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The tight connection between Islam and Marxism

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Submitted by Ed Melik (United States), Sep 28, 2006 at 03:36

I think your comments need a bit check of reality. I don't know about you but I have lived and worked in the former Soviet Union and I have pretty good knowledge of the Russian Islam. I have visited Uzbekistan whose capital was and still is Tashkent and visited the historical cities like Bukhara, Samarkand etc. Before the Bolshevik revolution and thereafter no religions were allowed specially Islam. Islam was one of the religion is very rigidly monotheist religion that has its entire roots and historical connections with Judeo Christian teachings. If you check about the chronology of Islamic Prophets, you'll be shocked to find out that each and every Prophet of Islam is the same as of Judaism and Christianity. So it's a total fallacy to even remotely connect Islam with Marxism. If you have to look at the right perspective about Marxism regardless of which religious groups sided or help create and promote Marxism then no one can touch the Soviet Jews.

During the time Vladimir Lenin was the Founder and dictator of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin had worked himself into the position of General Secretary of the Central Committee. He was greatly assisted in this by the Jews Lev Kamenev (real name Rosenfeld) leading member of the Politburo and Grigori Zinoviev (real name Apfelbaum) head of the Petrograd soviet. In 1925. As a matter of fact history's archives are filled with tens of thousands of pages reflecting the contribution of Jews to Marxism than any other group in Russia. For example: The American Army Intelligence Service had its agents in Russia at the time of the Communist Revolution, and the Jewish nature of that revolution is accurately reflected in those reports.

An American Senate subcommittee investigation into the Russian Revolution heard evidence, put on congressional record, that "(I)n December 1919, under the presidency of a man named Apfelbaum (Zinovieff) . . . out of the 388 members of the Bolshevik central government, only 16 happened to be real Russians, and all the rest (with the exception of a Negro from the U.S.) were Jews" (U.S. Senate Document 62, 1919).

However, none of these authorities quoted above dared to use quite the language of a US Military Intelligence officer, one captain Montgomery Schuyler, who sent two reports to Washington in March and June 1919, describing in graphic detail the Jewish role in the Russian Revolution. Both these reports were only declassified in September 1957 and the originals are still held in the US National Archives in Washington, open for public inspection.

The first report, sent from Omsk on 1 March 1919, contains the following paragraph:

"it is probably unwise to say this loudly in the United States but the Bolshevik movement is and has been since its beginning, guided and controlled by Russian Jews of the greasiest type..."

The second report, dated 9 June 1919, and sent from Vladivostok, said that of the

"384 commissars there were 2 Negroes, 13 Russians, 15 Chinamen, 22 Armenians and more than 300 Jews. Of the latter number 264 had come to Russia from the United States since the downfall of the Imperial Government."

Not one document points such connection with any Muslims in Russia. The reason? Simply that Islamic teaching is totally opposite to Marxism. Islam and Marxism can never exist together due to theological teachings of Islam. Vladimir Ilichiya Lennon once said "Islam and Marxism is like oil and water... they can never mix".

Jews were also behind the American Communist Party, which although politically unsuccessful, was very successful in its espionage and infiltration activities, eventually reaching right into the Civil Rights Movement and that group's leader, Martin Luther King.

According to the Encyclopedia Judaica, published in Jerusalem, Israel (1971), page 804 (extract below) "the list of Jews who played a prominent role in the leadership and factional infighting of the American Communist Party is a long one . . .Many American Jewish authors and intellectuals, some of whom later recanted, were active in editing Communist publications and spreading party propaganda . . among them Micheal Gold, Howard Fast and Bertram Wolfe."

Many of the Soviet spies arrested by the American government during the Cold War have been Jewish, and none have been more damaging than the group of spies who passed the secret of the Atom Bomb to the Soviet Union.

This group of Communist spies was all Jewish, from the ringleaders, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, to the actual scientists working at the top secret Los Alamos laboratory, namely David Greenglass and Theodore Hallsberg. The latter actually passed the atomic secrets to the Rosenbergs, who then passed it onto their Soviet handlers, via their Jewish courier, Harry Gold. Not a single Muslim was ever remotely connected to any communist/Marxists activities in the United States. Wonder why?

As far as Hitler and his connection with the Muslims world is concerned, it was practically zero. However, the creation of Hitler and his socialist party was exclusively done by the Jews of Germanys.

In 1919 Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart formed the German Worker's Party (GPW) in Munich. The German Army was worried that it was a left-wing revolutionary group and sent Adolf Hitler, one of its education officers, to spy on the organization. Hitler discovered that the party's political ideas were similar to his own. He approved of Drexler's German nationalism and anti-Semitism but was unimpressed with the way the party was organized. Although there as a spy, Hitler could not restrain himself when a member made a point he disagreed with, and he stood up and made a passionate speech on the subject.

Anton Drexler was impressed with Hitler's abilities as an orator and invited him to join the party. At first Hitler was reluctant, but urged on by his commanding officer, Captain Karl Mayr, he eventually agreed. He was only the fifty-fourth person to join the German Worker's Party. Hitler was immediately asked to join the executive committee and was later appointed the party's propaganda manager.

In the next few weeks Hitler brought several members of his army into the party, including one of his commanding officers, Captain Ernst Roehm. The arrival of Roehm was an important development as he had access to the army political fund and was able to transfer some of the money into the GWP.

The German Worker's Party used some of this money to advertise their meetings. Adolf Hitler was often the main speaker and it was during this period that he developed the techniques that made him into such a persuasive orator.

One should read "Bryan Mark Rigg. Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military. Modern War Studies Series. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xxi + 433 pp. Index..

So far in any pre or post-Hitler era no Muslim-Marxists existed. Muslims as a matter of fact were always persecuted due to their monotheist faith.

As far as Putin is concerned, I guess facts speak for itself of how pro-Muslim Putin is. In case you have not heard of Chechnya... this speaks volume about Putin and his love of Muslims of the former Soviet Union.

You say "Muslim Brotherhood has tentacles that stretch back to Nazi Germany". How and where did you find any documents on this information? You continue with your remarks by saying "The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, during the second World War was a known ally of Adolf Hitler. I am sure that a very strong link can be made between Nazi Germany and Islamofacism". What made you so sure that these remarks make Islam a partner of Marxism and Hitler?

Here are some verifiable historical facts for you to ponder on:

GUARDIAN - George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism. His business dealings. . continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act. The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy. . .

The new documents . . show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty. . .

NEWSWEEK [POLISH EDITION] - Prescott Sheldon Bush, grandfather of George Walker Bush, had financial dealings during World War II with the Nazis, amassing a family fortune as a banker. Prescott Bush was a shareholder of the company United Banking Corporation, working with industrialist Fritz Thyssen from the Nazistowskiego Silesian Consolidated Steel Corporation, where Auschwitz prisoners worked.

JFK's father, Joseph Kennedy, had a reputation of being pro-Nazi or at least pro-Hitler. He was U.S. Ambassador to Britain but was recalled because of his pro-Hitler viewpoint. His code clerk was Tyler Kent, which is a story in itself.

Since its publication in February, Edwin Black's book "IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation"

When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic groups. When the Nazis took power in 1933, they installed a program of eugenics--the attempted "improvement" of the population through forced sterilization and marriage controls--that consciously drew on the U.S. example. By then, many American states had long had compulsory sterilization laws for "defectives," upheld by the Supreme Court in 1927. Small wonder that the Nazi laws led one eugenics activist in Virginia to complain, "The Germans are beating us at our own game."

The contribution made by American capitalism to German war preparations before 1940 can only be described as phenomenal. It was certainly crucial to German military capabilities. For instance, in 1934 Germany produced domestically only 300,000 tons of natural petroleum products and less than 800,000 tons of synthetic gasoline; the balance was imported. Yet, ten years later in World War II, after transfer of the Standard Oil of New Jersey hydrogenation patents and technology to I. G. Farben (used to produce synthetic gasoline from coal), Germany produced about 6 1/2 million tons of oil — of which 85 percent (5 1/2 million tons) was synthetic oil using the Standard Oil hydrogenation process. Moreover, the control of synthetic oil output in Germany was held by the I. G. Farben subsidiary, Braunkohle-Benzin A. G., and this Farben cartel itself was created in 1926 with Wall Street financial assistance.

If you study the real connection to Hitler, Lennon, Stalin, and others you will not find any Muslims. Why do you think its if? Despite the facts there have been Muslims scientists, writers, professors, engineers, and statesmen but none of them every got bear Hitler and Stalin.

Adolf Hitler & Christian Nationalism:
A popular image of the Nazis is that they were fundamentally anti-Christian while devout Christians were anti-Nazi. The truth is that German Christians supported the Nazis because they believed that Adolf Hitler was a gift to the German people from God. German Christianity was a divinely sanctioned religious movement which combined Christian doctrine and German character in a unique and desirable manner: True Christianity was German and True German-ness was Christian" says Austin Klein of Newsletter. "

Christian anti-Semitism:
Anti-Semitism was an important aspect of the Nazi state, but the Nazis didn't invent it; instead, they drew upon centuries of Christian anti-Semitism and extensive anti-Semitic theology in Germany's Christian community. The Nazis believed that Jewishness was more than just a religion, a position which was supported by religious leaders who supplied the Nazis with baptismal and marriage records to help identify converted Jews.

Christian anti-Communism:
Anti-communism was probably more fundamental to the Nazi ideology than anti-Semitism. Many Germans were frightened of communism and saw Hitler as their Christian salvation. The communist threat appeared very real because communists had taken over Russia at the end of World War I and briefly took control in Bavaria. The Nazi party was also intensely anti-socialist, in the sense that traditional socialism was derided as atheistic and Jewish"

Nowhere there is any connection of Islam or what you labeled " Muslim Brotherhood" and "Islamofascism" with Hitler or Stalin. As a matter of fact it's on the contrary toward your comment"If one was being literal towards the Word of God, then Marxism itself is incompatible with both Judaism and Christianity".

I think you should undertake a serious study into the history of facts. I have given but a very few examples of so called "Judeo-Christian" harmony on the subject of Hitler and Stalin.

Keep the constructive research and its criticism going for it certainly is very educational, at least for me.

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In this part of the Website Hacking 101 series, we are going to discuss controlling access to directories (if access is not controlled by key directories like include/includes, the system can be accessed simply by guessing the URL), direct static injection (A Direct Static Code Injection attack consists of injecting code directly onto the resource used by application while processing a user request), file inclusion vulnerability (especially when dealing with files from external servers) and database security (quick guide).

Exercise 9: Controlling Access

It is always good practice to control access to your assets. There are directories and files that you do not want to be accessed by ordinary users.

For instance, most apps have a system or include/includes directory.

If the script in the includes directory is not written well enough to handle access outside the usual include statement, it might trigger some errors which would reveal information to possible attackers. For example, errors can reveal your hosting account which could lead to brute-force/dictionary attacks on your hosting account (that is just one simple example). Also, if a user opens a file with an extension .inc instead of .php – the code will not execute and will be printed as is. All files that do not contain server-side code or are not named properly will also be readily available for examination.

Figure 1: Unprotected includes directory. All assets are revealed.

The attacker can then test all the different assets for errors and start gathering information about additional vulnerabilities.

Figure 2: Some of the includes do trigger errors

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Alternatively, you can deny offending parties (such as spammers) access to your app by getting the $_SERVER[‘REMOTE_ADDR’], $_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR’] or $_SERVER[‘HTTP_CLIENT_IP’] (one of the last 2 values may be set if the client is using a proxy) array elements and writing the offending IP to the .htaccess file along with a ‘deny from’ directive.

Exercise 10: Direct Static Injection (Your visits)

Let’s say that we have an app that logs data about each visit of its users. The data can include the user’s IP, browser & OS and date and time of the visit. This data can then be shown to the user so he can check for illegal logins or it can be processed by some script to check for abnormal user behavior.

Such an app can be vulnerable to direct static injection, because the gathered data can be tampered with by the user to include code which will execute itself when the user visits his log.

Figure 3: How a user log may look. In this sample, the user clicks on the button, types his name and sees all data about that name. There is no session/cookie/authentication.

From the data in the log, we can determine that $_SERVER[“HTTP_USER_AGENT”] is used to gather information about the user’s browser & OS.

Thus, we can easily start Tamper Data and change the User-Agent to include a piece of code that we want to try to execute and if the data is not properly sanitized – it will work.

Figure 4: Changing the User-Agent Header

The first time I changed it to <?php echo “I EXECUTED PHP SCRIPT “” ?> and I saw that it worked, so now I know that I can execute arbitrary code in the webpage. For example, here is what I get if I change the user-agent to <?php phpinfo(); ?>

You can basically ruin this website. That is why our next exercises will touch on input sanitation.

Exercise 11: File inclusion vulnerability

There are times when you are required to load files from external servers. Sometimes the PHP code inside these pages has to be executed as well. If you want to use include() or require() you would need to set allow_url_include to ‘on’ in the php.ini file. It is not possible to turn it on using ini_set(‘allow_url_include’, ‘on’) inside the script. However, you can always create your own custom php.ini file and enable them there should you be using shared hosting (See Appendix 1 to see how to create custom php.ini in shared hosting). Furthermore, to turn on allow_url_include, allow_url_fopen has to be turned on. If the file that you want to get is not expected to contain php code, you can use file_get_contents to get its contents. If you want to use that function and still execute php code, you should evaluate the contents after loading them – eval().

In the example website, we have used the following method to load any file.

$contents = file_get_contents($file . ".php");
    echo eval("?> $contents");

If your website requires, it is a good idea to rely on whitelisting to filter out bad files.

/* Avoiding path traversal and use of whitelisting. Only files that are in the $files array can be loaded to to the page. External files that are in the array would also be loaded successfully  */
              $file = $_GET['file'];
    $file = str_replace(array(".", "/"), "", $file);
    $files = ["calculator", "files", "visits", "mysql"];
    if (in_array($file, $files)) {
        $contents = file_get_contents($file . ".php");
        echo eval("?> $contents");
        echo "
Bad file chosen.
";

If we did not employ the whitelisting, the following and many more things could happen:

Figure 5: The attacker can get the user’s cookies

The attacker can give a URL to the website’s URL on which his own external script is loaded to a third user that uses the website to get the user’s cookies. He can even save them on a .txt file in the server which he can easily access to check for newly gathered cookies.

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The Prawn Cocktail Years have a lot to answer for, although if Simon Hopkinson and Lindsey Bareham hadn’t written their retro-cooking classic then as sure as Dib Dabs are Dib Dabs somebody else would have.

Yes - there’s a bit of a retro revival going on and it ain’t pretty. Fondues are the dish de nos jours and it’s easier to find a gourmet Sausage Roll than a decent pint of ale in a pub these days. The kids are just lapping it up.

And why shouldn’t they? As HS’s book Eating For Britain (buy it now!) shows there’s some great dishes from our past that are worth reviving. The trouble is the current trend manifests itself as putting a crappy, dried-up Scotch Egg on the menu. Wither all the creativity? And more importantly, could it be found in West London?

The Mall Tavern is yet another take on the modern gastropub, part of a chain owned by the Perritt Brothers. In the way that better examples of the genre are, it didn’t look like a chain gaff and according to the blurb had a good chef at the helm. There were rather too many French people there on my visit but the pub can’t help being in Notting Hill. Maybe as another retro measure they could put up a sign saying No Dogs, No Work Shoes and definitely No French.

But I digress. Massively. One of the USPs of the pub appears to be the range of snacks. Anything that gets people to eat a little something whilst drinking is obviously a good thing but the food on offer has to be up to snuff otherwise you’d be better off with a pack of peanuts.

I'm don't know where Cauliflower Fritters comes in the pantheon of great British bar snacks and I'm not sure they're a suitable match for a pint of Old Hooky but both were very good in their own way. The beer was well-kept and only slightly-annoyingly served in a jug (hey, groovy).

The fritters were small florets that had been blanched but still left with a bit of a bite and lightly battered. Served with a curried mayonnaise dip they were like a little veggie nod in the direction of our subcontinental, imperial past.

Lamb Scrumpets - another new one on me - were rissoles of meat that had been breaded and deep fried. Larry was pretty fatty but since the frying was good they weren’t de trop. I also liked Dorset Meatballs – little porky spheres in a tomato sauce with lots of fennel in the mix. More Old Country than West Country.

Asparagus should be really good at this time of the year but the specimens I had here weren’t. Chopping up the thicker bits and mixing them with shallots was a good idea but none of it had much of that lovely asparagus taste. Disappointing.

I am a sucker for Chicken Kiev although I have no idea when I last had one. Probably in a restaurant called La Cazuela in Fuengirola c1990 which served “The best Chicken Kiev on the Costa del Sol”. I think it came with kiwi fruit, but in those days everything came with kiwi fruit.

Chicken Kiev should be a fairly dense piece of fowl with garlicky, buttery juices just bursting to get out and splatter you and your beige slacks. This one opened with a wimper.

The Scotch Egg shape, while aesthetically pleasing didn’t work with the result that the chicken meat didn’t envelope the sauce properly. The crisp coating was good but it had come away from the chicken. And the filling wasn’t great with large unchopped bits of garlic strewn hither and thither.

A hash brown was more a sort of thick Rosti. A bit heavy going it was the wrong sort of starch to accompany an already rich plateful. Coleslaw done well is a fine dish but this one was poor – a mixture of finely shredded vegetables does not a slaw make.

Chips tasted ok but would have been better crisped up a bit. The kitchen must have had a heavy Friday night because they’d mislaid their vegetable peeler.

A decent sweet rescued things somewhat. A couple of big slabs of Neapolitan Ice Cream gave me a real À la recherche du temps perdu moment.

In spite of an indifferent main course the relaxed surroundings, good beer, a bit of original thinking in the snack department and smiley efficient service contributed to me having a pleasant time at The Mall Tavern.

It was only later, whilst indulging in a bout of post-meal analysis (Dos Hermanos do it all the time), that I felt a little short-changed. The kitchen can obviously cook but in a dining room where initially I was the only one eating it should have been better.

I’ve talked about this before but sometimes the difference between the merely competent and the excellent is the love and the effort the kitchen puts into the food. Details are important. If you’re not going to slip into the morass of gastropubs you’ve got to keep your standards up. Gastros that fancy themselves a cut above please take note.

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You were the only one eating? And you got through all that? Respect!

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Blogger josordoni said...

Do you mean the beer was served in a jug jug i.e. one with a lip, or what we used to call a jug when I worked in a pub in the 70s, i.e. a thick handled tankard, rather than a straight glass?

Cos a tankard jug is just retro, a lippy jug is ok if the beer is cask conditioned otherwise its just poncy...

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Blogger Hermano 1 said...

Jug as in thick-handled tankard as in the picture. Don't like em.

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The faith and obedience of Abraham is proved in his readiness to sacrifice his son Isaac. He is stayed from the act by an angel. Former promises are renewed to him. His brother Nachor's issue.

[1] After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am. [2] He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee. [3] So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass: and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust he went his way to the place which God had commanded him. [4] And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar off. [5] And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass: I and the boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have worshipped, will return to you.

[1] "God tempted": God tempteth no man to evil, James 1. 13; but by trial and experiment maketh known to the world, and to ourselves, what we are, as here by this trial the singular faith and obedience of Abraham was made manifest.

[6] And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son: and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword. And as they two went on together, [7] Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou, son? Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the holocaust? [8] And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an holocaust, my son. So they went on together. [9] And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it: and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood. [10] And he put forth his hand and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.

[11] And behold an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am. [12] And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake. [13] Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram amongst the briers sticking fast by the horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son. [14] And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon even to this day it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see. [15] And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, saying:

[16] By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake: [17] I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore: thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies. [18] And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice. [19] Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there. [20] After these things, it was told Abraham that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother.

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This video shows Khaosan Road in Bangkok.

Khaosan road is what you can call a traveller’s mecca. Some people hate it and some people love it. It is located in the old part of Bangkok in an area called Banglampu. It is well connected to major attractions in Bangkok by bus number 2, 15, 47, 73, and 511 just to mention a few. Bus no. 53 goes to the main train station.

I always stay around Khaosan Road when I visit Bangkok and have previous lived in the area for 4 months. I love the buzzing atmosphere – you can find absolutely everything here: restaurants, cheap guesthouses, old and new friends, clothes and handicraft shops, massage places, tattoo artists, internet shops, travel agencies (it is cheaper to by bus tickets from here than from the government run offices at bus stations) and places to have a fun night out.

It is a very vibrant place and a crossroad for travellers from all over Asia. I highly recommend you to stop over in Bangkok when you are in Thailand. This city has a lot to offer. Enjoy

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  1. Kao San Road is good for people who wants to see all crazy stuffs but it’s very difficult to go around the city. The hotel around that area is very cheap but it’s very dirty and old. I went to Bangkok and stay at HQ hostel, Its a new hostel on Silom road across Patpong area. It’s very clean and cheap too. My best choice to stay in Bangkok now. I think Kao San Road was good but now it’s just too much…for me
    anyway, just my thought.

  2. Niceeeee .

    That brings up memories … actually the lack of memory after spending a few nights in those pubs 😛
    I enjoyed staying in that area , even in the GreenHouse .
    My brother got robbed there though , but managed to get his stuff back , since he was quite intimidating person at that time 🙂

  3. Hi there,

    Thank you for the response and the suggestion for an alternative place to stay close to Patpong.

    I disagree that all the places in Khaosan are very dirty. There are constantly opening new places in Khaosan and they are indeed very clean. For more information you can chech the website:

    I usually stay in a brand new double room with hot shower, tv, ac and access to swimming pool in Khaosan for 800 baht a night.

    The nice thing about Khaosan is that there is something for every budget – from 100 baht per night (for a tiny cell with bars on the top and cold shower in the hallway) to 1500 baht for a brand new luxury room with breakfast, AC, tv, hot shower. Everything is within a small area, so there are many options to choose from if your planned guesthouse is occupied. And you always get a private room and never have to sleep in dormitory like in more expensive places like Europe.

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Its understandable if your population simply cannot tolerate nuclear, or if you have a large indigenous supply of fossil fuel! Or is it?

With the latest disclosure that Japan is to abandon its energy goals for 2020(even the island states in AOSIS said the move was, a huge step backwards), fury has erupted at the UNFCCC Warsaw conference on climate change and worldwide. Canada has already taken umbrage at the criticism of its tar sand exploits; they are also supporting Australian carbon tax repeal and doubtless by the conference hosts, Poland, too. To attempt to address the worlds climate change problem with such petty self-interest is near-impossible. Today, Climate Asia is examining an approach to youth I attempts to combat climate change attitudes.

The environmental necessity is to cut emissions from coal, gas, oil and all other burning operations that create our electrical power remains. It is the younger countries and the small island nations that need the most help. As the developed nations already have a financial set of problems, it should be relatively easy to manipulate some progress towards less carbon dioxide production without trying to squeeze out false economic arguments. The cost of global warming, on food production, flooding and loss of industrial production is certain to be more than making a few early adjustments. Countries that try and leave the cuts until another government takes over or the financial crunch is completely over will have a higher cost to pay. An early start is the universal solution to any problem as big as this one.

The negative Canadian attitude echoes the infamous attempt by Australia to rip the guts out of its climate policy by failing to apply green charge on its top 300 polluters. Aussie PM, Tony Abbott , repealed the carbon tax on Wednesday, beginning a tortuous twisting of climate defaulters at the Warsaw talks. A Direct Action Plan, seems likely to water down any greening of the island continent. Remember it has a Red Centre!

Japan has joined in the general disarray with a necessary and popular block of all things nuclear, limiting its slowdown on the carbon economy; Canada exports more carbon rubbish than almost any other nation; who knows who will twitch next in this new game of dodge the carbon?


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This coming Wednesday August 28, CNN anchorwoman S. E. Cupp will host a debate on the question: Should single-gender education be outlawed? The debate will take place at 1150 Connecticut Ave, Washington DC. There is no charge to attend, but pre-registration is required. The link to register is below. But first, a little background.

Earlier this month, Michael Kimmel – Distinguished Professor of gender studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook – wrote a commentary for CNN denouncing single-gender education. He began by sharing the fact that his son plays lacrosse and also sings in his coed high school’s choral group. Dr. Kimmel believes that single-gender formats don’t allow boys to be both athletes and scholars. He praises the ACLU for shutting down single-gender formats in public schools, an action which he believes will promote more boys playing lacrosse AND singing in the high school choral group. You can read his essay here: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/09/opinion/kimmel-single-sex-classes.

In answer to my emailed request, Dr. Kimmel has notified me that his son does indeed attend a private coed day school.

Over the past 12 years, I have visited more than 380 schools. I haven’t found a coed public school where the boys who play lacrosse typically also sing in the choral group, although I don’t doubt that some elite private schools would meet this description. Dr. Kimmel clearly has found such a private school for his son. But at the coed public schools I have visited, it’s more common to find that the athletes beat up the boys who sing in the glee club, or at best that the athletes ignore the choir geeks. In my first-hand experience, well-rounded boys like Dr. Kimmel’s son are more often found at boys’ private schools than at coed private schools. More to the point, Dr. Kimmel provides no shred of evidence to support his assertion that the well-rounded scholar-athlete-artist is more common at coed schools than at boys’ schools.

At public schools, lacrosse is rare and choral groups have taken a hit in recent years, with all the budget cuts, especially in urban districts. Dr. Kimmel’s description of a school which offers lacrosse and an after-school choral group would sound like a fantasy to teachers and administrators at many of the urban school districts I have visited in recent years, in Buffalo, Dallas, Charlotte, etc. where budget cuts have forced the reduction or elimination of such luxuries.

In real life – in the world of public education, far removed from the world of privilege which Dr. Kimmel seems to regard as the norm – students are struggling in dilapidated schools where teachers have to deal with larger class sizes and fewer resources.  At some of these schools, administrators have found that the single-gender format allows teachers to accomplish more with less. But Dr. Kimmel is quite certain that these schools, such as Van Devender Middle School in Wood County West Virginia, should not be allowed to offer these formats.

Unlike Dr. Kimmel, I have actually visited the schools in Wood County West Virginia and have spent several days with teachers there. I have learned firsthand how the single-gender format – with appropriate training – allowed those teachers in West Virginia to boost academic achievement and break down gender stereotypes, so that the same boys who loved video games and football were demanding more books to read, on a wide range of topics. Reading scores rose for both girls and for boys, but the jump in achievement for boys was so dramatic that the gender gap was closed. When the ACLU began harassing the district, I wrote an article for the West Virginia newspaper, describing some aspects of the success of the program: http://www.dailymail.com/Opinion/Commentary/201206040082?page=1&build=cache.

When the ACLU began harassing the district, Wood County district officials asked to meet with the ACLU attorneys, to show them the improvements in grades and test scores which occurred after deploying the single-gender format. But the ACLU attorneys refused to meet with district officials. They had no interest in what was happening in the schools. They were playing to a different audience, not based in West Virginia.

Dr. Kimmel’s commentary for CNN has received national coverage and has been picked up by many other media. Also earlier this month, the local newspaper in Tampa published a story about the success of the boys’ public school and the girls’ public school there. Quoting from that article:

 Girls Preparatory Academy at Ferrell Middle Magnet School and Boys Preparatory Academy at Franklin Middle Magnet School were two of only four elementary and middle schools to jump two full grades in the state’s recent grading period — from a C to an A at Ferrell and a D to a B at Franklin.

John Haley, principal of the boys’ public school, observed:

“It’s not the best environment for every child. It’s not. There are children that thrive perfectly fine in a co-ed environment. But it’s statistically true that it is a tremendously positive environment for many students.”

Karen French, principal of the girls’ public school, said that the initiative was all about giving parents more choice. “Why would you be against it?” she said. “Single-gender in our district is a choice. It’s not a mandate. We are providing something that our parents say they want.”

The schools have the same funding and the same class sizes as other public schools in the district. But the single-gender format allows teachers and administrators to deploy gender-specific strategies which break down gender stereotypes (see my books Boys Adrift and Girls on the Edge for more discussion of these strategies).

Unfortunately, the report doesn’t mention the years of preparation, the book studies, conferences, etc. which went into this success. The School District of Hillsborough County (the Tampa public school district) sent 60 teachers and administrators to our 2011 NASSPE conference, and that was after I had made multiple visits over several years to work with individual schools, and two years (2009 and 2010) in which the district sent teams of senior leaders to our conference. They really did their homework.

The article about the success of the Tampa single-gender public schools is at http://tbo.com/news/education/hillsboroughx2019s-single-gender-schools-find-success-20130811/. The article in the Tampa newspaper has received almost zero attention outside Tampa. That’s been a pretty consistent story over the past 12 years. The success stories, based in the actual experience of public schools, and published in the local newspapers, receive little coverage outside the home district. The diatribes based in ideology receive wide distribution at CNN.com, Time.com, the Atlantic website, the Huffington Post, Slate.com, etc.

Eight professors (not including Dr. Kimmel) have created an organization devoted to criminalizing this option in public schools, to ensure that no parent will have the option of single-gender education unless they remove their child from the public schools and can afford to send them to a private school. Their website is www.coedschools.org. I debated the Executive Director of this group, Dr. Rebecca Bigler of the University of Texas at Austin, at our NASSPE conference in Houston last October. At one point, I asked her: “Dr. Bigler, if it were in your power, would you outlaw the Girl Scouts?” She answered that she would, if she could. She explained that she had nothing against the idea of scouting in general, but she doesn’t think any parent should be allowed to enroll their daughter in an all-girls scouting activity.

That moment epitomizes what I find so troubling about these folks. They have no hesitation about translating their own personal prejudices and preferences into government-enforced prohibitions. I have no objection if Professor Bigler wants to enroll her daughter in a coed scouting program. But what gives her the right to think that she knows better than I do, regarding what is best for my own daughter?

Anyhow. If you have an interest in this topic, you might consider attending what may be the “biggest” debate yet on this topic, next Wednesday August 28 at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), 1150 Connecticut Avenue in Washington DC. Speaking in favor of single-gender education will be AEI fellow Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers. Speaking against single-gender education will be Dr. Lise Eliot, author of Pink Brain, Blue Brain: how small differences grow into troublesome gaps. Admission is free but you have to register in advance at http://live.aei.org/Event/Should_single-sex_schooling_be_eliminated.


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Those expecting to see new signings like Ducati’s  Jorge Lorenzo, Suzuki’s Andrea Iannone and Factory Yamaha Racing’s Maverick Vinales topping the time sheets from Day 1 of the 2017 Sepang MotoGP Winter Test got a big surprise instead.

It is former double World MotoGP Champion Casey Stoner who topped the time-sheets after rain from 4pm had cancelled the remaining 2 hours of session as the rest of the riders decided not to resume testing due to the weather. However, a few riders went out in the rain to try the bike in the wet, but they had no impact on the time-sheets.

Defending World Champion Marc Marquez and Factory Yamaha Racing’s Valentino Rossi made it into the Top Ten results, with the Spaniard 9th fastest and the Italian 8th after recovering from a morning migraine. Prior to 3pm, Rossi was in 10th position behind Marquez.

After ninety minutes of rest, Rossi made his way to the track, and was pleased with his first impressions of the all-new M1. The machine has made strides “under all the small particulars” he said, with the engine and updated electronics notable steps up from what he tested in November.

“Fortunately the new bike’s better,” said the Italian, who placed eighth in the overall timesheets, 1.014s off Casey Stoner’s astonishing best time. I mean today was very interesting because we tried the real bikes, my bikes that I will use for all the season. In Japan they worked hard and made a better bike compared to the prototype we had in November.

“The engine, we work a lot on the electronics and in terms of chassis, this is the same. But tomorrow we will have another chassis, slightly different, after our comments with the first prototype. But the bike is very beautiful. We never know a lot from Yamaha. Yesterday we saw the bike. They made a good job. The bike is very good under all the small particulars. It’s a lot better than the first prototype. And it was a good surprise. But for sure we have a lot to work on.

LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow ended Monday in sixth place on the time-sheets, the fastest of the five Hondas present in Malaysia, and 0.889s off Casey Stoner’s astonishing best lap of the day. The Englishman was, however, unable to go into specifics when speaking of his testing plan. He and his LCR Honda squad had been testing different engine configurations, he said, along with “some small electronics stuff.”

“We’re testing some different configurations,” began Crutchlow, keen to give little away on the feelings offered up by Honda’s significantly redesigned ’17 engines. I’m sure the other guys are testing the same. At the moment I’m alright. Our testing plan with regards to everything starts tomorrow.

“I worked on some small electronics stuff today. It was not really too relative to the engine or any of the engines really. It was more just in general because no one else is doing it. I think there are some positives, some negatives.”

Other than testing the different engines, Cruthlow had a minor issue with two tyres Michelin had brought to the test.

Eighth quickest (aprroxi. +0.769s) at the end of his Ducati debut at Valencia in November, triple MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo was ‘surprised’ by a more difficult start to this week’s opening 2017 test at Sepang. The Spaniard, in full red livery for the first time, finished the day 17th out of the 27 riders. Lorenzo set a best lap time 1.669s behind Stoner.

“I was really slow at the beginning then improved my lap time little-by-little and got closer to the top,” Lorenzo said. “Then it started to rain before we could do another step, but the important thing is every time we are faster and looking at the other Ducatis at the top demonstrates that the bike has the potential to go very, very quick. That’s good.”

“I’m losing mainly on braking,” Lorenzo explained. “In the middle of the corner I don’t lose so much and on acceleration I’m even sometimes faster than Andrea. But on braking I need to adapt myself more than I expected, to what the bike requires.

“This bike if you try to brake and release the brake before entering the corner, like on the Yamaha – carrying corner speed, without braking – the bike doesn’t turn and it requires, not another riding style, but another way to achieve a good lap time. This is what I’m trying to understand, which is the best way to ride the bike with my ‘DNA’.

“We worked on the setting, ergonomics and position on the bike. We will just concentrate on this and try to improve my riding, every time we go out. I’m not disappointed, but surprised because I expected more or less the same as Valencia. That I would be there, but I was very, very far!” he smiled. “But what gives me confidence is that we made a huge improvement during the day and also to see three Ducatis in the top, demonstrates that the bike has the potential to go very quick. At least for one lap, let’s see if also we can keep a very constant pace.”

Pos No Rider Bike Time Diff Prev
1 27 Casey Stoner Ducati GP17 1:59.681
2 4 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati GP17 1:59.796 0.115 0.115
3 25 Maverick Viñales Yamaha M1 2:00.128 0.447 0.332
4 19 Alvaro Bautista Ducati GP16 2:00.134 0.453 0.006
5 29 Andrea Iannone Suzuki GSX-RR 2:00.490 0.809 0.356
6 35 Cal Crutchlow Honda RC213V 2:00.570 0.889 0.080
7 94 Jonas Folger Yamaha M1 2:00.643 0.962 0.073
8 46 Valentino Rossi Yamaha M1 2:00.695 1.014 0.052
9 93 Marc Marquez Honda RC213V 2:00.737 1.056 0.042
10 8 Hector Barbera Ducati GP16 2:00.744 1.063 0.007
11 9 Danilo Petrucci Ducati GP17 2:00.850 1.169 0.106
12 45 Scott Redding Ducati GP16 2:00.852 1.171 0.002
13 26 Dani Pedrosa Honda RC213V 2:00.970 1.289 0.118
14 5 Johann Zarco Yamaha M1 2:01.224 1.543 0.254
15 41 Aleix Espargaro Aprilia RS-GP 2:01.271 1.590 0.047
16 44 Pol Espargaro KTM RC16 2:01.338 1.657 0.067
17 99 Jorge Lorenzo Ducati GP17 2:01.350 1.669 0.012
18 76 Loris Baz Ducati GP15 2:01.351 1.670 0.001
19 12 Takuya Tsuda Suzuki GSX-RR 2:01.812 2.131 0.461
20 42 Alex Rins Suzuki GSX-RR 2:01.889 2.208 0.077
21 17 Karel Abraham Ducati GP15 2:01.926 2.245 0.037
22 43 Jack Miller Honda RC213V 2:01.942 2.261 0.016
23 31 Kouta Nozane Yamaha M1 2:02.187 2.506 0.245
24 21 Katsuyuki Nakasuga Yamaha M1 2:02.290 2.609 0.103
25 53 Tito Rabat Honda RC213V 2:02.315 2.634 0.025
26 22 Sam Lowes Aprilia RS-GP 2:02.942 3.261 0.627
27 38 Bradley Smith KTM RC16 2:03.034 3.353 0.092

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Elk Grove mayoral candidates Tracie Stafford (left), Steve Ly, and Darren Suen.

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Last night the Elk Grove mayoral candidates Tracie Stafford, Steve Ly, and Darren Suen met for the second forum. This forum, sponsored by the Elk Grove Chamber of Commerce's political action committee, was held at the Cosumnes Community Service District's Wackford Center.

The forum, which lasted about an hour and a half included a dozen questions, most of them submitted by the chamber of commerce. Give the chamber's focus, many of the questions focused on business and economic development in the city.

Although the forum covered very little new ground, there was one point in the conversation, especially between Ly and Suen, that revealed their differences as current members of the Elk Grove City Council. That point came during a question on cooperation between city council members.

As a reference point, Suen has the endorsement of his and Ly's three council colleague and a majority of the Elk Grove Planning Commission. While Ly said he works well with his council colleagues and has met with others council colleagues on an informal basis outside official meetings to develop working relations, Suen offers a diametrically opposite view of intra-council dynamics.

That portion of the conversation can be heard starting around 1 hour 8-minute mark of the recording until approximately the 1 hour 14-minute mark. Additionally, toward the very ending of the recording, in Ly's closing statement, he returned to the disagreement and offered another narrative.

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Bit of news: starting in a few weeks, I'll be volunteering as an adult literacy tutor. There's an all-day training class held once a month at the library; and the end of it, I'll be immediately matched with a student. He or she will have a list of goals to work toward (getting a driver's license, filling out employment applications, etc.), and we'll work directly on those while also following a lesson plan geared to improve general literacy.

I'm really, really looking forward to this experience. It's a long-term program; I'll work one-on-one with a single student, for a six-month stretch. We'll meet twice a week, for an hour or so at a time, either at the library or any public place of our choosing. It's no small commitment, and I know it's going to test me. But the greater the investment, the great the payoff.

I love my life, I really do. But I need something that will regularly take me out of my own head for a few hours a week. I want to put my thoughts into someone else's well being for a change. And what's the quote? You can't help someone else get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.

In other philanthropic news, tonight I'm going to the prom. A. donated some of his prints to be auctioned off at a prom-themed charity event sponsored by a local cancer center. So it's Prom Redux for your blogmistress, who will probably be the only one wearing a short dress, because that's all I've got. Huzzah.


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Riding the Rhone River Path – Climbing 400m from Reckingen to Gletsch

A sunny Friday morning dawned in Reckingen, after our unexpected epic hike to theGrathorn the previous day, and both our legs and the weather forecast suggested we take things a little easier. We did briefly consider relocating once again and pushing on towards Interlaken over the Grimselpass, however, we still had hopes of exploring the northern flanks of the Goms Valley, and possibly even seeing the Aletsch Glacier once again, before making that journey. Also, after a whistlestop tour of Zermatt and Saas Fee, the prospect of staying in one place for more than one or two nights appealed to us. However, with heavy rain predicted to arrive at some point in the afternoon, we decided to rest our hiking boots for the day and instead take a bike ride along the banks of the Rhone.

The Rhone river runs all the way from the Rhone Glacier, threading it's way through Switzerland before meandering all the way to meet the sea at the Mediterranean after flowing for more than 800km. For intrepid cyclists seeking an adventure it is possible to follow the river all the way from the spring at the Rhone Glacier itself right to the sea, an epic cycle path which just happened to pass within 10 metres of our very own motorhome (right through the campsite). With the morning sun lighting up the valley we decided we would head upstream the 10 miles or so to Oberwald right at the head of the Goms and maybe even cycle uphill a little way towards the village of Gletsch which nestles in the hills at the point where the tongue of the Rhone Glacier reached to several hundred years ago (it has now retreated a few hundred metres uphill and out of sight, but remains one of the largest in Switzerland).

The going was easy along the river, snaking away from the banks occasionally with the odd short climb to wake us up, but nothing too strenuous and we rode side by side in the sunshine enjoying giving our legs a relative break. Reaching Oberwald in under an hour and with the sun still holding we opted to push onwards and upwards, joining the road to climb from 1368m to 1757m over the next 6km. After our exploits in the French Alps, we thought this should be a doddle.

In reality several weeks of not cycling coupled with some very long recent hikes had maybe eroded our cycling muscles more than we expected, however, we enjoyed the climb. With gentle switchbacks up the wooded hillside, with the gradient rarely exceeding 5-6% we kept a steady rhythm and arrived in Gletsch within the hour to find a very small, historic collection of buildings, a large hotel and a museum. However, the view is entirely dominated by the cascade of rocks where the glacier used to sit, their smooth, rolling contours mimicking a glacial flow so well it almost hides the fact the glacier has retreated. Also revealed from Gletsch are two highly impressive Swiss feats of road construction, the Grimselpass which climbs away towards Interlaken topping 2164m and the even higher Furkapass towards Andermatt which reaches 2429m. It was the former we planned to take in just a day or so and the view left us a little nervous for our small motorhome.

Sadly, before we could contemplate cycling even higher (now that we were warmed up after all) the forecast rain began, initially a light drizzle but soon persistent spitting and the clouds hid the passes from view. It was time to head back. Whipping down the chilly descent to Oberwald we did escape the rain momentarily, but on the flatter path by the Rhone it soon caught us again and after a solid hour of pushing hard we arrived back at the camping soaking wet.

However, every cloud has a silver lining and this one came in the form of a very hot welcome shower before we whiled away a rainy afternoon planning our next hike with better weather predicted for the morning.

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Hello! Is there anything better than being sent a box full of goodies including jewelry every month? Nope, I didn't think so! That's why I love Universitee Box. Universitee Box recently took me on as an Influencer and last week, I received my second complimentary box from them. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Universitee box, they provide subscribers with monthly boxes full of goodies from inspirational cards to a cute tee to statement jewelry. There are 3 subscription options available: the "bauble" box, the "duo" box and the "alumna" box. The "bauble" box costs about $17/month and contains an affirmation card and 1-3 pieces of jewelry. The "duo" box costs about $29/month and contains an affirmation card, a tee shirt and 1-3 pieces of jewelry. The "alumna" box costs about $35/month and contains an affirmation card, a lifestyle item, a tee shirt and 1-3 pieces of jewelry.

This month, I received a "Love Thy Selfie" tee, an affirmation card and several pieces of statement jewelry in my box. Getting my package from Universitee Box immediately made my day and if you're looking to pamper yourself, I'd recommend signing up for a monthly subscription with Universitee Box. When I opened this month's box and saw the gorgeous statement necklace, I couldn't resist putting it on right away. And I have worn it practically every other day since I've received it. In fact, I'm wearing it in the photos featured above.

For this look, I styled the black stone statement necklace that I received in my Universitee Box with a golden personalized name necklace as well as another smaller stone necklace. I styled the jewelry with a deep plum-colored corduroy dress and cream-colored, feathery sweater. I slipped on a pair of colorblocked thigh-high socks and black booties with the look. I kept the rest of my accessories to a minimum and just slipped on a pair of golden sunglasses to accentuate the golden tones of my necklaces.

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SNIP: Some mosses in the eastern Canadian Arctic, long entombed in ice, are now emerging into the sunlight. And the radiocarbon ages of those plants suggest that summertime temperatures in the region are the warmest they’ve been in tens of thousands of years.

As the planet warms and the ice retreats on Canada’s Baffin Island, the change is revealing plants long buried beneath the ice. And in some locations, the emerging plants last saw the sun at least 45,000 years ago — and possibly as much as 115,000 years ago. Paleoclimatologist Gifford Miller of the University of Colorado Boulder reported the finding October 22 at the Geological Society of America’s annual meeting. “We were stunned,” Miller said.

Miller’s team has collected an impressive number of samples and their findings are very compelling, said geomorphologist Lee Corbett of the University of Vermont in Burlington, who was not involved in the study. “It truly is an indication that humans are pushing the climate into a new regime, one that modern, agriculture-based civilizations have never witnessed.”

Originally, the researchers expected to find plants dating to medieval times, which would have suggested that the region is the warmest it’s been since the Middle Ages. But finding 3,700-year-old plants was a surprise, Miller said. And “we never anticipated we’d find plants 40,000 years old,” he added. “It’s a bit spooky because it provides quantitative evidence that the magnitude of summer warmth is already sufficient to melt all ice in the eastern Canadian Arctic. It’s just a matter of time now.”


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