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Seair Inflight Tales of the Unknown: Capiz • Featured in InFlight Magazine Oct-Nov 2009

Roxas Chapel by the roadsideThe province of Capiz, now known as Roxas, has a love/hate relationship with its reputation as a home to the aswangs, a kind of hard-to-define vampire/shapeshifter combo that haunt the nights.  Aswangs are ordinary mortals who inherit the bloodline that enables them to transfigure into bats or a scary black dog. They also take many different forms, such as the manananggal, which reportedly splits into two, its top half flying off into the darkness to suck the blood of a human prey, and its bottom half,  ready and waiting for the return of its mobile half.

Natives born in so-called aswang provinces such as Antique and Capiz rely on old remedies such as garlic and secret religious mantras prayed in silence in the presence of an aswang to protect them from harm. Children are told never to show fear and never to gaze into the eyes of a suspected aswang. Smacks of the old Dracula tales? There is a little twist. If you do encounter a temporarily dismembered aswang bottom half, sprinkle the stump with salt to kill off your aswang. From 2004 to 2006, Capiz inaugurated the Aswang Festival in late October, poking fun at the province’s reputation as a hotbed of aswang activity. The Church and some government officials did not see humor in it and the festival was scrapped in Juy 2007. Recently, a Canadian film crew traveled to Capiz to film a docu-movie called ‘Aswang: A Journey into Myth’, which shows that aswangs are still a hot topic.

 Culled from Seair InFlight Magazine, October-November 2009 Issue • Text by Chip Childers, art direction by Jocas See, photography by Oggie Ramos

Oman said...

capiz is one of the places i truly want to explore and the urban legends just make me eager to come there.

Gene said...

The province of Capiz is not currently known as Roxas City. Roxas City is the capital of Capiz.

Lagalog Ramos said...

Punta na Oman :D

Gene, thanks for the comment. I didn't write the article, i just took the picture that went with the story.

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/2010/time.png Published by Mike Trudell on November 16, 2010 in Running Diary.

Below is a running diary of L.A.’s road contest in Milwaukee as the Lakers looked to snap a two-game losing streak, with some comments drawn from our @LakersReporter Twitter account, and a few more details in case you missed any of the action:

Lakers: Fisher, Bryant, Artest, Odom and Gasol
Bucks: Brandon Jennings, John Salmons, Luc Mbah a Moute, Drew Gooden and Andrew Bogut

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5:08 Remember how Phoenix nailed an almost-league-record 22 threes last game? Well, Milwaukee looked intent upon matching that effort, making five of their first six to leave Luke Walton looking up at the scoreboard with a "Really?” expression on his face. Power forward Drew Gooden even got into the act, making two triples to match point guard Jennings.

0:00.1 It was sub Matt Barnes who made a key play to close the first, deftly snatching a late offensive rebound and turning to nail a buzzer-beating three to give the Lakers a 32-29 lead out of the first quarter. We’d expected a defensive game, the Bucks conceding 100 points only once all season and leading the league by allowing only 89 points per game due in part to a deliberate pace, but Milwaukee shot 63.2 percent and L.A. hit 52 percent with four offensive boards to keep the score up.

Bryant and Gasol posted 10 points apiece, while the Spaniard also grabbed four boards and keyed a late run with Bryant on the bench.

8:09 The Bucks had yet to slow down on offense, converting a silly 72 percent of their shots, yet L.A. still managed to hold a two-point lead after Gasol’s pull-up jumper gave him a game-high 12 points.

4:28 Bryant and Fisher returned at around the six-minute mark, and L.A.’s defense promptly clamped down a bit, allowing a quick 5-0 Fisher run (a three and two free throws) at the other end to put the Lakers up 51-47.

0:04.0 It wasn’t that the Lakers weren’t playing good defense, per say, but Milwaukee was simply making quite a few difficult, long jumpers, including two straight from Gooden (10 points) and Jennings (19), whose layup allowed the Bucks a 59-57 lead. Jennings, for whom the Bucks played 2pac and Dr. Dre’s "California Love” each time he scored (he is an L.A. native, after all), hurt the Lakers throughout the half with his shooting (8-of-13) in particular.

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7:03 Artest, Odom and Bryant scored respective hoops to put L.A. back on top after Jennings had opened a seven-point Deer lead early in the half. Milwaukee’s eighth three-pointer, this time from Salmons, made it 71-70 for the home team, but Odom answered with another jumper to reach 11 points.

3:15 So many times throughout his remarkable scoring career (26,000 and counting) has Bryant gone off on individual runs like the one we saw across a two-minute stretch in which he scored seven points, five coming at the foul line. Add Barnes’s second three, and L.A. had reeled off a 10-0 burst to take an 82-75 lead, its largest of the game.

0:21.9 The quarter ended just as well for L.A., who got Blake’s second three of the game to open a 90-81 lead heading into the final quarter. He, Barnes and Brown had all been effective, allowing Bryant, Fisher and Artest some extra rest. Meanwhile, Bucks mascot Bango, one of the league’s best, attached a bunch of balloons to some Bucks fan instructed to wear a Lakers jersey’s Lakers hat, sending the lid up to the ceiling. Fun stuff.

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8:39 With Bryant still resting on the bench, Blake and Luke Walton took turns setting up uncontested dunks first for Gasol and then Barnes, followed by a Brown reverse layup that kept the Lakers up somewhat comfortably, 99-88.

5:35 Before the game, Brown told me that he put 12 tickets aside for family members and friends who made the 90-odd mile drive up from Maywood, Illinois, just west of the United Center in Chicago. With a ridiculous fourth quarter stretch in which he nailed three triples for nine of 13 points (18 total), Brown kept the Lakers up 10 despite a four-point possession from Drew Gooden (flagrant 1 foul on Odom plus a tip-in).

0:55 Brown added still another three-pointer to essentially toss the dagger in Milwaukee, before a slick tip pass from Bryant to Gasol and then the second running fadeaway J of the quarter from Kobe made it 118-107 in the final minute. That’s how it would end, with L.A. improving to 9-2 on the season, and 3-1 on the road.

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January 11, 2020

Happy and healthy New Year 2020 to all of our school families. The new year brings  a load of events and activities. We will continue celebrating the school’s 70th jubilee with several more upcoming events, most notably, a children’s day – Vaikų Šventė – in March. All the events are listed in the Lithuanian version of this newsletter.Here are some of the more notable ones:

Jan. 18  end of first semester; teachers post grades; report cards distributed the following week

Jan 25-26 Teachers’ Conference. Saturday morning 9:15, our guest speaker from Lithuania will present  ideas of teaching language through games and play. The older students will participate in a simposium.

Feb. 1-2 Confirmation candidates’ retreat

Feb. 15  no school

Feb.22  Blynu Balius

Feb. 29 Commemoration of Lithuanian independence

Mar. 21  Funeral Mass for Richie Reivydas; older students may attend

Mar. 28 Children’s Day – festivities and children’s choir visiting from Lietuva

Apr. 11  Easter break

April 18-19 Lithuania’s newest cardinal Sigitas Tamkevicius visits; all students and families attend Sunday Mass to greet the cardinal.

May 2  Mother’s Day celebration

May 10  Confirmation 11 a.m. Mass

May 16  Last full day and Kiskiu end-of-year

May 30  Commencement

SCANDINAVIAN FILM FESTIVAL – this SATURDAY  3pm. Lithuanian entry Keliones Namo  (Journeys  Home). Info found on consulate website and from 7th grade teacher Jurgita Warren.


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[Reading] ➶ Mending the Broken Bond ➽ Frank Lawlis – Landyshi.info

Mending the Broken Bond From The New York Times Bestselling Author Of The IQ Answer, A Guide To Helping Parents And Kids Learn To Love Each Other Again In His Bestselling The ADD Answer And The IQ Answer, Dr Frank Lawlis Provided Thousands Of Parents With The Valuable Information They Need In Order To Confront Their Children S Intellectual Challenges Now He Takes On An Even Mightier Challenge Helping Parents And Kids Learn To Love Each Other Again From The Chief Content Adviser On The Dr Phil Show, Mending The Broken Bond Is For Families That Fight Or Cannot Communicate Effectively And For Those Who Want To Make Their Family Relationships Whole And Loving Loving Your Lost Child Leads Parents Through A Day Program Of Practical Steps And Action Plans Toward Building A Positive, Loving, And Healthy Bond With Their Children Whether Parents Are Struggling With Toddlers Throwing Temper Tantrums, Ten Year Olds Who Prefer Videogames To Talking, Or Rebellious Teenagers, Dr Lawlis S Prescriptive And Practical Methods Teach Parents How To Repair Their Relationships And Regain Connection With Their Children For Parents Who Feel Ignored And Frustrated, Dr Lawlis Offers Comfort, Hope, And A Clear Way Forward

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    Take a look back at what you learned growing up and use the good things, bag the rest Cooking with children is good Empathize Know your own body and the messages that your communicating whether you know it or not Love your child and love being with them Be a good parent.

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    Different, excellent, noband aids Applies to all relationships It all begins with me, myself and I.

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    As the parent of a teenage child, I loved this book for it s wisdom, compassion, depth of understanding, hard look at reality, lack of blame and focus on what to do , actual instructions which are annoyingly available in every small child development book but impossible to find in books on teenagers instead of just meandering reflection, and the author s voic

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    This book contained a lot of science data as well as applicable skills to improve your relationship with your child Not all of the information in the book was interesting or applied to my life The information was organized very well so it s easy to skip to the good stuff if need be.

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    Just want to connect with my 4 year old daughter, to be a better parent and enjoy her , and not duplicate the relationships I had with my own parents.

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    Very interesting with some very good suggestions I prefer 7 Habits for Highly Effective Families, but this book is a good supplement with some same principles.

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    recommended on a parenting board

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    Absolutely required reading for ANY parent.

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16 Jul School holidays and Shit-Mother-Guilt

I have a love-hate relationship with school holidays. I love them because it means I can sleep late, I don’t have to freak out over getting kids to school on time, and I can eat all the lunch box treats.

But I also hate school holidays because it means kids are home, breathing my air, and constantly scrapping with each other. Worst of all, I have to contend with that despicable thing called SUPER-MOTHER-HOLIDAY-ASPIRATIONS.

What is that? It’s that feeling you get when your kid asks, ‘What are we gonna do today?’ And you want to get on a plane to Paris where you will meet up with your mythical besties (Beyonce, Serena and Michelle) and do fun things and not even remember for a single moment that you have raggedy kids at home who need to be fed, clothed, entertained, educated and intellectually stimulated. But you can’t. Because there’s these other parents out there called SUPERMOTHERS/FATHERS and their mission in life is to make you look bad with their SUPER-MOTHER-HOLIDAY-ASPIRATIONS.

I’m sure you’ve seen them. They’re the ones who have their child’s holiday all mapped out at least a month in advance. Their kids are signed up for holiday workshops and crafts. They go to exercise programs and they take them to play at the park – so they won’t be fat lazy sloths (like you and your children). They take their children to the beach, a different one every day. And post lots of pics on Facebook about it, where everyone is smiling heaps and nobody gets stung by jellyfish and needs strangers to pee on them (like what happens when you take your children to the beach). They go for hikes and camping trips, and Instagram every joyous moment so that stagnant hermit cave-dwellers like you can see them.

Supermothers/fathers cause us to wallow in bucketloads of SHIT-MOTHER-GUILT, also known as SMG.

SMG tells you that you’re supposed to be planning fabulous activities for your children, for every day of the holidays. SMG says, if you truly loved these blessed blessings from heaven then you would delight in spending every minute of every day of the holidays with them! SMG asks, what the holy hell are you doing? when you go in your room and lock the door and ignore the children and read three books in a row. SMG says, It’s not your holiday slugwoman!

When you tell the children to play Xbox (again), SMG whispers, This is how you teach your children to be killers, thieves, assassins and race car drivers. When you try to argue that Minecraft develops creativity and is all about design and building…SMG shakes it’s head and says, Do you think Obama’s mother let him play Xbox all day? No. Did the Wakanda Dora Milaje warriors get to be kickass by SITTING INSIDE ALL DAMN DAY IN FRONT OF THE TV?! Hell to the no.

SMG shouts – YOU’RE A BAD MOTHER! AND YOUR KIDS ARE ALL GOING TO END UP IN JAIL. (Or working for Donald Trump. Which would be even worse.)

I used to be better at this. A long time ago when I had one kid. Two. Maybe three. But now? I’m old. Tired. And I’m fatter – which means there’s more of me to move when I have to take kids places. These are all valid and Very Important excuses for why I’m not a SuperMother.

My grownup kids will tell you that they did lots of amazing things in their holidays. They will also probably tell you (when I’m not listening) that those amazing activities usually involved plenty of stress and yelling from their mother who was trying to make it into the SUPER-MOTHERS club, and constantly failing.

Because I’ll tell you a secret about SuperMothers. Most of them aren’t as joyous as you think they are. Lots of them are barely holding it together. Some cry themselves to sleep at night, obsessing over what super thing they DIDN’T achieve that day. (I may be speaking from experience here as a former SuperMother… Maybe I was the only one who was struggling and all the other SuperMothers really were joyous?! Aaaaargh.)

Too often, SuperMothers beat themselves up with impossible standards and choke themselves on the self-inflicted guilt of their own failed aspirations. Its understandable though because they also have to put up with all the perfectionist rubbish our society/churches/media/patriarchy throw at them all the time.

So what do we do about shit mother guilt and school holidays? Here’s where I share with you my incredibly clever and creative tips for dealing with SMG. The other day I told them to turn off the Xbox, go outside and wash my car. They got fresh air, sunshine, exercise – and my car got clean. Everybody’s a winner. It’s about multi-tasking and changing our perspective!

Another day, I told them to weed the garden, pick up the rubbish outside, and then bath all the dogs. Every now and again, I looked out the window from my aircon office and gave them encouragement. It was a family bonding activity.

Last weekend, I instructed the teenagers to bake for us. They made decadent chocolate brownies with whipped cream on top. The other child made chocolate oatmeal crisp cookies. I came out of my room when all the treats were ready, and then we ate them together. How’s that for school holiday creativity and fun?!

When all else fails, remind yourself that all good things come to an end, and before you know it, school will start up again. Then you’ll be back to saying bad words as you deal with the morning madness, and rushing kids out of the house.

Just prepare yourself for the SMG that will kick you in the gut, when you’re stuck in traffic and your 10 year old says morosely – “I wish we did something fun in the holidays. We never went anywhere…” This will be the same 10yr old who pleaded every day to be allowed to play Xbox, and who knows all the words to some random Korean soap drama that you can’t understand.

And you will have to deep breathe and remind yourself, Thou shalt not stop your car in the middle of the road and scream at your beloved child.

May the #BadMother force be with you all.

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Henna artists crown cancer patients, survivors at ArtPrize Nine

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“Creating awareness and raising money are two things within my control,” said Lisa Fredericks, owner of Rosa’s Closet and advocate for the Michigan Ovarian Cancer Alliance.

Rosa’s Closet, a retail clothing store in East Grand Rapids, donated 15 percent of its total sales Saturday, Sept. 30, to “Crowns of Courage,” an ArtPrize project that gives henna tattoos to cancer patients during the event.

Crowns of Courage is a Michigan-based effort to inspire and celebrate women fighting cancer. The designers create henna tattoo art by leaving a stain on the skin of patients through a paste from the sonya leaf. The lavender-infused product leaves a tattoo on the scalps of patients usually for a duration of three weeks.

“The whole purpose is to reidentify beauty for each of the women because with chemo comes not knowing who you are,” said Amanda Gilbert, head henna artist for Crowns of Courage and owner of Happy Henna Tattoo. “Our goal is to bring back the identity for these individuals.”

The Rosa’s Closet employees hope to have as many women as possible crowned and believe it is an important experience for every cancer patient to have.

“More ladies have opportunities to be crowned when there’s more money for it,” Fredericks said. “They can be all the things they believed they couldn’t be because they had cancer. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

Both organizations offer services to cancer patients. Crowns of Courage involves a photoshoot with photographer Dave Burgess. The foundation collected 22 portraits, selections that are displayed at their ArtPrize Nine venue.

“This project began a huge healing process, giving women love over themselves rather than fear of their diagnosis,” Gilbert said.

Rosa’s Closet orchestrates fundraisers at least quarterly, including the family event called “Shaking Our Tail Feathers.” Their last fundraiser partnered with Hearts of Hope Dog Rescue to raise money for Kent County animal shelters.

“Any clothes can be chosen to have donated and picked up by women in the community,” Fredericks said. “We also have a program for getting women back into the workforce. We have a very loyal customer base, and customer service is very important. We offer genuine connection. We don’t want customers walking out with something not fitting to them.”

Fredericks believes in keeping an educated staff and stressing the importance of making sales not just to make sales. As one of the owners of the store, she takes pride in raising money for cancer research and wishes to further the strides that have been made to help and inspire cancer survivors.


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I've little doubt that the current management team of Margo Kingston's Webdiary would refuse to publish a reply by me to Fiona Reynolds comment today, so I submit it here to enable those who seek the truth to see both sides and decide for themselves what has occurred.

What you will read below is Fiona's comment, in which she takes each point of my earlier comment and provides her position on it. Between the "stars" is my response to Fiona's position on each point:

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Submitted by Fiona Reynolds on May 29, 2008 - 10:19am.

It has taken me longer than I hoped to respond to Craig Rowley’s post, but the excuses are reasonable: travel preparation, a busy week on Webdiary, and the need to work through three months of last year’s posts to make sure that I responded accurately. Now, I get annoyed when Webdiarists reproduce the entirety of an earlier post, but I feel obliged to respond to Craig in that manner to make sure that I cover all the points that he raised.

CR: Over the past year my simple question (the second, censored one) has been met with anything but an answer, Fiona. It has never been answered. Not by Margo, nor by any other members of Webdiary management.

FR: Incorrect. (1) Margo made her position abundantly clear on several threads, in particular the Yep, says honest John and the Saudi Arabia behind Iraq terrorism threads. (2) I understand that Margo emailed you personally at least once about this matter. (3) I know that I also emailed you about it, and discussed the matter at length over lunch in August last year – or don’t I count as a member of Webdiary management?

My statement is, in fact, completely correct. Here's my email to Margo Kingston and her "answer" to that question:

Hello Margo,
Would you please just explain to me (if not all 'diarists for the sake of Transparency) why do you rule the remorseless ridicule routines of "Eliot Ramsey" as acceptable comment and rule out any questioning of your unexplained position on that?

Margo's response was:

"He's interesting, and he doesn't complain when he's DNPed I don't think he crosses the line, Craig. Simple as that. You disagree. That's fine with me. But I've ruled on Eliot several; times and I'm not going to change my mind. So you accept my view and move on at Webdiary, or go elsewhere. Simple."

In other words, Margo said as his content was interesting, therefore his "remorseless ridicule" campaign was acceptable to her; and, most importantly, she would not explain her rationale. Take it or leave.

If we're generous then there is one potential clue to her rationale in the statement she provided. It could be that where she points out that "he doesn't complain when he's DNPed" this is the core rationale. If so, then Margo's priority was no longer what was reflected in WD ethics through statements like:

"I will do my utmost to ensure that Webdiary is a space to which all readers, whatever their views or style, feel safe to contribute. If you are offended by something in Webdiary, feel free to respond. I won't publish any material which incites hatred."

"I will publish most contributions made in good faith which are critical of Webdiary's content or direction, or of me.

"Clearly the new "ethical" standard applied at WD is not to openly and transparently work through any issues raised by 'diarists.

Indeed, Margo's priority had become to devote as little, if any time as possible to the running of WD.

Take her near complete absence from the pages of WD (and even from behind the scenes) over the past year as evidence.

Fiona has been similarly motivated to not deal with essential issues, such as how WD ethics are applied, and that's due to not wanting to take the "time" necessary to deal with such issues.

Further, when Fiona and I shared lunch last year we did not discuss this matter "at length". There is, however, one item that did come up in our conversation that day and on other occasions that now need to be made clear to all interested parties and that is this: Fiona Reynolds' nickname for "Eliot Ramsey" is ERII. It signifies that "Eliot Ramsey" is the second identity used by a person whom had been previously registered with Webdiary using a different identity. That earlier identity was "C Parsons."

CR: And yes, I am a parent. I'm one who shared his real identity here; and to a degree put my family at some risk by sharing that genuine identity. You know I'd been threatened during the time I was moderating Webdiary.

FR: To the best of my knowledge and belief, (1) all people who have been moderating on Webdiary over the last two and a half years have shared our real identities here, and (2) all such moderators have received varying levels of threats during that period.

The issue I had raised was not pseudonymity amongst moderators. I've never taken issue with that aspect of WD. Indeed, for me the issue is not even pseudonymity per se. I understand that some people need to be protected behind a pseudonym. The issue I have, in fact, raised with WD management is a breach of WD's published Ethics. Specifically, the promise in those published Ethics that has been breached is:

"If you don't want to use your real name, use a nom de plume and briefly explain, for publication, why you don't want to use your real name. Please send me your real name on a confidential basis if you choose to use a nom de plume. I will not publish attacks on other contributors unless your real name is used."

If current WD management doesn't want to honour that promise any longer, then fine; but they could/should be transparent about it and simply alter the WD Ethics to say they will publish attacks by pseudonymous ‘diarists on other 'diarists.

CR: I'm also one of those whom you and the others allowed to be targeted by the ridiculer (engaging in what is a form of bullying; a most cowardly form as he sheltered behind his false identity).

FR: Incorrect. All moderators (perhaps me more than the rest) have taken considerable pains to protect Webdiarists and, indeed, you in particular, from much of what you have deemed to be “targeting” by the “ridiculer”.

No, considerable action would have been to very simply and straightforwardly tell him in editorial "bold" comment to cease targeting people. In other words, TROLLING WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

CR: Why? Well now you reveal it was because you consider his abusive personal attacks to be "entertaining" and "piffle."

FR: Incorrect – but we need to clarify something first. So-called remorseless ridicule, if it involves personal abuse, offends Webdiary’s moderation guidelines and is not published. So-called remorseless ridicule of other people’s points of view etc. does not amount to a personal attack but to robust contesting of ideas, and as such does not breach the moderation guidelines. Secondly, I have never regarded “abusive personal attacks” as entertaining. Thirdly – and I probably didn’t make this sufficiently clear, my observations were confined to so-called remorseless ridicule of ideas and opinions, and I did not say that I found that to be entertaining piffle – all I did was suggested that others might find it so.

CR: Do I really have to remind you that those targeted don't feel that it was particularly "entertaining" to be targeted?

FR: Partly accepted. I sometimes don’t find it entertaining to have my opinions challenged, but I don’t see that as a personal attack on me. On the contrary, I see it as part of the cut-and-thrust of the contest of ideas. What I (and other moderators) certainly do not find entertaining is being “targeted” by remorseless, relentless questioning (or, more accurately, banging on and on and on about something that was resolved long ago).

Three things are wrong here.

First, if Fiona was as dedicated to the contest of ideas as she claims then she'd not be party to censoring any debate on the ideas themselves.

Truth is she's censored a whole series of comments I'd made responding to the ideas expressed by her friends Jenny Hume and Ian MacDougall because they didn't want me to make those comments. They didn't want me to make comments on their comments because Jenny Hume had demanded (via Fiona Reynolds) that I make an apology to her friend Kathy Farrelly and when I didn't she judged me (the person) unworthy of Webdiary.

And yes, you read it right, Fiona Reynolds had made phone calls to my home to relay Jenny Hume's demands.

One rule for some, eh?

Second, if simply being asked to explain how a decision they'd made matched their published ethical standard caused so much discomfort to Fiona Reynolds, why is it that she cannot comprehend how unwelcoming, how unsafe Webdiary had become to those who were targeted by "C Parsons" and other trolls for "remorseless ridicule" (presumably in order for him to get off on the Schadenfreud).

BTW I've so often use that particular phrase and place it in quotation marks because "C Parsons" had actually stated that was his specific purpose in a comment that had been marked DNP.

Third, the issue has never been resolved. Not "long ago." Not recently. Not now.

CR: So now I understand the "why" (you thought it was fun to facilitate the bullying), but I still don't see how it squares with WD Ethics?

FR: Incorrect. See above.

Wrong with "incorrect" and lazy with "see above." Fiona's dodging the key issue which is this: How does the decision WD management had made square with their published ethical standard? They refuse to explain it; they don't seem able to explain it. I reckon it's because the decision simply cannot be shown to meet the published ethical standard.

CR: Indeed, as one or two of you have acknowledged over time that very point about the special deal made to allow the ridiculer his pseudonymity (which is a deal it seems I cannot mention for fear of censorship), with no answer to my question I simply cannot comprehend how what's been done reflects WD Ethics.

FR: Incorrect, and fallacious. IF one takes the position that (original) identity A is the same as (now) identity B, one cannot assume that identity B is the pseudonymous identity. It’s equally plausible that identity A may have been the pseudonym, and if as appears to be the case identity B is that individual’s true identity (insofar as it is possible for us to check), there is nothing more to be said.

Fiona's argument is that which is fallacious and this is what more is to be said. Whether one take's her "hypothetical" position, or even the position of any reasonable person apply simple logic, then one sees clearly that the person changing from identity A to identity B has either lied to Margo Kingston about their genuine identity when using identity A or when using identity B. Unless Margo Kingston had agree to provide pseudonymity twice. She's never admitted to that, and if she had agreed it during the "C. Parsons" period, then her poorly phased question to "Eliot Ramsey" about this issue was either absurd or devious.

CR: That's the very reason why I have asked the question more than once. I would really like to hear a reasoned response that attempts to demonstrate how the decision made to give that person a second identity could be ethical. It seems I never will.

FR: And so ad infinitem. This particular topic is closed. Permanently.

Aside for the "silencing" aspect of Fiona's final position, it is also once again avoiding an answer to my question. Where's the reasoned response I was seeking? Telling me to, in essence, "shut up and shove off" doesn't even begin to demonstrate how the decision to give "C Parsons" / "Eliot Ramsey" (CP=ER) a second identity is ethical.

Interestingly, in times past Fiona must have found it unethical to allow CP=ER another pseud. When suspended back in February he'd tried to fly a third and fourth (and possibly a fifth) identity. Hence the appearance and quick disappearance of "Patricia P Kennedy" and "Lesley Partika."

FR: After all of this, Craig, you may find it difficult to believe that I have great respect for you. You are an informed individual who demonstrates great compassion and an interestingly lateral approach to many troubling issues. Your contributions to Webdiary over the years have been appreciated by many people, including me. Your obduracy on this matter, however, is disturbing, unproductive, and frankly does you no credit. Maybe it’s time to take a break from Webdiary – but you know that you will always be welcome to contribute in the constructive way that you can do so well.

Welcome I may be, but return to WD I will not. Certainly not as long as WD management's obduracy on this matter continues to show them to be unethical, and lacking in empathy for those who were targeted by a pseudonymous nasty precisely because that had contributed to WD in the constructive way. So that's looking like it means probably not ever.

By blatantly twisting the facts regarding the identity of Webdiary’s notorious fraudster and liar, Eliot Ramsey, who as C. Parsons was banned from commenting at Webdiary, Fiona Reynolds has exposed herself as a manipulative deceiver.

Many Webdiarists were – and indeed, still are – disappointed that Webdiary did not ban Eliot Ramsey when he appeared at Webdiary very shortly after C. Parsons had been banned when it was so obvious that Parsons and Ramsey were one and the same person. Despite protestations from a number of Webdiarists, including myself, Kingston decided to allow this right-wing propagandist and fraudster to continue using Webdiary for purely propaganda purposes based solely on the fact that Ramsey had simply denied being Parsons when he was asked by Kingston outright whether or not he was Parsons. Ramsey, of course, denied that he was Parsons. He lied and everyone knew he lied.

I wrote to Reynolds asking what was going on. Reynolds wrote to me trying to fob me off with the same kind of pseudo-legal claptrap she is trying on now at Webdiary saying that because Ramsey had denied being Parsons that somehow Kingston’s hands tied implying that Kingston now had some sort of legal obligation to allow Ramsey to comment since he said he was not Parsons. This, of course, is complete nonsense. There is no legal obligation whatsoever. All Kingston needed to do was ban him anyway. Ramsey would certainly have had no legal recourse to pursue the matter through the courts.

No. Fiona Reynolds is just trying to be smart in attempting to use her legal credentials to deceive Webdiarists into believing that there is some kind of legal issue here. There isn’t.

However, there is a moral and ethical issue. When I say ‘everyone knew he (Ramsey) lied’, that includes Fiona Reynolds. I had assured Reynolds confidentiality regarding what she wrote to me about this matter but in the light of her ignoring her moral obligations to Webdiarists, I have no problems in exposing her for what she is by ignoring that assurance. Reynolds wrote to me saying:

Margo, as you may have noticed, asked ER whether he was C Parsons. A stupid question, and surprising given both her legal and journalistic experience. The correct question was: ER, have you ever posted on Webdiary under the name of C Parsons? Now, think about ER's response - that according to the nametag his mum had sewn on his undies, he was indeed ER. Now, If ER is ER's real name (ie., if CP were the pseud) then his response was veridacious and there is bugger all that Margo can do. If ER is NOT ER's real name (though the email matches - not that that's hard to fix) then Margo painted herself into a corner and can't do anything.

As for how it makes Webdiary look - please remember that we are all human and, thus, fallible. In my opinion, regulars are well aware of the double identity and, if anything, regard it with derisive amusement - the derision being directed towards ER/CP, given that we know that he knows that we know .... and so ad infinitem. For newcomers, I don't think it makes any difference. Perhaps more germane is the fact that ER is being taken on to good effect more often than not - though I doubt that that will deter him - yet. A gadfly, but one who may eventually come to regret his policy of "remorseless ridicule".

In my opinion, the important thing is that Webdiary continues to be an active site with many different voices contributing in various ways to the contest of ideas. I see my role as one of the moderating team to keep the debate as civil as possible (at times a pretty big ask), but the vital thing is to keep the discussion going. Otherwise it would die.

Reynolds concedes that they all knew that Ramsey was Parsons but, despite knowing this, kept him on for the sake of ‘keeping the discussion going’. Then why ban him in the first place? It seems that Webdiary’s continued existence takes precedence over any moral or ethical issues that may threaten Webdiary’s functioning.

Providing a platform for debate is one thing but deliberately providing a platform for proven liars, fraudsters, warmongers and fascists to push their vile propaganda while banning the likes of Bob Wall and others is something else.

Reynolds is attempting to detract from Webdiary’s considerable moral and ethical shortcomings on this issue by trying to persuade Webdiarists that there are some kind of legal implications. There simply aren’t any. Reynolds has exposed herself to be as big a fraud as Ramsey is.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

On the face of it, it looks like it could be all over for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. But, if he has proved to be nothing else, he has in the past proved to be a survivor. There weren’t many commentators that expected him to survive the preliminary Winograd report into the failings of Israel’s war against Hezbollah and the Lebanese people and there were even less who thought he might survive the full-on report when it was finally released. But he did.

However, the latest scandal that has embroiled him, the accusations of having accepted large amounts of money from an American businessman, may well see the end of Olmert. Ehud Barak, Israel’s Defence Minister and leader of Israel’s Labour Party that forms part of Olmert’s Kadima-led coalition government, is on the verge of threatening to withdraw from the coalition if Olmert does not quit as Prime Minister. Olmert, if he reacts anywhere near to form, is unlikely to quit unless the call becomes overwhelming from his own party as well which will leave Barak little choice but to withdraw the Labour Party from the coalition. Such action will be the trigger for an election.

If an election is called it is quite likely that the extreme right-wing Zionist Likud Party under Benjamin Netanyahu will win. If it does then the Middle East can look forward to the prospect of an Israeli attack against Iran and a full-on invasion of the Gaza Strip to ‘stop Hamas attacking Israel’ and possibly the West Bank in order to ‘pre-empt any Palestinian backlash against Israeli actions in the Gaza’. Hezbollah in Lebanon and, of course, the Lebanese people will also fall into Netanyahu’s sights.

Benjamin Netanyahu also is a very close friend of US Vice-President Dick Cheney and with the neoconservatives in the US and in the Bush administration. Netanyahu is a regular visitor to the neoconservative’s headquarters, the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, and at their retreat at Beaver Creek, Colorado, where he travels occasionally for private and discreet talks with Cheney and other neoconservatives to plot their next moves.
The Middle East now finds itself in a quandary; if Olmert stays the Palestinians in the Gaza are likely to continue to suffer as the Israeli government very slowly tightens the tourniquet on the arteries that supplies Gazans with the necessities of life. The farce of ‘peace talks’ will drag on until Bush finally goes, and the threats against Iran and Hezbollah will continue. If Olmert goes he will be replaced possibly by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni if he chooses to step down. The Middle East will fare no better under Livni. If Barak pulls out and forces an election, well… It doesn’t bear thinking about – especially if all this happens quickly and Netanyahu becomes Prime Minister while the Bush administration is still around.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

According to the Murdoch owned ‘The Australian’ newspaper, “Iran continues to defy UN demands to suspend uranium enrichment and has yet to disprove allegations that it was pursuing nuclear power for military use.”

First off, one should be quite clear about who is demanding what from whom here. It is the US and Israel and their allies that are making the demands in order to isolate and demonise Iran as part of their propaganda and rhetoric campaign to gain public support for ‘regime change’ in Iran. The UN has only gone along with their charade simply to buy time and not give the US and Israel the excuse they are looking for to bomb Iran into ‘regime change’.

Iran has no legal obligation in International law to suspend uranium enrichment at the demand of anyone. As a signatory of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and in accordance with Article IV of the NPT, Iran is quite entitled to pursue the science and technology required for nuclear enrichment for peaceful purposes such as power generation. It is true that under Article III of the NPT that Iran does have certain obligations to demonstrate that its nuclear program indeed does exclude the pursuit of nuclear weapons. But, despite years of accusations from Israel and the US that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program, the IAEA, the UN nuclear watchdog, has not found a single skerrick of evidence to suggest that Iran is doing anything other than developing its nuclear program in pursuit of nuclear power generation.

All the IAEAs latest report does is tell the UN that Iran is continuing with its peaceful development of nuclear enrichment, as Iran, regardless of US or Israeli or even UN demands to stop, is quite entitled to do. The IAEA has still not found and evidence whatsoever to suggest that Iran is enriching uranium beyond that which is required for power generation. Iran’s seeming intransigence is simply borne out of refusing to bow to Israeli and US threats.

‘The Australian’ says: “Iran… has yet to disprove allegations that it was pursuing nuclear power for military use.” The reality is that Iran has disproved time and time again that it isn’t ‘pursuing nuclear power for military use’, but time and time again, the same old accusers, the US and Israel, continue to make the same old tired allegations.

The quicker the world wakes up to the fact that the only nation in the Middle East that is a nuclear threat to the rest of the region is Israel the better. Our world and the region would be far better served if the world community through the UN and the IAEA investigated Israel’s nuclear weapons capabilities and demanded that Israel surrendered its nuclear weapons. The UN should be listening to what the peoples of the world have to say, not what the US and Israel demands.

Monday, May 26, 2008

The election of General Michel Suleiman to the Lebanese presidency will likely be further cause for Israel to consider another attempt at attacking Lebanon and Hezbollah. Suleiman’s election strengthens Hezbollah’s hand immensely. He is an ally of Hezbollah – indeed, he is only President because he is acceptable to Hezbollah – and in the deal that was struck to elect Suleiman, Hezbollah has ended up with veto powers over all government decisions. This is likely to be totally unacceptable to Israel who are itching for any excuse to attack Hezbollah.

Israel’s Military Intelligence chief, Major General Amos Yadlin, said after Hezbollah had demonstrated earlier this month it’s fighting capabilities, “Hezbollah proved that it was the strongest power in Lebanon... stronger than the Lebanese Army…” implying that all of Lebanon would now be a legitimate target for any future war against Hezbollah since Hezbollah now all but governs the country.

Factor in the other rhetoric and propaganda emanating from the US and Israel as they try to buy a little time by attempting to wedge Syria about Iran’s support of Hezbollah and Hamas and we have a recipe for imminent disaster yet again in the Middle East.

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Sunday, May 25, 2008

I have written often on this blog about the reasons why the Bush administration, the neocons, and the Israeli right-wing Zionists need a final confrontation against Iran.

It has absolutely nothing to do with Iran’s so-called nuclear weapons ambitions but, rather, has everything to do with the right-wing Zionists ultimate vision of a Greater Israel that includes the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, the Shebaa Farms and, so they hope, the south of Lebanon up to the Litani River; a Greater Israel in which Palestinians will have no place whatsoever.

Time-wise, the window of opportunity for Bush/Israel to bomb Iran into ‘regime change’ is closing with every day that passes as the US heads toward the 2008 presidential election in November. And, as the window closes, so the anti-Iran rhetoric from the Bush administration, the Republicans, the neocons and the Israeli Zionists grows in intensity and the propaganda against Iran becomes more and more outrageous and, not entirely unexpectedly, increasingly familiar as we recall the rhetoric and ridiculous lies that preceded the US attack on Iraq.

Iran and its support of Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Palestinian people are all that stand between the Israeli Zionists and their quest for a Greater Israel at the expense of the Palestinian people. The world should be aware that the Israeli Zionists have no intention of allowing a Palestinian state to exist despite so-called ‘peace initiatives’ and the current farce of negotiations between Abbas, Olmert and Rice and the rantings of Bush as he tries to make himself look good in the dying days of the most disastrous Presidency in US history.

One has to ask, however, if all this talk from the Bush administration about a ‘Palestinian state’ is not just a ruse to get Hamas and Hezbollah to ‘spoil’ plans for a ‘Palestinian state’, a state that under present options being discussed will see a ‘Palestinian state’ totally subservient to Israel. The Israelis and the US could then point the finger of blame at the failure of negotiations toward Iran; just one more reason for the final confrontation.

The propaganda and rhetoric against Iran is likely to increase over the next few months as the US heads toward the elections in November. We will hear more and more about how Iran is ‘defying the world’ with its ‘nuclear weapons’ ambitions; we will hear more and more about Iran supporting the insurgents in Iraq; we will hear more and more about Iran sending arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. And the world will likely wake up one morning soon to learn that the US and Israel have bombed and killed the peoples of yet another nation state.

What the Zionists and their allies among the neocons and the Bush administration don’t realise is that the Palestinian people won’t simply go away because there has been ‘regime change’ in Iran. The Palestinian people are resilient and tenacious and, if anything, an attack against Iran will only stiffen their resolve to resist Israeli expansionism and carry on their fight for a sovereign state.

But for the Zionists and their allies who have come to believe their own lies and propaganda, the final confrontation is seen as bringing them another step closer to their goal of a Greater Israel.

Friday, May 23, 2008

I notice that Margo Kingston’s Webdiary has chosen to publish a piece written by the academic fraudster and well known liar, Dylan Kissane, and fellow traveller Andrea Charron.

The piece glaringly demonstrates Kissane’s hypocrisy. He writes: “The real threats to international peace and security are no longer confined to violations of state sovereignty for which the UN collective security system was created,”

This is gross hypocrisy coming from Kissane considering that he whole-heartedly supported the US and its allies, including Australia under Howard, as they violated, in defiance of the UN and the peoples of the world, the sovereignty of the Iraqi state.

Their hypocrisy is further exposed by Angela Ryan’s response to Kissane and Charron’s post when Angela Ryan points out the many, many, other disasters and human miseries that the peoples of various states around the world have had to endure mostly as a result of US and their allies inaction due to these events not being in their interests to actually do anything about or not having been politically expedient for them to act upon at the time.

Kissane is a cunning manipulator who has the propensity to lie and cheat in order to get his fascist message across. Margo Kingston is aware of Kissane’s lies and his fraudulent ways yet still chooses to publish his work. One wonders how much influence Kingston’s brother, Hamish Alcorn who, like Kissane, is also a neoconservative and who has an equal propensity to lie, has had in allowing this piece of neocon propaganda nonsense to be published bearing in mind that this is the same Hamish Alcorn who is a signatory to the neoconservative front organisation, the Euston Manifesto, and the same delusional Hamish Alcorn that thinks that Stalin was actually a communist simply because he led the so-called ‘Soviet Communist Party’. (One wonders where in Alcorn’s mind that leaves Hitler who led the National SOCIALIST German WORKERS Party!)

It’s up to the peoples of the world to confront ALL of the woes of our world – not just the selected ones that the likes of liars and fraudsters like Kissane think should be confronted to suit their own political agendas. His piece is pure opportunistic hypocrisy that abuses the plight of suffering peoples for political ends. And a once admired Margo Kingston sinks further into the abyss of hypocrisy.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Two months ago I enthusiastically wrote a short piece with the title “Sensational news – the Palestine Authority abandons the ‘two-state solution’ in favour of the one-state binational solution”. I wrote it based on an article that appeared in the ‘Jerusalem Post’ which told of a:

“…plan, drawn by Ziad Abu Ein, a senior Fatah operative and Deputy Minister for Prisoners' Affairs in the Palestinian Authority, states that the Palestinians have decided to implement United Nations Resolution 194 regarding the refugees.

Article 11 of the resolution, which was passed in December 1948, says that "refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible."

The initiative is the first of its kind and is clearly aimed at embarrassing Israel during the anniversary celebrations by highlighting the issue of the "right of return" for the refugees.

Entitled "The Initiative of Return and Coexistence," the plan suggests that the PA has abandoned a two-state solution in favour of one state where all Arabs and Jews would live together.”

The article went on to explain how the “…plan calls on the refugees to return to Israel on May 14, 2008 with their suitcases and tents so that they could settle in their former villages and towns. The refugees are also requested to carry UN flags upon their return and to be equipped with their UNRWA-issued ID cards.”

Well, I guess it was too much to ask for this to actually happen and, of course, it didn’t and, in retrospect, I should have realised that the article was in all probability simply an outrageous piece of propaganda from the Israelis designed to belittle such notions. However, the notion of a ‘one-state binational solution’ hasn’t died with the fantasy of Palestinian refugees turning up in their droves at Israeli airports.

As the failures of Bush’s efforts to establish a Palestinian State as part of a two-state solution become obvious and it becomes increasingly apparent that it is never going to happen, so more and more people throughout Palestine, both Palestinians and Israelis, are coming round to the idea that the one-state binational solution is, indeed, the only solution. A Palestinian State emerging on terms dictated by the Israelis and the US will never be accepted by the Palestinian people and, if it were to be enforced upon them, there would be, at worst, all out war between the Palestinians and their allies and the Israeli state, and, at best, simply more of what is happening now going on for more decades to come; a war that the Israelis cannot ever win.

Western leaders now need to recognise that the one-state solution can be the only viable long-term solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict. The quicker this is achieved the better for both the Palestinian and the Israeli people. It is imperative that the peoples of the world support the call for a one-state binational solution in Palestine and insist that their leaders push for such a state through the United Nations.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

This piece in the New York Times by Edward Luttwak is a classic piece of racist neocon propaganda that demonstrates how close the neocons are to being in a state of blind panic over the likely outcome of the up-coming Presidential election.

Increasingly, as it seems more and more likely that Hilary Clinton is not going to get up with the Democrat nomination, the neocons have been concentrating massive amounts of their propaganda energies in trying to deride Barack Obama rather than in trying to promote their man, John McCain, signifying that even the neocons are starting to think that McCain is a lost cause.

Luttwak attempts to paint Obama with what Luttwak thinks is the kiss of death in US Presidential politics; connections to Islam – despite Obama having no connections to Islam. Luttwak’s attempt is transparent. Perhaps the attention of Americans should be turned to Luttwak himself rather than Obama.

Perhaps if readers knew that Edward Luttwak is, and has been for years, a committed neoconservative, warmonger itching to get the US to bomb Iran, and ultra right-wing Zionist whose interests and loyalties are focussed more toward Israel than they are to America, then they might read Luttwak’s comments about Obama from an entirely different perspective; one which emphasises Luttwak’s own agenda rather than what he’s trying to con the American people into thinking about Obama’s non-existent ulterior motives.

Meanwhile, over at the neocon comic Weekly Standard, anti-Obama propaganda has reached fever pitch. Neocon writer Stanley Kurtz pens a hit piece that tries to show Obama up as someone who knew exactly what Preacher Wright’s views were. Kurtz desperately and presumptuously writes: “Barack Obama must have long been aware of his pastor's political radicalism,” and; “It seems inconceivable that, in 20 years, Obama would never have picked up a copy of Trumpet.” Kurtz’s ravings are purely guesswork and have no foundation whatsoever.

Neocons are getting desperate. They know they are about to lose their grip on power – and with their powerbase gone, Israeli influence over the Middle East diminishes substantially.

Something is going to have to give. Let’s hope that sanity will prevail.

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

I’ve just got time for a quick comment today… well, more of an observation. I read this in today’s New York Times: “As American strikes on Shiite fighters in Baghdad have widened, Iran has suspended talks with the United States on Iraqi security, with the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday citing the continued offensive as the reason. The American forces have been responding to fire from Shiite militias in the Amel neighbourhood in western Baghdad.”

The bit that gets me is where it says: ‘American forces have been responding to fire from Shiite militias…’ It doesn’t occur to the Americans that it is they that are in a foreign country killing its inhabitants and that it is actually the inhabitants that are responding to invasion and occupation. If the US had been invaded by Iraq, would Americans have behaved any differently? Or if Australia was invaded by Iraq, would Australians not be fighting back – even if the Iraqi invader had seen to the demise of John Howard!


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