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A.D. 2009. The human race is in the middle of a three-way war with a race of giant humanoid aliens called the Zentraedi (male) and Meltrandi (female). After executing a space fold that sent it and part of South Atalia Island to the edge of the Solar System, the space fortress Macross is on its way back to Earth. During a small skirmish with Zentraedi forces, young pilot Hikaru Ichijo rescues idol singer Lynn Minmay and their relationship develops as they’re stranded somewhere within the ship. But shortly after returning to Macross City, Minmay is captured by the Zentraedi, and Hikaru and female officer Misa Hayase end up back on Earth—only to view the aftermath of the destruction of their civilization. Only a song discovered eons ago—along with Minmay’s voice—can determine the outcome of the war.

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Synonyms: Clash of the Bionoids, Gekijouban Choujikuu Yousai Macross: Ai, Oboete Imasu ka, Macross in Clash Of The Bionoids, Super Dimensional Fortress Macross The Movie: Do You Remember Love?, Choujikuu Yousai Macross: Ai Oboete Imasuka
Japanese: 超時空要塞マクロス -愛・おぼえていますか-

Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 7, 1984
Producers: Mainichi Broadcasting
Genres: Action, Mecha, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi, Space, Military
Duration: 1 hr. 55 min.
Rating: R – 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Zen Musings

Fall is fading. Winter will be here soon. Mornings I can feel her frosty breath tickling the back of my neck. It's a time for finishing things as another year draws to a close. And a time for new beginnings. 2011 was a pivotal year in many ways. Makes me curious what 2012 holds in store.

In spite of a heavy winter that was late to leave the Sierras, I got to take both planned eight-day backpack trips in the Sierra. Plus a few shorter ones. I suppose if I meandered down to Lake Isabella, I could still go backpacking, at least until winter gets here in earnest.

Mammoth Mountain opened last week with at least a few runs. The beta is that coverage isn't bad. So, skiing is an option once again. That's the wonder of the Eastern Sierra. It truly is nature's unparalleled playground. Shortly after I moved here, the woman who was the county Social Services Director told me I'd come to Mammoth Lakes for a reason and to never lose my sense of awe. Marilyn would be proud of me, since I never have. It's a rare day that goes by that I'm not grateful to live here, snow, hundred mile an hour winds and all.

Gratitude aside, I have to admit I'd kill for a Trader Joe's or a Whole Foods close by. I truly get tired of the one grocery store in town. Sometimes I have to gird myself to go in there. And after the tourists converge on Mammoth Mountain, shopping on weekends simply isn't an option. Lines extend down the aisles and it can take half an hour to go through a checkout stand. So, I find myself shopping at odd hours: like ten P.M. on a week night. Or even later than that. It's amazing. The later I shop, the drunker the other supermarket patrons look. Since I'm in charge of the county's Alcohol and Drug Program in addition to Mental Health, I try to keep a very low profile during these noctural shopping expeditions.

One of the challenges of being a therapist in an uber small town is running into clients outside of the office. Despite my very best efforts, someone usually tries to flag me down to talk no matter where I find myself. And so it goes. I suppose I should feel flattered. And I do have to admit, I'd feel much worse if they ran like hell when they saw me!

Back to winter and reflections on the year that's rapidly passing. There are so many things I'd like to get done this winter. Like cleaning out the desk drawers in my study. And making some sort of sense out of my husband's electronic shop. (Good luck with that one. Haven't told him about that project just yet!) Who knows? Maybe there will even be the wherewithal to clean out my closets. It's a closely guarded secret,  but I still have clothes from thirty years ago. Maybe even forty. They all still fit and occasionally I'll pull something out and let it see the light of day again.

I'm looking forward to a good writing year. The last book in my Transformation Series will be published. And I hope to have a good start at the next series. Maybe a few more short stories will show up, too. In fact, there's one I'm working on right now that needs an ending. It will come to me. They always seem to in unusual ways.

It's cozy in my house tonight. Fire is buring cheerily in the woodstove. Wolves are curled up in three separate corners. Tomorrow is a free day for me. Wonder how I'll use it?

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Answerland Goings-On

Answerland Goings-On 11/2/15

What’s going on with Answerland?This summer the oversight of Answerland was successfully transitioned from Multnomah County Library to Oregon State Library. Enough cannot be said about those who not only participated in the changeover but also kept the service running. Many thanks to our volunteer coordinators, June Bass (Multnomah County) and Robin Speer (State Library), and to the Answerland transition team: Cindy Gibbon, Darci Hanning, Kelly Most, Emily Papagni, and Rachael Short!

The next step is to upgrade to a new platform. The State Library is in the final stages of crafting an RFP; we hope to have a new system up and running by early March. I will keep you apprised of our progress.

I am also in the process of reconvening the Answerland Advisory Board. I am aiming to have a membership list by the end of the year so that the State Library Board can approve it at their January meeting.

Last but not least, we will not be holding a 2016 Oregon Virtual Reference Summit, due to the transition and upgrade. However, Washington State is putting on their first ever Virtual Reference conference in March 2016. Stay tuned for more information!

Goodbye to….

…  Laura Cecil (Volunteer), Judy Chen (Multnomah County Library), Sara Kelso (Tigard Public Library), Linda McGough (Multnomah County Library), and Morgan Sohl (Driftwood Public Library).

Congratulations on your new opportunities. Answerland will miss you!

Yes, statistics are down from the previous year. We attribute this to transitional staff changeover and lack of time for marketing, recruiting, and training. Once we have the new software in place, we will be revitalizing the service – so get ready!

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  • “You should have more librarians on at once, my friends had to wait 45 minutes to use this, please consider what i said.”
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  •  “This is not about this particular chat with this person, because he was thorough and helpful. But, I have noticed that the chat librarians the last few times I contacted them were not keen on looking up information for me. They wanted me to go to the research tools page and look for the information myself. It is not that I am against looking in the research tools, but I would think that the chat librarians could serve a more useful purpose than merely guiding every single patron with a question to the research tools page. I remember the good old days of chatting with the librarian where they would actually have reference books (I think) as opposed to just the internet to refer to and actually find answers I was not able to find on my own with my limited resources. I always do my online research before I go to ask a librarian. When I go to ask a librarian, I really want information I was not able to find. I miss the days when I could chat with a librarian and receive information. I wonder how often nowadays they feel they are just there to tell people to use research tools on the library page. Sorry to be so negative. But, I feel sorry for the librarians nowadays. It wasn’t like this in the past. I have many saved transcripts to prove it.”


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National Cherry Tart Day Date in the current year: June 18, 2018

National Cherry Tart Day June 18 is National Cherry Tart Day. Although cherries grow on almost all continents, they have short season. That is why bake cherry tart with fresh cherries, while they are available.

You can use frozen and preserved cherries for you tart, but they won't taste as good as fresh ones. So start pitting cherries for making the best cherry tart!

Did you know that National Cherry Festival held in Michigan was the predecessor of National Cherry Tart Day? As far as usage of cherries in cooking was quite limited, the common dish was cherry tart with crust bottom and sweet filling.

Tart is alike to pie, flan and quiche and these terms overlap. Pie is more common for America, while tart is French invention. And if you make a savory tart, than you get quiche. Anyway, if you omit the top crust of your pie, you will have a tart!

The best thing about the tart is that all fruit are preserved in an appealing crusty pastry shell. Enjoy a piece or two of homemade cherry tart with ice cream or custard. They make the tangy cherry taste sweeter.

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Research point: Negative and Positive space

Gary Hume is an English painter, draughtsman and printmaker. In the 1990’s he emerged as a leading artist in London. His imagery captured and defined a moment in time when the art scene was becoming professionalised and implicated with the media. He graduated from Goldsmiths University in 1988 and achieved success early with his paintings on hospital doors rendered with gloss. These works had an international appeal. Hume abandoned the door paintings in he 1990’s. Homes choice of subject matter meant he adopted figurative imagery as reason to his primary fixation with structure, surface and colour. The concentration on both literal and metaphoric surface was enhanced by the change from panel to aluminium support. At this point he began to focus on ‘flora, fauna and portraits’. He is known for his abstract figurative paintings on aluminium panels which are often vibrant colour combinations. His iconic works in this style are ‘Beginning for it’ and ‘the polar bear’. (Art Rabbit, 2017

Fig 1. Begging for it (1994)

This piece uses blocks of very vibrant colour. He creates this sense of background, mid ground, foreground. I feel unable to say much about this piece as it is very simplistic and I am struggling to find meaning, regarding the image itself

Love Love's Unlovable - Gary Hume
Fig 2. Love Loves Unloveable (1991)

This piece creates a deep sense of confusion. The positive and negative space is played around with and the black image on the left is almost unrecognisable as it is blends in with the background. Our mind is only assuming that there is an image of a person as there is a suggestion of this type of image on the right. The more I look at this piece I find the idea of it very reflective but disturbing. The image on the left almost creates a ghostly figure that can’t be notified as a figure, we only assume this. Both images are flip reversal of each other. Looking at it from another angle it almost looks like it is a rabbit with perhaps a person behind.

Gary Hume - The Polar Bear
Fig 3. Hermaphrodite Polar Bear (2005)

Art Rabbit. (2016) Gary Hume. At: (Accessed on 18 April)

Figure 1. Hume, G. (1994) Begging for it [gloss paint on panel] At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Figure 2. Hume, G (1991) Love Loves Unloveable [oil on panel] At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Figure 3. Hume, G (2005) Hermaphrodite Polar Bear [screenprint] At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Rene Magritte was an internationally acclaimed surreal artist. He described his paintings as ‘my painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks one self this simple question, “What does it mean?” It does not mean anything because the mystery means nothing, it is unknowable’. (Rene Magritte, 2017)

Magritte was born in 1898 into a wealthy family. His mother committed suicide and the family were publicly humiliated because of it. From 1916 to 1918 Magritte decided to study art in Brussels but left because he thought that it was a waste of time. After this all his paintings reflected cubism. In 1992 he got married and took a number of small jobs to pay the bills. In between the times when he didn’t work he would work on his paintings which was when he realised he enjoyed the surrealist art form the most. The threatened assassin was one of his earliest surrealist style works that he showcased. In 1927 he had a solo exhibition and this was the time in his life when he was creating one piece of art a day. Critics were extremely negative about his solo show so he moved to Paris where he became friends with artist Andre Breton, founder of surrealism. From 1927-30 Magritte became more involved in the surrealist group and his paintings were described as cavernous showcasing bizarre scenes. To Magritte what is concealed within a painting is more important than what can be seen. If he wrapped a body in linen, if he spread curtains, if he concealed heads under hoods then it was not so much to hide as to achieve, an effect he employed this technique at a early stage. (Rene Magritte, 2017)

This is a really interesting ideas as I feel that you can put a spin on the ideas of positive and negative space and what can actually be seen in a painting is the positive space but the hidden meaning, the things you can’t see, the objects that aren’t present are the negative space. He’s not ‘hiding’ anything he’s creating an ‘effect’ on the painting that you see in front of you.

Fig 4. The Pilgrim (1966)

Magritte has thought about positive and negative space and composition. We only assume that the face is meant to go between the hat and the clothes due to the negative space that is left. The question is perhaps asked, ‘where does his head belong’/’why is his head not where it should be’ which is one question that I feel Magritte wanted the viewer to ask.

Fig 5. Decalcomania (1966)

I really like this piece. It is as if the figure has been cut out and placed on the opposite side. It has been taken from its original place and re-used. The definition of Decalcomania is ‘an art process of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper’. I feel that this is what Magritte has done. the art process is used by surreal artists. The idea that he has transferred this image of a figure to another part of the paintings. Again we only assume it has been transferred due to the negative space that is left behind.

Fig 6. The Unexpected Answer (1933)

Fig 7. Personal Values (1952)

I think I have found a new favourite artist!!!!!!

Rene Magritte (2017) Rene Magritte and his paintings. At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Figure 4. Magritte, R. (1966) The Pilgrim [Illustration] At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Figure 5. Magritte, R. (1966) Decalcomania [oil on canvas] At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Figure 6. Magritte, R. (1933) The Unexpected Answer [painting] At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Figure 7. Magritte, R (1952) Personal Values [oil on canvas] At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Avinoam ‘Noma’ Bar is an Israeli born graphic designer, illustrator and artist. His work has appeared in many magazines such as: Time Out London, Random House, BBC etc. His work is known internationally and he has won various prestigious awards such as: Yellow Pencil Award.

‘I am after maximum communication with minimum elements’. His works are very minimal but they create a very startling and punchy appearance. When you look at the work/paintings, you almost have an initial reaction to the picture and then you look again and notice a different thing about the picture making you think in other ways. Is the negative space really the negative and the positive space really the positive. They are just as important as each other. (Dutch Uncle, 2017)

Here are some examples of his work:

Fig 8. No title / Fig 9. Tea for Two

Dutch Uncle (2017) Noma Bar. At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Shigeo Fukuda was a sculptor, graphic artist and poster designer who created optical illusions. His art pieces usually portray deception, such as: ‘Lunch with a helmet on’ – a sculpture which is made up from forks, knives and spoons that have been cast together to create a detailed shadow of a motorbike.

At the end of WWII Fukuda became interested in minimalist swiss style of graphic design and he graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1956. He completed a wide range of commercial work including an official poster for the 1970 world’s fair in Osaka. A pair of posters created to celebrate Earth Day include a design showing the Earth as a seed opening against a solid sea-blue background and ‘1982 Happy Earth Day’ which shows an axe with its head against the ground and a small branch sprouting upwards from its handle. His work ‘Victory 1945’ won him the grand prize at the 1975 Warsaw poster contest. (Fergo, R. 2013)

victory Shigeo Fukuda
Fig 10. Victory (1945)

Fig 11. Happy Earth Day (1982)

As a designer Fukuda feels a sense of moral responsibility and because of this, some of his designs reveal his convictions. His famous poster ‘Victory 1945’ is a comment on the senselessness of war. At the time war was a big business and the simplicity of the poster and his simplistic ideas of peace is what won him the grand prize. The natural trend for designer of Asia is to look towards western trends and ideas but this was something Fukuda didn’t want to do. He had strong anti-war influences – think of the larger scale of things. Nuclear, the more life changing effects of war. (Johnny 2015)

In 1980 Fukuda created a poster for Amnesty International which features a clenched fist interwoven with barbed wire, with the letter ‘s’ in the word amnesty at the top of the poster formed from a linked shackle.

Fig 12. Amnesty (1980)

‘Lunch with a helmet on’

motorbike Shigeo Fukuda
Fig 13. Lunch with a helmet on

For this piece Fukuda wanted to create a £D object in which the shadow, not the form, represented an actual object. Fukuda remarked that is was very difficult to create a 3D object in this fashion that allows light to penetrate in this way. Fukuda used 848 pieces of cutlery to construct this piece. (Optical-illusionist, 2009)

Fergo, R. (2013) Shigeo Fukuda. At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Johnny (2015) Antiwar Posters by Graphic Designer Shigeo Fukuda At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Optical-illusionist (2009) Lunch with a helmet on. At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Figure 10. Fukuda, S. Victory. (1945) [poster] At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Figure 11. Fukuda, S. Happy Earth Day (1982) [poster] At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Figure 12. Fukuda, S. Amnesty (1980) [poster] At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

Figure 13. Fukuda, S. Lunch with a helmet on [sculpture] At: (Accessed on 27 December 2017)

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August 2, 1970
The Sentences Raise Their Eyebrows

A Book of Inspired Political Revelations
By William F. Buckley Jr.

The Best of Wm. F. Buckley Jr.
By William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. lost something when Eleanor Roosevelt died: his favorite target. And "The Governor Listeth," his latest collection of essays, columns, revelations, forgettabilia, etc. is the poorer for it. For instance, only once does he tell us the story about how Mrs. Roosevelt said that she would not cross a picket line "under any circumstances," a proclamation which gave rise to "the most ineluctably rationalist reply" Mr. Buckley has ever known, namely, "the call -- it having been ascertained that she was in residence -- for volunteers to picket round the clock all the exits from Hyde Park."

I haven't checked, but I would wager my back file of National Reviews that until now no collection of Mr. Buckley's has appeared that doesn't tell this story at least twice. I first heard him tell it to a receptive audience of silent generation at Yale Law students in 1958. And of course it appears again (only once) as part of another story in "Quotations From Chairman Bill," in a segment dated August 11, 1956, which is worth quoting if only as a tribute to Mr. Buckley's method, which involves a good deal of quotation, not to mention repetition and what is known in the trade as elaboration on a theme:

"Mrs. Roosevelt's statement several years ago that she would 'never cross any picket line' stood for years as the highest monument to contemporary anti-rationalism. But now she has come through with a rival. 'I was shocked,' she writes, 'to hear not long ago that in one of our schools some older boys beat up their teacher.' The explanation" 'When this happens you can be sure that the blame does not lie with the young. Somehow or other such a teacher failed to build up the respect and interest of her pupils and did not arouse a feeling in the children that she could be trusted and could understand things which perhaps the youngsters would not even talk about at home.' Whatever happened to the suggestion that, her residence having been ascertained beyond peradventure, patriotic citizens institute a 24-hour picket line around Hyde Park?"

Well, Mr. Buckley doesn't have Mrs. Roosevelt to kick around any more and so it was with some curiosity that I approached "The Governor Listeth" to see how he has been managing in her absence. Quite well, thank you. A brief target analysis follows:

First, he has replaced Mrs. Roosevelt, a moving target in her own right, with three relative swingers: John Kenneth Galbraith ("who always looks like he is on leave from Mt. Olympus"), Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (whose assertion that he never signed any statement he didn't write prompted Buckley to speculate, "Suppose everyone adopted that position? Who would be left to sign Mr. Schlesinger's future statements? Nobody? Well, there's a point to be made in favor of that") and Gore Vidal, with whom Mr. Buckley is on the verge of litigation over who said what about whom.

Second, we may observe that the informed Mr. Schlesinger, the cutting Mr. Galbraith and the imaginative and bitchy Mr. Vidal are each capable of defending themselves in ways of which Mrs. R. was either oblivious or incapable: but that the badinage, rebuttal and counter-rebuttal are all calculated to bring out the best in Mr. Buckley, which is very good indeed. An indeed -- aside from some hilarious bad taste excursions in the Buckley-Vidal corner -- much of The Governor is graceful, civilized, witty, perceptive and, to use the adjective which follows Mr. Buckley with more frequency that any other contemporary entity save The New Yorker Magazine, urbane.

Third, a note on perspectives from the firing line. Mrs. R. was the far left of her day and Buckley was attacking from the far right. Galbraith, Vidal and Schlesinger were the enlightened center and what we have here is an inside job. It is not that Mr. Buckley has mellowed or muted his message -- that the acid thrower or yesteryear has given way to court jester. Buckley can still salivate cyanide and spritz it with a tongue-flick at the mention of Alger Hiss or Judith Coplin or the Rosenbergs or Brezhnev and Kosygin, or such new lefties as Tom Hayden, although Mr. B. is as bothered by Mr. Hayden's manners as much as by his philosophy.

Rather it is that in the age of Agnew, the milieu of Mitchell, Buckley politics are quasi-establishment politics. This is not to deny that there are respects in which Chairman Bill, borrowing a tactic from Chairman Mao, has chosen to swim in the mainstream; he is in favor of a Negro for president by 1980, he was/is an attacker of the attackers of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson's foreign policy, and he is even a selective civil libertarian.

One result of this centrist geography: Not only is he engaged in civilized discourse with mainly friendly enemies but he has left President Nixon virtually alone. When one recalls his helpful perspective on the Eisenhower era ("My guess is the Communists moved with whatever caution it can be said they did between 1953 and 1960 because they hadn't the least idea what Eisenhower was talking about, and thought a little prudence might be in order") one can only join in that old folksong for conservatives: "Won't you come home, Bill Buckley/Won't you come home/ From the Establishment?..."

Finally it is clear that although his self-image is amateur logician and sometimes metaphysician, his ultimate talent is as syntactician. Whether he is adumbrating Aquinas or decimating a contemporary cliche, his sentences can raise their eyebrows, he can punctuate his way out of a paper bag, he can set up a victim in parentheses and dispose of him in italics!

This mix -- the new syntax and the old politics -- in addition to exuding literary charm, seems suited to Buckley's specialty: the essaylet. Only Benjamin DeMott, Murray Kempton, David Cort come to mind as equally effective and dedicated short form cliche-busters. Which is why, by the way, why "Quotations" from the witty Mr. Buckley doesn't work. It is not that the bits aren't as funny as the pieces. It is simply that Mr. Buckley's syntax is his context. And the punchlines without the context are like Chambers without Hiss, Schine without Cohn, Mr. Buckley without Mrs. Roosevelt.

Mr. Navasky, of The Times Magazine staff, is at work on a book on Robert Kennedy as Attorney General.

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Letter to Broadcasters endorsing Public Interest Communications and their public service campaign to educate consumers regarding the energy crisis.

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Fairness doctrine (Broadcasting)

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Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington D.C. 20515

March 11, 1974

Dear Broadcaster:

The major oil companies are spending millions of advertising dollars to broadcast their views on "The Energy Crisis.” We are appealing to the nation’s broadcasters to exercise their responsibility under the "Fairness Doctrine" of the Federal Communications Act to assure that the public is fully and fairly exposed to all sides of the energy crisis controversy.

The Federal Communications Act requires that broadcasters present all divergent responsible viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance. Achieving this balance is especially crucial now, in light of the heavy volume of oil industry advertising which advocates a partisan position.

As energy industry advertising has turned from product promotion to political advocacy aimed at influencing public opinion, the citizen has not been afforded a fair opportunity to present the other side. We believe that adequate access for consumers, environmentalists, labor groups, and all concerned citizens is essential if the public is to make intelligent and well-informed decisions about the energy crisis and future energy policy. The ability of all segments of the national community to communicate their viewpoints on important public issues is fundamental to the workings of a democracy and is assured to all by the First Amendment. It is equally important that citizens have the right to communicate in the most effective format possible, the format that has been utilized so heavily by the oil industry: the short 30- or 60-second spot announcement broadcast during prime viewing time.

We endorse the efforts of groups like Public Interest Communications who are endeavoring to make media resources and materials available to groups holding divergent views of the energy situation. We urge your cooperation with their efforts and with the efforts of many other citizen groups seeking access on both a local and national level.

The Supreme Court has held that the "Fairness Doctrine" is designed to protect the paramount First Amendment rights of viewers and listeners to be exposed to all sides of important public controversies. By providing public service air time for the spot announcements produced by organizations like Public Interest Communications, you will not only be fulfilling your essential legal and constitutional obligation, but• you will also be proving that broadcasters can truly serve the public interest. You have a special opportunity, and a special responsibility, to provide access to the public air waves for citizens to participate in this crucial national debate. We hope you will respond favor ably to their petition for public service air time.

Joining the Members of Congress sending this letter are Public Interest Communications, Inc.; Media Access Project, Inc.; Environmental Policy Center; Environmental Action Foundation, and Consumer Federation of America.

Benjamin Rosenthal, M.C.

Other Members of Congress signing are:
Bella Abzug, M.C.
Brock Adams, M.C.
Herman Badillo, M.C.
George E. Brown, Jr., M.C.
Ronald V. Dellums, M.C.
Robert F. Drinan, M.C.
Don Edwards, M.C.
Michael Harrington, M.C.
Henry Helstoski, M.C.
Elizabeth Holtzman, M.C.
Edward I. Koch, M.C.
Joe Moakley, M.C.
Patricia Schroeder, M.C.
John Conyers, Jr., M.C.
James G. Abourezk, U.S.S.

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Rosenthal, Benjamin, “Letter to Broadcasters from Benjamin S. Rosenthal ,” Queens College Archives and Special Collections, accessed May 25, 2018,


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  • Oklahoma's Dillon Overton is currently helping the Sooners in the NCAA super regionals and the A's selected him in the second round of the draft.

The A's added a sweet-swinging outfielder with their first-round pick in Thursday's Major League Baseball Draft.

Plano West (Texas) High School outfielder Billy McKinney was taken by the A's with the 24th pick. McKinney was the 27th-ranked player entering the draft by Baseball America. The left-handed hitter batted .372 with four home runs and 17 RBIs. He also walked 36 times and had a .585 on-base percentage, surely catching general manager Billy Beane's eye.

"My dream is to become a big-league ballplayer, and hopefully I can start that dream soon," McKinney said, according to MLB.com. "I know the college coaches would love to have me there, but I'm just going to try to achieve my dream of becoming a Major League Baseball player."

McKinney is the second straight high school player selected by the A's in the first round, following shortstop Addison Russell last year. Russell was the first high school player taken by the A's in the first round since 2001.

With their second-round pick, the A's took Oklahoma left-hander Dillon Overton, who went 9-2 with a 2.91 ERA in 15 games, 13 of which were starts.

He struck out 76 and walked 22 in 86²⁄³ innings. The Sooners are still alive in the NCAA super regionals, facing LSU this weekend.

In the new competitive balance portion of the draft, the A's picked Virginia Tech shortstop Chad Pinder with the 71st pick. He hit .321 with eight homers and 50 RBIs in 60 games.

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Did city put up good fight for World Cup?

Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi wants to find out everything The City did to try and become a host of the World Cup soccer tournament in 2018 or 2022 because Mirkarimi cannot believe that San Francisco is not on the “short list” of cities who are the top contenders.

“I’m a little concerned that we have cities like Nashville and Tampa, St. Louis, among others, who are actually more in position to host the World Cup,” said Mirkarimi, noting that he thinks San Francisco would be one of the best hosts ever seen.

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It might sound nostalgic when pop-hip-hop duo Kalin and Myles reflect on their halcyon days attending high school in the Bay Area. But it wasn’t too long ago. Kalin (White, who went to Castro Valley High) and Myles (Parrish, a Dublin High alum) are barely into their 20s, but they have been busy. Among their accomplishments: the EP “Dedication” on their own Republic-distributed K&M Music imprint; an almost sold out three-night “Crazy for Christmas” run at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco this week; and announcing the huge “Dedication” tour that kicks off in London. They’ve come a long way from awkward early songwriting efforts like “Shake Somethin’” and “Kick it Like Karate.” Myles spoke about their success last week.

Do you guys actually hang out together offstage?

It just depends on the occasion. We kind of have really different personalities – Kalin is really super-social, so he’ll be at a lot of parties whenever we’re in L.A. But I’m more laid-back, I just like to chill and make beats. So a lot of times, we just do our own thing because we’re actually pretty different.

What do you like that Kalin doesn’t?

That whole social atmosphere – I don’t think I ever really fit into that in high school. I’d always feel weird, awkward and uncomfortable at parties. So I’d usually try and avoid those.

And you guys actually met at a movie theater three years ago?

It was the premiere of “Never Say Never,” and we both ended up in the same row. It was crazy. But that’s not where we officially met for the first time – it’s just where we finally crossed paths again. And I was like, “Hey – what’s up? I’ve started to do some music!”

If you’re so different, personality-wise, what kept the conversation going that night?

Just our interest in music. We both had it, from the beginning. And Kalin was able to help me out, confidence-wise. Because he was such a confident guy, whereas I was really lacking in that department, so he helped me get out there more. So it was just kind of like an opposites-attract thing.

And you were already experimenting with beats at home?

Yeah. And then I was just rapping to it, just for fun, then just putting some stuff up on YouTube. And there were a couple of people on YouTube that I subscribed to that I liked a lot, and who I would make some raps for. So it was just more for fun than anything.

Do you guys have a life philosophy already?

We’ve always wanted to show a positive message by looking at different situations positively in our songs. So now we just want to share that and inspire others.

Kalin and Myles

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When: 8 p.m. Dec. 19-21

Tickets: $21.50 to $199.50

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You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

It got a lot of attention this morning when I tweeted, “You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist.” It’s been quickly retweeted dozens of times, indicating that the idea is interesting to many people. So let’s discuss it in more than 140 characters.

In case it needs saying: Police officers are unlike terrorists in almost all respects. Crucially, the goal of the former, in their vastest majority, is to have a stable, peaceful, safe, law-abiding society, which is a goal we all share. The goal of the latter is … well, it’s complicated. I’ve cited my favorite expert on that, Audrey Kurth Cronin, here and here and here. Needless to say, the goal of terrorists is not that peaceful, safe, stable society.

I picked up the statistic from a blog post called: “Fear of Terror Makes People Stupid,” which in turn cites the National Safety Council for this and lots of other numbers reflecting likelihoods of dying from various causes. So dispute the number(s) with them, if you care to.

You need to read the whole article, and it’s links.

This is the quote that came to mind, after I read them:

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.  –  Benjamin Franklin, November 11, 1755

h/t Miss Cellania, Cato @ Liberty

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7 thoughts on “You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

  1. Sadly, not surprised by this stat AT ALL!

    Posted by Tomi | January 26, 2014, 9:30 am
  2. From one of the links: The gist is that terrorism seeks overreaction on the part of the victim state. Lacking power of their own, terrorists try to goad states into overzealous and misdirected responses that serve their aims.

    Well they certainly bullseyed the X on that count…overzealous and misdirected describes a LOT of govt doctrine.
    But remember it’s For The Children!™

    Posted by KM | January 26, 2014, 1:10 pm
  3. Depending where you live, the difference between the terrorists and the police might be simply be the presence of a uniform and government pay check.

    Posted by Matt | January 27, 2014, 8:15 am

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Title: Physical unknowables

Authors: Karl Svozil
Abstract: A variety of physical unknowables are discussed. Provable lack of physical omniscience, omnipredictability and omnipotence is derived by reduction to problems which are known to be recursively unsolvable. "Chaotic" symbolic dynamical systems are unstable with respect to variations of initial states. Quantum unknowables include the random occurrence of single events, complementarity and value indefiniteness.
Comments: Contribution to the international symposium "Horizons of Truth" celebrating the 100th birthday of Kurt Goedel, University of Vienna, from April 27th-29th, 2006; completely rewritten
Subjects: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
Journal reference: in "Kurt G\"odel and the Foundations of Mathematics," ed. by Matthias Baaz, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Hilary W. Putnam, Dana S. Scott and Charles L. Harper (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011), pp. 213-251
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On Sunday, 24 January 2016 a meeting was held in Canberra organised by the initiative in this area. The decision was taken to found ASF Canberra on a provisional basis, a final decision to be made at the next ASF Congress.

The ASF Canberra initiative was established in October 2013 and a public meeting was organised in September last year that was reasonably well attended.

The ASF now comprises five affiliates and has a presence in Brisbane, Burnie, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Townsville.

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Big day for a tuesday. Not only is it both Super Tuesday and Fat Tuesday, it's also the fifth anniversary of this here blog. That's right... five years I've been doing this. That's a pretty long time in internet years, isn't it?

The blog was conceived at a bar called Tritone, much encouraged by drinks and an LJ-invite from my bartender and friend Kelly. Looking back, the early entries were frankly pretty boring and a lot of the photos from the first six months are now gone because I was a crazy little hotlinker. But in July of 2003, the lovely and talented exacademic opened the gates of his noble country and allowed our images a place of permanent refuge.

Originally, I didn't really have much of a personal nature that I wanted to share so I was determined to write the entire blog in the character of Ass Monkey. But as early as August of that year bits of my actual life were occasionally creeping bloglike into it. The whole writing-in-character thing pretty much culminated in the kidnapping saga (12/17/03 to 01/15/04), when my evil twin brother Declan hijacked the blog, converting it to suit his own twisted fetish.

By spring of 2004, I was pretty much blogging in the current style, but then tragedy struck in April when a harddrive crash wiped out my entire Ass Monkey archive. I gave considerable thought to quitting at that point, but ultimately vowed to rebuild the empire. In March of 2005, I got briefly written up by Fleshbot, which led to a surge in readership. There must have been a few mentions on Russian websites too because every so often a new wave of Russian LJs discover me.

During the first couple years, there were occasional theme days like "Do Not Touch My Butt Day" and "Fishnets Week," but on February 6th, 2004 (just after the first anniversary), I started the first of the weekly features: Fantassy Fridays, featuring great old illustrations by folks like Frazetta, Vallejo, Petty and Vargas. Unfortunately by the end of that year I had allowed it to putter out. I'm thinking that maybe I should start it up again.

The second weekly feature stared shortly thereafter, when I finally realized how much you guys likes the vintages photos I occasionally posted, so on April 28th, 2004, I innaugarated Wayback Wednesday, which is still going strong and possibly the most popular day of the week.

Then last summer, I made my 1000th post and received my 5000th comment.

Listening to: Talking Heads - "Dream Operator"
themacguffin on February 5th, 2008 03:17 pm (UTC)
and people wonder why Barbara Walters always asks what sort of tree you would want to be...
Diary of an Ass Monkey: amd: fishingassmonkeydiary on February 5th, 2008 05:34 pm (UTC)
Definitely the climbing kind.
Another one of the birds: pic#69515785acardart on February 5th, 2008 03:38 pm (UTC)
all of the themed days sound like fun and i must admit that i never noticed a pattern...
I really enjoy the vintage shots which i think i swiped from you to make this icon
Diary of an Ass Monkey: amd: blue bottleassmonkeydiary on February 5th, 2008 03:38 pm (UTC)
Haha... that was a fun one.
traballenguastraballenguas on February 5th, 2008 03:40 pm (UTC)
Oh NO!!!
You started on the Day of Shame!

Congrats anyway!
Diary of an Ass Monkeyassmonkeydiary on February 5th, 2008 05:33 pm (UTC)
Re: Oh NO!!!
I responded to the Day of Shame by indulging in shameless bottom blogging.
traballenguastraballenguas on February 5th, 2008 05:34 pm (UTC)
Re: Oh NO!!!
Yeah! That will show them. Five years with our collective ass hanging in the wind...
Blakehaze on February 5th, 2008 03:44 pm (UTC)
My memory says that you found and added me as a friend two or three years ago (this may or may not be true). This is where I thank you for showing me your wonderful journal and congratulate you on your success. Of course if I'm wrong you can still have the thanks and congratulations!

Keep it up for another five long internet years and somebody might give you an award. I think it could happen.
Diary of an Ass Monkey: amd: Ape vs. Jet Girlassmonkeydiary on February 5th, 2008 05:29 pm (UTC)
Thanks, man. I can't really remember how I first ran across you. You must have made an interesting comment on some other blog that I was reading at the time.
doNUT!donutgirl on February 5th, 2008 05:19 pm (UTC)
I liked the old days when you'd occasionally post funny asses or animal asses as well as sexy asses.
Diary of an Ass Monkeyassmonkeydiary on February 5th, 2008 05:28 pm (UTC)
You have a long memory!
micah: shirin neshatlaerm on February 5th, 2008 05:19 pm (UTC)
heyyyyy, congratulations. i think you came into my life - or, should i say, backed into my life - towards the end of '04. i can't imagine you blogging under a guise. i think that'd be sort of corny. i always find i lose interest in that type of blog shortly before the writer does, and both are usually fairly quick.

how long have you been doing the best of 20XX polls? it'd be interesting to see a best of the best of. then again, maybe i just like polls. then again then again, maybe it's just the polling in the air today.
Diary of an Ass Monkey: amd: aqua chairassmonkeydiary on February 5th, 2008 05:26 pm (UTC)
I've just done the best of for the past two years, but I'm thinking of running some brief contests to determine the best ones from the 2003-5 so that we can have a big battle of the yearly bests sometime around the 8th or 10th anniversary.
...: Peanut Butter Jelly Guidowyndebreaker on February 5th, 2008 06:20 pm (UTC)
And yet you have only begin to scratch the surface (heh) of the world's beautiful asses.
Diary of an Ass Monkey: amd: red cameraassmonkeydiary on February 6th, 2008 09:54 pm (UTC)
Yeah, in the beginning I was worried that I'd run out of pics, but now my archives and downright overflowing.
captian_whamo on February 5th, 2008 06:48 pm (UTC)
woo hoo!
i have to say, i have been a reader of this journal twice. i cancelled my first account, but had to come back for the way back wednesdays. (i have a collection of them on my computer for when i need a pick me up.) your doing a great service here to those creative ass lovers with nill in computer savvy. keep up the good work sir. i hope it sticks around for a long time still....
Diary of an Ass Monkeyassmonkeydiary on February 6th, 2008 09:55 pm (UTC)
Re: woo hoo!
Thanks. I splurged on a lifetime account, so we'll see....
hopefoothopefoot on February 5th, 2008 06:55 pm (UTC)
You rock.
Diary of an Ass Monkey: amd: ape in icelandassmonkeydiary on February 6th, 2008 09:55 pm (UTC)
You scissors!
zantimisfit on February 5th, 2008 06:56 pm (UTC)
Happy Blog-iversary. I can't believe I didn't find you sooner since we have one of those 6 degrees of separation things going on. I'm sending you an blog-ivesary gift via email.
Diary of an Ass Monkey: amd: blue statueassmonkeydiary on February 6th, 2008 09:57 pm (UTC)
Ha! Just got it... awesome!
Pallaspallasathene8 on February 5th, 2008 07:08 pm (UTC)
I'm totally going to make the 10,000th comment.
Diary of an Ass Monkey: amd: blue poolsideassmonkeydiary on February 6th, 2008 09:58 pm (UTC)
You could just keep hitting the reply button over and over and have it done in one night!
orcaarroworcaarrow on February 6th, 2008 12:24 pm (UTC)
A much more important date, as far as I'm concerned. I hope that you have another 20 more wonderful years.

Thank you for your posts.
Diary of an Ass Monkeyassmonkeydiary on February 6th, 2008 09:59 pm (UTC)
Twenty more years of me complaining about the weather!
Kegboykegboy on February 6th, 2008 01:22 pm (UTC)
Found this, thought of you.
I think its about time the audience give something back to the host.

Diary of an Ass Monkey: amd: green grassassmonkeydiary on February 6th, 2008 10:03 pm (UTC)
Heh... stupid work internet won't let me see it! I'll have to check it out when I get home.
Kegboy: art1kegboy on February 6th, 2008 10:06 pm (UTC)
might not be the stupid internet. When I click on the click I dont see anything but when I c/p the address into the address bar it turns up. Strange.


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Vegan/Vegetarian Quinoa Chili

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This recipe is warm and filling for those cool nights ahead of us. It is packed with various sources of plant-based proteins: quinoa, red kidney beans, chickpeas, and textured vegetable protein (TVP). This recipe also passed the test with my dad (a meat-eater)… he absolutely loved it! I calculated the nutrition facts based on 12 servings and you will get ~170 calories per serving/bowl.

You can also make this recipe not vegetarian by removing the TVP and swapping for ground chicken or turkey. Why not ground beef? Ground beef is higher in saturated fats and calories and I do not consider this a lean source of protein. However, everything in moderation is key to a healthy lifestyle!

Note: If you are swapping to add ground meat to your chili instead of plant-based proteins, cook in a skillet first and then add into the large pot when it in fully cooked. Also, you may need to add a bit extra broth so that it does not get way too chunky.

What you will need: (Serves ~12-14 bowls)

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 large green pepper, chopped
  • 1 large red pepper, chopped
  • 1 large yellow pepper, chopped
  • 1 red onion, chopped
  • 1 clove of crushed garlic
  • 1.5 cups sliced mushrooms

*Saute the above ingredients first.

  • 2 cans diced tomatoes (500 mL)
  • 2 cups vegetable broth
  • 1/2 cup uncooked quinoa
  • 1/2 cup + 2 tbsp TVP (found at bulk barn)
  • 1.5 cup chickpeas
  • 2 cups red kidney beans
  • 3/4 cup frozen corn niblets
  • 3.5 tbsp chili powder
  • 1 1/2 tsp cumin
  • 1/4 tsp paprika
  • 3 cloves of garlic, crushed
  • Ground sea salt to taste
  • Ground pepper to taste
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp italian seasoning
  • 1/2 tsp garlic powder

  1. Saute the top bundle of vegetable ingredients in a skillet on medium-high heat first (with regular mixing).
  2. While your vegetables are cooking, prepare a large pot. Add you tomatoes, veg broth, uncooked quinoa, and TVP. Let this sit on medium heat to begin to cook the quinoa and TVP.
  3. After ~10-12 minutes of sauteeing of the vegetables, when they are finished, you can add them to the large pot. Stir in with the other ingredients.
  4. Add in the rest of your seasonings and beans to the large pot.
  5. Lower the burner temperature to low after ~10 more minutes of cooking everything together.
  6. Allow the chili to simmer for at least an hour to bring all the flavours out.
  7. You can eat immediately, store in the refrigerator or freezer for later consumption. Enjoy!

Nutrition Facts per serving (based on 12 servings): 170 calories, 3.9g fat, 25g carbohydrate, 8g protein.

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Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA Reply

by Glenn Greenwald

from the Guardian.

The rightwing transparency group, Judicial Watch, released Tuesday a new batch of documents showing how eagerly the Obama administrationshoveled information to Hollywood film-makers about the Bin Laden raid. Obama officials did so to enable the production of a politically beneficial pre-election film about that “heroic” killing, even as administration lawyers insisted to federal courts and media outlets that no disclosure was permissible because the raid was classified.

Thanks to prior disclosures from Judicial Watch of documents it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, this is old news. That’s what the Obama administration chronically does: it manipulates secrecy powers to prevent accountability in a court of law, while leaking at will about the same programs in order to glorify the president.

But what is news in this disclosure are the newly released emailsbetween Mark Mazzetti, the New York Times‘s national security and intelligence reporter, and CIA spokeswoman Marie Harf. The CIA had evidently heard that Maureen Dowd was planning to write a column on the CIA’s role in pumping the film-makers with information about the Bin Laden raid in order to boost Obama’s re-election chances, and was apparently worried about how Dowd’s column would reflect on them. On 5 August 2011 (a Friday night), Harf wrote an email to Mazzetti with the subject line: “Any word??”, suggesting, obviously, that she and Mazzetti had already discussed Dowd’s impending column and she was expecting an update from the NYT reporter.

A mere two minutes after the CIA spokeswoman sent this Friday night inquiry, Mazzetti responded. He promised her that he was “going to see a version before it gets filed”, and assured her that there was likely nothing to worry about:

“My sense is there a very brief mention at bottom of column about CIA ceremony, but that [screenwriter Mark] Boal also got high level access at Pentagon.”

She then replied with this instruction to Mazzetti: “keep me posted”, adding that she “really appreciate[d] it”.

“My sense is there a very brief mention at bottom of column about CIA ceremony, but that [screenwriter Mark] Boal also got high level access at Pentagon.”

She then replied with this instruction to Mazzetti: “keep me posted”, adding that she “really appreciate[d] it”.

Moments later, Mazzetti forwarded the draft of Dowd’s unpublished column to the CIA spokeswoman (it was published the following night online by the Times, and two days later in the print edition). At the top of that email, Mazzetti wrote: “this didn’t come from me … and please delete after you read.” He then proudly told her that his assurances turned out to be true:

“See, nothing to worry about.”

This exchange, by itself, is remarkably revealing: of the standard role played by establishment journalists and the corruption that pervades it. Here we have a New York Times reporter who covers the CIA colluding with its spokesperson to plan for the fallout from the reporting by his own newspaper (“nothing to worry about”). Beyond this, that a New York Times journalist – ostensibly devoted to bringing transparency to government institutions – is pleading with the CIA spokesperson, of all people, to conceal his actions and to delete the evidence of collusion is so richly symbolic.

The relationship between the New York Times and the US government is, as usual, anything but adversarial. Indeed, these emails read like the interactions between a PR representative and his client as they plan in anticipation of a possible crisis.

Even more amazing is the reaction of the newspaper’s managing editor, Dean Baquet, to these revelations, as reported by Politico’s Dylan Byers:

“New York Times Managing Editor Dean Baquet called POLITICO to explain the situation, but provided little clarity, saying he could not go into detail on the issue because it was an intelligence matter.

“‘I know the circumstances, and if you knew everything that’s going on, you’d know it’s much ado about nothing,’ Baquet said. ‘I can’t go into in detail. But I’m confident after talking to Mark that it’s much ado about nothing.’

“‘The optics aren’t what they look like,’ he went on. ‘I’ve talked to Mark, I know the circumstance, and given what I know, it’s much ado about nothing.'”

There is so much to say about that passage.

First, try though I did, I’m unable to avoid noting that this statement from Baquet – “the optics aren’t what they look like” – is one of the most hilariously incoherent utterances seen in some time. It’s the type of meaningless, illiterate corporatesethat comes spewing forth from bumbling executives defending the indefensible. I’ve read that sentence roughly a dozen times over the last 24 hours and each time, it provides me with greater amounts of dark amusement.

Second, look at how the New York Times mimics the CIA even in terms of how the newspaper’s employees speak: Baquet “provided little clarity, saying he could not go into detail on the issue because it was an intelligence matter“. In what conceivable way is Mazzetti’s collusion with the CIA an “intelligence matter” that prevents the NYT’s managing editor from explaining what happened here?

This is what the CIA reflexively does: insists that, even when it comes to allegations that they have engaged in serious wrongdoing, you (and even courts) cannot know what the agency is doing because it is an “intelligence matter”. Now, here we have the managing editor of the Newspaper of Record reciting this same secrecy-loving phrase verbatim – as though the New York Times is some sort of an intelligence agency whose inner workings must be concealed for our own safety – all in order to avoid any sort of public disclosure about the wrongdoing in which it got caught engaging. One notices this frequently: media figures come to identify so closely with the government officials on whom they report that they start adopting not only their way of thinking, but even their lingo.

Third, note how Baquet proudly touts the fact that he knows facts to which you are not and will not be privvy:

“I know the circumstances, if you knew everything that’s going on, you’d know it’s much ado about nothing.”

Isn’t the function of a newspaper supposed to be to tell us “everything that’s going on”, not to boast that it knows the circumstances and you do not?

Baquet’s claim that this was all “much ado about nothing” did not, apparently, sit well with at least some people at the New York Times, who seem not to appreciate it when their national security reporter secretly gives advanced copies of columns to the CIA spokesperson. Shortly after Baquet issued his ringing defense of Mazzetti’s behavior, a spokesperson for the paper not only provided the details Baquet insisted could not be given, but also made clear that Mazzetti’s conduct was inappropriate:

“Last August, Maureen Dowd asked Mark Mazzetti to help check a fact for her column. In the course of doing so, he sent the entire column to a CIA spokeswoman shortly before her deadline. He did this without the knowledge of Ms Dowd. This action was a mistake that is not consistent with New York Times standards.”

It may be “inconsistent with the New York Times standards” for one of its reporters to secretly send advanced copy to the CIA and then ask that the agency delete all record that he did so: one certainly hopes it is. But it is not, unfortunately, inconsistent with the paper’s behavior in general, when it comes to reporting on public officials. Serving as obedient lapdogs and message-carriers for political power, rather than adversarial watchdogs over power, is par for the course.

The most obvious example of this is the paper’s complicity with propagating war-fueling falsehoods to justify the attack on Iraq – though, in that instance, it washardly alone. Just last month, it was revealed that the NYT routinely gives veto power to Obama campaign officials over the quotes from those officials the paper is allowed to publish – a practice barred by other outlets (but not the NYT) bothprior to that revelation and subsequent to it.

Worse, the paper frequently conceals vital information of public interest at the direction of the government, as it did when it learned of George Bush’s illegal eavesdropping program in mid 2004 but concealed it for more than a year at the direction of the White House, until Bush was safely re-elected; as it did when it complied with government directives to conceal the CIA employment of Raymond Davis, captured by Pakistan, even as President Obama falsely described him as “our diplomat in Pakistan” and as the NYT reported the president’s statement without noting that it was false; and as it did with its disclosure of numerous WikiLeaks releases, for which the paper, as former executive editor Bill Keller proudly boasted, took direction from the government regarding what should and should not be published.

And that’s all independent of the chronic practice of the NYT to permit government officials to hide behind anonymity in order to disseminate government propaganda – or even to smear journalists as al-Qaida sympathizers for reporting critically on government actions – even when granting such anonymity violates its own publicly announced policies.

What all of this behavior from the NYT has in common is clear: it demonstrates the extent to which it institutionally collaborates with and serves the interests of the nation’s most powerful factions, rather than act as an adversarial check on them. When he talks to the CIA spokesperson, Mazzetti sounds as if he’s talking to a close colleague working together on a joint project.

It sounds that way because that’s what it is.

One can, if one wishes, cynically justify Mazzetti’s helpful co-operation with the CIA as nothing more than a common means which journalists use to curry favor with their sources. Leave aside the fact that the CIA spokesperson with whom Mazzetti is co-operating is hardly some valuable leaker deep within the bowels of the agency but, in theory, should be the supreme adversary of real journalists: her job is to shape public perception as favorably as possible to the CIA, even at the expense of the truth.

The more important objection is that the fact that a certain behavior is common does not negate its being corrupt. Indeed, as is true for government abuses generally, those in power rely on the willingness of citizens to be trained to view corrupt acts as so common that they become inured, numb, to its wrongfulness. Once a corrupt practice is sufficiently perceived as commonplace, then it is transformed in people’s minds from something objectionable into something acceptable. Indeed, many people believe it demonstrates their worldly sophistication to express indifference toward bad behavior by powerful actors on the ground that it is so prevalent. This cynicism – oh, don’t be naive: this is done all the time – is precisely what enables such destructive behavior to thrive unchallenged.

It is true that Mazzetti’s emails with the CIA do not shock or surprise in the slightest. But that’s the point. With some noble journalistic exceptions (at the NYT and elsewhere), these emails reflect the standard full-scale cooperation – a virtual merger – between our the government and the establishment media outlets that claim to act as “watchdogs” over them.

From “All the news that’s fit to print” to “please delete after you read” and cannot “go into detail because it is an intelligence matter”: that’s the gap between the New York Times’s marketed brand and its reality.

* * * * *

UPDATE: The Times’ Public Editor weighed in on this matter today, noting his clear disapproval for what Mazzetti did:

“Whatever Mr. Mazzetti’s motivation, it is a clear boundary violation to disclose a potentially sensitive article pre-publication under such circumstances. This goes well beyond the normal give-and-take that characterizes the handling of sources and suggests the absence of an arm’s-length relationship between a reporter and those he is dealing with.”

While Mazzetti himself expresses regret for his behavior — “It was definitely a mistake to do. I have never done it before and I will never do it again” — both he and Executive Editor Jill Abramson insist that he had no bad intent, but was simply trying to help out a colleague (Dowd) by having her claims fact-checked. Like Baquet, Abramson invokes secrecy to conceal the key facts: “I can’t provide further detail on why the entire column was sent.”

The question raised by these excuses is obvious: if Mazzetti were acting with such pure and benign motives, why did he ask the CIA to delete the email he sent? This appears to be a classic case of expressing sorrow not over what one did, but over having been caught.

On a different note, Politico’s Byers, in response to my inquiry, advises me that Baquet did indeed say what Byers attributed to him — “he could not go into detail on the issue because it was an intelligence matter” — and that his exact quote was: it “has to with intel.”

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I am on probation, I cannot leave the city or the country. I cannot go back home, and I don’t know what the police are brewing behind my back. They no longer tell me anything. Patients keep waiting for me every morning on the street, but I don’t dare to cure them. Tahara cannot let anyone inside, because the health inspectors are in ambush ready to close her hotel.

I secretly continue to give some remedies to the people on the street. How can I refuse to help a mother who is pained for her child?

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I prepare them in my room. During the police inspection, they forgot to confiscate some bottles of essential oils that I immediately hid .but I no longer have needles and for the majority of patients I cannot do much, especially for the elderly who are disabled by rheumatism.

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So, I started again to search for a site for the well. I decided to broaden the scope of my search to the villages around Timbuktu. I was advised about a camp of Arab resident Tuaregs, who do not work or farm. They live from NGO fundings. Their need for water is great, but it is not a real village. Families live in huts hundred meters apart from each other because Tuaregs don’t like to live close to each other. I would like to find a place where the well would be more useful.

Then, I visited the village of Bokiat.

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All the people of the village subsist on endeavors related to horticulture. Even the young Imam gardens the land instead of living from Religion.

Their working conditions are terrible, they have a hand pump (to pump water) that is far from the farmlands. They must pump the water manually and, after this effort, they have to carry it for 200 meters to the farmlands.

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The water pump of the gardens

40 Litres of water, the whole day. They even have holes in the ground, it is even more difficult. They carry up these 40 litres of water up stairs that are some 12 meters in height.

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The impact on their body is significant. Their physical condition is pitiful, their knees are worn out and their back are battered.… When I examine their back to cure them, wherever I touch, they jump from the pain. They hurt from their neck to their lower backs. I realize that God did not create the human body to carry 40 kg all day, every day. I start to think about our Italian farmers who complain incessantly of the hardness of their work, and yet they only need to open a tap.

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I think Bokiat is a possible site to make a well and put up a windmill. The necessary conditions that I was looking for are all here. It is a village where people actually work, instead of living from foreign subsidies. The water is insufficient, even with the village’s small solar pump and hand pump. There is also wind for the wind power pump. In addition, the ideal site is located next to the road. For this reason, placing a windmill to pump water from the soil will be visible to many people, and it will hopefully inspire emulators.

I met with the villagers, and they were excited to have a new source of water.

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I asked them to show me where would be the best location for the well, and they showed me the site.

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This is extraordinarily creepy:

Posted on I-4, in Florida.

Also goes right along with my sense that we are turning into the Democratic People's Republic of 'Murika. The DPRK has had "Great Leader" and "Dear Leader", after all. We've all seen the great big statues and posters of Saddam, Khomeini, Kim, Stalin, Hitler... When a "leader" demands veneration from the people, rather than recognizing that he is a servant of those people, you should really start to worry.

Incidentally, if you read the fine print, this exercise in anti-democratic bullshit was brought to us by Clear Channel, the radio-and-advertising conglomerate that is known to be responsible for at least one death. They also lobbied the FCC heavily over the course of the last four years to allow them to buy up more independent media, and did various blatant favors for the administration (such as banning their stations from playing songs, such as John Lennon's "Imagine", which might be interpreted as anti-war).

Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Führer! Ein Netwerk!

This comes originally from the illustrious canticle, here. There's also a new post with another, only slightly less creepy, billboard.

ETA: In case you haven't heard, they made Arlen Specter take a loyalty oath (promising not to exercise his own judgement in deciding whether to support nominations) before letting him be chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It was disgusting enough when it was just the attendees at Bush-Cheney campaign rallies, but now they're doing it to high-ranking, elected members of their party.
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