Sunday, February 05, 2006

Blogger Buzz MIA

"Blogspot is again experiencing problems - we are investigating."

Yeah so are we. The users who have been subjected to the arbitrary deletions of our posts. As I posted here yesterday tongue in cheek;Google Censoring Blogspot there still appears to be problems, hopefully I will be able to save this before it disappears into the Blogspot abyss.

So is blogger / blogspot.com fixed or not. We would all like to know.

Well if you check out Blogger Buzz the official blogger info spot that Blogspot links you to well you wouldn't know. The last posting was a week ago on January 26. When you open your Blogger dashboard the last reported maintenance report is for November 2005!

Meanwhile if you want to know about the crisis facing our free blog service here is what Bloggers Blog, not related to Blogspot says;

BlogSpot and Blogger.com Problems

BlogSpot.com blogs run by the Blogger.com service from Google are having problems today. The problems apparently began earlier this week. There are posts here and here about earlier outages. However, these posts cannot currently be read because of the outage. Bloggers are discussing the outages here at BloggerForum.com. Some bloggers posting say that Blogger.com has been down for several hours and they are anxious for an explanation from Blogger.com.

Update: The Blogger.com status page includes a recent post (Posted by Eric at 16:04 PST) that says "Blogspot is again experiencing problems - we are investigating." The status page also includes information about outages that have occured over the last few days.

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Meanwhile lots of us in Canada using blogspot have reported on our problems.

Blogger problems

Well, wasn't that annoying!

My posts today on verbena-19

Blogger Malfunction

Comment Malfunction
I have no idea what?s going on with Blogger. It?s deleting posts and comments. At the same it?s sending me multiple copies via e-mail of comments that it stubbornly won?t post. Wonky.

Comment Malfunction
Not sure what happened yesterday, but a whole bunch of comments disappeared into the ether. I got them in my e-mail, but for some reason they weren?t posted. Blogger was pretty flaky all day on Friday.

It seems that Blogger is back up!

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google.com vs. google.cn

Wierd World of Blogspot

On impending failure Opps sorry this is an article about the Harper government.


Most Of Blogger Is Back Online Now Sure and I will believe it when this little flashing at the bottom of the page quits saying "check connection." And remember most does not mean ALL.

The question here is why hasn't Google/Blooger/Blog spot had the courtesy of telling us what the hell is going on. Is this anyway to run a business?! I guess the customer has the right to be informed has given way once again to Cavet Emptor.
Or TANSTAAFL



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All that is Whyte With The World

In a devastating attack on editor Ken Whyte and his make over of Macleans into the new Alberta Report, Greg Felton in his latest column takes on Whyte and Macleans for their pandering to Zionism and the Right at the same time, no small feat that.

This is a column that neither Paul Wells nor Warren Kinsella is going to like, nor can one expect them to.

Wells is an apologist for his boss Ken Whyte and the Alberta Report journalism he has proffered on good old Macleans. Like his statement in his blog Inkless Wells on January 4th of this year when Macleans added more of Whytes right wing pals from the his days as editor of the National Pest to it's pages. The descent of Maclean's into a pathetic right-wing supermarket trash-tabloid rag continues, or at least that's the way the usual suspects will spin this.

He of course is the token liberal a position that he positively wallows in, being the big frog in a small pond,while rubbing elbows with his new compatriots on the right.

Kinsella is an apologist for Zionism so Whyte's recent attack on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran should warm the cockles of his heart. But Whytes attack on Steven Spielberg, damn liberal, for his movie Munich should leave him spinning his tires in trying to defend one and criticize the other. Which is probably why he has not written about it.

Whyte's attacks on the Iranian president in one breath and Steven Spielberg in the next is not so unusual. Underneath the Right Wings defense of Israel is the idea of the coming Christian Rapture of Revelation.Israel is seen by these bible believing protestants like Pat Robertson as key to manifestation of the Anti-Christ and the war in Heaven.

The Right Wing Christian view is that Israel is important not for being a Jewish state, but for the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem in fullfilling the prophecies of the Book of Revelation about the coming conflaguration between states that leads to the return of the Christ.

 Their defense of Israel is the defense of a strong State, the right loves a strong State. In defending Israel they indirectly defend Zionism. It's good PR.
It is a way of distancing themselves from the rank and file of the Protestant Right which is filled with Anti-Semitic conspiracy freeks and true believers.

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He's Baaaaaack


"That is not dead which can eternal lie / And with strange aeons even death may die."

H.P. Lovecraft

Quoting the Necronomicon, in "The Nameless City"

Yep you just can't keep some corpses down.

It appears that the announcement of Peter Rempel's departure from blogging was premature. Good Riddance Not Goodbye

Now where did I put that stake, garlic and cross.

Troll on Rempel Troll on.

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Edmonton Eskimo Moon's NFL Hall of Fame

Warren Moon played for the Edmonton Eskimoes in the CFL in the eighties BEFORE he joined the NFL. He was key to the Eskimo Grey Cup dynasty.

He brought his amazing abilities as a quarter back and his experience in the CFL to the U.S. where he dominated their game in the later half of th eighties. It wasn't his fault he played for losing teams. But what he did do was build those teams up.

But of course their are lots of naysayers in the U.S. press. What a lot of sour grapes these wusses are. Whine, whine , whine. Of course Moon's role off the field has been a major influence in the NFL as well, espcially in todays Super Bowl game Steelers QB happy to have CFL legend as his mentor but you wouldn't know it from these sad sack sports writers.

There weren't any real surprises in today's Hall of Fame vote.

Troy Aikman and Warren Moon, one based more on team achievements and the other more on statistical. I'm not completely sold on Aikman as a first-ballot guy, in the same way I wasn't sold on Steve Young. Both were great in their own way, but to me, Dan Marino and Joe Montana and John Elway are first-ballot QBs. I think Aikman and Moon are a notch below.

Hall Of Shame

The politics of Pro Football Hall of Fame voting were in full bloom Saturday. Some voters carry more clout than others, and the deal-cutting -- "I'll vote for your guy; you vote for mine'' -- runs rampant each year.

Still, for all of Warren Moon's numbers over 17 seasons -- 49,325 yards, 291 touchdowns, 233 interceptions -- you will not find a conference title. Not to mention the fact he was the quarterback of record in the greatest postseason collapse in NFL history, when Buffalo came from 32 points down in the second half to beat the Houston Oilers.

Moon was voted into the Hall in his second year of eligibility, joining offensive linemen Mike Munchak as members of the underachieving Oilers of the 1980s and '90s to gain immortality.

So when he is inducted into the NFL hall of fame how come there is no comment in the American Press about his playing in Canada for years? And then they wonder why Canadians are Anti-American. Sheesh. It's the only way to get their damn attention.

And I hope Moon wins the vote. We can then take pride in the fact that a great QB that was rejected by the NFL will have made it because of the CFL. We will have Mooned the Yankee nay'sayers.

Now here is how to really write the Moon story. Just the facts ma'am.

Warren Moon among Hall of Fame finalists

WebPosted Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:46:47 EST
CBC Sports

Former Edmonton Eskimos quarterback and CFL legend Warren Moon is among the finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's class of 2006.

Moon and several other players in their first year of eligibility, including Reggie White, Troy Aikman and Thurman Thomas, were on the list revealed Wednesday.

Former Edmonton Eskimo great Warren Moon is on the list of nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's class of 2006. (CP Photo)

The Hall of Fame's selection committee will meet on Feb. 4, 2006, the day before Super Bowl XL in Detroit, to discuss the finalists and hold a vote. Results of the vote will be announced the same day.

A candidate must receive 80 per cent of the vote to be elected to the Hall of Fame. A minimum of three and a maximum of six players will be enshrined in 2006. If fewer than three get 80 per cent, the candidate with the next highest percentage will be elected.

Two seniors candidates, former Dallas offensive tackle Rayfield Wright and former Oakland coach and current broadcaster John Madden, were chosen by a special committee last year and became automatic finalists.

The other finalists are: linebackers Derrick Thomas and Harry Carson; defensive ends L.C. Greenwood and Claude Humphrey; offensive linemen Russ Grimm, Bob Kuechenberg and Gary Zimmerman; and wide receivers Michael Irvin and Art Monk.

Moon wasn't drafted by any NFL team after his senior year at the University of Washington and he signed with Edmonton in 1978.

He became an integral part of the Eskimos dynasty that won five consecutive CFL Grey Cup titles from 1978-82. In six seasons with Edmonton, Moon threw for over 21,000 yards and 144 touchdowns.

In 1983, his last season in the CFL, he finished as the league's leading passer with 380 completions of 664 attempts for 5,648 yards and 31 touchdowns. He was also named to the Western all-star team, the CFL all-star team and won the Most Outstanding Player Award.

In 1984, he left Canada for the NFL, joining the Houston Oilers.

Moon, a nine-time Pro Bowl choice, enjoyed a stellar NFL career, throwing for 49,325 yards with 291 touchdowns for the Oilers (1984-93), Minnesota Vikings (1994-96), Seattle Seahawks (1997-98) and Kansas City Chiefs (1999-2000).

In his 17 NFL seasons, Moon threw for 49,325 yards and 291 touchdowns. He added another 1,736 yards and 22 touchdowns on the ground.

Moon was elected into the CFL Hall of Fame in 2001.

Also See: Super Bowl XL

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Jewish Anti-Zionism

In an excellent piece on the Jewish anti-occupation movement and Jewish Anti-Zionists Seth Farber author of Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers: Conversations with Jewish Critics of Israel, says the following;


The New Pro-Palestinian Jews -- Beyond Tikkun and Atzmon

by Seth Farber
(Thursday February 02 2006)

"We are neither traitors to the Jewish people nor traitors to our Palestinian comrades. We are Jewish anti-Zionists. We are genuinely Jewish–although we may disagree among us about exactly what it means to be Jewish. And we are genuinely anti-Zionists."


After writing the first part of this essay months ago I realized that my endeavor was unfinished, and that questions still remain about the collective identity of anti-Zionist Jews. Left-Zionists and a smaller group of Marxists have predominated in the anti-Occupation movement for so long that it is necessary to establish our identity both as Jews and as anti-Zionists. Although my book was composed as an affirmation of the Jewishness of anti-Zionism (although a couple of my interlocutors did not define themselves as Jewish) over and against the Jewish establishment which claims we are self-hating Jews, I had not yet contended with the critics on the left who argue that the political identification of oneself as Jewish necessarily binds one to a self-definition and praxis which is quintessentially Zionist. The most prominent spokespersons for this group of anti-Zionists are Gilad Atzmon, Paul Eisen and Israel Shamir.

Atzmon who has considerable influence in Europe, and whose adherents include a growing number of Marxists as well as the American activist and writer Jeff Blankfort, argues that persons who oppose Zionism in the name of their Jewish identity are either disingenuous or unwittingly serving the Zionist cause. Like many Jews I find his argument offensive. The anti-Zionist faction of the Jewish anti-Occupation movement is young and it has not assertively contested the challenges to its integrity and identity launched by Atzmon and others in the name of humanism, Marxism or working class internationalism. Thus it lacks a solid basis for its own praxis. My project is consonant with and complements that of the prolific Jewish theologian Marc Ellis who has not however answered those on the left who are critical of his perspective. Atzmon’s argument functions as a foil which has provided me with an opportunity to elaborate a theoretical legitimation for the Jewish anti-Zionist tendency in the anti-Occupation movement. I believe this tendency requires a theoretical foundation in order to maintain its momentum and growth. If Atzmon’s perspective was adopted and the fledgling Jewish anti-Zionists were to repudiate their Jewish identity, as he would like, the anti-Occupation movement would be disastrously weakened, and its future prospects would be eclipsed.

Many radical and anarchist Jews such as Emma Goldman,Alexander Berkman and Rudolf Rocker never denied their Jewishness they just did not fetishize it like the Zionists. In fact one cannot say that it is because they were pre-Holocaust Jews. The Pogroms against Jews have been conducted by Christian Europe since the 12th Century. And like many East European Jews Emmas family left becuase the Russians had conducted a campaigns of pogroms against Jews since after the death of Catherine the Great.

And it is important to note here that it was the New York Jewish Anarchist movement that kept Yiddish alive as the written and spoken language of non-religious Jews. With the death of the last of these went the death of secular Jewish language and literature and its recuperation into Zionism and religious Judaism. Today across North America Hebrew the language of religion, of the old Testament the Torah is taught.

Freie Arbeiter Stimme ("Free Voice of Labor"), the main Yiddish-Anarchist newspaper in the United States from 1890 until its demise in 1977. Leading anarchists such as Emma Goldman and Rudolf Rocker wrote for it. A young Noam Chomsky, later to become a leftwing intellectual cult figure, when in New York City repeatedly visited its offices at 45 West 17th Street to marinate his mind in its rarified political atmosphere. Between 1970 and 1980 Joe Conason did filmed interviews to document stories about the newspaper and his anarchist grandfather.

This is what has led to the contradicition that Faber addresses in his well written and expository essay that while it is lengthy is well worth reading.


The Life of Rudolf Rocker

Anarchy in Interpretation: The Life of Emma Goldman

"Red Emma" Goldman's Jewish Anarchism

John Patten (ed.)
Yiddish Anarchist Bibliography
Kate Sharpley Library/ Anarchist Archives Project, 1998. 32p, 30cm. 1-873605-27-7 large pamphlet £7.50 / $12
A listing of papers, books and pamphlets from the Yiddish-language anarchist movement, with titles in Yiddish, transliterated and translated.
In addition to a long and detailed catalogue, what this bibliography has to offer is an insight into the lives of thousands of militants, sometimes famous, sometimes nameless, and into their concerted struggle for a better world. — Pinelli Archive bulletin

NYU Libraries | Guide to Yiddish Speaking Labor and Radical

The Harris Collection - Yiddish-American Literature

Radical Visions: Graphic Satire in the Yiddish Press

David Edelstadt, 1866-1892 - libcom.org | history

David Edelstadt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Homage to William Herrick

Jack (Yankel) Frager, 1903-1998 - libcom.org | history

Mollie Steimer: An Anarchist Life - By Paul Avrich

anthony rudolf on fermin rocker


SOLOMON, Sidney (Pogost, Bekarus, Dec. 8, 1911-New York, 2004)

Excerpted from Anarchist Voices ; an oral history of anarchism in America, by Paul Avrich (Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1995) pp. 449-452.

SIDNEY SOLOMON

Forest Hills, New York, June 2, 1973

A book designer by profession and a talented painter, Sidney Solomon was a member of the Vanguard Group in the 1930s, the New Trends Group in the 1940s, and the Libertarian Book Club from the 1940s through the 1980s.

Fire in Their Hears: Yiddish Socialists in New York (hardcover)

Arguing the World -- The New York Intellectuals | Nathan Glazer



November 27, 1988

America vs. a Slip of a Girl

By JAMES JOLL; JAMES JOLL IS THE AUTHOR OF ''THE ANARCHISTS'' AND ''THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.''

LEAD: ANARCHIST PORTRAITS By Paul Avrich. Illustrated. 316 pp. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. $27.50.

ANARCHIST PORTRAITS By Paul Avrich. Illustrated. 316 pp. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. $27.50.





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The Need for Arab Anarchism

Anti-Zionism is NOT Anti-Semitism



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Nazi Gay Killer Wanted to be a Cop


Yep the kid that killed several gay men shooting up a gay bar in New Bedford Mass. was a Nazi who had gone through a Young Police training program.

Robida's neighbors have described him as a racist, who decorated his room with swastikas. (Watch one of Robida's alleged victims recount the attack at a gay bar -- 2:03) Robida is a graduate of New Bedford's junior police academy, a program intended to build social skills, self-esteem and self-confidence in children 12 to 14, police said. CNN

As I wrote here about violence against women this also applies to violence against gay men by those who suffer from lack of self esteem and need Big Daddy authority figures, whcih make them admire Nazi's and cops. Armed authority figures who have power that they don't. It was the same appeal that the Hitler Youth had.

And along with this goes the hatred of homosexuality by those who are insecure in their maleness and masculine identity. Being a man means not being a woman or queer.

Let us review what Wilhelm Reich said about this from his studies of the Mass Psychology of Fascism and in his book Listen Little Man!.

For Reich, a key question was: Why did people support the Nazis? Reich stated that he found that several things went together in Nazi Germany:

  • Strong paternal authority
  • Sexual repressiveness
  • authoritarian personalities
  • reactional political ideologies

Economically the Nazi program was not in the interest of lower middle class people of Germany, but they gave their support to it. Reich asked, What psychological reason could be found that would make the fascist ideology compelling to this group of people?

His answer was: The combination of authority and rebellion. Reich said the sons would especially admire an authoritarian person above them who was also rebellious. (Like Hitler and Stalin) That way they could fulfill the desire to rebel but with subs.


It is the reason that the Hitler Youth Corp was so successful and why youth are approached by both Skinhead Nazi's and by their elders to become the new shock troops of this underground movement for Aryan Power in North America. But it is not just limited to North America. It occurs where ever those who see society falling apart call for greater authoriy, law and order and repression as the solution.



The Faith of the Youth

Is the Foundation of Victory


The "Pimpfs" were members of the Nazi organization for young boys, part of the Hitler Youth. This article, from the last issue of the Nazi magazine for boys, urges them to look to the SS for their models. The SS Division "Hitler Jugend" mentioned toward the end of the article saw combat after D-Day, and acquitted itself well.

The source: "Glaube der Jugend: Unterpfand des Sieges," Der Pimpf, July-August 1944, pp. 8-9, 16.

Ukiah High officer says neo-Nazis are around'By SETH FREEDLAND/The Daily Journal

The anti-Semitic hate mail allegedly delivered by two Ukiah High School freshmen to a Jewish classmate on Wednesday is only the latest -- and now most public -- example of an "underground" neo-Nazi movement at the school, its resource officer said.

Students involved do not display swastikas or other emblems of Aryan pride, said Chris Gordon, of the Ukiah Police Department, but "they're around." Gordon said he could name a handful of the neo-Nazi teenagers.

Every gang has a uniform, Gordon said, and any student wearing a flight jacket, blue jeans rolled to slightly under the knee, Doc Martens shoes and with a shaved head will raise a red flag. The trouble caused by these teens is infrequent, he said, mostly limited to vandalism and the rare fight.

Ma's youth corps set to produce dictators

By Cao Chang-qing 曹長青

Saturday, Feb 04, 2006,Page 8

After taking over as chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has been intensely engaged in the organization of a KMT youth corps. The leadership of this youth corps is to be made up of the sons of former top KMT officials in an obvious attempt to use this "princeling party" to restore their power.

The establishment of such an organization is totally preposterous. In a democratic country, a political party is just that, and there should be no such "reserves." In the US, it would be inconceivable that the Democratic or Republican party would organize a youth corps. It takes a dictatorial party to set up that kind of organization, as exemplified by the Chinese Communist Party's Communist Youth League of China, the KMT's Three Principles of the People Youth Group -- which became the China Youth Corps after the KMT's move to Taiwan -- and the Hitler Youth and the SS in Nazi Germany.

Why is it that only dictatorial parties set up this kind of organization? Because the purpose -- besides providing new blood for a party aimed at despotism -- is to take advantage of the ease of communication between young people of the same age and the ease of creating enthusiasm over ideological issues among youth, thereby undertaking a process of ideological brainwashing. Only dictators need to resort to such methods. Democratic parties that are open to the possibility of relinquishing their hold on power rely on mature governance and policymaking rather than ideological fanaticism to maintain or regain power.



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White off the scale

They're loud, proud and everywhere from East Germany to West Virginia. Neil Mackay spends six months getting to know the white supremacist practitioners of Nazi Hate Rock

Sunday January 22, 2006
Henrik Ostendorf is holed up in an attic room of a dilapidated hotel in a provincial town near Leipzig in the former East Germany. Riot police surround the floodlit building and attack dogs have closed off every exit. The hotel has been taken over by more than a thousand German neo-Nazis - 'musical terrorists' as they are classified by the German police - for the staging of an illegal gig. British white power band Whitelaw will headline the show and are about to take the stage. Lurking in the dark, Ostendorf is watching the scene outside as the police arrest several of his 'comrades' and bundle them into waiting vans.





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Oil Can Bush

An interesting piece in the Times on Line from the UK, very funny and insightful by Andrew Sullivan. He says this about George Walkers State of the Union where he admits Americans are addicted to Oil. As the president knows from personal experience the first thing an addict must do is recognise he has a problem. The second thing he has to do is change his own behaviour. This president took five years to get to step one. Somehow I think it will be past 2025 before Americans get any further. The rest of the article which is full of dry droll English humour is damned good analysis of the political machinations around why America can't get over its addiction to oil.

Also See: George Walker Liar


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