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The Institute of English at the University of Opole was officially founded on October 1st, 1978, which was a result of the growing demand of teachers and other specialists in the field of English. Despite modest beginnings with only five academic teachers, the Institute has become a strong academic centre educating hundreds of students over the years. Currently, there are employed 28 academic teachers including 10 professors, who continuously develop professionally. The Institute comprises four departments: Department of the English Language, Department of Applied Linguistics, Department of Literature, and Department of Anglophone Cultures. To ensure a high quality of education in the Institute, all our academic teachers regularly participate in trainings and specialist conferences in Poland and abroad. The Institute follows strictly the guidelines of European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), which makes it possible for our students to choose and visit a foreign university as a host for one or two semester English study programmes within ERASMUS. Our partners are in Spain, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. We also host students coming from these academic centres.
Academics in the Institute of English pursue research in the field of literary studies, culture studies, translation studies, linguistics and applied linguistics. Literary and culture studies concentrate on prose and poetry of British, American, Irish and Canadian writers, mainly of 19th and 20th centuries. Interdisciplinary studies of literature and culture or fine arts, style and translation studies are also undertaken. Linguistic studies focus on discourse analysis, composition studies, corpus linguistics, bilingualism, lexicography, and syntax, among others. Applied linguistics studies investigate affective, cognitive and social aspects of language acquisition including learning disabilities, reading and writing skills, reflectivity, gender, and pronunciation, among others.
Our research partners are numerous:
Paul Thompson, University of Birmingham (UK),
Elaine Vine, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand),
Katarzyna Witkowska-Stadnik, Illinois State University (USA),
Angel Alonso, University de Vic (Spain),
Cambridge University,
University College London,
Lancaster University, Department of Linguistics and English Language (UK),
Dong Hwa University in Hualien (China),
Taiwan Humanities Society,
Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology (Hungary),
Masaryk University, Faculty of Education, Department of English Language and Literature (Czech Republic),
VHS -Volkshochschule im Landkreis Cham e.V. (Germany),
BEST Institut fur berufsbezogene Weiterbildung und Personaltraining GmbH (Austria),
University of Matej Beli in Banska Bystrzyca (Slovakia),
Vrije Universiteat, Brussels (Belgium),
TAK - Towarzystwo Alternatywnego Kształcenia (Opole).
Moreover, the Institute of English cooperates with local junior high and high schools.
Study programmes:
All courses offered at our institute are conducted in English.
English Philology:
Studying English Philology at BA level, the students gain knowledge of language, literature, culture and history of English-speaking countries as well as practical language skills at a high C1 proficiency level. The students may choose one of the following specialities: 1. English and Cultural Studies, 2. English and Spanish, 3. Translation Studies, 4. Business English, and 5. English and Chinese. BA studies finish with a BA defense and a BA degree.
Studying English Philology at MA level, apart from developing their practical language skills at a high C2 proficiency level, the students deepen their knowledge of selected specialist fields of liberal arts education: Literature, Culture and history of English-speaking countries, Linguistics, or Applied Linguistics supplemented with teacher training module. Students who choose applied linguistics with teacher training specialization gain additional qualifications for teaching English at all educational levels. MA studies finish with an MA defense and an MA degree.
English in Public Communication:
The English in Public Communication BA program is an excellent opportunity for the students who would like to be able to face challenges of a highly competitive job market in an increasingly global society. The program offers an integrated approach to public communication in such domains as politics, culture, society, management, business, and technology. All the courses offered within the program are instructed in English. Practical English courses comprising reading, listening, speaking, and grammar are designed to develop the students' language skills and help them attain a high level of proficiency in English. Subject courses, including Public Communication and Public Relations, Cultural and Media Studies, Persuasion and Rhetoric, Communication as Critical Inquiry, or Intercultural Communication, develop and broaden the students' knowledge and skills in analysing various communicative situations, managing information, and creating effective messages in a variety of media.
English in Public Communication is an innovative study program developed in cooperation with a number of institutes at Opole University, namely the Institute of English, the Institute of Polish, the Institute of Political Sciences, and the Institute of Sociology. Hence, the courses on offer are taught by highly experienced and qualified specialists in a given discipline. As the program is a comprehensive approach to public communication, it not only acquaints the students with a range of theoretical issues but, more importantly, aims to increase the students' communicative abilities. Specifically, the students will learn to communicate effectively using various technologies and to develop their abilities to cooperate with others. Moreover, they will be given opportunities to recognize, increase and demonstrate their leadership potential.
Applied Gender Studies:
The master program of Applied Gender Studies is based in the Faculty of Philology at the Institute of English. The linguistic and humanistic expertise is supported by the social science approach of the Institute of Sociology. The complementary structure allows for the interdisciplinary and multilevel approach to the gender related issues of language, communication, culture, society, or identity. Since the very nature of the topic is performative or is communicated visually, the artists contribute to the course as well. Both theoretical and practical classes in the visual culture are provided by the Institute of Art of Opole University. Several classes are to be carried out by experts outside of academia for more practical and applied perspective. These include the local but recognized in Europe theatre, regional governing bodies or transnational corporate business that in turn act also as training venues or case studies for the students.
Future careers:
English Philology students finish their studies with strong communication skills in English in writing and speaking, ability to search for information in various sources, to analyze and synthesize information, and to work effectively both independently and in teams. They are well prepared for a career in, for example: translation and interpretation bureau, public relations, publishing houses, advertising agencies, fundraising organizations, commercial, corporate or other business institutions, research institutes, schools at all educational levels, many other fields that require good knowledge of English and liberal arts education.
Holding a BA degree in English for Public Communication and being highly trained professional communicators with an excellent command of English, our graduates can find employment in a broad range of fields involving public communication, such as advertising, journalism, publishing, public relations and public affairs, business communication, marketing, and education. They may also be employed in public administration on a regional, national or international level or work for cultural institutions, corporations or NGOs.
Graduates of Applied Gender Studies are meant to be engaged in the public institutions, culture organizations, NGOs, corporate businesses, education sites or various media outlets being conscious and well equipped gender theorists well prepared to challenge inequalities, discrimination, limited life chances, symbolic violence or biased legal regulations and both official and everyday practice of gender performances that lead to the former.
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Photo #1 – Fall is coming to Jasper!
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High Protein Gourmet Salad Recipe
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Raw Vegan Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe
Who likes strawberries? And who like cheesecakes? I have a recipe for you that is amazingly delicious, and guess what!! It is vegan! Yeaaah! This recipe and the photos were given to me by my talented friend Debra. She makes very tasty and beautiful cakes that are...read more
"CLEAN" or "UNCLEAN" FOOD in today's context
CLEAN: MAY BE EATEN ALTHOUGH THIS LIST IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE, IT REVEALS GUIDELINES FOR RECOGNIZING ANIMALS THAT ARE ACCEPTABLE FOR FOOD Chicken, Turkey, Grouse, Partridge, Pheasant, Pigeon, Prairie chicken, Ptarmigan, Quail, Sagehen In Deuteronomy 14:11-20, a list of...read more
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How to Clean Mushrooms | 3 Surprising Ways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTtPMNkGSz4 Here are 3 ways to clean mushrooms: 1- Take a wet cloth and gently rub your mushrooms. Most of the nutrients are in the skin so it would be too bad to take it off. But do that if the mushrooms are not too...read more
Veganuary 2019 | 1 week meal plan
In collaboration with my instagramer friend @lettucegatherressources I made a meal plan for a week at the occasion of veganuary 2019. Click on the links below to access the recipes for each days: Day 22 - Day 23 - Day 24 - Day 25 - Day...read more
Veganuary Recipes | Day 26
Grocery list for the week: click hereDay 22 - Day 23 - Day 24 - Day 25 - Day 27 - Day 28 - Day 29 Breakfast: Rest, eat leftoversLunch: Rest. Eat the leftoversDinner: Fried cauliflower and BBQ sauce This is Sabbath! Yeah! I was looking forward to it, definitely, need...read more
We all can make the mistake of choosing one Bible verse and interpret it in a way that it will suit our lifestyle and make us have a better conscience. But we must look at the evidence in God's words and take into consideration the surrounding verses and all the other...read more
Vegan Cauliflower Mac and Cheese Recipe
I can't say that I love mac and cheese because since I came to the USA I realized that there are so many ways to make mac and cheese and some are delicious but others are not all that. The best mac and cheese I ever tasted is the one my mother in law makes. It is so...read more
My 2 Minutes BBQ sauce recipe | Vegan-Friendly recipe
Most of all barbecue sauces are vegan, but not all. If you want to buy a vegan BBQ sauce at your supermarket, check if it contains anchovies, milk products, or honey if you want to avoid it. But the best way to be sure that a BBQ sauce is vegan is to make it yourself,...read more
Vegan Fried Chicken with Cauliflower Recipe
If you just became a vegetarian or vegan but that you miss the tenderness and crispiness of fried chicken, you might be thankful for the recipe below. When I became a vegetarian I didn't miss eating meat at all and I still don't, but there are textures and...read more
The Bible Diet Book Author Intentions
The main intention of this book is to help others by sharing what I know about Bible health principals. As it is written: "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your...read more
Who am I & Testimony
Who am I & Testimony How to start? I usually only prefer to talk about myself to my close relatives. But it is better to know a little about the person who wrote the book we are reading, right?And I pray that knowing a little bit of me including some of my...read more
Our urgent need of the Holy Spirit today!
Just like Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit, we can be too. As Christians, we must take Jesus as our example. One of the reasons he came on earth as a man was to show us an example and that what he did is possible for us to do as well. We know that when Jesus was...read more
15 Bible Verses About Resisting Temptation
Before my husband and I got married, we had a little argument about food. I used to eat pork and seafood (in France, it is almost a cultural thing). He told me that when we will have kids, they won't eat any unclean meat. It was a temptation he did not se fit for our...read more
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|Monument of Light 394 feet
There is some much to see here and I suggest 3-4 days here.
This is where we went and what I liked about it:
We got the Dublin Pass which allowed us into a lot of the sights for free so it saved us money.
We stayed at the Academy Plaza Hotel which is located right off the main strip O'Connell Street. The hotel was affordable, location was great and also has a restaurant.
O'Connell Street is the main street in Dublin. It holds a lot of history here. There are statues for this who fought against the British. This was were the 1916 rising occurred and ended in 450 dead and 2,624 injured. It also has the Monument of Light (large sphere) in the middle of the street and was placed there for the Millennium.
|Dublin Castle
We did the Guinness tour of course! This was really great, the best part was the view and the pint of Guinness we had at the end!
We also went to the Old Jameson Distillery Whisky tour. While the distillery isn't here, we saw how it was made with a guided tour and got to taste some. I also learned the difference between Irish and Scottish whisky.
We went to St Michan's Church and touched an 800-year old mummy!
We went into the child friendly National Wax Museum. We don't have any children but we enjoyed it. I really jumped at the Silence of the Lambs but good fun and got my picture taken with Bob the Builder!
We went over the Ha'penny Bridge. This used to be the main bridge over the River Liffey and used to cost half a penny.
We had a pint at the oldest pub in Dublin, the Brazen Head and it has had a lot of famous customers, check the photos on the wall!
We went to Dublin Castle which is south of the River Liffey.
For my birthday we went to eat at The Church Bar a converted church which serves very good food! The atmosphere is great! It is also a bar and nightclub.
|Pub at Temple Bar
We went to Ireland's largest church, St Patrick's Cathedral, and had a look. This is a beautiful church.
I attended mass at the main place of worship for Catholics, St Mary's Pro-Cathedral. The priest was American!
You can check out my pictures here.
We didn't get time to do everything but that is fine, it just gives me an excuse to go back!All the Best!
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Social Project in Piatra-Neamt (Romania)
Social Project in Piatra-Neamt (Romania)
The "Elena Doamna" Services Centre in Piatra-Neamt hosted a happy event: the special outcome of an exemplary research. Mrs Felicia Sandu's speech – the director of the Centre – stands proof: "The artist Laurenţiu Dimişcă, carried out a work show, to be more specific, a large mural environmental work in the assembly hall of "Elena Doamna" Services Centre. The following children worked alongside the artist: Ivanov Marius, Alexa Andrei, Sarion Gaby, Mârţ Iosif, Botez Iolanda, Ciurcu Alexandra, Smău Mihaela, Zamfiriuc Katy, Plătică Elena, Grecu Maria. There are two facilities operating in "Elena Doamna" Services Centre (the former Children's Home No 3): "Călin" and "Smărăndiţa" Homes. This is a residential-type protection service fostering 85 children facing difficulties. Our facility provides certain services – e.g. protection, care, education, counselling, orientation, career, monitoring, assessment, liaising with the world outside the centre – with a view to preventing social exclusion and preparing the children for their reintegration in the community. As part of the integration and reintegration process, the centre also prepares the children with a view to cooperating with the families. Moreover we provide tailored educational and catching/recovering programmes in order to secure the global development of the child, to develop occupational skills via certain programmes."
The visual artist, Laurenţiu Dimişcă, took part in many exhibitions, fairs, openings, biennales and art contests, both in Romanian and abroad. He is a member of Union of Visual Artists, [UAP] frequently awarded national and international prizes, he is an Ambassador for Euro-integration via Arts, he is a member of the international association "L`ART EN MARCHE", etc. Mr Dimişcă has a PhD in Arts. Many of the works created by the ingenious artist are exhibits of contemporary art museums as well as private collections in the country and abroad, e.g. in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, the USA, China and the Dominican Republic.
Dr Laurenţiu Dimişcă: "my goal was to carry out a work show (a creative act involving more people, mainly children with artistic skills, at the "Elena Doamna" Centre) financed by the Neamt County Council grants. The first step of this project was to paint a wall in the assembly hall, in al secco colours, together with these children. The title of this project is "Homeless Children – Our Children, Nobody's Children". By carrying out this project, my aim was to give a chance to those who were born lacking this chance. These sad-eyed children are abandoned – they have more to tell than anyone else does. I wish to bring them joy, joy of living, the game, and happiness by means of colours self-confidence and confidence in tomorrow, a better, more beautiful day."
The meaning of the pedagogy of generosity – an example offered by Laurenţiu Dimişcă by involving those who wish to put their call to creative value – is not only noble and recovering, but it belongs to the title of the great fresco he coordinated: "THE BOG FAMILY or LOVE ON STRIKE".
The content of the great fresco – conceived and carried out by Laurenţiu Dimişcă within colleague – brother-type of cooperation with ten children of the "Elena Doamna" Services Centre in Piatra-Neamt, includes, synthetically, the message of salvation! A unanimous symbol accepted and understood in all its essential meanings all over the world, remains the arch. Noah's mission is taken by Dimişcă's project, to a different level. He meant to take on board the arch fragile beings with an uncertain destiny, exposed to everyone's bias, by involving them in a minutely created graphical construction under the supervision of two guardian angels. The fare was paid for by the work, the love for work, the availability for generous and uninterested actions, and the consuming desire to successfully complete the project – arch. A coordinating principle remains Voltaire's aphorism: "Work keeps three great evils away from us: vice, worry and need". Laurenţiu Dimişcă could easily have found several people to execute, fast and in a professional manner, his orders, saving the pedagogical effort required by such a profound project, by creating a similar painting. Involving those ten children (boys and girls alike) required, on the other hand, their understanding of every bit of the work, from colours to the meaning and message of the fresco. The children did not take in the project lacking anything else to do. What are they suppose to do with the image and publicity, which neither fill their tummies nor offer any guarantee of a place in a cynical society, willing rather to turn them down than understand or accept them?
Dimişcă's ten collaborators set off with devotion and the overall understanding of the project, which is quite rare! Dimişcă had teen faithful collaborator beside him, ten loyal comrades, ten fanatics who knew their lesson well. Laurenţiu took his heart out of his chest and raised it at the height of his love to lighten the paths of life for those ten just like a Prometheus-type of Eastern legendary hero, Danko, immortalised in a thrilling story signed by Maxim Gorki: Danko's Heart of Fire. It was a red-hot, exuberant working process unfolding in a dynamic, unconstraint manner, only on the high and pure frequencies of the heart. This is maybe why the work was completed in record-breaking time, far ahead of the deadline. The record itself does not offer many explanations. However, for a pedagogically oriented projection, a spark of the thorns that made Jesus' forehead bleed decanted in this team: "Love thy fellow man as you love thyself."
Some years ago, Laurenţiu Dimişcă found himself a place, in a Viking's arch – the "VERT" Gallery owned by Mr Cornel Agăleanu, a promoter of arts who supported and brought joy to many artists. Ever since, the artist's harsh path has been on the rise. A path not without the anger of fate, ripping without warning and beyond retrieve, chunks of health off you. Having paid his blood tribute to date, Dimişcă went on the relay from Cornel Agăleanu who passed it on, building in his turn an arch of love where there is room enough for the disinherited and waste of fate. He multiplied the biblical gift by a similar gesture.
Dr Laurenţiu Dimişcă: "Abandoned children tend to grow up before their time, living thus a sand and bleak childhood. They lack maternal love, the safety of the 'home', the family peace of mind and heart. Labelled by us as beggars, thieves and 'bush-dwellers', these children grow up into tomorrow's offenders. Psychological research has proved that the label attached to abandoned children will influence their future; these children are unstable from an emotional point of view and highly receptive to exterior stimuli. My goal in this project is to offer them a chance and make them wish to become something else, integrate in society, make them wish to discover moral values and principles. I reach out my hand to them wanting to prove them that they important to society as well, and if they make the least of efforts, they will get rid of the label.
The children abandoned in state-run foster homes, then attending normal schools, most often become, homeless children prone to juvenile delinquency, drug consumption, etc. At the end of the day, it is about children abandoned by parents, who try to make a room in a society lacking both understanding and mercy.
The objective of this project is to give a chance to children discriminated by society, to make them do something useful, to help them discover themselves, to believe that there is nothing wrong in being different. The project "Homeless Children – Our Children, Nobody's Children" meets the local community's need to promote modern social standards, social dialogue; it helps social integration as well as the moral and psychic development of abandoned children and generally of local values."
Text: Mihail-Sorin Gaidau
Photography: C.M. IMAGO
Note: The photos are offered courtesy of C.M. IMAGO


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On National Aboriginal Day (June 21st), we celebrated the cultures and contributions of the Métis, First Nations and Inuit people of Canada at the Spirit Square. We sold bison burgers and smokies cooked by Mike Kubinec and served by Joan LaTrace and Lisa Maloney. Jackie and Charlotte Lever set up a tent to sell tickets for the burgers and sold sashes, t-shirts, flags, pins and other stuff. Maddy McCallum was invited to perform at the Big House and at Spirit Square, Nathaniel Arcand came with her. There was a fantastic crowd for the event, thanks to all the members who attended. Don't forget Aboriginal Day on June 21, 2015.
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March 15
Episode 49: The Winter Of Poop
It's National Shoe The World Day and Everything You Think Is Wrong Day. Tony seems to have endless chores to do every weekend and Nhat compares Tony's relationship with his girlfriend to the Karate Kid, where his significant other is Mr. Miyagi and Tony is Daniel-san. Tony lost his FitBit and Nhat encourages him to offer drugs to a neighbor's kid to find it. Nhat started Game of Thrones along with Tony. We plan our 50th episode extravaganza.
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At TCOTC, our training is often fun and games. You and your dog having fun together helps to build a great relationship. Even better, our games are designed to teach your dog important behaviors that can help them successfully navigate common situations at home and in the outside world. For example, in our photo, the dogs are learning how to have a safe and comfortable encounter with an unfamiliar dog and person. Training your dog to be a good citizen whether at home or elsewhere is one of the best ways to keep them safe.
Our Puppy Socialization and Basic Obedience classes teach members how to handle their dogs from the time they arrive at TCOTC to the time they leave. We offer separate entrance and exit doors and our instructors encourage students to keep their dogs close and focused on them when passing in the lobby and in the training ring. "We work on not only training our dogs and handlers on safety in the ring, but feeling safe as well. Both dogs and humans need to feel safe in order to learn," says Jane Jacobson.
Safety also comes to mind when we think of dog sports such as agility or flyball. These sports are fast-paced athletics. TCOTC training is designed to reduce the risk of injury to pets and their handlers, not only during class but in practice and competition as well. Anyone who has participated in a dog sports class at TCOTC has seen the emphasis our instructors put on building safety into the training. They work patiently with dogs and their handlers to build confidence and skill before the team takes on new equipment or athletic challenges. Basic Obedience and at least one Tier 2 class is required of all participants to ensure that dogs are controllable off-leash and comfortable around unfamiliar dogs and people. Members and their dogs develop solid foundational skills in beginning classes before moving to advanced levels.
"We emphasize that agility is not an entry-level sport," says Anne Bentley, agility department head at TCOTC. "A dog and handler both need to have some fundamental skills as well as good communication to participate safely, and that takes time and training to develop."
At heart, we at TCOTC want to help our members' pets to lead long, healthy and happy lives. We offer classes and activities that keep dogs physically active and engaged at every age. And we offer members periodic education on pet health issues through seminars and online resources.
"The best thing you can do for your dog's wellbeing is to teach them the skills they need to live in the human world," says Anne Schenk, executive director. "And at TCOTC, you can choose from a wide menu of well-designed classes and events to allow you to do just that. It's one of the things I value most about our club."
This photo, illustrating one of our TCOTC core values, Safety, features TCOTC member Hannah Schewe and her dog Cassie, with Jane Jacobson, TCOTC member, Instructor and Department Head Obedience and Flyball with her dog Lily. Cassie and Lily have this game down cold. Start walking, keep your attention on your mom. When she gives the signal, pop into your best sit. Guaranteed treat. Don't worry about the other dog. Keep your attention on your mom, highly likely you get another treat.


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–Prime Minister Imran says people who have failed to understand philosophy of life of Holy Prophet (PBUH) have become guardians of faith
–Orders setting up of special chairs at three universities for research on life of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday announced that Pakistan would lead an international campaign against the defamation of religions, as he lamented the fact that those who have failed to understand the philosophy of life of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) had become guardians of the faith.
The PM was addressing the opening ceremony of the two-day International Rehmatul-lil-Alameen Conference at Islamabad's Jinnah Convention Centre on Tuesday. The conference has been organised by the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony in connection with the countrywide celebration of 12th Rabiul Awwal, marking the birthday of Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).
The two-day conference titled, 'Finality of Prophethood and responsibilities of Muslims in light of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)', is the 43rd conference aimed at promoting religious harmony, tolerance, brotherhood and equality, respect for humanity, non-violence, unity, reconciliation and culture of dialogue.
Congratulating the organisers of the conference, the prime minister talked about religion, including his own personal religious journey, and stated, "There is a misconception that a person undergoes an immediate transformation when he embraces faith. No, it is just the starting point of a struggle", and added, "You can only follow the path of blessed people when you love the Prophet".
PM Khan said that he had asked the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to establish chairs for research on the Prophet's life in three different universities, adding that "… we (Pakistanis) should study the life of the Prophet who changed the world. We should examine what it was that the Prophet did, that later led to the defeats of super powers at the hands of Muslims".
Lamenting about the present religious condition and philosophy, he said, "Those people who are unable to understand the philosophy of the life of the Prophet have now become guardians of religion."
The prime minister said that he had witnessed people from all religions including Hinduism visit the shrines of great personalities like Hazrat Moinuddin Chishti, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya and Baba Farid, stating that "…"they visit their mausoleums because they were great men."
Talking about the blasphemous cartoon contest started by the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, he said that Pakistan had taken strong action against the Dutch politician by gathering the support of the Muslim world through the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and had taken up the matter with the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN), which had subsequently led to the cancellation of the contest, and an admission from the EU that freedom of expression cannot be used to guise blasphemy.
Further speaking on the matter, he said, "Pakistan will spearhead a campaign for an international declaration against the defamation of religions. I have appointed Ahmer Bilal Sufi, a law expert, to reach out to various countries and convince them to sign the declaration."
Minister for Religious Affairs Noorul Haq Qadri, in his opening address to attendees of the event, paid tribute to the services of the Prophet for humanity and shed light on various aspects of his personality.
He talked about how Prophet Muhammad treated non-Muslims and even his foes, saying he had pardoned even his worst enemies.
Scholars from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan, Syria, Morocco, and the United Kingdom are participating in the event, during which, cash awards and certificates will be given to 53 authors, whose books or articles were selected after a due process, in nine categories.
These categories are Seerat and Naat Books in Urdu, English, Arabic, and regional languages of Pakistan.
Federal ministers, politicians, and diplomats of various countries are also attending the event.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Imran Khan, while speaking to Qadri, had said that the government wishes to present an image of peaceful Islam before the world. For this purpose, "Rehmatul-il-Alameen Conferences" will be held across the country, while a two-day 'Khatm-i-Nabuwwat International Conference' will be held in Islamabad, he had said.
He had added that it was the responsibility of the state to present the true teachings of the Prophet to the next generation. PM Khan had also said that research on the life of the Prophet would be promoted under the government's supervision.


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Irving Kristol's 1995 book, 'Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea' [Source: Yurica Report]Academic Irving Kristol founds a magazine, "The Public Interest," and fills it with political and social commentary by himself and his increasingly conservative followers. Kristol will later describe himself and his comrades as "liberals mugged by reality." He leads a nascent ideological movement—later turned "neoconservativism"—marked by attacks on President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" economic policies and "New Left" thinkers. Early shapers and proponents of this new, aggressive conservatism include Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Norman Podhoretz, Diana Trilling, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Midge Decter. The more unpopular their views become with their friends and academic colleagues, the more insular and withdrawn they become. Author Craig Unger will write in 2007, "In part, their apostasy could be attributed to angst about their careers and social standing" along with their shifting political beliefs. Kristol's group tends to live, work, and socialize with one another, in an increasingly exclusive and insular group. Much of their attacks on their former liberal and counterculture friends are rooted as much in personal antipathy and a desire to avenge social slights as in ideological differences, and their attacks tend to veer away from criticism of positions and into personal invective. (Interestingly, Podhoretz once tries to convince his former friend, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, to join his neoconservative group, an effort which Ginsberg harshly repudiates. The poet later recalls Podhoretz's conversion attempt as "an epiphanous moment in my relation with Podhoretz and what he was part of—a large, right-wing, protopolice surveillance movement.") At this point, most neoconservatives still identify themselves, however reluctantly, with the Democratic Party. [Unger, 2007, pp. 35-36]
Entity Tags: Norman Podhoretz, Seymour Martin Lipset, Midge Decter, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Lyndon B. Johnson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Allen Ginsberg, Irving Kristol, Diana Trilling, Craig Unger
Timeline Tags: Neoconservative Influence
Neoconservatives see Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern's floundering campaign and eventual landslide defeat (see November 7, 1972) as emblematic of, in author Craig Unger's words, everything that is wrong with the "defeatist, isolationist policies of the liberals who had captured the Democratic Party." If the neoconservatives had had their way, their favorite senator, Henry "Scoop" Jackson (see Early 1970s), would have won the nomination. But the Vietnam War has put hawkish Cold Warriors like Jackson in disfavor in the party, and Jackson was set aside for the disastrous McGovern candidacy. The Republicans offer little interest themselves for the neoconservatives. Richard Nixon is enamored of one of their most hated nemeses, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, whose "realpolitik" did nothing to excite their ideological impulses. And under Nixon, the icy Cold War is slowly thawing, with summit meetings, bilateral commissions, and arms limitations agreements continually bridging the gap between the US and the neoconservatives' implacable foe, the Soviet Union. In Nixon's second term, the Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM)—populated by Democratic neoconservatives like Jackson, Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Nixon's domestic adviser), Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ben Wattenberg, and James Woolsey, and joined by 1968 Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey, will pressure Nixon to adopt a tough "peace through strength" policy towards the Soviet Union. Although it will take time, and the formation of countless other organizations with similar memberships and goals, this group of neoconservatives and hawkish hardliners will succeed in marginalizing Congress, demonizing their enemies, and taking over the entire foreign policy apparatus of the US government. [Unger, 2007, pp. 47-48]
Entity Tags: Norman Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Richard M. Nixon, James Woolsey, Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Ben Wattenberg, Coalition for a Democratic Majority, Irving Kristol, George S. McGovern, Craig Unger, Henry A. Kissinger, Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Timeline Tags: US International Relations, Neoconservative Influence
CPD logo. [Source: Committee on the Present Danger]A group of hardline Cold Warriors and neoconservatives revive the once-influential Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) in order to promote their anti-Soviet, pro-military agenda. The CPD is an outgrowth of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM), itself a loose amalgamation of neoconservatives and Democratic hawks. Confederation of Establishment Conservatives, Neoconservatives, and Hawkish Democrats - The CPD is led by Eugene Rostow, the head of the CDM's foreign policy task force. Others include CIA spymaster William Casey; iconic Cold War figure and "Team B" member Paul Nitze (see January 1976 and Late November, 1976); established neoconservatives such as Norman Podhoretz and Team B leader Richard Pipes (see Early 1976); rising neoconservative stars like Jeane Kirkpatrick, Midge Decter, Donald Brennan, and Richard Perle; conservative Democrats such as Nitze and former Secretary of State Dean Rusk; established Republicans such as House representative Claire Booth Luce (R-CT), David Packard, Nixon's deputy secretary of defense, Andrew Goodpaster, Eisenhower's National Security Adviser, millionaire Richard Mellon Scaife; and famed military officers such as Admiral Elmo Zumwalt. [Unger, 2007, pp. 58-59; Scoblic, 2008, pp. 99-100] No 'Realists' - Author Craig Unger will write: "Ultimately, in the CPD, one could see the emerging fault lines in the Republican Party, the ideological divide that separated hardline neocons and Cold Warriors from the more moderate, pragmatic realists—i.e. practitioners of realpolitik such as Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, George H. W. Bush, and James Baker. All of the latter were conspicuously absent from the CPD roll call." [Unger, 2007, pp. 58-59] Advocates US First Strike against USSR - Like the CDM and Team B, the CPD believes that the entire concept of detente with the Soviet Union is an abject failure, and the only way to deal with the ravenously hegemonical USSR is through armed confrontation. Like Team B (see November 1976), the CPD insists, without proof, that the USSR has made far greater strides in increasing the size and striking power of its nuclear arsenal; and like Team B, no amount of debunking using factual information stops the CPD from making its assertions (see November 1976). The US must drastically increase its stockpile of nuclear and conventional weapons, it maintains, and also be prepared to launch a nuclear first strike in order to stop the USSR from doing the same. In April 1977, the CPD evokes the familiar neoconservative specter of appeasement by writing, "The Soviet military build-up of all its armed forces over the past quarter century is, in part, reminiscent of Nazi Germany's rearmament in the 1930s." Author J. Peter Scoblic will observe, "The CPD saw itself as a collection of [Winston] Churchills facing a country of [Neville] Chamberlains." In 1978, the CPD predicts, "The early 1980s threaten to be a period of Soviet strategic nuclear superiority in which America's second-strike capability will become vulnerable to a Soviet pre-emptive attack without further improvements in US weapons." [Unger, 2007, pp. 58-59; Scoblic, 2008, pp. 99-100] Spreading Propaganda - According to a 2004 BBC documentary, the CPD will produce documentaries, publications, and provide guests for national talk shows and news reports, all designed to spread fear and encourage increases in defense spending, especially, as author Thom Hartmann will write, "for sophisticated weapons systems offered by the defense contractors for whom neocons would later become lobbyists." [Common Dreams (.org), 12/7/2004; BBC, 1/14/2005]
Entity Tags: Nixon administration, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Midge Decter, Paul Nitze, Richard Pipes, Richard Perle, William Casey, Thomas Hartmann, James A. Baker, Richard Mellon Scaife, Norman Podhoretz, Henry A. Kissinger, Eugene V. Rostow, Central Intelligence Agency, Brent Scowcroft, George Herbert Walker Bush, Claire Booth Luce, Committee on the Present Danger, Coalition for a Democratic Majority, David Dean Rusk, Elmo Zumwalt, Craig Unger, Eisenhower administration, David Packard, Donald Brennan, Andrew Goodpaster
Because neoconservatives have so little influence in the Clinton administration, two founding fathers of the movement, Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz, begin advocating for the forging of an alliance with the Christian Right, no matter how undemocratic some fundamentalists can be. In his book Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea (see 1965), Kristol wrote: "[C]onservatives and the Republican Party must embrace the religious if they are to survive.… Religious people always create problems since their ardor tends to outrun the limits of politics in a constitutional democracy. But, if the Republican Party is to survive, it must work on accommodating those people." Following Kristol's lead, Podhoretz writes that Jews should ignore the direct anti-Semitism of televangelist Pat Robertson because "Robertson's support for Israel trumps the anti-Semitic pedigree of his ideas." Neoconservative academic and intelligence figure Michael Ledeen makes numerous appearances on Robertson's televised 700 Club to promote the strategy of revamping the Middle East to suit Israel and the US, reaching millions of fundamentalist viewers. [Unger, 2007, pp. 150]
Entity Tags: Pat Robertson, Irving Kristol, Michael Ledeen, Norman Podhoretz, Clinton administration
The American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC) is founded by Freedom House. Its mission is to promote a "peaceful resolution of the Russo-Chechen war." Board members include Zbigniew Brzezinski, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Steven J. Solarz, and Max Kampelman. ACPC's regular members include Richard Perle; Elliott Abrams, Kenneth Adelman, Midge Decter, Frank Gaffney, Bruce Jackson, Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, James Woolsey, Robert Kagan, William Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, among others. The APC is closely tied to the American Enterprise Institute and the Jamestown Foundation and National Endowment for Democracy and other US democratization initiatives. [Guardian, 9/8/2004; American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, 11/15/2005]
Entity Tags: National Endowment for Democracy, American Enterprise Institute, Jamestown Foundation, Norman Podhoretz, Robert Kagan, James Woolsey, William Kristol, Michael Ledeen, Bruce Jackson, Frank Gaffney, Midge Decter, American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC), Kenneth Adelman, Elliott Abrams, Richard Perle, Max Kampelman, Alexander M. Haig, Jr., Zbigniew Brzezinski, Stephen Solarz
People involved in the 2000 PNAC report (from top left): Vice
President Cheney, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld,
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Cheney Chief of Staff I. Lewis
Libby, Undersecretary of State John Bolton, Undersecretary of Defense Dov
Zakheim, and author Eliot Cohen.
[Source: Public domain]The neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century writes a "blueprint" for the "creation of a 'global Pax Americana'" (see June 3, 1997). The document, titled Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century, was written for the George W. Bush team even before the 2000 presidential election. It was written for future Vice President Cheney, future Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, future Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Florida Governor and Bush's brother Jeb Bush, and Cheney's future chief of staff Lewis Libby. [Project for the New American Century, 9/2000, pp. iv and 51 ] Plans to Overthrow Iraqi Government - The report calls itself a "blueprint for maintaining global US preeminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests." The plan shows that the Bush team intends to take military control of Persian Gulf oil whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power and should retain control of the region even if there is no threat. It says: "The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein." The report calls for the control of space through a new "US Space Forces," the political control of the internet, the subversion of any growth in political power of even close allies, and advocates "regime change" in China, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Iran and other countries. It also mentions that "advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool" (see February 7, 2003). [Project for the New American Century, 9/2000 ; Sunday Herald (Glasgow), 9/7/2002] Greater Need for US Role in Persian Gulf - PNAC states further: "The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein." 'US Space Forces,' Control of Internet, Subversion of Allies - PNAC calls for the control of space through a new "US Space Forces," the political control of the Internet, and the subversion of any growth in political power of even close allies, and advocates "regime change" in China, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Iran, and other countries. Bioweapons Targeting Specific Genotypes 'Useful' - It also mentions that "advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target" specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool." 'A New Pearl Harbor' - However, PNAC complains that thes changes are likely to take a long time, "absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor." [Los Angeles Times, 1/12/2003] Bush Will Claim a 'Humble' Foreign Policy Stance - One month later during a presidential debate with Al Gore, Bush will assert that he wants a "humble" foreign policy in the Middle East and says he is against toppling Saddam Hussein in Iraq because it smacks of "nation building" (see October 11, 2000). Around the same time, Cheney will similarly defend Bush's position of maintaining President Clinton's policy not to attack Iraq, asserting that the US should not act as though "we were an imperialist power, willy-nilly moving into capitals in that part of the world, taking down governments." [Washington Post, 1/12/2002] Author Craig Unger will later comment, "Only a few people who had read the papers put forth by the Project for a New American Century might have guessed a far more radical policy had been developed." [Salon, 3/15/2004] A British member of Parliament will later say of the PNAC report, "This is a blueprint for US world domination—a new world order of their making. These are the thought processes of fantasist Americans who want to control the world." [Sunday Herald (Glasgow), 9/7/2002] Both PNAC and its strategy plan for Bush are almost virtually ignored by the media until a few weeks before the start of the Iraq war (see February-March 20, 2003).
Entity Tags: Robert Kagan, Robert Martinage, Richard ("Dick") Cheney, Robert Killebrew, Peter Rodman, Project for the New American Century, Roger Barnett, Paula J. Dobriansky, Saddam Hussein, William Jefferson ("Bill") Clinton, Steve Forbes, Zalmay M. Khalilzad, William J. Bennett, William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Vin Weber, Stephen A. Cambone, Steve Rosen, Thomas Donnelly, Norman Podhoretz, Phil Meilinger, Midge Decter, Donald Kagan, Donald Rumsfeld, Dov S. Zakheim, Devon Gaffney Cross, Aaron Friedberg, Abram Shulsky, Michael Vickers, Dan Quayle, Eliot A. Cohen, Dan Goure, Alvin Bernstein, Barry Watts, David Epstein, Elliott Abrams, Frank Gaffney, John Ellis ("Jeb") Bush, James Lasswell, Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, Mark P. Lagon, Mackubin Owens, Francis Fukuyama, Henry S. Rowen, Gary Schmitt, Fred C. Ikle, Frederick Kagan, David Fautua, Hasam Amin, George Weigel
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, Events Leading to Iraq Invasion, 9/11 Timeline, Neoconservative Influence
Norman Podhoretz, the editor of the neoconservative magazine Commentary, writes a call to arms called "How to Win World War IV." For Podhoretz, the US has already won World War III—the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Now, he asserts, it is time to win the war against Islamist terrorism. The US must embrace this war against civilizations, and President Bush must accept that it is his mission "to fight World War IV—the war against militant Islam." To win this war, Podhoretz writes, the nations of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea must be overthrown, but also Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority. Bush must reject the "timorous counsels" of the "incorrigibly cautious Colin Powell [and] find the stomach to impose a new political culture on the defeated" Islamic world. The 9/11 attacks caused the US to destroy the Afghan Taliban in the process of battling al-Qaeda, Podhoretz writes: "We may willy-nilly find ourselves forced… to topple five or six or seven more tyrannies in the Islamic world (including that other sponsor of terrorism, Yasir Arafat's Palestinian Authority). I can even [imagine] the turmoil of this war leading to some new species of an imperial mission for America, whose purpose would be to oversee the emergence of successor governments in the region more amenable to reform and modernization than the despotisms now in place.… I can also envisage the establishment of some kind of American protectorate over the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, as we more and more come to wonder why 7,000 princes should go on being permitted to exert so much leverage over us and everyone else." A year later, conservative pundit Pat Buchanan will explain why Podhoretz wants to so drastically remake the map of the Middle East: "[O]ne nation, one leader, one party. Israel, [Ariel] Sharon, Likud." [Commentary, 2/2002; American Conservative, 3/24/2003]
Entity Tags: George W. Bush, Colin Powell, Ariel Sharon, Likud, Patrick Buchanan, Taliban, Norman Podhoretz, Al-Qaeda
Norman Podhoretz, one of the founding fathers of neoconservatism, meets with President Bush to urge a military strike against Iran. Podhoretz meets privately with Bush at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City, with Bush's political adviser Karl Rove taking notes. The meeting is not logged in Bush's schedule. Podhoretz will become senior foreign policy adviser to presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani (R-NY) (see October 28, 2007). The London Times characterizes the meeting as evidence of "the enduring influence of the neoconservatives at the highest reaches of the White House, despite some high-profile casualties in the past year." Iran Discussed - Podhoretz will say of his meeting with Bush: "I urged Bush to take action against the Iranian nuclear facilities and explained why I thought there was no alternative.… I laid out the worst-case scenario—bombing Iran—versus the worst-case consequences of allowing the Iranians to get the bomb." Podhoretz recalls telling Bush: "You have the awesome responsibility to prevent another holocaust. You're the only one with the guts to do it." Podhoretz recalls Bush looking "very solemn." Primarily, Bush listens without responding, though Podhoretz will recall both Bush and Rove laughing when he mentions giving "futility its chance," a phrase used by fellow neoconservative Robert Kagan about the usefulness of pursuing United Nations sanctions against Iran. No Sign of Agreement - "He gave not the slightest indication of whether he agreed with me, but he listened very intently," Podhoretz will recall. Podhoretz is convinced that "George Bush will not leave office with Iran having acquired a nuclear weapon or having passed the point of no return"—a reference to the Iranians' acquisition of sufficient technical capability to produce a nuclear weapon. "The president has said several times that he will be in the historical dock if he allows Iran to get the bomb. He believes that if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we'll have waited too long—something I agree with 100 percent." No Need to Use Nukes - Podhoretz tells Bush that the US could neutralize Iran's nuclear program without using its own nuclear weapons: "I'm against using nuclear weapons and I don't think they are necessary." Podhoretz is preparing a book, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, which echoes the points he makes with Bush. According to Podhoretz, World War IV is the global struggle against terrorism (World War III was the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union). "The key to understanding what is happening is to see it as a successor to the previous totalitarian challenge to our civilization," he says. Podhoretz asserts that Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran are merely different fronts of the same long war. [London Times, 9/30/2007] Podhoretz says that "the debate [over Iran] is secretly over and the people who are against military action are now preparing to make the case that we can live with an Iranian bomb." [Daily Telegraph, 11/1/2007]
Entity Tags: Rudolph ("Rudy") Giuliani, Norman Podhoretz, Karl C. Rove, George W. Bush
Timeline Tags: US confrontation with Iran
Rudolph Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who is running a campaign for the Republican presidential nomination centered on strong national security and aggressive foreign policy, surrounds himself with a group of hardline neoconservative advisers: Neoconservative eminence Norman Podhoretz (see October 28, 2007). Podhoretz says, "I decided to join Giuliani's team because his view of the war [on terror]—what I call World War IV—is very close to my own." Podhoretz has said he "hopes and prays" President Bush attacks Iran. [Newsweek, 10/15/2007] Giuliani says of Podhoretz's advocacy of US military action against Iran, "From the information I do have available, which is all public source material, I would say that that is not correct, we are not at that stage at this point. Can we get to that stage? Yes. And is that stage closer than some of the Democrats believe? I believe it is." [New York Times, 10/25/2007] Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official and current American Enterprise Institute scholar who argues that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's diplomacy is "dangerous" and signals American "weakness" to Tehran and advocates revoking the US ban on assassination; Stephen Rosen, a Harvard hawk who wants major new defense spending and has close ties to prominent neoconservative Bill Kristol; Former senator Bob Kasten (R-WI), who often sided with neocons during the Reagan years; and Daniel Pipes, who opposes a Palestinian state and believes America should "inspire fear, not affection." Pipes has advocated the racial profiling of Muslim-Americans, argued that the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II was not morally offensive, and has, in his own words, advocated "razing [Palestinian] villages from which attacks are launched" on Israel. [Newsweek, 10/15/2007; New York Times, 10/25/2007; Daily Telegraph, 11/1/2007] Pipes is even "further out ideologically than Norman Podhoretz," writes Harper's Magazine reporter Ken Silverstein. [Harper's, 8/28/2007] Support for Israel's Likud - Some Giuliani advisers, including Kasten, former State Department aide and political counselor Charles Hill, and Islam expert Martin Kramer (who has attacked US Middle East scholars since 9/11 for being soft on terrorism) indicate Giuliani's alignment with the right-wing hawks of Israel's Likud Party, notes Forward Magazine: pro-Israeli lobbyist Ben Chouake says Giuliani is "very serious about his approach to ensuring the security and safety of Israel." [Forward, 7/18/2007] Giuliani has a long record of supporting Israel's right wing; as early as 1995, he publicly insulted Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and in 2001, told an Israeli audience that the US and Israel are "bound by blood." [Newsweek, 10/15/2007] Giuliani says he wants to expand the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) and invite Israel to join. [New York Times, 10/25/2007] A Republican political operative calls Giuliani's advisers "red-meat types" chosen to cloak Giuliani's near-complete lack of foreign experience. The operative says that Giuliani is also trying to head off criticism for his departure from the Iraq Study Group (see December 2006) before it finished its report. Republican attorney Mark Lezell, who supports Giuliani opponent Fred Thompson, says, "The concern with that particular team is that they have been at the forefront of policies that have yet to succeed and could well qualify as political baggage." [Forward, 7/18/2007] 'Out-Bushing Bush' - Not all of Giuliani's foreign affairs advisers are neocons. His policy coordinator, Hill, takes a more centrist view and says, perhaps disingenuously, "I don't really know much about neoconservatives," adding, "I don't know of a single person on the campaign besides Norman [Podhoretz] who is a self-identified, card-carrying member of this neocon cabal with its secret handshakes." Hill says the US should "deliver a very clear message to Iran, very clear, very sober, very serious: they will not be allowed to become a nuclear power," but stops short of advocating a military solution. Richard Holbrooke, a foreign policy adviser to Democratic candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), says jocularly that Giuliani is "positioning himself as the neo-neocon." Dimitri Simes of the Nixon Center says of Giuliani's team, "Clearly it is a rather one-sided group of people. Their foreign-policy manifesto seems to be 'We're right, we're powerful, and just make my day.' He's out-Bushing Bush." [Newsweek, 10/15/2007; New York Sun, 10/25/2007]
Entity Tags: Bob Kasten, Ken Silverstein, Charles Hill, Daniel Pipes, Steve Rosen, Ben Chouake, Richard Holbrooke, Mark Lezell, Rudolph ("Rudy") Giuliani, Martin Kramer, Dimitri Simes, Norman Podhoretz, Michael Rubin
Timeline Tags: US International Relations
Neoconservative founder Norman Podhoretz, a senior foreign adviser to Republican presidential frontrunner Rudolph Giuliani, says the US has no other choice than to bomb Iran. Podhoretz says heavy and immediate strikes against Iran are necessary to prevent that country from developing nuclear weapons. "None of the alternatives to military action—negotiations, sanctions, provoking an internal insurrection—can possibly work," Podhoretz says. "They're all ways of evading the terrible choice we have to make which is to either let them get the bomb or to bomb them." Podhoretz says that such strikes would be effective: "People I've talked to have no doubt we could set [Iran's nuclear program] five or 10 years. There are those who believe we can get the underground facilities as well with these highly sophisticated bunker-busting munitions." (Podhoretz does not identify the people he has "talked to.") "I would say it would take five minutes. You'd wake up one morning and the strikes would have been ordered and carried out during the night. All the president has to do is say go." Giuliani has echoed Podhoretz's belligerence towards Iran; last month, Giuliani told a London audience that Iran should be given "an absolute assurance that, if they get to the point that they are going to become a nuclear power, we will prevent them or we will set them back five or 10 years." Podhoretz says he was pleasantly surprised to hear Giuliani make such assertions: "I was even surprised he went that far. I'm sure some of his political people were telling him to go slow…. I wouldn't advise any candidate to come out and say we have to bomb—it's not a prudent thing to say at this stage of the campaign." Podhoretz has given President Bush much the same advice (see Spring 2007). 'Irrational' 'Insanity' - Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel blasts the "immorality and illegality" of Podhoretz's "death wish," and notes that such "military action would be irrational for both sides. The US military is already stretched to the breaking point. We'd witness unprecedented pandemonium in oil markets. Our troops in Iraq would be endangered." Vanden Heuvel cites the failure to destroy Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles during six weeks of bombings in 1991 (see January 16, 1991 and After), and the failure of the Israeli bombing of Iraq's Osirak reactor (see June 7, 1981) to curb "regional [nuclear] proliferation." She concludes, "Podhoretz and his insanity will embolden Iranian hardliners, plunge the region into even greater and darker instability and undermine our security." [Nation, 10/28/2007] Giuliani's Stable of Neocons - Since July 2007, Giuliani has surrounded himself with a group of outspoken hardline and neoconservative foreign policy advisers (see Mid-July 2007).
Entity Tags: Norman Podhoretz, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush, Rudolph ("Rudy") Giuliani
Timeline Tags: US confrontation with Iran, Neoconservative Influence
Neoconservative eminence grise Norman Podhoretz, who recently advocated an all-out military strike against Iran (see October 28, 2007), claims that the recently released National Intelligence Estimate on Iran (see December 3, 2007) is an attempt by the US intelligence community to avoid making the same mistakes with weapons of mass destruction that it made in Iraq. Podhoretz rightly notes that in May 2005, the intelligence community assured the administration in an NIE that Iraq was pushing towards developing a nuclear weapon. Podhoretz writes that he suspects the intelligence community, "having been excoriated for supporting the then universal belief that Saddam [Hussein] had weapons of mass destruction, is now bending over backward to counter what has up to now been a similarly universal view… that Iran is hell-bent on developing nuclear weapons." Podhoretz then presents what he calls "an even darker suspicion… that the intelligence community, which has for some years now been leaking material calculated to undermine George W. Bush, is doing it again." [Commentary, 12/3/2007]
Entity Tags: Norman Podhoretz, George W. Bush
Former UN ambassador John Bolton joins the neoconservative attack (see December 3-6, 2007) on the recently released National Intelligence Estimate on Iran (see December 3, 2007). Bolton says that the NIE is a victory for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, both advocates of diplomacy with Iran: "Secretary Rice and Secretary Gates have fundamentally won. This is an NIE very conveniently teed up for what the administration has been doing." [Los Angeles Times, 12/4/2007] Bolton echoes and extends an accusation leveled by fellow neoconservative Norman Podhoretz about the intelligence community manipulating the NIE for its own ends (see December 3, 2007): "I think there is a risk here, and I raise this as a question, whether people in the intelligence community who had their own agenda on Iran for some time now have politicized this intelligence and politicized these judgments in a way contrary to where the administration was going. I think somebody needs to look at that." [Fox News, 12/4/2007]
Entity Tags: John R. Bolton, Robert M. Gates, Norman Podhoretz, Condoleezza Rice
Neoconservative academic and intelligence figure Michael Ledeen joins his fellows Norman Podhoretz (see December 3, 2007) and John Bolton (see December 4, 2007) in attacking the recently released National Intelligence Estimate on Iran (see December 3, 2007). Ledeen excoriates the intelligence community for reversing themselves from their previous claims that Iran did indeed have an active nuclear program, and accuses its members of trying to "cover their derrieres." Ledeen writes. "[I]ndeed, those 'intelligence professionals' were very happy to take off their analytical caps and gowns and put on their policy wigs.… This sort of blatant unprofessionalism is as common in today's Washington as it is unworthy of a serious intel type, and I think it tells us a lot about the document itself.… This document will not stand up to serious criticism, but it will undoubtedly have a significant political impact, since it will be taken as confirmation of the view that we should not do anything mean to the [Iranian] mullahs. We should talk to them instead." Ledeen concludes that the NIE is "insulting to our leaders, who should expect serious work from the [intelligence community] instead of this bit of policy advocacy masquerading as serious intelligence." [Pajamas Media, 12/4/2007; National Review, 12/4/2007]
Entity Tags: Michael Ledeen, John R. Bolton, Norman Podhoretz
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I love the QSC TouchMix-30 Pro's big desk features and sound. Years ago I worked for Tony Bennett and regularly used a 48-channel desk for his 12 inputs, and would get asked, "Why not just use a small desk?" The answer is that we still want big desk features and performance, even if it's only a dozen channels.
QSC's TouchMix mixers are full featured and sound like a large-format console. With TouchMix-30, there are now 16 mix outputs plus 8 sub-groups all with 6-band PEQ and an RTA. The "30" in its name refers to the number of analog inputs between its 24 microphone pres and three stereo pairs of TRS line inputs.
On The Back
The new TM30's 7-inch tall wedge shape allows all of its connections to fit on the rear. Two-dozen XLRs for its 24 class-A preamps line the top in two rows, with the last four being TRS/XLR combos. Below are two rows of XLR male connectors for 14 auxiliary send outputs, stereo main and stereo monitor outputs.
Upon release at AES in Los Angeles last fall, the TM30 shipped worldwide with language choices for English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese and Russian. It's internal 100- to 240-volt, 85-watt international power supply employs a blue locking Volex IEC cable.
Big Screen
On the console's left is a 10-inch diagonal 1024 x 600 (WSVGA) multi-touch touch-screen, about the size of an iPad and twice as large as the original's 7-inch screen. The larger screen allows more room across its top for new tabs for a third layer of inputs plus a new subgroup layer.
Down the screen's left side is a new column of colored tabs to navigate between mixes, similar to its fader layer navigation. These tabs provide instant access to each mix's color-matched faders, with the main mix at the top and any paired stereo aux mixes becoming their two mono tabs combined.
In addition to tabbed channel windows for EQ, comp, gate, FX and auxes, the larger screen also provides room for a comprehensive overview that presents all of an input channel's controls to view at once: Digital Trim, Delay, Gate, Compressor, Parametric EQ, FX Sends and Auxiliary Sends, with all parameters directly adjustable.
Like its smaller siblings, the TM30 is laid out for a right-handed workflow, with its touch-screen to the left and its buttons and encoder on the right. Immediately next to the screen is a column of dedicated buttons for Home Screen, Menus Screen and three buttons below them quick access to new functions: RTA, Anti-Feedback and Rec/Play.
Rec/Play provides quick access to one of three operation modes. Simple stereo playback of MP3 files is new with TM30, which I've used for walk-in and break music, making it easy for marketing departments to provide hits from upcoming artists.
Like previous TM models, direct-to-hard-drive (or SSD) multi-track recording and playback of its 30 analog inputs, plus a stereo mix, is via USB without needing a computer.
New to this model is a direct connection via Type B USB-to-recording software running on a Mac computer via CORE audio: TM30 is also a 32-channel Mac interface that can be used to record a show, rehearsal or session directly to a DAW and then mix down those tracks using the same feature-rich console that recorded them. It's an affordable solution for various virtual sound check applications that include training new console operators or band members as well as a songwriting aid or for archiving live shows.
Four user-defined buttons (UDBs) are conveniently arranged around the encoder with default assignments of Navigate Left, Navigate Right, Clear Clip Indicator and Clear Cue. These are easily reassigned to routine functions like toggling one of the eight mute groups or muting individual channels. Four more UDBs higher up have useful defaults of "Play/Stop" and "Rec/Stop" for one-button recording or playing back, and "Copy" and "Paste" for quick duplication of all on-screen parameters to copy settings to another channel, a time saver not on previous TM mixers.