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"Here in the US we have had to contend for a decade and a half with the peculiar phenomenon of Clinton Derangement Syndrome--a pervasive, almost obsessive hatred of Bill & Hillary Clinton that seems to have infected large numbers of people toward the right side of the political spectrum (and not only them). That's not to deny that people might have good reasons to disagree with either or both of the Clintons, or even dislike them. But in a great many cases the intensity of this hatred is not just irrational but, I must confess, inexplicable. Of course, the fact that CDS is irrational and often outright delusional (here is one especially ludicrous recent example) does not prevent it from beng a significant social fact that has had a real impact on US politics and may do so again.Read the rest.
Over in Great Britain, the equivalent phenomenon among wide swathes of the intelligentsia and sectors of the educated middle classes more generally is Blair Derangement Syndrome."
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Blair Derangement Syndrome - An example from A.C. Grayling
Lots of good stuff
Thursday, December 20, 2007
John Pilger on my dartboard
Lily Allen is allowed down - she's not in the same league as this disgrace of a person.
Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism Cosmopolitan Reflections
G2 SOAS, 7.00pm
Followed by a reception
Les Back, Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Anthony Julius, Visiting Professor of Literature, Birkbeck, University of London
Jon Pike, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Open University
David Hirsh, Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Chaired by Charles Small, Director of YIISA and editor of the Working Paper series
Responses to:
Working Paper #1, Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)
Tickets are strictly limited. Email email@example.com.
Co-hosted with the Unit for Global Justice by the Centre for Jewish Studies at SOAS and YIISA.
Rush, Hillary and Mitt
Well, maybe he is not stupider than many others, but when you have his media power you can say stupid things very loudly, and without contradiction. And be read and heard by millions.
Rush Limbaugh is a moron.
Of all the things I have against Hillary Clinton, the fact that she is an aging woman is not one of them.
Actually, Limbaugh may in fact be correct in his premise. But he should use his power to elevate the conversation, not to make it even more stupid.
Why are Rush Limbaugh, Karl Lagerfeld and Liza Minelli alive, while Townes van Zandt, Eva Cassidy and Gram Parsons are not?
There is no God, this should be obvious. We're on our own.
PS: Isn't Mitt Romney FABULOUS looking?
Critical Secularism: A Reintroduction for Perilous Times
An essay by Aamir Mufti on Edward Said's "secular criticism". Interesting.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Ike Turner
Ike Turner was obviously not a nice human being, but what a musician! Jeff Weintraub has a perfectly pitched post about him, and MISB has four fantastic mp3s by Ike and Tina Turner. (I knew Nina Simone's version of "Funkier Than A Mosquita's Tweeter" but didn't know the Ike & Tina version).
Bob's beats genre keywords: soul, black music
Bob's beats artist keywords: Ike Turner, Nina Simone
Monday, December 17, 2007
Did you hear the one about the Archbishop, the Muslim and the Good Samaritan?
Saturday, December 15, 2007
The best music of 2007
Here is part I of the official Bob From Brockley best albums of 2007. To be completely honest, there's only some of them I've heard all the way through - lots are ones I've heard bits of on the radio or via sundry downloads and streams. I'm planning to buy a bunch of them when I have time off work over the winterval.
4Hero Play With The Changes. Their warmly organic electronic music is sublime when at its best. They often work with great female soul vocalists, but their textured music lifts these singers to levels they often don't reach in the dreadful world of contemporary soul music. Highlights: "Awakening" (featuring the wonderful Ursula Rucker), "Bed Of Roses" (featuring Jody Watley), "Morning Child" (featuring Carina Andersson). 4Hero's remix of Nu Yorican Soul's "Black Gold of the Sun" is part of the soundtrack to my life, and they are a great band for both remixing and being remixed; witness "Morning Child", versioned by Massive Attack's Daddy G among others. Analog Giant has another version, and sez: Get Playing with the Changes here. Check out more remixes like from Daddy G (of Massive Attack) here. Listen to tracks off the single here.
The Soundtrack of I'm Not There. I haven't seen the film yet, but it sounds fascinating, and the soundtrack really makes you listen to Dylan's music by reinterpreting it quite radically. The really stand-out track, by a mile, is "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", a song whose covers (Clapton's, Guns N Roses') have become classics too, a song which you hear so many times it has been neutralised and rendered banal, like the Beatles' songs have. Here, Anthony and the Johnsons really make you listen to it afresh, in their heart-rendingly beautiful version. Download the track at mp7. Other good tracks are "Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)" by Willie Nelson and Calexico, "One More Cup of Coffee" by Roger McGuinn and Calexico, "Just Like A Woman" by Charlotte Gainsborough and Calexico, "As I Went Out One Morning" by Mira Billotte and "Ballad of a Thin Man" by Stephen Malkmus and the Million Dollar Bashers. Yes, Calexico are one of my current favourite bands. There are also some weak tracks, like Malkmus' "Maggie's Farm" and Karen O's "Highway 61".
Endless Highway: A Tribute to the Music of The Band. Another tribute thing. This features the Allman Brothers doing "The night they drove Ol' Dixie Down" – how more perfect does it get than that? (mp3 from Born by the River). Otherwsie, the project is a bit too indie rock for me. Audioblog links: The Rich Girls Are Weeping (spot-on review), The Late Greats. Stream at the album's website.
Merle Haggard Working Man's Journey/Bluegrass Sessions. In Working Man's Journey, one of my favourite country singers revisits his back catalogue, stripped of some of the gimmicky schmaltz that sugarcoated the more well-known versions. "
Beastie Boys The Mix Up. The incomparable Beastie Boys purely instrumental. Over the years, as the Beasties "mature", their instrumental tracks have become their strongest feature, so this is a treat for people like me who love the Beasties but can only listen to so much rap in one go. Great dub track "Electric Worm" and jazz-funk "Freaky Hijiki". Stream at Brooklyn Vegan, buy from Amazon.com.
Bettye Lavette Scene of the Crime. Betty LaVette truly is the Great Lady of Soul. How come I'd never heard of her before this year? I'm ashamed. The year has seen her being cool by pairing up with the Drive-By Truckers, a so-so Americana/rock outfit, who she way outclasses, but works well with. Actually, though, the track by her from 2007 which I really love is her version of Bruce Springsteen's beautiful "Streets of Philadelphia" (which was itself the best thing about the dire film
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings 100 Nights. I'll leave praising this one to Andrew.
Honourable mentions: Buddy Flett Mississippi Hill, Budos Band The Budos Band II, CéU CéU, Chromatics In the City, The Cinematic Orchestra Ma Fleur, James Blood Ulmer Bad Blood In The City: The Piety Street Sessions (for the song "Katrina"), The Harlem Experiment (see here), Keren Ann Keren Ann (great version of "Hallelujah"), Levon Helm Dirt Farmer (Favourite track: False Hearted Lover Blues. Bob links: Richard Manuel, Three Burials), Mary Chapin Carpenter The Calling, Radio Scotvoid Fae Ecosse, Spanish Harlem Orchestra United We Swing.
Look out for a second instalment of this feature before the end of 2007, featuring Mavis Staples,
Bob's beats genre keywords: jazz, country music, hip hop, rock, soul, electronica,
Bob's beats artist keywords: Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard, Sharon Jones, Levon Helm
Thursday, December 13, 2007
The lobby with REAL power
More from Noga.
How many social anarchists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Angela Carter/Sarf London
Great Angela Carter quote. Any of my US/elsewhere readers wonder what my neighbourhood (or my manor, as we like to say) is like, read it!
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
ignoblus, for the moment
I came across ignoblus on newsvine, but couldn't quite get newsvine (just like I can't quite get LiveJournal). I liked his posts there, and so am glad he is now in my part of the world wide web. Read ignoblus on: double bind antisemitism, the Martin Amis affair, and hate speech on newsvine.
Mini Me
A huge thank you to Lewisham Kate for creating this charming image of Bob From Brockley. Uncannily accurate. Here are the rest of the Lewisham bloggers.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Reading Arendt in Caracas
Via Matt's post on Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan constitutional referendum, I got to Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's piece on the student movement in the Nation's forum on the referendum. Young-Bruehl is the author of a wonderful biography of Hannah Arendt.
One click away I got to this nice piece: Reading Arendt in Caracas.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Don Byron Spins the Dreidel (via Mickey Katz)
los amigos de durutti: Don Byron Spins the Dreidel (via Mickey Katz)
We've touched on Don Byron and Mickey Katz before here at BobFromBrockley. Here, from DJ Durutti, for Hannukah, are some tracks to listen to.
Images from: Nextbook, Hebrew School, Man of Constant Leisure.
Bob's beats genre keyword: jazz, klezmer
Bob's beats artist keyword: Don Byron, Mickey Katz
See also: Harold Stern Jewish cowboy, Theo Bikel, Irving Fields, Lionel Bart, Pearl Williams.
Friday, December 07, 2007
William Blake in South London
Thursday, December 06, 2007
On moral equivalence
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Booze for Jews, South London
An evening full of light, latkas and laughter with Bromley Reform Synagogue's 'Southwark Triangle Group'. It will give Jews living in south east London the chance to meet informally to socialise, light Chanukah candles and sing Ma'oz Tsur.
Anyone is welcome whether you're single, in a Jewish couple, have a non-Jewish partner or have a genuine interest in Judaism. The more the merrier!
For more details contact Harriet Posner at firstname.lastname@example.com
A group of 20 and 30-somethings from Bromley Reform Synagogue have taken it upon themselves to flout the recent 'lighting-up' legislation and are arranging a Chanukah candle lighting and socialising evening on Thursday 6th December. It will be the only time you will be able to legitimately light up in a pub this winter.
The evening is the first of its kind arranged by the 'Southwark Triangle Group' from Bromley Reform Synagogue. It is aptly named Chanukah Booze for Jews and will take place from 8pm – 10.30pm on Thursday 6th December at the Honor Oak pub, 1 St. German's Road, SE23. It will give Jews living in south east London the chance to meet informally to socialise, light Chanukah candles and sing Mo'az Tsur.
One of the organisers, Harriet Posner, says, "The event came about as a result of a local night out when we heard about the number of Jews in their 20s and 30s that reportedly live in the Southwark Triangle (Lewisham, Southwark and Lambeth). We thought Chanukah would be a perfect excuse to meet and get together with some fellow South-London Jews outside the usual synagogue setting, regardless of which borough they live in. Who knows, it could be the start of a Jewish social calendar to rival that of our North London neighbours!"
Rabbi Tony Hammond will be attending the event, not only to answer any questions about the Synagogue, but also help with distributing (and eating) valuable chocolate Chanukah gelt. Rabbi Hammond says, "I'm delighted that there are so many Jews in the surrounding area. I'm looking forward to having an informal setting in which to celebrate one of our traditions and to meet some of the local younger members of the Jewish community."
We'd like to encourage everyone to join us for what we hope will be an evening full of light, latkas and laughter. Anyone is welcome whether you're single, in a Jewish couple, have a non-Jewish partner or have a genuine interest in Judaism. The more the merrier at Chanukah Booze for Jews!
Meanwhile, the newly formed London Jewish Humanists Group is organising a humanist Hanukkah Seder, this Saturday (8 December 2007) 19:30 - 23:00 at Dizengoff Israeli Kosher Restaurant Golders Green. Phone 07921816101 for more information.
A black Jewish family from South London have been forced to delay their aliyah because of unexplained stonewalling by the Israeli authorities.
Carl and Maleka Levy — Reform converts to Judaism from Rastafarianism — had been set to begin a new life with their five daughters in Ashkelon three months ago.
On a Hanukah tip (that's a word I really can't spell!), if you want to download some seasonal mp3s, how about: a dreidelicious podcast featuring The Klezmatics, Tom Lehrer and plenty more; Shirim's klezmer nutcracker suite, Woody Guthrie (and some Christmas stuff); Yo La Tengo; Nashville Pussy (not a family-friendly link to click!)*; Brigid Kaelin's "jewgrass" music; and some Ladino hip hop from last year.
*Evidently so family-un-friendly I failed to hyperlink, now rectified.
On attacking Iran (reposted, with the links this time), plus Lewisham blogger stuff
publicansdecoy (who I failed to meet at the Lewisham bloggers meet-up last week, which I couldn't make) on the allegedly imminent US attack on Iran. Good stuff.
Also, go vote in the Arsehole of the Year contest.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Cosmopolitanism or nationalism?
Hirsh, drawing on thinkers like Robert Fine, Hannah Arendt, Hal Draper and Isaac Deutscher, talks of his analysis as a cosmopolitan one, "a framework for doing social theory which disrupts a methodologically nationalist tendency to view the division of the world into nations as being rather more fixed than it is."Fine, he writes, describes the appeal of cosmopolitanism as having to do with the idea that "human beings can belong anywhere, humanity has shared predicaments and … we find our community with others in exploring how these predicaments can be faced in common."
That's certainly a position I would endorse.
Jogo sent me this extaordinary piece on that paranoid delusional megalomaniac George Galloway, calling the police because two journalists who went to see him turned out to be agents of ZOG, the Zionist Entity (that's how he saw it). Listen to the audio clip.
Gorgeous George sets out his vision for what counts as just and understandable suicide bombing (settlers, soldiers) and what counts as unjust (pizza joints). He sees Hamas as a perfectly legitimate national liberation movement. Etc etc.
The thing I want to draw your attention to is in these passages:
Galloway explained Osama bin Laden is a terrorist since the al-Qaida chieftain, whom Galloway claimed was "armed and financed by the U.S." in the 1970s and 1980s, is a "pan-Islamic, nihilistic leader leading a nihilistic organization which seeks to bring about the collapse of national states and re-emergence of the caliphate."
Galloway stated Hamas, by contrast, is not a terror group:
"[Hamas] wants to liberate their country, which has been illegally occupied, and to reassemble their nation, which has been scattered to the four winds. That's an entirely legitimate goal," he said.
I have commented before on Galloway's racial nationalist worldview: a vision of a world divided into nation-states, each ruled by a fuhrer figure like, say, Hugo Chavez or George Galloway. This illustrates it perfectly: national(ist) movements good/global movements bad.
Galloway's nationalist methodology is of course just a slightly more extreme version of the nationally-minded "anti-imperialism" of much of the post-Cold War left: an internationalism which is not cosmopolitan but rather "inter-nationalist".
Within the Marxist left, this sort of "inter-nationalism" gets its authority from Lenin's belief in national self-determination as a fundamental right of nation-states (against Rosa Luxembourg's cosmopolitan view). There were a couple of steps from Lenin's views to Stalin's dogmatic, simplistic version of it, and then another couple of steps to Stalin's WWII embrace of Greater Russian nationalism and increasingly paranoid post-WWII obsession with the scourge of rootless cosmopolitanism. Increasingly, since the end of the Cold War, the "anti-imperialist" worldview has become even more theoretically impoverished, and able to embrace all and any reactionary movement that manages to portray itself as anti-imperialist, whether that is Milosovic's Serbian nationalism, Chavez's authoritarian nationalism or, as in this case, the theocratic-fascist Hamas.
This embrace of the nation-state as the ground for "resistance" to globalized capital, and the consequent demonisation of the figure of the cosmopolitan, serves as a common rallying point for the rococco left, Third Worldists, conservative European anti-Americans (like Jacques Chirac and Rowan Williams), and the far right . Galloway, in all the incoherence of his politics, exemplifies this convergence.
Bonus links: Judeosphere: Galloway's definition of terrorism, Revolutionary Times: Anti-imperialism and Third Worldism, Judeosphere: The anti-imperialism of fools, Flesh is Grass: Mousawi at A World Without War.
Tuesday miscellany: the Israel lobby, conspiracy theories and the left-right convergence
1. Jan Langehein of Jungle World spells out the Anti-German position for English readers in Shift magazine. Shift, now on issue 1, seems like an interesting venture, with a critical take on the "liberal hardcore" who hi-jacked the climate camp and the use of the anti-G8 movement by the far right. Looks like a similar kind of project to Three-Way Fight. [Actually, having just posted this, I notice that the Rob Augman piece on the G8 movement is the one I linked to a different version of, via Three-Way Fight, back in August.]
2. Frank Furedi on Walt and Mearsheimer: Is Israel the organ-grinder?
I have always loathed Furedi, as I've loathed all his fellow ex-RCPers, but I find myself agreeing with him a lot these days. However, after posting this, I read this by Will and thought twice about leaving it up...
Also, remaining on the theme of Israel lobby conspiracy theories, I was a bit disturbed to read Labour councillor Bob Piper, generally a sensible chap, indulge in this sort of bullshit.
Another Hugo Chavez post
Two items sent in by Jogo:
"1. The Useful Idiots don't care about Los Caracas Nine.And here is Matt Zeitlin: Chavez and history
But you might ... if you read this.
2. The Nation has lately been cautious in its writing about Chavez because they cannot quite figure out how to spin him in a truly progressive direction. Certainly you will read nothing in The Nation today anything like this fawning, triumphant shit written a year ago (from "The Land of Chavismo") by Chesa Boudin, the clone-son of homicidal maniac Kathy Boudin, herself the spawn of commie-lawyer Leonard Boudin. A veritable dynasty of wickedness."
And here are two more, Terry Glavin and Bald-Headed Geek, via Contentious Centrist.
Three for the blogroll
I also realise that I haven't yet added The Bald-Headed Geek to my link list, which I've been meaning to do for a while. I will do.
I also notice I have made Splintered Sunrise's blogroll, another link I will happliy reciprocate.
It pleases me to be linked to by bloggers from such a range of positions on the political spectrum!
Monday, December 03, 2007
London songs
A couple of Sarf London ones, including Catford's own Spike Milligan, Dick Emery's "Bermondsey" and a dreadful version of Lambeth Walk.
P.S. More from Transpontine.
Friday, November 30, 2007
The ABC of "anti-imperialism"?
When an imperialist country is threatening to attack a less powerful country, anti-imperialists everywhere must focus all their energies on preventing the imperialist country from starting a war by aiming all their political firepower on the imperialist country. This is to recognise the difference in their respective capacities to exploit and oppress people around the world. This is particularly true if you happen to be living in either an imperialist country or a nation that supports an imperialist power. To criticise both the imperialist country and the country they are threatening equally is to re-enforce the inbuilt inequality in the situation and thus to favour the imperialist power. It is always in the interests of anti-imperialists to see the imperialist power defeated. Any defeat for any imperialist power is a blow against imperialism in general.I couldn't disagree with this position more. If my daughter gets beaten up every day on the playground by a large, violent bully, and then one day the bully is beaten up by a larger kid, I am not tempted to rush to the defence of the bully. (In this case, of course, the position of my daughter is occupied by the citizens of Iran, not least the women of Iran and the working class of Iran.) Unconditional support for regional imperial powers like Iran or for fascist rackets like Hizbollah is a dangerous, reactionary, stupid policy.
Thus the defeat of the Israeli Army (IDF) by Hezbollah last year should be seen as a victory for anti-imperialism regardless of any criticisms you may have of Hezbollah. Many of us gave Hezbollah unconditional, but not uncritical, support.
The ridiculous Leninist "unconditional but not uncritical support" formula should have been thrown away long ago. It is a prime example of the bankruptcy of the movement that calls itself "anti-imperialist".
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Blake day
P.s. More from Jams and Neil.
The demise of Respect as literary effort
Version 2: Splintered Sunrise, in the style of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
George Orwell: state tout or anti-Stalinist hero?
As a Histomatist post inspired the original post, you might care to visit these two other posts there: Deutscher on the importance of class struggle (as we've been talking about Isaac Deutscher here too [talking of bad spelling...]) and a notice about the forthcoming Black Jacobins Conference, as I put CLR James and Orwell in very similar places in my mental filing cabinet. (The Deutcher thing leads on to this piece by Mike Davis, who also cropped up in this post.)
Monday, November 26, 2007
Rowan Williams on good and bad imperialism
America seems so intrinsically involved in everything. The Archbishop recognises that: "We have only one global hegemonic power at the moment." But, he propounds, "It is not accumulating territory; it is trying to accumulate influence and control. That's not working." Far from seeing this positively, he describes it as "the worst of all worlds," saying, "it is one thing to take over a territory and then pour energy and resources into administering it and normalising it. Rightly or wrongly that's what the British Empire did – in India for example. It is another thing to go in on the assumption that a quick burst of violent action will somehow clear the decks and that you can move on and other people will put things back together –Iraq for example."His whole interview (in the glossy Muslim "lifestyle" magazine Emel) is worth reading in full (here it is, found via Ekklesia), because the comment on American power and British imperlism is only one small part in an actually fairly far-ranging and thoughtful discussion.
Not suprisingly, though, I am going to focus on the controversial bit.
In particular, the positive depiction of British imperialism is outrageous. The balance sheet of the British empire is incredibly poor. Starting with the plantations in Ireland and mass appropriations of land from Irish farmers, condemning them to generations of poverty, moving on to the role of the Empire in the slave trade (3.5 million African slaves to the Americas, a third of all slaves transported across the Atlantic).
And in India, Williams' model, there was the privatised and unaccountable system of plundering India's wealth under the East India Company, which makes Halliburton and Blackwater and the private contractors in Iraq look like charities. The East India Company habitually used torture against Indian people and forced farmers to convert from subsistence crops to cash crops for export, resulting in horrific starvation. They destroted Indian industry by flooding the market with cheap goods, the market being rigged by a system of duties and subsidies. And this was nothing compared to the thirty or forty million peasants who died in the British-induced famines that Mike Davis describes in his grim highly recommmended Late Victorian Holocausts.
As for the British Empire and Iraq...Well, it was off course the British who, rather than diligently and thoughtfully "pouring energy and resources into administering it and normalising it", Britain invented it out of thin air, combining three Ottoman provinces that had little in common with each other culturally or linguistically. Britain proceded to pump oil and wealth out of the country, through the Turkish Petroleum Company. More seriously, Britain bombed Kurdish and Arab uprisings. (Churchill famously advocated using chemical weapons against the "uncivilised" Kurdish tribes.) [More here.]
So what allows someone of Williams' intellectual stature to be so stupid? I don't have enough knowledge of or interest in the Archbishop to comment (Martin's very good post here gives some explanations). The fact is, Williams is not alone. An insanity has gripped Western elite opinion, rendering it unable to see with any proportion, unable to make moral judgements. America, Israel and Blair are magnified into the worst possible monsters; all other crimes are relatavised away; all good things America does are literally invisible and unthinkable for these people. As Martin points out,
Needless to say, the archbishop had little to say about America's role in liberating Kuwait from Saddam, protecting the Muslims of Bosnia and Kosovo, or rescuing Afghanistan from the repressive grip of the Taliban.Williams is blind to the inter-imperialist rivalries that mean that America as a "global hegemon" is in active competition with other powers, not least China, Russia and Europe, who severely curtail America's ability to act on the global stage.
This worldview speaks a radical language ("global hegemon"). It is endemic amongst people who like to think of themselves as liberal or even radical. But it is essentially conservative. The Archbishop's idiotic nostalgia for the terrorist regime that was the British Empire is intimately related to his anti-Americanism. As with the likes of Chirac, this is the politics of reaction, not the politics of emancipation. Hence its easy alliances with Islamic theocrats and other reactionary forces.
P.S. Was I wrong to use the word terrorist in the last paragraph? Possibly. See comments at Snoopy's blog.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Cosmopolitan intent: two appeals
2. Sam Harris is publicising the launch of the Ayaan Hirsi Ali Security Trust, to protect this brave woman. More here. (Via Snarkmithy. Read more on Hirsi Ali at Greater Surbiton.)
What's in a name: Islam, Islamism, Jihadism
- Criticism of Islam is not racist: Martin In The Margins defends his fellow Martin, Amis, from the savaging of Guardianista Ronan Bennet.
- Pickled Politics and Scoop both discuss the questions of terminology raised by Timothy Garton Ash re "Jihadism".
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Today's blog is brought to you by the letter B
*The Balkan Anarchist blog has an extensive discussion about the Serbo-Croat language and its dialects. Great for anybody with an interest in languages and the Slavic ones in particular. Entitled 'Divanimo naski' (Don't ask me to translate-but the article is in English). Much of this was way over Molly's head as the only Slavic language that she has a "travelling acquaintance" with is Czech, with a smattering of Russian and Ukrainian. Still, a very informed presentation.*Balkan Baby has an article entitled (take a deep breath) 'I Wanted Freedom. Bound and Restricted, I Tried to Give You Up, But I'm Addicted'. Whatever it may sound like it's all about the situation in Kosovo and well worth reading.*Janet Biehl's blog continues the presentation of her graphic novel about the life of Murray Bookchin with an aside into the politics of the 1930s ala Stalin's machinations.*Bill Bumpus continues to present the latest news about the IWW, along with an ever fresh selection of general labour news. Great site to help you keep up with things wobbly.*The Blork Blog has an interesting piece about the new Airbus A380 airplane and its overstated claims to "green credentials". A great piece of myth-busting.*The Blue Voice has an useful links reference to Joschka Fisher's (the ex-leader of the German Greens) more recent writings.*Bob From Brockley reprints a piece from Venezuelan anarchists critical of the Chavez regime. The title is 'Hallucinating the Bolivarian Revolution'.*Butt Darling has a report from the recent No-Borders camp on the US-Mexico border entitled 'Lost Patrol'. Find out what went down down there.That's it for now. See you at the C.
Meanwhile, Jim Jay asks you to vote for the people's choice of best green blogs of 2007. From my manor, Green Ladywell is a contender.
Does the left learn?
Transmontanus has a post about a similar issue, prompted by Zizek's recent LRB essay. He (Terry) responds to Hoare's fairwell to the left thus:
Fighting words, so fair play to him, but to be really fair you'd have to concede that there is a "Left" that is anti-capitalist but is still capable of facing the facts Hoare demands we face. For starters, you could read "Against the Anti-Globalization Critiques" or this treatise, "Regional War in the Mid-East Calls for Class Struggle and Solidarity with Israel." Even the "anti-war" movement has clear thinkers: here's an anti-war movement I can really get behind.
The Contentious Centrist has given us links to places she has commented lately, including the above-mentioned post. These are very worth reading.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Who should decide who makes a good Jew?
I still have to make up my mind about this, because I share Hirsh's distaste for the parade of progressive secular Jews (Klugs, Roses, Finks and so on) denouncing the views of most Jews while "speaking as a Jew".
P.S. Isaac Deutscher's "Non-Jewish Jew" essay is the licence the Klug-Roses use, and some day I may get around to writing up my critique of Deutscher.
P.P.S. I have terrible trouble spelling Deutscher's name, just as most people seem to have terrible trouble with David Hirsh's!
P.P.S. This relates, of course, to the whole Independent Jewish Voices debate, on which read Keith Kahn-Harris at Liberal Conspiracy. (Keith previously featured here - read the comment from the Contentious One.)
Chavez: a shimmering model?
Personally, I think Hari is right to be sympathetic towards the Bolivarian revolution; he is right to highlight the positive dimension's of Chavez's rule; he is right to emphasize the forces of reaction arrayed against Hugo. But I think Hari does not give Chavez enough credit for his authoritarian actions. By describing the drift into dictatorship as reaction to his enemies' actions ("is there a danger Chavez will play into the hands of his critics, and become dictatorial after all?"). Hari underestimates Chavez's own megalomania and power-lust.
Finally, the notion of Venezuela as a "shimmering model of pro-poor democratic development" is pure hyperbole, and undermines Hari's claims to be an authoritative commentator on the subject.
Monday miscellany
- Jim refuses to compare "spoiled, middle-class brat" Amy Winehouse with the sublime Ella Fitzgerald.
The left that doesn't learn:
- Mitchell Cohen's "Anti-Semitism and the Left that Doesn't Learn", in the fall issue of Dissent, prompts a fantastic post by Snarksmithy on Stalinism and anti-Zionism, as well as a post at Judeosphere on Tony Judt's intellectual dishonesty.
Who are the Paulistas?
- Sultan Knish dishes the dirt on the "Jews for Ron Paul" scamsters. Meanwhile, Roland takes apart the "leftists for Ron Paul" nutjobs.
The heroic resistance targets women:
- Jim nails the gynophobic barbarity of the Iraqi insurgents.
A beacon to the world:
- Peggy Noonan: Being a "beacon to the world" is more challenging than it sounds. I've got a soft spot for Noonan. She was an advisor on The West Wing, and I always picture the wonderful CJ when I imagine Ms Noonan. This is a great Thanksgiving piece, that illustrates her smooth prose style and thoughtful approach.
- Ron Silver, at Pajamas Media, claims the phrase "revolutionary liberal". Worth exploring? (Found via Roland.)
Another round-up:
- Hocemo Li Na Kafu? obviously read the same blogs as me, but comment more intelligently.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Hallucinating the Bolivarian revolution
In this part of the Caribbean we don't suffer 'deja vú' for the CNT-FAI of 1936 nor do we allow ourselves to be confused by the re-semantization of demagoguery. Last year 402 prisoners, coming from the popular classes, died violently in the prisons of the 'Bolivarian Revolution'. More than 60 leaders of trade union and neighbourhood groups were in court because of their participation in strikes, blockades and demonstrations to demand their rights. As Bakunin said, the people will not feel better to see that the club with which they're beaten with bears their own name. We, the libertarian creoles, have assumed the attitudes of any consistent anarchist: to confront power and stand side by side with the oppressed, gathering together means and ends, constructing free spaces and refusing to be either victim or tyrant. We leave the 'tactical alliances' and 'critical support', the smokescreens and mirrors to the politicians, of whom there are so many in Venezuela today, fattening their egos and bank accounts, hallucinating a 21st Century socialism that is both military and imperialist by nature, with its epicentre in Caracas.Read the whole thing at Divergences.
Theo Bikel
Read this lovely appreciation of Theodore Bikel at Meretz USA.
Images here from: Bikel.com, Hippocampus Music, History Co-op, Dick Rosmini.
Bob's beats genre keywords: folk
See also: Molly Picon, Majer Bogdanski
If it's not the striking postal workers, it's the Jewish lobby
More at Finkelstein's blog on Gordon Brown and the BNP: 1, 2, 3.
More on Walt and Mearsheimer at Engage, Boycotted British Academic, Judeosphere, Jeff Weintraub.
The politics of assimilation
Keith Kahn-Harris' wise words on the Chief Rabbi's attack on multiculturalism.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Atzmon: A Spinoza for our times?
P.S. As Will noted in the comment, I originally posted this as "Gilad Atzmon: A Spinoza for our times". I've changed it to "Gilad Atzmon: A Spinoza for our times?" Crucial difference!
P.P.S. A good Atzmon post at Judeosphere.
Read this thoughtful post about one of the greatest songwriters of our time. For me, the post resonates with the recent kerfuffle over Ann Coulter's supposedly (but actually not at all) anti-semitic talkshow comments, which so upset the liberal intellegentsia.
Follow the link to his post on Aaron Neville's version of Randy Newman's greatest song, "Lousiana 1927". (Both versions put in an appearance on my Katrina anniversary post, which has mp3 links if you don't know the song, but I haven't checked if they're still working.)
Bob's beats artist keywords: Aaron Neville, Randy Newman
Lineages of the American anti-Stalinist left
Previous: Bayard Rustin; Orwell's legacy; Wikipedia & the anti-Stalinist left; Seymour Martin Lipset; Leo Strauss; Social democratic New York.
More reading
- Anti-Semitism and the Left that Doesn't Learn (online)
- Avishai Margalit on Sectarianism (podcast)
- What's Wrong with Academic Boycotts? Martha Nussbaum, Mohammed Abed, and Murray Hausknecht
- The 'New' France: M. Cohen, P. Askenazy, F. Gaspard, N. Green, and J.B. Soufron
- Exit or No Exit? M. Walzer, J. B. Elshtain, S. Hashmi, and G. Powers Debate the Iraq Withdrawal (online)
- What European Islamophobia and anti-Semitism have in common--and what they don't.
- The Insanity of Bush Hatred: Our politics suffer when passions overcome reason and vitriol becomes virtue.
A couple more on Chavez
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Chomsky on Chavez
>Now Molly has to admit that she doesn't like Noam Chomsky very much. This dates back to a six month exchange in the early 90s when Molly learned exactly what Chomsky was all about in terms of the 'Third World'... All that being said, as one of the few anarchists on earth who has actually had real experience about what Chomsky is like, I have to commend him in his comments in his 78th year about Venezuela. Watching Chomsky over the decades I expected nothing more than cheerleading for Chavez and the usual childish leftist excuse for everything the dictator-to-be wants to do while blaming everything up to Chavez' hemorrhoids on the machinations of the USA. To say the least I was pleasantly surprised by a recent interview with Chomsky on Z-Net.* Yeah, some of the interview was actually quite bizarre, shading into Chomsky's view of the discontent in America today as a "pre-revolutionary" situation. That's fine. Noam hasn't had more than a "street passing" connection with ordinary Americans for almost 40 years, and his opinions are not exactly the best informed in the world. Mostly he's chummy with his academic and leftist friends and very few other people.Read the rest here.
*16 November: I changed the link to Venezuelaanalysis, where ZNet got the interview, to deny the appalling ZNet any google juice. You can also read the interview at Divergences.
Previous: The President and the supermodel; Pilger & Chomsky on Cambodia; Chavez versus real socialists; The new Stalinism; Saluting dictators; Chavez v Pat Robertson; The Hitch and Cambodia; What's wrong with Chomsky?
Monday, November 12, 2007
Today indexed
- Marko Attila Hoare on the left (blog links)
- Incognito on Ron Paul and Hugo Chavez (blog links)
- Jewish (mostly -ish) music: Missy E mashup (mp3 link)
- Remembrance Sunday post (slightlier meatier)
- Deconstructing Che (image)
- Praise for Ahmenijad (Jogo opinion snippet)
- The Scorpions (Yugoslav war/New Cross [London] event announcement)
- Obama & the Christianists (recommended Jogo guest post, lightly edited)
- Jewish cowboys (mp3 links - link added)
The left?
Hugo Chavez/Ron Paul
Today's Jewish music track
Previous: Jewish cowboys etc; Yiddish Beatles; Yael Naim and the Harlem Experiment; Yiddish metal, JAP-hop, etc; Hebrew indie, Jewish exotica, etc; Hava Nagila with Harry Dean Stanton; Hybrid musics; Bagels and Bongos.
Remembrance Sunday
Listening to some of the ritual from the centotaph on Sunday, though, I found myself getting angry at what seemed largely to be a celebration of the British royal family, as one after another member of that dyfunctional family was paraded before us, their subjects. (The day before, I had a conversation with Comrade Transpontine about Orwell's famous likening of England to a "family with the wrong members in charge.") I wish that I had - as in most years - just given myself a couple of minutes of private reflection.
Richard listened to the whole ceremony, and reacted very differently; maybe I should have kept the radio on.
A range of perspectives from the Contentious One, Dave Osler, Pickled Politics, Eugene P, Flesh is Grass. Featured link: Aftermath.
P.S. I missed this from Jim.
Last year's post (also linking to Dave Osler's piece), complete with soundtrack, here.
Related: Remembering 7/7, St.George's Day, Walthamstow anarchist honour the war dead.
Deconstructing Che
Praise for Ahmenijad
From Breitbart.com this morning:
The hardline president also said that Iran "could not care less" about UN Security Council resolutions aimed at halting Tehran's nuclear drive.I salute Mahmoud.
Unlike 95% of American people, he has used the expression correctly: "COULD NOT CARE LESS." Most people say "I could care less," which is completely wrong, and the opposite of what they mean.
Bloggers with an appreciation for the finer things of life will note my observation with pleasure.
But lead-sinker, psychically depressed, doomsaying, corpse-channeling, Spectacle-obsessed bloggers might not.
The Scorpions: A Home Movie - snuff films from the war in Yugoslavia
The Scorpions: a Home Movie
3.00 pm Wednesday 21 November 2007 Small Hall, Richard Hoggart Building,
Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW
In the summer of 1995, 8000 men and boys were murdered in and around Srebrenica region by Serbian forces. These forces included the Scorpions, a Serbian paramilitary unit active in Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo. The Scorpions filmed their activities, including the murder of six Bosnian Muslim civilians. This footage (and related evidence) was subsequently used in the war crimes trials of the Scorpions unit in The Hague and Serbia.
The Scorpions: A Home Movie uses this footage, together with statements of former members and materials recorded by the unit itself in the course of its campaigns, to explore the functioning of a typical paramilitary unit in the Balkan wars - and in other contemporary wars - and to cast light on the personal, intimate aspect of these crimes.
The first UK screening of the documentary (50 mins) will be followed by a presentation and a Q & A session by leading human rights lawyer, Natasa Kandic, Executive Director, Humanitarian Law Centre, Belgrade and producer of The Scorpions, and the acclaimed film-maker and director of the documentary, Lazar Stojanovic.
No tickets are needed to attend this event, but please reserve a place by contacting Jane Offerman (email@example.com), as we anticipate high demand for places. Please note that this film contains scenes of violence and killing, and is unsuitable for young audiences. Adults may also find it distressing.
This event is supported by the Humanitarian Law Centre (http://www.hlc-rdc.org), in partnership with Manchester Aid to Kosovo and its Fragile State - Art from Kosovo outreach and education programme (http://www.makonline.org), and the Global Justice Unit, Goldsmiths (http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/just-change).
For further information about this event, please go to: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/just-change/news-events.php


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Unfortunately the weather over the past week has not been the best for offshore anglers, with the bay and closer reefs the best option. A quick run home as the wind increases mid-morning has seen many angler home before the sun gets too high in the sky. For those that did brave the elements the closer reef have actually been producing, sweetlip trout and squire have all been in close as well as a mix of mac and longtail tuna on the surface, Mackerel have headed further afield as the dirty water continues to flow out of the rivers.
With the weather the way it is many anglers are fishing the river, The upper reaches of the river are still quite dirty and running relatively fresh, so to maximise your chances planning your efforts towards the river mouth chasing cleaner water around the high tide period will definitely provide dividends. The last of the run in tide when the water quality is best, especially coinciding with dawn and dusk has seen a few Jew fish and mangrove jack being extracted from the cod hole and around the pylon of the bridge. Large live poddy mullet have been gun baits if you can get them or second option being slabs of fresh mullet. For the lure fisherman larger paddle tail soft plastics which emit more vibration and soft vibes in brighter colours have also produced. For the first hour and a half of the run out tide the mouth to Eudlo and Cornmeal creek would definitely be worth a shot for jack, flathead and whiting as they recede into the main river chasing more saline waters. Goat Island has reported to be produces relatively good numbers of whiting on the last of the incoming tide, with a few healthy flathead kicking about. The river mouth is still holding large congregations of bait, which the trevally species have been taking full advantage of feeding along the dirty water line. Surface walkers like the River2Sea Skinny dog and Bassday Sugar pens have been working a treat. Sub surface they have been taking fast twitched soft plastics, the Squidgy Whip baits 80mm in white lightning and Zman 3.75" Streakz in smokey shad consistently producing. . As per usual post rain the crabs will be on the move, making it worth your while dropping in a few pots whilst out on the water. The use of Fresh mullet baits have seen most crabbers rewarded with a good feed of sweet full bucks!
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Abang had also invited us for dinner on the same night, super delicious - he cooked gulai ikan kering, sgt mengiurkan :D..and yes, I had rice again. Was a bit dissappointed coz tengok Adam dah botak - alah! Angah likes him better with hair tapi takpelah, it will grow back in no time. He actually looked naughtier bila botak, kan? Still so manja, nanti dah dapat adik tak bleh la nak manja-manja dah dgn mummy..
About myself, I've been feeling some cramps on my left calf muscle. It started some weeks back, on and off. I feel it if I carry something heavy or standing for a long time (isk macam org tua). All this while I would usually only wear flat Scholl sandals to work coz it's more comfortable than those heels. Memang nampak selekeh but my main priority is being comfortable at work. But after wearing heels for 3 consecutive days (Saturday - I.KEA and C.urve, Sunday - Graduation and Monday - Whole day in IMM and J*N) - mmg terasa abis. Tapi still bleh jalan macam biasa. Tapi gatai la plak hari ni, pakai kasut flat tapi pi langgar trolley plak kat office. Trolley tu tak bersalah, dia lepak tepi jek, aku yg jalan tak pandang agaknya (was in a rush to meet student), aku terlanggar and had quite a twist with the trolley and terus la rasa sentapan kat calf muscle tuh. OMG, it was so painful I could barely walk properly after that. Terhencot-hencot sekarang, buruk gila.
Luckily, I drive an auto car. So, I still managed to drive back walaupun belah kiri dah sakit. I went to the clinic (nak cepat baik punya pasal - kepala otak pikir keje) and doc had prescribed some pills and cream to apply. She advised not to move around so much, and keep the heels away for a while.. nasib baik la besok dah Friday. But I have a course to attend to the whole Saturday, tapi banyak duduk je kut. Parents and hubby are a bit worried as I need to be well in 2 weeks time. I hope and pray that I will recover by then. When Mama asked why I didn't ask for an MC to rest, Tiyah quickly answered "Ma, orang kalau dah keje tu dlm darah dia, macam tu la"...aku jeling kat dia. I don't think I'm workaholic la, kan?
I was also consulting the doc about my mensus coz adalahh..pastu borak2 and she said "Eh ni dah lewat 5 hari ni, entah2 pregnant dak? Jom check!" ..I politely decline coz I said it's normal and I don't get excited easily anymore if I'm due for a few days. Tah la, of course la I'm still hopeful but I've learned not to have high expectation anymore, nanti devastated. She said maybe ada rezeki bulan Ramadhan ni..fuh Amin. Talking about Ramadhan, it's another week away kan? Dah habis ganti posa? :D I'm lucky that I am able to fast the whole Ramadhan month for 2 consecutive years coz my mensus decided to act crazy, yg herannya bulan puasa je dia buat hal takmo datang..tahun ni camner beb? Nak buat hat-trick? Hihihhi..I'm pretty sure that this Ramadhan will be an unforgettable one..
Read this article on yahoo, patutnya kita punya working hours start 11am ke so that we don't have to wake up so early :P. This would be my dream job - waking up late, then drive to work, be a sleeping case study respondent where I get to sleep at work and people doing research about my sleeping pattern..they can also do research about my dreams coz I always dream, every night without fail - hari-hari ada je mimpinya.. best kan kalau keje camni? Dream on, Amy!
Had yummy slurpee and a very delicious soft-moist-chocolate cake just now, Ayah brought back from tahlil tonight. Zets, slurpee dah back to normal price la..iskk.


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Turin will most certainly stand as the European capital of Gastronomy 2018 as from June 10th to 12th, 2018, Gourmet Expoforum will host two of the most prestigious contests in pastry and culinary arts: the European Pastry Cup and Bocuse d'Or Europe.
After a first edition in Paris in 2012 followed by two editions in Geneva in 2014 and 2016, for the 2018 edition the European Pastry Cup has chosen Italy, a country famous for the savoir-faire of its ice-cream makers and pastry chefs. With a victory in 2015, Italy is the latest country to have won the world Finale of the Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie. They had already won the Trophy in 1997 and have also reaped two silver medals and three bronze medals. With an uninterrupted presence on the podium between 2009 and 2015, it seemed only natural for this great gourmet nation to host the most important European contest in pastry art.
Martin Chiffers, former president of the club of the UK, who led this country to be one of the most important nations in pastry field, will be the president of honour of the event.
Turin welcomes 8 nations
In the run-up to the finale of the Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie, following on from the Copa Maya in Mexico City, the Asian Pastry Cup in Singapore and the African Cup in Marrakech, the European Cup is the most expected selection round and the one that showcases the highest level. During that one-day event, from 10am to 5pm, time of the awards ceremony, 8 teams will be competing. The order in which countries will be competing has just been officially decided by drawing lots:
1. Belgium
2. Turkey
3. Sweden
4. Russia
5. Poland
6. Switzerland
7. Bulgaria
8. Israel
As Italy has won the Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie in 2015 with the team of Chefs Fabrizio Donatone, Emanuele Forcone and Francesco Boccia, the country is already qualified to take part in the finale in 2019 in Lyon, and is part of the TOP 5 nations.
5 hours competition challenge, three places for the world finale
To qualify for the Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie, the 8 teams will have 5 hours to create:
- A frozen fruit dessert
- 10 desserts on a plate
- A sculpture made of sugar
- A sculpture made of chocolate
The European Pastry Cup will determine the 3 teams that will join the other candidates in Lyon. A total of 22 countries will participate in the 2019 Finale: 3 countries will go through from each continental selection round; plus the top 5 nations - Italy, Japan, USA, South Korea, UK -; 5 countries out of the remaining participants will be given a "wild card" by the jury. These "wild cards" established by Gabriel Paillasson are attributed to nations who deserve it the most, thanks to their achievement in the contest.
The world Finale of the Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie will be in January 2019, as part of the Sirha trade exhibition in Lyon, France.


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w i n t e r 2 0 1 8
how is it George Burns
Three Poems Cecilia Woloch
What the Dead Miss Laura Foley
Instrumental: A Ghost Ship Elegy Anne Cheilek
Two Poems Nils Peterson
Two Poems Ross White
After an Eight-Inch Snowfall in April Steve Mueske
I Made Myself Sick Reading Frank O'Hara
Merridawn Duckler
Pinching Windows Thomas Cook
Faith in Humanity, Part 2 Jim Daniels
_ _ E _ O O _ O _ Jill Talbot
Two Poems Nin Andrews
From the Archives Joseph Radke, Winter 2007
from the ether
On the new issue— And 20 years Publishing online!
It's been nearly six months since we released the Summer 2017 issue, but we think it's well worth the wait. We're so proud to present not only an exciting selection of new work from these terrific poets alongside artist Susannah Habecker's striking images, but to offer a completely redesigned DMQ from top to bottom, from platform to font to finish. It's our first major redesign in the 20 years that DMQ Review has been publishing online. As Marta, one of our editors, said, "Everything looks GORGEOUS! Fireworks were exploding from my computer." We hope you agree. It's a marvelous new website.
Certainly it seemed more an imminent disaster back in late summer 2017. The anachronistic web publishing software—Frontpage 2003 for you tech nerds—that I'd inherited in 2003 when I took over editing the journal from founding editor J. P. Dancing Bear, disappeared into the bowels of an equally-ancient computer when it unceremoniously crashed.
Suddenly, simply planning for our next issue became a question of even having one. While I was assured that the long-obsolete program could be recovered with some effort, this would only allow us to continue doing exactly what we'd been doing for the past 15 years, unable to make any upgrades or significant format changes. Team DMQ decided to take the leap from technology-1998 to 2018, 20 years in human terms, a millennium in terms of online innovation.
Annie, Hugo, Marta, Mary, all of us worked hard to replicate what we've long-sought to provide you here—an uncluttered place where you can encounter a poem, a piece of art, a still moment that's contemplative but not austere—while now taking advantage of improved performance and aesthetic innovations.
However, our human history—20 years of carefully archived past issues—was at risk of being lost with the old site. These irreplaceable issues feature early work from such well-known poets as Dorianne Laux, David Alpaugh, Kay Ryan, Jane Hirshfield, Nick Flynn, Bob Hicok, Ilya Kaminsky—alongside voices just starting out, including my own first online publication (August 2002). Thanks to the heroic efforts of our entire team of editors, each back issue's pages were meticulously cut and pasted into separate PDF files, rescuing the work of poets and artists stretching 20 years back into the ether.
Please visit our Archives to enjoy this amazing heritage for yourself.
Speaking of heroic efforts, all of us at DMQ Review stand in awe of editor Annie Kim who executed the entire transfer, working nearly a second full-time job it seemed in these last weeks not only to create new pages, style, and layout, but to herd the rest of us—poets!—to complete the task on time. And we mostly did. Thank you, Annie, from all of us. This issue wouldn't exist without you.
Lastly our deep gratitude also goes to the patience of each of our stellar contributors who likely wondered if their poems would ever be published. We appreciate your generous good faith these past months.
But look at us now! We hope you will. We've not only survived, we're beautiful! And we're celebrating 20 years of publishing poetry and art with you. Yahoo!
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The St. Louis River, the largest U.S. tributary to Lake Superior, drains 3,634 square miles, entering the southwestern corner of the lake between Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin. The river flows 179 miles through three distinct areas: coarse soils, glacial till and outwash deposits at its headwaters; a deep, narrow gorge at Jay Cooke State Park in Minnesota; and red clay deposits in its lower reaches. As the St. Louis River approaches Duluth and Superior, the river takes on the characteristics of a 12,000 acre freshwater estuary. The upper estuary has some wilderness-like areas, while the lower estuary is characterized by urban development, an industrial harbor, and a major port. The lower estuary includes St. Louis Bay, Superior Bay, Allouez Bay, Kimballs Bay, Pokegama Bay, Howards Bay, and the lower Nemadji River.
Date 2010
The watershed is dominated by forests (65%), agriculture (9%), followed closely by open water and open space (8%). In 1987, the International Joint Commission, an advisory commission on U.S-Canadian border water issues, designated the lower St. Louis River as one of 43 Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOCs) because of concerns over environmental quality in the area. Industrial activity such as steel mills, oil refining, coal tar and coking operations, paper mills and other wood products manufacturing as well as the shipping of coal, grain, iron ore, and taconite significantly contributed to the contamination of the St. Louis River Area of Concern.
Two Superfund sites, U.S. Steel and St. Louis River-Interlake Duluth Tar sites, on the Minnesota shore of the river are polluted with toxic organic chemicals and metals. Toxic contamination has impaired several uses the St. Louis River and its watershed, including degradation of bottom-feeding invertebrate communities, increased incidence of fish tumors and other abormalities, fish consumption advisories, and restrictions on dredging. Some sediment-derived contaminants also appear to be carried by the water column to Lake Superior. Additionally, human activities in the estuary from the last couple of hundred years have had a significant negative impact on fish and wildlife habitatapproximately 3,000 acres of marsh and open water were filled and roughly 4,000 acres of river bottom dredged. Exotic invaders such as purple loosestrife and additional human development of the estuary continue to pose threats to habitat.
The St. Louis River System AOC (orange colored area on the figure to the right) is the area being addressed by the St. Louis River System Remedial Action Plan (RAP). The RAP focuses primarily on the 39 miles of the St. Louis River below Cloquet, Minnesota. The RAP began in 1989 as a collaborative effort between the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR). While system-wide in its approach, the St. Louis River AOC focuses primarily on the lower 39 river miles and the entire 360 square mile Nemadji River watershed. The Nemadji River is split almost equally between Minnesota and Wisconsin and discharges into the Duluth-Superior Harbor near the natural outlet of the St. Louis River. The Nemadji River contributes a large load (nearly 33,000 tons per year) into Lake Superior. Consequently, there have been studies and plans developed that outline actions that should reduce the sediment load from the Nemadji River.
In 2008, as part of the Remedial Action process, the states of Minnesota and
Wisconsin developed planning goals with other local stakeholders to assist in
the delisting of the St. Louis River as an Area of Concern. In 2010, the Wisconsin portion of the St. Louis River will be designated as the second freshwater National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR). It is anticipated that the NERR will provide additional educational and research assistance for activities on the St. Louis River.
Development in city of Superior
The city of Superiors location on the St. Louis estuary, harbor, and Lake Superior, influenced its history and development. By the mid to late 1800s, the citys waterfront supported a variety of industries, shipping, and a population that was served by surrounding farms. Early city leaders envisioned a city on par with Chicago in terms of industrial importance. Today, the city has a population of roughly 30,000 people. It is an important shipping port located along the shores of Lake Superior and is also a hub for other industries including petroleum pipelines and oil refining, rail and trucking. Several harbor and industrial expansion and upgrade projects have taken place since 2008. The total area of the city is very large compared tothe population. The city also includes a large municipal forest on the St. Louis River.
Water quality in the St. Louis River estuary has improved significantly in the estuary from the 1970s because of advances in wastewater collection and treatment. The two major point sources in Wisconsin are the City of Superior wastewater treatment plant which has three discharge locations: Superior Bay, the St. Louis River, and the Nemadji River, and the Murphy Oil USA refinery which discharges to Newton Creek. Newton Creek flows into Hog Island Inlet of Superior Bay. These point sources are in good compliance status with their WPDES permits. In Minnesota, the point source discharges to the St. Louis estuary are all collected and treated by the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District with one discharge location to St. Louis Bay.
The cities in the Duluth-Superior metropolitan area are all required to have stormwater management permits (MS4 communities) and stormwater management programs. In Wisconsin, these communities are the city of Superior, Village of Superior, and Village of Oliver. The Wisconsin and Minnesota communities all work together in the Regional Stormwater Protection Team.
There is a small amount of agriculture in this watershed, mostly hay and livestock rather than row crops. Agriculture is not considered to be a major contributor to nonpoint sources in this watershed in Wisconsin. The turbidity and sediment carried by the Nemadji and tributaries has been exacerbated by historical land use practices, including the logging and fires in the 1800s and wetland loss. Strategic forest management and protection of wetlands are the approaches favored for long term management.
The Superior Coastal Plain is Wisconsin's northernmost Ecological Landscape, bordered on the north by southwestern Lake Superior and on the south by the Northwest Sands, the Northwest Lowlands, and the North Central Forest. The climate is strongly influenced by Lake Superior, resulting in cooler summers, warmer winters, and greater precipitation compared to more inland locations. Exposed coastal areas are subject to significant disturbance from windstorms, waves, ice, currents, and periodic water level fluctuations. These disturbance regimes play a significant role in determining both the landform and vegetation characteristics of the shoreline ecosystems. The major landform in this Ecological Landscape is a nearly level plain of lacustrine clays that slopes gently northward toward Lake Superior. The clay plain is separated into two disjunct segments by the comparatively rugged Bayfield Peninsula. An archipelago of sandstone-cored islands, the Apostles, occurs in Lake Superior just north and east of the Bayfield Peninsula. Wave carved sandstone cliffs bracket stretches of the Peninsula and also occur along the margins of several of the islands. Sand spits are a striking feature of the Lake Superior shoreline, typically separating the waters of the lake from inland lagoons and wetlands. The spits support rare and highly threatened natural communities such as beaches, dunes, interdunal wetlands, and pine barrens, and these in turn are inhabited by specially adapted plants and animals. The mouths of many of the streams entering Lake Superior are submerged, creating freshwater estuaries. A ridge of volcanic igneous rock, primarily basalt, forms the southern boundary of portions of this Ecological Landscape.
Historically the Superior Coastal Plain was almost entirely forested. A distinctive mixture of white pine, white spruce, balsam fir, paper birch, balsam poplar, trembling aspen, and white cedar occurred on the lacustrine clays. White pine was strongly dominant in some areas, according to mid-nineteenth century notes left by surveyors of the US General Land Office. Mesic to dry-mesic forests of northern hardwoods or hemlock hardwoods were more prevalent on the glacial tills of the Bayfield Peninsula and throughout the Apostle Islands. Large peatlands occurred along the Lake Superior shoreline, often associated with drowned river mouths and well-developed sand spits. The most extensive of these wetland complexes were on the Bad and St. Louis rivers. A few large peatlands also occurred at inland sites, such as Bibon Swamp, in the upper White River drainage, and Sultz Swamp on the northern Bayfield Peninsula. The present clay plain forest has been fragmented by agricultural use, and today approximately one-third of this landscape is non-forested. Most of the open land is in grass cover, having been cleared and then subsequently pastured or plowed. Aspen and birch forests occupy about 40% of the total land area, having increased in prominence over the boreal conifers. On the Bayfield Peninsula, second-growth northern hardwood forests are interspersed among extensive early successional aspen stands. Older forest successional stages are now rare throughout the Superior Clay Plain.
The St. Louis River System area of concern drains an area of 3,634 square miles in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, forming a large fresh water estuary at its mouth. The lake actually drowns a portion of the lower river valley and its seiche effect influences river levels in the estuary. The 12,000 acre estuary includes forest, industrial and urban areas and open lands within the twin ports of Superior and Duluth.
Wetland Status
The St. Louis and Lower Nemadji River Watershed lies along Lake Superiors shoreline, in northwestern portion of Douglas County. Wetlands compromise 0.8% of the current land uses in the watershed. It is estimated that about 71% of the original wetlands in the watershed currently exist. Of these wetlands, forested wetlands (42%) and shrub wetlands (38%) dominate the landscape.
Wetland Condition
Little is known about the condition of the remaining wetlands but estimates of reed canary grass infestations, an opportunistic aquatic invasive wetland plant, into different wetland types has been estimated based on satellite imagery. This information shows that reed canary grass dominates 47% of the existing shrub wetlands and 31% of the remaining emergent wetlands, which includes wet meadows and marshes. Reed Canary Grass domination inhibits successful establishment of native wetland species.
Wetland Restorability
Of the 322 acres of estimated lost wetlands in the watershed, approximately 88% are considered potentially restorable based on modeled data, including soil types, land use and land cover (Chris Smith, DNR, 2009).
St. Louis River and Tributaries
The St. Louis River system has consistently exceeded several water quality criteria, including wildlife and human threshold and human cancer for several pollutants sampled in the water column over a number of years (MPCA, Lake Superior/ Duluth-Superior Harbor Toxics Loading Study, 1998). Additionally, there are specific Mercury (Hg) and PCB fish consumption advisories for the St. Louis River. Several studies of contaminated sediment in the St. Louis River have provided data on toxins in the sediment. Throughout the harbor, there are intermediate levels of several different toxics, including mercury, PBCs, and PAHs. There are also several known hotspots in various stages of remediation, including Hog Island, Howards Bay, and the Koppers wood treatment site.
In 2010, the impaired waters listing for the St. Louis River was updated in anticipation of a toxins Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) study that began in 2010. The TMDL should aid in better understanding how these widespread intermediate levels of contamination affect the health of organisms that live in the water and sediments.
Fish Consumption Advice
In addition to the state-wide mercury fish consumption advisory, in this watershed the St. Louis River and Lake Superior have specific advisories for mercury and PCBs. Many sport fish species in the St. Louis River also spend time in Lake Superior.
Terrestrial and aquatic invasive plants and animals are present in and adjacent to the watershed. The Duluth-Superior Harbor is the busiest harbor in the Great Lakes. It has been the port of entry for several aquatic invasive species traveling via ballast water. Lake Superior and the St. Louis estuary harbor a wide range of aquatic invasive species such as Eurasian ruffe, zebra mussels, round goby, quagga mussels, and the spiny water flea. The microscopic fish disease Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) was detected in Lake Superior in 2010. The states, including Wisconsin, have been working on ballast water regulations in the absence of federal regulations. Wisconsin is trying to keep aquatic invasive species found in the Great Lakes from spreading to inland waters. The Lake Superior Binational Program has developed a total prevention plan for aquatic invasive species. http://www.epa.gov/grtlakes/lakesuperior/ais_draft.html
There is also a potential for terrestrial invasive species such as buckthorn, Asian honeysuckle, loosestrife, or others to be transported from established patches along transportation and recreation corridors or nearby urban landscapes. Efforts to build volunteer support for monitoring are encouraged through the Sea Grant Program, Wisconsin River Alliances Project RED (Riverine Early Detectors), and programs like UW-Stevens Points Clean Boats/Clean Waters, and Citizen Lake Monitoring Network. The Northwoods Invasive Species Cooperative also acts as an inter-agency/citizen team working to increase awareness and reduce transmission of invasive species across the Lake Superior watershed.
A number of introduced species in the Lake Superior basin have caused problems for native flora and fauna. A common avenue of introduction has been through the ballast water of ships from outside the region. The shipping industry has made efforts to reduce the risk of transporting exotics and regulations now require ballast water be exchanged before entering the lakes.
In the St. Louis River, the Eurasian ruffe, a type of perch, has become so prolific it has become the most numerous species. The RAP recommends limiting the ruffe by restoring and maintaining a healthy, resilient and diverse aquatic ecosystem, not through eradication efforts unless success can be assured. The RAP advises the continued research on the basic biology and behavior of the ruffe, perhaps to identify a weak link in ruffe physiology, genetics or behavior that might lead to control measures. The RAP further recommends state and federal efforts to help prevent such transport of exotics through regulations. Jointly, WDNR and Minnesota DNR have initiated predator enhancement in the river by restricting angler harvest and increasing the stocking of native fish. Management efforts continue to include assessing the St. Louis estuary fish community.
More research needs to be conducted to determine whether the ruffe has actually caused harm to the native fishery. While some reports have suggested that native yellow perch and walleye populations have declined, other observations have shown large year-classes for both species since ruffe introduction. Impacts of ruffe on other species will likely not be evident for years (Pratt 1996). A few species that co-habit the ruffe niche, such as black bullhead and trout perch, have shown some signs of decline, but it is yet to be determined if this is related to ruffe abundance (Pratt 1996).
Date 1991
City Of Superior: Riparian Landowners Education Project: The City of Superior is sponsoring an AIS prevention and education project including an awareness program for riparian owners\2019 education about inspection and AIS prevention, education workshops, enroll riparian owners in Superior to monitor for AIS, education for AIS removal, and assistance with native plant restoration.Deliverables include a comprehensive report including: 1) Report on public awareness activities and enrollment of riparian owners including copies of brochures, educational materials, and mailings; 2) Report on Riparian Owner Survey; 3) Verification of workshops/training such as attendance lists or agendas; 4) Shoreline aquatic plant monitoring results of any detected invasive species with appropriate maps; 5) Report on invasive plant removal activities; 6) Report on native plant restoration activities; 7) Stormwater pollution prevention awareness activities; 8) Report on other public outreach activities or AIS related materials generated or paid for by this grant.Special conditions for this project: The project sponsor shall immediately contact the DNR in the event of a new aquatic invasive species infestation. This scope summarizes the project detail provided in the application and does not negate tasks/deliverables described therein. Data, records, and reports, including GIS-based maps and digital images, must be submitted to the Department in a format specified by the AIS Coordinator. It is recommended that Grantee provide AIS Coordinator with a draft final report. If consultant is to provide final report, it is recommended that Grantee provide AIS Coordinator with a draft for comment on report adequacy prior to making final payment to the consultant. The DNR shall receive a paper and electronic copy of the final report
Lsri - Lake Superior Nearshore Monitoring: Under this project and with assistance from WDNR, Lake Superior Research Institute (LSRI) will conduct a comprehensive ecological assessment of Wisconsin's Lake Superior basin communities identified as priority areas by the WDNR Plan. Sites and parameters proposed in this project were selected using guidance from the Wisconsin Great Lakes Strategy, the Lake Superior Binational Work Group 2011 Monitoring Priorities, and discussions with WDNR Lake Superior fisheries biologists and resource managers and are identified in the WDNR Plan. Sites included in the project are not part of the National Coastal Condition Assessment.
Town Of Oakland: Tw. Oakland, Watershed & Land Use Plan: The Town of Oakland will conduct a watershed and land use planning project addressing resource protection for all lakes, streams, shorelands, wetlands, watersheds and other lands in the Township of Oakland in Douglas County. Project activities will include the formation of a Citizen Planning Committee, establishing the scope of the town planning project, conducting I & E and listening public meetings, and developing goals and policies for long-range land use and shorelands protection planning. Specific deliverables for this grant project will include:1) Copies of meetings notes, I & E materials, survey results, and newspaper notices. 2) Copies of all resource maps developed during project3) A copy of the final report for this project The Department of Natural Resources will be provided with both a paper copy and an electronic copy of the final report. The project results will be disseminated to the public by newsletter(s), public meeting(s), and local newspaper articles.
Projects including grants, restoration work and studies shown below have occurred in this watershed. Click the links below to read through the text. While these are not an exhaustive list of activities, they provide insight into the management activities happening in this watershed.
Monitoring projects in this watershed include citizen based stream monitoring, various fisheries baseline monitoring and targeted fieldwork to gain specific knowledge related to Wisconsins fish communities, aquatic invasive species monitoring in cooperation with UW-Extension and Wisconsin Sea Grant.
This watershed report is approved as an amendment to the state's Water Quality Management Plan.
The City of Superior is situated on the south side of a superb natural harbor at the west end of Lake Superior, across from Duluth, Minnesota in the St. Louis and Nemadji River watershed. A trading post was established in the area around 1679 by a Frenchman, Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut. A North West Fur Company post, established around 1787, was replaced in 1816 by one of the American Fur Company.
As a result of a government survey in 1852, a syndicate bought up land and platted a town which they named Superior. The village government was established in 1887, and Superior received a city charter in 1889. Its population included large numbers of Finns and Scandinavians.
Superior developed economically, primarily as a result of its excellent port. It has some of the largest facilities in the world for the shipping of ore and grains. It was from Superior that the ore vessel Edmund Fitzgerald sailed to meet its destruction in a terrible storm on the morning of November 10, 1975 with the loss of all 29 men on ship. The event was immortalized by folk singer Gordon Lightfoot.
Superior, Wisconsin, has the distinction of being the home of the oldest of the sixty-three Carnegie libraries built in Wisconsin and the home of the last Carnegie library building built in Wisconsin. The former main library building of the Superior Public Library is the oldest Carnegie library building in Wisconsin. It was designed in the Neoclassical Revival style by local architect Carl Wirth and completed in 1902. The former East branch library building is the newest Carnegie in Wisconsin and is now a private residence. Both buildings have been determined to be potentially eligible for listing on the National Register of Historical Places by the Wisconsin Historical Society.
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An all-girls getaway to Florida is the ideal time to regroup, relax and spend time bonding with your best friends. It can also be a great place to soak up some sun and get a taste of adventure. Staying safe while on vacation is important and makes a trip memorable for the right reasons. The following are some helpful tips to keep everyone safe.
Slather On The Sunblock
Heading to the pool or beach can be an excellent way to spend the day with your friends. You're sure to find an assortment of adventurous activities such as surfing, swimming and beach volleyball. Make sure to take along the necessary goodies such as magazines, a good book, and your sunblock. The sun's rays are especially strong in Florida, and you don't want to miss out on the fun with a bad case of sunburn. A beach umbrella and hat can also supply the proper coverage and protect your skin.
Don't Drink And Drive
Enjoying your vacation should be at the top of your list when traveling with the girls. To ensure a fun and safe agenda, you want to take some proper safety precautions such as preventing a DUI. Kicking back and relaxing around the pool or having a few cocktails before dinner can be a great way to unwind, but you need to be a responsible drinker. Before you head out for the day, you need to designate a driver who doesn't drink and is in charge of everyone's safety. If you know that you will all be imbibing in alcohol, such as going to a wine tasting venue, you can arrange transportation ahead of time by calling a cab or limo.
Getting a DUI on vacation can change your life forever and ruin your vacation. It can also have deadly consequences if you get behind the wheel and drive. As noted by an Orlando DUI Lawyer group, "The nightmare of being charged with driving under the influence can happen to just about anyone. If you drink, there may come a time when you honestly believe you're perfectly able to drive – but you're not. This does not make you less than a model citizen." You will, however, need the help of a local attorney should you find yourself charged with a DUI.
The nightmare of being charged with driving under the influence can happen to just about anyone. If you drink, there may come a time when you honestly believe you're perfectly able to drive – but you're not. This does not make you less than a model citizen. It makes you human.
Maintain A Healthy Diet And Exercise Plan
A girl's getaway is a time to skip worrying about your diet and indulge. However, to avoid packing on the pounds and feeling like you're going to burst, you may want to consume your favorites in moderation. Instead of eating out for every meal, find a hotel that has a microwave and refrigerator. This allows you to visit the grocery store upon your arrival and stock up on some healthy snacks such as fruits, vegetables, hummus, yogurt, popcorn, cheese and whole-grain crackers.
When visiting the hotel fitness center or going outside for a run, go in pairs or tell your friends your whereabouts before you head out. Remember, there's always safety in numbers and you can't be too safe in unfamiliar places.
Leave The Expensive Accessories At Home
Diamonds, expensive jewelry, designer clothing, luggage and electronic gadgetry can attract attention and make you vulnerable to a robbery. Before heading out for the day, make sure your valuables are protected by locking them in the hotel safe. Better yet, you may want to go through your items and see what is absolutely necessary and what you can leave at home before heading on your trip.
Traveling with your best friends for an all-girls getaway can be a happy and memorable experience for all. Unfortunately, vacationing out of town can come with some hazards, so you need to keep a level head and act responsibly when it comes to your safety.
Being a lover of the annual girl trip, Nadine Swayne supplies these tips to those planning for vacation! At Katz & Phillips, P.A., an Orlando DUI Lawyer firm, they will fight to protect your legal rights while facing your DUI charges. Founding partner David Katz is a former DUI/Intoxilyzer attorney with the Seminole County State Attorney's office in Florida, and strives to represent each case with determination and consistency.


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