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1st Regnant Queen and 26th Monarch of Portugal (6th of the Bragança Dynasty): Queen Maria I of Portugal, “The Pious The Mad”

Reign: 24 February 1777 �� 20 March 1816 Acclamation: 13 May 1777 Predecessor: José I

Maria I (17 December 1734 in Lisbon – 20 March 1816 in Rio de Janeiro) was Queen of Portugal from 1777 until her death in 1816. Known as Maria the Pious in Portugal and Maria the Mad in Brazil, she was the first undisputed queen regnant of Portugal and the first monarch of Brazil. With Napoleon's European conquests, her court, then under the direction of her son João, the Prince Regent, moved to Brazil, then a Portuguese colony. Later on, Brazil would be elevated from the rank of a colony to that of a kingdom, with the consequential formation of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves.

Maria was born at the Ribeira Palace in Lisbon and baptized Maria Francisca Isabel Josefa Antónia Gertrudes Rita Joana. On the day of her birth, her grandfather, King João V of Portugal, appointed her the Princess of Beira.

When her father succeeded to the throne in 1750 as José I, Maria, at age 16 and as his eldest child, became his heir presumptive and was given the traditional titles of Princess of Brazil and Duchess of Bragança.

Maria grew up in a time when her father's government was dominated completely by the first Marquis of Pombal. Her father would often retire to the Palace of Queluz which was later given to Maria and her husband. The Marquis took control of the government after the terrible 1755 Lisbon earthquake of 1 November 1755, in which around 100,000 people lost their lives. (The palace of her birth was also destroyed in the disaster.)

After the earthquake, Maria's father was often uncomfortable at the thought of staying in enclosed spaces, and later suffered from claustrophobia. The king had a palace built in Ajuda, away from the city center. This palace became known as Real Barraca de Ajuda (Royal Hut at Ajuda) because it was made of wood. The family spent much time at the large palace, and it was the birthplace of Maria's first child. In 1794 the palace burned to the ground and the Palace of Ajuda was built in its place.

In 1760 Maria married her uncle Pedro, younger brother of her father Jose I. They had six children, of whom the eldest surviving son succeeded Maria as João VI on her death in 1816.

In 1777, Maria became the first undisputed queen regnant of Portugal. With Maria's accession, her husband became king as Pedro III. Despite Pedro's status as king and the nominal joint reign, the actual regal authority was vested solely in Maria, as she was the lineal heir of the crown. Also, as Pedro's kingship was jure uxoris only, his reign would cease in the event of Maria's death, and the crown would pass to Maria's descendants. However, Pedro predeceased his wife in 1786. Maria is considered to have been a good ruler in the period prior to her madness. Her first act as queen was to dismiss the popular secretary of state of the kingdom, the Marquess of Pombal, who had broken the power of the reactionary aristocracy via the Távora affair, partially because of Pombal's Enlightenment, anti-Jesuit policies. Noteworthy events of this period include Portugal's membership in the League of Armed Neutrality (July 1782) and the 1781 cession of Delagoa Bay from Austria to Portugal.

Queen Maria suffered from religious mania and melancholia. This acute mental illness (perhaps due to porphyria) made her incapable of handling state affairs after 1792.

Maria's madness was first officially noticed in 1786, when Maria had to be carried back to her apartments in a state of delirium. Afterward, the queen's mental state became increasingly worse. In May 1786, her husband died; Maria was devastated and forbade any court entertainments. According to a contemporary account, state festivities began to resemble religious ceremonies. Her condition worsened after the death of her eldest son (and heir-apparent), aged 27, from smallpox, and of her confessor, in 1791.

In February 1792, she was deemed mentally insane and was treated by Francis Willis,

the same physician who attended King George III of Great Britain.

Willis wanted to take her to England, but the plan was refused by the Portuguese court. Maria's second son (eldest surviving) and new heir-apparent, João, took over the government in her name, even though he only took the title of Prince Regent in 1799.

When the Real Barraca de Ajuda burnt down in 1794, the court was forced to move to Queluz, where the ill queen would lie in her apartments all day. Visitors would complain of terrible screams that would echo throughout the palace.

In 1801 Spanish Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy

sent an army to invade Portugal with backing from Napoleon,

resulting in the War of the Oranges. Though the Spanish ended their invasion, the Treaty of Badajoz on 6 June 1801 forced Portugal to cede Olivença and other border towns to Spain. (This cession is not recognized by the present Portuguese government, and the country officially considers those territories still to be Portuguese possessions.) On 29 September 1801 João VI signed the Treaty of Madrid (1801), ceding half of Portuguese Guyana to France, which became French Guiana.

The refusal of the Portuguese government to join the French-sponsored Continental Blockade against Britain culminated in the late 1807 Franco-Spanish invasion of Portugal led by General Junot.

The ultimate Napoleonic plan for Portugal was to split it into three sections. The northern parts of Portugal, from the Douro to the Minho, would become the Kingdom of Northern Lusitania, and its throne was promised to King Louis II of Etruria.

The Alentejo Province and Kingdom of the Algarve would be merged to form the Principality of the Algarves, of which Spanish Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy would be sovereign. The remaining portion of Portugal would have been directly ruled by France.

At the urging of the British government, the entire Bragança Dynasty decided to flee on 29 November 1807 to establish a government in exile in the Portuguese Viceroyalty of Brazil. Along with the royal family, Maria was transported aboard the carrack Príncipe Real. During her move from the royal palace to the docks she was heard screaming throughout the trip, in the middle of the crowd and in the carriage. The queen's dementia was so great that she feared that she was going to be tortured or robbed during her movement by her servants.

In January 1808 Prince Regent João and his court arrived in Salvador da Bahia. Under pressure by local aristocracy and the British, the prince regent signed a commercial regulation after his arrival that opened commerce between Brazil and friendly nations, which in this case represented the interests of Great Britain above all. This law broke an important colonial pact that had previously allowed Brazil to maintain direct commercial relations only with Portugal.

On 1 August 1808 British General Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington)

landed a British army in Lisbon to initiate the Peninsular War. The impact of Wellesley's initial victory over Junot at the Battle of Vimeiro (21 August 1808) was wiped out by his superiors in the Convention of Cintra (30 August 1808), which allowed the defeated French troops to evacuate peacefully from Portugal.

Wellesley (now as Lord Wellington) returned to Portugal on 22 April 1809 to recommence the campaign. Portuguese forces under British command distinguished themselves in the defense of the Lines of Torres Vedras (1809–1810) and in the subsequent invasion of Spain and France. In 1815 the government of the Prince Regent João elevated Brazil to the status of a kingdom, and Maria I was proclaimed the Queen of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves. When Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815, Maria and her family remained in Brazil.

Maria lived in Brazil for a total of eight years, always in a state of incapacitation. In 1816, she died at the Carmo Convent in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 81. After her death, Prince Regent João was acclaimed the king of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves and his mother's body was returned to Lisbon to be interred in a mausoleum in the Estrela Basilica ( Basilica da Estrela), which she had helped found.

Maria is a greatly admired figure in both Brazil and Portugal due to the tremendous changes and events that took place during her reign. In Portugal, she is celebrated as a strong female figure. Her legacy shines at Portugal's Queluz Palace,

a baroque-roccoco masterpiece that she helped conceive. A large statue of her stands in front of the palace,

and a pousada near the palace is named in her honor.

A large marble statue of the queen was erected at the Portuguese National Library in Lisbon

by the students of Joaquim Machado de Castro.

In Brazil, she is admired as a key figure in the eventual independence of Brazil. It was during her reign, albeit through the government of her son's regency, that many of the national institutions and organizations in Brazil were created. These institutions were the precursors to their modern-day equivalents and granted large degree of power to the Brazilian colonials. While she is often called A Louca (the Mad) in Brazil, Brazilian and Portuguese historians hold her in high esteem.

Maria married her uncle, Infante Pedro of Portugal on 6 June 1760. At the time of their marriage, Maria was 25 and Pedro was 42. Despite the age gap, the couple had a happy marriage. Pedro automatically became co-monarch (as Pedro III of Portugal) when Maria ascended the throne, as a child had already been born from their marriage. The couple had six children and a stillborn baby.

José, Prince of Brazil (20 August 1761 - 11 September 1788) José Francisco Xavier de Paula Domingos António Agostinho Anastácio married Infanta Benedita of Portugal and had no issue. His death led to his younger brother becoming heir-apparent and later king.

João de Bragança (20 October 1762 - 20 October 1762) João was a still born baby, born at the Ajuda National Palace.

João Francisco de Bragança (16 September 1763 - 10 October 1763) João Francisco de Paula Domingos António Carlos Cipriano was born at the Ajuda National Palace.

João VI (13 May 1767 - 10 March 1826) João Maria José Francisco Xavier de Paula Luís António Domingos Rafael married Carlota Joaquina of Spain and had issue. He was King of Portugal and Titular Emperor of Brazil.

Mariana Victoria de Bragança (15 December 1768 - 2 November 1788) Maria Ana Vitória Josefa Francisca Xavier de Paula Antonieta Joana Domingas Gabriela married Infante Gabriel of Spain and had issue.

Maria Clementina de Bragança (9 June 1774 - 27 June 1776) Maria Clementina Francisca Xavier de Paula Ana Josefa Antónia Domingas Feliciana Joana Michaela Julia de Bragança was born at the Queluz National Palace.

Maria Isabel de Bragança (12 December 1776 - 14 January 1777) Maria Isabel was born at the Queluz National Palace.

#queen maria i of portugal #queens of portugal #bragança dynasty #portugal history

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Right Hon. Arthur Meighen answered the criticism raised against the administration of the act, after which before the subject was closed, the discussion swung back briefly to Portsmouth and the Government Leader made the statement that the brokers incarcerated there, that so far as he had ever known from his experience in the Government, social prominence of any penitentiary inmate, so far from getting him any privileges, militated against him.

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southeastasianists · 8 years ago

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On a sunny Saturday morning in November, tens of thousands of Malaysians massed in the steamy streets of Kuala Lumpur. Young and old, from all walks of life, the protesters gathered beneath the elevated tracks of the capital’s light rail and, sitting cross-legged on the road – a faint odour of sweat and urine hanging in the air – listened patiently to a series of speeches by some of the country’s most well-known activists.

Then the drums began. A group of students, shouting slogans and punching the air with their fists, marched confidently out of a side street, rousing the crowd. The rally was suddenly alive.

“Tangkap! Tangkap!” (Arrest! Arrest!) the young men and women shouted, holding aloft giant caricatures of Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak, his wife and Jho Low, the thirtysomething Malaysian tycoon exposed in international court proceedings as playing a key role in a scandal that has gripped Malaysia.

Since 2015, the nation has been reeling from a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal that has embroiled the 1MDB state investment fund and the prime minister, undermining confidence in what was once one of Southeast Asia’s most vibrant economies.

Billions are thought to have gone missing from the fund, but while investigations overseas continue, there has been little progress in Malaysia, where key investigators and critics have been fired or transferred and the authorities said in early 2016 that the $681m that went into the prime minister’s private bank account was a donation from an anonymous Saudi and not from 1MDB.

The organisation known as Bersih – which means ‘clean’ in Malay – has staged five hugely popular protests since 2007, calling for free and fair elections but also to tackle corruption and the problems at 1MDB. The night before Bersih 5, the most recent protest, which took place in November, police arrested the group’s leader along with several other civil society activists, but if the crackdown was meant to make people think twice about attending, it didn’t work.

The scale of the alleged wrongdoing at 1MDB has mobilised tens of thousands, including a small but energetic coalition of students – despite an education system that is designed to keep them close to the parties in power and discourage activism.

“They tried to deter us,” said Asheeq Ali Sethi Alivi, a law student at Malaysia’s National University who had just been suspended for his activism. “We had to go and hide, but that makes us even more determined. Students want to show their anger.”

Anis Syafiqah Mohd Yusof is the face of the latest generation of student rebels – a Muslim woman, inspired by Noam Chomsky and possessed by a powerful sense of purpose. “[Activism] is part of our learning process,” Anis explained in an interview in the canteen at the University of Malaya, Malaysia’s most prestigious university, where she is studying Arabic. “For three or four years we might be students, but we are Malaysians even after we finish our studies. This is for our future – and the coming generations.”

The 24-year-old shot to national prominence after she organised the ‘Tangkap MO1’ protest in August. The 1,500 students who joined the rally called for “Malaysian Official 1” named in a suit brought by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) – alongside Low and Riza Aziz, Najib’s stepson whose production company was behind the movie Wolf of Wall Street – to be identified and prosecuted. The following month, a government minister acknowledged that Malaysian Official 1 was indeed Najib, who has strenuously denied any wrongdoing over 1MDB.

“Citizens from another country know about what is happening, but there’s no response [in Malaysia],” Anis said. “We feel ashamed if we keep quiet when we know, and are aware about, what is happening. We are being robbed.”

In the wake of Tangkap MO1, Anis was questioned by police for sedition and ‘activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy’. On the eve of Bersih 5, as she was making banners at home, the police came for her again. She said they took her into custody and questioned her, without a lawyer, for five hours.

Then, four other people – she doesn’t think they were police – came to speak to her. They wanted to know why she was protesting and tried to convince her she should be grateful to the government because it was paying for her studies. “It was brainwashing, mental torture,” she said. She was unmoved.

After nearly 48 hours, Anis was released. Her father, a teacher, sent her a message of support: “Don’t give up. Teruskan [Continue],” it said.

Malaysian universities have long existed in an environment of “intellectual containment” designed to help the government maintain control of academics and students, said Meredith Weiss, associate professor of political science at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and the author of the book Student Activism in Malaysia.

The government’s most potent weapon is the Universities and University Colleges Act (UUCA) of 1971, which limits students’ political activities – despite amendments in 2012 – and gives the government the power to appoint universities’ senior leadership. Under the act, academic administrators can “regulate” student activities and penalise transgressions. Even private universities are cautious. The Malaysian campus of Australia’s Monash University attracted widespread criticism when it warned its students not to attend Bersih 5.

Then there are laws such as the Sedition Act, a remnant of British colonial rule, which criminalise free speech and peaceful protest and add to what Human Rights Watch calls a “climate of fear”. Nevertheless, during pivotal moments in Malaysia’s post-independence history, and particularly at elite universities around Kuala Lumpur, students have made their voices heard.

The government insists it wants to improve critical thinking skills and create an education system better suited to the economies of the 21st century, but just before the MO1 rally, higher education minister Idris Jusoh reminded students they should concentrate on their studies, noting the government spends $3,575 (MYR16,000) a year on educating each of them. The minister declined a Southeast Asia Globe request for an interview.

“I don’t think they are interested in critical thinking,” said Ho Chi Yang, a 21-year-old language student who heads the Association of New Youth at the University of Malaya and joined both the Tangkap MO1 and Bersih rallies. “They think we should just follow and be obedient. This is the culture they’ve created from primary school through the whole education system.”

Ho and his friends also attempted a protest at a talk held on campus by the controversial chief executive of 1MDB, Arul Kanda. Such a platform is rarely afforded to opposition politicians or government critics. In 2014, when University of Malaya students invited Anwar Ibrahim, then leader of the opposition, to speak, the lights were turned off and the university disciplined the eight students who organised the event, fining four of them up to $135 (MYR600) each.

But Kanda’s talk was organised by the university in cooperation with Jabatan Hal Ehwal Khas, the ‘special affairs’ unit of the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia, and each student was handed a specially prepared 20-page booklet headlined “Saman DOJ Meragukan” (Doubts about the DOJ Suit). The publication suggested a high-profile asset seizure carried out as part of the investigation was little more than US electioneering and stated repeatedly that the prime minister had not been accused of a crime. No one who had raised concerns about 1MDB was there to question Kanda, who reeled off financial data and insisted the fund was sorting itself out, according to those who were there.

Ho was worried the forum was an attempt to “brainwash” the more impressionable students among the 400 or so who attended. He smuggled in handmade banners questioning 1MDB’s missing billions and the government’s response, and sat patiently through the former investment banker’s talk, as well as the questions that came afterwards. As mementoes were exchanged, he and his friends pulled out the placards. In the commotion that followed, the banners were torn, and the group was ordered out of the hall. They now face disciplinary action this month.

Anis and three other students who organised the Tangkap MO1 rally were called to defend their actions in December, accused by the university administration of a number of charges, including acting in a manner detrimental to their university’s reputation. All four students were found “guilty” and three, including Anis, were suspended for six months. They were also fined $90 (MYR400) each. Officials declined a request for an interview.

The students are mindful that not everyone on campus is supportive of their activist approach – a food fair held at the same time as a gathering for Anis and her fellow students attracted considerably larger crowds. It is hard, too, to gauge the scale of support in universities beyond the main cities, where students have always been more vocal.

But the latest generation of activists say they won’t back down. At the end of December, Anis and the three students disciplined alongside her sued the government, questioning the validity of laws they say limit their freedom of expression. The students disciplined for inviting Anwar to campus also took their case to court – judges ruled in their favour last July. “The law is on our side,” Anis said. “We have a right to voice out and assemble peacefully. Why should we be afraid?”

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torchwoodglobal · 7 years ago

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I attribute my love of villains on Ned Kelly

Australia is weird about Ned Kelly. He was a bushranger, if you don’t know. Like super weird. He was a poor kid (but not that poor, I mean his family semi-owned a farm (it’s complicated)) who decided to hang out with idiots and steal horses and then got pissed that him mum got arrested when he got violent with the cops who came to his house to arrest him. He then goes on to rob banks and kill people because he’s decided the British are terrible. This all ends in a huge shootout with the police and Kelly gets tried and executed. (This is all super oversimplified by the way).

Somehow this has resulted in him becoming a folk hero? Because reasons? Mainly the class struggles of the time. But even then, there were other people actually trying to improve things in real ways, ways that weren’t robbing and killing.

I blame this cultural background for my ability to look at any fiction and decide I don’t care that that character I like is a bad-guy, they are still my favourite. (“There’s an obviously evil dude in a suit. I like him!”) Because when being a murderous thief does not disqualify you from being a good-guy, almost nothing else can!

But also!

I blame my absolute hatred of Ned Kelly for the fact that I don’t quite trust the Rebels in Star Wars. I came into Star Wars through the Original Trilogy and right up til Alderan blew (and slightly afterwards even?) I really wanted some proof that the Empire was bad. I mean, blowing up planets is bad, but you were attacking them before that.

And from what we see, before that people lived and work and had food and speeders and power to run things and there is an easily-manipulated-by-Jedi police force. People live their lives and plan for their futures and have families. What exactly was the Empire doing that was rebellion worthy (in the Originals)?

Also, even if the Empire itself is bad, rebel tactics are kind of shady(ok that judgement moves out of the movies a little). And I’m pretty sure the only way storm troopers could have aim that terrible is if they are continually shooting to wound. And this takes me back to Kelly. Even if the government is corrupt, don’t go out of your way to kill the cops? Please Ned? Sure, defend yourself. But once you put that much effort into it it’s just murder.

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moodboardinthecloud · 4 years ago

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I note many people up here in the Great White North acted shocked by the brutality of police officers murdering a Black man. It was as if racism existed in a far-off land or was something foreign to them. But it’s here in Canada on such a large scale and has been since this country was founded.

Indigenous people are scared for their lives every day due to racism. Do you know the story of Colten Boushie; Cindy Gladue; or Neil Stonechild? That’s only a few who fell victim to death by racism — look them up.

The injustices keep coming. They seem relentless. Chantal Moore, 22, a mother of a five-year-old girl, member of the Nuu-chah-nulth nation in British Columbia was killed by a police officer Thursday in New Brunswick. She was shot at five times because police say she had a knife. Her boyfriend had called to ask police to do a “wellness check” because she apparently told him she was being harassed by someone and felt afraid. Her family says she had never been in trouble with the law, weighed 98 pounds, and posed no threat. She was shot five times.

Our people are afraid. There is no justice here. They’re also fed up with racism. Done with being racially profiled, being targeted for violence and discrimination. When I’m alone, driving in the country here in Alberta I get afraid that if my vehicle ever broke down and I needed help I would be targeted/killed because I look Native. It’s one of my worst nightmares to get stranded in an area inhabited by white farmers.

This is real life when you’re Indigenous. Maybe some people are in denial. They turn their heads back to their ignorant, comfortable lives in the safety of their privileged communities.

Was the revealing of the horrors of the residential school system through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission enough? The federal government and all its institutions sought out Indigenous children to steal their identity through the wiping-out of their culture and attempted genocide. Was it enough that thousands upon thousands of children were brutally molested, physically assaulted, verbally and emotionally abused and condemned because of the colour of their skin? Was hearing the broken stories of the victims who mostly stumbled around lost and drunk afterward, who had their children taken from them because they were robbed of connection to family life — was that enough?

Are the suicides of First Nations youth — at 6.2 times the rate of other Canadians and 23.9 per cent higher for Inuit — enough?

What about other crises, such as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)? Was seeing the face of a child, Tina Fontaine, and watching authorities removing her body from the Red River enough?

Apparently not. Apparently, more violence is on the agenda. We have a federal government that is lagging in helping the crisis by delaying a national action plan on MMIWG- citing COVID19 as a reason.

But this is a pandemic — a pandemic of racism that’s killing and has killed many more people in this country than COVID19.

Systemic racism exists in educational systems, justice systems, child welfare, health care, employment, industry, institutions, and all levels of governments, because Canada is a colonial country founded on colonial principles.

Canada is racist.

Racism is high on the radar of people’s minds right now because of the injustices and demonstrations we’re seeing in the United States. For many here, especially Indigenous Peoples, those actions are providing inspiration for them: that there’s hope; they can stand for justice, be heard and seen.

Our people have stood up before. Remember Idle No More? How about the Wet’suwet’en crisis that shut down this country for weeks just a few months ago? Momentum is building.

Lately, we are seeing more solidarity from white people’s allyship, which is important because unity is powerful.

I hope Canada has finally had enough of its own racism. Let’s keep talking about it, keep confronting it. What’s it going to take to stop? Well, we can start by the decolonizing of our society. Not sure what that means? It means creating a society that doesn’t disproportionally enable a group of people to succeed over the other.

What if governments funded supports for communities to heal and connect with each other? What if hate speech, particularly online, was taken seriously and penalties given to people who spread racist agendas?

Imagine the economic impacts for the better if society invested in education and reconciliation instead of pumping money into the oppression of our vulnerable communities?

When will it be enough for Canada to care about its own country and the unbridled injustices, which are a ticking time bomb?

We don’t want a George Floyd repeat.

If people care so much about racism abroad, it’s time to also care at home.

Brandi Morin is a French/Cree/Iroquois award-winning journalist from Treaty 6 in Alberta. She is passionate about showcasing stories of injustice, human rights, environment, culture, tradition and resilience from an Indigenous viewpoint. You can follow her at Twitter.com/songstress28

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“You Have the Body”Habeas Corpus

By Kayla Blevins, Liberty University, Class of 2020

May 1, 2020

POLITICO Magazine has claimed to have found documents stating the Department of Justice requested Congress “for the ability to ask judges to detain people indefinitely without trial during emergencies” – or in other words, suspend habeas corpus. (1) POLITICO implied the DOJ will use the COVID-19 crisis to arrest and hold people indefinitely. Afterward, several news outlets have filled their readers with the fear of having their civil liberties revoked. It is unknown how accurate the report is because POLITICO has not provided its reader's access to the documents they found. The purpose of this article is not political, but to describe habeas corpus because it is a legal principle that many have never heard of and should be explained.

Habeas Corpus Explained

America’s Founders designed for Congress to have certain grants. (2) Many rights and freedoms, such as habeas corpus, stemmed from British common law, and the British constitution. The first privilege given was habeas corpus. (3) Habeas corpus is an order given by a court to an arresting officer, instructing the officer to bring the prisoner before a court. (4) The judge will order the prisoner’s release if the sentence was unlawful - because when charged with a crime, habeas corpus bestows crucial protections against unlawful arrest and imprisonment. Habeas corpus also offers vital checks on the president - in case a president tries to overreach his or her powers. Both America and England have used habeas corpus to evaluate the legality of one’s imprisonment. According to the Constitution, Congress can suspend habeas corpus, but only in the event of rebellion or invasion. (5) Nevertheless, President Lincoln was the only president to suspend habeas corpus (due to the Civil War) without Congress’s approval. (6)

Habeas Corpus Criteria

When petitioning for habeas corpus, one must currently be in custody whether it is on parole, probation, pretrial release, or in a diversionary program. (7) According to the U.S. Code for Judiciary and Judicial Procedure (28 U.S.C.A. § 2254), federal law must be in doubt and all available state court remedies must be exhausted or futile in protecting the prisoner’s rights. (8) When filing for a habeas corpus petition, it will be under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 because there will be a question about whether imprisonment violated at least one federal right.

A good example is Fay v. Noia (1963). (9) Charles Noia, Santo Caminito, and Frank Bonino were convicted of shooting and killing someone during a robbery in New York. The only evidence the police had against them was signed confessions. Caminito and Bonino’s cases were eventually thrown out because of evidence indicating that the police coerced their confessions. Noia waited too long to appeal, and because of that, the state appellate court ruled he could not seek post-conviction relief because they said he did not exhaust all New York’s remedies. Eventually, Noia took his case to the Supreme Court seeking habeas corpus relief from imprisonment because his Fourteenth Amendment was violated. The Court held that not completely exhausting all New York’s remedies was not an obstruction to Noia’s habeas petition because the error was not intentional.

Fay’s ruling increased state prisoner’s right to seek habeas corpus relief in federal courts and enlarged the federal court power over state court convictions. (10) According to Catherine Hancock, “The concepts of exhaustion and adequate state grounds were modified to make room for a generous view that excused defendants from uncalculated waiver of constitutional rights in state proceedings.” (11) In Coleman v. Thompson (1991), however, the Court reversed its Fay ruling. (12)

Another restriction to habeas corpus relief was enacted in 1996: “The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act” (or the ADEPA). (13) AEDPA radically changed § 2254 by making it more problematic for a state prisoner to acquire habeas relief. In the case of Kapral v. U.S. (1999), the Court held that a review is not considered final until the Supreme Court declares the defendant’s conviction or denies certiorari. (14) If the defendant does not request for certiorari within a year, then a review is final when the time allowed for filing for certiorari expires. (15)

The exhaustion requirement was explained in Justice Sandra Day O'Connor’s decision in O’Sullivan v. Boerckel (1999), “[S]tate prisoners must give the state courts one full opportunity to resolve any constitutional issues by invoking one complete round of the state's established appellate review process.” (16) Habeas corpus can be used as an alternative only if the prisoner cannot raise all his or her claims before their state’s highest court. (17)

Most of the time, prisoners claim they need a habeas petition because they had an ineffective counsel. However, this is seldom effective because their counsel was most likely not the root of the problem.

In Woods v. State (1998), David Woods was convicted of murdering and robbing a seventy-seven-year-old man and was sentenced to death row. Woods' original attorney found out months before the trial that he had a possible conflict of interest and subsequently withdrew his counsel and handed Woods’ case to another attorney. Based on that, Woods said his trial was unfair and his second attorney was unable to provide an effective counsel. However, the Indiana Supreme Court denied his claim because if Woods told the truth about an unfair trial and ineffective counsel, he would have had to overlook the fact his original attorney provided the new counsel plenty of time before the trial began. (18)

According to the case of Strickland v. Washington (1984), when a prisoner files a habeas corpus petition for ineffective counsel, they should fully explain how their counsel neglected their duties (as required by the Sixth Amendment) and how ineffective counsel caused them to be at a disadvantage in having a fair trial.

It seems that the media tries to either exaggerate the truth or fill people with fear, particularly about the government and legal terms. Most people are therefore not familiar with the historical aspects of habeas corpus, nor are they familiar with how the courts implement this legal principle in cases. Knowing the facts about habeas corpus will enable people to be able to use this to their advantage when reading news articles.

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1. Swan, Woodruff Betsey. “DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic.” POLITICO Magazine. 21 Mar. 2020. 23 April 2020. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/21/doj-coronavirus-emergency-powers-140023.

2. McClelan, James (2000). Liberty, Order, and Justice: An Introduction to the Constitutional Principles of American Government. Liberty Fund, pp. 300, 402.

3. Ibid.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid.

7. McCord, James (2012). Criminal Law and Procedure: For the Paralegal. Delmar Cengage Learning, pp. 574-577.

8. Ibid.

9. Justia. “Fay v. Noia, 372 U.S. 391 (1963).” Justia. 26 April 2020. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/372/391/.

10. Federal Judicial Center. “Fay v. Noia.” 25 April 2020. https://www.fjc.gov/history/timeline/fay-v-noia.

11. Hancock, Catherine. “Fay v. Noia 372 U.S. 391 (1963).” Encyclopedia.com. (1986). 25 April 2020. https://www.encyclopedia.com/politics/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/fay-v-noia-372-us-391-1963.

12. Federal Judicial Center. “Fay v. Noia.” 25 April 2020. https://www.fjc.gov/history/timeline/fay-v-noia.

13. McCord, James (2012). Criminal Law and Procedure: For the Paralegal. Delmar Cengage Learning, p. 575.

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid.

16. LII. “O’Sullivan V. Boerckel (97-2048) 526 U.S. 838 (1999).” Legal Information Institute. 26 April 2020. https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/97-2048.ZO.html.

17. Ibid.

18. Court Listener. “Woods v. State 701 N.E.2d 1208 (Ind. 1998).” Court Listener: From Free Law Project. 26 April 2020. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/853980/woods-v-state/.

19. Lyttleton, Joseph. “What is habeas corpus, and why does the US Justice Department want to suspend it?” The Millennial Source. 21 April 2020. https://themilsource.com/2020/03/24/what-is-habeas-corpus-why-justice-department-suspend/.

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Consulting Detective Vol. II – Murdered Mechanic Made Military Mighty

Written by Joe Pranevich

Two cases down and one to go! Thus far in Consulting Detective Vol. II, we’ve solved a pair of murders and it appears that we are going three-for-three. Admittedly, the first case was murder-with-theft and the second was murder-as-a-cover-up, but both involved murder. Some commenters have suggested that this is the best case of the bunch and so I am looking forward to it. The last case wasn’t the best, but this one could easily sweep me off my feet and we’ll enter the PISSED rating with the wind at our backs. I can dream, right?

This case starts with a nice video introduction. Richard Allen arrives at Baker St. having been let in by the housekeeper. He apologizes for the intrusion but wants to discuss the murder of his brother, Courtney Allen. Holmes read about the case a few weeks prior in the Times and knows all about it. Courtney was the President of the Grant Arms Company and was shot to death on March 9 (almost two weeks ago) outside his office. Scotland Yard believes that he was just robbed, but Richard believes otherwise and needs Holmes’s help. This sounds like a good start!

Holmes searches through the dead man’s things.

We continue our interview. Richard tells us of his brother’s ways as a “ladies man”, much to his wife’s displeasure, as well as about some questionable business decisions that could have upset his partners. He is focused on two people that may have a motive, but I doubt things will be quite that easy. His suspects are:

Courtney’s wife, Beatrice Allen. Courtney had multiple affairs including one at the time of his death. Richard does not know who he was seeing but his flirtatious ways could have caused someone to want him dead. At his death, Beatrice inherited all of Courtney’s stock so she stood to benefit from a smattering of revenge.

Lord Ragland, the former second-in-command at Grant Arms. Waglon thought that he would be put in charge of the company with Courtney’s death, but Richard secretly arranged for the third-in-command, Phillip Marlow, to take the top spot instead. Ragland was a brilliant technician but an inept businessman and ill-suited for the top job.

Richard brought Courtney’s briefcase from the night of the murder; exactly how he managed to get the evidence off of Scotland Yard will have to be an exercise for the reader. He tells us that Courtney’s pocket watch was taken, but not his folders, keychain, gold wedding band, or notebook. Holmes digs through the case and announces that the folders are of a “personal nature”, but one labeled “SP10” is empty. Holmes also finds his dayplanner which reveals an 8:00 AM “surprise” appointment at the plant, an 8:30 PM meeting with Captain Egan, and a note to “meet at Spaniard’s” at 10:00 PM. That note is very strange because Holmes says that it is written in Courtney’s handwriting but signed “A.M.”.

With the video over, I turn to the newspapers but there are none! The case is dated March 20, 1888 but the very first newspaper issue is from July 1888. Not having to search the newspapers for this case will be a nice change, although I cannot help but fear that it is a bug and the case’s date is incorrect or something.

Let’s start with completely unfounded speculation and we’ll see if I am correct:

The motive wasn’t theft because Scotland Yard thinks so and they are morons, but there is something important about the missing pocket watch and “SP10” folder contents. I suspect blackmail and I don’t think we can rule out an honor killing, especially if the folder or watch end up coming from a secret lover. The initials “A.M.” are important because they are in Courtney’s handwriting; I think he has an alias for some reason although I have no idea why.

Where should we start?

Watson is not above a spot of bribery.

I need a game plan. Rather than attack the people with the obvious motives, I’m will trace the events that led up to Courtney’s death and who he saw that night. If that doesn’t reward us with leads, we can go elsewhere. I’m doubly curious about the note with the strange signature, so let’s start with Spainiard’s Inn. I’m fairly certain that he was killed before he made his dinner date, but we may learn something anyway.

Watson slips the waiter some cash to loosen the waiter’s lips (a fantastic detail!), but he does recall private room reservations with the initials “A.M.” on March 9:

Alexander Misckin, the first of these, is a “giant” that walks with a cane and speaks with an accent. He arrived at the restaurant at 8:30 PM and was joined by an Englishman in his mid-30s shortly afterwards. They both had identical briefcases! That sounds like spy-stuff to me.

Anthony Mariano, the second of these, was a lone diner who arrived at 9:00 PM. He was eventually joined by someone for dessert. He did not have a briefcase; I’m sure that will be an important detail later but it is a bit odd for the waiter to bring it up. Dessert could have been around 10:00 PM; were they expecting Courtney to join them?

Was one of these men Courtney in disguise? Or was he already dead at this point? We do not know yet when he was killed, only that it was when he was leaving work. If his schedule is anything like mine, that could mean any time between 5:00 PM and 11:00. Let’s investigate his 8:30 PM appointment with Captain Egan next.

First corsage of the case!

Captain Egan is happy to talk with Holmes, but Courtney never made it to his appointment on the 9th. Egan informs us that Courtney first approached him last summer with designs for a revolutionary naval gun. The project was approved by the British Navy and is quite secret. As for the night of his death, Egan does not know what the appointment would have been about, only that he received a cryptic wire:

“Meet Tonight 8:30, your office. Call out the guard. Pounce at 10.”

Neither Egan nor I have any idea what that means, but he believes that “pounce at 10” may have referred to Project #10, something secret being developed for the Navy. Courtney had worried about security and Egan had placed his best men on it. They discovered that Richard Camp, an engineer on the project, smuggled out bundles and boxes to the French embassy. Egan believes that Camp was passing details of the project to Emil Zobar, a French military attaché. Lord Ragland investigated but ultimately found no wrongdoing. Even so, and in the interests of security, Ragland had Camp removed from the project on March 11, two days after Courtney’s murder. Egan is convinced that foreign governments are trying to spy on the project with his four biggest suspects being Zobar, Van Suklenberg, Delgatta, and Metkof, but Egan has no proof about any of them.

Taking stock, this means that the SP10 folder has to be “Special Project #10” and that Courtney was killed to get whatever had been in there. Whomever did it tried to make it look like a robbery, but what we have is a bit of old-fashioned military espionage. Since the French already seem to have information on the project (through Camp), I’d wager that a different country is at fault here.

Oh God, I’m asking Lestrade.

With no more evening appointments, where should I go next? I try our “A.M.” leads, but learn nothing of importance. Holmes’s files say that Mariano was once a suspect in the “Spaghetti Murders” but charges were never filed. A visit tells us that he knows nothing about the case so that is a dead end. Mishkin is not listed in the directory and likely works at one of the embassies. Maybe the Russian one? (Mitkof is also a Russian surname; am I screwing up and they are both the same name? They don’t sound alike.)

I still do not have enough information about the murder itself. I hit Lestrade next for some basic info and he’s shocked that Holmes is interested in this “simple robbery”. Scotland Yard found Courtney dead in the alley behind Grant Arms with his wallet and gold watch missing, his briefcase open and askew but nothing obvious stolen. The only other evidence found at the scene were a bunch of tin cans and a cigarette butt. Holmes immediately leaps on the butt as a critical bit of information so naturally Lestrade happens to have it with him. It has the letters “B&H” on the side which must be important later! Holmes lectures Lestrade on the importance of studying cigarette butts, but we’re done here. He didn’t tell us how Courtney died so we’re off to talk to Jasper Meek, the coroner, next.

Sir Jasper gives us exactly the details I was hoping for: Courtney was shot in the chest at close range. Judging by the powder burns, the assailant fired from no more than two feet. The bullet left a “massive” exit wound and the slug was never recovered. Jasper believes that it is a large caliber, but he doesn’t know for sure. I try H. R. Murray, the Scotland Yard chemist, to see if they analyzed the power burns, but he’s on vacation with his brother.

New theory: Courtney Allen was killed at close range by someone he knew using a prototype or military gun. The person smoked while waiting for him in the alley, so if we find who smokes that brand we may have a great lead. The destructive power of the gun, plus that Jasper was unfamiliar with it, makes it seem like an uncommon weapon.

Corsage #2! This case is slacking on the botanicals.

I followed Courtney through his evening appointments and learned about the crime scene. My next stop will be to backtrack and check out his office. Looking up the company in the directory, we have two options: corporate offices or the “Deverall Street Plant”. I assume he was working at corporate so let’s start there first.

Holmes meets a “Mr. Linhad” (or Linwad? I cannot make out the name). He’s the new secretary to President Marlow, the formerly-third-in-line that took over the company when Courtney was murdered. He tells me a bit that we already knew, that Allen was scheduled to meet with Egan at 8:30, but adds that he left through the back door to catch a cab at 8:00 PM. Linhad tells us that this specific meeting was unusual because all of his other meetings with Egan were during the day. He repeats what Egan said about Courtney being concerned for project security and about raising the issues to Lord Ragland. None of this is new, but we learn that all of the blueprints and such for the special project are stored at the Deverall Plant, plus that Courtney and Marlow hated each other. Why would he appoint him as the President if he hated him? I contact Central Carriage Stables to see if there is anything to say about his cab pickup, but that is a dead end.

Ragland is Corsage #3!

Where to next? Since Ragland was responsible for plant security, he seems like a good person to talk to. I try him next. Ragland starts by repeating much of what we already knew about Courtney’s suspicions as well as his appointment with Egan. He says that he investigated Richard Camp, but did not find him to be a security risk. And all of that is great except I cannot help but notice: Ragland is smoking throughout the entire interview! Holmes eventually asks him and he reveals that he smokes Burns & Hills cigarettes. Eureka!

I’m not so distracted by the cigarettes to catch that Ragland claims to not be miffed that he was passed over for promotion given that he is a technical guy and doesn’t like to do administrative work. He also tells us that Marlow had to be appointed President by contract; Courtney had negotiated that with him back when he was hired. That gives Marlow a motive, too.

But none of that matters: Ragland did it. I don’t know why yet, but he was the one waiting in the alley that night. He shot Courtney with a military-grade weapon that he was able to get his hands on and made it look like a robbery. But why? He already knows about Project #10. He’s responsible for security! He must be working for someone else. But who? We’ll have to wait for that next week.

Thus far, this case seems more fun than the previous one. There is a lot to dig into and I hope that I just don’t get stuck on a spelling mistake like last time.

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No-Deal Brexit Seen Breaking Up Ireland’s Power Market

(Bloomberg) -- The island of Ireland faces a “rapid” breakup of its Single Electricity Market should the U.K. leave the European Union without a deal, according to a list of warnings published by the British government.The single market covering Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland would probably keep working the day after a no-deal exit, yet a “rapid SEM split could occur months or years” afterward, the government said. The document was headlined “reasonable worst case planning assumptions” and dated Aug. 2.A no-deal Brexit would potentially leave the market without any legal basis. Northern Ireland is part of the U.K., while the republic plans to stay in the EU. The split would not necessarily spur electricity supply outages, but “there will likely be significant electricity price increases” and wider economic and political impacts, the government said.“If we drop out of the internal energy market we move from an almost frictionless system to one with friction and prices will go up, but not by much,” said Simon Ludlam, a partner at consultants Etchea Energy Partners. “It’s a bit like having the latest BMW and then getting one that’s a few years older, it’ll be less efficient.”There are currently three electricity interconnections linking the Northern Ireland grid and the Republic of Ireland in the internal energy market and one subsea connection between County Dublin and North Wales.A 500-megawatt underwater link between the south of the country and Wales is in planning stages with construction expected to start at some point next year. A cable between the Republic of Ireland and France is also in development but at a much earlier stage.“A split would introduce unnecessary inefficiencies on the exchange of electricity between two markets that are well integrated physically,” said Andreas Gandolfo, a power analyst for BloombergNEF in London.(Updates with consultant comment in the fourth paragraph.)To contact the reporters on this story: Mathew Carr in London at [email protected];Jeremy Hodges in London at [email protected] contact the editors responsible for this story: Reed Landberg at [email protected], Rob Verdonck, Lars PaulssonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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Ivanka Trump was at the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting, according to testimony, Defence Online

Rick Gates, the former deputy chairman of President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign, testified to prosecutors that Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and previous communications Hope Hicks attended a June 9, 2016 assembly at Trump Tower involving leading marketing campaign officials and Russian lobbyists.

Prior media studies have claimed that one particular of the lobbyists, Natalia Veselnitskaya, ran into Ivanka in an elevator just after the meeting.

But Mueller’s report incorporates the initial documented allegation that Hicks and Eric Trump also attended.

According to the report, Gates testified that Ivanka and her partner, Jared Kushner, joined the conference later.

Gates also testified that Manafort warned the team that the conference “likely would not produce very important information and facts and they should be mindful.”

Stop by BusinessInsider.com for additional tales.

According to the specific counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted report in the Russia investigation, Rick Gates testified that the president’s eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, attended a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower involving senior Trump campaign officials and Russian lobbyists offering filth on the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Gates served as President Donald Trump’s deputy campaign chairman through the 2016 election. He was also the right-hand person to previous Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who has been convicted in the investigation and was a single of the officers who attended the assembly.

Gates pleaded responsible to two counts of conspiracy and bogus statements and started cooperating with prosecutors past year.

According to Mueller’s report, Gates testified to prosecutors that he recalled the meeting was attended by Manafort, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, former communications director Hope Hicks – as very well as Ivanka Trump and her partner Jared Kushner, who according to Gates, joined afterwards in the assembly.

Gates additional testified that Manafort warned the team that the meeting “likely would not produce important data and they should really be very careful,” the report explained.

Hicks, in the meantime, denies know-how of the assembly prior to it was documented by The New York Occasions in 2017. And the report stated Kushner did not recall if the June 9 meeting came up at all before that 7 days.

The Trump Tower assembly has been at the middle of quite a few threads in the Russia investigation stemming from concerns about no matter if the Trump marketing campaign knowingly coordinated with the Russian govt through the election.

In an initial e-mail to Trump Jr. pitching the conference, the British new music publicist Rob Goldstone mentioned the offer of grime on the Clinton campaign was “part of Russia and its government’s support” for Trump’s candidacy. At the time, Trump was the presumptive Republican nominee.

In reaction, Trump Jr. stated he “loved it.”

Eventually, many individuals concerned in the assembly reported very little arrived of it and it was in point aspect of Veselnitskaya’s protracted lobbying campaign to get the 2012 Magnitsky Act, which blacklists Russians suspected of human-rights abuses, overturned.

Mueller’s report extra that when Veselnitskaya broached the subject of the Magnitsky Act through the conference, Trump Jr. replied that “they could revisit the situation if and when they were in government.”

The president was roped into the controversy following The Washington Publish reported that he “dictated” an in the beginning misleading assertion Trump Jr. set out in reaction to studies of the conference, expressing that it experienced very little to do with campaign business.

Trump’s crew maintains that he had nothing at all to do with drafting the reaction.

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Catholic Prophecy - Part 10

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U 10. Fr. Souffrand (19th century). "During the reign of the Great King, the noblest virtues will be practised throughout the world, and the land will yield abundant crops." 1f 11. Rudolph Gekner (17th century). "A Great Prince of the North with a most powerful army will traverse all Europe, uproot all the republics, and defeat all the rebels. His sword moved by divine power will most valiantly defend the Church of Jesus Christ."

Comment: These are but a few excerpts given to you as an introduction. Many more need to be read and carefully collated before the general outline of events can take form and before many seemingly indifferent phrases can assume a deeper significance. I did that job many years ago; so, I can, even now, add a few useful comments to the above passages.

St. Columba's prophecy has already come to pass: We have had two world wars so far; unjust laws have been enacted in every country; the Church lost her property in 1870; the development of the printing press has caused people to read and write a great deal, something which was impossible for anyone but a saint to visualize in the 6th century; charity and humility are now scoffed at, and people believe in the false human messianism which arose during the Renaissance in intellectual quarters, and which has spread among the common people from the 18th Century onwards. But more of this later; we shall soon see what this false human messianism involves in practical terms. We shall see, also, how and why it must be regarded as the cause of the coming disaster. Thus, this little phrase jotted down as if in passing by St. Columba will assume a deeper significance.

Elizabeth Canori-Mora, too, alludes to the "false maxims of modern ideas." Many other private prophecies do so and some in great detail; we shall see some of them.

Berthe Petit announces the great disaster that will cause the almost total collapse of modern civilization. Br. Louis Rocco foretells the Great King who is to rule over Europe and extend his moral influence throughout the whole world during the period of peace which will follow the great disaster.

St. Methodius was one of the earliest prophets of the Christian era to foresee the victory of Communism. He did not name Communism, but correlations with other prophecies will make this clear. Many other prophecies say that the victory of

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Communism will seem so certain that they, the Communists, will throw up their caps and shout about their triumph. At that very moment a cosmic phenomenon will take place, and help the designs of the future King's small army (it is only later that his army will grow to be very large). This most Christian prince will reduce the Communists to a rabble.

Pius IX alludes to the same episode, although in different terms: he sees the cosmic phenomenon that will follow the triumph of the Communist revolution.

Melanie Calvat also foretells the rise of the Great King, the wonderful period of peace, and the religious revival which is to follow. So does St. Cataldus in the 5th century and, again, Fr. Souffrand in the 19th century.

Rudolph Gekner confirms all the above predictions and adds that this King will "uproot all republics." Countless prophecies develop this point, saying that this King will herald a new social and political order in which authority will be hierarchical and descending, instead of popular and ascending. This is an aspect of political philosophy to which we shall have occasion to return.

j| 12. St. Malachy (12th century). "Ireland will suffer English oppression for a week of centuries, but will preserve her fidelity to God and His Church. At the end of that time she will be delivered, and the English in turn must suffer severe chastisement. Ireland, however, will be instrumental in bringing back the English to the unity of Faith."

Comment: The authenticity of older prophecies is sometimes open to question. The above has been challenged. On the other hand, many reliable authors regard it as genuine, and it is indeed a striking prophecy in many respects: In the 12th century, England had just begun the conquest of Ireland, but she was still Catholic. The persecutions did not start until the 16th or 17th century. Despite these ferocious persecutions, Ireland preserved her Faith. The liberation has come in stages: World War I, independence within the British Empire; World War II, complete independence. Thus, Ireland was under British rule for seven centuries. It is likely that the severe chastisements which England will soon suffer, according to other prochecies, will be the prelude to her return to the Catholic Faith.

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j[ 13. St. Thomas a'Becket (12th century). "A knight shall come from the West. He shall capture Milan, Lombardy, and the three Crowns. He shall then sail to Cyrprus and Famagoste and land at Jaffa, and reach Christ's grave where he will fight. Wars and wonders shall befall till the people believe in Christ toward the end of the world."

Comment: As it stands this prophecy is abstruse. However, it confirms what is known from more specific prophecies : The Knight is the great Christian King who will be chosen by God to destroy Communism and to whom the U.S.A. will lend its material power. He will fight first in France and in Germany, then in Italy, and he will liberate the Vatican ("Three Crowns" equals the Tiara). He will then sail to Palestine to restore Christianity there. Many prophecies confirm this, however incredible it may now sound.

jj 14. St. Hildegard (12th century). 'The time is coming when princes and peoples will reject the authority of the Pope. Some countries will prefer their own Church rulers to the Pope. The German Empire will be divided. Church property will be secularized. Priests will be persecuted. Toward the end of the world mankind will be purified through sufferings. This will be true especially of the clergy who will be robbed of all property."

Comment: This prophecy is already partly fulfilled: many countries became protestant in the 16th century, and the German Empire was divided as a result.

fl 15. St. Hildegard (Continuation). "A powerful wind will rise in the north carrying heavy fog and the densest of dust by divine command, and it will fill their throats and eyes so that they will cease their savagery and be stricken with a great fear. Before the comet comes, many nations, the good excepted, will be scourged by want and famine. The great nation in the ocean that is inhabitated by people of different tribes and descent will be devastated by an [sic] earthquake, storm, and tidal wave. It will be divided and, in great part, submerged. That nation will also have many misfortunes at sea and lose its colonies. By its tremendous pressure the comet will force much out of the ocean and flood many countries, causing

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much want and many plagues. All coastal cities will live in fear, and many of them will be destroyed by tidal waves, and most living creatures will be killed, and even those who escape will die from horrible diseases. For in none of those cities does a person live according to the laws of God.

"Peace will return to the world when the white flower again takes possession of the throne of France. During this period of peace, people will be forbidden to carry weapons, and iron will be used only for making agricultural implements and tools. Also during this period, the land will be very productive, and many Jews, heathens, and heretics will join the Church."

Comment: Many more prophecies mention wind of such velocity and fog and dust of such thickness that men will be forced to stop killing each other. This natural disaster will cause much loss of life and great destruction. After the failure of harvests, many people will starve to death, and their unburied bodies will cause terrible epidemics. The nation of "many tribes" in the ocean does not seem to be America. In fact, another prophecy names England, a former great colonial power, which was also made up of many different tribes in the beginning. The "White Flower' 1 is the Lily, the symbol of French Monarchy. The Great King will rule over the whole of Western Europe. His will be the new Roman Empire at the end of which, according to many Fathers of the Church, will come the last persecutions of Antichrist. Although St. Hildegard was a German Saint, she mentions France in particular. Why? Because France, for better or for worse has always had a great influence on world affairs. France poisoned the whole world with the deadly doctrines of her 18th-century philosophers, Rousseau and Voltaire in particular. The French Revolution marked the triumph of these philosophers' ideas, which took root first in America, then throughout Europe in the wake of Napoleon's victorious armies. From Europe, they spread throughout the world in the ensuing colonial period. The social and political institutions of the whole world — including Communism — are the logical development of those ideas. It is fitting, therefore, that the Counter-Revolution should start in France too. And, indeed, it is in France that the Great King, according to all prophecies, will begin his work.

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|f 16. Monk Adso (10th century). '"Some of our Teachers say that a King of the Franks will possess the entire Roman Empire. He will be the greatest and the last of all Monarchs. After having wisely governed his kingdom, he will go in the end to Jerusalem and will lay down his sceptre and his crown upon the Mount of Olives. Immediately afterwards, Antichrist will come."

Comment: The Great King will be of Frankish descent, although his actual nationality is uncertain. Inter-marriage between the various royal families of Europe makes it possible for virtually every prince to claim Frankish ancestry.

It seems that he will travel twice to Jerusalem, once at the beginning of his reign to reassert the right of the Christians, and again at the end to fight Israel, which by then, will have grown powerful under the rising Antichrist. The mention of his laying down his sceptre and crown, coupled with that of Antichrist, seems to indicate that he will be defeated and killed by the Anti-Christians. This interpretation is confirmed by other prophecies. Thus will end the period of complete peace and prosperity which is to follow the coming disaster. And after this the End of the World, which is to mark the triumph of righteousness, and the reward of the elect will be quite close.

|f 17. St. Edward (11th century). "The extreme corruption and wickedness of the English nation has provoked the just anger of God. When malice has reached the fullness of its measure, God will, in His wrath, send to the English people evil spirits who will punish and afflict them with severity by separating the green tree from its parent stem the length of three furlongs. But at last this same tree, through the compassionate mercy of God and without any national assistance, shall return to its original root, reflourish, and bear abundant fruit. "

Comment: Here again we see that the Anglican schism was predicted centuries before its actual occurrence. But St. Edward, the King of the Anglo-Saxons, was off the mark concerning the duration of the schism — unless a furlong is not meant to be a century, or unless this prophecy was tampered with at some time in the past. This is not rare with older

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prophecies; we are on much firmer ground with the many 19th-century prophecies, which we also possess. It is to be noted, too, that there was no English nation as such in the 11th Century, but only a kingdom of the Angles and Saxons. This discrepancy, however, may be due to a mis-transcription.

|f 18. St. Malachy ( 12th century). (Following is a list of the last Popes according to a prophecy attributed to St. Malachy. Each Pope is designated by a short motto. Rejected as spurious by some Catholic commentators (including Dr. Rumble of Sydney), this prophecy has been accepted by many other scholars as genuine. In any case, it has given fitting descriptions of every Pope since the 16th century, when it was discovered. The following are the last twelve mottoes: Crux de Cruce ("Cross from a Cross"). Pius IX, the Pope who had to bear the Cross of the Italian Revolution backed up by the House of Savoy, the Coat of Arms of which features a Cross.

Lumen in Coelo ("Light in the Heaven"). Leo XII I, the Pope coming from the Pecci family whose coat of arms featured a comet. He was also a brilliant writer ('light") for the Church (heaven).

Ignis Ardens ("Burning Fire"). St. Pius X. World War I ("burning fire") broke out on the I 1th Anniversary of his election. He was also "on fire" with zeal and was canonized 40 years after his death.

Religio Depopulata ("Christendom depopulated"). Benedict XV, the Pope of World War I.

Fides Intrepida ("Fearless Faith"). Pius XI, the Pope of the Propagation of the Faith.

Pastor Angelicas ("Angelic Shepherd"). Pius XII, a Pope of unquestioned holiness.

Pastor el Nauta ("Shepherd and Sailor"). John XXIII, mostly concerned with pastoral problems, this Pope came from Venice, the Sailors' city. He also set the Church on a "new'' course with his aggiornamento.

Flos Florwn ("Flow 7 er of Flowers"). Paul VI. Uncertain significance: the flower of flowers is the lily which the Pope's coat of arms is said to feature, but it may also mean martyrdom.

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The Warm War: Russiamania At The Boiling Point

Is it war yet?

Yes, in too many respects.

It’s a relentless economic, diplomatic, and ideological war, spiced with (so far) just a dash of military war, and the strong scent of more to come.

I mean war with Russia, of course, although Russia is the point target for a constellation of emerging adversaries the US is desperate to entame before any one or combination of them becomes too strong to defeat. These include countries like Iran and China, which are developing forces capable of resisting American military aggression against their own territory and on a regional level, and have shown quite too much uppitiness about staying in their previously-assigned geopolitical cages.

But Russia is the only country that has put its military forces in the way of a U.S. program of regime change—indirectly in Ukraine, where Russia would not get out of the way, and directly in Syria, where Russia actively got in the way. So Russia is the focus of attack, the prime target for an exemplary comeuppance.

Is it, then, a new Cold War, even more dangerous than the old one, as Stephen F. Cohen says?

That terminology was apt even a few months ago, but the speed, ferocity, and coordination of the West/NATO’s reaction to the alleged nerve-agent poisoning of the Skripals, as well as the formation of a War Cabinet in Washington, indicates to me that we’ve moved to another level of aggression.

It’s beyond Cold. Call it the Warm War. And the temperature’s rising.

The Nerve of Them

There are two underlying presumptions that, combined, make present situation more dangerous than a Cold War.

One is the presumption of guilt—or, more precisely, the presumption that the presumption of Russian guilt can always be made, and made to stick in the Western mind.

The confected furor over the alleged nerve-agent poisoning of the Skripals demonstrates this dramatically.

Theresa May's immediate conclusion that the Russian government bears certain and sole responsibility for the nerve-agent poisoning of the Skripals is logically, scientifically, and forensically impossible.

False certainty is the ultimate fake news. It is just not true that, as she says: “There is no alternative conclusion other than the Russian state is culpable.” This falsity of this statement has been demonstrated by a slew of sources—including the developers of the alleged "Novichok" agent themselves, a thorough analysis by a former UN inspector in Iraq who worked on the destruction of Russian chemical weapons, establishment Western scientific outlets like New Scientist (“Other countries could have made ‘Russian’ nerve agent”), and the British government’s own mealy-mouthed, effective-but-unacknowledged disavowal of that conclusion. In its own words, The British government found: “a nerve agent or related compound,” “of a type developed by Russia.” So, it’s absolutely, positively, certainly, without a doubt, Russian-government-produced “Novichok”....or something else.

Teresa May is lying, everyone who seconds her assertion of false certainty is lying, they all know they are lying, and the Russians know that they know they are lying. It’s a knowledgeable family.

It boggles the—or at least, my—mind how, in the face of all this, anyone could take seriously her ultimatum, ignoring the procedures of the Chemical Weapons Convention, gave Russia 24 hours to "explain"—i.e., confess and beg forgiveness for—this alleged crime.

Indeed, it’s noteworthy that France initially, and rather sharply, refused to assume Russian guilt, with a government spokesman saying, “We don’t do fantasy politics. Once the elements are proven, then the time will come for decisions to be made.” But the whip was cracked—and surely not by the weak hand of Whitehall—demanding EU/NATO unity in the condemnation of Russia. So, in an extraordinary show of discipline that could only be ordered and orchestrated by the imperial center, France joined the United States and 20 other countries in the largest mass expulsion of Russian diplomats ever.

Western governments and their compliant media have mandated that Russian government guilt for the “first offensive use of a nerve agent” in Europe since World War II is to be taken as flat fact. Anyone—like Jeremy Corbyn or Craig Murray—who dares to interrupt the "Sentence first! Verdict afterwards!" chorus to ask for, uh, evidence, is treated to a storm of obloquy.

At this point, Western accusers don't seem to care how blatantly unfounded, if not ludicrous, an accusation is. The presumption of Russian guilt, along with the shaming of anyone who questions it, has become an unquestionable standard of Western/American political and media discourse.

Old Cold War McCarthyism has become new Warm War fantasy politics.

Helled in Contempt

This declaration of diplomatic war over the Skripal incident is the culmination of an ongoing drumbeat of ideological warfare, demonizing Russia and Putin personally in the most predictable and inflammatory terms.

For the past couple of years, we’ve been told by Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Marco Rubio, and Boris Johnson that Putin is the new Hitler. That’s a particularly galling analogy for the Russians. Soviet Russia, after all, was Hitler’s main enemy, that defeated the Nazi army at the cost of 20+ million of its people—while the British Royal Family was not un-smitten with the charms of Hitlerian fascism, and British footballers had this poignant moment in 1938 Berlin:

“War” is what they seem to want it to be. For the past 18 to 24 months, we’ve also been inundated with Morgan Freeman and Rob Reiner’s ominous “We have been attacked. We are at war,” video, as well as the bipartisan (Hillary Clinton, John McCain) insistence that alleged Russian election meddling should be considered an “act of war” equivalent to Pearl Harbor. Indeed, Trump’s new National Security advisor, the warmongering lunatic John Bolton, calls it, explicitly “a casus belli, a true act of war.”

Even the military is getting in on the act. The nerve-agent accusation has been followed up by General John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, accusing Russia of arming the Taliban! It’s noteworthy that this senior American military general casually refers to Russia as “the enemy”: "We've had stories written by the Taliban that have appeared in the media about financial support provided by the enemy."

Which is strange, because, since the Taliban emerged from the American-jihadi war against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, and the Taliban and Russia have “enduring enmity” towards each other, as Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network puts it. Furthermore, the sixteen-year-long American war against the Taliban has depended on Russia allowing the U.S. to move supplies through its territory, and being “the principal source of fuel for the alliance’s needs in Afghanistan.”

So the general has to admit that this alleged Russian “destabilising activity” is a new thing: "This activity really picked up in the last 18 to 24 months… When you look at the timing it roughly correlates to when things started to heat up in Syria. So it's interesting to note the timing of the whole thing."

Yes, it is.

The economic war against Russian is being waged through a series of sanctions that seem impossible to reverse, because their expressed goal is to extract confession, repentance, and restitution for crimes ascribed to Russia that Russia has not committed, or has not been proven to have committed, or are entirely fictional and have not been committed by anyone at all. We will only stop taking your bank accounts and consulates and let you play games with us if you confess and repent every crime we accuse you of. No questions permitted.

This is not a serious framework for respectful international relations between two sovereign nations. It’s downright childish. It paints everyone, including the party trying to impose it, into an impossible corner. Is Russia ever going to abandon Crimea, confess that it shot down the Malaysian jet, tricked us into electing Donald Trump, murdered the Skripals, is secretly arming the Taliban, et. al.? Is the U.S. ever going to say: “Never mind”? What’s the next step? It’s the predicament of the bully.

This is not, either, an approach that really seeks to address any of the “crimes” charged. As Victoria Nuland (a Clintonite John Bolton) put it on NPR, it’s about, “sending a message” to Russia. Well, as Russia's ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov said, with this latest mass expulsion of diplomats, the United States is, “Destroying what little remained of US-Russian ties.” He got the message.

All of this looks like a coordinated campaign that began in response to Russia’s interruption of American regime-change projects in Ukraine and especially Syria, that was harmonized—over the last 18 to 24 months—with various elite and popular motifs of discontent over the 2016 election, and that has reached a crescendo in the last few weeks with ubiquitous and unconstrained “enemization”1 of Russia. It’s hard to describe it as anything other than war propaganda—manufacturing the citizenry’s consent for a military confrontation.

Destroying the possibility of normal, non-conflictual, state-to-state relations and constituting Russia as “the enemy” is exactly what this campaign is about. That is its “message” and its effect—for the American people as much as for the Russia government. The heightened danger, I think, is that Russia, which has for a long time been reluctant to accept that America wasn’t interested in “partnership”, has now heard and understood this message, while the American people have only heard but do not understand it.

It’s hard to see where this can go that doesn’t involve military conflict. This is especially the case with the appointments of Mike Pompeo, Gina Haspel, and John Bolton—a veritable murderers’ row that many see as the core of a Trump War Cabinet. Bolton, who does not need Senate confirmation, is a particularly dangerous fanatic, who tried to get the Israelis to attack Iran before even they wanted to, and has promised regime change in Iran by 2019. As mentioned, he considers that Russia has already given him a “casus belli.” Even the staid New York Times warns that, with these appointments, “the odds of taking military action will rise dramatically.”

The second presumption in the American mindset today makes military confrontation more likely than it was during the Cold War: Not only is there a presumption of guilt, there is a presumption of weakness. The presumption of guilt is something the American imperial managers are confident they can induce and maintain in the Western world; the presumption of weakness is one they—or, I fear, too many of them—have all-too blithely internalized.

This is an aspect of the American self-image among policymakers whose careers matured in a post-Soviet world. During the Cold War, Americans held themselves in check by the assumption, that, militarily, the Soviet Union was a peer adversary, a country that could and would defend certain territories and interests against direct American military aggression—“spheres of interest” that should not be attacked. The fundamental antagonism was managed with grudging mutual respect.

There was, after all, a shared recent history of alliance against fascism. And there was an awareness that the Soviet Union, in however distorted a way, both represented the possibility of a post-capitalist future and supported post-colonial national liberation movements, which gave it considerable stature in the world.

American leadership might have hated the Soviet Union, but it was not contemptuous of it. No American leader would have called the Soviet Union, as John McCain called Russia, just “a gas station masquerading as a country.” And no senior American or British leader would have told the Soviet Union what British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson told Russia last week: to “go away and shut up.”

This is a discourse that assumes its own righteousness, authority, and superior power, even as it betrays its own weakness. It’s the discourse of a frustrated child. Or bully. Russia isn’t shutting up and going away, and the British are not—and know they’re not—going to make it. But they may think the Big Daddy backing them up can and will. And daddy may think so himself.

Like all bullies, the people enmeshed in this arrogant discourse don’t seem to understand that it is not frightening Russia. It’s only insulting the country, and leading it to conclude that there is indeed nothing remaining of productive, non-conflictual, US-Russian “partnership” ties. The post-Skripal worldwide diplomatic expulsions, which seem deliberately and desperately excessive, may have finally convinced Russia that there is no longer any use trying. Those who should be frightened of this are the American people.

The enemy of my enemy is me.

The United States is only succeeding in turning itself into an enemy for Russians. Americans would do well to understand how thoroughly their hypocritical and contemptuous stance has alienated the Russian people and strengthened Vladimir Putin’s leadership—as many of Putin’s critics warned them it would. The fantasy of stoking a “liberal” movement in Russia that will install some nouveau-Yeltsin-ish figure is dissipated in the cold light of a 77% election day. Putin is widely and firmly supported in Russia because he represents the resistance to any such scheme.

Americans who want to understand that dynamic, and what America itself has wrought in Russia, should heed the passion, anger, and disappointment in this statement about Putin’s election from a self-described “liberal” (using the word, I think, in the intellectual tradition, not the American political, sense), Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT TV (translator's errors corrected):

Essentially, the West should be horrified not because 76% of Russians voted for Putin, but because this elections has demonstrated that 95% of Russia’s population supports conservative-patriotic, communist and nationalist ideas. That means that liberal ideas are barely surviving among measly 5% of population.

And that’s your fault, my Western friends. It was you who pushed us into “Russians never surrender” mode…

[W]ith all your injustice and cruelty, inquisitorial hypocrisy and lies, you forced us to stop respecting you. You and your so called “values.”

We don’t want to live like you live, anymore. For fifty years, secretly and openly, we wanted to live like you, but not any longer.

We have no more respect for you, and for those amongst us that you support, and for all those people who support you. …

For that you only have yourself to blame. …

In meantime, you’ve pushed us to rally around your enemy. Immediately after you declared him an enemy, we united around him….

It was you who imposed an opposition between patriotism and liberalism. Although, they shouldn’t be mutually exclusive notions. This false dilemma, created by you, made us chose patriotism.

Even though, many of us are really liberals, myself included.

Get cleaned up, now. You don’t have much time left.

In fact, the whole “uprising”/color revolution strategy throughout the world is over. It’s been fatally discredited by its own purported successes. Everybody in the Middle East has seen how that worked out for Iraq, Libya, and Syria, and the Russians have seen how it worked out for Ukraine and for Russia itself. In neither Russia nor Iran (nor anywhere else of importance) are the Americans, with their sanctions and their NGOs and their cookies, going to stoke a popular uprising that turns a country into a fractured client of the Washington Consensus. More fantasy politics.

The old new world Washington wants won’t be born without a military midwife. The U.S. wants a compliant Russia (and “international community”) back, and it thinks it can force it into being.

Fear Knot

Consider this quote from The Saker, a defense analyst who was born in Switzerland to a Russian military family, “studied Russian and Soviet military affairs all [his] life,” and lived for 20 years in the United States. He’s been one of the sharpest analysts of Russia and Syria over the last few years. This was his take a year ago, after Trump’s cruise missile attack on Syria’s Al Shayrat airfield—another instant punishment for an absolutely, positively, proven-in-a day, chemical crime:

For one thing, there is no US policy on anything.

The Russians expressed their total disgust and outrage at this attack and openly began saying that the Americans were “недоговороспособны”. What that word means is literally “not-agreement-capable” or unable to make and then abide by an agreement. While polite, this expression is also extremely strong as it implies not so much a deliberate deception as the lack of the very ability to make a deal and abide by it. … But to say that a nuclear world superpower is “not-agreement-capable” is a terrible and extreme diagnostic.

This means that the Russians have basically given up on the notion of having an adult, sober and mentally sane partner to have a dialog with...

In all my years of training and work as a military analyst I have always had to assume that everybody involved was what we called a “rational actor”. The Soviets sure where. As were the Americans.…

Not only do I find the Trump administration “not agreement-capable”, I find it completely detached from reality. Delusional in other words. …

Alas, just like Obama before him, Trump seems to think that he can win a game of nuclear chicken against Russia. But he can’t. Let me be clear here: if pushed into a corner the Russian will fight, even if that means nuclear war.

There is a reason for this American delusion. The present generation of American leadership was spoiled and addled by the blissful post-Soviet decades of American impunity.

The problem is not exactly that the U.S. wants full-on war with Russia, it’s that America does not fear it.2

Why should it? It hasn’t had to for twenty years during which the US assumed it could bully Russia to stay out of its imperial way anywhere it wanted to intervene.

After the Soviet Union broke up (and only because the Soviet Union disappeared) the United States was free to use its military power with impunity. For some time, the U.S. had its drunken stooge, Yeltsin, running Russia and keeping it out of America’s military way. There was nary a peep when Bill Clinton effectively conferred on NATO (meaning the U.S. itself) the authority to decide what military interventions were necessary and legitimate. For about twenty years—from the Yugoslavia through the Libya intervention—no nation had the military power or politico-diplomatic will to resist this.

But that situation has changed. Even the Pentagon recognizes that the American Empire is in a “post-primacy” phase—certainly “fraying,” and maybe even “collapsing.” The world has seen America’s social and economic strength dissipate, and its pretense of legitimacy disappear entirely. The world has seen American military overreach everywhere while winning nothing of stable value anywhere. Sixteen years, and the mighty U.S. Army cannot defeat the Taliban. Now, that’s Russia’s fault!

Meanwhile, a number of countries in key areas have gained the military confidence and political will to refuse the presumptions of American arrogance—China in the Pacific, Iran in the Middle East, and Russia in Europe and, surprisingly, the Middle East as well. In a familiar pattern, America’s resultant anxiety about waning power increases its compensatory aggression. And, as mentioned, since it was Russia that most effectively demonstrated that new military confidence, it’s Russia that has to be dealt with first.

The incessant wave of sanctions and expulsions is the bully in the schoolyard clenching his fist to scare the new kid away. OK, everyone’s got the message now. Unclench or punch?

Let’s be clear about who is the world’s bully. As is evident to any half-conscious person, Russia is not going to attack the United States or Europe. Russia doesn’t have scores of military bases, combat ships and aircraft up on America’s borders. It doesn’t have almost a thousand military bases around the world. Russia does not have the military forces to rampage around the world as America does, and it doesn’t want or need to. That’s not because of Russia’s or Vladimir Putin’s pacifism, but because Russia, as presently situated in the political economy of the world, has nothing to gain from it.

Nor does Russia need some huge troll-farm offensive to "destabilize" and sow division in Western Europe and the United States. Inequality, austerity, waves of immigrants from regime-change wars, and trigger-happy cops are doing a fine job of that. Russia isn’t responsible for American problems with Black Lives Matter or with the Taliban.

All of this is fantasy politics.

It's the United States, with its fraying empire, that has a problem requiring military aggression. What other tools does the U.S. have left to put the upstarts, Russia first, back in their places?

It must be hard for folks who have had their way with country after country for twenty years not to think they can push Russia out of the way with some really, really scary threats, or maybe one or two “bloody nose” punches. Some finite number of discrete little escalations. There’s already been some shoving—that cruise missile attack, Turkey’s downing of a Russian jet, American attacks on Russian personnel (ostensibly private mercenaries) in Syria—and, look, Ma, no big war. But sometimes you learn the hard way the truth of the reverse Mike Tyson rule: "Everyone has a game plan until they smack the other guy in the face."

Consider one concrete risk of escalation that every informed observer is, and every American should be, aware of.

The place where the United States and Russia are literally, geographically, closest to confrontation is Syria. As mentioned, the U.S. and its NATO ally, Turkey, have already attacked and killed Russians in Syria, and the U.S. and its NATO allies have a far larger military force than Russia in Syria and the surrounding area. On the other hand, Russia has made very effective use of its forces, including what Reuters calls “advanced cruise missiles” launched from planes, ships, and submarines that hit ISIS targets with high precision from 1000 kilometers.

Russia is also operating in accordance with international law, while the U.S. is not. Russia is fighting with Syria for the defeat of jihadi forces and the unification of the Syrian state. The United States is fighting with its jihadi clients for the overthrow of the Syrian government and the division of the country. Russia intervened in Syria after Obama announced that the U.S. would attack Syrian army troops, effectively declaring war. If neither side accepts defeat and goes home, it is quite possible there will be some direct confrontation over this. In fact, it’s hard to imagine that there won’t.

A couple of weeks ago Syria and Russia said the U.S. was planning a major offensive against the Syrian government, including bombing the government quarter in Damascus. Valery Gerasimov, head of Russia’s General Staff, warned: “In the event of a threat to the lives of our servicemen, Russia’s armed forces will take retaliatory measures against the missiles and launchers used.” In this context, “launchers” means American ships in the Mediterranean.

Also a couple of weeks ago, Russia announced a number of new, highly-advanced weapons systems. There’s discussion about whether some of the yet-to-be-deployed weapons announced may or may not be a bluff, but one that has already been deployed, called Dagger (Kinzhal, not the missiles mentioned above), is an air-launched hypersonic cruise missile that files at 5-7,000 miles per hour, with a range of 1200 miles. Analyst Andrei Martyanov claims that: “no modern or perspective air-defense system deployed today by any NATO fleet can intercept even a single missile with such characteristics. A salvo of 5-6 such missiles guarantees the destruction of any Carrier Battle Group or any other surface group, for that matter.” Air-launched. From anywhere.

The U.S. attack has not (yet) happened, for whatever reason (Sputnik reporter Suliman Mulhem, citing “a military monitor,” claims that’s because of the Russian warnings). Great. But given the current state of America’s anxiously aggressive “post-primacy” policy—including the Russiamania, the Zionist-driven need to destroy Syria and Iran, and the War Cabinet—how unlikely is that the U.S. will, in the near future, make some such attack on some such target that Russia considers crucial to defend?

And Syria is just one theater where, unless one side accepts defeat and goes home, military conflict with Russia is highly likely. Is Russia going to abandon the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass if they’re attacked by fascist Kiev forces backed by the U.S.? Is it going to sit back and watch passively if American and Israeli forces attack Iran? Which one is going to give up and accept a loss: John Bolton or Vladimir Putin?

Which brings us to the pointed question: What will the U.S. do if Russia sinks an American ship? How many steps before that goes full-scale, even nuclear? Or maybe American planners (and you, dear reader) are absolutely, positively sure that will never happen, because the U.S. has cool weapons, too, and a lot more of them, and the Russians will probably lose all their ships in the Mediterranean immediately, if not something worse, and they’ll put up with anything rather than go one more step. The Russians, like everybody, must know the Americans always win.

Happy with that, are we? Snug in our homeland rug? ‘Cause Russians won’t fight, but the Taliban will.

This is exactly what is meant by Americans not fearing war with Russia (or war in general for that matter). Nothing but contempt.

The Skripal opera, directed by the United States, with the whole of Europe and the entire Western media apparatus singing in harmony, makes it clear that the American producers have no speaking role for Russia in their staging of the world. And that contempt makes war much more likely. Here’s The Saker again, on how dangerous the isolation the U.S. and its European clients are so carelessly imposing on Russia and themselves is for everybody:

Right now they are expelling Russian diplomats en masse and they are feeling very strong and manly. …

The truth is that this is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg. In reality, crucial expert-level consultations, which are so vitally important between nuclear superpowers, have all but stopped a long time ago. We are down to top level telephone calls. That kind of stuff happens when two sides are about to go to war. For many months now Russia and NATO have made preparations for war in Europe. …Very rapidly the real action will be left to the USA and Russia. Thus any conflict will go nuclear very fast. And, for the first time in history, the USA will be hit very, very hard, not only in Europe, the Middle-East or Asia, but also on the continental US.

Mass diplomatic expulsions, economic warfare, lockstep propaganda, no interest whatsoever in respectfully addressing or hearing from the other side. What we’ve been seeing over the past few months is the “kind of stuff that happens when two sides are about to go to war.”

The less Americans fear war, the less they respect the possibility of it, the more likely they are to get it.

Ready or Not

The Saker makes a diptych of a point that gets to the heart of the matter. We’d do well to read and think on it carefully:

1. The Russians are afraid of war. The Americans are not. 2. The Russians are ready for war. The Americans are not.

Russia is afraid of war. More than twenty million Soviet citizens were killed in WWII, about half of them civilians. That was more than twenty times the number of Americans and British casualties combined. The entire country was devastated. Millions died in the 872-day siege of Leningrad alone, including Vladimir Putin’s brother. The city’s population was decimated by disease and starvation, with some reduced to cannibalism. Wikileaks calls it “one of the longest and most destructive sieges in history [and] possibly the costliest in casualties.” Another million-plus died in the nine-month siege of Stalingrad.

Every Russian knows this history. Millions of Russian families have suffered from it. Of course, there was mythification of the struggle and its heroes, but the Russians, viscerally, know war and know it can happen to them. They do not want to go through it again. They will do almost anything to avoid it. Russians are not flippant about war. They fear it. They respect it.

The Americans are not (afraid of war). Americans have never experienced anything remotely as devastating as this. About 620,000 Americans died in the Civil War, 150 years ago. (And we’re still entangled in that!) The American mainland has not been attacked by a significant military force since the War of 1812. Since then, the worst attacks on American territory are two one-off incidents (Pearl Harbor and 9/11), separated by seventy years, totaling about six-thousand casualties. These are the iconic moments of America Under Siege.

For the American populace, wars are “over there,” fought by a small group of Americans who go away and either come back or don’t. The death, destruction, and aroma of warfare—which the United States visits on people around the world incessantly—is unseen and unexperienced at home. Americans do not, cannot, believe, in any but the most abstract intellectual sense, that war can happen here, to them. For the general populace, talk of war is just more political background noise, Morgan Freeman competing for attention with Stormy Daniels and the Kardashians.

Americans are supremely insouciant about war: They threaten countries with it incessantly, the government routinely sells it with lies, and the political parties promote it opportunistically to defeat their opponents—and nobody cares. For Americans, war is part of a game. They do not fear it. They do not respect it.

The Russians are ready for war. The Nazi onslaught was defeated—in Soviet Russia, by Soviet Citizens and the Red Army—because the mass of people stood and fought together for a victory they understood was important. They could not have withstood horrific sieges and defeated the Nazis any other way. Russians understand, in other words, that war is a crisis of death and destruction visited on the whole of society, which can only be won by a massive and difficult effort grounded in social solidarity. If the Russians feel they have to fight, if they feel besieged, they know they will have to stand together, take the hits that come, and fight to the finish. They will not again permit war to be brought to their cities while their attacker stays snug. There will be a world of hurt. They will develop and use any weapon they can. And their toughest weapon is not a hypersonic missile; it’s that solidarity, implied by that 77%. (Did you read that Simonyan statement?) They may not be seeking it, but, insofar as anybody can be, they are ready to fight.

Americans are not (ready for war): Americans experience the horror of was as a series of discrete tragedies visited upon families of fallen soldiers, reported in human-interest vignettes at the end of the nightly news. Individual tragedies, not a social disaster.

It’s hard to imagine the social devastation of war in any case, but American culture wants no part of thinking about that concretely. The social imagination of war is deflected into fantastic scenarios of a super-hero universe or a zombie apocalypse. The alien death-ray may blow up the Empire State Building, but the hero and his family (now including his or her gender-ambivalent teenager, and, of course, the dog) will survive and triumph. Cartoon villains, cartoon heroes, and a cartoon society.

One reason for this, we have to recognize, is the victory of the Thatcherite/libertarian-capitalist “no such thing as society” ideology. Congratulations, Ayn Rand, there is no such thing as American society now. It’s every incipient entrepreneur for him or herself. This does not a comradely, fighting band of brothers and sisters make.

Furthermore, though America is constantly at war, nobody understands the purpose of it. That’s because the real purpose can never be explained, and must be hidden behind some facile abstraction—"democracy,” “our freedoms,” etc. This kind of discourse can get some of the people motivated for some of the time, but it loses its charm the minute someone gets smacked in the face.

Once they take a moment, everybody can see that there is nobody with an army threatening to attack and destroy the United States, and if they take a few moments, everybody can see how phony the “democracy and freedom” stuff is and remember how often they’ve been lied to before. There’s just too much information out there. (Which is why the Imperial High Command wants to control the internet.) Why the hell am I fighting? What in hell are we fighting for? These are questions everybody will ask after, and too many people are now asking before, they get smacked in the face.

This lack of social understanding and lack of political support translates into the impossibility of fighting a major, sustained war that requires taking heavy casualties—even “over there,” but certainly in the snug. American culture might be all gung-ho about Seal Team Six kicking ass, but the minute American homes start blowing up and American bodies start falling, Hoo-hah becomes Uh-oh, and it’s going to be Outta here.

Americans are ready for Hoo-hah and the Shark Tank and the Zombie Apocalypse. They are not ready for war.

You Get What You Play For

“Russiagate,” which started quite banally in the presidential campaign as a Democratic arrow to take down Trump, is now Russiamania—a battery of weapons wielded by various sectors of the state, aimed at an array of targets deemed even potentially resistant to imperial militarism. Trump himself—still, and for as long as he’s deemed unreliable—is targeted by a legal prosecution of infinite reach (whose likeliest threat is to take him down for something that has nothing to do with Russia). Russia itself is now targeted in full force by economic, diplomatic, ideological—and, tentatively, military—weapons of the state. Perhaps most importantly, American and European people, especially dissidents, are targeted by a unified media barrage that attacks any expression of radical critique, anything that “sows division”—from Black Lives Matter, to the Sanders campaign, to “But other countries could have made it”—as Russian treachery.

The stunning success of that last offensive is crucial to making a war more likely, and must be fought. To increase the risk of war with a nuclear power in order to score points against Donald Trump or Jill Stein—well, only those who neither respect, fear, nor are ready for war would do such a stupid and dangerous thing.

It’s impossible to predict with certainty whether, when, or with whom a major hot war will be started. The same chaotic disarray and impulsiveness of the Trump administration that increases the danger of war might also work to prevent it. John Bolton may be fired before he trims his moustache. But it’s a pressure-cooker, and the temperature has spiked drastically.

In a previous essay, I said that Venezuela was a likely first target for military attack, precisely because it would make for an easy victory that didn’t risk military confrontation with Russia. That’s still a good possibility. As we saw with Iraq Wars 1 (which helped to end the “Vietnam Syndrome”) and 2 (which somewhat resurrected it), the imperial high command needs to inure the American public with a virtually American-casualty-free victory and in order to lure them into taking on a war that’s going to hurt.

But the new War Cabinet may be pumped for the main event—an attack on Iran. Trump, Pompeo, and Bolton are all rabid proponents of regime-change in Iran. We can be certain that the Iran nuclear deal will be scrapped, and everyone will work hard to implement the secret agreement the Trump administration already has with Israel to “to deal with Iran’s nuclear drive, its missile programs and its other threatening activities”—or, as Trump himself expresses it: “cripple the [Iranian] regime and bring it to collapse.” (That agreement, by the way, was negotiated and signed by the previous, supposedly not-so-belligerent National Security Advisor, H. R. McMaster.)

Still, as I also said in the previous essay, an attack on Iran means the Americans must either make sure Russia doesn’t get in the way or make clear that they don’t care if it does. So, threatening moves—not excluding probing military moves—against Russia will increase, whether Russia is the preferred direct target or not.

The siege is on.

Americans who want to continue playing with this fire would do well to pay some respectful attention to the target whose face they want to smack. Listen to Vladimir Putin talking to Western journalists in Saint Petersburg in 2017 (Really, watch the twelve-minute video. There’s an adult in the room.):

We know year-by-year what's going to happen, and they know that we know. It's only you that they tell tales to, and you spread them to the citizens of your countries.

Your people in turn do not feel a sense of the impending danger--and this is what worries me.

How can you not understand that the word is being pulled in an irreversible direction. That's the problem.

Meanwhile they pretend that nothing's going on. I don't know how to get through to you anymore.

Russia did not boast or brag or threaten or Hoo-Hah about sending military forces to Syria. When it was deemed necessary—when the United States declared its intention to attack the Syrian Army—it just did it. And American 10-dimensional-chess players have been squirming around trying to deal with the implications of that ever since. They’re working hard on finding the right mix of threats, bluffs, sanctions, expulsions, “Shut up and go away!” insults, military forces on the border, and “bloody nose” attacks to force a capitulation. They should be listening to their target, who has not tired of asking for a “partnership,” who has clearly stated what his country would do in reaction to previous moves (e.g., the abrogation of the ABM Treaty and stationing of ABM bases in Eastern Europe), whose country and family have suffered from wartime devastation Americans cannot imagine, who therefore respects, fears, and is ready for war in ways Americans are not, and who is not playing their game:

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Notes:

1 Ironically, given current drivers of Russiamania, this is a reference to remarks by Janet Napolitano. “The Enemization of Everything or an American Story of Empathy & Healing?”

2 Though it’s ridiculous that it needs to be said: I’m not talking here about the phony fear engendered by the media presentation of the “strongman,” “brutal dictator” Vladimir Putin. This is part and parcel of comic-book politics—conjuring a super-villain, who, we all know, is destined to be defeated.

#Expulsions #Russia #Russiamania #skripal #nerve agent

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macrosound just now-- we told STUTTGART Human Research that you signed the forms to be used for life by our sadists-- /Lauren Fielding filled in voluntary forms in our names, I found out much later//-- now we have to back track that one, but we lie all the while so no problem, as ANNA our boss says: there are no such thing as lies in Human Research, only stuff to use..

This ISOBEL's latest work..daughter of ALLAN manager St barths Human Research, lives in Finchley with wife Bernadette and those children besides the others. He took masses of my sketches and stories gave them to his sons to get into top Universities in London, including my thesis from my BA UEL..rubbed out lots of the lines of some of my drawings and gave them to his other son to take to FINCHLEY HIGH SCHOOL London as his own work..

Abdul Upperthorpe Syrian and wife Neseria..- his other wife needed clothes,/ so he stole a 72 yr old's very traditional-dressers clothes?// that is what we at lab put into his brain -to tell all the Syrians of Sheffield- he sold my silk blouses /Manchester 3 s/h for £10 shop near bus station folks.. is where I get them from/ and my paintings and all the rest? new underpants.. etc We cue them to steal for us, so we have to support them afterwards for robbing and looting and sometimes destroying sketches.. One of their people put little fuzzy blotches onto bottoms etc on a life drawing ink sketch..

Stuttgart has a Human Research /they come here/ and Nurnberg.. Used to be in Auschwitz camp 5 and Belsen etc..

Eleanor, daughter of John Fielding Redbridge-- I am going to copy your nun stories from your childhood!! Odd what jews will do for money and attention!!

four Human Research illeg sons and daughters, , no training or any educational certification, went to Germany, full pay /£400 per week plus benefits, special insurances for all of them etc/, fares paid, first class hotel.. to watch me chatter with an 82 yr old nun, who cares about as much about British corruption as I do..in fact.As they have copied all my stories, from several degrees, and Sheffield Uni writers group and Ashram writers etc -- many, many, many of them about my childhood in this place, they wanted to see the place.?.. I don't think...

LONGLEY COLLEGE SHEFFIELD-- black youth //w Ind.// through Upperthorpe snicket--quote '' he has some of your drawings //ten or so// given him by the SYRIAN THIE...

grandson Joseph /named after my grandfather Josef Fekete Poszon/ got a FIRST at Cambridge University for his studies in PHILOSOPHY--/also co-grandmother with me Villoo De Souza/ Congratulations Josef, but infact, as expected -

We had truly believed in British democracy, honour etc. I more so than my parents, having been reared in C of E schools and mixed with the English totally.. I have been and still am, deeply shocked at the depth of collusion, corruption and more of the Ministries- and yes, it is those old boys.Some are lax to the point of corruption, some are plain evil beggars and some cover up for their colleagues, exactly as I heard time and again..but would not believe..NO, NOT THE BRITISH, I would say-- I wish my dad would return to this earth, I often had arguments with him about this- I would always end the argument by saying : so why bring us here- we were brought by the government agencies, after clearance of every sort. He was correct I was wrong..

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They have made a killing pact with the USA. Where ever she goes..The USA women mistresses of George the boss of New York Human research are coming over to St barths Human research to be taught how to run this, our way.

marsha williams has all degree work and some creative of Fekete now. The BBC here we present another exclusive story /of Renate Fekete's/ re- written by yet another one of the lab children or relatives as their own.. Adapted, no they are not clever enough, straight copies.

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and now the lab have had them all stolen, ALL Of them 35 yrs of daily work..over 2500 of them..

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quote m/s over --I want you to die, John Fielding, death means nothing to us, we have very good lives on your work- There is a reason, you are competition to our children and wives, they all used your work.I will put anything on to destroy your health and life. Keep hacking into her laptop folders..I am sure jews will suffer for it, but not yet.. -quote --so, Jews are to get total control of the island for what happened centuries ago in York, to them? The program was designed in USA for everyone to get their own back??

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Bajan Newscap 6/4/2017

Good Morning #realdreamchasers. Here is your daily news cap for Sunday 4th June 2017. Remember you can read full articles via Barbados Today (BT), or by purchasing a Saturday Sun Nation Newspaper (SS).

HIV INFECTIONS ON THE RISE AGAIN - After a decade of decline, the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Barbados and the Caribbean is on the rise again, according to a top regional health official. Quoting from the 2016 UNAIDS report, the United Nations Special Envoy on HIV to the Caribbean Dr Edward Greene, in a recent sobering revelation, reported that the region had seen a nine per cent increase in new infections, placing it second only to Eastern Europe and Central Asia. A large percentage of the increases occurred in Cuba and Jamaica, the UN official told an awards ceremony of the Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership at the Hilton Barbados Resort. He said the rates varied from a high of 1.8 per cent of persons living with HIV in Haiti, and 1.6 per cent in Jamaica, to under one per cent in Barbados and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States. Cuba, he said, had the highest coverage with 67 per cent, while Jamaica was at the lowest end with 32 per cent. Dr Greene said an estimated two out of every five people in the region do not know their HIV status, and less than 50 per cent of people living with the virus receive treatment. Dr Greene also pointed to a 40-60 per cent reduction in HIV/AIDS-related deaths, and an increase in the number of HIV patients receiving treatment from under ten per cent to almost 50 per cent. However he listed several other factors that could erode the gains made so far in the Caribbean. He told the audience that until an HIV vaccine is discovered there is need to sustain a life cycle approach to ending the AIDS epidemic, making reference to a UN programme targeting young people: Start Free, Stay Free and Remain AIDS Free. Another area that needed to be addressed, he stated, was sustainable funding for HIV/AIDS prevention programmes. The Caribbean is concerned that concessional funding to the region is being reduced, due to the middle income status of most countries. He added that by 2020, almost all Caribbean countries, with the exception of Haiti and Jamaica , as well as the South American country of Brazil, would transition from funding by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and subsequently from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. (BT)

200 HIV CHILDREN – There are over 200 orphans and “vulnerable” children in Barbados as a result of HIV and AIDS. However, between 2004 and 2013 only 12 children under the age of 14 were diagnosed with the disease. Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Anton Best told the SUNDAY SUN most infections in children occurred as a result of mother-to-child transmission but he said Barbados had been able to keep rates low because of the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission programme. In addition, over that ten-year period, no children with HIV have died. (SS)

PM IMPRESSED – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart toured the annual Barbados Manufacturers’ Exhibition (BMEX) yesterday at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. Stuart said he was very proud of the products of many local enterprises and based on what he saw at BMEX, there was a quiet revolution taking place in the manufacturing sector. (SS)

PM TO REVIEW 2% CURRENCY TAX – Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says there may be a review of the controversial two per cent commission on all foreign exchange transactions. Stuart was speaking so during a tour of several small enterprises participating in the annual Barbados Manufacturers’ Exhibition (BMEX) held at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. Stating that he was very proud of the products of many local enterprises, Stuart said based on what he saw at BMEX this year there was a quiet revolution taking place in the manufacturing sector in Barbados. Consequently, he was also confident that the sector could once again become robust and significantly contribute to Barbados’ earning of foreign exchange. (SS)

GOVT TO GET BAICO BUILDING - Sagicor may be getting British American’s policyholders, but Government is getting its assets. Reports indicate that Government is taking possession of the British American Insurance Company (BAICO) building at Collymore Rock, St Michael, which was constructed just before the company collapsed in 2009 and has never been occupied. This after Sagicor, which is in the process of taking over the life and annuity policies, indicated that it was not interested in the multimillion-dollar building, which is still unfinished. Government is supposed to issue a bond to Sagicor for the $26.6 million building and surrounding lands. (SS)

AIR CAPACITY ON THE RISE, SAYS CEO – There has been a reduction in flights from the United States but an overall increase in air capacity, signifying Barbados’ success in tourism, according to chief executive officer of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI), William Griffith. On Friday evening tourism officials celebrated a partnership with American Airlines at the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA), that resulted in a new direct flight from Miami using the Airbus A321S, a modern aircraft which features 16 first class seats, 165 main cabin seats and AC/USB power ports. The flight captain, Billy Lowe, originally hails from St George. Unfortunately, bad weather overseas prevented the aircraft from landing on schedule but it arrived late Friday night. Tourism officials went ahead with a planned ceremony and afterwards, Griffith told the SUNDAY SUN about the current state of airlift into the island. (SS)

PLASTIC BAG SNAG – The plastic bag deterrent fee appears to have hit a stumbling block as some smaller supermarkets waver about implementing the 15 cent per bag penalty. Others have refused to impose the fee, saying it might chase away their customers. The comments come as some of the larger supermarkets recently pushed back the date of their implementation as they wait for their branded reusable bags to arrive on the island. Massy Stores, Carlton and Emerald City Supermarkets, Popular Discounts and Jordan’s Supermarkets will implement their fee from August 1, three months after the deterrent fee was to have been rolled out on May 1. Until then they said they would not be charging for plastic bags. (SS)

BRA EMPLOYEE ACCUSED OF THEFT GRANTED BAIL - Barbados Revenue Authority (BRA) employee, 33-year-old Karla Cherese Morris, who has been charged with two counts of theft, was granted $2,000 bail today when she appeared before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court today. It is alleged that on May 15, Morris, of Mount Friendship, St Michael, with a view to gain for herself or another, dishonestly falsified a record in the Barbados Licensing Authority Administrative and Accounting Computerized System, made or required for the Barbados Revenue Authority Accounting purposes. The Administrative Assistant denied the charge after it was read by Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant in the No. 2 District ‘A’ Criminal Court this morning. The accused, who is being represented by Attorney-at-Law Arthur Holder, also said she was not guilty of stealing $500 belonging to the Crown. With no objections from police prosecutor, Sergeant Cameron Gibbons, the accused was released after her surety was accepted by the Magistrate. However, her freedom came with some conditions. She had to surrender all her travel documents to the court before she was allowed to go free. Morris must also report to the District ‘A’ Police Station every Tuesday and Friday before noon with valid identification. Her matter was then adjourned to August 30, when she will make her second appearance in the No.1 District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court. (BT)

THREE MURDER ACCUSED GRANTED BAIL – Three Christ Church men, jointly charged with murder, have been remaned to HMP Dodds for the next 28-days. Undre Emerson Hassani Thompson, 31, of Chancery Lane, Christ Church; Lamar Diego Akked Holder, 29, of Pegwell Boggs, Christ Church; and Shavar Theodore Ward, 28, of Hopewell Road, Christ Church, are accused of murdering Ajay Ricardo Smith sometime between May 23 and 24. They were not required to plead to the indictable charge when they appeared before Magistrate Kristie Cuffy-Sargeant this morning. The matter has been transferred to the Oistins Magistrates’ Court where the three accused men will make their second appearance on June 30. (BT)

ROBBED AND LEFT NAKED – A man of god was viciously attacked and humiliated on Friday night. However, Frederick Powlett said the incident has left him even stronger in his faith. Two thugs, one armed with a gun, robbed the church elder of everything he owned and forced him to remove all his clothes. Speaking to the SUNDAY SUN outside the Accident and Emergency Department of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital yesterday, Powlett recalled his harrowing tale. “I’m one of the senior members of the Rhema Apostolic Deliverance Ministries International in Britton’s Cross Road [in St Michael]. We had just finished a seminar and I was leaving and locking the gate when two youngsters, who looked to be in their 20s, walked up to me,” he said. (SS)

ST. JOHN MAN AMBUSHED BY FOUR SHOOTERS – A 41-year-old St John man is nursing gunshot wounds following a shooting incident at College Land on Saturday night. Police say Adrian Blenman, of the same address, had to be rushed to the state-run Queen Elizabeth Hospital for treatment after he was shot in the left side of his face and in his shoulder. The incident occurred around 6:21 p.m., as Blenman was reportedly liming on the block. Four men allegedly sprang out from a bushy area, in a surprise attack, and fired a number of shots at the victim before fleeing the scene in a motorcar. Investigations are continuing and lawmen are asking anyone with information that can assist them with this probe to contact the District ‘C’ Police Station at 416-8200; Police Emergency at telephone number “211”; Crime Stoppers at 1-800-TIPS (8477); or the nearest police station. (SS)

JAMAICAN THREE-PEAT - JEFF PANTON AND and Mike Fennell Jr are a step closer to securing a hat-trick of titles in Sol Rally Barbados. The two Jamaicans dominated most the ten stages yesterday to hold a lead going into today’s final day. Driving the Rubis/Sandals Barbados/KIG Ford Focus WRC06, Panton and Fennell were more than a minute ahead of their closest challengers, Rob Swann of England and Darren Garrod of Wales. (SS)

THE CITY COMES ALIVE - CROP OVER in The City was lit! The fifth annual concert hosted by the Royal Barbados Police Force Band, in association with the National Cultural Foundation was the right elixir to put the large audience in the right mood for Crop Over. Barbadians and tourists flocked to Independence Square on Thursday evening to hear, see, dance and enjoy some of the best songs of festivals past while getting a taste of some of the 2017 offerings. From the warm-up session by the increasingly popular Police Band to the final strains of Alison Hinds’ Togetherness, the free concert either whetted the appetites of the hungry Crop Over music lovers or satisfied their cravings. In some instances, it could have been both. There was not a dull or boring moment. You know how sometimes the MC can give a joke that falls flat or drag out the show with inane banter, none of that happened, and Jamarr De Star must be commended for keeping the show lively and moving in between performers. At the risk of sounding monotonous, Barbadian entertainers are among the best in the world and when you can have birthday girl Alison, Biggie Irie, Marvay, Mistuh Dale, Nikita, Shanta Prince, Blood, iWeb, Adrian Clarke, Aziza, Grynner, King Bubba, Mikey, Charisma, Statement, Marzville and Stabby on the same card, it was hard not be enthused. Add the defending Junior Monarchs – Summa (eight-12) and De MC (13-18) – to the mix and you had all the makings of a great show. What is noteworthy is that the members of the Police Band seemed to enjoy playing the music. They were always good! The “tired from work” audience that Biggie Irie urged to get up and dance during his performances of Pankatang, his new song Rehab and Need Ah Riddim, recharged themselves enough to head to the area in front of the stage armed with cell phones to record and take photos of the performances that included Turn On De Speaker, Roll It, Drop It, Nutten Sweetah, Know Yuh Face, Loose, All Inclusive, Tequila, Drinking Rum, Bun it Up, Bang Bim, Stush, How Ee Fetting, Wanna Be, One People, One Nation and Survive De Weekend. Among those enjoying themselves was Trinidadian songwriter Jason Shaft Bishop who seemed to be having a blast. He recorded Nikita’s performance of Same Way which she said caused a “small, small scandal”. Alison ended the show on a high note with her performances of Bazodee, Single, Faluma and Togetherness. The entertainers really did “up de ting! (SS)

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