Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Download and Watch Free Episodes of Heroes

Heroes is a great show which can be downloaded across a batch of land sites on the internet. Many of them being in the up-to-the-minute large thing, cod casts, so it can be played on all apple products. The show developed so many people in the first twelvemonth it was astonishing and probably have not been seen before in the amusement industry. The 2nd season was great as well and the 3rd season looks brilliant. I'm sure the show is going from strength to strength and will acquire better.

Many of the stars of the show have got got gone on to larger and better things such as as large movies and have attracted great reappraisals for there functions and performances. I have got heard of the show being especially large in New Seeland with the local population there absolutely loving it. The show is also showed at premier modern times across Commonwealth Of Australia and other countries of Asia and Pacific. It even predominates the premier clip telecasting musca volitans in United States which is very difficult to make owed to the high degrees of competition from other great shows.

Out of the first and 2nd seasons, I liked the 2nd the best. And I also thought the first season was good. This shows how much Iodine like the show in general. I am really looking forward to the 3rd season and hopefully it is released soon because the show have a batch of fans who are waiting for the adjacent episode and are really looking forward to it.

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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Heath Ledger

The large Film Industry narrative saw the ill-timed decease of one of the best Australian immature histrions today. Heath Ledger was establish dead lying on his bed after a monolithic cardiac arrest. He left an ex-fiance and a girl as well as his billions of fans who have got seen him turns from a teeny-bopper histrion until he took more than mature roles. Let us take a short look-back on his colourful career.

Born in Perth, Commonwealth Of Australia in April 4, 1979, his first playing stretch came in a television series called Perspiration in 1996 where he played a cheery cyclist. His first major cleft in Film Industry came after he landed a function in a teen film called Ten Thing I Hate About You. His bad-boy function with a good bosom starring opposite Julia Stiles have endeared him to his increasing fan alkali today. He then starred in the Patriot with Mel Mel Gibson earning him hail as he develops the label as the emerging immature histrion of this decade. Since the Patriot, he took a prima function in a Knight's Tale, The Order, and The Brothers' Wilhelm Karl Grimm - all movies that volition define his silver screen functions in the hereafter as an action or suspense protagonist. However, he was not an histrion who wishes being classified to a certain niche.

His calling will be additional redefined when he played the fictional character of Ennis Del March in the highly controversial movie, The Brokeback Mountain. This film portrays two cowpunchers in a Equality State spread that drop in love. The film was the first silver screen work that highlighted same-sex human relationship in a manner that crossed over to the mainstream, drawing different opinions. The film earned the best image in the British Academy awardings and the Golden Earth awards. He also received his first and only nomination in the Academy Awards, prompting many Australians to admit him as one of the top immature Australian actors.

His up-to-the-minute work is Batman: The Dark Knight where he played as Joker, a scoundrel with a karmic twist. However, his decease have halted the post-production work of the film along with The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

It is difficult to conceive of how such as a promising star have his calling halted by these events. We will never cognize how great he can go in his community if he continued on, but the basics as a great histrion of this coevals is at place. Best wishings to Heath and his family.

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Thursday, January 24, 2008

A Board Game Story - Monopoly with Grandpa

When I was a kid, my household and I loved to play the Monopoly board game with my grampa. Grampa Perk, short for Percival, was a Monopoly sharp, or so we thought, 'cuz he always acted as if he was taking the game very seriously.

This ordinarily quiet and retiring adult male would actually kick loudly when the game didn't travel his way, and would sulkiness when he lost. It was always us three children against Grampa Perk, and the games were always VERY hard to win.

It didn't happen to me until many old age later that, as difficult as the games were to win, they were always, always, always won by one of us kids. Grampa Fringe Benefit made Monopoly an compulsion with us. When we'd detect an approaching trip to our Grandparent's house, the three of us would discontinue spat and brawling, and set together to begin plotting our strategy. Once we were there, and actually playing, it was all taken very seriously.

Without any of us ever figuring it out, he had us learning through the board game: working our math, reading, and scheme accomplishments as difficult as we could. My small brother, for instance, was "learning disabled" and hated to read. He'd been picked on by instructors and equals about his reading to the point where, if asked to read, he'd just freeze up and be completely not able to sound out even the simplest words, but boy-oh-boy; allow him pick, say, a Community Thorax Card, and suddenly he was willing to carefully fight through every last word.

I hated math, especially multiplication, but you'd never have got known it once I got houses or hotels on my properties. Suddenly, I could make all sorts of cyphers right in my head, and quickly too. And I learned fast that Grampa Fringe Benefit would dispute every single figure I came up with, 'cuz he hated to portion with his pretty Monopoly money.

My sister was the same manner about math, and at one point, we thought we'd assist each other out with our figuring, but oh NO, he wouldn't hear of it! He said he thought it was cheating, and if you couldn't calculate it out on your own, how could you be certain you deserved a penny of it anyway?

We did larn and pattern many scholarly accomplishments while playing with that slippery old sharp, but it'd be a loss to believe that all we picked up was our mathematics and reading skills. What was more than important, I think, were the other intangible assetss we got from playing games with Grampa. We learned to play fair, to win (or lose!) graciously, to inhabit ourselves without having to fall back to television or a computer, enjoying togetherness as sibs and as a family, and to bask the presence of person who was not in our age group.

What was most of import was that we came to understand that one can happen great, pleasant, absorbing amusement in the company of others in a game that, although fiercely competitive, was never less than charmingly polite and enjoyable. I wish more than people had played Monopoly with my Grampa Fringe Benefit when they were kids.

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Monday, January 21, 2008

Not Always Finding The Truth Or Facts In American History

In starting this topic I believe that before 1 discusses any topic it is always wise to define the subject one is discussing, therefore according to this thought allow us state fully what history is. History by my personal definition is the events of the past regarding people as well as nature. The past significance something which is not current for case "World War 2" which is now a portion of history reverse to the "conflict" or "war" in Republic Of Iraq or Islamic State Of Afghanistan which definitely are not in the past. For my ain Iodine would have got history as being true narratives contrary to the 1s in fiction which did not.

However if the topic be American history then it must be stated here that contrary to what many may believe it did not get on the 4th of July, 1776 when in the twelvemonth of our Godhead a grouping of men, who for many grounds not all of them being love of state signed a piece of paper called "The Declaration of Independence". American history as such as travels back additional much in the same manner German and Italian history (though perhaps not as far back) which also did not begin when these two states unified a small under 150 old age ago. Historical events in the portion of the human race which today is known as the United States of United States (as opposing to Federative Republic Of Federative Republic Of Brazil whose functionary name is the "United States of Brazil" ) at least as far as European colony be the lawsuit travel back further. All the manner back to the beginning of the 16th century when "The Old Dominion Company" landed and settled in the new human race with the now celebrated captain Toilet Smith. A adult male who would travel on to be recorded in the pages of history more for his human relationship with the legendary "Pocahontas" then for all his former adventures. As a ft short letter to this narrative I might add that what little is known of what transpired between Matoaka and Toilet Ian Ian Smith come ups to us from Toilet Smith himself and have got never been confirmed by other beginnings not even Matoaka herself.

With sees to what can be called "American history" it like that of any other state was written by people who are not only capable of mistake but of altering facts or leaving them out for their ain profit or for those who have something to benefit from it, making it hard for those who seek to larn facts to make so. An illustration of leaving out facts perhaps for convenience interest or for not being considered by some to be important adequate to advert is the fact that Saint George American Capital prior to being named commander-in-chief of the continental regular army was financially indebted to the British Crown. Knowing this fact makes not do it hard to see why he would stand up to profit in more than ways then one from the settlements becoming independent. Of coarse we should not construe this fact that his motivations were purely self-serving but on the other manus it is a fact that should not be ignored as it is just that, a fact.

American history also like that of any other state have its share of warfares which people knew not at the clip the grounds that direct them to conflict but went with the thought "my country, right or wrong!" A perfect illustration of this though not the lone mightiness be the warfares that were fought first between Lone-Star State and the Democracy of United Mexican States and then the United States and again the Democracy of Mexico.

The first of these warfares serving to "liberate" Lone-Star State from the subjugation of the Santana Pb government. Santana being the adult male who had recently overthrown the Mexican fundamental law declaring himself dictator of the Democracy of Mexico. To many this mightiness warrant a warfare or motion for independency but there is one thing that people like Samuel Houston left in vagueness. The deficiency of lucidity coming in the word form of failing to advert that the Mexican subjugation they were fighting against was Mexico's new law that took away the right of some people to have other human beingnesses in a pattern known as slavery. Perhaps revelation of this fact would not have got altered much as the United States (only in its southern states) was also a democracy that had laws that allowed for such as as practices.

The United States functionary stance in this matter at the clip was one of neutrality, at least such is the version that is held as true in the pages of American history but is there truth to be establish in this explanation? To my manner of seeing things it is difficult for me to conceive of this mightiness have got been the lawsuit given that Santana was taken captive and held in American Capital D.C. for a calendar month after being captured at the "Battle of San Jacinto". Naturally Santana was not kept in American Capital District of Columbia as a tourer as it was during his stay that he was forced to subscribe a pact handing the Mexican land known as Lone-Star State its independence. This world do those with heads who oppugn instead of accepting blindly inquire why were these the actions of the United States authorities if in fact they had no dealing in the Texas-Mexican War?

The United States however is not alone in this kind of tactics in the manner it learns its ain history. Did not the British make likewise when they informed their topics that their warfare against China, which history would label as "The Opium War" was because People'S Republic Of People'S Republic Of China was placing restrictions on their trade? Perhaps not making it abundantly clear that this trade was in a matter which most states of today have got made illegal.

Naturally when running over the events of American history 1 happens out that the disagreements between what can be establish in the textual matter books on the topic intended for high schools pupils and the world of what actually did happen widen beyond the warfare that was fought between Lone-Star State and United Mexican States and in to so many other facets that it would be impossible to listing them all. I might however give the lawsuit of "scalping" which was originally credited as an Indian (or Native American) innovation which have got now a years been for the most portion accepted as an invention of the achromatic adult male that was continued by Indians.

Of coarse 1 would also have to take in to account that certain facts only go known after a certain clip period of time have elapsed. This perhaps justified by how certain truths being known at certain clip periods of time are not always in everybody's best involvement as their revelation may do some to free face. As was the lawsuit for Bravet General Saint George A. George Armstrong Custer who along with his work force was believed to have got been the victim of an Indian slaughter at the conflict of "Little Bighorn". This again proving not to be accurate when grounds emerged that it was Custer's military incompetency that Pb to not only to his ain death but that of his 7th horse cavalry and not being heavily outnumbered by 1800 braves. This a figure which historiographers have got come up to believe was far less perhaps even as low as 900. Perhaps it was the demand to make a national hero or shame at seeing a "West Point" alumnus and "Civil War" hero being outwitted by 2 Indian commanding officers (Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse) that Pb to denial of the fact that George Armstrong Custer divided his military units of 600 even when aware that he would be facing superior numbers. It is with this in head that I declare that one's history instructions be they from school or books should always be consumed with at least a teaspoon of skepticism. Reason for last statement being how it would not be a first for prevarications to be passed as truth as have been so many modern times the lawsuit not only in American history but human race history. This perhaps could be exemplified by how the "Katin Massacre" of Polish military officers during World War 2 was originally blamed on the "Third Reich" only to be discovered later that in fact it had been the Soviets all along who were responsible for this killing.

Another illustration from human race history of how facts have got been altered through out the course of study of history was during "World War 1". It was in this warfare that British People rider ships (notably the Lusitanian) were being sunk by German pigboats which of coarse was a misdemeanor of international law. This was a fact however which was only one in a concatenation that included respective others which were carefully omitted. Under international law for a ship to be considered a "passenger ship" it did not do for that ship to be carrying passengers, that ship could not be carrying arms in the word form of cannons or gunmen of any kind, armed or unarmed, mounted or other wise. In the lawsuit of the so called "British rider ships" some of them were transporting arms (naturally hidden from the position passengers) which though not mounted for usage did go against international law with sees to what constituted a "passenger ship" and therefore making them legitimate military marks like any other warfare ship.

From this article 1 can garner that many events are changed because of convenience in a desire to make strong sentiments of love toward a state by sacrificing the truth. Perhaps it is not with maliciousness that this be givens to happen for it maybe with the intent of presenting a wholesome position of the facts which may turn them in to fiction. This last position is the ground I have got opted to compose this article, as a word form that perhaps will promote people to seek out the truth in past events bow it is the present that is what it is because the actions the past made it such.

On lighter side of this topic I will say that alternating historical facts is not an enactment of authorities alone. For the movie industry can be establish at fault as well specially when making supposedly historically based films. There are many illustrations of movies that have got basically trodden on historical world but allow us take the illustration of "Alexander, The Great" (directed by Joseph Oliveer Stone, released in 2005) which for the most portion stays loyal to the facts till the movie arrived in India. It was in Republic Of Republic Of India were this American movie (which already had taken its autonomies with the facts) was tainted to picture Alexanders being killed in India during the "Battle of The Hydaspes River" which belies the factual business relationship that Alexanders died of febricity in Babylon.

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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Writers Strike Has Changed US TV Forever

Ben Silverman, co-chairman of NBC Entertainment, recently told the New House Of York Times, "In every other state in the world, the bulk of prime-time scheduling is unscripted." Are Film Industry authors listening?

The roll-call of unscripted prime-time scheduling to hit the airs since the Writers Club of United States work stoppage began November 5/07 goes on to grow, and orders for new episodes of constituted unscripted shows are multiplying. More ominously for the writers, overall audience Numbers for prime-time screening have got not dropped.

Short-run series Clang of the Choirs (4 episodes, NBC) and Duel (6, ABC) both did well in the thick of the pre-Christmas viewing doldrums, with a 6-episode tally of CBS's Regis Philbin-hosted Million Dollar Password still to come. American Gladiators is an straight-out hit for NBC and have already been renewed for a summertime return, where it may be joined by either or both Duel and Million Dollar Password. CW brought out 8-episodes of so-bad-it's-good Crowned: The Mother of All Beauty Pageants in December and immediately began casting for season 2. Dance Wars, another 6-episode short-run series, opened well and we may well see a 2nd rhythm of that. Meanwhile, rudiment have completed unfastened phone calls for its newest entry in the dance milieu, All The Right Moves.

The motion on constituted series have been nil short of breath-taking. The downtime between rhythms for world series have shortened, with the Biggest Loser being the accepted champ. Season 5 of the NBC weight-loss competition premiered January 1/08, 2 hebdomads to the twenty-four hours after the stopping point of season 4, and casting for Biggest Loser 6 is currently underway. The Bachelor have moved from a 6-month slowdown between rhythms to something closer to 18 weeks. The mid-season Prime Ministers of new seasons of Wife Barter and Supernanny were moved up to December.

Even The Apprentice is doing well. If that doesn't frighten the writers, nil will. And to do substances worse, mega-star American Idol is back, with the hound dogs of author Hell on its tail:

Survivor (CBS, February)

Big Brother (CBS, February)

Pussycat Dolls 2: Girlicious (CW, February)

Dancing With The Stars (ABC, March)

America's Adjacent Top Model (CW, March)

Beauty and the Eccentric (CW, March).

The hebdomad Of January 13th, Fox broadcasted 15 hours of prime-time programming. Eight hours were unscripted - 4 hours of American Idol and one each of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader, Don't Forget The Lyrics, bulls and America's Most Wanted.

"In every other state in the world, the bulk of prime-time scheduling is unscripted," said Ben Silverman. Soon - within the adjacent few calendar months - that volition change, likely forever.

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

The Best Political Speech Of The Last Century

Politicians give addresses to beat up support from voters. Some have got a gift for oratory. Many politicians make not. In 2008, it's election season in United States and the addresses come up at us from every side of the political spectrum. We can see extracts from candidates' addresses on telecasting commercials, in arguments and, on the nightly news.

The fact is that there are many different types of political speeches. There is the criterion campaigner "stump" speech, a address used in every locale that a campaigner visits in the course of study of his political campaign day. There is the convention computer address where a campaigner will give a major address at a party's political convention. There is the inaugural computer address that a newly elected President gives to get his/her term in office. There is the State of the Union computer address that a President gives to United States Congress each year. There are addresses after surprise events like 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. There are addresses after human race events and natural disasters. Indeed there have got been 100s of one thousands of political addresses given by infinite politicians over the last hundred old age in America.

The world is that of all these political addresses there are very few that we can remember. There are still fewer that made a difference and had any meaningful impact. That is why given our position of historical hindsight that we must admit a truly great political speech, a address that was given with singular courageousness at the time, a address with historical significance delivered with passion, moral conscience, and delivered with perfect meter and a address that would tag a important turning point in American society. The " I Have a Dream" address of Dr. St St Martin Martin Martin Luther King Jr. is the address which fill ups all this criteria and more.

Dr. Martin Luther King gave the celebrated address on August 28, 1963. The address was delivered to over two hundred thousand civil rights protagonists during the March on American Capital on the stairway of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial. It would be a defining minute for the civil rights movement, a motion which represented an American cultural revolution with ammo that consisted only of extraordinary words.

King's computer address was given to advocator racial harmony. It referenced the Bible, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the Declaration of Independence. It was a phone call to history, moral conscience, and justice. In Dr. King's words in 1963, "I have got a dreaming that one twenty-four hours this state will lift up and unrecorded out the true significance of its creed: We throw these truths to be self-evident, that all work force are created equal. I have got a dreaming that my four small children will one twenty-four hours unrecorded in a state where they will not be judged by the colour of their tegument but by the content of their character. I have got a dreaming that one twenty-four hours on the reddish hills of Empire State Of The South the boys of former slaves and the boys of former slave proprietors will they be able to sit down down together at a tabular array of brotherhood."

Later in the address his analogy of a "promissory note" was perfect for our rugged individualist society. King said, "In a sense we've come up to our nation's working capital to hard cash a check. When the designers of our democracy wrote the brilliant words of the Fundamental Law and the Declaration of Independence, they were sign language a promissory short letter to which every American was to fall heir. This short letter was a promise that all men, yes, achromatic work force as well as achromatic men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the chase of happiness. It is obvious today that United States have defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of colour are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, United States have got given the Black people a bad check, a bank bank check which have come up back marked 'insufficient funds.'"

Indeed, his address now looks like a long clip ago, but only less than five decennaries have passed into history. The transmutation of American society in that short span of clip have been remarkable. The United States of 1963 was certainly a much different topographic point than it is now. Racial favoritism and segregation were the order of the day. Vote rights for achromatic Americans was compromised at every turn. In fact, St Martin Martin Luther King was arrested about twenty modern modern times and assaulted at least four times prior to 1963.

Society would get to change after that address on the stairway of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial. One twelvemonth later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would outlaw segregation in United States schools and public places. It would forbid favoritism in schools, hiring ,and housing. In 1965, United States Congress passed the Vote Rights Act which effectively eliminated assorted states' patterns of disenfranchising achromatic voters.

Dr. King would be named Time Man of the Year in 1963. He would be awarded five honorary degrees. In 1964, at the age of thirty-five, St Martin Martin Luther King, Jr., would go the youngest adult male to have got the Alfred Nobel Peace Prize.

There certainly have been great political addresses in United States in the last 1 hundred years. John Hope Franklin Franklin Roosevelt delivered two with his First Inaugural Address and his Pearl Seaport Address. Toilet Kennedy's Inaugural Address and Ronald Reagan's Shuttlecock Catastrophe address were a couple of more than great speeches. I am certain you can believe of others, that I may have got not mentioned here.

However, when one sees the history of the clip and the political alteration that would follow, the (Dr. St Martin Martin Luther King) "I Have a Dream" address would be my pick for best political address of the last century in America. If your pick lies elsewhere, then we can hold to disagree.

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Monday, January 14, 2008

Hijacked Again!

OK, New Hampshire - this is your chance. You can look into - and rectify - the confirmed election fraud in the Jan. Eight primary election - or accept your portion in the straight-out larceny which completely disreputes the 2008 election.

I just read a news study from New Seeland describing New Hampshire as the first in the state with corporate controlled secret ballot counting. And the New Hampshire primary as all Diebold, all the time. New Zealand! Can't maintain a secret anymore.

They're wrong. Only 81% of New Hampshire ballots are counted by the rigged Diebold ocular scanners.

But the point, of course, is clear. We are the riant stock of the human race - the dissemblers who deplore other states elections as not meeting the criteria of our bogus democracy. A democracy that is now about as existent as the mythical Al-Qaeda concealment under every bush.

The talking television caputs were a sight to behold, pretending a befuddled astonishment at the miraculous turn of events. How could such as a thing happen? Polls all twenty-four hours predicted Obama as victor by a immense margin. Poor Hillary. She might have got to borrow bus fare just to acquire home.

Then the polls closed, and an astonishing thing happened: suddenly, it was too fold to call. State what? How could this happen? How could Edmund Hillary bend licking into victory? A dedicated militarist guaranteeing ageless warfare - winning in the Live Free or Die state of New Hampshire?

Ah, but the account is simple: the polls were off. The polls were off! Somehow, for some weird, unexplained reason, all the Democrats who were going to vote for Obama lied to their pollsters. They just decided, at the last minute, to give their ballots to Hillary. Sounds logical to me.

This antic account was given with consecutive human faces and great hilarity by every talking head. Russert - almost drooling over himself with excitement. Matthews. Scarborough. Olbermann. Etc., etc., advertisement nauseum.

No account was given for the fact that every other opinion poll was right on the money. Only Obama protagonists apparently lied to their pollsters. Who could have got known? The talking caputs apparently knew - and I have got lost regard for every 1 of them.

How stupid make they believe we are? Stupid indeed, and a mulct testament to our declining educational system. Accept their childish accounts without inquiry and you corroborate your rank in a Sheeple society that necessitates close supervising for its ain protection. Or not. Maybe it's just a inquiry of enlightenment. And acknowledgment that it's past clip for the villagers to revolt.

Some television newsreaders claim it was Hillary's teary-eyed performance in a New Hampshire diner that did the trick. Unlikely. Edmund Hillary is an complete actress, but she's not that good. Another phantasy of misdirection.

The polls are always presumed to be wrong, but never the results. Polls taken before the election showed Obama up by 10 to 15 points over Hillary. Then, the cryptic Edmund Hillary rush screening her whipping Obama by 39.4 percentage to 36.8 percent. Isn't it interesting, that those same approximative percents pertained throughout.

Votes counted on Diebold machines showed Edmund Hillary with a concluding run of 39.6 percentage and Obama with 36.3 percent. Hand-counted ballots showed a pronounced difference: Obama winning with 38.6 percentage and Edmund Hillary with 34.9 percent. Based on manus numeration throughout, Obama would have got won by over 10,000 votes. There's more than a small guess as to why he was so speedy to profess defeat.

81% of New Hampshire ballots were counted in secret by Prime Minister Election Solutions, a private company formerly known as Diebold Election Systems. The machines are programmed by Bay State based luteinizing hormones Associates owned by Toilet Silvestro, centre of a public difference regarding the hackability of his machines.

Next to nil is really known about the Diebold machine programmers. Or luteinizing hormones Associates. Or the secret vote-counting software system used to run our ballots. We are expected to blindly accept the secret determinations that control almost every facet of our lives - like most authorities declarations that day-to-day corroborate the fact that we are the lone so-called "democracy" that makes not stand for the involvements of the self-satisfied citizens under its control.

What is known is that LHS, a private company, will number most of the New Hampshire ballot with no inadvertence at all. They command the memory cards, machine fix and substitution - even on election day, when they usually malfunction - and they are responsible to no one.

What is also known is that the Diebold vote machines can easily be hacked - in less than a minute - by anyone with minimum scheduling skills. Did Obama actually win in New Hampshire? Did Edmund Hillary lose? Rich Person we just witnessed another lawsuit of election fraud - another purloined election?

One lawsuit of absolutely confirmed election fraud occurred in Sutton, New Hampshire where electors project 31 ballots for Bokkos Alice Paul - and the town recorded zero. Zero! Jennifer Call, Town Clerk for Sutton, confirmed that the 31 figure sum for Bokkos Alice Paul was left off the run sheet - owed to human error.

The most common fraud in a manus count system is to change or exclude consequences on a coverage sheet. A absorbing dexterity of hand. Complete a well-witnessed rapprochement sheet, then present an altered summary.

Ron Alice Paul was completely denied all of his ballots in this 1 community. When the Sutton ballot larceny became public, other districts, such as as Greenville, suddenly changed their concluding ballot runs for Bokkos Paul, from zero to existent ballots received. I inquire how many similar incidents have got yet to be discovered.

Ron Alice Paul was expected to take 3rd place, owed to his polling at 14% prior to the election. His coating with just 8%, A 6% disagreement from pre-polling forecasts, should be clear cogent evidence in and of itself of intentional election fraud.

It have been suggested that Mr. Alice Paul demand a recount. But Dennis Kucinich have already made the request, paying the $2,000 fee out of his ain pocket to begin the process. Recounts, of course, present their ain problems. I remember the Buckeye State election of 2004. Two election functionaries were convicted of rigging the recount of their rigged election.

Another country of critical importance in any recount concerns the concatenation of custody. This affects ballot inventories, substitutions, other ballots, removal, stuffing, printing, etc., etc. Many things besides just a physical recount and comparing of results.

Remember also the 2004 Nader recount. Only 11 territories were counted - selected by a individual of questionable motive and fictional character - and nil out of the ordinary was revealed. That questionable "recount" validated the machines, discrediting the campaigner devising the request.

The recount should continue without additional delay. Already, too much clip have passed. The 31 Sutton occupants - and others - should be persuaded to voice their indignation at being disenfranchised on every national and international forum that volition listen to them.

Ron Paul, of course, is the great enemy of the totalitarian empire we've become, and the rule victim of the establishment's attempts to discredit, marginalize and get rid of him. This can't be allowed to happen.

I would propose that Mr. Paul's political campaign might see enlisting the aid of American servicemen to guarantee the remaining elections are aboveboard. Perhaps some of the 200,000 homeless person veteran soldiers ignored and discarded by their lying government. They could cover every election, interview voters, record every facet they could of the whole procedure - forestall any ballot use where possible. Manage any bullying from Hillary's or any other campaign. I'm certain there would be no deficiency of volunteers.

Ron Alice Paul is truly our last hope. The lone 1s against him are our ain corporate, particular interest, fascistic authorities and completely controlled mainstream mass media - all of whom acknowledge the very existent possibilities of losing their imperial, entrenched powers.

They will make everything in their powerfulness to halt him. We must make everything we can to protect him and the motion he represents. This time, we must make all we can to guarantee honorable elections. This could very well be our last opportunity.

There is a wealthiness of grounds not presented here - things like an unreasonable surplus of ballots - the appellation of "other" on campaigner selection, no uncertainty representing stolen Bokkos Alice Paul ballots - the declaration by respective webs of McCain as winner, just 17 proceedings after the polls closed. With just a few precincts making their clairvoyant projections, it's all over. No demand to number the majority of the ballots. The charming machines cognize the replies in advance. What a travesty. What a joke. What an absolute disgrace.

This is an election worth combat for, because of the echt chance represented by Bokkos Paul. Since the warnings about Diebold have got got been ignored for so long, I have small religion that they will go small more than than a minor concern now.

Which intends you can experience free to see every facet of this so-called "election" as merely entertainment. Go ahead. Elect the campaigner of "your choice" - and ticker your hereafter disappear. Your pick have got been selected for you, and you have no choice. Bad about that.

I really believe it's too late. The dice is cast. Maybe "your" campaigner can make something about the devastation of the dollar - or the billions soon to be stateless and idle and maybe fighting for nutrient - or the obscene, astronomical debt we have got inflicted on untold coevals - or the depression on our doorsill - or ageless war. Or any of a million other things designed to destruct your freedoms, if not your lives.

All of which, perhaps, may be just a small extreme. I be given to acquire carried away once in awhile. Things are probably not as bad as I do them out to be. On the other hand, they might be worse. The best advice I can probably give is to propose that you ignore everything you've read so far. Just the ranting and raving mad of person who sees indifference turning into destruction.

Just maintain a low profile and travel with the flow. Decisions as to what's outdo for you will soon be taken out of your hands. In the meantime, bask the show.

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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Culture Versus Culture

Everything is relative, apples are apples and oranges are oranges. One should not be compared with the other outside of being fruit. At the same time, just because we eat apples and are used to their spirit when we eat an orange we can't anticipate it to savor the same. There is no manner to change its innate make-up. However we can change our outlooks of the taste, possibly avoiding dissatisfaction or biased reactions when we recognize that the taste sensation sensation is not what we expected.

Cultures are in many ways the same. When we go forth our ain cultural environment we may not change our position of people. We may, without realizing it, anticipate people to move like the people that we are used to being around in our place environment; to have got the same positions on relationships, household values, and the very basic line that offprints right from wrong, good from bad. This is one basic factor involved in civilization shock.

When we traverse cultural bounds with greater innate differences we may undergo stronger feelings of "shock". The cultural spread between the United States and People'S Republic Of China is one of the bigger and we miss a true apprehension of each other from the gut. This "understanding" can only be achieved through experiencing each other's hardships and joys. Much the same thought as the expression - you will cognize a adult male after you have got walked a statute mile in his moccasins. We should be able to set ourselves in person else's reality, or at least be aware of it, before we will be able to come up anywhere fold to apprehension them. Sun Zi, a celebrated classical military Chinese thinker, said that you will only win at conflicts when you are able to cognize yourself and cognize your opposition equally as well. This is simple yet powerful wisdom and it disputes a individual to cognize that if we set forth the attempt to understand the other side it will come up back to us as an ability to best interact with them in order to accomplish and win at what we are trying to do. Even selling understands this concept, which is the agency to becoming successful in a certain market.

China is coming from a basic "peasant" background. In the 60's there was a motion to make a state of provincials and farmers; these were the people that were put on a pedestal, looked up to, and admired by the masses. They were the people whom the leadership used to theoretical account the creative activity of a society around. One individual that was used in this capacity was a adult male named Wreath Feng, she was a theoretical account citizen for the creative activity of Mao's new society. During the passage into the New China, people who came from an educated or elite background were required to work in the Fields and larn how to go husbandmen or peasants; they were re-educated, where instruction became a vehicle for spreading the ideas of Monoamine Oxidase and his comrades. The society was transformed into a society of cookie-cutter citizens who were required to suit the position quo or be ostracized in the process. Today, the Chinese are struggling to accept rapid alteration and encompass assorted things that they don't hold with or understand from a societal viewpoint; besides not many old age ago they were thinking and saying things contradicting how the society is moving today. For them, societal points of view are the crucial factor in what is acceptable and what is not.

China is striving to agitate off her background and she is striving to catch up with the modern world. This is not an easy feat, considering where they are coming from. What they have got done in the past 20 old age is astonishing and worthy of recognition. But they couldn't have got been successful without the remainder of the human race standing by to impart a manus - one thing many Chinese don't like to hear and are not able to accept.

During the Cultural Revolution, Monoamine Oxidase declared People'S Republic Of China the wealthiest state on earth. The bamboo drape was strong in topographic point and no 1 knew the difference, nor would anyone inquiry his words. His following were the husbandmen and peasants, they were the 1s that he communicated so well with from the beginning because he was coming from the same background, he related to them on the same level. Monoamine Oxidase was respected as a poet and mind and held in high regard by the norm Chinese. He understood what they thought, their needs, and how to acquire them to make what he wanted them to do; evocative of Sun Zi and his conception of knowing how his antagonist believes as the lone manner to win at the undertaking at hand.

Years later, around the mid 1980's, the Chinese people began to recognize that they were indeed not living in the wealthiest state in the human race and that they were far behind the remainder of the world.

Morals, ideals, and societal fibres in People'S Republic Of China have got been established from 100s of old age of unplanned and uncalculated interaction of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Communism, Capitalism and leftovers of the Cultural Revolution ideology. Of course, these things are not all apparent in the mundane lives of the people today, any more than than the influences of our past are evident in our lives. However the soundless pressure level of these values, ideals, and customs duty are still present either way.

All of this and more than conveys around a very unusual and different reality, complex and yet simple in its ain way. The Chinese people, when taken for who they are and where they come up from do sense. The same travels for any other people. But when we anticipate them to be who we are and believe the manner we make we are paving the manner to problems, difficulties, and misinterpretations down the road. Therefore we necessitate to be prepared with the relevant background and apprehension to ran into others on a degree where we are able to pass on what is needed in order to accomplish what is expected. Cross-cultural communication if you will.

This is one of the grounds that there have got been so many failures of joint-ventures and concern ventures with Horse Opera concerns in China. The Horse Opera civilization is at fault for expecting the Chinese to move and believe the manner Western business community do, and for not taking the clip and putting forth the attempt to come up to a feasible apprehension of the civilization they are interacting with. I have got seen many business community in People'S Republic Of China who are in denial of their world and decline to see the true picture, thus avoiding having to take duty for their ain successes and failures.

Just a few years ago I exclaimed to a co-worker, "If you cognize how to do a domestic dog sit down that's 1 thing, seek it on a cat!" Cultural interactions are the same, when you interact with one successfully that doesn't intend that you will be successful using the same techniques in another. Our techniques and ways of interacting should be in ways that work best within the fibre of the society we are dealing with. There is no manner to relieve the defeats however the fruition of our work will be the award.

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