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Journalist and author Ramzy Baroud argues that the supposedly compassionate Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, is in fact a pro-Israel hypocrite whose horrific attitude to Palestine has been masked by expert political branding.
How does one explain Canada's contradictory foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel?
On December 4, the Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Saeb Erekat, praised Canada's commitment not to follow the footsteps of the US President Donald Trump's administration by transferring its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
But there is little worth praising here – respecting the internationally-recognised status of Jerusalem is legally-binding commitment to international law. The fact that the U.S. chose to violate the law hardly makes the opposite act heroic in itself.
Only five days earlier, on November 30, Canada joined a tiny minority of states, including Israel, the U.S., Australia and the Marshall Islands to vote "no" against a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution titled "Peaceful Settlement on the Question of Palestine."
The Canadian government that is keen to present itself as a model neoliberal, progressive country, even the antithesis to the U.S.'s hawkish policies, voted against a resolution that calls "for intensified efforts by the parties … to conclude a final peace settlement."
If you find such behaviour confusing, then you are not paying attention. Canada has not changed at all. It is our understanding of Canadian foreign policy that has almost always been marred with a true lack of understanding.
And there is a good reason for that. The Canadian government has mastered the art of political branding. The only period in modern American history that is comparable to Canada's successful political propaganda was the presidency of Barack Obama.
Obama deported 2.5 million immigrants, compared to the 2 million deported by his predecessor, George W. Bush; he dropped more bombs and did his utmost to bail America's most corrupt financial institutions. Yet somehow many liberals thought of him as the ideological marriage of Che Guevara and Malcolm X, with the refined eloquence of James Baldwin.
Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau is seen as the "human face of neoliberalism" and is an even more successful brand than Obama. Because unlike the former US president, there is very little discussion about Trudeau's undeserved credentials.
While positioned as the political opposite of former Conservative Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, they are both committed to the ideology of neoliberalism.
Trudeau's "human face of neoliberalism" is nothing but a carefully-constructed mask meant to hide the hypocritical and militant policies that Canada continues to lead.
Horrific record on Palestine
Nothing exemplifies Trudeau's duplicitous policies than his horrific record on Palestine.
And before the Trudeau fan-club impulsively reacts to the above assertion, marvel at this fact: In the first 18 months of his mandate, Trudeau voted against 16 UNGA resolutions that were critical of Israel.
It has been argued that Canada's foreign policy and its UN voting records are often inconsistent. This, however, seems to apply only to the Israeli crimes against Palestinians.
When Trudeau defeated Harper, many breathed a sigh of relief, particularly because of the latter's blind support for Israel. So is Trudeau really different, deserving of this much affection, to the point of adoration?
Let's consult the facts.
The page on Trudeau government's website entitled, "Canadian Policy on Key Issues in the Israeli-Palestine Conflict" is almost an exact replica of Harper's, with one notable exception. On Trudeau's page, his government recognises "experience of Jewish refugees from the Middle East and North Africa, who were displaced after 1948."
The above is a misconstrued version of history that has been injected by Zionists whenever the rights of Palestinian refugees – who were displaced by Jewish militants during the 1948 ethnic-cleansing of Palestine – is brought up.
The very first "key issue" for Trudeau's government is "Support for Israel and Its Security."
Trudeau makes the claim that his government's assessment of UN resolutions is guided by "its merits and consistency with (Canadian) principles." Harper seemingly defied these "principles" on numerous occasions, notably when his government voted against UN Resolutions critical of Israel: 66/17 in 2012; 67/23 and 68/15, in 2013, 69/23 in 2014.
But Harper's exit did not usher in a new moral age for Canada. On the contrary, Ottawa's love affairs with Israel intensified.
Aside from carrying on with the same anti-Palestinian attitude at the UN, on November 24, 2015, the Trudeau government even voted against UNGA Resolution 70/15, which reaffirmed the "illegality of the Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 including East Jerusalem."
Such a vote even goes against Canada's own declared position on the illegal Jewish settlements.
Hypocrisy and double-speak
This should not come as a surprise, though – hypocrisy and double-speak has become a prominent feature of Canada's foreign policy. Take Ottawa's stance on terrorism, for example.
In its "key issues" on Israel and Palestine, the Canadian government "condemns all acts of terrorism," but it later qualifies what that means in actuality. "Canada has listed Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, and other groups as terrorist organizations," it elaborated.
Not only did it fail to link any Jewish group as terrorist, or, at least, emphasise the need to prosecute war criminals (in this case, Israeli leaders), it linked Palestinians and Arabs only to acts of terrorism. According to this logic, only Arabs seem capable of carrying out acts of terror.
But what if Palestinians decided to use popular, non-violent and democratic means to display resistance? They did, and were still condemned for it.
In 2016, with much personal enthusiasm by Trudeau himself, the Canadian Parliament overwhelmingly voted in favour of a motion that condemned the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS).
Since then, Trudeau has made his anti-BDS policy a fixture in his government's attitude towards the Palestinians.
Last month, he sank to his lowest point yet when, in a speech he made to apologise for Canada's immoral act of rejecting Jewish refugees escaping Nazi atrocities in 1939, he directly linked BDS with anti-Semitism.
"Anti-Semitism is far too present," he said, as "Jewish students still feel unwelcomed and uncomfortable on some of our colleges and university campuses because of BDS-related intimidation."
Linking BDS with his country's disgraceful anti-Semitism against refugees decades ago might have been a masterful stroke by his pro-Israeli speech writers. However, swapping historic hate for Jews with modern hate for Palestinians shows that Canada has learned nothing from its sordid past.
Trudeau and his government will certainly be judged by future generations, as his predecessors were judged for their past sins, for choosing, despite the passage of time, to stand on the wrong side of history.
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle. His latest book is The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (Pluto Press, London, 2018). He earned a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and is a Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, UCSB.
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Viral Suppression Among Transgender Women Is Improving, but Results Are Still Below the National Average
"We stand at a moment where a huge battle can be won in the fight against HIV and we must make sure transgender women are not left behind as we continue to make progress on our national goals," write Richard Wolitski, Ph.D., and Selena Gonzales, M.P....
Falling Behind: More Focus Needed on Retaining People in HIV Care
"Nationally, we've seen only modest progress in retaining people in HIV care. The amount of improvement hasn't been enough."
Thank You, Paul Kawata: Reflections on USCA and Being a Gay Man of a Certain Age
At 53 years old, Richard Wolitski, Ph.D., admits it can be challenging to be "embracing and celebrating myself while my body (and sometimes my mind) shows signs of wear and more than 20 years of living with HIV."
New HIV Diagnoses: Large Improvements in Some Groups Overshadow Results for People and Places Being Left Behind
New HIV diagnoses are on the decline in the U.S., but data show that four key populations have been disproportionately affected by HIV and are at increased risk of becoming newly infected with HIV.
Federal Leaders Work Together to Get the Word Out About Research Showing Viral Suppression Prevents HIV Transmission
Even though there were few sessions at the U.S. Conference on AIDS dedicated specifically to treatment as prevention, there were discussions going on everywhere about it.
Getting in Sync on HIV, Hepatitis C and LGBT Health
The 2017 Synchronicity Conference, a national conference that focuses on HIV and hepatitis C, also addressed LGBT health for the first time this year.
Updated National Viral Hepatitis Action Plan 2017-2020 Released
Reflecting recent trends in viral hepatitis infections and deaths, as well as new and improved strategies for prevention, care and treatment, the new Action Plan is the roadmap for addressing viral hepatitis in the U.S.
New HIV Prevention Model Published
A complement to the HIV care continuum, the new model is a better way of articulating what HIV prevention should look like today.
Understanding the Magnitude of the Viral Hepatitis Epidemics in the United States
"There may be more people living with viral hepatitis in the U.S. than live in your state," writes Richard Wolitski. However, "we have the ability to reduce the number of persons living with chronic viral hepatitis if we scale up the use of effecti...
HIV Testing Among Men Who Have Sex With Men -- 21 Cities, United States, 2008
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It's Pete's birthday and Finn arrives back from Nana Barton's to see him. Finn gifts Pete tickets to go scrambling and Moira gives him tickets to a football match. Andy arrives at work despite being given the day off so Pete invites him along to the scrambling. Doug wishes Laurel good luck on her first day back at the factory and she insists she is determined to get through the day. Vanessa is forced to visit Johnny, after seeing Adam and Victoria in the café and Adam tells Victoria he is going to have a word with Rakesh about custody of Johnny. Diane asks Andy to accompany her to the hospital for when Robert out of his coma, but Andy refuses insisting Robert killed his wife, although Diane doesn't believe him. Priya catches Rishi going through Jai's suit pockets but she insists they all need to keep an eye on Jai to ensure he is clean. Victoria pleads with Andy to come to the hospital but he still refuses and decides to go on the scrambling day with Pete and Finn instead. Lisa welcomes back Laurel to the factory and she reluctantly covers for drunk Kerry. Rishi tells Jai that he needs to make things right with Kirin meanwhile in the pub Adam asks Rakesh's advice over his rights to custody of Johnny, and agrees to talk with his company's family lawyer for him. Victoria and Diane are not happy when Chrissie turns up at Robert's bedside, but she insists she is still his wife and protests Lawrence's innocence. Victoria asks Chrissie if the rumours are true that Lawrence is only covering for her, but she denies this. Priya worries about that Adam may asks for a DNA teat if he goes for custody but Rakesh reassures her that it is unlikely as Adam is already on the birth certificate. Andy ignores the safety demonstration at the scrambling course while Finn asks for a safer bike. Rakesh sees Rhona is the street and pretends to call Adam loudly, which makes Rhona wonder why Adam would need a family solicitor. Andy speeds off on his bike despite Pete's pleas that he is not in the right state of mind to ride. Rakesh arrives at the hospital to support Chrissie while Andy goes speeding round the bike course, with Pete in pursuit. Laurel tells Lisa that she would be a hypocrite if she told Kerry off as Kerry covered for her when she was drunk so Laurel takes an early lunch. Andy speeds down a path with an no entry sign. Chrissie confides her fears in Rakesh that she thinks Robert will wake up and say it was Lachlan who shot him to hurt her. Andy crashes into a barrier and tries to stop Pete but Pete bike goes crashing over the cliff edge.
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- Moira Dingle - Natalie J Robb
- Pete Barton - Anthony Quinlan
- Finn Barton - Joe Gill
- Andy Sugden - Kelvin Fletcher
- Laurel Dingle - Charlotte Bellamy
- Doug Potts - Duncan Preston
- Rodney Blackstock - Patrick Mower
- Vanessa Woodfield - Michelle Hardwick
- Adam Barton - Adam Thomas
- Victoria Barton - Isabel Hodgins
- Diane Sugden - Elizabeth Estensen
- Chas Dingle - Lucy Pargeter
- Aaron Livesy - Danny Miller
- Priya Sharma - Fiona Wade
- Jai Sharma - Christopher Bisson
- Rishi Sharma - Bhasker Patel
- Lisa Dingle - Jane Cox
- Kerry Wyatt - Laura Norton
- Kirin Kotecha - Adam Fielding
- Rakesh Kotecha - Pasha Bocarie
- Robert Sugden - Ryan Hawley
- Chrissie Sugden - Louise Marwood
- Rhona Goskirk - Zoe Henry
- Paddy Kirk - Dominic Brunt
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- Butler's Farm - Kitchen
- Tall Trees Cottage - Downstairs rooms
- Café Main Street - Interior
- The Woolpack - Backroom and public bar
- Sharma & Sharma - Staff room, office and factory floor
- Hotten General Hospital - ICU room 2, lift and corridor
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St. Mary's Food Pantry Open to the Public
Our Food Pantry is open every Monday (except holidays) from 10:30-12 noon in the Carroll Room. The Carroll Room is just down the steps from the Grotto statue of Mary on Central Avenue.
Those needing assistance must show a valid picture I.D. and can only receive assistance once per month, so as to allow others to be helped also.


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Call Me Dad is a powerful social impact documentary about men who have perpetrated, or at risk of perpetrating, family violence. At stake is the safety of children and partners, the stability of families, and the power of society to intervene. The film follows the men over several months, as they attempt to change themselves, and heal their family relationships. The filmmakers travelled around Australia with the support of White Ribbon, to screen the film in as many town halls as possible.
GoodPitch Australia brings together an array of individuals and companies together ranging from those in the philanthropic space all the way to policy makers, and corporate brands, with the aim of forging powerful coalitions around key social issues. GoodPitch is highly strategic, it's about collective impact and scale, and at the heart of each coalition is a feature documentary.
Project Description
Students worked closely with the filmmakers to develop education and outreach materials to help facilitate a public discussion around the issues of domestic and family violence. This process included an analysis of other resources currently available, identifying the gap in the public discourse that storytellers could fill, and making recommendations about target audience, the form of the materials and their distribution.


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Is sitting-while-at-work associated with low back pain? A systematic, critical literature review
PainSci summary of Hartvigsen 2000?This page is one of thousands in the PainScience.com bibliography. It is not a general article: it is focused on a single scientific paper, and it may provide only just enough context for the summary to make sense. Links to other papers and more general information are provided at the bottom of the page, as often as possible. ★★★★☆?4-star ratings are for bigger/better studies and reviews published in more prestigious journals, with only quibbles. Ratings are a highly subjective opinion, and subject to revision at any time. If you think this paper has been incorrectly rated, please let me know.
This review of 35 scientific papers (8 of them high quality) about sitting-while-at-work as a risk factor for low back pain found that the "extensive recent epidemiological literature does not support the popular opinion that sitting-while-at-work is associated with LBP."
original abstract†Abstracts here may not perfectly match originals, for a variety of technical and practical reasons. Some abstacts are truncated for my purposes here, if they are particularly long-winded and unhelpful. I occasionally add clarifying notes. And I make some minor corrections.
OBJECTIVES: To present a critical review and evaluate recent reports investigating sitting-while-at-work as a risk factor for low back pain (LBP).
METHODS: The Medline, Embase and OSH-ROM databases were searched for articles dealing with sitting at work in relation to low back pain for the years 1985-97. The studies were divided into those dealing with sitting-while-working and those dealing with sedentary occupations. Each article was systematically abstracted for core items. The quality of each article was determined based on the representativeness of the study sample, the definition of LBP, and the statistical analysis.
RESULTS: Thirty-five reports were identified, 14 dealing with sitting-while-working and 21 with sedentary occupations. Eight studies were found to have a representative sample, a clear definition of LBP and a clear statistical analysis. Regardless of quality, all but one of the studies failed to find a positive association between sitting-while-working and LBP. High quality studies found a marginally negative association for sitting compared to diverse workplace exposures, e.g. standing, driving, lifting bending, and compared to diverse occupations. One low quality study associated sitting in a poor posture with LBP.
CONCLUSIONS: The extensive recent epidemiological literature does not support the popular opinion that sitting-while-at-work is associated with LBP.
related content
- "Spinal mechanical load as a risk factor for low back pain: a systematic review of prospective cohort studies," Eric W P Bakker, Arianne P Verhagen, Emiel van Trijffel, Cees Lucas, and Bart W Koes, Spine (Phila Pa 1976), 2009.
- "Sedentary lifestyle as a risk factor for low back pain: a systematic review," Shu-Mei Chen, Mei-Fang Liu, Jill Cook, Shona Bass, and Sing Kai Lo, Int Arch Occup Environ Health, 2009.
- "Association between sitting and occupational LBP," Angela Maria Lis, Katia M Black, Hayley Korn, and Margareta Nordin, European Spine Journal, 2007.
These three articles on PainScience.com cite Hartvigsen 2000 as a source:
- The Trouble with Chairs — The science of being sedentary and how much it does (or doesn't) affect your health and back pain
- A Guide to Sciatica Treatment for Patients — A guide to buttock and leg pain (which may or may not involve the sciatic nerve)
- Save Yourself from Low Back Pain! — Low back pain myths debunked and all your treatment options reviewed
This page is part of the PainScience BIBLIOGRAPHY, which contains plain language summaries of thousands of scientific papers & others sources. It's like a highly specialized blog. A few highlights:
- Effectiveness of customised foot orthoses for Achilles tendinopathy: a randomised controlled trial. Munteanu 2015 Br J Sports Med.
- A Bayesian model-averaged meta-analysis of the power pose effect with informed and default priors: the case of felt power. Gronau 2017 Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology.
- The neck and headaches. Bogduk 2014 Neurol Clin.
- Agreement of self-reported items and clinically assessed nerve root involvement (or sciatica) in a primary care setting. Konstantinou 2012 Eur Spine J.
- Effect of NSAIDs on Recovery From Acute Skeletal Muscle Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Morelli 2017 Am J Sports Med.


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Is there a more iconic embodiment of Audi than the RS4 Avant? TT? Maybe. R8? Sexy as hell and the pinnacle of the brand, but the RS4 Avant combines Audi's pillars of practicality, luxury, quattro security and solidity in one box-arched bundle of fun. And there's something about the understated cool of a fast wagon that makes a car enthusiast slightly weak at the knees. That the aesthetic isn't dominated by a waist-high stance or towering wing gives the fast wagon an appeal way beyond its humble two-box origins. With nameplates such as RS2, RS4 and RS6, when it comes to uber Avants, Audi has been defining the genre for a quarter of a century. You can trace the lineage of the current-generation RS4 back to the 1995 RS2 on page 100, but it's clear that it remains true to the original idea of packaging supercar performance within a practical, dogs-and-all body style.
Obvious RS4 cues such as the pumped-up and squared-off guards remain for the fourth-generation, but there has been a dramatic switch under the bonnet. Gone is the sonorous naturally aspirated 4.2-litre V8 that has served the RS4 for two generation; in its place is a 2.9-litre twin-turbocharged V6. While the change is an obvious reflection of the downsizing and turbocharging trend that is sweeping the industry, the RS4 has history with this configuration, launching back in 1999 with a 2.7-litre twin-turbocharged V6.
With 331kW, the new engine matches the power output of the old V8, but its 600Nm torque peak is a full 40 per cent more robust and it's available over an incredibly broad plateau (1900-5000rpm). The 331kW peak is on song from 5700-6700rpm, and the engine is keen to hit those high notes. Perhaps more importantly, the new engine (fully dressed with ancillaries, turbos and associated plumbing) is 31kg lighter than the V8 it replaces. And that saving is directly over the front axle where it can provide most benefit to the new RS4's dynamic character. Overall, the 1715kg gen-four RS4 is 80kg lighter than the car it replaces, and you can save a further 8kg by optioning the forged alloy wheels of our test car, and another 8kg by opting for the carbon ceramic brakes. And the brake and wheel savings are reductions from the unsprung mass of the RS4 for even greater dynamic benefit.
Not surprisingly, the RS4 drives in a very similar manner to the closely related RS5 – a car that we've praised previously, especially so after prolonged exposure on our Fast Fleet. Our long-term experience with the RS5 highlighted that its charms very much grow on you over time. That's not to say that the initial impression is lacking, just that on first acquaintance, it doesn't grab you by the lapels and shake you off your feet like the more boisterous German coupes and sedans are prone to do.
However good the RS5, it's inevitably that the RS4 generates the most anticipation. That's what a certain amount of tradition can do for a car, and in the RS4's case it has effectively annexed the super-wagon market with a thoroughness verging on default status.
The latest version has most in common with the B5 original of 1999-2002. For a start, it's powered by a turbocharged V6 of under 3.0-litres displacement, no longer a rev-hungry V8, and once again it will only be available in the wagon body style (the RS5 Sportback is the effective replacement for any RS4 sedan). However, one aspect it shares with all of its forebears is that it is a natural looker – it seems no one can do fast estates quite like Audi Sport. With our test car's lustrous Misano Red paint, deeply dished optional 20-inch milled aluminium wheels and those familiar box arches, you won't be mistaking this RS4 for a 2.0 TDI A4 Avant. Ever.
Climb into the driver's seat and you'll find the cabin either pleasingly functional or drearily predictable. It's an A4, of course, and as rational, upright and upstanding in its Germanic delivery as you'd expect, yet at the same time there's a keen sense that what matters has been executed ruthlessly well. Your hands grasp a delectable, flat-bottomed, Alcantara-covered wheel, while the gear selector is similarly clad; admittedly, the Alcantara is an option in both cases, but the sports seats are standard, and have moveable bolsters and an extendable base cushion for a snug embrace. The driving position, for me at least, is without fault.
Thumb the starter button and the V6 fires through the sports exhaust (optional in other markets but standard in Australia) with the same extrovert whoop as an RS5, but then quickly quietens and idles away with a subtle murmur of considerable depth. Prime Comfort on the Drive Select and tug the gear selector down to D and the car moves away with oily ease, riding with a suppleness completely alien to RS products prior to recent times. Whenever the road's topography gets lumpy there's a clear sensation of the Dynamic Ride Control dampers using up their full stroke to combat unwanted movement, rather than of the car fighting the road in aggressive retaliation.
It's at this precise moment that the path ahead forks two ways towards your ultimate view on the RS4. Feel bitter about the lack of a charismatic, rumbling and soaring V8? Dislike the effortless steering, the softer ride, the sheer normality of it all? You'll probably be in the same camp of people who also have issues with the latest RS5. But if this sounds like an enticingly comfortable and useful means of extremely rapid everyday transport then read on, because plenty of that is in store, and a lot more besides.
Like can occur with the RS5, the inattentive RS4 driver might think that he or she has learnt all that there is to know after a few high-grip corners. Both models hang on with a level of uncommon tenacity, making full use of the power and vast torque reserves. In the wrong environment, and with the wrong attitude, the RS4 might come across as one dimensional – fast and secure but lacking in flair. But invest the time to get to know the RS4 (and RS5), and it reveals real depth of character, performance and practicality that is close to unbeatable. It's a genuine head scratcher to short list other cars that combine such an impressive blend of traits.
There's no denying that the twin-turbocharged V6 lacks the operatic drama of the howling V8, but its bombastic mid-range goes a long way to soothe that loss. It is possible to mooch around in the RS4 all day long and only access a fraction of its performance, but inevitably the temptation to floor the throttle soon proves too strong. Do so and you'll discover a notably more natural voice than in the RS5, a richer, more authentic tone, but with the same chesty snuffles and thuds through the exhaust system when the revs die back down below 3000rpm. Thankfully, the distant artillery from the tailpipes is relatively random in its delivery.
A sudden input of throttle and the RS4 reveals its haymaker: a massive surge of acceleration violent enough that a pre-emptive squeeze of the right-hand paddle is necessary if you're not to tag the limiter in second gear when driving in manual mode. Whatever the revs, the V6 seems to simply explode into action, surely a benefit of its 600Nm torque peak being developed from an impressively low 1900rpm.
We've already spent over 2000km getting to know the RS4 and it's impressed at every turn. Audi's confidence in the new model was on open display at the Australian launch, that took in the twists and turns of the Oxley Highway and Thunderbolts Way. It proved to be a staggeringly quick cross-country device in the style of its coupe relation, only with vastly increased load and passenger space. Turn-in is immediate and positive, and the effects of the Sport Differential at the rear are blatantly obvious, because under full power it'll even adopt a few degrees of slip at the rear. It never feels blunt, flat-footed or one-dimensional, the ceramic brakes are tireless, and the gearchange is crisp enough, although occasionally lacks the bite of the old twin-clutch alternative.
After a solid day in the saddle, I knew that I'd relish any long journey in this car. And a few weeks after the launch, I pointed the nose of another RS4 south down the Hume for a family schlep to Cootamundra. It swallowed suitcases, pillows, sleeping bags and a spare mattress, then ate up the mundanity of the trip without complaint, nor without provoking any from the junior road testers in the back seat. Three days and 1000km later, it hoovered up the evo Australia airstrip (see page 92) and recorded a set of performance numbers that would make a junior supercar lose sleep.
The new RS4 continues to be the standard bearer for practical performance and I'm struggling to think of a more desirable daily driver for an 'evo type' with the usual commitments and requirements of everyday life. Jesse Taylor


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We've worked with Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity and Paragon Creative, to make a waiting/play area for the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow! Mary Pirie, Lead Radiologist, says "the soft play area is a fantastic centre piece in our children's waiting area. The patients and their siblings love it and it provides a wonderful distraction whilst patients are waiting for their appointments…"
"One area where it is invaluable, is for the patients who are attending for bedtime MRI scans between 7-8pm. Parents keep the children awake all day so that they will sleep soundly for their scans. The children usually arrive very sleepy, however when they see the soft play area they get a 'second wind' and they tire themselves out completely and sleep soundly for their scans. This play area really contributes to the success of these scans and avoids the child having a General Anaesthetic for their imaging."
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Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity has joined Habitat organizations across the country to launch a new campaign aimed at improving home affordability for more than 10 million people across the United States in the next five years.
According to the organization, nearly 19 million households across the United States are spending at least half of their income on a place to live, often forgoing basic necessities such as food and health care to make ends meet. Those with the fewest resources are forced to make the hardest choices.
In El Paso County, more 75,000 people live below the poverty line. The median price of a home in El Paso County is $310,000 and median rent is $1,335 per month. Affordable rental units are scarce, with vacancies at 3 percent for units with monthly rents of $750 or less.
While homeownership costs and rents are skyrocketing, wages are not keeping pace. That puts stable housing out of reach for many people.
On June 12, Habitat launched the Cost of Home campaign, which seeks to identify and improve policies and systems affecting home affordability through coordinated advocacy efforts at the local, state and federal levels.
The factors related to creating more affordable homes — supply, credit, land and communities of opportunity — are interconnected, and policies that address affordability challenges can and often do impact multiple elements.
To address those factors, Habitat has created a policy platform that focuses on improving housing affordability across the housing continuum in four specific policy areas:
- Increasing supply and preservation of affordable homes
- Equitably increasing access to credit
- Optimizing land use for affordable homes
- Ensuring access to and development of communities of opportunity
Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity already has taken several steps toward these goals and is participating in Colorado's Statewide Legislative Build Day on June 27. The organization is inviting local government officials and community leaders to come together to impact El Paso County families by building strength, stability, and self-reliance.
"To build a strong sustainable community, we need to be aware of the needs of those around us and how those needs directly and indirectly impacts the quality of our lives as well as our community," Executive Director Kris Medina said.
"Affordable housing impacts each and every one of us, and Habitat's Cost of Home is helping inform all of us that meeting the need for affordable housing has many solutions and positive outcomes," she said. "We can all be a part of that solution if we understand the issue."
For more information Habitat's Cost of Home policy platform and campaign activation, visit habitat.org/costofhome.


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Virginia Tech Police investigation leads to arrest in counterfeit football tickets case
The Virginia Tech Police Department confirms the arrest of a suspect accused of selling counterfeit tickets outside Lane Stadium at the Sept. 7, 2015, football game against Ohio State.
Biggest game ever at Lane Stadium? Virginia Tech readies for defending champs
Virginia Tech has played plenty of big games at Lane Stadium over the years. But does it get any bigger than the defending national champ on Labor Day night?
Virginia Tech announces shifts to future football schedules
With the addition of Notre Dame in 2019, Virginia Tech has moved future contests with Penn State and Wisconsin and announced the addition of another Big Ten Conference school to its future football slates to go along with previously announced opponents from Power 5 schools.
Vote of confidence: Did Virginia Tech AD need to affirm support for Frank Beamer?
Frank Beamer is Virginia Tech football, and thus is the linchpin of the school's overall marketing efforts, not just for sports, but for everything that matters. Odd, then, that he would need a vote of confidence on a random Saturday in January from his AD after a couple of subpar seasons.
Work begins on the Virginia Tech Marching Virginians' new facility
Construction of the Marching Virginians' new $4.75 million practice and storage facility is underway and scheduled to be completed in 2015.
Virginia Tech rallies late, defeats UVA, 24-20, extends winning streak to 11
Virginia Tech used a late scoring drive to escape frigid Lane Stadium with a 24-20 win over UVA here Friday night. The win was the 11th straight for Tecgh over the Cavaliers and keeps the Hokies' bowl streak intact at 22 years.
GameDay Blog: UVA, Virginia Tech football, plus UVA basketball in NYC
It's a busy day in UVA sports, and Augusta Free Press has you covered. The football team is in Blacksburg to take on Virginia Tech at Lane Stadium at 8 p.m., and the basketball team is in New York City for the Barclays Center Classic with a 9:30 p.m. tipoff with LaSalle.
Game Notes: UVA and Virginia Tech hook up Friday night
UVA and Virginia Tech meet in the 2014 Commonwealth Clash on Friday at 8 p.m. in Blacksburg.
Scott German: Smashmouth key to UVA, Virginia Tech football clash
November 29th, 2003. An important date in UVA football history. The last time the Cavaliers' tasted victory against in-state rival Virginia Tech. seniors on this year's squad were about 12 years old.
Win or lose: Change is coming after UVA, Virginia Tech meet on Friday
Virginia Tech is averaging 362.0 yards and 23.3 points per game in 2014, a big fall-off from the Hokies' most recent double-digit-win season, 2011, when that 11-3 squad averaged 413.0 yards and 27.9 points per game.
Reeling Virginia Tech Hokies drop third straight, Boston College wins, 33-31
Virginia Tech rallied from a 13-point fourth-quarter deficit to take the lead, but Tyler Murphy ran 57 yards for a touchdown on a third-down play with 2:59 to go to lift the Eagles to a 33-31 win.
Miami grinds turnover-prone Virginia Tech, 30-6
Duke Johnson ran for 249 yards, the Miami defense held Virginia Tech scoreless until the final two minutes, and the Hurricanes dominated the Hokies in a 30-6 win in ACC football action in Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Va., Thursday night.
ACC moves Miami-Virginia Tech kickoff on Oct. 23 to 8 p.m.
The Atlantic Coast Conference on Wednesday announced that the kickoff time for the Miami at Virginia Tech game, which will be played on Thursday. Oct. 23, at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, has been moved to 8 p.m. (ET).
ECU upsets #17 Virginia Tech, 28-21
East Carolina was on the verge of blowing Virginia Tech out of Lane Stadium, but the Hokies came all the way back from a 21-0 first-quarter deficit to tie the game with 1:20 to go, only to give it up in the final seconds on a 1-yard quarterback sneak by Shane Carden as the Pirates upset #17 Virginia Tech, 28-21, on Saturday.
Can Virginia Tech upset Ohio State? Oh, yeah
Virginia Tech football had this Saturday circled on its calendar from the moment the 2014 schedule was released earlier this year. Ohio State, in the Horseshoe, a chance for the Hokies to get a program-defining road win against a national power.
Press Conference: Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer
Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with reporters about the Hokies' upcoming season opener at home against William and Mary on Saturday
Is Virginia Tech vulnerable in William and Mary season opener?
Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer made official over the weekend what a lot of us thought was inevitable in naming Texas Tech transfer Michael Brewer the starting quarterback for the Hokies' opener with William and Mary this weekend.
Michael Brewer named Virginia Tech starting quarterback
Virginia Tech head football coach Frank Beamer announced Saturday that junior transfer Michael Brewer will lead the Hokies as starting quarterback in just one week against William & Mary.
Maryland shocks Virginia Tech football, 27-24
C.J. Brown stretched out to touch the ball to the pylon on a 3-yard run in overtime to lift Maryland to a shocking 27-24 overtime win at Virginia Tech on Saturday. The loss puts a serious dent in Virginia Tech's ACC title hopes. Virginia Tech (7-4, 4-3 ACC) needs a win at Virginia in its season finale in two weeks and still will need some help to get to Charlotte.
Duke shocks #14 Virginia Tech, 14-10
Duke converted just one third down. It was a fourth-down conversion that sealed the deal against Virginia Tech. The Blue Devils took a 13-0 third-quarter lead in Lane Stadium and then held off a late Hokie rally to post perhaps the biggest win in school history, 13-10, on Saturday.
Virginia Tech, Ohio State to play on 2015 Labor Day night
Virginia Tech and Ohio State have agreed to move the return game of their football home-and-home series in 2015 to Labor Day Monday night, Sept. 7, the two schools announced Wednesday.


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Zodwa Wabantu is often making headlines for her controversial behaviour. This time she did what many people consider a big taboo - she bought her own coffin. Taking to social media, Zodwa said she wants to be ready for when she needs to be buried.
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Zodwa Wabantu doesn't care what people say or think about her, she does her thing without considering other people's judgement.
She recently shared on social media that she had invested in her own coffin, saying that she doesn't want her family to worry about her after she died.
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In general, it is considered taboo and bad luck to pick out your own coffin, and Zodwa actually got insider hers, which is really frowned upon.
It doesn't look like she really cared though.
Briefly.co.za learned that fans of the dancer and entertainer weren't all impressed with her behaviour:
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andile_zungu_xaba2 - Ive seen it all but this 1 idlulele.
moosa_mrs - It's a taboo to buy a coffin or fit yourself in 1 zodwa
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However, some of Zodwa's fans were inspired by her rebellious decision to go against what is considered taboo and will follow in her footsteps.
kasongooneill - You are focused and determined.. I will do the same too
singelle @zodwalibram if people buy burial stands, why not the coffin of your dreams? Black people have evolved. It's easier to talk about death now than in our parents' time.
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A LEADING Scottish courier firm is helping to make a difference after donating to one of the country's largest sports clubs for the LGBT community.
Bathgate-based Eagle Couriers has donated £200 to Glasgow FrontRunners – an award-winning road-running group with strong links to Glasgow's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
Based at The Arc Sports Complex at Glasgow Caledonian University, the group runs three nights a week, with 30 to 50 runners of varying abilities taking part.
Jack Kelly, Mens Club Captain of Glasgow FrontRunners, said: "We are thrilled to receive the donation from Eagle Couriers. We met members of its staff at a Park Run event and hit it off from there.
"The cash will help us to continue to provide a group that not only focuses on the health benefits of running but also offers a social opportunity to build and create friendships – whether or not you are part of the LGBT+ community.
"We have many different types of people who take part in our runs of varying levels. Our group is all inclusive, anyone is welcome – we have everyone from serious runners to first timers and those who just want to run a weekly 5K.
"Our most recent challenge was the Isle of Skye Half Marathon. We had a team of over 20 runners attend and all the training really paid off."
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OUTrun is a five-mile, timed event with a route that mixes flat paths and small hills. Organised by Glasgow FrontRunners, the event is an inclusive sporting event that is open to all and it aims to raise awareness of the lack of LGBT+ community involvement.
Jack added: "OUTrun is our big yearly event that attracts around 450 people.
"Usually the event falls at the same time as Glasgow Pride, but this year is a slight exception, taking place on Saturday 18th August.
"Our charity partner for OUTrun this year is the Scottish Association of Mental Health (SAMH) – a very fitting cause as mental health issues are more prominent in the LGBT+ community than any other.
"We are looking forward to hosting another successful event this year and welcome anyone who is interested in signing up and getting involved."
Glasgow FrontRunners is part of a global organisation spanning North America and Europe. Glasgow's group is the second biggest in the UK, promoting the visibility of LGBT people in sport.
Speaking of their donation to the group, Jerry Stewart, Co-Director of Eagle Couriers, said: "The work that Glasgow FrontRunners is doing to integrate LGBT people into sports communities is fantastic.
"We hope that our donation will help towards expanding the group further and raising awareness, while allowing those who may not have had the confidence before to join in and get running."
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How a black man 'outsmarted' a neo-Nazi group and became their new leader
To understand how Stern came to overtake Schoep's organization, you first must understand how the Michigan neo-Nazi came to find the California activist.
Stern says that while serving prison time in Mississippi for mail fraud, he formed a relationship with his cellmate and onetime Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Edgar Ray Killen. The KKK leader had been convicted in the "Mississippi Burning" killings of three civil rights workers. Though Killen regularly called Stern a racial slur, he nevertheless granted his cellmate power of attorney over his life story and estate.
Stern was paroled from prison in 2011. In 2016, he used his legal discretion to dissolve the Klan organization that Killen once led. That was his first successful infiltration, and the lore of Stern's relationship with the KKK leader is what Stern says first drew Schoep in.
In 2014, Schoep called Stern to inquire about his relationship with Killen, the activist said. Schoep asked to see the man's prison ID card and said Stern was the first black man his organization had reached out to since Malcolm X. Stern said he searched Schoep's name, discovered he was a white supremacist, then arranged for the two to meet in California for a small race-relations summit.
The two fostered a strange kind of relationship, Stern said.
Schoep and Stern remained firmly entrenched in their political camps, he said, fundamentally opposed to what the other represents. But they also engaged in regular debate: about the Holocaust, the ugliness of the Nazi swastika, the fallibility of Schoep's white-nationalist ideals and, most critically, the fate of his hate group.
The goal, Stern claims, was always to try to change Schoep's mind.
"From day one, I always told him: 'I don't agree with you; I don't like you,' " Stern said. "I talked to him because I wanted to hope to change him."
Stern did not change Schoep's beliefs.
But according to Stern's version of recent events, he was able to accomplish the next best thing.
In early 2019, Stern said Schoep came to him for legal advice on the lawsuit, which was filed in 2017 by a Charlottesville counterprotester against NSM and other white-nationalist groups that attended the Unite the Right rally.
Schoep seemed "rattled," Stern said, and began talking about making a change. "I was hoping he was talking about his ideology," Stern said.
Instead, Stern said the white-nationalist leader called NSM an "albatross hanging around his neck" and said he was looking for ways to get out. He still held the same beliefs, Stern said, but he was ready to cut ties with NSM and start a new organization because he felt underappreciated by his followers and left out of the mainstream white-nationalist movement that had swept the country in the wake of the 2016 presidential election.
Schoep was concerned about the repercussions of the Charlottesville lawsuit and the legal bills he was shouldering, Stern said, and he confided in the California activist as he sought solutions.
"I saw a crack in that armor," Stern said.
So he encouraged Schoep to get a fresh start by handing Stern the control of the Detroit-based organization and website.
Schoep said yes.
"He knew that he had the most vulnerable, the most loose-cannon members that they had ever had in the organization," Stern said. "He realized somebody was going to commit a crime, and he was going to be held responsible for it."
Stern says he's preparing for what comes next and is seeking guidance from Jewish leaders. He said he does not plan to dissolve the corporation because he doesn't want Schoep's followers, or others in the white-nationalist movement, to reincorporate it.
Stern admits his plans for the website are still evolving, but his primary goal is to offer it as a reclaimed space to Jewish organizations that could help him educate NSM's followers on the history of the Holocaust.
"Everything is out in the open," Stern said. "My plans and intentions are not to let this group prosper. It's my goal to set some hard records right."
Schoep took control of NSM in 1994 and was responsible for growing its membership and brand as an organization of Holocaust deniers and Adolf Hitler acolytes. The group maintains a website that draws in millions of visitors from around the world, Stern said, and has organized public rallies across the county.
The group, whose members wear SS-like uniforms that mirror those worn in Nazi Germany, was founded under a different name in 1974 by two former officials of the American Nazi Party, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. "Signing over leadership of an organization this old is the equivalent of a death sentence in the white-nationalist movement," said Keegan Hankes, an SPLC research analyst. "It's one of the strangest things I've seen since I started tracking these things five years ago."
Several of the people listed on the NSM website as leaders within the organization did not respond to a request for comment from The Post on Friday. One man, who identifies himself as SS Capt. Harry L. Hughes III and is listed as the public relations director for NSM, said in an email that he is "not involved in the NSM's legal affairs" and was "not at liberty to discuss anything, until Commander Schoep personally makes a statement."
"Just like you and the rest of the media, I'm waiting in suspense, too," Hughes added.
Matthew Heimbach, a leading white-nationalist figure who briefly served last year as the organization's community outreach person, told the Associated Press that there has been conflict between NSM's leaders, including Schoep, and its membership. Heimbach estimated the group had 40 dues-paying members last year.
The biggest challenge the group has faced, Hankes said, was being outshone by the more refined efforts of new alt-right leaders such as Richard Spencer. There was tension within the organization about the need for a shift to a less violent, less explicit brand of neo-Nazism, he said.
"A lot of these groups see [NSM] as extremely detrimental to anything regarding identity politics," Hankes said.
Stern told The Post that he and Schoep discussed this infighting and that Schoep expressed a desire to leave NSM behind and start a new organization with less baggage.
Schoep offered a different perspective in his statement: "I realize that there is a lot of confusion right now, and ongoing legal matters prevent me from being more thorough in my explanation of events. Regardless, it is important for me to communicate that my actions are always done for a reason, and I would never purposefully damage the organization I have spent so many years serving."
Though Schoep is no longer legally affiliated with NSM, he still faces the lawsuit because he is listed as a defendant.
"It's definitely not good for him, and it shouldn't be good for him," Stern said. "You spend 25 years terrorizing people, you can't rebrand overnight. It doesn't work like that."
Stern, who runs Racial Reconciliation Outreach Ministries, is still sorting through the legal intricacies his NSM leadership entails. He is listed as the attorney representing NSM in court filings, but a judge ruled Friday that he cannot be NSM's lawyer because corporations are not legally authorized to represent themselves in court.
Stern said he is working on hiring an outside lawyer to refile his motion for a summary judgment on the lawsuit. He has also offered the plaintiff's attorneys full access to NSM social media accounts, he said, because he claims to own those, too.
"Say what you want about me," Stern said. "But I've done this twice now."
Our Increasingly Fascist Public Discourse
Consider the concept of "European Enlightenment," which has no singular philosophical meaning. As a taxonomical category, it could include philosophers as fundamentally opposed as Hume and Kant. Some of its figures, not least Kant, were the chief proponents of concepts that fascists roundly reject (namely, universal human dignity).
.. Nonetheless, European far-right politicians have subtly adopted talk of the Enlightenment as a way to smuggle in more bald-faced claims of European superiority. For example, Antwerp mayor Bart De Wever, an outspoken Flemish nationalist, recently started referring to the Enlightenment as "the software" of "the grand narrative of the European culture." Borrowing from British philosopher Roger Scruton, he argues that "the European Enlightenment" and nationalism are complementary, rather than opposed. In De Wever, one finds significant overlap with Faye. For example, both condemn liberalism and socialism as leading to "open borders," "safe spaces," "laws that protect feelings," and the dissolution of parental authority.
.. By contrast, consider the case of Steve King, a Republican member of the US House of Representatives from Iowa, who recently caused a controversy by asking how language like "white nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization" had "become offensive." King apparently did not get the memo about striving for respectability. But the rest of his party did. Following a public outcry, congressional Republicans stripped King of his positions on the House Judiciary and Agriculture Committees. Though he had made similarly offensive statements in the past, the Republican Party saw an opportunity to assert its relative respectability. And so, King was thrown to the wolves for expressing views that many of his fellow party Republicans – beginning with its 2016 presidential nominee – no doubt share.
.. And yet, reading European fascists' metapolitical dictionaries is deeply disconcerting, because one finds that much of the language – and the concomitant ways of thinking – has already achieved mainstream status.
Faye, for example, denounces anti-racism as a doctrine that "encourages discrimination in favor of aliens, the dissolution of European identity, the multiracialization of European society, and, at root, paradoxically, racism itself." When that was written in 2001, it seemed ridiculous. To say that anti-racism is racism is a classic fascist inversion of ideals (war is peace, corruption is anti-corruption, authority is freedom). But now consider what has happened in the intervening years. The concept of "reverse racism" has become mainstream.
When Faye asserts that anti-racism is the "[t]ouchstone of the self-righteous" and "the most advanced expression of postmodern totalitarian ideology," his diatribe becomes obviously unhinged. But aside from the level of hyperbole, is his argument really so different than the brilliant Columbia University linguist John McWhorter's description of "Antiracism" as "a new and increasingly dominant religion?"
Or, consider the issue of "political correctness," defined by Friberg as "a pejorative normally used for a set of values and opinions from which individuals are not allowed to deviate without falling victim to social and/or media sanctions." In the two excerpts below, both from Friberg's work, it is genuinely hard to tell whether the author is Friberg or one of any number of US-based "classical liberals" decrying the latest trends on college campuses:
.. To take a final example, attacks against so-called cultural Marxism seem to have become mainstream within academia. But, as Yale University's Samuel Moyn recently pointed out, the term itself is a recycled anti-Semitic trope that has been bouncing around on fascist message boards for years.
In reading Faye and Friberg and seeing the many overlaps with contemporary political discourse, it is difficult to avoid the thought that the fascists are winning the semantic war. To be sure, many of the American and European liberals wringing their hands about the "far left" and gender studies would reject Nietzsche and be called, by the far right, "globalists." These are not fascists. And yet, we should not forget how easy it has been for some thinkers and politicians – Germany's FDP is our era's Exhibit A – to drift there from neoliberalism.
Similar slippages can occur in other areas. For example, some anti-nationalist public intellectuals are increasingly pressing for a debate about IQ differences between racial groups, if only to signal their own commitment to the truth. And others are urging us to recognize the Enlightenment as the signal achievement of civilization, as if it was the Europeans who invented reason and bestowed it on the rest of humankind. As Gingrich understood when he included terms like "debate" and "listen" on the positive side of his ledger, appeals to reason can serve almost any end. Hence, Friberg assures us that reason is on the side of limited immigration.
Likewise, fascist ideologues constantly hold up and defend meritocracy as an ideal. But so, too, do all of the "globalists," as well as the libertarians in Silicon Valley. In the event of an environmental catastrophe, it is not difficult to imagine free marketeers opting for ultra-nationalism as the best survival strategy, or tech billionaires deciding that society should be run by the "winners" – that is, people like them.
.. In its original usage, the term "alt-right" encapsulated somewhat distinct anti-democratic ideologies, among them the philosopher Nick Land's "Dark Enlightenment." According to Land, democracy is inevitably corrupting, and democratic states thus should be replaced by "Gov-Corps" that are run as corporations and managed by a CEO. The guiding principle would be "No voice, free exit," meaning that citizens would have no say in policymaking, but could leave whenever they wanted (as if self-exile – one of the harshest punishments throughout antiquity – is cost-free)
According to Quartz's Olivia Goldhill, the Dark Enlightenment has attracted a number of prominent supporters in Silicon Valley, including, apparently, the venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who has been channeling some of its tenets in his speeches.
Scholars who write about the Dark Enlightenment have employed the term "fascism" to describe it. The danger now is that distinct far-right anti-democratic movements, from European and American ethno-nationalism to techno-corporatist strains like the Dark Enlightenment, are converging, albeit with supporters who have been drawn in for different reasons.
.. the objective of fascist metapolitical dictionaries like those by Faye and Friberg is to insinuate innocent-sounding terms into public discourse in order to make once-unacceptable anti-democratic ideologies seem benign, thereby lessening public opposition to, if not licensing, anti-democratic action. When the fundamental democratic principle of equal respect is recast as "political correctness," it is no surprise that people would become more accepting of politicians calling entire immigrant groups "rapists" and "snakes."
.. we do not know if it is possible to adopt the language of hysteria about leftists, unions, Marxism, gender, and immigrants without also adopting other parts of the fascist package.
.. Intellectuals from Klemperer to James Baldwin have warned us about the costs of defeat in the semantic war, which we lose by adopting the vocabulary of our enemies.
Postmodernism didn't cause Trump. It explains him.
We get the term "postmodern," at least in its current, philosophical sense, from the title of Jean-François Lyotard's 1979 book, "The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge." It described the state of our era by building out Lyotard's observations that society was becoming a "consumer society," a "media society" and a "postindustrial society," as postmodern theorist Fredric Jameson points out in his foreword to Lyotard's book. Lyotard saw these large-scale shifts as game-changers for art, science and the broader question of how we know what we know. This was a diagnosis, not a political outcome that he and other postmodernist theorists agitated to bring about.Another thinker, Jean Baudrillard, developed the concept of the "simulacrum," a copy without an original, that leads to the "hyperreal," a collection of signs or images purporting to represent something that actually exists (such as photos of wartime combat) but ultimately portraying a wild distortion not drawn from reality... By the 1980s, conservative scholars like Allan Bloom — author of the influential "The Closing of the American Mind" — challenged postmodern theorists, not necessarily for their diagnosis of the postmodern condition but for accepting that condition as inevitable... Unlike so many of today's critics, Bloom understood that postmodernism didn't emerge simply from the pet theories of wayward English professors. Instead, he saw it as a cultural moment brought on by forces greater than the university... Bloom was particularly worried about students — as reflections of society at large — pursuing commercial interests above truth or wisdom. Describing what he saw as the insidious influence of pop music, Bloom lamented "parents' loss of control over their children's moral education at a time when no one else is seriously concerned with it." He called the rock music industry "perfect capitalism, supplying to demand and helping create it," with "all the moral dignity of drug trafficking.".. Kimball called "Tenured Radicals," in his 1990 polemic against the academic left. At the heart of this accusation is the tendency to treat postmodernism as a form of left-wing politics — with its own set of tenets — rather than as a broader cultural moment that left-wing academics diagnosed... it treats Lyotard and his fellows as proponents of a world where objective truth loses all value, rather than analysts who wanted to explain why this had already happened... If you're going to claim that Trumpism and alt-right relativism are consequences of the academic left's supposition about what was happening, you must demonstrate a causal link. But commentators looking to trace these roots play so fast and loose with causality that they could easily be called postmodernist themselves... It is certainly correct that today's populist right employs relativistic arguments: For example, "identity politics" is bad when embraced by people of color, but "identitarianism" — white-nationalist identity politics — is good and necessary for white "survival." But simply because this happens after postmodernism doesn't mean it happens because of postmodernism.. figures such as "intelligent design" theorist Phillip Johnson and conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich cite the influence of postmodernist theory on their projects. Yet, as McIntyre acknowledges — and documents extensively in his book — right-wing think tanks and corporate-backed fronts — like tobacco industry "research" — had already established an "alternative facts" program for the right, long before creative misinformation entrepreneurs came around... because reading postmodern theory is so notoriously difficult — partly because of how philosophical jargon gets translated, and partly because so much of the writing is abstruse and occasionally unclarifiable — an undergraduate (as in Cernovich's case) or a layperson will almost inevitably come away with misreadings... Hannah Arendt's 1951 "The Origins of Totalitarianism": "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction . . . and the distinction between true and false . . . no longer exist.".. "The deliberate falsehood and the outright lie used as legitimate means to achieve political ends," writes Arendt in her 1971 essay "Lying in Politics ," "have been with us since the beginning of recorded history.".. Fredric Jameson's reflections on conspiracy theory ("the poor person's cognitive mapping in the postmodern age") aren't what's convincing people to believe that climate change is a hoax or that the Democratic Party has been running a pedophilia ring out of a Washington pizza parlor.
.. Likewise, the claim that the Trump-Russia investigation is — as Trump said on national television — a "made-up story," an "excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election," is not a postmodernist critique of the evidence the Mueller investigation has gathered. So it's a massive category error to call Trump's post-truth politics "postmodernist." It's just the say-anything chicanery of the old-fashioned sales pitch... it's clear that the real enemy of truth is not postmodernism but propaganda, the active distortion of truth for political purposes.Trumpism practices this form of distortion on a daily basis. The postmodernist theorists we vilify did not cause this; they've actually given us a framework to understand precisely how falsehood can masquerade as truth.


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