Central
Asia to che north of the Himalaya and the
Hlndu-Kush.
Austria was apparently neutral in the Cri?
mean war. That really hostile neutrality was
felt at the lime keenly by the Emperor Nicho?
las, who had promptly rendered services* to
Austria In her hour ol need, when she was
hard beset with Hungary and Bohemia. A
motive for Austrian Interference now either
for or against Russia might be found either in
her desire ot aggrandizement at the expense
of her dangerous German neighbor, or In
her fear of a disturbed balance of power In the
East. But she ls busy, under tfye prudent and
sagacious statesmanship of Von Beust In the
work of consolidation. Sadowa did not break
her power, but lt revealed her necessities.
Like England, she has no desire to interfere
unless compelled, and her action would
probably hang on the course of Prussia and
Italy;but she is nearest to the seat ot war,
and would be roused at once to an
armed neutrality. Her military strength
and her financial position fluctuates a little
under the internal changes taking place, but
her army expenditure ls about thirty-seven
millions of dollars; her army on the peace foot?
ing being 209,000 men ol' all classes, of which
102,000 are intanlry, 10,000 cavalry, 40,000 ar?
tillery and engineers, and the remainder gen?
darmerie and Irregulars; on the war footing It
exceeds 000.OOO. The Austrian navy consists
ot thirty-nine steamers, with 63? guns, of
which seven are Iron-clads, carrying a total of
176 guns. The Austrian difficulty ls financial.
Her finances have long been In a vexatious
condition, her expenditure exceeding her in?
come, and the whole debt being nearly six
hundred and fifty milllous of dollars. Her
population ol' Ihirty-flve millions is heteroge?
neous; but lt


we should have
upon our eastern irontler a Germany divided,
ruined, and muzzled for a century.
Mc Mu hon Facing Death-Teaching
Kings and Princes-The Marshal's
Last Battle.
A French officer who escaped to Belgium
writes :
To relate what McMahon did is impossible
steel, fire, melted metal, explosive balls, and I
don't know what other infernal mixturen the
Prnesains there made use of for the first time,
appeared to stream off or to rebonnd from him
like hail from a roof. He went to the front
seeking death. "Leive me. my friends," he
said to us al!; who soutrut to prevent him
from gointr forward, "let me show those
Kings, those Princes, who hide behind their
masses of men, that a marshal of France
knows how to fight, and, when beaten, how to
die." And be emited upon us a sad smile,
which made us weep, and reionbled ourCREPIDAM.
Among the many virtues or distinctive char?
acteristics of a people in whom there is much
that is good, with some exceptions, which are
common to frail humanity, lt is rather sur?
prising what a desire Jie new-fledged Import?
ed rulers ol South Carolina have of "showing up
the superior civilization of the North, and the
unprogret .? I veness of the unfortunate Southern
people. Senator Sawyer, in a recent letter to
the New York Lodger, dwells upon national
resources of the South and ol South Carolina
in particular; but lakes care to make us out a
very ignorant people in the science ol' agricul?
ture, stating that the overseers who formerly
scourged i he slaves, knew less of agriculture
than the slaves, Ac. Since the war we have
beard of many Northern capitalists com?
ing South, each desiring, to use their own lan?
guage, of


YORK, September 26.
The steamer Sarah Fish, of Maine, was
abandoned at sea In a sinking condition. Her
crew have been brought here by the New Or?
leans steamship Metropolis.
TBE NATHAN MURDER.
NEW YORK, September 25.
Kepllng was arrested near Beading, Pa.i .
charged with implication with the Nathan
murder. He was in New York when the mur?
der occurred. His arrest was caused by his
extravagant accounts o? bis exploits.
WILL Wosrex VOTE ?- Che recent ?leot?on in
Wyoming Territory may be taken a? pretty
conclusive answer to the questiun whether
Western women will vote in case they are per?
mitted to do so. Two ladies wera nominated
on the Republican ticket,'one for county clerk
and the other for school superintendent of one
of the counties in the Territory, and although
they were not elected, yet they ran ahead of
the gentlemen npon the same ticket. The
ladiesalmost universally voted. Thc scene at
the polls in Cheyenne is thus described by an
Iowa pape;- :
The ladies, with a few excepticpns, "were
brought to the polls in carriage and omni?
buses, deposited their ballots and immediate?
ly stepped in again and were driven home. One
inotdent of the day waa worth relating. The
oldest woman- perhaps the^ojdesl person-in
Cheyenne, 80 years of ago, wont to the nolls
and voted her firet ballot. When she alighted
from the baggy the whole crowd surrounding
tho polls. Republicans and Democrat, took off
their hats while she marched through and de-,
posited her vote. When she turned to go
away, three cheers were called for, and given
so rousmgly that they were heard tit several
squares. She'll be likely to remember her
mat billot while she liveB. The ladies didnfc
all vote one way by o ny moana.


My blog has traveled around the world as I have transferred from country to country with Peace Corps. I spent 6 months in Guinea teaching chemistry and physics but had to leave when the Guinea program was suspended due to political unrest. I spent about a month in Mali and then transferred to Burkina Faso. I was a math teacher. I have now transferred to Asia and am an English teacher at a university. This will be my sixth and last year in Peace Corps.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

As a young girl, my favorite food was Chinese dumplings called jiaozi.

Here in China, it is one of the first words Americans learn, an easy dish to order at a restaurant. We only soon realize that restaurants don't serve jiaozi. Youopen when placed in the boiling water. I was proud and was rewarded with a tummy full of the most delicious things ever.

For dinner the ingredients we bought became a cucumber and thousand year old duck egg soup, a bak choy stir fry, a dried tofu and green onions stir fry, and jiaozi leftover from today's lunch that was rewarmed by deep frying. Yum yum!!!

I am excited about learning how to cook Chinese food.I shall invite you to Chinese meal when I get back to the states.


Q:

Did Gideon build two Altars in one night in Judges 6?

(KJV) judges 6:24

24 Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovahshalom:  unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

It seems in the above text Gideon built an altar were he offered unleavened cakes,but in the following text he seems to build another altar were he offered the bullock
(KJV) Judges 6:25

25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:  26 And build an altar unto the LORD thy Godupon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.

Could this be two different altars or one & the same altar?

A:

Firstly, the altars are in 2 different places, as noted in the verses themselves. The first was built in "Ophrah of the Abiezrites" (where Gideon had been before destroying Baal), and the second was built where Baal had been ("upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place").
Also, any readings of 6:28 imply that a second altar had been built.  See:

Early the next morning, as the people of the town began to stir, someone discovered that the altar of Baal had been broken


down and that the Asherah pole beside it had been cut down. In their place a new altar had been built, and on it were the remains of the bull that had been sacrificed. (NLT)
In the morning when the people of the town got up, there was Baal's altar, demolished, with the Asherah pole beside it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar! (NIV)

The relation of the South to the Union became the subject of discussion with the first signs of Federal victory, and grew acute with the close of hostilities. If secession, as the Lincoln administration had claimed, was unconstitutional and the Southern states had never been out of the Union, it seemed logical for those states to resume their functions under the Constitution, by participating in Federal elections, by sending representatives to Congress, and by exercising other rights generally guaranteed to the states. Such a policy was in harmony with antebellum nationalism, and it was advocated by leading Southerners. But such a procedure did not harmonize with the new sense of nationality; it made no guarantee against another experiment in secession; and it might also restore to political authority


in the South the very class that had been in power in 1860. For these reasons four contrary theories were evolved. They were given the names Presidential, State Suicide, Conquered Province, and Forfeited Rights. According to the Presidential theory, the Southern states, though they had never been out of the Union, no longer had constitutional governments. To establish such governments, representative in form and loyal to the Union, the President proposed to lend aid, and even to exercise a certain amount of control. This theory was formulated by Lincoln and was notable for its liberal conditions, which the Southerners might easily fulfil. Application was attempted in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee. But the Presidential plan was too lenient for the leaders of Congress, even under the stricter terms imposedby Andrew Johnson. Hence Charles Sumner advanced the theory of State Suicide. Although the states had not been out of the Union, the adoption of ordinances of
secession had caused them to commit felo de se, and they were, therefore, in the status of territories, for which Congress should prescribe rules and regulations. More extreme was the Conquered Province theory of Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, which held that the states in question had lost all their rights under the Constitution, and were merely so much conquered territory, possessing only the rights they might claim under international law. Finally, by the Forfeited Rights theory, the states had never been out of the Union, but had forfeited certain rights under the Constitution, which could be restored only through the direction of


to manufacture F-16 aircrafts here but he did not specify a time-frame.

While India’s low-cost capabilities and engineering skills can make the manufacturing of F-16 cost-competitive, Lockheed Martin is reportedly looking for contractual commitment for its fighter jets from the Indian government.

Lockheed Martin, which has been present in India for the last two decades, supplied six C130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft to India in 2011. It is also scheduled to deliver six helicopters in 2017.The Zombie Horror campaign continues in Amorset, somewhere in the Northwestern U.S.A. This time around, three new recruits join the fray. It has been a single day since all hell broke loose within the city limits of Amorsetville and those that are able have fled, spreading out into the suburbs and surrounding rural county. The radio and television have been broadcasting a general emergency signal stressing all citizens to remain where they are at as the army deploys from the Amorsetville base in a rescue capacity.

Street Walkin’

Three figures trudged, loping with exhaustion through a sea of boiling air dancing over the hot pavement of the Old County Highway in the midday sun. All three puzzled by the complete lack of traffic along the road. It was terribly quiet,


even the sounds of nature that should be abundant out here were non-existent. They could feel the alien silence pressing on their eardrums save for the soft scraping of their feet over the rough road. A couple of hours previously, the motley trio had leaped into the older guy’s car and fled the city during a chaotic night of blood and fire. Their car, an old surplus police car, stranding them on the old road after parking for a brief respite. When the older fella tried to turn it over, he found the battery dead. Thus, they abandoned it knowing that there was a junkyard “somewhere around here”.

The elder car owner, Steve McCullen (played by Cris) was a Supernaturalist convinced that the outbreak had a supernatural origin focusedin the old cemetery that was also located in the rural county. His companions were Kenny Logan (played by Carlitos) an off-duty soldier from the Amorsetville base and William Fodder (played by Carlos) a quiet survivalist that actually lived just off the road in the hills. After what seemed like ages, baking under a hot afternoon sun on the blacktop, Kenny spotted what appeared to be a biker at a distance of a few hundred feet shambling clumsily towards them. He was on foot, dressed in a bloodstained denim vest and equally stained denim bell-bottom pants. He also appeared to have several large bullet holes in his chest and belly.

Steve kissed one of the charms amongst the various religious symbols he wore around his neck, pulled his bow


glass all over the driveway outside the gate. El Guapo shared the story of the gunfight the previous night with the outlaw bikers.

Steve was talking to Lilith. Her “goth senses” were tingling and she found the longhaired Supernaturalist very appealing. Kenny talked with El Guapo and Wesley. He wanted to get himself back on base thinking the military probably had a plan. At a minimum, that would be the safest place to be, as close to the army as possible. William remained silent but was extremely distrustful of the government and was not going to go with that plan.

Carlos: “Yeah dude, I’m not gonna go with that plan man. Sorry.”

After all, William believed the military was responsible for this in the first place. He hugged his rifle tighterGM (me): “The four that walked up on Lilith and Wesley and three in the driveway, then you dragged two from the driveway and the four corpses in behind the garage.”

Gil: “But. I shot ‘em all in the head. Right?”

The GM (checking notes): “The driver from the pickup was the one you guys shot in the face and the other four… Yes, double-tap situation.”

Gil: “That’s six right? And five in the head?”

The GM: “Yupperooni.”

El Guapo: “Uh-oh.”

EL Guapo and Kenny barged into the office and warned William and Wesley that there was probably a walker loose in the yard. They were to stay put and watch the monitors while El Guapo and Kenny tracked it down. Eventually, after several tense moments, the pair of hunters picked up a trail


of blood. As they stalked between rows of the high stacks of crushed cars, pillars of old tires, and mountainous piles of scrap, they had a softly spoken conversation. As a result, they realized the biker that Kenny and his two companions had met on the road was probably a biker killed by El Guapo and the two women during the shootout. They had just forgotten the corpse by the driveway outside of the fence.

El Guapo tracked the blood trail further into the maze of junk. Eventually, he lost it. Kenny tried to keep an eye out but started to try to help El Guapo to find it again. They were out of the view of any cameras. Both were kneeling studying the ground when Kenny, by chance,long before Lilith had the car hood up and replacing the battery in lieu of any conversation. Steve was just standing around awkwardly trying to keep watch for any trouble. Lilith was almost finished when Steve spotted several zombies filtering out of the woods onto the highway some badly rotted. “Damn, it must be the old cemetery.” Lilith finished, slammed the hood, and they got into their respective vehicles. Getting the lead out and into their gas-pedal, the pair made it back in half the time to the wrecking yard. However, before he had completely left the zombies in the dust Steve had seen through his rearview mirror that the road was filling up with zombies, it was a large horde. “Aw man! They’re gonna follow the f*&#@ing


cars!”

It was already dark by the time they had got back and alerted the others. They decided that Lilith would finish her car ASAP and create a portable makeshift flamethrower for Kenny (he could use one after all), and three others would take turns keeping watch from the garage roof. Kenny was already there though it was not yet first watch, he would stay until the watches started. After William relieved him, he went into the office and decided to try to get in touch with the base and let them know his location using the CB.

Kenny was soon able to get in contact with his base. At least they had the proper code words. Through intermittent static, he got orders to stay put and got some informationabout the checkpoints at the borders of the county and other side of the city having problems. The communique ended abruptly, the signal dropped and Kenny was unable to re-establish communications.

Suddenly, William shouted from the rooftop. Ten Zombies were at the chain-link gate. It looked as if it were going be pushed down at any minute. Fortunately, the rest of the fence had an outer shell of old aluminum siding and was plenty sturdy. The metal gate groaned.

Fight with Fire

The group of zombies at the gate pressed themselves into the chain-link seemingly oblivious to the presence of the living within. That was until El Guapo and Kenny ran into the driveway before the gate shouting. Immediately the zombies surged and the gung-ho pair could hear the metal gate


strain.

Gil: “We probably should have stayed out of sight.”

Kenny readied his M-16 and El Guapo his AK-47. Atop the garage, William put a foot on the elevated edge of the roof and got into firing position with his rifle at the ready. Steve ran around and stayed half-hidden around the corner of the garage knocking an arrow to his bow. Lilith and Wesley stayed inside of the garage still rushing to finish building the flamethrower having finished upgrading Lilith’s Chevrolet.

Kenny and El Guapo swept the driveway area at a 45-degree angle at head level taking out only about three zombies in total. A shot rang out, a halo of blood and brains around a blonde head, a single zombie dropped. William’s carefully aimed shot had paid off. Elstraight through but it had still broken the bone. He would need a splint to walk. As a result, Steve, Lilith, and even Kenny himself had tried to splint the leg but it still took several tries before Lilith and Steve in a conjoined effort finally got it right. Fortunately, no one had further injured him.

Afterward, Steve went outside the gate. He took out a can of silver spray paint from his backpack and spray painted protective magical runes on the aluminum sheeting of the fence.

Steve (admiring his handiwork): “There, that’ll protect us for a while.”

Little Boy

By the next morning, the gang was ready to move out. El Guapo was ready to leave his custom chopper to ride in the wrecker with Kenny and his flamethrower. However, before


they left, Lilith was going to mount a few plates of armor on it as well bolt the snowplow on the front. While she did this assisted by Wesley, Kenny and El Guapo decided to make Molotov cocktails. By the time the wrecker was armored, by early afternoon, the pair had produced about 5 Molotovs apiece. They put four cocktails in Lilith’s car.

Steve’s old police car, the wrecker with Kenny and El Guapo, and Lilith in her armored Chevrolet sedan began to move out convoy style. However, during their eagerness to leave, somehow Wesley, Lilith’s father aka the Old Man, and William wound up in Lilith’s car along with a substantial load of supplies. Steve was left riding alone.

All of them noticed that a deep thumping sound beganto beat on their eardrums and into their chests. This sound was growing more intense by the second until it began to jostle the junk strewn around the vehicles. The caravan of cars pulled to the front gate slowly and stopped. Lilith’s car was in the lead with the tow truck at the rear. Lilith got out of her car to undo the lock on the gate. The thumping was shaking the cars. Kenny shouted. They could all see a large green helmeted head above the tin-sheet fence. It was moving up and down in time with the thumps. The thing came into full view slowly. Lilith ran back to her car and shut the door. The tow truck tore off in a U-turn and took off in


without effort. Thinking quick, Kenny fired his M-16 at the oil barrels and gas containers near the front gate. Miraculously they exploded and spread burning oil over the driveway. The giant monster stopped and flung an overlong arm seemingly to protect its non-existent face. However, during this brief respite, Lilith panicking had a hard time trying to three-point turn her way around while the other two vehicles were turning around and going out the rear off-road exit to the yard. Staring at that massive zombie-tank, Kenny had a sudden flash of memory.

Weeks ago while jerking around on base; Kenny had stumbled into a “secure area” run by both the government and some corporation. He wandered down the wrong hallway and through an open bay door where he spottedshattering on the angled steel of the snowplow. In turn, Lilith hit the gas and got a corpse stuck in her wheel well stopping her dead in the middle of the gore trail surrounded by several zombies. Steve hit his gas trying to connect with Lilith’s bumper in an attempt to push her out but he only succeeded in getting himself stuck as well.

Seeing this, the tow truck backed up while Kenny climbed out of the window onto the wench with flamethrower on his back. He lowered the hook then used his flamethrower to keep the horde at bay away from the cars as El Guapo leaped out and hooked up Lilith’s car. A few seconds later and Lilith and her passengers were free of the zombie hoard.


his protection runes failed to work on it. Wesley was utterly distrustful of the government at this point and planning to murder Kenny before he could contact the army again. Lilith glanced at her father in the backseat he was asleep. She resolved to get some sleep finally.

After the third session of the Zombie Horror game (the Corpse World campaign), my wife Jenn and I were driving home on the 10 freeway going into Cherry Valley. We had just entered a stretch where it sank into the rising hills and where lights other than on the freeway were sparse. I was drunk and pleased that I had got through all of my bullet points slouching in my seat ready to sleep staring out at the black silhouettes ofhave been banned from wearing even small cross necklaces, but allowed to wear turbans, Hindu ponytails, or any other jewelry with religious symbolism. This made the front page of a major UK newspaper.

Brian Camenker (founder of MassResistance) and Sally Kern followed, and there were closing remarks from Scott Lively.

Diamond and Christian Concern have a number of US links already: Christian Concern takes advice from the Alliance Defense Fund and is a “partner” of the World Congress of Families. Last November, Diamond and Christian Concern’s director, Andrea Minichiello Williams, also forged links with the EDL-supporting Tennessee Freedom Coalition.

However, Lively is a particularly controversial figure – he is famously the co-author of a book blaming gay people for the Holocaust, and he has been linked to authoritarian anti-gay measures in


Russia and Uganda. Brett Edward Stout noted the Russian situation in March:

Pouncing on antigay momentum around the 2006 ban on the Moscow Pride parade [blogged here – RB], American evangelist Scott Lively wrote a letter to the Russian people after completing a speaking tour in the country… Through his tour, Lively closely allied himself with the Russian Orthodoxy and presented its adherents with a road map to protect themselves from what they saw as gay propaganda.

Of the several steps he lays out, the third is this: “Criminalize the public advocacy of homosexuality. My philosophy is to leave homosexuals alone if they keep their lifestyle private, and not to force them into therapy if they don’t want it. However, homosexuality is destructive to individuals and to society and itlife in the “caliphate.”

Mostly in their late teens or early 20s, current ISIS members can prey on the curious through social media platforms like Twitter, Tumblr, Telegram, and Kik, where they exchange verses of the Quran, propaganda, speeches of English- and Arabic-speaking radical preachers, news about the Islamic State and, critically, shower women with friendship. Inevitably, being teens, they do so in what’s emerged as an ersatz of jihadist-cool patois, using slang and emojis mixed with a handful of Islamic phrases.

Some of the most ardent among them, like Umm Ubaydah (@al_Khanssaa, like the name of the all-female brigade) and her friends—Umm Layth, and Umm Haritha, a Canadian immigrant whose online moniker is @bintladen—took their online adulation offline, moving from Europe and North America to Raqqa to find ISIS


husbands and encouraging other women to follow in their footsteps. The women believe that joining ISIS, and participating in its jihad, will secure their place in paradise and give them the opportunity to take part in the construction of a utopian society.

ISIS recruiters principally target young women living in the West. Aqsa Mahmood, for example, targets young women and girls in the U.K. The three girls who disappeared from Bethnal Green Academy in February were in communication with her before their departure. Huda Muthawny (from Alabama) is said to be luring American girls, and one woman, named Bushra living in Saudi Arabia, regularly posts in Italian to encourage Italian women to move to the “caliphate” and become ISIS brides.

The women of ISIS appear to have established networks acrossObama administration veterans. “If history is any guide, she should have an opportunity to get a second look.”

SEARCHING FOR A SECOND LOOK

Gillibrand, 52, sought that second look in three Midwestern states Trump wrested from Democrats in the 2016 presidential election, touting a political resume she cited as proof she could win over more conservative and swing voters.

Before joining the Senate, she represented a heavily Republican congressional district in upstate New York that she was told she could not win as a Democrat.

After being appointed to fill the Senate seat vacated when Hillary Clinton became Barack Obama’s secretary of state, Gillibrand was re-elected in a 2010 special election. She won full terms in 2012 and 2018, when she carried nearly every county, including 18 Trump won in 2016.

While Gillibrand


is best known nationally for her work addressing sexual assault in the military and her call for former Democratic Senator Al Franken to resign over sexually inappropriate conduct, she notes she has spent the past decade on agriculture and infrastructure panels.

At modestly sized campaign events, Gillibrand took notes in a leatherbound notebook and said her “super power” is the ability to find common ground on any political issue with anyone, anywhere. Gillibrand leaned on her experience as a mother of 11- and 15-year-old sons to explain racial disparities in marijuana sentencing and “white privilege” to a mother who said white voters are also suffering. At more than one event she said her New York district was not unlike the Midwestern areas in which she campaigned.

“There is no substituteLast updated on .From the section Rugby League

Ben Evans reaches through a crowd to score Wales' fourth try

European Championship: Wales v Ireland Wales (20) 40 Tries: Butler, Lloyd, Bennion, Evans, Williams, Ralph Goals: Olds 8 Ireland (4) 8 Tries: Grix, King

Wales claimed a place at the 2021 World Cup with a 40-8 European Championship win over Ireland in Wrexham.

Tries from Chester Butler, Rhodri Lloyd, Gavin Bennion, Ben Evans, Rhys Williams and Josh Ralph saw Wales finish second in the table.

John Kear's side and European champions France qualify automatically for the World Cup finals in England.

Scott Grix and George King scored tries for Ireland, who along with Scotland must play further qualifiers in 2019.

Wales' healthy win was underpinned by the kicking of James Olds, who added eight goals.

Butler got


Wales on the front foot with an early try, touching down from Ralph's grubber kick.

Olds missed the conversion, but added a penalty goal when Ireland's Ethan Ryan was penalised for a high tackle.

Wales conceded four successive penalties to heap pressure on themselves, but determined defence prevented Ireland from crossing their try line.

Having survived that scare, Wales produced a second try that was a carbon-copy of the first - although this time it was Elliott Jenkins stabbing the ball in behind Ireland for Lloyd to score.

Forward Bennion - who had joined Swinton the previous day after being released by Salford - came off the bench to barge through some poor tackling for a third home try.

With Olds having added two conversions in between a penalty goal, Wales were intouchdown, marking his 30th appearance as he joined Jordan James and Ian Watson as their country's joint record cap holders.

George King added a second try for Ireland, but Ralph struck back for Wales as the half-back dropped his shoulder to wrong-foot a tiring defence and scamper over.

Wales finished with 12 men when Morris was sin-binned late on for a challenge in the air, but there was still time for Olds to kick his eighth goal and add extra gloss.

WALES SQUAD: Dalton Grant (Bradford Bulls), Josh Ralph (Easts Tigers), Chester Butler, Connor Davies, Curtis Davies, Dan Fleming, Sion Jones (Halifax), Ben Evans, Elliot Kear, Rhys Williams (London Broncos), Elliott Jenkins (Rochdale Hornets), Gavin Bennion (Swinton Lions), Ben Morris (St Helens), Mike Butt, Rhodri Lloyd (both Swinton Lions), Jake Emmitt


(Toronto Wolfpack), James Olds (West Brisbane Panthers), Morgan Evans, Steve Parry (West Wales Raiders).

IRELAND SQUAD: Michael Ward (Batley Bulldogs), Gregg McNally, Ethan Ryan (Bradford Bulls), Connor Phillips (Belfast Stags), Peter Ryan (Coventry Bears), Ed O'Keefe (Galway Tribesmen), Ronan Michael (Huddersfield Giants RL), Lewis Bienek (Hull FC), Gareth Gill (Longhorns RL), Tyrone McCarthy (Salford Red Devils), James Bentley (St Helens), Will Hope (Swinton Lions), Liam Finn, Scott Grix (Huddersfield Giants RL), George King (Wakefield Trinity), Alan McMahon (Waterford Vikings), Liam Byrne, Dec O'Donnell, Jack Higginson (Wigan Warriors).CPSU, the revisionist Khrushchov clique developed their revisionism into a complete system not only by rounding off their anti-revolutionary theories of "peaceful coexistence" and "peaceful transition" but also by declaring that the dictatorship of the proletariat is no longer necessary in the Soviet Union and advancing the absurd theories of the "state of the whole people" and the "party of the entire people".

The Programme put forward by the revisionist Khrushchov clique at the 22nd Congress of the CPSU is a programme of phoney communism, a revisionist programme against proletarian revolution and for the abolition of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the proletarian party.

The revisionist Khrushchov clique abolish the dictatorship of the proletariat behind the camouflage of the "state of the whole people", change the proletarian character of


the Communist Party of the Soviet Union behind the camouflage of the "party of the entire people" and pave the way for the restoration of capitalism behind that of "full-scale communist construction".

In its Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement dated June 14, 1963, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China pointed out that it is most absurd in theory and extremely harmful in practice to substitute the "state of the whole people" for the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the "party of the entire people" for the vanguard party of the proletariat. This substitution is a great historical retrogression which makes any transition to communism impossible and helps only to restore capitalism.

The Open Letter of the Central Committee ofthe CPSU and the press of the Soviet Union resort to sophistry in self-justification and charge that our criticisms of the "state of the whole people" and the "party of the entire people" are allegations "far removed from Marxism", betray "isolation from the life of the Soviet people" and are a demand that they "return to the past".

Well, let us ascertain who is actually far removed from Marxism- Leninism, what Soviet life is actually like and who actually wants the Soviet Union to return to the past.

SOCIALIST SOCIETY AND THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT

What is the correct conception of socialist society? Do classes and class struggle exist throughout the stage of socialism? Should the dictatorship of the proletariat be maintained and the socialist revolution be carried through to


exploited class, turns into a ruling class and a fundamental change takes place in the social position of the working people. Exercising dictatorship over a few exploiters only, the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat practices the broadest democracy among the masses of the working people, a democracy that is impossible in capitalist society. The nationalisation of industry and collectivization of agriculture open wide vistas for the vigorous development of the social productive forces, ensuring a rate of growth incomparably greater than that in any older society.

However, one cannot but see that socialist society is a society born out of capitalist society and is only the first phase of communist society. It is not yet a fully mature communist society in the economic and other fields. Itaccording to his needs".

Marxism-Leninism and the practice of the Soviet Union, China and other socialist countries all teach us that socialist society covers a very, very long historical stage. Throughout this stage, the class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat goes on and the question of "who will win" between the roads of capitalism and socialism remains, as does the danger of restoration of capitalism.

In its Proposal Concerning the General Line of the International Communist Movement dated June 14, 1963, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China states:

For a very long historical period after the proletariat takes power, class struggle continues as an objective law independent of man’s will, differing only in form from what it was before the taking of power.

After the October Revolution,


to damage socialist ownership by the whole people and socialist collective ownership and to develop the forces of capitalism. In the ideological, cultural and educational fields, they counterpose the bourgeois world outlook to the proletarian world outlook and try to corrupt the proletariat and other working people with bourgeois ideology.

The collectivization of agriculture turns individual into collective farmers and provides favourable conditions for the thorough remoulding of the peasants. However, until collective ownership advances to ownership by the whole people and until the remnants of private economy disappear completely, the peasants inevitably retain some of the inherent characteristics of small producers. In these circumstances spontaneous capitalist tendencies are inevitable, the soil for the growth of new rich peasants still exists and polarization among the peasants may still occur.

Theactivities of the bourgeoisie as described above, its corrupting effects in the political, economic, ideological and cultural and educational fields, the existence of spontaneous capitalist tendencies among urban and rural small producers, and the influence of the remaining bourgeois rights and the force of habit of the old society all constantly breed political degenerates in the ranks of the working class and Party and government organizations, new bourgeois elements and embezzlers and grafters in state enterprises owned by the whole people and new bourgeois intellectuals in the cultural and educational institutions and intellectual circles.

These new bourgeois elements and these political degenerates attack socialism in collusion with the old bourgeois elements and elements of other exploiting classes which have been overthrown but not eradicated. The political degenerates entrenched in


of revisionism, and they use every possible means to find agents within the Communist Party. The existence of bourgeois influence is the internal source of revisionism and surrender to imperialist pressure the external source.

Throughout the stage of socialism, there is inevitable struggle between Marxism-Leninism and various kinds of opportunism – mainly revisionism -- in the Communist Parties of socialist countries. The characteristic of this revisionism is that, denying the existence of classes and class struggle, it sides with the bourgeoisie in attacking the proletariat and turns the dictatorship of the proletariat into the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

In the light of the experience of the international working- class movement and in accordance with the objective law of class struggle, the founders of Marxism pointed out that the transition fromthe declaration of the permanence of the revolution, the class dictatorship of the proletariat as the necessary transit point to the abolition of class distinctions generally, to the abolition of all the relations of production on which they rest, to the abolition of all the social relations that correspond to these relations of production, to the revolutionizing of all the ideas that result from these social relations.

[Marx, "The Class Struggles in France, 1848 to 1850", Selected Works of Marx and Engels, FLPH, Moscow, Vol. 1, p. 223.]

In his struggle against the opportunism of the Second International, Lenin creatively expounded and developed Marx’s theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat. He pointed out:

The dictatorship of the proletariat is not the end of class struggle but its continuation in new


his celebrated work On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People and in other works, Comrade Mao Tse-tung, basing hismelf on the fundamental principles of Marxism-Leninism and the historical experience of the dictatorship of the proletariat, gives a comprehensive and systematic analysis of classes and class struggle in socialist society, and creatively develops the Marxist-Leninist theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Comrade Mao Tse-tung examines the objective laws of socialist society from the viewpoint of materialist dialectics. He points out that the universal law of the unity and struggle of opposites operating both in the natural world and in human society is applicable to socialist society, too.

In socialist society, class contradictions still remain and class struggle does not die out after the socialist transformation of the ownershipof the means of production. The struggle between the two roads of socialism and capitalism runs through the entire stage of socialism. To ensure the success of socialist construction and to prevent the restoration of capitalism, it is necessary to carry the socialist revolution through to the end on the political, economic, ideological and cultural fronts. The complete victory of socialism cannot be brought about in one or two generations; to resolve this question thoroughly requires five to ten generations or even longer.

Comrade Mao Tse-tung stresses the fact that two types of social contradictions exist in socialist society, namely, contradictions among the people and contradictions between ourselves and the enemy, and that the former are very numerous. Only by distinguishing between the two types of contradictions, which are


consciousness of the masses, abolishing the differences between ownership by the whole people and collective ownership, between workers and peasants, between town and country and between mental and manual labourers, eliminating any possibility of the re-emergence of classes and the restoration of capitalism and providing conditions for the realization of a communist society with its principle, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

The international task consists mainly of preventing attacks by international imperialism (including armed intervention and disintegration by peaceful means) and of giving support to the world revolution until the peoples of all countries finally abolish imperialism, capitalism and the system of exploitation.

Before the fulfilment of both tasks and before the advent of a full communist society, the dictatorship of the proletariatis absolutly necessary.

Judging from the actual situation today, the tasks of the dictatorship of the proletariat are still far from accomplished in any of the socialist countries. In all socialist countries without exception, there are classes and class struggle, the struggle between the socialist and the capitalist roads, the question of carrying the socialist revolution through to the end and the question of preventing the restoration of capitalism.

All the socialist countries still have a very long way to go before the differences between ownership by the whole people and collective ownership, between workers and peasants, between town and country and between mental and manual labourers are eliminated, before all classes and class differences are eliminated and a communist society with its principle, "from each according to his ability,


in the Soviet Union, capitalist private ownership was destroyed and socialist ownership by the whole people and socialist collective ownership were established through the nationalization of industry and the collectivization of agriculture, and great achievements in socialist construction were scored during several decades. All this constituted an indelible victory of tremendous historic significance won by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet people under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

However, the old bourgeoisie and other exploiting classes which had been overthrown in the Soviet Union were not eradicated and survived after industry was nationalized and agriculture collectivized. The political and ideological influence of the bourgeoisie remained. Spontaneous capitalist tendencies continued to exist both in the city and in the countryside. New bourgeois elements and kulakswere still incessantly generated. Throughout the long intervening period, the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie and the struggle between the socialist and capitalist roads have continued in the political, economic and ideolgical spheres.

As the Soviet Union was the first, and at the time the only, country to build socialism and had no foreign experience to go by, and as Stalin departed from Marxist-Leninist dialectics in his understanding of the laws of class struggle in socialist society, he prematurely declared after agriculture was basically collectivized that there were "no longer antagonistic classes" [1] in the Soviet Union and that it was "free of class con- flicts" [2], one-sidely stressed the internal homogeneity of socialist society and overlooked its contradictions, failed to rely upon the working class


and the masses in the struggle against the forces of capitalism and regarded the possibility of restoration of capitalism as associated only with armed attack by international imperialism. This was wrong both in theory and in practice.

[1: Stalin, "On the Draft Constitution of the U.S.S.R", Problems of Leninism, FLPH, Moscow, 1954, p. 690.]

[2: Stalin, "Report to the Eighteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) on the Work of the Central Committee", Problems of Leninism, FLPH, Moscow, p. 777.]

Nevertheless, Stalin remained a great Marxist-Leninist. As long as he led the Soviet Party and state, he held fast to the dictatorship of the proletariat and the socialist course, pursued a Marxist-Leninist line and ensured the Soviet Union’s victorious advance along the road of socialism.

Ever since Khrushchov seized the leadership of the SovietParty and state, he has pushed through a whole series of revisionist policies which have greatly hastened the growth of the forces of capitalism and again sharpened the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie and the struggle between the roads of socialism and capitalism in the Soviet Union.

Scanning the reports in Soviet newspapers over the last few years, one finds numerous examples demonstrating not only the presence of many elements of the old exploiting classes in Soviet society, but also the generation of new bourgeois elements on a large scale and the acceleration of class polarization.

Let us first look at the activities of various bourgeois elements in the Soviet enterprises owned by the whole people.

Leading functionaries in some state-owned factories and their gangs abuse their positions


and amass large fortunes by using the equipment and materials of the factories to set up "underground workshops" for private production, selling the products illicitly and dividing the spoils. Here are some examples.

In a Leningrad plant producing military items, the leading functionaries placed their own men in "all key posts" and "turned the state enterprise into a private one". They illictly engaged in the production of non-military goods and from the sale of fountain pens alone embezzled 1,200,000 old roubles in three years. Among these people was a man who "was a Nepman...in the 1920’s" and had been a "lifelong thief".

[Krasnaya Zvezda, May 19, 1962.]

In a silk-weaving mill in Uzbekistan, the manager ganged up with the chief engineer, the chief accountant, the chief of the supply and marketingstate departments in charge of supplies and in the commercial and other departments. They have their own men in the police and judicial departments who protect them and act as their agents. Even high-ranking officials in the state organs support and shield them. Here are a few examples.

The chief of the workshops affiliated to a Moscow psychoneurological dispensary and his gang set up an "underground enter- prise", and by bribery "obtained fifty-eight knitting machines" and a large amount of raw material. They entered into business relations with "fifty-two factories, handicraft co-operatives and collective farms" and made three million roubles in a few years. They bribed functionaries of the Department for Combating Theft of Socialist Property and Speculation, controllers, inspectors, instructors and others.

[Izvestia, Oct. 20, 1963, and Izvestia Sunday


Supplement, No. 12, 1964.]

The manager of a machinery plant in the Russian Federation, together with the deputy manager of a second machinery plant and other functionaries, or forty-three persons in all, stole more than nine hundred looms and sold them to factories in Central Asia, Kazakhstan, the Caucasus and other places, whose leading functionaries used them for illicit production.

[Komsomolskaya Pravda, Aug. 9, 1963.]

In the Kirghiz SSR, a gang of over forty embezzlers and grafters, having gained control of two factories, organized underground production and plundered more than thirty million roubles’ worth of state property. The gang included the Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Republic, a Vice-Minister of Commerce, seven bureau chiefs and division chiefs of the Republic’s Council of Ministers, National Economic Council and State Controlto a class that is antagonistic to the proletariat – they belong to the bourgeoisie. Their activities against socialism are definitely class struggle with the bourgeoisie attacking the proletariat.

Now let us look at the activities of various kulak elements on the collective farms.

Some leading collective-farm functionaries and their gangs steal and speculate at will, freely squander public money and fleece the collective farmers. Here are some examples.

The chairman of a collective farm in Uzbekistan "held the whole village in terror". All the important posts on this farm "were occupied by his in-laws and other relatives and friends". He squandered "over 132,000 roubles of the collective farm for his personal ‘needs’". He had a car, two motor-cycles and three wives, each with "a house of her own".

[Selskaya Zhizn, June


in the Ukraine or Uzbekistan, and sugar and alcohol from Djambul", processed them and then sold the wine at very high prices in many localities. In this farm a winery was created with a capacity of over a million litres a year, its speculative commercial network spread throughout the Kazakhstan SSR, and commercial speculation became one of the farm’s main sources of income.

[Pravda, Jan. 14, 1962.]

The chairman of a collective farm in Byelorussia considered him- self "a feudal princeling on the farm" and acted "personally" in all matters. He lived not on the farm but in the city or in his own splendid villa, and was always busy with "various commercial machinations" and "illegal deals". He bought cattle from the outside, represented them as the products of theanti-socialist activities are precisely class struggle with the bourgeoisie attacking the proletariat and the labouring farmers.

Apart from the bourgeois elements in state enterprises and collective farms, there are many others in both town and country in the Soviet Union.

Some of them set up private enterprises for private production and sale; others organize contractor teams and openly undertake construction jobs for state or co-operative enterprises; still others open private hotels.

A "Soviet woman capitalist" in Leningrad hired workers to make nylon blouses for sale, and her "daily income amounted to over 700 new roubles".

[Izvestia, April 9, 1963.]

The owner of a workshop in the Kursk Region made felt boots for sale at speculative prices. He had in his possession 540 pairs of felt boots, eight kilogrammes of gold coins, 3,000 metres


of citrus fruit, apples and vegetables and re-sell them at speculative prices". "These profit-grabbers are provided with every facility, with market inns, store-rooms and other services at their disposal".

[Selskaya Zhizn, July 17, 1963.]

In the Krasnodar Territory, a speculator set up her own agency and "employed twelve salesmen and two stevedores". She transported "thousands of hogs, hundreds of quintals of stolen slag bricks, whole wagons of glass" and other building materials from the city to the villages. She reaped high profits out of each re-sale.

[Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, No. 27, 1963.]

Others specialize as brokers and middlemen. They have wide contacts and through them one can get anything, in return for a bribe. There was a broker in Leningrad who "though he is not the Minister of Trade, controls all the stocks",with this problem in the following section.

THE SOVIET PRIVILEGED STRATUM AND THE REVISIONIST KHRUSHCHOV CLIQUE

The privileged stratum in contemporary Soviet society is composed of degenerate elements from among the leading cadres of Party and government organizations, enterprises and farms as well as bourgeois intellectuals; it stands in opposition to the workers, the peasants and the overwhelming majority of the intellectuals and cadres of the Soviet Union.

Lenin pointed out soon after the October Revolution that bourgeois and petty-bourgeis ideologies and force of habit were encircling and influencing the proletariat from all directions and wre corrupting certain of its sections. This circumstance led to the emergence from among the Soviet officials and functionaries both of bureaucrats alienated from the masses and of new bourgeois elements. Lenin also pointed out that


although the high salaries paid to the bourgeois technical specialists staying on to work for the Soviet regime were necessary, they were having a corrupting influence on it.

Therefore, Lenin laid great stress on waging persistent struggles against the influence of bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideologies, on arousing the broad masses to take part in government work, on ceaselessly exposing and purging bureaucrats and new bourgeois elements in the Soviet organs, and on creating conditions that would bar the existence and reproduction of the bourgeoisie. Lenin pointed out sharply that "without a systematic and determined struggle to improve the apparatus, we shall perish before the basis of socialism is created."

[Lenin, "Plan of the Pamphlet ‘On the Food Tax’", Collected Works, 4th Russian ed., Moscow, Vol. 32, p. 301.]

At the sametime, he laid great stress on adherence to the principle of the Paris Commune in wage policy, that is, all public servants were to be paid wages corresponding to those of the workers and only bourgeois specialists were to be paid high salaries. From the October Revolution to the period of Soviet economic rehabilitation, Lenin’s directives were in the main observed; the leading personell of the Party and government organizations and enterprises and Party members among the specialists received salaries roughly equivalent to the wages of workers.

At that time, the Communist Party and the government of the Soviet Union adopted a number of measures in the sphere of politics and ideology and in the system of distribution to prevent leading cadres in any department from abusing their powers


or degenerating morally or politically.

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union headed by Stalin adhered to the dictatorship of the proletariat and the road of socialism and waged a staunch struggle against the forces of capitalism. Stalin’s struggles against the Trotskyites, Zinovievites and Bukharinites wre in essence a reflection within the Party of the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie and of the struggle between the two roads of socialism and capitalism. Victory in these struggles smashed the vain hopes of the bourgeoisie to restore capitalism in the Soviet Union.

It cannot be denied that before Stalin’s death high salaries were already being paid to certain groups and that some cadres had already degenerated and become bourgeois elements. The Central Committee of the CPSU pointed out inits report to the 19th Party Congress in October 1952 that degeneration and corruption had appeared in certain Party organizations.

The leaders of these organizations had turned them into small communities composed entirely of their own people, "setting their group interests higher than the interests of the Party and the state". Some executives of industrial enterprises "forget that the enterprises entrusted to their charge are state enterprises, and try to turn them into their own private domain".

"Instead of safeguarding the common husbandry of the collective farms", some Party and Soviet functionaries and some cadres in agricultural departments "engage in filching collective-farm property". In the cultural, artistic and scientific fields too, works attacking and smearing the socialist system had appeared and a monopolistic "Arakcheyev regime" had emerged among the scientists.

Since


Khrushchov usurped the leadership of the Soviet Party and state, there has been a fundamental change in the state of the class struggle in the Soviet Union.

Khrushchov has carried out a series of revisionist policies serving the interests of the bourgeoisie and rapidly swelling the forces of capitalism in the Soviet Union.

On the pretext of "combating the personality cult", Khrushchov has defamed the dictatorship of the proletariat and the socialist system and thus in fact paved the way for the restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union. In completely negating Stalin, he has in fact negated Marxism-Leninism which was upheld by Stalin and opened the floodgates for the revisionist deluge.

Khrushchov has substituted "material incentive" for the socialist principle, "from each according to his ability, to each according tohis work". He has widened, and not narrowed, the gap between the incomes of a small minority and those of the workers, peasants and ordinary intellectuals. He has supported the degenerates in leading positions, encouraging them to become even more unscrupulous in abusing their powers and to appropriate the fruits of labour of the Soviet people. Thus he has accelerated the polarization of classes in Soviet society.

Khrushchov sabotages the socialist planned economy, applies the capitalist principle of profit, develops capitalist free competition and undermines socialist ownership by the whole people.

Khrushchov attacks the system of socialist agricultural planning, describing it as "bureaucratic" and "unnecessary". Eager to learn from the big proprietors of American farms, he is encouraging capitalist management, fostering a kulak economy and undermining the socialist collective economy.

Khrushchov


is peddling bourgeois ideology, bourgeois liberty, equality, fraternity and humanity, inculcating bourgeois idealism and metaphysics and the reactionary ideas of bourgeois individualism, humanism and pacifism among the Soviet people, and debasing socialist morality. The rotten bourgeois culture of the West is now fashionable in the Soviet Union, and socialist culture is ostracized and attacked.

Under the signboard of "peaceful coexistence", Khrushchov has been colluding with U.S. imperialism, wrecking the socialist camp and the international communist movement, opposing the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed peoples and nations, practising great-power chauvinism and national egoism and betraying proletarian internationalism. All this is being done for the protection of the vested interests of a handful of people, which he places above the fundamental interests of the peoples of the Soviet Union, the socialistcamp and the whole world.

The line Khrushchov pursues is a revisionist line through and through. Guided by this line, not only have the old bourgeois elements run wild but new bourgeois elements have appeared in large numbers among the leading cadres of the Soviet Party and government, the chiefs of state enterprises and collective farms, and the higher intellectuals in the fields of culture, art, science and technology.

In the Soviet Union at present, not only have the new bourgeois elements increased in number as never before, but their social status has fundamentally changed. Before Khrushchov came to power, they did not occupy the ruling position in Soviet society. Their activities were restricted in many ways and they were subject to attack. But since Khrushchov took over, usurping the


leadership of the Party and the state step by step, the new bourgeois elements have gradually risen to the ruling position in the Party and government and in the economic, cultural and other departments, and formed a privileged stratum in Soviet society.

This privileged stratum is the principal component of the bourgeoisie in the Soviet Union today and the main social basis of the revisionist Khrushchov clique. The revisionist Khrushchov clique are the political representatives of the Soviet bourgeoisie, and particularly of its privileged stratum.

The revisionist Khrushchov clique have carried out one purge after another and replaced one group of cadres after another throughout the country, from the central to the local bodies, from leading Party and government organizations to economic and cultural and educational departments, dismissing those theydo not trust and placing their protégés in leading posts.

Take the Central Committee of the CPSU as an example. The statistics show that seventy per cent of the members of the Central Committee of the CPSU who were elected at its 19th Congress in 1952 were purged in the course of the 20th and 22nd Congresses held respectively in 1956 and 1961. And nearly fifty per cent of the members who were elected at the 20th Congress were purged at the time of the 22nd Congress.

Or take the local organizations. On the eve of the 22nd Congress, on the pretext of "renewing the cadres", the revisionist Khrushchov clique, according to incomplete statistics, removed from office forty-five per cent of the members of the Party Central Committees of the


Union Republics and of the Party Committees of the Territories and Regions, and forty per cent of the Municipal and District Party Committees. In 1963, on the pretext of dividing the Party into "industrial" and "agricultural" Party committees, they further replaced more than half the members of the Central Committees of the Union Republics and of the Regional Party Committees.

Through this series of changes the Soviet privileged stratum has gained control of the Party, the government and other important organizations.

The members of this pivileged stratum have converted the function of serving the masses into the privilege of dominating them. They are abusing their powers over the means of production and of livelyhood for the private benefit of their small clique.

The members of this privileged stratum appropriate the fruitsrevolution. Their sole concern is to consolidate their economic position and political rule. All their activities revolve around the private interests of their own privileged stratum.

People have seen how in Yugoslavia, although the Tito clique still displays the banner of "socialism", a bureaucratic bourgeoisie opposed to the Yugoslav people has gradually come into being since the Tito clique took the road of revisionism, transforming the Yugoslav state from a dictatorship of the proletariat into the dictatorship of the bureaucrat bourgeoisie and its socialist public economy into state capitalism. Now people see the Khrushchov clique taking the road already travelled by the Tito clique. Khrushchov looks to Belgrade as his Mecca, saying again and again that he will learn from the Tito clique’s experience and declaring that he and


the Tito clique "belong to one and the same idea and are guided by the same theory". This is not at all surprising.

[N. S. Khrushchov, Interview with Foreign Correspondents at Brioni in Yugoslavia, Aug. 28, 1963.]

As a result of Khrushchov’s revisionism, the first socialist country in the world built by the great Soviet people with their blood and sweat is now facing an unprecedented danger of capitalist restoration.

The Khrushchov clique are spreading the tale that "there are no longer antagonistic classes and class struggle in the Soviet Union" in order to cover up the facts about their own ruthless class struggle against the Soviet people.

The Soviet privileged stratum represented by the revisionist Khrushchov clique constitutes only a few per cent of the Soviet population. Among the Soviet cadresits numbers are also small. It stands diametrically opposed to the Soviet people, who constitute more than 90 per cent of the total population, and to the great majority of the Soviet cadres and Communists. The contradiction between the Soviet people and this privileged stratum is now the principal contradiction inside the Soviet Union, and it is an irreconcilable and antagonistic class contradiction.

The glorious Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which was built by Lenin, and the great Soviet people displayed epoch-making revolutionary initiative in the October Socialist Revolution, they showed their heroism and stamina in defeating the White Guards and the armed intervention by more than a dozen imperialist countries, they scored unprecedently brilliant achievements in the struggle for industrialization and agricultural collectivization, and they won a


tremendous victory in the Patriotic War against the German fascists and saved all mankind. Even under the rule of the Khrushchov clique, the mass of the members of the CPSU and the Soviet people are carrying on the glorious revolutionary traditions nurtured by Lenin and Stalin, and they still uphold socialism and aspire to communism.

The broad masses of the Soviet workers, collective farmers and intellectuals are seething with discontent against the oppression and exploitation practised by the privileged stratum. They have come to see ever more clearly the revisionist features of the Khrushchov clique which is betraying socialism and restoring capitalism.

Among the ranks of the Soviet cadres, there are many who still persist in the revolutionary stand of the proletariat, adhere to the road of socialism and firmlyoppose Khrushchov’s revisionism. The broad masses of the Soviet people, of Communists and cadres are using various means to resist and oppose the revisionist line of the Khrushchov clique, so that the revisionist Khrushchov clique cannot so easily bring about the restoration of capitalism. The great Soviet people are fighting to defend the glorious traditions of the Great October Revolution, to preserve the great gains of socialism and to smash the plot for the restoration of capitalism.

REFUTATION OF THE SO-CALLED STATE OF THE WHOLE PEOPLE

At the 22nd Congress of the CPSU Khrushchov openly raised the banner of opposition to the dictatorship of the proleatriat, announcing the replacement of the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat by the "state of the whole people". It is written in the


Programme of the CPSU that the dictatorship of the proletariat "has ceased to be indispensable in the U.S.S.R." and that "the state, which arose as a state of the dictatorship of the proletariat, has, in the new, contemporary stage, become a state of the entire people".

Anyone with a little knowledge of Marxism-Leninism knows that the concept of the state is a class concept. Lenin pointed out that "the distinguishing feature of the state is the existence of a separate class of people in whose hands power is concentrated".

[Lenin, "The Economic Content of Narodism and the Criticism of It in Mr. Struve’s Book", Collected Works, FLPH, Moscow, 1960, Vol. 1, p. 419.]

The state is a weapon of class struggle, a machine by means of which one class represses another.power and describe the state machinery under their control as being "of the whole people" and "above class".

The fact that Khrushchov has announced the abolition of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the Soviet Union and advanced the thesis of the "state of the whole people" demonstrates that he has replaced the Marxist-Leninist teachings on the state by bourgeois falsehoods.

When Marxist-Leninists criticized their fallacies, the revisionist Khrushchov clique hastily defended themselves and tried hard to invent a so-called theoretical basis for the "state of the whole people". They now assert that the historical period of the dictatorship of the proletariat mentioned by Marx and Lenin refers only to the transition from capitalism to the first stage of communism and not to its higher stage. They further assert that


"the dictatorship of the proletariat will cease to be necessary before the state withers away" and that after the end of the dictatorship of the proletariat, there is yet another stage, the "state of the whole people".

[Pravda editorial board’s article, "Programme for the Building of Communism", Aug. 18, 1961.]

These are out-and-out sophistries.

In his Critique of the Gotha Programme, Marx advanced the well-known axiom that the dictatorship of the proletariat is the state of the period of transition from capitalism to communism. Lenin gave a clear explanation of this Marxist axiom. He said:

In his Critique of the Gotha Programme Marx wrote: "Between capitalist and communist society lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. There corresponds to this also a political transition period inwhich the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat." Up to now this axiom has never been disputed by Socialists, and yet it implies the recognition of the existence of the state right up to the time when victorious socialism has grown into complete communism.

[Lenin, "The Discussion on Self-Determination Summed Up", Collected Works, International Publishers, New York, 1942, Vol. 19, pp. 269-70.]

Lenin further said:

The essence of Marx’s teaching on the state has been mastered only by those who understand that the dictatorship of a single class is necessary not only for the proletariat which has overthrown the bourgeoisie, but also for the entire historical period which separates capitalism from "classless society", from Communism.

[Lenin, "The State and Revolution", Selected Works, FLPH, Moscow, Vol. 2, Part


higher stage of communism, and also the last form of the state in human history. The withering away of the dictatorship of the proletariat will mean the withering away of the state. Lenin said:

Marx deduced from the whole history of Socialism and of the political struggle that the state was bound to disappear, and that the transitional form of its disappearance (the transition from state to nonstate) would be the "proletariat organized as the ruling class".

[Ibid., pp. 256-57.]

Historically the dictatorship of the proletariat may take different forms from one country to another and from one period to another, but in essence it will remain the same. Lenin said:

The transition from capitalism to Communism certainly cannot but yield a tremendous abundance and variety of political forms, but the essencewill inevitably be the same: the dictatorship of the proletariat.

[Ibid, p. 234.]

It can thus be seen that it is absolutely not the view of Marx and Lenin but an invention of the revisionist Khrushchov that the end of the dictatorship of the proletariat will precede the withering away of the state and will be followed by yet another stage, "the state of the whole people".

In arguing for their anti-Marxist-Leninist views, the revisionist Khrushchov clique have taken great pains to find a sentence from Marx and distorting it by quoting it out of context. They have arbitrarily described the future nature of the state (Staatswesen in German) of communist society referred to by Marx in his Critique of the Gotha Programme as the ‘state of communist society’, which is


state even in ‘communist society’!! Is there not a contrdiction in this?" Lenin answered, "No." He then tabulated the three stages in the process of development from the bourgeois state to the withering away of the state:

The first stage – in bourgeois society, the state is needed by the bourgeoisie – the bourgeois state.

The second stage – in the period of transition from capitalism to communism, the state is needed by the proletariat – the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

The third stage – in communist society, the state is not necessary, it withers away.

He concluded: "Complete consistency and clarity!!"

In Lenin’s tabulation, only the bourgeois state, the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat and the withering away of the state are to be found. By preciselythis tabulation Lenin made it clear that when communism is reached the state withers away and becomes non-existent.

Ironically enough, the revisionist Khrushchov clique also quoted this very passage from Lenin’s Marxism on the State in the course of defending their error. And then they proceeded to make the following idiotic statement:

In our country the first two periods referred to by Lenin in the opinion quoted already belong to history. In the Soviet Union a state of the whole people – a communist state system, the state of the first phase of communism, has arisen and is developing.

["From the Party of the Working Class to the Party of the Whole Soviet People", editorial board’s article of Partyinaya Zhizn, Moscow, No. 8, 1964.]

If the first two periods referred to by


Lenin have already become a thing of the past in the Soviet Union, the state should be withering away, and where could a "state of the whole people" come from? If the state is not yet withering away, then it ought to be the dictatorship of the proletariat and under absolutely no circumstances a "state of the whole people".

In arguing for their "state of the whole people", the revisionist Khrushchov clique exert themselves to vilify the dictatorship of the proletariat as undemocratic. They assert that only by replacing the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat by the "state of the whole people" can democracy be further developed and turned into "genuine democracy for the whole people". Khrushchov has pretentiously said that the abolition of the dictatorship ofthe proletariat exemplifies "a line of energetically developing democracy" and that "proletarian democracy is becoming socialist democracy of the whole people".

[N. S. Khrushchov, "Report of the Central Committee of the CPSU", and "On the Programme of the CPSU", delivered at the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, October 1961.]

These utterances can only show that their authors either are completely ignorant of the Marxist-Leninist teachings on the state or are maliciously distorting them.

Anyone with a little knowledge of Marxism-Leninism knows that the concept of democracy as a form of the state, like that of dictatorship, is a class one. There can only be class democracy, there cannot be "democracy for the whole people".

Lenin said:

Democracy for the vast majority of the people, and suppression by force, i.e. exclusion from democracy, of


away of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

To speak plainly, as with the "state of the whole people", the "democracy for the whole people" proclaimed by Khrushchov is a hoax. In thus retrieving the tattered garments of the bourgeoisie and the old-line revisionists, patching them up and adding a label of his own, Khrushchov’s sole purpose is to deceive the Soviet people and the revolutionary people of the world and cover up his betrayal of the dictatorship of the proletariat and his opposition to socialism.

What is the essence of Khrushchov’s "state of the whole people"?

Khrushchov has abolished the dictatorship of the proletariat in the Soviet Union and established a dictatorship of the revisionist clique headed by himself, that is, a dictatorship of the privileged stratum of the Soviet bourgeoisie.Market Bosworth Community Library needs to raise funds to maintain and improve the facilities on offer at the library. By joining the 200 Club you can help to ensure that Market Bosworth Community Library remains open in the long term as a resource for all residents in our community. You also have a chance of winning a cash prize every month!

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means of some external agent, permit the admixing of substances within the receptacle, as is the case of the light sources by chemical reaction which are used in dividing, in which, in order to accomplish the opening of a receptacle which is contained within another receptacle, stresses are applied on the outer flexible surfaces of the walls of the outer receptacle, with which said walls apply a corresponding stress on the outer rigid surface of the wall of the inner receptacle, breaking the same and producing a crack in said wall of the inner receptacle for accomplishing the admixing of the contents of the two receptacles.
There is on the other hand a constant need of admixing products for consumption thereof, such as medicines, food products, reactants, and thebe set forth. Generally duties of repair and maintenance of the dwelling unit and the premises are imposed upon the landlord by this section. Major repairs, even access, to essential systems outside the dwelling unit are beyond the capacity of the tenant." (Emphasis added.)
The provisions of the Oklahoma statute also reflect the law as it has developed over the nation in regard to the responsibilities of landlords to provide safe housing. The Restatement of the Law, Second, Property, § 17.3 provides as follows:
"A landlord who leases a part of his property and retains in his own control any other part the tenant is entitled to use as appurtenant to the part leased to him, is subject to liability to his tenant and others lawfully upon the leased property


with the consent of the tenant or a subtenant for physical harm caused by a dangerous condition upon that part of the leased property retained in the landlord's control, if the landlord by the exercise of reasonable care could have:
(1) discovered the condition and the unreasonable risk involved therein; and
(2) made the condition safe."
The comment to this section states that the rule applies "not only to the hall, stairs, elevators and other approaches to the part of the property leased to the tenant ...", which would clearly encompass the place in which plaintiff's accident occurred in the instant case.
The comment continues:
c. Landlord's knowledge of the dangerous condition. The rule stated in this section applies only to dangerous conditions which the landlord knows about or could have discovered bydisturbances.

City leaders, like Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, are in the same predicament as New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio after two officers were murdered during unrest in that city.

Officers turned their backs to De Blasio as he visited injured officers in the hospital and at the officer’s funerals.

But officers in Baltimore, according to at least one of their own, are turning their backs on not only the Mayor but also the citizens they’re sworn to protect.

Here are a list of the shootings and homicides from this weekend.

Shooting

2300 Preston Street

May 22, 2015 4:08 pm

On May 22, 2015 at approximately 4:08 pm, officers responded to the 2300 block of Preston Street for a report of a shooting. Upon arrival, they located a 21-year old male suffering from a gunshot wound


to his shoulder. He was transported to an area hospital for treatment. His injury is reported to be non-life threating at this time. Eastern District Detectives are investigating and ask anyone with information to call 410 396 2433.

Homicide

Unit Block of Benkert Ave

Mayy 22, 2015 at approx 11:06 pm

On May 22,2015 at approximately 11:06 pm oficers responded to the intersection of W. Baltimore and N. Hilton St for a report of a dischargin of a firearm. Upon their arrival they located an adult male suffering from at least one gunshot wound to his torso. The victim was immediately transported to an area hospital for treatment. Despite all medical life saving efforts, he died because of his injuries at 11:37 pm. Through investigation, detectives have been able to determine thatthe shooting too place in the unit blk of Benkert Ave. Homicide detectives are investigating and ask that anyone with information please call 410-396-2100.

Homicide

1900 Wilhelm St

May 22, 2015 at approx. 11:51 pm

On May 22, 2015 at approximately 11:51 pm, officers responded to the 1900 block of Wilhelm St for a report of firearms discharging. Upon arrival they located and adult male suffering from a gunshot wound to his head. Officers then located a second adult male victim who was suffering from a gunshot wound to his neck. As officers were securing the scene, a third, adult male, victim was located at the corner of Pratt and Payson St. The third victim was suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. All the victims were transported to an area


hospital for treatment. Despite life saving efforts, the first victim, who was shot in the head, died because of his injuries at 12:20 am. The second two victims are listed in critical condition at this time. Homicide detectives are investigating and ask that anyone with information please contact them at 410-396-2100.

Shooting

1800 Edmondson Ave

May 23, 2015 at approx. 5:40 am

On May 23, 2015 at approximately 5:40 am, officers responded to the 1800 block of Edmonson Ave for a report of a shooting. Upon arrival, they located an adult male was suffering from gunshot wounds to his leg and thigh. He was immediately transported to an area hospital for treatment. While at the hospital with the first victim, officers observed two additonal victims walk in to the hospital seeking treatmentThrough investigation, detectives have determined that the shooting took place in the 800 block of W Lexington St. Western District detectives are investigating and ask that anyone with information please call 410-396-2477.

Shooting

900 block of Ducatel St

May 24, 2015 at approx. 12:51 pm

On May 24, 2015 at approximately 12:51 pm, officers responded to the 900 block of Ducatel St for a report of a shooting. Upon arrival they located an adult male who was suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his abdomen. He was immediately transported to an area hospital for treatment. Due to the severity of his injuries, Homicide detectives are investigating this incident. Detectives ask that anyone with information please call 410-396-2100.

Shooting

2300 block of E Preston St

May 24, 2015 at approx 3:55 pm

On May 24, 2015 at


approximately 3:55 pm, officers responded to the 2300 block of E Preston St for a report of a shooting. Upon arrival, officers located two victims. The first victim, an adult male, was suffering from a gunshot wound to the arm. The second victim, also an adult male, was suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. Both victims were transported to an area hospital for treatment. Eastern District detectives are investiating and ask that anyone with information please contact them at 410-396-2433.

Update – Homicide

900 block of Ducatel St

May 24, 2015 at approx 12:51 pm

Despite all medical lifesaving efforts the victim of this incident has died because of his injuries.

Shooting

2100 block of Hollins St

May 24, 2015 at approx. 8:12 pm

On May 24, 2015 at approximately 8:12 pm, officers respondedto the 2100 block of Hollins St for a report of a shooting. Upon arrival they located a male (age is unknown at this time) suffering from a gunshot wound to his back. They also located an adult female, who was suffering from a gunshot wound to her thigh. Both victims were transported to an area hospital for medical treatment. Southwest District detectives are investigating and ask that anyone with information please call 410-396-2488.

Shooting

1600 block of Hazel St

May 24, 2015 at approximately 10:28 pm

On May 24, 2015 at approximately 10:28 pm, officers responded to the 1600 block of Hazel St for a report of discharging of a firearm. While there investigating, they received notification of a walk in shooting victim to an area hospital. Upon arrival to the


hospital, officers were directed to an adult male who was suffering from a gunshot wound to his buttocks. The victim stated that he was shot by two masked men. No there are no further details available at this time. Southern District detectives are investigating and ask that anyone with information please contact them at 410-396-2499.

Shooting

500 block of E 21st St

May 25, 2015 at approximately 12:13 am

On May 25, 2015 at approximately 12:13 am, officers responded to the 500 block of E 21st St for a call of a cutting. Upon arrival, officers located and adult male who was suffering from a gunshot wound to the back of his head. The victim was transported to an area hospital for treatment. He is listed in critical condition. Eastern District detectivesare investigating and ask that anyone with information please call 410-396-2433.

Homicide

800 block of W Fayette St

May 25, 2015 at approximately 12:29 am

On May 25, 2015 at approximately 12:29 am officers responded to the 800 block of W Fayette St for a report of a shooting. Upon arrival they located an adult male inside of a car suffering from gunshot wounds. Officers then located a second victim, and adult female who was shot in the back, laying on the street. Both victims were transported to an area hospital for treatment. Despite all medical lifesaving efforts, the adult male died because of his injuries at 2:38 am. The female victim is listed in critical but stable condition. Homicide detectives are investigating and ask that anyone with information please call 410-396-2100.

Homicide

5300


St Georges Ave

May 25, 2015 at approximately 1:43 am

On May 25, 2015 at approximately 1:43 am, officers responded to the 5300 block of St Georges Ave for a report of a shooting. Upon arrival, they located and adult male who was suffering from gunshot wounds to his chest and leg. He was immediately transported to an area hospital for treatment. Despite all medical lifesaving efforts he died because of his injuries. While investigating this incident, a juvenile (17 year old) male walked into an area hospital seeking treatment for a gunshot wound to his arm. Additionally, a second adult male walked into an area hospital seeking treatment for a gunshot / graze wound to his head. Detectives have determined that all of these injuries are the result ofIn modern commercial aircraft, if not already available electronically, a flight crew makes flight plan entries and modifications through a Flight Management System-Control Display Unit (FMS-CDU). The FMS-CDU is an electronic module containing a keyboard on its lower face half and an electronic display on its upper face half. By keying entries into the keyboard, the flight crew can build or modify a route into the Flight Management Computer (FMC) by typing in a series of waypoints which are then displayed, in text form, on the upper half of the FMS-CDU display.
An additionally provided display is a navigation (map) display. In contrast to the text display of the FMS-CDU, the navigation display graphically depicts the selected waypoints along a desired route. Thus, as the flight crew types entries


many planes languishing in parking areas near the Tehran International Airport. All of those old planes must be replaced.

Iran is the hottest new airliner market anywhere.Tehran dreams of establishing a future commercial aviation hub, perhaps the main one in the region. It wants to compete with the likes of Gulf Air, Etihad Airways, Qatar Airways, and The Emirates Group. The example comes from Turkish Airlines, which has become one of the most important airlines in the Middle East, with Istanbul serving as a major hub between North America, Europe, and South Asia. The French ADP Group Ltd. has already won the contract to renovate the Tehran airport.

The aircraft needs of Iranian companies for the next 10 to 20 years are estimated at between 400 and 500 planes, accordingFae Johnstone

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Author finds mystery and inspiration in her father’s past

Oct 27, 2012 Toronto author Sandra Joyce’s own revelation came with some rather shocking truths, about the hurt her father suffered as a British home child. He was separated from everything he knew, sent to Canada from his native Scotland and then torn from his younger brother upon their arrival here.

Sadly, she also learned that his story was not unique, leading Joyce to write The Street Arab: the Story of a British Home Child (Welldone Publishing 2011). On Monday, Oct. 29, Joyce will speak at Waterloo Region Museum, part of the museum’s speaker series.

“I had no idea he had been a home child until he passed away,” said Joyce in an interview from her Toronto home. “I thought he cameto Canada as an adult.”

The Street Arab reference in the title was a derogatory term used to describe street children and often ascribed to British home children, of which there were an estimated 100,000 sent to Canada from more than 50 orphanages and other child care agencies throughout Britain.

The children ranged in age from four to 15 and were required to work as indentured farm labourers or domestic servants until they were 18. Joyce said the children were often ill treated because at the time, the belief was they were born into lower classes and were therefore genetically limited, a lesser species.

Her father, Robert Joyce, was sent to Canada through Quarrier’s Homes in 1925, after his mother died and his father could not care for him, his younger


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Heineken's views on perspective.

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Item 76 may be the first designothers, before and after, he failed. In Lancaster Sound of far Northern Canada, Ross concluded that distant mountains, which he called the "Crocker Hills," blocked further progress. This conclusion was challenged by some of his subordinates, including William Parry, but Ross decided to return to England. Parry would later establish that the Crocker Hills were but a mirage. Nonetheless, Ross brought back much useful information about the area, though he was never given command of another naval expedition. Still, he would undertake a privately financed voyage to the Arctic in 1829, and again in 1850 at the age of 72, in an unsuccessful attempt to find missing explorer John Franklin. In his later years, Ross apparently hoped to publish an autobiography, but this never came to pass. Some


pieces of his manuscript are around, but item 5 is a particularly substantial one. This is an unpublished and previously unknown autobiographical manuscript from Ross covering the years from his birth in 1777 to his first voyage in 1818. It appears that he wrote these 500 pages about his early life in 1853. $38,500.

Among the more interesting of illustrated books are those on perspective. As numerous paintings from the middle ages showed, many artists could illustrate, but their drawings never looked natural, as they had not mastered the techniques of getting perspective right. Item 136 is a guide from Paul Heineken, Lucidum Prospectivae Speculum... Published in 1727, the image on this page (click to enlarge) gives a sample of Heineken's skills. Item 137. $15,000.saw eight teams eliminated,
the Masters continued tonight with semifinal action live from the
Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre in Abbotsford, beginning with the
men’s draw at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on Sportsnet East, Ontario, West and
Pacific (full broadcast details below).

In the
men’s draw, Team Howard faces Team Stoughton - the pair accounting for
three of the four Grand Slam titles last year. In the other half of the semis,
Team Martin will face Team Liu - a rematch of the first draw of the Masters
that saw Liu come out on top.

On the
women’s side, after a tie-break win over Team Carey, Team Homan defeated
Team Nedohin to advance to her third straight Grand Slam semifinal, and will
now face Team Ott who beat out Team Kim of Korea. The other semifinal matchup
will feature last April’s


Alex McCarthy joins Crystal Palace

Goalkeeper signs four year deal at Selhurst Park

Premier League side activate release clause

GOALKEEPER Alex McCarthy has joined Crystal Palace for an undisclosed fee.

The 25 year-old stopper, who arrived at Loftus Road from Reading last summer, has signed a four year deal at Selhurst Park, after the Eagles activated a release clause within his contract.

McCarthy made three starts and one substitute appearances in his time in W12.

The club would like to thank Alex for his contribution to QPR and wish him well for the future.

See also ...No. 1 goalie, and guys came through.”

That was certainly the case Tuesday, with the Wild persevering to corral a season-high fourth consecutive victory and tie the franchise record for the second-longest point streak, and the players allocated more opportunity amid the absences of Spurgeon, Koivu and Devan Dubnyk (personal matter) took advantage.

Defenseman Carson Soucy secured his first career game-winning goal on his second NHL tally at 4:49 of the third when he caught a pass from winger Zach Parise with his glove before dropping the puck and burying it with his backhand.

Center Victor Rask, who moved up the lineup without Koivu, also earned an assist on the play.

“I just thought I could catch them sleeping there, and Zach’s a good player,” Soucy said.

“He can find me coming down


humour and lewd puns. They starred a varying assortment of comic actors, with none being considered essential to the formula, but a few becoming so familiar that one might experience some disappointment at their absence. More on them later.

The nominal stars of this one are William Hartnell, the first Dr. Who, who plays the retiring sarge who wants to win the prize for best troop before he goes, and Bob Monkhouse, the stand-up comic who had made a name for himself in television and would go on to star in a couple of dentist-based comedies before fixing his attention more firmly on the small screen. I like Hartnell a lot, consider him a true film star, and I quite like Bob, but the Bob I remember was thewas not available in the higher trim lines. For 1971, the Falcon and Fairlane 500 names were dropped, as all of the intermediate models took the Torino name. The Falcon and Fairlane names continued to be used in Australia through to the 21st century. The Fairlane name continued to be used in Venezuela through 1978 on corresponding Ford Torino and LTD II models.

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Snookum Russell

Snookum Russell (April 6, 1913 – August 1981) was an American pianist and leader of a territory band that played tobacco warehouses and dance halls in the South and Midwest in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

Russell was born in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Members of his bands included J. J. Johnson, who joined shortly after, and played with Fats Navarro, Ray Brown, Tommy Turrentine and Herbie Phillips.

Discography
1962: Jazz at Preservation Hall 4: The George Lewis Band of New Orleans - The George Lewis Band of New Orleans, with George Lewis (cl) Isaac "Snookum" Russell (p) Papa John Joseph (b) Joe Watkins (d) (Atlantic LP 1411)

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You’ll never see another Oiler coach over play a middling goaltender ever again in Edmonton. Talbot was awful until January. Since then his bad games have generally been games where a decent NHL coach plays the back up. I looked at the schedule in November and new Talbot wouldn’t be able to play 5 games in 8 nights in March. I knew this months ago, you might not of but I did.

Why are you comparing Talbot to Hall of Farmers? Talbot could lead league in games played this season (has 62, lead league is 63) and he was injured for a 9 game segment. No goalie has been run into the ground more than Talbot has this season. Defend the coaching staff all you


he has been more good than bad.

Great points, cheers… I guess I’m trying to convey that replacing Talbot or bringing in someone in front of him would be a complete waste of assets. Let’s get the other issues fixed first. With better D & special teams our goaltending can look after the net.

@Spydyr, Talbot has only had 1 bad season, this one. Before coming here he was an exceptional backup. He played 21 and 36 games for NY and was top 5 in save% and GA average in that time. During the 2nd season Lundquist went down for weeks and Talbot played extremely well as the starter. That’s why he was coveted in the off season. He had a bad start to his Oiler career and lost hisstarting spot for a month but December on he was a solid starter. Not exceptional but a real NHL starter. And then last year he played well. This is the only season I would say he has had that was a bad season. And he is over worked. The team has played awful team defence in front of him and the giveaways for grade A scoring chances against has been awful. All these are good excuses for the reason he has been poor and by fixing these problems he will be better.
That said he still needs to play better too. The fault doesn’t all go on the players around him anymore than he should take all the blame either.
Talbot will be back for another year and I hope


to find a vet guy like a Vanek. Vanek was a late 1 yr signing by the Canucks for 2 mill. Before he was traded by the Canucks, he had 17 goals and 41 pts on a terrible Canucks team. He has 24 goals now. Some team will grossly overpay Vanek this offseason. The Oilers need to find the next Vanek meaning a vet guy probably coming off bad year, looking to stay in the league. So they sign for cheap and have a big year looking for a one last contract.

If the Oilers could miraculously land both those they would be a perennial playoff team.

1a) GM – different topic but if the team is results based, Chiarelli has lost too much talent for nothing and put upEnter your email to subscribe:

A two year suspension has been imposed by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals in matters that include neglect of duties to infant clients and billing misconduct.

The court found that the billing issues amounted to dishonest conduct, rejecting the contrary conclusion of the Hearing Panel Subcommittee.

Concerns about the attorney's bills led to a complaint from the Executive Director of the West Virginia Public Defender Service.

Upon careful review of the somewhat limited adjudicatory record, it appears that during the time period of January 21, 2014, through September 18, 2014, Cooke billed more than fifteen hours a day on thirty-seven different days. On five of those days, he billed in excess of twenty hours and on two of those days, he billed greater than twenty-four