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|MD O'Kane is an Israeli-French teacher, a postgraduate in Philosophy, in History of ideas and an independent analyst in Geopolitics
Is "History truly written by the winners"? History is smarter than you think. In fact, History is as stubborn as facts. This makes me think of an article by George Orwell that I happen to have read when I was a young student and that was published in his "As I please" column in the British Tribune on February 4 , 1944.
"When Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned in the Tower of London, he occupied himself with writing a history of the world. He had finished the first volume and was at work on the second when there was a scuffle between some workmen beneath the window of his cell, and one of the men was killed. In spite of diligent enquiries, and in spite of the fact that he had actually seen the thing happen, Sir Walter was never able to discover what the quarrel was about; whereupon, so it is said—and if the story is not true it certainly ought to be—However, he burned what he had written and abandoned his project."
Appearing in front of a Commons Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, the UK foreign secretary took up an embarrassing frenetic enthusiasm in backing the most regrettable assertion made by Labour backbench MP Ian Austin that "Putin is going to use it [the World Cup] the way Hitler used the 1936 Olympics. In response, Johnson said, "I think the comparison with 1936 is certainly right and frankly, I think it is an emetic prospect to think of Putin glorifying in this sporting event." How could the Head of the British Diplomacy possibly dishonor his country and fellow citizens by such vocal expression of absolute ignorance of History?
Britain's Eton-educated Foreign Secretary's comment immediately caused a ravaging consequence. it showed the true colors of the British strongest soft power ; Its worldwide educational fabric of Anglozionist indoctrination also known as the British Council. The damage is immense and irreversible. The recent rolling thunder of Russophobia that has been unleashed across the UK's political and media landscape should have never gone as far as to the willful and unconscionable distortion of history. We are talking about a sacrifice of 27 millions of souls. We are talking about a person who is writing this article today ; a fact which could have never been possible if a Russian did not help an ancestor of hers throughout 4 years of odious tribulations in Nazi camps. This sort of meaningless diplomacy is unforgivable. Russia's role in defeating Anglozionist-funded Hitler in World War II, the role of the Russian people in liberating Europe from the scourge of Nazism (and who financed Nazism does matter), is an objective and unalterable fact. It is a role acknowledged by none other than Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Boris Johnson's supposed political hero. Actually, Winston Churchill was the most symbolic figure of the Latinized Anglozionist exceptionalist hegemon. He was the symbolic figure of a hierarchy ordering on races long before Nazism was born.
During a statement to the House of Commons on August 2- 1944, the very same House of Commons in which Boris Johnson now sits as an usurpateur of knowledge, Churchill however had the elementary decency to declare:
"It is the Russian armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being… that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet armies."
Twenty-seven million dead tells its own story when it comes to Russia's sacrifice in the struggle to defeat Hitler. Johnson's statement was obviously made as part of a campaign to sabotage the upcoming World Cup in Russia – a campaign that is now well underway in the UK – thus making it all the more contemptible as the secret wish was to instil an anti-Russian sentiment in future traveling English supporters to the World cup and an anti-English sentiment in Russia. In other words, it is safe to admit the resurgence of the nineteenth century Russophobic tropes being peddled by the Anglozionist country's establishment press, dredged from a swamp of British jingoism and racism. The MI-6-fabricated Skripal's case has however failed to show one shred of concrete evidence to support the accusation that culpability for the military-grade gas nerve attack lies at the door of the Kremlin. Moreover, since its fabricated evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction which ignomiously gave an infamous legal ground for a war against Iraq in 2003, it is only safe to say that the British intelligence service has durably lost any form of credibility. What's much more worrisome and telling however, is to have to consider the gregarious attitude of Germany and France rushing to condemn an unproven "story" and to take up regrettable actions without quite realizing the counterproductive effects for the European Union lying under a divisive British strategy. Or, if this attitude had to be considered as meaningful, then the crime would be even worse, as it would prove the involvement of a European political class, in Britain and in the western chancelleries combined with the countries' aforementioned establishment press acting in cooperation with a murky and evermore influential network of US Anglozionist-held Neocon think tanks to the detriment of the European public. Before a necessary in-depht analysis is provided with regard to the British political strategy, as it is clear that a pusillanimous British government mired in crisis over Brexit tries to disseminate the malign influence of the most extreme anti-Russia elements within the media, let me state this clear so that the European and ignorant American chancelleries have a free sporting history lesson of Nazi Germany in the 1930s :
I shall therefore direct this deplorable gathering of nefarious minds to the year 1938, two years after the Berlin Olympics – a Berlin Olympics which soit dit en passant Moscow boycotted unlike Great Britain and France – at a time when the British government and ruling class, with few exceptions, were mired in the appeasement of Hitler's Nazi regime. Besides, and soit dit en passant (for the record), who founded Nazism as far as 1942 ? Anglozionism is the undiputable historical answer. It is shameful period in the country's history, culminating in Britain colluding in the Nazi dictator's expansionist ambitions in Europe with regard to his desire to annex Czechoslovakia. This collusion was enshrined in the Munich Agreement, reached in conjunction with France and Italy on 30 September 1938. I won't even mention the factual connivence between a future King of England, his American divorcee girlfriend and Adolf Hitler. I shall only remind that in May of the same year (1938), England's national soccer team had travelled to Berlin to play a friendly against Germany. As both teams lined up for the usual pre-match rituals, the England players, under instruction from the British Foreign Office, gave a Nazi salute. England would eventually win the match, but Hitler won a far more relevant trophee: cultural and sporting recognition of the barbarous Latinized Anglozionist race ideology that was to lead to the death of tens of millions across Europe and beyond, over the succeeding decade. What is happening in Syria, Yemen, D.R Congo. or Afghanistan is the continuation of this Nazi ideology that wasn't born with Adolf Hitler. Russia, who in many ways embodies the Greek and Roman Empire's Eastern inheritance, has no lecture to be given by a sordid bunch of ignorant western leaders who usurp their elections via scandalous methods.
That Putin is not Hitler and that Russia is not Nazi Germany goes without saying. These lame analogies are the paramount of a Nazi Hegemon on the verge of collapse. While such people may have prospered in British political life in 1818, in 2018 they have no legitimacy occupying positions of responsibility and leadership in frontline politics within a country that wishes to be taken seriously. I won't hereby even mention the case of France whose "Resistance" force's highest peak during WW2 was 300,000 people in a country of 45 million citizens whose heirs now all claim "a passive resistant" past for their ancestors. 74,000 French Jews would never return home. Actually, their homes are occupied by these brave French heirs. If France wants to jump into the gutter, then I shall confidently watch her fall, as atrocities never die. Historical facts are like ghosts. They survive all failed ideologies.
This being said, let's be serious and consistent. Let's get to the core of a failed British strategy.
The Anglozionist-controlled British government and several of its allies, including France, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, have attempted to launch a Cold War against Russia in recent weeks. Their plan was to fabricate an attack against an ex-double agent in Salisbury and, at the same time, a chemical attack throught their US-NATO/GCC/Zionist-backed terrorists dispatched in Syria's Eastern Ghouta region. The conspirators' intention was to take advantage from Syria's Army troops' (SAA) efforts to liberate the suburbs of its Damascus capital city in the midst of a temporary change in Russia's priorities on the occasion of her Presidential election. Had these concocted manipulations worked under the guise of "an urgent humanitarian assistance to Eastern Ghouta civilians", the United Kingdom would have pushed the US Administration to bomb Damascus, including the Presidential palace in the same fashion as the British-French operated in Libya in 2011, and then demand that the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) exclude Russia from the Security Council (UNSC); a position which would have had the additional thrilling profit of putting China in a delicate diplomatic situation as new opposing frontliner and receptacle of critics that is traditionnally Russia's scapegoat inalterable role within the precincts of this honourable institution.
However, only ignorants in Russian political philosophy would have expected for such immature outcome. Not after 1917. Not after 1945. Not everafter 1991. The plot was anticipated by the Syrian and Russian intelligences as there was a strong possibility that the US-NATO-IL military advisors and technical experts hidden in Al Ghouta's underground tunels who were preparing chemical attacks by supervised terrorist groups against civilians would block their access to humanitarian corridors on purpose and that these intelligence expert teams were not actually working for the Pentagon, but for another U.S. agency.
This is how should have been interpretated Damascus' public address through the voice of Syria's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Fayçal Miqdad, when he set up an emergency Press conference for 10 March 2018 inside the United Nations' building in order to alert his fellow citizens. On its side, Moscow had previously reiterated vain attempts to contact Washington through the traditional diplomatic channels with little hope for success as Russia was aware that the US Ambassador, Jon Huntsman Jr,was and still is the Director of Caterpillar; the company which had precisely supplied tunneling materials to US-NATO/GCC/Zionist-backed jihadists in order for them to build their fortifications. Under these circumstances, Russia decided to bypass the usual diplomatic channels. What happened from that moment on? How did things play out? Welcome to the back scene of the Shakespearean "Humanistic" Democracy à l'anglaise.
Act I- From London to Syria, with Love
On March 12th and 13th 2018, the Syrian army troops seized two chemical weapons laboratories, the first on 12 March in Aftris, and the second one on the next day in Chifonya. In the meantime, the Russian diplomats most of whom (23) have been expelled by now were trying to convince the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to get involved in the U.K criminal investigation in Salisbury amid Skripal's son and daughter alleged Russian-led poisoning .
On the House of Commons front, a theatrical British Prime Minister Theresa May was condemning Russia of having ordered the attack in Salisbury in the strongest terms. According to her, the ex-double agent Sergueï Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a military nerve gas of a certain type "developed by Russia" under the name of Novitchok. From there, an immature causality principle was artificially created linking defecting Russian citizens to "the Stalinist-like" Kremlin as legitimate targets. The syllogism built on thin air would finally proudly conclude : There is a "highly likely" possibility that the Kremlin ordered the crime.
Novitchok [nerve gas] is known from what has been revealed by two former Soviet personalities, the scientist Lev Fyodorov and Vil Mirzayanov. In the Russian weekly "Top secret" of July 1992 [so right after the US-fomented collapse of the Soviet Union which shall mark in time the worst mistake of the Latinized Anglozionist hegemon], Fyodorov would publish an article warning about the extremely dangerous nature of this substance, while warning against Western powers' temptation of using Soviet weaponry to destroy the environment in Russia and make it unlivable. A few months later, he reiterated his alerting scientific message through a second article published in the News of Moscow with Mirzayanov, denouncing the corruption of a number of former Soviet Generals and the traffic of Novitchok in which they were involved. The curious thing about it was that they would denounce a wrongdoing but they were unable to quote names. Then on which solid ground did they formulate this accusation? Mirzayanov was arrested, questioned, accused of high treason then released. As for Fyodorov, he died in Russia last August. Mirzayanov is currently living in exile in the United States, where he perfectly falls in the category of traitor and confabulator that ever since collaborates with the U.S. Department of Defense.
Novitchok was fabricated in a Soviet laboratory located in Nukus, in what is now Uzbekistan. In 1999, the United States and Uzbekistan agreed to destroy that plant. By direct logical reasoning, both Uzbekistan and the United States have therefore possessed and studied samples of this substance. They were/are hence both capable of producing it.
In the aftermath of the this farcicial prologue, a buffonesque British Minister for Foreign Affairs Boris Johnson summoned the Russian ambassador in London, Alexandre Iakovenko, giving him an ultimatum of 36 hours to check if any Novitchok was missing from their stocks; an occurrence that could not be consistent with any irrational narrative as Russia had destroyed all of the chemical weapons it had inherited from the Soviet Union, as witnessed by the OPCW, which had drawn up a certified report. This is when US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made his first apparition on stage only to wrap himself in more burlesque ridicule in condemning Russia for the attack in Salisbury.
At the same moment, a debate was under way at the UN Security Council amid the situation in Syria's Ghouta region. And here are the best lines from the Highlight character of the musical ride ; namely, the permanent representative for the US at the U.N, Mrs Nikki Haley :
"Almost a year ago, in the aftermath of the Syrian regime's sarin gas attack at Khan Sheikhoun, the United States offered a warning to this Council. We said that when the international community consistently fails to act, there are times when states are compelled to take their own action. The Security Council failed to act. And the United States successfully struck the airbase from which Assad had launched his chemical attack. We repeat this warning today…"
This was when the Russian diplomats would hand out documents from the U.S. staff. objectifying the Pentagon's imminent intention to bombard the Syrian Presidential palace and the Syrian Ministries in the same fashion as it had done during the taking of Baghdad (3 to 12 April 2003) based on MI-6 fabricate evidence to launch a war. Commenting the declaration by Nikki Haley, the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, who had always called the attack in Khan Sheikhoun a "Western manipulation", revealed that the false information which had led the White House into error and triggered the bombing of the Al-Chaayrate air base in April 2017, had in fact come from a British laboratory which had never revealed how it came to possess its chemicla gas samples.
Act II – From Russia, with Love xx.
The next day, on March 13th 2018, the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs Sergueï Lavrov published a press release condemning a possible US military intervention, while clearly stating that if Russian citizens were harmed in Damascus, Moscow would riposte proportionally, since the Russian President is constitutionally responsible for the security of his fellow citizens.
Bypassing the official diplomatic channels whose we have just proven how they only serve as western sauf-conduits for information manipulation , Russian Chief of Staff General Valeri Gerasimov contacted his U.S. counterpart General Joseph Dunford to inform him about his deep concern that a false flag chemical attack was in preparation in Ghouta. Dunford took this information in the most serous manner and immediately referred to the U.S. Defense Secretary General Jim Mattis, himself swiftly referring the matter to the U.S. President Donald J. Trump. In view of the strong Russian insistence that this piece of foul play was being prepared without the knowledge of the Pentagon, the White House asked the Director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, to identify those responsible for the conspiracy. Although we do not know the full details and results of this internal enquiry, what was however rapidly and directly observable was that President Trump would acquire the conviction that his Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, was implicated in this irresponsible machination. This provides the core reason why the U.S. Secretary of State was immediately asked to interrupt his official journey in Africa and return to Washington in the best delays. He would later claim that he had no clue amid the motivation for his cold firing.
The "perfid Albion" in the person of Theresa May wrote to the General Secretary of the United Nations in which she would accuse the Kremlin of having orchestrated the attack in Salisbury without however bothering to provide any sort of solid evidence. She finished the written correspondence, convened an emergency meeting of the Security Council and without waiting for its actual holding, she took the most extravagant and wreckless initiative of expelling 23 Russian diplomats from the British soil. In the aftermath later in the afternoon and at the express request of the President of the House of Commons Interior Committee, Mrs. Yvette Cooper, British Secretary for the Interior Amber Rudd announced that MI5 (Military Interior Secret Services ) is going to re-open 14 enquiries into deaths which, according to US sources, "were ordered by the Kremlin".
This overall method adopted by the British government seems to reflect of the theories of Professor Amy Knight, an American 'Sovietologist' who published the most extravagant theory in her book 'Orders to kill – The Putin regime and political murder' released last January 22, 2018, in which the author who declares she is also 'a specialist' on the former KGB, poorly attempts to demonstrate that Vladimir Putin is a serial killer responsible for dozens of political assassinations, from the terrorist attacks in Moscow in 1999 to the attack on the Boston Marathon in 2013, by way of the execution of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006 or that of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow in 2015. In her own words, she admits that she has no proof of her accusations. Actually, the entirety of her 'scientific' published books are based on western ideologies and clichés disseminated during the Cold war upon which her mind seems to be running in circles. She also holds a PhD in Philosophy which is more surprising. Philosophers ground their thoughts on rational thinking ; therefore on solid evidence. It is not enough to be born in Russia or to have lived in Russia to become an expert on Russia. You have to think Russian; which is a humanistic state of art I am afraid that Mrs Knight is totally incapble of reaching.
To stick to the chronology, the European horde of unpopular Liberals began to join the fray at that point. Ex-Prime Minister of Belgium, Guy Verhofstadt, who presides the Liberals' group in the European Parliament, called on the European Union to adopt sanctions against Russia. His counterpart at the head of their British party, Sir Vince Cable, proposed a European boycott of the World Football Cup while Buckingham Palace had earlier announced that the royal family had canceled their trip to Russia. Furthermore, the UK communications regulator, Ofcom, announced that it might "ban the channel RT as a retaliatory measure" though at no time had RT violated the British law. The Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs summoned the British ambassador in Moscow to inform him that reciprocal measures would soon be indicated in retaliation for the expulsion of Russian diplomats from London. The regrettable khafkaesque irrationality of these cascading announcements did actually underscore one single cartesian fundamental rule : Where is the solid evidence? If none can be produced, the direct consequence is an international condemnation which itself emphasizes on the radical disconnection between this sphere of elites in denial still abiding to a collapsing Anglozionist hegemon and the public opinion. Their info war arsenal is absolutely discredited, with scandals emerging at a scary daily pace. Meanwhile, it seems that this select club of partners in crime is not ready yet to come to grips with the reality. The world has entered in an epochal transition between unipolarity and multipolarity and none of these nuisances shall survive necessary consistent reorganizations towards a true humanistic century.
This is in the midst of this quiet back-scene political landscape by contrast with their respective vociferous or falsely solemn attitudes on the mediatic scene that President Trump bluntly announced via twitter the termination of Secretary of State Tillerson's mission. This is how could be understood the nomination of former Director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo, to replace him. For the record, the night before, Mike Pompeo had confirmed the authenticity of the Russian information transmitted by General Dunford. On his arrival in Washington, Tillerson obtained confirmation of his dismissal from White House General Secretary General John Kelly. Culturally close to England, he did not hesitate, when he became President of the mega-multinational Exxon-Mobil (2006-16) to recruit mercenaries in British Guiana to safeguard Anglozionist interests. He is said to be a member of the Pilgrims Society, the most prestigious of Anglo-US clubs, presided by Queen Elizabeth II, a number of whose members were part of the Obama Administration. And now, I have reached the point in the present article where the reader has to understand a major internal dispute within Anglozionism. Contrary to what is commonly believed, the primary source of discord is not on whether or not one should praise Globalization or Nationalism but on the best way that should be chosen to perpetuate the unipolar Western domination. During his mandate, Rex Tillerson happened to have disagreements with President Trump on three major topics which shall allow us to draw the ideological lines of the conspiration's instigators within the Deep State and at the same time, the features of opposing forces. Rex Tillerson was actually the representant of the branch which promotes:
- The demonization of Russia in order to consolidate the power of the Anglo-Saxons in the Western camp ;
- The perpetuation of Western colonialism in the Middle East. In this respect, it was necessary to praise the Iranian President Rohani against the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Khamenei. The goal was to quietly generate growing dissenssions between the secular and democratic-based iranian government led by the moderate Rohani and the religious college. The idea of pushing for a JCPOA plan (The Iran Deal) signed between the P5+1 and Iran in July 2015 would fall in line with this prospect. Rex Tillerson strongly advocated for the U.S. preservation of the agreement. On the contrary, President Trump, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and the Saudis were and are still clearly opposed to this option;
- On the Pacific front, Tillerson and his 'huge Anglo-Saxon faction' within the Neocon Deep State, considered that the swing of North Korea towards the United States should remain secret, and be quietly used to justify a military deployment in the North Pacific ocean which would be directed, in reality, against the People's Repubic of China. He was therefore in favour of official talks with Pyongyang, but opposed to a meeting between the two heads of State.
Act III – The British all-out strategy
While the next day, March 14th, Washington was still considering its options against the British offensive aimed to start Cold war 2 which would have favoured the aforementioned ambitions in collaboration with the U.S Deep state, Germany France and more generally the EU, Theresa May spoke once again before the House of Commons to elaborate on her accusation. In the meantime, British diplomats were mobilized from all around the world in the same fashion as a clone info army of mass diinformation/misinformation to disseminate the unsubstantiated narrative that Russia has ordered "another" murder of former spy. In turn, including the most honourable inter-governmental organisations started to echo this most irresponsible lie backed on thin air, while answering to the Prime Minister, Blairist deputy Chris Leslie qualified Russia as a "rogue" state and demanded its suspension from the UN Security Council. This planned scenario allowed Theresa May to agree on examining the question, though insisting [supreme pernicious remark] that the outcome could only be decided by the General Assembly in order to avoid the Russian veto.
After the illegal legal ; the military level
Upon the United Kingdom's request , the North Atlantic Council (NATO) met in Brussels as the 29 member-states agreed on drawing a lame link between the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the attack in Salisbury. They then decided that there was a "highly likely" possibility that Russia be responsible for these two events. As for the reader, he knows already about the truth.
Meanwhile, Russia's diplomacy continued its efforts to bring the truth to light. In New York U.N. headquarters, the permanent representative of Russia, Mr. Vasily Nebenzya, proposed to the members of the Security Council that they adopt a declaration attesting to their common will to shed light on the attack in Salisbury and handing over the enquiry to the OPCW in the due respect of international procedures. Needless to mention that the United Kingdom immediately refuse any text which did not stipulate in the most formal written form that Russia was "probably responsible" for the attack.
During the public debate which followed, the British Zionist U.K. chargé d'Affaires Jonathan Allen represented his country. He is an agent of MI-6 who created the British War Propaganda Service and gives a pro- active support to the US-NATO/GCC-backed terrorists in Syria. Please, the reader has to realize that Zionism has firstly nothing to do with Judaism. Secondly, he has to understand that Zionism is as old as the Chritianized Roman Empire. Thirdly, he has to seize that within the Zionists, there are those who support the Anglo-saxon / French / UE preservation of the hegemon via the instillation of a dissenssion in Iran's political/religious spectrums whereas another faction praises a a more direct confrontation. Usually, the Israeli Zionist government plays on double-boards. This being said, Jonathan Allen declared that "Russia has already interfered in the affairs of other countries. Russia has already violated the international law in Ukraine [ wrong: US-NATO-IL-orchestrated coup in 2014] Russia has comtempt for civilian life, as witnessed by the attack on a commercial aircraft over Ukraine by Russian mercenaries, Russia protects the use of chemical weapons by Assad (…) The Russian state is responsible for this attempted murder".
As for him, the permanent representative for France, François Delattre, who, by virtue of a derogation by President Sarkozy, was trained [brainwashed] at the US State Department, noted that his country had launched an initiative to end the impunity of those who use chemical weapons. He implied that the initiative, originally directed at Syria, could also be turned against Russia. In stating so, this person has dishonoured France ; once more. However, the reader should be aware that hardly any diplomatic word spoken by a French diplomat is consistent with the French people's will. As sad as it is, the same comment may apply to all western citizens as a whole with regards of their respective foreign chancelleries.
I happen to have carefully watched and listened to Russian ambassador Vasily Nebenzya's response whose manners and calm were the excellence of style and consistency.
- He pointed out that the session had been convened at London's request, but that it is public at Moscow's request.
- He then went on to observe that the United Kingdom is violating the international law by treating this subject at the Security Council while keeping the OPCW out of its enquiry.
- Furthermore, he noted that if London had been able to identify the « Novotchik », it's because it has the formula and can therefore make its own. Uncompromising logic, isn't it ?
- Furthermore, he noted Russia's desire to collaborate with the OPCW in the respect for international procedures.
Act IV- THE BRITISH DOWN SPIRAL : SHUT UP AND GO AWAY !
On March the 15th, the United Kingdom published a joint declaration which was cosigned the night before by France and Germany, as well as by the still then U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. The document is a momunent of disgrace which reiterated British suspicions while condemning the utilization of a "neurotoxic agent of military-grade, a type of which had been developed by Russia". In addition, it asserted a "highly probability" that Russia is responsible for the attack".
Amazon's CEO, John Bezos-owned Washington Post (WAPO) published a vitriolic op-ed piece by Boris Johnson grounded on the most deplorable espionnage-novel kind of literature, while the US Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, established new sanctions against Russia. Actually, this new round of sanction does not directly refer to the current affair, but to allegations of "interference in U.S. public life". The decree however make a clear reference to the Salisbury's attack as solid evidence of the underhand methods of Russia.
On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the British Secretary for Defense, the untalented Gavin Williamson soon afterwards declared that as soon as the expulsion of her diplomats is fully completed, Russia should "shut up and go away". This intolerable, unprofessional and meaningless diplomacy says a lot about why the British citizens have come to believe that their whole Democratic system should be burned down to ashes and rebuilt through direct referendum. This is the very first time since the end of the Second World War that a representative of a permanent member-state of the United Nations Security Council has employed such disrespectful and aggressive terms in the face of another member of the Council. With the cleverness, the natural élégance and the unreproductible warm voice that signal his presence, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergueï Lavrov had the magnanimity to bother commenting :
«He's a charming young man. He must want to ensure his place in History by making shocking declarations […] Perhaps, he lacks education".
Conclusion thoughts
Within a period of four little days, the United Kingdom has ruined over a millennium based on apparences. Over the past four centuries, the British Empire had 'divided and ruled' with an iron fist in a velvet glove. At the dawn of the third Milennium, History shall remind that the effective epitome of Anglozionism and its abiding allies failed to precipitate the old continent into a new Cold war built on untalented Machavellian machinations. It does not have the look anymore. It doesn't have the style anymore. It doesn't feel the pulse of the people anymore. Whether young or grey-haired, it is ugly. Brains? No more ! It has disfugured the first modern Parliamentary Democracy. It has corrupted all other European democracies. It has betrayed, tortured, bleeded to death millions of civilians around the globe for a Nazi hegemonic domination. At least, the 45th President of the United States dares to voice out loud what the other faction wanted to perpetuate by silent ruse.
However, the resistence is only growing stronger. Whether within Europe or in the United States or in Syria, people stand up. Syria proved it was not Iraq and the United Nations, even weak, even defunded, even bullied is resisting and standing by the People of the many nations it represents. It needs deep reforms, but it is not the G8 from which Russia was excluded for its most vibrant support to the inalienable right of the people to their national sovereignty and wealth. Russia has successfully stood by Crimea and by Syria. The United States are not going to destroy Damascus, and Russia shall not be excluded from the U.N. Security Council. Had she be, then the United nations would have been taken its inner heart ; the fight for the freedom of the human soul.
After having walked away from the European Union and having refused to sign the Chinese declaration welcoming China's OBOR networks of connectivity that shall relieve hundreds of millions of souls from misery around the world, the United Kingdom sought to improve "Make Great Britain great again" in dividing Europe even deeper while pushing away the possiblity for the world biggest Heartland to finally unite. "Global Britain" ? As promised by a Prime Minister who doesn't even deserve the "Madam" title that precedes a Lady's name. No ever more !
©Mylene Doublet O'Kane, March 23, 2018.


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French dairy farmers are once again taking manure and spreading it on roads, five dairy farms a week are going out of business in Great Britain, and the New Zealand government told its farmers to "stand on their own two feet."
In France, according to the International Business News, farmers have blockaded roads, entered supermarkets and filled shopping carts with cheap food imports and even hurled their farm boots at government buildings.
In response, the French government said it will cut social security taxes farmers are required to pay by $556 million this year.
In Great Britain, the Royal Association of Dairy Farmers estimates that five dairy farms per week are closing. Three-fourths of British farms are not aligned with milk contracts and are currently losing money, reports The Telegraph newspaper.
The National Farmers Union says up to 20% of the nation's 10,000 dairy farms could exit the business this year. Its chairman, Rob Harrison, says he alone has lost more than $200,000 in income last year.
The concern is that banks will lose faith in dairy farmers ability to repay loans and not finance spring crop production. Once that happens, the trickle of farm exits could become a flood.
In New Zealand, conditions aren't any better. The New Zealand milk price is expected to average about $4/kilogram of milk solids, and only $4.60 next season. That's roughly half of what prices were only two years ago, reports Ireland's AgriLand newspaper.
It's estimated that 90% of New Zealand dairy farmers borrowed extra money in 2015 to stay afloat. Now Australian banks, which hold most of the loans, are worried about getting repaid.

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16 comments:
- Nanook said...
I think if I come back in another life, I'd like to be a snooty, pink caterpillar-!
And in the second shot, we can see the 'first door' (on the left) where the caterpillar vehicles could enter their little service area, to which we saw the exit door in Sunday's post.
Thanks, Devlins & The Major.
- Unknown said...
Hey, How'd you know I'd own a paisley shirt in a few years? Weird... Though I think the look is more, "What! We have to get off without an offer of a re-ride?"
It's funny, Major, seeing these pics of the whole family together. I only have memories of me and Mary being cut loose by ourselves until lunch time. These shots are from a time before I have any solid memories, though. How do the other Gorilla-ites remember being young and on ones own in the Park?
- TokyoMagic! said...
And we can also see the spur track leading up to that first door that Nanook mentioned above (and that we were discussing on Sunday).
Those caterpillar vehicles were awfully haughty!
When you think about the wide range of designs that went into all the different ride vehicles at the Disney parks, you have to assume it was really fun to be part of an attraction development team.
- K. Martinez said...
What I love about pics of the original Fantasyland's Alice in Wonderland attraction is the lack of foliage. Just concrete and small flowerbeds. Instead of natural vegetation, we get an oversized whimsical garden which stands out brilliantly because of it.
There are so many ways to look at Disneyland, whether it's the ride vehicles, track layouts, signage or props. Loved today's vintage visit. Thanks again to the Devon Family and to Major for today's wonderful photos.
- Chuck said...
Patrick, oddly, our family NEVER split up when we went to either Disneyland or WDW. I don't think we wanted to. Sure, we waited for my parents when they rode the terrifying HM, POTC, and ATIS when we were really small, and my dad sat out on the Canal Boats once to take pictures of us going through Monstro, but we were all back together when the rides ended. Were we weird?
- Monkey Cage Kurt said...
The Devlins always have the best photos. Thank you Devlin Family!
Hey (on a side note) does anybody remember that post I made where I'm babbling on about my idea of rerouting the Disneyland Rail Road and having it skirt the Rivers of America and whatnot? I'm glad Star Wars Land came up today. I just looked at some YouTube updates, and it turns out they are following the idea I had in my head almost exactly. So does anybody remember how long ago that post was and what was the date? I want to read it again.
- Chuck said...
Monkey Cage Kurt, it was on December 15th: http://gorillasdontblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/rediscovered-treasures-january-1962.html
- Monkey Cage Kurt said...
Oh Chuck, thanks! I actually found it about three minutes after I posted that comment. It was a good dialog that day. There were several Star Wars Land ideas that we predicted in that discussion that are seemingly going to come to pass. The topic of "projection attractions" came up as well, and how we are not looking forward to any more of those.
- Major Pepperidge said...
Nanook, don't forget, caterpillars turn into snooty butterflies! That first door is the entry to the abbatoir.
Patrick Devlin, I think I had a paisley shirt too! The 70's. You were only, what, five years old in these photos? That's pretty young, I'm sure most of us have forgotten 95% of stuff from that part of our lives. I only recall random images, like waiting in the line for "Inner Space", or looking through a submarine porthole and watching the bubbles (glowing red because of an undersea volcano), stuff like that.
TokyoMagic!, the say they've got their noses in the air, those caterpillars think they're better than everybody!
Anonymous, somebody was especially inspired when they designed those vehicles. I'm trying to imagine what other concepts might have been considered - teacups were already being used on that *other* ride. Cheshire Cat vehicles?
K. Martinez, I'm sure more foliage would have made for a prettier Fantasyland, but I loved the way it was. And the whole "oversized plants" part of the Alice ride is really fun. As you point out in your comment, the attention to detail is part of what makes Disneyland so endlessly fascinating.
Chuck, I don't really remember splitting up either; seems we stuck together, unless someone was too scared to ride the Haunted Mansion, or Matterhorn, etc. On the other hand, when we went to Knott's, my parents would let us run wherever the heck we wanted. We'd meet up with them later.
Monkey Cage Kurt, after doing a search and finding your prescient comment, I went back to GDB and found that Chuck had already answered your question. Doh.
Chuck, Doh.
Monkey Cage Kurt, Doh.
@Patrick, one of my earliest on-my-own memories, from probably about age 10.
Mom and Dad let me tear off straight to the Matterhorn on entry, since they didn't like that ride. I got to go all alone when the line started in the covered structure, almost no wait time.
Mom and Dad stayed behind on Main Street at the Hills Brother Coffee Garden. After the bobsleds, I was to come back and join them. When I did, they were sitting together holding hands. Big flash of insight that Mom and Dad's relationship extended back before my life began and continued when I wasn't around.
Otherwise, we were like @Chuck's family. I had no siblings, so there were only three of us, and the Matterhorn was really the only thing that no one could agree on, until Space Mountain. I don't remember ever being afraid of any Disney ride, even as a little kid, but Mom didn't like anything like a roller coaster. Dad even rode Casey Jr, but occasionally sat out the Canal Boats.
Thanks so much for sharing these pictures. Great times and memories. Definitely the best memories I have of my family and childhood are from Disneyland trips.
Architects often do their most creative work when faced with budget constraints. Though Walt wanted things done right, they still built Disneyland with a fairly tight budget. It pushed them to do things that are now the most iconic images of Disneyland, like the sparse concrete and flowers of Wonderland.
@Dean, That's definitely true. I remember another ah-ha moment when I realized the old wonderland flowers were made of concrete reinforcing bars. The distinctive deformed pattern of the steel registered even on 10 yo me.
Now the exotic foliage is "perfect" custom fabricated stuff without even tenuous connection to reality.
- walterworld said...
Thank you Patrick and the rest of the Devlin Family for sharing.
In response to your question, I'm happy to report that this was my Disneyland routine for 3 days (typically) once each summer (July mostly) in the 70's:
Family all goes in together via Monorail (we always stayed at the Hotel). We would ride all of the big rides...POTC & Haunted Mansion especially since my parents enjoyed NOS the most. Dinner at the French Market or Hungry Bear. Railroad for at least one ride, maybe two.
My dear old Pop would get tired of the increasing crowds, and so Mom and he would check out via Monorail around 1:00. After that it was up to me and my big brother to entertain ourselves in the Park for the rest of the afternoon/night as we pleased.
We'd stay all night sometimes, but most of the time we got smart and went back to the Hotel around 5:00 for a good dinner (the Hotel made an awesome Club Sandwich) before heading back to the Park. Those were the days for sure!
We have a number of pictures from this time in the family albums that my Mom put together. I need to check them out again, it's been awhile...
Thank you Patrick again for sharing.
- Major Pepperidge said...
JG, maybe we would have split up if our dad had been with us more… he was serving in Vietnam for a few key years when we lived closest to the park. So my mom took us, or our grandparents, and we stuck to them like glue!
Dean Finder, it is amazing when you consider that Walt probably spent more adding attractions to the park in 1958 and 1959 than the whole place cost to begin with! But you're right, there were still budgetary constraints.
JG, I can't really complain too much about the "perfect" foliage, though I totally get what you mean! The rough edges of the old stuff showed the hand made quality.
walterworld, that sounds like a great routine! Now I wish that I had been able to roam free as a kid! As I said to Chuck, we did that all the time at Knott's, so there's really no reason why we couldn't have done it at Disneyland; we just didn't. Which is probably why there are so many classic attractions that I never did - if mom and dad didn't want to do it, end of story! I didn't see the Tiki Room until WAY into adulthood.
@Major, definitely agree if parents didn't like it didn't get done., there were things I didn't get to see until I visited on high school trips without the parents, Golden Horseshoe Saloon, for instance.
Parents would not be caught dead in any place remotely like a saloon, so I never saw it as a kid. One of the high school trips, I went in with some friends because it was air conditioned and got to see the classic Wally Boag show, first and only time.
When I came back again 10 years later, the show was gone. I wonder if it's on Youtube, some much stuff is now.


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Such expectations present two complex challenges to the designers and technologists tasked with delivering web sites.
Using two on-line gaming web sites I explore some of the techniques used and results achieved.
On-line gaming companies providing sports betting services to slots, roulette and blackjack exist entirely in the digital world. Every second they're offline, or delaying engaging with a customer costs money. By continuously delivering new games, and enhanced experiences they drive customer retention. It is for this easy to understand business goals I've highlighted the techniques they use in this article.
A quick analysis of just two leading providers, Betsson and Kerching's home pages using Google Chrome emulating a Google Nexus 4 on a 750kps network connection produced the following results.
By contrast the same web page accessed without emulation or network constraints produced the following results.
These sites, like almost every other gaming web site, offer a variety of page layouts differentiated by domain name, the so called m dot approach. In most cases the user is free to select a layout. However a default layout is selected during the first request based on information obtained server side about the device. The difference in the mobile phone layout and the desktop layout is vast. Not only is the user interface design very different, the technologies used to deliver the page vary.
Here are just a few of the differences between the two different device layouts used by each web site.
Web site's performance should be measured beyond the initial experience of the home page. Further analysis using Chrome emulation of Betsson's deposit process, probably the most important in revenue terms, highlights just how lightweight a 3 step payment process can be made on the small screen of a mobile phone.
The total amount of data consumed by the entire process is 391kb! That's less than the entire home page on mobile. The majority of the data comes from the images of credit cards.
Using a Wi-Fi router joined to a fast broadband internet connection is never going to replicate real world usage conditions. But these are the precise conditions used by many web site creators when testing their creations. Fortunately Google Chrome version 39 provides all the tools needed for anyone to test a web site on many different devices and network conditions.
In version 39 Google moved Developer Tools for mobile to the front and centre of the developer experience. Right clicking on a web page and selecting "Inspect element" instantly loads the developer tools. The top right hand corner of the browser window provides the controls needed to quickly emulate both a range of different devices and network conditions. As a result it's now easier than ever for non-technical people to understand how a web site will perform on different devices.
A dashboard of relevant information is also displayed to the right or at the bottom of the web page. Selecting the Network tab displays information about the assets used to construct the most recently displayed web page.
Other browsers provide similar features, but Google are leading the way in making the tools simple to use and access. In fact they're so easy to use every web site owner reading this on a desktop/laptop computer should stop reading, fire up their site, right click and select "Inspect element" to play with these tools. Once done return!
Google recognise that making web sites more mobile friendly benefits the entire web and helping those making web sites achieve this goal simply is to their, and everyone else's benefit.
Any serious web site will use an analytics product to understand how users navigate the web site. By far the most popular product is Google Analytics (GA). GA uses device detection to work out if a device is considered a mobile, tablet or desktop. It's now easier than ever to enhance this information with specific screen size information and more detailed information about the device and environment. I've recently written a how-to article for smashing magazine on this very subject.
Making use of such analytics tools to understand where improvements can be made and then measure the results of changes, particular by device type and screen size, is now an essential aspect of continuously improving a web site.
Once a change has been identified the ability to make the change quickly and cost effectively becomes the next objective. Where uptime and performance is critical such changes need to be made with minimal risk. Segmenting the web site into different layouts targeting different device categories reduces the complexity of regression testing when compared to an entirely RWD approach. Consider a change which is required to better support smartphone screen sizes. In the RWD world such a change would need to be regression tested against all other common platforms to ensure there were no unforeseen consequences. As the number of permutations continues to increase such regression testing will either need to be skipped increasing the risk of a poor customer experience, or undertaken reducing time to market.
Businesses that want to see the sort of performance improvements and results seen by on-line gaming sites need to use different layouts for different device types in addition to responsive web design. The advantages are reduced time to make changes, a better and faster user experience on mobile devices, greater understanding of user flow and ultimately greater return on investment. The on-line gaming industry hasn't ignored this, and if you run a serious web site neither should you.
I founded 51Degrees to provide THE world's fastest and most accurate tools to optimise web sites on mobile following the formation of a digital marketing business. 51Degrees delivers for over 1.5 million web sites. Our clients continuously tell us that the man months effort saved by using our tools more than make up for their modest cost. After all most businesses will spend more on coffee for their web people than on our tools. This is even before the benefits of improved user experience and performance are considered.
Now that you're considering using the techniques shown request an evaluation and read our device detection selection criteria guide to learn why we're the best solution for your business.
I've also checked for tools in other browsers and see that Opera version 26 has a similar feature. To activate the UI controls which select devices and network conditions the little smartphone icon to the left of Elements needs to be selected after Developer Tools -> Web Inspector is selected from the main menu.
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- Avoid peak hours. Try to avoid taking your baby outside during peak sun times (10 am until 4 pm). If you are outside during these times, seek shade for your baby.
- Apply baby sunscreen. Sunscreens can be applied to babies six months or older. Before heading out the door SLATHER your baby (or toddler!) from head to toe. Sunscreen should be applied 30 minutes before heading to the pool or beach. Remember to reapply sunscreen every 1 ½ to two hours and especially after getting wet. No sunscreen is truly waterproof so repeat application after any wetness from swimming or sweating. Baby Pibu's Baby Sunscreen SPF 30+ is easy to apply and less greasy so it absorbs quickly.
- Cover up. Dress your little one in protective UV clothing and a floppy hat when you're planning to be outdoors for an extended period of time.
SPOT Sunburn
- Sunburns often have delayed reactions to the sun's rays that begin to appear 6-8 hours after exposure and can last for 1-2 days.
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SOOTHE Sunburn
- If your baby begins to show signs of redness after sun exposure, you can apply a safe, low-dose hydrocortisone cream like Baby Pibu's Rash Relief two times per day for up to two days to help soothe the skin. Do not use hydrocortisone cream for extended periods of time.
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If you notice significant swelling, with or without blisters, consult with your pediatrician or dermatologist.
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Ratonhnhaké:ton (Assassin's Creed 3) – Cosplay of the Day
Today's featured costume is an example of extremely passionate cosplaying and the lengths someone will go to in order to give an authentic portrayal. Let's take a breath and check out Ratonhnhaké:ton, our Cosplay of the Day!
Ratonhnhaké:ton is who Connor would have remained, if he had never become an Assassin in Assassin's Creed 3. It's always a treat to see how alternate realities would play out, so it's fun to see him run around in The Tyranny of King Washington downloadable content, decked out in his own gear instead of his Assassin's outfits.
And here to recreate that look is Alexa Karii, who we previously featured in her Sexy American Casual version of Lollipop Chainsaw's Juliet Starling. She's gone to great lengths to make the cosplay as accurate as she could, even going as far as heading to the Lexington area to take pictures in sites that might have appeared in the game. It's an amazing recreation that deserves a lot of praise, which we're definitely dishing out!
Come check out some of her other costumes on her Facebook page and show her some love for all her hard work!
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Simon M. commented,
I simply disable the auto-lock of my iphone, in the settings section. Or did I misunderstood the problem ?
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Also add on offline map option please.
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An even better feature would be to be able to enter several routes at the same time, and have them displayed on the map in different colors (Everytrails does that for instance).I often ride on rout...


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Team Red Shirt – photo by Amy Wismer
The night before the White River 50 Miler, I fidgeted in my room at Crystal, wondering why I was there. I'd not trained for the 9000+ feet of ascent, let alone the distance. Work and other part of everyday life had impeded my grand plans to train. Those three repeats up and down Mount Si? Nope. Those trips up to the pass to get in some long work? Nope. Those back-to-back twenties? Nope. My first DNF (did not finish) in seventy marathons and ultras was a real possibility – and part of me was afraid of that.
Kris, my wife encouraged me to try it. "You should go do this – what do you have to lose?" she said. This was her polite way of saying "Can you please stop moping, just go out and do this thing?". The more I thought about it, the more I saw her point. Also, it had been too late to cancel my room at the Alpine Inn – meaning I would have been out about $100 in addition to the race fees.
Bob and I before the start, with no idea what we were in for – photo by Amy Wismer
At the start the next day, I hung out with two ESR friends Justin Carpenito and Bob Wismer at the start. An injury had dashed Bob's wife Amy's plans to join us, so she was providing logistic and moral support. Amy reminded me that I needed to represent those of us entering a new age group this year. Now there was some more motivation not to drop out. As we started shortly after six AM, I was thinking that I really had no idea what I was in for.
Off and running – photo by Glenn Tachiyama
Start to Ranger Creek (mile 0 to 11.7)
The first several miles were pretty mellow. I was so focused on moving that I ran past the first aid station at Camp Sheppard without stopping. It was a really good thing I was carrying two bottles and lots of fuel, because the big climb started within a mile.
Near Camp Sheppard , very early miles – photo by Ross Comer
Things get steep fast – photographer unknown
The steep switchbacks spread the field out quickly. By now, I'd fallen back from my friends and was soon running solo in the woods. By the time I reached the Ranger Creek aid station, I really wasn't sure there were 38 more miles in my legs. Doubt lurked in my head.
Ranger Creek, out and back (mile 11.7 to 22.1)
At Ranger Creek, I topped off my bottle, ate a bit, and then set out for the last part of the climb before we'd drop towards Corral Pass. This was really nice – we'd run along cliff's edge with amazing views down to the start, and out to mighty Rainier.
Looking down towards the start – photo by Eric Sach
Falling in with Bob and Justin around then was a good boost for me. I confessed that I wasn't feeling good about my training, or my mindset. Bob turned and looked at me, then pointed out to the amazing panorama of Rainer off to our left, saying "Where else would you rather be than here?".
Justin near Corral Pass – photo by Ross Comer
Bob near Corral Pass – photo by Ross Comer
Your author near Corral Pass – photo by Ross Comer
Bob and I first met about ten years ago while doing the Nookachamps Half in Mount Vernon. Since then, we've logged miles during a number of marathons and ultras together. I've long admired the way he and his wife Amy pursue things like this as a team. Even when one of them is injured, they're actively supporting and cheering on the other (like today). And they've accomplished some pretty amazing things along the way. Always positive, always thoughtful.
I dropped back from the group as we headed back towards Ranger Creek, but I thought lots about Bob's words. I never thought I'd be running the Cascades as I approached age 50. When reflecting on what brought him to the starting line of his record-setting 24 hour run in Brive-la-Guillard France, Scott Jurek talks about how when his discomfort and fatigue become unbearable "I will run because I can". He tells us that when he struggles to hold a pose, his yoga instructor reminds him that "this is what you came for".
Today I had the opportunity to go farther than I had before. I'd been consumed by all of the things I'd not done to prepare, almost planning excuses to fail. The thing to do was to lean into this difficult pose, and just run – "because I can".
Ranger Creek to Buck Creek (mile 22.1 to 27.2)
The trip down from Ranger Creek was pretty smooth. I tried to take the downhill from Ranger Creek back to Buck Creek easy, saving my quads for later. I ran mostly solo, taking care not to turn an ankle on the roots and rocks arrayed on the trail.
I rolled back into Buck Creek, just past mile 27 at about 6:19. Bob had come in a bit ahead and Amy was making sure he had everything he needed. I took my fuel out of my drop bag, ate some PBJ, and downed a bunch of liquid along with some electrolyte tabs. We were in for a tough climb, so it was time to fuel up. Amy came over and gave me some sunscreen, and dumped water on my visor – it was getting warm, and this got me into the habit of stopping to drench my head and neck at each opportunity. Then it was time to go, before I had too much time to think about it. We had 23 miles ahead of us.
Buck Creek to Sun Top (mile 27.2 to 37)
The four and a half miles to Fawn Ridge started out easy, but quickly got steep and tough. Some negative mind-fog had rolled in again, and thought to myself "just keep moving". When I saw the aid station up ahead at mile 31.7, I'd already been on the course for over seven hours. There I quaffed down more fluids and fuel, and then set out again.
Slogging out that last half mile to Sun Top – photo by Glenn Tachiyama
The trip from Fawn Ridge to Sun Top was the hardest part of the day for me. The climbing was relentless. We hit a false summit around mile 34 or 35. Then just after coasting downhill a bit, we had to slog up to Sun Top on trail that was both steep and exposed. Just keep moving, I told myself, even as my confidence waned more. As I climbed that last half mile in the sun, my steps got small, but my feet didn't stop.
Sun Top to Skookum Flats (mile 37 to 43.4)
At Sun Top, I met Bob and Justin again. We sucked down lots of fluid and fuel. I gingerly lowered myself into a chair, wanting to rest my legs a little. Knowing what the problems gravity presents after 37 miles and nearly 9000 feet of climbing my friends warned me to "beware the chair". I lingered a bit longer there, catching up with them just down the road. That first turn on Sun Top gives possibly the nicest view of Rainier on the course – a great way to start down the hill.
This is where things turned around for me in a big way. We were all tired, our bodies hurting as we ambled down the road. There's something about running as a team that shifted our focus away from those inner voices telling us negative stuff. It's hard to describe how that emotional veil lifted as we swapped stories about life.
And we kept moving. One of us would set a new pace, and the other two would follow. Now we knew we'd finish this thing. "Start together, finish together" became the motto. We were a team, pulling each other along. Justin and I celebrated milestones marking new longest runs, and Justin got us to celebrate by running into the Skookum Flats aid station.
Skookum Flats to the Finish (mile 43.4 to 50)
Recharging for the last 6.6 – photo by Amy Wismer
When we were recharging, Amy complemented our ability to speak in complete sentences that mostly made sense. I caught up with my friend Wendy, who was working the aid station – she'd been there when I'd completed my first marathon in Anchorage, sixteen years ago. Back then, I never would have imagined I'd do something like this. But here we were.
Team "Red Shirt" set out on the Skookum Flats trail with 6.6 miles to go. Quick math told us that getting in between 12 ½ and 13 hours was within reach. The problem was that the "Flats" really wasn't so flat, and there were roots and rocks to contend with. We'd run a bit, then would walk a while. Eventually the trail narrowed and climbed until we were a couple of hundred feet above. Good thing most of my blood was flowing to my legs, otherwise I might have been more conscious of the steep drop-off on my left – not much to grab onto on the way down.
Team Red Shirt running along Skookum Flats – photo by Ross Comer
With a bit under a mile to go, Bob started to run. No one said much, we just kept moving. As we got close to the finish, things leveled out and it got a bit easier.
Bringing it in – photo by Amy Wismer
Winding out that last little section as we entered the airport, we could see the turn to the finish up ahead. We turned it up a notch as we got closer. We crossed the finish together in 12:59:28. "Start together, finish together" had worked. Amazing feeling.
I've completed 70 marathons and ultras in my life – roads, trails, flat, and not. Some were harder than others, but I'd never experienced anything quite like this. Next time around, I'll prepare – more hill training, and more quality miles – build my spirit and body up a bit more.
But two weeks later, I'm still taking in the experience. It was a great reminder to trust ourselves to dig deep when we need to. To just keep moving, and focus forward. And the team feeling to finishing with Justin and Bob was amazing. Working together kept things positive, and brought us in smiling.
Start together, finish together – it works.
Some favorite moments
- Believing Kris when she said "You should do this, what do you have to lose?".
- Conversation with Tom the night before at the Alpine Inn about races old (fast ones for him) and new. Tom also finished his first 50 miler the next day.
- That moment just after starting that it really sunk in that I had no idea what I was in for, or what it would be like.
- Bob's pep talk as we headed back to Ranger Creek.
- Amy's smile and her help getting me focus forward for the second half.
- Digging deeper on that last half mile up Sun Top. Wouldn't have believed I'd be able to do it.
- Falling in with the "Red Shirt Team" after Sun Top.
- Learning that it's easier to run level than downhill after 37 miles.
- Bob running into someone he'd met at the Kettle Moraine 100 in Wisconsin several years back – mile 40 was best small world story of the day.
- Getting passed by Jess on the Skookum Flats Trail – she was running the course for the second time.
- Internalizing Scott Jurek's message that "this is what we came for".


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