tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-348775772024-03-23T13:49:45.133-04:00Natural Pragmatism Meets Human Obstructionism. The saboteur, immediate self-interest, wins again. A history of competition, and the effects of our assumed right of conquest. Wars and hates and entitlements begin in the mind. Are we stuck seeing the right of conquest play out in a corona world. Our survival may depend on our ability to change course, to accommodate others. Learn, grasshopper. Wars and entitlements start in the mind. See <a href="http://www.studyingwar.com">Studying War</a>. Photos, comment. Some whimsy. Gristmill. By Dint. Dintworks.Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.comBlogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-28382586342675241792022-07-11T14:56:00.006-04:002022-07-21T07:16:01.266-04:00Dobbs. Amicus Brief. Law proposed. A Female Forced-Gestation Terrorism Act. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiao-kuowu92U4JZiFeCRJ3OQjsKL05lyLuuvaJuYM8PgjHvUpSEKbdu2MjfamTpGBFK_l7VqSMuVm3bTWDiZ99Ij-o-ORgojoEgkKJErq_bvHYiiY1equX38lXnDlOCxZNZhNTPb12B_QPeJnBTW8eazT2w4Rat6nzwE1Xu9M0aqlwmGPqFzQ/s1729/Palermo_0001%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1729" data-original-width="1194" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiao-kuowu92U4JZiFeCRJ3OQjsKL05lyLuuvaJuYM8PgjHvUpSEKbdu2MjfamTpGBFK_l7VqSMuVm3bTWDiZ99Ij-o-ORgojoEgkKJErq_bvHYiiY1equX38lXnDlOCxZNZhNTPb12B_QPeJnBTW8eazT2w4Rat6nzwE1Xu9M0aqlwmGPqFzQ/s320/Palermo_0001%20(3).jpg" width="221" />Dead hand control Filers of a Dobbs v. Jackson amicus brief: Support for banning protesters against government management of females. Here, Sicily. <br /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />I. And it came to pass that the privilege of men to manage women was firmly taken for granted, after years of slanted history and self-serving interpretation and translation of evidence from history and tradition (force). Upon protest from time to time, the men declared that the upstartresses were not only flawed in seeking their own agency, but if successful, they may well interfere with the economic monopoly interests of men, opening doors to competition if women were free to be Selves with Souls. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Particularly manipulated were earliest glyphs and glaughs, followed by solemn declarations of limited entitlement to vote, given to white propertied males in original Constitutions, such bestowal never to be changed, and if it were so changed, the results flowing therefrom (independence of both genders) could never alter the privilege of the propertied white male or his equivalent by Hook or by Crook, A-men.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">II. Dobbs v. Jackson emerged from this morass and was so decided by the True Believers. During the process, an amicus brief fell off the truck just as this reporter passed. Quick. To the presses. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;">A. Issue. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> Shall the status quo by history and tradition, by which the males set forth documents of the rights of men and excluding mention of women, forever fix those rights so as to preserve economic and managerial control of women (including whether they shall have a choice in whether to reproduce thee, churl, however objectionable thee be).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">B. Rule of Law. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/19-1392" target="_blank">Dobbs v. Jackson</a>. By history and tradition. there is no contest. The male wins. Let merit be damned. Let force prevail. It shall be lawful to keep her barefoot and pregnant and at home in the role the man sets for her, supported by his selective translations and erring scribes, so she cannot challenge thy superiority and surpass thee in the economic artistic and philosophical life. And thee may live out thy delusion of superiority unhinged.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Force or merit? Religious and political tracts are written by the victors, and supplemented
by inquisitors and others imposing themselves. The originalism of each proposal must be subject to strict scrutiny where liberties are at stake. <br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">C. Facts. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Protests arose from some, enjoying benefits of privilege and the right of control of females, upon the reversal of culturally inherited supremacy (Roe v. Wade). Other protests arose half a century later upon the reversal of the reversal, the Henley of the Law, with Dobbs v. Jackson. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Meanwhile, another subject group of living creatures deemed inferior to anything human, the animals, were gathered up and subjected to Horrors Unmitigated and without transparency as to focused need, monitoring for necessity and clear measures of results: research for anything a grant would grant. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> Protests arose as to conditions of the subjects, since these peasant-equivalents could not revolt on their own, Protests included getting into animal farm factories and disseminating visual and auditory evidence of the need for a moral look -- alleviate pain and minimize death at the very least, and such cost to be a normal part of a shared creation, etc. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Are there limits to rights to profit and non-interference with animals exploited for economic agenda, with minimal transparency and accountability. See the foundational article University of Michigan 2011,
<span face="Lato, Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif" style="background-color: black; font-size: 16px;">2022 Michigan State University, </span><span face="Lato, Arial, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black;"><a href="https://www.animallaw.info/article/brief-summary-state-animal-enterprise-interference-laws">https://www.animallaw.info/article/brief-summary-state-animal-enterprise-interference-laws</a>. Herein, Michigan.<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Lato, Arial, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><u>State Animal Enterprise Interference Laws</u>. Those are summarized. Protesters against the
protesters ran to the legislatures and passed mighty sums to get laws
passed criminalizing those deemed animal rights terrorists, with
penalties and fines and felonies, oh, my. "You will not cost me money,"
ran the slogan. <span face="Lato, Arial, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black;">Acts of publicizing conditions of the subject living beings and freeing the caged ones were criminalized. </span></span></span> </div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Lato, Arial, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black;">Shall that framework now protect the supremacists from protest. </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Lato, Arial, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Lato, Arial, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black;">D. Argument</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Lato, Arial, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black;"> </span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Lato, Arial, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: black;">Envision the result if the protesters against subjugation of women to the reproductive desires of men were treated as criminals. </span></span>It is this framework passed into law by the protesters against the
protesters re critters, that may well be used against those protesting
management of women for fun and profit. There be parallels.</span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="font-size: 16px;"><i>The Anti-Protest Managed-Female Enterprise Act:</i></b> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">State Female Management Enterprise Interference Laws. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Transformative fair use, <br /></span></p></div><div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Summary</b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">State female forced-reproduction terrorism laws may legitimately be enacted to protect private and publicly funded means of female-control, including </span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">a). birth frequency enhancement, </span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">b). correlative product placement functions, and </span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">c) other operations for profit using females (female-management facility). </span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Prohibited as criminal terrorism are protest activities:</span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">a) A<span style="background-color: black;">cts that obstruct, impede, or disrupt outside reproductive management of females, research, or related experimentation conducted at a facility that includes female-management. </span></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">WHEREFORE<br /></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: black;">1. A person who protests and so violates a state female forced-reproduction terrorism law, and by so doing promotes the self-determination of the female contrary to his history and tradition (that he used to exclude women before), may be charged with a misdemeanor or a felony, and face a stiff fine and prison term, and may be required to pay restitution. </span></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: black;">2. It shall be deemed that opposing protest activity does not violate state or federal rights of speech, assembly, equal rights, etc. Many states have already done it and they are still standing. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">"A Minnesota bill introduced in April 2011 seeks to make it a felony to disrupt operations at factory farms."</span></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: black;">3. The law is justified by furthering legitimate state interests: a) In government and individuals making money, b) in promoting monopoly of men in religious, political and economic and free-loader spheres, by keeping women barefoot and pregnant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot_and_pregnant.</span></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: black;">4. The law allows legislators to ignore other and substantial causes of low birth rates, other than stubborn women who do not want to reproduce you. The legislators' little swimmers are reduced in strength and number, wee y's and BIG X'S. See them run to congressional tanning salons at taxpayer expense in a flap. To focus on that cause of a reduced birth rate, and pros and cons of any efforts to change nature as to reproduction in any way, invades their privacy. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><u style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px;"> See https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/low-sperm-count/symptoms-causes/syc-2037458</u></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">4. Management of females is reasonable to promote public health and safety. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Therefore, only a "rational basis" is needed to support it. You think up something that supports that. </span><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: 16px;">5., Management of females while doing no management of males in a given context does not affect their rights to equal protection.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: 16px;">Therefore, "heightened scrutiny" is not needed to support it. Look at all the rights she has. No, not the centuries it has taken, but what she has that she did not then: <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-01-20/timeline-the-womens-rights-movement-in-the-us">https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-01-20/timeline-the-womens-rights-movement-in-the-us</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: 16px;">The law definitively declares that she is equally protected, so there. She is! She is! Stamp, stamp! </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: 16px;">She and he were, indeed, perhaps equally motivated to do the act, and so did it. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: 16px;">However, that us step one. Step two is the fertilization that may or may not result is not a matter of voluntary action. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: 16px;"> Yet she, although he was a necessary participant, is left saying, "Huh?" Her life is altered forever, he strolls off scot-free. Bo</span></span>th knew the possible fertilized result and proceeded anyway, therefore equal responsibility for it.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: 16px;">That mutual responsibility, however interferes with Point 3. <br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">6. Elaborating on acts and intention: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If the female rights terrorist acts where injury to other people or property damage result, and if the protester iintends to </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px;">obstruct, impede, or disrupt operations,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px;"> research, or experimentation as with non-treatment of medical emergency reproduction issues, or a very little girl, those are felonious or misdemeanors, depending on who has what connections and political contribution records. </span></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px;">For example, it would be a violation to enter a business offering counseling, doing things, saying things, without being a bona fide managed female, without permission to videotape child and adult females in pain or danger to life and well-being and subject to behavior controls, or to free persons detained and/or arrested for exercising self-determination and body integrity from their cages.</span></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px;">8. It is also prohibited to deter or prevent people from participating in a lawful activity, as defined herein, that involves the use of managed females. For animals, thou shalt not report, or film, or record, the process of electrocuting billy goats. or other things, done to other animals without transparancy, oversight, and mitigation, <a href="https://www.peta.org.au/news/factory-farm-beagles/">https://www.peta.org.au/news/factory-farm-beagles/</a></span></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Some legislation deems it a gross misdemeanor to document an “image or sound” of suffering at a managed animal</span><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">facility, punishing both videographers and distributors of such videos. Iowa and Florida have also considered such amendments, See Michigan.</span></span> <br /></span></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">10. The Constitution supports management of women because, by silence, it perpetuates it. The Constitution was written by white, propertied males and to lay out the rights of other white, propertied males. Quitcherbellyachin'. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: none 0% 0% repeat scroll rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px;">11. The Constitution supports the management of women because at the amendment of 1920 granting women he right to vote, it did not also say it had to enable it against protesters seeking to deter her or fund its enforcement. <br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">12. Scopes of punishment:</span></span><u> </u><span style="font-family: arial;">Look to the animal laws.</span><u><br /></u></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><u></u>Animal "In South Carolina, a misdemeanor act of animal terrorism can result in a fine as high as $10,000 and a prison sentence as long as three years."</span></span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Animal. "In Pennsylvania, a person committing a felony act of animal terrorism faces a hefty fine of $100,000 and a prison sentence as long as 40 years. In a minority of jurisdictions, a crime involving an animal enterprise may be subject to a penalty enhancement. A perpetrator may also be ordered to pay restitution to the victim for damages."</span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">13. </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Forced gestation does not violate religious precepts absent full scholarly debate, and if it did, the person holding the belief can apply prohibitions to herself. No room for protest.<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 14. Snark. If the female suffers physical or psychological or financial negative consequences from the forced birth, she should have just said no originally. No room for protest.<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15. The government and private persons by court order may snoop, stalk and otherwise cyberly identify women who protest compulsory births at <br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15. What? </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[Banners appear across the screen}<i> </i></span></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>The female shall have the absolute right to say no, at any stage of the proceedings. </i></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Criminal provision for assault shall apply to personal relationships. </i></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>The partner has equal financial responsibility for the reasonably anticipated consequence of a possible pregnancy, and shall pay child support to begin at conception and through majority defined as military age. </i></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>If she is held solely responsible, the names of all fathers shall be recorded at town hall as grantors and the woman as grantee, to underscore her status as property. </i></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>The product of conception shall be defined as a citizen of the nation of the mother and the nation of the father, as well as the nation where the conception occurred. </i></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Men
lose the right to use enhancement pills and other procedures promoting
fatherhood so long as women cannot use their pills and procedures to stop
the presses</i></span></span></i></span></span></li><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>.</i></span></span>No purveyor of pharma or Dr or healer shall sell, give, facilitate the passing around or mailing of male enhancement pills to the degree that the pharma-DR is similarly hindered in prescribing birth or day after pills. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Medical and over-the-counter records shall be released in such event and kept an available to the public as to gent-enhancement pill use to provide equal shaming, shunning, etc. .</i></span></span></li></ul></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stop! Stop! We've been hacked!! Somebody turn off the banners across the screen! </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">E. Conclusion</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who or what decides. History and tradition fail as criteria, long skewed by force. Use common sense and conflicts of laws. The woman shall decide. She puts in 9 months, he put in less. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Next? Explore alternatives to the forced dogma. The religious would note that The Human was not born, but shapen from mud. Even then, the shape was not a living soul until the Deity breathed on it, and the shape then breathed and was a human. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">Eve had her first baby at her request, not by being put upon, and had birth control obviously -- so that she could wait until Son One was murdered by Son Two and then she did Seth. Ha. Runs to the blackboard and puts up a point. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">Go, originalism. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">And she was to be the KNGDV, guide, helper as the deity is a helper, same word, as in front of him, helper as the deity is Biblically, the superior one who provides assistance, and look how well he obeyed that intended sequence. Genesis 2:18. </span><a href="https://scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/OTpdf/gen2.pdf" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">https://scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/OTpdf/gen2.pdf</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;">Adam's animosity toward his perceived competition, resenting her, not telling her important information about the Garden (which tree did you say? she asked, looking about, and he just stands back)) has a slogan: I will not be replaced. Now, how if that is the original mindset, misogyny resulting in the drive to control her is the true original sin.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO22JxQCr2xALVP1SKezp9XI7LhXYvQz0xOpAdLC6vRQwFeD-LSXTrDztq4eBIOJ2hfirpZheamqvGY2qgm6mN_cRlCJhhvHuBIaxXkTFkxiw3gIl6D2VzfFgyiTkFYKStLYzq0YaM_EYqY64APH2WOPlTuRTB7bm1wuK3PvTgpKr5VaKec3M/s800/carved%20Cain%20kills%20Abel.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="800" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO22JxQCr2xALVP1SKezp9XI7LhXYvQz0xOpAdLC6vRQwFeD-LSXTrDztq4eBIOJ2hfirpZheamqvGY2qgm6mN_cRlCJhhvHuBIaxXkTFkxiw3gIl6D2VzfFgyiTkFYKStLYzq0YaM_EYqY64APH2WOPlTuRTB7bm1wuK3PvTgpKr5VaKec3M/s320/carved%20Cain%20kills%20Abel.JPG" width="320" />Misogyny: The real original sin, Or among the worst evils leading to global purging by the Flood, Cathedral, Roskilde, Denmark</a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">There is no way that the State or Federal government can do better than a person in moral decisions within herself. If she makes the wrong decision morally, some say she will burn. Ok. Her risk.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We can acknowledge a gradually increasing governmental interest once we have a person, as measured by a developmental sequence enabling survival outside the womb and brain connectors for feeling pain and awareness, a matter of science, not sentiment: </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Watch definitions. They change. 1 U.S. Code § 8 - “Person”, “human being”, “child”, and “individual” as including born-alive infant. And, with an eye to legislation, watch this one: (c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand, or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being “born alive” as defined in this section.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />(Added Pub. L. 107–207, § 2(a), Aug. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 926.) Responsibility in all respects for children rests with both parents as to time expended, sacrifice of work, expense, caretaking, absent other agreement in writing and with each having counsel if desired, at mutual expense.<br /><br /> ___________________________</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 13.2pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We, the People<br /></span></span></p></div>Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-88050759937608312252020-07-25T17:52:00.000-04:002020-07-25T17:52:25.034-04:00Other sides of Paul Revere. He was court-martialed for cowardice, not exonerated, and was furious at his critics<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
MAGA, Revolutionary War style. This time, <i>Make America Majabigwaduce Again</i>.<br />
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Majabigwaduce is the place where Paul Revere met his Waterloo. He failed to do his duty, the British prevailed, and he was court-martialed for his dereliction and cowardice. To add to the troubles, his behavior when he was not exonerated on all charges, presages today. <br />
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Majabigwaduce. Think "Maja-Big-Wad-uce." To the American colonial military, Majabigwaduce became a familiar place name. Paul Revere, a lieutenant colonel in the American army, was ordered to stand ready at an hour's notice nearby to attack the British then constructing a redoubt, soon to be fort, at the Majabigwaduce peninsula in Penobscot Bay, Maine. The British were known at the time to be under-armed, out-numbered, and very vulnerable. <br />
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Revere did not even try despite orders, opportunity and means. The British, resigned to surrender, were amazed.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcnPDJ_iheohDnwHxKZjp66xMHiN28iI_jTqQcLz73BcWXKR40a7duUmnYmYfibAzSOp4E1gNngKMKtvFasvLCs_5W1M_4m7smrFuIhkrZIGRcaIs9MJjZPLEB-OOdABhpvYpWtQ/s1600/redmilitaryinit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcnPDJ_iheohDnwHxKZjp66xMHiN28iI_jTqQcLz73BcWXKR40a7duUmnYmYfibAzSOp4E1gNngKMKtvFasvLCs_5W1M_4m7smrFuIhkrZIGRcaIs9MJjZPLEB-OOdABhpvYpWtQ/s320/redmilitaryinit.jpg" width="240" />Paul Revere refused orders to be ready, assist and take the British fort being constructed at Majabigwaduce, a peninsula in Penobscot Bay, Maine. He was court-martialed for cowardice. Not exonerated.</a></div>
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The charge at his arrest and court-martial were damning, disobeying General Wadsworth's orders, but some matters were resolved in his favor, but leaving the essential cowardice in place. <br />
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The charge was "... unsoldierlike behavior during the whole expedition to Penobscot, which tends to cowardice." Read <a href="https://ccclib.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1481633154">The Court-Martial of Paul Revere, A Son of Liberty & America's Forgotten Military Disaster, </a>by Michael M. Greenburg, at page xvi. <br />
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Worse than this tarnishing of his modest reputation was Revere's response. He had indeed not been exonerated by the military proceedings. But he engaged in public "finger-pointing and political haranguing." And claiming conspiracies against him. Greenburg at 212. His dismissal of his critics: that he "does not stop to reason with every puppy that barks at me in the street." The critic claimed Revere had absented himself from the regiment and busying himself elsewhere with chores suitable to noncommissioned officers to avoid risk to himself in the engagement. Revere characterized the critic as envious, disappointed and malicious, engaging in abominable falsehoods without the colour of evidence, and so on. Critics responded with accusations of scurrilous language.<br />
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Step back. <br />
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1. The Big Wad. <i>Majabigwaduce </i>(Ma-ja-BIG-WAD-uce?) is the Native American name for a strategically located peninsula at Penobscot Bay, Maine. The English name was Fort George.<br />
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Paul Revere's tarnished reputation was only rehabilitated when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the memorable poem of the 17755 ride in the Lexington MA area, <a href="https://www.paulreverehouse.org/longfellows-poem/">The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. </a><br />
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2. The matters of military mediocrity preceding that ride (there were other rides, see site <a href="https://benfranklinsworld.com/episode-130-paul-reveres-ride-history/">https://benfranklinsworld.com/episode-130-paul-reveres-ride-history/</a>) remain only as hints in the bucket of spin. Click on the site and participate in the site's presentation. Surely we and our children can better handle areas of gray in a person's life. <br />
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3. Career: Paul Revere was an entrepreneur and silversmith who served as a second lieutenant in the French and Indian War in 1756,. He was in financial straits and the French were threats, see <a href="https://historyofmassachusetts.org/paul-revere-french-and-indian-war/">https://historyofmassachusetts.org/paul-revere-french-and-indian-war/</a> <br />
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Apparently there were few openings in that experience for heroism, sand no claim made of avoidance." However, the account is not glowing: He returned to Boston in November 1756 with neither laurels on his brow
now war stories that would entertain future grandchildren…” See site. Yet he did serve. That site quotes another source, stated as the book "<a href="https://www.abebooks.com/9781558492943/True-Republican-Life-Paul-Revere-1558492941/plp">Paul Revere: A True Republican,</a>" [by Jayne E. Triber, but it is entitled <i>A True Republican: The Life of Paul Revere</i>]. <br />
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4. The Order that was disobeyed: In 1797, Paul Revere was a Lieutenant Colonel. He had command of a Castle Island artillery train. and was ordered by General Wadsworth to "hold himself and 100 men under his command in readiness at an hour's notice to defend this State and attack the enemy at Penobscot under the command of General Lovell and return. Greenburg's book at xv.<br />
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5. Cowardice, dereliction of duty. Revere failed and refused to do so. He refused to assist, avoided exposure to danger, and left the area without direct orders to do so. Greenburg at 210.<br />
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Others who were court-martialed in the same expedition were acquitted. Not so for Revere. He, however, then claimed tfull exoneration. Matter closed, he claimed. <br />
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6. Retribution against detractors. But then he began his letter-writing, "bellicose" and "tedious and irate" and with "characteristic fury" communications wars with his detractors. Revere presented himself as victimized and abused and "lambasted" his attackers, and with scolding and "vitriolic intransigence," see Greenburg at 210-211 ff. He refused to let others have a last word, and espoused conspiracies Greenburg at 213. <br />
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7. Revere's character has been variously described: To some, a straightforward <a href="https://bangordailynews.com/2018/01/01/news/a-disastrous-battle-in-maine-nearly-destroyed-paul-reveres-legacy/">conceited and resistant to command</a>. The dereliction of duty is laid out in detail as charged, however. The court martial process itself was then, and is now, a thorough one but different for military than civilian courts. See <a href="https://www.jordanucmjlaw.com/2020/06/understanding-the-court-martial-process/">https://www.jordanucmjlaw.com/2020/06/understanding-the-court-martial-process/</a><br />
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8. The reading "public" at the time expressed other views. See a letter in the Boston Gazette, which reverted to verse: With thanks again to Greenburg for this. snippet at page 213, as to Paul Revere: <br />
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<i>It would please us to read, </i></blockquote>
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9. Anecdote by a guide. Factual? In going through the Revere House in Boston some time ago, we were told that his widowed sister (he had 11 siblings) lived in a poor dwelling next door, in ongoing poverty, unaided by Revere, who then put her out. This was an embarrassment to his reputation in modern times, so the poor little house was torn down and a tourist spot substituted. Someone find that information to corroborate. His character apparently precluded sharing.<br />
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Miscellany: <br />
a. Paul Revere's father was a French immigrant, <a href="https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/paul-revere-6745.php"><i>Apollos Rivoire.</i></a> He changed he family name to the English "Revere." <br />
b. Paul Revere never completed his Lexington ride. He was captured. <a href="https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/paul-revere-6745.php">https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/paul-revere-6745.php</a><br />
c. Paul Revere failed in his ride., but a sixteen year old girl, Sybil Ludington rode all night, some 60 miles, not just 10 miles or so, and without capture, to warn of the British in New York. See h<a href="ttps://revolutionary-war.net/sybil-ludington/">ttps://revolutionary-war.net/sybil-ludington/</a>.<br />
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Cancel out the Paul Revere culture? No, but balance it with the truth. <br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-32790017369634230152020-07-01T11:33:00.001-04:002020-07-25T10:13:23.836-04:00Enemies Theory. Name and blame an enemy to burnish support, regardless of merit.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Enemies make life worth living, and increases profits particularly where the exploited enemy is less powerful. Where a distraction is needed, or justification for exploitation, name the subjugated persons as an enemy -- of cultural values that shall not be questioned. Test the theory. We offer here a timeline of British heritage and its once-colony, America, adopting how "enemies" language, manipulates , justifies and targets. Movements in history have been, as now, steered by labels of "enemy" or "opposition" rather than simple disagreements between sides, each with merit. Where immediate substantive change is called for by those in charge, watch for increasingly extreme characterizations and dependence on the enemy concept rather than merit. Force works.<br />
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<b>I. Britain and America Timeline Sources here: </b></div>
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<b>Who is the identified enemy in each case: The group seeking a voice.</b></div>
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<a href="https://www.britishempire.co.uk/timeline/timeline.htm">British Colonial Timeline.</a><br />
<a href="https://www.countryfile.com/news/who-owns-england-history-of-englands-landownership-and-how-much-is-privately-owned-today/">Who Owns England </a>(<i>countryfile</i> site)<br />
<a href="https://www.historyofengland.net/kings-and-queens/the-dark-ages-450-1066-introduction">The Dark Ages </a>to 1066<br />
<a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/trans-atlantic-slave-trade-timeline-4156303">Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Timeline </a><br />
<a href="https://civilrights.findlaw.com/civil-rights-overview/civil-rights-timeline-of-events.html">Civil Rights Law Timeline</a><br />
<a href="https://civilrights.findlaw.com/civil-rights-overview/civil-rights-timeline-of-events.html">Transgender Rights Timeline</a><br />
<a href="https://www.vwt.org.au/gender-equality-timeline-australia/">Gender Equality Timeline, Australia </a>1882-date<br />
<a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-01-20/timeline-the-womens-rights-movement-in-the-us">Women's Rights Timeline US</a> 1769-date<br />
<a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/organizations/labor/labor-history-timeline-1607-1999/">Labor History Timeline t</a>o 1999<br />
<a href="https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/workers-rights--3">Workers' Rights Timeline</a><br />
<a href="https://aflcio.org/about-us/history">Labor Movement AFL-CIO and Gender Equality, Immigrant , Safety, Civil, Workplace, Retirement, and Shared Prosperity Rights etc.</a><br />
<a href="https://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/mongolia/mntimeln.htm">Viking Timeline; Russia Timeline; Mongol Timeline</a>. And on with Persia, Egypt, Arabia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_empires">Africa</a><br />
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Main focus for Britain in the Timeline: <br />
<a href="http://projectbritain.com/history.html">a) http://projectbritain.com/history.html</a>; and<br />
<a href="https://www.countryfile.com/news/who-owns-england-history-of-englands-landownership-and-how-much-is-privately-owned-today/">b) https://www.countryfile.com/news/who-owns-england-history-of-englands-landownership-and-how-much-is-privately-owned-today/ </a><br />
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<b>II. Colonialism as abuse. Indigenous as enemies. </b></div>
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<b>The colonizers are good and inherently superior. </b></div>
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<b>Those objecting to colonization are bad and inferior.; disposable people</b></div>
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The result: the colonized often internalize inferiority as a judgement upon them. And the fomenting of rebellion. Watch walls against opportunity, dignity, infliction of violence. Something doesn't love a wall -- against self sustenance,
against exploitation, against movement, that wants it down. Robert
Frost. <a href="https://www.bartleby.com/104/64.html">Mending Wall. </a><br />
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<li>Examples -- </li>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/q-a-at-60-drc-still-plagued-by-colonial-mentality/ar-BB167bBU">DRC (</a>Congo), </li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unseen-and-unheard/201711/filipinos-colonial-mentality-and-mental-health">Philippines</a>; including a thesis noting Spanish domination inning 1521, and <a href="https://www.philippine-history.org/independence-from-americans.htm">American</a> 1898-1946 officially) d ive and necessity to migrate away from a negative environment, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169534711002072">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169534711002072</a>. </li>
<li><a href="https://www.africamustchange.com/colonial-mentality-is-hindering-indias-success/">India</a>; </li>
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<b>III. Britain and American history. The cycle of enemies. Cycle of abuse.</b></div>
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<b>A. Britain colonized by Rome, Vikings and Normans; </b></div>
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<b>B. Britain colonizer of its Isle neighbors-- Scotland, Wales, Ireland </b></div>
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<b>C. Britain global reach, economic exploitation from Americas, Caribbean and Africa to Far East</b></div>
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<b>D. America the colonized, colonizes others; ongoing corporate strangleholds.</b></div>
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<b><i>Click on</i> <a href="http://projectbritain.com/history/prehistoric.html">Prehistoric Britain, project Britain.</a></b> </div>
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<i>A. External colonizers</i><br />
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43 <a href="http://projectbritain.com/history/romanbritain.html">Roman Britain </a></div>
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450 <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Anglo-Saxon Britain </a></div>
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<li> Feudal system, peasants worked land and gave most to lord in exchange
for protection and so on, commons for grazing, growing, freemen also,
another topic, see <a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_954897633">https://www.historyofengland.net/kings-and-queens/the-dark-ages-450-1066-introduction </a></li>
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<span id="goog_954897689">Go to the <i><a href="https://www.countryfile.com/news/who-owns-england-history-of-englands-landownership-and-how-much-is-privately-owned-today/">countryfile </a>or ProjectBritain site s</i>for the full coverage: </span></div>
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793 <a href="http://projectbritain.com/history/vikingbritain.html">Viking Britain </a></div>
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1066
Medieval Britain. Norman Conquest. William the Conqueror invades
Saxon England
from Normandy (the Normans, or "Northmen" had settled there, the French
desiring to rid themselves of raiding Vikings and giving them the land,
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<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>William the Conqueror moved to concentrate Britain's land in
the new Norman elite, <a href="https://www.countryfile.com/news/who-owns-england-history-of-englands-landownership-and-how-much-is-privately-owned-today/">https://www.countryfile.com/news/who-owns-england-history-of-englands-landownership-and-how-much-is-privately-owned-today. </a> William declared all land to belong to the Crown;. He handed it out to favored groups:
church and barons etc. retaining an "estate" for the monarchy. <i>Countryfile. Fast forward to that site for how much of current land ownership stems from a thousand years ago.</i></li>
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1086 --Normans. Record keeping. Domesday Book, a kingdom census, registry, records land ownership, other property<br />
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<i>B. Colonizing its own</i><br />
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1249-1286
-- Scotland is ruled by Alexander III, need info here, whose wife was
Margaret of England; faction issues, then emerging as a golden age for
Scots nationalism later? <br />
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1249-1260 -- "Interregnum". Charles I was executed. See <i><a href="http://projectbritain.com/history/stuartbritain.html">Stuart </a>timeline at 1603 below, S</i>ites differ on details here, but the point is ongoing conflicts for control, who can colonize whom. <br />
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1371 -- <a href="http://projectbritain.com/history/stuartbritain.html">Stuarts </a>rule in Scotland and to 1714<br />
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1485 -- <a href="http://projectbritain.com/history/tudorbritain.html">Tudor Britain</a>.<br />
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<li>Henry Tudor wins Battle of Bosworth against Richard III. Henry (now the <i>VII ) </i>is crowned.</li>
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1500
-- Some 30% of England's land is owned as commons for grazing and basic
needs, then nobles begin process of "enclosing" the commons<br />
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<li>Henry VIII takes much land of the church, <i>Countryfile </i></li>
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<i>C. Global Reach </i><br />
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1600 -- Bermuda becomes British colony. <a href="https://www.britishempire.co.uk/timeline/colonies.htm">https://www.britishempire.co.uk/timeline/colonies.htm </a><br />
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1603 <a href="http://projectbritain.com/history/stuartbritain.html">Stuart Britain </a><br />
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<li>James I Rule. Scotland and England and Ireland as one country [James I then called himself King of Great Britain]</li>
</ul>
1620 -- Religious dissenters, Puritans, sail for new world .<br />
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<li>Massachusetts beomes British colony.</li>
<li>1622 ff-- Maine and Virginia become British Colonies; </li>
<li>1623 -- New Hampshire as British Colony. See chart at <a href="https://www.britishempire.co.uk/timeline/colonies.htm">https://www.britishempire.co.uk/timeline/colonies.htm</a> below the interactive map of incremental involvements around globe beginning early 1600's to status 20th Century</li>
<li>1625 -- Barbados becomes British colony (or 1627?) .</li>
</ul>
James I dies. Son
Charles I becomes king. Upon his death, his son, Charles I ruled
1625-1649, when he was executed.<br />
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Progression of control, exploitation<br />
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<li>from colonies </li>
<li>to dominions </li>
<li>to protectorates </li>
<li>to mandates </li>
<li>to independence </li>
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1629 -- Charles I dissolves parliament and begins personal rule <br />
<br />
1642-1652 -- Political dissenters, a small movement, the <i>Diggers</i> and the
<i>Levellers, </i>emerge. See<br />
<a href="https://libcom.org/history/1642-1652-diggers-levellers">https://libcom.org/history/1642-1652-diggers-levellers</a><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Diggers and Levelers Theme: opposed private ownership
of land, use for the common good. This was the era of King Charles I
who ruled 1625-1649 (executed). This small and unsuccessful movement was
part of the larger context of an English Civil War. Find them at <a href="ttps://libcom.org/history/1642-1652-diggers-levellers">https://libcom.org/history/1642-1652-diggers-levellers.</a>
They lost, but their ideas recurred: rights to food, to grow crops, to
ramble, to transfer land from the A's to the B's, which usually did not
last long.<i> </i></li>
<li><i>Countryfile. </i> Diggers and Levelers opposed the 'slavery of property,' advocate a classless society, secularism,
'radical democracy,' without force, but by seizure of land (is that not
force?), and ownership ior the common good. They take control of land
in Surrey and grow corn etc, for just over a year, and expand into
Northamptonshire and Kent, angering army, landlords and against the
"law."</li>
</ul>
<br />
A leader of the Diggers: Charles Winstanley, Earth as "common treasury for all"<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
“When men take to buying and selling the land, saying ’This
is mine’, they restrain other fellow creatures from seeking nourishment
from mother earth…..so that he that had no land was to work for those,
for small wages, that called the land theirs; and thereby some are lifted
up into the chair of tyranny and others trod under the footstool of misery,
as if the earth were made for a few and not for all men.” <a href="https://libcom.org/history/1642-1652-diggers-levellers">https://libcom.org/history/1642-1652-diggers-levellers</a> </blockquote>
Group makeup: Petty bourgeoisie, shopowners, tradesmen, skilled workers, peasants. <a href="hthttps://libcom.org/history/1642-1652-diggers-leveller">Libcom.org.</a> <br />
<br />
1642 -- Royalists (a/k/a Cavaliers) v. Parliamentarians (a/k/a Roundheads) begins. Charles I at Nottingham raises his standard. Then battle. Parliamentarians had some advantages: authority over the navy, and financial resources.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Parliamentarians do not appear to be the tradesmen, skilled workers peasants. They appear to be the emerging oligarchs, wealthy of town and country</li>
</ul>
<br />
1645. Enter <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=Oliver+Cromwell">Oliver Cromwell </a>and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/fairfax_thomas.shtml">Thomas Fairfax</a>. Oliver Cromwell forms the 'New Model Army,' Defeats Royalist army led by King Charles I, Battle of Naseby.<br />
<br />
Execution of King Charles I<br />
<br />
1651 -- Charles II is crowned king of Scotland but is defeated by <a href="https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Oliver-Cromwell/">Cromwell </a>at Battle of Worcester<br />
<br />
1652 -- "Law of Freedom in a Platform" is published, by the Levellers. See text, context at <a href="http://www.bilderberg.org/land/lawofree.htm">http://www.bilderberg.org/land/lawofree.htm.</a> Then, Oliver Cromwell's <a href="http://www.bilderberg.org/land/index.htm">response</a>,<br />
<br />
<br />
1653 -- Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector (powers similar to monarch, and with army support), conquers Ireland and Scotland<br />
<br />
1660 -- Restoration of the monarchy: King Charles II<br />
<br />
<b>1664 -1665 -- Great Plague. London.</b> 100,000 people dead. In one year, 1/2 of the city population was dead.<br />
<br />
<b>1666 -- Great Fire, London. </b>Destroyed 2/3 of the city.<br />
<br />
1685 -- Charles II dies and James II becomes King. James II suspends parliament tries to return England to Catholicism.<br />
<br />
1688-89 -- Revolution in England. James II is overthrown, throne now to William of Orange (William II), whose wife was Mary II<br />
<br />
1707 -- England and Scotland become one country<br />
<br />
1714 Georgian Britain -- The <a href="http://projectbritain.com/history/stuartbritain.html">Stuarts </a>no longer rule in Scotland or England<br />
<br />
1715 -- End of Stuarts. House of Hanover enters. The daughter of
James I had married Elector Frederick V and her descendants then became
House of Hanover that took over after the Stuarts.<br />
<br />
1739 -- Ship load(s) of Scots captured to be slaves, similar to impressment, with no time limit, and from the Isle of Skye and other islands of the Hebrides were sent to the Caribbean. See <a href="https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/hebridean-slaves-offered-aps3-head-866404">https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/hebridean-slaves-offered-aps3-head-866404.</a> See also Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye, <a href="https://www.hebridesroadways.blogspot.com/">Hebrides Road Ways.</a> Some Black surnames still reflect those early Scots roots. Check it out. Is Hartford's delicious Scott's Jamaican Bakery connected to that history? See <a href="https://www.seamless.com/menu/scotts-jamaican-bakery-1344-albany-avenue-hartford/1593368">https://www.seamless.com/menu/scotts-jamaican-bakery-1344-albany-avenue-hartford/1593368</a> <br />
<br />
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charles Edward Stuart, defeated at Culloden , <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/bonnie-prince-charlie-4766631">https://www.thoughtco.com/bonnie-prince-charlie-4766631</a>; fled by boat to Isle of Skye, disguised as a woman<br />
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<i>D. American adoptions</i><br />
<br />
1769 -- US adopts British law. Women cannot own property in their own name,<br />
<br />
1776 -- American colony, July 4 <a href="https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript">Declaration of Independence </a><br />
<br />
1777 -- All US states enact laws preventing women from the vote<br />
<br />
1794 -- Right to Strike is established for workers in US<i><br /></i><br />
<br />
1837 <a href="http://projectbritain.com/history/victorianbritain.html">Victorian Britain </a><br />
<br />
1839 - Mississippi allows women to own property with permission of the husband<br />
<br />
1849 - Seneca Falls signing of "Declaration of Sentiments" promoting rights of women<br />
<br />
1862 -- England. Land Registry established; modern day -- 17% still unregistered. See <a href="https://www.countryfile.com/news/who-owns-england-history-of-englands-landownership-and-how-much-is-privately-owned-today/">https://www.countryfile.com/news/who-owns-england-history-of-englands-landownership-and-how-much-is-privately-owned-today/</a><br />
<br />
Developing:
Land reforms: County farms, council homes. Statutory right to an
allocation of land to grow food, and council homes were built (locally
owned residence buildings some including shops in the community. <br />
<br />
1866 -- Fourteenth amendment is passed, with citizen and voters declared to be male in Constitution<br />
<br />
1873 -- England. A second "Domesday" book census registry shows some 4,000 "lords and gents" own half of England, <i>Countryfile</i> A
system of County Farms is established, a "statutory right :to an
allocation of land for growing food, Countryfile. Council houses are
built, a local authority-owned community for housing, including some
shops/ [By 2015, much had been sold offl<br />
<br />
Industrialists buying. <br />
<br />
1890 -- Wyoming gives women right to vote. The enemy comes home to roost<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI1iT1vVbuEHlaWUFTkon61Mdth8KHY3CCeRAI1kNphmHejt8xNedhRPFD9luQoZ507AoMscwtIjduIiUHoYwREYXLqa6AyKVxosQ0S0QUf1Q0m_3stdw-6joVJLoEgKQAfdooBw/s1600/wchase.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="501" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI1iT1vVbuEHlaWUFTkon61Mdth8KHY3CCeRAI1kNphmHejt8xNedhRPFD9luQoZ507AoMscwtIjduIiUHoYwREYXLqa6AyKVxosQ0S0QUf1Q0m_3stdw-6joVJLoEgKQAfdooBw/s320/wchase.jpg" width="320" />Old print. Dominance does not last. The abused will return.</a></div>
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1900 -- By this time, all states grant women right to keep own wages and own property<br />
<br />
1902 <a href="http://projectbritain.com/history/twentiethcentury.html">Modern Britain</a><br />
<br />
1905 --Elsewhere. Russia. Read workers' petition. Bloody Sunday, Russian Revolution trigger, St. Petersburg, Petition. <a href="https://russiaroadwaysstpetersburg.blogspot.com/2016/04/bloody-sunday-1905-workers-petition-what-was-wanted-why-the-slaughter-at-that-time-in-that-manner.html">https://russiaroadwaysstpetersburg.blogspot.com/2016/04/bloody-sunday-1905-workers-petition-what-was-wanted-why-the-slaughter-at-that-time-in-that-manner.html</a><br />
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1914 -- England. Only some 3% of land remains for use as enclosed commons<br />
<br />
1918 - Margaret Sanger in Brooklyn NY opens clinic, gains right for doctors to advise married women on birth control for health reasons. Clinic becomes Planned Parenthood in 1942<br />
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1919 -- British Timber shortage, result of military acquisitions, war activities, testing, materiel<br />
<br />
1923 -- US First version of an Equal Rights Amendment introduced<br />
<br />
1932 ---US Recovery Act requires that only one family member can hold a governemnt job; many women lose employment<br />
<br />
Post WWII -- British Planning on the rise - building projects etc.<br />
<br />
1942 - US Planned Parenthood established in Brooklyn, see 1918<br />
<br />
1963 -- US Equal Pay Act passed; 1964 Title VII of Civil Rights Act passed; 1965 Supreme Court gives right for married women to use contraception; 1968 no government discrimination and affirmative action for hiring women; 1972 Title IX Civil Rights no sex discrimination in federally funded education programs; and etc. at <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-01-20/timeline-the-womens-rights-movement-in-the-us">https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-01-20/timeline-the-womens-rights-movement-in-the-us</a><br />
<br />
1979 -- Britain. Publicly owned projects, council housing, sold off increasingly<br />
<br />
1994 -- Britain. Council housing: Social homes. at some 3.67 million <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/revealed-how-many-council-homes-7853057">https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/revealed-how-many-council-homes-7853057</a><br />
<br />
2000 -- British Right to Roam. See "Countryside and Rights of Way Act" <i>Countryfile. </i>Also "Right to Buy" from absentee landowners particularly Scots<br />
<br />
2003 -- Britain Home ownership at max level 72%, then decline<br />
<br />
2015 -- Britain Council housing down to some 1.64 million. <i>Mirror. </i>Many passed to "private registered providers" now some 2.45 million of those.<br />
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li> See <i>Countryfile site </i>or tally now, <a href="https://www.countryfile.com/news/who-owns-england-history-of-englands-landownership-and-how-much-is-privately-owned-today/">https://www.countryfile.com/news/who-owns-england-history-of-englands-landownership-and-how-much-is-privately-owned-today/</a>-- huge swaths owned by Crown and lords and gents etc. <u>Really good pie chart</u>
there for the components -- church, new money, crown,charity, etc and
only 5% homeowners. </li>
<li>Aristocrats and gentry own 30% of England. Enter
foreign wealth, Arab, Russian, oligarchs, corporations own 18% of
England and Wales, see offshore tax havens</li>
</ul>
<br />
IV. Semi-Conclusions<br />
<br />
On the humor side, that appears to lead to a British, and
now-American, tradition to demonize the opposition, which in turn
creates more enemies. See <a href="https://www.oxfordartonline.com/page/1632">British Visual Satire.</a> And more political cartoons, <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/215857/political-cartoons-from-a-golden-age-of-british-satire/">https://hyperallergic.com/215857/political-cartoons-from-a-golden-age-of-british-satire/ </a> <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>These illustrations, from a family old framed print, had no caption.
We suggest women's rights, for example, as women who challenged the
status quo became an enemy ; while laws excluded ladies from property
and voting. What political statement is suggested here? </li>
</ul>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbZd6x7au03wix-kmUsib0XGz5Opr-kYiWzORiq3Ivvm948-DHboAqkLvdtiXDcvFmk3CiIR2TNN3oVt8bcTOUD7kgRQpEU_bDLbzxQ2pywkSB9MIHdX36ahjtwTiLqDBueKsMJA/s1600/umbrella.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="399" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbZd6x7au03wix-kmUsib0XGz5Opr-kYiWzORiq3Ivvm948-DHboAqkLvdtiXDcvFmk3CiIR2TNN3oVt8bcTOUD7kgRQpEU_bDLbzxQ2pywkSB9MIHdX36ahjtwTiLqDBueKsMJA/s320/umbrella.jpg" width="262" />Political statements through cartoon. What is the history here. Why the abuse. Who is or was the abuser, the abused, and what is next.</a></div>
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Enemies Theory, as shown in British-American political timelines..<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>One
theory for the success of creating and identifying enemies, in order to
conceal one's own shortcomings, is that pointing to enemies make life
safer for the one who buy into the theory, </li>
<li>A handy enemy provides an immediate focal point for emotion and anger. See <i>Psychology Today. (below) </i> </li>
<li>Why does this matter? It matters because colonial mindsets create enemies in the indigenous culture just out of force.</li>
<li>Enemies
as a mindset hinders the progress a culture can otherwise make to solve
mutual problems. Perhaps the colonizer could care less.</li>
<li>Yet, making enemies is short-sighted. Emotions for retaliation and compensation once fanned, persist.</li>
<ul>
<li> Change under the guise of democracy has been hindered from the start by the simplest of stalling tactics: name an enemy. </li>
<li>Blame
someone or something. Anything but find fault with established
entitlements entrenched in law and mind. The ide aof enemies theory was
first found in <i>Psychology Today </i>in a modest article at <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-big-questions/201110/enemies-enhance-the-meaning-life">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-big-questions/201110/enemies-enhance-the-meaning-life </a>h</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>If that is so, that it is enemies that enhance the meaning of life,
that there is something natural in the dominion response, what next?
Spoiler: The focus should be not on the sad state of inbred
victimization, but on economics and justice.</li>
</ul>
So, watch the issues and dissenters, who invaded and when. What differences in culture were imposed. Their themes recur. <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Historical dissent against economic and justice abuses are part of our fabric, not recent
fabrications as "communist" or "socialist." TIt just may be time to can
the enemies idea and solve the problems. Bring on justice and economic
parity with opportunity.</li>
<li>Here: polarized dissent against dictatorship in high places: </li>
<ul>
<li>Parliamentarians against Royalists. </li>
<li>But too many Parliamentarians were also oligarchs, boasting land grants from William the Conqueror. </li>
<li>Full circle of dysfunction and insulation against having to be just and share the benefits of labor. </li>
<li>And Catholic against Protestant, and all against Jews. Religion ran
from duties to others and sharing; to adopted enemies -- who defied the
new catechism, who shall be brought before the inquisitors, who dares
question the institution.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
In each phase of protecting established privilege, the winning
card was effective naming of an enemy, letting the finger-pointer
continue to avoid solving the problem of injustice and economic abuses.,
and to pocket the social and financial gains thereof. Colonialism was
and is insidious in fixing superiority and inflicting inferiority. See
the scope of the British Empire as it rose and fell, at<a href="http://www.originofnations.org/British_Empire/The%20Sun%20Never%20Set%20on%20the%20British%20Empire/The%20Sun%20Never%20Set%20on%20the%20British%20Empire_files/world-br.gif"> colonial power.</a><br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-8804588082359054572020-05-24T08:00:00.001-04:002020-05-25T00:43:32.359-04:00J'Accuse. How do we fault thee. President. Refuses duty to warn, and muster. Lives circle the drain.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
J'Accuse.*<br />
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How do we fault thee? Let us count the ways.// We fault thee for neglect, failure to warn/ Of known dangers, trashing alert systems.//<br />
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We fault thee for disregard, valuing/ Human life only where it brings you cash;/ Or a political leg up, through spite.//<br />
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I fault thee for ignoring the "<i>but for</i>" **: //<br />
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<i>But for </i>thy willful blind misdirection,/ The scope of this plague Sooner is contained:// Cities and states better prepared to treat.// The duty to warn, plan, muster, is thine.// The loss, a brother, tested too late: Mine.<br />
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Poem: <a href="https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2009%252F09%252F12.html">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a><br />
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* J'accuse. See <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=j%27accuse">https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=j%27accuse</a><br />
**The "But For" principle: <a href="https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/%22But+for%22+Rule">https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/%22But+for%22+Rule</a></div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-75086060035212504262020-05-09T15:20:00.000-04:002020-05-09T17:44:01.467-04:00Vanity Plate. I Won. Says who? What is a worthy win? And who cheated. Living for winning is a worse plague than corona. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I WON, hollers the vanity plate. Won what. When. Was it a win by cheat. Does anyone care, since all we are told by our governing leader is that he won, so go home and eat what is dished. Is the plate "win" by personal declaration against someone who says he didn't, and now the plate-person has the last say, and leaves the field. More tortuous: Is it better to lose, than to win by cheating? Does morality matter. Don't answer that. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhImz74UsXY2GVgLc1tYSmXWP3wEqjnxH8q_O5IxA-dVTDTfkvj91L-aSfIEjE3TVTsnxdiZl4_MIeLsin3Pa_nEunD8UHU08eYEZFx-xI_NLI2LlZ9J0OLtL2aIqgsRp11Oq2v6g/s1600/License.I.won.2019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1397" data-original-width="1600" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhImz74UsXY2GVgLc1tYSmXWP3wEqjnxH8q_O5IxA-dVTDTfkvj91L-aSfIEjE3TVTsnxdiZl4_MIeLsin3Pa_nEunD8UHU08eYEZFx-xI_NLI2LlZ9J0OLtL2aIqgsRp11Oq2v6g/s320/License.I.won.2019.jpg" width="320" />Vanity plate: I WON. Was it a worthy win? Was it a win by cheat? Bring in the Monitors. </a><br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Now, here's a cyberspace twist. Earlier today, all I wrote turned to Russian. What the?Хов то бринг бачк тхе вортхј Вин. Вхо'с хачкинг тхис со тхат ит ал ис ин Руссиан нов? Run to a translator and find, <i>Hov to bring bačk the vorthj Vin. Vho's hačking this so that it al is in Russian nov?</i></li>
<li><i>What if I'm a little old lady in sneakers. Do I deserve this to keep me off the field? Who's skeer'd.</i></li>
</ul>
What had been typed was, "How to bring back the worthy Win. Who's hacking this so that it all is in Russian now? Cheating, hacking, exploiting, Mitch and Don Show, bringing you, live, Right of Conquest! Applause!<br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-43042427607289454062020-03-07T09:23:00.000-05:002020-05-09T06:55:00.444-04:00Bekannt, Unbekannt, Auslander. The Turul. Functioning tribalism favors the Known. Can we overcome?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
One of the first responses of a growing baby is one expession, gesture, sound, for the Known person there; and another for an Unknown Unbekannt: Unknown. The person showing may be something to fear or love, but the point is the reognition of known vs. unknown.<br />
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Wars. The known and unknown dead. The term is often seen as the unknown soldier, or if the name is known, with "Auslander." In conversation, unbekannt may become an explanation, an acknowledgement of lack of strength in that situation of asking directions. Bekannt. Known. In status and veneration, the unbekannt bows to the bekannt. Variations in use: See<u> https://dictionary.reverso.net/german-english/unbekanntt</u>. Here, responses to difference. <br />
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Pride of group. Visit Hungary and meet the Turul, Meet the mythical, mystical, deep-rooted guardian of the Magyars of Hungary, symbol of their origins, strength, and reach. Migrations are a global pattern, for survival, domination, resources, anything human. What of their experience moving, making way -- inside here, staying outside there. Can we learn. Is there any peaceable transport. What wise choices can the one inside make. Long-form readers, explore.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0sBh6lT4dzt_quI9d0FGNANcNsvh5_RZATNA5A8f2J3HRAJzD7EWgGsqBo_xsT0CTQCU5Bx4ZRXx7IygCINqXF2HD9Tp9BazKf0aL_B-u4TITgpkPeavWdjK48dOBOaLSQC-dWw/s1600/100_0126.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0sBh6lT4dzt_quI9d0FGNANcNsvh5_RZATNA5A8f2J3HRAJzD7EWgGsqBo_xsT0CTQCU5Bx4ZRXx7IygCINqXF2HD9Tp9BazKf0aL_B-u4TITgpkPeavWdjK48dOBOaLSQC-dWw/s320/100_0126.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="https://dailynewshungary.com/turul-the-mystical-hungarian-mythological-bird/" style="text-align: center;">The Turul. Legendary symbol of the Magyars, Budapest, Hungary</a><span style="text-align: center;">, </span><br />
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1. The <a href="https://dailynewshungary.com/turul-the-mystical-hungarian-mythological-bird/">Turul</a>. See <a href="http://www.imninalu.net/eurasia_maps.htm">http://www.imninalu.net/eurasia_maps.htm</a>. How does the American migratory pattern, and response to it by those already there, differ from the experience of the people of the Turul. When do people on the move turn to beak and claw to secure place and survive; how to enable them and us to extend all our Turul-rooted wings to move with choices, and protect, or both.<br />
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2. Culture. By ideology, culture can be permeable or impermeable, or both, fluid. See how it works in biology. Fair use rework from <a href="https://www.dummies.com/education/science/biology/how-cell-substances-transport-through-the-plasma-membrane/">https://www.dummies.com/education/science/biology/how-cell-substances-transport-through-the-plasma-membrane/</a> With certain conditions, new people can transport through the established social setup, annd to the benefit of the whole.<br />
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3. Picture it. Simple. The fence-wall surrounding a group's domicile is a marker for where the action happens, as is a cell wall.<br />
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It locates where an exchange can possibly take place, the exchange between the known people inside and the unknown people outside. There is pressure both ways. Some need to move from outside to in, others from inside to out. Others feel driven to keep others out, to keep their inherited privilege, or let them to work a while for them, then go home please. </div>
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The persuasive danger point: The toxic invasion. The immediate, credible threat posed by this person/</div>
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<li>What if the unknown nudging at the cell wall, or aiming, is a toxic intruder where entry means an unraveling. What if society is indeed merely a fabric that can tolerate no loose ends, not a fluid ongoing, responsive, proactive cell. How to know. What to do.</li>
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<li>Is proactivity an approach. Recognize the issues giving rise to the "other," Start with T.E. Lawrence, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2016/apr/08/lawrence-of-arabia-wouldnt-have-been-surprised-by-the-rise-of-isis">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2016/apr/08/lawrence-of-arabia-wouldnt-have-been-surprised-by-the-rise-of-isis</a></li>
<li>Meanwhile, does closing borders here help? Which. Where. Etc. Moving on, </li>
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4. Locate a point where the efforts for inclusion and exclusions meet: A danger point. Or, perhaps, an opportunity. Is this so: that in cells, proteins from outside or outside, for example, get stuck trying to pass through to the other side. Others, say hormones or ions, can still pass through. For the ones stuck, it uses up energy. </div>
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Who or what gets through? The difference seems to be which are "recognized" by a recipient. Or can some get by if they attach to a "carrier molecule" with the same effect: recognition. The membrane, the cell wall, the fence, is not absolute but selectively permeable. There are imposters, of course, but focus for now on the recognition factor as enabling permeation</div>
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<li>Is a solution to expose, educate, teach those at the membrane to recognize the benign more broadly, and not exclude all as toxic just beause it is outside and you are inside already, thanks to forbears and earlier exploitation enabling it.</li>
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If molecules can pass through the plasma membrane without using as much energy, as with broad "recognition," perhaps? the molecules are said to use passive transport -- energy neutral. Is that it? Are the concepts there: that overexclusion wears out the cell faster than permissive inclusion.</div>
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HELPING THE MOLECULES ACROSS: ACTIVE TRANSPORT<br />
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Sometimes, the molecules are just too big to easily flow across the plasma membranes or dissolve in the water so that they can be filtered through the membrane. In these cases, the cells must put out a little energy to help get molecules in or out of the cell.<br />
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Embedded in the plasma membrane are protein molecules, some of which form channels through which other molecules can pass. Some proteins act as carriers— that is, they are “paid” in energy to let a molecule attach to itself and then transport that molecule inside the cell.<br />
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In the human body, this action occurs in the lungs. You breathe in air, and oxygen gets into the tiniest air sacs of the lungs, the alveoli. Surrounding the tiniest air sacs of the lungs are the tiniest blood vessels — capillaries. The capillaries in the lungs, called pulmonary capillaries, contain the lowest concentration of oxygen in the body, because by the time the blood gets to the tiniest vessels, most of the oxygen has been used up by other organs and tissues.<br />
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<li>Osmosis: This term is used when talking about water molecules diffusing across a membrane. Basically, the diffusion of water (osmosis) works as described in the preceding bullet. However, with osmosis, the concentration of substances in the water is taken into consideration. If a solution is isotonic, that means the concentrations of the substances (solutes) and water (solvent)on both sides of the membrane are equal. If one solution is hypotonic, there is a lower concentration of substances (and more water) in it when compared to another solution. If a solution is hypertonic, there is a higher concentration of substances in it (and less water) when compared to another solution.</li>
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For example, the blood in your body contains a certain amount of salt. The normal concentration is isotonic. If suddenly there is too high a concentration of salt, the blood becomes hypertonic (too many salt molecules). This excess of salt forces water out of the blood cells in an attempt to even things out. But the effect this action has is actually that of shrinking the blood cells.<br />
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This shrinking of cells is called crenation (not cremation). If too much fluid is in the bloodstream, the blood cells have too few molecules of salt in comparison, making them hypotonic. Then, the blood cells take in water in an attempt to normalize the blood and make it isotonic. However, if the blood cells need to take in too much water to bring everything back into balance, they can swell until they burst. This bursting of cells is called hemolysis (hemo = blood; lysis = break apart).<br />
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<li>Filtration: The last form of passive transport is used most often in the capillaries. Capillaries are so thin (their membranes are only one cell thick) that diffusion easily takes place through them. But remember that animals have a blood pressure. The pressure at which the blood flows through the capillaries is enough force to push water and small solutes that have dissolved in the water right through the capillary membrane. So, in essence, the capillary membrane acts as filter paper, allowing fluid to surround the body’s cells and keeping large molecules from getting into the tissue fluid.</li>
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In politics, the concept identifies a social and reactive membrane,
One group can congeal behind the membrane and groupthink and assert its
right to dominance. Cultural and physical differences determine who may
permeate the membrane and belong. Must they be subdued first. A child's
earliest experiences appear to be of bekannt, the gurgle of safety and
pleasure; the unbekannt and its startle, recoil, eyes opening wider for
the unfamiliar, recoil,or gurgle of comfort. The goal is survival, How
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Bekannt: Known. Knowable perhaps,
but where is the motivation to understand when the bekannt is not
threatened. e headstone. Not an unknown, but an outsider lies here, and
Schroder is his name. Some of the unknowns, the unknowables, are
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Parroting inherited privilege, however, refusing with a sneering smile to let others pass through to their own goals, daring them to try to proceed as you assert right to turf, mistaking blockage as strength, is a big seed of destruction for the whole. Watch it grow. The blindly impermeable culture claimed by those who did not earn by merit, is indeed a fabric that will uravel. So, social fabric, or social membrane. Kids' choice, adults' choice, but who guides the kids.<br />
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1. For all: Basic needs, education, mobility, and healthcare,<br />
2. Taxation: All income above poverty at steadily increasing rates.<br />
3. Competition: Foster opportunity without automatic disqualification or limit by reason of any trait.<br />
4. Accommodation: For healing, nurturance of self and family, including pregnancy.<br />
5. Choice: Foster mobility and communications for fair competition for all.<br />
6. Autonomy: No imposition within the fingertip-stride span of any person without affirmative, unqualified, and repeated consent.</blockquote>
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What dangers when a symbol is appropriated by an extremist political group. See <a href="https://dailynewshungary.com/turul-the-mystical-hungarian-mythological-bird/">The Rise of a Fallen Feather. </a></div>
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-36859845512356809162019-08-20T10:22:00.005-04:002019-08-20T10:22:46.672-04:00How to spot propaganda. ISSFOODR mnemonic. Learn from a Master..<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">ISSFOODR, A mnemonic for memory. Topic: historical propaganda. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/">A. Mein Kampf</a> lays out the steps to persuading the masses, which is us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Read <a href="http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv1ch06.html">Chapter VI </a>and concoct your own mnemonic: Here, the peculiar acronym ISSFOODR rises to the top. W. all are hungry for something, even to believe against our interest, because of persuasion tactics amok. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">8. R. Repeat----------------------Repeat.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">B. Further study, Propaganda: Compare and also absorb George Washington University's account: <a href="https://gspm.online.gwu.edu/blog/public-relations-and-propaganda-techniques/">https://gspm.online.gwu.edu/blog/public-relations-and-propaganda-techniques/.</a></span></span><br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-37888172580215815752019-01-26T09:25:00.000-05:002019-03-01T11:45:39.571-05:00Roger Stone car crash in Florida. Clarify. An intention, or happenstance. T bone.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This site is only referencing President Trump if in connection with someone else of interest. Otherwise, a Trump-free zone.<br />
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Roger Stone has been arrested, and reporting so far is not referencing issues that I can find that might well be of interest: Who may have an interest, or had an interest, in blocking him from whatever. Too much for an amateur. Reporting needed. Needs a <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/gumshoe">gumshoe</a> . </div>
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Stone was in a car at a time when Stone was in line for testimony at a Senate committee, after contacts with the now-known to be Russian Twitter activist <i>Guccifer</i>, when the vehicle was hit at speed broadside by a flat-on car, that then departed. See <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article138807373.html.">https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article138807373.html.</a> His car driver: <a href="https://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/03/15/trump-advisor-claims-hit-run-could-be-russian-hacking-scandal-retaliation/"> John Kakanis.</a> See link, was this connected to Russian hacking scandal. Apparently no police report was filed? Was a report made?</div>
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This event, a car crash involving a car in which Roger Stone was passenger, in Pompano Beach, Florida 2017, see <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article138807373.html">https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article138807373.html</a>. is still a mystery, or perhaps a nothing-there.<br />
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It transpired, however, in a context of another set of methodologies, many sudden and variously caused deaths of politicians, journalists, others running afoul of <a href="https://russiacontextrussiaroadways.blogspot.com/2017/07/russia-context-resources-casualties-the-federation-what-pattern-what-significance.html?q=journalists">Russia Context, Pattern of Political Deaths, Casualties</a> or a possible hit-and-run, either happenstance, or as suggested by Mr. Stone, expertly executed home grown attack by <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/politics/deep-state/">Deep State</a> in our own backyard.<br />
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<li>Context and limits: After returning from a brief amateur trip to Russia, with my son, Dan, who travels anywhere, its history became addictive at home. Look things up, make a chronology, check the news to see who else found this or that. See <a href="https://russiacontextrussiaroadways.blogspot.com/2017/08/russia-timeline-2012-2018-russian-federation-part-iii-putin-ii.html">Russia Context, Russia Road Ways, Timeline 2012-2018.</a></li>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"2016 - Aug. </span><i style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Roger Stone</i><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, political tactician, apparent sometime </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/21/us/a-political-power-broker.html" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #3d85c6; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">mentor</a><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> to Trump on effective uses of power, communicates with Guccifer 2.0 (Twitter user later associated with Russian disinformation) re publicizing idea that American election was rigged, see </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-roger-stone-why-is-fbi-investigating-him-2017-3" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #3d85c6; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">http://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-roger-stone-why-is-fbi-investigating-him-2017-3,</a><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> matter to be timed with or did he know, re </span><a href="http://time.com/4308369/hillary-clinton-john-podesta/" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #3d85c6; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">John Podesta</a><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> (Clinton campaign) emails to be published Wikileaks, hashtags crooked and lock her up and so on. Roger Stone also worked as lobbyist with Paul Manafort, see </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/21/us/a-political-power-broker.html" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #3d85c6; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/21/us/a-political-power-broker.html</a>"</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"2017 -- March 16. Odd vehicular experience. Trump former adviser </span><a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dirty-trickster-roger-stone-theres-one-dirty-trick-not-in-my-bag-treason/" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #3d85c6; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><i>Roger Stone </i></a><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(self-called 'dirty-trickster' of interest in Trump-Russia possible connections, see update site) alleges near hit-and-run attack, see </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/16/trump-adviser-roger-stone-said-he-was-a-victim-in-florida-hit-and-run-possibly-deliberate/?utm_term=.ad94c9dc705e" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #3d85c6; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/16/trump-adviser-roger-stone-said-he-was-a-victim-in-florida-hit-and-run-possibly-deliberate/?utm_term=.ad94c9dc705e </a>" </blockquote>
2. Was the car hit deliberate, Stone asks.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"2017 -- March 21. </span><a href="https://www.revolvy.com/topic/Roger%20Stone&item_type=topic" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #3d85c6; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><i>Roger Stone</i></a><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, political consultant to Donald Trump (still?) in broadsided vehicle, suspects deliberate, related to Trump-Russia investigations, see </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/16/trump-adviser-roger-stone-said-he-was-a-victim-in-florida-hit-and-run-possibly-deliberate/?utm_term=.d80c5d8a349d" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #3d85c6; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/16/trump-adviser-roger-stone-said-he-was-a-victim-in-florida-hit-and-run-possibly-deliberate/?utm_term=.d80c5d8a349d.</a><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> See</span><i style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Roger Stone, the 'Trickster' on Trump's side, is under FBI scrutiny</i><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, at </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/us/roger-stone-donald-trump-russia.html" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #3d85c6; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/us/roger-stone-donald-trump-russia.html</a></blockquote>
3. Was Stone nearly poisoned, a polonium poisoning attempt, Stone asks.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Also claims attempted polonium poisoning 2016? see </span><a href="http://billmoyers.com/story/the-trump-resistance-plan-a-timeline-russia-and-president-trump/" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #3d85c6; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">http://billmoyers.com/story/the-trump-resistance-plan-a-timeline-russia-and-president-trump/ </a>" </blockquote>
4. Wat the perpetrator, if any, the Deep State? See <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-deep-state-tried-to-kill-me-by-t-boning-my-car">https://www.thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-deep-state-tried-to-kill-me-by-t-boning-my-car</a>; <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-confidant-roger-stone-says-he-was-in-a-car-crash">https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-confidant-roger-stone-says-he-was-in-a-car-crash</a><br />
Define terms.<br />
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4. Did Stone draw a line at treason. If so, good news.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"2017 -- May 11. </span><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/donald-trump-russia-dossier-christopher-steele-ex-spy-british-a7616326.html" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #3d85c6; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;"><i>Christopher Steele,</i></a><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Britain's M.I 6, discusses his compiling of the dossier on Trump, some of which is corroborated, some not, see </span><a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dirty-trickster-roger-stone-theres-one-dirty-trick-not-in-my-bag-treason/" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #3d85c6; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dirty-trickster-roger-stone-theres-one-dirty-trick-not-in-my-bag-treason/.</a><br />
<ul style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue Light", HelveticaNeue-Light, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;">
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Dossier.Continuing interest: See July 13, 2017 <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jr-russia-bill-browder-testify-senate-links-natalia-veselnitskaya-steele-dossier-a7840061.html" style="color: #3d85c6; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jr-russia-bill-browder-testify-senate-links-natalia-veselnitskaya-steele-dossier-a7840061.html</a></li>
</ul>
<ul style="list-style: disc; margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;">
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">See the dossier document <i>on cloud</i> at <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html" style="color: #3d85c6; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984-Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.html</a></li>
</ul>
<ul style="list-style: disc; margin: 0.5em 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 0px 2em;">
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Russia use of the honey-trap, post-soviet see <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/world/europe/donald-trump-russia.html" style="color: #3d85c6; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s;">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/world/europe/donald-trump-russia.html</a>"</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
Then I stopped this chronology because too much was happening and others had chronologies going that were more able to access resources than a home person.<br />
<br />
Someone please pick up on Roger's experiences. Was someone warning him, trying to do what? Go, sleuths.</div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-65505714550199492932018-03-01T17:49:00.000-05:002019-03-01T12:14:34.382-05:00Uses of humiliation. Bar a level playing-field. Fear of competition. Propaganda.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Humiliation: Weapon of choice when competition is feared.<br />
Comment and source lists. 2017, as starting point. </div>
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Humiliation. Target people to render them powerless, ineffective, doubted. Keep the target off the field so competition is limited. The form is action as well as words:<br />
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I. Slavery comes to mind, as an extreme of depriving a person of autonomy. <br />
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Humiliation emerges as a tool of control with the use of
sexual assault and cultural "permissions" of the male to assert his
prerogatives at will over the female. Extracting behaviors as a
condition for continued employment, legal representation, mentorship for
a career, all passed as acceptable under the boys-will-be boys rubric,
nudge-nudge. The consequence; ongoing debilitation of the woman's
ability to compete on the merits. From the hand up her skirt with a look
that says I dare you to speak up; or passing aggressively over and into
her blouse, etc; she knows;<br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>The redemptioner:
Some humiliated slaves were able to buy their freedom, and rise above
slavery. Such a person may well enslave others once free himself.</li>
</ul>
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In American slavery, with its codes of humiliation, see <a href="http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/12/22/10-slave-codes-that-were-designed-to-oppress-and-humiliate-black-people">http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/12/22/10-slave-codes-that-were-designed-to-oppress-and-humiliate-black-people</a>; and definitions of the black as less than a full human being; and similar tools, see <a href="http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/slaves-court/file.html/">http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/slaves-court/file.html/</a>, some former slaves, of course, did well: <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>There were varying forms of slavery. The debt-slave, white and black, could 'redeem' their freedom. </li>
<ul>
<li>Those
who did so were known as redemptioners, and some signed the Declaration
of Independence, George Taylor of Pennsylvania. And Matthew Thornton of
New Hampshire. Charles Thomas was a secretary to the Constitutional
Convention, and General Sullivan active in the Revolutionary War. This
aspect of the biography of Thomas, however, is omitted here -- at
(public domain illustration) <a href="https://www.revolutionary-war.net/john-sullivan.html">https://www.revolutionary-war.net/john-sullivan.html. </a></li>
</ul>
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Need to vet. Why would that redemptioner status be omitted, or is it inaccurate?<br />
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<img alt="General John Sullivan" data-pin-media="https://www.revolutionary-war.net/images/general-john-sullivan-wcpd.jpg" src="https://www.revolutionary-war.net/images/general-john-sullivan-wcpd.jpg.pagespeed.ce.ABs7VDzDtw.jpg" title="General John Sullivan" width="200" />Public Domain, redemptioner General John Sullivan<br />
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See<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GeneralJohnSullivanByTenney.jpg"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GeneralJohnSullivanByTenney.jpg</a><br />
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II. Other forms of humiliation.<br />
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Interpersonal: Sexual abuse, accusation, innuendo. Patriarchy becomes entrenched so women cannot rise with autonomy. If you are religious, disregard the uncomfortable Biblical account by which the man is to leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife (see <a href="https://plainmeaning.blogspot.it/2017/12/patriarchy-divinely-ordained-or-disobedience.html?view=classic">https://plainmeaning.blogspot.it/2017/12/patriarchy-divinely-ordained-or-disobedience.html?view=classic</a>). Instead, he forces her away from her home to join his, with no protections there, no status of property by which she could exercise choice, leave, her role to produce progeny for him.<br />
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Governmental: Governments are also humiliators, colonial acts to hold the autonomy of indigenous cultures in check. See <a href="https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/3.10.11Kaufman.pdf">China's Century of Humiliation, 1939-1949.</a><br />
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Political: Add taunting tweets. <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>New idea for CPAC idea -- <i>Patriots Against Autonomy. </i> </li>
<li>To note: weaponizing tweets, here the President and Gillibrand Tweet at <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12/opinions/kristen-gillibrand-trump-filipovic/index.htm">http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12/opinions/kristen-gillibrand-trump-filipovic/index.htm.</a></li>
<li>The sustained denial of identity, the clipping of wings, can be psychological torture where the target has no escape. <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/EffectsofPsychologicalTorturepaper(Final)11June10.pdf">https://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/EffectsofPsychologicalTorturepaper(Final)11June10.pdf</a></li>
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Explore here: Routine applications of humiliation as preferred means
of controlling, punishing rivals, opponents, feeding a base, who become addicted to see it happen to
others.<br />
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A. Forms of humiliation. Start with ISSFOODR: <a href="https://worldwar1worldwar2.blogspot.com/2015/04/propaganda-wars-spot-propaganda-tactics.html?view=sidebar">https://worldwar1worldwar2.blogspot.com/2015/04/propaganda-wars-spot-propaganda-tactics.html?view=sidebar</a><br />
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ISSFOODR Tools -- Keep track in the news. What ploy is being played?<br />
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1. Induce fear, identity loss<br />
2. Spin and sloganeer<br />
3. Scapegoat- The Big Lie<br />
4. Focus on the masses, ignore arguments of intellectuals<br />
5. Obstruct inconvenient facts<br />
6. Obliterate humanitarianism, promote self<br />
7. Do not debate<br />
8. Repeat<br />
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<b>B</b>. Methods<br />
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1. Target a choice made, an inadequate behavior: getting in debt, failure to pay, a lie. Ignore possibility of redemption in any human.<br />
2. Target a trait -- skin color, gender<br />
3. Target background information, where disclosure can be devastating<br />
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C. Examples of news peppered with humiliations:<br /><br />
12/2015 -- <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/clinton-aide-trumps-remarks-degrading-humiliating/">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/clinton-aide-trumps-remarks-degrading-humiliating/</a><br />
10/2016 -- <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-sean-spicer-trump-crowd-size-lie-20170123-story.html">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-sean-spicer-trump-crowd-size-lie-20170123-story.html</a><br />
10/2016 -- <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com.au/video-shows-trump-grabbing-kissing-former-miss-universe-2016-10">https://www.businessinsider.com.au/video-shows-trump-grabbing-kissing-former-miss-universe-2016-10</a><br />
12/2016 -- <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/139176/trumps-political-lesson-humiliate-humiliated;">https://newrepublic.com/article/139176/trumps-political-lesson-humiliate-humiliated;</a><br />
Humiliate or be humiliated.<br />
11/2016 -- http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/mitt-romneys-humiliating-trump-reversal<br />
12/2016 -- <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-quotes-vladimir-putin-insult-hillary-clinton-article-1.2922452">http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-quotes-vladimir-putin-insult-hillary-clinton-article-1.2922452</a><br />
1/2017 -- <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/06/media/donald-trump-arnold-schwarzenegger/">http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/06/media/donald-trump-arnold-schwarzenegger/ </a><br />
1/2017 --<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/donald-trump-sexism-tracker-every-offensive-comment-in-one-place/"> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/donald-trump-sexism-tracker-every-offensive-comment-in-one-place/</a><br />
2/2017 --<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-enrique-pena-nieto-mexico-phone-call-humiliating-threatening-2017-2"> http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-enrique-pena-nieto-mexico-phone-call-humiliating-threatening-2017-2</a><br />
3/2017 <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/House-Health-Care-Vote-AHCA-Trump-Demand-417007763.html">https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/House-Health-Care-Vote-AHCA-Trump-Demand-417007763.html</a><br />
3/2017 --<a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/donald-trump-takes-humiliating-tumble-10064199"> http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/donald-trump-takes-humiliating-tumble-10064199</a><br />
3/2017
--
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/15/1643669/-Trump-regime-will-allow-states-to-punish-and-humiliate-poor-people-trying-to-get-Medicaid">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/15/1643669/-Trump-regime-will-allow-states-to-punish-and-humiliate-poor-people-trying-to-get-Medicaid</a><br />
4/2017 -- <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-sean-spicer-trump-crowd-size-lie-20170123-story.html">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-sean-spicer-trump-crowd-size-lie-20170123-story.html</a><br />
4/2017 -- <a href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/new-video-surfaces-trump-sexually-humiliating-forcibly-kissing-2004-miss-universe/">http://www.nationalmemo.com/new-video-surfaces-trump-sexually-humiliating-forcibly-kissing-2004-miss-universe/ </a><br />
7/30/2017 -<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/the-final-humiliation-of-reince-priebus/535368/"> https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/the-final-humiliation-of-reince-priebus/535368/</a><br />
10/2017 -- <a href="https://www.glamour.com/story/a-history-timeline-of-donald-trump-sexual-assault">https://www.glamour.com/story/a-history-timeline-of-donald-trump-sexual-assault</a><br />
10/2017 -- <a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-campaign-insults-women-20161009-snap-htmlstory.html">http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-campaign-insults-women-20161009-snap-htmlstory.html </a><br />
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6/2015 -- <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/stress-free-discipline/201506/the-psychological-effects-shaming-children">https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/stress-free-discipline/201506/the-psychological-effects-shaming-children</a><br />
10/2016 -- <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obamas-long-history-insulting-donald-trump/story?id=43442367">http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obamas-long-history-insulting-donald-trump/story?id=43442367</a><br />
1/2017 -- <a href="http://thedailybanter.com/2017/01/humiliate-trump-because-it-works/">http://thedailybanter.com/2017/01/humiliate-trump-because-it-works/</a><br />
2/2017 -- <a href="https://food.good.is/articles/trump-chis-christie-meatloaf-valentines-day">https://food.good.is/articles/trump-chis-christie-meatloaf-valentines-day</a><br />
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3/2017 --<a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2017/03/04/obama-adviser-humiliates-trump-explaining-presidents-order-wiretaps.html"> http://www.politicususa.com/2017/03/04/obama-adviser-humiliates-trump-explaining-presidents-order-wiretaps.html</a><br />
3/2017
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<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/james-comey-donald-trump-fbi-director-white-hosue-a7640551.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/james-comey-donald-trump-fbi-director-white-hosue-a7640551.html</a><br />
3/2017
--<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/12/21/never-address-trump-as-president-keith-olbermann-tells-liberals-to-humiliate-him-every-day/">http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/12/21/never-address-trump-as-president-keith-olbermann-tells-liberals-to-humiliate-him-every-day/</a><br />
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1. Uses of Humiliation to perpetuate supremacism: Gender caste, ethnic caste, any visible marker shortcut to prestige regardless of merit. Effect of humiliation over time, acts of preemptive debilitation of political, economic rivals, or potential rivals. International attention: see <a href="https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/psychological-abuse-can-scar-a-child-for-life-1.603816">https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/psychological-abuse-can-scar-a-child-for-life-1.603816</a> (UAE).<br />
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2. History of Humiliation -- Control. From slavery, to gender and ethnic abuse, to a training ground, hazing. Effects: "Psychological trauma, sleeping problems,
flashbacks, eating disorders, anxiety, avoidance, depression and intense feelings," see <a href="http://c-hit.org/2017/08/18/hazing-leaves-physical-emotional-scars/">http://c-hit.org/2017/08/18/hazing-leaves-physical-emotional-scars/</a>; cite, <a href="http://insidehazing.com/">insidehazing.com</a>. Profound physical and
emotional effects on a person. <br />
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3. Focus: Gender humiliation. What route to defusing an entire culture that builds into its status hierarchy gender and color. How to counter: which acts are mischief, or "mere" opportunism, mitigating factors to a degree. When does crime arise.<br />
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The uses of Humiliation: Preemptive debilitation; force your opponent-rival into disadvantage early in the game, in the eyes of self and others; prove to that upstart that your will will prevail. An extreme undermining with long term influence, for many. It has been claimed that humiliation can even end radical Islamic Terrorism. April 2017: <br />
See <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/28/trump-we-will-end-radical-islamic-terrorism-by-humiliating-them/">http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/28/trump-we-will-end-radical-islamic-terrorism-by-humiliating-them/</a><br />
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a. Humiliation is an integral element of western slavery in history. Humiliation was a tool of control in modern west, far more than in the ancient world where a slave was recognized as a person, with skills, who also could earn freedom, was in that status as element of war perhaps, punishment for unpaid debt, or crime; see<a href="http://crab.rutgers.edu/~glasker/SLAVERYANCIENT.htm"> http://crab.rutgers.edu/~glasker/SLAVERYANCIENT.htm. </a><br />
The American slave had no rights, to body integrity, family, autonomy. <br />
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See <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/26/clarence-thomas-marriage-equality_n_7672440.html">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/26/clarence-thomas-marriage-equality_n_7672440.html </a><br />
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b. Humiliation was less overtly involved in denial of women's rights, with restrictions on her autonomy shown in property rights and justified by ideology serving patriarchy. See <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/aug/11/women-rights-money-timeline-history">https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/aug/11/women-rights-money-timeline-history</a>. but aspect of servitude, imposed powerlessness, perpetuated American slavery as a state of mind, for white slaves and black; and the indentured who could not improve themselves upon termination of their lease of self. See an old analysis, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Ts4YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=worker+class+history+of+humiliation&source=bl&ots=7n2yfZuiYz&sig=mfL6INjjgk5EOKk7mh21dLOnbMA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_ue-KkMzTAhVGPCYKHaHPAoUQ6AEIPDAF#v=onepage&q=worker%20class%20history%20of%20humiliation&f=false">The Workers in American History</a> by James Oneal (1921!), a tpp.54 ff. White slaves continued in poverty, with the "shame and humiliation of a subject class," remaining "dull and shiftless." As the historical root of the "melancholy" poor whites, their suffering, as that of slaves, enabled the white nobility to rise, in the north, an aristocracy in land ownership, fishing empires, commerce. In the south, the great planters, their plantations.<br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-49689500956079344672017-12-15T09:59:00.000-05:002017-12-15T11:26:50.996-05:00Net neutrality out. Net partiality in. Pay-go and tolls in. New emoji for information disruptors.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Net Neutrality out. Pay-Go in. Tolls like on the highways soon to be paid by the viewer -- like EZ -- by charge to credit card per viewing. In-EZ-Pass-lets. A corporation will now decide where you go and how fast, based on what you can pay. Watch the internet information disrupters emerge. Identify the internet corrupters who put profit before information. Corrupt with impunity? obstruct our ability to speak with one another, weigh alternatives to the corporate profit interests. See emoji below, from Pau.<br />
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1. First condition precedent. A Pay-Go only arises to benefit the corporation after the provider provides 20% of programming for public interest promotion of education, health, sustenance, mobility, non-repetitive new-angle programming. An algorithm can see whose sites offer new information, new patterns, insights. Those may well be individuals, not clones.<br />
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Only then let the greed games begin. Net Pay to Play as more innovative? Innovation is only available to those who are not kept ill, ignorant and immobile. First things first. <br />
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2. Second condition precedent. The corporate provider must include in the fast lane all sites that document reliable sources of fact before repeating or offering opinions.<br />
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This might be a spin on the fairness doctrine, long due for a form of revival in the public interest.<br />
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IMPLEMENTATION: Speed is a privilege, once universally applied; not in partisanship. Recourse. Before earning the <i>privilege</i> of the fast lane.<br />
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<li>Public service, promoting truth (yes, there is such). Say 35% of a Big Player's budget has to promote, speed dissemination of rational, demonstrably accurate information.</li>
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<li> Public service, promoting discernment. Measure worth by absence of<i> garbahge</i>. Measure worth by enhancement of autonomy, the absence of time wasters. That is, 35% of a big player's budget cannot include spread of opinion, repeat loops of visuals that in effect give free advertising beyond that paid for by the speaker; polls, other spin programming, while real information enabling people to think for themselves is left behind. What is repeated will get believed. Prevent that.</li>
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<li>Public service, promoting techniques for disinformation defense. Say that 35% of a Big player's budget must include education about the tools of propaganda, see the functions of the old American <i>1937 Institute for Propaganda Analysis</i>, developed at that time to counter propaganda overflowing from a smart dictatorship abroad. See <a href="http://www.propagandacritic.com/articles/intro.ipa.html">http://www.propagandacritic.com/articles/intro.ipa.html.</a></li>
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<li>Fake news is not limited to malicious fabrication -- limited to political gain or personal <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=vendetta">vendetta</a>. </li>
<li>Fake news is also the imposed <a href="https://joyofequivocating.blogspot.com/2008/10/quotation-dreaded-dots-death-by.html?q=ellipsis">ellipsis</a>, the secret truncation: plucking off a few facts as though they represent a reasonable whole, and let 'er rip. </li>
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3. Communications partners. Who to help in this effort? TV. Penalize anchors who repeat toxic material. Count the minutes wasted with video clips again and again. Why give free air time to that? Let the person speaking pay for his own publicity.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_SC_21616.pdf"><i>Morning Joe. Needs tweaking.</i></a> MJ adds to the pollution online by repeating at undue length untruths and partisan opinions. How many in passing the tube hear it and think it true, not waiting to hear the commentary? MJ gives free air time to repeating tweets, confrontations, long-winded partisanship to those who otherwise would merely read about it, if at all. A summation of quotes can suffice, with reference to where the viewer can click to get the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119164/">full monty</a>. Repeating the film clip over and over is pandering. Truth gets diminished with the dissemination of falsehood.</li>
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4. Now can the road signs be used again, with some protections? Yes, at least for the sites that meet the preconditions.<br />
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Love the road signs. Used to be a sign of the free. Get in your little car anywhere and go where you want. No more.<br />
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5. Sabateurs unite. Use a new Emoji to show which partisan corporate activity should go where -- thanks to progressive France in a Pau parking lot -- the automated-cleaning toidy<br />
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Why this emoji? Profit obsession trumps truth-seeking. Get rid of it where it obstructs information. This emoji It recognizes a universal need for fast disposal of corporate profit hacks, and gives the solution for free. </div>
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-54752053874526506002017-09-17T18:34:00.001-04:002017-09-17T18:34:00.425-04:00Repurpose the useless. Stair steps. Now computer lap shelf.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Useless things. Make use.<br />
Broad vinyl step things. Down. Up.<br />
Skip it. Too boring.<br />
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Here, a tribute to repurposing.<br />
Use the sturdy step instead for your computer as you sit on the couch.<br />
Computer lap shelf. Sick or well.<br />
Have a low table ready in front of the couch. Or in bed.<br />
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Angle the stair step on it half and half couch.<br />
Hold computer. Sit. Put on stair step. Lift easily to lap.<br />
Can get up and down easily, lift unit off and on. All stable.<br />
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Family reunited as the kid watches TV.<br />
Computer happy right there.<br />
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Other uses: plants,<br />
Stand and compute with one leg up.<br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-12680345098395698722017-03-27T08:06:00.000-04:002017-03-27T11:00:08.387-04:00Vacation in Our Place. We invite President Trump.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Take a week off. Here comes a long sentence for a very short idea: Vacation in our place. No golf, no Mar-a-Lago or the ghost of Marjorie Merriwether Post there, nice but appliance-dated family home, splendid mix of kids and grownies in the neighborhood (we are close-housed here), movies across the street, people's restaurants, you can walk to supermarkets, caretaking 24/7 that is an eye-opener with, yes, fun, some fatigue, and allows for introspection (trips to the library, you head for the computers, he heads for the stacks), learn how to make friends. Dan couldn't wait to tell his co-workers about this.<br />
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Benefits to you: As Russia unfolds as it will under the various political and other microscopes, see the bright side afterwards. Russia has a long, deep history that can teach all of us, in many ways. For bad things in its past and emerging now, don't foster continuance of them, please, by idolizing in the wrong direction -- Putin is not a good mentor. Our guy is. He sees you as his friend. He is a loyal friend. And he will get your good humor back. Yes, he will. Get feet back on the ground, the worthiness of a human being may take on new weight. Consider, is he to be limited in advance based on some generic textbook condition definition? Meet our guy. He gives and enriches more than any of us do (obviously, a mom speaking), he is adventurous, productive, enjoyed new places improvised, we offer you a nice old TV with a remote in the bedroom for the sleepless, snows are probably over but team up with the neighbor to cope, Take an economy flight. How do ordinary people get home from the airport. How's the infrastructure, transportation, welcome. Live it. Drive yourself into the city. Same issues. We do. Have your peeps call our peeps. Vacation in our place. We'd move out, except for Dan, here, who stays for the week, you can cook, hug, do the field trips when he isn't working (he has a fine job), learn how his IEP's have helped so much. We'll be in the neighborhood on call. Google knows who everybody is, so just ask them our phone, medical records, likes, images, background, who Aunt Tillie was, was she legal, addresses for our whole lives, schooling, what was purchased in the last 20 years, at what price, how fat am I, did we search for what, why do we erase our history searches, are we sinister because some of us disagree (no -- ours is a house of multiples), on merits of ideas, no blind loyalty to person or party, just the nation. Not so bad. Not to be deported. We would welcome thee.<br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-26107549994351903852017-02-24T04:16:00.000-05:002017-02-24T04:24:06.642-05:00What Russia offers. Statistics in staccato view. Why is Trump so enthralled. Kleptocracy.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Trump: Lord, I want to be like Russia, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1izhyeGIhss">In-a-my heart</a>?</div>
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Why, for heaven's sake? Is it the 'opportunity' the <i>system</i> affords? Or ill affords? Overview: <br />
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Elite predation. Elite predation, as in corruption, pocketing of budget funds, results in "low economic growth, increased wealth inequality, and inhibited political freedoms." See p. 317, <i>Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia</i>, by Karen Dawisha 2014, </blockquote>
Here: A focus on statistics from, first, this source; and to be updated with other sources as found. These broad topics from a focused section of the Dawisha book,roughly pp. 312-317, <i>Putin's Kleptocracy</i>: see a) interview at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGXAY0BxEV4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGXAY0BxEV4</a>; b) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/books/review/putins-kleptocracy-by-karen-dawisha.html">NYT book review</a>; c) <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B66WsjksySpuaFFEOUhzeVU1Q2c/edit">online pdf text</a><br />
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1. Mortality rates, other statistics, source page; and our references. Here, from p.314<br />
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Women -- 5X increase in cardiovascular disease, attributed to poor medical care, than Europe; more die per year from domestic violence than men died in the entire <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/08/the-soviet-war-in-afghanistan-1979-1989/100786/">Afghan war</a> (1979-1989). Some 15,000 Russian men died there, see <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/08/the-soviet-war-in-afghanistan-1979-1989/100786/">https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/08/the-soviet-war-in-afghanistan-1979-1989/100786/</a><br />
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Men -- <a href="http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/russia-life-expectancy">Life expectancy</a> ((64.7 years?) is 3 years less than for a Haitian, attributed to poor standards at workplace and road safety, high suicide and homicide, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/31/russian-men-losing-years-to-vodka">high alcohol</a>. One fourth of Russian men die before 55. See also <a href="https://themoscowtimes.com/news/why-is-russias-growth-in-life-expectancy-slowing-49224">https://themoscowtimes.com/news/why-is-russias-growth-in-life-expectancy-slowing-49224</a><br />
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Add our research: young men -- armed forces conscripts fail health tests half the time, are disqualified (apparently the practice is to reject, and not accept with the person then brought up to speed in training). See <a href="https://russiaroadways.blogspot.com/2015/07/moscow-police-place-in-enforcement.html">https://russiaroadways.blogspot.com/2015/07/moscow-police-place-in-enforcement.html</a><br />
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2. Girls -- and boys, and men and women, subject to human trafficking, <a href="http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Russia.htm">sex trafficking</a> -- millions claimed, attributed to Russia's declining compliance with international conventions over some 9 years, and compliance described by US State Dept as below Rwanda, lowest ranking possible. See <i>US Department of State</i>, <a href="https://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/countries/2015/243519.htm">https://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/countries/2015/243519.htm</a><br />
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3. Further attribution factors:<br />
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<a href="http://www.business-anti-corruption.com/country-profiles/russia">Corruption</a> -- theft of funds from health budgets; inadequate protections (an 8 bed women's shelter in St. Petersburg still not established by 2013); oil and gas exports produced some 1.6 trillion (dollars? I think rubles would have been specified) but none went to build any interstate highway. Moscow needs one from Moscow to the far East, for example (China builds 4,360 highway miles annually; gas pipeline agreed between Russia and Germany 2005-2010 cost 3X more in Russia than in Germany; 50 billion (dollars again) expended for Sochi Olympics? half of that alleged by Russian experts (not named) to have gone into Putin friends' pockets.<br />
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See, extra credit, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/opinion/why-putin-tolerates-corruption.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/opinion/why-putin-tolerates-corruption.html</a><br />
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Whew. Now to page 315.<br />
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4.<a href="https://www.justlanded.com/english/Russia/Russia-Guide/Education/Russian-Schools"> Education</a> -- Enormous talent in "applied and theoretical sciences" but patent awards lag behind even Alabama in "total annual awards". That is .2% of some 1.3 million overseas patents awarded 2000. Russians apply for patents 36X less than Austria. Performance does not match abilities.<br />
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5. Emigration -- Wistfully considered by entrepreneurs and innovators -- some 62% so self-identified and under age 35, "well-trained young graduates", in cities, speaking a foreign language, looking to self-actualize, succeed, are considering leaving (see details at page). Attribution: reaction to the regime ("the KGB corporation"), not the country, so those who do leave could well come back.<br />
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6. Loyalty - essential to advancement. Not so funny description of choice -- be a chief, or be a fool. To move from fool to chief is a matter of loyalty, not merit. See parallels? Try a Trump route -- feudal type fealty oaths, demand for absolute loyalty, as defense to zemmiphobia -- <a href="https://sassafrasthicket.blogspot.com/2017/01/trump-fearst-the-great-mole-rat-finds-sally-yates-zemmiphobia.html">https://sassafrasthicket.blogspot.com/2017/01/trump-fearst-the-great-mole-rat-finds-sally-yates-zemmiphobia.html</a><br />
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Loyalty over performance.<br />
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And page 315. This is a succinct, must-read, depressing book. <br />
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7. Degraded socio-economics. Attribution: to the political elite. One group (<a href="https://www.transparency.org/">Transparency International</a>) listed 177 countries on a corruption scale, and Russia was 127th. Look at the Russian think tank called<a href="http://www.indem.ru/en/index.shtml"> Indem</a> for <i>Information Science for Democracy Fund</i> (now, there's a <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=moniker">moniker</a>). Finding: Russian budget is some 300 billion. Annual amount paid in bribes: some 300 billion. See other countries low in corruption control, comparison in text with Nigeria, and Nigeria is a little bit better.<br />
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Here we are at page 317. Time flies when.<br />
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8. Human Development: Thwarted by<i> elite predation</i>: Russia has talent and has educated its people so skills to get places (even if barred in other ways) are high here (Nigeria is low). People have education, enough meet the level of socio-economic qualities, skills to make progress. So why is this gifted nation so high on the corruption scale? Attribution: Social and economic end-runs. Connections are valued more than performance. Corporate raiding is commonplace.<br />
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<li>Finger points: "Elite predation" is the term applied.</li>
<li>Result of elite predation: "[L]ow economic growth, increased wealth inequality, and inhibited political freedoms."</li>
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<li><i><b>"Elite predation." Result: "[L]ow economic growth, increased wealth inequality, and inhibited political freedoms."</b></i></li>
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9. Shift gears to Crimea, and <i>revanchism</i>. </div>
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I get the point about statistics for Russia, not so good and attributable in large measure to, as the book title proclaims, kleptocracy -- enrichment of the elite through government. </div>
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I am now interested in the topic that comes after: What happened in Crimea, the effectiveness long-term of sanctions rather than war over it as a first response (thank you, Obama), and all that begins at page 318. War first is weakness. Is that so? Add State-controlled TV and other media (Trump is on to this here), disregard of facts, making up how popular the measures taken are, and here is a new one:</div>
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<li> Revanchism. REVANCHISM. The taking of revenge as a policy, particularly in the form of retrieving "lost" territory. See <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=revanchist">http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=revanchist</a></li>
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10. Parting shots: The State employs 1/3 of the Russian workforce as a whole. People under 30 -- 36% of them have state jobs, compared 12% in <a href="http://www.oecd.org/about/">OECD</a> (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development). Nonprofits are fleeing.Prosecutions and pecking persecutions of them and entrepreneurs, by tax and other enforcers who then can deflect funds, suddenly focusing on them, not a good climate for betterment. And on and on, carry on yourself at page 320. Then read the beginning, then read the very end, then skim the contents and index, and maybe then start to read the middle. This is heavy stuff. </div>
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Add personal interest: The disabled. From our brief trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg, can attest that you do not see the disabled. Yes,even with open eyes. Kept out of tourist areas, sure, but where else? I was traveling with my Down Syndrome son, and he was received well, so why are not more out there? See a) <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/11/04/358315057/for-russian-kids-a-disablity-often-means-life-in-an-orphanage">http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/11/04/358315057/for-russian-kids-a-disablity-often-means-life-in-an-orphanage</a>; b) <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2016/07/01/down-syndrome-kids-russia-472276.html">http://www.newsweek.com/2016/07/01/down-syndrome-kids-russia-472276.html</a>; anad c) <a href="https://themoscowtimes.com/news/ngo-slams-treatment-of-disabled-children-in-russian-orphanages-39448">https://themoscowtimes.com/news/ngo-slams-treatment-of-disabled-children-in-russian-orphanages-39448 </a></div>
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-91386165679228374562017-01-16T13:09:00.000-05:002017-01-16T14:53:58.860-05:00Trump: The Gingerbread Boy. Catch me if you can. Irregularities got Trump elected, cumulative FBI, Russian. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Update 1.16.2017. Presumptive illegitimacy of processes, irregular activities to elect Donald P. P. Trump by FBI and Russia. If currently boycotting legislators as to the inauguration have a commitment from Trump to an independent comission to explore, can Trump redeem himself.</div>
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The Trump presidency will remain presumptively illegitimate so long as there is no independent probe of a) his and his business' and his campaign's connections with Russia (contacts and relationships since 1986, see Financial Times 12.13.2016 <a href="https://ig.ft.com/sites/trumps-russian-connections/">https://ig.ft.com/sites/trumps-russian-connections/</a>); and b) partisan activities of the FBI in condoning Russian intervention into or political system, and fostering the candidacy of Mr. Trump. He is already a laughingstock, and deservedly so, given his clutching record. Whether any 2013 events were documented is less relevant than the years of motive, opportunity, and clear enjoyment of using women and vicey versey, see <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/15/arts/donald-trump-saturday-night-live.html?_r=1">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/15/arts/donald-trump-saturday-night-live.html?_r=1</a>. His best recourse to legitimize himself and how he got to office is by the independent commission to study the issue. Support <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-russian-hacking-commission-20170109-story.html">http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-russian-hacking-commission-20170109-story.html</a></div>
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Issue: Irregularities in achieving office. Runaway malfeasors, passer-by malfeasors. <br />
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When self-fatted journalism and analysis fail, go to <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type2025.html">folktales</a> for insights that stand for time's tests.</div>
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1. Gingerbread Boy, 2. Runaway Pancake, 3. Devil in the Dough Pan (there the dough didn't walk, the woman pitched it because the devil took advantage and was already in it). Teach folklore to those entering statecraft for the first time.. </div>
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1. American folktale; <i>The Gingerbread Boy</i>. Some (like me) remember it as: "Run, run, as fast as you can. You'll never catch me. I'm the Gingerbread Man!" In that version, the egotistical, self-styled supremacist hero was a grownup. Moral. Yes, somebody will catch you, just you wait. See <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type2025.html#gingerbread">http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type2025.html#gingerbread</a><br />
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American folktale, with liberties:<br />
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<li>A little old woman made gingerbread, shaped it into a boy (buttons, hands, and all), and popped the doughboy into the oven to get the hots needed to make it portable as well as digesetible. </li>
<li>But when she opened the oven door to see if it had matured properly for the purposes intended, out the gingerbread boy ran, laughing all the way. </li>
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<li>So her husband joined the chase, and the gingerbread boy taunted them both. </li>
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<li>And he went on fibbing a mile a minute, laughing at facts, hiding his assets and conflicts of interest, blowing kisses at Poot, groping the ladies, buying more orange, and soon had passed, in addition, the threshers, and mowers, and a cow, and a pig, who all joined in the chase. </li>
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<li>Then, however, he ran past a fox! Oh, no! Not a fox! Yes, a fox. And the fox could run faster than the gingerbread boy because it owned 99.99% of the airwaves and it was the fave in the midlands, and the fox caught the gingerbread boy. </li>
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<li>"Oh, no! I'm a quarter gone!" Munch. munch, went the fox.</li>
<li>"Oh, no! I'm half gone!" Munch, munch went the fox.</li>
<li>"Oh, no, I'm three-quarters gone!" Munch, munch, went the fox.</li>
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<li>And, finally, "I'm all gone!" And silence. But there was still a munch, munch, from the fox, and a crass burp for the buttons. .................................................................................................................</li>
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2. German folktale, <i>The Runaway Pancake</i>. See <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type2025.html#gander">http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type2025.html#gander. </a> Here, the pancake cannot be caught by speed, because he is faster even than the fox.<br />
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When playing by the rule-setter's rules (here, this is a race by race rules) it may happen that interested parties who are not good racers may well lose.<br />
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Interested parties in such case, however, may and usually will resort to trickery in order to be winners, and is that the moral? If a trick can be found to win, use the trick? By the time it is found out, it is too late. The winner is declared!.<br />
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<li>The pancake heard the nonsense argument, sprouted legs for itself, got out of the pan and ran out of there, right out the door. </li>
<li>The pancake then passed a fox, a hare, and a ship full of people on the water. Each asked, "Hey, pancake. Where are you going?" </li>
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<li>"I said," said the pancake, "I ran away from all those and I can run away from you, too."</li>
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<li>"I said," said the pancake, "I ....." </li>
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<li>Snap, chomp, went the pig's jaws and teeth, and soon there was no pancake at all.</li>
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4. Russia folktale, <i>The Devil in the Dough-Pan</i>. See <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type2025.html#russia">http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type2025.html#russia</a></div>
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<li>A woman, kneading bread, forgot something very important. She forgot to bless it. </li>
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<li>Now, I remember, thought the woman. I forgot to bless this bread! And so she did -- she went right up and blessed it. She crossed herself. There.</li>
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<li>Now Potanka had just shut his eyes to enjoy a nice nap on a soft place, when he heard her come back. She had remembered her mistake! She had not blessed the bread!</li>
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<li>Lucky us, said the pigs, as they rolled the dough and Potanka round and round for three days.</li>
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<li>Where have you been, Potanka boy, Potanka boy?</li>
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<li>I got stuck in a woman's dough! Never again, he swore.</li>
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4. Read more Russian fairy tales at <a href="https://archive.org/stream/cu31924026605497/cu31924026605497_djvu.txt">https://archive.org/stream/cu31924026605497/cu31924026605497_djvu.txt</a>Trump and the Runaway Pancake. Stories often feature old women. Here, Romania, not Germany, but folk tales cross borders<br />
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5. Read more international insight tales at <a href="https://archive.org/stream/cu31924026605497/cu31924026605497_djvu.txt">http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type2025.html </a>-- Denmark, England, Ireland,<br />
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<i>A Pig's Tale</i>: Our hero in another guise, For a Romanian folktale with the moral that doing good for a creature, helping others, despite obstacles and risks, repays itself many times, try this one: <a href="http://www.floarea-vietii.ro/site/php/romania.php?article_id=1027&lang=en">http://www.floarea-vietii.ro/site/php/romania.php?article_id=1027&lang=en</a>. Aspirational presidencies. See also, pick your own topic, at <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.htm">http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.htm</a></div>
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-72474084483269640292016-12-05T02:00:00.000-05:002016-12-14T14:59:49.421-05:00How to bell the Trump cat? If in office, contain. If not yet, there are procedures.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="st"><span class="f">Nov 26, 2016 - </span>There are always
options before the Electoral College votes; and before an Inauguration.
It is like the rescission period for vacuum cleaner. Broadly. </span> With time getting short to the electoral college now, review here. Procedures and concepts addressed in this update. Look at issues of conflicts and ethics that are not yet resolved. How to preserve them for action, if not now.<br />
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Belling the Cat. The old story holds that the mice give up when noone will step up to bell the cat. The tale as tole by Piers Plowman, however, goes beyond.<br />
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1. Containment. When it is not possible to do away with it entirely, box it in, deprive it of prey. The issue of <a href="http://migratorypatterns.blogspot.com/2009/04/who-will-bell-cat-piers-plowman-and.html,">belling the cat</a>). Piers Plowman's version of the old story makes sense.<br />
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Where that is too time consuming, be direct:<br />
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2. Amend regulations governing specific objectionable, dangerous activities of <i>employees</i> of the executive branch, to include the <i>executive</i> branch itself as "employee" of the nation, if no other statutory or rules framework applies. See<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635"> 5 CFR 2635,</a> <i>Standards of Ethical Conduct. </i>Include specific sources of the topic. Code of Federal Regulations 5 CFR 2635.801 - Overview of regulations applicable to <i>employees</i>.<br />
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<li> The President and Vice President do appear to be <i>included </i>as
employees for purposes of controlling their outside behavior. Unless
"subparts" refers to other subparts of a part not immediately here. It
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5 U.S.C. 3371, et seq. here with emphases added --<br />
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"For purposes <i>other </i>than subparts B and C of this part, it <i>does not</i> include the President or Vice President." <br />
So they are included for B and C. See <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.801">https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.801</a>, the <i>Code of Federal Regulations</i>. Aha?<br />
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See prohibition on outside employment or any other outside activity that conflicts with the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/index.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=b3464e805fbe7dd2347838286439bc3a&term_occur=3&term_src=Title:5:Chapter:XVI:Subchapter:B:Part:2635:Subpart:H:2635.801">employee</a>'s
[see definition above] official duties, limits on receipt of outside
earned income by certain Presidential appointees and other noncareer
employees; limits on participation in professional organizations;limits
on paid and unpaid teaching, speaking, and writing; and limits on
fundraising. <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.801">https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.801</a><br />
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"An <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/index.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=b3464e805fbe7dd2347838286439bc3a&term_occur=5&term_src=Title:5:Chapter:XVI:Subchapter:B:Part:2635:Subpart:H:2635.801">employee</a>
shall endeavor to avoid actions creating an appearance of violating any
of the ethical standards in this part and the prohibition against use
of official position for an <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/index.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=b3464e805fbe7dd2347838286439bc3a&term_occur=6&term_src=Title:5:Chapter:XVI:Subchapter:B:Part:2635:Subpart:H:2635.801">employee</a>'s private gain or for the private gain of any <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/index.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=0942999f74615a77bcdb5193556c77ba&term_occur=1&term_src=Title:5:Chapter:XVI:Subchapter:B:Part:2635:Subpart:H:2635.801">person</a> with whom he has employment or business relations or is otherwise affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity. <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.801">https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.801"</a><br />
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So:
Look to your conflicts, Mr. President-elect. The clock is ticking.
Electors, this is your nation. more than your party or your state. Vote
accordingly. <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=selah">Selah</a>. </div>
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See FN 1, for discussion. So many behaviors are red flags. Isolate, list, find a way to preserve evidence (do not condone).<br />
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See also <a href="http://posejuxta.blogspot.com/2016/12/amendment-president-prohibited-from-use-of-public-position-for-private-gain-as-are-current-civil-service-employees.html">http://posejuxta.blogspot.com/2016/12/amendment-president-prohibited-from-use-of-public-position-for-private-gain-as-are-current-civil-service-employees.html</a><br />
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2. Selected journalists addressing the issue of ethics and this president-elect: See new analysis in particular, at <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-10/heres-how-trump-could-still-actually-lose-presidential-election">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-10/heres-how-trump-could-still-actually-lose-presidential-election</a>. <br />
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Earlier:<br />
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<li> Nov.11 2016; at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/us/politics/how-federal-ethics-laws-will-apply-to-a-trump-presidency.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/us/politics/how-federal-ethics-laws-will-apply-to-a-trump-presidency.html</a>; and</li>
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<li> application of ethics rules to the presidency, see <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/us/politics/donald-trump-business-president-elect.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/us/politics/donald-trump-business-president-elect.html</a>; </li>
<li> calls for congressional hearings, see <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/business/dealbook/congress-may-hold-key-to-handling-trumps-conflicts-of-interest.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/business/dealbook/congress-may-hold-key-to-handling-trumps-conflicts-of-interest.html</a>, What would Issa do there?</li>
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3. Original post, abbreviated.<br />
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There are always options before the Electoral College votes; and before an Inauguration. Any elector can exercise honorable faithlessness and vote conscience. Such should be considered free of constraint by party or State and may vote conscience without penalty or vengeance wreaked later. Is Issa listening?<br />
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Keep a list of violations-in-waiting, and violations in process to establish a pattern, at least.<br />
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a. Use of office for personal gain. How is the business interest, the brand, insinuating itself in official actions that promote the business. See <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-poised-to-violate-constitution-his-first-day-in-office-george-w-bushs-ethics-lawyer-says-73e14789a935#.g5a761ay1">https://thinkprogress.org/trump-poised-to-violate-constitution-his-first-day-in-office-george-w-bushs-ethics-lawyer-says-73e14789a935#.g5a761ay1</a>.<br />
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b. Currently now in the news in a serious way: The electorate learns that they have been misled fraudulently by a foreign power to denigrate the malleable candidate's opponent, to instill reflexes that the opponent is untrustworthy, a liar. See <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html</a></div>
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c. Currently now in the news in a serious way. Fake news. Recognize the damage of disinformation. Free the electors to vote conscience.<br />
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d. Fraud on the voter. False promises, false claims of representing their interests, while putting throw-away (not qualified for the job) pay-to-play or token appointees in line for SBA, HUD, Education etc. People without education are more easily exploited, is that so, and is that why our president-elect is throwing away real-world standards in education with his Education choice? To any curriculum, add how to defend against the <i>Predatory Arts</i>. People trying to persuade you of something. Spot the tactics. Start with those around you, your community, your harder-to-relate-to <i><a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=genus">genus.</a></i><br />
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e. Quackery may well be woven into our own history, see <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/next-american-saint-sister-blandina-regale-immigrants-womens-history-180960782/">Smithsonian Magazine, The Fastest Nun in the West Nov. 2016</a>; but that does not excuse ongoing exploitation.<br />
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f. Legal means: <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_65">the injunction, the restraining order</a>, the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/declaratory_judgment">declaratory judgment.</a><br />
If a president does this, is it possible to include it as a <i>conglomerated impeachment filing</i>, where each particular item in itself may not suffice.<br />
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Each family, each individual, each community, shall school everyone in the<br />
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<u>And the big one, Impeachment</u>: “The president, vice-president, and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleii">Constitution Article II Section 4</a>.<br />
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<li>1. Bribery. "The Constitution does not define bribery. It is a crime that has long existed in English and American common law. It takes place when a person gives an official money or gifts to influence the official’s behavior in office." <a href="http://www.crf-usa.org/impeachment/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors.html">High Crimes and Misdemeanors - Constitutional Rights Foundation</a></li>
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<li>2. High crimes and misdemeanors. "Since 1386, the English parliament had used “high crimes and misdemeanors” as one of the grounds to impeach officials of the crown. Officials accused of “high crimes and misdemeanors” were accused of offenses as varied as a) misappropriating government funds, b) appointing unfit subordinates, c) not prosecuting cases, d) not spending money allocated by Parliament, e) promoting themselves ahead of more deserving candidates, f) threatening a grand jury, disobeying an order from Parliament, g) arresting a man to keep him from running for Parliament, h) losing a ship by neglecting to moor it, i) helping “suppress petitions to the King to call a Parliament,” j) granting warrants without cause, and k) bribery. </li>
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<li>Some of these charges were crimes. Others were not. The one common denominator in all these accusations was that the official had somehow abused the power of his office and was unfit to serve." <a href="http://www.crf-usa.org/impeachment/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors.html">High Crimes and Misdemeanors - Constitutional Rights Foundation</a></li>
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Meanwhile, get familiar with wordings, to keep straight the definitions, contexts. See <i>subheadings</i> [Same site, at <i>Cornell University Law School</i>] <br />
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<li><a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-A">SUBPART A —<b> General Provisions</b> (§§ 2635.101 - 2635.107)</a> </li>
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<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-B">SUBPART B — <b>Gifts From Outside Sources</b> (§§ 2635.201 - 2635.205)</a>, see discussions at <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-B">https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-B</a> </blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-C">SUBPART C — <b>Gifts Between Employees</b> (§§ 2635.301 - 2635.304)</a> </blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-D">SUBPART D — Conflicting Financial Interests (§§ 2635.401 - 2635.403)</a> </blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-E">SUBPART E — <b>Impartiality in Performing Official Duties</b> (§§ 2635.501 - 2635.503)</a>, see discussions at <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-E">https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-E</a> </blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-F">SUBPART F — <b>Seeking Other Employment</b> (§§ 2635.601 - 2635.606)</a>. See discussions at <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-F">https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-F</a> </blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-G">SUBPART G — <b>Misuse of Position</b> (§§ 2635.701 - 2635.705)</a>. See discussions at <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-G">https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-G</a> </blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-H">SUBPART H — <b>Outside Activities</b> (§§ 2635.801 - 2635.809)</a> </blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/part-2635/subpart-I">SUBPART I — <b>Related Statutory Authorities</b> (§§ 2635.901 - 2635.902)</a></blockquote>
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tv, <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>The Testosterone Findings.<br />
A Meander through the Lore of Testosterone.<br />
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Do those who feel that their testosterone is flagging, look to other <i>behaviors t</i>o boost it: like an addiction. Do they turn to not just foods, football on TV, shots, weights, but <i>cultural behaviors </i>-- abuse, racism, rejuvenated supremacism stance; next - fake news, conspiracy theorist behaviors.</div>
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Get that Big T back. What other choices do we have? We learn today, small update, that sexism is bad for health. See Small update: If testosterone sparks hyper-stereotypical male behavior, then it is bad for your health. See <a href="http://health.usnews.com/health-care/articles/2016-11-21/sexism-could-harm-mens-health-study">http://health.usnews.com/health-care/articles/2016-11-21/sexism-could-harm-mens-health-study</a>. Is that why some president-elects do not want to reveal their real medical histories? Ask, see it remain unanswered. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Testosteragnosia.</span><br />
<b>Progopagnosia Expanded.</b><br />
<b>The Inability to Recognize Something.</b></div>
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Recognizing what makes us tick. We fail to recognize things all the time. But this one, how testosterone shapes behavior, is now at the fore. Update 2016 -- white male tribalism, see <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/us/politics/white-nationalists-celebrate-an-awakening-after-donald-trumps-victory.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/us/politics/white-nationalists-celebrate-an-awakening-after-donald-trumps-victory.html</a>. Don't recognize it as a factor? Tribalism itself, the group identity, is its own form of governing, click on the Governments header (African tribalism is the example, but of coure there are many, see <a href="http://politicaleconomicaltimeline.weebly.com/tribalism.html">http://politicaleconomicaltimeline.weebly.com/tribalism.html</a>)<br />
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<li>That face over there. Can't recognize it? There is a name for it, when the inability to recognize a face becomes general, and extreme: Progopagnosia. Face+ignorance. </li>
<li>Ask: What other recognitions fade, while we are, at first, unaware. How about recognizing what underlies our mindsets.Try our hormones. Do we fail to recognize the role of those hormones, particularly testosterone in the aggressive mayhem so visibly around us.</li>
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Look into testosterone in white supremacism. What name shall be given to the failure to recognize, or what name to give the idea while it is researched. Testosteragnosia. Testosterone+ignorance. Or testosterone blindness. We are supposed to have a degree self-awareness, see <a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/self-awareness_not_unique">http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/self-awareness_not_unique</a>/. Our degree of it, seems to stop at male hormonal roots to supremacissm<br />
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I. Vetting hormones. Testosterone: Defines, Limits, Jeopardizes, Enriches, Terrifies, Wastes, Inspires, Amuses, Kills<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Issues and ideas collected here: </span>Testosterone. Why don't we recognize it for the determinant of behavior and attitude that it is. Testosteragnosia. Is it like an addictive drug in effect. Acting it out, doing it, leads to more acting it out.<br />
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A. Addiction. Use pharmaceutical testosterone to build muscles. Harmless? Hardly. See <a href="http://testosteroneaddiction.com/happy-anniversary/">http://testosteroneaddiction.com/happy-anniversary/</a><br />
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B. What fosters it. Testosterone occurs naturally in both genders, of course. <br />
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1. Foods and vicarious experiences can make a difference (eat chilis, watch football, no really strenuous exercise, some red wine, get your sleep, have a nap or at least chill out a day a week, see <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/mens-health/11293944/Five-surprising-ways-to-increase-your-testosterone-levels.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/mens-health/11293944/Five-surprising-ways-to-increase-your-testosterone-levels.html</a>. Some of these conflict with C, below.<br />
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Or, instead of watching prison yard fights on TV for "entertainment," why not have the dining rooms serve foods listed here: <a href="http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/diet-nutrition/31148-10-foods-lower-testosterone-levels.html/">http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/diet-nutrition/31148-10-foods-lower-testosterone-levels.html/</a> Find herbs etc. to avoid, and for women, some of them promote things you may want.<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><br />
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<li>Alt-view -- See <a href="http://www.4-men.org/testosterone/testosterone-food.html">http://www.4-men.org/testosterone/testosterone-food.html</a>/ Find there that fatty meats - like at Mickey D's ? - produce estrogen, the women's hormone, and that produces the opposite effect from testosterone. So no fatty meats. No fast food if you want to pump your testosterone - see Fast Food and Testosterone, at <a href="http://www.myfittribe.com/articles/20080922/fast-food-and-testosterone.html">http://www.myfittribe.com/articles/20080922/fast-food-and-testosterone.html</a>Cabbage is good. So are Brussels sprouts. As in anything, not all agree. Just start looking.</li>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">This is for fruits. Apples, pineapple. See <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Guide-to-Fruits-that-Increase-Testosterone&id=160613/">http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Guide-to-Fruits-that-Increase-Testosterone&id=160613/</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">They also say to avoid caffeine, sugar, fried foods - oh, ye fast food industry buffs - you are weakening your pecs! Alfalfa sprout toast, eggs (apparently a good connection with the cholesterol there and testosterone?).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">See the same site as the herbs and other foods, scroll down toward the end for this clinker, at <a href="http://http//www.ironmagazineforums.com/diet-nutrition/31148-10-foods-lower-testosterone-levels.html">http//www.ironmagazineforums.com/diet-nutrition/31148-10-foods-lower-testosterone-levels.html</a></span></div>
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<li>Once there was this fish farm, for tilapia. And the fishy farmer found he could turn girls into boys. And so he did. Add testosterone to your fish food at the tilapia farm and turn females into males, and they grow bigger and then it's off to market. Just like feeding the hormones to the cattle, etc. See the Food & Water Watch at<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><a href="http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/blog/archive/2008/07/18/testosterone-for-your-tilapia/view" style="font-family: "times new roman";">http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/blog/archive/2008/07/18/testosterone-for-your-tilapia/view</a></li>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">2. Behavior. Fake it 'til you make it. Act as though, and then it comes true. The cycle of modeling.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4233/4257/1600/fifes.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4233/4257/320/fifes.jpg" height="280" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" width="400" />Testosterone marching. Fort Ticonderoga, NY. Fife and Drum Corps.</a></span><br />
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C. What reduces it. Do your own searches, but the horror begins with always-trustworthy internet health. Consider the Great-Awful 27 at <a href="http://www.eatthis.com/foods-bad-for-sex-drive">http://www.eatthis.com/foods-bad-for-sex-drive</a>, the inclusion by the gurus there of all the things we love; cheese, wine+, beer (!), sugar, flaxseed, edamame, shrimp, marijuana, licorice, deli meats, microwave popcorn, mint, anything in bisphenol-A (?) plastic bottles, containers, including bottled water, spicy strong flavored things,beets, transfats, coffee (!), cruciferous veggies, asparagus, transfats (think fast food), chocolate (!) and your prescriptions. Include steroids in that?<br />
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1. Abuse. Steroid use. What is its role in domestic violence. The rage will have passed by the time there is a court hearing, and who can prove its extent then. The woman is seen as hysteric. The rages will be denied. Doctors don't want to testify. Children at risk. Is there a word for willful, culpable testosteragnosia as a historical factor among the judiciary and lawyers, as in politics.<br />
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<li> Testosterone in excess can lead to brain death, says a study from Yale. Is that partially why women live longer? Correlations on any of this are not definitive. Just asking. <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/52813.php">http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/52813.php</a>. <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Yale Study. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><i>High</i> doses of testosterone cause brain cell death - a steroid example. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">We probably knew that, but hadn't put it into words. See <a href="http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/06-09-26-01.all.html/">http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/06-09-26-01.all.html/</a>. So, it is not just the concussions in football that addle the brain; it is also the testosterone itself that leads the fellow to the battering field in the first place.</span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
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<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Testosterone is not benign. See Injectable Testosterone at <a href="http://www.drugs.com/mtm/testosterone-injectable.html/">http://www.drugs.com/mtm/testosterone-injectable.html/</a> See what you, too, can look like, at <a href="http://www.freakzonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4529">http://www.freakzonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4529</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Precipitous, reactive decisions. <b>Testosterone led us to financial ruin?</b> Follow along at Womenomics at <a href="http://www.women-omics.com/636-0-women-who-spotted-the-testosterone-overdose-that-led-to-financial-ruin.html">http://www.women-omics.com/636-0-women-who-spotted-the-testosterone-overdose-that-led-to-financial-ruin.html</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">A. "The Alpha Male Syndrome," by Kate Ludeman and Eddit Erlandson. Find it at <a href="http://www.industrialcontroldesignline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193400539/">http://www.industrialcontroldesignline.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193400539/</a>. The focus is not on origins but on identifying dysfunctional control behaviors and how to channel them into productivity.<br />
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* <i>Untruthiness.</i> This concept fits 2016 more than the earlier beloved and milder concept of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/magazine/17FOB-onlanguage-t.html"><i>Truthiness</i></a>, defined as an <i>approximation</i> of truth, thank you, Stephen Colbert. Untruthiness as set forth here is beyond mere truthiness. It is the failure of even a<i> reasonable </i>approximation of truth. Apply the idea where a policy or appointment by a candidate after an election where the opposite was touted, is, with just a little investigating, found to benefit an <i>exploiter-- or class or exploiters -- </i> rather than the people who voted to get <i>out</i> of being exploited. </blockquote>
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Untruthiness alert. When untruthiness is found, don't get rude. Get<a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=testy"> testy</a>. The sideways V.</div>
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a. Consider: Voter betrayal. Voter betrayal is fraud against the voter in essence, if not legally actionable because there was no "contract" that meets the definitions. And political speech, however misleading, gets a pass, where commercial speech does not. Is that so? So: Voter betrayal. Then <i>both</i> sides can join in. </div>
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<li>A betrayal will be called out where a promise was made merely to get the vote, and without articulable pragnatic means to effectuate the promise -- leading to the fast jettison of the idea after an election. The candidate rejects the voter, who is no longer useful, in favor of serving more rewarding special interests, or because he found out that earlier opponents were correct and he was wrong. </li>
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b. Consider Voter exploitation. Exploitation is the umbrella concept in politics; who gets to exploit others; how much (regulation or no regulation); and do the exploited ever get real recourse for the economic and other harm done to them by exploiters. Watch the policies and appointments made by politicians once in office. Do the exploiters get back in, or did they ever leave? Watch the same in the private sector, where there is little recourse -- does exploitation correlate with profit margins? </div>
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<li>Watch for policies and appointments that, despite all the verbiage, <i>serve </i>the swamp, Keep the quiet gesture out there while matters pan out. We are watching. Do a quiet chink. Do you get a return chink? Networking begins.</li>
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Specific cases: Trump and the courts. See <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37956018">http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37956018</a>. </div>
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Educate yourself. Do these present the same kinds of behavior as the political bait-and-switch, the fraud on the voter, fraud on the voter, exploitation and betrayal. Betrayals of those lured into trusting. </div>
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<li>Already, "campaign rhetoric" is being branded as different from actionable words and so should be excluded from a trial, see <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/donald-trump-faces-hearing-for-trump-university-case.html">http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/donald-trump-faces-hearing-for-trump-university-case.html</a>. Campaign promises and statements as mere "rhetoric?" Follow closely. It may settle fast. Ask why, and is that fair, see <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/3711524/donald-trump-seeks-to-postpone-trump-university-racketeering-trial-possible-impeachable-offenses-until-after-inauguration/">http://www.inquisitr.com/3711524/donald-trump-seeks-to-postpone-trump-university-racketeering-trial-possible-impeachable-offenses-until-after-inauguration/</a> If statements are not actionable by voters,<i> are </i>they impeachable? And who would do it, once control over that process passes to those who may not see it in their interest. Read up.</li>
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4. Suggested starting points for Shakespeare-revisited gestures, for use when the Swampers exploit: First, make an emoticon and add it to your posters and emails. The sideways V. Then look around at policies and appointments:</div>
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<li>Stacking regulatory boards? Do the chink. See <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/23/news/economy/donald-trump-regulation/">http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/23/news/economy/donald-trump-regulation/</a> Then publicize every step taken to overwhelm our environment that has no other voice. </li>
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<li>Business fraudulent practices offer evidence of patterns now in politics? Assess.</li>
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<li>The trial will interpret the record. Why should anyone be allowed to forego a trial when it has been found to have <i>merit to proceed</i>.</li>
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<li>No more continuances. The cases may yet settle (beyond us), but at least include an admission of acts and the record to be public. Without that consider: The date was set already with elections and inaugurations in mind, so there is no change in cirumstances there except the Privileged One won. See <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/campaign-2016-donald-trump-trial-date-set-in-trump-university-lawsuit">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/campaign-2016-donald-trump-trial-date-set-in-trump-university-lawsuit</a>; </li>
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<li>See background of issues at /<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/donald-trump-scandals/474726/">http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/donald-trump-scandals/474726/</a>; and wait there's more: at <a href="http://www.litigationandtrial.com/2016/06/articles/attorney/consumer-protection/curiel-trump/"> http://www.litigationandtrial.com/2016/06/articles/attorney/consumer-protection/curiel-trump</a>/</li>
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<li>Somebody may indeed succeed in walling off the charges, because oligarchs can do that, but do the chink. It shows you do not forget. And 1918 is soon.</li>
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<li>Prescription drugs. Is there a shift going on, so that drugs will be allowed to increase without limit, to serve the pharmaceutical interests and deprive people of access to healthcare by upping prices by another route? What other alternatives are there? See <a href="http://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/091216/real-reason-prescription-drug-prices-are-so-high.asp">http://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/091216/real-reason-prescription-drug-prices-are-so-high.asp</a> </li>
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<li>Do the chink, and push for broad information to go to people about single-payer instead. Regulation is there properly to prevent unfair exploitation. Watch who is proposed. Prescription drugs. Will that policy be set by the profiteers, or those to be served with actual healthcare. </li>
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QUINCE Then, there is another thing: we must have a wall in the great chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby says the story, did talk through the chink of a wall. <br />
SNOUT You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom?<br />
BOTTOM Some man or other must present Wall: and let him have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-cast about him, to signify wall; and let him hold his fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus and Thisby whisper. <br />
QUINCE If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit down, every mother's son, and rehearse your parts. Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your speech, enter into that brake: and so every one according to his cue.<br />
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-82317827954939278372016-09-11T12:27:00.003-04:002016-09-12T18:38:32.021-04:00Deplorables. Politically incorrect. But true? Hillary-fact checkers, to your marks. Hillary on the media hot seat.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Why? Shock! She took aim, she fired at something. </div>
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No threat, just a description. Ladylike.</div>
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Of incorrectness into WWIII. </div>
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Media: toadies for ad cash, not depth.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">A. She would have been fine, if she had voiced herself differently, like this, for example; and very nobly. </span></div>
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"As a person and a candidate, I deplore racism, sexism, <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=homophobia">homophobia</a>, and <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=xenophobia">xenophobia</a> wherever it is found. I also believe it is found more in my opponent's fans than mine. So: Is that belief correct? Factfinders, to your marks." </blockquote>
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Fact-checkers could easily find out the truth of that statement: Let the checkers do that. Do indeed half of her opponent's fans indeed support policies that hinder opportunity depending on race, gender and sexuality. Are they taught to react with generalized<span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">FEAR</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">FEAR <span style="font-size: x-small;">FEAR</span></span><i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i>to the new, the different, the stranger, as a threat to one's own position on some ladder. That does not necessarioly make them bad people, and that is the correctness point, but the truth of the description is also the point. To that style, however, people would have turned away, calling her supercilious, detached, and who is she inside, really? </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">B. The word root itself is fine. <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=deplore">Deplore</a>.</span><i style="text-align: center;"> Meaning of 'deplore'. Pay attention to the words used.</i><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">What is to be <i>deplored?</i> </span><span style="text-align: center;">To deplore</span> is to regret, be saddened, even be ready to give up on what is deplored. Subjective. A personal reaction.<br />
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<li><i>Deplore-able </i>is related. </li>
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<li>The cause I now give up for lost was worth seeking. </li>
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<li>Look back at 18th Century roots even then <i>deploring</i> the devolution of the word into a <i>value judgment</i>, that what I deplore is indeed bad in itself, not just in my mind. See Sam Johnson, apparently, making that observation. See site.</li>
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C. She failed to be perfect.<br />
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After being careful for so long not to demonize anyone, she slipped into the rabbit hole and was politically incorrect. Instead of her isolating the <i>mindset</i> for comment (see A), people holding those mindsets were glommed into one pejorative -- the condition itself, the <i>deplorables</i>. <br />
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<li>Is that characterization really so awful? Have the deplorables (who <i>chose</i> their <i>mindsets</i> that are <i>indeed</i> deplorable, such a splitting of shards) any justification for being pinned with what they themselves chose? </li>
<li>Compare nouning: See Victor Hugo's well-nouned renowned <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/135">Les Miserables</a> (who did <i>not </i>choose their miserable poverty, and therefore their nouning is not a pejorative) </li>
<li>Have the basket folk no humor? Why not, in this campaign that has been so full of political incorrectness that her opponent runs on it, like a platform, and the fans clap with glee. </li>
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She is well educated, however, and should have been more aware of the linguistics involved, and its effect when a female dares utter, than her opponent who is not either a) aware or, as far as we know, b) female (birth certificate?). </div>
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Resume for education: See <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/16/donald-trump-resume">http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/16/donald-trump-resume</a>. </div>
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1.. Nouning is like <i>verbing</i>, only different. Nouning? See what is trending at See <a href="https://www.1843magazine.com/content/ideas/anthony-gardner/youve-been-verbed">https://www.1843magazine.com/content/ideas/anthony-gardner/youve-been-verbed</a>. </div>
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<li>Nouning can be constructive, when objectively useful to and consistent with the communication of topic. </li>
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<li>See the constructive nouning in <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/135" style="font-style: italic;">Les Miserables</a>. Victor Hugo. There, an entire segment of the population is characterized with their common and most important label for the purpose of the usage -- their victimhood through enforced poverty. </li>
<li>The person in poverty is not to blame. The system favoring the royalty and nobles is. That usage, the condition to describe an entire class, highlights the condition without demeaning the poor person. That is effective. </li>
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<li>Nouning is destructive when it is used to put people down, as a personal <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=pejorative">pejorative</a>, label-slapped on the person. Nouning that characterizes a person as a bad person, for holding a view or having a condition, is a political minefield. </li>
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<li>It is risky to nounify a adjective describing a personal view, to generalize it as though thee were no other qualities there. personify it in an actual person. It turns a neutral description,I find this deplorable, </li>
<li>Do not demonize. However, see #1, enforced only as to one side.</li>
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<li>Nouning is also risky in politics, because the grammatical mashup is not yet as recognized as verbing is. Nouning also subtly changes meaning when used out of politics. Watch it.</li>
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Polite but limited applause to that journalist here who at least provided the full context, that in itself does temper the harsh meaning imposed by the selective reporters. There is still no analysis of why everyone went into a flap, none, even at the politician's retraction, see <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/09/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-basket-of-deplorables/">http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/09/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-basket-of-deplorables/</a><br />
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<li> <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=explore">Explore </a>it. I <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=implore">implore</a> you. Language is the basic tool of good journalism. To refuse to dig deeper into meanings short-changes the nation and diminishes your profession. To fail to do so suggests you agree you should talk down to people and pretend there are indeed no issues that educating can elucidate. One candidate, her opponent, would have you believe that. Are you so beholden to him for ad revenue that you have to keep it simple? </li>
<li>Cast some light into this fog. <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=elucidate">E-lu-ci-date</a> even though it takes homework.</li>
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Upon agreement of a) the chairman of the convention of the DNC, as of this writing one Donna Fudge); b) and the new nominee group as set forth herein; and in the event of a surprise juggling of the stability of the board, the following rules changes shall apply immediately:<br />
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1. Free agency. All delegates shall be designated free agents upon entry to the convention floor.<br />
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<li>SANDERS. The second such choice shall be Bernard Sanders, as the candidate who apparently had important rugs cut out from under him, even though he might well have lost if matters had played out without rugs, or if the rugs had remained enfloored. </li>
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10. In the event there is disagreement as to who is the chairman of the DNC, the person holding such position as of 7.23.2016 shall not continue.</div>
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-40601744724471208522015-03-07T13:30:00.001-05:002015-03-07T13:30:19.243-05:00Rankism and other force. Gender issues in the military. Can the military promote warriors who also understand larger community. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Conflicts, civilian and military objectives, values diverge in rankism, force. Can dignitarianism in the military spur change?<br />
When military hierarchies are challenged, without the words for it, can the services change, and how? <br />
US Naval Academy at Annapolis, example, illustration from Azores battle 1814.<br />
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Rankism and force in the military. Rankism and force make the military strong. That must be so because rankism and force constitute the two basic pillars of military training in obedience, in preserving the given hierarchy of who holds power. Read the various creeds and codes of our military academies and the services: <a href="http://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/military-creeds.html">http://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/military-creeds.html</a>/ Battle behavior and skills, loyalty, orders, love of country, rifle and way-of-life (the idea, not specifics). All to take place within the structure in place.<br />
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Traditional rankism and force, however, are now holding back the military. Rankism and force both focus on keeping competition out -- and dkeeping in the narrow, increasingly irrelevant thinkers who benefit from the status of the old ways. Exclusionism based on group and not individual ability criteria diminishes the resource pool in an era demanding better answers.<br />
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Even the military cannot contain change, however, as institutions change outside and produce competitors for spots on the hierarchy. The old response, to ignore the gross forms that rankism and force take over time, and continue to undermine the competition that rising groups signify, are now in the headlines. In civilian life, gamer sexism, glass ceilings, and everywhere including the military, sexual assaults. And old timers say, ladies, just stay away, because boys will be boys and they get worse, see <a href="http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/06/05/mccain-advises-women-to-avoid-the-military.html">http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/06/05/mccain-advises-women-to-avoid-the-military.html/</a><br />
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Is urging women not to join the military the answer? No group long used will stay that way forever, history tells us, and Senator McCain is better advised to address, how the military can improve its strength by making room, not assuming the tradition is always right. Whether in colonialism, religious institutions and exclusionism, politics, suppression of any group, racism, capitalism holding down the competition through its corporations and culture, seeking dominance in perpetuity not based on merit but based on rankism and force. Fear of competition. Is that the linchpin. Fear of the autonomy of others, reducing one's own autonomy to use them. The tactics of users sow the seeds of the revolts of the used.<br />
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A. How can the military adjust. Revamp and refocus the words for inclusion, as a start.<br />
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1. Condition warriors not just to operate in war settings where the drive to dominate takes precedence, but in community, or even family, where a drive to dominate is dysfunctional, undermining creativity, responsiveness. Cannot a warrior walk and chew gum?<br />
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For war, be prepared, learn the skills and apply them reflexively, love your weapons, obey all lawful orders, leave no fellow warrior behind, uphold democracy/constitution/US way-of-life, allthough all that is subject to interpretation and interest groups may differ in what<i> should</i> be protected. Just uphold the idea is fine. At the military creeds site above, note that only the Coast Guard includes behavior models when living in community. Note also only the marines care about nothing but the rifle. Two extremes. These days, however, the Coast Guard is increasingly is asked to act in war settings, and marines in peacekeeping or at least back-seating. Learn from ea;ch other. <br />
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<li>Back to marines: and considering the creed idea, encapsulating what is most important, so it seems. </li>
<li>Their training is indeed splendid but incompatible for long-term watch-wait-help activities. </li>
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<li> Their training instead is geared to providing immediate and usually violent response to imminent peril, and with well-honed skills.</li>
<li>Push and pull. Stress. Civilian pressures pull toward using the military for civilian goals, even humanitarian and political; traditional military pressures push back toward ever-developing tools of force, obedience, the clear hit. See a 2003 <i>Journal of Military History</i>, Thomas S. Langston's <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jmh/summary/v068/68.3burk.html">Uneasy Balance: Civil-Military Relations Since 1783</a>. Relationships between civil and military personnel and interests must realign, and realign again. The <a href="http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Hugh_Lofting/The_Story_of_Doctor_Dolittle/The_Rarest_Animal_Of_All_p1.html">Pushmi-Pullyu</a> conundrum is not yet extinct, Dr. Dolittle.</li>
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2. Implementing a dual track training program, not just the war response but the discernment for when the war response is dysfunctional in a community -- including an office environment, balanced of course for siege-needs -- should promote productive gender cooperation, not exploitation. Can the military be both warrior and community member.<br />
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<li> Missing from military codes, that I can find, is the basic affirmation that a person, whether in the service or a civilian, has the right to his or her own body, and that the service cadet or midshipman will respect the choices of others in whether or not to permit access, or must continue to operate in an environment fostering unwelcome attentions in sexual matters.</li>
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<li>Rankism and force operate against autonomy in gender matters.</li>
<li>Recognize a property interest that a person has in his or her own bodily integrity, and the protection rises at least to the level of protection that people's term papers have now in the military.</li>
<li>Steal someone's words, a thesis, and you are in trouble. Steal someone's right to determine one's own body matters, and it is fair game at this point, agrees Senator McCain probably, if asked. </li>
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3. Standardize honor codes, honor concepts<br />
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How to choose which branch of the service to join based on codes. The services vary widely, particularly whether a cadet or midshipman has any obligation to report, to intervene to prevent bad acts of others. <br />
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a. Army: the Army is intolerant of the bad acts of others, <a href="http://sassafrastree.blogspot.com/2014/10/honor-code-at-west-point-words-and.html/">http://sassafrastree.blogspot.com/2014/10/honor-code-at-west-point-words-and.html/.</a> <br />
b. Air Force: no lie, no cheat, no steal, and no tolerance of those who do, see<a href="http://www.academyadmissions.com/the-experience/character/honor-code/"> http://www.academyadmissions.com/the-experience/character/honor-code/</a><br />
c. Coast Guard: Will not let others bring reproach to the "fair name" of the Coast Guard without reproach<br />
d. Marines: See core values at <a href="http://www.marines.com/history-heritage/principles-values">http://www.marines.com/history-heritage/principles-values</a>/ Do what is right even when noone is looking. No obligation to be intolerant of or intervene in bad acts of others that I can see, yet. See also http://www.usmcpress.com/heritage/corp_values.htm/, but need to check what amendments might have been effected. The usmc press site is 2001.<br />
e. Navy: See See <a href="http://www.usna.edu/About/honorconcept.php/">http://www.usna.edu/About/honorconcept.php/</a><br />
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Midshipmen are persons of integrity: They stand for that which is right.<br />
They tell the truth and ensure that the full truth is known.<br />
They do not lie.<br />
They embrace fairness in all actions.<br />
They
ensure that work submitted as their own is their own, and that
assistance received from any source is authorized and properly
documented.<br />
They do not cheat.<br />
They respect the property of
others and ensure that others are able to benefit from the use of their
own property<i>.</i> They do not steal.</blockquote>
There is no obligation in the Navy to be intolerant of the acts of
others. It appears that the midshipman can choose to tolerate what others
are doing.
The Code of Military Justice, however, seems to support the idea of
tolerance by specifying what the witness may and may not do: The person may know of an offense by another, but is only
obligated not to receive, comfort or assist the offender, see article
878 at <a href="http://www.ucmj.us/category/sub-chapter-10-punitive-articles/">http://www.ucmj.us/category/sub-chapter-10-punitive-articles/</a> See <a href="http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmcphc/Documents/LGuide/sexual_assault.aspx">http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmcphc/Documents/LGuide/sexual_assault.aspx</a>/, no midshipman is required to follow any of the Honor behaviors of in gender matters. Is that so? <br />
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4. Sexual Assault in particular<br />
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Examine the interplay, or lack of it, in concepts of gender misdeeds and other areas.<br />
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4.1. Sailor's Creed. <br />
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I am a United States Sailor. <br />
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of
America and I will obey the orders of those appointed over me. <br />
I
represent the fighting spirit of the Navy and those who have gone before
me to defend freedom and democracy around the world. <br />
I proudly serve my country's Navy combat team with Honor, Courage and Commitment. <br />
I am committed to excellence and the fair treatment of all. </blockquote>
The Navy also is sloppy in what orders must be obeyed. See <a href="http://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/military-creeds.html">http://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/military-creeds.html/;</a> <a href="http://www.ocs.navy.mil/memorization.asp">http://www.ocs.navy.mil/memorization.asp </a>Obeying orders: this should read "lawful" orders.<br />
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And what is fair treatment of all, within its military form of administration, with nearly absolute regard to rank, as though a breach in chain of command is intolerable wherever it rears its head, triggering chaos regardless of the setting: family, dating, ordinary (non-military-objective) task.<br />
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Ask permission, sailor. May I proceed? That is good. Then leave if the answer is no. Is that so impossible? Culturally, what pop theories come into play:<br />
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<li>Is there really a kind of hyper-narcissism of men, resulting in their aggressive behavior and other matters, see theory at <a href="http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/22985/20150304/are-men-narcissistic-more-so-than-women-most-definitely.htm/">http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/22985/20150304/are-men-narcissistic-more-so-than-women-most-definitely.htm/</a> </li>
<li>Now, that's fun to consider. However, its emotional base makes it far more difficult to change than a rational explanation. </li>
<li>The Navy has had a tradition of enforcing the honor code, however. Is it still there? Read of brigades of midshipmen supporting enforcement of the honor code, does that extend to affirmative reporting of bad acts? Not clear. </li>
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<li>News has pointed out the conflicts of interest, this from 1994 -- where midshipmen show more interest in strict enforcement than their superiors, see <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-05-22/news/1994142027_1_honor-code-honor-violations-brigade-of-midshipmen">http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-05-22/news/1994142027_1_honor-code-honor-violations-brigade-of-midshipmen</a></li>
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4.2 The Navy lauds itself. More than other branches? Not sure.<br />
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The core values charter highlights some issues. Make decisions in the interest <i>of the institution</i>, not the situation, not the needs of the day. If blind rankism, for example, is in the interest of the navy, and the navy thinks that is in the interest of the nation, there is no chance of change. And the institution is named before the nation.<br />
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Make decisions and act in the best interest of the Department of the Navy and the nation, without regard to personal consequences. </blockquote>
See <a href="http://ethics.navy.mil/content/corevaluescharter.aspx">http://ethics.navy.mil/content/corevaluescharter.aspx</a><br />
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4.3 Honor, Courage, Commitment: they seem to agree on those ideas. <br />
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See <a href="http://ethics.navy.mil/content/corevaluescharter.aspx">http://ethics.navy.mil/content/corevaluescharter.aspx</a>/ Yet, sexual assault is so beyond seems out of the bounds of military control, despite sites such as the <i>Navy Leader's Guide for Management of Sailors in Distress</i>, at <a href="http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmcphc/Documents/LGuide/sexual_assault.aspx">http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmcphc/Documents/LGuide/sexual_assault.aspx</a><br />
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jEnter the arena of consent, however, and honor goes out the window. Ethics and abuse and rape: consent. Keep it simple. A problem is the convoluted nature of the description of consent. Why not provide simply that the actor, the one seeking access or a privilege, must ask permission. No force allowed. None. No fear used as a tool to gain access.<br />
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<i> Consent</i> means words or overt acts indicating a freely given agreement to the sexual contact at issue by a competent person. Lack of verbal or physical resistance or submission resulting from the use of force, threat of force, or placing another person in fear does not constitute consent. A current or previous dating relationship by itself or the manner of dress of the person involved with the alleged offender in the sexual contact at issue shall not constitute consent.</blockquote>
See <a href="http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmcphc/Documents/LGuide/sexual_assault.aspx">http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmcphc/Documents/LGuide/sexual_assault.aspx </a><br />
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And on to <i>Manliness</i>, upholding <i>customs and traditions</i>. In 2010, a monograph (approved for release) cited issues and progress in incorporating homosexuals, <br />
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There must be a more appropriate set of words, as to manliness. Why is it still in there? What if the manliness is seen as the male forcing himself as part of the navy's custom and tradition. Must a female midshipman verbalize this is aspirational? What if the custom is humiliation of individuals and groups. Assertion of supremacism not by merit, but by force.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>In the Navy, honor,
personal integrity, and loyalty to the service, its <i>customs and its
traditions</i>, are fundamental characteristics essential to a successful
Naval Officer. </li>
<li>Any midshipman unable to conduct himself at all times in a
manner indicating the highest standards of<i> honesty, integrity, and
manliness,</i> is unfit to hold a commission in the Navy or to enjoy the
privilege of being a member of the Brigade. </li>
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4.4 . Concepts in need of expansion. Falsehood. Whose, what to do.</div>
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The midshipmen's brigade, see news article from 1994, Baltimore Sun, see <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1994-05-22/news/1994142027_1_honor-code-honor-violations-brigade-of-midshipmen%20%28no%20lie,%20no%20cheat,%20no%20steal%29">Baltimore Sun 1994-05, honor code violations brigade of midshipmen</a>. acts when any midshipman is
guilty of offenses of a dishonest nature, such as Falsehood (including
any form of deception or attempt to deceive) or Fraud (including false
muster- answering for another at muster, or any form of cheating) or of
offenses indicating Moral Turpitude. Such an individual intolerable to the
Brigade (is this group still operational?) and becomes immediately subject to a recommendation for
dismissal from the Naval Service. See The Honor Concept of the U.S.
Naval Academy by Midshipmen Ostend and Dunlap at
<a href="http://isme.tamu.edu/JSCOPE99/Navy99.html/">http://isme.tamu.edu/JSCOPE99/Navy99.html/ </a></div>
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Or has the brigade faded, so that others tolerate bad behavior in the Navy, and it is only if the bad actor is caught that his friends or other witnesses need to speak truth to the ranking asker. <br />
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4.5 Why autonomy is so feared among groups traditionally kept away from it<br />
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Sources bend over to find reasons why autonomy is to be denied: 1) as an illusion, because the actor really cannot know all his or her motivations, and the choices made are not really rational or necessarily in her interest, all followed by great tangles leading to heel of hand hitting forehead repeatedly, when all we wanted to know was why she can't be the one to decide since it's her body, see <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/personal-autonomy/">http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/personal-autonomy/</a>; 2) as a threat to social stability, where a traditional and worshipped hierarchy is undermined by an underling's choice not to participate; 3) contrary to religious precepts where interpretations of texts have been so long slanted to serve the hierarchy, that those texts are equated with direct deity desire and directive; and/or 4) still in line as to Constitutional privacy protections, but not there yet, see <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/personal_autonomy">https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/personal_autonomy</a><br />
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5. Unwanted sexual advances.<br />
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Miscellany: sites, sources<br />
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a. <u>Navy Code of Ethics: </u>This site seems to be unavailable. Why? See <a href="http://ethics.navy.mil/content/codeofethics.aspx">http://ethics.navy.mil/content/codeofethics.aspx/</a> Is it outdated, in favor of this site, that offers 2011-2013 information? See <br />
<a href="http://ethics.navy.mil/">http://ethics.navy.mil/ </a> <br />
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No, that ethics.navy site is more employment related, not gender relationships, giving parameters for gifts, etc.<br />
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By the language here, what could be proven. Anything goes, highly subjective. No woman can hang her hat there for body invasion, withdrawal of consent and used anyway.<br />
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b. <u>Navy Code of Conduct</u>. For direct information on the handling of specific behaviors, go to the
Conduct Manual of 2000 (changes and updates are in boldface in the
manual *), see <a href="http://www.usna.org/handbook/conduct/ConductManual.pdf">http://www.usna.org/handbook/conduct/ConductManual.pdf</a>. See FN 1 Am still trying to figure out all the interactions, hierarchy of power and applicability, for these. Research with caution. Let me know what I get wrong.<br />
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c <u>United States Code of Military Justice.</u> This was amended in 2012. For sexual offenses, go to Rule 412, nonconsensual sexual offense, at page 722, discussion in the Appendix there. See <a href="http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/mcm.pdf/">http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/mcm.pdf/</a> I understand that any site that applies the old language of specifying rape etc. is outdated? Is that so?<br />
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Old rules against rape provided that no unlawful force was to be applied. What <i>lawful</i> force is there in sex? None. <br />
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Find conduct unbecoming an officer at Article 133, page 383.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>In the Code, procedural, jurisdictional sections dominate, See <a href="http://www.ucmj.us/about-the-ucmj">http://www.ucmj.us/about-the-ucmj</a> / but look to the punitive sections at <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/subtitle-A/part-II/chapter-47/subchapter-X">https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/subtitle-A/part-II/chapter-47/subchapter-X/</a></li>
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and the MilitaryAdvocate site (a private site) and click on the sexual topics at UCMJ articles 120 and 125, see rape, sodomy, sexual assault, and nonconsensual conduct offenses, at <a href="http://militaryadvocate.com/military-offenses/rape-sexual-assault-sodomy">http://militaryadvocate.com/military-offenses/rape-sexual-assault-sodomy</a>/<br />
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d. <u> Consent.</u> The great escape hatch from culpability: the morass of consent and which presumptions apply <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Issues of consent: These sections are a jungle of interpretation range possibilities. Propose recognizing simply the property interest of the woman (or man) in his or her own body, such that permission must be sought and given as activities proceed. May I proceed? Asks the doer. Yes or no, says the doee, and the matter ends. </li>
</ul>
Verbiage talks sanctimoniously about the need to deter unconsensual acts, but that is belied by other parts of the code that do not require reporting, and offer all the consent gobbledegook. <br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Solution: The doer must get ongoing permission to proceed. Period. Consent at the beginning does not mean consent to anything thereafter. If the doer has no discipline, he should not be in the military. Let him find someone else to do it on with at.</li>
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FN 1 The conduct manual explored<br />
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a. There are listed prohibitions: the specific and typical
"conduct offenses" (not a complete listing) located at the tail end, at
Chapter 7, page 91 of total 107 pages. <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Chapters 1-6 deal with more
important matters than the offenses themselves: procedure and who has
rank over whom. </li>
</ul>
Note that attempts to commit are treated the same as
the committed offense, but if the subject abandons the idea even after
preparation, and by free volition (not if mere unforeseen circumstances
arise), there is no guilt. This the pull-out theory of wrongdoing. Get
all the benefit of up to then, so long as you pull out.<br />
2.2 Enforcement. There is a "Conduct Office" that shall
be consulted as to all those
non-enumerated non-typical offenses, and <i>before</i> prosecution.
What records are kept of those consultations and their results? Some
cases are handled under the "Honor Concept."<br />
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2.3 Mottoes. Ships and groups may have their own. See <a href="http://www.military-quotes.com/mottos/US-navy.htm">http://www.military-quotes.com/mottos/US-navy.htm</a> / These do not seem relevant here, to issues of conduct unbecoming. See the seal, and official explanations, at <a href="http://www.usna.edu/PAO/faq_pages/Seal.php">http://www.usna.edu/PAO/faq_pages/Seal.php</a><br />
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2.3 Sampler from the Manual: topics that relate to sexual nonconsensual matters<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Alcohol is not
prohibited, because "education in principles of moderation serve to
foster proper attitudes based upon judgment, self-restraint and
self-discipline." S.7.10 at p.97.</li>
<ul>
<li>Apparently then, aiding and abetting the drunkenness of a woman and watching a rape can be fine because it will teach her judgment </li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Failure to report sexual
harassment event is a major violation. This apparently means the victim's duty to report? What about a correlative duty on
the part of others at the time not to tolerate that behavior?) Sexual
harassment is at section 7.08 at p.96, and refers the reader to current
SECNAV, OPNAV and USNA instructions and</li>
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2.4 Categories, some of them<br />
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a.
Duty. Do it. Section 7.06. Do not aid or abet others in avoiding
their duty. Correct and report delinquencies<br />
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<li>(Your own? Theirs? But the Honor Concept does not require beign intolerant of others' bad acts?obligation to
address, or just tell on your neighbor?); and do not violate the "Honor
Concept".</li>
</ul>
b. No hazing: That is called "The Fourth Class Development System." At that Section 7.06 --<br />
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The
act of hazing is a breach of federal law set forth by Congress in 10
United States Code 6964, wherein hazing is defined in section (a) as
"any unauthorized assumption of authority by a midshipman whereby
another midshipman suffers or is exposed to any cruelty, indignity,
humiliation, hardship, or oppression, or the deprivation or abridgement
of any right." b. 10 U.S. Code 6964 further states in section (c) that
"...no midshipman may be dismissed for a single act of hazing except by
sentence of a court-martial." Related offenses, however, may result in
discharge. *** </blockquote>
c. Report all suspected hazing cases to the Conduct Officer
before adjudication.<br />
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<li>What does this filter out? </li>
</ul>
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d. Upperclassmen are to lead and
be responsible for the first-year midshipmen and shall be professional
about it. The first-years, The Fourth Class, must obey the no-hazing
rules (that Fourth Class Development System) and obey all direct
orders. At 7-3.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Note the update: The professional
relationship that the upperclassmen are to establish with the Fourth
Class includes dating and unprofessional social relationships. At 7-4</li>
</ul>
e. No bringing discredit on the Academy by lapse in decorum when identifiable as a midshipmen or member of navy. At 7.09, p.95. [do your lapses out of uniform?}<br />
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f. Sexual
activity: All the right words are there, apparently. No marriage; and
no sexual misconduct, and this is well-detailed as to prohibitions, see
p.95, <br />
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<br />
g. No lie, no cheat, no steal. The
Navy no lie, no cheat, no steal, however, does not include the Army's fourth
point: that roughly provides as to the midshipman, nor shall a midshipman tolerate those who do.<br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Dig
deeper into what this Navy Honor is, and find reference to matters not easily accessible without a week to set aside: </li>
<ul>
<li>the United
States Naval Academy Regulations, Article 3101 in the 1933, 1938, 1940,
and 1945 editions, Article 2502 in the 1951 edition, </li>
<li>as quoted by H.R.
Perot in his paper entitled </li>
<li>"The History of Honor at the United States
Naval Academy. From Its Founding to the Establishment of Our Present
Honor Committee." Page 2. </li>
</ul>
<li>The Honor idea is not a Code, but a Concept. </li>
<ul>
<li>Here, find
the concepts in addition to no lie no cheat no steal, as honor, personal
integrity, and loyalty to the Navy, </li>
<li>and that includes its customs and
traditions. </li>
<ul>
<li>Keep reading: find "honesty, integrity, and <i>manliness.</i>" </li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
h. Manliness<br />
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See discussion, main section.<br />
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a. Requirements of The Code of Honor discussed at West Point A cadet
must carry out, act, and live particular values: "respect, duty,
loyalty, selfless service, integrity and personal courage" in everything
the cadet does. Unclear is whether that applies to non-military-peer
activities. See <a href="http://www.army.mil/article/98038/The_code_of_honor__know_it__embrace_it/">http://www.army.mil/article/98038/The_code_of_honor__know_it__embrace_it/</a><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li> Feel honor, show honor, give honor. Feel it, in patriotic situations,
listening to the national anthem, watching posting of colors, for
example; show it by recognizing exceptional contributions of others.
Show it, as to the flag and its implicit ideals, and its symbolism. " </li>
<li>Act with honor even when no-one else is around. Strive to do the right
thing always, whether in uniform or in civilian clothing. As a
representative of oneself, one's family and one's company, do the right
thing, without expectation of reward. Good. With honor you can be
trusted. </li>
<li>See the <i>White Paper</i> at
<a href="http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1951/18250/whitepaper.htm/">http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1951/18250/whitepaper.htm/</a>. A white
paper argues that a given position, here, honor, is the way to go, see
definition of white paper at
<a href="https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/546">https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/546</a>/</li>
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2. HIERARCHY. Chain of command is vital to a military. It is not
infallible. Abuse of hierarchy. Rankism. See
http://p2pfoundation.net/Rankism/. Investigate the role of the hierarchy
concept in how honor codes are applied, who is protected. Spot
rankism. When does mere rank enable dastardly assault behavior,
humiliation. When does respect for rank become rankism instead? See
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-fuller/rankism-the-poison-that-d_b_1587815.html/
An alternative to rankism is not simple leveling and removal of
badges. It is <a href="http://hellofodderhellobuyer.blogspot.com/2008/02/rank-rankism-and-dignitarian.html">dignitarianism</a>, see <br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>The army hierarchy has its own designations for cadets: As an
aside, someone in the visitor center said that COW meant the Commanding
Officer's Wife, and people around her laughed, but here we see that a
COW is a second-year cadet, in the herd.There are bumper stickers saying
"My daughter is a COW." But there are not saying "My son is a COW."</li>
</ul>
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a. Follow the dots. When does rank become Rankism. Rank assertion
works well for a discipline and order of command purpose, not if for
personal supremacism activities and humiliation of others. Military
families often experience this, see
http://www.veteransunited.com/spouse/signs-of-and-solutions-to-rankism/<br />
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b. Follow the interrelationship between honor and hierarchy, as
articulated and practiced in all four service branches. Is rankism fostered by
institutionalized and outdated, dysfunctional prejudices perpetuated.<br />
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3. How to upgrade from Rankism to a functioning honor-hierarchy concept.<br />
<br />
Try <i>Dignitarianism,</i> says Robert W. Fuller, see
http://www.breakingranks.net/dignitarian-society/ Provide for and
foster the dignity of every human being, even when applying the rules of
rank in following orders, advancement.<br />
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But nothing will work or change the system favoring the elite (self-defined)
without the will of the top command, and at least there are stirrings
at West Point. Learn more of the West Point honor and hierarchy codes.
How the hierarchy itself functions largely relies on the integrity of
the Honor background. Then (other posts to come) compare to Annapolis.<br />
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4. Can Dignitarianism work in a context with a vast majority, followed
far behind by minority this or that, minority gender, ethnicity, sexual
orientation. Minority under-representation. Does it matter, affect the
honor code when a small group has no clout with the ranking folk. </div>
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<li>The urgency is now. Do a search for
assaults on women at West Point, browse, then continue here and explore
the experience of other minorities. What gap
is there between public presentation and experience. Cadet population
about 84% male, see
http://www.npr.org/2013/10/22/239260015/west-point-women-a-natural-pattern-or-a-camouflage-ceilingWomen,
although still exploited, are doing well. Here, President Obama's
accolade 2010:</li>
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Then ask, does Annapolis, the United States Naval Academy, do better?
Does the Air Force? Do the Marines? Exploration continues. So far,
however, nice words at West Point, good intentions verbalized, but the
actions do not translate into dignity for women, or their inclusion in
the honor code. No honor is due them. Systemic overhaul needed.</div>
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Changes had been recommended back in 1993, see
<a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-12-17/news/1993351007_1_honor-code-honor-offense-alleged-hono/">http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-12-17/news/1993351007_1_honor-code-honor-offense-alleged-hono/</a><br />
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<li>Case in dodgy point: Midshipman Oliver North sallied forth after hours at Bancroft Hall
(the residence) or intended to change his medical records, or did he,
see <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1987-01-23/local/me-625_1_honor-code-honor-offense-code-state">http://articles.latimes.com/1987-01-23/local/me-625_1_honor-code-honor-offense-code-state</a>/
So what? </li>
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-25517594176440888812014-11-03T20:09:00.003-05:002016-02-16T16:52:49.702-05:00Annapolis logos and motifs play loose with history. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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At Annapolis Naval academy, logos and slogans show little connection to historical fact. Instead, tout the picture, the soundbite for glamor of sound, arousal of an artificial patriotism, not the underlying reality. That is an odd message for the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis to broadcast. Image over substance. Look at the flag logo, <i>Ex Scientia Tridens</i>; <i>Don't Give Up the Ship</i>, and <i>Remember the Maine.</i> Looking at history, what is really memorable about the Naval Academy treatment?<br />
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1. The Annapolis flag, logo here on a walkway compass medallion in the central Yard, Naval Academy.<br />
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1.1 The Latin motto. Ex Scientia Tridens. Latin would mean Rome, but the symbolism is more Greek than Roman; and the ship as shown is more like a 13th Century crusader troop hauler than a classical warship.<br />
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a. Ex Scientia Tridens <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-87FwJKbK0TyyFOgd3GXDBKvBLKY9p8HtSBi2qowgTDrn7nUTBGcXwsV9U16RkmNYm2lN-KjHuCHa0boL7Rd6mxmXE-br1MpV1rbW5crOe_acpp3U8ZYRd8CjpYlPDfYCPjlEw/s1600/DSCN8281.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-87FwJKbK0TyyFOgd3GXDBKvBLKY9p8HtSBi2qowgTDrn7nUTBGcXwsV9U16RkmNYm2lN-KjHuCHa0boL7Rd6mxmXE-br1MpV1rbW5crOe_acpp3U8ZYRd8CjpYlPDfYCPjlEw/s1600/DSCN8281.JPG" width="400" />Logo, Ex Scientia Tridens, Annapolis Naval Academy, Annapolis MD</a></div>
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Ex: Out of. Scientia: Knowledge, but go further Scientia is knowledge of a particular kind, objective, derived from "demonstrable and reproducible data." http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scientia/. The alternative is "cognitio" -- also knowledge, but the subjective kind. I hold this belief based on these, my, observations; not necessarily or including "evidence." See http://latinlexicon.org/definition.php?p1=1002664&p2=c<br />
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Knowledge revered at the Academy is, then, evidence-based: demonstrable and reproducible. <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><i>Scientio</i> is indeed part of Annapolis' founding mission: The requirement of evidence to ground knowledge. </li>
<ul>
<li>In 1825, President John Quincy Adams urged Congress to
establish a Naval Academy 'for the formation of scientific and accomplished officers.' http://www.usna.edu/USNAHistory/ </li>
<li>Even though it took 20 more years for the school to be established, the focus on science remained. Curriculum then: mathematics and navigation, gunnery and steam, chemistry, English, natural philosophy, and French. See site.</li>
</ul>
<li>Yet, policies and traditions at Annapolis appear to be based on culture, little regard for evidence. Look at the humiliation, the defacing of the Native American statue -- Tamiment -- for laughs and an edge in good grades. Fun for which elite group? NYU names a library after Tamiment, honoring ethnicity, minority, blue collar interests and the like, see http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/collections.html/. The Navy digs in. Evidence based? Traditions get etched in stone, or were, with little regard for evidence: There are religious focal points smack dab in the middle of the huge residence hall, a glamorous and efficient little Roman Catholic chapel, distinctly visible, where anyone else of a differing religious bent has to hoof elsewhere less bling.</li>
<ul>
<li> So far, I see no primacy to be given to anyone's religious beliefs in curriculum or training, yet such there is. And, of course, policies against women, etc., now being pressed back with evidence.</li>
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Tridens.<br />
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The last parsed part of the slogan Ex Scientia Tridens.<br />
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Tridens does not mean "sea power." Sea would be something like "mare"; power would be something ike "potentia" and dozens of subconcepts, none of which are tridens.<br />
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Tridens merely means trident, "three teeth" or prongs. Trident itself has a variety of meanings. Latin is used here; but the trident is more appropriately affiliated with the Greek earlier god, Poseidon; and for a broad spread of jurisdictional power, not one unilateral. And for gender power also shared.<br />
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<li> Rome the great borrower adopted much of Poseidon's mystique, but here the trident is surrounded with Greek olive leaves. Olive leaves were traditionally worn by brides and virgins in classical
Greece, see
http://www.manopoulos.com/olive-leaf-greek-mythology-backgammon-p-192.html,
and later to crown the single winner of the larger Olympic Games. A
two-gender significance. Thus, perhaps, the Victory columns also on the logo are Greek, signifying the Games, fair play, not just brute force. Tridens.and victory pillars were also later adopted by Rome in its military-type hierarchy; nonetheless, the heritage of the entire symbolism in the Navy flag is mixed. Latin superimposed on an earlier foundational Greek -- and Greek was the creative culture, the wise. Rome was only an empire-builder. A rather unthinking muscularity.</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Neptune: the Roman Latin name is of unknown origin, as it took over much of Poseidon -- but still less than Poseidon. Poseidon -- god of the seas. Neptune began as a god of fresh water. The little stuff. Neptune, not the Etruscan Nethuns by much, but the names are similar, see http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/etruscan.html#Nethuns. </li>
</ul>
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<li>The trident thus is of mixed heritage, but still a symbol of responsibility, of broad but specific jurisdictions; not just power apart from circumstance. </li>
<ul>
<li>The Greek god, Poseidon, was god of sea, but also of
earthquakes, and horses. His wife, Queen Amphitrite, was also powerful, with her own jurisdictions: responsible for the sea's bounty, as well as creation of highly
intelligent creatures like dolphins, whales, and also seals. </li>
</ul>
</ul>
So: Classical responsibility was shared. There were
other gods ruling around in the sea as well, dozens of them doing
different acts with weather and attributes of the waters (fresh and salt
water included) the like, all under the jurisdiction of Poseidon and
Amphitrite, some as in-laws of their children, see
http://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/sea-gods.html.</div>
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Does this look back detract from the authority of the god? No. It contains it;.<br />
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1.2 The ship on the logo. A single line of oars, a sail.<br />
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With the Greek/Roman background, is this supposed to be a warship on the Annapolis flag. It looks more like a Sunday pleasure barge. Roman or Greek warships were serious vessels, with layers of oars and oarsmen, biremes, triremes; and, most important, a deadly battering ram even of solid bronze, at the prow because ramming was how to win. See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2304412/The-battering-ram-2-000-year-old-warship-sheds-new-light-ancient-building-skills.html/'<br />
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Annapolis little model, however, looks like a mere troop carrier, identical to that of King Louis' of France sending crusaders to the Holy Land:</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmNQuS-DrjLMcPlInI3CK4d6e6LlVtrtA9q-051cqH4y6vQm1ypvkLKQSgM_qgZ8JD3hvsMedctime0EdfuHNhpYBZComxmaemDFCKuq8hK6BzDMuxOorvqfDbTg1q6G37fEIZLg/s1600/P1070408.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmNQuS-DrjLMcPlInI3CK4d6e6LlVtrtA9q-051cqH4y6vQm1ypvkLKQSgM_qgZ8JD3hvsMedctime0EdfuHNhpYBZComxmaemDFCKuq8hK6BzDMuxOorvqfDbTg1q6G37fEIZLg/s320/P1070408.JPG" width="320" />Crusader ship, King Louis IX, Aigues Mortes, France</a></div>
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That looks like the classical galleons, biremes, triremes, signifying how many rows of oarsmen on top of each other the ship could boast: http://www.artsales.com/ARTistory/Ancient_Ships/12_roman_galleons.html/ It also shows that not much progress is made in seafaring over a thousand years. Which did the Navy intend to memorialize? Isn't this a little grandiose, to tie in a little colony's little navy's history to the greatness of Greece and Rome? See http://www.scribd.com/doc/76292841/The-Development-of-Typology-of-Warships-in-the-Greek-and-Roman-World-Throughout-the-Eighth-to-First-Centuries-BC/<br />
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Our little afterthought of a Navy, see its history below, borrowing from other people's pasts. A flag with symbols relevant to America makes more sense.<br />
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Scientia<br />
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THE TRYZUB.<br />
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The Tryzub stands for a significant history in Ukraine; that far overshadows our little requisitioning of the trident: a nation with a real claim to the Trident is Ukraine. Its Ukrainian Trident, the Tryzub, see http://symboldictionary.net/?p=894/ dates from the first centuries, even before -- to Poseidon (not Neptune), and the Holy Trinity, the magical number 3, St. Volodymyr, see http://tapac333.webs.com/history.htm/. Our usurpation of it is presumptious and silly. <br />
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<i>2 . Don't Give Up The Ship</i>. This highly repeatable soundbite was uttered by a disobedient commander, James Lawrence 1813, on the USS Chesapeake. How could that be so immortalized in a hierarchical, order-oriented institution? He was mortally wounded in the sea battle where he was not authorized to engage in the first place; and once he died, soon thereafter, his men surrendered to the British. A later commander, same war, Oliver Hazard Perry, verbally plagiarized the catchy phrase and he indeed was victorious and largely gets credit for his cribbing. See http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/05/18/the-real-shameful-story-behind-don-give-ship/AVYGogGB9gtXrydeyRx1BP/story.html/. An officer, or other military person, can disobey an unlawful order, see http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/militarylaw1/a/obeyingorders.htm, but this was an order simply to back off.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2AqFQeRk2zXDn9d9NZCAsV8pTQPhjSE3cwuO4PauLya3LZJPTNcCxHZ54YHMhRkmPvngNMSGhlszWGsrqQ4YrgbCufxnHoQ1lWb_GJ8wbFmlrXoi1eO1wiQy9ncxtAPgtvB5vJw/s1600/DSCN1185.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2AqFQeRk2zXDn9d9NZCAsV8pTQPhjSE3cwuO4PauLya3LZJPTNcCxHZ54YHMhRkmPvngNMSGhlszWGsrqQ4YrgbCufxnHoQ1lWb_GJ8wbFmlrXoi1eO1wiQy9ncxtAPgtvB5vJw/s1600/DSCN1185.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNsrO-vvlQMQAoQ4JqmWa0GBBl2d2207GKLaByPC-GAj0nPAXJmGDZEYYoR-J8Py2WLPEsjFGgazPqpvwJv8b0ZPYsanGhPfdyk23pRmtCzNt-Yuupyi054XZQ8fjXVt-KL1Ap2w/s1600/DSCN1188.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Annapolis Naval Academy, Don't Give Up the Ship</a><br />
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So, the captain that the nation, through Annapolis, so lauds, could have been subject to a court martial, is that so? He was was disobedient, ignoring orders. Whatever. So, don't give up the ship? Whose. When. Etc.<br />
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If we use a historical reference, make it reasonably complete <br />
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<i>2. Remember the Maine</i>. The full slogan is, "Remember the Maine! The hell with Spain!" Yet, the explosion on the USS Maine, sinking it while anchored in Havana Harbor in 1898, was ambiguous in origin. Accident, or act of war by Spain?<br />
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The setting: Theodore Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1897, supported war to protect (and gain more firmly) American interests in this hemisphere. President McKinley was more circumspect after the explosion, taking time to analyze. The Secretary of the Navy, John Davis Long, told Roosevelt to continue to take care of routine matters at the office and take no steps affecting policy at that time, explosion or no.<br />
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Roosevelt instead disobeyed, was disobedient, flouting the directives of his immediate superior, the Secretary of the Navy, and began moving ammunition, and coal, ordering repairs, getting ready. See http://www.spanamwar.com/tr2.htm/ When President McKinley did declare war, Roosevelt retired as assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1898 to fight in the Spanish-American War with his volunteer cavalry Rough Riders. Fast forward: President McKinley was shot in 1902, making Roosevelt, by then the vice president, president. see http://historymatters.appstate.edu/sites/historymatters.appstate.edu/files/David%20Lemelin%20Final_0.pdf, acknowledged that noone knows what blew up the ship, at Cuba in 1898.<br />
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Was it the Spanish, justly triggering the Spanish-American War, or was it an accident involving a submerged mine from another time, a happenstance contact and that she blew. See http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/sinking-maine.<br />
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Who knows what blew up the ship? No idea. <br />
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Even if it was an accident, that made no difference because the event, sad as it was, also triggered a war devoutly desired by the militant among us.<br />
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Long live disobedience. But cover it up, and use the overall event to spring to war or further into it.<br />
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Conclusion: Our institutions point to many images, words, but they do not necessarily stand for what we would like. Again, whatever.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNsrO-vvlQMQAoQ4JqmWa0GBBl2d2207GKLaByPC-GAj0nPAXJmGDZEYYoR-J8Py2WLPEsjFGgazPqpvwJv8b0ZPYsanGhPfdyk23pRmtCzNt-Yuupyi054XZQ8fjXVt-KL1Ap2w/s1600/DSCN1188.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNsrO-vvlQMQAoQ4JqmWa0GBBl2d2207GKLaByPC-GAj0nPAXJmGDZEYYoR-J8Py2WLPEsjFGgazPqpvwJv8b0ZPYsanGhPfdyk23pRmtCzNt-Yuupyi054XZQ8fjXVt-KL1Ap2w/s1600/DSCN1188.JPG" width="320" />USNA at Annapolis. To what do its logos point? Surface soundbites, or real history?</a> </div>
Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-88996748928702984882014-11-03T13:02:00.001-05:002014-11-03T13:02:31.122-05:00Mascots: Origins and stories, Annapolis and West Point. Francais?. Un petit peu.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Origins and Stories: The Navy Goat, the Army Mules</div>
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I. Annapolis, United States Naval Academy. The Mascot, currently Bill the Goat<br />
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Here
the Naval Academy took the lead, being the first to adopt a mascot and
in 1893, see http://www.usna.edu/PAO/faq_pages/BilltheGoat.php/. See
also
http://www.usna.edu/PAO/faq_pages/BilltheGoat.php/ West Point formally
adopted the mule as its mascot in 1899.<br />
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Both,
by intent or happenstance, borrow from the French. First, Annapolis is
choosing the spittin' image of the revered and far older-serving
traditional goat mascot, Batisse, Royal 22d Regiment (Army) Quebec
City's Citadelle. <br />
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Mascot is a goat, whose predecessor in concept is Batisse I here, first
royal goat of the Royal 22d (Army) Regiment, Quebec City's Citadelle.
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The first Navy goat was <a href="http://spainroadways.blogspot.com/2005/01/el-cid-and-modern-windmills-on-way.html">El Cid</a>. See the resemblance among all these, focusing on the curl of the horns especially, beginning at http://www.usna.edu/PAO/faq_pages/BilltheGoat.php/. They all share this in common: goats will revert to wildness, the feral state, given an inch just an inch. Only the domestic cat reverts to the wild faster than the goat. See http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/goats/ Watch 'em.<br />
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Goats have a beauty hierarchy. The Navy goat looks like a kiko goat (looks like longer,
double-bending horns) at <a href="http://theikga.org/goat_symbolism.html">http://theikga.org/goat_symbolism.html</a>/
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white; gender, male; and loves dress-up. Bling. There are many other colors and
gender orientations in the goat world and larger animal kingdom. Perhaps a nice brown one, with a not for white stockings, would be nice next time. Both sexes have horns, so a swap in that department nonetheless get someone's goat. See http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/goats-and-goat-farming/page-1/<br />
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are prominent in myth, religious practice and scapegoating, some misapplied but that spoils what some people want to get out of scapegoating, see http://martinlutherstove.blogspot.com/2008/06/scapegoat-and-azazel.html/ Cashmere from goats, milk, cheese, and meat -- cuisines including goat meat daube. Wool gathering, however, applies to sheep. Of those scapegoating has seeped into the political process as an effective propaganda method for dodging responsibility, blaming others without delivering all the facts or helping to resolve the problem. </div>
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II. West Point, United States Military Academy. Three Mascots, to make a pair and a spare. Mule menage a trois: Raider, Ranger II and General Scott.<br />
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Compared to the Annapolis Bill the Goat and the Quebecois Batisse X, the
mule shares an even closer relationship to the French. A French
Percheron horse was the dam of a 1978-1995 mule mascot named Ranger I. His
sire was a Spanish jack, or donkey dad. See the list of honorees at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Mules/ Percherons are now bred here,
see http://percheronhorse.org/ so maybe Ranger I did not bray with an accent.<br />
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A mule mare is also the subject of stories: Bolivia's naughty <i>Mule Woman</i>, see http://www.boliviabella.com/legend-of-the-mule-woman.html/ And an inebriative, see the Moscow Mule at http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Moscow-Mule-233186/ Go on with headless mules, 20 mule teams.<br />
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No lie, no cheat, no steal, no tolerate such in other cadets.</div>
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Honor and Hierarchy. What dysfunctions persist?</div>
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West Point has a fine honor code on paper. Like the other branches of military service, the army, marines, navy and airforce, West Point creates and enforces a strict hierarchy as a concept of control and command; and a concept of "honor" to guide cadet behavior. See http://isme.tamu.edu/JSCOPE00/Starz00.html. Nonetheless, acts of prejudice, humiliation and worse characterize each of the service schools as to minorities, gender and sexual preference groups, and other cadets, reducing confidence in the academies' commitment to a plural society. See http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/us/sergeant-accused-of-secretly-filming-female-cadets.html?_r=0 West Point has new leadership, and the culture may change. How? See http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/01/west-point-leader-vows-to-address-sex-assault/7149327/ and http://www.recordonline.com/article/20140722/News/407220330/ There may be 91 blacks admitted in 2013, and 127 Hispanic. How about others? See http://www.usma.edu/admissions/SitePages/Class%20Profiles.aspx<br />
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1. HONOR. Text and procedures for Army Honor, as they show the world at the visitors' center, each a fair use portion of what comprises, in total, a large exhibit. Much space is dedicated to this issue publicly, to the credit of West Point.<br />
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a. Requirements of The Code of Honor discussed at West Point" A cadet must carry out, act, and live particular values: "respect, duty,
loyalty, selfless service, integrity and personal courage" in everything
the cadet does. Unclear is whether that applies to non-military-peer activities. See
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<li> Feel honor, show honor, give honor. Feel it, in patriotic situations,
listening to the national anthem, watching posting of colors, for
example; show it by recognizing exceptional contributions of others.
Show it, as to the flag and its implicit ideals, and its symbolism. " </li>
<li>Act with honor even when no-one else is around. Strive to do the right
thing always, whether in uniform or in civilian clothing. As a
representative of oneself, one's family and one's company, do the right
thing, without expectation of reward. Good. With honor you can be
trusted. </li>
<li>See the <i>White Paper</i> at
http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1951/18250/whitepaper.htm/. A white
paper argues that a given position, here, honor, is the way to go, see
definition of white paper at
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/owlprint/546/</li>
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b. Bad acts. Enforcement. Enforcement is integral to the functioning of the honor system. Who has any right to protest anything? Apparently left to day-to-day application of a committee are these issues: This is not a system of precedent, or is it? Who are the intended beneficiaries of this Honor? What is the right thing. Is respect owed
to fellow cadets, fellow citizens, fellow humans. The code appears to
refer only to fellow cadets, although "whether in uniform or in civilian
clothing" suggests an obligation to non-cadets? Or not?<br />
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<li>There has been selective enforcement to prevent bad acts, perhaps to compel cadets to endure, to weed out the weak. The army has yet to address the reach of its honor code, favoring among cadets and to cadets, an "attrition" model for weeding out cadets deemed weak (is that so? was it?) by means of hazing. Do some see sexual assault as just another haze, and so it remains? The model is becoming, we are told, a developmental model, a more holistic process responsive to the individual, but the damage is extensive and ongoing in assaults. At least the words are there.</li>
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c. What works? Standards of success: How does the honor standard affect success. The attrition model, where cadets fended as best they could against bad acts geared to define the weak, did not serve a model encouraging success, apparently, as applying too broad a brush. Some cadets needed maturing, growth. The end result, ideally, with a more developmental model, produces an officer who can do the following:<br />
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2. HIERARCHY. Chain of command is vital to a military. It is not infallible. Abuse of hierarchy. Rankism. See http://p2pfoundation.net/Rankism/. Investigate the role of the hierarchy concept in how honor codes are applied, who is protected. Spot rankism. When does mere rank enable dastardly assault behavior, humiliation. When does respect for rank become rankism instead? See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-fuller/rankism-the-poison-that-d_b_1587815.html/ An alternative to rankism is not simple leveling and removal of badges. It is <a href="http://hellofodderhellobuyer.blogspot.com/2008/02/rank-rankism-and-dignitarian.html">dignitarianism</a>, see <br />
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<li>The army hierarchy has its own designations for cadets: As an aside, someone in the visitor center said that COW meant the Commanding Officer's Wife, and people around her laughed, but here we see that a COW is a second-year cadet, in the herd.There are bumper stickers saying "My daughter is a COW." But there are not saying "My son is a COW."</li>
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a. Follow the dots. When does rank become Rankism. Rank assertion works well for a discipline and order of command purpose, not if for personal supremacism activities and humiliation of others. Military families often experience this, see http://www.veteransunited.com/spouse/signs-of-and-solutions-to-rankism/<br />
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b. Follow the interrelationship between honor and hierarchy, as
articulated and practiced in all four service branches. Is rankism fostered by
institutionalized and outdated, dysfunctional prejudices perpetuated.<br />
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3. How to upgrade from Rankism to a functioning honor-hierarchy concept.<br />
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Try <i>Dignitarianism,</i> says Robert W. Fuller, see http://www.breakingranks.net/dignitarian-society/ Provide for and foster the dignity of every human being, even when applying the rules of rank in following orders, advancement.<br />
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But nothing will work or change the system favoring the elite (self-defined)
without the will of the top command, and at least there are stirrings
at West Point. Learn more of the West Point honor and hierarchy codes.
How the hierarchy itself functions largely relies on the integrity of
the Honor background. Then (other posts to come) compare to Annapolis.<br />
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4. Can Dignitarianism work in a context with a vast majority, followed far behind by minority this or that, minority gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation. Minority underrepresentation. Does it matter, affect the honor code when a small group has no clout with the ranking folk. </div>
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<li>The urgency is now. Do a search for
assaults on women at West Point, browse, then continue here and explore the experience of other minorities. What gap
is there between public presentation and experience. Cadet population
about 84% male, see
http://www.npr.org/2013/10/22/239260015/west-point-women-a-natural-pattern-or-a-camouflage-ceilingWomen, although still exploited, are doing well. Here, President Obama's accolade 2010:</li>
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Then ask, does Annapolis, the United States Naval Academy, do better? Does the Air Force? Do the Marines? Exploration continues. So far, however, nice words at West Point, good intentions verbalized, but the actions do not translate into dignity for women, or their inclusion in the honor code. No honor is due them.</div>
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Carol Widinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11331887976767892283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877577.post-13492866683914576032014-10-09T18:49:00.003-04:002014-10-27T05:31:14.603-04:00Business Model for Government, not Merit? Porter's Choices, Porter's Forces, and Military Decisions. Cross Currents.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Flaws in Business Model for Government.</div>
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Model is Merit, for Common Good. Not Profit</div>
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National policy, foreign policy, any policy, is driven by fog to the outsider voter. Invade or not invade, boots on ground or issues left in the air.. What model serves the decision-making process. The choice of model depends on the goal of the decision-maker. Do their goals include the nation's common good. Ask. Then decide to buy their wares, or not.</div>
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Help yourself vet your decision-makers and their goals. Do their goals work for you, a non-economist voter. Is seeking untrammeled profits the answer to everything: trickle trickle. Check the market model. Go to business school, or look up courses online, and find charts of business decision-making for your enjoyment.</div>
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If your elected decision-makers are business-entangled, with the military-industrial complex, broadly construed: financially or occupationally interested in the Force Industries (CIA, Military, whatever exists in government to force things), you have choices. Look to <i>Porter's Five Forces</i> for an insight into what they recommend. Porter's Five Choices are indeed exciting. Just you wait. See overview at http://www.quickmba.com/strategy/porter.shtml/</div>
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<li>The voter discount. Before wading into Porter's Five Forces in assessing our nation's foreign policy brought to you by ads, media, windy talkers, discount by a reasonable percentage (you decide) the opinion of anyone who is involved now, or was in the past, or looking to a nest in the future, or who has financial stake (read: stock, etc.) in a Force Industry. Like little ducks, do they follow the imprint? Vet. Follow the money given to lawmakers and talkers, for example. What do they get for votes,for audience enticement? Vet anyway. Get the numbers, then see if they are autonomous in views and/or action.</li>
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A. The Porter's Five Forces.</div>
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<li>Porter: Michael E. Porter, http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6532/. Authority, competitive strategy, B School. Vet. If they are the B School, who is the A School?</li>
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1. Top: Suppliers<br />
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2. Left transept: Threats of New Entrants, including innovators, or cheapers. Suppliers fear New Entrants. Who is seeking to muscle in on your slingshots. <br />
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3. Right transept: Buyer Substitution. Buyers' choosing not to buy your slingshot, but gravitating to beanshooters instead. Or a slingshot supplier who supplies pastel slingshots.<br />
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4. Center of the cross: Rivalry.<br />
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<li>Rivalry is placed as the crux of the business decision cross: the place where Suppliers, and Threats of Entrants and Innovators converge. Rivalry. Is rivalry ever welcomed? Does the business model implicitly include obstructing rivals? </li>
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5. The root of the cross: Buyers. The base, the foot of it all, is made of us, the Buyers. <br />
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Follow the logic of the forces, if placement of buyers at the root is significant, and not just the last open space. If Buyers are really the root of business, the Suppliers and Entrants and Innovators nd Rivals should lose sleep over us and what we choose to do. <br />
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<li>The business model dispenses with the inconvenience of buyers, as a force, by manipulating them. Steer them. Minimize opportunity for independent, autonomous information-gathering. Sell the product, flood the media, and then move into politics with it. Meet rivals not with a better product, but with alienation of buyer affections: FUD. Do a search. Is that so?</li>
<li>What drives the buyer's attitude. Is that susceptible to propaganda. Of course. See http://joyofequivocating.blogspot.com/2014/10/custody-of-nation-political-alienation.html </li>
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6. Some added a sixth force: Complementary products, see http://strategiccfo.com/wikicfo/complementors-sixth-force-of-porters-five-forces/. <br />
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7. And ourselves, here, the seventh: Context, Counter-exploitation. A common good. Merit, not profit; and merit defined by the buyer's values.<br />
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B. How to reconcile the forces in business. If the model seeps into politics, with what effect?</div>
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1. See what is missing from the forces.<br />
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Missing is that number 7 --an issue paramount to many buyers, who would forego the widget itself for it. Consideration of context, counter-exploitation, whether as to consumers, people in general, the environment, any on whom the business 5 or 6 impact. There is no such force #7 on the Porter chart. All is for maximization of profit. Of course, says the class. That is why we are here. </div>
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2. Then: vet the decision-makers of the business as to their goals. Do they or will they add common good to their list of relevant forces. </div>
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2.1 For those who will not add context and counter-exploitation (consider regulation, living wage, transparency) to their list of forces to consider, their next step is to implement the common-good-free policy and influence all national policy toward the profit goal, without significant tilt toward the common good. Lobby. Purchase.<br />
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But for Buyers: Discount a full value to their views in the political area, including war, as self-interest-driven. Not disregard, but discount. </div>
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2.2 For those who commit to adding context and counter-exploitation to their list of forces to consider, then Buyers: Afford them full credit for their views in the political area, including war. </div>
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Leverage of the Buyer. Leverage of the voter, there at the root. </div>
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Do we stay or do we go. What causes us to stay or go. So we do have power. What if we want to opt out of the profit-driven choices entirely, and substitute our own ways to spend our collective money. What interests we serve. </div>
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But go back to the chart. <i>Degree</i> of rivalry, not just rivalry, is off to the side is yet another arrow. And we can contribute to its strength. Vet everybody. The rivalry has to be robust to make a difference.</div>
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<li> Where is the data, say the other business types! Data! More data. What drives the consumer? What are rivals. Philosophy is one.</li>
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That is the wild card: The "degree of rivalry." http://www.quickmba.com/strategy/porter.shtml/ And the voters can add to the rivalry, the discussion, the conversation, beyond the suppliers, the fears of competition, the decisions by business not merit, the need for services, collective good, common good, and once that is met, let the strivers strive. </div>
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4. Porter's Forces now, once 5, then 6, see above. Make it Porter's Seven Choices now, to include the consumer, and exploitation of environment, infrastructure.</div>
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Add to the model. Add the force of the goal, balance of profit and common good, or profit. Would consumers gravitate to a business that also provided for their interest in fair dealing, recourse, living wage. Porter's model can add that to its decision tree.</div>
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5. Conclusion so far:<br />
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With war issues looming, and single-minded drive for profits undermining the nation -- flee taxes, undermine all regulation, leaving infrastructure, broad sustenance, education, opportunity, behind-- ask. Why should the resources we still have do another lateral pirhouette into military-industrial coffers, and coffers of those whose lives are latched to force. A few philanthropic individuals, who made their money by the old model, are welcome to donate billions but that does not address the flaw in the Five Forces plus the Sixth, and its seeping into governmental decision-making, the military-industrial taint. The choice of goal is the real driver. Make it overt. Add #7.</div>
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Hold fast, Obama.</div>
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Lash thee to the mast. Common</div>
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Good, over money. </div>
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