tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45536298285725240002024-03-19T01:48:03.494-07:00Hugh MurrayI have taught at universities in the US, the UK, Germany and China and I have published in numerous academic journals. I was active in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s demanding equal rights for Blacks. NOW I SUPPORT CIVIL RIGHTS AND DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL CITIZENS, INCLUDING WHITES AND MEN.
(For some of my more formal writing, go to http://www.anthonyflood.com/murray.htm you can find photos, etc.) For most of my writing, see Tulane University's Library, Special Collections.Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.comBlogger399125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-56675935998259324382024-03-11T13:56:00.000-07:002024-03-18T17:29:45.396-07:00FROM MY FORTHCOMING BOOK - HUGH MURRAY<p><span><span face=""Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">What
do Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Paul Robeson,
Lorraine Hansberry, Bayard Rustin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mrs. Raymond
Parks,, and Martin Luther King, Jr. all have in common? Yes, they
were all blacks, or Negroes as the more common term used in the
earlier era. And many would have had other common experiences, but
one I want to stress here – they were all, at some point in their
lives, in the orbit of the Communist Party of the USA. My point is
that the CPUSA, though a small political party, had influence far
beyond its numbers, which at its height, was only 100,000. McKay, a
West Indian native who came to the US, in November 1922 traveled to Moscow to present “A Report on the Negro Question” to the 4th</span><span face="Franklin Gothic Medium, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></span></span><span face=""Franklin Gothic Medium", sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">gathering of the Comintern (the Communist International). His bitter poem, “If we must die,” had stirred black reaction to
continued oppression following victory in the Great War, the war to
save the world for democracy. His novels explored race and he then became
something of a black nationalist. Four years before his death in 948, Mc Kay was baptized and received into the Roman Catholic Church.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Franklin Gothic Medium, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> Langston
Hughes also wrote some bitter poetry, like “Christ is a n*****,”
and a play about the Scottsboro boys facing electrocution because of
false accusations of rape in Alabama in the 1930s. Even earlier, in the 1920s Hughes partook in a sit-in in North Carolina. But by
the late 1940s, he is denying any connections to the CP. Author
Richard Wright, who had portrayed some individual communists heroes in
his novels, turned against the party and its ideology, even
contributing a chapter to the influential, strongly anti-communist collection, <i>The God
that Failed</i>. Robeson had been an all-American football player
for Rutgers University in the 19teens while excelling in academia,
graduating cum laude. He then earned a law degree from Columbia U.,
while playing in early professional football leagues. Robeson found limitations in the legal field; he had a
bass/baritone voice and sang professionally, performed in the theater
more and more, and then in films, singing “Ol Man River” in the
1935 film version of <i>Show Boat</i>. He and his wife lived in Britain as
he performed on the stage there, and in British films, where, ruling
half of Africa, they wanted films with black stars – and Robeson
became one. He met and befriended some film extras, African
university students studying in the U.K. But he did not forget
America. Robeson and a student, Johnstone Kenyatta, headed the
British Scottsboro Defence Committee in Britain. (Somewhat later,
Johnstone would later return to his homeland, become known as Jomo, and
lead the Mau Mau rebellion against the British in Kenya.) Robeson
himself became more political and decided it best if his son grew up
without racism, so Paul sent his son to live with his grandmother in Moscow in the
late 1930s. The father generally defended anti-colonialist
policies, and supported Soviet approaches into the 1940s and during the Cold War.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Franklin Gothic Medium, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;">Lorraine Hansberry used a line from a Hughes' poem as the title of her major
play (and film), <i>A Raisin in the Sun</i>. She also wrote for <i>Freedom</i>, the Harlem
newspaper founded by Robeson during the Cold War. She became a
spokesperson for Southern civil rights activists, when she, other
celebrities, and activist Jerome Smith met with Atty. Gen. Robert
Kennedy in the early 1960s. Bayard Rustin, from a Quaker family,
opposed the war clouds brewing in the late 1930s. When Nazi Germany
attacked Poland (usually given as the start of WWII), while most of
the West and many Americans supported Britain and the other
“democracies,” the CPUSA followed the notions of Moscow, refusing to
support the imperialist, colonialist powers (Britain, France,
Netherlands, Belgium, and America). To the pacifist, Ruston, this
seemed reasonable, and he joined thethen anti-war Young Communist League.
In summer 1941 Hitler attacked the USSR, and suddenly communist
policy changed – the “imperialist” powers had to be helped as allies in order to
destroy Nazi fascism, the old popular front with liberal democracy
was revived to defeat Hitler. The YCL now became all out for support
of war, and Rustin ceased to be a part of it. He would continue to
protest in various ways, and eventually organize the influential 1963 March on Washington.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Franklin Gothic Medium, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> Du
Bois had supported the drums of the Great War, but soon
discovered that Wilson's notion of democracy did not extend to black
people. The new NAACP gave him a platform, and provided some
national center to fight violent and overt racism. The
organization's magazine, <i>The Crisis</i>, was edited by Du Bois, and he
wrote much of the material as well. Still, the virulently black
nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Assn., founded by a very
black Marcus Garvey, won a larger following than did the proper
middle-class NAACP. Worse, Garvey made deals with the growing Ku Klux
Klan, supported segregation, and even championed a return of Negroes to Africa.
Du Bois was certainly not chagrined when the US deported Garvey. In
the 1930s Du Bois was critical of the CP, especially in its defense
of the Scottsboro boys. Du Bois had hoped to regain control of the defense from the CP, but the boys and their moms chose the communists
instead of the NAACP. Du Bois traveled in Germany in the 1930s, and had kind
words for the people of color of imperial Japan. But with WWII, he became more
anti-imperialist, and certainly more skeptical of the Missouri
Democrat, Harry Truman, who became President opon FDR's death in spring
1945. Truman, who had a Confederate heritage, was close to leading segregationists like South Carolina's Jimmy Burns, whom Truman appointed as Sed. of State. But in 1948, hoping to win another term in office, Truman began to s</span><span style="font-size: large;">eek black votes, addressed the NAACP, the first
President to do so. When Du Bois refused to support Truman and
backed a previous FDR VP, Henry Wallace for President in 1948 against
Truman, the NAACP fired Du Bois. With that, the NAACP in effect, became a Democratic party front-group. Truman got further revenge when his
Atty. General had Du Bois arrested as a foreign agent in 1950. Just
before Du Bois chose to leave the US for the Gold Coast, now
independent Ghana, he joined the CPUSA. Ironically, Du Bois, who had opposed Garvey's Back to Africa campaign of the 1920s, became the most prominent American black to return to Africa in 1961.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Franklin Gothic Medium, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> Rosa
Mc Cauley married Raymond Parks, a barber in Montgomery, Alabama in
1932. The Scottsboro rape cases had become international news,
thanks to the International Labor Defense, a CP front organization.
Alabama authorities had raided some CP attempts to organize share
croppers into unions, and sheriffs and deputies and some of their
posses had killed those who dared attend such subversive meetings.
Raymond worked with the ILD to bring food and fresh clothing to the 9
jailed black boys. He also had meetings at his home. Rosa was
sometimes look-out to warn if any strange cars were coming. With her
husband, Rosa Parks also attended some CP meetings.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Franklin Gothic Medium, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> In
1948 the civil rights movement in the South WAS the Henry Wallace
Progressive Party. The 1948 PP was endorsed by the CPUSA. That
year, Virginia Durr ran for the US Senate from Virginia on the PP ticket. She and her
husband were Alabama natives who had moved to the Washington area
when Clifford was appointed to a federal agency in 1933, and they
remained during the New Deal era. When FDR sought to gain support
in the South (after many in Congress had rejected his court-packing
bill), the New Deal sought to promote uplift to the South, the
poorest part of the nation. As part of this effort, Eleanor Roosevelt was also involved in
the creation of the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, and
Virginia Durr was on its civil rights committee. Of course, to many
Southerners, integration was communism, or often called
race-mixing or mongrelization. Harry Truman's Attorney General would
place the SCHW on his list of subversive organizations, so it would
be targeted for destruction. Durr did not the Virginia Senate seat she sought. She
and Clifford then returned to Alabama, Montgomery. She required a
seamstress to help, and then she helped the seamstress get a
scholarship to Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, a “progressive”
school where one might learn about protest. So seamstress Rosa Parks went. The
rest is history.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Franklin Gothic Medium, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> Martin
Luther King, Jr. also attended Highlander. There was a famous
photograph taken of him seated beside a member of the CPUSA. If you
drove through the South in the 1950s or 60s, you might have seen the
bill boards showing King at the "communist" training school. (They may
have been the same bill boards that had earlier displayed IMPEACH
EARL WARREN signs after the Supreme Court ruled against segregation
of the public schools. King was a young minister, thrust into the
fire of the Montgomery bus boycott, with all its dangers. If there
were threats, there was also help, and one helper became one of
King's chief advisors, Stanley Levison. According to the FBI,
Levison was s secret member of the CPUSA, and handled some of its hidden funds. Levison was now fund-raising for King. More, he was advising
on tactics, writing some of King's speeches, perhaps chapters of his books.
Both Pres. John Kennedy and Atty . Gen. Robert Kennedy told (ordered)
King to break with Levison. King lied, said he had split with his
advisor, but King maintained his contact with the controversial, and quite influential Stanley Levison.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Franklin Gothic Medium, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> CAN
THERE BE ANY DOUBT THAT THE CPUSA HAS HAD GREAT INFLUENCE ON AMERICA?
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Franklin Gothic Medium, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"> It
was not only blacks who were swayed by the CP. For whites, I shall
mention only one name of a person involved in the communist orbit. Some disagree. However, his wife was a member of the CP; his mistress was also a member of the CP, and his brother was a member of the CP. Was he in the orbit of the Communist Party? The man I am referring to is J. Robert Oppenheimer. With a wife, mistress, and brother all party members, did that color his thinking closer to red? Moreover, according to an article in the September 2023 <i>Commentary</i> magazine, "Oppenheimer Was a Communist," by Harvey Klehr and<i> </i>John Earl Haynes, not only did J. Robert contribute healthy sums to communist front organizations in the 1930s, they contend that he himself was also a member. Then, which is it; CP leaders told him to drop out of the organization, for he might have to pass an important security check? Or he heard of the major scientific project, and on his own, decided to keep a distance from the CP? He did pass the test, and was soon working in the Manhattan Project. The rest is history, and a movie.</span></p>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-44797383568436598622024-02-28T09:08:00.000-08:002024-02-28T09:08:28.597-08:00MICHIGAN PRIMARY RESULTS, FEB. 2024, REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Most tv analysts of the primary results miss the obvious, probably because they prefer to not see it. The following is my comment on Newser re the primaries in Michigan. - Hugh Murray</span></p><header class="comment__header" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px; min-height: 20px; padding-right: 80px;"><span class="post-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="author publisher-anchor-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #656c7a; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 4px;"><a data-action="profile" data-tab="" data-username="humura" href="https://disqus.com/by/humura/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 238) !important; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;" target="_blank">humura</a></span> <span class="user-badges-collection" data-role="badges" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"></span></span></span><span class="post-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="time-ago" data-role="relative-time" href="https://www.newser.com/story/comments/347024/5-takeaways-from-the-michigan-primaries.html#comment-6402022021" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e58; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;" title="Wednesday, February 28, 2024 11:01 AM"><span style="font-size: medium;">a few seconds ago</span></a></span></header><div class="post-body-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="post-message-container" data-role="message-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 592px; zoom: 1;"><div class="publisher-anchor-color" data-role="message-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="post-message " data-role="message" dir="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What most news sources ignore - Biden 620,000; Trump 755,000. Biden had carried Michigan in 2020, according to the "official" count. Most discussion concerns, what will the Haley voters do, and what with the Dem. uncommitted do. The basic vote - Biden, the sitting President, got far fewer votes than Trump, the man he allegedly defeated in Michigan in 2020. I would conclude, not a good omen for Biden for November 2024.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-71103489760459022892024-02-23T22:28:00.000-08:002024-02-23T22:28:23.828-08:00ON MATH HISTORY - BUT DID WE LOOK FAR ENOUGH?<p>The following comes from Newser, and my comment is below it, and also that of Delta. </p><p>Hugh Murray </p><div id="divStoryHeading" style="font-family: arial;"><div class="cl" id="divTitle" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><h1>Math Historian Saw Decimals in 1440s Treatise and Freaked Out</h1></div><div id="divDeck" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Glen Van Brummelen uncovers earliest known use of decimal to indicate base-10 number system</div><div id="divAuthor"><div style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></div><table class="mce-item-table" id="authorBylineTable" style="border: 1px dashed rgb(187, 187, 187);"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1px dashed rgb(187, 187, 187); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div id="divBy"><span style="font-size: large;">By <a data-mce-href="https://www.newser.com/bio/83590798/arden-dier.html" href="https://www.newser.com/bio/83590798/arden-dier.html" id="HyperLinkAuthor">Arden Dier</a>, Newser Staff</span></div><div id="divPostedDate"><span id="spanPublishedDate"><span style="font-size: large;">Posted Feb 23, 2024 4:15 PM CST</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="divSocialAndCommentsContainer" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><div id="divSocialAndCommentsButtonsTop"><br /></div></div></div><div id="divStory" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13.3333px;"><div id="divMediaContainer"><div class="divMedia" id="divMedia"><div class="mediaItemMainBelow" id="divMediaMain"><figure></figure></div></div></div></div><p style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div id="divStory" style="font-family: arial;"><div id="divStoryBody"><div class="" id="storyParagraphContainer"><div id="divStoryBodyAbove"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span id="StoryTextTop"></span></span><p class="storyParagraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How old is the decimal? It's a question you've probably never pondered but one that has fascinated certain historians. Fascinated isn't overstating it. When Glen Van Brummelen, a historian of mathematics at Canada's Trinity Western University, spotted a decimal used to indicate tenths of a number in a 15th-century treatise while teaching at a math camp for middle schoolers, "I remember running up and down the hallways of the dorm with my computer trying to find anybody who was awake, shouting 'Look at this, this guy is doing decimal points in the 1440s!'" he tells <a data-mce-href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00473-2" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00473-2" target="_blank">Nature News</a>. 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What Van Brummelen had discovered was the same usage in a much older text. In the 1440s, European astronomers made calculations using the sexagesimal numeric system of dividing a 360-degree circle into 60 minutes and dividing minutes into 60 seconds. The system uses 60 as its base in the same way our modern decimal system uses 10 as its base, though this makes multiplication difficult, requiring multiple conversions of values, per Nature News.</span></p><p class="storyParagraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="storyParagraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Giovanni Bianchini, a Venetian merchant who practiced astrology, found a simpler way—one that marked "a step forward for humanity," José Chabás, a historian of astronomy unconnected with the discovery, tells <a data-mce-href="https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/worlds-oldest-known-decimal-point-discovered-in-merchants-notes-from-1440s-italy" href="https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/worlds-oldest-known-decimal-point-discovered-in-merchants-notes-from-1440s-italy" target="_blank">Live Science</a>. It was while reviewing Bianchini's treastise <em>Tabulae primi mobilis B</em> that Van Brummelen and a colleague noticed he was dividing angles into minutes and seconds but giving the values as numbers with decimals using the base-10 system. Van Brummelen, author of a study published online for <a data-mce-href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086024000016?via%3Dihub" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086024000016?via%3Dihub" target="_blank"><em>Historia Mathematica</em></a>, believes the method originated with Bianchini, who would've learned calculations using real-world measures through his background in economics. Clavius would've been aware of his work, Chabás says. (More <a data-mce-href="https://www.newser.com/tag/23720/1/mathematics.html" href="https://www.newser.com/tag/23720/1/mathematics.html">mathematics</a> stories.)</span></p><p class="storyParagraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></p><p class="storyParagraph" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My comment:</span></p><header class="comment__header"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="post-byline"><span class="author publisher-anchor-color"><a data-action="profile" data-mce-href="https://disqus.com/by/humura/" data-tab="" data-username="humura" href="https://disqus.com/by/humura/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">humura</a></span> </span><span class="post-meta"><a class="time-ago" data-mce-href="https://www.newser.com/story/comments/346805/math-historian-saw-decimals-in-1440s-treatise-and-freaked-out.html#comment-6398696627" data-role="relative-time" href="https://www.newser.com/story/comments/346805/math-historian-saw-decimals-in-1440s-treatise-and-freaked-out.html#comment-6398696627" title="Friday, February 23, 2024 11:38 PM">31 minutes ago</a></span></span></header><div class="post-body-inner"><div class="post-message-container" data-role="message-container"><div class="publisher-anchor-color" data-role="message-content"><div class="post-message " data-role="message" dir="auto"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I know little of the history of the abacus, but I recall on the early days of tv, the race between someone using the abacus and a new machine for adding numbers, and if the person using the abacus lost, it was very close.<br />Might early abacui been set for a base of 10, or 6? If 10, then special operations might have used the tenth system for fractions, and tenths. Where are there archives that might contain such info? Congrats to the man who found the use of the decimal 150 years earlier than known. And that usage might have come from the Muslims or even the ancient would. But the Asian world might provied an earlier application, but using an early calculating machine.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><header class="comment__header" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-top: 4px; min-height: 20px; padding-right: 80px;"><span class="post-byline" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="author publisher-anchor-color" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #656c7a; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 4px;"><a data-action="profile" data-tab="" data-username="delta253" href="https://disqus.com/by/delta253/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 238) !important; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;" target="_blank">delta253</a></span> <a class="follow-user-container" data-action="follow" data-user="74300110" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #656c7a; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;" tabindex="0"><span aria-label="Follow" class="follow-user" style="background-color: #687a86; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; mask-image: url("https://c.disquscdn.com/next/embed/assets/img/follow-v2.411b1215980cdde315e43cc006cfbea6.svg"); vertical-align: top; width: 16px;" title="Follow"></span></a><span class="user-badges-collection" data-role="badges" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"></span></span></span><span class="post-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="time-ago" data-role="relative-time" href="https://www.newser.com/story/comments/346805/math-historian-saw-decimals-in-1440s-treatise-and-freaked-out.html#comment-6398526192" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494e58; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 12px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.1s linear 0s;" title="Friday, February 23, 2024 5:15 PM"><span style="font-size: medium;">7 hours ago</span></a></span></header><div class="post-body-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="post-message-container" data-role="message-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 592px; zoom: 1;"><div class="publisher-anchor-color" data-role="message-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="post-message " data-role="message" dir="auto" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That's actually interesting. I was reading last month of Anctient Sumeria using Base 12 arithmetic. Much more convenient than 10, as it has more factors.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-5391354400905030242024-02-14T21:47:00.000-08:002024-02-14T21:47:44.930-08:00RUSSIA'S PUTIN FINDS TUCKER CARLSON DANGEROUS<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; text-wrap: nowrap;">14 Feb, 2024 21:25</span></p><div class="article__breadcrumbs" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="date date_article-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span class="update_date_visible" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span><div class="breadcrumbs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><a class="breadcrumbs__links" href="https://www.rt.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px 7px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Home</a><a class="breadcrumbs__links" href="https://www.rt.com/russia/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px 7px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Russia & FSU</a></div></div><div class="article__tag" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"></div><h1 class="article__heading" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 46px; line-height: 56px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Tucker Carlson ‘is dangerous’ – Putin</h1><div class="article__summary summary " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">The American journalist chose an unexpected tactic for his interview, the Russian president has said</div><div class="article__cover article__cover-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px 20px 30px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 549.188px;"><div class="media " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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While this kind of persecution would certainly be a bad thing for Carlson himself, it would be good for the world, because it would reveal the true face of the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“liberal-democratic dictatorship”</em> embodied by the ruling class in the US, the president concluded.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></p></div><div class="article__share article__share_bottom" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: unset; padding: 0px;"><div class="article__invitation" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e6e6e; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">You can share this story on social media:</div></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-57412434699901919662024-02-13T10:34:00.000-08:002024-02-13T17:18:15.495-08:00COMMENT ON PBS TV PROGRAM ON "THE NIAGARA MOVEMENT"<p> <span style="font-size: medium;">I watched the PBS hour-long account of the formation an important, though short-lived organization, the Niagara Movement. In begins with discussion of 3 important Negroes of that era: Booker T. Washington, the man who essentially made Tuskegee Institute into a major black university; W. E. B. Du Bois, then a young scholar; and William Monroe Trotter, a Boston journalist. The narrative rightly contrasts the backgrounds of the 3; Washington born into slavery and struggling to gain an education at a newly founded univeristy following the Civil War and Emancipation; while Du Bois and Trotter were raised in New England towns that had few blacks; towns in which they excelled, and both attended Harvard U. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> At the Atlanta Exhibition of 1895 Booker Washington presented a speech that would be called the great compromise. He blamed earlier black leaders for attempting to exert their new freedom by beginning at the top, running for political office, orating, becoming senators, representatives, etc. This was wrong-headed. Blacks should have begun at the bottom. The tv program acknowledged it was a major speech, but did not quote it. In that speech, Washington told a story of a ship in distress that comes across a friendly vessel as requsts fresh water, as they were dying of thirst. The other ship urges the distressed vessel to cast your bucket where you are. The captain of the distressed vessel refuses - they cannot drink ocean water. Eventually, they cast they bucket, and it is fresh water, as they have floated near the flow of the Amazon River when it empties into the ocean. He then urges blacks to cast their bucket in the South with their white neighbors; and he urges the whites not to look to foreign immigrants, but to the 8 million Southern blacks whom they know and who are ready to work for them without causing strikes and labor troubles; people who were loyal to them in the past. Moreover, in this way the races could be separate as the fingers on the hand, but united and strong when needed for the power of the hand. This was interpreted as a policy of avoiding politics, and getting basic education for employment in the South.</span><br /></span></p><p><span><span style="font-size: medium;"> The highly educated New Englanders may have been somewhat ambivalent, but with continued lynchings and civil rights retreats and violations, eventually they formed the Niagara Movement to promote legal protest against growing white racism. There were divisions in the new NM between Trotter, who opposed female memberships, and Du Bois, and eventually the Niagara Movement was nigh bankrupt. After anti-black pogroms in Springfield, Illinois, Lincoln's former base, white liberals also saw aneed for an organization to defend black civil rights, and the NAACP was formed with Du Bois on its board, while what was left of the Niagara Movement falls.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span> The program gives the illusion that protest was basically a New England obscession. No mention on the program of Ida Wells, born a slave in Mississippi, moved to Memphis and writing and part owner of a black newspaper. She had been dragged from the White Ladies car on a train, sued, won a civil rights case, and then lost it. In the 1890s a mob wrecked her press and she had to flee north. In 1898 a fusion ticket won in Wilmington, N C., white Populist and black Republicans, but it was literally overthrow and run out of town by white racists. Not all Southerners were advocates of Washington, but to survive, some had to flee north.</span> </span><br /></span></p><p><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> Ida Wells wrote much against lynchings of blacks. But the largest single lynching, of 11 men who had been found innocent in court, occurred in New Orleans in 1891, a lynching of 11 Italians - members of the black hand, probably an earler name for the Mafia. What was different - the newly created nation of Italy protested this act to Washington, and the Federal government tole New Orleans to lay off the Italians. Abyssinia, the only independent black African nation at that time, was not strong enough to protest lynchings of blacks in the US.</span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> When West Indian Marcus Garvey arrived in the US, he planned to visit Booker Washington, and was quite dispppointed to learn of the death of the leader of Tuskegee. Garvey would go on to found the Universal Negro Improvement Assn., which in the 1920s far surpassed the NAACP in memberships. Garvey's black nationalism was om some ways a continuation of the Washington approach and his disdain for the light-skinned Du Bois was mutual. In the 1930s the NAACP would be challenged by a more vigorous protest group, the International Labor Defence (a Communist Party front), but the CPUSA would also play with the black nationalism with its promotion of an Black Belt inside the US.</span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> In 1948 the NAACP was captured by the Democrats and became a Dem. front group, in opposition to the Henry Wallace <b>Progressive Party - which was the civil rights movement in the South of that era. </b> Du Bois supported the Progressives, not Truman, and the NAACP fired Du Bois.<br /></span></p><p><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> Garvey was deported, but black nationalism rose again with the Black Muslims.</span><br /></span></span></p><p><span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Hugh Murray</span></span></span></p>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-1932336325128378542024-02-03T21:45:00.000-08:002024-02-04T10:09:53.057-08:00SEASON'S GREETINGS, AND SOME SERIOUS THOUGHTS ABOUT SURGERY <span style="font-size: medium;"> When I was young, I had to wait till I was 21 to vote, but I could buy beer and all the drinks at age 18. Then because so many young people drove recklessly when they were teens, insurance companies pressured politicians to raise the driving age, AND worse, raise the age to purchase alcohol to 21. Perhaps because late teens were so reckless, they lowered the voting age to 18. So instead of wrecking your car, you can vote to wreck the nation.</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> At my age of 85, I think they should lower the drinking age to 18. If you are old enough to be drafted into the armed services, and shoot people or be shot, surely you are old enough to drink a beer or order a shot. But that does not mean that the late teens have the wisdom to choose the leaders of our nation. For that, we should want a mature electorate. So I suggest the voting age be raised a bit to say 65, when many will retire and have time to follow the political debates. And this way we can have the wisdom of the many old Bidens and Trumps! Or, is this a good idea?</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> As of now, one must be 21 to order alcohol. However, in some states, a 10-year-old, with encouragement from a teacher or counselor and a medical official, may pressure the child, without the knowledge of his or her parents, into making a life-altering decision. In some places a child can be pushed into getting operations, which are not reversible, which will require a lifetime of different hormones and other medicines. A girl who goes through this will not only have her breast cut off, but will lose the chance later to have a child. A boy will lose his bat and balls. True, he may enter some girl's sports and set new records, but those new records by trans in girls' sports are fraudulent ones, just as the trans are not real girld; and the trans boy, not a real boy. If they desire to join in sports, led there be a 3rd category of trans sports. I strongly believe these operations should be stopped unless it is for an adult, or both parents and the child believe it is a necessary operation.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> Instead of trans operations, I suggest a solution This year, Tuesday Feb. 13 is Mardi Gras. Many folks wear costumes, funny, dull, whatever. For a cheap one, I recall young men wearing bathing suits, and then they would glue and cover their exposed skin with Spanish moss, to look something like gorillas. Trouble with that, and other costumes, if it turns cold. you may have to wear a coat atop it, ruining the image. Not many gorillas wear overcoats. As a kid, I wore an Amerindian costume, but it turned cold, and head to wear an overcoat so - well life has its disappointments.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> But to those who they are a woman trapped in a man's body, or a man trapped in a woman's, rather than surgery, try Mardi Gras for a day. The boy can wear his dress and catch some beads to wear round his neck. The girl can wear her cowboy outfit. Or go as a Martian, or a Frankenstein monster or whatever. Be someone else for a day, and have fun - after all, it will be Mardi Gras. Return to reality on Ash Wednesday. If you still have the urge to change, you can do it every year, for a day. If you want it permanent, then you should wait till you are an adult. However, whenever a person has such a life altering operation, there will be consequences, some unexpected. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span> HUGH MURRAY</span></span></div><div><br /></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-5681970096418419042024-01-19T15:03:00.000-08:002024-01-21T21:12:00.478-08:00 NIKKI HALEY SHOULD HAVE USED A CIVIL RIGHTS PRESIDENT'S EXPLANATION OF WHAT CAUSED THE CIVIL WAR <p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><strong style="font-family: arial;"> Former Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley recently got into trouble after she discussed the cause of the American Civil War but did not mention slavery. </strong><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Democrats, Republicans, the press, all criticized her for her ignorance on the topic, and some implied that her immigrant background did not make her fully aware of American history. Perhaps, Haley should have studied the words of the first civil rights President of the 20th century, the first since Pres. Grant. Had she made a slight effort, Haley could have discovered the cause of the civil war as maintained by Harry Truman, the first civil rights President of the 20th century, the first President to address the NAACP, the first to order the racial integration of the American armed services and Truman also ordered desegregation of the federal civil service, reversing the separation policy instituted by Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, a few years prior to his leading the nation into the war to save democracy. Most of the implementation for integrating the armed services would not occur until after Truman left office and Gen. Eisenhower, a Republican replaced him. Truman also appointed a committee to study the race problems in America, and it produced, "To Secure These Rights," a short, easy to understand presentation of problems Negroes faced. True, not all were impressed; Dr. W, E. B. Du Bois indicated he would not support Democrat Truman for President in 1948, but instead favored another FDR VP, Henry Wallace, who was running as the left-wing Progressive Party candidate. The NAACP then promptly fired Du Bois. A few years later, Truman got his revenge when his Justice Department arrested Du Bois as a foreign agent. At a time when many Americans worried about Commie fronts, by firing those who rejected Truman, the NAACP became a Democratic Party front group.</span></span></p><div style="font-family: arial;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br data-mce-bogus="1" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <strong> So, what caused the Civil War?</strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br data-mce-bogus="1" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> In mid-September 1963 former Pres. Truman was invited to be a speaker at a fundraiser for Ohio's Dem. Senator Stephen Young. He was the last person to speak., after a glowing introduction.. As the <em>Baltimore Sun</em> (16 Sept. 1963, p.5) reported, <strong>"We are living in a very troubled age of world history. The argument on civil rights has been stirred up by Boston and New England demagogues just as the War Between the States was brought about by Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Lloyd Garrison." </strong> So Northern Abolitionists caused the American Civil War. Slavery was not the cause of the war; those who objected to slavery were the trouble-makers. In the 1960s, when Truman no longer required black votes, he made his views explicit on current events too. He denounced Northern Freedom Riders as trouble-makers who should stay home. He called the March on Selma, "silly." He asserted that if any sit-in protestors came to his store, he would physically throw them out. And he denounced Martin Luther King, Jr. as a liar, etc. To place Truman's speech in context, he made it one month after the massive March on Washington (in which King presented his "I Have a Dream" address), and Truman's speech was two months before Pres. Kennedy would be murdered in Dallas.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> To shore up Truman's reputation, liberal Republican historian William Leuchtenberg wrote and article for <em>American Heritage</em>, "The Conversion of Harry Truman," (Nov. 1991) in which he cites Truman's early racist comments. For example, in 1911 he wrote his girl friend, soon to become his wife, that he could get along with most people, so long as they were white. He elaborated on the creation, that God made the whites out of the dust, the n*****s out of the mud, and the Chinese out of what was left over. He added, God hates Chinese and Japs, and so does Mr. Truman. Truman was no child when he wrote this; he was an adult, 27, and a few years later, would volunteer to join American forces in the Great War; Truman would be promoted as an officer in the artillery. The liberal Leuchtenberg sees Truman's conversion on race after WWII when he learns of a black soldier who returns from war and has both eyes gouged out by racists in America. And so Truman embraces a more liberal view on race, and as President, tries to implement more sympathetic policies.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></p></div><div style="font-family: arial;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> For the first Presidential election after victory in WWII, many found Truman a weak candidate, certainly no Franklin Roosevelt. Truman's Democratic Party had been in power since 1933, but the party of FDR had now split 3 ways. The left, including many CIO unions, supported Henry Wallace, who had been FDR;s VP in the early 1940s. Had Roosevelt died a year prior, Wallace would have become an American President. Wallace was liked by the left and endorsed by the American Communists. Meanwhile, many Southern Democrats, disgusted by Truman's sudden conversion on the race issue, chose to vote against the official Democratic ticket, hoping to throw the election into the House of Representatives, where they would make a deal with one of the candidates to not interfere with the Southern way of life. Confident, they made sure Truman was not on the ballot in Alabama - if you voted Democrat there, you voted for Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats. It would make no difference, for all the polls showed that Gov. Tom Dewey, who had signed the nation's first state civil rights act of the century, would easily glide to election victory over Truman. To the surprise of most Americans, Truman won the election (and with the help of the black vote in many crucial Northern states). Both Wallace and Thurmond had about the same % of the vote, 2.4% each, Truman 49.6%, Dewey 45.1. Dewey had received a higher popular vote and percentage in his 1944 race against FDR, 45.9% The opinion polls had been proven wrong. Truman won even though he was not on the ballot in Alabama.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br data-mce-bogus="1" /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> During the campaign, Truman publicly sounded like a liberal on race. Leuchtenberg's conversion? But when he no longer required black votes, Truman blamed Northern abolitionists for the Civil War, and denounced sit-ins, Freedom Riders, and Martin Luther King. Either a short "conversion," or no conversion at all, simply a cynical politician seeking to win elections. But academia will always seek to make the liberal look good.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> HUGH MURRAY</span></p></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-12949611033442796862024-01-17T23:48:00.000-08:002024-01-17T23:48:01.989-08:00AMERICAN FEDERAL AGENCIES CHOSE NOT TO WARN ABOUT DANGERS OF THE VAX<p> This story is most damning in the final paragraph. This comes from RT, a Russian source, but there are American researchers who have similar stories, but they receive smaller headlines. 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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="US ‘failing’ at life expectancy – WaPo" class="read-more__cover lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.10/xxs/651c472e2030270a80393974.jpg" sizes="330px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.10/xxs/651c472e2030270a80393974.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 330px;" /></picture><div class="read-more__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="read-more__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Read more</div> <span class="read-more__footer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">US ‘failing’ at life expectancy – WaPo</span></div></a></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">While the exact text of the warning has not been made public, the CDC had been tracking cases of myocarditis - a potentially deadly heart condition - in individuals vaccinated with Pfizer and Moderna’s mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines for months, witnessing what it internally acknowledged was an alarming spike in cases, even as it continued to urge all Americans to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Two days before the email was sent, the CDC told state officials it was “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">closely monitoring</em>” post-vaccination cases of myocarditis and pericarditis, a similar condition, and acknowledged that such cases “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">can be serious.</em>” However, the public was not notified until weeks later - and the CDC continued to promote the jabs to all Americans, even after the risk was made public.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Instead of the never-released draft alert, the CDC later chose to inform healthcare providers about the danger in a document headed “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">clinical considerations</em>” that lacked the forceful language or widespread distribution a Health Alert Network bulletin would have received. While it acknowledged the increased risk of myocarditis, it placed equivalent emphasis on the need to vaccinate everyone over age 11.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Last year, it emerged that both the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration had been made aware of a myocarditis “<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">safety signal</em>” triggered by an unusually large number of adverse event reports as far back as February 2021 - just two months after the mRNA-based vaccines received regulatory approval. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><b>Despite international news reports that vaccination with Pfizer and Moderna’s shots was associated with an elevated risk of myocarditis, the US regulatory agencies did not inform the public about the risk until after the jabs had been approved for patients between 12 and 15 years old - one of the age groups most susceptible to their deadly side effects.</b></p></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-32600579903689389732024-01-15T17:54:00.000-08:002024-01-15T17:59:47.665-08:00HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING (Jr) DAY - 2024<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">To All, Happy Martin Luther King Day. This is a holiday in the US, and his name is known throughout the world. When growing up in New Orleans in the American South, I recall listening to the radio. Sometimes they called him by all three names, plus, junior, Martin Luther King, Jr. But some called him by a slightly different name, Martin Lucifer King, or simply Lucifer King. Lucifer is another name of the devil, - so Martin, king of the devils. He was not too popular in parts of the South (and not too popular is parts of the North either).</span></span></p><div id="eow_rm_start" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; height: auto; margin: 0px; min-height: 400px; overflow: auto hidden; padding: 13.1875px 0px 0px; position: relative; width: 659.8px;"><div class="eow_rm" id="eow_rm" style="margin: 0px 19px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 1px 15px 19px; width: 603px;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Today, there is the attempt to make him into a saint, or even a god. King was a man, with virtues and faults of men. He certainly was not perfect. He plagiarized some of his doctoral dissertation. He had many encounters with women outside of marriage. And I am sure other weaknesses and faults can be found.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> But there was great oppression of blacks in the South in those days. In Alabama over 20 young blacks were murdered over a 2 year period by authorities or racists. This occurred when the blacks sought to protest some injustices in that state. When King came to Alabama as a minister, he was soon thrust into a leadership role of a bus boycott. Threats against him and his family, and against all involved in the growing organization trying to get people to work without using the regular buses. Union organizers know this kind of organizing is not easy, but add the racial element in the South, and it can be deadly dangerous. Rosa Parks and her husband had been active two decades before she sat on the bus, and in the 1930s, their meetings had a look-out, and weapons on the table in case of a raid by sheriffs. Now, they were using non-violence - but that did not mean the other side would be non-violent.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> The Montgomery boycott led to victory against the bus company, and against racism. But there was much to do. And many enemies had been made. The daily struggle to continue a somewhat normal schedule when you know you might be beaten or shot, or your family hurt or killed, and still continue recruiting folks to strengthen the boycott. Pressures most people seldom or never face. Does he crumble, or stumble on? Or stand up bravely, openly? Sometimes one, sometimes two, but most importantly, sometimes the third.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I attended a CORE training institute in Miami in August 1960 in Miami. I joked, it was my first trip North. Actually, Miami was further south than New Orleans. but, many Yanks had moved south to retire in Florida, so its political atmosphere then was more liberal, less racist, than most of the South. We had various teachers during that 3-week institute. One day, Jackie Robinson, the great baseball player spoke to us in the cocktail lounge of the black motel where we all stayed. It was a lounge at night, but we used it during the day for our training sessions, without liquor. It was an election year and Robison was openly for Nixon and the Republicans. We were only about 40 participants, so we could ask questions and it was quite informal. A few days later Martin Luther King spoke to us in the same lounge, but to a smaller group as half of our institute had been arrested when we sought to integrate the restaurant inside Shell's City super market. King was, off the record, for John Kennedy and the Democrats - though his father, a prominent minister in Atlanta, was at that time for Nixon. Like many Protestants in the South at that time, there was still much worry about having a Roman Catholic in the White House. Interestingly, almost no one complains about Pres. Biden being America's 2nd Catholic President today.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> For the conference, we were given 2 books: the Bhagavad Gita and a biography of Gandhi to learn about non-violence elsewhere. I speak too much and scribble too much. Anyway, Have a great day.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> King continued his activities to free black people even after the victory in the Montgomery bus boycott. King was a very courageous man. He could have sold out to the Establishment, and had a really cushy life. Instead he pushed on. Sometimes mistakes, sometimes defeats, but he struggled on in a general fight for freedom. Martin Luther King was a hero; one who deserves the honor of a federal holiday.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Hugh Murray</span></div></div><div class="eow_rm_attachMail" id="eow_rm_attachMail" style="margin: 0px 19px; padding: 0px 1px 15px 0px;"></div><div id="x75Ad" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 9px; padding: 0px;"><div id="x752" style="background-color: transparent; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; top: 0px;"></div></div></div><div class="bar_main" id="fi_barMenu_bottom" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px -526px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("../i2/bgs.png") 0px -526px repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-color: gray; border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div></div></div></div></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-79860947774372768212024-01-06T23:09:00.000-08:002024-01-06T23:09:19.167-08:00HARVARD'S DR. GAY RESIGNS AMID COMPLAINTS OVER SHORTCOMINGS IN HER RESEARCH AND HER POLICY TOWARD JEWS<p> <span style="font-size: medium;">We all make mistakes. Should they cost us our jobs? Of course it depends on what mistakes, and other pertinent information. If a bank teller just forgets and walks out of the bank carrying a sack of dollar bills, and no record of taking them, surely that is grounds for being fired. Soon, I will have an open confession on this blog about one or 2 of my mistakes in writing. A few days ago Newser ran a short article on the resignation of Dr. Gay, and I made a comment, which I repeat below.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Newser had an article on the resignation of Harvard's first black, woman president, and there were many who commented on the case, including me. Here is my short take on that case, and many similar ones.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Hugh Murray</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="post-byline" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author publisher-anchor-color" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://disqus.com/by/humura/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #004182; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" xcomment="target=_blank">humura</a></span> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="post-body-inner" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="post-message-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xcomment="data-role=message-container"><div class="publisher-anchor-color" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xcomment="data-role=message-content"><div class="post-message " dir="auto" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xcomment="data-role=message"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The war is for basic civil rights, rights that have been denied in the name of diversity,, equity, and inclusion. The civil rights movement never used the term equity; the word was equality, to treat people equally. Some picket signs of the 60s simply had an equals sign. But the EEOC rejected that approach and pushed a quota-diriven - polixy instead. The role of the affirmative action officer was never to get the best qualified person hired, but instead a person to fill a quota (considering race, ethnicity, sex, etc.) The Affirmative action office would promote a quota person and force negative action against the best qualified person. In most cases these policies created systemic racism against white men in our society. Later the negative action extended to Asians, and now Jews.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: arial;">Hire the best qualified, not by quotas, and Gay would probably never have been promoted as Pres. of Harvard. Moreover, if Prof. Carol Swain (who is black) is correct, Dr. Gay does not even deserve her doctorate. She cheated her way to the top, asserted Dr. Swain. We all make mistakes, most of which are minor and inconsequential. But if some mistakes are repeated and become a pattern, then problems do arise.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Ignore the quotas, hire and promote the best qualified, and America will begin to be America again, with civil rights, equal rights for all.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am presently working on finishing the final chapter of a book on this very topic of hiring an promoting by quotas, whether it be called affirmative action (and its twin of negative action against the non-favored group). goals and timetables, disparate impact, diversity, equity, and inclusion, these are all cover terms for quotas and racial and other forms of discrimination.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-31828197933968899862023-12-28T23:41:00.000-08:002023-12-30T13:10:59.325-08:00YOUNG AMERICANS, NEW VIEWS ON THE MIDDLE EAST, OPPRESSION AND WHO THE OPPRESSORS ARE<p> by HUGH MURRAY</p><p> Since October 7, many liberal academics and others have been surprised by the reaction of many of the young in the West to events in the Middle East. Indeed, some have been shocked. At Cooper Union, where Pres. Lincoln had spoken after being elected to national office, Jewish students now had to hide as crowds of students and others were demanding both anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish policies. And the slogan - From the River to the Sea, Palestine Shall Be Free, is really a call to abolish Israel, and in some minds either expel all the Israelis, or kill all the Jews. genocide. The university presidents of Harvard, M.I.T., and U. of Pennsylvania were questioned about such similar demos on their campuses, and their answers so dissatisfied Congressional representatives, and even more wealthy donors to the universities, that there were demands that all 3 resign.</p><p> But it was not only in academia. On the streets of many large cities, pro-Palestinian demos stopped traffic, engaged in fights with Jews, demanded a change in US and Western foreign policies, beginning with a cease fire in Gaza.</p><p> What happened? One noted, that Jews have just discovered that the Left Wing now considers them to be whites. And according to the post-civil rights era doctrines, all whites are racists and oppressors. People of color, by definition, cannot be racists, while only a few collaborator's with the conservatives can be oppressors. Confusing the debates, the word anti-Semitism, which might refer to a people and a language group. Various Middle Eastern people spoke a similar language, like Arabic, Hebrew, Coptic, ancient Egyptian, and others. During the 1930s, when it became an issue, Persian changed its name to Iran to indicate that it was not Semitic but Aryan. Since both the Muslim and Jewish people of the Middle East speak Semitic languages, it makes little sense to speak of a Palestinian calling a Jew a bad name and labeling the one shouting as anti-Semitic. He may be anti-Israeli, and/or anti-Jewish, but he is not anti-Semitic as he himself is a Semite.</p><p> It is a surprise to see the spread of the intense hostility to Israel, but it follows years of political correctness taught in schools. Now called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the new formula openly rejects the old civil rights call for equality. They reject equality and demand equity, which means, favoritism to help the oppressed and harm the oppressor. And in this scheme all whites are oppressors, and lately many Asians are also now part of the oppressor groups, while most people of color (you are not allowed to say colored people, that is a term of the distant past). So Jews, like some Asians, have been moved by the new ideologues from the category of the oppressed to that of the oppressor. And the oppressors must be silenced first, and later, other measures. Free speech on campus means the Left can say anything, including talk of genoside for the oppressors. Suddenly Jews and some Asians have fallen out of grace, out of the category of the oppressed. They are now to be chastised like the other oppressors, like the whites. The new reality is that even in Australia a major carol sing can be interrupted by Palestinian activists. And a month prior, signs appeared by the famous operal house, "Gas the Jews."</p><p> We should be shocked by the horrors of this ideology, as it now applies to Jews and some Asians. And especially how it has been used against white people for decades. But the Palestinian cause is not new, and it has already changed American history.</p><p> <b><span style="font-size: medium;"> On a summer day a few decades ago a well-dressed gentleman exited a California hotel, somewhat agitated, as he spoke to a tv newsman, "I don't understand, he said he did it for his country! How could he say such a thing?" The man nodding his head in disbelief at what he had just heard. He had just listened to what the young man said who had shot and killed Democratic Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy. The man being interviewed, clearly a Democratic activist, could not believe what he heard, that the assassin killed Kennedy for his country. What the man did not understand was that Sirhan Sirhan was not born in the US. He was born in Palestine. And he did it for his country, by his own thinking. He was not Muslim, but Christian. Sirhan was Palestinian.</span></b></p><p> <span style="font-size: medium;"> <b> If Sirhan were released from jail, he would be a great hero in the Middle East, And he dud change the US, When Kennedy defeated Sen. McCarthy in the California primary, he might have won the Democratic nomination, and then the presidency. Think of how that might have changed America and the world!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> And with our open borders today, how many more Sirhans is Biden encouraging to come to America? Will any of them change America the way Sirhan did??</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></p><p>\</p><p><br /></p>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-87760469810303655772023-12-17T19:40:00.000-08:002023-12-17T19:40:17.938-08:00US and P. R. CHINA BOTH COURT VIETNAM<p>The following article, from RT, is informative not only about the visit of China's leader, Xi Jinping, to Vietnam, but aabout the situation of Vietnam being courted by both the USA and P. R of China. Though RT asserts that the views expressed are solely those of the author, Rimur Fomenko, that author wrote an article worth pondering. Hugh Murray</p><p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; text-wrap: nowrap;">18 Dec, 2023 00:59</span></p><div class="article__breadcrumbs" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="date date_article-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span class="update_date_visible" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span><div class="breadcrumbs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><br /></div></div><div class="article__tag" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"></div><h1 class="article__heading" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; line-height: 56px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">This Asian nation is key for the US-China power struggle</span></h1><div class="article__summary summary " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">Vietnam has found itself in the position of kingmaker, being crucial for the plans of both Beijing and Washington for Asia</div><div class="article__author-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; width: 915.328px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By </em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Timur Fomenko</em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, political analyst</em></p></div><div class="article__cover article__cover-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px 20px 30px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 549.188px;"><div class="media " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="This Asian nation is key for the US-China power struggle" class="media__item lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.12/xxs/657f994f2030271d1b768b39.jpg" sizes="549px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.12/xxs/657f994f2030271d1b768b39.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 549.188px;" /></picture></div><div class="media__footer media__footer_bottom " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 549.188px;"><div class="media__title media__title_arcticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.28571em; margin: 10px 0px 0.714286em; padding: 0px;"><span data-role="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vietnam's President Vo Van Thuong (R) and China's President Xi Jinping at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on December 13, 2023 </span><span data-role="copyright-symbol" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">© </span><span data-role="copyright" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> LUONG THAI LINH / POOL / AFP</span></div></div></div><div class="article__text text " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Chinese leader Xi Jinping has just paid an official visit to Vietnam, where he met with the leaders of Hanoi’s ruling Communist Party. Xi hailed the ties between the two countries and vowed to take them to the next level, while numerous business agreements were also signed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Such a move would seem obvious given the two countries are not only neighbors, but share the same political ideology. However, their relations are more complicated than that.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Three months earlier, Vietnam was visited by US President <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/09/11/remarks-by-president-biden-and-president-vo-van-thuong-of-vietnam-at-a-state-luncheon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a6aa6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Joe Biden</a> of all people, who succeeded in elevating America’s relationship with the South East Asian nation to a strategic partnership. Then, just weeks ago, Japan did the same thing. When looked at from this angle, Xi’s overtures to Hanoi do not look as powerful, but rather represent one of a series of voices from larger powers seeking to win hearts and minds in Vietnam, a nation of geopolitical significance which will contribute to the outcome of the power struggle in the Asia-Pacific.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Although Vietnam is a communist state, this does not mean its relationship with Beijing is amicable. While of course it is not openly antagonistic or hostile, grassroots opinion in the country is wary of China, because a great deal of Vietnamese history involves a power struggle to maintain its independence from the Chinese imperial dynasties.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Vietnam, like many Asian nations, derived a great deal of cultural, philosophical, and technological capital from China, yet its national identity has always been premised on being a distinctive nation from China and not being politically dominated by it. Ideology is not relevant here.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Vietnam recognizes that China is its most critical economic partner – on the other hand, it is striving to avoid ‘Chinese hegemony’. This is not just historical, but modern as well. In 1978, China invaded Vietnam in order to break its alliance with the Soviet Union and assert dominance over it.</p><div class="read-more large read-more__right" data-has-alias="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; font-size: 0.666667em; margin: 10px 0px 20px 3em; max-width: 330px; min-width: 280px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 330px;"><a class="read-more__link" href="https://www.rt.com/news/589088-china-us-garlic-security-threat/" style="background: 0px 0px; border: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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From Hanoi’s considerations, this leads to a foreign policy of non-alignment which seeks to court multiple foreign powers, including the US, to maximize its own strategic benefits.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">How, one may ask, can Vietnam possibly court the US given the history between the two? Can Hanoi trust Washington? Vietnam appears to be confident in its relationship with the US, despite the scale of atrocities committed during the Vietnam War, because Hanoi won that conflict on its own terms and reunified the country.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Given this, Washington is now returning to the table because it sees Vietnam as a partner to try and contain China. Sure, Hanoi has ideological and political reasons to be suspicious of it, and the White House can never be an ‘ally’, but what the US offers is a chance to accelerate Vietnam’s own economic development and also increase its military leverage in the abovementioned dispute with China.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Of course, Beijing sees this, and therefore the resulting outcome is a struggle for Hanoi’s loyalty. This means, however, that China increasingly has to offer more to be allowed to ‘be at the table’ and compete with the other powers, and also that Vietnam gets to set the terms of engagement and be ‘the kingmaker’.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">From the Chinese perspective, Vietnam is in fact an important aspect of the global trade and supply chain because it provides a mask to conceal the ‘made in China’ label to get around various trade restrictions and tariffs imposed by the US. Many Chinese companies are investing in Vietnam precisely because of this, which is why Chinese trade with ASEAN as a whole <a href="https://www.business.hsbc.com.cn/en-gb/campaigns/belt-and-road/asean-story-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a6aa6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">has surged</a> to replace trade with the US.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Chinese companies build key parts and components, ship them to their own factories in Vietnam where assembly is completed, and the product then goes to the US. It creates the deception that ‘made in China’ is going away and allows indirect Chinese trade with America to continue. Thus, the integration of the Vietnamese and Chinese economies is accelerating. This is enough to keep the peace between the two countries.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">At present, given US military encirclement, China is not in a strategic position to engage in confrontation with Vietnam, which is why Xi has chosen to throw everything at it in the name of diplomacy. Keeping Vietnam as a neutral and non-hostile neighbor is thus a core priority for China, especially given the fundamental foreign policy doctrine of the US to instigate division between Beijing and its neighbors as a means of containment. Vietnam, however, simply wants the best of all worlds, and it is certainly getting it for now.</p></div><p class="article__legal-disclaimer" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 23px 28px;">The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.</p>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-72866367875635234502023-12-11T23:07:00.000-08:002023-12-11T23:07:02.133-08:00FINLAND OPENS UP IT OLD FILE ON OSWALD<p>Finland has opened up its old file on Oswald. Seems like nothing too exciting. The big question, when will the US open up its files on the Kennedy Assassination of Nov. 1963? I suspect they would be somewhat more interesting. This report comes from RT. Hugh Murray</p><p><br /></p><p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; text-wrap: nowrap;">10 Dec, 2023 15:23</span></p><div class="article__breadcrumbs" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="date date_article-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span class="update_date_visible" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span><div class="breadcrumbs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><a class="breadcrumbs__links" href="https://www.rt.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px 7px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Home</a><a class="breadcrumbs__links" href="https://www.rt.com/news/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px 7px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">World News</a></div></div><div class="article__tag" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"></div><h1 class="article__heading" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 46px; line-height: 56px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Finland declassifies JFK killer files</h1><div class="article__summary summary " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">Lee Harvey Oswald spent several days in Helsinki in 1959 before his defection to the Soviet Union</div><div class="article__cover article__cover-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px 20px 30px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 549.188px;"><div class="media " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="Finland declassifies JFK killer files" class="media__item lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.12/xxs/6575d5e6203027658e43c744.jpg" sizes="549px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.12/xxs/6575d5e6203027658e43c744.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 549.188px;" /></picture></div><div class="media__footer media__footer_bottom " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 549.188px;"><div class="media__title media__title_arcticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.28571em; margin: 10px 0px 0.714286em; padding: 0px;"><span data-role="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Twenty-four-year-old ex-marine Lee Harvey Oswald is shown after his arrest here on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas </span><span data-role="copyright-symbol" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">© </span><span data-role="source" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Getty Images / </span><span data-role="copyright" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Getty Images</span></div></div></div><div class="article__text text " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The Finnish Security Intelligence Service (SUPO) has declassified a 60-year-old file detailing Lee Harvey Oswald’s mysterious visit to Helsinki in advance of his defection to the Soviet Union, just over four years before he assassinated US President John F. Kennedy in 1963.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Oswald was adjudged by the Warren Commission in September 1964 to have been the sole gunman who fired the fatal shots from the Texas School Book Depository on Elm Street in downtown Dallas that killed Kennedy the previous November.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The day after Kennedy’s murder – November 23, 1963 – SUPO composed a memorandum into Oswald’s Helsinki trip that paints a unique, if somewhat incomplete, portrait of one of the most infamous characters of the 20th century.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The newly declassified files show that former US Marine Oswald, then 19, checked into Helsinki’s Hotel Torni on October 10, 1959 for a five-night stay, but stayed for just two nights, local outlet Yle News reported Saturday. Oswald’s US passport application showed his stated intention for the trip was related to seeking education either in Switzerland or at the University of Turku in Finland.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">However, as Yle notes, Oswald’s application to the Finnish university proved to be false and ignited speculation as to his true motivations. Despite their efforts, Finnish authorities were unable to discover more information about his movements during this brief period.</p><div class="read-more large read-more__right" data-has-alias="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; font-size: 0.666667em; margin: 10px 0px 20px 3em; max-width: 330px; min-width: 280px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 330px;"><a class="read-more__link" href="https://www.rt.com/news/581325-rfk-cia-kennedy-assassination/" style="background: 0px 0px; border: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="CIA protecting someone by hiding JFK documents – RFK Jr." class="read-more__cover lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.08/xxs/64dbd206203027462678baf4.jpg" sizes="330px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.08/xxs/64dbd206203027462678baf4.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 330px;" /></picture><div class="read-more__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="read-more__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Read more</div> <span class="read-more__footer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CIA protecting someone by hiding JFK documents – RFK Jr.</span></div></a></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">On October 12, 1959 Oswald applied for a USSR visa at the Soviet Embassy in Helsinki – an application, the Warren Commission would later note, that was approved unusually quickly. Details about his arrival in Helsinki also remain somewhat of a mystery. Uncertainties as to his exact route have led to speculation he arrived in Finland from either England or Sweden.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The SUPO investigation, the declassified files reveal, found it more likely that Oswald arrived via Stockholm either by plane or boat. The Finnish intelligence service also determined that while in Helsinki, Oswald had been <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“apparently waiting for a visa.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">It also notes that after departing Helsinki, Oswald arrived in Moscow where he almost immediately expressed an interest in obtaining Soviet citizenship. Oswald spent about two and a half years in the Soviet Union, mostly in Minsk, present day Belarus, where he worked as a lathe operator in an electronics factory.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">A separate trove of documents into Kennedy’s assassination released by the US government last year cited comment from former KGB officials who said that <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“at no time”</em> was Oswald a KGB agent, and that he was considered to be <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“crazy and unpredictable”</em> during his Soviet years. The US government source added that Oswald was suffering from depression and homesickness for much of his time in Belarus.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Oswald, who never formally renounced his US citizenship, returned to the United States in the summer of 1962. He was shot dead while in police custody by businessman Jack Ruby two days after Kennedy’s assassination.</p></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-735518063791640332023-12-09T20:14:00.000-08:002023-12-10T11:28:28.328-08:00HUMURRAYOUS<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>BREAKING NEWS: </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> President Biden asserted today that he realizes his speech is sometimes slurred, and he does have trouble at times on stairs. He acknowledges he is old, and age is beginning to interfere with his duties as President. He thinks it is time for him to withdraw from the presidential race of 2024 and endorse a younger person, but one who is experienced in the ways of how Washington works. So today, he is endorsing for president in 2024 a younger man, experienced, and with the proper background on how to get things done. So today I am endorsing my son, Hunter Biden for President in 2024. (Just to make sure that people understand, that is a joke.)(And I hope it remains only that.)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">+++++++++++++++++</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <b> Some years ago, in the summer of 1945, a knowledgeable Senator spoke with the new President of the US, Harry Truman. Truman was elected as VP, but Pres. Franklin Roosevelt had died in mid-April so Truman, who had not even been informed about the development of an A-bomb, had to learn on the job rather quickly. </b></span></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> The Senator asked Truman, "You can't be serious about using that new bomb on a Japanese city. We will first have to have a cease fire to remove the civilians from the targeted area. That is essential for a humane way of war." Truman replied, "When we drop the bomb, the bomb itself will remove many of the civilians. And then we will have a real peace!" (This is not a real conversation; this is a joke, but one with relevance to today.) Hugh Murray</span></h1><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-12812610890737529782023-12-01T19:21:00.000-08:002023-12-01T19:21:05.819-08:00FROM FIRST WORLD TO ?? RESULTS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND CORRUPTION<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> In living memory of most, one African nation stood out as perhaps the closest to a first world nation. It had one of the best airlines in the world, a thriving manufacturing and agricultural economy. Its borders were crossed each day by the poor from neighboring nations trying to get into this prosperous land.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">But what happened? White rule ended. The new rulers imposed affirmative action hiring and promotion, so that lesser qualified and unqualified candidates soon had the jobs in industries, while white farmers were killed and are still killed about 1 a week, while a political rally in a stadium filled with at least a thousand blacks sang, Kill the Boer, Kill the White, with rat tat tats to imitate gun fire.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Race hatred, and I mean open hostility to whites, affirmative action in hiring, corruption, incompetence, the new South Africa slides into the cesspool of failing post-colonial states. -- Hugh Murray</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The following article comes from RT:</span></p><div class="article__breadcrumbs" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="date date_article-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;">1 Dec, 2023 11:29<span class="update_date_visible" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span><div class="breadcrumbs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><a class="breadcrumbs__links" href="https://www.rt.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px 7px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Home</a><a class="breadcrumbs__links" href="https://www.rt.com/africa/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px 7px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Africa</a></div></div><div class="article__tag" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"></div><h1 class="article__heading" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 46px; line-height: 56px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">China helps BRICS partner solve power outages – media</h1><div class="article__summary summary " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">South Africa has received the first batch of Chinese generators</div><div class="article__cover article__cover-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px 20px 30px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 549.188px;"><div class="media " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="China helps BRICS partner solve power outages – media" class="media__item lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.12/xxs/6569c12985f540191d5b817f.jpg" sizes="549px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.12/xxs/6569c12985f540191d5b817f.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 549.188px;" /></picture></div><div class="media__footer media__footer_bottom " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 549.188px;"><div class="media__title media__title_arcticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.28571em; margin: 10px 0px 0.714286em; padding: 0px;"><span data-role="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Cape Town, South Africa. </span><span data-role="copyright-symbol" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">© </span><span data-role="source" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Getty Images / </span><span data-role="copyright" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Mlenny</span></div></div></div><div class="article__text text " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">South Africa has received a shipment of 450 gasoline generators donated by China to ease the impact of severe power shortages in the country, local media reported on Thursday.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">According to Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, about 100 more generators are expected to arrive in the near term.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The equipment will be distributed to public service facilities across the country, according to an earlier statement from the government.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">“<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The generators will be used as backup to alleviate the impacts of load-shedding in the delivery of services in clinics, schools and courts, while the government continues to implement the energy action plan to ultimately end load-shedding and create sustainable energy security</em>.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The donation is a part of the Technical Assistance Program, which covers a raft of deals inked between Beijing and Pretoria on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg this past August. Apart from a donation of power-generating equipment worth $8.9 million, the program includes a grant of around $26.8 million intended to upgrade South Africa’s power transmission and distribution network.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">South Africa has been grappling with a power crisis for years, with its state utility Eskom struggling to fully supply electricity due to frequent breakdowns at its coal-fired power stations, which led to record power cuts earlier this year.</p><div class="read-more read-more__right" data-has-alias="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; font-size: 0.666667em; margin: 10px 0px 20px 3em; max-width: 330px; min-width: 280px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 330px;"><a class="read-more__link" href="https://www.rt.com/africa/583902-south-africa-new-electricity-regulation-bill/" style="background: 0px 0px; border: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="US spy agency names hypersonic weapons frontrunner" class="read-more__cover lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.03/xxs/640c82e185f5401785025aea.jpg" sizes="330px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.03/xxs/640c82e185f5401785025aea.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 330px;" /></picture><div class="read-more__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="read-more__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Read more</div> <span class="read-more__footer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">US spy agency names hypersonic weapons frontrunner</span></div></a></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The US was expected to have its ‘Dark Eagle’ Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) enter service in September, but its fielding has been delayed due to a scrapped critical test of its glide vehicle. The weapons system is still expected to become operational by the end of the year, according to media reports. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Little is known about Iran’s Fattah-2 missile, as the national media provided very few details on the projectile’s technical characteristics. Its predecessor, the Fattah missile that was officially unveiled less than six months ago, on June 6, had a range of 1,400 kilometers and could travel between 13 and 15 times faster than the speed of sound.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, said later in June that the projectile’s range could be increased to 2,000 kilometers. Such an operational range could potentially allow Iran to reach the territory of Israel, which Tehran considers to be its arch-enemy. According to the Iranian media, the Fattah missile was also capable of penetrating through a potential enemy’s air defenses and destroying them.</p></div></div></div></div></section></div></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-36721154505544433712023-11-18T11:10:00.000-08:002023-11-18T11:10:29.808-08:00PUTIN ON GAYS, HONG KONG AND GUADALAJAR GAY (OLYMPIC) GAMES<p> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;">I am surprised by this. Glad to see it. Since the source is RT, I assume it is accurate.HUGH MURRAY</span></p><div class="eow_rm" id="eow_rm" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; margin: 0px 19px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 1px 15px 19px; width: 603px;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Also, I understand that the Gay (Olympic) Games went on as scheduled in both Guadalajara - not far from Acapulco where 50 people died in a powerful hurricane this November. AND the Games also went on as scheduled in Hong Kong. This may be a sign that HK is not totally following the ways of Beijing.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">For the first time, the GGames were divided, the first scheduled in Asia and Mexico. Chinese leader Xi did not go to HK to attend any of the GG, #11, or just GG XI. Perhaps to avoid the gay issue, Xi went instead to San Francisco. (For those living outside of the US, this is ironic humor, because San Francisco is one of the most gay cities in the US, and in the world, probably much more so than either HK or Guad.)</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The following is from RT:</div><div class="layout__breaking " style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="breaking-news" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xcomment="data-newsline-has-alias="><div class="breaking-news__content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="breaking-news__text" href="https://www.rt.com/news/584220-israel-gaza-hamas-attack/" style="color: #004182; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">BOMBING, URBAN COMBAT, COUNTLESS DEATHS: LIVE UPDATES ON ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR</a></div></div></div><div class="layout__content " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="Grid-root" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="Grid-block Grid-is2to3-xs_is1to1 " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="Grid-block Grid-is2to3-xs_is1to1 " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="p-0x10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="article " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="article__breadcrumbs" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="date date_article-header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">17 Nov, 2023 20:07</span><div class="breadcrumbs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="breadcrumbs__links" href="https://www.rt.com/" style="color: #004182; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Home</a><a class="breadcrumbs__links" href="https://www.rt.com/russia/" style="color: #004182; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Russia & FSU</a></div></div><div class="article__tag" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div><h1 class="article__heading" style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Putin says ‘something unexpected’ about LGBTQ</h1><div class="article__summary summary " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Russian president is okay with LGBTQ themes infusing cultural events, but they mustn’t become a mandatory requirement for winning</div><div class="article__cover article__cover-left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </div></div></div></div></div><div class="Grid-block Grid-is2to3-xs_is1to1 " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="p-0x10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="article " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="article__cover article__cover-left" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="media " style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><img alt="Putin says ‘something unexpected’ about LGBTQ" attr="src" class="media__item lazyautosizes lazyloaded" id="blkImgId0" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.11/xxs/6557c6b12030271e377502e7.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xcomment="data-src=https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.11/xxs/6557c6b12030271e377502e7.jpg" /></div><div class="media__footer media__footer_bottom " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="media__title media__title_arcticle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xcomment="data-role=title">Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the International Culture Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia on November 17, 2023. </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xcomment="data-role=copyright-symbol">© </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xcomment="data-role=copyright"> Sputnik / Mikhail Metzel</span></div></div></div><div class="article__text text " style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Members of the LGBTQ community and its culture are part of a modern society and shouldn’t be barred from being represented at cultural events or contests, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes. At the same time, such themes must not be mandatory criteria for winning said contests, as appears to occur in the West, he suggested.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The president made the remarks on Friday as he spoke at the 9th International Culture Forum in St. Petersburg. Putin was asked by Emir Kusturica, the iconic Serbian film director and screenwriter, about his opinion on LGBTQ topics becoming a mandatory requirement for winning certain film contests in the West.</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Yes, indeed, we see that at various competitions in Western countries, in order to win something, you need to either tell, write, or show the lives of sexual minorities, transgenders and transformers – many different names for them,”</em> Putin stated.</div><blockquote style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">But I’ll tell you something unexpected. They too – these topics and these people – have the right to win, show and tell, because this is also part of society. This is also what people live by. It’s bad if they just win all sorts of competitions, that’s of no use.</strong></em></div></blockquote><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The president stressed that<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> “equality”</em> should be a universal principle, including in cultural contests.</div><div class="Read-more-text-only" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xcomment="data-has-alias="><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/587496-justice-ministry-lgbt-ban/" style="color: red; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" xcomment="target=_blank">READ MORE: Russian authorities want to outlaw ‘LGBT’</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The International Culture Forum is currently underway in St. Petersburg, set to go on until November 18. This year, the major international event is titled the ‘Forum of United Cultures.’ The Forum brings together representatives of some 70 nations from around the globe, including more than 30 culture ministers, and hosts multiple events that end with panel discussions on various culture-related matters and an international dialogue</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> +++++++++++++++++</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ironically, on the RT site, the same day, this story also appeared::</div><div style="font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Russian authorities want to outlaw ‘LGBT’</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article__summary summary " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">The Justice Ministry has lodged a lawsuit seeking to designate the “international LGBT movement” an extremist group</div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-81558656791934971512023-11-09T22:04:00.001-08:002023-11-09T22:04:41.633-08:00DEMOCRATS WILL WANT TO KICK JILL STEIN AND THE GREEN PARTY OFF THE BALLOT, AND WHO ELSE? WILL WE BE PERMITTED TO VOTE FOR TRUMP?<p> Newser had a short article about Jill Stein planning to run again as the Green Party candidate for President in 2024. I live in Wisconsin now, and recall the dispute about getting her on the ballot in this state. In 2016 Stein ran for the Greens, and in Wisconsin won about 20,000 votes. That year Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by about 16,000. Democrats blamed Stein for the loss of Wisconsin and other states, and played legal tricks to kick her off the ballot in 2020. Democrats also prevented Kanye West from appearing on the ballot in Wisconsin in 2020. Result: Biden defeated Trump by about 20,000. Though, as the voting rolls have not been vetted here and in 2020 Democrats made it easy to vote by mail, and no check much about the returned vote, and the nursing home vote, and the Zuckerbergs' contribution to Dem front NGO's in Wisconsin and elsewhere, well, I suspect the Dems could have manufactured many more Biden votes if needed then.</p><p> Anyway, here is my comment on the Newser story: <span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The Democrats will be using every dirty trick to keep her and the Green Party off the ballot, just as they did last election in Wisconsin - knocking off Stein, and preventing Kanye West from getting on. The GOP does not target the Libertarian of Constitution Party - these dirty tricks, step 1 of the election steal, begins with preventing people from voting for their favorite. Of course in 2024, the Dems are trying to prevent ex-Pres. Trump from getting on the ballot.</span></p><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The aim if the Dems is a one-party dictatorship, just as they used to have in the Solid South, like when I was young and grew up there. If the Dems are able to steal the 2024 election as they did in 2020, America will be over.</span><div><span style="color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> Hugh Murray</span></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-58407319315661903882023-11-04T23:04:00.004-07:002023-11-05T11:22:25.321-08:00SOME GREAT FILMS I HAVE SEEN -HOPE YOU GET TO SEE THEM TOO - Hugh Murray<p> I have gone to countless movies over the years, some I loved, some were so-so, some a waste of time. I decided to make s short list of those that I think are great. Some have faded over time, or more properly, I grew up. For example, when quite young I loved Abbot and Costello in various films, as when they met Frankenstein or Dracula or the Mummy. But as an adult, it wasn't even that funny anymore. Some, like Laurel and Harvey, did, and I still enjoy their comedies.</p><p> As a youngster, I saw the western 1953 film "Shane." I was about 15, whereas the boy in the film was only 6, but I had thought it was terrific. Saw it recently on Pluto, or missed a little of the beginning. I did not so identify with the boy, as with a young man, a Southerner, and knew that strains of Dixie would be played somewhere in the film. The young man is a good guy, trying to farm like the other new arriving farmers. He knows that the cattle dealers object to farmers cutting into their territory, fencing off land where the cattle used to roam, reducing their grazing lands, trying to blockade their fast routes to the north. The cattlemen were cutting and destroying the fences of the farmers, and threatening them with gunfights.</p><p> The Southerner is a farmer, and helped a farmer to survive some of the threats. Cattlemen then hire a professional gun slinger to help persuade the farmers to depart. The Southener comes to town and confronts Jack Palance, the bad gunslinger. Dixie is played in the background. Then Palance seeks to provoke the rebel to draw his pistol first, insulting the young man as a Southerner, trash, and so are his Confederate generals. Reb draws, and is killed by the evil Yank, who will not be judged a murderer because the rev drew his weapon first. [And in these days of hatred and prejudice, and demands to destroy our own history, pulling down monuments not only to Lee, and Beauregard, but to Jefferson, Washington, AND Columbus, it is amazing Shane is shown anywhere.] </p><p> The boy's dad is now trying to prevent the farmers from running away, leaving all they have tried to build up. but many farmers or their wives are concluding it is too dangerous to stay with Palance in town. Time to go. The boy's dad plans to take a stand alone, but Alan Ladd, who recently had been working for that family, is a gunslinger himself, trying to get out of that business. Ladd decides he, not the dad, will ride to town to face Palance. A fist fight between Ladd, and the dad. Ladd goes to town, shoots Palance, and rides into the sunset. ignoring the shouts of the boy, "Come back, Shane."</p><p> The film includes debates about the role of cattlemen and ranchers, and indirectly provides a good argument in favor of colonialism. The cattlemen had their day, as they pushed off the more primitives who were there before them. Now the farmers are the new economy for the futures, and they will replace the cowboys on the cattle drives with plowed fields; replacing gunslingers with sheriffs.</p><p> A film made less than a year prior to Shane, is another great film - High Noon in 1952. The Sheriff of a small town in the west has just married an attractive Quakeress, and soon learns that a real bad criminal is to be released today, and should arrive in town on the train at noon, and he plans to get his revenge on the sheriff and the town that sent him to prison for so long. Sheriff knows he will have to get a posse to stop this tough gun-fighter. His new wife, a pacifist, is saying he should not do this, get others to handle it. Sge demands he leave town with her, and they can avoid the inevitable gun fight. He loves her, but duty demands that he stay and fight. The criminal was a top notch shooter, and word is he has rounded up his gang to come with him and assure he gets his revenge. Sheriff goes to round up men to help, and a number say they will meet him before noon. Goes to others and when they hear who is coming, they find excuses not to come. One after another declines. When he goes to meet those who said they would help, they askwhere are the rest? Sheriff tells them, it's just us (2 or 3). Then they back out. Noon. Train arrives. Bad guy there and he brought several bad guy buddies with him.. Shoot out? Wife plans to depart. Will the Sheriff get any help? The town falls to the criminals? See the film for the answers.</p><p> Another great film, Black Orpheus, the 1959 film made about a Brazilian Carnival ce;ebratopm pressed into a Greek mythological template. The music, color, actors, excitement, even the dread - it all ge;s to make a spectacular work of art. I had a boss who was quite intelligent, a black woman, who despised it because of some stereotypes in the film. Not everyone will agree with my assessment.</p><p> Another French film, made in 1960 made my list, Purple Noon. I had seen many American crime dramas, in movies and on tv, but this was really quite different. In sunny upper class southern Italy, there is some travelog aspect to this, but it is a murder, where you begin to identify with the clever murderer. Surely, he will be caught, but, no, the police are off the track again. He must be caught when this happens, but no again. Then the protagonist, Alain Delon, has just killed a man at least 50 pounds heavier than he. They are on perhaps the 3rd floor, and Delon must carry the man down a spiral staircase so they both appear drunk (and alive) so he can get the guy out and dispose of his body. A terrific scene. The American remake, decades later, "The Talented Mr. Ripley" should be seen so one can appreciate how much better the French film was.</p>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-11356802285303315892023-10-14T19:00:00.005-07:002023-10-14T19:02:26.149-07:00ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST<p>While many protests in major cities condemn the recent Palestinian attack on Israel. And in Paris, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, New York City, and elsewhere others praise the Palestinians, argue that the Israelis got what they deserved during the kidnappings, stabbings, shootings, etc. I was shocked to learn that the Sydney, Australia Opera House recently hosted a "Gas the Jews" rally, and some of the protestors, when interviewed, openly declare, that if they hear someone express certain views about the Middle East or the Koran, "they will kill them," A few days ago a teacher in northern France was murdered by a Muslim terrorist, and Saturday, a main train station was closed as was the Louvre. Needless to say, Jewish schools and synagogues are increasing vigilence, as Hamas called for a day of Jihad to begin.</p><p>The protests in American cities include Muslims, and also anti-war leftists, some left Democrats or Democratic Socialists. Below, I include ar article from a recent issue of the Militant, a Trotskyist newspaper in the US about an interview with Cuba's Fidel Castro by Jeffrey Goldberg, whom I assume is the same writer who today is often on America's National Public Radio to "balance" its pro-Democratic Party spins. Goldberg is a Never Trumper type Republican. The interview is not from last week, obviously, but the message is important.</p><p> </p><header class="entry-header" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #212529; font-family: "Alegreya Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; padding-bottom: 10px;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; font-family: "Cormorant Garamond", Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 2rem; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Fidel Castro: ‘Without doubt, Israel has right to exist’</h1></header><article class="post-121742 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-uncategorized tag-cuba tag-israel-and-palestinians tag-page-7 tag-vol-87-no-39 placement-also-in" id="post-121742" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #212529; font-family: "Alegreya Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="d-b-print-none article-settings mb-3" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem !important; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: -17px; margin-right: -17px;"><div class="col-4" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 33.3333%; max-width: 33.3333%; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 17px; padding-right: 17px; position: relative; width: 254.656px;"><span class="text-uppercase" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder; text-transform: uppercase !important;">BY SETH GALINSKY</span></div><div class="col-4 col-4 text-center" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 33.3333%; max-width: 33.3333%; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 17px; padding-right: 17px; position: relative; text-align: center !important; width: 254.656px;"><a href="https://themilitant.com/issues/vol-87-no-39/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #567890; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;">Vol. 87/No. 39</a></div><div class="col-4 text-right" style="box-sizing: inherit; flex: 0 0 33.3333%; max-width: 33.3333%; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 17px; padding-right: 17px; position: relative; text-align: right !important; width: 254.656px;">October 23, 2023</div></div></div><figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="border-radius: 0.25rem; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; display: table; height: auto; line-height: 1; margin: 0px auto 17px; max-width: 100%; position: relative; width: 730px;"><a href="https://themilitant.com/2023/10/13/fidel-castro-without-doubt-israel-has-right-to-exist/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #567890; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;"><img alt="“Nothing compares to the Holocaust,” Fidel Castro told Jeffrey Goldberg in 2010 interview. Castro, left, with Goldberg, right, and Jewish community leader Adela Dworin in Havana, August 2010." class="img-fluid" decoding="async" height="521" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" src="https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Fidel_8623.jpg" srcset="https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Fidel_8623.jpg 750w, https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Fidel_8623-300x208.jpg 300w, https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Fidel_8623-160x110.jpg 160w" style="border-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; height: auto; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; max-width: 100%; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 730px; z-index: 1;" width="750" /></a><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; caption-side: bottom; display: table-caption; font-size: 0.9rem; font-weight: 700;"><cite class="add-margin" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: block; font-size: 0.675rem; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 8px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase;">ESTUDIOS REVOLUCIÓN</cite>“Nothing compares to the Holocaust,” Fidel Castro told Jeffrey Goldberg in 2010 interview. Castro, left, with Goldberg, right, and Jewish community leader Adela Dworin in Havana, August 2010.</figcaption></figure><div class="entry-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; counter-reset: footnotes 0;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Since the pogrom by Hamas and its allies, Stalinists and middle-class radicals have been organizing actions under the slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” — a call for the destruction of Israel and slaughter of the Jews. That’s the exact opposite of what Fidel Castro, the central leader of the Cuban Revolution, had to say about Israel and Jew-hatred.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Castro often strongly disagreed with the Israeli government. At the same time he openly expressed his support for the right of Israel to exist as a refuge for the Jews.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">In 2010, after then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had proclaimed the Holocaust — the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis — was an “unprovable and mythical claim,” Castro invited <em style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-right: 3px;">Atlantic</em> magazine writer Jeffrey Goldberg to come to Cuba and interview him.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Fidel told him the Iranian government would better serve the cause of peace by acknowledging the “unique” history of antisemitism and trying to understand why Israelis fear for their existence.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">“I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims,” Castro told Goldberg. “They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">“Over 2,000 years they were subjected to terrible persecution and then to the pogroms,” Castro said. “The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">“Let’s imagine that I were [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu,” Castro said, “I would remember the 6 million Jewish men and women, of all ages who were exterminated in the concentration camps” when making decisions.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Goldberg asked Castro, “Do you think the State of Israel, as a Jewish State, has a right to exist?”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">“Yes, without a doubt,” Castro replied.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">“True revolutionaries never threaten to exterminate a whole country,” Castro had told <em style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-right: 3px;">Le Monde</em> in September 1967, in response to Arab governments and others calling for Israel’s destruction.</p></div></article>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-14164965304448611092023-09-12T20:58:00.003-07:002023-09-13T22:08:17.826-07:00THE MOST IMPORTANT DEED IN MY LIFE?? A LETTER TO THE EDITOR??<p> HUGH MURRAY</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> On a personal note, I admit, sometimes I do the unusual. For example, some years ago I worked at the World Trade Center in New York, #2 WTC, on the 38th floor. On wintry days near closing time, it was a joy to look out the window down NY harbor atthe Statue of Liberty as the sun began to set. A beautiful scene.</span></span></p><div style="font-family: arial;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p></div><div style="font-family: arial;"><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> <em> </em>I was a minor bureaucrat working for a government agency. One day. probably in 1982; our department decided to have a fire drill. We walked down the steps from the 38th to the 33rd floor (these were the floors rented by our agency). There we all gathered and asked what next. We were told, in case of emergency, someone would give us further directions at that time. We were told one most important fact - as this was a new building, new improvements in the elevator had been added. For example, in most elevators, you must press a button once inside the cabin to direct the devise to the floor to which you wish to go. With the updated device, you no longer had to press the button, just place your finger on the desired number floor, and the heat of your digit was sufficient to tell the elevator which floor you wanted to go to. No need to push the buttons, just place your finger over the number. There was a drawback, however; he informed us.. In case of a fire, the heat of the fire would heat the buttons too and call the elevators to the burning floor. In case of a fire, we were urged not to use the elevators.</span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> Some time later in 1983, I was then living in nearby Brooklyn, and if I woke early and the weather was nice, instead of the packed subway, I would walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. The tall WTC in the foreground had sufficient glass to reflect the sky and it sometimes appeared a light purple. At the end of the bridge, I could go north to China Town, or south toward the Wall St. area. I walked to the WTC, but when I reached the lobby of #2, it was packed. The elevators were not working. and ever more people were coming up from the subway below to join the crowd. Unlike most, I had an alternative. Sometimes, I would walk up to work, the 38 flights. The stairways were well hidden, but I knew where they were. Should I wait for an elevator - none were then running, or walk. My walk was no fast run. I might be late for work. I chose to walk up.</span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> All went well until the 9th floor, for I looked up and it was dark. I kept going, but slower. By the 11th floor, I placed my hand in front of my face and could see nothing. That is dark. I went very slowly, because from past experience I knew some would eat lunch on the stairs, and leave trash and even bottles. I did not want to fall in this perpendicular cave of night. There was an eerie sound in this "cave" however - a metalic one. The building was constructed to sway with the wind. The 110 stories moved. One did not notice this when working in the outer sections where folks worked. But in the stairwells, you could hear the metal crunch of the wind's power on the massive building. Now and then I would open a door to check the floor I had reached, then back to the cave. At 38 I opened the door and was shocked. The lights were on, the early shift was working as usual; all was normal. But now I was convinced something important was wrong. The lights in the stairwell were out at the same time the elevators were not working.</span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> I informed my union representative that we should write the Occupational Safety and Health Administration about this problem. I was about to leave the job, and wrote the agency 23 May 1983. I do not know it the union representative also wrote the agency.</span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> A decade later, 26 February 1993, I was living in Milwaukee, watching the national news on tv, and learned that terrorists had attempted to blow up the WTC. A bomb had been planted in a vehicle in the WTC parking garage below the building. It damaged the buildings. Workers tried to escape, but there were no lights in the stairs. It took some 6 hours to get people out of the building that day.</span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> I decided I would write to urge changes in the stairwells. I wrote the same letter to the then big 4 newspapers in NYC - the New York Times, the New York Post, the Daily News, and Long Island Newsday. Three of the four published my letter, the Post, Daily News, and Newsday. I quote below from my letter of 18 March 1993 in the Daily News:</span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> <strong>Let there be . . . .</strong></span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> When I was working [at the WTC] . . . I wrote to the Occupational Safety and Health agency to complain that the lights in the stairways of the WTC had been out during a minor emergency. . . .Watching CNN [the other night], it seems the lights were still out on some of the stairways. The managers of the buildings have had 10 years to rectify a dangerous situation. Did they do so? No one could predict that fanatics might place a bomb in the garage. But everyone could have predicted that at some point there might be an emergency. And during an emergency, the stairways, the only highways out of the citylike buildings, should be lit.</span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> The New York Post published a slightly longer version of the same letter, earlier on 8 March 1993. Newsday also published it, though I no longer have a copy of that, and the date was about the same as the other two. The circulation of these 3 newspapers was then about 2.5 million. Did my letters have any effect?</span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> Shortly after 9/11/2001 Investor's Business Daily commented on changes in the building AFTER the 1993 bombing. "After the [earlier garage] bombing, however, batteries were added to every other light fixture in stairwells in case power went out. Handrails were painted with glow-in-the-dark paint, which also was used to mark a continuous stripe down the middle of the staircases. A public address system was added." Did this make a difference? The same paper notes - "In 1993, it took six hours to evacuate most of the Trade Center after terrorists detonated a bomb in an underground garage, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000. This time [9/11] despite missteps, evacuation was cut by several hours." In 2001 they did not have 6 hours, but many did escape in the 2 hours before the crumbling.</span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> I do not think that my letter alone caused the changes. But it surely put pressure to make changes. 3 NY papers with 2-3 million circulation meant the issue could not be hidden under a rug.</span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> I think that my letter may well have helped to force the changes that saved lives on 9/11. It may well be the most important act in my life. A letter of complaint! And yet, a justification for everyone who complains when they observe something wrong. My most important deed.</span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></address><address><span style="font-size: medium;"> If you wish to see a few more of my writings, and some old photos, a friend, Tony Flood made a portal for me on one of his sites. http://anthonyflood.com/murray.htm</span></address></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-33038770839641255982023-09-09T23:27:00.002-07:002023-09-10T20:51:09.647-07:00IS SOMETHING HAPPENING IN HONG KONG???<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> I am not Chinese, I do not speak the language, and I have never been to Hong Kong. But something unexpected may be occurring. Beginning in 2019 there were protests about a proposed law that would return mainlanders to the mainland to face trial. After the Opium War in the 19th century, the British took Hong Kong and under the British it flourished into a major financial center, and a prosperous city state. In the 1990s, the treaty that provided separation for HK, came to an end, and Britain and the People's Republic of China (PRC) negotiated a turn-over of the colony to the PRC; however, for 50 more years the city would be under the PRC, but maintain most of the rights that they had obtained under the British, like free speech, a free press, alternative radio, etc. For about 2 decades, things went well. Hong Kong, and Macao (formerly Portuguese) continued under the umbrela: one country, two systems.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The opposition to the new law in HK increased, with increased demands for even more democratic control in the city. Some demos grew larger, AND MORE VIOLENT. Meanwhile, the opposition now had new demands complaining about the violence of the police and the authorities. Supporters of the mainland alleged that the CIA and MI6 were behind the protests. On one video I saw a protestor pour gas (petrol) on to a pro-Beijing counter protestor and set the man ablaze. Major damage was done to business whose homes offices were on the mainland. The HK government cracked down hard, and with Covid virus madness sweeping the world, protests were harder to maintain. By the end of 2020, it seemed that anti-Beijing newspapers, bookstores, organizations were closed by the new, hard-nose policy of HK. Was there any significant difference between HK and the mainland any more? One country, 2 systems, had seemed to evolve into one country, one system.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Then I noticed that the 2023 Gay Games (a sports event begun in San Francisco in 1982) will hold there competitive events in 2 cities - Guadalajara. Mexico, and Hong Kong. It will be the first split games event, and the first time the games are scheduled in Asia or in Central America, The Games are usually held every 4 years, with track and field, football (soccer), volley ball, swimming, etc. I notice that 2 events scheduled for HK are new - dragon boat racing and ma jong. The HK GG are set for 3 November 2023.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I doubt if this kind of event could be held in Beijing or on the mainland of the PRC. Does this NK schedule indicate a softening of HK policies toward minority voices??? If there is a last-minute cancellation of the HK games, we will know the answer. On the other hand, it might be a first step toward restoring a freer society. Hugh Murray</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I should add something on a personal note. In spring 1980 a small ad appeared in the NYC Village Voice about forming a gay soccer team. A small number of us met for the first time and began the effort to form such a club. I was a charter member. We played in an area of New York's Central Park, the Rambles, and we voted to become the Ramblers. I was not among the best players, but I did ok. I also pushed to allow straights in our group, and then I pushed to have women too. A few did not like opening up, and there were never many women because they had women's teams where they might accomplish more. Overall, the open policy worked well.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> Meanwhile in San Francisco, former Olympic athletes who were gay were starting the Gay Olympic Games. The US Olympic sued, so they could not use the word Olympic, and thus became the Gay Games. I suspect most of the original Olympic Games, especially those that were all male, nude, and pagan, may have been the original Gay Games. But when the Christians took over the Roman Empire, they eventually closed the ancient Olympics.</i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>For GG I in summer 1982, the Ramblers were too new to organize, and I was the only NY soccer player to attend GG I. and fewer than a dozen from NYC in the other sports. I was lucky to be allowed to play for about 15 minutes with the Denver team in the huge Keezar Stadium, to about 20 spectators. For GG II in 1986 SF, the NY Ramblers had about 20 of us, and more than 100 from NY to participate. The SF Strikers defeated NY Ramblers and the other football teams to win gold. We won silver. For the closing ceremony, Tina Turner performed. A great time. From 1982 to 2023, about every 4 years, the GG will be 41 years old. I am proud to have been among the first, in the creation of the Ramblers and partaking in Gay Games.</i></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>s</p>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-21309234131565651662023-09-07T21:56:00.005-07:002023-09-07T21:56:55.069-07:00RT ON US DELAYS IN HYPERSONIC WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT<p> More bad news re US development of the hypersonic weapons. About 2 years ago China sent such a weapon on a long mission and it landed near the target. The Soviets have used some in Ukraine, but they have certainly not proven to be decisive. Amazingly, drones appear to be the surprise weapon of the Ukrainian conflict. Below is the RT story. 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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="US cancels hypersonic missile test – Pentagon" class="media__item lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.09/xxs/64f99f99203027277875c122.jpg" sizes="549px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.09/xxs/64f99f99203027277875c122.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 549.188px;" /></picture></div><div class="media__footer media__footer_bottom " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 549.188px;"><div class="media__title media__title_arcticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.28571em; margin: 10px 0px 0.714286em; padding: 0px;"><span data-role="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) system deployed to Cape Canaveral for testing. </span><span data-role="copyright-symbol" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">© </span><span data-role="copyright" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> US Army</span></div></div></div><div class="article__text text " style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">A test flight on Wednesday of the US hypersonic weapon Dark Eagle, expected to become the first such missile in the country’s arsenal, was aborted at the last moment, the Pentagon has announced.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The launch of the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) was scheduled to take place at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, in order <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“to inform our hypersonic technology development,”</em> the US Department of Defense said, in a statement released to media outlets.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“But as a result of pre-flight checks the test did not occur,”</em> it confirmed, without revealing the exact reasons for the cancellation of the LRHW firing.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The Pentagon is also claiming that, despite the setback, it <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“was able to successfully collect data on the performance of the ground hardware and software that will inform the continued progress toward fielding offensive hypersonic weapons.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">However, Bloomberg has pointed out that the last-minute halting of the missile test casts doubt on whether the US military will be able to meet its goal of declaring the Dark Eagle initially combat capable by September 30.</p><div class="read-more large" data-has-alias="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-size: 0.666667em; margin: 10px 3em 20px 0px; max-width: 330px; min-width: 280px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 330px;"><a class="read-more__link" href="https://www.rt.com/russia/579491-kinzhal-hypersonic-missile-series/" style="background: 0px 0px; border: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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In May, Russia’s Defense Ministry said that the hypersonic missile was used to deliver significant damage to a US-supplied Patriot air defense system stationed in Kiev.</p></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-88286118917596024522023-08-17T22:47:00.002-07:002023-08-19T12:27:54.306-07:00RT OP ED ON CHINA, VIETNAM, USA RELATIONS, AND MY ADDITIONS<p> To the reader, I shall present my criticism of the OpEd from RT below that editorial. Hugh Murray</p><div class="article__breadcrumbs" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="date date_article-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;">18 Aug, 2023 02:04<span class="update_date_visible" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span><div class="breadcrumbs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><a class="breadcrumbs__links" href="https://www.rt.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px 7px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Home</a><a class="breadcrumbs__links" href="https://www.rt.com/news/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px 7px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">World News</a></div></div><div class="article__tag" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"></div><h1 class="article__heading" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 46px; line-height: 56px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">China risks losing a crucial Asian comrade</h1><div class="article__summary summary" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">If Beijing doesn’t play its cards right, Vietnam may soon turn into a partner of the US, despite bloody war in their recent history</div><div class="article__author-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; width: 915.328px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">By </em><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Timur Fomenko</em></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">, a political analyst</em></p></div><div class="article__cover article__cover-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px 20px 30px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 549.188px;"><div class="media" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="China risks losing a crucial Asian comrade" class="media__item lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.08/xxs/64ded19220302779151113f1.jpg" sizes="549px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.08/xxs/64ded19220302779151113f1.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 549.188px;" /></picture></div><div class="media__footer media__footer_bottom" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 549.188px;"><div class="media__title media__title_arcticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.28571em; margin: 10px 0px 0.714286em; padding: 0px;"><span data-role="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong </span><span data-role="copyright-symbol" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">© </span><span data-role="copyright" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Hoang Thong Nhat / Vietnam News Agency / AFP</span></div></div></div><div class="article__text text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">In the coming month, US President Joe Biden will visit the Southeast Asian nation of Vietnam. Vietnam, populated by 97 million people, is Asia’s second largest communist state, and its history is marred by a bloody conflict with the US, whereby Washington unleashed untold horrors upon the population in a bid to prop up a puppet state in South Vietnam.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Yet it speaks volumes about the world we live in today that this historical memory has little influence on how the two countries now view each other. Washington sees Hanoi as a critical strategic partner in its vision for the ‘Indo-Pacific’ to contain the rise of China. The US has never been above allying itself with communist states when it suits its agenda, even if it always turns on them in the long run. Be it the USSR, Deng Xiaoping’s China, or Tito’s Yugoslavia, Washington always focuses on the bigger, prevailing perceived threat first.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">And now, it’s China’s turn. Despite both being communist countries, and despite the shared revolutionary history of Mao having supported Ho Chi Minh’s quest to reunify the country, Vietnam (as a general rule) does not like China. The reasons are not ideological, but nationalistic and historical. Long ago, northern Vietnam was under the rule of Chinese dynasties, and the Vietnamese interpret their own history as part of a long struggle to stay independent of China, even as the two countries held many close cultural and economic ties.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">In that sense, the world hasn’t changed much. Vietnam and China have an extensive economic and trade relationship, but Vietnam’s historical enmity towards the Chinese remains, not least because the two countries have competing and overlapping claims in the South China Sea. Hanoi, of course, names it the East Sea instead. This has led to nationalist unrest against Beijing and extreme sensitivities. Take, for example, the fact that the woke, smash hit ‘Barbie’ was banned in Vietnam just because for several seconds it shows a cartoonish, inaccurate world map which appears to reflect the ‘Nine-dash line’ of China’s claims in the disputed sea. That’s where things are at.</p><div class="read-more large read-more__right" data-has-alias="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; font-size: 0.666667em; margin: 10px 0px 20px 3em; max-width: 330px; min-width: 280px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 330px;"><a class="read-more__link" href="https://www.rt.com/news/581103-biden-visit-vietnam-partner/" style="background: 0px 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="Biden claims former US enemy seeks 'partnership'" class="read-more__cover lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.08/xxs/64d4e41785f54034193a6b67.jpg" sizes="330px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.08/xxs/64d4e41785f54034193a6b67.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 330px;" /></picture><div class="read-more__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="read-more__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Read more</div> <span class="read-more__footer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Biden claims former US enemy seeks 'partnership'</span></div></a></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">And who wants to exploit that rift the most? The US, of course. America not only sees Vietnam as a potential military counterweight to China, but also a potential economic partner that can replace Beijing as a manufacturing base. Vietnam, after all, is way behind China on the development ladder and has a burgeoning population of 97 million with a younger and cheaper labor force. This is why the US has gone all out to expand its diplomatic presence in Vietnam, including the construction of a $1 billion new embassy compound. Washington is sure going to great lengths to present itself as a friend to a nation it once despised and bombed into oblivion – and it’s doing so without ever having offered any sort of formal apology in the intervening years.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">For the Vietnamese, this is not shameful because, from their point of view, history is on their side. That is, they effectively defeated the US in 1973, despite the great cost, and got the Americans to leave. In their relationship with the US, they may know the true nature of the country they’re dealing with, but see it as the ‘loser’ reconciling with them, and you aren’t going to feel threatened by a country you know you can defeat, are you? Of course, that doesn’t excuse the bombing, but it has allowed Vietnam’s relationship with the US to be politically justified without any lasting resentment. The US is groveling somewhat, they could say.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">China has a dilemma on its hands now. Beijing must do all it can to stop Hanoi from getting closer to Washington and aspire to keep the country on a path of non-alignment and good neighborliness. China does not want Vietnam to become a strategic threat. While Vietnam, owing to the historical political correctness, will never become a formal ally of the US, there are fears it could <a href="https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/upgraded-us-vietnam-partnership-to-help-hanoi-escape-chinas-influence20230817065112/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a6aa6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">soon upgrade the relationship to a “comprehensive strategic partnership”</a>, which would see the two countries share common goals and interests. Biden wants to bring Vietnam into the anti-China coalition and has been ramping up partnerships and alliances against Beijing across the board.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">If China is to stop this, the only answer is that Beijing must stop ramping up tensions in the South China Sea and allowing the US-controlled media to spin a narrative against it that legitimizes greater security ties between Vietnam and America. In other words, China has to start treating Vietnam like a comrade and not a subordinate neighbor, which is exactly the way Hanoi interprets their centuries-old relationship history. The battle for hearts and minds in Vietnam is on. China should theoretically have ideological and cultural advantages, as opposed to the country that dropped millions of bombs and Agent Orange on it, but geopolitics is rarely that simple.</p></div><p class="article__legal-disclaimer" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 23px 28px;">The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.</p><p class="article__legal-disclaimer" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 23px 28px;">My comment - Yes, there was a Vietnam-American war, costly to Americans in lives and resources; much more costly in lives to the Vietnamese, and the Agent Orange and other chemicals we used had horrible results, even for mothers after the end of the war. However, after the US left in defeat, Vietnam had a war with China of a border dispute in the north between the 2 nations. Vietnam was forcesdto cede a small amount of territory to the PR China. Then the Khmer Rouge, a communist group, came to power in Cambodia. It was supported by China and indirectly by the US. (This was in the era of Kissinger and his hopes to further split Beijing from Moscow, so the US might well support China in its opposition to Vietnam). The Khmer Rouge was also murderous on a vast scale, ultimately killing about 25% of its population. (A film, The Killing Fields) might jog memories of Pol Pot's leadership.) It was also killing many Vietnamese who lived there, and the Vietnamese Communists intervened, in part to save its compatriots, but finally to overthrow the Khmer Rouge. In ending the Pol Pot 'experiment,' the Vietnamese did the world a favor. Now, in the South China Sea (or the East Sea) China is the bully of the area, harassing VN fishing boats, and those of the Philippines, trying to impose its claims for any oil or other valuables that may be found beneath these seas. And China also harasses US ships and planes. Whatever claims China might have had to the Seas were lost around 1450 when an Emperor ordered the destruction of the massive Chinese fleet that had brought many animals back from Africa. The emperor even ordered the destruction of any plans for ocean going vessels. China seems quite willing to make a vassal state of Vietnam, the Philippines. or any other state that gets in its way. Vietnam was right to ban Barbie with its Chinese inspired map of the area. America should ban the film too until it makes a change in the map inside that film. Now word comes that China is building an airstrip on the most southern of the Paracel Island, Triton. It is claimed by both China and Vietnam and Taiwan. The air base will place more pressure on Vietnam to cave into Beijing's demands. Will Pres. Biden, who has received millions of dollars from Chinese military "businesses" stand up against China? Has America ever had a President so corrupt to be paid off my our major enemy?------Hugh Murray</p><p class="article__legal-disclaimer" style="background: rgb(239, 239, 239); box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 23px 28px;"><br /></p><div class="article__share article__share_bottom" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: unset; padding: 0px;"><div class="article__tags-public" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; font-size: 1em; margin: 35px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 915.328px;"><div class="tags-public" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-flow: wrap; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;"><div class="tags-public__heading" style="background-color: black; background-image: url("/static/img/hashtag.svg"); background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 70% 70%; border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #878787; font-size: 1.4em; height: 25px; margin: 0.257145em 0.257145em 0.257145em 0px; padding: 0px; width: 25px;"><br /></div></div></div></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553629828572524000.post-76497999924905501442023-08-15T19:18:00.000-07:002023-08-15T19:18:45.768-07:00RT - ROB KENNEDY JR ON DR. FAUCI, VICTORIA NULAND, BIOLABS IN WUHAN AND UKRAINE<p>Of course, RT has its prejudices. But surely in this case, those prejudices allow it to expose important facts that America's major media prefer to hide. First, it is most likely that the Covid virus that killed so many thousands world wide was developed as part of a gain-of-function research in a Wuhan lab funded by America's Dr. Fauci. We know less about the dozen or so biolabs in Ukraine sponsored by the US ept. of Defense. Below, Robert Kennedy Jr on the topic. Hugh Murray<span> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">15 Aug, 2023 19:35</span></span></p><div class="article__breadcrumbs" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="date date_article-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span class="update_date_visible" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span><div class="breadcrumbs" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; padding: 15px 0px 0px;"><a class="breadcrumbs__links" href="https://www.rt.com/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px 7px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Home</a><a class="breadcrumbs__links" href="https://www.rt.com/news/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.38em; margin: 0px 7px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">World News</a></div></div><div class="article__tag" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px;"></div><h1 class="article__heading" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 46px; line-height: 56px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;">Kennedy comments on US biolabs in Ukraine</h1><div class="article__summary summary " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6e6e6e; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 38px; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">The Pentagon used other countries for bioweapons research, RFK Jr. told Tucker Carlson</div><div class="article__cover article__cover-left" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: left; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 10.001px; margin: 0px 20px 30px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 549.188px;"><div class="media " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="Kennedy comments on US biolabs in Ukraine" class="media__item lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.08/xxs/64dba7c62030272ebd706e27.jpg" sizes="549px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.08/xxs/64dba7c62030272ebd706e27.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 549.188px;" /></picture></div><div class="media__footer media__footer_bottom " style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 549.188px;"><div class="media__title media__title_arcticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 1.3em; line-height: 1.28571em; margin: 10px 0px 0.714286em; padding: 0px;"><span data-role="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Screenshot </span><span data-role="copyright-symbol" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">© </span><span data-role="copyright" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Twitter / @TuckerCarlson</span></div></div></div><div class="article__text text " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Archivo, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The US military outsourced some of its biological weapons research to the government installed by the 2014 coup in Kiev, Democrat presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Junior has claimed in an interview.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“We have biolabs in Ukraine because we’re developing bioweapons,”</em> RFK Jr. told independent journalist Tucker Carlson in a lengthy conversation posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday evening. Though the US signed the ban on bioweapons in the 1970s, he explained, the Patriot Act adopted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 allowed the Pentagon to resume research.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>According to Kennedy, the bioweapons program has operated under the guise of “life sciences” research, such as gain-of-function experiments on viruses and other pathogens, ultimately overseen by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases between 1984 and 2022.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>Modern bioweapons are <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“frightening stuff,”</em> made with genetic engineering tools such as CRISPR, Kennedy said. When some of these <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“bugs”</em> escaped from laboratories in the US, back in 2014, the Obama administration banned gain-of-function research, Kennedy added, so Fauci outsourced it overseas. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“A lot of them went to Ukraine,”</em> Kennedy told Carlson, while some of the research was moved to the Wuhan, China laboratory, the suspected origination point for the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the research was funded by the Pentagon, or by USAID, which Kennedy described as <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“a CIA cutout.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1691228480556429312" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a6aa6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></p><div class="rtcode" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" style="border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit !important; display: flex; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important; margin-top: 10px; max-width: 550px; padding: 0px !important; position: relative; width: 550px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" data-tweet-id="1691228480556429312" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&dnt=false&embedId=twitter-widget-0&features=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%3D%3D&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1691228480556429312&lang=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fnews%2F581317-rfk-ukraine-biolabs-tucker%2F&sessionId=740cd3dd58268f8cfbecaf7566c805ea0385a0f6&siteScreenName=RT_com&theme=light&widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&width=550px" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-grow: 1; height: 552px; margin: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: static; visibility: visible; width: 550px;" title="Twitter Tweet"></iframe></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">The US has long dismissed claims about the biological research laboratories in Ukraine as <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“Russian propaganda,”</em> until senior State Department official Victoria Nuland <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/551510-nuland-ukraine-biolabs-attack/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a6aa6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">confirmed</a> their existence at a 2022 Senate hearing. The Pentagon continues to insist the research is neither illegal nor intended for military purposes.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>The Russian military has discovered evidence that the US was creating <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“biological weapons components”</em> at facilities in Ukraine, Lieutenant General Igor <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/574555-ukraine-biolabs-weapons-military/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a6aa6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Kirillov testified</a> to lawmakers in Moscow earlier this year.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/575721-rfk-russia-ukraine-conflict/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a6aa6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></p><div class="read-more large read-more__right" data-has-alias="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: right; font-size: 0.666667em; margin: 10px 0px 20px 3em; max-width: 330px; min-width: 280px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 330px;"><a class="read-more__link" href="https://www.rt.com/news/575721-rfk-russia-ukraine-conflict/" style="background: 0px 0px; border: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 18px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><picture style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><source data-srcset="
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" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></source><img alt="Kennedy shares opinion on key US mistake with Russia" class="read-more__cover lazyautosizes lazyloaded" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.05/xxs/6452715920302764c85c522a.jpg" sizes="330px" src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.05/xxs/6452715920302764c85c522a.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 300ms ease 0s; width: 330px;" /></picture><div class="read-more__text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="read-more__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Read more</div> <span class="read-more__footer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kennedy shares opinion on key US mistake with Russia</span></div></a></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Kennedy also told Carlson that the American public has been <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“lied to”</em> about the Ukraine conflict, pointing out Nuland’s role in the 2014 coup in Kiev and the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) vision of NATO expansion to argue that war with Moscow has been Washington’s plan all along.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>Ukraine <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“is a proxy in, essentially, a struggle between two superpowers, between Russia and the US,”</em> Kennedy said. He accused the US of sabotaging the March 2022 peace talks by having then-British PM Boris Johnson <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/555038-ukraine-peace-talks-johnson/" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0a6aa6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">visit Kiev</a> and tell Vladimir Zelensky’s government the West would not support them. </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>As a result, Kennedy said, <em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">“350,000 Ukrainian kids are now dead, and 40-50,000 Russians.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">RFK Jr. is the nephew of the 35th president, John F. Kennedy, and the son of Robert Kennedy, JFK’s attorney general who went on to become a senator. Both brothers would end up being assassinated – JFK in 1963, and RFK in 1968 during the presidential primaries. RFK Jr. is challenging fellow Democrat and incumbent president Joe Biden for the party’s presidential nomination. </p></div>Hugh Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10548910067893310655noreply@blogger.com0