#stephen beckerman

[memoriae-lectoris]

The hardcore evo-psycho brigade insists that males never invest in babies of whom they have the slightest doubt of paternity. (...) The evidence brays otherwise.

Among a number of traditional societies of lowland South America, people believe in “partible paternity”—the idea that a child can have more than one biological father. They believe that a child is a sort of spermic quilt, and that the multiple ejaculates of different men make for better and sturdier children than the discharge of one fellow alone can. In such cultures, married women often take a lover or three during pregnancy, and all of those lovers are considered fathers to the baby, with concordant responsibilities to show up with at least the occasional speared fish.

Among the Ache foragers in eastern Paraguay, for example, the majority of women count on their consorts to help protect and provide meat for their offspring. In interviews with 17 Ache women, anthropologists Kim Hill and Hillard Kaplan found that each of their 66 children was attributed to an average of 2.1 possible progenitors. The Ache go so far as to recognize three different categories of fatherhood: one refers to the man to whom a woman is married when her child is born; the second, to the man or men she had extramarital relations with just before or during her pregnancy; and the third, to the man whom the woman believes actually inseminated her.

A similar state of affairs holds for the Bari people of Venezuela and Colombia, foragers and simple horticulturists who plant manioc and supplement their starchy diet with fish and game. More than two thirds of Bari women engage in extramarital sex during pregnancy, and their children benefit significantly from the practice. None of this is done clandestinely. When a woman is giving birth, she tells the midwife who her lovers were, and the midwife goes out afterward to announce to each of the men, “Congratulations. You have a child.”

The men are expected to help their partible offspring in hard times, and usually they do. Bari children with two or more fathers to their name have an 80 percent chance of surviving past the age of fifteen. For those with just a primary father, the survival rate is 64 percent.

[...]

“We can hypothesize about the origins of partible paternity,” says Stephen Beckerman, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University who has studied the Bari. “It’s possible that females took control of the etiology, that it’s working mainly to their benefit, and that men have no choice. But the truth is, the men don’t seem to mind. They don’t object. They’re not demonstrably jealous. So you can speculate that partible paternity works for men as a kind of life insurance, a series of bets against the odds. A man allows other men to have sex with his wife. He bets that he will be the father of most if not all of his children. But if he should die, some other man will have a residual obligation to care for some of those children. If you look at it that way, you can see how partible paternity might be adaptive for both the women and the men.”

[divorce-fiction]

The Forgetting by Hannah Beckerman

Opening Tally

Marriages: 2 Divorces: 0

The Forgetting feels like an odd book, when you first pick it up. The story is set in England, so I found myself, as an American reader, googling things like 'lorry' (semi-truck) and making sure that yes, they do indeed spell "curb" as "kerb". There's also the distinct choice of writing one protagonist in First Person POV and the other in Third, but this wasn’t the first time I'd encountered a book with this writing choice, so I rolled on. Some chapters are so short that they feel unnecessary, to the point of quite literally being the front and back of a page. Even when we were down to the final confrontation between one woman and her husband there were still so-called chapter breaks interrupting this linear conversation in a park.

Livvy is a new mom on her LEGALLY MANDATED YEAR OF MATERNITY LEAVE (screaming that part loudly for the Americans to have their minds blown). Her husband, Dominic, is a freelance contractor whose current schedule only allows him home on the weekends. She's eager to get back to work and has good relationships with her sister and parents, who all live in Bristol close to her.

Anna is an amnesiac. She has just woken up in a London hospital with no memory of her life and especially no memory of Stephen, who introduces himself as her husband of 12 years and has to leave town on weekends for work. Over the course of the story and her recovery you learn she has no family (only child, her parents died), no friends (withdrew from social life after losing her job), and no children (she and Stephen were infertile).

Or.....wait no that's not true, because she finds pictures of her with a baby. Stephen lied, to protect her! And oh wait, she didn't lose her job as a librarian because of budget cuts, she left it after being depressed by the loss of the baby.

As for Dominic, you get the early sense that he's too good to be true: a gentleman who stepped up to the plate after an accidental pregnancy and has nothing but love in his heart for his new family, an adult replacement for the family he says abused him in childhood.

I won’t bury the lede: This is a slowburn domestic abuse story. Nothing feels too abnormal, too outside the bounds of common marital strife. Yes, couples sometimes lie to each other. Yes, couples can have different ideas of what their perfect family looks like. Yes, couples can have arguments that get heated. But it's the slow creep of toxicity that gives this story its tension. You ask yourself if YOU are susceptible to the same things Anna and Livvy begin to resign themselves to living with: lies and manipulation and browbeating and negging and isolation and, eventually, physical violence. This is a horror novel where you're screaming at the women to get out of there, RUN! But the boogeyman isn't under their bed-- he's in it.

The small details pileup overtime like grains of sand in an hourglass: white flowers, special nicknames, platinum wedding rings, short hair, classical music (Schubert, The Trout Quintet). It's not an instantaneous reveal but a slow peel, the revelation that Stephen and Dominic are the same man. His work trips align so that he can be in Bristol for the weekend with his wife and child, and London during the week with his other wife. He even has Livvy's love letters hidden in a box in the attic. A bigamist, that most foul of liars.

It is not a peel but a cacophonous crash, to discover Anna and Livvy are also the same woman.

Livvy's third-person chapters are told concurrently, but all happened in the past. Anna's first-person chapters are the present and tainted with the garbage heap of lies her husband has fed her since the car accident, a road rage incident that he caused. It's smart, a twist I've seen before, but can't say I saw coming. Bravo, Beckerman. There is a bit of nonsense about middle names as first names, relayed clumsily in the prologue to explain the Anna/Livvy, Dominic/Stephen switch, but I can see why the explanation was built in to undercut any discussion of "plotholes".

This book clocks in at over 300 pages, and there's definitely some points where the pacing could have been picked up and moved things along faster. Chop 50 pages out of it and you’d have a much tighter story.

I enjoyed reading this, but won’t be picking up any of her other works. The novel lived up to its name and I forgot about it immediately after reading. There’s also the matter of JK Rowling's transphobia running rampant in the UK, and I find it hard to trust English artists who have made no definitive statements about trans rights. I recommend picking this one up at a library if you can, and if you can forgive me for spoiling the book’s twist.

Livvy/Anna gets a restraining order against Dominic/Stephen, with the implication that she will be filing for divorce soon after.

Closing Tally

Marriages: 1 Divorces: 0 (technically) Restraining Orders: 1

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5)

[beginningspod]

It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode, I talk to actor Rebecca Gibney. Originally from Levin, New Zealand, Rebecca grew up the youngest of six children, and after a somewhat tumultuous childhood, eventually found her way into acting. She first acted in shows like Zoo Family and The Flying Doctors, and in the 1990s starred in shows like Snowy and Halifax f.p. Without going into her full IMDB, Rebecca continued to star in shows and movies including a number of Stephen King miniseries, and in the mid-20teens co-created and co-starred in the wonderful show Wanted. Currently, Rebecca can be seen here in the States every Monday for the next month and a half on the AcornTV show Under the Vines.

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[lacommunarde]

How close we were to getting a The Demolished Man (or any Bester for that matter!) movie! #Repost @tdnguyen2000 (@get_repost) ・・・ Stephen Tolkin on Demolished Man: "It was 1985. I had just adapted A. E. Van Vogt's Slan for MGM and a producer named Sidney Beckerman and his son Barry. Our executive on the project moved to CBS Films, where Demolished Man was in development, with Barry Beckerman producing. Because we had all just had a good time working together they sent me the book, I read and loved it, then went in and pitched my ideas and got the job. A simpler path than most! Just when I finished the script CBS Films stopped functioning as an entity and for the next thirteen years the script was an effective writing sample for further work, but nothing more. Then, completely out of the blue, after the first Mission:Impossible movie came out and was a big hit, Sherry Lansing, then head of Paramount, asked Brian de Palma what he wanted to do next, and he said "I want to direct Stephen Tolkin's draft of Demolished Man." I was stunned when I heard this; I had never met De Palma and to this date have no idea why he would want to direct my version of the story rather than his own, or even how he ever came to read it. So Paramount hired me to rewrite the script but for some reason they chose not to do it under De Palma's supervision -- which would have a been fun, I think -- and it never really came together; whatever the flaws are in my 1985 version, the 1998 version represented at best lateral, and most likely backward, movement." #thedemolishedman #alfredbester #briandepalma #stephentolkin https://www.instagram.com/p/B5q2naKFnkJ/?igshid=upvpof9yaikk

[ralph-n-fiennes]

Open letter to Theresa May

Dear Prime Minister,

The government's decision to close the "Dubs" lifeline for vulnerable refugee children is truly shameful. The idea that as a country we will slam the door shut after just 350 children have reached safety is completely unacceptable. Lord Dubs was himself a child saved by Sir Nicholas Winton who rescued 669 children virtually single-handed. It is embarrassing that the Prime Minister's entire government will not even manage to match the example set by her former constituent all those years ago, let alone the efforts of the Kindertransport movement of which he was a part which saved 10,000 children from the Nazis. It is clear from the work of charities like Citizens UK's Safe Passage project and Help Refugees with unaccompanied child refugees across Greece, Italy and France that where these safe and legal routes are blocked, children are left with a terrible choice between train tracks on the one hand and people traffickers on the other. The government's threadbare consultation with councils is now nine months out of date. The country we know and love is bigger than this. Communities and councils across the country stand ready to do more. The government must agree to extend the programme and re-consult with councils immediately.

Yours truly,

Akram Khan Alex Jennings Alice Temperley Amanda Craig Amanda Jennings Andrew O'Hagan Anish Kapoor, Sir Anna Maxwell Martin Anne Fine Anoushka Shankar Anthony McGowan Antonia Honeywell Antony Gormley Arlene Phillips Beeban Kidron Bella Freud Ben Drew aka Plan B Ben Whishaw Benedict Cumberbatch Betsy Tobin Bill Nighy Bill Paterson Billy Bragg Blake Morrison Candy Gourlay Carey Mulligan Carol Drinkwater Caroline Flack Charlotte Gainsbourg Charlotte Mendelson Chris Cleave Christina Koning Clare Morpurgo Coldplay Daniel Hahn David Hare David Heyman David Lan David Nicholls Dawn O'Porter Douglas Booth Ed Simons Ed Skrein Edgar Wright Edna O'Brien Elif Shafak Emilia Fox Emily Eavis Emma Freud Evie Wyld Fiona Dunbar Frances Thomas Francesca Simon Frank Cottrell Boyce Gary Lineker Gok Wan Hannah Beckerman Harriet Lane Harriet Walter Helen Dunmore Helena Kennedy QC Henry Goodman Henry Porter Hot Chip Hugh Brody Ian Rickson Imogen Stubbs Jack Harries James McConnachie Jamie Byng Jamie Cullum Jane Casey Jane Harris Jane Johnson Jane Wickenden Jason Flemyng Jason Isaacs Jemma Redgrave Jeremy Hardy Jessica Fellowes Jessie Burton Jessie Ware Joanna Briscoe Joanna Trollope Joanne Harris Joe Wright Joely Richardson John McCarthy John Wilson Jojo Moyes Jon Courtenay Grimwood Jon McGregor Jonny Lee Miller Jude Law Judy Astley Julia Williams Julie Bertagna Juliet Stevenson Kate Mosse Kate Pullinger Katharine Quarmby Katharine Rundell Katherine Langrish Keira Knightley Keren David Kit Berry Lauren St John Lee Hall Lesley Manville Lia Williams Lily Allen Lily Cole Linda Grant Lisa Appignanesi Liz Fremantle Lu Hersey Lucy Coats Lucy Daniel Raby Lucy Popescu Lynda Edward Maggie O'Farrell Mark Rylance Mary Hoffman Mary Kay Wilmers Matt Smith Meg Rosoff Meredith Miller Michael Morpurgo Michael Winterbottom Mick Moon Miranda Gold Miranda Richardson Nadifa Mohamed Nell Leyshon Nicci Gerrard Nick Dewey Nicky Matthews Browne Nicole Farhi Nina Killham Noel Fielding Noma Dumezweni Paloma Faith Patricia Ferguson Patrick Gale Paul Dowswell Pauline Chandler Penny Dolan Peter Bently Peter Bunzl Philip Pullman Philippa Stjernsward Pippa Harris Ralph Fiennes Rebecca Abrams Rhiannon Lassiter Rhys Ifans Richard Davenport-Hines Rick Smith Riz Ahmed Roger Allam Rogers of Riverside Rose Boyt Rowan Coleman Rowan Williams Ruby Wax Ruth Negga Ruth Rogers Sabrina Guinness Salley Vickers Sam Baker Sam Frears Samira Osman Sandi Toksvig Sarah Dunant Sarah Waters Sonia Friedman Sophie Dahl Stephen Daldry Stephen Frears Stephen Poliakoff Steven Knight Tammy Cohen Terence Blacker Terry Stiastny Tess Morris Tim Piggott-Smith Tom Odell Tom Rowlands Tom Stoppard Tracey Seaward Tracy Chevalier Ursula Owen Vanessa Harbour Vicken Parsons Vicky McClure Zoe Wanamaker

[automaticvr]

Social media advertisers are beginning to realize that they need to stop fixating on big data overall, but instead focus on turning raw data into bite-sized, meaningful insights. Watch as Bonin Bough, Host of Cleveland Hustles, Stephen McNeill, Senior Experience Planner of the Kellogg Company, Natalie Brown, Director of Experimental Marketing of Sur La Table, Jeremiah Andrick, Executive Director of Ecommerce Virtual Reality at HTC, and Jason Beckerman, Co-Founder and CEO of Unified discuss how big data can transformed into valuable insights for brands.

[uacboo]

EXCLUSIVE: True Blood‘s Stephen Moyer will make his feature directorial debut with The Parting Glass. Anna Paquin will star with Denis O’Hare, Ed Asner, Cynthia Nixon, Melissa Leo, Rhys Ifans and Paul Gross. O’Hare wrote the drama, which follows a family reeling with their sister’s death. They embark on a journey to collect the remnants of her life. The family members delve into past memories to piece together a portrait of the woman they lost. Production begins momentarily in Toronto. Paquin will produce with Moyer through their CASM Films banner, with Cerise Hallam and Mark Larkin, and O’Hare. Dan Beckerman of Scythia Films will executive produce and Lauren Grant of Clique Pictures will co-produce. Paquin stars in two upcoming series, Alias Grace for Netflix, and Bellevue from Canadian broadcaster CBC. Moyer next stars in the Fox miniseries Shots Fired, which premieres March 22, and the ITV series Safe House in the UK. Paquin and Moyer, who did seven seasons of HBO’s True Blood, are repped by WME. Source: deadline.com The couple that works together... Don't you miss Sookie? I do.

[afroinsider]

Partible Paternity Enables Unborn Children Have Multiple Fathers

Partible Paternity Enables Unborn Children Have Multiple Fathers

Partible paternity is a form of sexual relationship that allows for a woman to have sexual relations with several men so that they can lay claim to the paternity of the child. This form of paternity is common in Southern America. According to a researcher Stephen Beckerman, the woman is usually at an advantage especially when she is married or has a supportive husband.

To avoid times where there…

[michaeljohnmorgan]

ZIONISM POWER IN AMERICA

Zionism

 Zionist Power in America the ‘special relationship’ between the United States and Israel is a topic that most people dare not touch.

This work is a brief attempt to awaken a few minds to what has really been going on behind the curtain.

Martinez, Brandon. Grand Deceptions: Zionist Intrigue in the 20th and 21st Centuries (p. 5). Progressive Press. Kindle Edition.

The Power of Israel in the United States.

The new school of thought — spearheaded by people like renowned Professors John Mersheimer and Stephen Walt (authors of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy), Professor James Petras (author of The Power of Israel in the United States),

 James Petras

 Petras explains that Washington is controlled by money, and the people with the most money in America happen to be Zionists.

“disproportionate political power” of the Jewish community which, he notes, is “pound for pound the greatest of any ethnic/ cultural group in America.”

the crux of Jewish power is “disproportionately concentrated in Hollywood, television, and in the news industry.”

America’s Zionist lobby is comprised of dozens of organizations, the largest of which is AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Essentially an arm of the Israeli government on American soil, AIPAC is a behemoth on Capitol Hill, whose sole purpose is to lobby congress and other high-ranking American officials to pursue pro-Israel policies. AIPAC

We have to look at individuals occupying crucial positions in the government,

We have to look at the army of op-ed writers who have access to the major newspapers.

We have to look at the super-rich contributors to the Democratic Party, media moguls, etc. …

This together with the leverage in the media and in congress is the decisive factor in shaping U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.”

Haim Saban

Israeli-American media mogul Haim Saban

A 2010 profile of Saban published in The New Yorker magazine quotes him as saying that his greatest concern in life “is to protect Israel, by strengthening the United States-Israel relationship.”

The profile revealed that Saban attended a conference in Israel in 2009 where he brazenly outlined his formula for harnessing the American government in the service of Israel: “make donations to political parties, establish think tanks, and control media outlets.”

Tel Aviv Israel

Tel Aviv dictates Washington’s mid-east foreign policy has been corroborated by a number of former American politicians who decided to make their voices heard on the matter.

Pat Buchanan

Pat Buchanan, a former Reagan administration official and presidential candidate, once said Capitol Hill is “Israeli occupied territory.”

Paul Findley

Former congressman Paul Findley recognized this reality in his book They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby.

James Traficant

Former congressman James Traficant echoed this on Fox News, telling Greta Van Susteren: “I believe that Israel has a powerful stranglehold on the American government. They control both members of the House and the Senate. They have us involved in wars in which we have little or no interest… They’re controlling much of our foreign policy. They’re influencing much of our domestic policy… We’re conducting the expansionist policy of Israel and everybody’s afraid to say it.”

Cynthia Mickinney

Cynthia McKinney, a former congresswoman from Georgia, told an interviewer that 99 per cent of members of the US congress put Israel’s interests above those of America.

Late Helen Thomas

In 2010, Helen Thomas, a renowned reporter and member of the W House Press Corps for more than 50 years, was immediately fired from her job after she was recorded on video condemning Israel’s occupation and treatment of the Palestinians.

Later, she delivered a speech at a conference in Detroit in which she expressed the view that “congress, the White House, Hollywood, and Wall Street are owned by Zionists. No question in my opinion.”

Philip Giraldi

Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counter-terrorism officer, told Iran’s Press TV that the Zionist lobby has “absolute control over the appointment of anyone either in a security position or a foreign policy position that has anything at all to do with the Middle East.”

 Michael Scheuer

 Former CIA official named Michael Scheuer expressed the same view. “The Israelist are an immensely malign influence in the United States.

They steal our technology, they suborn government employees to spy for them and transfer documents, and certainly their influence through U.S. citizen groups like AIPAC on the Congress is politically corrupting,” Scheuer said in an appearance on Fox Business News

Israeli journalist Ari Shavit acknowledged Zionism’s extreme

Michael Scheuer said in an appearance on Fox Business News. As Michael Scheuer noted, the influence of Zionist money in Washington is “politically corrupting” to an obscene degree.

The facts detailed herein paint an unambiguous picture: Israel’s supporters have an immense influence on the American government and have achieved a virtual stranglehold over the foreign policies of both major parties, the Democrats and Republicans. As a haven of Zionist intrigue, THE UNITED STATES HAS BECOME LITTLE MORE THAN A VEHICLE OF THE ZIONIST AGENDA.

The United States is a Zionist stronghold. In addition to immense financial influence, Zionism’s hammerlock over the United States is rooted in its grip over the major media. Through media control the powers-that-be can shape a population’s worldview. The MESS MEDIA media is an indispensable tool for war propaganda.

“Public opinion in the United States is the most powerful weapon that Israel has.”

Joel Stein

Joel Stein, a Jewish writer for the Los Angeles Times, penned an honest op-ed boasting of Jewish dominance in the entertainment industry. In his piece headlined “Who runs Hollywood?

Stein named some of Hollywood’s top Jewish executives, who include: News Corp. President Peter Chernin, Viacom Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone (Rothstein), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves, Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger, Paramount Pictures CEO Brad Grey, Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton, Dreamworks founders Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, former MGM Chairman Harry Sloan, former NBC Universal Chief Jeff Zucker (who now heads CNN), and the Weinstein brothers.

Stein then declared: “As a proud Jew, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood.” Stein opined that he doesn’t care if Americans think Jews are running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government. “I JUST CARE THAT WE GET TO KEEP RUNNING THEM,” HE WROTE.

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone shares Stein’s view that Zionist Jews dominate Hollywood and news media in America. Stone observed that the media’s obsession with the holocaust is due to “Jewish domination”

Elad Nehorai

Jewish writer Elad Nehorai, writing for the ultra-Zionist Times of Israel, affirmed the same verdict in an op-ed titled “JEWS DO CONTROL THE MEDIA.”Speaking candidly about the subject,

Nehorai wrote: “Let’s be honest with ourselves, here, fellow Jews. We do control the media. We’ve got so many dudes up in the executive offices in all the big movie production companies it’s almost obscene.” Nehorai added that AIPAC is “an organization that’s practically the equivalent of the Elders of Zion.”

“The truth is,” writes Nehorai, “the ANTI-SEMITES GOT IT RIGHT. … WE OWN A WHOLE FREAKING COUNTRY.” Nehorai’s pompous musings are similar to what Jewish author Douglas Rushkoff once said: “In a sense our detractors have us right, in that WE ARE A CORROSIVE FORCE.”

George W. Bush Presidency

Zionism possessed a small army of key insiders who penetrated deep within the highest levels of the American government during George W. Bush’s presidency. Through their influential positions, ZIONIST AGENTS WERE ABLE TO MANIPULATE AMERICA’S BEHEMOTH MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX INTO THE SERVICE OF THE ISRAELI REGIME. Known as “neoconservatives,” THEIR PRIMARY LOYALTY TO ISRAEL IS THE WORST KEPT SECRET IN WASHINGTON.

THE NEOCONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT IS JUST ANOTHER ARM OF ISRAEL’S LOBBY, ESSENTIALLY FUNCTIONING AS EMISSARIES OF THE ISRAELI LIKUD PARTY IN THE UNITED STATES.

Gal Beckerman

In an article for the Jewish Forward newspaper.“As a political philosophy,” Beckerman continues, “neoconservatism was born among the children of Jewish immigrants and is now largely the intellectual domain of those immigrants’ grandchildren.”

During the presidency of George W. Bush, the neocons achieved a virtual coup d’état of American foreign policy.

Ari Shavit

Israeli journalist Ari Shavit conceded that “the war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neoconservative intellectuals, most of them Jewish,

George W. Bush would have to rely heavily on his advisors.” Most of his advisors, as previously noted, were Jewish neoconservatives, many of whom held dual Israeli-American citizenship. In addition to foreign policy advisors, much of Bush’s other staff members were Zionist Jews.

Within power cliques there is always the phenomenon where people who don’t necessarily share the same motivations join forces in order to reap mutual benefits. The Jewish neocons are undoubtedly motivated by ethnic considerations, which is plainly demonstrated by their unwavering loyalty to Israel.

Non-Jewish Necons

As for non-Jewish neocons, money and power is perhaps the primary motivating factor in their decision to aid and abet Israel’s designs. “As with the other Jewish intellectual and political movements,”

Keven MacDonald

Kevin MacDonald in The Occidental Quarterly, “non-Jews have been welcomed into the movement and often given highly visible roles as the public face of the movement.”

This is done, MacDonald explains, to “lessen the perception that the movement is indeed a Jewish movement.”  

“It makes excellent psychological sense to have the spokespersons for any movement resemble the people they are trying to convince,”

It is also remarkable that while in 1996 Israel was to ‘shape its strategic environment’ by removing her enemies,

These same individuals are now proposing that the United States shape the Middle East environment by removing Israel’s enemies. That is to say, the United States is to serve as Israel’s proxy to advance Israeli interests.”

Tom Segev

Israeli historian Tom Segev acknowledged that expulsion of Arabs from Palestine was an undisputed viewpoint among the Zionist leadership from day one. Speaking bluntly about his extreme, supremacist views,

 FATHERS OF ZIONISM

 In 1907, David Wolffsohn, the chairman of the World Zionist Organization, addressed the eighth annual Zionist Congress at The Hague. In his closing remarks he called for a united Jewry to “conquer the world.”

The Iron Wall (We and the Arabs) is an essay written by Ze'ev Jabotinsky in 1923. It was originally published in Russian, the language in which Jabotinsky wrote for the Russian press.

He wrote the essay after the British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill prohibited Zionist settlement on the east bank of the Jordan River,  Jabotinsky then formed the Zionist Revisionist party after writing it

Jabotinsky once stated that Zionism “is naïve, brutal and primitive. It is savage. You go out into the street and pick any man — a Chinaman — and ask him what he wants, and he will say 100 percent of everything. THAT’S US. WE WANT A JEWISH EMPIRE.”

Jewish writer Gal Beckerman pointed out that “most of the members of the current Israeli government would classify themselves as ‘Jabotinskyites.’

” Interestingly, Benjamin Netanyahu’s father Benzion was Jabotinsky’s press secretary in New York.

Zionists Perversion

 The Zionists’ perversion of reality and manipulation of discourse through their control of America’s mass media and political system has had disastrous consequences. The pivotal role played by Zionists in fomenting two wars against Iraq for their own selfish interests cannot be overlooked.

The neocons were right in one thing: THE “WAR ON TERROR” IS INDEED AN ISRAELI CONSTRUCT, and was adopted by the American government after the 9/ 11 attacks. Using 9/ 11,

the Zionists exported their propagandistic memes to the West and as a result millions of Americans and other Westerners were hoodwinked into viewing the world through Israel’s spectacles.

Writing in The New Statesman, Kevin Toolis keenly observed: “In the wake of 11 September 2001, American

Neoconservatives such as Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith and Richard Perle incorporated the Israeli counter-terrorist model into US foreign policy.”

 LUKUD LEADERSHIP

  The Likud leadership trumpeted the bombastic rhetoric of the “war on terrorism” long before 9/ 11. In fact, the terminology and phraseology of the “war on terror” was invented many decades before 9/ 11 by a little known Israeli think tank called the “Jonathan Institute.”

Formed in 1979 by Benjamin Netanyahu, it was named after his brother Jonathan who had been killed during the Israeli military raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda in 1976.

Netanyahu and his Likudnik associates organized two conferences to study “international terrorism.” “The two conferences organized by the Jonathan Institute, in Jerusalem in July 1979.

IN WASHINGTON, D.C., IN JUNE 1984, WERE MAJOR EVENTS AND HIGHLY EFFECTIVE FOR ISRAELI AND WESTERN PROPAGANDA,” WROTE AUTHORS EDWARD S. HERMAN AND GERRY O’SULLIVAN IN THEIR BOOK THE “TERRORISM” INDUSTRY. THE CONFERENCES WERE AIMED AT SEDUCING WESTERN MILITARY AND POLITICAL FIGURES INTO JOINING ISRAEL’S CRUSADE AGAINST THE MUSLIM WORLD.

This second conference in Washington produced a book edited by Netanyahu entitled Terrorism: How the West Can Win. At its very core,

Netanyahu’s “war on terror” dogma is nothing more than a deceitful Zionist propaganda initiative designed to legitimize Israel’s existence and its acts of aggressive warfare, state-terrorism and land confiscation, while delegitimizing Palestinian/ Arab resistance to Israeli occupation and subjugation. In the wake of 9/ 11,

The unhinged hubris of American and Israeli leaders reached new heights of absurdity. No intelligent person, looking at the long history of extreme violence perpetrated by the governments of Israel and America and the terroristic tactics employed by these rogue states to accomplish their ends, can take seriously their disingenuous claims of “fighting terrorism.” Such puerile assertions are an affront to the millions of innocent people killed and displaced by Israel and the U.S.

 Fighting Terrorism by Benjamin Netanyahu

2001 Edition

Netanyhau states in the Editon; they call Israel the LITTLE SATAN to distinguish it clearly from the country that has always been and will always be the GREAT SATAN.

However, there is only one SATAN the beast that old serpent the dragon called the DEVIL and SATAN; we can add adversary agents of evil; Jewelry, Israel and Zionism

When speaking to the Jewish leaders Jesus said your father my adversary was a liar from the beginning when he speaks he is the FATHER OF LIES.

United States is not the Great Satan and never will be. There is a government within our government Neocons and non-Jews who answer to Jewish Elders of Zionism and the Greater Israel Project. The Dragon that old serpent called the devil and SATAN

OTHER STATEMENT ABOUT TERRORISM OR IS IT ZIONISM

1)    Who are the evil forces responsible for this terrorist onslaught What is their motive? And most important, what must be done to defeat them?

 Who are the evil forces responsible for this Zionist onslaught What is their motive? And most important, what must be done to defeat them?

 2)    Terrorists do not unintentionally harm civilians. They deliberately murder, maim, and massacre civilians---as many as possible.

 Zionists do not unintentionally harm civilians. They deliberately murder, maim, and massacre civilians---as many as possible.

 3)    Far from being fighters for freedom, terrorists are the forerunners of tyranny.

 Far from being fighters for freedom, Zionist are the forerunners of tyranny.

 4)    Terrorism is defined neither by the identity of its perpetrators or by the cause they espouse. Rather, it is defined by the nature of the act.

 ZIonism is defined neither by the identity of its perpetrators or by the cause they espouse. Rather, it is defined by the nature of the act.

 5)    Terrorisms the deliberate attack on innocent civilians

 Zionisms the deliberate attack on innocent civilians

 6)    No cause, no grievance, no apology can ever justify terrorism.

 No cause, no grievance, no apology can ever justify Zionism

 7)    Terrorism against Americans, Israelis, Spaniards, Britons, Russians, or anyone is all part of the same evil and must be treated as such.

 Zionism against Americans, Israelis, Spaniards, Britons, Russians, or anyone is all part of the same evil and must be treated as such

 8)    Any cause that uses terrorism to advance it will be punished and placed beyond the pale.

 Any cause that uses Zionism to advance it will be punished and placed beyond the pale.

9)    Immediate objective is to end all state support for and complicity with terror. If vigorously and continuously challenged, most of these regimes can be deterred from sponsoring terrorism.

 Immediate objective is to end all state support for and complicity with Zion. If vigorously and continuously challenged, most of these regimes can be deterred from sponsoring Zionism.

 10) Terrorism thrives in the dark and withers when stripped of its deniability.

 Zionism thrives in the dark and withers when stripped of its deniability.

 11) The growth of terrorism has been accomplished by a steady escalation in the means of violence, from small arms used to assassinate individuals

 The growth of Zionism has been accomplished by a steady escalation in the means of violence, from small arms used to assassinate individuals

 12) We must declare terrorism a crime against humanity and we must consider the terrorists enemies of mankind, to be given no quarter and no consideration for their purported grievances.

 We must declare Zionism a crime against humanity and we must consider the terrorists enemies of mankind, to be given no quarter and no consideration for their purported grievances.

Today’s tragedies can either be the harbingers of much greater calamities yet to come OR THE TURNING POINT IN WHICH FREE SOCIETIES ONCE AGAINST MOBILIZE THEIR RESOURCES, THEIR INGENUITY AND THEIR WILL TO WIPE OUT THIS EVIL FORM OUT MIDST.

Afghanitan; Irag;

For the neocons, the war in Afghanistan was merely a starting point from which a broader conflagration against other Middle Eastern countries could be ignited.

Sniegoski observed: “The war on Afghanistan may simply have been an opening gambit, necessary for reaching their ultimate and crucial goal: U.S. control of the Middle East in the interests of Israel.

When asked who he believed sponsored the 9/ 11 attacks, Hamid Gul theorized: “Mossad and its accomplices.

Mossad is Israel’s secret intelligent service and I.S.IS Israeli Secret Intelligent Services

The U.S. spends $ 40 billion a year on its 11 intelligence agencies. That’s $ 400 billion in 10 years. Yet the Bush administration says it was taken by surprise.

In a 2008 interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, Gul reiterated: “I have been on record and I said [9/ 11 was committed by the Zionists and the Neocons. They have done it, it is an inside job and they wanted to go on and conquer the world for Zionist.

Italy’s former president Francesco Cossiga said 9/ 11 was a false-flag operation conducted by the Israeli Mossad and the American CIA.

“All of the democratic circles of America and of Europe […] now know well that the disastrous attack was planned and realized by the American CIA and Mossad with the help of the Zionist world to place the blame on Arabic countries and to persuade the Western powers to intervene in Iraq and Afghanistan,”

Mark Glenn of The Ugly Truth. “It is 100 percent certain that 9/ 11 was a Mossad operation,” he said. “The Zionists are playing this as truly an all-or-nothing exercise, because if they lose this one, if the American people ever realize what [really] happened [on 9/ 11], they’re done.”[

Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also challenged the official story of 9/ 11, theorizing that the World Trade Center buildings could not have collapsed without explosives being planted within them. He added: “[ The West] threaten anyone who questions the Holocaust and the September 11 event with sanctions and military actions.”

there exists a government within the government in the United States?”

The American system, “is totally in [the] control of the American Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States. It is simply that the American people are themselves the slaves of the Jews and are forced to live according to the principles and laws laid by them.”

“The leaders in America and in other countries as well have fallen victim to Jewish Zionist blackmail.”[

Buried beneath an avalanche of Zionist propaganda was the inescapable reality that the only country to substantially benefit from the Sept. 11 attacks was Israel. “From the time of the 9/ 11 attack,” Stephen Sniegoski explained, “neoconservatives, of primarily (though not exclusively) Jewish ethnicity and right-wing Zionist persuasion, have tried to make use of 9/ 11 to foment a broad war against Islamic terrorism, the targets of which would coincide with the enemies of Israel.”

Rabbi Yaacov Perrin remarked: “One million Arabs are not even worth a Jewish fingernail.”[

In 2010, the head rabbi of Israel’s Sephardic community delivered a hate-filled sermon in which he excoriated non-Jews as “donkeys” who, according to the rabbi, “only exist to serve Jews” as slaves. The elderly rabbi, Ovadia Yosef, told his followers: “Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world.

MICHAEL AND THE ANGELS OF THE LORD

 SONS OF GOD; NON-JEWS;

 ORDERS HAVE BEEN GIVEN SEPARATE MY SHEEP FROM THE goats

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It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode, I talk to Tony Award-winning actor and musician Michael Cerveris. Originally from Huntington, West Virginia, Michael got his start acting in the early '80s downtown scene, and his career has flourished from there. As a theater actor, he's won two Tony Awards, one for playing John Wilkes Booth in Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins and the second for his role in Fun Home. Beyond the official accolades though, he's acted in dozens of productions including Hedwig And The Angry Inch. As a TV and film actor, he's had recurring roles in shows like Mindhunter, Gotham, The Tick, The Good Wife, Treme and Fringe, as well as many other roles. And as a musician, he's been working professionally ever since he backed Bob Mould on his Last Dog And Pony Show tour in 1998. Michael's first solo album was released in 2004, but for the last eight years, he's been writing and recording with Kimberly Kaye under the moniker Loose Cattle, and their first official album Heavy Lifting is out now, wherever you get your records from!

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Warshaw: RSL's depth comes through, leaving Petke quite the dilemma

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Holy crap. What a win from Real Salt Lake.

Missing star attackers Albert Rusnak, Jefferson Savarino and Joao Plata, plus midfield anchors Kyle Beckerman and Sunday Stephen, the Clarent and Cobalt smashed New England 4-1. The guys stepping into the lineup — Luke Mulholland, Bofo Saucedo, Luis Silva, Nedum Onuoha — looked like All Stars for the first 30 minutes as RSL stormed ahead 3-0. And Corey Baird put in one of the performances of the season from an American attacker.

So RSL keep their playoff hopes in their hands. They are four points up on the LA Galaxy; RSL play one more game, the Galaxy have two more left. If RSL win on Sunday at Portland, they’re in.

Head coach Mike Petke must feel amazing about his team’s performance, but it leaves him with the toughest decision of the season on Sunday. The 11 players from Thursday put in one of RSL’s best performances of the year. The front six put up four goals! But he had his three biggest stars and the club’s all-time legend sitting on the bench.

You can’t bench guys after they win 4-1, but you also can’t leave your four biggest names on the sideline for the make-or-break game of the year.

Tyrone Marshall breakdown tonight’s starting XI https://t.co/CZNkAWrzA6

— Real Salt Lake (@realsaltlake) October 19, 2018

Any isolated decision between Savarino/Plata/Rusnak/Beckerman and Silva/Mulholland/Saucedo/Nick Besler is a no brainer. Play the stars! But this isn’t an isolated decision. The second group are 1) coming off a fantastic performance, 2) feeling extremely confident and 3) unwounded from the mental damage of the 4-1 bashing from Portland two weeks ago.

Petke has already played his regular team against the Timbers, and they got crushed at home. Now they have to go to Portland for a rematch; does it make sense to play the same group?

Some RSL fans will read this and scream, “It was only the Revs!” And that’s true. Beating up on the Revs isn’t a huge feat. But the guys who played don’t see it like that; they don’t care who they smashed, they just feel good about doing it. And that sense of invincibility will carry over to Sunday.

Petke’s already shown he’s willing to make tough decisions; he sat Justen Glad for Thursday’s game, ending Glad’s streak of 50 straight starts. I suspect he will reinsert the starters for Sunday’s game. You gotta play the big dogs.

But also, did you see the last time they played Portland?

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A year after taking home broadcasting’s top radio honor and celebrating 50 years of all-news radio, Entercom’s WCBS Newsradio 880 has introduced a new visual image and a revamped on-air sound. Joel Beckerman has easily become one of my all-time favorite broadcast theme producers. He re-crafted John Williams already amazing Sunday Night Football theme into what it is now, his CBS This Morning theme is, in my mind, the new gold standard for a network morning show, and now he's taken a similar approach in instrumentation and arrangement with this WCBS (AM) theme, putting it into a minor key, making it sound more like a hard news theme without losing that lighter, soaring feel to it. If I had to compare his style to anyone else's, I'd say it 75% Stephen Arnold and 25% Frank Gari.

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The 2019 CAFAs: 25 Photos from Canadian Fashion’s Big Night Out

Though the CAFAs may have been eclipsed by the Toronto Raptors’ blowout win against the Golden State Warriors in game 1 of the NBA finals last night, the biggest annual gathering of Canada’s fashion crowd still managed to sparkle.

Top designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren of Viktor & Rolf mingled alongside emerging talent like Marie-Ève Lecavelier (who dropped and broke her Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent when she came onstage to collect it!); philanthropists like Suzanne Rogers rubbed shoulders with top models like Tasha Tilberg and best-selling poet Rupi Kaur, all united under the common goal of drawing attention to the fashion talent that exists within Canadian borders – with an excuse to get glam while they were at it.

The overarching theme of the night seemed to be about the importance of building a community. CAFA president Vicky Milner delivered a rousing speech highlighting the importance of supporting one another; winner of the Vanguard award, curator Thierry-Maxime Loriot, urged the crowd to “help each other, give connections,” and Harry Josh, winner of the Hair Artist of the Year Award, proposed the crowd reevaluate their notions of success and “learn to connect with our consciousness and feel more as a community.”

And then, there were the clothes. Suzanne Rogers, dubbed “the Fairy Godmother of Canadian Fashion” by designer Sid Neigum, was clad in a floor-length floral dress with am oversize candy pink bow, Cary Tauben dazzled in head-to-toe metallic and Montreal duo Fecal Matter wore their signature uncanny vally “skin-heel” platforms. Stylist Christian Dare made the boldest statement of the evening, wearing a clutch that bore the message, “Fashion Still Has a Huge Diversity Problem.” He told FASHION, that the industry has a long0standing issue with diversity that it has ignored for many years. “Yes, we have seen ‘wins’ in the past year or so, like more models of colour on the runways, and transgendered actors and models appearing on the covers of magazines. Yet we still have major fashion houses using racist iconography in their designs… We need more diversity in the boardrooms, the offices, the design studios, the runways… We’ve got a long way to go still.”

Click through the gallery to view some of the most dazzling looks of the evening as documented by photographer George Pimentel in the CAFA portrait studio.

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Real Salt Lake manager Jeff Cassar might be facing his last chance

After two disappointing seasons, 2017 is make-or-break for the current RSL regime.

You can find the entire 2017 MLS season preview here!

After a year hiatus, Real Salt Lake was back in the playoffs for the eighth time in nine years. Despite rumors to the contrary — and a few more notable departures — a few players still remain from that original core. But Jeff Cassar’s team has been mostly remade over the last two years, with Slovak youngster Albert Rusnak being the latest key component.

They’ve probably done enough to keep them as a playoff team, but there’s nothing that suggests that another MLS Cup run is in the cards for the likes of Nick Rimando and Kyle Beckerman.

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Three reasons to be pumped for 2107

Give us less than two minutes and we'll have you ready for 2017.

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Key facts

2016 record: 12-12-10, sixth in Western Conference

2016 playoffs: Lost to LA Galaxy in knockout round

Head coach: Jeff Cassar

Key additions: Albert Rusnak, Luis Silva

Key losses: Juan Manuel Martinez, Javier Morales

Projected starting XI (4-2-3-1): Nick Rimando; Tony Beltran, Aaron Maund, Justen Glad, Demar Phillips; Sunny Stephen, Kyle Beckerman; Jordan Allen, Albert Rusnak, Joao Plata; Yura Movsisyan

Major trophies won, all-time: 2009 MLS Cup

What we think of our team: An under respected team that has struggled in recent years to get back to their previous highs.

What outsiders think of our team: “Not located in a typical tourist destination, with the old ‘the team is the star’ ethos still hanging around to prevent stars from really breaking out nationally, RSL are often overlooked — fairly or not — by many around the league.”

Real Salt Lake’s biggest rival: It might not seem obvious to outsiders, but our rivalry with Sporting Kansas City is pretty fierce. There was a preseason fight several years ago, the 2013 MLS Cup and for comments made in and around that time period — these teams and their fans have a genuine dislike for one another.

Best social media follow: Real Salt Lake itself — the club's started putting real resources into video, from hot-mic training sessions to regular Facebook Live sessions with players in casual settings.

Our season hinges on … finding defensive cohesion and replacing the attacking creativity that's been lost following the departure of longtime playmaker Javier Morales.

Why this year won’t be like last year: With more than a handful of extremely promising academy players in the ranks and some MLS veterans brought in, it seems like there's more genuine depth than ever before.

Key player: Yura Movsisyan, who is now under contract with Real Salt Lake after the club purchased his rights from Spartak Moscow, has positioned himself as a leader in 2017, and if he can score more goals this year, the team could start to mesh in a productive way.

Projected finish in 2017: Seventh in the Western Conference.

Wild prediction: Cassar will fail to capitalize on the improvements made to the team, be fired, and Mike Petke, new Real Monarchs coach, will step into the first team coaching role.

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Social media advertisers are beginning to realize that they need to stop fixating on big data overall, but instead focus on turning raw data into bite-sized, meaningful insights. Watch as Bonin Bough, Host of Cleveland Hustles, Stephen McNeill, Senior Experience Planner of the Kellogg Company, Natalie Brown, Director of Experimental Marketing of Sur La Table, Jeremiah Andrick, Executive Director of Ecommerce Virtual Reality at HTC, and Jason Beckerman, Co-Founder and CEO of Unified discuss how big data can transformed into valuable insights for brands.