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Putin crushes Deep State Democrats in first comments after Mueller report (Video)
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 135.
The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris breakdown Russian President Vladimir Putin's first remarks on U.S. AG Barr's summary and the end of the Mueller investigation, which found no collusion between Trump and Russia.
Putin noted that the Robert Mueller investigation was aimed at home consumption and revealed a crisis in the US political system. The Russian President called the entire two year probe "a dark chapter in American history" and "no one wants to see it come back."
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The West – its governments and its governments' scribes – are obsessed with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "Obsessed" is probably too weak a word to describe the years of impassioned coverage, airy speculation and downright nonsense. He is the world's leading cover boy: military hats, Lenin poses, imperial crowns, scary red eyes, strait-jackets, clown hats; anything and everything. He's the avatar of Stalin, he's the avatar of the Tsars, he's the Joker, he's Cthulhu, he's Voldemort, he's Satan. He's the palimpsest for the New World Order's nightmares. Putin is always messing with our minds. He weaponises information, misinformation and sexual assault accusations. Childrens' cartoons, fishsticks, Pokemon and Yellow Vests, "Putin's warships" are lurking when they aren't stalking; "Putin's warplanes" penetrate European airspace; "Putin's tanks", massing in 2016, massing in 2018, still massing. His empire of rogue states grows. All Putin, all the time.
In an especially imbecile display in 2015, Western reporters (unable to find his website) thinking he hadn't been seen for several days started a contest of speculation about coups, death, wars, plastic surgery, secret births and other nonsense; when he "re-appeared", the story went down the Memory Hole.
For some reason, Americans personalise everything. In meetings with US intelligence agencies I was always fascinated how they would reduce every complicated reality to a single individual. But it isn't Saddam, or Assad, or Qaddafi, or Osama, or Aidid, or Milosevic, or Maduro, or Castro or any of the other villains-of-the-day, it's a whole country: these people got to the top for good reasons. Removing the boss makes some difference but never all the difference. They go but they never leave a Washington-friendly country behind and Washington does it all over again somewhere else. This peculiar blindness drives Putin Derangement Syndrome and has infected everybody else.
But Putin is much worse than the others. The other enemies had relatively weak countries but Russia could obliterate the USA. But worse, Putin's team has steadily become more powerful and more influential. And worst of all, he's still there: huffing and puffing has not blown him down, sanctions strengthen the economy and there is nothing to suggest he won't be succeeded by someone who carries on the same policies. It's a whole country, not just one man.
Vladimir Putin is the biggest man on earth.
Except that he's short and can't hide it. He's a megalomaniac because he's short; he's trying to prove his bigness; napoleon complex says some shrink. Just another in a long list of crackpot "expert" opinions. From a list I complied in 2015: Asperger's Syndrome, cancer of the spinal cord, personality disorders, gayness, Parkinson's Disease, psychopath, people don't like him so animals have to, sinister, lonely life, fears his own people, envious of Obama. Remember the "gunslinger walk"? Oh, in case you hadn't heard, he was in the KGB and that explains everything: "Once a KGB man, always a KGB man". Nothing is too absurd.
But laughing has passed – Putin Derangement Syndrome has become dangerous.
In 2016 Hillary Clinton lost a sure-fire election to Donald Trump and, looking for an excuse, jumped on the Russia claim. Putin Derangement Syndrome was ramped up to a much more dangerous level. War-level dangerous.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder said President Donald Trump's administration is doing nothing to stop Russians from interfering in the 2018 election cycle, comparing the lack of action on the part of the president to the 9/11 and Pearl Harbor attacks that killed thousands of Americans.
A popular actor made a video to tell us we were at war. "Warfare" says Haley, "act of war" said John McCain, could be says Cheney, 911 says Clinton, disappointed CIA guy agrees, Pearl Harbor says Nadler. Diplomatic expulsions and sanctions and more sanctions. These are much more serious than gassy op-eds about Putin's gait or fish weights, these are actions: actions have consequences. Moscow doesn't find war talk very funny.
Clinton's victory was 99% certain until it wasn't and excuses were needed. Clinton went through a lot of them but "Russian interference" was always the big one.
That strategy had been set within twenty-four hours of her concession speech. [9 November 2016] Mook and Podesta assembled her communications team at the Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case that the election wasn't entirely on the up-and-up. For a couple of hours, with Shake Shack containers littering the room, they went over the script they would pitch to the press and the public. Already, Russian hacking was the centerpiece of the argument. (From Shattered, quoted here.)
In What Happened, Clinton also says Russian President Vladimir Putin's support for Trump was driven by his own anti-women sentiment, stacking the deck against her: "What Putin wanted to do was…influence our election, and he's not exactly fond of strong women, so you add that together and that's pretty much what it means." At press events for her memoir, Clinton continues to warn Americans against Russia's power over Trump and the country. "The Russians aren't done. This is an ongoing threat, and that is one of the reasons why I wrote the book and one of the reasons I'm talking about it," she said on Sunday at Southbank Centre's London Literature Festival. (Newsweek)
Her claim is, to put it mildly, unproven; the so-called "all 17 agencies" report notwithstanding. (The first premise that it was hacked is here disproved: downloaded by someone in the building). Her accusation moved Putin Derangement Syndrome away from the realm of mere craziness into war talk. Taking the hint, Western politicians, under attack for their lacklustre performances, were happy to push the blame onto Putin. He's attacking democracy! Western media weighed in until it became completely accepted by some people that anything that spoiled the happy complacency of the Western world must be a result of Putin's interference: gilets jaunes, "assistance provided to far-right and anti-establishment parties", he's the poster boy of the dreaded populism, his populist tentacles reach Hungary and Italy. And the next thing we knew, Putin was mucking around in everybody's votes: Brexit; Catalonia; Netherlands; Germany; Sweden; Italy; EU in particular and Europe in general; Mexico; Canada. Newsweek gives a helpful list. Sometimes he loses elections: Germany, Ukraine but he goes on, unstopping. But his greatest triumph was said to have been in the US election: he "won" because Donald Trump was his willing puppet.
(None of these "experts" ever seem to wonder why Putin's influence, so decisive far away, is so ineffective in Ukraine or Georgia. But then, it's not actually a rational, fact-based belief, is it?)
The entire ramshackle construction is collapsing: if Mueller says there was no collusion then even the last ditch believers will have to accept it: Robert Mueller Prayer Candles are out of stock, time to toss the other tchotchkes, it wasn't a Mueller Christmas after all. Clinton's fabrication had two parts to it: 1) Putin interfered/determined the election 2) in collusion with Trump. When the second part is blown up, so must the first be. And then what will happen to all the loyal little allies crying "ours were interfered with too"!? The two halves of the story had the same authors and the same purpose: if one dies, so must the other. Now that Trump is secured from the obstruction charges that hung there as long as Mueller was in session, he is free to declassify the background documents that will show the origin, mechanics, authors and extent of the conspiracy. And he has said he will. In the process, both halves of the story will be destroyed: they're both lies.
(For those who now realise there is something they have to catch up on: Conrad Black has a good exposition of the overall conspiracy and here is a quick round-up of the mechanics of the conspiracy. This may show its very beginning, three years ago).
Will the exposure of the plot and the plotters end the war-talk stage of Putin Derangement Syndrome? In a rational world, it would (but can its believers be embarrassed by the exposure of their credulity? Can they be made to think it all over again from the beginning?). It is true that Russia stands in the way of the neocons and liberal interventionists who have been guiding Washington this century, but that hardly means that Putin is the enemy of the American people. Because, properly considered, it's the neocons/liberal interventionists and their endless wars burning up lives, money and good will that are the enemies of Americans; in that respect Putin (unintentionally) stands with the true best interests of the American people. But the propaganda is so strong and the hysteria so unrestrained, that anyone who suggests that blocking the war party is in the best interests of Americans would be run out of town on a rail. (As the attacks on Tulsi Gabbard show.) The USA is far down the rabbit hole. (Although I should say US elites: a Rasmussen poll shows that slightly more Americans think Clinton colluded with a foreign power than think Trump did. Considering the news coverage of the last two and a half years, that's a very interesting finding.)
So, the sad conclusion is that Putin Derangement Syndrome will probably endure and the best we can hope for is that it is dialled down a bit and the "act of war" nonsense is quietly forgotten. Derangement was strong before the interference/collusion lie and it will exist as long as Putin does: the war party is too invested in personalities ever to realise that it's Russia, not its president, that's the obstacle. Let alone ever understand that much of what Moscow does is a pushback against Washington's aggression.
Let The Onion have the last laugh at this dismal matter:
"What the hell? I worked so hard on this—if I wasn't colluding with the Trump campaign, who the hell was I colluding with?" said the dumbfounded Russian president, growing increasingly angry as he scrolled through his email inbox and recounted his numerous efforts at covert communication with individuals who he had thought were high-ranking Trump officials, but now he suspected were bots or anonymous internet trolls."
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America has gone totally bonkers. A real Alice in Wonderland syndrome. I live here, I know.
I like President Putin's bonmot, characterizing the outcome of Mueller's Russiagate investigation: "The mountain gave birth to a mouse".
No, No…."This may show its very beginning, three years ago)". The real beginning was when Hilda helped Israel set up the honey trap for hubby President. She endeared herself to the NEOCONs when she helped them to publicly humiliate Pres Bill (stick a dagger in his back and show him who is boss). ALL intelligence knew he was philandering. That's when the "plan to attack 7 countries in 5 years" (aka Oded Yinon) went to the top of the Pentagon….a coup by the deep state Israel, Saudi and US NEOCONs… + Hilda. Hilda was NY Senator to support the "motivating… Read more »
President Putin is brilliant. He knows his stuff, and it is a pleasure to listen to a real statesman speak. No hysteria, no sounding like a TV commercial replete with slogans, no cheap sound bytes, no bombast, no disrespect, no insults, no lies, and plenty of straight ahead common sense. I wish one or two of our western leaders were more like him.
Can Zelensky bring peace to a Ukraine torn apart by Obama's Maidan coup? (Video)
The Duran Quick Take: Episode 150.
The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris take a look at Vladimir Zelensky's landslide victory against incumbent Petro Poroshenko in Sunday's historic Ukraine, second round, Presidential election.
Not much is known about Zelensky's political acumen, but the job of uniting a country torn apart by an Obama funded Maidan coup in 2014, will prove to be a daunting task for the comedy TV star.
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Ukraine's 'Opposition Platform – For Life' party will support Ukrainian president-elect Vladimir Zelensky only if he takes practical steps to bring peace to Donbass, Chairman of the party's Political Council Viktor Medvedchuk said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel on Monday.
"Today, we can't say that we support him because support is only possible if he truly wants peace in Donbass, if we see that he is taking actual steps to achieve this goal," he said.
According to Medvedchuk, this is the only condition on which the 'Opposition Platform – For Life' party is ready to provide assistance to Zelensky if the need arises.
Ukraine's presidential runoff took place on April 21. With 99.53% of the vote counted, leader of the Servant of the People political party Vladimir Zelensky has received 73.23% in Ukraine's presidential runoff, while incumbent President Pyotr Poroshenko gained 24.45%.
TRUMP – The Reckoning
The Trump/Russia hoax has been called bigger than Watergate, in reality it dwarfs Watergate.
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Now that the Mueller Report has been published and Donald Trump has been cleared of colluding with Russia, heads will roll.
Donald Trump was nearly seventy years old when he announced he was running for President of the United States. He had been asked if he would run way back in the 1980s, and ruled it out. Having literally no political experience, he was treated largely as a joke candidate, something he took in good humour, but the joke turned sour, first when he decimated a seventeen strong field of Republican hopefuls, and then when he beat Hillary Clinton losing the popular vote but winning the electoral college and thus the Presidency.
By this time, the jokes had turned to hysteria. What would any reasonable person have expected him to do at his age? With a much younger wife, a young son, an extended family, fame, and wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, he could have spent his golden years playing golf, doting on his grandkids, and doing anything he wanted and was able to within reason. Instead he elected to spend six hundred million dollars of his own money on a long shot to capture the Presidency, then work like a dog afterwards. Why? Because he saw his country being trashed and figured only he could save it.
You can call that wishful thinking, arrogance, even a Messiah complex, but the fact remains he put his money where his mouth is and delivered the goods. He didn't even take a salary. And he has clearly been enjoying himself in both the run up to the election and in his Presidency, but there has been a dark side, a very dark side. While Trump has won millions of fans, he has earned the scorn of the elites, the intellectuals, the mass media, and the leadership of the Democratic Party. To date he has been the victim of an albeit half-hearted assassination attempt by a deranged British national, he has been assassinated in effigy in imitation of the Ides of March, decapitated in effigy, slandered and libelled from pillar to post.
After his Republican enemies released the now notorious Access Hollywood tape, a gaggle of demented and simply dishonest, attention-seeking females came forward to accuse him of a variety of sexual misdemeanours. He has been branded a bigot, a money launderer for the mob, his sanity has been questioned, and crude innuendo has been directed at him about his relationship with his eldest daughter.
Not content with trashing the man himself, elements of the media have attacked his daughter, his son Donald as a Russian "colluder", his wife has been branded a prostitute, even his young son Barron has not been spared. Fifty years from now or even twenty, future American historians will look back on his treatment in shame. But the biggest lie, one that should never have been credited, is that he was somehow in the pockets of the Kremlin, or Vladimir Putin in person. How this lie came about has now been thoroughly documented, not by the mainstream media but by Fox News and its pundits who have broadcast the findings of Gregg Jarrett, Dan Bongino, Sara Carter, Joe diGenova, the Judicial Watchteam, The Epoch Times, and other Conservative organisations. To this list must be added the names of several leading Republican politicians, including Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, Louis Gohmert, Jason Chaffetz, Trey Gowdy and Lindsey Graham.
So how did the Russian collusion hoax begin? It is based entirely on a spurious so-called dossier written ostensibly by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, a man who had excellent credentials, although in view of its contents one is entitled to ask if those credentials should not now be scrutinised carefully. The most outrageous claim of this dossier is that while he was in Moscow, Trump hired a brace of prostitutes to urinate on a mattress in the hotel suite that had been used by the Obamas.
Although there is little or no chance of his ever submitting himself to questioning by Congress, Steele has now admitted (ie claimed) in civil proceedings that he didn't actually visit Russia to "research" this dossier but did so by telephone. This has led some people to claim the Russians have played the Democratic leadership for fools, but we have no proof that any Russians much less any working for the Russian Government had anything to do with the Steele dossier. Dan Bongino has pointed out that this Russian collusion stupidity actually originated as far back as 2007 and has simply been rewritten and tailored to fit Trump. Dick Morris, who knows how a certain person's sick mind works, suggests it was written in-house by two Clinton henchmen.
Whoever actually wrote the dossier, most of this so-called opposition research was funded by Hillary Clinton who disguised its funding by paying for it through the law firm Perkins Coie. This is not so much a campaign violation as money laundering, but as with her e-mail scandal, laws are for the little people.
Although Clinton was responsible for the Steele dossier, Republicans were initially involved, including the late John McCain. McCain may have been a war hero, but that was the limit of his humanity. If he had beaten Obama in 2008, the Middle East would quite likely have gone up in flames.
The dossier was used not only to spread disinformation in the mainstream media but to dupe the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court into issuing warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. Its contents were fed to the Yahoo! News hack Michael Isikoff, a so-called investigative journalist, and the resulting news reports were used to bolster its authenticity, a classic case of circular reasoning. This allowed rogue operators to spy on Carter Page, and in effect on Trump himself.
If the Steele dossier and spying on Page had been the limits of the conspiracy, that would have been bad enough, but the extent of it and the names of the major players is breath-taking. We know now for certain that in addition to Hillary Clinton, the following people were involved: James Comey, John Brennan and James Clapper — the top men of the three major intelligence agencies; Andrew McCabe, the number two man at the FBI; Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, also top FBI agents; Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie, the former being a senior Department Of Justice official; Susan Rice, a top aide to Barack Obama; Loretta Lynch, Attorney General in the same administration; and Sally Yates, an Obama holdover who was sacked by Trump for insubordination.
The Trump/Russia hoax has been called bigger than Watergate, in reality it dwarfs Watergate, this was America's Gunpowder Plot because its intention was nothing less than to destroy a duly elected President and topple his administration. That amounts to sedition, some would even call it treason.
Not content with simply spreading disinformation about Trump/Russia, the conspirators used agents provocateurs to infiltrate the Trump campaign and try to set up innocent men as Russian assets. Two we know of are the academic Stefan Halper and the mysterious Joseph Mifsud.
The attempt to set up Donald Trump Junior by arranging a meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was blatant. Don Junior was clearly gullible, otherwise he would have arranged for his attorney to be present, or better still his attorney and a video camera. Adam Schiff made much of this claiming it was an attempt to collude to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. Then he was hoist by his own petard when two Russian comedians phoned him at his office and offered him photographs of Trump naked! Schiff was enthusiastic, but he is so far gone he doesn't see the double standard.
How did they expect to get away with this? As Joe diGenova has pointed out, under President Hillary Clinton, all this would simply have gone away; the problem is, she didn't win. The conspirators also had other, greater aims besides taking down Trump, in particular covering up Clinton's earlier crimes, stopping any future Trumps, and, some of them, of reigniting the Cold War.
It is not difficult to understand why the Deep State and its operatives hate Trump so much and moved Heaven and Earth to get rid of him. Trump is a businessman, he knows how big business operates, how it plays the system and buys influence. He intended to put a stop to that, and has done to a certain extent. He was also intent on downsizing so-called capitalist America's massive bureaucracy. A simple but spectacular example of this is his simplification of the tax system which especially benefits small companies and the self-employed. Now, most Americans filing their tax returns need fill out only one double-sided sheet of paper instead of thirty or so pages. Think of the bureaucracy and make-work jobs that destroys.
Apparatchiks are extremely well paid, have excellent terms of service, fat pensions, and are all but unsackable. All that is changing under Trump. Now imagine he gets only so much done, and ten, twenty years from now someone like Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg comes along, someone who like him is wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice so cannot be bought, bribed or intimidated. The Hell Trump has been put through was designed to ensure that never happens. The Deep State and their allies have also sought not only to punish Trump but anyone who has the temerity to work with him.
This is why we have seen people on the fringes prosecuted for process crimes like lying to the FBI, crimes that would not have been committed but for the Mueller investigation, and crimes that are extremely minor. This is why Paul Manafort and Roger Stone were arrested by armed agents in dawn raids, tactics that may be suitable for taking down terrorists but not for men accused of white collar crimes. Manafort is now serving a heavy prison sentence for such crimes committed years before Trump announced his Presidential run. The arrest and pressurising of Roger Stone and others was done in the words of Alan Dershowitz, not only to make them sing but to compose.
Trump's lawyers wisely advised him not to sit down for a formal interview with Mueller because it was clearly a perjury trap. In situations like this, perjury is anything the "investigators" say it is. Their utter ruthlessness is proof positive of that.
Another reason his enemies have gone all out to stop Trump is to cover up the crimes of Hillary Clinton. When she was Secretary of State, she set up a private e-mail server in her home on which she conducted Government business. This was uncovered accidentally by Judicial Watch. This is such a big thing because the e-mails of a public servant belong to the state. A humble police constable or low level local government administrator who did what she did would be sacked. But Hillary Clinton was using her private e-mail to for correspondence that must remain secret because lives could literally be at stake. And, as theYouTube vlogger HA Goodman has pointed out repeatedly, Clinton or someone close to her found a way to transfer top secret information from JWICS onto the regular Internet. JWICS is a high security American Government Intranet, so communications cannot be transferred onto the Internet accidentally; such transfers must have been manual. This alone constitutes serious espionage, and it begs the question why?
The answer to that question is simple, Clinton was peddling influence through the foundation she and her husband set up after he left office. Eric Trump summed it up with a question, what service or goods did they supply that made them so rich? The Clintons are now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, yet when they left the White House, he had lost his law license and was at best looking forward to making a living on the rubber chicken dinner circuit, a perk of the Presidency. That would certainly have kept him in cigars, but would it have stretched to a private jet? If Jason Goodman and especially Charles Ortel are right, the corruption of the Clintons and their associates is off the scale.
The third reason the Deep State was and remains so anxious to take down Donald Trump is because there are lunatics in high places who seek to reignite the Cold War. Indeed, there are some who even want to see war with China. How insane is that? It isn't for those who make money out of it, only for us peasants, especially those who are sacrificed in these obscene, never-ending, no-win wars.
It is difficult to assess how much damage these people have already done. We know for example that Chinese agents hacked Clinton's e-mails while she was Secretary of State. And this absurd mantra of "Russia, Russia, Russia" has even pushed Trump in the direction of confrontation instead of cooperation with Russia because every time he backs off , he is attacked as a Putin puppet, absurd as that is.
There are signs though that big change is coming, and it may be coming sooner than anybody thinks. Trump himself has said what happened to him cannot be allowed to go unpunished, and that nothing like this must ever be allowed to happen to a future President. The Democratic leadership and the mass media may howl and scream in unison, but there is already more than enough damning information in the public domain for Trump and his new Attorney General to do what he promised back in 2016: drain the Swamp.
The Second Belt and Road Forum: A Transformation of the World Economic Order
Rather than embrace this new potential, western "old paradigm" forces representing the entrenched deep state have screamed and hollered against the "dangers of China and Russia threatening our democratic way of life".
From April 25-27 Beijing will host a second international forum on the Belt and Road Initiative and it won't be a small deal.
The four weeks preceding this event have seen an incredible surge of nations and institutions joining the BRI framework beginning with Italy's Memorandum of Understanding as the first G7 nation in March, followed soon thereafter by Luxembourg and Switzerland. Weeks later, China won another victory by consolidating billions in infrastructure deals with the 16+1 Central and Eastern European Nations who have signed onto the BRI. This particular forum was especially important as it saw Greece join the alliance changing the name to the 17+1 group. Greece's official participation in this bloc extended the group beyond its nominal "central and eastern" geographical limits and the importance of Greece- whose Port of Piraeus and emerging rail infrastructure funded by China provide a key bridge in the Maritime New Silk Road to Europe.
If that wasn't enough, China participated in the April 9-10 International Arctic Forum in Russia whereby the first treaty was signed between Russia and China on scientific cooperation in the Arctic, and sweeping agreements were made around Chinese-Russian infrastructure development on a policy which has become known as the "Polar Silk Road"- again extending the limits of the BRI beyond its "east-west framework". Just as the Arctic conference was ending, an unprecedented Canadian Arctic Policy Report was publicized calling for a transformation of Canada's Arctic doctrine towards a pro-development orientation in response to the "changing geopolitical rules" initiated by Russia and China.
While China and Russia consolidated the BRI-Eurasian Economic Union treaty in June 2018, a major leap was announced towards the finalization of a China-Eurasian Economic Partnership with the Deputy Director of Eurasian Affairs Wang Kaixuan stating on April 19:
"Now it has to be endorsed by the specialized agencies. China has already completed its internal procedures. We are now waiting for our Russian counterparts, after that we can immediately start the negotiations. I believe that will happen soon,"
From April 15-16, China initiated a sweeping array of treaties with Arab countries during the 2nd Arab Forum on Reform and Development under the heading "Build the Belt and Road, Share Development and Prosperity." The Arab nations already have over $200 billion trade with China and 18 Arab countries have signed MOUs with the BRI. China's capacity to bring long term infrastructure to nations torn by western-funded wars and regime change is seen as a vital stabilizing influence not only to alleviate poverty and de-radicalize but also to provide a framework for genuine independence from western intrigues. Commenting on the forum, the President of Lebanon stated "The Arab countries have huge markets. We regard China as a good friend and are willing to further consolidate the relationship with China. We would like to draw the experience from China's reform and development so as to benefit our people and seek our opportunities for development".
Rather than embrace this new potential, western "old paradigm" forces representing the entrenched deep state have screamed and hollered against the "dangers of China and Russia threatening our democratic way of life". Exemplifying this outlook was the Washington Post's April 20th feature article "How Washington can beat China's Global Influence Campaign", calling for an "alternative to the BRI" controlled by the western elite. This plan is entirely absurd since America has not only permitted its own infrastructure and productive powers to rot for 50 years, but has created no relevant infrastructure that has benefited nations abroad during that same time frame. All that has been created under decades of IMF-World Bank lending has been debt slavery, impoverishment, and a $700 billion derivatives bubble that is ripe to explode.
Although incredible efforts were made over two years by the Five Eyes/Mueller led witch hunt to destroy the potential alliance Trump was proposing to form with Russia and China, the now published Mueller report turned out to be little more than a goose egg failing to prove any of the claims of Russian collusion. Jumping off that victory, Trump called loudly on April 5 for a conversion of vast military expenditures which only risk world war three towards a program of long term investments between Russia, China and the USA:
"Between Russia, China and us, we're all making hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons, including nuclear, which is ridiculous… I think it's much better if we all got together and didn't make these weapons… those three countries I think can come together and stop the spending and spend on things that are more productive toward long term peace."
Going into to this month's BRI Forum (titled "Belt and Road Cooperation: Shaping a Brighter Shared Future"), 5000 participants, including 37 heads of state, and 100 heads of organizations will discuss the megaprojects that will give vitality to the coming century with the Chinese leadership and business community. There is no doubt that the collapse of the Trans-Atlantic banking system will be on everyone's mind as opportunities to tie our destiny to long term projects that benefit all nations will be presented as open offers for all to join. Will the West follow Italy, and Greece's lead by joining the BRI, or continue to party like its 2008?
BIO: Matthew J.L. Ehret is a journalist, lecturer and founder of the Canadian Patriot Review. His works have been published in Executive Intelligence Review, Global Research, Global Times, The Duran, Nexus Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Veterans Today and Sott.net. Matthew has also published the book "The Time has Come for Canada to Join the New Silk Road" and three volumes of the Untold History of Canada (available on untoldhistory.canadianpatriot.
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Head Keywords vs. Long Tail Keywords
Lucky for us, Google reports that 15% of the search queries they see every day are completely unique, never before seen by Google.
So if you're a store selling "panda costumes," the main, or "head" keyword you're probably targeting is "panda costumes." This keyword is pretty specific, but probably has a fair amount of competition. And when you're starting out, the top results will probably be dominated by the likes of Amazon and Walmart.
But do you think your organic visitors are only finding you by searching for "panda costumes"? I doubt it. People are also finding you with keywords like "adult panda costumes," "panda costumes for kids," "stretchy panda costumes," and a whole lot of other keywords which you may not even know you were targeting.
This is the beauty of the long tail keyword. These are 3-4+ word queries that have fewer search volume, but even fewer pages specifically talking about those things. If you can optimize for these keywords by creating great content, you can capture a lot of previously-untapped customers.
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What You're Going to Need
Before you start ranking for these long tail terms, there's a few things that you're going to need in advance. First of all, your store is going to need some backlinks pointing to it and it's going to need a little bit of authority. If it's completely fresh, you can optimized for all the keywords you want, but a mix of links and quality content is what will get you ranked.
If you've already got a few good links (or tons), you're all set. If not, you will need to build some. Some good ways to build links are guest posting, authority directories, and manufacturer links. Brian Dean of Backlinko has some really great tips to build links, and you can also find a list of 50 ways to build ecommerce links at my own blog.
Finding Long Tail Keywords
There are a few methods to find long tail keywords. No one method is particularly better than the other, but a good place to start is Google's Keyword Planner Tool, or your own keyword list, if you already have one.
Here's how you can look for long-tail keywords. I prefer using Long Tail Pro, because it has some really neat filtering options, but even if you don't, you can still do it with Google's Keyword Planner tool.
Fire up Google Keyword Planner and sign in using your Google account. If this is your first time, you will have to create an Adwords account, too. Don't worry - it's free.
You want to click the button that says: 'Search for new keyword and ad group ideas'.
Next, under 'Your Product Or Service', enter your head keyword.
Where it says 'Average Monthly Searches > 0', modify it to be greater than 100. You can go lower, or not touch this setting at all, but you may be overwhelmed with keywords. So it's better to search higher volume first, and gradually progress to lower volumes.
Under keyword options, there is an option that says 'Show broadly related ideas'. This can be modified to show closely related terms only. If closely related terms is on, if you search for "motorcycle helmets," all the keywords Google will suggest will have "motorcycle helmets" in them.
Again, this is good for round one of research, and for rounds 2, 3, and so on, you can uncheck that option.
Where it says 'Targeting', make sure the country selected is your target country.
Finally, click 'Get ideas', and you will be taken to a results page.
This page has two tabs - you want to click on the second one that says 'Keyword Ideas'.
You can sort this list by number of searches, alphabetically, or by average CPC. I prefer to sort by number of searches, because it's easier to browse this way.
Here are a few promising keywords I found using "motorcycle helmets," monthly searches greater than 100, and showing only closely related terms.
You can also search using your head keyword plus a modifier to give you tighter results. Good modifiers for ecommerce purposes are best, cheap, cheapest, and reviews. So a potential starting point could be "best motorcycle helmet" and this itself could be something worth targeting.
You'll also most likely discover other variations as well, such as "best bluetooth motorcycle helmet," or "how to choose a motorcycle helmet."
Before you get a healthy list of keywords, you may need to run through the Keyword Planner at least 3-4 times with different settings and keywords.
There's really no limit as to how many results a particular keyword gets. Even something that gets around 200-300 searches per month is still a good bet, especially if it contains words like "best."
If there are fewer than 100 searches per month, it's still worth targeting them, once you've tackled the higher volume phrases. This is because your traffic isn't limited to just 100 searches per month. Those are just Google's averages, and even then, the keyword you choose will have its own long tail variations. So there's a lot of potential in any keyword you target. You just have to work on it and see how promising it is.
For even more ideas, you can check out Bing's keyword tool, or Suggester, which gives you a giant list of what suggestions Google would show you when you search for something.
These tools are good for ideas, but for search volume, plug them into Keyword Planner and see if they are worth the effort or not.
Make a list of however many keywords you find in a spreadsheet, and sort them by search volume. In the next step, we are going to see which of these keywords are the most promising.
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Seeing Which of These Terms Have Weak Rankings
Checking which keyword is a worthwhile effort is pretty easy. Fire up Google, and search for that particular term. Remember to make sure that you are logged out of Google to avoid personalized results, and that you are targeting the proper country. To make this step easier, I recommend installing the MozBar browser extension, which is available for Chrome and Firefox.
Here are some of the types of results you want to see: niche websites, Q & A sites, and forums. Some other good signals are that there are very few page titles that are directly targeting that keyword.
When Google can't find something that matches exactly with the search query, it will bring up the next best thing. So you'll start seeing pages that have maybe one word from search keyword in the title, and the rest somewhere in the body or URL. If most of the results look like this, you have uncovered something promising and should be able to rank pretty easily for it.
There is another more advanced way to see if you have a chance at ranking easily, too. This involves using the MozBar toolbar that we downloaded. Even if there are a few results that are targeting your particular keyword, or very closely targeting it, you can still see how strong and authoritative domains and pages they are.
Using the MozBar, we can see both how many links the domain has overall, and how many links the page has pointing to it, too. If your own site's domain has a lot of authority, and the domains ranking for this term don't have that much, you can still outrank them with a solidly optimized page.
Our search for "top rated motorcycle helmets" was really promising! Not only do none of the first page results specifically target the keyword, there isn't much page authority for most of the results (the pink bar).
As you analyze each keyword, you want to revisit your original spreadsheet and add a column about how viable that keyword is. Once you are done researching, you will be able to sort the keywords by ranking potential and volume, and prioritize that way.
Optimizing for the Keyword
Now that you have a keyword you want to target, it's time to write some quality content.
Make a new page on your store. Using Shopify, it's really easy. You can either make a static page or make a new blog post. It's up to you. If it's something that you can make a permanent resource of out, I'd suggest writing a page, which can get a permanent link from your store's header.
If it's not something that you feel can be evergreen content, make it a blog post. The advantage of having something on the header is that it will get a link pointing to it from every single page in your store, so every page of your store sends a little link juice it's way. This will rank a little faster than a blog post, which will only have a link from your blog archives and anywhere else you manually build a link to it from.
Here's a step-by-step guide on how to create your page or blog post:
- Write a compelling headline for the page.
- Write a compelling Title Tag for your page. This should have the keyword in it, and it should be click-worthy. The title tag tells Google and other search engines what your page is about, and it's what potential customers will see in search results.
- Write your content. It should be as in-depth and value-adding as possible. Use lots of pictures, and remember to link to relevant products and categories from within the page itself. Aim for at least 600 words. The more the better, but don't fluff.
- Think like a niche site when you are writing this content. A good example of a niche site is Spencer Haws' BestSurvivalKnifeGuide.com.
- At the end of the page, and even in between, have strong Call-To-Actions (CTA's). A CTA can either be a link to a product, a box to like/share/tweet your website, or a box to sign up for your email list.
Potential Results
I've had a ton of success with this method with my own fish finder store. Here are some screenshots of my Google Analytics for the last 30 days for three of my long-tail optimized pages:
In just one month, one of my long-tail optimized pages about the best fish finder for kayaks received nearly 900 visitors through organic search. The kicker? When I created this page, the keyword I had found for it showed 200 or so average searches per month. Right now, it's getting 862 visits per month! This just goes to show that you aren't limited to just the average searches Google shows you.
Your long-tail optimized page will not only get hits from your target keyword, but also from other long tail keywords that show your page in their results!
Finding Even More Long Tail Keywords
Even though Google's searches are all [not provided] now, you will still get some valuable insights from your Analytics by looking at what keywords Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines used to send traffic to you.
Exploring these keywords is a great way to brainstorm for new keywords and when applicable, making new pages optimized especially for them.
In the end, there is no real limit as to how many keywords you can optimize for and target. As long as you can write solid, valuable content that solves the searches problem or answers their question, you should see results.
In other words, strive to build a large resource library on your ecommerce store that will send you tons and tons of free traffic.
How much of your traffic comes from long tail keywords? Do you have any other ways to brainstorm keywords and research the competition? Let us know in the comments.
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Four years after Phillips High School petitioned the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) to allow it to drop its affiliation with the Lumberjack Conference (LJC) in football competition because it felt disadvantaged against the league's big schools (Lakeland, Ashland and Medford), the WIAA came up with a conference realignment proposal that addressed enrollment disparities and travel issues.
In December, the WIAA Board of Control approved Executive Director Doug Chickering's scheme that saw two LJC schools - Lakeland (enrollment of 992 students) and Medford (800) - being placed in the six-team, small school division of the Wisconsin Valley Conference, together with Merrill (1,166), Antigo (1,098), Mosinee (673) and Rhinelander (1,185). Ashland (801) was put in the Heart O' North Conference with Barron (495), Bloomer (408), Chetek (372), Cumberland (394), Hayward (663), Ladysmith (344), Northwestern (414) and Spooner (578). The remaining four LJC schools - Tomahawk (594), Northland Pines (575), Phillips (398) and Park Falls (334) - would join with Hurley (254) and Three Lakes (268) to form a new, six-team Lumberjack Conference.
All affected parties had a 40-day period to appeal the board's decision. On Friday, the 40th day, Medford and representatives of Heart O' North and Northern Lakes conferences presented their appeals to the board in Stevens Point. Rather than adhere to the recommendations of Chickering and the majority of other schools involved in realignment, the board sympathized with the appealers and abruptly rescinded its earlier approval. Members offered no timetable for further action in the conference realignment dilemma. As a result, all conference affiliations (or lack of affiliations) will remain as they were for the 2002-03 seasons.
"I don't believe it!" was the first collective utterance from Tomahawk athletic director Ron Wilson and coaches John Larson, Kurt Weyers and Andy Peissig when each heard about the board's action. Wilson shook his head in disbelief and chuckled at the way the WIAA had seemingly caved in to the whining and griping from schools that, according to Chickering's proposal, wouldn't be the "big fish in a little pond" any more. Those schools apparently didn't want to accept the challenge of competing against schools their own size, or maybe even a bit larger. They wanted to continue to stroke their inflated egos by having a steady diet of small-school competition.
The analogy of the squeaky wheel is a perfect fit for this particular situation. The complaining schools got all of the consideration at the expense of the majority, which now includes many schools that truly have a legitimate reason to gripe.
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BETHEL COLLEGE el Colle e Learning Resource Ceram
Volume XL—No. 20
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, March 17, 1965
Combined Bethel, 3-M Orchetstras
Schedule March 19 Performance
The Bethel College Orchestra,
combined with the Minnesota Min-ing
and Manufacturing Company
Orchestra, will present a concert
on Friday, March 19, in the Field-house.
The combined orchestra itself is
composed of 75 pieces, of which
approximately 50 pieces come from
3-M. The remaining part is com-posed
of Bethel students.
Beginning with the OVERTURE
TO IPHIGENIA IN AULIS by
Gluck and ending with a SELEC-TION,
MY FAIR LADY by
Loewe, the program promises to
be very entertaining.
Featured as tenor soloist in E
lucevan le stelle by Puccini is
Edward Nyborg. Mr. Nyborg is the
co-director of the St. Paul Swedish
Male Chorus, tenor soloist at St.
Mark's Cathedral, and is assuming
his new duties as music director
at River Lake Cathedral in Minne-apolis.
Nyborg is a regular soloist on
the nation-wide radio program
"The Back-Home Hour," and he
is the program chairman for the
Christian Businessmen's Associa-tion
in the Twin Cities. In addition
to all these activities, Nyborg still
finds time to work for the H. &
"Unique Characteristics of Bethel
College" was the theme chosen for
consideration at the College Facul-ty
Retreat held Saturday, March
13, at the Lake Minnetonka Baptist
This was the third of the annual
spring retreats held to give the
college faculty an opportunity to
share a topic of special importance
Educators Visit
Bethel Campus
Visiting the Bethel campus this
Thursday and Friday, March 18
and 19, will be a group of seven
men representing the State Depart-ment
of Education, church related
colleges, and public education.
They will be reevaluating t h e
secondary education program at
Bethel and evaluating for the first
time the elementary education pro-gram.
Those observing the Bethel pro-gram
are as follows: F. E. Heine-mann,
State Department of Educa-tion;
Mr. Einar Johnson, Augsburg
College; Dr. Gerald Brekke, Gus-tavus
Adolphus; Dr. Charles Brun-ing,
U. of Minnesota, Morris; Mr.
Roy Meyer, Lake Johanna Jr. High;
Mr. James Anderson, Mendota Ele-mentary,
West St. Paul; and Dr.
Gordon Mork, U. of Minnesota,
The Bethel Teacher Education
Advisory Committee will hold a
dinner meeting with these men,
Wednesday, March 17. Thusday and
Friday the examiners will be visit-ing
classrooms and talking with
students and faculty.
C. J. Rothschild Realty Firm in the
Twin Cities area.
FRENCH HORN, 1st MOVE-MENT
by Mozart features Jim
Cheeseman on the French horn.
He is the vice president of the
3-M orchestra. The guest concert-master
of the orchestra is Fred
Sewell of the Cole-Sewell Manu-facturing
Another prominent member of
the 3-M orchestra is Mischa Berg-mann
who recently retired follow-ing
43 years of meritorious service
with the Minneapolis Symphony,
as a violinist.
"The general trend seems to be
that the orchestra members played
in high school and college, but
didn't pursue their hobbies fur-ther
until they came to 3-M," said
one member of the 3-M orchestra.
Another member of the orchestra
added that they play mostly for
enjoyment and relaxation.
The Conductors for this concert
are Joseph Jung and Julius Whit-inger.
Jung is a music instructor
in the Minneapolis Public School
System and directs the 3-M Or-chestra
in his free time. Whit-inger
directs Bethel's Orchestra,
as well as the Women's Choir,
and to have a day of "fellowship"
According to Dean Larson, the
theme chosen for this year's
retreat should assist the educa-tional
policies committee, which
has been commissioned by the
faculty to make a thorough re-vision
of our required courses.
"It was felt," said Larson, "that
this pattern ought to be built not
only in terms of commonly accep-ted
patterns among American col-leges
but also ought to reflect the
unique characteristics of our
Following a 9:30 coffee hour the
faculty divided into groups for
"brainstorm" sessions on the theme
under consideration. The chair-men
of the groups were each mem-bers
of the educational policies
This was concluded by an as-sembly
of the entire faculty in
which a panel discussion by the
group chairmen attempted to
synthesize the ideas of the indi-vidual
groups, discovering those
areas in which there was agree-ment.
After lunch the faculty listened
to a series of taped interviews of
alumni, board members, a n d
friends of the school, expressing
their opinions regarding the unique
characteristics of Bethel. The day
was concluded with a devotional
period, following which coffee was
served and members were free to
react to and discuss the taped in-terviews.
Dean Larson pointed out that the
study by the educational policies
College Band, and is the Chair-man
of the Music Department.
Following the concert, there will
be an informal reception (by in-vitation
only) in the Dining Hall
honoring special guests, and the
3-M Orchestra members. President
and Mrs. Lundquist are to be the
host and hostess of this event.
Other guests will be the members
of Bethel's Board of Education,
the Music faculty, and the physical
science and mathematics faculties
of Bethel College.
Bethel College is to be the host
of the 1965 American Association
of Evangelical Student's (A.A.E.S.)
Spring Work Project which will
be held on Friday and Saturday,
April 23 and 24 of the Easter vaca-tion.
Student representatives from col-leges
belonging to A.A.E.S. in the
Twin Cities area and from as far
away as Ohio and Illinois will be
The object of the Spring Work
Project is to be Bethel Center.
committee will continue through
this year and next, so course re-quirements
for the year 1965-66
will be the same. "It is anticipated,"
said Larson, "that such a study
will undoubtedly lead to a study
of our total curriculum."
Formerly a church, Bethel Cen-ter
has been converted into a
youth center. The building shows
the effects of deterioration from
age and vandalism. Dust, dirt,
junk, and old literature have
piled up in the closets and un-used
The task will be first to discard
or organize the junk and then to
clean, repair, and perhaps even to
paint. Neighborhood children will
be joining in to make this a com-munity
effort. Dick Plapes, the
director of Bethel Center, has wel-comed
this volunteered time and
effort and is presently co-ordina-ting
planning of the project.
In the evening informal discus-sion
session on the inner city, 15
to 30 students will grapple with the
complications of slum and under-privileged
area social work. Ex-perienced
social workers from the
Twin Cities are being invited to
The project has a number of
purposes. Bethel Center needs
manual labor but does not have
money to pay for such work.
This will provide an opportunity
for practical sociology experi-ence
in inner city work. The
discussion sessions will be in-formative.
The basic purpose of the project,
however, will be to give students
a chance to put the abstract theo-ry
of love into concrete practice.
To keep the expenses at a mini-mum,
the Student Affairs Office
has arranged free rooms and meals
for volunteers. Several churches
from the Twin Cities area are
sponsoring meals for the A.A.E.S.
representatives. Those interested
in helping should contact Kathy
Harvie or Stan Olsen.
Hustad Speaks
On Hymnology
The Chapel series on Music in
the Church will be highlighted on
March 24 by Donald P. Hustad's
le c t u r e on "Demythologyzing
Hymns." A critique of Eric Root-ley's
Hymns Today and Tomorrow
will serve as the launching point in
an appeal for active and intelligent
participation i n congregational
hymn singing.
Mr. Hustad is a musician of
recognized superiority and an
authority on Protestant hymnol-ogy.
He is presently associated
with The Billy Graham Evangel-istic
Association as organist and
arranger. Mr. Hustad has arranged
for and conducted The Moody Bible
Institute chorale and his arrange-ments
for chorale and organ are
accepted as excellent in their fields.
Mr. Hustad has recorded exten-sively
for Word Records of Waco,
Texas, as well as other Evangelical
recording companies.
Kilby Discusses
Works of Lewis
Dr. Clyde Kilby, Chairman of
the Department of Language and
Literature at Wheaton College, will
participate in the 3:00 Coffee Hour
Discussion on the works of C. S.
Lewis Friday, March 20.
Interested students and faculty
should sign up in the President's
Office by Friday noon.
Small boy pauses to ask a question. He is one of the neighborhood
children who use the facilities offered at Bethel Christian Center, the
focal point of the American Association of Evangelical Students Spring
Work Project.
Faculty Views Changes at Retreat
Resolutions Pledge Support
The Bethel College faculty, on retreat Saturday, March 13 at
the Lake Minnetonka Baptist Church adopted the following reso-lution:
The senseless violence that caused the death of Rev. James Reeb
reminds us again that in the 100 years since the abolition of slavery,
the struggle to obtain an equal franchise for all United States citizens
We think that procedures of the franchise should make registration
and voting convenient. And where state governments fail to facilitate
such procedures, the United States government should act to that end
under Article I section 4 and the XV Amendment to the Constitu-tion.
Furthermore, we, pledge in the name of Christian compassion and
social justice to throw the weight of our influence behind the drive
for an integrated society.
We feel deep sympathy for Rev. Reeb's wife and children, and in
expressing this we also express our admiration for his dedication to
the cause of equality and justice.
S. Bruce Fleming, Executive Secretary of the Minnesota Baptist
Conference, released the following communications dispatch Mon-day:
I have this day, on behalf of our Baptist people, communicated to
Mrs. James J. Reeb our sympathy, love and deep concern in this hour
of deep peril. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down
his life for his friends." John 15:13.
As citizens and members of Baptist churches in the great State of
Minnesota, we are shocked and saddened by the brutal death of the
Reverend James J. Reeb.
We all share in the cancer of hate and indifference. We must
examine our hearts and determine to redouble our efforts on behalf
of full equality for all people throughout all the world.
I call upon our Baptist people to attend their houses of worship
and seek God's forgiveness in this hour of guilt.
I further ask that we individually exercise our Christian concern
in the prevention of circumstances which create the Selma psychoses.
I ask that each of us be willing to make the necessary sacrifice to
carry out the meaning of our Christian heritage.
Plan AAES Spring Work Project,
Aim Help At City Youth Center
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the CLARION Wednesday, March 17, 1965
Constitution Increases
Leadership Opportunities
The proposed amendments to the Student Association
constitution ought to be enthusiastically approved. In broaden-ing
the opportunities for student involvement the makers of
the constitution squarely answer a long recognized problem:
lack of opportunity to encourage and fully utilize leadership
potential, especially in the freshman and sophomore classes.
The proposal expands the Student Life Council and makes
its committee heads appointive as well as relieving them of
representative responsibilities in the Senate. This ought to
result in better definition of task, more time in which to do it,
and ultimately, better committee leadership and planning.
It also demands a higher sense of discipline and responsi-bility
on the part of each committee member as a wider
division of authority inevitably contains seeds of "Oh, I
thought the other fellow was going to do that" or, on the
other hand, just plain passing the buck.
The proposal would also pro-rate the fourteen class repre-sentatives
according to class population, probably resulting
in a 5-4-3-2 arrangement from freshman through seniors re-spectively.
The lower classes have waited long enough for this
arrangement and rightly deserve it.
The class presidents would also lose their Senate seats.
When seen alongside the cohesive effect of the pro-rating
system, this may be interpreted as a new opportunity for
class consciousness.
Classes are traditional units of identity for social gather-ings
and projects in college as well as for alumni reunions.
Furthermore, they furnish another area in which to develop
leadership and thus strengthen the original "broadening base
of opportunity" effect which is the new constitution's strongest
point. Class spirit is possible in a small college and ought to be
Staff Urges Endorsement
The nation mourns the death of Reverend James Reeb.
Rightly so. It is difficult to find good in the type of senseless
violence by which he was slain.
It is significant that our Bethel community extends its
sympathy in an extraordinary manner. It is significant that
hundreds of clergymen of all faiths responded to Dr. Martin
Luther King's invitation to march in Selma, Alabama.
Yet, the death of a white man in this fashion ought to be
of no more import to the nation than any of the Negro "martyrs"
who preceded him. We are not involved in a struggle of black
against white, but men against men.
By our very hesitancy to act until a white Minnesota-edu-cated
minister is struck down, we betray a real lack of con-sistency
and, therefore, validity in our "commitment" to equali-tarian,
humanitarian and Christian principles. The Clarion
endorses the long overdue faculty resolution and urges stu-dents
to subscribe to its principles individually and corporately.
Letters to the Editor:
Griffin Compares Negroes, Jews;
Cites Problem of Stereotyping
Dear Editor:
Failure seems to be mankind's
middle name, whether it be in the
area of government or religion.
Democracy, which we dutifully
cherish, does not seem to work
in other countries. Possibly socia-lism
would do better.
Many would suggest, although
a U.S. retreat from Viet Nam
would eventually be a loss of all
Southeast Asia, that this is what
they need. Economically, possibly
so. But the socialism which would
eventually take over is not solely
an economic system. (It is foolish
to ask whether Viet Cong? N.
Viet Nam? Red China? Russia?!)
They all include atheism.
On the other hand democracy
is not the only failure. The Church
has had its dark days also. The
Christianity which we so "loving-ly"
gave the Chinese was mostly
western. I say "mostly" because
fortunately some truth was given
and after 15 years of trial some
Chinese Christians are finally find-ing
true faith in God.
The bamboo curtain was neces-sary
to show the Church how wa-tered-
down its message really was.
I think from sources it is evident
that the Church of Christ has
learned a lesson. (My denomination
has learned many hard lessons in
all of its 24 fields because of
recent events — and it has some-thing
to show for it.)
Anthropologically speaking, the
cultures. on both sides of the Paci-fic,
are governed by men and the
cultures in turn govern us. If we
are fallen creatures, our cultures
cannot be otherwise.
However, the Church is supra-cultural
and its message alone can
reform mankind. Thus I am in
favor of resistance against atheism
in its military guise in order to
give the Church a freer hand in
its mission.
David Hartzfeld
Collins Corrects
To the Editor:
In the March 10 issue of the
Clarion, Kathy Kobs gave a very
fine summary of my participation
in the current Monday night dorm-itory
discussions on sex, marriage,
and courtship. While I appreciate
the article, I was somewhat dis-turbed
to read the following:
" 'Problems resulting from illicit
sex activity are far less prevalent
on a Christian campus than on a
secular campus,' Dr. Collins said.
He pointed out that petting may
present a problem when it be-comes
excessive and those in-volved
are unaware of the warn-ing
signs of when to stop."
As those who have been present
at my discussions will know, I
have been much more critical of
petting than this quotation would
by Mary Hamilton
John Howard Griffin, guest lec-turer
at Augsburg College, Thurs-day,
March 11, challenged a capa-city
audience with his conception
of American racism. Griffin spoke
autobiographically for nearly two
He related influencing factors
which culminated in his decision
to "become" a Negro for a short
period of time. He also shared
some of his resulting experiences
as a "pigmented American." A
more complete account of these
experiences may be found in his
book Black Like Me.
Griffin told of his return to
America after the war, totally
blind. He commented that during
this period he discovered that
a blind person judges people by
their character, with no thought
of color.
The eminent author drew an in-teresting
comparison between ra-cism
Nazi-style during World War
II a n d America's contemporary
interpretation of racism. He stated
that there are not different kinds
of racism, only different victim
From the vantage point of an
American smuggling Jewish ref-ugees
out of Germany during
World War II. Griffin wit-nessed
the tragedy of the German-
Jewish situation. An aphorism of
Burke's became real to him at
that time. Paraphrased, it is: evil
prevails when good men keep
Perplexed by the problem of
communication between Negro
and White, Griffin was told that
in order to understand somebody
he must "wake up one morning
in somebody else's skin." This
he did. Griffin changed the color
of his skin and shaved his head.
He changed nothing else. He re-tained
his own name, back-ground
and qualifications.
Griffin stated that at first he
did not believe that he could ac-suggest.
As for the "illicit sex ac-tivity,"
I would like to state that
although I am a freshman faculty
member, I am not that naive.
Gary R. Collins
Assistant Professor of
Boston Minister Dies
Mr. James Reeb, a Unitarian
minister from Boston died in Bir-mingham,
Alabama, Thursday night
as a result of the brutal clubbing
he received following a demon-station
in Selma on Tuesday.
China Rebukes U.S.
Communist China declared Sat-urday
that the dispatch of U.S.
Marines "to South Vietnam has
further blocked the way to a poli-tical
settlement of the Vietnamese
U.S. To Send More Troops?
General Harold K. Johnson, U.S.
Army chief of staff left Saigon
reportedly carrying a recom-mendation
that American combat
forces in South Vietnam be en-larged
beyond the 4,000 marines
that landed at Da Nang early
last week.
Soviets Accuse Chinese
The Soviet Union Friday night
officially accused Communist China
of deliberately organizing a demon-tually
pass for a Negro. He felt
that his lack of ability to "talk
Negro" would be a handicap. He
was still "thinking white."
However, he soon found that be-cause
his skin was dark he was
accepted as a Negro with no ques-tions
The lecturer stated that the
moment he changed the color
of his skin, he became imprison-ed
in the Negro stereotype. He
was suddenly attributed with an
innate sense of rythm, a sense
of humor and a love of water-melons.
Negroes are also imprisoned by
the "system," the speaker said.
by J. David Paterson
An issues depression hit the stu-dent
senate at the Monday meeting
as only one main order of busi-ness
was discussed. Kathy Harvie
acting in the behalf of Marilyn
Fahs, suggested that the issue of
the Spring Service Project be re-considered.
Harvie went on to explain that
since the AAES (American Associ-ation
of Evangelical Students) was
involved with a service project in
the Twin Cities it would be a good
idea for the senate to promote
the effort. She concluded by say-ing
that the condition of the Bethel
Center and like service organiza-tions
was shameful and students
should be willing to give their time
to rectify this situation.
Since there was some doubt in
the minds of the senators whether
Applications are now being ac-cepted
for two outstanding awards
in the field of literature — the
Robert Campbell Writing Award,
and the Annual Anthology of Col-lege
The Robert Campbell Writing
Award is an award of $50.00 for
first place, and $25.00 for second
place, given for the best materials
published by a Bethel student dur-ing
the current year. Material ap-pearing
in campus publications is
not acceptable.
To be eligible one must submit
copies of the published material
or manuscripts of published
material giving proof of their
stration in Moscow last week as
part of an "extensive slander cam-paign"
against Russia.
Successor to Malcolm X Dead
Leon 4X Ameer, the heir ap-parent
of the assassinated black
nationalist leader Malcolin X
was found dead Saturday in his
hotel room.
Anti-Sniff Law
The Minneapolis City Council
Friday made it unlawful for young-sters
to sniff glue or other toxic
substances for the purposes of ex-hilaration.
Johnson on Civil Rights
President Johnson made it clear
to religious and civil rights lead-ers
Friday that he is fully com-mitted
to a nation-wide right-to-
vote law, but will not be
pushed into any rash action in
President Johnson said Saturday
if Alabama's state and local govern-ments
can't protect Negro
rights and safety, the federal gov-ernment
will do what is necessary .
The system says that Negroes have
all the responsibilities of citizen-ship
(military service and taxes)
but few of the privileges (vote and
access to public facilities). Negroes
should stay "in their place"—in
the middle of the stereotype.
Griffin mentioned the Negro's
distrust of the open, democratic
white man, or the "G.W.B. type,
Great White Buddy type." Often
behind such a facade of friendli-ness
lies a morbid curiousity about
Negro life, or an intention to pre-sent
some sort of immoral propo-sition.
He quoted comedian Dick
Gregory's comment that white men
are much more democratic in their
sinning than in their worship.
or not it was feasible to promote
two such service projects, AAES's
and the senate, David Johnson pro-posed
a substitute motion that the
senate encourage participation in
the A A E S Spring Project by
Bethel Students. The motion was
One of the senators asked off
the record if carrying a sign
designating the group of student
marchers on the capitol represen-ting
Bethel College and Seminary
was acceptable, and if anything
could be done if such situations
arise in the future. It was thought
that there was little that could be
done since the marchers were not
officially representing Bethel. I
publication to any member of
the English Department. Entries
must be received by April 9,
All college students are also in-vited
to submit verse to be con-sidered
for publication in the An-nual
Anthology of College Poetry.
The recognition afforded by pub-lication
will reflect definite credit
on the college, as well as afford
satisfaction to the students who
may see their work in print.
The student's name, home ad-dress
and college must be typed
or printed on each entry sub-mitted.
Inasmuch as space is
limited, more favorable c o n -
sideration is given to shorter
Applications for the Anthology
can be obtained from the English
Department. They will also answer
any questions regarding the Robert
Campbell Award.
the CLARION
Published week1y during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-t
ion rate $3 per year.
Volume XL
No. 20
Editor Bill Swenson
Assistant Editor Rick Yonda
Assistant Editor Barbara Rusche
News Editor John Halvorsen
Feature Editor Cathy Peterson
Sports Editor Ron Harris
Layout Editor Judy Malm
Copyreader Karin Berg
Office Manager Diane Carlson
Typing Manager Beverly Rusche
Photo Editor Don Bester
Advertising Manager Fran Malmsten
Advertising Assistant Wendell Plucker
Business Manager Gene Peterson
Circulation Manager Linda Burgess
Adviser Wallace Nelson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
U .S. Stand ii n Vietnam Supported
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ate Reviews Project
English Department Announces
Awards For Published Students
Constitution Emphasizes
Waning Value of Classes
Members of the editoial staff will occasionally write "Op Eds"
in which they will express points of view which may be different
from those of the editor or a majority of the staff.
The most significant of the clauses in the new constitution
is that which limits the class presidents to class duties and
prohibits them from acting as senators.
This move was made to free the presidents from senate
duties and give them more time for class functions, thus to
some extent increasing class consciousness which has not
been evident of late. The question that arises is this: how
important is it that we revitalize the classes?
Once the class formed a unit to which its members identi-fied
and gave their allegiance, but now students adhere not
to the class but to their interest groups; choir members to the
choirs, athletes to their respective teams, etc. Lack of class
allegiance is clearly shown in the meager attendance at the
class parties last week and the class meetings held every month.
Traditionally specific classes have sponsored certain events
at Bethel, but why confine initiative to one class and ignore
other persons capable of contributing? A procedure similar to
that of Homecoming, in which a chairman selected by the
senate undertakes the project, could be instituted for many
of the events now restricted to classes.
In answer to the question then: classes are certainly not
dynamic enough to merit the efforts of revival.
Yankees Caught Off Base
Men of many racial origins across the country have looked
askance at proposals to bus school children of one racial
characteristic into schools of another for educational purposes.
Yet, some apparently sympathize with jet travel over thousands
of miles at much expense merely to "identify" for one day. Of
course, it's much easier for fly away to identity.
The question of the purpose of the southern migrations
presents itself. Certainly dramatization of the present deplora-ble
situation has been a major factor. But -- hasn't the situation
received enough dramatization? We don't need more publicity,
but more positive action which brings favorable reaction and
The thought that the marchers may have been more
concerned with the fact that they were participating rather
than with the efficacy of the demonstration also presents
itself. Any northern entrance and interference in the south
is deeply resented by southerners. For lasting effectiveness
these demonstrations should be an indigenous effort.
Our northern travelers would do well to pour their abun-dant
time and energy into the stugge in the "integrated North."
dant time and energy into the struggle in the "integrated
Olson Defines Church's Mission,
Presents Challenge of Ministry
by Dr. Virgil A. Olson
Dr. Virgil Olson is professor
of church history at Bethel
Theological Seminary. His arti-cle
begins a series of three in
preparation for the College Con-ference
on the Ministry, April
Even since the days of Con-stantine
in the fourth century the
church has been assured a recog-nized
place within the Western
world. For centuries the secular
powers supported the institutions
of Christianity. Even when the
church grew in the voluntary so-ciety
of the new nation, America,
it was assured a position of prefer-ence.
No longer can the church look
to governments and western cul-ture
for guaranteed support. The
world religious market has broken
wide open. The church finds itself
in bitter rivalry, a religious and
secular pluralistic competition
which gives no advantage to the
by Michael A. Rynkiewich
I Loved A Girl and I Love A Young Man, by
Walter Trobisch. Published by Society for
Christian Unity, 1964.
These two books come from a
changing Africa suffering from
growing pains. In this state of
flux old institutions hang on while
new ideas surge onward. But, the
problem dealt with in these books
is as relevant to our culture as it
is to theirs.
The problem is premarital sex
relations. I know you have heard
all the answers before, but it's
obvious that they are not adequate.
Answers, in general, are not ade-quate.
These books deal not in
abstract theory, but in practical
Letters to the editors of His
magazine say generally, "Mr.
Trobisch's (books are) practical
and realistic in presenting the
facts right on the table to college
students." Mr. Trobisch does not
give answers, rather he offers,
indirectly through letters, food
for thought.
The first book, I Loved a Girl, is
a collection of letters from a young
man to his former pastor, both in
Africa. The young man has "loved"
a girl. His church has punished
him because he has "committed
adultery." Since he did not even
know the girl's name, he does not
see who he has hurt nor why he
should be punished.
Through many letters and a visit
the pastor is finally able to con-vince
the young man, as a fellow-sinner,
of the long range hurts
of adultery. The young man then
meets a girl and things look right.
But, the girl's father demands a
"bride price" for his daughter.
Chorales Clash
Saturday Night
There may be a post-winter lull
in athletics, but the Bethel Lion
roars with undiminished fury even
in its midst. Competition promises
to be tough in the newly conceived
Tune Tangle, a brainchild of George
Palke and the Student Life Com-mittee.
Each of the four college classes
is developing a choral group with
a maximum of twenty-five voices
to carry its banner to the field-house
at 7:30 Saturday Night.
Judging, by members of the
music faculty, will probably be
on overall technique, balance,
cont'd on page four
mission of the church. The church
today is increasingly finding itself
in a position similar to the post-apostolic
period in the Roman Em-pire.
To invite young men and women
to dedicate their lives to the
ministries of the church is not
to describe a series of institu-tional
offices that need to be
filled; rather the challenge is to
a mission beyond the formal
structures and forms of the
church. The challenge comes in
understanding the church itself
as mission.
First and foremost the church
is a witnessing community; wit-nessing
to the "wonderful deeds
of God." Here is the challenge!
The only power promised to the
church is the power to witness. No
man is worthy of the ministry who
is not willing to be annointed with
Holy Spirit power for this mission
Witnessing is not the result of
End of first book, beginning of
trouble. Unfortunately, this book
is out of print. Borrow a copy and
read it.
The second book, which is in
print, is a collection of letters
from the pastor, the girl and the
young man. They concern not
only their problem of how to
get around the bride price but
also the problems of long en-gagement
and the "Do I" or
"Don't I" of love.
Again there are no smug, ivory-tower
answers nor a "lived happily
ever after ending." These books
are essential to every student both-ered
by sex (every student). Their
impact is tremendous, their con-tent
deep-thought provoking.
by Kathy Kobs
"There is a problem on Bethel
campus in placing the spiritual
dimension with the erotic relation-ship.
It is not possible to have
a high quality of love without en-
Dr. Ivan Fahs
during the pains of discovery,"
said Dr. Ivan Fahs. He added fur-ther
"Bethel is not a Utopia."
What are the basic concepts of
sex and the erotic relationship?
Where do they belong in society?
These and similar questions re-lating
to intimate interpersonal
relations will confront students
who attend the seminars led by
clever programs but of the moving
of God through a dedicated ser-vant.
God is not looking for better
methods but for better men. The
challenge is to be a man of God!
The man of God is not only
a product of charismatic inspira-tion
but of continual perspira-tion.
It is hard work to be a
prophet. It demands that all of
the nets be left behind to follow
the Lord. The challenge is to
cut off from all material and
emotional ties — to be wholly
the Lord's annointed.
The God of this world, Satan,
is busily blinding the minds of
men to lead them into his king-dom
of darkness. But the chall
lenge is to oppose the forces of
darkness, to bind the strong man
with the "finger of God," to "crush
Satan under your feet."
The challenge is to claim the
power of the resurrection amidst
the rising forces of non-Christian
religions, agnostic, atheistic anti-
The challenge is to faith, to
believe that to be involved in
the mission of the church is to
be within the purpose of God
to make known to all principali-ties
and powers the manifold
wisdom of God.
The challenge is to read the
Bible so much that the bones will
burn within you, you cannot keep
the message quiet. You must de-clare
the whole counsel of God,
the wonderful words of Life.
The challenge is to pray until
the love of God overwhelms you
with a divine compassion for a
needy world without a Saviour.
The challenge is to pray until
the love of God overwhelms you
with a divine compassion for a
needy world without a Saviour.
The challenge is to respond to
the call given to prophet: "Who
will go for us? — Here I am! Send
Dr. Fahs, Associate Professor of
Sociology, during the seminar
series on sex, love, courtship and
The series, sponsored by the
Religious Council, began Monday,
March 8. The third and final
session will be held Monday,
March 22. Dr. Fahs is leading
the discussion on sex.
In his seminars Fahs is elabor-ating
on eroticism and its possible
association with "agape" love and
is discussing sex per se as one of
the kinds of human relationships
rather than as a separate entity.
"The sociologist, for purpose of
analysis, classifies human sexual
relations into 'ideal types,' he said,
and these types are discussed in
his seminars. The zero, or no re-lationship
type, includes persons
who remain uninvolved with others.
According to Fahs these people
are "cinder blocks" with non-interacting
"The expedient 'human robot'
type occupies a necessary posi-tion
in society in a functionally
contributory capacity," he stated.
It is the bus driver, for example,
who never speaks but who per-functorily
whittles away his life.
A third "ideal type" is the pla-tonic.
This is the relationship of
mutual intellectual appreciation,
usually void of sexual desire. Fahs
Wednesday, March 17, 1965
further described the platonic type
as including individuals who ad-mire
one another's opposite quali-ties."
A relationship between Al-bert
Schweitzer and Miss America
is illustrative of this," said the
seminar leader, "Albert Schweit-zer
admiring Miss America's
beauty and she admiring his mis-sionary
"Physiological stimulation is in-volved
in eroticism," Fahs con-tinued.
He said that the erotic
relationship is the body to body
expression of sexual desire be-tween
a man and woman.
Finally, Fahs is discussing the
agape relationship. "Even though
theologians associate this term
with divine love, it is also appli-cable
to human relationships,"
he said. He exemplified this by
referring to Christ's love in an
individual as capable of attract-ing
Dr. Fahs' main purpose in his
seminars is to show the compati-bility
between agape love and ero-ticism.
"A synthesizing of eroticism
and divine love is the apex of hu-man
love found in a Christian
marriage," he said.
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The basketball and wrestling seasons are hardly completed be-fore
the trackmen and baseball players try nudging their participants
out of the locker room. The baseball players clad themselves in muddy
spikes while the tracksters equip themselves with an aqua lung in
preparation for the long spring practices. One would readily call the
Coast Guard to help the trackmen since they bear the brunt of the
melting snow.
Optimism in its purest form runs rampant, especially in the
coach's ranks. Coach Glader says his team potentially could be the
best in Bethel's history and Coach Cox refers to his teams as "a good
team with fine ball players". This is not just a pre-season feeling of
emotionalism that grips coaches. Their team may lose the first four
meets, but the optimism of the coaches is never daunted. Perhaps that's
what makes them unique (besides ulcers).
The track team will journey to Kansas City and the men will
practice and scrimmage until opening game time. Then 400 students
will pack the meets and games and watch the men who have worked
so hard all spring. Popcorn will be sold by the Letterman's Club and
cheerleaders will be out in full force to lend support.
The Student Senate members who so courageously brave the storms
for the basketball games, will stir up support and even attend the
events themselves. Crowning of a queen will take place at one of the
events and away events will sport two or three busloads of cheering,
energetic students. The same professors who so vociferously voice
themselves at other games will shout their approval as a track relay
team breaks another record or a baseball player slams a homer.
Impossible? Nay, Imperative — if track and baseball are to cease
from being merely "minor" sports.
Senate Elections
Declaration of
Candidacy March 22
Primary March 26
Final Elections April 2
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Party room for groups
Fri. - Sat. til 3 a.m.
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Eastside —853 Payne Ave.
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Sunday School 9:30 Morning Service 10:45
College CYF 8:30 p.m. Evening Service 7:00
Rev. Ellis Eklof, Jr., Pastor Roberta Yaxley, Dir. of Music
Successful Royals basketball team which won Pioneer Conference
Championship for second year in a row are pictured above. The members
are: Doug Kelley, Cabot Dow, Dave Bjorklund, Dick Robertson, George
Palke, co-captain Don Moore, Rich Nelson, co-captain Jerry Moulton,
George Harvey, Edgar Peterman and Bob Nolin.
Three Bethel Athletes Chosen
To Northland All-Opponent Team
Elim Baptist Church
685 - 13th Avenue Northeast
Morning Service — 9:00 a.m. and I I :00 a.m.
Sunday School — 9:50 a.m. College Class
Evening Chapel-7:00 p.m.
College-Business Fellowship-8:30 p.m.
Rev. Emmett V. Johnson, Pastor
Mr. Norman McLean, Ass't. Pastor
Bus transportation at 9:15 a.m. and 6:15 p.m.
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by Ron Harris
"Keep alert — keep moving a-round
and cover the bag — all
right, now, around the horn and
back to second" — and so the
sounds echo forth from the field-house.
There a team is in the
making — a team which Coach
Dave Cox optimistically refers to
as "a good team with quality ball-
Good news is news anytime —
especially in this sports section.
It has just been brought to our
attention that Northland College,
at the conclusion of their 1964-65
football season, voted for an all-opponent
team to which three
Bethel athletes were named.
Stan Miller, who was also
Bethel's most valuable player, was
named Northland's top individual
opponent for the season. Runners-up
for the top opponent were Min-nesota-
Morris quarterback Dennis
Malherek and Al Burke of Milton.
Wednesday, March 17, 1965
players." His optimism is not un-founded.
Sporting a whole slew of retur-nees,
(10, in fact), with the only
serious loss being Gene Brunzell,
Phil Forsline and Dave Buck, the
Royals are out to split the record
books again this year. Their record
last year was an impressive 18
wins and 6 losses. The record
Lowell Gause, three year letter-man
and senior guard on the Roy-als
pioneer Conference champion-ship
team was selected as the all-opponent
guard, along with Bob
Wauro of Milton. Gause was also
voted by his own team members
the most aggressive ball player
and the best defensive blocker.
Duane Gibson, senior tri-captain
and veteran letterman, was chosen
as the best end to face Northland
in their 3-4 season. Gibson aver-aged
better than one touchdown
per game this past season.
books, however, do not tell the
whole story of the team's hope this
Returning lettermen include:
John Dickau, Duane Johnson and
Jim Austin who had batting aver-ages
last year of .389, .340 and .321
respectively; Jerry Moulton, who
won seven games as a pitcher last
year; Dave Gehrke, who played the
entire season without an error;
Vince Bloom, who had a 2-0 record
as relief pitcher; Bob Nolin, who
stole thirteen bases; Tom Corneil,
George Harvey and Doug Kelly,
who offered relief in various posi-tions
last year.
Coach Cox, offering some inter-esting
insights into the team, noted
the youthfulness of the players
(only three seniors on the squad),
the large turn-out of ballplayers
(23) and the new teams on the
schedule this year, and predicted
a tough season.
River Falls and Mayville are two
of the toughest teams Bethel will
face this year in their opening
games. Other games of significance
include Hamline, Bemidji, Stout
State, Eau Claire and the teams
which comprise the Central Minne-sota
Conference, of which Bethel
is a member.
cont'd from page three
quality of selection, with a tro-phy
going to the group of great-est
musical excellence. The in-scription
of the winning class
will be carried on the trophy,
and the cup will be defended
from year to year, with each
new winner being inscribed for
Factors which would normally
favor one class over another are
held to a minimum or else tend to
balance each other. All classes are
required to do the same arrange-ment
of the standard, "Climb
Every Mountain," and are limited
to three practice sessions of one
hour each.
Upperclassmen may benefit from
experience, but as Ed Anthony,
senior director, noted, "We have
a problem scheduling rehearsals
so we can't get all the voices we
need. However, we've got sixteen
now that sound good. We'll give
the others a run for their money!"
Freshman director Keith Mat-son
had a different story. "I only
wish we weren't limited to twen-ty-
five, we've got some some real
potential." Junior Dennis Port
hesitated at official comment but
described progress as optimistic.
Sophomores, still awaiting mu-sic,
plunge forward with fingers
Since judges may be swayed by
audience reaction, students a r e
urged to come not only for enter-tainment,
but to give their class
some genuine support. No matter
the final outcome, the performers
are assured of a good time working
up their numbers, and, as Bill Mad-sen,
Student Life committee chair-man,
puts it, there will be "music
that can even be enjoyed by us
cultural barbarians."
Glove Men Begin Practice;
Coach Cox Views Team Hopes
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Podcast: UN Special Adviser says gender equality and girls' education are critical in the post-2015 goals
By Chris Niles
NEW YORK, United States of America, 14 May 2013 Gender equality and education will be critical in planning the development agenda that succeeds the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the Secretary-Generals Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning Amina Mohammed.
With the international community assessing the gains made by the MDGs and forging a path for the future after the 2015 deadline, Ms. Mohammed has been appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to help create an inclusive and sustainable development plan.
She says that gender equality is a crucial focus of her role.
Its about recognizing where the gaps are, and keeping them front and centre, she explains. Rather than see people as a burden or as an addition to a development agenda which looks to become heavier and heavier, is to see that it can lighten the burden by investing in those potentials and bringing a more peaceful and prosperous world to everyone.
Ms. Mohammed said there was no silver bullet for ensuring a girls right to a quality education, but that the development community needs to continue to advocate for that right and hold governments accountable for delivering.
Part of the challenge of crafting an equitable new agenda is that many MDG gains have been eroded by conflict and issues such as bad planning, bad governance and lack of investment.
These are issues that have pulled us back, Ms. Mohammed says. I think we need to make sure we address those in the longer term.
Looking to the future, Ms. Mohammed says that as the development landscape changes, broader partnerships will be essential to ensuring that successful programmes go beyond pilots and benefit as many people as possible.
The agenda is bigger. The partnerships themselves wont be static. Well be going across borders using technology. So Im excited about what civil society and young people bring to the table.
She sees a much greater effort required on the part of the international community to meet its existing commitments to educate girls and that includes giving mothers and women greater responsibility.
To think that today we still have so much to do, and yet people are moving back from those commitments not even just meeting them, but moving back from them is unacceptable, Ms. Mohammed says. We need to encourage people to see that this is in their own interests. No one must be left behind in the next development agenda.