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Fifteen Years of TAC
In a few months, it will be 15 years since Pat Buchanan, Taki, and I first met to talk about starting TAC. The need for a non-neoconservative voice on the right, beyond the estimable Chronicles, had been clear for quite some time, but the 9/11 attack and the establishment response crystallized it. It was then clear that almost the entirety of right-wing media, at least the media that anyone in Congress or a position of power saw, was going to, at least for a while, uncritically go along with the neoconservative agenda—which was, as Norman Podhoretz candidly put it in the Wall Street Journal, regime change in the Mideast from Teheran to Rabat. "We may willy nilly find ourselves forced to topple five or six or seven more tyrannies in the Islamic world," he wrote, after first destroying the governments of Iraq and Iran.
This kind of thing was being broadcast all the time, and the voices of opposition were scant. There were paleocons, grouped around Chronicles and the important website antiwar.com, and plenty of normal or moderate Republican realists who under their breath voiced their doubts in the halls of the Council of Foreign Relations and (for a few) in Congress. But with Netanyahu receiving rapturous applause in the halls of Congress, the War Party seemed politically omnipotent and unstoppable.
At TAC, of course, we couldn't stop it, but we could analyze the domestic and international situation and try to understand how we—as conservatives—had arrived at that tragic juncture. It may have taken far too many trillions of dollars wasted, and far too many lives of Americans (and Iraqis) destroyed, but there is now at least a solidly based party of skepticism beyond the left about the stupidity of regime change as a strategy. The evidence so far is that President-elect Donald Trump shares it too!
Of course now, 15 years later, the tasks of a realistic conservatism—and a journal and website seeking to aid and abet it—are different. It is clear that the concerns voiced in Pat Buchanan's Death of the West, published the same year TAC began, have arrived at the forefront of conversation. In Europe especially, it is not clear that what we have always known as a Western space—culturally Christian, with separation of church and state and a high regard for individual rights—will survive at all. And multiculturalism in the United States is not always a day at the beach, and may possibly turn into a recipe for endless strife. At the same time, the voices calling for a militarized foreign policy, of challenging every conceivable foreign power all over the globe all of the time, are as loud and insistent as ever. So, as it did 15 years ago, it falls upon TAC to fight both these battles, for a realistic and restrained foreign policy, for the survival of an American nation not torn asunder by the ever-escalating demands of multicultural extremists. Guiding both a sense of the limitations of men (and women). No, everything is not possible.
TAC has found financial backers during its life, but it could never have survived without support from readers. That remains as true today as it did in October 2002, when our first issue appeared. We've been influential, but to remain so we need funds—to pay writers, to hold conferences, to get our (and your) message out. Please do what you can!
Scott McConnell is a founding editor of The American Conservative.
ISIS, the Neocons, and Obama's Choices
Though Congress and the president are out of town, the final weeks of August have seen the arrival of an unexpectedly critical moment. The brutal beheading of James Foley by ISIS (the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq) confirmed that there remains a Sunni jihadist terrorism problem in the Mideast: decimating al-Qaeda and killing Osama bin Laden didn't end it. It shouldn't be forgotten that America's destruction of the Iraqi state in 2003 created the opportunity for ISIS to grow and thrive, as America's Sunni allies, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, gave ISIS financial backing.
How to respond? The usually wise Andy Bacevich suggests that ISIS constitutes a negligible threat to America, a superpower an ocean away, that bombing it has become—like bombing elsewhere, America's substitute for a genuine national security strategy. Bacevich suggests we ought to butt out, except perhaps to give aid to countries genuinely threatened by ISIS. There is much to this argument, as there is little inclination from the American people to send ground troops once again into Iraq. And even if we were willing to reconstitute and send an occupation force, what good would it do? In a similar vein, Paul Pillar argues that overestimating ISIS as a potential threat is perhaps more likely, and dangerous, than underestimating it.
But few are comfortable with doing little or nothing: ISIS is undoubtedly barbaric, with possible potential to spread. In important ways the situation resembles the months after 9/11, in which America were brutally confronted with the sudden emergence of Sunni extremism which had not previously been deemed a major problem.
Then as now, an influential group of neoconservatives, tightly allied with Israel, had a very specific idea of what they wanted the United States to do. The neocons then—and still do—aspired for an almost endless series of American wars and invasions across the entire Middle East. Because in 2001 we were already engaged in a sort of shadow war with Saddam Hussein—Iraq was under a semi-blockade and America was enforcing a no fly zone over the country—Iraq was the logical starting point. But for the neocons Iraq was only a beginning. "Real men want to go to Tehran" was the neoconservative semi-jokey catchword during that time, and they quite seriously expected that after Baghdad was digested as an appetizer, they could steer the United States into war with Iran—then as now a top Israeli priority. That an American war with Iran was an Israeli priority does not mean Israel opposed the Iraq war: polls at the time indicated that Israel was the only country in the world where large popular majorities were enthusiastic about George W. Bush's Iraq invasion, and Israeli politicians were regularly invited to appear as guests American news talk shows in order to beat the Iraq invasion drums. Steve Walt's and John Mearsheimer's indispensable book The Israel Lobby, contains pages filled with quotations from Israeli leaders making hawkish pronouncements to American audiences; the quotes are a necessary corrective to present to present Israeli efforts to proclaim that an American invasion of Iraq was never really an Israeli objective.
If ISIS is to be contained or defeated without using American ground troops, it is necessary to examine the regional forces ready to fight it. There are of course the Kurds, a small group which can perhaps defend its own region, if that. The biggest potential player is Iran. With its majority Shia population Iran takes a dim view of Sunni jihadism; the Iranian population was pretty much the only one in the Muslim world to display open sympathy with Americans after 9/11. By the standards of the Middle East, it is a scientific powerhouse, with a large freedom aspiring middle class, and considerable artistic community. According to published reports, Iranian tanks have reportedly engaged ISIS near the Iranian border—probably with American approval. We are likely, I would guess, to hear more about Iranian tank brigades in the coming months, even root for them.
The other serious force willing to fight ISIS is Syria, led by the Alawite Bashar al-Assad. Assad is a dictator, as was his father. His regime is strongly supported by Syria's Christians, by Iran, and by Hezbollah, the Sh'ite militia in neighboring Lebanon. Syria has been caught up in civil war of shocking brutality for the past four years. The largest faction opposing him is ISIS—and American arms distributed to the Syrian "rebels" have often ended up in ISIS hands. By opposing Assad, the United States has in effect been feeding ISIS. Read More…
Orwell: Progressives Aren't Fascists
Thanks to the website Open Culture, I came across George Orwell's 1940 review of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Not only does Orwell suss precisely the nature of Hitler's menace and the source of his popularity, he provides a neat thumbnail description of European liberals and social democrats that could easily attach to today's American Democrats:
Also [Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won't do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.
Dig that prescient reference to birth control!
There's a variety of reasons—see Santayana, Garry Wills, and our own Dan McCarthy—why liberalism leads to force and coercion, but it's simply not the case that progressivism or modern liberalism or whatever you want to call it is akin to European fascism and Nazism, a virulent outgrowth of German romanticism that should not be confused with the rationalist-materialist hubris of Marx, Engels, and scientific socialism. Since I began blogging semi-regularly four years ago, the conceit that, well, Nancy Pelosi should check her sleeve for a swastika, has been a constant irritant.
I'm glad to learn that the great Orwell would have been similarly irritated.
Why Being an "Excellent Sheep" Isn't So Bad
William Deresiewicz's July article for The New Republic, "Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League," launched a insightful, heated debate about the nature and meaning of education. In the newest edition of The New Yorker, Nathan Heller has penned a thought-provoking review of Deresiewicz's newly-released book, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, specifically considering its discussion of self-focus and career, comparing them with the writings and thought of Robert A. Nisbet.
In considering universities' education, Deresiewicz asks whether they produce self-realization: "The highest function of art, and of literature in particular, is to bring us to that knowledge of ourselves that college ought to start to give us," he writes. But Heller objects to this:
The groovy lore of college—the notion that it is a place to find yourself, follow your passions, learn to think in ways that benefit the world … Nisbet thought that these ideals were mostly feel-good bunk. Since when was it the university's responsibility to solve all of society's problems? he asked. And why should a professor rich in knowledge have to teach things that a callow nineteen-year-old considered "relevant" and "meaningful"? Academe ought to focus on the one thing that it actually did well: letting scholars teach what they knew. That teaching might nurture intellectual skills that the students could use in the real world, but how it did so was mysterious and, anyway, beside the point.
This older idea of knowledge—something inherently and, indeed, objectively good—is contrary to "knowledge" in the conception of Deresiewicz and others, which must be self-applicable in order to be meaningful. But it's true that Deresiewicz's call for self-actualization is a bit more complicated than this (Heller notes that Excellent Sheep is "full of such confusions"). In an interview with The Atlantic's Lauren Davis, Heller explained the meaning of his book's title:
… [Students are] sheep, because they have never been given an opportunity to develop their ability to find their own direction. They're always doing the next thing they're being told to do. The trouble is that at a certain point, the directives stop. Though maybe not, because even when it comes to choosing a career, there are certain chutes that kids, especially at elite colleges, tend to get funneled towards.
Here, Deresiewicz is denouncing the career-focused structure of learning and the limits it imposes on self-reflection, rather than denouncing the actual subject matter of learning itself. Later on, he applies these thoughts to the classroom and the way students absorb knowledge. "The main point," he says, "is to know yourself so you know what you want in the world. You can decide, what is the best work for me, what is the best career for me, what are the rewards that I really want."
These two realms in which Deresiewicz identifies a lack of "self-awareness"—the technical/professional and the personal/intellectual—are connected by the ingredient of time. Students are so busy pursuing parent or university-imposed trajectories that they have no time to reflect on their learning, what it's for, how they ought to apply it. Deresiewicz has some good points here: it is true that, though knowledge itself is objective, we will be unable to see how it threads its way through our lives unless we cultivate a healthy amount of reflection.
But Heller has good points, too: he acknowledges that education ought not revolve around career paths and money, but also sees the tension between career and academics as the "fragile," eternal balance of the university. And despite Deresiewicz's criticisms of students' frantic schedules, Heller writes that "the truest intellectual training could be how to stay calm, and keep thinking clearly, in the high-strung culture in which students need to make their lives." These are truly lessons that will remain relevant throughout a person's life. Heller seems to say that being an "excellent sheep" isn't so bad, if you are truly an excellent one. Perhaps being a sheep is the first step along a path to eventual intellectual independence and prudence.
Deresiewicz sees the frantic chaos in students' lives, and argues self-reflection will assuage their depression and give them meaning. Heller sees the chaos, and suggests that this is the way in which gold emerges from dross. It could be that both are right, to an extent: the key is, perhaps, in the "excellent" part of "excellent sheep." If the core of an education is good and insightful, it will cultivate strong and thoughtful minds. Some students may still run frenzied and stressed between internships and fellowships, papers and projects, exams and speeches. But the meat of what they learn, their daily bread of knowledge, will sustain and grow their self-reflective souls. And eventually, whether during college or after, they will be sheep no more.
How to Defeat the Islamic State
The decisions that determined the fate of the great nations and empires that failed to survive the 20th century are well known. For the Kaiser's Germany, it was the "blank cheque" to Austria after Sarajevo. For Great Britain, the 1939 war guarantee to Poland. For the Third Reich, it was the June 1941 invasion of Russia. For the Empire of the Sun, the decision to attack Pearl Harbor. And for the Soviet Empire, it was the invasion of Afghanistan.
As for the United States, historians may one day concur with the late Gen. Bill Odom. For the lone superpower to survive that century, the decision to invade and occupy Iraq was the most disastrous blunder in its history. George W. Bush held out the promise of a peaceful Mesopotamian democracy as a magnet for all Arab nations. What we produced is a broken land awash in blood, a country severed by tribe and faith: a Kurdish north, Shia south and a Sunni west controlled by the savages of an "Islamic State" even al-Qaeda hates and fears.
In Syria, where the United States has been aiding rebels to bring down Bashar Assad, that Islamic State now controls the northern and eastern half of the country. In Libya, where we delivered the air and missile strikes to smash Col. Gadhafi's forces, Islamist fanatics have gained the upper hand in the civil war for control of that country. In all three countries, the United States, which claimed to be battling dictatorship to bring democracy, helped to create the power vacuum these Islamists have moved to fill.
We are the enablers of the Islamic State.
How grave is the threat? ISIS is a "direct threat to our homeland" says Rep. Peter King. "An existential threat" echoes Sen. Lindsey Graham, "I think of an American city in flames." The Islamic State "is beyond anything we've seen," says Sec. Chuck Hagel, an "imminent threat to every interest we have." America is "in the most dangerous position we've ever been in," says Sen. Jim Inhofe, "They're crazy out there. And they are rapidly developing a method to blow up a major U.S. city."
Undeniably, these are bloodthirsty religious fanatics who revel in beheadings and crucifixions and have exhibited battlefield bravery and skill. But are 17,000 jihadi fighters in landlocked regions of Iraq and Syria really an imminent and mortal threat to an America with thousands of nuclear weapons and tens of thousands of missiles and bombs and the means to deliver them?
How grave is this crisis? Consider the correlation of forces. Who are the vocal and visible friends and fighting allies of ISIS? They are nonexistent. Read More…
Robot Employment Survival 101
Fear not the rise of the machines? That appears to be the advice given by MIT economist David H. Autor in a paper he recently presented at the Kansas City Fed's symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Responding to a significant uptick in economists' concern over the effects of automation on employment, including the "stunning" results of a poll suggesting "that a plurality of mainstream economists has accepted—at least tentatively—the proposition that a decade of technological advancement has made the median worker no better off, and possibly worse off," Autor suggests that it will be a lot harder to automate us all away than many journalists and expert commentators have indicated.
Autor argues that "Polanyi's paradox," whereby "We can know more than we can tell…" saves us from the threat of total automation dislocation, because there will always be jobs that rely on a variety of particularly human skills and tasks, skills and tasks that we can't entirely explain to ourselves, much less to a computer. As the philosopher Michael Polanyi himself put it, "The skill of a driver cannot be replaced by a thorough schooling in the theory of the motorcar; the knowledge I have of my own body differs altogether from the knowledge of its physiology."
While jobs consisting almost entirely of routine tasks, i.e. those easily codified into rules that can then be automated, have been and will continue to be replaced by machine labor, then, there is according to Autor a natural buffer to keep many people employed (if not necessarily well paid). In fact, Autor sees a significant opportunity for computer-enhanced human labor, for "tasks that cannot be substituted by computerization are generally complemented by it." The construction worker, in his example, has to manage too many variables in a fluid environment to be automated away. However, he can be given a backhoe to replace his shovel, enhancing the productivity of his labor while making backhoe-trained workers more valuable than the merely shovel-ready.
This is a blue-collar example of "skill-biased technical change," more traditionally described by Autor's fellow MIT professors (and techno-employment pessimists) Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee:
Technologies like robotics, numerically controlled machines, computerized inventory control, and automatic transcription have been substituting for routine tasks, displacing those workers. Meanwhile other technologies like data visualization, analytics, high-speed communications, and rapid prototyping have augmented the contributions of more abstract and data-driven reasoning, increasing the value of those jobs.
Brynjolfsson and McAfee discuss in their book a polarization of the employment market, where high-skill abstract-task intensive jobs are increasingly well compensated, and well complemented by machine labor. Low-skill Polanyi paradox jobs, like janitorial work and home health care, are also insulated from being automated away, but as Autor describes it, they are too well-insulated to even benefit from automation complementing their labor. Because their jobs require only the minimal amount of human reasoning that any competent adult can provide, their wages are depressed by the large supply of interchangeable labor. Middle-skill jobs, however, are nearly wiped out in Brynjolfsson and McAfee's analysis.
Here, too, Autor finds some reason for more optimism. Read More…
Eric Holder Puts Corporate Dope on the Table
Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the latest in a series of massive, multi-billion-dollar settlements extracted from Wall Street's largest banks as punishment for their role in the subprime mortgage bubble and bust that played a role in collapsing the economy in 2008. Charlotte-based Bank of America, paying for the sins of its own lenders as well as those of investment firm Merrill Lynch and subprime specialist Countrywide (both of which it acquired during the 2008 crisis), will be paying a record $16.65 billion settlement, including an also-record $9.65 billion in cash. This follows last month's Citigroup settlement of $7 billion (including a then-record $4 billion in cash), and last fall's $13 billion JPMorgan Chase settlement.
The numbers are truly eye-popping, and the repeated use of "record" has a nice, satisfying ring to it. But, just before the latest BoA settlement was announced, William Cohen denounced the entire exercise as "fine theater with the obvious caveat that nothing even remotely close to justice had been served." Far from being impressed by the sums involved, Cohen sees the settlements as hush money, paid by Wall Street executives eager to keep the details of their worst behaviors out of the public eye.
The American people are deprived of knowing precisely how bad things got inside these banks in the years leading up to the financial crisis, and the banks, knowing they will be saved the humiliation caused by the public airing of a trove of emails and documents, will no doubt soon be repeating their callous and indifferent behavior.
Instead of the truth, we get from the Justice Department a heavily negotiated and sanitized "statement of facts" about what supposedly went wrong. In the case of JPMorgan, the statement of facts was 21 pages but contained little of substance beyond the fact that an unidentified whistle-blower at the bank tried to alert her superiors to her belief that shoddy mortgages were being packaged and sold as securities. Her warnings went unheeded and the mortgages were packaged and sold all the same.
JPMorgan's CEO and famed finance guru Jamie Dimon reportedly made a personal call in the lead-up to a federal lawsuit being filed in order to bump his settlement offer by, ultimately, $10 billion dollars, hoping "the meeting would avert the lawsuit, which threatened to spotlight the bank's questionable mortgage practices before the financial crisis." The $13 billion was, the Times reported, half of one year's annual profits for the bank.
Indeed, the Times followed up yesterday to show how even Bank of America was getting off lighter than the numbers might make it seem at first blush. "At issue is how much of the cost of the $7 billion in 'soft dollars,' or help for borrowers, the bank will bear under the settlement," the Times said, as writing down principal on loans may have already been factored into BoA's plans, or they may not even own the loans anymore, having sold them off in the infamous mortgage-backed securities. The investors who bought the bad bonds "note that the government promotes the settlements as punishment for dumping faulty loans on investors, but it devises deals that saddle investors with some of the costs."
And in a rather perverse function of intersecting laws,
The actual pain to the bank could also be significantly reduced by tax deductions. Tax analysts, for instance, estimate that Bank of America could derive $1.6 billion of tax savings on the $4.63 billion of payments to the states and some federal agencies under the settlement. Shares of Bank of America jumped 4 percent on Thursday, suggesting investors believe that the bank could take the settlement in stride.
Moreover, the Justice Department and states began to get creative in their negotiations with BoA, Read More…
Bias and Recusal in Ferguson's Investigation
Among the demands of the "protesters" in Ferguson is that the investigation and prosecution of police officer Darren Wilson be taken away from St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch. McCulloch is biased, it is said. How so? In 1964, his father, a St. Louis police officer, was shot to death by an African-American. Moreover, McCulloch comes from a family of cops. He wanted to be a police officer himself, but when cancer cost him a leg as a kid, he became a prosecutor.
Yet, in 23 years, McCulloch has convicted many cops of many crimes, and has said that if Gov. Jay Nixon orders him off this case, he will comply. Meanwhile, he is moving ahead with the grand jury. As for Gov. Nixon, he revealed his closed mind by demanding the "vigorous prosecution" of a cop who has not even been charged and by calling repeatedly for "justice for [Brown's] family" but not Wilson's.
What has been going on for two weeks now in Ferguson, with the ceaseless vilification of Darren Wilson and the clamor to arrest him, is anti-American. It is a mob howl for summary judgment, when this case cries out, not for a rush to judgment, but for a long tedious search for the whole truth of what happened that tragic day.
For conflicting stories have emerged. The initial version was uncomplicated. On August 9, around noon, Brown and a companion were walking in the street and blocking traffic when ordered by Wilson to move onto the sidewalk. Brown balked, a scuffle ensued. Wilson pulled out his gun and shot him six times, leaving Brown dead in the street. Open and shut. A white cop, sassed by a black kid, goes berserk and empties his gun.
Lately, however, another version has emerged.
Fifteen minutes before the shooting, Brown was caught on videotape manhandling and menacing a clerk at a convenience store he was robbing of a $44 box of cigars. A woman, in contact with Wilson, called a radio station to say that Brown and Wilson fought in the patrol car and Brown had gone for the officer's gun, which went off. When Brown backed away, Wilson pointed his gun and told him to freeze. Brown held up his hands, then charged. Wilson then shot the 6'4," 292-pound Brown six times, with the last bullet entering the skull. St. Louis County police then leaked that Wilson had been beaten "severely" in the face and suffered the fracture of an eye socket. Brown's companion, Dorian Johnson, says Brown was running away when Wilson began to fire. But, according to the autopsies, all of the bullets hit Brown in the front. ABC now reports that Dorian Johnson has previously been charged with filing a false police report.
If the first version is true, Wilson is guilty. If the second is true, Brown committed two felonies before being shot, and Darren Wilson fired his weapon in defense of his life. Read More…
Why Facebook Wants You to Be Happy
People see Facebook as a neutral platform, which they can use to have conversations. But in reality, it's a company, and thus it has motivations and strategies and interests involved in the ways its users utilize the network. Facebook has commercial reasons behind its desire to curate specific experiences, happy or otherwise—and as of late, it's been working rather hard to curate a positive, uplifting (or "Upworthy") experience for its users, as Casey Johnston reports in an ArsTechnica post:
As the protests in Ferguson, Missouri over police fatally shooting 19-year-old Mike Brown have raged through the past several nights, more than a few people have noticed how relatively quiet Facebook news feeds have been on the matter. While #Ferguson is a trending hashtag, Zeynep Tufekci pointed out at Medium that news about the violence was, as best, slow to percolate through her own feed, despite people posting liberally about it.
While I've been seeing the same political trending tags, my feed is mundane as usual: a couple is expecting a baby. A recreational softball team won a league championship. A few broader feel-good posts about actor Chris Pratt's ice-bucket challenge to raise awareness and money for ALS, another friend's ice-bucket challenge, another friend's ice-bucket challenge… in fact, way more about ice bucket challenges than Ferguson or any other news-making event. In my news feed organized by top stories over the last day, I get one post about Ferguson. If I set it to organize by "most recent," there are five posts in the last five hours.
This harkens back to Facebook's recently released news feed manipulation study, which tracked users' responses to positive vs. negative content. Facebook manipulated its algorithm to give a different experience to different users, and documented the effect these disparate algorithms had on their emotional wellbeing. All of this was in order—they purport—to curate a better user experience. Johnston adds,
One of the things Facebook thrives on is users posting and discussing viral content from other third-party sites, especially from sources like BuzzFeed, Elite Daily, Upworthy, and their ilk. There is a reason that the content users see tends to be agreeable to a general audience: sites like those above are constantly honing their ability to surface stuff with universal appeal. Content that causes dissension and tension can provide short-term rewards to Facebook in the form of heated debates, but content that creates accord and harmony is what keeps people coming back.
Facebook is not the only company that curates a given experience for commercial gain. Most online tools use algorithms for similar curation—Google, for instance, doesn't show you all potential search items for the keyword you give it: it shows you specific search items it thinks you will like, ones that accord with its idea of your personality or character. And while this can be a useful service, it also has it drawbacks. All of these tools have a way of perpetuating specific traits or bents (virtuous or otherwise) in users: if you used to search Google for pornography, it's likely to continue offering you pornography, even if you are trying to avoid it. If you looking at an old ex's photo album on Facebook, perhaps in a moment of jealousy or curiosity, their postings will continue showing up in your news feed for days or weeks to come. Outside of the personal, we should pay attention to the effect these sites have on our perception of the outside world: as Eli Pariser noted in a March 2011 TED Talk, two users could Google the word "Egypt" and get completely different results—one would get news of protests and the Arab Spring and Morsi, while the other would only see tourism information and pictures. Pariser noted that Facebook does the same: Read More…
Ferguson: We Can't Look Away
It's time once again to bring out the well-worn quote (from Marx) that history repeats itself, "first as tragedy, then as farce." No one in my home could take their eyes off the television Monday evening, though all that was on was Jake Tapper marching around Ferguson, Missouri tracking down rumors of fresh violence. It all seemed so scripted. The outside world may be blowing up—major crises in Ukraine, the Mideast, and the South China Sea—which if escalated and spread could bring the world to the brink of global war. But we couldn't turn away from the rinky-dink St. Louis suburb. Outside agitators—were there not such people, one would be want to put this '60s era retro-phrase in quotation marks—have purportedly come to Ferguson from as far as New York and California.
There was real tragedy in the first round of American inner city riots—provoked in most cases by genuine police brutality. In 1967, the New York Review of Books ran Tom Hayden's lengthy depiction of the riot there. Hayden, then a well known New Left figure, knew Newark, had been an anti-poverty organizer there. His sympathies were obvious, but Hayden is no fool, and I'm sure most of the facts are correct. One thing which stands out in those days was the way in which law and order views were expressed in forms indistinguishable from race baiting. Can one imagine the Democratic governor of a major state today saying, as New Jersey governor Richard Hughes did, before calling out the National Guard, "The line between the jungle and the law might as well be drawn here as any place in America." Hughes, recall, was not George Wallace but a major progressive figure.
The costs of the insurrection to Newark were brutal. In Hayden's summary
In the carrying out of the Governor's weekend definitions and policies at least twenty Negroes died, nearly all from police shooting, another 1000 were injured and 1000 jailed; more than 100 Negro-owned businesses were attacked by police and troopers; and hundreds of apartments were fired into along the ghetto's streets.
The outcomes were comparable in Detroit, in both cities the riots sparking an exodus of white population, with its skills and capital. New York, in great part due to the personal courage of John Lindsay, avoided the hot summer. The riots spurred a major national effort to integrate urban police forces, an effort which evidently bypassed the suburb Ferguson.
In those days the precipitating incidents were, in ways that the Ferguson killing does not seem to be, clear cut cases of racist police brutality. No one who saw the video of Michael Brown robbing a convenience store will think it out of the question that the police officer who shot him 15 minutes later feared genuinely for his life. Of course the shooting should not have happened: police officers have to be able to make arrests without using deadly force—and if they can't, they should in most cases give way—as Brown's shooter must surely feel today. But it can't be easy in the heat of confrontation—just as most highly skilled professionals will make errors under duress, so will an average cop.
To read Hayden's account is to be reminded that though history may in some ways repeat itself, in America race relations are much better, and feel very different. Read More…


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This is strategy for the upcoming game, [[Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms]]. The game is currently in alpha test, so things might change, rapidly.
What's your best formation? Is it optimized for DPS?
Note: Based on your items (equipment / gear), some champions might be better to use than what is said here. Basic guideline is — if you have 3 epic or better items on a DPS champion, use that as your main fighter.
Spoiler warning: Half the fun in these kinds of games is figuring out the best formation for yourself. If you read this guide, you will deprive yourself of the mathematical enjoyment of analyzing formation ability overlaps and permuting DPS layouts. (And also be subject to any mistakes contained within.)
According to in-game chat, the following layout (from front to back, bottom to top) is the best:
Tyril (closest to enemies)
Nayeli, Delina
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Nayeli (below), Celeste (above)
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Asharra, Calliope
makos (furthest from enemies)
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* [[Bruenor]] shield dwarf
* [[Celeste]] human cleric
* [[Nayeli]] human paladin
* [[Jarlaxle]] drow rogue
* [[Calliope]] elf bard
* [[Asharra]] bird (?) wizard
* [[Minsc]] human ranger
* [[Delina]] elf sorcerer
* [[Makos]] tiefling warlock
* [[Tyril]] firbolg druid
* [[Jamilah]] human barbarian
* [[Arkhan]] dragonborn paladin


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Peace Corps's RPCV Career Link is an interactive jobs board designed to connect returned Peace Corps volunteers (RPCVs) with post-service career and education opportunities.
RPCV Career Link replaced Hotline, the career bulletin that provided RPCVs with job announcements, scholarships and volunteer opportunities for more than 40 years. The new online, interactive format is more flexible, enables faster response times, as well as easier access for both employers and job seekers. The job board is also searchable by location, opportunity type and keyword.
"In today's global job market, the skills that Peace Corps volunteers have when they return home are the skills that employers are looking for," said Eileen Conoboy, director of The Office of Third Goal and Returned Volunteer Services. "During service, volunteers learn a second language, technical skills and how to work across cultures. RPCV Career Link connects these uniquely qualified returned volunteers with employers so they can continue to make a difference back in the United States."
Jobs and scholarship opportunities can be posted and viewed by visiting the RPCV Career Link website. Postings are live on the site for 30 days.
Peace Corps Worldwide Job Listings
Peace Corps Worldwide (http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/) is now accepting job postings from organizations looking for RPCVs or Returned Staff - for both domestic and international work.
If your organization recruits RPCVs, you can post jobs for free, including full-time, part-time, volunteer positions or internships. Current employers registered with us include Save the Children, HealthNet TPO from the Netherlands, CDM, Abt Associates, Transparency International and others. If you are an RPCV or Returned Staff looking for a job, you can visit the site and search current postings, or register with us and create a profile so employers can find you. Also, registered RPCVs and Staff can search the employer profiles to find organizations who match your interests even before jobs are posted.
View current jobs at: http://www.cambridgedata.com/search_jobs.htm
Post Jobs, Search Jobs, Register at http://peacecorpsworldwide.org
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The man who turned the National Anthem inside out with his performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Woodstock will become the latest musician to be honored by the U.S. Postal Service. A Jimi Hendrix Forever stamp will be introduced March 13 as part of the post office's Music Icon series.
The unveiling of the stamp will take place at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, with a free outdoor performance by such rock musicians as Slash, the MC5's Wayne Kramer, Dave and Phil Alvin of the Blasters, Rusty Anderson of Paul McCartney's touring band and others.
The 2014 Music Icons series also is slated to include a Janis Joplin stamp later this year; next year, James Brown is on tap to get his own stamp.
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The Postal Service launched the Music Icons series in 2013 with stamps recognizing Ray Charles, Johnny Cash and Tejano singer Lydia Mendoza.
In 1993, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Bill Haley, Ritchie Valens, Clyde McPhatter and Otis Redding were saluted with postage stamps. Presley's stamp became the biggest seller in Postal Service history, and it's due to be brought back in 2015. In the future, stamps are planned to salute John Lennon, Sam Cooke, Tammy Wynette, Bill Monroe, Roy Orbison, Jim Morrison, Freddy Fender, Fats Waller, Willie Dixon and Sarah Vaughan.
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Falkudden Camping & Stugby is situated in an area of considerable natural beauty on the shore of Lake By, a bay of the Dalälven river, 22 km outside Avesta. The camping plots and cottages are all a stone's throw from the bathing area which has a sandy beach.Activities and tourist attractions:There are marvellous opportunities for fishing in both the lake or nearby rivers and the camping site is, together with Neda, listed in Top 10 Fishing Sweden. Sale of fishing licenses for the Tyttbo and By fishing area.The water is perfect for canoeing and you can hire a kayak or a canoe and set off and explore. The natural setting means that there are marvellous opportunities for hiking, picking berries and mushrooms, not to mention simply enjoying the peace and tranquillity of the forest.Our location in the heart of unspoilt countryside means that we can cater for a whole variety of different interests. Local attractions include The Färnebofjärden national park, rapids fishing in Tyttbo and beautiful places such as Gysinge Bruk, the town's old farmstead museums, coin museum and the Carl Jularbo museum in Avesta. All of these are only a short drive away.At Näs sportsground, only 500 meter from the camping site, there is a traditional Swedish celebration on Midsummer Eve which includes a party for the whole family during the day and dancing in the evening.There is also an annual local celebration in the village, known as Slånkvicku. It's great fun for all the family with all sorts of different activities and performances. There are also a variety of different local markets during the summer.The Avesta Carnival has a carnival procession, funfair and games and competitions. Möklinta Week is held in july. Möklinta is only 13 km away.
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Nov. 17, 2013
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Head Coach Chris Poole picked up his 700th career victory as he led the 22nd-ranked FSU indoor volleyball team over Notre Dame 3-0 (25-13, 25-21, 25-21) on Sunday at Tully Gym.
"I didn't even realize I was at 700," Poole said. "It's been a long career – 30 years worth of coaching on the collegiate level and there's been a lot of excitement and opportunities, great players and great teams and this is a group that I love working with. It feels good for them to be able to help me get number 700."
Coach Poole earned his first benchmark win as a Seminole during the 2009 season, when he reached 600 wins in just his second season at the helm. Five years earlier, Poole grabbed his 500th career win while leading Arkansas in 2004.
In addition, Poole ranks in the top 10 in victories among all active Division I coaches in the country.
For the second-consecutive match sophomore outside hitter Nicole Walch recorded a double-double, swinging for 13 kills while adding 12 digs as she posted a .522 hitting percentage. It was her first double-double in three sets and sixth overall for the season.
"Our main goal for the season is to always improve," Walch said. "That's awesome for Coach Poole. He's a great coach and I love playing for him."
Redshirt freshman Sarah Burrington also had a great day on the attack, recording 10 kills while hitting .471 percent. Burrington also had three blocks.
"I know Coach Poole has a long history and legacy," Burrington said. "To be a part of such a big win for him is great."
Senior Ashley Neff continued her dominance at the net, standing up four blocks and seven kills.
The Seminoles got out in front early on the Irish in the first set and kept their foot on the gas, taking it 25-13.
In the second set, FSU started off a little sluggish, however thanks to a 7-2 run the Noles went in front 11-9 early. The teams were tied twice more before the Seminoles closed out the set 25-21, taking the 2-0 lead into the break.
The third set was closer than the previous two as the score was tied four times, however Nicole Walch's kill broke the final stalemate at 15 and the Seminoles never looked back. FSU finished its sixth ACC match in straight sets, 25-10.
"This team is a joy to coach every day," Poole said. "You can see improvements being made. We have so many young players out there trying to get better. Experience is something that only comes around when you actually get experience. It's the ability to play the balls that you need. You just get better and you learn from it."
Florida State continues its home stretch as it hosts Wake Forest on Friday at 7 p.m.
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Northwest native Jason Hummel learned to ski in the backcountry at age six, but he didnt pick up photography until his best friend, Ben Manfredi passed away in a kayaking accident in late 2003. It was with Bens camera that Jason took his first images and found that he had a passion for photography. In late 2009, as the markets were crashing Jason left his career as a financial advisor to go ski, hike, bike and kayak. Along the way he was asked if hed publish his images. It was then that Jason discovered that photography was more to his liking than crunching numbers and advising clients on the best way to invest their life savings, so instead he took his own advice and invested his life savings into himself. These days, the return on that investment can be seen in his images, which continue to grow and develop as he expands his horizons.


text: Mark Hahn wrote: [...] >> I am sure others will take issue with this, but I would strongly >>advise against using a rolling beta OS (FC-x) as the basis for a >>production cycle machine. If it is a purely experimental cluster, go > > > calling a non-test FC release "beta" is just plain petty; > all software is beta by that definition. Not at all. This is a direct quote from http://fedora.redhat.com "The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc." It is by Redhat's definition, a rolling beta (proving ground). That said, FC-3 was actually pretty nice. Broke X on my old laptop (and my new one come to think of it), and that took some time to work through. My customers care about running on distributions (whoops, there we go with that word again) on which their apps are supported. I am not aware of active support for FC-x for applications from commercial program providers. If I am incorrect about this, please let me know (seriously, as FC-3++ looks to be pretty good). I do know PathScale and Portland Group are passively/actively supporting their compilers, and may support FC-x. They might know better as to whom is building to target FC-x. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615


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As expected, wearable tech has been garnering a lot of the buzz at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. So far we've seen a slew of new smartwatches and fitness trackers, including the new Steel from Pebble; Core, Sony's tinest wearable yet; and from Razer, Nabu, a wearable tech that actually meshes the two concepts. Check this space for more updates throughout the week.
Health trackers in full force at CES 2014
CNET's Bridget Carey and Scott Stein look at the many flavors of health-tracking bracelets unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Tech for your head at CES 2014
Wearable tech takes the spotlight at CES 2014. CNET's Scott Stein and Bridget Carey demo the Avegant Glyph video headset and Epson Moverio smart glasses.
Diving into the smartwatches of CES 2014
CNET's Scott Stein and Bridget Carey take a look at the Pebble Steel and Hot Watch, two smart watches making headlines at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Epson's Moverio BT-200 Smart Glasses deliver Android apps in augmented reality
Originally released in 2011, the Epson Moverio BT-200 Smart Glasses have been re-designed for consumer use and ready for their debut at CES 2014 in Las Vegas.
Lumus smartglasses (mostly) get it right
The waterproof R415 connects to your phone via bluetooth to send alerts and monitor heart rate.
LifeTrack R415 fitness smartwatch
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LG Lifeband Touch and Heart Rate earphones
LG enters the wearable fitness tech arena with two new intriguing products.
Pebble Steel smartwatch gets a whole new look
Pebble's all-metal souped-up Steel watch aims high with a new, premium feel.
Wellograph's sleek new Sapphire Wellness Watch sparkles with style
Offering heart rate monitoring and step measuring skills in an elegantly crafted package, the new Sapphire Wellness Watch from Wellograph aims to merge style with powerful fitness tracking.
Ora-S AR Eyewear takes smartframes further
This bulky effort does more than Google Glass, for less.
Razer takes stab at meshing smartwatch and fitness band
Imagine a Nike Fuelband that got text messages like a Pebble. Did we mention it has dual screens?
The handsome Martian Notifier offers affordable, advanced phone alerts
Check smartphone alerts with the new $129 Martian Notifier discreetly and in classic style.
Pivothead's Smart Cortex, a camera for your face
Clever camera add-ons slide onto these smart frames to leave you hands-free.
Sony's newest and tiniest wearable: Core
Sony's Kunimasa Suzuki announces Core, a small device that will act as a fitness tracker, offering recommendations based on how users interact with the device.
ZTE BlueWatch adds fitness tracking to a Pebble-like design
ZTE's first entry to smart watches keeps it simple at CES 2014.
All Marvel franchises ranked, from Avengers to Daredevil: How do the X-Men movies stack up to Iron Man, Spider-Man and *shudder* Ghost Rider? Just so happens we made a list.
How Muslim millennials are looking for love: Some call it haram (forbidden), but more Muslims than ever are turning to apps like Minder and Muzmatch to find romance.