#laurier washington

[robinlynnemabin]

#18 - Laurier, Washington Population = 1Acres = 40Town Founded by an Ex-Convict (Russell)Originally a Mining ⛏️ TownCurrently has an Airport ✈️🛫 (Avey Airport)🏣 Post Office 2 Residences for Border Control 🛂     108,000 # of Towns in USA19,495 Incorporated/Municipal14,768 population of 5,000 or lessOnly 10 with population of 1 million+310 with population of 100,000+88,505 Towns Un-Incorporated     

[rabbitcruiser]

Mono County, CA (No. 4)

U.S. Route 395 (US 395) is a United States Numbered Highway, stretching from Hesperia, California to the Canadian border in Laurier, Washington. The California portion of US 395 is a 557-mile (896 km) route which traverses from Interstate 15 (I-15) in Hesperia, north to the Oregon state line in Modoc County near Goose Lake. The route clips into Nevada, serving the cities Carson City and Reno, before returning to California.

Prior to truncation, US 395 served the metropolitan areas of San Diego, Riverside, and San Bernardino. The highway serves as a connection to the Los Angeles area for the communities of the Owens Valley, Mammoth Lakes and Mono Lake. The highway is used as an access route for both the highest point in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney, and the lowest point in North America, Death Valley.

The corridor has been used since the California gold rush, and before numbering was known by several names including El Camino Sierra.

Source: Wikipedia

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Events 1.9 (before 1930)

681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. 1038 – An earthquake in Dingxiang, China kills an estimated 32,300. 1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong of Song and others, ending the Northern Song period. 1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated. 1431 – The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen. 1693 – Sicily earthquake: The first of two earthquakes destroys parts of Sicily and Malta. After the second quake on 11 January, the death toll is estimated at between 60,000 and 100,000 people. 1760 – Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat. 1787 – The nationally known image of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines was transferred from what is now Rizal Park to its present shrine in the minor basilica of Quiapo Church. This is annually commemorated through its Traslación (solemn transfer) in the streets of Manila and is attended by millions of devotees. 1788 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1792 – Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed, ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92.[12] 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. 1799 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars. 1806 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral. 1816 – Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. 1822 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process. 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. 1857 – The 7.9 Mw  Fort Tejon earthquake shakes Central and Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). 1858 – British forces finally defeat Rajab Ali Khan of Chittagong. 1861 – American Civil War: "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. 1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War. 1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. 1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia. 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time. 1914 – The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States. 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula. 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine. 1918 – Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars. 1920 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee outlaws the Makhnovshchina by decree, igniting the Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict. 1921 – Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia. 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. 1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. 1927 – A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.

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@serpentiines said : Was that [AVAN JOGIA]? Oh no no, that was just [SEBASTIAN LAURIER], an [ORIGINAL CHARACTER] from [THE VAMPIRE DIARIES]. They are [TWENTY TWO] years old, use [HE/THEY], and [ARE] aware that they are not actually from Washington DC. Too bad they can’t stray from this city for long. ( cherry! )

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Favorite History Books || Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic’s First-Class Passengers and Their World by Hugh Brewster ★★★★☆

The Titanic’s story, however, has lost none of its sheen. On the eve of its centenary it remains what Walter Lord, the author of A Night to Remember, once labeled “the unsinkable subject.” It has inspired hundreds of books, movies, and websites, and one hesitates to launch another craft into such crowded sea-lanes. Yet in most accounts of the disaster, the Titanic is the protagonist and her passengers merely supporting players, identified with tags like “millionaire John Jacob Astor,” “crusading journalist W. T. Stead,” and “fashion designer Lady Duff Gordon.” Yet who were these people? And what had brought their lives to this fateful crossing?

To Lily May Futrelle, her fellow travelers were “a rare gathering of beautiful women and splendid men.” A rare gathering it was—liner historians report that no other passenger list of the period ever featured quite as many celebrated names. For Lady Duff Gordon, the Titanic was “a small world bent on pleasure.” And it was indeed a smaller world than ours—the populations of the United States and Canada were a third of what they are today (and Great Britain’s a third less), and wealth and influence were concentrated in much tighter circles. Those who made ocean crossings regularly usually found acquaintances on the first-class passenger list.

But “bent on pleasure”? There was certainly a contingent of the transatlantic leisured rich on board, a recently evolved class of Americans who kept homes in Paris or regularly made the crossing for the winter “season” in London or on the Continent. But many of the liner’s first-class cabins were occupied by hardworking high achievers. The artist Frank Millet, for example, was on his way to Washington to help decide on the design for the Lincoln Memorial. His friend, White House aide Archie Butt, was heading home to prepare for a grueling presidential election campaign. Railroad president Charles Hays was returning to Canada for the opening of his company’s new Château Laurier Hotel in Ottawa. Lady Duff Gordon herself was a leading British couturiere who had urgent business to tend to at her New York salon. Within their lives and those of others on board can be found a remarkable convergence of the events, issues, and personalities of the age, forming what Walter Lord called “an exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian world.”

In America, the Titanic is often described as a cross-section of the Gilded Age, an era of rapid industrialization and wealth creation in the United States that began in the 1870s and ended with the introduction of income taxes in 1913 and the outbreak of World War I the following year. Her sinking is sometimes viewed as the warning bell for a complacent society steaming toward catastrophe in the trenches of the Western Front. As the poet and actress Blanche Oelrichs observed, it was “as if some great stage manager planned that there should be a minor warning, a flash of horror” before the greater calamity to come.

[msclaritea]

"More than 130 people, including Gloria Steinem, and organizations in the field of women’s rights advocacy and domestic violence and sexual assault awareness have signed an open letter to support Amber Heard, who lost a defamation suit this year brought by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, for an op-ed in which she said she was a “public figure representing domestic abuse.”

The letter, which was exclusively shared with NBC News ahead of its public release Wednesday, was signed by groups like the National Organization for Women, the National Women’s Law Center, Equality Now and the Women’s March Foundation. It was written by a group of people who identify as domestic violence survivors and supporters of Heard."

ORGANIZATIONS

Aidileys • Associazione Iroko Onlus • Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE)  •  CCChat Magazine  • Custody Peace • Cyber Civil Rights Initiative • Center for Safety and Change  • Clearinghouse on Women's Issues  Crumiller  • The Feminist Litigation Firm •  Democratic Activists for Women Now •  Engendered Collective •  EnoughIsEnough Voter Project • Equal Rights Advocates • Equality Now • Esperanza United (formerly Casa de Esperanza: National Latin@ Network) •  Every Voice Coalition • Fearless! Hudson Valley, Inc. • Female Filmaker Fuse • Feminist Majority Foundation • Futures Without Violence • C.A. Goldberg, PLLC, Victims' Rights Law Firm • Hope's Door •  Know Your IX • LIFT: Living in Freedom Together, Worcester • Ms. Magazine •The National Organization for Women • The National Organization for Women: Virginia Chapter • National Women’s Law Center • Refuge: for Women & Children. Against Domestic Violence. •  Réseau International des Mères en Lutte • Sakhi for South Asian Women • Sanctuary for Families  • Sexual Violence Prevention Association • The Asian Feminist • The Mary Sue • The Safe Center LI • UltraViolet • Victim Focus • Violence Free Minnesota •  WeSpoke • Women's March Action • Women's March Foundation • Women’s Equal Justice Project •

INDIVIDUALS

Renée B. Adams, 

Professor, University of Oxford

Dr. Esohe Aghatise, 

Executive Director, Associazione Iroko Onlus

Cheryl A. Alexander, 

L.I.C.S.W., RMT

Aisha Ali-Khan, 

British Women’s Rights Campaigner, Women United Organisation 

Sara Ahmed, 

Independent Scholar, Author, “Complaint!”

Kate Amber, 

PgCert, Founder, End Coercive Control USA

Dr. Adrienne Barnett, 

Reader in Law, Brunel Law School, Brunel University London

Dr. Nicole Bedera, 

Sociologist

Nicole Bell, 

Founder and CEO, LIFT Living in Freedom Together

Panayiota Bertzikis,

CEO/Founder Military Rape Crisis Center

Amy Betts,

Founder of Aidileys - Rights, Family Court Information Services   

Antoinette Bonsignore, J.D., 

Legal and Prosecutorial Analyst, Case Systems Training Review Program, Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission

Anna Boucher, 

Associate Professor in Public Policy and Political Science (LSE) and admitted Solicitor, Supreme Court NSW, Australia

Lindsey Boylan, 

Women’s Rights Activist

Dr. Stephanie Ann Brandt MD, 

Faculty and Chairman, Ethics Committee, New York Psychoanalytic Institute New York, NY, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, Experienced Forensic Evaluation and Testimony in Family, Supreme and Federal ( EDNY + SDNY ) Child focused Litigation

Susan J. Brison, 

Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, Dartmouth College

Professor Ann Bartow, 

University of New Hampshire School of Law. 

Laura S Brown, Ph.D. 

ABPP, psychologist in private practice, past President, APA Division of Trauma Psychology and Society for The Psychology of Women

Dr. Kari Brozowski 

Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University 

Twiss Butler, 

Feminist

Rachel Camp, 

Professor from Practice and Co-Director, Georgetown University Domestic Violence Clinic (title for identification purposes only)

Nancy Chi Cantalupo, 

Associate Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School (title and institution provided for identification purposes only)

Kali Casab, 

The Voices and Faces Project

Lauren B. Cattaneo, 

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, George Mason University

Gillian Chadwick, 

Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law

Debra Chopp, 

Clinical Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

Seo-Young Chu 

Associate Professor Queens College, CUNY

Andrew Thomas Cicchetti, 

Ph.D. LCSW-R

Dr. Christine Marie Cocchiola, 

DSW, LCSW Coercive Control Advocate, Educator, Researcher & Survivor

J.V. Connors 

Ph.D. New Mexico licensed psychologist 

Dr. Elizabeth Dalgarno, 

SHERA Research Group

Michele Landis Dauber, 

Frederick I. Richman Professor of Law, Stanford Law School (title and institution for identification purposes only)

Ella Dawson, 

Author

Drew Dixon, 

Producer, Activist

Margaret B. Drew, 

Associate Professor of Law, UMass Law School

Prof. Dr. Jennifer Drobac

Danielle Pelfrey Duryea

Boston University School of Law (institution for identification purposes only)

Erin Dwyer-Frazier, 

Attorney and Domestic Violence Advocate

Heidi Eilers, Ph.D.,

BCBA-D, CCTP, Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional

Aliaa Magda Elmahdy,

Egyptian internet activist and women's rights advocate  

Deborah Epstein, 

Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Gender, Violence, and Law, Georgetown Law University Center

Ray Epstein, 

President/Founder of Student Activists Against Sexual Assault at Temple University

Heidi Li Feldman, 

Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Bill Flack, 

Professor of Psychology, Bucknell University

Professor Michael Flood

Queensland University of Technology

Terry Forliti, 

Communication Coordinator for Upside Sex Trafficking Initiative, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jaclyn Friedman, 

editor of “Yes Means Yes” and “Believe Me”

Professor Aisha K. Gill, Ph.D. 

CBE | Professor of Criminology

Professor Leigh Gilmore, 

Ohio State University, Author, “The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women”

Lisa Goodman, 

Ph.D., Professor, Boston College

Leigh Goodmark, 

Marjorie Cook Professor of Law and Co-Director, Clinical Law Program

Cynthia A. Graham, 

PhD, C. Psychol, Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health  

Gretchen Grappone,

LICSW PTSD Clinician & Trainer  

Julie Green, 

Research Assistant, Violence Against Women and Children team, Department of Social Work, The University of Melbourne

Min Grob, 

Founder CCChat Magazine 

Kit Gruelle, 

Advocate, Survivor, Film Subject for HBO Documentary Private Violence

Emiliana Guereca, 

Founder and Executive Director Women's March Action and Women's March Foundation

Kayla Harder 

Founder, Survivors Righting Wrongs 

Yasmeen Hassan, 

Global Executive Director, Equality Now

Tirion Havard, 

Associate Professor, England UK

Judith L. Herman, M.D., 

Professor of Psychiatry (Part Time), Harvard Medical School

CarlLa Horton, M.P.A., 

Executive Director, Hope’s Door

Emily Mia Hughes-Smith,

MBACP. BSc(hons) dip. Sup

Doreen Hunter, 

Co-Founder, Americas Conference to End Coercive Control (ACECC)

Holly Jacobs, PhD 

Founder, Board Member, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative

Hans Johnson, 

President, East Area Progressive Democrats

Sheherezade Kara

International Human Rights Jurist and Consultant, human-writes.org 

Dr. Emma Katz, Ph.D., 

Senior Lecturer, Liverpool Hope University, UK

Mara Keire 

Senior Research Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK

Dr. Margaret Kertesz, 

Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne

Farrah Khan, 

CEO Possibility Seeds 

Amanda Kippert, 

Editor-in-Chief, DomesticShelters.org, Co-Host, Toxic the Podcast

Judge Judy Harris Kluger, 

Executive Director, Sanctuary for Families

Dean Laurie Kohn, 

George Washington Law School 

Kellyann Kostyal-Larrier, 

Executive Director, Fearless! Hudson Valley, Inc.

Dr. Ingeborg Kraus, 

Clinical Psychologist, Psychotraumatologist

Lauren Krouse, 

Writer & Survivor-Victim Advocate  

Afsana Lachaux, 

Activist & British Women’s Rights Campaigner.

Dr Rhiannon Lane, 

Research Fellow in Sociology, Cardiff University

Julianna Lee, 

Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

Geraldine Lee-Treweek ,

Professor of Social Justice at Birmingham City University, UK, specialist in Abuse Studies and Psychotherapist. 

Dorchen A. Leidholdt, Esq., 

Director, Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families

Edward Lloyd, 

Evan M. Frankel Clinical Professor Emeritus in Environmental Law, Columbia University School of Law

Dr. Laura E. Ludtke, 

Independent Scholar

Linda MacDonald, 

Persons Against Non-State Torture, co-author "Women Unsilenced Our Refusal To Let Torturer-Traffickers Win"

Catharine A. MacKinnon, 

Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at Michigan Law, and the long-term James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (all titles for identification purposes only)

David Mandel, 

Executive Director, Safe and Together Institute

Jane Manning, 

Director, Women’s Equal Justice Project

Omny Miranda Martone, 

Founder & CEO of Sexual Violence Provention Association 

Joan Meier, 

National Family Violence Law Center, Professor of Clinical Law, George Washington University Law School

Carolyn Modeen, 

Sun Cities West Valley NOW

Amy Myers, 

Acting Director, Gender Justice Clinic, Washington College of Law (for identification purposes only)

Natalie Nanasi, 

Associate Professor, SMU Dedman School of Law, Director, Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women

Laura Beth Nielsen, JD, Ph.D., 

Professor & Chair, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Research Professor, American Bar Foundation, President, Law and Society Association, Author, “License to Harass: Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech” (titles for identification purposes only)

Emer O'Toole, Ph.D., 

Professor, Concordia University

Natalie Page, 

#TheCourtSaid Founder, Survivor Family Network Director

David Palumbo-Liu, 

Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University

Reena Parikh, 

Director of Civil Rights Clinic, Boston College Law School (title for identification purposes only)

Moira Penza,

Attorney, Former federal prosecutor, Eastern District of New York; led NXIVM investigation and trial  

Jaime Cabeza Pereiro, 

Professor of Labor and Social Security Law, University of Vigo

Mary Peterson, 

PhD candidate & Activist Specialising in Fighting Sexual Harassment in Academia 

Alison Phipps, 

Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University

Christie Pitts

Alexa Polar,

Writer, Producer, Director & Founder of Female Filmakers Fuse 

Nicole Prause, Ph.D., 

Senior Statistician, University of California, Los Angeles (title for identification purposes only)

Dr. Charlotte Proudman, 

Barrister and Academic

Dr Shivaun Quinlivan

Associate Professor, University of Galway

Professor Tracey Raney, 

Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada

Anne K. Ream, 

Activist and Founder of The Voices and Faces Project

Laura Richards 

BSc, MSc, MBPsS, Criminal Behavioural Analyst 

Jennifer Robinson, 

Australian human rights lawyer and barrister at Doughty St Chambers, U.K. counsel to Amber Heard, author of How Many More Women? 

Diane Rosenfeld, 

Lecturer on Law, Director, Gender Violence Program, Harvard Law School

Lily Kay Ross, MDiv, Ph.D. 

Feminism and Ethics Research Fellow, Psymposia

David A. Santacroce, 

Clinical Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

Jeanne Sarson, 

co-author, “Women Unsilenced Our Refusal To Let Torturer-Traffickers Win,” Co-Founder Persons Against Non-State Torture.

Purna Sen, 

Ph.D. Visiting Professor, Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, LMU Special Advisor to the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court

Dr. John Simister, 

Ph.D., Domestic Violence and Economics Researcher, Senior Lecturer, Business School Manchester Metropolitan University

Ann Simonton, 

Founder Director of Media Watch: For Improving image of Women in Media

Rita Smith, 

National Expert on Violence Against Women, Former Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)

Rachel Louise Snyder, 

Professor, American University, Author, “No Visible Bruises”

Evan Stark, Ph.D., MSW, 

Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University

Gloria Steinem, 

Writer, Activist

Leslie Morgan Steiner, 

Advocate, Author, “Crazy Love”

Ruth Silver Taube, 

Adjunct Professor of Law, Santa Clara University, Legal Services Co-Chair, South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking, Delegate, Santa Clara County’s Human Trafficking Commission (all titles for identification purposes only)

Dr. Jessica Taylor, 

Chartered Psychologist, CEO of Victim Focus

Alison Turkos, 

Survivor + Advocate

Vanessa Tyson, 

Associate Professor of Politics, Scripps College

Robin West, J.D., 

Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School

Merle Weiner, Philip H. Knight Professor of Law,  University of Oregon (title for identification purposes only)

Constance Wu,

Actor and author

Sophia Yen, M.D., 

Adolescent Medicine Specialist, CEO/Founder of Pandia Health

Amy Ziering, 

Filmmaker

SO MANY ORGANIZATIONS ARE MERELY FRONTS FOR VARIOUS AGENDAS OR TAX SCAMS. AT LEAST NOW I KNOW WHY WRITERS FROM THE MARY SUE HAVE JOINED IN HARASSING BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH. AMBER HEARD IS A TRAINED PROSTITUTE/KOMPROMAT COLLECTOR.

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Most to least cringe: Hamilton, Lafayette Kerensky Nick II Louis XVI Charles X Madero Maximilian of Mexico Hoover Wilson Laurier

CRINGE

Charles X – A wannabe absolute monarch who only had the throne because his brother was put back in Paris by foreign bayonets, ‘learning nothing and remembering everything’ from the Revolution (or whatever the line is), trying and failing to reinstate the ancien regime and getting his ass thrown out in French Revolution 2. Not too much to say here. Gets more even less credit than all the other overthrown monarchs because he literally lived through the first Revolution and actually didn’t learn a thing.

Maximilian of Mexico - on the one hand, an incredibly sympathetic guy for the role he played. But also, like, 'mail-order royal bought by the cringier Napoleon to install as the head of a puppet regime in Mexico, burnt conservative support by not being enough of a racist asshole, got shot by victorious rebels". Less an agent of history and just a container of the bluest possible blood getting thrown hither and yon by other forces.

Nicky II - to be clear, a much worse person that Maximillion. Also, still incredibly cringe. Up there with Charles II is single-handedly ensuring the overthrow of his own dynasty. A micromnaging workaholic who was terrible at everything he tried. Also the whole Rasputin thing.

Louis XVI – Gets more credit than all the other ‘literally handed absolute power on a platter and promptly fucked it up on a world-historical scale until shot’ kings because he admittedly had a much tougher job in keeping things together than the others, who all might as well have been trying to get murdered by their subjects. But, like, still.

Kerensky - Mostly ahead of Nicky because it is inherently more based to connive and scheme your way to power than get it handed to you because of who your daddy was. Regardless 'pick advisers to form an impenetrable bubble, refuse to acknowledge anything's going wrong, piss away every bit of legitimacy you have until when the revolution comes no one's even willing to fight for you", extremely cringe. Also the whole Kornilov affair was both a kind of pathetic farce in the doing and an incredible self-own strategically.

Madero – Like Kerensky but more bumbling and less of an asshole about it. On the other hand, died a martyr instead of being universally despised, so that puts him ahead.

Laurier – look he’s not one of the 3 prime ministers we spent any time on in school and I have never been possessed by an urge to research late 19th century Canadian political history on my own time. Just gonna assume cringe but less so then the guys who got revolutioned

Hoover: Based up until the exact moment he became President, at which point he became incredibly cringe and never stopped. Like the whole stopping a post-WW1 famine in Belgium thing is legitimately very impressive. Being so bad at politics and not-having-depressions that ‘Hoovervilles’ are named after you, extremelly cringe.

Lafayette: Okay provisional judgement - I've got a biography ofthe guy I really need to get around to reading. But like - running away from home to join a foreign war is obviously based. Being incredibly obvious about viewing Washington as a surrogate father is cringe. Being one of the only people to constantly rub the founding fathers' faces in the slavery thing is at least slightly based. Being an early leader of the French Revolution is very based. Sucking at politics and ending up freezing in an Austrian prison for years is cringe. Becoming a leader of the republican opposition through the Restoration years is based. Publicly endorsing the House of Orleans to legitimize them before the Parisian mob is incredibly cringe. A man of contrasts, clearly.

Hamilton: Look he got the musical about him because he does actually have some real main character energy, I'm sorry! Like if entire hometown putting together tuition for you to go the big city and get an education, and then you never so much as glance their way again, that's a dick move but it is kind of based. Also war hero stuff etc. The whole Reynolds pamphlet thing is incredibly cringe, but getting killed in a duel with a political rival after you spiked their chances at the Presidency makes up for it imo.

Wilson: I'm not sure he should get credit it for it, really. But 'the president's wife and chief of staff weekend-at-bernie's him to keep running the country after he has a stroke, and afterwards the constitution is amended so no one can ever do the same thing again" is incredibly based. Also getting re-elected on staying out WW1 and then instantly starting on justifying joining the war once reelected.

BASED

[georgetownuniversitypress]

10 Books that Define Georgetown University Press

Continuing our celebration of University Press Week 2021, we've compiled this handy list of ten books that define Georgetown University Press publishing. Read on to find your next read on topics such as the history of racial injustice in the United States, managing one's social presence at work and at home, and Arabic language learning.

Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC by Barbara Boyle Torrey and Clara Myrick Green

Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski by Clark Young and Derek Goldman

Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of Its Black Community from the Founding of "The Town of George" in 1751 to the Present Day, 30th Anniversary Edition Kathleen Menzie Lesko, Valerie M. Babb, and Carroll R. Gibbs

Al-Kitaab Arabic Language Program Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi

Vice of Luxury: Economic Excess in a Consumer Age David Cloutier

Voices of the Border: Testimonios of Migration, Deportation, and Asylum Tobin Hansen and María Engracia Robles Robles, ME, Editors

Spy Sites of Washington, DC: A Guide to the Capital Region's Secret History Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton

The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth Roger Z. George and Harvey Rishikof

Being Present: Commanding Attention at Work (and at Home) by Managing Your Social Presence Jeanine Turner

Facing Georgetown's History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation Adam Rothman and Elsa Barraza Mendoza

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Ten books from the University of Alberta Press over the past decade

University Press Week 2021 Blog Tour : A #KeepUp Top Ten List from Johns Hopkins University Press

Books that Represent UBC Press

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#KeepUP from Fordham University Press

Ten Publications that Best Represent University of Washington Press

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Best of the Decade from University of Illinois Press

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Top Ten Titles from the Past Ten Years from University of Manitoba Press

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very fine morning – up for ten minutes at 4 50 and had motion and again two hours afterwards A- came to me for a minute or 2 about six – Letter dated 6th instant from SW. about 7 this morning 1 1/2p. Mrs. Machans’ offer thro’ Mr. James Holt of her coal and wanting an immediate answer as Mr. Rawson had applied for the coal - £600 by instalments of £100 per annum and £100 paid down or £700 by instalments of £50 per annum and £100 paid down – very bad hay-weather still 12DW. out on the 6th instant – on our return from Cautertz [Cauterets] last night (after our Spanish journey) joint letter direct to A- her midsummer rent account but p. 3 to me from Mr. S. Washington of the 1st instant to which reached here on Saturday last the 11th instant – merely to tell me the hay-weather was bad – the draft for the engine chimney ‘nearly driven thro’, and the works progressing, but I could like the reasons to get on a little faster’ – very busy at the Northgate hotel with jury-cases ‘to settle the value of lands taken from the Manchester and Leeds railways’ – very fine morning – very hot but not so suffocatingly hot as at Cautertz [Cauterets] yesterday morning tho’ at 9 ¼ am there F73° and at 7 35 here this morning F74 ½° - settling my things – a little while with A- breakfast at 9 – sat eating Spanish black grapes (1st time of grapes this season) and reading the newspaper till 11 – then had A- ¾ hour in my room talking over our letters from SW. – then till 12 10 wrote the above of today – feel much better this morning – a good night has in some sort corrected the terrible raspberries of yesterdays’ breakfast but I still feel the effects of my jolting hot to Jaca and back on Friday – A- is all the better for it – her journey seems to have agreed with her marvellously – sometime with A- writing to SW. – at 1 50 had just written my own letter to SW. as under ‘St. Sauveur. Hautes Pyrénées. France. Tuesday 14 August 1838. Sir – I received your letter of the 1st instant last night, and your letter of the 6th instant this morning – I shall be obliged to you to tell Mr. Holt to be so good as inform Mrs. Machan that I decline giving any answer about her coal till my return home, which will be before Xmas; but if she can make better terms with anyone else, she is quite at liberty to do so – I am sorry there has been such bad hay-weather – the ponies must, at any rate, go to Shibden hall on the last day of next month, and have a little corn, and sleep in the stable from that time, but run out during the day at first – John Booth will do the best he can for them, and must take them from green to dry meat so gradually that they will do without physic – they had best exercise themselves, and may run out for a couple of hours in the middle of the day till further orders – you were right to order a wall against the Platform towards the new-bank – the masons must not have to be waited for – I hope there is no fear of Mr. Crosslands’ doing well at the Northgate hotel – we are very glad to hear so good an account of Mrs. Walker – I am, sir, etc. etc. A. Lister’ – had just written so far of today at 2 5 when the horses came – A- determined to leave her letter unwritten out – out at 2 ¾ to Gèdre – men [met] 3 Spaniards with a mule and 2 large paniers of grapes from Barbastro – we were near the maison Cabanious – returned there – bought 7lbs. grapes at ./75 and A- and I sat in the little garden while Charles saw the grapes weighed out – sat or stood in the garden eating them and gave a bunch to the 2 guides – Charles told us how Cazos had deceived the prince de la Moscowa – had told him that I had not gone to the top – was sick on the glacier, and could not get farther than the little pic – but the guides had gone to the top – that Charles himself was sick

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annoyed – would not pay Cazos till this was cleared – either I had gone to the top or not – if I had, it should be avowed – if not, I would not pay – sent Pierre home with the grapes and at 3 35 went slowly forwards towards Luz determined that Charles should see the prince de la M- whom I wished to be so good as give it me in writing that Cazos had said I had not been at the top – the price un gentilhomme would do what was right – Pierre overtook us before Luz, and Charles went to the prince – we off from Luz at 4 (by the Barèges road) and at the village of Viey at 5 40 – went into the little church for a minute or 2 then, leaving the horses at the church yard gate, sauntered up the hill thro’ the village and sat 1/4 hour enjoyed the fine view of the entre St. Sauveur and Cautertz [Cauterets] mountains, and the beautiful look down upon Luz – off home again from the church at Viey at 6 10 – walked down the hill – Charles waiting for us at the bottom – he had seen the prince and the letter Cazos had written him to say that I had not been at the top of the highest pic – that I had only reached the lower pic – Charles explained – said that Cazos had deceived the prince but this the prince did not seem inclined to believe – saying ‘Cazos lui avait donné le laurier – le qui est fait est fait’ – and seeming .:. to take this for enough, and to be determined to support Cazos, and to be faché contre Charles? – Pretty sort of a prince de la Moscowa! the littleness of the man contrasts with the sounding greatness of the title – he declined giving it in writing that Cazos had denied my getting to the top of the highest pic – In fact, he is determined to keep the palm – the Cazos-laurier, if he can – determined not to pay the man unless he owned I had been at the top, for it was on this condition that he was to have the 20/.+ something (gave a five franc piece) on the top – settled for Charles and Pierre to take the horses tomorrow morning to the Douane at Gèdre, and then to see Cazos – get him to sign a certificate of my having been at the top, and then pay him – home at soon after 7 – the prince had told Charles there was no bottle – no! said Charles but did not a Gèdre man go to the top before you, he passing along the glacier? – the princes’ guides told Charles this – the prince denied this saying he had called the man back and he had returned – but this according to the 3 guides from Luz was not the case, for the man seeming not to understand went forwards – got to the top, and removed the bottle, at least, the bottle was not found by the prince and his party – Cazos told them that he and his brother in law had raised the pile of stone that Charles and Pierre walled up around the bottle – one of M. Flamands’ [Vilordry] wine-bottles – Queer little business – wrote as follows on an English sheet of ½ sheet note paper

‘Moi Henri Cazos de Gèdre je certifie que j’ai conduit sur le pic culminant de Vignemale la Dame Anglaise Anne Liste de Shibden-hall avez ses deux guides Jean Pierre Charles de Luz, et Jean Pierre [Sangou] de Luz le mardi sept d’Août 1838 Donnée à Gèdre ce 15 d’Août de la même année.

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gave this to Charles with 20/. to be paid to Cazos on his signing the certificate – but not to be paid if he refused to sign – it was Charles’ own proposal to see Cazos at Gèdre tomorrow at the auberge in the presence of witnesses and talk over the matter over a glass of wine, and get him to own my ascent publickly [publicly] – I proposed the certificate much to Charles’ approbation – he said the prince had ‘devenu rouge, rouge’ when he assured him I had been at the top, but said he had the note of Cazos to prove he (the prince) had been the 1st – ‘Cazos lui avait donné le laurier’! – the guides and horses to be here at 3 or 4 pm tomorrow if they could – but to wait to settle the matter with Cazos if they could on which account I should be satisfied if they did not get back till night – all this took up near an hour – dinner at 8 to 9 25 – then wrote a little journal – had Josephine at 10 ½ for ¼ hour having the short hair at the back of my head cut – I feel strangely out of sorts – perpetual vertiges, and sickness very often, particularly on horseback, all but vomiting – my head heavy – myself dull – assoupie – oppressed – I cannot breath in these profondeurs – these bottoms of deep valleys never did and never will suit me – I shall be at the utmost length of my tether before we get away to opener ground – very fine day F74 ½° now at 10 3/4 pm

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[mapsontheweb]

Map of where every Civ has come from in all the Civilization games to date.

by DrWinmon:

Breakdown of which civ/leader is allocated to which country (not all are obvious)

If the same leader shows up twice or more, all individual appearances are counted independently.

The idea was to pin every leader down to a single country, so even if the empire was huge, I allocated them to only one country (to keep the numbers “fair”). In general, the country that each leader/civ is allocated to is based on the location of the capital of the empire at the time of the leader’s rule. Sometimes it’s not that simple (see Atilla the Hun, Mayans, etc.)

America (USA): 14

Abraham Lincoln (Civ 1, 2, 3, 4)

Sitting Bull of the Sioux (Civ 2, 4)

Hiawatha of the Iroquois (Civ 3, 5)

Roosevelt (Civ 4, 6)

Washington (Civ 4, 5)

Kamehameha (Civ 5)

Pocatello (Civ 5)

From looking at a map, the majority of Iroquois territory seems to be in today’s USA (Southeast of Lake Ontario). Kamehameha I wasn’t expecting to put here, but turns out he was the founder and king of the Kingdom of Hawaii

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Angola: 1

Mvemba a Nzinga (Civ 6)

Kingdom of Kongo had their capital in Sao Salvador, Angola

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Australia: 1

John Curtin (Civ 6)

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Austria: 3

Maria Theresa (Civ 2, 5)

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Civ 3)

The Holy Roman Empire capital was in Vienna during Charles V reign (despite him being Dutch) so he’s allocated to Austria.

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Brazil: 2

Pedro II (Civ 5, 6)

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Cambodia: 2

Suryavarman II (Civ 4)

Jayavarman VII (Civ 6)

Capital of the Khmer empire was Angkor, Cambodia

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Canada: 2

Wilfrid Laurier (Civ 6)

Poundmaker (Civ 6)

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China: 7

Mao Zedong (Civ 1, 2, 3, 4)

Qin Shi Huang (Civ 4, 6)

Wu Zetian (Civ 5)

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Chile: 1

Lautaro (Civ 6)

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Denmark: 4

Cnut the Great (Civ 2)

Ragnar Lodbrok (Civ 3, 4)

Harald Bluetooth (Civ 5)

Cnut was coronated King of England before becoming King of Denmark and then King of Norway, so I wasn’t sure about putting him for England. He was the son of a Danish prince though, and the capital of the North Sea Empire was Ribe, Denmark, so I thought it made more sense to put him for Denmark over Norway/England. Female Civ 2 viking has a very common female viking name, and the Civ wiki didn’t pin her down to a single historical figure.

[polhdance]

Picturesque def

Before delving into the meaning of the terms together, it is important to lay out the relevant definitions of each term individually. The meaning of "the beautiful" and "the sublime" as an aesthetic lingual duo is rooted in discourses on language, nature, literature and visual art. “Frederick Law Olmstead and the Dialectical Landscape,” The Writings of Robert Smithson: Essays with Illustrations, NY: NY University Press. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. The Imprint of the Picturesque on Nineteenth-Century British Fiction. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Beautiful Sublime: The Making of Paradise Lost, 1701 – 1734. Washington University Gallery of Art, St. The Beautiful, the Sublime and the Picturesque: British Influences on American Landscape Painting. The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820. Speech given at Manchester Metropolitan University, New Painters Conference, Liverpool, UK. Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. Columbia, South Carolina: Camden Press.īurke, Edmund. Wordsworth, Turner, and Romantic Landscape.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.9 (before 1940)

681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. 1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong of Song and others, ending the Northern Song dynasty. 1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated. 1431 – The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen. 1693 – 1693 Sicily earthquake: The first of two earthquakes destroys parts of Sicily and Malta. After the second quake on 11 January, the death toll is estimated at between 60,000 and 100,000 people. 1760 – Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat. 1787 – The nationally known image of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines was transferred from what is now Rizal Park to its present shrine in the minor basilica of Quiapo Church. This is annually commemorated through its Traslación (solemn transfer) in the streets of Manila and is attended by millions of devotees. 1788 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1792 – Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed, ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92. 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. 1799 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars. 1806 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral. 1816 – Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. 1822 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process. 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. 1857 – The 7.9 Mw  Fort Tejon earthquake shakes Central and Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). 1858 – British forces finally defeat Rajab Ali Khan of Chittagong. 1861 – American Civil War: "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. 1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War. 1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. 1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia. 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time. 1914 – The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States. 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula. 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine. 1918 – Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars. 1920 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee outlaws the Makhnovshchina by decree, igniting the Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict. 1921 – Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia. 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. 1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. 1927 – A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.

[chaoticstudentcomputer]

Psfd Mou

WASHINGTON (AFPN) - United States and United Kingdom officials signed a memorandum of understanding Dec. 12 to begin future cooperation in the production, sustainment and follow-on development, called PSFD, phase of the Joint Strike Fighter program. Netherlands, are expected to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the PSFD phase in the fourth quarter of 2006. With the signing of this MOU, joint production, sustainment and follow-on development will commence. This MOU covers, amongst other things, the pre-production of. Jsf psfd mou Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) PSFD Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) entered into effect in January 2007. It is the governing document for the JSF international cooperative program with Australia, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.

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AUSTRALIA ENTERS NEXT PHASE OF JSF PROGRAM Australia has entered the next stage of the F-35 JSF Program by signing the JSF Production, Sustainment and Follow-on Development (PSFD) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The PSFD MoU was signed for the US Government by the US Deputy Secretary of Defense, Mr Gordon England, and Minister for Defence Dr Brendan Nelson, on behalf of the Australian Government.

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Public reaction tothe Government'sresponse to Lockheed-Martin’scomplaints about the process being used to find a new fighter has beenswift.Although the government was forcedto acknowledgement of the validity of those complaints it did little to assuagethe irritation voiced by some.

Much of the reaction has revolved around theassumption that the maker of the F-35 is trying to enhance the chances of theiraircraft being chosen as Canada’s new fighter by unfair means. In fact Lockheed-Martin’scomplaint and the ensuing changes made by the government mainly serve toillustrate the complete bankruptcy of the entire procurement process.

The selectionprocess for the “Future fighter capability project” was supposed to be based on a three category scoringsystem. The first, and in theory most important, is technical capabilities. Thesecond category is cost and the third is creating and sustaining a highlyskilled work force within our own borders, a goal enshrined in Canada’sindustrial trade benefits (ITB) policy, which requires a winning bid toguarantee it will make investments in Canada equal to the value of thecontract. Each bid is scored by these three categories, weighed 60-20-20,respectively.

Like many others, Elinor Sloan has pointed out that the Joint Strike Fighterprogram, which Canada has spent millions to join, does not fit neatly into theITB policy.

As Richard Shimookaoutlined in a 2016 paper “Canada joined the JSF Program SystemDevelopment and Demonstration phase in 2001 with agreement from the Chrétiengovernment, primarily to secure work for Canadian industry and gain access toadvancing technologies. In December 2006, the Conservative government signedthe PSFD MOU to extend and expand its participation in the JSF Program. Later,in 2009, the government decided that, given the vast benefit advantage in whatthe JSF partnership offered compared to what the ITB requirement would entail,an exception from the guaranteed offset regime was appropriate. This wasaffirmed by several legal opinions and analyses undertaken within theDepartment of National Defence (DND), Public Works and Government ServicesCanada, and Industry Canada”

The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin have been forced topoint out that Canada’s ITB terms are inconsistent with – and indeed prohibitedby – the memorandum of understanding Canada signed in 2006, which says partnerscannot impose industrial compensation measures. It is not clear if the current governmentwas ever aware of this fundamental incompatibility with their procurementprogram.

A ‘solution’,which allows for a more flexible approach in determining the value of thebenefits bidders offer to Canadian defence firms,has been reached that allows the memorandumto be obeyed, but since Canada will still give higher grades to bids thatfollow its ITB policy, questions remain as to whether the playing field hasreally been levelled.

While bidders like Boeing’s Super Hornet, the Eurofighter Typhoon and Saab’s Gripen can still guarantee that they will re-invest backinto Canada if their jet wins the competition and get all 20 points, those biddersthat can’t make such a commitment, that is Lockheed Martins’ F-35, will beasked to establish “industrial targets” and lay out a plan for achieving thosetargets and sign a non-binding agreement promising to make all efforts toachieve them.

The government position is that they will study thoseplans and assign points based on risk.

This immediately raised an issue with other competitorswondering why the F-35 should get points if the company can’t guaranteere-investment back into Canada.There are also concerns about how the government will decide howrisky plans to achieve “industrial targets” actually are, with at least oneindustry source saying that question is entirely subjective.

Most of these new headlines and much of the governmentsrule changes have been triggered by a report, aptly named The Catastrophe, by Richard Shimooka. Written for theMacdonald-Laurier Institute it outlines the long sad story that is Canada’s Futurefighter capability project.

In that report Shimooka makes the all-important pointthat reciprocal investments, such asCanada’s industrial trade benefits (ITB) policy have long been seen as an inefficient method fordelivering economic benefits. In fact several countries, including Australia,have moved away from them to more flexible cooperation approaches. In realityoffset agreements are referred to in most studies as “traditional andinefficient”. The decision to avoid such agreements in relation to F-35production was one of the fundamental choices made early in the program in anattempt to keep the price of the fighter as low as possible for allparticipants.

At this point itshould be noted that Canada has done very well financially from the currentF-35 agreement. Having spent a little over $500 million to remain part of theF-35 program Canadian companies have so far won more than $1.3 billion incontracts related to the F-35, according to the government. At one time it was estimated that businesses inthis country could land as much as $9.9 billion in contracts to construct andsustain parts for the Lockheed Martin-built stealth fighter.

The government likes to talk about the number of “goodmiddle class jobs” there policies will create but in fact defense spending is the most expensive way to create jobs.

What thegovernment does not like to talk about is how money that could be better spentto create jobs, infrastructure and social capital is being wasted in by payingtoo much for bloated defence procurement programs that actually create very fewjobs in relation to the amounts being spent.

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What nobody,including the media who cover these stories and the opposition parties who aresupposed to hold the government to account, want to consider is the idea thatdefence spending should be used for defence, not as a glorified public worksprogram.Until and unless the concept ofvalue for money in defence spending is defined by the amount of militarybenefit derived from that spending then all of Canada’s defence procurementprograms, not just those spent on new fighters, will continue to be accuratelydescribed as a “catastrophe”.

After U.S. complaint, Canada to soften rules for jetcompetition to allow Lockheed Martin bid: source

https://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKCN1SF2RP-OCATP

LOCKMART THROWS TANTRUM.. GETS RULES CHANGED..SLIGHTLY.

http://bestfighter4canada.blogspot.com/2019/05/lockmart-throws-tantrum-gets-rules.html

https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/app-acq/amd-dp/air/snac-nfps/CF-18-eng.html

The U.S. needs to be a key part of Canada’s next-gen jetprocurement process

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-us-needs-to-be-a-key-part-of-canadas-next-gen-jet-procurement/

THE FOURTH DIMENSION: The F-35 Program, DefenceProcurement, and the Conservative

http://rcafassociation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Vimy_Paper_33.pdf

Controversial F-35 purchase could bank Canadianbusinesses $9.9B

https://globalnews.ca/news/1022291/controversial-f-35-purchase-could-bank-canadian-businesses-9-9-billion/

Psfd Mou

Canada changing rules of competition for $19B fighter jetfleet to allow consideration of F-35: sources

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-changing-rules-of-competition-for-19b-fighter-jet-fleet-to-allow-consideration-of-f-35-sources

The Catastrophe: Assessing the Damage from Canada’sFighter Replacement Fiasco

http://macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/20190502_MLI_COMMENTARY_Shimooka_FWeb.pdf

Defence Industrial Policy Approaches and Instruments

http://aerospacereview.ca/eic/site/060.nsf/vwapj/Def_Ind_Pol_Approaches_-_Final_Draft_-_July_13.pdf/$FILE/Def_Ind_Pol_Approaches_-_Final_Draft_-_July_13.pdf

Defense Spending Is the Most Expensive Way to Create Jobs

https://prospect.org/article/defense-spending-most-expensive-way-create-jobs

[esprit-de-corps-magazine]

Is Esprit de Corps on trial for being on target against Nazism?

By Richard Sanders

Readers of Esprit de Corps know Scott Taylor as an outspoken columnist whose trajectory can be controversial. His on-course opposition to Nazis, their collaborators and apologists, in Canada and abroad, should not be contentious, especially to members and veterans of Canada’s armed forces. 

But when Taylor stood up against the glorification of Nazi SS divisions by modern governments in Eastern Europe he took flak from some, including an Estonian-Canadian activist, Marcus Kolga. As a senior fellow of the right-wing MacDonald-Laurier Institute, Kolga targeted Taylor saying he’d “mischaracterized Ukrainian and Baltic freedom fighters who resisted Soviet occupation as Nazis.” To Kolga, this branded Taylor guilty of spreading the “virus” of “a particularly popular Kremlin narrative.”

Kolga’s report, Stemming the Virus, on “the threat of Russian disinformation,” also fired at Esprit de Corps, which, he chastened, “frequently echoes the anti-NATO views common on pro-Russian websites.” 

I should disclose that Kolga’s report also aimed epithets at my research, which he filed under “pro-Kremlin media and trolls.” Apparently, I spread the Russian virus by exposing how Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s journalism career began with jobs for publications promoting the WWII Ukrainian Waffen SS Galicia as heroic “freedom fighters.” Not knowing I’d be besmirched by Kolga, I posted, in March 2017, a wealth of evidence (still unreported by mainstream media) proving that Freeland and her grandfather, Michael Chomiak, the Nazi news propagandist, had both worked for the same far-right, Ukrainian-Canadian publications in Edmonton.

One of these, The Encyclopedia of Ukraine, was the postwar brainchild of Volodymyr Kubijovych.  As a top Ukrainian coordinator of Nazi collaboration, Kubijovych pushed the Germans to set up the SS Galicia and oversaw Chomiak’s work, which included publishing his call for Ukrainians to volunteer for this Nazi division.

As a teen, Freeland landed two Canadian government summer jobs writing for Kubijovych’s encyclopedia.  It romanticises ethnic-cleansing Ukrainian fascists as ethical anticommunists and whitewashes their complicity in the genocide of Jews, Poles, Roma and communist partisans who were backing the Red Army.

Visiting Edmonton, Chomiak’s wartime boss signed over his encyclopedia to a government-funded Ukrainian research centre at the University of Alberta, whose chancellor, Peter Savaryn, was a proud veteran of the Ukrainian Waffen SS and a leader of nationalist Ukrainian organizations. The Governor General subsequently awarded Savaryn the Order of Canada for volunteering with these Ukrainian groups.

As an apologist for Estonians who welcomed Nazi forces as liberators, Marcus Kolga cheerleads NATO and praises today’s SS-revering European regimes. But they are victims, he says, “targeted by Kremlin aggression.”

There is a hearty tradition of vilifying antifascists by disparaging them with offensive insults. Let’s illustrate this with a chapter from the history of the Estonian Central Council (ECC) in Canada, which Kolga served as president from 2016 to 2020.

The ECC claims to oppose those two arch-rivals, Nazism and Communism, which it falsely equates as twin evils equally to blame for WWII. But since its creation in 1954, the ECC has only aimed its fire at Reds. This, after all, was the fixation of Nazi collaborators and supporters who created and led the ECC through the Cold War until the present.

In 1964, the ECC’s vice president was a German-Estonian named Karl Eerme. An embedded war correspondent for the Nazi-led Estonian SS, Lieutenant Eerme landed in a post-war US POW camp in Germany. Moving to Toronto, he continued anti-Soviet propaganda through the ECC and stated its McCarthyesque purpose as providing “the focal point for ... all Estonians in Canada ... in their avowed and active opposition to the doctrine of Communism.”

In 1960, the USSR — having lost 27 million citizens to the Nazis and their East European supporters — sought to expose some perpetrators.  It named ECC leaders, including three former SS-lieutenants, an SS-Legion staff member and two former Gestapo police commissioners. Using German documents, eyewitness accounts and other evidence gathered when forcing the Nazis from Estonia in 1944, the Soviets identified Winnipeg’s Aleksander Laak as an ECC member who represented the most brutal of Estonia’s Nazi collaborators protected in Canada.

In August 1960, the Soviets indicted Laak for “organizing extermination camp Jägala and personally shooting Jews” and reported that he’d overseen the murder of 3,000 prisoners.

“The Russian story is 99 per cent lies,” said Laak. “It is only Communist propaganda.” Dozens of Canadian journalists agreed. Headlines blaring “Red Story,” “Red Charges” and “Red Claims” rejected it as Russian “propaganda.”  The RCMP gave Laak a “clear” record. The government dismissed it as “phony.” Laak’s neighbours, co-workers and employer said he was a victim of Soviet lies. Despite this support, Laak hanged himself a few days later and papers blamed “Communist propaganda” for killing him.

The ECC joined the fray. One article, “Estonians Fear Smear Campaign,” said Toronto’s 8,000 Estonians were afraid they would “come under a Soviet propaganda barrage.” Although the USSR focused on Laak, the ECC’s leader Enn Salurand said all Estonian-Canadians were “bracing themselves for a Communist campaign designed to discredit them.” How many of Estonia’s tens of thousands of SS men came to Canada is unknown.

Salurand helped found the ECC and was its secretary-general for 25 years. In 1931, he helped create and lead an outfit back in the Baltic, the Estonian National Club. Its eugenics-based ethno-nationalism, intolerant of minorities, got it outlawed by the Soviets when they occupied Estonia in 1940. After coming to Canada, Salurand is said to have never missed a board meeting of the Estonian veterans’ publication, Combatant.

When Laak’s photo appeared in newspapers, Jewish Holocaust survivors in Canada and the US called the press, identifying him as the slave-labour camp’s commandant. “Laak was wearing the SS uniform and was in charge,” declared Toronto’s Greta Zarkower. “Laak and his men took all our valuables.... I was beaten unmercifully, regularly, with a riding whip by SS men.” The media fell silent on Laak for six months.

This silence ended when three top Estonian Nazis went on trial in September 1960. Ralph Gerrets, Laak’s deputy, confessed in Soviet court that they killed thousands, mostly Jews and “Gypsies,” and that Laak took part. Gerrets described shooting small children and dumping them in trenches. Forty witnesses identified Laak as camp commander.

Female survivors recounted being “ordered to undress on arrival at the extermination camp while being examined by Gerrets and Lt. Alexander Laak.” Some testified Laak arranged for “girl inmates” to be “forced to take part in orgies at night and murdered afterward.”

Despite this shocking testimony, no Canadian papers mentioned Laak’s name, or previous claims of innocence by the ECC, RCMP, government and media. Instead, most stories blasted the trial as propaganda. When the three Estonian war criminals were sentenced to death, Canadian journalists didn’t mention Laak but concurred the “show trial apparently aimed at discrediting anti-Soviet Estonian refugee groups.”

Estonian Canadians also went silent, except for one letter to the editor from an ECC-linked Montreal group. Its vice president, Martin Puhvel, castigated the Gazette for covering the trial at all and defended Estonian collaborators as heroes. Describing the trial as “vicious propagandists fairytales,” he said “the Soviet propaganda machine has ... launched a campaign of calumny and vilification against Estonian patriots whose only ‘crime’ lies in defending their homes against murderous, unprovoked aggression by the Russian enslavers.”

Calling the trial a “vicious smear campaign,” Puhvel denounced the media for helping “the enemies of freedom” by “spreading grisly, painful stories of massacre of infant children by men who were busy defending their homes” against the Reds.

Kolga is also active in the Estonian World Council (EWC), an international diaspora network he has served as vice president. Like the ECC, the EWC’s founders and spokesmen included Waffen SS veterans. Take for example, German-Estonian Gerhard Buschmann who joined Nazi intelligence (Abwehr) in 1940 and subsequently won two Iron Crosses. He created and lead the Sonderstaffel Buschmann, a Luftwaffe squad with 50 aircraft. Among other crimes, Buschmann aided the 900-day Siege of Leningrad that killed over one million Soviet civilians.

During the Cold War, Buschmann continued the anti-communist crusade by working for the US army and American intelligence.  Becoming the leader of the Estonian SS veterans group in the US, he was one of the EWC’s best known representatives. For example, in 1968, he was a key witness at a huge “mock trial” in Washington, DC., that blamed communism for everything imaginable.

Immediately after the trial’s conclusion, the Soviet embassy in Washington was bombed. Newspapers spread unfounded accusations by Buschmann and others involved in the trial that the Soviets themselves had bombed their own  embassy.

One article said: “Gerhard Buschmann, a member of the Estonian World Council, said adverse publicity all over the world has pressured the communists to take such action in an attempt to discredit the trial.”

For decades this “blame the victim” approach wielded by Eastern European émigré groups has been weaponized to deflect their historic links to Nazi atrocities. The ECC, EWC, and Ukrainian organizations that Freeland has identified with since her childhood, need to acknowledge their fascist roots and stop defaming those who report the truth about ongoing, state glorification of fascist war heroes. 

Author Richard Sanders’ most recent publication is called Defunding the Myths and Cults of Cold War Canada. It exposes the Canadian government’s ongoing financial support for several East European émigré groups which, having been founded, led and inspired by Nazi collaborators, continue to venerate Waffen SS veterans as heroes. References for all the quotations in this article can be found online at https://coat.ncf.ca/ 

[markwateneymemorialcrater]

Canadian prime ministers get fairly minimal fanfare. Like I (a Canadian citizen; born and raised) probably know of more USA presidents than Canadian PM’s.

There’s J. Trudeau, Harper, Crechén, Mulroney (which I only know right now because a friend recent told the story of how he had the opportunity to steal the PM’s luggage once), P. Trudeau, Laurier, MacDonald. So 7 Canadian pm’s I know the names of off hand.

For the USA theses Biden, trump, Obama, bush, Clinton, Nixon, Reagan, I think there was a Ford, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Lincoln, Washington, and I’d probably recognize half a dozen more names. So that’s 12. WHY DO I KNOW THIS? I SHOULDN’T HAVE THIS KNOWLEDGE!!!

Like the most fanfare a prime minister might get is a few statues and public schools named after them.

The USA literally builds temples and reshape mountains to their presidents. Like they are just guys. The whole reason why the USA decided to call their leader a President is because that title at the time didn’t have prestige. And then they piled on all the prestige anyway.

Not that Canadian nationalism can't be as insufferable and smug and oprressive and atrocity-enabling as anyone else's, but literally every time I'm reminded of the national cult established around the USA's founding fathers (which normal people still seem to take seriously?) I'm left a little more grateful that the main impression a public school education left me of Canada's first prime minister was that he was a drunk who lost power in a railroad corruption scandal.