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Ever since spurning a takeover bid from US rival in February, Unilever has been trying to prove to shareholders that it is better off on its own.
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Why Americanism is the incorrect response to fascism
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By Daniel K. Buntovnik, 17 August 2017
A political dog whistle: "a coded message communicated through words or phrases commonly understood by a particular group of people, but not by others" [x].
Donald Trump sent a loud and clear whistle to his doggish packs of fanatical far-right supporters in a speech delivered on August 12th, 2017 regarding the wave of violence set off the day before in Charlottesville, Virginia by a rally which drew a historic number of fascist bigots espousing a jumble of neo-Nazi, neo-Confederate, "alt-right", and "white nationalist" genocidal and segregationist ideologies. (Given the name which organizers gave to the rally, one of its main raisons d'être, in addition to preventing the removal of monuments to the Pro-Slavery Rebellion, seems to have been to overcome these rather insignificant ideological discrepancies among adherents of right-wing politics in the United States of America). The most notable violent incident occurred when a member of a contingent of left-wing, anti-fascist protesters named Heather Heyer was killed [x] and a number of others injured by a neo-Nazi terrorist using a muscle car to plow into the counter-protesters. The attacker has been identified as James Fields, who was photographed before the attack standing in formation with a right-wing gang calling itself "Vanguard America", wearing the group's Donald Trump golfing outfit-inspired uniform, and holding a shield with the group's emblem, a Celtic cross made of two crossing fasces, thereby combining two well-known symbols of neo-fascism into one [x]. Vanguard America is, in turn, a member group of a larger umbrella organization called "Nationalist Front" (formerly known as "Aryan Nationalist Alliance") which brings together a variegated panoply of Klan, neo-Nazi, and Christian Identity groups.
Caught in the center of the above photograph is the white supremacist James Fields. Despite a contradictory attempt by the Nationalist Front sub-group Vanguard America to disavow the neo-Nazi terrorist [x], "Commander" Jeff Schoep of the "National Socialist Movement" and founder of the Nationalist Front, issued a statement confirming James Fields's belonging to the Nationalist Front camp by retweeting a video of the terrorist attack which showed anti-racist activists rushing to the weaponized muscle car which had just been used as a murder weapon in an effort to render it inoperable and thereby prevent further racist, anti-leftist killing. In the retweet, Schoep issued his own statement in which he said "Antifa attacking car [i.e., the terrorist murder weapon] with ball bats. This is what we faced in Cville, armed antifa, & city allowed it," [x] (my emphasis). In using the phrase "This is what we faced" in this context (a video of Fields "allegedly" running over participants in an anti-racist demonstration in his car), it can be confirmed that the Nationalist Front leader views the murderer as part of his group. In addition to this, the neo-Nazi leader demonstrates an incredible level of hypocrisy in criticizing anti-Nazi counter-demonstrators for being armed with bats, given the well-publicized images of right-wing, paramilitary-style militias armed with assault rifles which were out in force for the "Unite the Right" rally [x].
Despite the fact that the nature of the conflict playing out in Charlottesville was clearly that of supporters of genocidal fascism versus their opponents, Trump adamantly attributed guilt for the "egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence" to "many sides", emphasizing the words "many sides" by pausing to repeat them a second time in an insincere fashion [x]. While a number of Democrats and "liberals" criticized Trump for failing to identify the guilty party by saying some words along the lines of "radical white nationalist terror", many in the Democratic Party actually echoed his dog whistle endorsement of American-style fascism by making appeals to "national unity" and "American values" [x].
By fixating on Trump's lack of explicit condemnation of the neo-Nazi and Ku Klux groups at the expense of paying the slightest attention to Trump's exploitation of the Nationalist Front terrorist attack as another opportunity to promote more American nationalism, those whose "opposition" to Trump is superficial set up an easy out for him to redeem himself and atone for his "mistake" by fulfilling their wish and making a short pronouncement in which, after repeating in paraphrase what he had already said two days earlier, he said, "Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans" [x]. Notwithstanding the fact that Trump made and has fulfilled an explicit campaign pledge to continue the Obama era practice of killing people for nothing other than the blood in their veins, i.e. the kindredness of their blood to that of stigmatized individuals [x], here Trump really only condemns the hate groups insofar as they "cause violence" and behave criminally. This is not a condemnation of the KKK, neo-Nazism and white supremacists and their existence as such (i.e. their right to organize and operate in society), but merely empty words against their illegal tactics, which are inevitably attributed to the infamous figure of the "lone wolf" (as if these "lone" wolves were the only "bad apples" amongst the otherwise upstanding members of the neo-Nazi community). Even American liberals such as Glenn Greenwald continue to defend neo-Nazis and neo-Confederates, so long as they don't "cause violence" and employ legal methods of struggle, despite the fact that laws in a number of other liberal bourgeois democracies proscribe things such as the use of Nazi symbolism, Holocaust denial, and hate speech [x]. This shows that there is bipartisan support for the legal status of neo-Nazism, which is not a given, even within the confines of bourgeois democracy.
Despite Trump's tepid condemnation of the neo-Nazis' illegal tactics and bipartisan support for neo-Nazism's "right" to fester upon society, on August 15th he spoke publicly about Charlottesville for a third time, arguing that the "alt-left", a made-up term which serves only to draw a false equivalence between the political Left and the the far-right [x], shared responsibility for the terrorist attack on leftists in Charlottesville [x].
Shortly after the August 14th comments about "criminals and thugs", Trump went on to say, "We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal. We are equal in the eyes of our Creator. We are equal under the law. And we are equal under our Constitution." This is patently false, since Trump's 90 day travel ban on citizens of six Muslim-majority countries, now halfway expired, hinges on the argument that not all human beings are to be treated equally by the U.S. legal system and Constitution. Once again Trump has rhetorically marshalled the citizenry with Nationalist ideology. This is at a time when his regime appears to be making good on its promise to outdo the previous record-holder, Obama, in effecting more deportations of alien "Others" from the United States [x]. The boilerplate platitude about the U.S.A. being "a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal", lifted from the Declaration of Independence, is practically meaningless in this context, since chattel slavery outlasted this declaration by almost a century. The phrase "We are all equal" was as incongruent with the real situation of 1817 as it is with the reality of 2017, when so many of us are denied access to basic human rights, treated unequally by the law, and forced by lack of freedom from want and fear to perform unpaid surplus labor during much of our waking hours.
A sober analysis of the facts will reveal that there can be no combination between "Americanism" and anti-fascism. This "anti-fascism" which bases itself on Americanism is ineffective at best, and it is its own form of fascism at worst. I call it the right-wing of "anti-fascism" because, in contrast to the left-wing of anti-fascism, which calls for a multinational revolution against fascism and the conditions themselves which produce it, the right-wing (pseudo) "anti-fascism" calls for liberals (falsely identified with the political Left despite belonging more to the center, in proximity to the Right) to combine with conservatives in a sick display of "national unity".
What right-wing "anti-fascist" commentary which continues to rhetorically marshal the national "we" (the quintessential subject of fascist reaction) fails to take note of in Trump's initial response to the deadly Nationalist Front attack in Charlottesville is that it is not merely his "failure" to identify the bigoted antagonizing party to the conflict which is significant, but the way in which Trump's speech whistles to right-wing dogs, and carries forward their ideology of American nationalism. And by wallowing in Americanism, the would-be opponents of Trump remain tethered to the fascist body, like a gangrened limb.
Expressions of this all-American "anti-fascism" appeared to rise up organically on Twitter, where #ThisIsNotUS became a trend [x]. Not long after that, an anti-"Alt-Right" meme modeled on a World War II era poster featuring the character "Uncle Sam" appeared and began to spread online. This image is worth discussing, as a brief analysis of it will begin to demonstrate that the nationalism of Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, and centrists and moderates is much closer to the nationalism of the Nationalist Front terrorists than it is to antifascist internationalism.
"Uncle Sam" is of course a personification of the United States and the first thing that stands out about him, besides his striped pants and starred vest, is his whiteness, made overwhelming by his pure white hair. Clearly this symbolic representation of a nation embodied in an individual human being conveys something about the artist's idea of what "kind" of human being is "typical" or representative of that nation's hundreds of millions of people. As one writer puts it, "Political cartoons" were (and still are) a reflection of the perceived "racial conditions of a society" [x]. So right away, Uncle Sam is an expression of white nationalism.
Even more problematic is the fact that this particular version of Uncle Sam has been lifted from a World War II era poster which features the racial slur "Jap". The anonymous(?) creator of the "Stop the 'Alt-Right'" poster has even kept the same style of bold red lettering at the top of the poster and calqued the "We'll finish the job" into "We'll beat 'em" at the bottom, so you know where the inspiration came from.
Uncle Sam has a checkered history of being used to promote the exact same racist demands that neo-Nazis and "white nationalists" demand today, demands like booting out racially othered immigrant populations, treating the "white race" as superior to others, and building an "Imperium" on top of annexed foreign lands.
Here, above, the white nationalist personage of Uncle Sam boots out a racist caricature of a Chinese person. Bottom text reads, "THE CHINESE MUST GO". This image dates to around 1882, when the Chinese Exclusion Act anticipated Trump's so-called "Muslim Travel Ban".
This image from 1899 shows Uncle Sam as a disciplinarian schoolmaster. The Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Cuba (territories annexed by the United States during the late 19th century) are represented by racist caricatures of dark-skinned children. Colonialism was often justified by the alleged need to bring "civilization" to the "child-like races". The white children sitting behind them are studious and the names of states are written on their books, showing that they represent the American states which by that time had become predominantly populated by white settlers. The text on the blackboard reads in part, "England has governed her colonies whether they consented or not. By not waiting for their consent she has greatly advanced the world's civilization. The U.S. must govern its new territories with or without their consent until they can govern themselves."
We have sampled just two out of the many Uncle Sam images with strongly white nationalist messages which have been produced over the years, but I think this is enough to understand the point. More white nationalism is not a good response to the "white nationalism" which manifested in Charlottesville. (Note: I place scare-quotes around this term because, like "alt-right", it is merely a re-branding of white supremacist groups long understood to be of a neo-Nazi nature, made in an effort to improve their public image).
Yet another expression of this pseudo-antifascist All-Americanism in the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville began to propagate itself in the online spheres, where it was "liked" by hundreds of thousands of people and probably seen by many more, when someone decided that those who think their own American nationalism to be of the "good" sort would get a kick out of seeing a clip from a 1947 U.S. military propaganda film called Don't be a Sucker.
In the particular scene which went viral [x], we encounter a character who is meant to be an "obvious" fascist. He's standing on a soapbox, addressing a small crowd, railing against the quadruple scourge of "Negroes", "alien foreigners", "Catholics", and "Freemasons". In the crowd we see two men in particular who are listening to him. One of them is later revealed to be an immigrant from Hungary and the other, a natural-born American.
The "native" American nods his head in agreement with everything the fascist says until eventually the latter starts railing against Freemasons.
"Masons? What's wrong with the Masons? I'm a Mason. Hey, that fella's talking about me," the man says.
"And that makes a difference, doesn't it?" the naturalized citizen of Hungarian origin replies.
The fascist ends his speech and the two men continue talking.
"Before he said 'Masons,' you were ready to agree with him," the second man says.
"Yes, but he was talking about–What about those other people?" the first man says.
Next, and here we get to the "antifascist" climax of the clip, the second man explains, "In this country we have no other people, we are American people."
Now compare the "We have no other people," message of Don't be a Sucker with what Trump actually said on Saturday the 12th day of August 2017, after a Nationalist Front neo-Nazi had just committed a murderous terrorist attack directed against left-wing individuals standing up and demonstrating against racism and fascism:
"No matter our color, creed, religion or political party, we are all Americans first. We love our country. We love our God. We love our flag. We're proud of our country. We're proud of who we are. So we want to get this situation straightened out in Charlottesville, and we want to study it. We want to see where we're going wrong as a country" [x].
The message from the 1947 U.S. military propaganda film ("We [Americans] have no other people,") is exactly the same as that which Trump had conveyed by rhetorically marshalling "we" as the national subject in his first response to Charlottesville. Not "we" as in human beings. Not "we" as in opponents of fascism as such. But "we" as in citizens of the U.S.A. "We" as in unquestioning participants in mindless ritual displays of flag-worshipping patriotism. Trump's boilerplate nonsense about "no matter our color, creed, religion or political party" might sound superficially inclusive and unbigoted to a simpleton. But by excluding nationality, Trump is already excluding the alien "Other" and marshalling the nationalistic body politic. Just think how nonsensical it would sound if he had said, "No matter our nationality, citizenship, migrant status, or if our visas are expired, we are all Americans first." Simply put, no, "we" are not "all Americans" and dominant culture sure as hell does not treat everyone as though they were "all the same". This tacky Americanism is a particularly malicious way to respond to a neo-Nazi attack, since neo-Nazis have a long history of attacking the "other people", not those who are comfortably seen as integral to the nationalistic body politic.
"We" hardly need a newsflash to tell us that James Fields and his neo-Nazi and Klan brethren in the Nationalist Front are citizens of the U.S.A. By saying that "our" Americanism comes before anything else, Trump unifies "us" with the neo-Nazi terrorist and all his American partners who, there is no doubt, would be much more inclined to say, "We love our God and our Country and we're proud of it," than those of us on the left-wing of genuine anti-fascism, a significant proportion of us being (1) non-believers in the God of the billionaire Trump (that god which is Money), (2) haters of the system of nation-states which dislocates us from our loved ones, kills migrants, and is the basis of every modern war, (3) adequately aware of and versed in the history of fascist bourgeois nationalism and its mass psychology so as to be immune to all of the cues and triggers designed to induce the crocodile emotions of patriotism, and (4) ashamed, ashamed to be marshalled by this sexually predatory, fake-tanned old man into his subject and told what we must love and be proud of.
According to this way of thinking (which says, "We are all Americans first,") our Americanism precedes, and is therefore more important and reigns supreme over the fact of whether, for example, we belong to a fascist "political party" or an antifascist one, whether we are actively working towards the orchestration of genocide or slated to be exterminated, whether we are perpetrators of hate-crime or victims, or whether we pay other people to produce untold sums of money for us or we work for other people to get paid hopefully enough to make ends meet. For a materially powerful person who is a representative of the ruling class to rhetorically marshal any of the latter categories into artificial unity with the former is to promise physical violence and annihilation. It is to predestine the elimination of "other people" and the prevention of an "Other" consciousness. It is to combine the promise of "We have no other people," with the resolve to make it so in reality. It is a declaration of war on "Other" people, i.e. "alien" social elements, the ones who do not love the "God" of Trump, who do not love a piece of cloth, who do not see themselves as Americans first and foremost, who identify themselves in other ways instead, who have other priorities.
The fasces is symbolic of the fascist mentality.
The fasces, the symbol of the Vanguard America gang members seen in this photo and which was also carried by the murderous neo-Nazi James Fields, is a signifier of this idea that national identity should reign supreme in each individual's psyche. A fasces is a bundle of sticks which stands for the notion that a nation's citizenry are stronger when collectively bound together than as twigs which, taken individually, snap easily. As a symbol of national unity, the fasces represents the idea that class struggle within the nation is "divisive" and weakens it. By calling for the members of the national body politic to put their civic identity as "Americans" in a position of supremacy over whatever other affiliations they may have, including as members of socioeconomically, racially, or sexually oppressed classes, Trump — and the so-called "progressive" Democrats — attack class consciousness and endorse the fascist mentality.
In the nationalist utterance of Trump, "We are all Americans first", we can also parse out a deeper significance to the placement of the word "all" in front of the word "American". Its appearance here is to signify not only that "All of us are Americans", but that "We are All-Americans."
The term "All-American" is frequently employed to describe that which is either "composed wholly of American elements" or "representative or typical of the U.S. or its ideals" [x]. Like the somewhat antiquated term "Great-Russian", which was "used formerly in distinguishing ethnic Russians from other constituent peoples of the Soviet Union or the Russian Empire" [x], the term "All-American" has long been used to distinguish between those who have the traits of a "typical" American (white, Anglo-Saxon or Germanic heritage, Protestant, etc.) and those who are marked, wholly or partially, by some "alien" stigmata. By saying, "We are All-Americans," Trump dog whistles a white nationalist conceptualization of what an "American" is and who "we" are.
This idea of "all-Americanism" is conveyed in the film The Good Shepherd, in the following bit of dialogue between two characters:
Joseph Palmi: We Italians, we got our families and we got the church. The Irish, they have the homeland. The Jews, their traditions. Even the [N word], they got their music. What about you people Mr. Carlson, what do you have?
Edward: The United States of America, the rest of you are just visiting [x].
Several Urban Dictionary entries for "All-American" also detail the racist connotations of this word. Here is the top Urban Dictionary definition of "All-American" [x]:
A word that describes a certain type of ultra-conservative white person who lives in a small rural or suburban towns in middle America. This term is exclusively used by white people to describe their perfect vision of what they believe embodies a true American person. Whites fail to realize just how racist the term "All American" is. If only white people from middle America can be "All American", that must mean that all the blacks, latinos, asians, native americans and mixed people can never fully be regarded as Americans by the oppressive white society. Think about it, if you are born black in this country, white people will call you "African American". But the majority of black people born in here in America have never been to Africa and will never go there in their entire lifetime. Its really fucking racist. (Submitted by "thagoldenchild" on May 9, 2008)
Another popular definition for "All-American":
A conformist who is blindly patriotic, votes Republican not because the values of the party are true to them, but because "everyone else is gay" or they're scared the terrorists will kill them and does whatever anyone wants for them. All American males usually have blond buzz cuts and are tall, well built and stupid. All American girls will usually have long blond hair, and stupid. They can be of any class, but often tend to be richer, or at least born in a rich suburban family. Still, most rednecks are all American, too. (Submitted anonymously on January 23, 2005)
Shifting slightly, we move now from "all-Americans" to the next bit of the dog whistle: "Americans first". This is a clear allusion to the "America First" slogan which was adopted by the Trump presidential election campaign in 2016, when he promised that it would be "the major and overriding theme" of his draconian capitalist regime [x]. The slogan harkens back to the "America First Committee", which was a large anti-war group that petitioned to keep the U.S. out of the Second World War, rendered problematic by the presence of antisemitic and Nazi-sympathizing forces. A latter day "America First Committee" was formed in 1980 by Arthur Jones, a longtime neo-Nazi who took part in the infamous neo-Nazi marches in Illinois in 1978 after the American Civil Liberties Union won them the right to provoke Holocaust survivors by marching through their neighborhoods [x, x]. (Incidentally, the ACLU came under fire in connection to the neo-Nazi mayhem in Charlottesville for, under the pretense of protecting free speech, actually defending the right of the terrorist groups to publicly assemble in armed assault formations and immediately communicating misinformation to the public about the neo-Nazi vehicular assault on leftists that implied that it was accidental and provoked by rock-throwing, although the ACLU later later retracted this false claim [x, x]).
Part of what is significant here is that the latter day America First Committee is one of the founding members of the previously mentioned Aryan Nationalist Alliance, the umbrella organization composed of dozens of smaller Klan, neo-Nazi, and Christian Identity factions whose goal is to "unite the right". According to a press release from another one of the co-founder groups, the Aryan Nationalist Alliance was formed on April 22, 2016 (two days after Adolf Hitler's birthday, commonly memorialized by neo-Nazi groups). The Aryan Nationalist Alliance later changed its name to Nationalist Front and, in April 2017, Vanguard America joined the so-called Nationalist Front. Two out of the ten speakers who were slated to publicly address the crowds at the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally are Nationalist Front members: Michael Hill and Matt Heimbach [x].
Below is the flyer for the "Unite the Right" rally showing the presence of two members of the Nationalist Front on the official list of speakers, which was shared on Twitter in June [x] by "Alt-Right" white nationalist head of the "National Policy Institute" Richard Spencer (who collaborated with Trump's chief speechwriter Stephen Miller as members of the Duke Conservative Union at Duke University in 2007 [x]).
Michael Hill is the leader of the neo-Confederate "League of the South", while Matt Heimbach is the leader of the "Traditionalist Worker Party". Both the League of the South and the Traditionalist Worker Party are member organizations of the Nationalist Front. These two men, along with Jeff Schoep, "Commander" of the "National Socialist Movement" (the largest neo-Nazi organization in the United States) appear to be the main leaders of the Nationalist Front [x], although a press release published by the NSM indicates that the Nationalist Front is essentially Schoep's brainchild; there it is noted that it was Schoep who "unveiled a Historic document detailing a plan for the Aryan Nationalist Alliance" (now renamed Nationalist Front).
Below is the press release, retrieved from "NSM Magazine Summer/Fall 2016". NSM and the Nationalist Front seem to have done a half-assed job trying to delete references to Nationalist Front member groups like the "Aryan Terror Brigade", probably realizing that this is not a good look for an organization that claims to "reject illegal, seditious and violent conduct as a model of political change" and be "dedicated to a peaceful process of gaining power". References to Aryan Terror Brigade and several other founding groups listed in the original press release have been scrubbed from both the Nationalist Front website (nfunity.org) and an NSM web page relating the information about the "historic alliance formed by U.S. white nationalists". On a similar note, NSM and their NF front organization appear to have made an effort to "go mainstream" and win more adherents by phasing out their use of the swastika and terms like "Aryan" in favor of symbols like the othala rune and terms like "Alt-Right" [x]. Nevertheless, the NSM website (nsm88.org) continues to host a PDF file of the "NSM Magazine Summer/Fall 2016" where these groups, which are obviously incompatible with the objective of bringing neo-Nazism into the mainstream, are listed as founders of Nationalist Front. The Southern Poverty Law Center also confirms this list of NF founders [x].
The press release also reveals some important facts about the composition of the Nationalist Front which the road rage racist killer James Fields and official speakers at the "Unite the Right" rally belong to. Among its founding member organizations we find numerous groups with penchants for racially-motivated terrorism and violent crime. Let's just sample a few of these:
One is the so-called "Phineas Priesthood". This is said by some to be more of a "meme" than an actual organization [x]; an ideology which is nothing but a glorified justification for committing racially-motivated murder. As one source puts it: "Phineas priests take their name from the biblical figure Phinehas in the book of Numbers, who is described as brutally murdering an Israelite man for having sex with a foreign woman, who he also kills. Members of the Phineas Priesthood — which people 'join' simply by adopting the views of the movement — are notoriously violent, and some adherents have been convicted of bank robberies, bombing abortion clinics, and planning to blow up government buildings" [x]. The fact that the Nationalist Front names the "Phineas Priesthood" as a founding member of the organization signals that the murdering of so-called "race-mixers" and "race-polluters" serves as an ideological point of reference for what the group hopes to achieve and the methods they are willing to employ as means to those ends.
Another Nationalist Front founding organization is the previously mentioned Aryan Terror Brigade. Members of the Aryan Terror Brigade were convicted of carrying out racist assaults on Muslim-looking people in 2013 [x]. The group is said to be a branch of Combat 18 [x, x], a British neo-Nazi group which claimed responsibility for the terrorist bombing campaign targeting Black British, South Asian, and LGBT communities in London which took place during the days surrounding April 20, 1999, killing three people and causing four others to lose limbs. A group called the "White Wolves", an offshoot of Combat 18, also claimed responsibility for the bombings [x]. (Another Nationalist Front co-founder is listed as "White Wolves Invictus").
"Aryan Strikeforce" is another Nationalist Front co-founder group which claims "Combat 18 International" affiliation, as shown on the VKontake profile of the group's founder Joshua Michael Steever ("Hatchet"), who also founded Aryan Terror Brigade before being kicked out of it and has a history of making terroristic threats [x, x]. Strikeforce is the name of a Combat 18 publication which, before the London Nail Bomb attacks, declared that "The [only] answer is an international terror/sabotage campaign" [x, x]. Numerous members of Aryan Strikeforce were arrested in 2016 and 2017 and are said to have been amassing machine guns [x].
David Copeland, nicknamed "The London Nail Bomber", was the only person convicted of carrying out the 1999 neo-Nazi bombings in London, claiming to have acted as a "lone wolf" [x]. In part by relying on the doctrine of "leaderless resistance", neo-Nazi organizations can shift responsibility for all of their illegal actions onto rogue "lone wolves" and enjoy the protection of the capitalist state and "free speech"-defending liberals who back up their above-the-board activism and organizing which pretends to be strictly interested in legal activity. This is a sham pretense. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the nature of an organization founded by groups like "Aryan Terror Brigade" and "White Wolves Invictus".
It's worth expanding on one point here and noting that the London Nail Bomber was a member of another British neo-Nazi group, "coincidentally" also named "National Socialist Movement" (like "White Wolves", the British NSM was also an offshoot of Combat 18 [x]). The British NSM was led by David Myatt, a man who is in turn widely acknowledged to have used various pseudonyms in leading a cult called the "Order of Nine Angles", which embraces "traditional Satanism" and neo-Nazism, and advocates the practice of human sacrifice as a form of Hitlerian eugenics. In my post "What is Net-Centric Warfare?" from November 2016, I showed how the facelift given to neo-Nazism (by adopting the "Alt-Right" identity and using a cartoon frog called "Pepe" or "Kek" in place of a swastika) has borrowed heavily from Satanic strains of neo-Nazism in developing something called the "Cult of Kek", which revolves around the belief in "meme magick" and the appearance of Pepe the Frog as a theophany of the Ancient Egyptian god Kek. This runs parallel to the neo-Nazi and U.S. military-linked "Temple of Set", another Satanic cult appropriating from the mythology of Ancient Egypt.
This cryptic far-right "spirituality" seems to be further manifested by the fact that another keynote speaker at the "Unite the Right" rally was the eccentric eugenics advocate [x] Augustus Sol Invictus, currently a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida, who began making sensationalized headlines two years ago in part for claiming to have sacrificed a goat and drank its blood. "Sol Invictus" is said to identify as "pagan" [x]. Tellingly, comparative religion scholar Mattias Gardell notes in Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism that the eugenics-advocating "Order of Nine Angles" cult describes its brand of Satanism as a "militant paganism" [x] derived from the "solar cults of Albion", i.e. sun-worshipping cults of ancient Britain. "Sol Invictus" means "unconquered sun".
Another leading member of the Nationalist Front is Michael Tubbs, head of the Florida section of the League of the South. Tubbs was convicted in the 1990s for his involvement in a plot to start a race war by attacking African-American and Jewish-owned businesses [x, x]. Tubbs has since been released from prison and "was photographed [participating] in several brawls" during the "Unite the Right" rally [x].
The NSM is no stranger to terrorism itself. The case of Samuel James Johnson, a "former" NSM member (because it's always a "former" member) who went on to found his own "Aryan Liberation Movement" went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 (see Johnson v. United States [x]). Despite plotting to conduct paramilitary-style attacks on a Mexican consulate and left-wing bookstores and assassinate "liberals" [x], Johnson was not tried as a terrorist but as an "armed career criminal". Uncannily, lawyers presented arguments on behalf of the neo-Nazi on April 20, 2015. The Supreme Court's decision seems to have been favorable to the neo-Nazi terrorist plaintiff, ruling that the Armed Career Criminal Act by which he had been sentenced to 15 years of prison was unconstitutional.
All of this goes to show that the fascist white supremacist who had conducted the deadly terrorist attack just prior to Trump's speech last Saturday (August 12, 2017) was, in acting as a member of the Nationalist Front, therefore formally associated with, not only the NF member groups mentioned above which have well documented histories of and connections to terrorism, but also the neo-Nazi organization known as the America First Committee.
Donald Trump's response to this situation was to invoke a neo-Nazi slogan, a neo-Nazi slogan which has been a neo-Nazi slogan, continuously, for at least 37 years. A neo-Nazi slogan which the Nationalist Front sub-group which the murderous fascist was seen standing in uniformed formation with, Vanguard America, has used in its own propaganda:
Trump's response has also been to blame the victims of this terrorist attack, the political Left and to make "But not all…" type excuses for the attendees of a rally to defend monuments to Pro-Slavery Rebellion which was officially billed as having multiple speakers affiliated with the Nationalist Front, a group founded by people who openly pine for "an international terror campaign" and spiritual rewards for the act of murdering "race-polluters".
In uttering the despicable words, "We are all-Americans First," Trump has blown a dog whistle. When right-wing dogs hear those despicable words, what they understand is:
"We must make our 'Uncle Sam'-esque National identity our Supreme identity, and act accordingly."
Or, in other words:
"We must bring Nationalism to the Front."
There can be no doubt that this is what neo-Nazi ears hear loud and clear.
"Valencia, Spain: Mural for Murdered Antifascist Comrade Heather Heyer", courtesy of Insurrection News [x]


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The Jordanian home-coming, sees the Jordanian stars behind this Jordan hit film 'The Last Friday' return to Amman for celebrations of their award-winning-streak, that landed them an impressive cornucopia of film awards.
The makers of Jordanian movie "The Last Friday" returned from Switzerland with a new feather in their cap of film awards already accrued from Arab and International film festivals alike. It is the first Jordanian movie to participate in the Forum section of the '62nd Berlin International Film Festival.'
The Last Friday received the Special Jury award from the Fribourg Film Festival in Switzerland. (The Fribourg International Film Festival, shortahand, FIFF 2012). The film clocked up an estimated 10,000 Swiss Francs, qualifying it as the most influential Arab and Jordanian film to top the list of international film festivals of 2011-2012.
The movie received great acclaim at the Dubai International Film Festival, winning three awards including the Special Jury award, best actor for Ali Suleiman, (Paradise Now and The Lemon Tree) the fast-turned hot talent of the Arab acting circuit, and best music which was composed by Le Trio Joubran.
The movie had previously notched up four awards in the San Sebastian Film Festival, in its Cinema in Motion category. The film is also due to participate in the German Film Festival for Arab films, as well as, the Seattle Film Festivals, within the period May 17th - June 10th.
'The Last Friday' was scripted and directed by Yehya Al Abdullah, the Palestinian Jordanian filmmaker and literary critic with several short films under his belt.
It tells the story of the down-and-out driver in Amman who at 40, a divorced father, Yousef finds himself grasping for a life slowly slipping from under him when he suddenly has to go through surgery in the tight space of four days. He can't afford to pay for this critical surgery, and is so- forced to reconnected with his estranged family. All at once, he must deal with his 14 year-old son Emad, who is a neglected teen, traumatized by his parent's divorce, as well as the mother and his own ex- wife, Dallal, who left him when he lost all of his money.


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Planned Parenthood of SE Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992)
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Do an analysis of the of a amicus brief. Summarize the brief and explain whether you agree with all or part of it and why. Be sure to support your position.
Planned Parenthood of SE Pennsylvania v. Casey
Analyze the impact of psychological research on public policy and the law© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com October 10, 2019, 7:01 am ad1c9bdddf
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The solution below should get you started. In this particular task, you are being asked to present an amicus curiae brief, which should be concise but on target. A amicus curiae is an opinion, especially in civil cases where you are considered a 'friend of the court' and where your opinion might matter. I suggest using this simple outline:
1. The case summary - 100 words
2. Impact of Psych research: legal and policymaking - 150 words
3. Opinion 100 words
This outline should yield around 350 words which should cover what you need. Just let me know via the feedback section if you need further clarification. You can also use the listed resources to further explore the topic.All the best with your studies.
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Amicus Curiae: SE Pennsylvania vs. Casey
The case of Planned Parenthood of SE Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992) is a landmark case because it extended the debate brought on in Roe vs. Wade in relation to planned parenthood. According to the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University Law School (2013), it is "The Supreme Court case that reaffirmed the aspect of Roe v. Wade (1973) that prohibited states from disallowing abortion prior to viability. However, the Court overruled two aspects of the Roe decision: (1) the trimester distinction and (2) the use of strict scrutiny for judicial review of government regulation of abortions." In 1973, the terms of Roe vs. Wade set precedents in relation to planned parenthood, primary of it being that states are not allowed to banning most abortions except on certain cases to protect mother and 'viable' fetuses. States however set up procedural hurdles that had the same result - making abortions ...
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The solution provides information, assistance and advise in tackling the task (see above) on the topic of presenting an amicus curiae from a psychological point on the case of Planned Parenthood of SE Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992) as it relates to practice of psychology within a legal system, including impact.


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Climate debate and factsPosted: July 30, 2008 Filed under: environment, Media, Science 1 Comment
Reading in the local newspaper last week I was surprised to find the following statement in an opinion piece by Chris Kenny:
People are scorned as "deniers" simply for pointing out the scientifically agreed fact that Earth has not warmed for a decade.
Overall the article, "I'm sick of the scare tactics in climate debate", is concerned with the rhetoric that currently fills any discussion over climate and so I was curious about the offhand way such a simply wrong fact was thrown in there. In the next paragraph we then had the following:
And that no one has yet proved a link between human activities and/or carbon emissions and climate change.
The second half of this statement could be discussed as the word "prove" can be ambiguous but I was more interested in the first statement, which again is simply wrong.
With this in mind I wrote a letter to the editor and assumed , in this case incorrectly, that it would be simply ignored as that is my first hand experience of any complaints about the standard of journalism in The Advertiser. To my surprise I soon received a phone call from the editor advising me that they would be publishing my letter. Unfortunately The Advertiser does not put it's letters online, unlike opinion pieces from it's journalists, so I can't show you the link to the letter. However I can simply show you what I wrote as I kept a copy. What is below is in two parts, the first part is what was published, the second is what was left out.
"Chris Kenny's latest opinion piece with a subtitle of "I'm sick of the scare tactics in climate debate", will I'm sure be leading to pots and kettles eying each other off. Chris makes the claim "People are scorned as "deniers" simply for pointing out the scientifically agreed fact that Earth has not warmed for a decade." This is simply wrong and not a fact. The scientific consensus is currently well represented by the following statement from the Hadley Climate Center, "A simple mathematical calculation of the temperature change over the latest decade (1998-2007) alone shows a continued warming of 0.1 °C per decade." Now, people can argue about other issues and what this means, however the fact of observation is not, unless you care to deny reality.Chris further states "And that no one has yet proved a link between human activities and/or carbon emissions and climate change." Addressing the first part of this claim scientist have clearly demonstrated that the increasing CO2 levels correspond with a decreasing C13/C12 isotope ratio which is due to human burning of fossil fuels and not a natural process.
Simply put Chris, what you said is wrong.
Now, no-one is going to deny there are alarmists in both camps on this topic which really doesn't help but could we please respect the facts and concentrate the debate on areas of uncertainty?"
The section that was left out of the published letter, for completeness was:
"And as for "Why the scare campaign"? Chris, of all people, being an adviser to a government should know. Because they work, regardless of which side of the fence you live on. The media could perform us all some justice by promoting articles that investigate facts and not just hype the spin, confuse people and promote ignorance. And a few less straw man arguments by journalists claiming to be skeptical wouldn't go amiss. Skeptics seek the facts to support an argument and promote critical thinking, aspects sadly lacking in this present debate. However for those wanting such a debate, then please come along to the Skeptics National conference in Adelaide in October where this very topic will be debated on the Sunday morning session."
Now it's fine to cut the letter and with hindsight what was cut will be going straight back to them because I find out today, 1 week later, it would appear Chris has a bee in his bonnet about this issue. And the straw man arguments return which is really sad because I remember the long past days of decent journalism.
Without further ado here is his rebuke:
Sceptics can't deny the facts
- Skeptics SA accused me of getting my climate change facts wrong last week. However, the U.K.'s Hadley Centre shows none of the past 10 years has been as warm as 1998. Sure, the centre claims there is still evidence of a warming trend, albeit reduced from a decade ago. But it confirms that each of the past 10 years has been cooler than 1998.
- The Skeptics SA letter also referred to scientific consensus. We often hear this term now but science is not about consensus, it is about objective fact.
Another reader asks what more Australia could do to reduce carbon emissions. If we were serious, the first thing we would do is lift our ban on uranium exports to India.
Just to restate what happened, someone made a claim, it was factually wrong and they were corrected. I would have thought that's the end of the matter, lesson learnt. As a skeptic I certainly was not denying the facts. And no-one is claiming that 1998 was not a hot year. Is stating that "Sceptics (sic) can't deny the facts" suggesting that skeptics have denied the facts? Who knows. Perhaps Chris is claiming he is now a skeptic and that even he can't deny the facts anymore? That would be reassuring however it is again misleading to state something out of context and to ignore the factual reason which is given by the Hadley Centre. To get a view of the temperature over the past few years, here's the graph showing this.
The temperature spike at 1998 can clearly be seen. And it's explanation, which Chris does not even hint at:
1998 saw an exceptional El Niño event which contributed strongly to that record-breaking year. Research shows that an exceptional El Niño can warm global temperatures by about 0.2 °C in a single year, affecting both the ocean surface and air temperatures over land. Had any recent years experienced such an El Niño, it is very likely that this record would have been broken. 2005 was also an unusually warm year, the second highest in the global record, but was not associated with El Niño conditions that boosted the warmth of 1998.
A picture says a thousand words and anyone can see that 1998 is an usual year. It is also apparent that what the Hadley Centre claims about increasing temperature is also correct. The fact that 1998 was a record breaking year does not invalidate the statement from the Hadley Centre that the average temperature is increasing. And before people jump in with "but the last 6 years hasn't warmed" I'd just like to point out we are not denying this. We'd also not support it either because the error bars clearly show the error measurement is much larger that what we are looking for. The correct position is "we don't really know". Perhaps some of the readings were wrong, perhaps there were other things happening such as what happened in 1960's with increased aerosols and particulates, who knows. That's why we have error bars on good graphs, so we know how good the data is and don't make incorrect claims.
This leads into Chris's second point, that about consensus and his incorrect belief it has no place in science. If the world was perfect, measurements never had errors, all factors and processes were well known, humans were perfect and generally the whole place was painted in black or white then this would be a valid statement. However in the reality based world that science lives in we know this isn't correct.
When you make a measurement there is error and variation. Sometimes there are competing explanations for observations. Sometimes the world is complex and it's not apparent exactly what is influencing what and what the processes are. And sometimes people have differing points of view and different backgrounds that enable them to look at the same data but draw different conclusions. However this does not mean no claims can be made, as many post-modernists are want to do, or that nothing can be said until everyone totally agrees. There is a misconception in the general public, and this applies to nearly all journalists, the vast majority of whom have no background in science, that science gathers pure unambiguous facts and then make a dogmatic decree of the new knowledge gained. This might be great for depicting a scientist for Hollywood but reality is different. Vastly different.
Actual science involves the rather more nebulous concept of supplying the best explanation for the available evidence. There is no place for dogmatic belief, unlike in religion where maintaining the status quo and existing faith based knowledge is crucially important. The "best explanation" involves many scientists agreeing that a conclusion can be drawn from the available body of evidence and, shock, horror this is usually done in a via consensus. Now some people might suggest the data is not accurate enough, or not enough data has been collected, or that it is not representative or a hundred reasons why they personally cannot accept the proposed conclusion. That's fine and science allows for dissent, in fact it strives on dissent. However when the vast majority of scientists agree on something then that's good enough. If someone brings along more,better or different evidence and it's convincing and of suitable quality then the consensus will change. It would be lovely to live in a world of unambiguous objective fact but unfortunately that world only exists in the minds of those ignorant to the scientific method, those used to living in a world of political decree and religious dogma.
And for a recent discussion about long term trends, see this article I wrote a while ago.


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Having a frustrating air travel situation (managed, after some difficulty, to get myself booked on a red eye back to DC that I'm pretty sure is going to wind up getting canceled) but sitting around at the gate I stumbled across the "Debaser" video for the first time and it kinda cheered me up:
Meanwhile, tribute albums are lame, but I think Where Is My Mind? A Tribute to the Pixies is actually quite good. Still, a couple of weeks ago I was talking to someone who referred to "Alec Eiffel" as a Get-Up Kids song and there's really no excuse for that.


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After all the Christmas festivities and a New Year's celebration, January is always a little bit depressing for me. You should take down your Christmas tree, the weather is usually poor and days are short and dark.
So, I decided that this year I will overcome January depression by traveling half the month. And it worked really well!
Paris – Solo trip
The year started with three days in Paris. It was a solo, sort of a business trip on which I was researching life of Impressionists in Paris. I went to some of the places they were living in and to museums with the best collections of their work.
It was also my second solo trip and once again I realized I love it. I'm enjoying having a lot of time for myself. And I wasn't only enjoying in discovering a new destination, but also in learning more about myself.
Beside Impressionism, I also wanted to see some of the places where Coco Chanel lived and worked. I saw her house, first shop she opened and the place where she loved to take breaks – now famous Angelina. I will write a blog post about following in her footsteps in Paris in the following weeks.
The thing I noticed for the first time in Paris (maybe because I was traveling solo, ha?) was the street art. I've seen some great pieces there that I genuinely loved! You can see some examples from Marais and Montmartre in the photos below.
Rome – Traveling as a couple
This was a trip I was especially looking forward! After almost two and a half years, I spent four days in Rome with Marijan alone. And don't get me wrong here, I adore my son, but I was really missing being alone with my husband, as well. We do occasionally go to the movies together, but this was the whole four days only for ourselves.
Rough plan was to just relax, walk around the city and enjoy Italian cuisine.
So, we learned how to made pasta and a typical Italian dinner with our lovely host Roberto.
We went to the great tour in Vatican museum and St. Peter's Basilica.
We saw some of the Ancient Rome.
And just enjoyed our time there. We talked, laughed, ate a lot and had a great time in Rome! And, of course we already started planning a new trip for only two of us.
Zagreb – Traveling solo with a toddler
A day after I came back from Rome, I had a new trip coming over – Zagreb. It's my hometown and my family is living there so the plan was for me and Karlo to spend a week there. We were so excited about it, because of all the snow that fell in that week in Zagreb (we haven't really seen a proper snow in the last three years here in the Netherlands).
It was the first time I traveled with Karlo alone and I have to say it was actually much easier then when all three of us are traveling together.
We were walking around the city, went for the lunch in some of my favourite restaurants in Zagreb and were flying alone back to Amsterdam. He was playing with stickers during the flight and was the best kid ever. When we landed people around us actually told me I should be so proud of my little traveler. And was I proud…
Am I overcoming my fear of flying?
So, it was quite a month! Filled with traveling.
Getting four flights in only ten days during this January also helped me a lot in dealing with my issues with flying. I was reading a lot about it lately and tried some tactics that seems to work for me. I am still a nervous flyer, but it's definitely getting much easier to be in a plane.
It looks like February will be more quiet in terms of traveling, but I'm planning to catch up with my blogging. I am also working on many new things over here. I will start to post twice per week, so from now on you can expect new blog posts each Tuesday and Friday. A blog will also get a little make over during this month.
But, the biggest thing is that I am planning a very nice surprise for you guys soon. Let's just say there will be a lot of great presents included. So keep an eye on the blog!


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I started out by taking a ping pong ball and drilling holes all over it with a 1/16" bit, the smallest in my set. I used a 3/16" bit to make hole for an LED and I spray painted the ball black to avoid having the ball glow. To test it out, I wired up a quick LED circuit and when I went into a dark closet it was clear that 1/16" was too big of holes--the light was not near focused enough on the ceiling, and it'd look even worse in the baby's room. I started over with a new ping pong ball and used a hot sewing needle to poke tiny holes and got closer to the look I wanted.
The most frustrating part of this project was when I tried to package it up. I used a small Sparkfun box as a case, and once I put everything inside the box I realized that the wires I was using from the PCB to the LED at the end of the servo arm were way too thick and there wasn't enough give. The servo was straining really hard and not moving much, so I reduced the swing range to only a few degrees, but that still didn't fix it. I had to cut out that wire and use the thinnest I could find, which was some wire I snipped off of a spare battery holder. It works...but I may decide to start over with the whole enclosure (maybe use this as a chance to try out a laser cutting service) and use thinner wire yet so that it works more like I'd initially planned.
The picture here is a longer exposure, so its fuzzy because of the movement, but you get the idea of how it looks on the ceiling. The source code is very simple, but it's available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/babystarlights/. The project didn't turn out quite like I'd planned, but it's tons of fun to see my daughter staring at the lights and following them as they move around the room, and my wife even asked to help me solder it. My camera wouldn't pick up the light on the ceiling, but here's a quick clip of the light in action.


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Friday, November 13, 2009
As the bush becomes less bushy, Dante himself has become more bushy. Is this true irony or what?
Dante's my regular bushbaby, except a whole lot cuter. Have you ever seen pictures of those bushbabies? Yeesh!
And just to show you, here's a picture of an actual bushbaby.
I think it looks like some alien Star Wars character. Look at those toes! It could win an Ugly Feet Contest, hands down (LOL)!
Which bushbaby would you like hanging out in your front yard? Dante, or the real thing?
My apologizes to all the bushbaby owners out there. They are sort of cute in a very odd way. And I wish them all the best.
10 comments:
- 8GR8LOLCATS said...
Bush Babies- I think we should have one at the ZOO! Dante is so amazing... I think he should be on exhibit... which of course he is on your blogspot... I've said it before and I'll say it again... He is the MOST formidable Maine Coon I've ever seen...Don't tell my guys!!!
- November 13, 2009 at 8:58 AM
- One Cats Nip said...
I bet Dante is real warm! I would love to share his warmth that lovely floofy boy!
- November 13, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Of course Dante but WITH a BushBaby! We can look at Dante all day long!
- November 13, 2009 at 9:25 AM
- The Island Cats said...
We like Dante Bushbaby better!! But that real one sure has big eyes!!!
- November 13, 2009 at 9:38 AM
- Mr. Grumpster Wilfred III said...
Dante is so Handsome! its unreal!
- November 13, 2009 at 9:46 AM
- Elizabeth and Connor said...
Actually, both are cute, but Dante would probably be a lot friendlier and snugglier!
- November 13, 2009 at 11:17 AM
- Catline Crew said...
We vote for Dante. He is the biggest, prettiest kitty we've ever seen.
- November 13, 2009 at 12:44 PM
- Cat of Nine Tales said...
Bushy! There's one shot that shows a close up of the top of his head and for the first time, I saw his classic tabby markings. Gorgeous!
~Lisa Co9T
- November 13, 2009 at 1:26 PM
- Amy and The House of Cats said...
I think it is funny to see the bushy kitty through a bush. And I admit, I like bushbabies but I think I would still pick Dante - who could resist the floof!
- November 13, 2009 at 5:23 PM
- Fin said...
You don't look like the bush baby
- November 13, 2009 at 11:08 PM


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How To Repair A Tumble Dryer
Repairing a tumble dryer is often a relatively easy task for most people reasonably competent in DIY and working with electrical products as they really are rather simple appliances all things considered.
Of course things get a little more complex once you step up from simple plain old vented tumble dryers to condenser tumble dryers and finally (for now) to the much newer low energy use heat pump tumble dryers.
Vented tumble dryers are the oldest of all types and, generally, the most reliable and the easiest to repair when something goes wrong. This type requires a vent hose to be fed to the outside through a wall or window so are easy to spot.
The next up the ladder is a condenser dryer which have become far more commonplace because they can be installed without the requirement to have a vent to the outside. However, it should be noted that these cannot be installed just anywhere and there are restrictions on temperatures and that cleaning filters regularly becomes essential.
Now we have low energy heat pump tumble dryers which are, for the domestic whitegoods industry, a relatively new technology although these types of tumble dryer have long been in use in commercial applications and the actual technology is far from new.
Heat pump tumble dryers work largely on the same principle as a condenser tumble dryer but with a few notable differences, the largest being that instead of a heating element as such it uses a small heat pump, much like a refrigeration unit, to provide heat to dry laundry.
To correctly diagnose a tumble dryer fault you will need to have a grasp of how your tumble dryer works and the main components of the dryer. Of course how these are implemented can vary hugely from brand to brand and even from model to model but the principals will remain almost constant.
How A Tumble Dryer Works
There are three basic types of tumble dryer in common domestic use, the condenser dryer, heat pump tumble dryer and the vented dryer. To find out more about the pros and cons of each please refer to our tumble dryer buying guide which will explain more about each type.
In short the vented dryer requires a vent to push the hot exhaust air out of the room in which the dryer is operated and this is normally to the outside either through a wall or window by way of a venting kit or hose.
A condenser dryer is "self-condensing" meaning that the moisture removed from the clothing during the drying process is condensed internally and the water vapour either drained to the house drainage system or collected in a container which has to be manually emptied.
In both cases the basic operating principles of the drying action are pretty much identical and so the rest of this explanation is generalised.
When it comes to faults on a tumble dryer, of which not heating is by far the most common, like all other appliances you need to methodically determine where the fault lies and so you have to understand how the machine works to do that. Simply guessing and blindly replacing parts until it works again is not the way to go about things.
In any dryer there are three things that must be present for the machine to be able to dry, heat, mechanical action and airflow. If any of those fail in any way then the dryer will not dry.
Tumble Dryer Heaters And Thermostats
The heater and thermostats are the most common area to fail in some way. Normally this will be a case of simply determining which has in fact failed which is normally quite easy by simply testing the heater elements for continuity using an electrical meter. If the heater is open circuit it will require to be replaced, bearing in mind that many are in fact two elements for the different levels of heat, so check both circuits.
If the heater is not open circuit and you have continuity then you should then look at the thermostats. Normally there are one o possibly two mounted around the heater housing but there are also often another one, possibly two, cunningly hidden on the vent, this is commonly known as the "exhaust stat". It's not so common that an exhaust stat will fail but,
it does happen and how you determine the part faulty as an amateur is difficult at best as usually we will apply some heat whilst we have a meter on it to check that it turns on and off as required.
The usual two thermostats at the heater itself will usually be a cycling thermostat and the other an overheat stat, sometimes referred to as a TOC (Thermal Overload Cutout).
The cycling stat controls the normal dryer operation cutting in the power to the heater as and when more heat is required whilst the overheat thermostat simply does nothing until an overheat condition is recognised by it.
It is increasingly common to find these overheat thermostats have failed or, in actual fact, have operated correctly. The overheat thermostat is in effect a safety device designed to stop the tumble dryer from overheating and, possibly, catching fire should a failure of the main cycling thermostat occur or the airflow in hindered in any way. However it is common these days that these have "tripped" with no other problem to be seen. The reason for this is almost invariably that the user has opened the door before the dryer's cooldown phase has been completed. This causes latent heat to build inside the dryer thereby raising the temperature enough to trip the overheat thermostat.
Many of these thermostats are now of the non-resettable type and therefore must be changed to resume normal operations. Under absolutely no circumstances should an overheat thermostat be by-passed, fitted incorrectly or modified or you could have a serious safety risk.
We made a short video on how to test tumble dryer thermstats which is here:
Airflow Through Your Tumble Dryer
As stated previously, in order to operate correctly your dryer needs a constant flow of air.
This is true both internally and externally!
We cannot stress enough how important airflow to a tumble dryer is. If you kill the airflow you will kill the tumble dryer.
Simply put, a tumble dryer draws in cool ambient air, heats it over and electrical (in most cases) heater and then "blows" that air through the clothes to condense the water content and then exhausts that out the vent.
If you do not have a sufficient supply of air coming in then the dryer won't work correctly. If you do not have adequate airflow out then the water vapour and expelled air have nowhere to go and, the dryer won't work correctly.
On a condenser dryer the main difference is that the expelled air will pass over a condenser (hence the name of condenser dryer) which will condense the expelled water and usually pump or drain that water to a tank which can then later be emptied. This saves the need for an external vent but does complicate the appliance somewhat.
Common airflow problems are usually not that hard to track down and the usual complaint in this area would be poor drying performance or complaints that the dryer takes ages to dry clothes. Interestingly poor airflow is very likely not just to decrease the performance, increase the drying time but it will almost certainly mean much longer running times which will cost you a lot more in electricity. It is very worthwhile checking the dryer on a regular basis to ensure that the airflow is good.
Check the filters first, blocked filters will mean reduced airflow and this can seriously affect the dryer's performance. This is simple routine maintenance that, if not carried out, will mean possible poor performance, longer dry times and bigger electricity bills.
Externally make sure that the dryer is not completely encased. All dryers MUST have a good supply of air around them or you will almost certainly have problems. Whilst this should be noted upon installation it may often not come to light for months and, in some cases, years before it causes an actual failure.
Where the dryer is vented the vent must be clear and unobstructed.
Common Tumble Dryer Faults
No heat in tumble dryer
This is the most common failure reported, often with a simple solution on inspection.
If the machine does not heat check for a reset button usually a small red button on the back and see if the machine works after this is pressed. These are almost always fitted to appliances manufactured by Crosslee who make tumble dryers for just about everybody from Candy to Zanussi so it's worth having a look.
- Heater faulty
- Thermostat or thermostats faulty
- Blocked with ooze or fluff
- Safety thermostat tripped
Tumble dryer drum not turning
Again a fairly common fault to come across and, in the case of tumble dryers a faulty belt is not at all uncommon.
- Belt faulty
- Motor capacitor (where fitted)
- Motor faulty
- Jockey wheels faulty
Tumble dryer noisy
It's again not uncommon and usually fairly straightforward to find the problem however, solving the problem however is often is far from easy.
- Bearings faulty
- Jockey wheels faulty or worn
- Felt pads worn
- Motor bearings faulty
Tumble dryer not starting
This is not really a very common problem on most but some machines and older machines especially it does happen usually due to the door microswitch failing. It can also be caused by a timer failure, but that is unlikely.
Other problems include steam, if you get steam then your appliance is not vented properly or the vent hose is broken in the main. But if you just hang the hose out the window it could well be that the condensed air is being blown back into the room!
Bad smells from a tumble dryer are almost always caused by the vent hose having a dip in it where water gathers ad goes stale, it could be worth checking.
Well that about covers standard dryers any other faults really require the services of an engineer.
Self Condensing Tumble Dryers
These appliances are lot more complex and for the layman, not really to be tampered with unless you either know what you're doing or are confident in your own abilities.
If the appliance leaks check that the water tray in it's housing correctly and in not full.
If you get steam from the appliance it may be that the room is too cold make sure that the room temperature is within the limits in the instruction book. This can also happen with a normal dryer too especially if the room is too cold.
The common problems are pretty much the same as they are for the normal dryers, but with the added complications of a condenser system. That said, make sure that the condenser itself is clear, many can be removed and cleaned.
The Big Warnings For All Tumble Dryers
Let any dryer run through it's cooldown phase!
Pulling the door open to check if stuff is dry and such things will, almost certainly in a modern dryer, result in the overheat thermostat being tripped and, many are now "one-shot" devices meaning that they won't and cannot be, reset.
Make sure filters are clear and regularly cleaned. Failure to do so will cost you both time and money.
Ensure adequate ventilation and a ready supply of fresh air, if you don't you will have problems.


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Years of dedication and commitment, tendered to our youth, provide a safe container for boundless expression. Kanopy Dance Academy students live into their dedication to perform, express, and engage audiences in the limitless manifestation of dance. These girls, boys, men, women, devote themselves to creating something new, and bigger than the self.
The Academy celebrates our dancers with a respected curriculum of modern dance, choreography and ballet. Students desiring to become professionals in the field are trained and guided. Adults and youth who study at Kanopy as an avocation improve their health, develop their talent and creativity and mature as future audience members. Students are encouraged and guided to expand their own inventiveness and technical excellence. For students aged 3 to 70+, The Academy offers classes from September to May, and several week-long Dance Camps, Dance Intensive, and Guest Artist Workshops in the summer.
The Academy's annual all school performance gives students opportunity to dance for friends, family and the public.
Our student dancers who have been with us for several years move into Kanopy Dance Company 2. This troupe performs with one another and also on the same stage with world-renowned dancers. Imagine the seeding of dreams, the inspiration that these professional dancers offer.
We've chosen faculty, too, that come from respected dance companies around the U.S. The extensive professional experience and dedication of the Academy faculty inspires young dancers to excel and thrive.
Our graduates have earned scholarships to acclaimed programs across the nation. Limited scholarship assistance for study is available. If dancing is your dream, please contact us. Let the world know.
Questions? [email protected] or call 608 255.2211
Our modern training foundation is Graham technique based, we also offer Hawkins and Limon based techniques. Our Ballet training offers Russian, Royal, and Cecchetti school, Pointe and pre-pointe. Traditional Classical Ballet Variations, and Modern Repertory give the students the opportunity to move beyond the classroom to learn repertory from the great dances of our time. Pedagogy training begins to prepare the dancer for teaching.
Our Choreography training takes the students through the creative process and composition training to create their own dances that are their own expression and vision. Students learn to give constructive criticism, talk about their own dances and work together in groups to come to common ground in the creative process.
Student-created choreography and creative problem solving in our curriculum yields life-long dance training benefits. Students' natural abilities in organizing and expressing their creative ideas are highlighted in our curriculum. Kanopy students gain a sense of self-worth and achievement and share in the sheer pleasure and physicality of dance.
In the Summer Camps and Intensives we add into the training: additional Modern Techniques: Cunningham, Contemporary, and Horton. In depth Improvisation, Physical Theatre, Dance History, and more.
Kanopy Company 2 — Pre-Professional company training program ages 16-26.
Level 6: Ages 14+/Adult — Advanced: modern, ballet, pointe, choreography.
Level 5: Ages 12+/Adult — Adv/Int: modern, ballet, pointe, choreography.
Level 4: Ages 10+ — Intermediate: modern, ballet, pointe, choreography.
Level 3: Ages 8+ — Adv Beginning: modern, ballet, choreography.
Level 2: Ages 6-8 — Beginning: creative modern and ballet.
Level 1: Ages 3-4, 4-5 — Beginning: creative modern.
Adult Beginning: Modern and ballet.
Adult Ensemble: Choreography, performance group.
Kanopy Company Classes: Open to Adult students and KC2 students.
Adult Students: Enroll for school year OR per term, OR purchase a 10-Class Card, or purchase single class.


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Before the wine is uncorked at special tasting dinners and winemakers stand up to explain the complex notes comprising the vintage, tireless hours are spent in the fields to cultivate the pour in the glass.
The ripeness and health of the grapes delivered to the crush pad each fall are the responsibility of the less heralded — but equally crucial — influencer of the harvest: the vineyard manager. (more…)


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"Surround yourself only with those people who are going to lift you higher."
– Oprah Winfrey
Explore the World with Reading – 4″ x 6″ Watercolor & Ink
Explore is this week's word for Illustration Friday.
What better way is there to explore, than through reading? I love
books! I am so glad that I like to read. The world opens up to you
with books, and takes you wherever you want to go.
Right now, I am
reading The Silent Sea,
a Clive Cussler novel and I'm in Argentina fighting off bad guys and
trying to get back to my submersible, which will take me back to The
Oregon, our high tech ship.
I painted this from a reference by SkattyKat at WetCanvas. Kat lives in France and had wonderful images to paint from!
Clive Cussler is the author of many New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Spy and Lost Empire. He lives in Arizona.
Oprah Winfrey
Media giant Oprah Winfrey
was born in the poor rural town of Kosciusko, Mississippi on January
29, 1954. In 1976, Winfrey moved to Baltimore, where she hosted a hit TV
chat show, People Are Talking, after which she was recruited by a
Chicago TV station to host her own morning show. Later she went on to
pursue her two-and-a-half decade stint as host of the wildly popular
Oprah Winfrey show. More….
Monday, December 10, 2012
Explore the World with Reading – 4″ x 6″ Watercolor & Ink
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