project is wonderful and so creative. Thank you for sharing your wickedness today!ReplyDelete
Your wallhanging is very beautiful !ReplyDelete
Good Morning....your projects are perfect with a t ( totally bewitching)ReplyDelete
Great wallhanging! I love your paper pieced witch!ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing!
Very nice. I love that witch.ReplyDelete
Can I stay forever!! :-) Love it, Love it!ReplyDelete
She is wonderfully wicked! Love that what a great idea!ReplyDelete
love your witch,,,,I have that one too...Martingales featured it this month...very cute.ReplyDelete
Hi!! Very WICKED!!! Love your witch and they saying!!!ReplyDelete
Wicked! Love the witch, the saying, and the book.ReplyDelete
Nice work to add the saying! Love your project, thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Wickedly wonderful witchy block! Cute Halloween saying...perfect for a wickedly welcome! Thanks!ReplyDelete
great paper piecing and cute quote perfect for this time of yearReplyDelete
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Great withy block and that is such a cute saying . Thanks for sharing .ReplyDelete
Thank you for inviting me in to stay a spell. Really cute!ReplyDelete
Very cute - more complicated than anything I've done yet, something to aspire to. :)ReplyDelete
Loved that witch!!ReplyDelete
Your little witch is so cute and I love the saying! Great job!ReplyDelete
She is darling! I love the added embroidery - perfect! blessings, marleneReplyDelete
super cute,great job. Love the fabrics!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing your little witch. Looks like you are all ready for Halloween this year! Great job!ReplyDelete
Wicked good job on your witch!! What a fun addition to your decoration items :) :) Thank you so much for sharing!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing your wall hanging. The witch turned out great and I love the little saying. Makes me smile.ReplyDelete
Your Wallhanging is such fun! I love it, thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Your wallhanging is really cute! You did a great job on the witch and the spider webs! Love the little saying to!ReplyDelete
Your witch is wickedly perfect for Halloween--love the little spiderwebs!ReplyDelete
Wickedly wonderful witch...great job...luv the spiderwebs. Such a fun hop thanks for sharing!!ReplyDelete
I love your witch. I wish I could say my free-motion quilting is improving. Frankly, I prefer to hand quilt, so that is probably why I don't try more, but I did machine quilt a block last night that I had made for the Leafs Me Happy hop. It wasn't great, but I am not embarrassed to hang it up.ReplyDelete
OMWicked Ways, your witch block is adorable. And your quilting is very nice, you will always get better, even if you are the best, so much to learn as we go along. I also love that ?doily? with the spider. Can you get a better picture of it and share with me? Thanks, :)ReplyDelete
Very clever! Thanks for participating in the Wicked hop!ReplyDelete
Love your witchy wall hanging! Thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
Very cute wall hanging... I like that you added the little saying at the bottom.ReplyDelete
Very creative. Thanks for sharing and thanks for being in the fun hop. I'm getting all kinds of ideas.ReplyDelete
I have that book and it is fantastic! Thanks for sharing - your witchy turned out great :o)ReplyDelete
I love your witch silhouette and the spiderwebs look GREAT!!ReplyDelete
What an adorable wall hanging..TFS!!ReplyDelete
My post will be a witch paperpieced too! But a different one :) I am happy with the outcome. Good job on yours!ReplyDelete
This is cute and made me chuckle!ReplyDelete
Rosemary B here:ReplyDelete
LOVE this! I love the colors of the finished project too, It looks perky, wicked and happy
thanks for sharing
love your witchesReplyDelete
really nice!ReplyDelete
I love your wicked little wall hanging!! Beautiful!!!ReplyDelete
This is wickedly sweet. Nice job. Love the writing with thread. Terrific.ReplyDelete
This ole' witch hopper is on my broom and enjoying all the lovely creations. Your witch is super cute and the slogan is perfect! Off I go...to visit your fellow haunts.ReplyDelete
fabulous! I've seen that pattern but didn't think it was spectacular...until now! Love the way you've added to it!ReplyDelete
I love your witch and the choice of fabrics you picked ... really nice!!ReplyDelete
Your wall hanging is adorable, thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
That's a great wall hanging for Halloween! I don't usually like spiders, but I do like your polka dot fabric.ReplyDelete
That is just adorable....come in and stay for a spell. Love it!ReplyDelete
A very wicked witch and wall hanging.ReplyDelete
I LOVE your wall hanging! well done.ReplyDelete
Really like your witch and paper piecing is so much fun. Purple, catches everyone's eye today. Thanks for sharingReplyDelete
Nice wallhanging. I would love to sit for a spell, but I must hop away.ReplyDelete
That's a great witch! Nicely done, I bet you're loving it.ReplyDelete
Love this block! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
The saying you added is a nice touch. Can I borrow (steal) it?ReplyDelete
Love the paper piecing! The added saying is perfect.ReplyDelete
Wicked work thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
You did a great job on the spider web quilting. Wicked block.ReplyDelete
Great pieced witch and your quilting spiderwebs look fabulous.ReplyDelete
Fabulous witchy, great spider too!ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing :)
Love your witch,,it makes a lovely wall hanging. Thanks for sharing with us all.ReplyDelete
I love the witch and the embroidery on the bottom! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Wickedly beautiful! The touch of embroidery is the icing on the cake. Well done!ReplyDelete
Cute wall hanging, love that dot spider web fabric!ReplyDelete
Hahaha ... sit a spell ... !!! Think I'll remain standing, if it's all the same to you! Great job on your block -- what wickedly good fun! :)ReplyDelete
Really wicked, love it :-)ReplyDelete
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What is the relationship between fertilizer and nitrogen, and what are alternatives farmers can use in place of fertilizers?
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Nitrogen, along with phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and sulfer, is essential to plant survival. Nitrogen is not only a major component of plant cells, but it is also an intregal part of the plant's ability to perform photosyntehis (the process by which plants produce the energy they need to live.) In short, no nitrogen = no farming.
One of the major components of fertilizer is nitrogen. The theory is that if you increase the amount of nitrogen that's in dirt the plant will be better able to produce strong roots and fuel its growth. If there isn't enough nitrogen, crops tend to grow smaller and have weaker root systems. Of course, there are diminishing returns. Too much nitrogen in the soil is just as bad (and in some ways worse) than having too little. It's harder to get rid of extra nitrogen than to put more in.
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Farmers need to put nitrogen into the ground to replace what they are taking out, otherwise they'd need to constantly move to new places where they havne't yet worn out the soil. Normally this is done via chemicals, which are potent and require less planning. There are alternatives to using created chemicals, and here are a few in no particular order:
- Animals provide a good deal of fertilizer through their waste products,
- Crop rotation makes sure that crops don't exhaust the soil,
- Leaving a portion of a field "fallow" to allow nature to replenish nutrients,
- Growing a non-commercial crop in a portion of field, such as clover, that is then plowed under to replace nitrogen,
- Keeping appropriate crop density,
- Genetically modifying crops to require less nitrogen.
In short, if you don't have nitrogen you don't have a crop. Nitrogen is in fertilizer, and so that's one of the reasons farmers use it. Whether natural or unnatural, fertilization has to occur in order to grow things, but farmers have alternatives to spraying chemicals if they don't want to.

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Colonel General Grubozaboyschikov is a fictional character and an antagonist in Ian Fleming's 1957 James Bond novel From Russia with Love.
Character background
At the time of the novel, General Nicholai Sergenovitch Grubozaboyschikov[1] is the Head of SMERSH, the fictional[2] "murder apparatus" of the Russian Committee of State Security,[3] and is known as "G", in the same way that Sir Miles Messervy, the Head of the British Secret Service in Fleming's novels, is known as "M". Grubozaboyschikov's appearance is described in detail in Chapter Four of the novel. He is "a tough-looking, thick-set man of about fifty[4]", with a sharp, narrow face, a deeply cleft chin and a broad, grim mouth. He has a clean-shaven head but thick black eyebrows, over bulging brown eyes with flabby pouches beneath them. The whole effect is of "a hard, unyielding face of formidable authority". He smokes cheap cardboard Moskwa-Volga cigarettes and has a fondness for using peasant obscenities in his conversation.
Grubozaboyschikov has had a distinguished military career. His ribbon bar, also described in Chapter Four, comprises the Order of Lenin (twice), the Order of Suvorov, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star (twice), the Twenty Years' Service medal, the Medal for the Defence of Moscow, the Medal for the Capture of Berlin, the British CBE and the American Medal for Merit. However, his post-war career in the MGB was hampered by the enmity of Beria, who controlled State Security.[5] By 1952 Grubozaboyschikov was deputy to one of the Heads of the MGB, but his post was abolished when the MGB was absorbed into Beria's own MVD on 5 March 1953. Grubozaboyschikov thereafter plotted to help bring about Beria's downfall, working under the secret instructions of General Serov. Beria fell from power on 26 June 1953 and was executed on 23 December following,[6] and Serov was appointed Head of the newly formed KGB on 13 March 1954. As a reward for his loyalty, Grubozaboyschikov was given command of SMERSH, now subordinated to the KGB.
Interaction with James Bond
When Grubozaboyschikov came to power as Head of SMERSH, the Soviet intelligence machine had recently suffered a series of high-profile defections and exposures, including that of the cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko in September 1945, the rocket scientist Grigori Tokaev in 1947, the atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs in January 1950, the assassin Nikolai Khoklov in February 1954 and the diplomat Vladimir Petrov in April 1954.[7] "G" as Head of SMERSH was therefore charged by the Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet, through Serov, with carrying out "an act of terrorism within the intelligence field", to restore Russian credibility in the international intelligence community without any public culpability. In a meeting, described in Chapters Four to Six of the novel, with the other Russian intelligence chiefs — Lieutenant-General Slavin, of the GRU; Lieutenant-General Vozdvishensky of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Colonel of State Security Nikitin,[8] of the KGB — it was determined to target the British Secret Service by assassinating and disgracing (killing "with ignominy") one of its most able agents, James Bond. Bond had already brought about the deaths of two valuable Russian agents, Le Chiffre (in Casino Royale) and SMERSH's own "Mr Big" (in Live and Let Die) — G is quick to point out that these reverses took place before he assumed command — and had ruined another Russian plot "three years ago" in Moonraker. Grubozaboyschikov hands the formulation of the operation over to SMERSH's Head of Plans, the chess grand master Colonel Kronsteen, and its execution to the Head of Operations, Colonel Klebb.
General Grubozaboyschikov does not appear further in the novel, and it is unknown what his eventual fate is. The attempt to murder and discredit James Bond ends in unmitigated disaster for SMERSH, with the death among others of its Chief Executioner, Donovan "Red" Grant, the capture of its Head of Operations, Rosa Klebb,[9] and the incidental destruction of the Russian consulate in Istanbul. Even if Grubozaboyschikov's career survived this severe setback, which was followed by the death at Bond's hands of SMERSH's treasurer in Goldfinger, he would undoubtedly have been out of power by 1958, when SMERSH was disbanded and replaced by the Special Executive Department of the MVD[10] on the orders of Nikita Khrushchev, who became Premier of the Soviet Union in March of that year. Grubozaboyschikov's patron Serov was replaced as Head of the KGB by Alexander Shelepin in December.
Film adaptation
General Grubozaboyschikov does not appear in the 1963 film adaptation of the novel, starring Sean Connery as James Bond. In the film, the plot against Bond is mounted by Ernst Stavro Blofeld's criminal organisation SPECTRE, as revenge for the death of Doctor Julius No in the previous film, Dr. No.[11] Rosa Klebb is a SPECTRE agent placed within the SMERSH, and runs the operation using SMERSH resources (including Tatiana Romanova), but without the knowledge of the Russian government. The film character with the nearest approximation to Grubozaboyschikov's role in the plot is Blofeld himself.
- ↑ In Russian, the name would be spelled Грубозабойщиков. According to a poster at the commanderbond.net forum, an approximate translation of the name is "one who stabs (or hammers in) roughly".
- ↑ In an "Author's Note" at the beginning of the novel, Fleming claims that his descriptions of SMERSH and Grubozaboyschikov as its Head were factual and accurate at the time of writing, the beginning of 1956. However, although a historical SMERSH did exist until 1946, the department featured in the novel is entirely fictional. General Grubozaboyschikov never existed.
- ↑ The Committee of State Security is now better known by its abbreviation, KGB, though Fleming erroneously uses the abbreviation MGB (denoting the defunct Ministry of State Security) throughout the novel.
- ↑ This means that Grubozaboyschikov was born in the mid-1910s, as the action of the novel is set in the mid-1950s.
- ↑ In Chapter 2 of Fleming's earlier Bond novel Casino Royale, the historical Beria is described as having personal direction of the fictional SMERSH himself.
- ↑ In Chapter 2 of Fleming's novel Live and Let Die, Bond wondered who controlled SMERSH "now that Beria was gone".
- ↑ All historical.
- ↑ Nikitin, promoted to Colonel General, later appeared as the Head of SMERSH in Christopher Wood's 1977 novel James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me, though he does not appear in the film The Spy Who Loved Me, of which Wood's book was the novelisation. In the film his role is filled by the character of General Gogol. Wood's description of Nikitin is remarkably similar to Fleming's of Grubozaboyschikov, right down to the details of uniform and medals.
- ↑ Klebb's eventual death is later confirmed in Chapter 2 of Dr No.
- ↑ See Thunderball, Chapter 5.
- ↑ In the continuity of the novels, Dr No comes directly after From Russia with Love (as opposed to directly before in the film continuity), beginning with Bond having just recovered from being poisoned by Rosa Klebb's spiked shoe.


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Shino Takeda Studio Visit
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Shino Takeda grew up in Japan on the southern island of Kyushu, where, by way of her family and community, she was surrounded by a rich history in ceramics and art. It was only after relocating to New York City that Shino began creating pottery under her own name, and by doing so began to pursue a profession that was deeply rooted in the Japanese traditions of her past.
Soon after arriving in New York from Japan, Shino visited a midtown Manhattan studio with a friend and was inspired by the artists who occupied the space. Unbeknownst to her, she would later call this very studio a second home, earning her living producing ceramics for a number of independent boutiques around the world.
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5 things I recommend you do are;
Build your database - everybody knows people so start adding them to your database. Decide on the methodology/technology you are going to use and start inputting the information. Gather as much information as you can names, phone numbers, email address, address work & home, birthdays, family members etc. No harm in reaching out to these people & letting them know you are in the process of getting licensed and hope they will help you when you are.
Market Knowledge - get to know your market place. If there are new builds in the area visit the home sites and get floor plans, price sheets & learn about the builders cooperation plans, visit open houses on the weekends, meet the agents, introduce yourself and tell them you are going to be an agent (be prepared for the good the bad and the ugly when you do). Get school, recreation facility, Community amenities information, shopping centres, learn transit routes and commute times, local business and major employers, etc.
Meet with Real Estate Brokers - set up appointments with local real estate brokers (even if you have decided where you will be licensed - they will be your competition and knowing their strengths & weaknesses will give you an edge). Ask about their policies, commission plans, market share and technology but focus on the most important - their training programs and how they will help you succeed, if you join them. Don't just let them explain the training - get them to show it to you, ask who will be providing it and if there are any costs associated with it. If the Broker doesn't do the training ask to meet the trainer, You will be spending a lot of time with this person, you should meet them to make sure there is a good match.
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Write your business plan for the first month, six months and year - a recent Sales Representative I hired told me after the first month that "he didn't know what he didn't know" when he first started in Real Estate which is why I suggest a 30 day, 6 month and 1 year plan. Things will change and change rapidly in the first year you are in the business but without a written plan you will find it significantly more challenging than with one - I believe in the old saying "Failing to plan is planning to Fail". Your business plan will give you focus in the early days of your career. Work with the Broker you have selected to develop this plan and be prepared to hit the ground running as soon as your license is issued.


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A memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28, at the Kenai Masonic Lodge No. 11 next to Alyeska Tire on the Kenai Spur Highway in Soldotna.
Mr. Wynkoop was born Aug. 3, 1920, in Hill City, Minn., to Arthur and Darling Wynkoop. He graduated from Hill City High School in 1938.
"His high school sweetheart, Helen Maki, was a 'seagull' and followed him to his Navy port in San Diego, where they were married in 1943," his family said.
The couple lived in northern Minnesota for 52 years and raised three girls. He was a member of the Masons in Grand Rapids, Mich., Masonic Lodge No. 208 and Sterling Masonic Lodge No. 22 for a total of 62 years. He also was a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign War and the American Legion.
"After retirement from the state of Minnesota Forestry, they moved 'North to Alaska' in 1972, where he was instrumental in developing State Forestry in Soldotna. In 1982, he then retired from the state of Alaska Division of Forestry," his family said. "He and his wife spent their time hunting, fishing and crabbing. They enjoyed their time entertaining family and out-of-state guests. He was a wonderful cook and you never knew what kind of mystery meat Curly would cook up for you. He thoroughly enjoyed his weekly visits from the 'girls' who came from the hall. His family and friends will miss his gourmet cooking, sense of humor, as well as his hunting and fishing tales. His kindness and generosity has affected many."
Mr. Wynkoop was preceded in death by his wife of 61 years; brother, Leonard; and sister, Gertrude Averil.
He is survived by his sister, Charlotte Kivela of Arizona; daughters, Donna Wobbema and her husband, Joe, of Minnisota, Linda Barclay and her husband, Greg, of Sterling, and Patsy Holsman and her husband, John, of Anchorage; grandchildren, Wendy and Jason Gordon of Oregon, Mike and Sarah Vosen of Kansas, David and Bobbie Holsman of Anchorage, Paul and Laurie Holsman of Texas, Jamie and Brian Lane of Washington, Andy and Holly Barclay of Anchorage, Traci and Robert Gonzalez of Kenai, and Laci Barclay of Anchorage; and great-grandchildren, Bryce, Katie, Tim, Matt, Camilla, Kassidy, Jacqueline, Elizabeth, Zoey and Kyron.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations be made to the Sterling Masonic Lodge No. 22, P.O. Box 32, Sterling, AK 99672.
Arrangements were made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel in Kenai.
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He and his trusty cat are off to London to seek their fame and fortune. But can Dick defeat the evil King Rat? Will he marry his love Alice? Will he become the mayor of London? And – most importantly - what will the Dame wear?
The show is written by Fine Time Fontayne – the Coliseum's regular dame - who will also be donning an apron as Sarah the Cook. Joining him is the star of Hollyoaks and recently Coronation Street - Andonis Anthony as King Rat.
It may lack massive celebrity names like Pamela Anderson and Henry Winkler but the essential elements for a great panto are there – time honoured traditions like the slosh scene; the transformation and the inevitable wedding and walk-down – plus all the favourite characters: Principal Boy; evil villain and, of course, the Dame. Add a collection of songs both current and classic and you know you're in for a fantastic evening of pure entertainment.
If you have kids and they love getting involved, children in the audience also get chance to take to the stage by taking part in the traditional song sheet.
The show is directed by Kevin Shaw, with set design by Celia Perkins and the cast also includes Justine Elizabeth Bailey (Dick Whittington) and Liz Carney (Fairy Bowbells).
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Universities are places, not brands
It is disheartening to see a renewed push to attract, if that is the right word, so-called top universities to set up shop here ('Hong Kong risks losing the global education race', May 29).
What has made New York, London, and Paris education hubs is their ability to nurture local universities with roots in their cities over decades (sometimes centuries) of development and refinement in concert with governments and communities.
This is already happening in Hong Kong and it is a necessarily slow process.
Allowing international institutions to open 'branches' here cannot be prevented; Hong Kong is a free economy, after all. But it would send the wrong message.
Universities are places, not banking operations, let alone brands.
The examples of (mostly US) universities opening campuses in Singapore, Dubai or on the mainland are not necessarily to be lauded. Many people see them as money-making operations, while insiders know they are much diminished versions of their counterparts back home.
Having said this, I see the advantages of having private universities. I was partly educated at one, albeit one that, much to my approval, stubbornly refuses to join in the 'global education race'.
Then again, a private university in Hong Kong, too, would have to be conceived and run locally.
Giorgio Biancorosso, Happy Valley
Exams being given too much weight
Our education system is too exam-oriented. It puts a lot of pressure on pupils and stifles creative thought.
The government should implement changes in line with schools in the West so that we have a more task-based system. If exams made up a smaller proportion of results, pupils would feel less strain.
At the moment, young people who do not excel in their exams will often find their career prospects blighted.
Not all of us are academically talented, but we may have other skills that could mean we could make a useful contribution to society.
There should be more options made available to school leavers so they can achieve their full potential.
John Yau Ho-cheung, Laguna City
Overloaded students overstressed
When I think of the new senior secondary school curriculum, I think of exam machines. It has been very harsh to teachers, pupils and their parents.
In order to get ready for the Diploma of Secondary Education exams, it has been impossible for teachers to get through the whole syllabus in the time allotted, and with most schools this has led to extra lessons during the holidays.
This places stress on everyone involved.
Young people also do not have enough time to absorb the huge amount of knowledge presented to them. If they fall behind, with so much work and so little time, they find it more difficult to catch up.
As a pupil, I feel the curriculum should be expanding our knowledge and range of experience, but this is not happening, because we are overloaded with studying. Pupils are not learning things like developing social networks, moral values and the basic skills of life.
There must be a full-scale review of the current system.
Wong Pik-yuk, Sha Tin
Greek drama isn't revenge tragedy
There is no connection between a village in Niger and Greece, and it's inappropriate for International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde to suggest that there is one ('Payback time for Greeks, Lagarde says', May 27).
There are well-qualified historians, sociologists and political scientists able to offer her insight and knowledge as to why three children in a village in Niger share a single chair. As for 'payback time', the euro-zone crisis is not a revenge tragedy. Such words encourage baying for blood. Where should this lead?
Mme Lagarde would do well to consider sage advice offered by the proverb 'people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'.
Ariadne Hueffmann, Sai Kung
Filibustering was first step to democracy
I disagree with Alice Wu's column ('Fili-blustering', May 28). To her, the whole event in Legco was nothing but an entertaining farce.
Why is that someone with Ms Wu's political knowledge was unable to see the filibustering as an act of defiance against the unfair legislative system, where developers still dominate local politics? Instead of mocking legislators, it would have been better for her to rail against the existence of our functional constituencies, which have turned Legco into a parody of democracy.
While 'meaningless' would not be the first word I would associate with the whole filibustering exercise, I might regard it as ineffective, because many underlying motives were either downplayed or never made known to the public.
Nonetheless, the prolonged deliberation forced Legco president Tsang Yok-sing to exercise in unprecedented fashion the president's exclusive power to guillotine the filibustering.
Also it was alleged that the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong 'had paid anti-filibuster protesters to rally outside the Legco building' (''No collusion' over debate, Legco president insists', May 19).
The heated debate over the political manoeuvres still holds the attention of the public, and people are now more concerned about what is happening in the Legco chamber. The strategy of stalling the controversial by-election amendment bill paid off.
It forced the pro-establishment camp to act and raised the public's political awareness. This is a step towards genuine party politics and future democracy.
Wang Tsui, Hung Hom
Photos alone won't do as smoking gun
I refer to the letter by G. Davies ('No fare rise if cabbies keep smoking', May 28).
If you take a photo of a taxi driver smoking, have a photo of the taxi licence plate and a clear photo of the driver, and you agree to be a witness in court, it is still not enough to convict.
I know because I have sent several documented examples to the Tobacco Control Office.
They are impotent to take action.
That is because there is no duty on the taxi owner to tell you the identity of the driver.
I would enjoy discussing this issue with the legislative councillor whom G. Davies spoke with who thinks that a photo is all you need.
The Road Traffic Ordinance must be updated to match the tobacco control laws, or enforcement against taxi drivers smoking in their cabs is impossible.
I have had to enter the taxi, take a photo of the driver's identity plate in the front window before the driver snatches it out of its holder, and send that in for the Tobacco Control Office to be able to take any action. When there is no driver ID, I have had to pay for the taxi to drive to the police station so an officer can collect the ID information. And when I do, the police tell me to look out for my personal safety.
Voting to pass a law in Legco does not mean it can be easily enforced on the street.
Legco members would do well to hire former police officers to tell them the pitfalls of the laws they seek to enact and make sure they have the bite needed so they are obeyed.
Annelise Connell, Stanley
Avoid taxing income more than once
I take strong issue with David Chappell, who proposes replacing salaries tax with income tax ('Tax the rich on unearned income', May 26 ).
Hong Kong does need to diversify its tax base, but it needs to avoid any form of double or triple taxation of the kind that blights other administrations.
People should be taxed once on their income and not at all on any dividends or interest they earn on investing what is left.
Neither should their estates be subject to an inheritance tax. I would suggest, though, that some form of purchase tax on non-essential luxury goods and electronic road pricing (first proposed in the 1980s) be introduced as soon as possible.
The problem of the wealth gap, recognised by all of us, cannot be addressed by soaking the 'rich' but by enabling the 'poor', something I feel certain that our chief executive-elect fully intends to do.
Guy Shirra, Sai Kung
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Wikipedia (and its spinoffs)!
This is my latest experience with regards to wikipedia:
Wendy Campbell: I Got Deleted From Wikipedia:
• 92% of all the land inside the Green Line of Israel is reserved for Jews only; the rest of the land, approximately 8%, is for the non-Jewish people who comprise 20% of Israeli population. Therefore, it is a segregated, apartheid country.
This is further evidenced by the fact that there are Jews-only by-pass roads that go to Jews-only settlements built on stolen Palestinian land.
Non-Jews are never given permits to build inside Israel.
The Israeli Apartheid Wall is cutting further into Palestinian land, taking over water resources and vital agricultural Palestinian land for Jews only.
Israelis steal Palestinians' lands, then push them into refugee camps, then force them to work at slave wages in Israel, even building Jews-only settlements on stolen Palestinian land. Then the Palestinians have to pay taxes to the Israelis.
are barely tolerated, and in fact, they get a clear message that
the Israelis want to dispossess them, even transfer them out.
Non-Jews are not invited to become citizens of Israel, nor are
they allowed all the privileges and freedoms that Jews are allowed
even if they decided to become citizens of Israel.
Palestinians in the Palestinian Territories of the Gaza Strip
& the West Bank must pay taxes to Israel yet they do not have
the right to vote in Israeli elections. This is taxation without
representation. This is tyranny.
Jews from around the world are encouraged by the Israeli government to go to Palestinian Territories and steal Palestinian land using guns for illegal Jewish settlements, which the Israeli army then sets up military outposts to protect the Jewish thieves. Meanwhile, Palestinians are forced to live under strict curfew, roadblocks, and checkpoints, which strangulate any kind of normal lives for the Palestinians and prevents them from protecting their land from being stolen by Jewish settlers/thieves.
Israel is a Jewish state, whereby all Jews receive preferential treatment in every way, therefore it is NOT a democratic, secular state.
In fact, non-Jewish Israelis are not allowed to run for office in Israel if they want to run on a platform calling for Israel to transform into a truly democratic, secular country such as the U.S. is. The U.S. is officially a secular country, even though we have a majority of Christians. We have separation of Church and State, but Israel does not have separation of Synagogue and State. In fact, here in the U.S. we need to start addressing the need for separation of Synagogue and State.
Discrimination is not allowed in the U.S. but in Israel political leaders openly call for a transfer of non-Jews from Israel. Newspapers constantly print racist, discriminatory articles about non-Jews. Racist, anti-Arab graffitti is everywhere in Israel and allowed to stay there. Militant Jewish settlers with guns are encouraged to steal Palestinian land. They don't face jail time for stealing Palestinian land or killing Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Olmert openly proclaimed that Israeli lives are more important than Palestinian lives.
There is now ONE Israeli soldier being detained by Palestinians. All the Palestinians want in return for releasing this Israeli soldier is for Israel to release the Palestinian women and children who have been detained indefinitely by the Israelis. By the way, Israel has imprisoned around 9,000 Palestinians! Israel refuses to play fair. They are abusing their power and proving that they are Jewish supremacists who think they are above the law and everyone else.
Palestinian refugees, who were chased off their land in terror in 1948 when the Jewish state of Israel was created by the UN who gave away Arab land that was NOT theirs to give away in the first place to Jewish Europeans, have never been allowed to return to their homeland of Palestine-Israel even though it is their right according to UN Resolutions and International Law.
There are many other such instances that proves without a doubt that Israel has been an apartheid, racist, ethnic-cleansing country since the very day it was created in 1948, and even before that. Check out the hot newslinks we provide here and also do a google-search on any of these topics, such as Israeli apartheid, and "bombing of the King David Hotel in 1946" to see how Zionists terrorized Palestinians and British soldiers even before the Jewish state of Israel was created in 1948. There are many excellent books on these matters as well, by authors such as Israel Shahak, Israel Shamir, David Hirst, Edward Said, Marwan Bishara, Norman Finkelstein, and many others.
Mainstream U.S. media, Wikipedia, Indymedia (since it allows Zionist gatekeepers & phony-named anonymous authors) simply cannot be trusted. They all want to maintain the status quo with regards to apartheid Israel and keeping the cash flowing from US tax payers, so they hide the Truth from the American public and they smear people who try to spread the Truth. They call people like me and anyone who criticizes the reality of Israel as a Jewish supremacist state a "Nazi" yet they can't stand it if we call them "ZioNazis". We only want equal rights for all and no double standards. We are anti-Zionism and anti-Israel as a racist Jewish state, butwe don't call for Jews to leave anywhere unless they are personally breaking laws, such as stealing land, which should land them in jail, as that is against International Law and against the Ten Commandments.
It should be The Golden Rule NOT it's The Gold That Rules.
Let's make it perfectly clear what The Golden Rule is, since SOME PEOPLE seem to have forgotten: "Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you."
Would you believe that today, I read in a typically Zionized U.S. mainstream newspaper which has a Jewish editor and a Jewish publisher (also very typical -- Jews, aka Israeli Americans, do dominate the U.S. media, just as the Vietnamese dominate the manicure/pedicure shops and Cambodians dominate the donut shops, etc.) that The Golden Rule is : "Do unto others as they would do unto you." Can you believe it? Perhaps it was a misprint or was it a "Freudian slip"? Or perhaps that is simply The Jewish Golden Rule. How bizarro of them to twist The Golden Rule so subtly into a rule preaching preempted revenge!But then again, this is SO TYPICAL of the Zionist Jewish mindset, of course. This is a typical Zionist Jew: Do unto OTHERS (as in non-Jews) as they (the Nazis, the Christians, and any non-Jews except the ones who obey and love us unconditionally) have done unto us (as in the Jewish victims of "The Holocaust"). This was the Zionist attitude when they invaded Palestine and then they stole even more land than was given to them unfairly and unilaterally by the U.N. in 1948, massacring entire Palestinian villages such as Dier Yassin, in order to create a larger Jewish supremacist state of Israel in Palestine.
Israel is NOT a democracy. It is a racist theocracy, whose government has been systematically ethnically cleansing Palestine of non-Jews since 1948.
We are all God's children. We are all one. Jews should stop separating themselves and considering themselves apart and chosen and above The Golden Rule, and above International Laws.
There can be no peace and harmony without justice and equal rights for all before the law.
On top of that, Wikipedia has taken upon itself to publish a ridiculous, slanderous list of "Anti-Semitic People", of which I, Wendy Campbell, am included along with Hitler! That, if anything, should completely discredit Wikipedia once and for all. Our credo at MarWen Media is COMPLETELY EQUAL rights for all regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender or personal wealth, both here in the US and any country that receives OUR TAX DOLLARS and that includes racist, apartheid Israel, which is BY FAR the largest recipient of US foreign aid, and that is not even including the hush money we are forced to pay Egpyt and the war on Iraq which is largely for Israel's sake NOT for the USA or the majority of Americans.
"Wikipedia defines Anti-Semitism as "hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a [Political Group!]* religious, ethnic, or racial group, which can range from individual hatred to institutionalized, violent persecution."
*We at MarWen Media have "hostility" and opposing attitudes towards those who advocate JEWISH POLITICS aka ZIONISM which is a racist, political ideology based on the belief that Jews should be allowed to ethnically cleanse and dispossess non-Jews in Palestine-Israel in order to create and maintain a Jewish state of Israel, which fundamentally discriminates against non-Jews. And guess what? Zionists have a "hostility" towards all those who openly challenge their racist ideology and state. By the way, there are many people who can qualify as Zionists. If you believe that it's OK for Israel to be a Jewish state which discriminates against non-Jews and has unequal rights for non-Jews, then you are a Zionist, plain and simple. And you are a racist. So no matter what religion, ethnicity, race or gender you are, if you believe that Jews should have more rights than non-Jews, especially in Palestine-Israel, then you are a Zionist and a supporter of Jewish Politics. Zionists believe that non-Jewish Palestinians (and others) are less than equal compared to Jews. We are opposed to this kind of Jewish Fundamentalism, as well as Christian Fundamentalism, or any ideology which does not insist on equal rights for all. We are opposed to our tax dollars being used to fund any country which is not a true, secular democracy with completely equal rights for all regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender or wealth.
We at MarWen Media completely support the Palestinian refugees' Right to Return to Palestine-Israel as complete equals, as this is their inalienable right according to UN Resolutions and International Law. Furthermore, I, Wendy Campbell, believe in the ONE-SECULAR-DEMOCRATIC STATE of PALESTINE-ISRAEL, and I do NOT mean a "bi-national" state of Israel as Wikipedia claims! Wikipedia claims that the one-state solution is where the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank would be annexed by Israel and then all the Palestinians would have the" same equal rights as Jews and Arabs in Israel"--- but this is NOT what I mean by the one-democratic-state of Israel. First of all, even in Israel today, only Jews have equal rights-- everyone who is not Jewish does NOT have equal rights in Israel. So Wikipedia is LYING to state such. This is FACT. I believe that the Zionist state of Israel must be completely transformed into a NEW country of Palestine-Israel that is completely secular and democratic for all, regardless of religion, ethnicity, race or gender. This can and will happen along the same lines that the apartheid regime of South Africa was dismantled. The UN unfairly created Israel in 1948, and the UN and the world will fairly transform Israel once again into something else, something more humane. Zionist Jewish Israel must be dismantled and replaced with a truly secular, democratic country and the right to return for all the Palestinian refugees as equals must be allowed. Jewish Israelis who aren't comfortable with this new country should go elsewhere. Jewish organizations from around the world will help them to relocate. FREE FREE PALESTINE!!!
We want the USA to DIVORCE itself from apartheid Israel NOW!
So in a little tit for tat, MarWen Media is compiling a list of our own:
Connect the dots...
OF: Zionists (both Jewish & Christian), Islamaphobics
and Judeo-Fascist Racists against Palestinians, Arabs & Muslims:
Note: These racist people also demonize all human rights activists (no matter what their creed or ethnicity) who focus on Israel's mistreatment of non-Jewish Palestinians and other non-Jewish peoples, and those who rightfully call for Israel to transform from a racist Jewish state into a truly secular, democratic state re-named Palestine-Israel, and the inalienable Right To Return for all Palestinian refugees' to their ancestral homeland of Palestine-Israel as equals, along with massive reparations due to them from Israel, the US, England and the Jewish diaspora.
All the following fall into one or more of the above categories:
All Israeli Politicians especially all their Prime Ministers past and present with the possible exception of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
Menachem Begin, one of the first Zionist terrorists who blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, killing scores of Arabs and British soldiers in order to drive out the Arabs and the British with the goal of creating a Jewish supremacist state of Israel in Palestine
Most American politicians (because it's much easier to go along with Zionists and Israel-firsters than not to. In fact, any politicians who tries to pressure Israel to obey International Laws and treat Palestinians with fairness will see their careers be marginalized at best, completely derailed at worst.) Watch out for Israeli-American Rahm Emanuel who is a rabid Israel-firster Judeo-fascist pushing for endless war against Muslims and the Arab world to steal their natural resources for Israel, while posing as a progressive Democrat with America's best interests at heart when this is clearly NOT the case. The same could be said for Joe Leiberman and many others. For more about Rahm Emanuel, who is the son of a Zionist Israeli terrorist, part of the Irgun gang under the supervision of terrorist Menachim Begin (who later became a Prime Minister of Israel) who dressed up as an Arab and master-minded the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946 killing many British and Arab people, please click here. For more info, just do a google-search on these things, like "Irgun King David Hotel bombing 1946" and other such keywords. By the way, in hindsight, the bombing of the King David Hotel seems like a precursor to the tragedy of 911 doesn't it? There is yet more revealing information about the Israeli-American "golden boy" Rahm Emanuel of the DemoRats (my new nickname for the Democrats) here. The list is long for other politicians who are not even Jewish but act as if they are more interested in Israel's "best" interests rather than America's best interests, such as obviously President Bush and Vice President Cheney who should both be impeached, but also Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Steny Hoyer,Tom Lantos, Diane Feinstein, Barack Obama, just to name a few of the DemoRats. The list is way too long. Neoliberals are every bit as racist and war-mongering as neoconservative Republicans. My new nickname for them is the Repugnicans. Watch out for all and any politicians and leaders who support the racist, apartheid, ethnic-cleansing Jewish supremacist state of Israel. Kudos to President Carter for pointing out that Israel is indeed an apartheid country in his new book "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid"! President Carter is one of the few American politicians with a conscious and a good heart and worthy of being an American leader. Order his book here. Other American politicians worthy of being our leaders include John Murtha, Jim Moran, Paul Findley, Pete McCloskey, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader, Peter Camejo and a few others. The list is short. Beware of those who support Israel's right to exist as a racist, Jewish supremacist state of Israel. There must be ZERO tolerance for support of such a racist country as Israel is. For those who try to muddy the waters with regards the fact that "our" government gives money to Egypt too, we believe this: NO U.S. tax dollars should be given to Egypt either! Besides, that is just "hush" money to Egypt to keep them quiet and compliant with regards to Israel's outrageously racist government. So in case you can't figure it out, the ONLY reason Egypt gets ANY money from the US is because of Israel--- in a way, it's a bribe. SO, OF COURSE NO U.S. aid to Egypt either. We could save so much in terms of money for higher purposes (education and national healthcare for we, the people) as well as human lives (here in the US and in the Middle East and anyone involved in this unjust "war on terror") if we just forced "our" government to STOP all manner of support for the racist, apartheid, ethnic-cleansing Jewish supremacist state of Israel. NOW.
All American mainstream media (completely dominated by pro-Israel, Zionist people) which seeks to prevent American people from learning the truth about apartheid, racist Israel because otherwise the good American people would protest "our" government's funnelling of billions of their tax dollars flowing yearly to Israel. If Americans knew the truth about racist, apartheid, ethnic-cleansing Israel, they would indeed demand and END to ALL manner of support of such a rogue terrorist state. Sanctions are in order for such a criminal state as Israel is.
Many American people (since they get most of their news from the Zionist-dominated US media). Whoever controls the media controls public opinion. Most Americans simply don't know that they have been well-trained zombies (Ziobots) and just parrot back to each other what the Zionized US media has mis-informed them to say and think. Therefore the status quo remains the same: unconditional support for Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign against the non-Jewish Palestinian people in order to steal their land for a Jewish supremacist state, a land where non-Jews do NOT enjoy equal rights at all. The USA continues to be Israel's big fat cash cow. Israel hides behind the American flag. It's a sham. Israel cares only about our money and "our" government's support of their ethnic-cleansing campaign against the non-Jewish Palestinians.
Almost all organized Jewish groups, some much more anti-equal rights for Palestinians than others (even Jewish Voice for Peace and Tikkun both do not call for completely equal rights for all in Israel, and they want to preserve Israel as an ethno-centric Jewish state, which obviously then discriminates against non-Jews), JINSA, AIPAC, American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institute, Hudson Institute, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis,
All the Neo Cons (both politicians and political pundits) especially Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, Douglas Feith, Eliot Abrams, Mort Zuckerman, William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Martin Indyk, David Wurmser, Robert Kagan and many more.
All Christian Fundamentalists (Christian Zionists) such as President Bush, Pat Robertson, Dick Armey, Tom DeLay, John Bolton, George Will, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Jerry Falwell, John Hagee, David Cunningham, Loren Cunningham (0f Youth with a Mission and The Film Institute) and many more.
Neo-liberals (pro-War and unconditionally pro-Israel) such as most Democrats, especially Tom Lantos, Joe Lieberman, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Sam Brownback, Rahm Emmanuel, and many others.
Zionist extremist activists such as Lee Kaplan, Dan Kliman, David Horowitz (Center for the Study of Popular Culture), Daniel Pipes (Campus Watch, atotally racist and censorious organization), Meir Kahane, Robert Spencer, Alan Dershowitz, Andrew Aaron Weisbud, Baruch Goldstein, Eliot Abrams, Jonathan Rosenblum, Cyrus Nowrasteh, all Jewish settlers in Israel, Richard Mellon Scaife, Jamie Glazov, Govinini Murty, Jason Apuzzo and many more.
Alan Dershowitz, defender of wife-killers, the use
of torture, and the Jewish supremacist, ethnic-cleansing, apartheid
state of Israel.
Dersh Vader of the Evil Empire
IN NORWAY, NOR MANY PLACES (perhaps nowhere except for amongst your fellow racists!)
Zionist extremist organizations such as the Jewish Defense League (was on the domestic terrorist group list til Clinton was pressured to take them off it, although members have been suspected of committing the murder of Alex Odeh, and tried and convicted for such crimes bombings, etc.) and the Jewish Defense Organization, Dafka, and many more such as the deceptively named Southern Poverty Law Center, which is currently conducting a campaign of intimidation and smearing against Professor Kevin MacDonald, a professor of psychology at the California State University at Long Beach, who has written books about Jewish intellectual movements, skillfully exposing their patterns and agenda of domination, often by using deception. Once again, Zionists prove that they "hate our freedoms", especially our freedom of speech! They constantly seek to intimidate and even destroy their critics, while everyone else is supposed to just put up with Zionists' crimes against humanity and even pay it in the Middle East (with OUR tax dollars!) for their trespasses against non-Jews, in particular Arabs and Muslims, especially Palestinians. By the way, there are also many Christian Palestinians being persecuted by Zionist Jews in The Holy Land.
Zionist extremist disinformation spreading and watchdog media groups such as CAMERA, MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute (founded by Israeli propagandist Meyrav Wurmserand Israeli Mossad spyagent Yigal Carmen), Liberty Film Festival & its weblog LIBERATIS, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, FrontPageMag (a webzine), and many more (actually you can include most of U.S. mainstream media in this category since they allow, aid and abett these Zionist extremists in spreading hateful lies, racist anti-Arab-Muslim propaganda and promote their war-mongering agenda as well as suppress the truth about racist, apartheid, ethnic-cleansing, genocidal Israel. They put a positive spin and spotlight on alot of these people on these lists lending them credibility and a vehicle to spread their propaganda, racism and lies to the American people: it's an incitement to hate and to make war against Arabs and Muslims! Notice how the hypocritical ADL and other Jewish groups who complain about hatred ignore this very real hatred that is resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths!)
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) which ironically seems to be the master of defamation of those who disagree with their Zionist politics; note how they do not advocate for equal rights for Palestinians (same with the Museum of Tolerance, which should be re-named the Museum of Intolerance, because of their intolerant stance on the rights of non-Jewish Palestinians in Israel-Palestine); note how they want and try to make the world a criticism-free zone for Israel and Zionism; note how they seem to think some forms of "hate-crimes" are worse than others; note how they have made a strange cult out of the Holocaust (it's a Holocult! You could call it "Holocaustianity"-- it's their "religion" it seems) based on vengeful beliefs opposite to true Christian beliefs such as The Golden Rule and the healing act of Forgiving (as in "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those" from The Lord's Prayer, given to the world by Jesus Christ).
The Correct and REAL Definition of One of the Zionists' Favorite and Over-used Words: "Anti-Semite":
Anti-Semite (according to Zionist Jews and their lackey supporters): 1) Anyone who thinks that non-Jewish Palestinians must have COMPLETELY EQUAL RIGHTS in the land of Israel-Palestine, 2) Anyone who disagrees with anything that Zionists say about Israel, Zionism, The Holocaust, and Judaism, 3) Anyone who challenges certain aspects of what happened to Jews in Europe during WWII, 4) Anyone who thinks that what is termed as "The Holocaust", the Jewish experience during WWII, should be further researched and debated independently of Zionist input, since everything else under the sun is open to further research and debate by anyone as is the norm in a TRUE democracy, 5) Anyone who thinks that Jewish people, Israel and the US should be held to the same domestic and International Laws as every other people and country, 6) Anyone who thinks that Israel must be transformed from a racist Jewish state into a truly secular and democratic state, just as apartheid South Africa was transformed into a secular, democratic state, 7) A common slur used by Zionists to intimidate others from challenging the status quo with regards to Israel-Palestine, and/or challenging the Zionists' constant and forced indoctrination of Americans with their Holocaust curricula to further their political ends, 8) Anyone who resists Zionist fascism and tyranny, 9) Anyone who dares to think for themselves and independently of Zionists, 10) Anyone who believes that besides separation of church and state, there must also be separation of synagogue and state. NOTE: Basically an "anti-Semite" is ANYONE who resists all and any forms of fascist tyranny and domination by Zionist Jews and their collaborators. Obviously the Zionists, both Jewish and Christian, believe that some people are more "anti-Semitic" than others, such as those that question their sacred cows: the right for a Jewish supremacist, apartheid, ethnic-cleansing state of Israel to exist as such, especially propped up with US taxpayers dollars, and questioning certain "facts" that Zionists insist that you believe in regards to their version of what they call "The Holocaust", even though they admit they have no proof of many of their claims, other than "eye-witnesses" who are on record as often contradicting each other. The Jewish Defense League actually bombed and burned many potentially revealing historical documents about The Jewish Holocaust at the Institute for Historical Review. And why is there such a tight lid on the now officially "opened" information from the German archives "International Tracing Service"? Why is it only SOME PEOPLE are allowed to have access to it? Since Jewish politicians were so successful in making it against the law to question certain alledged "facts" about "The Holocaust", punishable by fines and years in prison (google Ernst Zundel, Germar Rudolf, David Irving), then certainly these powerful Jewish politicians could make it a law that ALL of these files about "The Holocaust" must be TOTALLY accessable by ANY researcher for ANY reason whatsoever, not just Jews or those deemed "kosher" enough by Jewish "authorities". By the way, the "gas chambers" at those museums in Europe are "reproductions" according to independent researchers and even the heads of the museums themselves have admitted the same. See YouTube.com or google for the Jewish activist Holocaust Revisionist David Cole's documentary, for example. There is also no central database with the official, alleged, and enforced by fascist laws, "6 million" figure of Jewish victims of Nazis during WWII. There is no proof of several of the allegations and claims made by Zionist Jews, who are seeking perpetual "reparations" while they rob Palestinians of their lands and lives, and Zionists demand (because of "The Holocaust") blind, unconditional support for a Jewish supremacist state of Israel at the expense of the Palestinian people and other indigenous peoples of the Middle East. EVEN IF all the allegations and claims of Zionist Jews about "The Holocaust" were completely true and could be backed up 100% with forensic and scientific PROOF, it in NO WAY justifies a Jewish supremacist, ethnic-cleansing, genocidal, theiving, murderous, lying, anti-democratic, terrorist rogue state in Palestine, the Middle East or ANYWHERE. Got it? We the People of the US do not want our tax dollars to be funneled to any such racist country, whether Jewish, Muslim, Christian, whatever! Completely equal rights for ALL under the law with NO exceptions means just that! Stop ignoring this" kosher" racism that exists in the Holyland and even here in the US amongst our media and government! Open your eyes! Open your hearts! Get in touch with your soul! You DO have one, don't you? By the way, the Jewish Holocaust Revisionist David Cole was beat up by the terrorist group Jewish Defense League and has since went into hiding. What are the Holocaust-pushers hiding? Why don't they allow people to do independent research on their own? It's fascism of the worst degree. They "hate our freedoms" especially our freedom of speech. This MUST be challenged and exposed. By the way, a great book to read is "The Holocaust Industry" by Jewish writer Norman Finkelstein, whose mother was held in a concentration camp, but survived. His website is www.normanfinkelstein.com. Believe it or not, Jewish Zionists even call Norman Finkelstein names, such as "self-hating Jew". If he wasn't Jewish, of course they'd call him an "anti-Semite". We must not succumb to these smear tactics in our quest for justice, peace, truth, liberty and completely equal rights for all.
Asshole(s): 1)Anyone who thinks that he or she or "their kind" can play by a different set of rules than others, 2) Zionist(s) and their supporter(s), 3) Someone who preaches one thing but practices another thing, 4) Those who do not practice The Golden Rule ("Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you."), 4) Those who are professional liars, 5) Those who think their lives are more important than others' lives, 6) Those whose motto is "By Deception We Shall Rule", 7)Those who will sell their souls for money, 8) Those who think that might is right, 9) Those who only care about their own kind, 10)Those who want to dominate and exploit others rather than living as equals and practicing The Golden Rule ("Do unto others as you would like them to do unto you.").
One way to show your solidarity with the Palestinian people is to wear a Palestinian "kaffiyeh" (pronounced "kaff- FEE-yay"), which is the checkered black and white head scarf that many people in Palestine wear. They wear this traditional scarf because it protects them from the sun, wind and sandstorms. The red and white kaffiyehs are Jordanian. All white are Saudi Arabian. If you would like to have your own Palestinian black and white kaffiyeh AND help to support MarWen Media, please send in a $20 donation with your request for a kaffiyeh and you will receive it within one week. The ones we are especially high quality and make a nice scarf to wear on your head, or around your shoulders, or even dramatically draped around your waist. Unfortunately, our Zionized US media has DELIBERATELY gone out of its way to paint all Palestinians as "terrorists" and thus some people are so brainwashed about even the sight of a kaffiyeh and wouldn't think of wearing one. Even I, an enlightened pro-Palestinian rights activist and anti-Zionism, felt a little unsure at the first thought of wearing one (I thought people might look at me funny!), but then I found it empowering to wear at rallies, and even walking about town sometimes. Now it is not an uncommon sight to see an average American person wear one, especially in cities. They are GREAT to wear at rallies!
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text: Am Mittwoch 08 Juli 2009 schrieb email@example.com:> Hi Martin,Hi Tridge,> > Have low level filesystem check, repair and cloning tools been> > checked against the patch at all?>> I have tested chkdsk.exe obvious, and I have reported the bug in> chkdsk that this testing has found to Microsoft.>> I haven't tested tools like ghost or 3rd party tools. I don't actually> have any of those tools myself, although I guess I could go out and> buy them. Does anyone on this list have those tools and can let me> know if they show any problems?The question before that would be whether anyone has a comprehensive list of those tools, cause I think there are quite many. Well at least those from bigger vendors should be tested I think. Paragon, Symantec, ...And has it been tested with Linux tools such as fsck.msdos, fsck.vfat, parted and partimage? I think it probably has not much effect on parted and partimage, but what about the fscks?> > I think the patch actively *corrupts* perfectly fine shortname FAT> > filesystems and at least for certain use scenarios even those with> > long name support.>> The patch only changes the values stored for new files created by> Linux, so I think it is going a bit far to say it "actively corrupts"> filesystems.I do not. A filesystem is intact when all of its metadata is intact. This is at least what I believe and what various fsck tools seem to implement. Thus even when the patch only changes the values stored for new - or rewritten? - files it actively corrupts the meta consistency of the whole filesystem. To me it is like inserting a defective inode into a consistent Linux filesystem.> I am looking into the Win9X issued raised by Jan. As I mentioned in my> mail to him, it seems to work better with some different values in the> 11 bytes. I'll keep looking at that, although I don't think Win9X> support is a high priority for anyone any more. After installing Win98> in a virtual machine I connected it to the windows update service to> see if there had been updates to the old install images I had, and I> found it couldn't even connect to windows update, it just throws a> page full of html errors:>> http://samba.org/tridge/Win98-update.pngI don't believe that Microsoft is still providing updates for Win98. But I think Windows 2000 might still be in use - I for example have a Win 2000 installation on my ThinkPad T23, although I didn't boot it for about a year or so. Has it been tested against Windows 2000? I digged for the mail where you said something about against which Windows versions you tested, but I didn't find it anymore.I think information regarding test status of the patch should be collected in the FAQ.> When the vendor of an operating system doesn't even bother to display> a clean "sorry, you don't get updates any more" page for their OS then> I think it is safe to say that the operating system is dead and> buried.It is safe to say much. But still users might not behave according to your saying or might even not be able to. A potential customer asked us to migrate a Windows 98 installation into a virtual machine, cause the software that is running there would not run with any newer version of Windows. Sometimes people are locked / forced to a specific Windows (or Linux) version at least is they do not want to pay lots of $$$ to replace their proprietary special hardware + software combination by something which is supported on a newer version of an operating system. And for a coincidence I think digital photos have been involved in that use case.I skip most of the political stuff. I was not my main point to make. It has been discussed before. We obviously have different oppinions and thats just how it is. No need to cycle around our different view points.> > If the Linux kernel would be changed to avoid any software patent> > issues I am not sure whether it would even be able to boot> > anymore.>> That argument can be used with pretty much any software (both> proprietary and free), not just the Linux kernel.I think this doesn't render my argument invalid. To me it merely says that also other free software projects shall be careful with politically or juristically motivated patches. Drastically spoken if everyone decides to jump out of the window, why should I follow?> In the case of the GIF patents the correct answer was a concerted> effort to switch to a new format. That was a fantastic campaign and> largely successful.>> We don't, as yet, have any equivalent campaign to get behind for these> VFAT patents. The calls for changing to a different filesystem format> are great, but they fall down in an even worse way than what I have> proposed on exactly the same issues. This hypothetical new format> won't work with cheap MP3 players, won't work with Win9X, and almost> certainly won't work with existing Windows boxes (yes, I know about> UDF, but if you actually try it you'll see it isn't the panacea some> have claimed). So in what way is it a solution, even if the new format> existed?Its challening, agreed. Especially as for it to be truly multi-plattform Linux developers, Apple, Microsoft and little device makers would have to agree on it. Or it needs to be a free software product that can be installed on any OS really easily. Then you could have a small fat16 partition with a *.exe file and a MacOS X dmg to click on in order to install the driver for the real new inter-exchange filesystem. But what about device makers. And what about existing devices? I think it can only be a slow migration.> If you can propose a truly workable alternative then I would be> delighted to never have to think about FAT filesystems again in my> life.I did not meant any personal offence. So no need to justify yourself for what you do. You are just trying to find a workaround for the issue. And I am pretty sure you believe in what you do to be a viable workaround. I am not intending to shoot the messenger of a possible workaround. I am just not a fan of a patch like yours being in vanilla and thats about it ;).Ciao,-- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.deGPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7[unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]