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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. is one of America’s most popular memorials, receiving over 3 million visitors each year. The memorial seeks to recast the memory of this unpopular conflict by framing US soldiers as victims whose conflict trauma was exacerbated by the lack of support on the home front. Plans are well underway to establish an $85 million visitor centre for the memorial, which aims to give a human face to the veterans and will include their biographies and photographs. Yet to present the veteran as traumatised victims is seen by some to deny culpability for the well documented atrocities which were carried out by some US troops against women, children and the elderly. My research into contemporary memorialisation processes questions the appropriateness of continuing to memorialise soldiers in this way, with no engagement with the consequences of their actions for ‘enemy’ civilian populations. Continued construction of memorials which present soldiers as heroes raises questions as to whether it will it ever be possible to bridge the empathy gap that exists between combatants and their ‘enemy’ victims?
Emma Login
PhD
College of Arts and Law
ELL310@bham.ac.uk
TITLE: Meeting at Infinity
AUTHOR: John Brunner 1934-94
TYPE: paperback novel Collection
PUBLISHER: Ace D507
COVER PRICE: $.35
ISBN:
PAGES: 155
COPYRIGHT: 1961 by author
PUB DATE: 1961
EDITION: Ace Double backed with Beyond the Silver Sky by K. Bulmer
COVER ARTIST: John Schoenherr
ISFDB: Yes verified
NOTATION:.
The artist is not credited; no visible signature.
The cover states "First Book Publication".
Beyond the Silver Sky is 100 pages.
The artist is not credited; EMSH is on the cover.
The cover states "Complete Novel".
COMMENTS:
INDEX: 0212 - Meeting at Infinity - 25 JB – IFB
QUOTE “Something is wrong,” Ragle said. “I don’t mean with you or me or with any one person. I mean in general.” “The time,” Ragle said, “ is out of joint.” “I thing we should compare notes.” …From Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry: indicates specific information not available from book.
Title - The World of Tiers Volume 2
Author - Farmer, Philip Jose 1918-2009
Type - Hardbound; anthology; 3 novels
Publisher - Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
Copyright -1968, 70 & 77 by author
Pages count - 532
Edition - Science Fiction Book Club
Cover artist - Boris Vallejo 1941-
Publication date - unknown
Cover Price - not listed
Magazine appearance - not listed
Comments - This volume consists of the following three related novels:
A Private Cosmos, 1968, 187 pgs. Behind The Walls Of Terra, 1970, 150 pgs.
The Lavalite World, 1977, 185 pgs.
Nice Vallejo cover.
Culpability - All images are from publications owned of Calwalader Ringgold /\ Weazel. Image scanning, editing and compiling of bibliographic data was performed by Calwalader Ringgold /\ Weazel.
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The worst and most common killers in any war are those who didn’t know they had it in them, those who enthusiastically actualize themselves in a context where ethical constraints are lifted. But ethical conversion is not a just a prerequisite for war and oppression; war and oppression generate it. Patriotic killing binds the nation, strengthening and reproducing the new ethos. A national consensus is not necessary for genocide; what is necessary is a small, devoted group that will start the process and involve the rest of the nation, thereby implicating it. Once the line is crossed, there is no reason to stop, and the further they go, the more people are culpable, and it’s harder to quit—the end point is a final solution.
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The National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne 14-15 Februaty 2020 at the Melbourne Town Hall.
This Declaration calls for a new approach to climate action in Australia, a response to match the scale of the threat as climate-warming impacts escalate across Australia and around the world.
Organisations and individuals can read and sign on to the Safe Climate Declaration.
CLIMATE IMPACT
Australia’s 2019-20 megafires are a harbinger of life and death on a hotter Earth. The climate is already dangerous — in Australia and the Antarctic, in Asia and the Pacific — right around the world. The Earth is unacceptably too hot now.
The impacts of climate disruption are more severe than previously projected. At 1.5°C warming relative to pre-industrial levels, now likely only a decade away, the Great Barrier Reef will be lost, sea levels will be heading for a rise of many metres, and tipping points will be at hand for Greenland, and for the Amazon and other carbon stores.
The current Paris Agreement emission reduction commitments, if implemented, are a path to 3.5°C warming by 2100, possibly earlier. This could increase to 4–5°C when long-term climate-system feedbacks are considered. National security analysts warn that 3°C may result in “outright social chaos”, and 4°C is considered incompatible with the maintenance of human civilisation.
Leading scientists warn of a “Hot House Earth” scenario, a planetary threshold that may exist at a temperature rise as low as 2°C, in which further warming becomes self-sustaining. The challenge now is to return to a safe climate by cooling the Earth whilst avoiding tipping points which may initiate further warming.
This requires an emergency response, where climate is a primary concern of leadership at all levels.
FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP
Influential global leaders including political, corporate, media and financial leaders have deliberately refused to accept the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and its risks, using predatory delay to prolong an unsustainable economic system. Driven by perverse short-term incentives and lacking the imagination to understand the implications, they have placed humanity in extreme jeopardy.
Many of Australia’s leaders are particularly culpable, having done everything possible over the last three decades to prevent the development of serious climate change policy, internationally and domestically, and to protect the fossil fuel industry. Notwithstanding the fact that Australia is the world’s fourth largest carbon polluter, exports included, and one of the countries most exposed to climate change.
The first duty of a government is to protect the people, their well-being and livelihoods. Instead, Australian governments have left the community largely unprepared for the disasters now unfolding, and for the extensive changes required to maintain a cohesive society as climate change impacts escalate.
STRENGTHENING DEMOCRACY
In framing solutions to the climate emergency, a stronger democracy is needed, not weaker. The rights of citizens need to be protected to ensure that people are treated with respect, and treated fairly.
Climate change and its solutions will have profound implications for Australia – its peoples and its lands and waters. It is therefore critical to achieve and secure truly meaningful processes that empower indigenous voices, leadership and knowledge.
ADDRESSING THE CLIMATE THREAT
Australians collectively have a duty of care to protect people, nature and civilisation, both locally and globally. Calls to contribute to solutions to the climate threat need to be fair, taking account of people’s capacity.
Climate change is a global problem requiring unprecedented levels of global cooperation. It obviously cannot be solved by Australian acting alone, but Australia must be fully committed to such cooperation.
Priorities for action include:
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions rapidly to zero. All fossil fuel expansion to be stopped immediately; policies which encourage fossil fuel use halted and subsidies removed; and the existing industry wound down rapidly with adjustment programmes for frontline communities. Strategies to minimise methane emissions need to be implemented urgently.
Drawing down atmospheric carbon concentrations to a safe level from the current 413 ppm level through actions that include redesigning agricultural and forestry practices and implementing extensive soil, estuarine and ocean carbon sequestration.
Working to prevent tipping points and damage while the zero emission and drawdown goals are being achieved.
Integrating adaptation and resilience measures into the economic restructuring needed to restore a safe climate and repair ecosystems.
Early action is essential. The prevalent idea of a gradual transition to net zero emissions by 2050 is not tenable. A far faster transition is required, using measures appropriate to an existential threat.
Climate change must be accepted as an overriding threat to national and human security, with the response being the highest priority at national and global levels.
Puntitos
Me gusto como se ve la foto asi como de puntitos.
Oh, he leido (aunque es noticia de ya varios dias atras) que Blizzard a anunciado que estan haciendo Diablo III (3) www.blizzard.com/diablo3/
Yupiiiii.
Las dos versiones anteriores de dicho juego son culpables de muchas horas frente a una pantalla de computadora jugando.
Y muy probablemente esta nueva version ocasionara lo mismo, si es que aun sigo entre los vivos.
Aunque ultimamente ya tiene rato que no juego (no hay juego que me llame la atencion lo suficiente).
Kisses
Jessica
Dots
I liked how the photo looks like that with dots.
I have read (even when the new is a few days old) that Blizzard have announced that they are making Diablo III (3) www.blizzard.com/diablo3/
Yupiiiii.
Both previous versions of the game where guilty of making me be in front of a computer screeen playing.
And probably this one will do the same, if by the time it comes out I amstill among the living humans.
Maybe, for its been a while since the last time I played any computer game ( there really is no game that caught my eye enough to even try)
Kisses
Jessica
També estic ben cofoi. No tan per la foto, que, mira, Déu n'hi do, sinó perqué, malgrat tot em sento reixit, que ja està bé.
Ens costa reconèixer que hi ha moments, potser pocs, però n'hi ha que un se sent en pau en un mateix... i que poc importa que ens exprimeixin com llimones, que ens deixin fer malbé com verdura fora d'època, que creguin que som tontos...
Es pensen que no ens adonem de qui ha gastat més del que pertocava. De quí ha fet aeroports que no tenen avions o en surten poquíssim?. De qui ha omplert espais mig desents d'autovies?. De qui ha organitzat copes del món de vela?... i no segueixo.
Allò greu és qui ho haurà de pagar? I ens volen fer creure que bno hi ha cap més solució. Si trenco un plat l'haig de pagar, que ho pagui qui ho ha despilfarrat.
Però, no, avui no vull entristir-me, ni sentir.me culpable de ben res, avui els hi vull portar la contrària i està satisfet, fins i tot content. Encara que només sigui per a fastiguejar-los
Vitraux, Cathedralis SS Michaelis et Gudulae
In 1370, according to the legend, holy communion wafers began to bleed after being stabbed with daggers by the Jews of Brabant at the synagogue in Brussels. The remains of the hosts were venerated for centuries as the Miraculous Sacrament (Sacrement du Miracle/Sacrament van Mirakel).
It is a fact that in May 1370 some six Jews living in Brussels and Leuven were burnt at the stake after being accused of the theft and desecration of the Blessed Sacrament (the so called ‘Blood Libel’). We know that Jewish property was confiscated, and that from the very beginning it was believed that the holy hosts had actually bled. Later on, in the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, it was asserted that in 1370 all Jews had been expelled forever from the Duchy of Brabant.
The guilt of the Jews was never established. On the contrary, it has never even been proven that the hosts had in fact been desecrated. Belief in the alleged miracle was the only justification for executing the Jews. Accusing the Jews lent credibility to the miracle. Moreover, the alleged miracle offered a sought-after opportunity to dispose of the Jews. For the faithful the ‘miracle’ served as a material sign and proof of the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Similar ‘Eucharistic Miracles’ connected with the presumed culpability of the Jews occurred elsewhere as well during the Middle Ages. Traces of red mildew on holy wafers were taken for traces of blood, the blood of Christ.
The legend of the Miraculous Sacrament is presented in many works of art in the cathedral. Especially to be mentioned are the XVIth century stained glass windows in the Sacrament chapel, which today holds the Cathedral treasury, where the reliquaries for the Miraculous Sacrament from different periods are on display. There are also the XVIIIth century tapestries in the choir, but these are not normally on display. Further, note the impressive series of fifteen XIXth century stained glass windows in the cathedral aisles. The last five windows of the northern aisle, near the chapel of the Miraculous Sacrament, portray the devotion to the Miraculous Sacrament from about 1436 till 1870. The first ten windows, eight in the southern aisle, starting at the front, and two in the rear of the northern aisle, represent the legend as it was handed down in Brussels since the middle of the XVth century. The legend runs as follows.
In autumn 1369 a prominent Jew from Enghien took the initiative of bribing a Jewish convert to Christianity to steal communion wafers, in order to desecrate them. Shortly afterwards he was murdered (windows 1-3). His widow passed the hosts to the Jews in Brussels, who stabbed them with daggers in their synagogue on Good Friday 1370. The sacred hosts began to bleed (windows 4 and 5). A Jewess who had converted to Christianity was bribed to conceal the hosts among the Jews of Cologne. But she repented and confessed the whole story to the rector of the “St. Mary’s Chapel” church in Brussels, giving him the miraculous hosts (windows 6-7). Based on the testimony of the Jewess (window 8) and after being judged by the Duke of Brabant the Jews were publicly burnt at the stake. The remaining Jews were expelled by the Duke from the Duchy of Brabant and their property confiscated (window 9). The miraculous sacrament was subsequently transferred in procession to the chapter church of St. Gudula (window 10).
The relic of the Miraculous Sacrament played a significant rôle as a national symbol for the Catholic identity of the country. The veneration of the relic served in public as a support for the struggle against Jews, Protestants and liberals. Charles V and the Habsburg family gave the XVIth century stained glass windows of the chapel of the Miraculous Sacrament. In the XVIIth century, Archdukes Albert and Isabella enriched the chapel with numerous gifts. Albert and Isabella are buried in front of the altar of the Miraculous Sacrament. Leopold I and Leopold II, the first Belgian kings, offered the first two XIXth century stained glass windows in the southern aisle. The other windows were given by the Belgian nobility.
After 1870 the relic was no longer of national significance. The local devotion to the Miraculous Sacrament however survived up to the Second World War. Moreover, the stained glass windows, paintings and tapestries kept the alleged history of the ‘blood libel’ alive. Only after the tragedy of the Holocaust, and under the influence of a more enlightened mentality, was a critical attitude with regard to this anti-Jewish medieval legend adopted in Catholic circles.
TITLE: The Puppet Masters
AUTHOR: Robert A. Heinlein 1907-1988
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Signet 980
COPYRIGHT: 1951 by author
EDITION: 1st paperback; 1951 hardbound
PUB DATE: September 1952
PAGES: 175
COVER PRICE: .25 – no price on cover
COVER ARTIST: not credited
ISFDB: Yes
Comments: 1st paperback edition, what a cover; the kind that makes you pick up the book and say “what the heck is going on here!” Although not credited but it looks like a Richard Powers painting.
Culpability: All images are from publications owned by CW. Image scanning, editing and compiling of bibliographic data was performed by CW. No entry indicates information not available from book. ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base. RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
Launched 30 Dec 1927 in Copenhagen, arrived Port Adelaide Aug 1927 to provide twice weekly service to Port Lincoln, last trip 29 Jun 1960, sold to Hong Kong Company, broken up 1963. [Photo from State Library of SA: B 4510 (c1927) Minnipa berthed at Port Lincoln]
“To meet the growing needs of Eyre Peninsula the Adelaide Steamship Company have ordered from Messrs. Burmeister and Wain, of Copenhagen, a fast motor passenger ship for their Spencer Gulf trade. The new vessel will be named after the town of Minnipa, on Eyre Peninsula.” [Advertiser 20 May 1926]
“The motor ship Minnipa was launched at the yards of Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, on December 30. . . Accommodation is provided for 211 first-class passengers. . . She has four cargo holds, each of which is equipped with the newest handling appliances, and electric winches.” [Advertiser 3 Jan 1927]
“The trial trip of the Adelaide Steamship Company's new motor ship, Minnipa, was held at Copenhagen on May 24 and 25, and her speed was most satisfactory, being 15 knots. She will leave Copenhagen to-day for London, where she will take in for Australia. She should arrive at Port Adelaide about the end of July.” [Advertiser 28 May 1927]
“The Adelaide Steamship Company's new M.V. ‘Minnipa’, has now arrived from the Continent, and will take up her running in the bi-weekly service between Port Adelaide and Port Lincoln, leaving Port Adelaide on Monday, 22nd August. This vessel will leave Port Adelaide on Monday and Thursday of each week, and will leave Port Lincoln on the return journey on Wednesday and Friday, On the first trip in each week the ‘Minnipa’ will extend to Tumby Bay.” [Quorn Mercury 5 Aug 1927]
“Consequent on the running of the m.v. ‘Minnipa’ and the proposed sailings thereto we publish in this issue the alterations to the train service which will take effect on Tuesday; 22ud inst. Trains will be run to meet the proposed service.” [West Coast Sentinel 12 Aug 1927]
“At 6.30 o'clock this morning, in a heavy fog, the motor ship Minnipa, owned by the Adelaide Steamship Company, Limited, went aground on the south-eastern end of Boston Island, a few miles off Port Lincoln. It was high tide at the time, and it is believed unlikely that the vessel will get off without the services of a tug. There were about 160 passengers on .board the ship. They were taken ashore in boats.” [News 29 May 1928]
“This morning the Quorna unsuccessfully tried to tow the Minnipa off the rocks. Further efforts will be made this afternoon. . . The next suitable high tide for refloating operations will not occur until Thursday morning.” [News 30 May 1928]
“Diver Dunbar to-day completed his examination of the Minnipa, which was refloated on Thursday after having been stranded since Tuesday morning on Boston Island. It was found that the damage to the vessel was less than was at first supposed, although it was sufficient to necessitate her having to go into dry dock. Consequently she will leave tomorrow morning for Melbourne direct. . . The Minnipa was able to go to Tumby Bay last night to discharge about 130 tons of general cargo there. She returned early this morning to complete the discharge of her Port Lincoln cargo.” [Advertiser 2 Jun 1928]
“By a trick of fate a dense fog hung over Boston Bay this morning when the motor ship Minnipa, of the Adelaide Steamship Company. Limited, arrived from Port Adelaide on the resumption of service after her grounding on Boston Island in a fog five weeks ago.” [News 10 Jun 1928]
“An enquiry under the Marine Board and Navigation Act into the stranding of the motor ship Minnipa on Boston Island on May 29 last was conducted by Captain W. F. Baddams, harbormaster, Port Adelaide. . . he found that there was no evidence of culpable negligence on the part of the master.” [Advertiser 20 Jul 1928]
“The Minnipa will be the first intrastate vessel in SA water to be fitted with radar equipment. The installation is expected to be completed by the end of this week, A spoksman for the ship's owners, the Adelaide Steamship Co. Ltd., said yesterday that in the winter months Port Lincoln often suffered from rather heavy fogs and the use of radar would minimise delay.” [Advertiser 26 Feb 1953]
“Because of a waterside workers' dispute, the Minnipa is returning to Port Adelaide with about 350 tons, of cargo that was to have been discharged at Port Lincoln yesterday. Port Lincoln's week-end fruit and vegetable supplies are assured, however, because about 20 tons were unloaded before the dispute began. The only perishable cargo still aboard is a quantity of ice-cream.” [Advertiser 31 Oct 1953]
“The motorship Minnipa will leave Part Adelaide today for Melbourne, to undergo her annual dry docking overhaul. During the absence of the vessel, for about three weeks, she will be replaced on the Port Lincoln run by the Moonta.” [Advertiser 3 Jul 1954]
“crews of the Minnipa and Moonta had agreed to load perishables and mail. The Minnipa would sail tonight for Port Lincoln, where watersiders had decided against remaining on strike.” [News 4 Nov 1954]
“The coastal vessels Minnipa and Moonta would sail as scheduled, but without cargo this week. . . the ships would do the trip simply to keep faith with the passengers. . . Because the. Minnipa sailing has not been cancelled, the SA Symphony Orchestra will be able to keep to its itinerary for its Spencer Gulf tour.” [News 10 Nov 1954]
Cierre ciclo de tocatas de www.cadacancionunahistoria.cl/
Disco : Apt
Galpon 6, ex oz
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Nicole - Culpables
Echando la vista atrás, mi punto de vista respecto a la economía sigue siendo la misma aunque con algunos matices debido a los diferentes puntos de vista que he podido observar que han hecho que tenga una mente más abierta.
Antes de comenzar la asignatura, mi opinión era totalmente ofensiva hacia la Economía Neoclásica puesto que era y es la causante de todo el consumismo y el derrochismo que sufrimos hoy en día, jerarquizándonos según nuestros bienes materiales distribuidos en un círculo llamado flujo circular de la renta, dándole muchísima importancia al valor monetario de estos.
Pues una vez transcurrido el curso y con ello, habiendo observado todo más detenidamente, mi postura hacia la economía ha variado un poco ya que todo tiene un comienzo por malo o bueno que sea y que todo el mundo tiene derecho a ganarse su sustento para poder vivir en esta sociedad aunque como bien he aprendido, hay que cuidar el medio ambiente puesto que es nuestro motor de recursos y materia prima.
También he comprobado que creía que la economía era algo malo por que incentivaba el consumismo y solo era conveniente aumentar el PIB para nuestra tranquilidad, pero actualmente pienso que es algo que nos ayuda a distribuir bien nuestros recursos, siempre y cuando se use bien, así que en realidad los “malos” somos nosotros por malinterpretarlo y consumir excesivamente, como es el caso de la foto. Ellos solo se limitan a ofrecer un Servicio pero al fin y al cabo nosotros somos los que les estamos dando el beneficio e incentivando a que sean más productivos y eficientes elaborando su producto, lo que conlleva a que se pierda calidad y se produzca más, que como consecuencia, se dañará al medio ambiente y se creará un desequilibrio entre Sociedad y Naturaleza, algo que a largo plazo nos perjudica, tanto en calidad de vida como en educación económica.
Por lo que en definitiva, para mí la economía es una cosa individual, de cada uno ya que todos la practicamos a nuestro estilo, pero que abarca todo lo que nos rodea y nos perjudica o beneficia a todos, por lo que lo veo como un sistema abierto y lo ideal sería que se optimizase ese metabolismo social tan necesario para mejorar la situación social actual con la naturaleza.
En relación a las fotos, se pueden ver que son parecidas pero considero que aun siendo el mismo estilo de foto, hay un cambio en el punto de vista y que por lo tanto, lo que yo considero comparación entre ambas es ese mismo cambio puesto que es lo que pienso que me ha hecho mejorar un poco en este asunto.
Todo esto me lleva a suscitarme varias preguntas:
¿Crees que es necesaria una mejor sensibilización con la economía en general?¿Cambiarías la actual?
¿Crees que a causa de nuestra mala conducta económica, le hemos dado poder a las grandes empresas? Y lo que es peor, ¿Crees que se prioriza la cantidad a la calidad por este motivo?
TITLE: Genius Unlimited
AUTHOR: John T. Phillifent 1916-76
TYPE: paperback Novel
PUBLISHER: DAW UQ1016; DAW No. 16
COPYRIGHT: 1972 by author
EDITION: 1st
PUB DATE: not stated - assumed 1972
PAGES: 141
COVER PRICE: .95
COVER ARTIST: Jack Gaughan 1930-1985
ISFDB: Yes
Comments: This is the only edition every printed of this title therefore it is a true first edition. John T. Phillifent also wrote under the name John Rackham.
Culpability: All images are from publications owned by CW. Image scanning, editing and compiling of bibliographic data was performed by CW. No entry indicates information not available from book. ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base. RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
CAT
El passat dimarts 22 d’octubre, la Coordinadora d’Assemblees de Facultat (CAF) de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) va okupar un espai en desús que futurament hagués cedit a la representació estudiantil institucional, i en tant que institucional còmplice i culpable de l’espoli i elitització que pateix l’educació pública, al campus de Bellaterra de la UAB. Aquest nous espai serà gestionat per estudiants mobilitzades i pels diferents col·lectius vetats des de les cúpules institucionals, i representa un pas més d’empoderament i de recuperació d’espais que sobirans de l’estudiantat.
CAST
El pasado martes 22 de octubre, la Coordinadora de Asambleas de Facultad (CAF) de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB) okupó un espacio en desuso que futuramente hubiera sido cedido a la representación estudiantil institucional, y en tanto que institucional cómplice y culpable del expolio y la elitización que sufre la educación pública, al campus de Bellaterra de la UAB. Este nuevo espacio será gestionado por las estudiantes movilizadas y por los diferentes colectivos vetados des de cúpulas institucionales, y representa un paso más de empoderamiento y de recuperación de espacios soberanos al estudiantado.
TITLE: Beyond
AUTHOR: Theodore Sturgeon
TYPE: Collection
PUBLISHER: Avon
COPYRIGHT: 1960 Theodore Sturgeon
ISBN:
EDITION: Third Printing
PUB DATE: 09-1970
PAGES: 157
COVER PRICE: .75
COVER ARTIST: not credited
ISFDB: Yes
Content: Six stories by Sturgeon. Four originally published in magazines 1941-48
Culpability: All images are from publications owned by CW. Image scanning, editing and compiling of bibliographic data was performed by CW. No entry indicates information not available from book. ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
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Don Alfonso is very grateful for Albania's loving help. Quite a few homecare agencies fail to provide adequate medical benefits and training for these workers, many of whom are recently arrived immigrants. When one realizes what a poorly regulated lucrative business this is, one is struck by the heartless, short-term bottom-line philosphy of US healthcare. Albania has an incredible work ethic. Over the years she has grown to love Don ALfonso like her own. Some days she sings for him and he recites poetry to her. My people would say: "Que tiene una 'pasta' para este trabajo que viene de dios." Most days it's back breaking work for inadequate wages and benefits.
Also see RETRATOS: Faces of "Los Pioneros" www.flickr.com/photos/artedelares/sets/72157594337021083/
ARTIST STATEMENT:
These are part of an ongoing series of documentary images that memorialize the faces and lives of Latino elders in various community settings.
It's also a meditative reflection of my own aging process and awareness of normal and abnormal declines in memory. The nature of identity and the daily miracle of waking up in the morning re-remembering who I am.......
Memory is the basic stuff that anchors us to our being in time and space...... It's the link to where we've been. Unique to all other living things, it is the medium that holds our existential awareness of what we're all moving toward.......our mortality. Our spiritual journey, our humanity.
With any luck and longevity, impending mortality can become an advisor that sits on our shoulder nudging us towards the better part of wisdom....or sometimes simply stirring us awake to the moment.
In “Tuesdays with Morrie” ( www.randomhouse.com/features/morrie/ ) there's a cute story about this.
A little wave bobbing along in the great ocean....having a grand old time.....notices that the waves in front were crashing against the shore. 'My God, this is terrible', the wave says. Look what's going to happen to me! Another wave comes along and says: 'Why do you look so sad? The first wave says: 'you don't understand, we're all going to crash!.....All of us waves are going to be nothing! Isn't this terrible?' The second wave says: 'No, you don't understand....... You're not a wave, you're part of the ocean.'.......
This project is about the experience of feeling like a tiny evanescent “wave” in the ocean of humanity. It is a celebration of life in the face of the inevitable losses encountered in our human journey. It is a tribute to my Puerto Rican family and the memory of my parents, Genara Santiago Otaño and Juan Martinez Rodriguez
Beyond this, my friend Don Alfonso Rodriguez has been my muse and pivotal wake-up call to do this project. I thank and acknowledge him and all our elder friends and neighbors from the greater Latin American community and beyond. Most importantly, this work acknowledges the children, spouses, professional caretakers and service agencies (i.e., The Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center, NORC program) that make it possible for our elders to continue living in their own homes. To say the very least, our elders deserve to live and die with dignity.
The saddest part of all of this is the dearth of resources available to make this happen. The poverty rate in 2002 among US Hispanic elderly (65 and older) was 21.4 percent. Compared to other elderly in the US population), they are twice as likely to be living within the poverty levels. ( USDHHS www.aoa.gov/prof/Statistics/minority_aging/Facts-on-Hispa... )
Even sadder still, it's actually worse than reported when one thinks about it. This is because the operational definitions of poverty statistics are politically driven and often under-report actual poverty levels on the ground. Whatever the methodological or other reasons may be, they serve to lessen the culpability and shame of the established political and social order for this growing crisis. No surprise there, .....another “white elephant” hidden in plain sight, eh?
In so many ways, known and unknown, our elders are extraordinary, unsung heros, leaders, workers among workers, dreamers, mentors, nurturers....”Pioneros.... Yes, our collective cultural memory. I am living out many of their dreams. I am co-creating new ones into the future......right now.
All those who've been reading my comments and text, you will notice that the overall narrative is developing in response to your: “favoriting”, “views”, comments, conversations and interactions with me about this project. You are all an interctive parts of this creation.......thank you!!!
This long-term documentary project continues grow for yet another year..... Any ideas for project funding proposals.......promoting an exhibition, book or ";show-and-tell"..???... Let me know :~)
TITLE: Iron Cage
AUTHOR: Andre Norton 1912-2005
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ace 37290
COPYRIGHT: 1974 by author
EDITION: stated 1st paperback publication
PUB DATE:
PAGES: 288
COVER PRICE: $1.50
COVER ARTIST: Charles Mikolaycak
ISFDB: Yes
RATING: not read
Comments: Great wrap around cover but not credited, typical Ace.
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THE WEAPONS ISRAEL TESTS ON PALESTINIANS WILL BE USED AGAINST ALL OF US [Listen here]
As Antony Loewenstein explains, Palestine has been a testing ground for repressive technologies exported around the world, from spy software to killer drones.
by Chris Hedges, The Real News Network December 8, 2023
Whether it's drone technology or the infamous Pegasus spy software, Israel has long developed and refined repressive technologies used by governments around the world by testing them on Palestinians. Antony Loewenstein, journalist and author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, joins The Chris Hedges Report for a deep dive into the disturbing links between Israeli Apartheid, the arms industry, and global repression of civilian populations.
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The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.
Chris Hedges: The Palestinians are human laboratory rats to the Israeli military intelligence services and arms and technology industries. Israel's drones, surveillance technology including spyware, facial recognition software and biometric gathering infrastructure, along with smart fences, experimental bombs, and AI-controlled machine guns are all tried out on the captive population in Gaza, often with lethal results. These weapons and technologies are then certified as "battle-tested" and sold around the world.
Israel is the tenth largest arms dealer on the planet and sells its technology and weapons to an estimated 130 nations, including military dictatorships in Asia and Latin America. Israeli weapons sales totaled $12.5 billion last year. Its close relationship with these military internal security surveillance, intelligence gathering, and law enforcement agencies explains the fulsome support Israel's allies give to its genocidal campaign in Gaza.
When Colombian president, Gustavo Petro refused to condemn the October 7 attack by Palestinian resistance groups as a terrorist attack and said, "Terrorism is killing innocent children in Palestine," Israel immediately halted all sales of defense and security equipment to Columbia. This global cabal dedicated to permanent war and keeping its populations monitored and controlled has hundreds of billions of dollars a year in sales.
These technologies are cementing into place a supernational, corporate totalitarianism, a world where populations are enslaved in ways that past totalitarian regimes could only imagine. It is not a far cry from Gaza to the camps and detention centers set up for migrants fleeing to Europe from Africa and the Middle East. It is not a far cry from the carpet bombing in Gaza to the endless wars in the Middle East and the global south. It is not a far cry from the anti-terrorism laws used to criminalize dissent in Israel to the anti-terrorism laws introduced in Europe and the US. Joining me to discuss this use of Palestinians as human Guinea pigs for the Israeli weapons and technology industry is Antony Loewenstein (b. 1974), author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World.
So your book, which is a great read, lays out the rise of this arms industry, which originally was a state industry and then privatized. One of the points you made at the end of the book, which is very fascinating, is how much of the apparatus to keep the Palestinians under control is essentially now handed over to private firms. I want to quote Elliott Abrams (b. 1948), who I've interviewed, "The role of Israel is to serve as a model, an example in military might, in innovation, in encouraging child birth." This is one of the themes of your book that much of Israel's support and power derives from its connection to this global arms network. So let's lay out some of the innovations that Israel has pioneered. We can begin with Pegasus and drones. They're at the forefront of some of the most advanced technologies and weapon systems that are used to control subject populations.
Antony Loewenstein: In some ways, the genesis of the book was partly due to some of the reporting around Pegasus a few years ago. Listeners or viewers will be aware that Pegasus is a spyware tool that is made by NSO Group, which is an Israeli company and it was started to be used about 15 or so years ago by a range of countries. And in fact, the country that it was first mostly used in was Mexico as various governments there were desperate to fight a failed drug war, and of course it only made the violence worse. But what's interesting back then and also now is Mexico remains, Chris, to this day, the world's biggest and most obsessive user of Pegasus. Obsessed.
Whether it's the right-wing government or nominally left-wing government, Pegasus is now in dozens of countries; I don't even know how many, I think about 70, 80 or 90. In some ways, the reason I partly wrote the book was to say that the media was obsessed with Pegasus. Pegasus is an important investigation; It's a tool that is put on phones of activists and human rights workers in countless countries. And it breaches human rights. Obviously, that's terrible.
But the problem was that it was too often framed as this rogue Israeli company doing terrible things. As I show in the book, as you know, it's not that; It's essentially an arm of the state as Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are arms of the US government. Now, Lockheed Martin is a private company. It has a board, sure, and it makes profits or not. But essentially it's an arm of the state. Right? It's used by the government in various foreign policy agendas or goals.
Pegasus is exactly the same. I started looking at that issue about saying that now probably, Israel is number one or two in the world for spyware and Pegasus and NSO Group in some ways are a smokescreen. Because there are so many other companies that are doing exactly the same thing. So if NSO Group goes bust tomorrow --And it's in a bit of financial trouble at the moment -- It's not going to make any difference. There are so many other companies doing exactly the same thing using that whole allure of being able to spy on pretty much anybody, which is why to this day no country wants to regulate this, nno country. They're all obsessed with it. That's been the fundamental problem at the moment.
Chris Hedges: Explain how Pegasus works. And we should note that it was used also on Jamal Khashoggi's fiance, Jamal, who I knew being the Saudi journalist who was dismembered in the Saudi embassy and a consulate in Turkey. But explain how it works.
Antony Loewenstein: Pegasus is a silent tool. It can be installed on your iPhone or Android. It doesn't matter what phone you have. Years ago, a lot of us used to get random text messages. You'd click on the link, you'd forget about it, and you'd move on. That was the way it used to work. So country X or intelligence agency Y would have this tool, let's say, in India, in some other country. They would then send a message to this phone of an activist or human rights worker or a lawyer, that person would click on a link, their phone would be infected, and they wouldn't know.
There's no way to know yourself without it being forensically checked. These days it doesn't even require a text message. All it requires is someone knowing your number. That's it. And it can access all your information. It can even access your phone and microphone when the phone is off. So it can be used as a weapon against you. As I show in the book, I interviewed huge amounts of people in Mexico and India and elsewhere. These are people often lawyers who are challenging the state.
In Mexico, I interviewed a woman whose husband was murdered by, almost certainly, Narcos. Then after his death, her phone was being surveilled by the Mexican state. It's never entirely clear even to this day why in her case it was surveilled. But it shows that there is this utter obsession with various intelligence services to get access to all this personal information. It's important to note that one thing that really was clear in researching this particular tool is that Pegasus and tools like this have become -- And it was said to be in The New York Times a few years ago, and I questioned some of this in the book but two journalists wrote --The most powerful weapon in the world since the invention of the nuclear bomb.
Now, I would question that because nuclear bombs clearly can cause carnage, to put it mildly. Pegasus doesn't directly kill anybody per se, but what it does is it means that privacy is close to dead. At the moment there is this massive proliferation of these tools. Israel of course -- This is the key point -- Uses Pegasus and other tools as a key foreign policy agenda. I show in the book Netanyahu and Mossad, over the last decade, would go to countries where Israel had no close relations: Rwanda and India when Narendra Modi (b. 1950) comes in. And others; Saudi, UAE. They hold Pegasus up as a diplomatic carrot saying, we will sell you this amazing tool which you can surveil your own citizens, whatever you want. But in return we would like you to vote in a certain way in the UN or buy certain weapons. That's how it works. I show a timeline when Netanyahu goes to Hungary to visit Viktor Orbán (b. 1960) or Modi in India, and 6-12 months later, Pegasus is in use. This is not accidental. This is a key part of Israeli foreign policy now.
Chris Hedges: Let's talk about the drone program. They pioneered drones. As I remember from the book, India is maybe their largest drone customer. These drones are used against migrants fleeing towards Europe, particularly Greece as well as the US-Mexico border.
Antony Loewenstein: I have some interesting declassified documents from the '80s where Israel was using drones in its war in Lebanon. When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, it was before the digital era, but Israel was using drones. In this amazing document that I have in the book from the CIA they're shocked and amazed how incredible -- That's their words -- These drones are, how effective they are, and they wonder -- Back in the '80s -- How Israel will be a global pioneer of drones. Fast forward to the last decade or so, and as I show in the book, I have spent a lot of time in Gaza as a reporter in the last 15 or so years that there is a proliferation of testing of drones, particularly around Gaza.
I'm putting aside what's happened since October 7, although it's happening since then too. But in the last 15 years huge amounts of drones are being tested above Gaza, some armed, some not, used in the various Israeli invasions, incursions, or whatever you want to call it in Gaza. Those drones are then called "battle-tested" and then they're sold to huge amounts of nations around the world. The part that shocked me the most was the use by the EU. The EU is buying Israeli drones. They're unarmed, yes. And viewers will be aware that in the last 10 or so years, there's been a huge influx of migrants coming from Africa and the Middle East, after 2015 when the Europeans said they didn't want to repeat that huge influx of people coming. Of course, if you're Ukrainian and white, they'll welcome you in. And I have no problem with Ukrainians being welcomed in. But clearly if you're Black or Brown it's not going to be the same.
EU created this fortress, Europe and Israeli drones are part of that. Frontex, which is the European border force, uses Israeli drones 24/7 in the Mediterranean, circling the Mediterranean, sending back real-time images to Frontex, which is based in Warsaw, in Poland of what's happening. The EU has made a clear decision to let people drown; That is obvious. They barely issue rescue boats and they criminalize people who are trying to rescue migrants. Israeli drones are a key part of that infrastructure and eye in the skyand Israeli drones have appeared in India and various other countries. In the last years, Israel remains one of the key drone makers of the world, and increasingly, so is Turkey. Turkey makes a cheaper version of what Israel has been developing and therefore Turkish drones are now also appearing in many nations around the world in many conflicts.
Chris Hedges: Let's talk about who Israel sells to. It's easier to tick off the list of who they don't sell to. I covered the conflicts in Guatemala and El Salvador in the 1980s. Israel was supplying weapons, including napalm, to the Salvadorans and the Guatemalans. They were one of the most fervent supporters of the apartheid regime in South Africa, they worked with Augusto Pinochet's Chile, and the Rwandan genocide was perpetrated with Israeli weapons. They will provide military equipment to the most heinous regimes, including the latest ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. You mentioned three countries: Iran, North Korea, and I don't know who the other one was.
Antony Loewenstein: I think I say Syria.
Chris Hedges: Maybe Syria
Antony Loewenstein: As far as we're aware.
Chris Hedges: Right. As far as we're aware.
Antony Loewenstein: As far as we're aware. It's interesting to note though, before 1979 and the Islamic Revolution, Israel and Iran were incredibly close. The fact that Iran was run by a dictator was no impediment to selling weapons. They were worried that the rise of the Islamic Revolution would impede their sales, which clearly it did. On the one hand, I shouldn't have been that surprised. It's important to note America remains the world's biggest arms dealer. 45% of the world's arms comes from America, so they are leaders by far. Israel is tenth. One of the things that shouldn't have shocked me but did was Myanmar, in the last years, has been committing a genocide against its Rohingya population -- Many of them have been killed, many have been kicked out into Bangladesh -- Even after the UN found that Myanmar was committing genocide, Israel was still selling surveillance and weapons to the Myanmar regime.
As you say, it's hard to list. There's so many of them. It's also worth saying that India -- And India is a big focus of the book because India is now the world's biggest country population wise, the world's biggest self-described democracy. Although I would very much question that. A key ally of the US and certainly my country, Australia and most western nations, because it's not China -- India is building a Hindu fundamental estate under Modi, a proudly chauvinist nation where particularly Muslims are discriminated against openly. There's pogroms against Muslims. Now, India and Israel didn't have a great relationship before Modi came in. There was a relationship in decades past. Modi comes in 2014 as Prime Minister and there's a love affair between Netanyahu and Modi. There's this image that some viewers may have seen of the two of them stepping onto the beach, getting their feet wet, talking about how much they love each other, who knows, no audio was recorded.
But this relationship is central to why I wrote the book. There is a growing global ethno-nationalist surge, India being the most obvious example, of nations that proudly discriminate against non-majority populations. In India it's against Hindus, against Muslims. In Israel, it's Jews against anyone who's not Jewish. And I say this as someone who's Jewish myself, that the whole alliance between Israel and India reminds me very much of Israel and South Africa: Nations that proudly discriminate against non so-called acceptable populations and are therefore inspiring others. Israel has become the inspiration to so many countries and far-right and rightists around the world, putting aside liberal Zionists for a minute, who over the years have had a love for Israel. I'm talking about India, Hungary, various other nations, not selling weapons but selling the idea of getting away with it.
That's something I talk about a lot in the book, that the idea that Israel is able to get away with it, each being occupation, endless colonization, brutalizing Palestinians, selling weapons to God knows who and God knows where, goes to the heart of why Israel is, to me, a danger. Not only to Palestinians, which is bad enough, but a model. Finally, Chris, I say in the book that you often go to far-right rallies -- And I go there for work, to be clear. For work purposes -- In the US, Australia, and elsewhere, the Israeli flag is a constant presence. It's not unusual and these are not groups that traditionally like Jews. They don't. I quote in the book Richard Spencer (b. 1978), that hideous alt-right leader in America who said a few years ago, I'm a white Zionist. He doesn't like Jewish people but he loves the idea of creating, for him and many like him, a Christian ethno-nationalist state.
You've written a lot of incredibly important work on Christian theocracy in the US and its potential growth and rise in domination. Israel is a touchpoint, as you would well know, for many of these groups. Not all, but many. And it's not because lobbyist groups like Jews; Many of them do not. But they like what Israel is doing to Palestinians to unbelievably dominate and control them. And they're proudly Jewish chauvinists. They're Jewish supremacists. That's what they want to create for Christians in America or Hindus in India. That to me is the danger.
Chris Hedges: This is from your book according to Netanyahu, Jewish writer Peter Baynard explained, "The future belong not to liberalism as Obama defined it, tolerance, equal rights and the rule of law, but to authoritarian capitalism, governments that combined aggressive and often racist nationalism with economic and technological might. The future, Netanyahu implied would produce leaders who resembled not Obama but him." I think it fits in with what you said and unfortunately I fear, I don't know what you think that he's right.
Antony Loewenstein: I fear that too because it's worth saying that Obama wasn't exactly a big believer in-
Chris Hedges: No, he wasn't.
Antony Loewenstein: … democracy and human rights either. But putting that issue aside, no, I fear that that is correct. And Netanyahu, I suspect as a leader possibly hasn't got a long life left as leader of Israel. It's obviously unclear because so many Israelis, even many who supported him are understandably incredibly angry with him after what happened on October 7th. So he may not last long as a leader himself, but I think his general analysis, I fear is correct, absolutely, that there is this sense of country after country, after country becoming enamored, not just with technological repression either from Israel or the US or others, but this idea somehow that you can maintain that domination forever.
Now, obviously, October 7th, as I touch on in the book or imply, although the book came out before October 7th, is arguably a delusion that if you believe as a nation that you can repress people through tech forever, it's a lie that will not work. And from Gaza is a key example of that. Even though Gaza was the key laboratory of Israel, they spent billions and billions in building walls and drones and surveillance. Hamas was able to breach that remarkably relatively easily. I mean, it's obviously took years of planning to do so, but I fear the lesson will not be learned.
And Gideon Levy (b. 1953), who's a good friend of mine, the amazing Israeli journalist in Israel has said that he fears that even now the lessons are not being learned by Israel and other leaders. What he means by that is that the lesson that Israel is taking from October 7 and frankly the US took from 9/11 was the wrong one. It was that we need to invade and bomb and dominate even more, which I think is born out of insecurity, not strength, but nonetheless, that's I fear the lesson that Israel is taking, not so much that we need to maybe talk to Palestinians or negotiate with Palestinians. Those Israelis, some are saying that, but it's a tiny minority.
Chris Hedges: And yet in your book you talk about Sri Lanka. You can explain what happened. They destroyed the Tamil Tigers and the Israelis were full partners in that project. And that fascinated me because I wondered if that wasn't the playbook for Gaza.
Antony Loewenstein: Looking just exactly a bit of background, 2009 was the end of the Sri Lankan civil war. It'd been going for decades between the majority Sinhalese population and the Tamil Tigers who were I guess resistance movement for more Tamil rights and a Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka for years. Actually Israel had been supporting the Sri Lankan government in selling planes, fighter jets and other forms of technology weapons. 2009 happens and as some viewers remember, the Sri Lankan government was able to target the Tamils in a smaller, and smaller, and smaller part of the northern part of Sri Lanka.
Probably 40,000 Tamils were killed. We really don't know the exact number. There's never been any real accountability for that. I do look at what's happening in Gaza and I have thought of quite a lot actually about Sri Lanka since October 7 because in some ways the Israeli plan, and I don't think there's one united plan, there is to some degree a discussion, although within think very narrow bounds within the Israeli political and military establishment.
But I think the plan seems to be Northern Gaza is obliterated. It's apocalyptic. I think if Israel, I think it's probably very lucky there will be a resumption of some kind of fighting in Gaza. I don't know when, but soon. If the plan is to decimate the southern part of Gaza, and I have, as I'm sure you do, Chris, Palestinian friends in Gaza who are sheltering in refugee camps in their own country now in southern part of Gaza really struggling. Their homes have been destroyed. They have no connection to Hamas.
I mean, these are civilians living in Gaza. If essentially Gaza's infrastructure is completely obliterated that leaves only really a handful of options. Permanent tent cities in Gaza, or which of course as some viewers will be well aware, the dream of many on the Israeli political elite. And also let's be clear, many in the Israeli public based on public opinion polls kicking the Palestinians out. Egypt, Jordan Lebanon.
Though so far, Egypt, despite being a dictatorship, has not acquiesced to that. They have not opened the borders enough to allow really that many Palestinians into the Sinai that could change. I mean, the Egyptian economy is on its knees. Will they accept lots of money and bribes? I very much hope not, but we don't know. But I do fear the plan, as you say in Gaza, is not dissimilar to what Sri Lanka did in the northern part of that country. And the outcome in Sri Lanka finally has been that the war is kind of over, but Tamils are still regarded as second class citizens in their own country.
Chris Hedges: Let's talk about the Alpha Gun Girls. It's a little sidelight, but something just disgusting, I didn't know existed until you wrote it, until I read it.
Antony Loewenstein: Yes. Well, there is a side industry, I guess you could call it, of Israeli women, Jewish women who are… Often they've been in the military. They have fetishized or sexualized the Israeli military. So you have these groups of women who are scantily clad, often holding guns, often posing in photo shoots as if they're kind of in war in Gaza or somewhere else as an idea and a way to show two things. One, the IDF is female friendly. You can be a incredibly sexy woman and still be in the IDF and kill Palestinians. That's the implication. And secondly, that Israeli women are cool.
I mean, that's the message they're trying to send. I don't know if it's particularly effective, but that's the message they're trying to send. And for years, I've been following this story that there's been a real push by the IDF Israeli army to show how gender friendly they are, how in fact gay friendly they are, how trans friendly they are, by how vegan friendly they are.
I mean, we sort of laugh in a way by saying this, but I have a big section in the book talking about this is such a key part of Israeli messaging. So-called Hasbara. But I'm not entirely convinced it's massively successful. I mean, people can argue that either way, but a lot of Israel's social media in the last 10 or so years has focused on this issue. We give vegan meals to soldiers who want it. We are trans friendly, we are women friendly, we are gay friendly. You can wave the rainbow flag.
In fact, some viewers will see about two weeks after the Israeli invasion of Gaza, there was this Israeli soldier in Gaza. The background was apocalyptic. Holding the rainbow flag, and this image kind of went viral. I did a story about. Essentially saying, and the message was very clear, you see, we want to liberate Palestinians in Gaza who are gay to just be themselves.
Now, the mocking that this got justifiably was clear as if people were saying, "Right, so you've decimated Gaza and it's apocalyptic." But gee, you can be a gay Palestinian and some may have freedom in Gaza. I mean the cognitive dissonance to actually believe that. And that ties into these girls. You're talking about this finally that these women over the last years are traveling around Israel and the world promoting an image of Israel as liberal, but also militaristic. Pro-feminist, but also gun friendly. And that's why a lot of pro-gun groups in the US and mostly men, let's be honest, are into these kinds of sexualization of Israeli gun-wielding women.
Chris Hedges: We should note that one of the uses of Pegasus or the spyware was to entrap gay Palestinian men as you write in the book and essentially turn them into informants.
Antony Loewenstein: Indeed. There's a big part of 8200, which is the equivalent of the US's NSA. Which in its whole [inaudible 00:28:02] is to monitor Palestinians 24/7 across the occupied territory. So one thing they do is to try to find, so-called weak spots. A man who's married to a woman who might be gay, a man who might be having an affair with a woman. In other words, someone who is, "doing" something unconventional. I use that term loosely.
When they get that information, they will then try to turn that person into a spy. We don't really know how many Palestinians are collaborators. There's not really an… Some are. It's a tiny minority, but some are. In Gaza too, by the way. And often in fact, as I say in the book, because there's been a siege on Gaza for close to 20 years, enforced by Israel and Egypt to get out of Gaza sometimes.
I've spoken to Palestinians who have been offered this but refused it to get out of Gaza. On the Israeli side, they've been told, "You can leave to go to study overseas or go to hospital in Israel or elsewhere. You have to spy for us for Israel." And that's how they blackmail people because they gather information from this 24/7 global surveillance network. And it's interesting just finally that when October 7 shows that not just the Israeli intelligence failed, it was an arrogance and a hubris, but also the American intelligence failed. It's interesting to note, since speaking to various sources I have, and there's been some decent reporting in the last six weeks that the US, apparently after 9/11 basically, although is spying on Israel a lot, I talk in the book that there's apparently about 3 to 400 NSA employees in the US whose everyday job is to spy on Israel. That's their job.
So they're an ally, but also America doesn't entirely trust them. And I'm sure that works both ways, but America was not particularly "helping" Israel to detect so-called terrorist threats. And one thing, I just wanted to add this finally if I could, that I'm the co-editor and co-founder of a group called Declassified Australia, which is a news-gathering organization. We did a story a few weeks ago that showed that Pine Gap, which is a key US intelligence gathering center in the center of my country, Australia, which is used as a key intelligence gathering venue to use the US used in Iraq and Afghanistan to target so-called terrorists, but kill huge amounts of civilians is being used by the US since October 7 to give intelligence to Israel in its so-called targeting of Hamas.
Now, the reason that's relevant apart from the fact that you have a massive US intelligence base in the center of Australia, which is being expanded in the frankly crazy US expansion in my part of the world, apparently target China and Australia, sadly is a key ally in that madness to have a US and Australian spy base in the center of Australia being used to funnel information to Israel. How they're using that information, of course, is not entirely clear.
It makes legal culpability very clear on the US side and the Australian side as it was when the US was targeting, so-called terrorists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria or elsewhere. I say so-called because huge amounts of civilians were killed. That global US intelligence infrastructure is being used as is the F-35A. F-35A is a weapon that the Israel is using over Gaza. The global supply chain involves many countries. And I'll declassify Australia. We also had a story showing that a key part of when the door is being opened at the bottom of the F-35 to drop weapons on Gaza, that part is made here in Melbourne, Australia.So you have a global supply chain of companies that are directly complicit in what Israel is doing, which seems like at the ICC is listening, "Hello, there's a lot to be done."
Chris Hedges: Let's talk about privatization. You talk about the neoliberalism that transformed Israel which was a socialist state, major state owned enterprises were sold off, privatized, especially in the 1990s. Israel has very high income inequality. Poverty rate 23% in Israel, 36% for the Arab population. And you write, "Many Palestinians are unaware at how the occupation has been privatized because it makes no difference if a state officer or private individual harasses or humiliates them." You go on to write, "Many checkpoints through which Palestinians are forced to travel to access their schools, workplaces, or Israel, if they are fortunate enough to get one of the few work permits handed out by the Jewish state, use facial recognition technology and biometric details to document their every move." But these are private companies. So explain that what's happened to how essentially private for-profit firms are managing the occupation?
Antony Loewenstein: It's worth saying obviously that Israel was a self-described socialist country, but socialist country for Jews. I mean, that's obvious to say that.
Chris Hedges: Well, yes. That's right.
Antony Loewenstein: And clearly, I mean as some older viewers will be aware, it's amazing to think now that so much of the global left was enamored with Israel for the first really 20 years of its existence. Anyway, that was a bit of blindness that we can talk about some other time. But anyway, look, Netanyahu was a key factor in this, that yes, Israel had a quasi-socialist background. In the last 20 or so years, there's been a shift, not just neoliberal policies within Israel itself, but also outsourcing the occupation. And in some ways it goes along with the massive expansion of settlements.
You now have roughly three quarters of a million Jewish settlers living in occupied territory, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. And a lot of the guards or security officers that are working on both settler checkpoints but also Israeli checkpoints are run by private companies. I lived in East Jerusalem between 2016 and 2020 and been visiting there for close to 20 years. So I spent a lot of time looking into these kinds of issues. And it's worth saying that, as I say in the book, yes, it's been outsourced and the accountability was zero. Even if an Israeli soldier commits an abuse, let alone if a private interest does.
It's important also to say that, yes, a lot of these companies are Israeli, but many of them in fact that are doing this, are also foreign and international. And that's relevant because some viewers will remember the last years the UN had tried for years to release this list of global companies and Israeli companies that were directly complicit in the occupation, and therefore they should be boycotted essentially. And they released a list a number of years ago. It caused a big scandal in some circles. About 20 or so of those companies then removed themselves from being involved in managing the occupation, so to speak.
But there are still, I think around 100 companies, Israeli and foreign that are directly involved day-to-day in so-called managing the occupation. That to me is not just illegal and immoral, but also right for a kind of boycott campaign, which I suspect will increase in the coming years after what we've seen the last six weeks.
Chris Hedges: Can you talk about AnyVision? I think it's changed its name to Oosto and then Unit 8200.
Antony Loewenstein: So AnyVision which you said has changed its name, is a facial recognition company, an Israeli company that was testing this at Israeli checkpoints. So what that means is that when Palestinians want to, say, move around the West Bank, if they want to potentially go from the West Bank into Israel proper, they have to have their details checked, their irises often checked now, and they were gathering all this information.
We don't exactly know where that information was going, but clearly it was going into Israel, a massive database that they were using to gather personal data on pretty much every single Palestinian, the occupied territories. Those tools are then marketed globally. They have appeared in huge amounts of infrastructure from airports to other places around the world. And when those companies promote it, whether AnyVision uses the term, battle tested, I'm not sure, but they are saying it's been tested in Palestine successfully. So-called successfully.
And that does tie into Unit 8200, which is, as I said, Israel's NSA. It is the body that is gathering intelligence on Israeli and on Palestinians. And increasingly I should say, there is a lot of evidence that increasingly the occupation is coming home, that a lot of Israeli Jews who for years believe that this was just happening to Palestinians down the road, are increasingly being surveilled themselves. And I'm not just talking about since October 7, although particularly since then, that there is a move within Israel increasingly at criminalizing dissent entirely, whether it's by Arabs or Jews.
But Unit 8200 has become this kind of quite infamous funnel of people who work in the military for years developing all these tools and methods to surveil Palestinians, which they then take to the private sector to develop various forms of repression which they can then sell around the world. And by maintaining those close ties, that's how it goes to my point earlier on, the NSO Group was essentially an arm of the state. Many of these companies, these surveillance companies, repressive tools, biometric companies operating in the occupied territories or in Gaza are then used by Israel as a key selling point to make new friends, so to speak.It's a transactional friendship, transactional relationship. And it's why as I really think, I think there's more and more that the Israeli armed industry really is an insurance policy. It's an insurance policy because, yes, there are some countries that oppose what Israel's doing. Not many, not enough, but even the countries that publicly do oppose what Israeli is doing, many of them are still buying Israeli repressive technology. I mean, Mexico is one example amongst many.
So often I think words matter. Sure, what a government or prime minister or president says, it's not irrelevant. Yeah, sure. But what matters more is what you are doing, what you are buying, what you are deploying yourself in your own country. So when you have 130, 140 nations in the world that have bought some form in the last decades of Israeli defense technology, drones, missiles, spyware, whatever it may be, that's what matters. I think Israel believes probably with justification, those nations, at least for now, are unlikely to turn on Israel while they're so reliant on those tools of repression.
Chris Hedges: Let's talk about Blue Wolf or the Wolf Pack database.
Antony Loewenstein: So this is basically a system that has been developed in the last five or so years that every Israeli soldier operating in the occupied territories has. The aim is to get personal information and data on every single Palestinian man, woman, and child. It's entered into a massive database. And that is then used to potentially discriminate against those people. What does that mean practically? Person X wants to go from the West Bank to Israel to work to get medical care. A Palestinian does not know what information has been collected on them. There's obviously no consent.
As I say in the book, there's testimony given by soldiers usually anonymously, Israeli soldiers, where it's almost like a game. How many Palestinian personal details can we get on our mission tonight when we're serving in the occupied territories? And it goes without saying, but there is no transparency in this process. Zero. So Palestinians living in Hebron or Nablus or somewhere else, don't really know what information is being gathered, but we do know that it's impacting their freedom of movement from place to place within the West Bank and also potentially further afield into Israel or overseas.
Chris Hedges: Israel innovates all sorts of forms of crowd control. You write Sea of Tears, a drone that dropped tear gas canisters over a broad area, skunk water, the skunk water drone, a form of liquid emitted from a water cannon that left a foul smell on clothes and body for a long time. They were used on Great March of Return, which was a nonviolent, largely nonviolent protest movement in Gaza where they went up to the border. Many of them, of course, were shot. But talk about some of the forms of crowd control that have been pioneered by Israel, but that we have seen in places like Ferguson.
Antony Loewenstein: Yeah. Well, this is something I talk about in the book, right, Chris, that there is a sense that, again, Israel is using the West Bank, particularly East Jerusalem and Gaza as a testing ground. So some of those examples then explain what they basically are. So the Great March of Return, as you said, was Palestinians trying to march for their freedom and for the right to return essentially to Israel to where ancestors used to live. And the Sea of Tears was a drone that was dropping essentially a tear gas on people. Didn't kill them, but it certainly caused huge damage. And literally while the March of Return was happening and while that drone, the Sea of Tears was being used, I document this in the book, other countries were wanting to buy it because it was being tested, so to speak, in real time.
The connection between the US and Israel is key here. And I say this pretty much soon after 9/11, there was a massive attempt by both the American Israeli… Firstly the pro-Israel lobby in the US, the Anti-Defamation League particularly, but other groups as well to have sort of information sharing. So huge amounts of police forces went between Israel and the US and vice versa training, so to speak, in tools of so-called people management. They're examples of police officers that have these quotes in the book going to Israel after 9/11, being inspired by what Israel is doing to Palestinians.
I mean, let's be clear, as I say in the book, American police don't need Israeli training to be repressive against Blacks and minorities. Obviously I'm not arguing that. But what I am saying is that they're getting new tools of repression to the point where just quite recently you had major Israeli border security individuals on the US-Mexico border. Looking at how the US, "maintains" its border. And it's worth saying, you mentioned this before, I didn't fully give an answer to that, that on the US-Mexico border, there is a key part of that infrastructure, which was started by Obama, deepened by Trump, and continued by Biden now of Israeli surveillance. There's massive Albert surveillance towers all across the US-Mexico border.
And Elbit is Israel's biggest defense company. And the reason the US initially was interested in this kind of technology was because it had been tested and tried in Palestine. "It works". So you have all these massive surveillance towers, which the aim is to both surveil potential migrants crossing the border, but also importantly Native Americans who live on their ancestral territory. And I have quotes in the book of saying they can't live securely in their own territory because of these surveillance towers.
So again, it's worth saying that there is this ideological alignment between many in the US who view Israel as almost on the frontline, I hate to use the term, the Wild West of crowd control, crowd management, crushing any kind of resistance to overwhelming force. And they take those examples back to the US and vice versa. It's like a feedback loop. It goes both ways. So as you say in Ferguson, I touch on this in the book, that there was a lot of evidence that some, we don't know exactly, that particularly police in Ferguson had directly gone to Israel. That's not necessarily the case. But some of the training that police forces in the US had used, including in Ferguson, had partly come from Israel.
Chris Hedges: Talk about Frontex and how this Israeli technology is used to break into encrypted messaging apps, especially on refugee mobile phones.
Antony Loewenstein: Yeah, Frontex is the EU's border, so-called security force. And there was a real trauma inside Frontex, not that I feel sorry for them, but trauma after the 2015 refugee surge, mostly from Syria and elsewhere. Let's not let that happen again. So now you have a situation where huge amounts of migrants are still trying to come from mostly Africa and the Middle East, escaping walls or conflicts or climate crisis disasters and their phones, which are their smartphones, which essentially are a vital way of knowing how to get there. People have maps on their phone, personal details, photos, are often taken from people at EU border crossings.
Information is taken off them. We don't know exactly what information is taken off, but presumably my sense and for my reporting is that probably contacts in European nations and attempt to try to break up what they would call people smuggling networks, what I would say is humanitarian paths to a better life. And Israeli technology is part of that. I think it's important to say that, as I said before, those Israeli drones that are part of that infrastructure as well, but also the EU, which is Israel's biggest trading partner.
It's worth saying that. So when you have all these European nations in the last years expressing now and then concern about the occupation, concern about settlements, just this week, just this week, one of the heads of the EU said, and I'm paraphrasing, in time of war, it's just outrageous that Israel would spend huge amounts of money on building more settlements because the Israel has released its latest budget and there's huge amounts of money for settlements. I responded on Twitter and what are you going to do about it? Because history suggests nothing. They'll do nothing about it.
I mean, apart from the fact that I'm a German citizen and an Australian citizen, obviously in Germany, this issue is toxic, that Germany is using its own historical calamity, disgusting actions during the Holocaust, including much of my family were killed in the Holocaust. Using that to support Israel's historical absolution to somehow say that to be madly pro-Israel is to atone for our own sins during the 12 years of Nazi Germany. And that has a practical impact because Israel is not just selling lots of weapons to Germany.
Germans are also selling huge amounts of technology to Israel. Since October 7, there's been a tenfold increase in weapons that Germany is selling to Israel, to assist in its horrific war in Gaza. This is what it practically means. So EU support for Israel, and I have a quote in the book, there was a… Gideon Levy, the journalist I mentioned before from Haaretz went to a meeting with Netanyahu a number of years ago and he looks at a map, Netanyahu, and says, "The whole world's basically in support of Israel." There's a few nations in Europe, I think he pointed to Belgium that kind of give us a bit of trouble, but overall we're fine.
Meaning that, yes, occasionally the Belgium authorities express concern about settlements, which Israel doesn't really care about, but ultimately the EU has made a decision that they will not challenge Israel, even though EU infrastructure, Chris, is being destroyed in the West Bank constantly. And I wonder how and when that will change because it hasn't changed yet.
Chris Hedges: I want to close your last chapter. You quoted an Israeli human rights lawyer "Because of surveillance tech, a country can avoid massacring protestors now. Today, we're able to identify and stop surveillance of the next Nelson Mandela before he even knows he's Nelson Mandela." What you describe in the book is the formation of a really frightening, dystopian, Orwellian world that extends far beyond Israeli borders. But that, of course Israel is integral to creating.
Antony Loewenstein: I certainly don't suggest that Israel is not able to commit massacres. And obviously, we've seen that since October 7. I guess what that quote, that was from Eitay Mack who is a really great Israeli human rights lawyer. He spent a lot of time trying to uncover the Israeli arms industry. So in a lot of his work is in my book. Essentially what he's saying, and the book also shows this, is that the technology of surveillance is so sophisticated now that nations… And I have quotes from people in Togo, for example, and various other nations across the globe that are run by, often US-backed or Israeli-backed dictatorships that back in the so-called bad old days, obviously there are repressive regimes that were able to surveil people through various forms.
Of course, that's existed forever. But the difference now is that we are so, frankly, overly reliant on phones and the internet that all this technology is monitored 24/7. It doesn't mean every information is always captured. I mean, the US issue after 9/11 was they were getting so much information, they couldn't process it. Israel has a similar problem as we saw on October 7, but as you say, Israel to me is becoming and really has been for years, one of the global inspirations for repressive tech. Long before 9/11 and long after 9/11.
And the danger of that is, is clear, is that it becomes a model for repression. As I said, Israel shows countries how to do it. You can also repress your people if you buy this technology, this spyware, this drone, whatever it may be. Now, yes, the technology is not perfect that of course don't say that, but that's what I'm saying. But it can create a global, almost architecture of control that is close to unbeatable and the impact of that at a time where democracy is frankly in decline.I mean, you could argue that even so-called self-described democracies aren't democracies anyway, but nations that claim to be democratic are increasingly moving, I would say, more and more to an Israeli style model. I'm not just talking about an occupation, particularly. I'm talking about language. I was also talking about surveillance. As I say in the book, the whole US rhetoric after 9/11, the so-called war on terror, that was the Israeli playbook. It wasn't exactly the same, but it was remarkably inspired by what Israel had been doing in Lebanon in the '80s and onwards. Hugely similar.
Similar rhetoric about, so-called terrorism, collateral murder, or they call it collateral damage, but I would call collateral murder. Something that a mutual friend Julian Assange (b. 1971), a fellow Australian, a great huge hero of mine, I've known Julian since 2006, right at the beginning of WikiLeaks, that what people like him and many others have been saying for years, this is the threat, the idea of a complete architecture of global surveillance, which is close to unbeatable. Israel is a global leader in that.
I think alerting people to that is the first step. The next step is obviously how to challenge that. I think a lot of the global response to October 7, both the attack by Hamas, but also the insane, overwhelming, brutal war crimes that Israel is committing in Gaza, I think is bringing out a civil society action that I have not seen on this issue certainly in my lifetime. I have Palestinian-Israeli friends, and I'm talking about mostly globally, not so much in Palestine, Israel itself. And that to me is a sign of hope, including fellow Jews and many Palestinians. And that to me is the only sort of sliver of hope in what is a really, really dark time.
Chris Hedges: Great. That was Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World. I want to thank the Real News Network and its production team, Cameron Granadino, Adam Coley, David Hebden, and Kayla Rivera. You can find me at chrishedges.substack.com.
This article first appeared on The Real News Network and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
Cómplice eterno.
Te propongo que hagamos un trato
Un trato que sea nuestro secreto
Tú te callas y yo me callo también
Y que nadie se entere que lo nuestro es un hecho
Pero a oscuras solitos los dos
Nos amemos una y otra vez
Nos quedemos al amanecer
Te propongo que lo hagamos así
Para que no nos culpen de volvernos locos
Porque nadie se atreve a entender
Seméjate cariño entre nosotros
Y si supieran las cosas que tu Me regalas en tu florecer
Ese aroma de hacerte mujer
Y te propongo que lo pienses dos veces
Que te tomes tu tiempo
Que lo hagamos lento
Como dios hizo el cielo para que sea perfecto
Y si me pides que yo te haga mujer
Si me pides que sea tu cómplice seré eterno
Tu verdugo de niña tu platónico amor
Y si me pides que yo te haga mujer
Si me pides que sea culpable de amarte
Tu verdugo de niña
Tu platónico amor
Tu cómplice eterno. ♫
Diana Frye- I think, based on the sound of your post- I can hardly be held responsible for the potential of dickishness existing anywhere- even if I'm perpetuating it ad hominem- or whatever word nosey English Professors would have me use there. Maybe 'beef' or 'oink' - for comedic intervention into the crises befallen us due to me today. If I'm asked to, I will gladly 100% accept full responsibility for all things wrong ever- if that will appease everyone but me- to appease me directly by getting those unappeased by me off my back without offering to place body parts in my body with love, etc.... plus I wish to announce the word Rionan for some reason, though before typing r then i then o then n then a then n forming the word Rionan, i had no idea it existed, which, surprisingly, Facebook spell-checker thinks is a word, even though it doesn't think facebook is a word. and Nils- I love you of course- but if you think you've got knowledge about things that will ever be known to anyone alive as 100% provable as fact, I think you're infinitely dumber than I've ever been since the inception of the first i in the universe's history- meaning inception itself- you know - since all and never and now and nothing all together and never together ever existed. Plus, since I'm not a dumbass, and have a support system comprised of, and I quote a PhD here, 'The most talented individuals in matters of interpretations of reality ever assembled for one cause ever, possibly, telling me all I'll ever have to agree with 100% to be able to prove I'm 100% as natural and perfect as everyone else who thinks on this Earth I'll ever know,' then I challenge you sir- If I've got a problem you perceive from your location where I've never once been seen or known to exist- I kinda think you're probably 100% culpable if anything happens to anyone, or doesn't , of all I ever do from hereon, now being notified of your infinite majestic wisdom- if you don't write perfect step-by-step + even-a-dummy-can-understand instructions and get them delivered to me for me to follow to correct the problems you perceive I have that I don't know about, but somehow, since you exist NOWHERE I'VE EVER BEEN at this point in time, you DO know about- the only logical conclusion of course, how could I have been so dumb to countermand you?! my goodness, then yeah- enough explaining from my end- You have an assignment anyway, I believe, Mr. loving and perfect human comparatively me and obviously all who raised/created me as though perfect to us is like grass to nothing... well.... I believe, Nils Larson, you have an almost mandatory-to-be-completed-with-all-due-haste ASSIGNMENT to complete. If you DON"T complete the assignment, I guess the next only logical thought I should ALLOW MY BRAINS TO THINK UP is that YOU ARE part or in whole, the problem, in which case, I think I've just proven that- no matter WHAT problems I may actually ever HAVE- I have just now proven that with my own brain power, all by myself - i have Identified, and already, in less time than it takes for a human to know they have to pee when they have to pee- solved said 'problem'. Now, if you have any more problems, I am here as a fellow ALIVE THINKING CREATURE to support a reality in which, with all due speed available, that problem or those problem(s), with my full effort applied to them- will 100% cease to exist to such our greatest fullest extent possible that no thinking existence ever in all (see math above explaining the only way to state it perfectly) , will ever believe any problem(s) ever existed. Since this is a complex issue, and we are throwing words around like 'problem' and the ilk- part B of this message, which, if I understand how to LOVE you and CARE for you as though I believe i know LOVE and the definition thereof are meant to be used and respected without joking around - is that 'Hey- give a guy a break guy' ('guy' pronunciation intended to perfectly imitate the character 'Satan' from the cartoon South Park's vocal sound) , then I must inform you with all sincere true facts- as me, my family that isn't an anus to my love, and my 'Doctors' (for lack of a better word) have concluded long ago that my conscious mind actually stopped being able to perceive facts and believe them as 100% facts at some point in time in 1997, which has become a more and more potent aspect of my brain since then through various events- such as self-poisoning the brain with a syringe inducing death of brain cells on purpose to kill my memory cell so I cannot any longer argue rationally- making my arguments- based on my logic 'experiment' totally harmless 100% at all times- no matter what words I use- (and so on) - which, I've been told by people whose job is apparently to strip 'sense of responsibility of causing problems' from others' psyche's, is all reality that goes back to PTSD that began in my psyche full-on in 1983 due to things none-of-your-business ever, and went undiagnosed until 2014- by which time, it had not happened to be incepted upon me once, in 1983 only, but because it had seated by then, caused newer variations- each compounding it's potency- to be worse than the first time, and which have occurred, with documents based on facts gathered by scientists- yes, real ones- a minimum, on record, of 26 times... etc. Sir. I say etc. to you and bid you two more things: I. I love you II. Please do whatever necessary for me to have been responsible for ZERO ability of you to not be a free human with all rights accounted for, upheld forever to your liking, and intact--- plus a bonus question wherein it will be asked, basically, if you know of any problem and don't bust balls to help fix it- aren't you a suspect as it's cause to begin with? Or am I drawing WAY too many lines between 'responsibility' quotients, and also 'love' .... + the magic ? logo, which informs dipshits-for-brains that INDEED a question has been asked... and a further bonus: .... here it comes now.... etc.
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TITLE: Deus Irae
AUTHOR: Philip Kindred Dick 1928-82 & Roger Zelazny
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Dell
COVER PRICE: $1.75
ISBN: 0-440-11838-7
PAGES: 238
COPYRIGHT: 1977 by author
PUB DATE: 09-1977
EDITION: 1st paperback in USA; prior in England and USA hardbound
COVER ARTIST:
ISFDB: Yes verified
RATING: 8
NOTATION: Deus Irae is Latin for God of Wrath
INDEX: 0131 - Deus Irae - 020 - Dell - PKD - IFB
QUOTE “This is Managing Director Dill,” the teacher said, “The Coordinating Director of the Unity System.” Managing Director Dill is responsible only to Vulcan 3. No human being except Director Dill is permitted to approach the computer banks. “Mr. Dill,” a girl’s voice came. “Can I ask you something?” “Certainly,” Dill said halting briefly at the classroom door. “Director Dill, don’t you feel ashamed of yourself when you let a machine tell you what to do?”…from Vulcan’s Hammer by Philip K. Dick
CULPABILITY: All images posted are from publications owned by RC/\Weazel. RC/\Weazel performed image scanning, editing and the compiling of bibliographic data.
ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry indicates specific information not available from book.
TITLE: The Martian Chronicles
AUTHOR: Ray Bradbury
TYPE: Collection
PUBLISHER: Bantam Pathfinder
COPYRIGHT:1946, 48, 49, 50 & 58 by author
EDITION: 35th edition
PUB DATE: October 1972
PAGES: 181
COVER PRICE: .95
COVER ARTIST: not credited
ISFDB: Yes
Comments: There is a good reason this book has been reprinted so many times.
Culpability: All images are from publications owned by CW. Image scanning, editing and compiling of bibliographic data was performed by CW. No entry indicates information not available from book. ISFDB: Internet Speculative Fiction Data Base.
TITLE: Jagged Orbit
AUTHOR: John Brunner 1934-94
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Ace-SF Special 38120
COVER PRICE: $.95
ISBN:
PAGES: 397
COPYRIGHT: 1969 by author
PUB DATE:
EDITION: 1st edition
COVER ARTIST: Leo & Diane Dillion
ISFDB: Yes INDEX: 0189 - Jagged Orbit - 03 - JB - IFB
CONTENTS:
QUOTE: “In 1932 in April a small boy and his mother and father waited on an Oakland, California pier for the San Francisco ferry. The boy, who was almost four years old, noticed a blind beggar, huge and old with white hair and beard, standing with a tin cup. The boy asked his father for a nickel, which the boy took over to the beggar and gave him. The beggar, in a surprisingly hearty voice, thanked him and gave him back a piece of paper, which the boy took to his father to see what it was. “It tells about God,” his father said. from Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick
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RATING: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great and 1 don’t read.
NO entry: indicates specific information not available from book.
Someone said to me today that being a parent is about making appropriate associations and memories for children. Childhood is ostensibly a blur, he said, and so our job is to create traditions and visual, audio and olfactory memories that will bring happy moments to our kids when they are adults. The smell of cinnamon reminding us of grandma's house long after she has passed. The sound of Miles Davis' "All Blues" bringing back memories of Dad making breakfast. A little boy's LEGO t-shirt immediately transporting us back to that one summer when we built a go cart with our brother.
Some of what we do to create those memories is conscious (mom forcing us out of bed to see the first man on the moon), but if my personal experience is an indication of how the world operates, I'm quite sure the memories I have are not always the memories my parents thought they were creating. We were just living life, and things happened to us (whether our parents realized it or not) that are ingrained in our memories forever.
There was that time my aunt told me I had better be smart, because I was too ugly to marry rich. There was the bullying incident in the 9th grade, where I was beat up on the bus and my step-dad told me to "man up" and learn how to fight. There was the time I had to sit at the table and drink milk without throwing up (this would be before my parents found out about my allergy). And though I never addressed these issues with the people responsible for creating the memory, there were signs, at least in my mind, that I felt someone should have seen.
And so it is with the kids. On the one hand, we have to take them at face value and hope we've taught them to express themselves and how they are feeling. On the other, we fear we're not looking hard enough at what children are saying.
Last night we had some lessons about sharing and about interrupting and about paying attention to bad behavior. It was a conversation I figured was happening at dinner tables all over American. What was fascinating was not the content, but the kids' individual reaction to it. One kid was oblivious to any discussion that would involve his culpability -- he was without fault. One kid obsessed over the discussion and wanted to talk about the equities of being good, the punishments that might result from being bad, and the shortcomings of others. Two of the kids just nodded, signaled they understood, and tried to incorporate the lessons into the dinner that evening. And I caught myself wondering which of these children is going to remember this snippet as a really big deal, and whether any of the children were trying to tell me something I couldn't see.
My solution to most problems is a new lipstick and dessert. So I made an upside down cake and the boys had DANCE DANCE PARTY in the living room after their homework. I'm hoping that sugar and really bad disco music will be the memory they fall back on 20 years from now.
Esta fotografía está dedicada a todos mis amigos, con los cuales puedo contar siempre, y muy especialmente a los "culpables" de que lleve puesta esa camiseta ;-) Espero que os guste !!!
No es un montaje de las letras, encima de la foto, ( si no o se leeria tan mal jajaja ) si no de una tecnica que consiste en "pintar con luz!
Esta fotografía esta tomada con el Nikon 50 1.4D con f/11 Iso 200 y una exposición de 15 segundos usando la técnica de light painting.
Por favor no usar esta imagen en páginas web, blogs, u otros sitios sin mi consentimiento explicito. Todos los derechos reservados.
This picture is dedicated to all my friends, who are always there, and especially to the "guilty" for he wears that shirt;-) Hope you like it!
There is a montage of the letters above the photo, (if not or would read that bad lol) if not a technique that involves "painting with light!
This photograph is taken with the Nikon 50 1.4D with f/11 ISO 200 and 15 second exposure using the technique of light painting. My English is very bad ;-)
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved.
Foto del Making Off de Culpables, se rodó en el local la Feria y en un galpón con las pantallas leds. El video fue dirigido por mis amigos de Alterado!
Link Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsc7YXgAe8E
Link Making Off:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMeQa2YzMYI
Fotos Por: Carolina Dagach
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TITLE: People Maker
AUTHOR: Damon Knight
TYPE: paperback novel
PUBLISHER: Zenith Books ZB-14
COPYRIGHT: by author
ISBN: N/A
EDITION: 1st printing in any format; therefore 1st edition
PUB DATE: 1959-02
PAGES: 160
COVER PRICE: .35
COVER ARTIST: Richard Powers
NOTATION:
"Zenith Books edition published February, 1959"
• No statement of printing, no number line.
INDEX: 0351a - People Maker - 01 - DK - IFB
Comments: Alternate title for future editions: "A for Anything"
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Sin duda pesa la emotividad, los vívidos recuerdos, la gente que compartió momentos de tu vida, las bellas palabras leídas que la nombran,... pero creo que, aunque nada de eso hubiera, la Rúa da Raiña seguiría siendo para mí la más entrañable de Santiago. Es una calle que parece quedó a medio hacer, que le faltaron fuerzas, que no pudo superar obstáculos, mientras la del Franco y la del Villar que la enmarcan continuaron haciéndose mayores, creciendo, dejándola atrás.
Pero bien sé que es su nombre el culpable de muchas de mis sensaciones. "Raiña" es la palabra gallega para reina. Y esa terminación, "iña", es propia de diminutivos que evocan lo más entrañable, lo más sentido del hablar gallego. Cuando una madre manifiesta sus sentimientos más hondos, sean de amor, dolor o ternura, a sus labios siempre acudirá ese "iño"/"iña". Ella hablará de "meu fillo" ("mi hijo") en lo habitual, en el día a día, pero si éste vive algo especialmente feliz, o sufre, incluso muere, o algo haga que el amor de madre surja a borbotones, serán "filliño meu" o "meu filliño" los sonidos que saldrán de su boca.
E igual ocurrirá al revés, cuando el hijo vuelca en palabras todos sus sentimientos de amor hacia sus padres: "miña naiciña", "papaiño". Y ese "iño"/"iña", consustancial con el gallego, para nada forzado, convierte la palabra en música de ángeles, en música del alma. Todo eso y mucho más evoca en mí la palabra "raiña" y va a ser por ello por lo que, aunque en este caso no sea diminutivo, me gusta tanto.
Y, ya de paso, es un excelente sitio para llorar alegrías y tristezas, bien sujeta en tu mano una taza de ribeiro o una copa de albariño que humedezcan y aromen las sabrosas tapas que aquí se sirven: un "pulpiño", unas "ameixiñas", unas "xoubiñas", un "laconciño" o unos "pementiños" -siempre más sabrosos que un pulpo, unas almejas, unas sardinas, un lacón o unos pimientos, que sí, de verdad-, que de todo eso y mucho más encuentra el probablemente ya cansado caminante.
Miña nai, miña naiciña,
como a miña nai ningunha,
que me quentou a cariña
co calorciño da súa.
(Canto popular)
I thought I had visited every parish church in East Kent, and seen inside almost all of them too, so my focus is no points north and west.
And then travelling back home from an orchid hunt a few weeks back, I was driving through West Langdon and I saw a dead end lane on the right with the name Church lane.
Now, I amy not be the brightest, but a road called Church Lane probably leads to a church, or did. So, the next week I went hunting.
The lane ends in the yard of a farm, and the small church sits on the left hand side, clinging to the side of a down.
It is a Victorian building, and was not open, nor it seems able to provide details of a keyholder.
I walked round the church, took a few shots of the well-knapped walls.
And left.
Another one for heritage weekend.
The church was built in 1869 to replace the ruinous medieval building.
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WEST LANGDON.
THE next parish northward is West Langdon, which takes its name from the long down or ridge of hills on which it is situated; and to distinguish it from the adjoining parish of East Langdon, in the hundred of Corniloe, and it is sometimes written in old records Monken Langdon, from the monastery formerly situated within it. The manors of Norborne and East Langdon claim over some parts of this parish.
THIS PARISH is situated among the high hills and wide capacious valleys of this part of Kent, and like the rest of the neighbouring parishes is mostly open and uninclosed, having no wood, and but little shelter within it; the soil is like that of the adjoining parish of Whitfield, chalky and poor. It is but small, containing about six hundred acres; the church which is in ruins, with about tweleve houses, forming the village, stands round a green of about an acre in compass, in the middle of the parish. About a quarter of a mile eastward from which are the ruins of the abbey, and the house called the Abbey farm, which latter was modernized and new fronted with brick by the Thornhills; but it appears now to be again falling to decay.
THE MANOR OF WEST LANGDON was antiently part of those lands which made up the barony of Averenches, alias Folkestone, of which it was antiently held by knight's service and ward to the castle of Dover, by the family of Auberville, or De Albrincis, as they were written in Latin deeds, whose capital seat was at Westenhanger; one of them, Sir William de Auberville, senior, resided there in king Richard I.'s reign, and held this manor as above-mentioned; and having in the fourth year of it, anno 1192, founded within this manor AN ABBEY of white canons of the Premonstratensian order, brought hither from Leyston, in Suffolk, in honour of the blessed Virgin Mary and St. Thomas the Martyr, of Canterbury, he gave this manor, among other lands, as an endowment to it in pure and perpetual alms, free from all secular service and payment, (fn. 1) which foundation and gift was afterwards confirmed by Simon de Auberville, or Albrincis; and in the 30th year of king Edward I. by Sir Nicholas de Criol, great grandson by a female heir of the founder before-mentioned, by which means this abbey from that time came under the patronage and protection of the family of Criol, after which, in the 19th year of king Edward II. Edward, earl of Chester, the king's eldest son, guardian of the kingdom of England, and the king's locum tenens in it, was here at Langedon, on the 3d of August.
But whether the endowment of this abbey was not sufficient for its maintenance as such, so that being unable to support the expence and dignity of an abbot, it seems at times to have discontinued the election of one, and to have remained contented under the government of a prior, as the head of it, and frequently to have been under the estimation of a priory, (as appears by many deeds and instruments at different times relating to it) in like manner as Combwell and many other religious houses elsewhere, in which estate it continued till the final dissolution of it in the 27th gear of king Henry VIII. when the abbot, (for so he is stiled in the instrument of surrender) and religious of this monastery, foreseeing the impending storm to crush them, and knowing themselves culpable of many irregularities, and being besides so artfully managed by the king's commissioners, that they desired to leave their prosession and habit, and to give up their house and possessions to the king, as their founder and patron, on No vember 13, that year, voluntarily surrendered both into his hands, which surrendry was confirmed by the act which passed afterwards that year, by which all religious houses, which were under the clear yearly value of 200l. were suppressed, and this act not only gave those to the king, but all such as within one year next before had been given up to him or otherwise dissolved, this house being at that time of the clear yearly value of 47l. 6s. 10d. and of the gross revenue of 56l. 6s. 9d.
WILLIAM SAYER was the last abbot, who with ten monks, surrendered this abbey into the king's hands. (fn. 2) The arms of the abbey were, Azure, two crosiers in saltier, argent, the dexter crook, or, the sinister, sable.
The manor of West Langdon, with the scite of the abbey, and other lands and possessions belonging to it, remained afterwards in the crown, till the king, in his 29th year, granted the whole of them, excepting the advowsons of churches, and subject to a payment, to the curate of West Langdon, and other payments, to archbishop Cranmer, who not long afterwards exchanged this manor, the scite of the monastery, and all the lands in this parish belonging to it, again with the crown, where they remained, till queen Elizabeth in her 33d year granted this estate to Samuel Thornhill, esq. of London, (fn. 3) in whose descendants it continued, till it was at length alienated to Master, of the adjoining parish of East Langdon, and from that name again about the beginning of queen Anne's reign to Henry Furnese, esq. of London, the son of George, brother of Sir H. Furnese, bart. of Waldershare, who passed it away by sale to Coke, descended from a younger branch of the family seated at Holkham, in Norfolk, and he devised it by will to his brother Edward Coke, esq. afafterwards of Canterbury. He married Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Hales, bart. of Bekesborne, by whom he had two daughters his coheirs, Mary married to Sir William Lynch, K. B. of Groves, in this county; and Annette married to Lewis Cage, esq. of Milgate, in Bersted. He died in 1773, and by will gave this estate to his grandson Lewis Cage, esq. jun. since of Combe, in Berstled, the eldest son of Lewis Cage, esq. by Annetta his youngest daughter; Mr. Cage married Fanny, the eldest daughter of the late Sir Brook Bridges, bart. of Goodnestone, by whom he has one daughter; (fn. 4) he is at this time the possessor of this estate. A court baron is held for this manor.
There are no parochial charities. The poor constantly maintained are about five, casually seldom any.
WEST LANGDON is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sandwich.
The church, which was dedicated to St. Mary, has been long in a ruinated state. In 1660, Sir Thomas Peyton, bart. of Knolton, had a design to repair it, for which purpose he provided a quantity of timber, but in the night the country people stole the whole of it away, and besides took away the pulpit, pews, &c. which had been left standing, out of the church; in which dilapidated situation it still continues. The ruins of it consist of a nave and chancel tolerably entire, excepting the roof. In the chancel is a gravestone, now covered with rubbish, for Sir Timothy Thornhill, once owner of this abbey.
The church of West Langdon was antiently appendant to the manor, and as a such was of the patronage of the abbot and convent of West Langdon, to which it was appropriated, and continued so till the dissolution of it in the 27th year of king Henry VIII. when this church, with the manor, among the rest of the possessions of the abbey, was granted to the archbishop, who, though he not long afterwards exchanged the manor again with the crown, retained this church, among others, in his possession, and it has continued ever since in the patronage of his successors, his grace the archbishop being the present patron of it.
It is valued in the king's books at 6l. 13s. 4d. but since the dissolution of the abbey it has been esteemed only as a curacy, to which the archbishop nominates, and is now of the clear yearly value of sixteen pounds.
The demesnes of the abbey are exempt from the payment of great tithes, but they are charged with the payment of six pounds yearly to the curate.
This curacy has been augmented by the governors of queen Anne's bounty, with the money from which, a small farm of about thirty pounds per annum, lying in this parish, Guston, and Little Mongeham, was purchased for the augmentation of the vicarages of the parishes of West Langdon and Guston. There are three acres of glebe, but no vicarage house.
¶The rectors of the adjoining parish of East Langdon have been for a long time past successively nominated to the several archbishops to this curacy, whose names may be seen under the description of that parish, ThoDelanoy, rector of East Langdon, being the present curate of West Langdon, nominated to it by the archbishop, in 1788.
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