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Monday, October 29, 2012

Review: SKIN79 VIP Gold Collection Super+ Beblesh Balm (BB Cream)

(A Hurricane Sandy sweeping through East Coast post.)

The Missha Perfect Cover BB Cream has been the only BB cream that I've tried. There's so many BB creams out there now, but from what I've heard, the non-Korean ones are still not up to par. So I decided to branch out to the SKIN79 VIP Gold Collection Beblesh Balm from Jen (FrmHeadtoToe)'s recommendation.

Let's see if it's up to par as my beloved Missha Perfect Cover:

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Saturday, October 20, 2012

My New Project Pan 5

Well the title says it all, it's just 5 instead of the popular Project Pan 10. I'm currently in the process of preparing my room for renovations. Clearing out things that I don't want and need anymore. In the 3 years I've started using makeup, I've accumulated A LOT of beauty products. And of course with all the different sales, limited editions, gifts with purchases, 90% of them are barely touched. So to make sure products do get used up and their containers are out of my room, I'm starting this Project Pan. I thought it'll be a good idea to use this chance for short reviews for items that would probably never make its way into a detailed review.

Physician's Formula Powder Palette Multicolored Blush - Blushing Peach
I've owned this blush for years. It is a peachy summery color (like you can't tell from the name =P ) with a mix of matte and shimmers. It is somewhat pigmented but definitely as much as the Nars or Benefit blushes. Not very long lasting either, maybe for a few hours max. I generally don't see the color anymore after I get out of work. But I like to carry this in my purse because of the mirror & brush included in the palette, makes touch ups very convenient. I've hit pan on this, but it's still a long way to go.

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philosophy on a clear day oil-free foaming acne cleanser
I bought this part of the philosophy on a clear day set but this line has been discontinued (it's still available on Amazon though). It has salicylic acid as an active ingredient, so I like to use this during my girly days when I'm more prone to breakouts. Well, if it indeed helps, I never saw the results. There's been no noticeable effects at all, so I wouldn't recommend it if that's what you're hoping for. As a regular.cleanser, I think it does the job. I like that its very lightweight and easy to wash off, no worries of residue leftover on your hair lines. Because its so lightweight, it makes a good cleanser to use in the morning just to wash off any oil buildup from overnight. But because it IS a foam cleanser, it doesn't work well with the Clarisonic brush, which is ok since I, only use it in the daytime. I only need 1 pump to get enough product to wash my face.

qiora Face Cleanser DH Cleanser
So to complement the philosophy cleanser, I use this qiora one. Also got it as part of a gift set. And is still $36 on Amazon and in Shiseido retail stores. Despite the name, this is a cream cleanser. It works up a beautiful lather and works perfectly with the Clarisonic. If you ever tried any of the Shiseido cleansers this is almost an identical twin. Light fragrance but not very makeup friendly. I don't love it enough to repurchase, especially when I have so many other cleansers.

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Clinique Take the Day Off Makeup Remover
Now along with all those cleansers is this little makeup remover that I neglect. This is a two tone oil-based remover though you can't tell from the purple container. It removes makeup very well on a saturated cotton pad, but I don't wear waterproof makeup so I can't attest for that. I don't like using this remover by itself because it leaves a greasy residue on your face that forces you to use some other cleanser along with it. Definitely wouldn't repurchase, if you want to try an oil-based makeup remover, I'll suggest the DHC oil cleanser.
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Nivea Age Defying Q10plus Hand Cream
I bought this in one of my hauls for 90 cents and I believe it is not available in the US. It has q10 as one of its main ingredients so it aims to be an anti-aging skincare product. The hand cream is very moisturizing and feels heavy on the hands but not greasy. It has a light fragrance. I don't really see the anti aging effects on my hands but I like to keep this handy in my purse for fall/winter seasons. I can't really find it anymore but I think there's other hand creams out there that are just as promising.

And that's it for my project pan so far. I still have a lot of products I want to see hit pan but one step at a time! Let's see how well this goes, I already have a mental list of products I want to finish right after these are gone.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Blog Redesigned!

After 2 years of participating in the blogosphere, I've finally got up from my seat and give my home some serious redesigning! This little piggy is determined! Not sure what or how I'm going to do it. So please excuse the random glitches and layout changes that you may experience as I make those changes.

First thing you might notice is the new banner up top. No more boring font as the title of the blog. =)  You like?

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Review: First Aid Beauty (FAB) Ultra Repair Cream

Originally I had planned to review the Skin79 BB cream that I bought earlier in the year, but with the Sephora Friends & Family lurking around in October, I figured I'll review the First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream first instead.

First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream (picture from Sephora)

When I bought the FAB set 2 year ago, frankly I was not impress. Originally I had hoped that the "intense therapy" of the cream will help me through the harsh dry winter, but it failed to do any more hydrating than my Aveeno Body Lotion. Needless to say it was sitting around my vanity nearly untouched.

A few weeks ago, I took it out and gave it a try again. My dad was hospitalized for a couple of days a few weeks ago. Either it was from the stress of worrying or I must have contaminated something on my face, my skin went bonkers! I wasn't exactly breaking out, but there were many clogged pores. My skin was irritated, itchy and patchy to the point where my face was just peeling and flaky. T_T I was so devastated! I was afraid to use any serums or my usual brightening moisturizers for fear it would only make the situation worse. But I can't just "let it be"!! So remembering the "relieve minor irritation" part of this cream, I whipped this out from the bottom of my vanity drawer and decided to give it a try.

And guess what? My prayers were answered! The first night, I applied it right before I went to bed. And the next day, I woke up to super hydrated skin! The flaky and itchiness was all gone. The dried patches were still there, but you can clearly see that my skin was healing. After a few days, my skin was back to it's old self. Enlarged pores were gone! Can't even see any of those clogged pores that was visible the prior week. Skin just looks and feels saturated (literally!).

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^^ Arren got a new hat.  He looks so cute and tubby.  He still hates the brightness.  I need to get him some baby sunglasses.

^^ In this photo he actually looks like he likes the bassinet, but this guy…this guy hates the bassinet.  He kicks the crap out of it while making a lot of displeasure sounds.  I don’t know what’s wrong with the bassinet, maybe his baby friends told him horror stories.

^^ I just love these little zipper outfits.  They’re just so convenient and easy to put on a cranky little baby.  They were such a mission to find in Cape Town, apparently they don’t sell well.  I don’t understand, they’re just the best! We even have some cute summer zipper outfits.

^^This is one of the short sleeve zipper outfits! Nothing cuter than baby shoes.

^^ Beautiful sunsets on an extremely windy day.

^^ Its a great day if you wind surf.

^^ I actually did my hair and make up, but it was so hot, windy and cold all that hard work for nothing!

Hi friends! How was your weekend? I feel like i haven’t done one of these posts in ages! Baby life has been crazy, but so much fun.  We actually went out twice this weekend! Twice! Can you believe it? Both of the trips were a complete bust,  Arren really, really doesn’t like any form of heat or wind! but hey, we made it out! that’s a miracle in itself!

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A family holiday in Thailand and Laos

Yes, you read correct, all of us managed to get away for an entire week leaving on January 1 (after deciding on the afternoon of December 31 to go.) Just my wife and kids and it was bliss.

Ubon -> Village -> Pakse -> Savannakhet -> Mukdahan – Ubon.
877.6 km
21 hours and 28 minutes the car engine was ticking over with 16 hours and 8 minutes of actual moving time.
A max speed of 115 kph with a moving average of 54.4 kph.

Riveting stats huh? Guess who bought himself a GPS for Christmas!

Over the next few days I hope to post a bit of a blog about the trip as well as post lots of photos. I hope to get it done before my parents arrive on Monday – I can’t wait to see them.

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If you’re like me and are not the most industrious of employees, you’ll probably spend your working day laboriously traipsing through a sea of search engines on a quest to discover the perfect weekend break.  There are endless lists of travel websites that clutter the results of your Google search that completely render your weekend excursion a distant dream. With websites like AirBnB becoming increasingly popular, holidaymakers have been given the power to assemble their perfect trip piece by piece, helping formulate the perfect holiday.  Here at MFM, we thought we’d save you time by carrying out the arduous job of picking a destination for you, and then you take it from there.

Berlin is home to some of the most stylish and ‘Instagrammable’ apartments that provide the perfect base to go discover the German metropolis and the glut of tourist attractions. The culture-rich capital city is renowned for its museums and architecture and has a wealth of riveting history centred on the notorious Berlin wall.  Once you’ve picked a place to lay your weary head, whack on your bobble hat and get ready to explore – there’s no rest for the wicked in this city.

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The most notable district, Mitte, can only be described as what Hackney would feel like if it was in central London, purveying the artsy vibes right in the middle of town.  It’s laden with amazing concept stores and coffee shops coated in inspiring artwork and posters, forming an idiosyncratic and interesting place to wander around and absorb all the sights.  You can’t spend a weekend in Berlin without visiting the Berlin Wall, so head down to Bernauer Strasse for to witness the harrowing site where the locale of the events that ensued in 1961 remains.  You can walk along the wall to admire the amazing graffiti which an integral part of Berlin’s culture.

If your inner-sun worshiper isn’t satisfied abroad without sea & sand, Berlin has up to 30 manmade beaches for those urbanites longing for a seaside fix.  The imported sand is dumped along the riverbanks and volleyball courts crop up for the ultimate faux-beach experience.  If you don’t fancy dipping in the river (imagine swimming in the Thames…) then there’s an outdoor lido you can exhibit your finest breaststroke.

In terms of shopping, the city seems to be on point with their approach and attitude to retail.  Shops like Darklands are transient and ephemeral, rotating their location to avoid attracting a following from the wrong crowd.  Every 18 months or so they up sticks and move shop elsewhere, whilst still trading their usual avant-garde menswear designs.  To your average Brit, the words “Pauls Boutique” can evoke images of flocks of teenage girls sauntering around in odious quilted jackets with the name emblazoned across the back, however in Berlin it’s actually a pretty sweet vintage store.  You could waste hours on end rooting through the second hand gems that litter the entirety of the shop.

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After a long day of lounging by the beach and finding yourself new dancing shoes you’ll probably want to loosen up with a stiff drink.  You’re in luck.  It goes without saying; Berlin has one of the best clubbing scenes in Europe.  It’s a hedonistic party playground centred on music where the world-class Berghian is the Mecca of techno.  The non-stop partying can go on for days on end where revelers will pour in and out through all hours.  It’s not a place for the faint hearted, as there are plenty of weird and wonderful sights hidden away behind the old industrial edifice.  The effortlessly endearing and ironically named “King Sized Bar” is a tiny little place situated inside a derelict building, covered in an obligatory coating of graffiti.  Nip here for a swift drink or why not try the larger KTV that from appearance has no windows, no lights, just the faint sound of music seeping from behind a massive grey door.

The zany crowd can seem intimidating but everyone is there for a good night.

If you’re looking for an unconventional weekend that provides an educational and enriching experience whilst still being able to indulge in a fair bit of debauched fun, then Berlin is for you.  It’s gritty and raw vibe is refreshing and will leave you wanting more. But good luck with the reality check at work on Monday, you’ll feel like you swam back in England in freshly laid cement.

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User Ratings (Based on 46 reviews)

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Food 4 Value 3_5
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  • Lovely Day

    Posted by J on 2013-04-17

    Way too sweet

    Pad Thai was cloyingly sweet. I don't plan on returning. Service was fine though.

  • Lovely Day

    Posted by aps on 2013-03-15

    great lunch

    I order from here frequently and will definitely return! Avoid eating in though..staff is ridiculously bad. I gave them one star because they have never messed up my order. However, every time I call they patronizingly tell me that I really need to speak

  • Lovely Day

    Posted by anonymous on 2012-10-18

    Worst delivery & service

    This place is ridiculous when it comes to delivery. First off, the guy taking my order had music blasting in the background and kept saying he couldn't hear me..I wonder why? Then, he kept messing up my credit card number I repeated it multiple times. I a

  • Lovely Day

    Posted by Anonymous on 2012-07-12

    NOT the best pad Thai

    You know that place EVERYONE says is good and then you go and it isn't. So 'eerbody and their mom said this place had the best pad Thai, I get it and it is dry and the sauce tasted generic at best.

  • Lovely Day

    Posted by steviekeys on 2012-03-07

    Love this place!

    I eat here twice a week. If I miss a week I feel like my life has been diminished. The last reviewer really nailed it. If you're looking for an impeccable fine dining experience, you're in the wrong place. If you're looking for a warm, casual spot wit

  • Lovely Day

    Posted by Anon on 2011-11-16

    This place is great

    This place doesn't pretend to be a fancy, multi waitered restaurant where the service is impeccable. It is an informal, funky, fun but delicious place to eat. The staff is friendly and well mannered, if perhaps a little slow but the food is excellent.

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    Posted by wavynycvy on 2011-04-25

    Why all the bad reviews?

    I order from here once a week at least. i cant speak for the service in the place, but the people on the phone are always super nice. everytime. and the food is delicious.

  • Lovely Day

    Posted by Anonymous on 2011-01-26

    Oh the service...

    The food is good and priced decently. But it's not really worth it when the waiters are more interested in talking to each other than taking your order.

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Click Money System Review

click-money-system-reviewStudies have shown binary options trading is a billion dollar market, but you need to start with the right software to grasp what works and what does not. Those who enter the market nervous will be the ones who lose out.

You want to have an assured approach to binary options trading, and it all starts with a good software solution.

“Click Money System” is regarded as a new option that has entered the market. Is it a good solution for those who are starting off?

This review should provide great insight on the founders, pros, and cons of the software.

Key Features

  • Binary Options Trading Software
  • Automated For Easier Use
  • Simple Interface
  • Created By Brother-Sister Duo
  • Earn Five Figure Per Day With Software
  • Easy To Access (Web-Based)
  • Ideal For Beginners Starting Off
  • Partnered With Trustworthy Brokers To Manage Funds

Understanding Julia And Harold

Before anything else, you want to know more about who the founders are, as that is a good starting point. Julia and Harold are a brother-sister duo who have grown up with a software company that was created by Harold after completing university.

He was always a coder by heart and wanted to create a company of his own, which he did, and it was eventually sold to a bidder as it grew.

Now, he decided to pair up with his sister and start up Click Money System as a way to help people and maximize his knowledge of trading binary options. He used to do this in his college years and continued to do so even as he was building his software company.

It has now got to a point where he believes it should enter the market.

Fantastic Earnings

The one thing you are not going to want to overlook would be earnings as that is the purpose of getting any system in place. If the earnings are not there, you have a meaningless solution in place.

With Click Money System, you are looking at a real powerhouse on your hands.

This is the real deal where the earnings are going to skyrocket the more you use their system.

It is impressive to see the earning potential on offer with what they are bringing to the table.

Doesn’t Take Long To See Results

The one aspect of this system that has not been seen in the market before has to do with how quick the results come in. Most people will be made to wait when it pertains to other solutions, but this one will let money trickle in right off the bat.

This is a major plus point for those who are apprehensive about all binary options trading software solutions that are being put in front of them.

You won’t have to think about this one bit as long as you are using the software with its built-in settings.

No Navigational Concerns

The interface is always a concern when people are going through for the first time. You never want to get stuck with something that isn’t easy to navigate. You want it to be as easy as any other solution you might have in front of you.

With Click Money System, you are looking at something that is robust and will be as easy as anything you have ever had the pleasure to use.

Beginners love this option because they have made it easy on the eyes and ensure you are aware of where to click as you begin.

Responsive Customer Service

People often worry about customer service because things are not going to be rosy all the time even if a software solution is great. What do you do then? Are you able to get required assistance or are you left to fend on your own?

You won’t have to think about this at all.

click-money-system-reviewJulia and Harold have one of the best teams in the world doing their customer service work, and it is as good as it gets.

You are going to be blown away at how quickly they respond and how courteous they are every step of the way.

It will win you over.

Consistent Results Reported By Early Testers

The results have been consistent according to those who were given early access to get out in front of the market. They reported consistent earnings that are still coming into this day.

It has been eight months since that initial result.

The consistent value that has been brought in makes it an overwhelming success.

Requires Patience In The Beginning Days

Let’s move onto the cons as it is not a perfect software solution as the marketing might tell you. It is good, but it has holes in it.

What is the first hole?

It has to do with the need for patience on the part of a trader. You will have to take your time setting up the automated software before you launch it forward. This includes depositing funds, getting the trade signals in place, and then seeing if things move forward at the pace you desire.

Each Person Has A Unique Response To Market

Another con has to do with each person getting results based on their time entering the market. The trade signals will be good and remove risk, but that doesn’t mean you are going to earn the same as everyone else.

It will vary from time to time.

This can confuse people, but it is normal and should be accepted.

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Concluding Thoughts

If binary options trading is an intriguing option for you as a trader, there is no better option on the market than Click Money System. It is a comprehensive software that has been designed with meticulous attention to detail. The programmers have made sure to go through the requirements a trader will have when hoping to earn money.

Is this the perfect software for newbies?

Yes, it is. This is a world-class software that has been designed by professionals who understand what trading is all about and how to pursue it for long-term results.

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NO JOKE: Untangling the DNA Code of Alt-Right Comedy

By EG Daymare, 10 April 2017
Image: Dr. Seuss, 18 September 1941, updated November 2016
In the run up to Trump’s election, US ‘alt-right’ ensemble Million Dollar Extreme weaponised comedy and post-internet aesthetics to target latent middle and working class resentment. Analysing the tics and tropes of MDE's project to inculcate a new misogynist, white supremacist ‘common sense’, EG Daymare shows how the ridiculers can be ridiculed and refused

By persistent negativity of the fool’s caricature, comedy gives its hand to the mould of the reasonable person. It sculpts layer by layer, reshaping this faithful legal index. The detail of its image is the difference between security and exile, life and death. The American comedy trio Million Dollar Extreme (hereafter MDE) devotes itself to the building of a more reasonable worldview based on semi-feigned ignorance of world history and refusal to use the most advanced tools of the Western intellectual tradition to cultivate appreciation for the work of people who are unlike them. Exactly who is being addressed with the phrase, ‘DNA like yours and ours’? (See the MDE text discussed in Section 10.) The rallying of white men to a cause identified as theirs by dint of a supposedly shared racial heritage must be resisted and this essay does so largely through antithesis, describing what MDE really mean in their videos and public interventions. Staged as a mockery of liberal culture, MDE’s radical identitarianism grasps after fascism as the ideological vehicle by which to bridge the divide between the class interests and expressive means of a working-class base and the interests and means of the (middle class) alt-right.

MDE has been on the rise for a decade or so, building for itself a devoted internet following. In an interview with Jared Kushner’s Observer, MDE’s Sam Hyde discusses the ‘loyalty’ of their fans: ‘We only have 70,000 YouTube subscribers, but I can get a thousand of those people to go somewhere and do something.’ In the alchemical stove of public consumption and discussion, the group’s products have been undergoing transformation into liveable expression for some time now. These expressions, as they alter the characters of individuals, move to insinuate themselves into the collective work of reason’s definition. The group recently broke through to an audience of an altogether different scale when Adult Swim aired six episodes of the satirical alt-right comedy sketch show Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace (hereafter WP) from 5 August to 16 September 2016, each episode drawing an average of nearly 900,000 U.S. viewers. Hyde discusses the importance of expanding MDE’s exposure to the Adult Swim audience in his Observer interview: ‘the kids who watch Adult Swim really do drink up all of it. By exerting influence over that audience you may not have the widespread influence that you get through Disney or Nickelodeon, but you’re molding minds in a very serious way.’1 At the time of this writing (November–December 2016), Adult Swim has nonetheless cancelled the planned second series of WP, but the work of understanding the material they broadcast remains to be accomplished, considering the historical confluence of its political extremism and the momentum it has acquired from a national television run.

Image: Pepe the Frog, unknown source

A Holla Forums post in a thread from August 2016 about the airing of WP reads: ‘When did this memes are magic thing start? I got out of Holla Forums around the start of 2015 and now that I came back this is everywhere.’ Which gets this response: ‘Well how do you think Holla Forums has turned so many semi-normalfags into National Socialists? Comedy. i.e. memes.’ A post on the same thread reads: ‘yes pander to the nazi forums that will boost the ratings!’ It is in various online discussion forums where ‘thousands of fans gather to decode World Peace’s complex, if winking, symbology, which many devotees are convinced expresses an anti-progressive, pro-white ideology’.3 The politics of MDE are made clear when Hyde discusses the political necessity of comedy in an interview with Mike Cernovich4 and also in an interview on The Needle Drop podcast:

There is an anger that is not fully expressed in the way that it needs to be, and I’m trying to correct that [. . .] I want to make something cool for people to sort of have as an umbrella. Like, shit’s coming down, but here’s this MDE umbrella, it’s gonna protect you to some extent, and keep you sane, keep you safe. And I’d like to do our small part to reduce the feminization of everything.5

MDE is a propaganda engine: its comedy generates slogans and narrative skeleton keys for the middle class white psyche tooling up to escape what is incompletely realised to be the crisis of neoliberal capitalism, an escape conceived as little more than an out-thrust against anyone who is not the possessor of that pale psyche. A cultural exercise meant to keep white men ‘sane’ and ‘safe’ is one meant to keep everyone else feeling psychotic and vulnerable. What is not understood here is that the implicit vulnerability of the white man is a product only of the advanced consciousness of those who see fear in the eyes of the powerful. Of course not all white men are wealthy and MDE’s refusal of unity across lines of difference testifies to their denial of the historical suppression of inter-racial solidarity of poor and working class people, of the history of dominations exacted on ‘the people of all sizes, sexualities, and colors’. The white supremacy of MDE will be glossed with two examples.

Image: MDE, ‘Sam Hyde @ Rutgers -- How to ‘Make It’ as an ‘Artist’ -- :) :) :) -- *ғʀᴇᴇ ᴘᴀɴᴇʀᴀ*’, 2015

Image: MDE, ‘Father Figure (Parts 1–3)’, 2013

3. (Example A)

An animation towards the end of an episode of MDE,‘The Power of Yellow (2/2)’ (2013?), features a first-person shooter where the ‘final boss’ is a nude black dancer in black and red cosplay armour firing digital explosions from his groin. The shooter fails to fire back and, losing the game, finds the words ‘Game Over’ framing a close-up of the dancer’s genitals. This image of the dancer is assurance that none like him will follow: his means of generation have been destroyed, not by the video shooter, but by the video authors, in a rhetorical murder. This is a game built to seem so easy to beat, that the secret to it is actually losing, which is to say enduring the dancer, living through your own death so that the ‘final boss’ can be delivered to a greater form of death. The end of the line has been reached. Similarly, the cover of MDE’s coffee table book How to Bomb the U.S. Gov’t (2016) promises protection against a list of threats including ‘Unarmed Bl_ck Men’, where ‘black’ is a dirty word because it is imagined, in the words of Frantz Fanon’s, as ‘the incarnation of a genital potency beyond all moralities and prohibitions’.6 The first-person shooter animation seeks to destroy the image of this potency by homophobic ridicule.

The larger narrative at work here is that ‘the feminization of everything’ makes it impossible for the strong to rule the weak. Vital punches are being held and those who feel that domination is their natural right have been disabled from doing so by radically PC prohibitions on free speech. What could be more unconstitutional? YELLOW here means ‘not cowardly’ (‘What STRENGTH means to me’): it is the yellow of warning, of the aggressor urging others to take cautionary heed of an explosive reference, a don’t-tread-on-me code for loyalty to a basically Aryan racial identity whipped up by a question that can only read: That smartass black Muslim stole the White House (for a second time), what are we going to do about it? The meaning of this reactionary identity politics is the kind of deportation fantasy (more massive in scale than what the right pretends the Obama administration has not enacted) at work behind a sketch in ‘Ideas Man’ (2013) where two white men in suits terrorise and assault a brown woman in her car, smashing out her windows with bats, manhandling her out of her vehicle, screaming and spitting into her face and finally, seeming to stash her inside her car’s trunk. No context is given for these images of violence: the point is for viewers to provide their own rationales, rationales which take on lives of their own in the safe havens from which users access online forums. The ultimate medium of the troll is political assassination (see Section 4) and we have arrived at a frantic moment where the difference ‘between the storyline and reality’ (‘Moms’, 2013), intervention and skit, hoax and non-fiction, liberty and tyranny, faeces and news, deportation and vacation, has been ground to a fragile blade.

Before moving on to the next example, the title segment leading into the first sketch in the WP broadcast should be mentioned. WP presents the members of MDE as ‘yellow’ in the more conventional racial understanding, placing their names under pictures of Asian women (with provocatively censored texts under each name), imposed over computer-enhanced scenes from rural Asia. What connects the WP title segment to the gym scene that follows it (see Section 5) is the figure of the American soldier, representative of the work of Asian genocide, not only in Japan, but in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and representative of the ignorance of the enduring damage, both at home and abroad, of America’s mass-aggressions. The irony is smoother than in ‘An Inconvenient Anime’ (28 November 2012) – Hyde’s presentation at a Vermont anime conference where attendees were trolled with a purposefully uninformed defamation of Japanese culture, complete with requisite boast about America’s nuking Japan. In a moment where so many peoples are maintaining such intensity of vigil in the city of the dead, MDE laughs off mass slaughter, intentionally denying the most basic facts of our history. What is clear is that their history is exclusively their own.

Image: MDE, ‘John Oliver shoutout! (joke video) (political commentary)’, 2016

4. (Example B)

In MDE’s ‘John Oliver shoutout! (joke video) (political commentary)’ (21 October 2016), a monologue is cut together from two parallel improvisations – ‘For the sake of argument, if you come at me, in a public situation, if I had to defend myself outside of your apartment, I’m watching you through your window and I have to shoot through a crowd of people to defend myself, it’s 2 AM, it’s a self-defense situation’ – during which a submachine gun bearing ‘THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS’ is fired and two parody newsflashes run along the bottom of the screen, the second reading: ‘Mayo Saxon tax expanded to include vouchers for getting nails did’. A racial slur for ‘white’ (where ‘Mayo’ is the abbreviated form of ‘mayonnaise’, perhaps roughly equivalent to ‘pasty’ as an epithet), and a mockery of a popularised usage from African American English are brought together to make the implicit claim that it is white workers who pay for the (abused) welfare of black women, making the system of taxed employment and paid unemployment the ultimate in structural reverse-racism.

Given such a state of affairs, parity is only ever reconstructed through the instructive hail of automatic gunfire. Trump himself said on 23 January 2016 that he could murder someone in cold blood and not only suffer no consequence, but lose no vote. The question is, who would he shoot? (The apple does not stray far from the tree.) Trump knows what it feels like to be the average white man: his media debut was as the subject of a racism charge and money, well he too has lost everything. But he has regained it: so he not only knows what it feels like to have your labour stolen from you, but he also knows what it feels like to steal it back and steal it back at huge multiplications of its original value – to dominate in turn.

So barring the possibility of actually stealing food stamps ‘back’ from their recipients (‘Fuck welfare we say reparations’, Dead Prez, ‘Hell Yeah’), cultural domination is attempted through ‘liberated’ speech by right wing fanatics and by any means necessary. Racial superiority is once again a public option, up-voted magically to the top of the search results. The supremacy of the straight Caucasian alpha male constitutes the lifeblood of MDE, an energy deriving ultimately from a frustration with the contradicted position of being dominated by capital, but not being subject to the discriminatory domination useful to capital because of its power to reduce the price of labour.

Image: MDE, ‘Ideas Man’, 2013

We move now from work’s enforced absence to the workout. ‘Ominous chord strikes’. Following the self-yellowing intro scene, the first WP sketch takes place in a gym. Intersecting rays of black and gold are distributed hectically across a glowing blue floor, giving the impression of industrial shadows cast from above. ‘zone fitness’ shines from a digital sign on the left wall. The back wall and ceiling are black. A foil mirror on the right gives a blurred impression. A woman and a man cross paths as they enter the scene. The man gets the woman’s attention as she is listening to music, turned the other way. His olive green t-shirt and slick wig indicate a career in the military. Woman: ‘Oh hey, how’s it goin? You workin’ out today?’ Soldier: ‘Oh yeah, that’s why I’m here [that’s why I’m here]’. The repeated phrase here has been audibly repeated as a drawling echo, the video slowed for an instant, hard to accurately perceive, but suggestive enough to catch the man in his lie. He has not come to the gym to work out. He is an occupying force. There is a kind of awkward flirting. She praises his muscles and he loudly slaps his arm, as if to awaken his veins, saying ‘vascular’. He strikes dumbbell squats and she worries he will hurt his back, then he assures her there is no danger if you stick out your ‘fanny’. He emphasises the word and sleazily points at her as they move on to their respective workouts. The man seems disappointed, no doubt because he has to make good on his boast. The woman uses the stair climber, facing the man across the room and the man grabs the weights, turned to the blurry mirror. He takes his first dumbbell squat. The foreseen back injury announces itself, sending the man stumbling to the floor, humiliated in front of a woman who just predicted his injury and who continues her climbing, as if wilfully oblivious to the suffering of one who failed to heed her concern.

Image: MDE, World Peace, Episode 1, 2016

It turns out the soldier came prepared. Pulling up his t-shirt, he reveals an emergency reboot implanted into his abdomen, resembling a start button and marked ‘Fozzy Contin’ (fuzzy/foggy continue and opiate addiction has already been suggested). Self-repair lifts the man into a superior state, not only enabling him to support himself, but refiguring the structure of his face. Bulging mounds, the base of his new green and red eyes, can only signify Pepe the Frog, who has made some impressive cameos recently and in the run-up to Trump’s victory came to symbolise a new form of political comedy: the spell-casting troll doing whiteface with memes, wearing the uniform of racial supremacy as open affront to liberal decency, daring to be refused their special claim to a unique victimhood, refusing to be forgotten in the most disgusting terms possible. The transformation leaves the figure straddling an old and a new consciousness: the rules of the game have now undergone a drastic alteration, where any reasonable degree of restriction on the man’s behaviour towards the woman in front of him has been lifted and released, along with his id. The two have become truly alone together for the first time, where the rule is might over right: while the woman was correct in her vision of the man’s injury, it is the man’s muscularised perception that now dominates what is real and what is not.

Images: MDE, World Peace, Episode 1, 2016, contrast in second image retuned to reveal star formation

Seeing with Pepe’s eyes reveals what was not visible before: A false infinity mirror-effect extends the gym scenario by three receding iterations of itself. Crucially empty, the man and woman are joined by no other exercisers, nor iteration-reflections of themselves. An orange ceiling with overhead lighting hangs above each of the gym space images. What must stand out now to the new amphibian, in the implicit visual display of this repetition of the room in which he stands, is the corollary to the six lights over each of the room-images: the six-pointed star that has been hidden in plain sight since the scene’s first shot, centre-stage in yellow on the blue gym floor. (Yellow begins now to signify the yellow badge, exclusionary marker of a people accused of owning more than they deserve, where yellow is symbolic of wealth as gold, shameful because acquired through inhumane means.) This Star of David (or is it a square and compass?) is overlaid with a crucifix (or negatory X). From the elements of this superimposition, a swastika may be drawn, branching off from the central cross. In the present moment, swastikas in broad daylight are less useful to those who wish to draw and glorify them: the entangled image declares not itself, but its potential and critically requires the fanatic’s activation by careful disentangling.

What this interpretation leaves out is the length of the lines, the fact that they are not contained by the figures it is claimed they combine to articulate. This floor display exemplifies the rhetorical evasions of MDE, the play of deploying and retracting statements, gas-lighting in show-dialogues constructed from oppositional personas of assertion and denial. Extension and retraction of moral thresholds destabilises the psychic environment, leaving room for the comedy to perform its didactic moral labor. The achieved result is that the envelope is pushed so far that a monstrous political intent is blatantly obvious. This is what some people call not funny and that is the point: the point is not something funny, but something intentionally dangerous. This is the meaning of the hemlock reference in the Adult Swim WP promo text – ‘FOR WHAT NAIVE SLOB EXPECTS HEMLOCK MEDICINE TO TASTE OF MILKSHAKE?’ – that MDE are claiming the moral philosophical position of Socrates, the grand patriarch of Western philosophy, put to death for his ideas. To protest the cancellation of WP as an injustice is to not understand that MDE set themselves up for this, at least half-knowingly, indeed as in a ‘SUPER PURE TRAGICOMEDY ROSARY’, to be so persistently wrong that their corporate patrons could no longer countenance them, in an age where getting sacked is the new ‘death’. To be axed, presumably for questions about the moral integrity of their relatively popular intellectual property, must mean that they are onto something that is essentially primary, hugging the root of important questions that the corporate media wish to leave unasked. Right?

That is the political fantasy that MDE has been weaving over the past four years, casting out antagonistic ironies in a messy pile of intertwining threads. A self-contradicting knot of expressions and symbolic characters will always risk being read the ‘wrong’ way (especially when its authors frequently make anti-Semitic jokes and remarks across all of the artistic and social media outlets they command). Symbolic overlays, charged with the triumph of conspiracy revelation and the false irony of cultural/racial disgust, as in the credits to ‘Murder Charls’ (2013), are central to MDE’s repertoire of offensive sign-making. Two useful examples of this follow, before we turn back to the room where everything is laid bare.

Image: Composite image from unknown source: notebook of mass shooter James Holmes, screen-shot of uncensored WP teaser

Image: Website of collaborator Andrew Ruse, featuring projects affiliated with MDE

8. (Example A)

The image at the centre of the original logo for WP, censored for broadcast to a peace sign (‘World☮Peace™’), was born as a symbolic equation conceived by Colorado theatre shooter James Holmes: a circle encompassing an overlay of infinity and one, where all deaths (but not lives) are equivalent, one-zero-infinity. (Note the title of WP’s third episode, ‘3 Down 47 to Go Countdown to Mass Funeral’.) The bold contradiction of the logo’s expressions is born of a desire to explode the civil order, to acquire at least a better position from which to fight to regain the liberties lost to the tyranny of ‘cultural Marxism’. The one and the infinite combine pictographically to form an eagle whose wings command infinite domination, uniting the globe’s four corners and rewriting history in the revenge-image projected from its wielders’ alienation, where glory is to be reclaimed on behalf of present and future injuries to the dominators.

Images: MDE, World Peace, Episode 2, ‘Jews Rock!’, 2016

9. (Example B)

In the WP music video ‘Jews Rock!’, the central projection in yellow on pink is an upside-down peace sign overlaid onto a mirror image of the western hemisphere. As forum users point out, the peace sign in this incorrect orientation produces the Algiz rune, signifying life, a character adopted in Nazi and white supremacist symbologies. The overlay is a clear display of Aryan supremacy, as a user on the Holla Forums thread recognises: ‘You guys missed the sneakiest symbol of them all. The “peace” sign is actually, when right side up, the nordic symbol, over a image of the world. Nice one sam.’ To which one response reads: ‘Or rather the peace symbol is an upside down life (algiz) rune. A symbol of submission and slavery!’ The propagandistic imperative in MDE’s juxtapositions is fortified by resolute suggestion, both subliminal and overt. See the footage in ‘Ideas Man’ (2013) from a university lecture hall performance where – ‘Pull the band-aid off a little too fast and tell ‘em something that they don’t want to hear’ – is spoken as a swastika is drawn on a chalkboard, cut with menacing reversed footage of an Ace of Clubs being ripped in half. The reparation of the Ace of Clubs is made purposefully vengeful, the band-aid image is a flash-fry model of youth politicisation (or of the swift abolishment of the welfare state) and the swastika inscribed on the symbolic medium of the teacher. The use of a swastika in a work of art is not a problem in the abstract: it is the clarity of the objective being arrived at through this particular use of the swastika that is the problem. Enough elements of the equation are always present in MDE’s work, both under and above the surface, to recognise the proposition of a thesis, clear through any apology referencing the messy semantic plurality of subversive-absurdist invention.

Image: MDE, ‘Antiques’, 2012

Back in the gym, an extremist new vision reveals modern history as a pattern of conspiracies laid out against the scene’s protagonist. Iteration of the same produces clarity of the underlying image: a stage of inescapably Jewish supremacy whose furnishings punish and degrade the goyim, usurping flesh by the pound, where losing weight and gaining muscle mass are analogies for the desired accumulation of wealth. It is only by recourse to a technological power confluent with his own white skin that the damaged soldier becomes amphibious historical visionary. A prose block appearing on the screen for no more than seven seconds at the end of ‘Antiques’ (2012) begins:

Western civilization is nearly over. The great flood is coming, only this time the ‘flood’ will wipe the genetic slate clean, and DNA like yours and ours will be swirling around the toilet for one final flush, just as it should. Orwell said, ‘if you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face - forever.’

This is an expression of desperation signalling the crushing defeat felt by racists when Obama won his second term. ‘DNA like yours and ours’ is the kind of thing that racists say when they feel confident they are in the company of those just like them. MDE stepped out of their Caucasian niche with its Adult Swim gig, expanding their audience to the so-called ‘people of all sizes, sexualities, and colors’, a public debut of a project that was developed in the exclusive hothouse of white nationalist indignation. ‘GO ANTIQUING!’ is a directive for MDE’s devotees to excavate those relics of discredited, unscientific thought which are deemed necessary for the amplification and political ascendancy of the far right. With the rise of Trump, the example of the ‘Antiques’ text has proven true: raw chauvinism as requisite disguise, casually horrible, contemptuously misogynistic, racially pragmatic and always ready to backtrack with the aid of a gaslight, hallmark of a being too self-possessed to do the actual work of atonement. The power activated by the soldier is drawing on this energy, the same energy that redefines the word ‘COLORS’ as an acronym for ‘Come On Let’s Orchestrate Radical Shit’ (in one of MDE’s animated ‘spells’ from the video ‘iSuck and iSuck Pro. Suck different’ (20 June 2012)), where ‘Radical’ means pertinent to the advancement of those with ‘DNA like yours and ours’. The soldier’s power is expressly white, characterised by the internet-lubed mechanism of a middle class, right wing solidarity, its adherents full of hope for the emergence of a future that lifts them up as vanguard expressionists driving a wave of working class political fury.

Images: MDE, World Peace, Episode 1, 2016

Far from desperate, the beginning of WP expresses an assurance grounded in a technologised whiteness represented by an invisible human labour at work in the unpopulated receding images of the gym. The revelation is of a labour without representation, whose machines are haunted by a chilling spiritual music: a rendition of the internet as a tool for the reclamation of a chauvinism conceived as the primary attribute of a correct historical protagonist. In what could be an analysis of this scene, a Holla Forums post in the WP thread reads: ‘The old edifice of deceit is crumbling under the weight of its own hubris. New, more accurate perceptions of reality are spreading to the four corners of the earth. The World isn’t ending…the controlled mainstream perception of reality is ending.’ The scene cuts out to the sound of a woman’s screams, with censored text imposed over an aquarium whose floor is a luminescent grid. This is the World and there are indeed plenty of fish for those with ITNESS streaming out of their heads. The woman’s screams are followed by a deep voice: ‘Yeah, baby’.

MDE’s parodic horror supplies a fascist future with the cultural material it needs to popularise its ‘New, more accurate perceptions of reality.’ What must be understood, however, is that these perceptions are fantasies paraded in the psychic costume of perception, evidence of a defence mechanism protecting its users from facing up to the inescapable objective data of the world as it is. The abundance of suppressed history is staggering, especially as it concerns the exploitation and destruction of the working classes, women and people of colour. The suspense by which much of MDE is pervaded is most especially marked by the radiation of imminent violence by white men, typically to be performed against women, but also manifest in a more lurking sense of danger, legible as an emergent political violence distinct from specific acts.

Image: Wolfsangel, unknown source. (The wolf trap is ideological lurecraft, a half-swastika plunged into the gut, the other half lodged in the head. What can be seen in the Wolfsangel demonstration image is not the meat-bait, but the baited brain-meat.)

The lush audio-visual design of WP and much of MDE, particularly its animated inter-titles, raise questions about the aesthetic vehicles by which a leftist art can be accomplished without getting fast-forwarded to the opposite horizon. Bands featured on WP have since denounced it, attributing their failure at sniffing out a political enemy to being blinded by the opportunity of an Adult Swim feature. Trusting our instincts cannot provide the art of refusal with all of the evidence that it requires: antifascist artists must be vigilant scholars of the histories of their venues, curators, editors, publishers, collaborators and exploiters. That the market for fascist cultural production is growing cannot surprise us any longer: it is through acts of solidarity and refusal, as well as through more furiously left-wing satirical art, that we will successfully oppose it. For now, the revolting odour of Million Dollar Extreme remains suspended in the light of antifascist contempt.

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1 Michael Malice, ‘Trump Supporter Sam Hyde on Why Political Correctness Canceled His Adult Swim Show’, Observer, 12 December 2016,

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3 Joseph Bernstein, ‘Adult Swim Talent Want The Network To Cancel Its Alt-Right Comedy Show’, BuzzFeed, 16 November 2016,

See also, Joseph Bernstein, ‘The Alt-Right Has Its Very Own TV Show On Adult Swim’, BuzzFeed, 25 August 2016,

And, Joseph Bernstein, ‘The Underground Neo-Nazi Promo Campaign Behind Adult Swim’s Alt-Right Comedy Show’, BuzzFeed, 13 September 2016,

4 Sam Hyde and Mike Cernovich, Interview on YouTube, 11 October 2016,

5 Sam Hyde, A conversation with Sam Hyde, The Needle Drop, episode 33, 16 January 2016,

6 Frantz Fanon, Black Skin White Masks, USA, Grove Press, 1952.

‘Ctrl-Alt-Delete: The Origins and Ideology of the Alternative Right’, Matthew N. Lyons

‘Notes on Late Fascism’, Alberto Toscano

‘The Silicon Ideology’, Josephine Armistead

‘The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction’, Shuja Haider


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What is pelvic ultrasound?
A pelvic ultrasound (sonogram) uses reflected sound waves to produce a picture of organs and other structures in the lower abdomen (pelvis).

Pelvic ultrasound can be done three ways:

  • Transabdominal ultrasound, which uses a small handheld instrument called a transducer, passed back and forth over the skin of the lower abdomen
  • Transrectal ultrasound, which uses a transducer shaped to fit into the rectum
  • Transvaginal ultrasound, which uses a transducer shaped to fit into a woman’s vagina

Who needs pelvic ultrasound?
A pelvic ultrasound may be recommended to find the cause of blood in the urine, difficult urination, or pelvic pain.

For women, pelvic ultrasound may be recommended to:

  • Find the cause of unexplained vaginal bleeding
  • Diagnose pelvic inflammatory disease
  • Locate a misplaced intrauterine device
  • Monitor the condition and size of the ovaries during infertility treatment
  • Confirm a pregnancy, determine the age of an unborn baby, check the viability of a pregnancy, or detect an ectopic or multiple pregnancy
  • Get more information on a lump, fibroid, or other mass found during a physical examination of the pelvis
  • Help guide instruments used to remove an ovarian follicle for in vitro fertilization

For men, a pelvic ultrasound may be done to:

  • Examine the seminal vesicles, and the texture, size, and condition of the prostate gland
  • Diagnose prostate cancer or enlargement
  • Find the cause of infertility

Where is pelvic ultrasound performed?
Pelvic ultrasound is performed by the order of a physician at

Methodist Dallas Medical Center

Methodist Charlton Medical Center

Methodist Mansfield Medical Center

Methodist Richardson Medical Center
Radiology Department

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Blue-Painted Ibex Amphora from Malqata

New Kingdom
Dynasty 18
reign of Amenhotep III
ca. 1390–1353 B.C.
From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Malqata, Palace of Amenhotep III, Atitu's (rubbish) hole, MMA excavations, 1910–11
pottery, white cream slip, paint
H. 39.5 cm (15 9/16 in); diam. 21 cm (8 1/4 in)
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Rogers Fund, 1911
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On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 120
This remarkable vase was found during the Museum's excavations of the palace of Amenhotep III at Malqata in western Thebes. The head of the ibex had broken off, but was found nearby. Like much of the pottery at Malqata, this amphora was made of a red clay covered with a cream colored slip and decorated with blue, red, and black paint.

For more blue-painted ware from this site, see 11.215.461–.469, .471–.473, .477, .489.
Museum excavations, 1910–11. Acquired by the Museum in the Division of Finds, 1911.

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Blue-painted Jar from Malqata

Date: ca. 1390–1353 B.C. Medium: pottery, slip, paint Accession: 11.215.462 On view in:Gallery 120

Jar from the tomb of Sennedjem

Date: ca. 1279–1213 B.C. Medium: Painted red pottery Accession: 86.1.10 On view in:Gallery 126

Funerary Cone of Djehutynefer

Date: ca. 1550–1352 B.C. Medium: Pottery Accession: 09.185.19 On view in:Gallery 117

Hieratic Jar Label

Date: ca. 1390–1353 B.C. Medium: Pottery Accession: 17.10.2 On view in:Gallery 120

Water Bottle from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

Date: ca. 1336–1327 B.C. Medium: Pottery, hematite wash, burnished, pigment Accession: 09.184.83 On view in:Gallery 121


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For Al-Baghdadi, Islam is a religion of war, a shrewd message

For Al-Baghdadi, Islam is a religion of war, a shrewd message according to Father Samir
Thursday 21 May 2015

The ’caliph’ urges all Muslims to carry out their ‘hijrah’, emigration, to move from an Islam of peace to one of war, imitating Muhammad and his Hegira (in 622). The message rekindles something deeply embedded in the Islamic world and among traditionalists and Salafists. Islam is both peace and war and it is time for Muslims to reform their view of history. Islamic holy war and the Crusades are not comparable.

Rome (AsiaNews) – The Islamic State (IS) group yesterday released an audio message from its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in which he calls on all Muslims to "emigrate" to the caliphate and carry out jihad, holy war, because "Islam was never a religion of peace” but “is the religion of fighting."

In the 33-minute audio message, Baghadi is heard saying, "And we call upon every Muslim in every place to perform hijrah (emigration) to the Islamic State or fight in his land wherever that may be”.

In view of this, “Has the time not come for you to know that there is no might nor honour nor safety nor rights for you except in the shade of the Caliphate?"

"Islam,” he adds, “was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. No one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels."

Analysts say that the voice seems to be that of the IS supreme leader. It is clear, assured and, in places, almost melodic, but there is no overwhelming evidence that it is his.

In recent weeks, several media reported that Baghdadi had been severely wounded in a coalition air strike last March. Yesterday’s audio message was the first in at least six months. Transcripts of the audio message were posted online in English, French, Russian, German and Turkish.

Previously, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had appeared only once in a video, delivering a sermon in the great mosque of Mosul, at the inauguration of the caliphate last June.

What follows are the thoughts of Fr Samir Khalil Samir, a Jesuit scholar of Islam. The former professor at St Joseph University in Beirut is currently pro tempore dean at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s message is very shrewd because it corresponds to the expectations of a part of the Islamic world. Certainly, Salafi groups, which seek to roll back society to the style and practices of Muhammad’s, will be happy about it and will say: Finally, we find the true Islam!

It should be noted that when talking about emigrating (hijrah), Baghdadi was referring to Muhammad’s migration from Makkah to Madinah, what we call "’hegira’", which marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar world (from 622 AD), i.e. the beginning of the Islamic era.

This migration represents the transition from a peaceful Islam to a bellicose Islam. In Makkah, Muhammad never made war, but seeing that his message was not getting through and that few people bothered to listen to him, and that in fact, his life was at risk, he sent a group of his followers to Ethiopia, a Christian country that was willing to accept him. Instead, he went to Madinah.

There he began to preach and a year later, he began to fight, first against the Makkans, then against the tribes, in order to convert them.

Muhammed won all these wars. Most tribes in Arabia ended up following him. However, they did so because he was a military chief not a religious leader.

Evidence for this lies in the fact that when Muhammad died around 634 AD, many tribes broke away, refusing to fight and pay taxes. As a result of this, the new caliph, Abu Bakr, declared war on them and force them to return to Islam.

They refused, saying that they had made a pact with Muhammad, not with Islam. However, Abu Bakr defeated them and forced them to come back to Islam.

It is interesting that this new "caliph" chose Abu Bakr as his name and that he wants to launch a holy war around the world, to subjugate everyone to Islam.

His call is meant to rekindle an idea that is deeply embedded in Islam, namely: let us all go through our hijrah, let us leave behind all those who want an Islam of peace, and let us move to the true Islam that conquered Arabia first, then the Middle East, then the Mediterranean. This would be the last phase of the prophet’s struggle through his new envoy.

All this is highly symbolic.

Currently, some reports indicate that IS is losing support, that several young men, after arriving in Syria and Iraq to fight, have tried to quit and are now languishing in IS prisons.

Baghdadi’s message then is an attempt to mobilise further Muslims in order to gain the support of more committed young people.

His call will almost certainly shake up Muslim Salafis, whose model is primitive Islam. They take as a model Islam’s first generation, and this will convince many Muslim traditionalists to become Salafis and fight.

Faced with such call to arms, what can be done?

A military fight might be necessary, but it will not be decisive. Military actions will reduce the violence, shed less blood, push back IS, but the movement will continue because it is part of Islam.

The only solution is a radical reform to the internal reading of Islamic history.

When al-Baghdadi says that "Islam was never a religion of peace," he is exaggerating. Islam also had periods of peace. To say that Islam is only war is also a mistake.

Islam is both war and peace. And it is high time for Muslims to re-examine their history.

It is also important to note that the Islamic war is not comparable to the Crusades: The Crusades were at best a limited war to save Jerusalem and the holy sites; it was not a total holy war inspired by the Gospel.

By contrast, war in Islam is always holy if it is made to expand the boundaries of Islam or recover Islamic lands.

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Mizeur Matters

Not content to ''wait her turn,'' the lesbian seeking Maryland's top spot hopes people power trumps political establishment

Heather Mizeur

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Mizeur adds that she even got special permission from her high school principal to take off a half day of school on her 18th birthday in order to be able to drive to the county courthouse and register to vote. On most days — though not on the day of her interview, per the request of Metro Weekly photographers — she even wears a necklace with a gold medallion that reads “VOTE.”

“I was more excited about my 18th birthday than a lot of kids, who couldn’t wait to be 16 to drive, or 21 to drink alcohol,” Mizeur says. “For me, it was all about turning 18 and being able to vote, because I had started to volunteer on Penny Severns’s campaign, and other races in my area, and was never able to actually exercise the right to vote.”

It was also an age when sexual orientation more routinely enters the conversation, ready or not. Mizeur knew she was attracted to women since elementary school, but says it was clear that most people disapproved because of the way her classmates would talk about being gay. Or course, she did come out, when she was a sophomore in college. Although her parents did not take the news well at first, they eventually decided that they did not want Mizeur’s news to destroy their relationship with her.

“If you think about the time period, it was the early ’90s,” she explains. “There was no Ellen Degeneres on TV, Melissa Etheridge hadn’t come out. It was still something that people were scared about. And parents were scared about what it meant for your child’s future when you found this out. It was still discussed as something that would ruin your kid’s life, and take away their happiness, and I was standing firm to show them that what was going to make me happy was living my truth.”

Even after coming out, however, Mizeur struggled to reconcile her sexual orientation with her Catholic faith, which remains to this day an essential part of her identity.

“My Catholicism for me was a connection to my social-justice values, of caring for the sick, housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, and volunteerism,” Mizeur says. “The epistle from James that says, ‘Faith without works is dead’ — we have to put our faith into action. That’s what my Catholicism meant to me.

“And when I would try to reconcile the teachings of the church,” she continues, “I would come to a place where I realized that every time I would discern being gay, the only time that I was receiving messages that it was wrong was coming from external places. Inside of myself, and in my own deep relationship with God, I always knew it was okay. The church itself teaches the primacy of your own conscience. While there are teachings from the church to guide, and I certainly disagree with the church on other teachings as well — I’m pro-choice — that, at the end of the day, what mattered was my own conscience and my own discernment with Christ. … That was very liberating, when I got to the place of realizing that I was torturing myself, and living in fear and having to struggle, only because I was listening to external forces trying to dictate to me what was right. And that was at odds with what I knew in my own heart to be the right thing.”

Mizeur went on to work in politics for three different members of Congress, focusing on domestic issues, particularly health care, before going to work at the National Association of Community Health Centers, a nonprofit organization that advocates for improved access to health care for the uninsured. She later returned to Capitol Hill to work for four years as John Kerry’s director of domestic policy — when he was a senator from Massachusetts — before, during and after his 2004 presidential run. During her time working for now-Secretary of State Kerry, Mizeur ran for public office, winning a seat on the Takoma Park City Council in 2003.

Working on the Hill, she also met the woman she would marry, Deborah, with whom she’s so far spent a decade. Initially, the two only knew each other as fellow health care policy analysts, and the relationship was purely professional.

“There came a period where we were each single, but I never knew that she was gay,” Mizeur recalls, smiling from ear to ear. “I had a lot of respect for her professionally, but I thought she was a straight woman, and the thought had never really crossed my mind. Meanwhile, she had harbored a three-year crush on me and never bothered to tell me. Finally, when she did tell me that not only was she gay, but that she had this massive crush on me, it was like the sun and the moon and the stars all aligned.”

After a year, they were engaged. After another year, in 2005, the couple married in a small ceremony on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where the two make a second home on an organic herb farm in Chestertown.

“While we knew we weren’t going to have the law recognize our marriage in Maryland at that time, we wanted to make a statement that we were going to get married in our state, that we were going to work really hard — for the rest of our lives if necessary — to make sure that the state not only protected our marriage, but the marriage of every other family like ours,” Mizeur says of marrying in Maryland prior to marriage equality becoming state law.

She and Deborah legally wed in California in 2008 prior to the passage of Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state. Because their California marriage was legal at the time, a 2010 opinion by Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler recognized their marriage as legal in Maryland, even though Maryland had not yet passed its own marriage-equality law.

“Deborah and I had a conversation early on, after I was elected,” Mizeur says. “We felt together that we could make a difference in moving the needle on marriage equality in Annapolis after we got here, that it would be a lot harder for my colleagues to have a negative view of marriage equality once they got to meet a lesbian couple with such a strong marriage.

“Deb came with me to a lot of social functions to get to know my colleagues. People always invited us with them, to go out to dinner and to engage in social activities, because they liked us as a couple. And we could just see the shift, that we weren’t just the ‘token lesbian couple’ that they were inviting to come around, but that they honored and respected our marriage. And then it became important for us to slowly and respectfully educate those colleagues about how differently we were treated under the law, and how protections that anyone else might take for granted in their marriage wouldn’t apply to us.”

Throughout the long-term battle to have same-sex marriages treated as equal to opposite-sex marriages under the law, Mizeur says she and Deborah never took personally some of her colleagues’ reticence or refusal to support marriage equality. In fact, the couple offered some of Mizeur’s fellow legislators a “safe space” and the opportunity — off-the-record and behind closed doors — to ask any questions about homosexuality or same-sex marriage that they might have had. She adds that there were some “smaller victories” that she and her fellow legislators in the legislative LGBT Caucus won in the run-up to the passage of marriage equality in the state.

“Legislators’ spouses all get badges, and they get access to the garage for parking the cars. They get to come in the side door, and not have to go through one door of security. We really pushed the envelope early on, saying, ‘This is my wife and she deserves a spouse badge,’ Mizeur says, recounting the conversations she had. “‘Well, but the state doesn’t recognize her as a spouse.’ ‘Well, we need to figure out a workaround on this, because you’re treating me differently than all of my other colleagues.'”

She continues: “There were consistent things that we would need to point out and try to change, but I think those little things build on each other. First, it’s the recognition from the gallery. Next, it’s the badge that gives you access. Then you’re trying to make sure that the state employee health plan covers our spouses the same way as every other legislator’s. For every new breakthrough, as tiny as it might be, they were all building blocks that helped lay another brick in the pathway towards full equality.”

John Riley is the local news reporter for Metro Weekly. He can be reached at


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One of the stories as to how Mole was invented is that it accidentally created by a Dominican Nun who was preparing a guiso (cooked dish, stew) of pureed roasted chile, cinnamon, pepper, cilantro, sesame seeds and turkey broth and decided to add some chocolate, which, according to her, sent the dish through the roof with an indescribable flavour. We may never know if this is indeed true, but it makes a very good yarn!

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