John Dolva

Hi Chris, yes, it's a good game. I like the non stop speed of it. Brings out those memorable brilliant plays. Where I grew up, as the days grew cold, all the summer football/soccer fields and smaller playfields, basketball, tennis courts, were hosed down daily till a sheet of ice formed. Then on with the season. Now on the other side of the world it never gets cold enough. 37celsius today btw. The only chance I get to see a game here is on youtube, which is never the same, of course. I did take my kids skating a couple of times on indoor rinks. I was surprised how well I did as long as I laced up real tight. It would take a lot of effort to build up the right muscles to get up to speed and keep going for the length of a game though.

I'm not a reviewer. I learnt more about reviewing in Jim's post than I knew before. I never though Paul was reviewing JC's book. For me the value is the summarising (albeit from Paul's perspective which no doubt leaves out things and emphasies some in favour of others) of it chapter by chapter and I hope that continues. Combined with comments by Ernie, in particular, imo a valuable resource. I've yet to buy the book. I happen to be in a large secondhand bookshop so sooner or later things percolate their way to me. I've read parts of other reviews on this forum by Jim and very much look forward to reading a review by him of Jeff's book. As outlined by Jim, Paul's attacks on him over RP seem quite deplorable. It seems a response when pushed into a corner. I tend not to encourage people to keep digging if the hole is deep enough already. Cheers.

http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_8-days-after-election-win-obama-calls-to-congratulate-erdogan-davutoglu_403871.html "... on Monday, the White House said the US president called both Erdoğan and Davutoğlu "to congratulate the Turkish people on the November 1 elections and to preview the upcoming G-20 Summit" in Antalya. The White House said the leaders discussed the situation in Syria and the importance of expanding joint efforts to strengthen the moderate Syrian opposition and step up pressure against ISIL. "They also discussed ways to create conditions for a negotiated solution to the conflict, including a political transition in Syria," the statement said. Finally, according to the White House, Obama stressed the need for an end to "PKK terrorist attacks" in Turkey, referring to the latest attacks by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) against Turkish security forces. The PKK is listed as a terrorist group by the US." http://anfenglish.com/news/turkey-provides-missiles-for-al-nusra-gangs "NEWS DESK - ANF As the Turkish state strengthens its assistance to Islamist groups in Syria, it came out that Turkey has sent ammunition to Al-Nusra from the Atme camp near the border of Efrîn. According to the information obtained by ANHA (Hawar News Agency) from 'reliable sources', the Turkish state provided ammunition to Al-Nusra gangs on 2-3-4 November through the Atme camp in Cindirês district of Efrîn. The ammunition, which includes anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, a large number of munitions, light weapons and their bullets, is meant for Al-Nusra gangs in Aleppo. On the other hand, activity of Turkish troops at the border between Efrîn and North Kurdistan, also continues. Most recently, Turkish soldiers have planted mines in Shadiya valley affiliated to Sorka village in Efrîn's Raco district. In the meantime, it has been reported that the governor of Kilis went to the border point across the Azaz town on November 5. During the governor's visit to the region, militants of forces affiliated to the Syrian opposition were also seen in the border area. On November 6, the governor of Hatay province also went to the border and visited Atme camp." https://www.rt.com/usa/321520-troops-ground-syria-isis/ "Washington needs “boots on the ground” in Syria in addition to its air campaign against ISIS, which is not fruitful despite some progress. US Air Force secretary has admitted that “ground forces” is a must in order to “occupy” and “govern” parts of Syria. In her comments, Secretary Deborah Lee James stressed the importance of the US-led air campaign, but admitted that airstrikes need to be backed by ground forces. “Air power is extremely important. It can do a lot but it can't do everything,” James said, just two days after Secretary of Defense Ash Carter supported President Obama’s “willingness to do more” in terms of US troops on Syrian ground. “Ultimately it cannot occupy territory and very importantly it cannot govern territory,” James told reporters at the Dubai Airshow. “This is where we need to have boots on the ground. We do need to have ground forces in this campaign.” ..." ??????????

I think I can read CENTIMETER on the left. Prob can count the divisions. Might be possible to actually identify the ruler by the markings. edit add: I counted the divisions and found 5 measured as 2.5 cm (WYSIWYG) 100% zoom on my screen. So, scaling up the image to 200% gives an image pretty much to scale at 100% zoom. So saving it as PDF using PosteRazor enables printing a full scale poster.

The biggest election fraud ever in Turkey's history? Initial reports: Sunday, November 1, 2015 10:30 PM ISTANBUL - ANF - ZEYNEP KURAY HDP data processing attendant Haluk Ağabeyoğlu said Turkey has witnessed the biggest fraud of its history at November 1 election. Speaking to ANF, Ağabeyoğlu said Turkish Supreme Election Board (YSK) announced the election results yet before the delivery of the voting papers to the provincial Election Board Consolidation Centre in many regions of Istanbul. He stated that in some districts of Istanbul, the procedure of consolidation of result reports was carried out at schools rather that district Election Board Consolidation Centres. 'VOTES WERE COMPILED AT SCHOOLS INSTEAD OF ELECTION BOARDS' Haluk Ağabeyoğlu recalled the normal procedure, saying; "People can cast their votes till 17:00, after which polls close and votes are counted. The voting papers are later put in bags and taken to the affiliated district election board together with result reports. According to the law, votes and reports are compiled at district election board before their delivery to the YSK. However, YSK announced the results for many regions of Istanbul yet before the transfer of the voting papers to the district election board. In some districts like Beşiktaş, the result reports were consolidated at schools and submitted to YSK without being delivered to the district election board. This is purely unlawful." 'NOT A MISTAKE BUT A FRAUD' Ağabeyoğlu also called attention to simple polling frauds through an altering of the numbers of counted votes, like writing 3 instead of 30 or vice versa, which -he said- caused a huge difference between the votes they counted and those announced by YSK. Ağabeyoğlu described this difference as not a mistake but rather a fraud, stressing that today's election has witnessed the biggest fraud ever in Turkey's history. He added that lawyers have raised an objection to the results in many areas. Sunday, November 1, 2015 6:30 PM BİTLİS - ANF 45 votes have come out of a ballot box for 29 voters in Üstyayla village of Mutki district of Bitlis. While the majority of the votes from the ballot box no 1078 turn out to be for AKP, objection has been raised for a number of ballot boxes in the region amid reports of frauds. Sunday, November 1, 2015 3:40 PM VAN - ANF Police and special operation teams have insulted and attacked the people who waited outside schools to hinder a probable fraud after the closure of polls at 16:00 local time. A large crowd of people waiting outside Tahir Elementary School in Şehit Fırat neighborhood of central Edremit district were targeted by police with water cannons. The civilians waiting outside Ferit Melen Elementary School in Şabaniye neighborhood were also attacked by police with tear gas in an attempt to disperse the crowd. Large numbers of people keep waiting outside schools which have been blockaded by police and special operation teams that do not allow anyone access to the polling stations. It grabs attention that plateless cars remain parked near armored police vehicles. Sunday, November 1, 2015 3:00 PM TRABZON - ANF A polling clerk affiliated with AKP has cast repeated votes in the province of Trabzon in Black Sea region. It came out that a polling clerk observing a ballot box Çukurçayır Elementary School in Çukurçayır neighborhood of the central Ortahisar district voted eight times in the place of others. The polling clerk was relieved of his duty on the basis of an official report. International observers detained in Istanbul Delegations of international observers have been detained while following the polling at various schools in Istanbul. Sunday, November 1, 2015 12:20 PM ISTANBUL - ANF A delegation of observers from Greece has been taken into custody by police in Istanbul. The Greek delegation was detained after being forcibly taken out of Teyfik Kurt Elementary School in Kumkapı district where they observed the polling. Members of the delegation were taken to Istanbul police directorate. Reports are coming through that the foreign observers at İbrahim Özay Elementary School in Esenyurt, Tuna Elementary School in Bayrampaşa, Hasan Rumeli Elementary School in Bağcılar have also been detained by police.

Yes. And I think the clincher could be a better photo copy. Also, there are other photos, plus a knowable autopsy table standard which may make it possible to predict where other drainage holes must be and if other fainter indicators are there on this photo... re Who/what's holding up the head? Someone or something of course. Perhaps the person stretching the scalp over the posterior portion of the head wound also supports the head, + rigor mortis. edit typos, the body is mapped by anterior. posterior, front back. (and lateral designations) every part has an anterior and a posterior, which may be anterior or posterior of other parts.

Spot on.

If you take this correctly oriented (but negative) photo : http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=19936&page=3invert the b/w and look below the finger of the right hand you can see the outline of a drain hole. A better copy should show more. ____ perhaps a fold in the coat of the doc holding the shoulder.

The drain holes on the autopsy table are visible. The body is lying on its left side.

KOBANI, Rojava (October 26, 2015) -- Turkish military’s attacks against positions secured by combatants of the People’s Defense Units (YPG) near the two border towns of Kobani and Tal Abyad – started on October 24 – continue to the moment. Accordingly; On October 25 between 22:00 and 23:00 in the west of the border city of Gire Spi (Tal Abyad), Kobani Canton, Turkish military – armed by A4 weapons – attacked the Defense Units’ protected locations. Around 2 pm today, October 26, Turkish military this time has tried snipping attempts on the Defense Units’ border positions near the village of Zormaghar, western Kobani. During today’s violations committed by the Turkish Army no casualties were reported. Simultaneously in the west and southern Kobani region, the Daesh (ISIS) terrorists are continuing to perform their week-old assaults by heavy weaponry. Between 21:00-22:00 on October 25 and between 08:00 and 10:00 today, the Daesh terrorists launched a range of heavy attacks on the villages of Shikayf and Mirvah in the countryside of the town Sarrin, Kobani Canton. Also today, between 03:00 and 04:00 a group of the Daesh terrorists who were positioned in the village of Hamam near the town Jarabulus targeted the village of Jade in western Kobani region with mortar fire. This attack that directly aimed at civilian population, fortunately, left no casualties behind. Similarly in the village of Mikhara, Ain Issa, the Daesh attackers carried out another mortar attack between 14:00 and 15:00 in Kobani region.

Also, the UN (again) votes against the US blockade of Cuba. This time with 191 against 2 (US and Apartheid Israel). (The US was one of the last to maintain a support for the Apartheid regime in South Africa)

Friday, October 23, 2015 11:15 AM NEWS DESK - ANF An ISIS member captured by YPG/YPJ during Tal Abyad operation told ANF about the cooperation between the Turkish state and ISIS. The ISIS member M.H. from Syria, who is currently jailed in Rojava, made striking confessions regarding the talks between ISIS and MİT (Turkish intelligence organisation) at the border between Tal Abyad city of Rojava and Akçakale district of Urfa province in the Turkish territory. M.H. told that MİT provided them with arms at the border, and Turkish ambulances carried wounded ISIS members to hospitals. Speaking to Fırat News Agency (ANF), M.H. stated that the passage between Raqqa and Urfa, and delivery of arms and munitions was conducted over Tal Abyad. M.H. said his first contact with the gang groups occurred over his family's opposition to the ISIS, telling that he agreed to work with ISIS after he was captured and tortured by them, and was furthermore threatened that he himself and his family would be murdered in the event that he refused to cooperate with them. Thursday, October 22, 2015 2:00 PM ISTANBUL - ANF It has emerged that the raw materials used to produce sarin gas, the use of which caused the death of thousands in Syria, was transported to Ahrar-ı Sham and Al-Nusra Front under the supervision of the Turkish state and within the knowledge of police and intelligence departments Main opposition party CHP Istanbul deputies Erdem Eren and Ali Şeker shared at a press conference the details of a lawsuit brought by Adana High Criminal Court against 13 Al-Nusra members in 2013. While the lawsuit was then rapidly concluded with a decision of non-prosecution, the CHP deputies said the indictment prepared in the scope of the case constituted a proof of a war crime was committed within the boundaries of the Turkish Republic. Despite the propaganda produced by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that the chemical attacks in Syria were carried out by the Asad regime, it came out that the chemical materials used for the production of sarin gas were transferred to the gang groups in Syria from Turkey within the knowledge of the Turkish state.

The Nizkor Project: Remembering the Holocaust (Shoah) Paranoia as Patriotism: Far-Right Influences on the Militia Movement Robert DePugh and The Minutemen Robert DePugh, 72, came into prominence in the early 1960s as founder of the Minutemen - a secretive, extreme right-wing group that perceived an impending Communist takeover of the U.S. and organized violent "counteraction" to prevent the alleged takeover. Organized into secret cells of five to 15 members, the Minutemen stockpiled weapons and trained together to defend the country against what they deemed "subversives." In scattered incidents throughout the U.S. during the 1960s, armed Minutemen clashed with law enforcement authorities and private citizens. Minutemen carrying out DePugh's orders and objectives placed armed caches in various locations around the country. They attracted notoriety when this military equipment was discovered by law enforcement. In October 1966, for example, 19 New York Minutemen were arrested in raids and accused of planning to bomb and burn three summer camps in the New York metropolitan area, which the Minutemen claimed were being used by "Communist, left-wing, and liberal" individuals. Huge supplies of weapons and explosives - including rifles, pipe bombs, mortars, machine guns, grenade launchers and a bazooka - were uncovered. Because of faulty search warrants, however, the charges against the Minutemen were dropped in 1971, after lengthy court proceedings. In addition, the Minutemen used threats against their perceived enemies. In one incident, DePugh's monthly publication, On Target, listed the names of 20 Congressmen who had criticized the then-active House Committee on Un-American Activities, warning: "Traitors beware! Even now the cross hairs are on the back of your necks." In February 1968, DePugh went underground after a Federal grand jury in Seattle indicted him and seven other Minutemen on charges of conspiring to rob a bank. Federal agents captured DePugh and an associate 17 months later as they were leaving a hideout in Truth-or-Consequences, New Mexico. In July 1969, DePugh was sentenced to an 11-year prison term for firearms violations, bond jumping, and breaking Federal fugitive gun control laws. DePugh's incarceration signalled the end of the Minutemen as a significant presence among the radical right in America. Following his release from prison in May 1973, DePugh attempted to revive his stature in the hate movement, first by affiliating himself briefly with Liberty Lobby, the leading anti-Semitic propaganda organization in the country, and then by collaborating with United Klans of America leader Robert Shelton on an unsuccessful project called "the Committee of Ten Million." In June 1992, John Grady, leader of the American Pistol and Rifle Association (APRA) - a far-right alternative to the National Rifle Association - appealed to "Selected Patriots" to initiate a letter-writing campaign to overturn DePugh's conviction on other weapons violations. According to press accounts, DePugh had been convicted on two counts of weapons possession by a felon and one count of possessing an unregistered machine gun following a September 1991 Iowa arrest on charges of sexual exploitation of a 13-year-old girl and misdemeanor possession of of child pornography. No further details on these charges have been reported since. (Anti-Defamation League, 15-16)

I was unaware of Yockey. Interesting though. Carto, Coughlin et.c. ... I think it (my definition) very much sums up Hitlers and other Nazis, Fascists and Falangists positions based on reading various books on the subject written before, during and after WWII. Yockey seems to have been one bridge to US nazis and neo-nazis.

Not 'just another force". "Organizations such as the minute men for instance, ... There will also be anarchist, pacifist, and quite possibly fascist splinter groups, however, all these, unlike the minute men and communist partisan groups, will be unarmed. .. I intend to put forward just such an alternative.... *[to make this] alternative effective supporters must prepare now in the event the situation presents itself for the practical application of this alternative....In this way the militarist minute men and their narrow support of capitalism have been most far-sighted," As stated, I suggest he took this view to the Minutemen and the rest is history. He clearly saw the Minutemen as 'best' but with failings and he Oswald had the alternative to put them right. edit add*, typo

It is in the diary he wrote on his way back from the CCCP. I don't have a link to the actual section right now. I'll post later. edit add : I found this : In Notes for a speech : http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/undeliveredspeechnotes.htm My memory tells me that there was a simialr idea in his diary. Unfortunately a failing memory is part of growing old, so until I find time to find any other eference, this'll do. "There have already been a few organizations who have disclosed that they shall become effective only after conflict between the two world systems leaves the country without defense or foundation of government, Organizations such as the minute men for instance, however they are preparing to simply defend the present system and reinstate its influence after the mutual defeat of both systems militarily, which is more or less taken for granted. Their armed groups will represent the remaining hard core of fanatical American capitalist supporters. There will undoubtedly be similar representation of this kind by communist groups in communist countries. There will also be many decided religious segments putting forward their own alternatives and through larger memberships than the minute man, etc. There will also be anarchist, pacifist, and quite possibly fascist splinter groups, however, all these, unlike the minute men and communist partisan groups, will be unarmed. The mass of survivors however will not belong to any of these groups; they will not be fanatical enough to join extremist, and will be too disillusioned to support either the communist or capitalist parties in their respective countries, after the atomic catostraph. They shall seek an alternative to those systems which have brought them misery. But their thinking and education will be steeped in the traditions of those systems. They would never accept a "new order" any more than they would accept the extremist, etc. Complete beyond their understanding, logically they would deem it necessary to oppose the old systems but support at the same time their cherished traditions. I intend to put forward just such an alternative. In making such a declaration I must say that in order to make this alternative effective supporters must prepare now in the event the situation presents itself for the practical application of this alternative. In this way the militarist minute men and their narrow support of capitalism have been most far-sighted, however, they present only a suicide force, whereas what is needed is a constructive and practical groups of persons desiring peace but steadfastly opposed to the revival of forces who have led millions of people to death and destruction in a dozen wars and have now at this moment led the world into unsurpassed danger."

imo : There are two features of fascism that particularly identifies it. Nationalism. A Racial State, A view that one's own race is superior and therefore has a fundamental Right to deal with all other Races, ethnicities, cultures without moral or otherwise consioderations one applies to self. Anti democracy. A violent suppression of dissent that threatens this state. The use of violence to get power. Power Politics with Brutality. ____________ imo Oswald needs to be understood from the position he took in supporting the Minutemen. He suggested attacking the right and left in order to trigger a struggle between them in which a third force would rise to rule. Very naiive and simplistic, but that is what he wrote. I suggest he took that to the Minutemen who then saw an opportunity to use him and they pretended to go along while intending to use him as a patsy.

Rainer Rupp about ‘Able Archer,’ his work in NATO headquarters, the Syrian War and the conflict with RussiaSept. 19, 2015 In the early 1990s he was “most wanted.” The Attorney General at that time called it the “biggest search operation of the German Federal Republic’s police services in the postwar period.” Rainer Rupp, under the code name “Topaz,” had delivered highly sensitive information from NATO headquarters in Brussels to the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance (HVA) of the German Democratic Republic. Rupp was arrested in 1993 and sentenced by the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) in Dusseldorf to 12 years’ imprisonment. He was released in the year 2000. The superspy, who turned 70 on Sept. 21, gave the following interview to Karlen Vesper of the newspaper Neues Deutschland. Vesper’s questions are in bold. Rainer Rupp Mr. Rupp, was there really a threat of World War III in 1983? And was it actually you who prevented it? I never said that, and I’ll never say it. I’m not so presumptuous. I can only quote others. Milton Bearden, former chief of the CIA’s Department for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, is convinced there was such a danger and expressed this publicly at the International Spy Conference on May 7, 2004, in Berlin. Also Benjamin Fisher, longtime collaborator and chief historian of the CIA, has this view. Also Vojtech Mastny, professor of strategy at the Military Academy of the U.S. Navy, supported this view in his pamphlet, “Did East German Spies Prevent a Nuclear War?” regarding my role in the crisis in 1983. The same viewpoint can be read in publications of “Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security,” a Zurich-based international research program on security issues, and not only during the Cold War. And Vladimir Kryuchkov, the KGB chief at that critical time, in a 2005 interview with a German television station pointed out that my actions kept the conflict from escalating in 1983 and blowing up. Last but not least, an award-winning German television documentary in a voice-over commentary raised the question: “Did Rainer Rupp possibly prevent the Third World War?” How did it happen that in November 1983 the world was again, as in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, on the brink of a nuclear war? And what was your contribution in concrete terms to prevent it? From Nov. 7 to 11, 1983, there was a European NATO command staff exercise that simulated a nuclear war: “Able Archer.” I was sitting at the time in the nerve center of NATO, and was head of the Current Intelligence Group. This group gathered all information on the situation of the enemy and their own in one place. Early in the morning each day they met under a rotating chairmanship and evaluated the synthesis of the problems that in turn were sent to the NATO command bodies and to the governments and secret services of the NATO countries. In times of crisis or at the time of staff maneuvers, in which we planned to use nuclear weapons in a first strike … “We” – out of your mouth? I used “we” according to my former identity at NATO Headquarters. As head of the Current Intelligence Group I had to also deliver this information before the Supreme Defense Planning Council. I had all the top-secret information “at my fingertips,” as they say. I could also access everything (laughs), not just the information that I got to see during my tenure, but also that which came before. The Soviets were completely convinced that “Able Archer” was the cover for a real nuclear strike. They believed that starting from this maneuver a strike aimed at decapitating the command, control and communication centers of the Soviet army, the state apparatus and the party apparatus would be carried out with the help of the new ultra-modern and precise tactical nuclear missiles, Pershing II and cruise missiles for which you had a warning time of only five to eight minutes. With these rockets, the criminal gang in the Pentagon hoped to decapitate the Soviet army, so that they — a quote that I myself have heard — “would run around the farmhouse like a chicken with its head cut off.” The Soviet fear seemed justified given the then low level of relations between East and West. In March 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an “evil empire” and announced the start of the missile defense program SDI [star Wars]. As head of the Current Intelligence Group, I saw that the fear of a nuclear strike was unfounded. There was no sign in my files of such a strike. That didn’t make NATO any more peaceful, but in this particular situation it was important knowledge. In order to allay the concerns of the Soviets, I scanned all the documents — whether important or not — and sent them to the GDR. Since all documents were officially numbered, the comrades in the HVA and Moscow could clearly see that nothing was missing and nothing important had been overlooked. At the height of the crisis this was supplemented by daily messages to East Berlin. And since they had a corresponding confidence in the sources, Moscow finally dropped the option of a pre-emptive counter-attack. In view of the many new, never-ending wars in the Middle East and to the escalating confrontation between the U.S. and Russia – is there again the threat of a Third World War? What if the Russians and Americans shoot at each other in Syria? And the French and English, as was announced recently, want to drop bombs inside Syria? I do not think that a third world war is now an imminent risk. The Syrian spark, however, can quickly jump over to the Ukraine. In U.S. media and talk shows a year ago this opinion was expressed openly and hatefully to Moscow: “The crisis in Ukraine is the tit-for-tat for Syria.” Because two years ago Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied U.S. neo-conservatives their war against Assad. That was in the context of poison gas attacks allegedly commanded from Damascus, attacks that were all faked. They blamed the attacks on Bashar al-Assad in order to push Obama to war. Putin and Lavrov prevented this when they said: “We can get the chemical weapons out of Syria, without you waging war.” The war in Syria is not really a civil war … This is no civil war. An American officer and lecturer at a U.S. military academy aptly said: “That’s a war imposed from the outside.” Could it spread to other neighboring countries and to Europe? Does it really threaten a wildfire? This threatened two years ago when U.S. American and Russian warships off the Syrian coast in sight of each other crossed paths and the Americans, British and French were preparing a bombing campaign against Syria. A Russian warship could have shot down a bomber located above Syrian territorial waters or at least could have forwarded the flight coordinates to the Syrian anti-aircraft guns. One can assume that the Russians and Syrians have coordinated their systems for a long time. And that would all naturally have brought us into the mess. It was therefore already a highly dangerous situation. Tit for tat along the lines of: “If you make us angry, we will light a small fire on your doorstep” are treacherous. Therefore Lavrov has now called the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry again, so that he might give the real experts on both sides, the Russian and American military, the opportunity to talk to each other, if he wants to avoid collisions. Those are professionals. But for many years Washington has sabotaged any meeting of top military fr... for the rest of this fascinating interview go to : http://www.workers.org/articles/2015/10/16/rainer-rupp-about-able-archer-his-work-in-nato-headquarters-the-syrian-war-and-the-conflict-with-russia/

Saturday, October 17, 2015 1:45 PM ANTEP - ANF Dozens of gang members who get wounded in the ongoing Russian airstrikes against Aleppo, Hama, Humus, Damascus and İdlib cities of Syria are brought to hospitals in Antep and Kilis for treatment. According to reports by local sources, the gangs are transported to state hospitals in ambulances escorted by Turkish police and soldiers. Russian airstrikes against ISIS, Al-Nusra, Ahrar u-Sham and other gang groups disturb Turkey and some other countries including the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Differently from the airstrikes conducted by the U.S. and coalition forces, Russia hits the Al-Nusra, Ahrar u-Sham , Sham Front and other gang organizations deployed around Aleppo, Hama, Humus, Damascus and İdlib. In parallel with the reports that a number of gangs members are now crossing into Turkey due to the ongoing offensives by Russia, reports are coming through that many gangs are being brought to hospitals in Turkey for treatment after getting wounded in the bombardments. HOSPITALS IN KİLİS FULL WITH WOUNDED GANG MEMBERS Hundreds of militants affiliated to mainly ISIS and Al-Nusra, to which Turkey has given full support since the beginning of the civil war in Syria in 2012, are also being provided treatment in Turkish hospitals, mainly in Urfa and Antep provinces. A health staff member in Antep, to which the largest number of wounded gangs are brought recently, provided significant details to Dicle News Agency (DİHA). The health worker with initials M.D. informed that a large number of wounded gangs have been brought to hospitals in Antep and Kilis since the beginning of Russian airstrikes, especially during the last two weeks. M.D. pointed out that the gangs were brought to hospitals in Turkish ambulances, and voiced concerns among the local people over the increasing number of militants affiliated to inhuman and barbarian organizations notorious for savage crimes against humanity. GANGS BROUGHT TO HOSPITALS UNDER CONTROL OF MİT Noting that some gangs members are being brought to hospitals with their military stuff, M.D. said the healthcare staff have no security of life as gang members are being accompanied by Turkish police and soldiers. "We witnessed same situations in the recent past and these would also be covered by the media but treatment of gangs in Turkish hospitals had relatively increased in the recent period. Yet, we are witnessing the same case these days since the beginning of airstrikes by other forces in Syria. Dozens of gang members have been brought to the hospital during the last two months. These are not ordinary people as they are sometimes brought by MİT (Turkish intelligence organization) members who would even check the rooms before the treatment of the gang members they accompany." ARE THEY MEMBERS OF MİT? Stating that the gang members that die in hospitals are taken back to the border, again in Turkish ambulances, M.D. said;" They are acting as if the hospital belonged to them. Those hit in the airstrikes are not ordinary people, nor newly recruited ones because they are accompanied by many other people. Faces of some are being covered while they enter and leave the hospital, which proves them to be senior persons. Such ones are being treated only by the health staff arranged by police." In consideration of the fact that organizations such as Al-Nusra, Ahrar-u Sham and Sham Front are controlled by MİT which also has many members in the field in Syria, the concealment of the mentioned persons while entering and leaving the hospitals brings to mind the question whether they are members of the Turkish intelligence.

Points to disuss: Without doubt, in this world of so much trouble there is a movement that promises a solution. The following contribution by Stefan Bertram-Lee, 1st October 2015, published in Woman, http://kurdishquestion.com/index.php/woman/content/34-woman/, is worth reading and thinking about : What Can Western Feminists Learn From The Women’s Struggle In Rojava? 1. We must build women’s self defence units 2. The Revolution must smile 3. Liberalism is death 4. Women’s Liberation is anti-statist 5. But to learn one needs to hear 1. It is a simply reality that we live in a world where men are prosecuting a war upon women, something that they are doing incredibly successfully. We live in a world where for a woman to be sexually assaulted is a rule rather an expectation, a world where 1/3 of women are physically abused, a world where ‘femincide’ is an existent term, a world where 99% of property is owned by men etc. etc. A war is being fought against us, but we seem not to have noticed. Women all over the word are fighting for their liberation in their millions, but considering the extent to which we are being annihilated much of our response seems muted. If a war is being waged against us, why are we not fighting back with the same ferocity?Voltairine de Cleyre wondered over a century ago how women had not rebelled considering the extent of abuse we have suffered, and this question seems equally applicable in our present conditions. There seem to be few places in the world where the will and the structures to fight a women’s war exist, and one of these places is Rojava. Not only does a women’s army exist in the form of the YPJ, but a whole ‘Women’s Society’, with ‘’women’s communes, academies, tribunals, and cooperatives’’ [1].You need more than an army to fight a war; you need a whole structure that can economically and intellectually replenish an army as to allow the continuation of the struggle, something that the Rojava women’s struggle seems to have in spades. But what connection can be drawn between the YPJ, and the general women’s struggle in Rojava and that of our situation in the West? Clearly the way patriarchy has presented itself in the form of IS, and other radical Salafist groups, is radically different to the way it has presented itself in the West, so surely a radically different response should be taken? The first thing to note is that the struggle against IS isonly half of the women’s struggle in Rojava, the other half is that of the internal societal struggle to eliminate patriarchy in the revolutionary society in Rojava, the ‘’Killing of the dominant male’’.[2] The second is that what I am advocating is not particularly focused on the armed aspect of the Women’s Revolution in Rojava, (Although if you live in a nation like the United States where you have a right to bear arms, I would not discourage you from taking up arms) but a more in-depth analysis of its situation. What I am advocating is moving from simply self-organising to self-defence. In recent years there has been a recognition in movements that I am a part of, that self-organisation of oppressed segments of the populace is essential to liberation. While such self-organisation has come under assaults from reactionary elements, most clearly seen recently in the attacks on Goldsmiths Welfare Officer Bahar Mustafa, [3] it has generally become mainstreamed among radical movements that I have witnessed. While there are examples in the West of oppressed segments of society practising self-defence, with ‘minority’groups in the United States drawing on the tradition of groups like the Black Panthers and the American Indian Movement to form organisations like theHuey P. Newton gun club[4] and the Indigenous People's Liberation Party,[5] these ideas do not have made much headway in the Western Women’s Movement. What does it mean to advocate for Women’s self-defence?Women’s self-defence means that women (And all other genders that face systematic patriarchal violence, i.e. all of them that aren’t men) should construct organisations geared toward protecting women and other gender oppressed groups from violence, may this be physical, emotional or any other kind. And what does this practically mean? Clearly we have an example of a Women’s Self Defence unit, in the form of the YPJ, but how do we apply this to our radically different material circumstance? I would not seek to give a definitive list of ways the example can be applied, but simply give a few possible examples. It can mean making sure no one goes home alone at night, it can mean intervening in examples of sexual assault in nightclubs and elsewhere, it can mean organising women led self-defence classes, it can mean making sure people are aware that your couch is open to those whose who only other option is a bed they would rather not lay in etc. These are all actions I have seen happen on an ad-hoc basis, our challenge is to transform them from such into things practised consistently by large numbers of people. Clearly there is the will there for it; what we lack is organisation and articulation of such acts as directly ideological actions, as this articulation and organisation will encourage and push people to do and maintain this and other larger things. 2.But we cannot simply organise structures and expect our compatriots to line up: if this was all we needed the revolution would have been done long ago. There is a certain malaise among some western ‘activists’ wherebypolitical activity is conceptualised as a ‘task’, something that must be done, but should not beand is not fun, enjoyable, or in any substantive manner connected to the rest of their lives. This is the grim, po-faced seriousness of the ‘organiser’, whose work is very very important, and allowing it to be touched with a smile would corrupt the purity of it. This is an attitude that is incredibly destructive and counter-productive for various reasons. If your work as an ‘activist’ is something that drains and exhausts you, instead of something to that fulfils and energises you, if the product of your activity (if there is one) is something you cannot connect to your lived experiences, then all you have done is given yourself a job. A job equally soul-destroying and anti-human as any other in a Capitalist society – with the fact that you are your own slave-master, whipping your own back ‘for the revolution’ or ‘for a better world’, just making it all the more painful to watch. And of course, this kind of activity is something that is only viable for a very small number of people. Perhaps it can be managed by a University student, but for the average wage worker the idea that they would have something that may as well be a second unpaid job to be properly engaged in ‘politics’, this is nothing but a brick wall. (If Comrades of the Marxist ‘Newspaper sellers’ party wonder why their party seem to be formed of everyone but the Working class, I offer an answer.) If we ever wish to truly win, our politics must be fun, our revolution must smile. Now what is the connection between this and the Rojava Women’s Movement? In Rojava we do have a revolution that smiles. A revolution which dances, which sings and which laughs. Perhaps it is just the image which is presented to western eyes, but these occurrences seem to be predominantly led by Rojava’s women. We of course must recognise that there are very many parts of a revolution that are not particularly fun, when you are an armed combatant there is everything from the moment of armed clashed to latrine duty that may be less than fun. What I am saying is not that every moment should be approached with a smile, but rather that every moment that can be, should. To be a revolutionary is a serious business, which will more often than not involve a great deal of personal hardship, but to say because of this we should not smile and laugh in every moment we can is nothing but bisecting your own soul. Attempting to sacrifice your own happiness at the altar of ‘revolution’ is nothing but a counterproductive desire for a self-flagellating purity that does not serve you or anyone else. Now what does this mean in the concrete? How do we make our politics fun? Once again I do not seek to give an authoritativedescription of what is ‘fun’ and what is not, but rather simply to give examples of political activity which I did enjoy, and examples of ones I did not. One of the best events I have witnessed is the Reclaim Brixton event of 25th April 2015. Halfway between a rebellion and a street party it was an event that had the things that should be desired from political activity. Enjoyment on the day was guaranteed by a carnival atmosphere and popular support. While literally doing things that we find fun in other circumstance in a political circumstance should not be the end of our attempts to make politics fun, (dancing in the expanse of space in our cities that is usually reserved for cars is probably not going to bring down the state, though you never know) it can be a nice start. The second part, popular support, was also very helpful to making the day enjoyable. Often on large ‘’national demonstrations’’ and the like you march through the streets of Central London where approximately none of you live, and in fact, barely anyone lives. It’s not only that these demonstrations are more often than not simply a spectacle for tourists, but that it would be difficult for them to be anything else. By contrast in Brixton we were going through an area where our demands were directly relevant to the local population, and had been very clearly articulated through extended community action, ensuring popular support. Beyond the simple pleasure of being cheered for, this popular support opens up much greater possibilities for action. If you know that not only the people around you won’t snitch you out, but also will be willing to hide you from the police, obstruct police interventions etc. a lot more can be done. Enjoyment after the day was ensured by the direct connection between our intent that day (to reject and attempt to turn back the efforts of gentrification in Brixton) and the actions that were taken that day (the smashing of an upmarket real estate agents that is buying up all the social housing in Brixton and pushing massive rent increases). We went away seeing our desires had been made reality in some way, we hadn’t won, but our actions had some product, and that product was a definitive victory. An example of a political event that I found completely hateful and entirely ‘’non-fun’’ was the founding meeting of the “Essex Radical Platform’’. It was a three hour meeting full of circular arguments, abstract discussions and an unflinching focus on defining what this organisation was when all it intended to be was a meeting point for various individuals and organisations to propose action. A three-hour-long discussion with no breaks is something that the vast majority will find tiresome and will simply be non-viable for those who are disabled in various ways. Being in a room with a large number of people you don’t know or vaguely know arguing with in regards to emotionally charged issues , with limited food and water, and if you want to use the bathroom you have to miss parts of the discussion, is not something that many people will voluntary subject themselves to many times. It can be argued that some parts of this process are inevitable, but as so few people can to subsequent meetings (The second one, amazingly, was an attempt to resolve the discussion started in the first) clearly something was being done wrong. 3. Of course our politics cannot simply be ‘fun’, ‘fun’ ensures that people come back, but effectiveness ensures we will actually change something. The Rojava Women’s Movement has clearly been effective, successfully recreating their ‘’Revolution within a Revolution’’, and I believe this comes from their willingness to engage in their struggle by whatever means prove necessary. As I have outlined above the Women’s struggle in Rojava is diverse, and reaches in to all parts of their Society, from a Women’s Economy to a Women’s Police Force (Which deals with all crimes relating to Women and Children).While Western Feminists seem highly limited in what tactics they are willing to employ, there are no such concerns in Rojava. Of course I’m sure that anyone who suggested ISIS should be dealt with via ‘Non-Violent’ methods would be laughed out of the vast majority of rooms, not only in Rojava, but all across the world. But who has killed more Iraqis, ISIS or the British and the American Governments? The British and American states ‘win’ by a lengthy margin: from the British bombing of the Kurds in Northern Iraq in the aftermath of WW1, to every person killed by the UNSC sanctions during the 90s, to the invasion in 2003 and the subsequent occupation. If you want to see a group which has engaged in mass murder, torture, arbitrary imprisonment and displacement of religious minorities in the Middle East, then you don’t have to look toward ISIS, you can simply look at your own Government. So in that case why do you find the idea of dealing with ISIS ‘non-violently’ absurd, but would flinch at the idea of engaging in anything that could be classed as ‘violence’ against your own Government? Western Feminism has a rich history of Militant struggle, from the British Suffragettes to Women’s Armed Resistance groups like Rote Zora in Germany [6], but such militancy seems to have been drained from the modern movement. While some groups in Britain such as Sister’s Uncut[7] and Feminist Fightback[8]continue this proud tradition of Women’s Direct Action, most groups that I have experience of seem to be limited to meetings and petition signing. And this is not for a lack of situations that require a direct action approach, as there have been reports that an Abortion Clinic in the UK has recently been forced to close due to the actions of Anti-Abortion Protesters.[9]Feminist Fightback have directly combatted such actions by physically blocking Anti-Abortion protesters from going from their Churches to the Abortion Clinic, and this is the kind of tactic that we will need if we are going to defend the right to have an abortion for those people who have wombs. While I’m sure these kinds of actions would not be received negatively by the mainstream Feminist movement, it is rather a lack of reception of either the Anti-Abortion campaign or the reaction to it that is worrying. The right to abortion was one the largest Women’s Struggle in the 20th Century, now it seems to be being quietly eroded without much fuss. Perhaps it is because it is seen as past conflict that we have we won. Or perhaps it is because the focus of the mainstream Feminist movement is centred on making demands of the state, and struggles outside of this dynamic have become alien to the movement. And so since the toolkit that is required to deal with committed religious fanatics is entirely different to the one that is need to petition the state, the movement struggles to take action here. I do not mean to disrespect ‘Non-Militant’ tactics: to have meetings and to inform others is the necessary building blocks before we can physically confront Anti-Abortion protesters and other reactionary elements. Rather, like the Women of Rojava, we need to be ready to confront Patriarchy on every front, and this means accepting a diversity of tactics and refusing to cling to non-useful concepts like ‘Non-Violence’. 4. Another problem in the Modern Western Feminist Movement is a lack of a Universal approach, as if feminism can only answer a few questions. Feminism is seen as relevant in the question of ‘Should women be payed equally to men?’ but not to ‘Should there be a wage system?’. Feminism is often an addition to a person’s ideology not the primary aspect. People from across the political spectrum will tack feminism onto the end of their ideology, Conservative Feminism, Liberal Feminism, Anarchist Feminism etc. But will rarely put it first, or see it as something which can provide a systematic answer to all of society’s ills. The Rojava Freedom Movement sidesteps this via having its theoretical basis derived from the works of Abdullah Ocalan. Ocalan sees class society (Capitalism, but also more generally all oppressive economic systems that base themselves on hierarchy and private property – so also including systems such as Feudalism) as originating out of the oppression of Women. So in order to deconstruct such a society we need to deconstruct gender divisions and ‘kill the dominant man’.[9] This moves gender struggles from the side of the struggle, (I.e. Feminism is a necessary part of Anarchism because we are against all inequality) to the centre (I.e. Women’s Struggle is central to our struggle because it is a necessity to deconstruct class society). I believe this is an example to follow. I am not directly advocating Western Feminists adopt Ocalan’s historical and ideological perspective, but rather that there is a systematic effort to adopt some kind of historical perspective. No more simply struggling against the obvious gender discrepancies in our society without any analysis of what cause these phenomena. And this means going beyond these obvious discrepancies, and looking more widely. If we conclude that everything in our society is at least partially shaped by patriarchy, and we conclude that patriarchy is unhealthy for everyone, then we need to question all aspects of our society. Hierarchy, private property, the state, all of these things emerged out of patriarchal system, so why should we assume that they should be part of a non-patriarchal system? 5. But in my analysis of the Rojava Women’s movement I refuse to simply engage in slavish admiration, the position of critical support is the only correct stance to have toward a comrade. One vital critique is the one that is brought to bear by Zaher Baher in his article ’’Why are Anarchists and Libertarians divided over Rojava?’’. Here he is critical of the apparent non-engagement of his fellow diaspora Kurds with the politics and civil society of the countries they reside in.[10] He argues that if the diaspora Kurds do not engage in the politics, and with the people, of their home nations, how can it be expected that the people of these nations will engage with Rojava? He says that the diaspora Kurds make demonstrations, but they are difficult for outsiders to engage in, awash with a confusing array of flags, banners and placards, with the chants being in Turkish and Kurdish. The Kurdish diaspora alongside the Turkish Left in Britain has demonstrated an impressive ability to mobilise, but these efforts do not seem to have really penetrated British civil society. I do not make a demand of the Kurdish movement to educate me or anyone else, but simply that if they desire support among Civil Society in Western Nations, it is what they must do. I know many who are fascinated by the Revolution in Rojava (especially in regards to its revolutionary attitude toward gender relations), and wish to take action to support it, but they do not know where to start. I have spent a great amount of time reading about Rojava but I feel as if I am ignorant on so many topics, and when my fellows ask me questions I often cannot answer. For instance NYC Rojava Solidarity once mentioned that there are LGBT assemblies in Rojava, is this true?[11] It would not take much to confirm this, but I have not heard another mention of it in English language media, and so I cannot say anything about it. And looking more broadly, I think the vast majority of British Feminists know essentially nothing about the Rojava Revolution, but if they did many would be incredibly enthusiastic. I feel that the supporters of the Rojava revolution among the diaspora have an immense chance to energise a western movement that is desperate for hope and success, and to show to Western Feminists the power of radical action. Imagine if instead of the paper-sellers each demonstration had supporters of the Rojava Revolution distributing literature explaining in short what the Rojava Revolution had achieved? There are so many out there simply waiting to support Rojava; they just need to hear about it first. 1]http://kurdishquestion.com/index.php/insight-research/feminism-and-the-kurdish-freedom-movement.html [2] Liberating Life: Woman’s Revolution - Abdullah Ocalan [3]https://www.change.org/p/goldsmiths-college-and-beyond-open-letter-in-solidarity-with-bahar-mustafa-welfare-and-diversity-officer-goldsmiths?recruiter=66839296&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=des-lg-no_src-no_msg&fb_ref=Default [4]https://www.facebook.com/pages/Huey-P-Newton-gun-club/1462461764015542?fref=ts [5] https://www.facebook.com/pages/Indigenous-Peoples-Liberation-Party/1472793502987559?fref=ts [6] http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ann-hansen-julie-belmas-this-is-not-a-love-story-armed-struggle-against-the-institutions-of-pat [7]https://www.facebook.com/sistersuncut [8]https://www.facebook.com/pages/Feminist-Fightback/772580466190136?fref=ts [9]For an in-depth explanation of Ocalan’s theory see his ‘Liberating Life: Woman’s Revolution’ [10]https://anarkistan.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/why-are-anarchists-and-libertarians-divided-over-rojava/ [11] Upon discussing with the editors of Kurdish Question, it seems that this information about LGBT councils in Rojava provided by NYC Rojava Solidarity results from a misinformation or confusion. The group may have confused this with LGBT groups operating within Bakur (North Kurdistan/Turkey).

This is an understandable misunderstanding. If one looks deeper one finds that the Nazi Party originated with the right wing Freikorps that fought against Red Shirts*. Germany was on the cusp of communist revolution in 1918. Various wealthy anti communists financed the on the street confrontation with the communists. They took over the .../ and at this point I checked wiki to see the name of the party the Nazis took over under Hitler... Wiki " The National Socialist German Workers' Party (German: About this sound Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (help·info), abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party (/ˈnɑːtsi/), was a political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that practised Nazism. Its predecessor, the German Workers' Party (DAP), existed from 1919 to 1920. The party emerged from the German nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post-World War I Germany.[6] The party was created as a means to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism.[7] Initially, Nazi political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric, although such aspects were later downplayed in order to gain the support of industrial entities, and in the 1930s the party's focus shifted to anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist themes." So, the article makes the points I meant to make. The analysis of the prior post is too simplistic as wel;l as furthering serious misunderstandings of the nature of Nazism and Communism. There is far more to it, particularly in looking at the type of Communism under Stalin. Stalinism : this type of brutality did attract people like Goebbles. He admired Stalin in particular ways. However a deeper understaning leads to a conclusion that Communism and Nazism are very different in very fundamental ways. Fascism is basically a logical event in the crisis stage of Capital. Hence its deepest enemy is Communism as Marx explains it. The choice of the working class in this stage is Communism or Fascism. If Fascism triumphs Capital reasserts itself. It took the extreme brutality of the Brownshirts to control the workers. The Communists inb Germany were not prepared and poorly led. Of course none of this detracts from the conclusion that a right wing Oswald also moving in Socialist circles is not a contradiction. edit : * correction. I remember wrongly. There were no Red Shirts. I'll check to see what the fighting groups of Communists in berlin called themselves. Anyway, the Communists were slow to respond to the Brownshirts organised Power Politics. Understandable as the brownshirts were relatively small in number. Efficiently organised though. When the communists did organise to confront the brownshirts, it was too late. edit 2 add In response to post 769. Again a failure to do what I point out. Look deeper. : "The party emerged from the German nationalist, racist and populist Freikorps paramilitary culture, which fought against the communist uprisings in post-World War I Germany.[6] The party was created as a means to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism.[7] Initially, Nazi political strateg....etc. - Any statements by Nazis are to be understood in that context.

Stressing that the AKP cannot clear itself of this massacre by putting the blame on other organizations, KCK said AKP has been engaged in partnership with ISIS and similar others in the mindset and policies it has pursued so far. "Claims that these massacres have been perpetrated by ISIS or some other organizations would mean ignoring the AKP's mindset, policies and practices, and distorting the truths. The fact that these massacres target the societal circles which the AKP point as a target, also reveal who actually are behind them. By using the names of some organizations as a mask, the AKP government wants to eliminate all the opposition circles one by one." Pointing to the undemocratic character of the AKP and its lack of a sense to respect and accept the results of elections, KCK emphasized that the AKP regards any method or practice as allowable in order not to leave the power. "This massacre must be seen as a conspiracy conducted by the AKP government to remain in power, and a kind similar to the massacre it perpetrated before the June 7 election after seeing that it was going to lose the election", KCK said. KCK said it was also meaningful that this massacre took place on the very same day when the Kurdish movement declared inaction to ensure the security of elections and disallow AKP to turn the election process to its own favour through repression. According to KCK, this massacre has also revealed that the AKP government wants to hold the elections in a conflict environment and continue its ruling on this basis. The statement said; "AKP has resorted to such a massacre after foreseeing that it will lose this election as well in the event of holding it under normal circumstances. In consideration of the link between these massacres and the elections, it also exposes itself who the perpetrator is, which is undoubtedly nobody else other than Erdoğan and his counter-guerrilla team, it is the Gladio of the Palace." KCK said it has been primarily the AKP government and the Gladio of the Palace to become restive after the most recent debates hinting that the Kurdish movement would declare an inactive position. According to KCK, Yalçın Akdoğan, a part of the Palace's Gladio, revealed their mindset and intention by saying that 'this cannot fool us'. KCK underlined that objection to the ending of the conflict for the security of the elections laid the true face of the AKP government bare. The statement pointed out that the now-illegitimate AKP government has started a war and now wanted it to continue in order to maintain its ruling over the country. HDP Crisis Desk: 128 people lost their lives in Ankara HDP Crisis Desk has announced the death toll in today's massacre in Turkish capital Ankara as 128. Saturday, October 10, 2015 11:00 PM ANKARA - ANF HDP Crisis Desk has announced the death toll in today's massacre in Turkish capital Ankara as 128. As more reports of death are coming through from Ankara in the wake of the twin blasts that hit demonstrators for peace, HDP Crisis Desk has anounced that 128 people have lost their lives and 516 people have been wounded in the bloody attack.

Many of the Nazi Party seniors flirted with socialism in their formative years, The Nazi party had a clear anti "old wealth" stand. There is not necessarily a contradiction at all afa how you phrase that question here.

The left right dynamic goes a long way to explaining why. An example is the early analysis of the rise of Nazism. East German or Marxist historians readily saw it as a result of Capitalist Crisis. West German historians shied away from that and focused more on individuals. It is easier to blame 'the other'. One reason I've stated in the past that the conspiracy theorist is the conspirators best friend. To rise above all bias and to approach with no fear or favour inevitably lays one open for the charge of traitor and various other milder and severer forms of coercion. Obviously that sort of pressure is of no use if the truth is wanted. I've maintained for a long while that segregation is the key. I'm still a bit stunned that now this approach is being taken seriously. 10 years ago I found few, if any, willing to do so. Good, at last, I'm winding down my involvement. Too old and tired now.

Remember the car he's in is moving as well so he's got inertia.. Does his head move back or does it stop moving forward (while the car continues, only in that context making it look like, in a panning film, like the body moves back)?