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-Obits-
Reverence but No Outpouring for Solzhenitsyn
Posted by: Fred || 08/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336073 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was trying to find the scathing reviews of the Gulag Archipelago when it came out, but didn't find anything. As I remember, there were some seriously pissed-off leftists who accused him of being a liar, a Nazi sympathizer, delusional, and worse. It would be good to hold these up to the light of day.
Posted by: gromky || 08/05/2008 0:26 Comments || Top||

#2  His political ideals are quite out of step with most Russians even under the Soviets.


Posted by: Bernardz || 08/05/2008 9:34 Comments || Top||

#3  I read "Gulag Archipellago" many years go, I thought it was nothing more than an highly upset person's semi-insane attempt at vengance.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 08/05/2008 15:19 Comments || Top||

#4  I stared reading August 1914 once. After about a hundred pages I decided to wait for the movie.
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/05/2008 15:47 Comments || Top||

#5  I read Cancer Ward and The First Circle more than 30 years ago. Then read Gulag and August 1914. The impression I had then of Solzhenitsyn is the one I have now: One, tough, hard sonuvabitch with an unwavering thirst for the truth. He is known for his novels, but for some real insight into what the man was up against, read his 1969 letter to the Soviet Writers Union. Solzhenitsyn was the bravest writer of the last 200 years. Like James Lileks pointed out a couple of days ago, the "truth-to-power" writers of today aren't even in the same solar system as Aleksandr Isayevich.
Posted by: mrp || 08/05/2008 19:46 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Sir Richard’s bogus eco-drive
In September 2006, Virgin boss Richard Branson pledged €1.9 billion towards tackling global warming. For the next ten years, he announced, the profits from his aviation and rail businesses would go towards combating the biggest, most complex problem that mankind has ever faced. The promise earned Branson headlines around the world. Media outlets carried photos of him, Bill Clinton and Al Gore at a Clinton Global Initiative press conference in New York. Adults, Branson solemnly told the assembled media, had a duty to pass a ‘‘pristine’’ planet on to the next generation. Politicians and campaigners were effusive in their praise for his imagination and generosity.

However, a look at the not-very-small print revealed that this amazing gesture would not be a matter of taking the profits from Branson’s polluting industries and using them to protect vast tracts of the Amazon. In fact, the money would go to a new division of the Virgin conglomerate, called Virgin Fuel. Branson was simply gearing himself up to make more money. But as always, the PR spin was that he’d be doing the rest of us a favour in the process.

Branson has built an empire on this perception. His first two business ventures - both failed - were growing Christmas trees and selling budgerigars, so he obviously understood from an early stage that nature is there to be exploited. His reputation as a rebel underdog took off when he was arrested in 1971 for selling records in Virgin stores that had been declared export stock. Because he also sold ‘‘cut-outs’’ (remaindered LPs at discounted prices), the perception took root that he was being persecuted by the authorities for challenging a rip-off establishment. In fact, he was doing nothing of the sort - he paid the taxes and fines owing from the case.

Branson’s anti-establishment persona was cemented in 1977 when Virgin Records signed the Sex Pistols; the band had already been dropped by two labels, EMI and A&M. He was also on board the boat the band played on when they sailed down the Thames during Queen Elizabeth’s silver jubilee celebrations. In a blaze of publicity, it was pulled in by police and a few punters were arrested.

When British Airways engaged in a ‘‘dirty tricks’’ campaign against Virgin Atlantic in the early1990s,this was grist to Branson’s mill. Whether it’s flights, records, mobile phones, cola, radio, television, hotels, trains or holidays, sticking the word ‘‘Virgin’’ in front of something supposedly makes it cheaper yet cooler, with the bearded, grinning boss fronting many of his own ad campaigns. Because if a hippie says it’s all right, then it must be. Mustn’t it?

Since Virgin Fuel was set up in 2006, the tide has very much turned against bio-fuels with the realisation that far too much agricultural land could be eaten up by fuel crops. Palm oil, one of the major biofuels, is contributing to global warming as virgin (no pun intended) rainforests in countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia are decimated to make way for palm plantations. Still, in February of this year Branson was on the tarmac toying with a coconut for the inevitable photocall when one of his 747s flew - empty- from London to Amsterdam on a 20 per cent bio-fuel mixture. Two years on from his ‘‘profits’’ gesture, slightly wiser green campaigners dismissed the flight as a stunt.

But onwards and upwards. While Branson has done little to save the planet and a hell of a lot to pollute it, he can arrange for you to look down upon it. This week he unveiled an aircraft for flying tourists into space. Virgin Galactic (yes, space can be branded too) has built a four-engine, twin-fuselage jet that will carry a spaceship with six passengers up to 50,000 feet to release it for sub-orbital flight.

The actual space ship is not yet complete, but apparently 50 punters have already paid $200,000 up front for the experience, among them Ireland’s own leading car salesman, Bill Cullen. The plane is called White Knight II, lest we forget what a favour Branson is doing for us.

Hippies are often credited with being the first to bring green issues to the fore, but the 1960s also legitimised the ascent of personal selfishness over social responsibility. Of course, Branson is no more of a hippie than I am, just a good businessman.

Spraying huge amounts of jet fuel into the atmosphere, purely to allow rich people to look down on an overheating planet, is about as stupid and hypocritical as it gets. Still, I’m sure that the earth from space is a beautiful sight – enjoy it while it lasts
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/05/2008 14:42 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Branson: Narcissistic Punter

OK

Rich Narcissistic Punter
Posted by: Spaish Flomble3461 || 08/05/2008 16:48 Comments || Top||

#2  He's bitchin' because Branson is making money from the GW cult. I suspect this guy is PO'd because Branson is too obvious and it makes folks suspicious about the carbon credit fraud.
Posted by: tipover || 08/05/2008 19:33 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Carbon Tax Fraud - Al Gore, Hillary Clinton & Rothschild
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336074 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Direct measurements of the sun's radiation have only been made for about 30 years and the first 10 of those years were with instruments that weren't all that good.

The increment between the peak and the trough is thought to be about 00.2%.

If the earth were a atmosphere-free black body with no magnetic field, this would correspond to a temperature change of essentially nothing.

Of course the earth has an atmosphere and neither absorbs nor radiates as a black body and has a mag field so no one really knows what the impact of the solar variation is. There are a lot of theories.

Posted by: mhw || 08/05/2008 8:51 Comments || Top||

#2  mhw...
and the data that supports your statements and your assertion that the earth 'does not absorb or radiate' solar radiation come from where???

You've proven that a person does not need to espouse global warming to be a supporter of it, and that a rhetorical comment on scientific matters that is itself an antethesis, is definitely not an indication of intelligence.
Posted by: logi_cal || 08/05/2008 10:16 Comments || Top||

#3  log_cal

I agree that the earth absorbs and radiates; it simply does not do so as a black body.

In fact, the absorbtion, for example, depends on all kinds of things; ice/snow cover, cloud cover, type of soil - even more complex that that is that the reflectivity of ice/snow varies greatly depending on its age (new snow reflects very well, ice with a dirty surface doesn't reflect well at all)
Posted by: mhw || 08/05/2008 11:36 Comments || Top||

#4  logi_cal, re-read mwh's last paragraph.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/05/2008 19:22 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Repubs to Continue Energy Sit-in on Monday at 10
As I was reading all of this happening on Friday (thanks to the technology that integrates into the Net), we could witness this first hand. I read then, that some were discussing, to keep this going — returning with a handful each week, and continue to take to the floor. Seems, they are gonna do it!

A number of Republicans will be taking to the floor tomorrow, despite the fact the House is officially in a five-week recess, to continue what Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) is calling a "historic effort to free Americans for generations to come from dependence on foreign oi."

Last Friday's spontaneous uprising garnered both media attention and the ire of Democrat leaders, who responded to the GOP's refusal to leave DC to go on vacation when the nation's energy crisis is growing by attempting to have media and visitors expelled from the chamber so that no reports of what was being done there could reach the public.

A memo from Rep. Roy Blunt's (R-MO) Minority Whip office to lawmakers said:
“By now youve heard of Fridays successful energy ‘sit-in by House Republicans.

Thank you to all of the Members who were able to participate in that historic debate.

Leader Boehner (R-Ohio) and Whip Blunt, at the urging of many of you, are asking for an energy ‘call to arms this week, to build on Fridays success. Over 10 Members have already committed to returning to D.C. Monday morning to begin floor debate at 10am.”

Nancy Pelosi referred to Friday's protest as "the war dance of the handmaidens of the oil companies" when asked about it by George Stephanopoulos on Sunday morning (in the same appearance in which she had to 180° on her "saving the planet" no-drilling stance due to Barack Obama's reversal two days before).
Posted by: Sherry || 08/05/2008 15:18 || Comments || Link || [336069 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The headline should read "Plastic Tits Queen of the Elites Calls Republicans Handmaidens"

McCain is right...we need to drill here, and we need to drill now. May I add that we need to secure our borders and bring back jobs for Americans while at it. And strengthen the dollar, and improve education by removing the leftists, and destroy what remains of the MSM.

And a pony.
Posted by: wxjames || 08/05/2008 13:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes, and the pony.
Posted by: newc || 08/05/2008 14:42 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Our growing isolation
By Anees Jillani

ON July 25, eight small bombs exploded in quick succession across the south-Indian city of Bangalore, killing a woman and wounding at least 15 people.

So far the Indian police has few leads into the bombings. The Bangalore Commissioner of Police told the media that timer devices were used in all the bombs, and explosives were used in a quantity equal to one or two grenades. India's home ministry said that it suspected "a small militant group" was behind the attacks, but has yet to give any details.
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Posted by: john frum || 08/05/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336084 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Otherwise, the Taliban will employ the British tactic of 'divide and rule' and will continue to conquer.
The author still misses the point. The Talibunnies should be the least of their worries if they keep supporting terrorism.
Posted by: 3dc || 08/05/2008 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Since Partition, Pakis have reduced the Hindu population of Pakistan from 20 to 1%. In contrast, the muslim population of India has doubled to 16%. In that context, Pakistan is in a good position to bleed India. I suspect ISI involvement at some level.
Posted by: McZoid || 08/05/2008 2:24 Comments || Top||

#3  The militants for a number of years continued with the cruel practice of lining up Hindus in Indian-held Kashmir and spraying them with gunfire: the purpose was to force them to leave the territory and the militants succeeded to an extent in this endeavour. The Taliban are more ruthless, perhaps because non-Muslims are not so easily available and thus many a times take out their anger either in a sectarian manner or on people who refuse to cooperate with them.

So... lining up Hindu villagers and and shooting is not so ruthless? True ruthlessness only shows when non-Muslims are not available?
Posted by: john frum || 08/05/2008 6:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Compare wid WAFF.com > INDIANS ARE THE FASTEST GROWING SOURCE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN USA. Up 125% versus 37% for Hispanic - of 2.5Milyuhn personages of Indian ancestry [Census data] in the USA, 1.0Milyuhn are NOT US Citizens. 270,000 - 400,000 are per se illegals. Most are MALES looking for work.

Also, IRNA/TOPIX > INDIA, BANGLADESH SIGN MOU ON ANTI-TERROR COOPERATION; + WAFF Threads > SRI LANKAN SOLDIERS IN TAMIL TIGER "CAPITAL" CITY + BANGLADESH VERSUS SRI LANKA [Two-Nation War Scenario induced by Rising Terror].

WAFF.com > YOUTUBE - INDIA'S MAOIST REVOLUTION. 1/2 of India's Popul in perennial deep poverty and dying of AIDS, Other Diseases which New Delhi/State Govts are finding it increasingly harder to stem or control???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/05/2008 20:30 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Radical Iraq Cleric in Retreat
Posted by: ryuge || 08/05/2008 05:07 || Comments || Link || [336075 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mr. Sadr isn't giving up armed resistance entirely. Mr. Obeidi said Mr. Sadr will continue to direct small, special armed cells for limited military operations against U.S. forces. He said specific details about these cells, and how they can be distinguished from rogue Mahdi Army members, will be publicized at a future date.

I imagine he thinks that gives him plausible deniability.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/05/2008 5:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Want more support? Try leading from the front, instead of the rear. You'd make a nice target.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon || 08/05/2008 11:43 Comments || Top||

#3  "...intends to disarm his once-dominant Mahdi Army militia and remake it as a social-services organization."

Sounds like he wants to try out "community activist" on his resume.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 08/05/2008 15:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Why not? It worked for Barack.
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/05/2008 15:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Lileks vs. Keillor, again
Now, the weekly question: what's angering Garrison Keillor this week? I'm sorry, but I'm just fascinated by his column. Each is nearly identical in formlessness, subject and general pointlessness. To be fair: we all write at haste and repent at leisure, unless we can somehow get it out of the Google cache. We all make inelegant remarks that seemed wonderfully writerly at the moment but curdle when exposed to another pair of eyes. It’s the perils of blogging. But he has an entire week to write these things. Never does he attempt to make an argument or explore a line of thought – it’s just flat assertions ladled out with nuance or shading. The sun rises, Bush is bad, life is long but also short and so you should sit outside and drink lemonade and think of the people who came before you and sat outside and drank lemonade and there is a comfort in that continuity and we need all the comfort we can get in these days when nihilists in golf pants are everywhere and the Republic lies in ruins. Also, he is given to run-on sentences. This week has perhaps the finest example yet.

But first, last week. It contains one of the clunkiest opening sentences in the genre:

New York in July, hot and breezy, the smell of pizza and coffee in the air, and on the subway one is surrounded by women in light summer dresses, the bare shoulders of elegant young urban women whose shoulders tell you they never toted barges or lifted bales, never laid eyes on a barge or a bale except for someone barging into their office and giving them a baleful look.

Never mind the old days when New York women worked with barges and bales, and had muscular shoulders “Never laid eyes on a barge or a bale except for someone barging into their office and giving them a baleful look” is just dreadful. But that’s a matter of opinion, I suppose. Then there are some complaints about Amtrak, how the subways are better, and this is nice, and then this left turn:

My urologist gives me a long learned lecture on the prostate of which I cannot now recall a single thought, only remember the honor of being treated as an intellectual equal. To me, this is the wonder of city life – I find so much that exceeds my provincial expectations . . .

The present tense would indicate that he was on the subway to go to his schlong-doc; it's a bit jarring to realize we didn't only ride there with him, but now we're in the office. The “provincial expectations” is some unbecoming gee-shucks from a fellow who writes from a different city every other week, lived in New York, and does not seem unacquainted with the ways of the world. It also suggests that rural urologists talk down to their patients.

Then he goes to Central Park at night, which is nice and philosophical:

A peaceful and profound place at night where you imagine you might discover the elusive secret of your life
(Brace for unconscious self-revalation!)
(you're a writer because you're lazy and you don't get along with people), or maybe God would sit down next to you and confess His own doubts as to His existence . . . “

Well, a God from college fiction, perhaps.

but almost nobody goes there because it feels unsafe because almost nobody goes there. Why does a great city surrender this beautiful turf to predators real or imagined?

Because the people who run the city aren’t willing to do what’s necessary to deal with predators? If Guiliani was still mayor and put lots of cops in the park and sent predators away to Rikers in great numbers, you suspect the Old Scout would find this fascistic, but perhaps it would be okay because it meant he could sit in the park more. The question, however, is just a set-up for the inevitable answer to the deathless question: What makes the Old Scout hate President Bush this week? New York, I guess, and his enjoyment of it.

And why should we Americans surrender our beloved country to the predators who've plundered our sacred institutions in the name of conservatism?

Then he lists the things that angers him, which are pretty much the things that angered him last week and the week before, and ends up recycling one of his most curious descriptions:

In a democracy, however, it is possible to take a sharp turn, whoosh, and in one majestic moment, the bums are dumped out on the street, the cronies of cronies who rigged the system and the bulbous blowhards wrapped in Old Glory and nihilists in golf pants—they have to sell their Washington condos and move on and find some other line of work. Glory, hallelujah, the truth is marching on.

Nihilists in Golf Pants! It’s a hardy perennial for the Old Scout.

As he wrote in 2006:

Ancient crones from FDR's time are still walking the halls, kept alive by anger at what has been done to our country. Old conservationists, feminists, grizzled veterans of the civil rights era fight off melanoma, emphysema, Montezuma, thanks to the miracle drug of anger. Slackers and cynics abound, not to mention nihilists in golf pants and utter idiots.

He even inspired a blog. (Incidentally: ancient crones? There are other varieties? And after all that invective and calumny, he concludes the sentence with "utter idiots"?)

So what do we have this week? The NiGPs have been given the week off. Take a deep, deep breath.

Another paradise day in our old river town and we linger over supper in the back yard and talk about the dry weather and bats (Do they eat three thousand mosquitoes per night? No, says the family biologist.) and cousin Bruce’s truck farm besieged by suburban yards and of course Barack’s audacious trip to Iraq and Europe, meanwhile the sun goes down and little candles come out a fresh pot of green tea and nobody feels the urge to get up and go.

There’s conversational writing, and then there’s just talking to yourself as you make coffee. It goes on in this vein; the general mood is that he is happy because the Republicans will soon be gone and McCain seems old. He misses his wife and child, who are in "Paris and Prague." This from a man who was nonchalant about 10-dollar-a-gallon gas a few weeks ago? Spoken like a fellow who will always be able to afford a plane ticket - and possibly recycle the usual remarks about the real provincials who don't have a passport.

The concluding lines of this week's column repeats a line from the last one: “Talk to you later. Keep the faith. The truth is marching on.”

See you later, alligator! Hang loose! Keep facing forward! Don't take any wooden nickels! Or leaden sentiments.
Posted by: Mike || 08/05/2008 06:37 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Remember....if any of you want to see the cranky old guy (Keillor, not Lileks) in person, don't forget 17 August at the Iowa State Fair, where he is the "headlining" act for the now appropriately named Extreme Sunday!

(No, won't be there myself, I don't think he's worth $25.)
Posted by: Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields || 08/05/2008 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Keillor, in his Lake Woebegone days was never that deep or insightful. It any wonder that he should be any better at it in his "middle age"??
Posted by: WolfDog || 08/05/2008 10:17 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm sorry, but I'm just fascinated by his column.

I'm not.
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/05/2008 10:18 Comments || Top||

#4  That second sentence should start...Is it any wonder... Sorry 'bout dat'.
Posted by: WolfDog || 08/05/2008 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Kellor. Follewer of Kant, and living the reality of Faust.
Posted by: newc || 08/05/2008 14:56 Comments || Top||

#6  He's writing is like a Dolcelet Stool Softener on a firefly lit night.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 08/05/2008 15:27 Comments || Top||



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  Philippine Supremes halt MILF autonomy deal
Mon 2008-08-04
  16 officers killed,16 wounded in an attack in Xinjiang
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  ''Assad's right hand man'' assassinated in Syria
Sat 2008-08-02
  Taliban deny al-Qaida No. 2 hit by missile
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  189 arrested, curfew lifted in Diyala
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  Qaeda big turban in Afghanistan killed in US airstrike
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