Camille J. Jordan Named Assistant Director for Registered Student Organizations – University of Arkansas Newswire

Camille J. Jordan

The Office of Student Activities is pleased to announce Camille J. Jordan as the assistant director for registered student organizations in the Office of Student Activities.

The Office of Student Activities is pleased to announce Camille J. Jordan as the assistant director for registered student organizations in the Office of Student Activities.

In this position, Jordan will serve as the primary administrator of the RSO program. She will advise the Associated Student Government treasurer and the ASG Office of Financial Affairs Committee for the RSO funding process, providing stewardship and oversight of student-fee funding. She will also serve as primary adviser for SOOIE (Student Organization Outreach and Involvement Experience), a student organization that helps connect students with RSOs and helps RSOs succeed. Jordan will also be the primary coordinator for OSA's annual HillFest and Razorbash welcome fairs.

"I think Camille is going to be a wonderful addition to the Office of Student Activities and the University of Arkansas," said her supervisor, Trisha Blau, associate director for student activities."I think her previous experiences will help her assist our registered student organizations, and the students and advisers that she will be working with. I am excited to see what ideas she has for the RSO area and to see this area of OSA to continue to grow and serve our students in the best way possible."

Jordan is an Arkansas native who returns to serve her home state after gaining experience as a residence hall director at St. Cloud State University and residence life coordinator for student development at Indiana University. She holds a master's degree in college student personnel from Arkansas Tech University.

"I am excited to once again be in service to my home state," Jordan said. "I am a native Arkansan through and through, and there is no time like immediately to help our students grow and shine. The Office of Student Activities professional and graduate staff have been amazing in this transition;I cannot thank them enough. The University of Arkansas has an enchanting atmosphere. From the traditions to the athletic fanbases, you could not ask for a better institution."

Jordan's goals for her position include breaking down barriers for students and campus partners to understand the Office of Student Activities and the registered student organization funding processes. "The Office of Student Activities has traditionally been a hub for student creativity and growth," she said. "I want to continue to foster that learning culture and winning culture. We win when our students enjoy their collegiate experience and take advantage of what we have to offer. We win when we get the community involved. There is so much to look forward to."

"I am excited for Camille to join the Office of Student Activities," OSA Director Mary Skinner said. "Camille has the energy and drive to take the registered student organization program to the next level. I cannot wait to see what a difference she is going to make on the University of Arkansas campus."

Jordan lives in Fayetteville with her fianc, Allison J. Hayes, associate director for advocacy in the Student Standards and Conduct Office. Jordan and Hayes have two dogs, Laila (14) and Snow (15).

The Office of Student Activities provides an environment for involvement, empowerment, and collaboration through student organizations, programmatic experiences, and shared governance. OSA maximizes the UA experience by advocating for all students, promoting intercultural understanding, and developing citizens who are prepared to positively impact their communities. The Office of Student Activities is a department in the Division of Student Affairs.

About the Division of Student Affairs: The Division of Student Affairs supports students in pursuing knowledge, earning a degree, finding meaningful careers, exploring diversity, and connecting with the global community. We provide students housing, dining, health care resources, and create innovative programs that educate and inspire. We enhance the University of Arkansas experience and help students succeed, one student at a time.

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State elections board to hear Hanig challenge to Jordan’s residency Friday – The Daily Advance

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Plenty of experience back on the court for the Jordan netters – SW News Media

The Jordan girls tennis team has some returning talent that should help it be a factor in the Wright County East Conference and in Section 2AA.

The Jaguars have 10 returning letter winners from last years squad that finished 11-8 overall (2-2 in league play). However, Jordan will have to find a new No. 1 singles player.

Gone is Emily Randolph and her 111-career wins. She was a six-year varsity player and will be tough to replace, but Jaguars coach Jill Bailey feels confident her team can compete with the experience she has back.

As a team we would like to have an overall .500 or better record, Bailey said. In the conference, Delano will likely be the favorite, but we have the ability to be competitive with all Wright County teams.

In section play, our goal is to advance to the final four of our subsection, Bailey added.

Section 2AA, which includes Minnetonka, the defending Class AA state champion, is very strong. Eden Prairie is also a strong team, along with Shakopee and Prior Lake.

Chaska, Chanhassen, Hutchinson, Glencoe-Silver Lake, Mankato West, Mankato East/Loyola, Marshall, Mound Westonka, New Prague, New Ulm, St. Peter, Waconia and Worthington are also in the field.

Jordans returning players include seniors Cora Wulf, Dyllan Wellhausen, Jenna Elsenpeter and Cailin Friary, juniors Martha Reveland, Evy Menden, Jade Thach, Maddie Olinger and Mak Haugen and sophomore Riley Steinhaus.

Ninth-grader Naomi Salzwedel, sophomore Taylor Theis and junior Natalie Tieben will also vie for varsity playing time.

The team is eager, athletic and competitive, Bailey said. There are many players who have the ability to play singles and doubles. When they listen and do what we ask, they have the ability to improve fast.

Jordan has opened the season winning three of its first five matches, including a 4-3 win over Farmington in the Waseca Triangular Aug. 26. The Jaguars lost 4-3 to the host Bluejays.

Jordan won two of three matches in a quadrangular competition at Glencoe-Silver Lake Aug. 20, beating both the host Panthers and Marshall by a 5-2 score. The loss was 5-2 to Minneapolis Washburn.

The Jaguars also competed in the New Prague Invitational Aug. 27, finishing second out of eight teams with 26 points. Lakeville South won the title (40).

New Prague ended up third (18.5), followed by Apple Valley and Minneapolis Roosevelt (14), Glencoe-Silver Lake (12.5), United South Central (11) and Roseau (10.5).

Jordan ends the regular season on the road Sept. 29 at Prior Lake. The Section 2AA team tournament will start Oct. 3 with the title match Oct. 11 at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter.

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‘The Bachelorette 2022’: Fans call for Jordan V to be the next ‘Bachelor’, say he’s a ‘genuine man’ – MEAWW

BURBANK, CALIFORNIA: With Season 19 of 'The Bachelorette' coming to a close, it looks like it's finally time for Rachel and Gabby to follow their heart in the hope of finding their happily ever after. But before the final rose ceremony and possible engagement, the cast got candid during the 'Men Tell-All'.

During the 'Tell-All', the men spoke about all the drama that went down on their season -- from Logan switching sides to Jacob's comments about Gabby and Nate's cheating allegations. And of course, there was Rachel, who had to face Tyler and Jordan V, who she both left broken-hearted.

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When it came to Jordan V, fans didn't know what to make his elimination, seeing that on paper, he and Rachel were the perfect match. With Jordan V being a race car driver and Rachel being a pilot, the pair connected over their careers and were off to a splendid first date. However, midway, Rachel insisted there was no potential for a future and asked him to leave. Now, coming back on the show, Jordan V handled the whole situation rather well, telling Rachel that he understood where she came from and was glad to have been a part of her journey regardless. Fans couldn't help but swoon over him all over again. "Me listening to Jordan V still be the genuine man we all loved months after Rachel dumped him#TheBachelorette" tweeted a fan. "I still think Rachel should have kept Jordaneven more so tonight during the Men Tell All #thebachelorette" added another. "Jordan V is arguably the hottest dude this season what a missed opportunity to have sent him home right away #thebachelorette" said a fan. "Jordan V you sweet angel boy Im single and would never do you like that #thebachelorette" said a fan.

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At the same time, fans were also hoping that Jordan V would either be named the next 'Bachelor' or possibly make an appearance on 'Bachelor In Paradise'. "The world is cruel if Jordan V isn't the Bachelor... #thebachelorette" said a fan. "Hear me out.. Jordan and Tyler for double bachelor#MenTellAll #thebachelorette" added another. "Please tell me Jordan will be on Bachelor In Paradise, says every woman everywhere. #thebachelorette" tweeted another.

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Jordan Spieth swears he will improve on one key part of his game next season – GolfDigest.com

ATLANTA If youre a Jordan Spieth fanand there are a lot of youthe following will be music to your ears.

Going into next year, I should putt a lot better, Spieth told Golf Digest on Saturday after finishing his third-round 69 at the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club. I found some key stuff to work on in the offseason, and then continue to get better in the full swing as well.

Spieth, tied for 20th when the round was suspended by weather, is one Tour Championship round away from finishing a season he marks seven out of 10. There was a victory at the RBC Heritage at the iconic Harbour Town Golf Linkshis 13th on the PGA Tourand runners-up at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am and the AT&T Byron Nelson. He cracked back into the top 10 on the World Ranking after the Heritage win and now sits at No. 13. There were three other top-10 results coming into the season-ending Tour Championship.

Probably like a 7.5, Spieth said when asked to grade his 2021-22 campaign. I wish I was more consistent this year. I struck the ball better than last year and felt I putted better, too. I just felt like I couldn't really get anything to go in this year. Kind of one of those years.

The majors held considerable weight in the 29-year-olds self-assessment. Spieths best showing was a T-8 at the Open Championship at St. Andrews, but there was a missed cut at the Masters and only top-40 results at the PGA Championship and U.S. Open.

I normally judge it off majors, and this was my worst majors season by far, the three-time major winner said. It was just weird. I felt everything was in place, but I just didn't score well.

But Spieth is upbeat about next season, particularly because he feels confident of turning around his putting performance from his current rank of 153rd in strokes gained/putting. The former World No. 1 has turned around lackluster putting years before, like in 2018-19, when he was second in putting after ranking 123rd the season prior.

Spieth said the key was discovering a couple of inconsistencies within the early part of the putting processsome technical and some fundamentals.

Yeah, a bit [technical] but really a lot of set-up stuff and the start of the stroke; for a while I was having to save it a bit and now I feel a lot better, Spieth said. I got really off in 2018, finished [123rd] in putting, was in top five the next year. But this [year] was different than the '18 year. I felt way more comfortable felt my stroke was a lot cleaner. Some tournaments, you get the ball going in from the beginning and I didnt seem to get many of those.

With another chance to complete the career grand slam at the PGA Championship (the only major he hasnt won) and a Ryder Cup in Europe, there are plenty of golf fans who want to see Spieth putt well in 2023.

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Where To Buy The Bephies Beauty Supply x Air Jordan 7 We vs. I – Sneaker News

To the uniformed, the Bephies Beauty Supply x Air Jordan 7 We vs. I collaboration may seem entirely random, but it makes more sense when considering that the shops founder, Beth Gibbs, is wife to UNION LOS ANGELES frontman, Chris Gibbs.

At quick glance, the joint-effort departs from whats traditionally been seen on Michael Jordans seventh signature model, but commemorates Tinker Hatfields original design in the process. Released in 1992, the 30-year-old creation drew inspiration from the Nike Air Huarache, a model Hatfield designed a year prior. Bephies collaboration doubles down on this aspect of the NBA title-winning shoe, adding an ankle clip atop the standard pull tab at the spine. Neoprene booties are accompanied by a trail-inspired mesh that gives the Jordan 7 added height. A mix of Sanddrift and Turf Orange hues take over the We vs. I retro, which explores the shop owners own personal interests and experiences as well as her Caribbean roots. Much of the accompanying apparel also touches on several of the same design cues as the sneakers, creating cohesion between clothes and footwear.

Enjoy campaign imagery of the pair ahead, courtesy of UNION TOKYO, and find the shoes arriving via Bephies Beauty Supply website on August 25th.

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Jordan Dingle Making Big Impression in Fall Camp – UKAthletics

As college football teams around the country start to wrap up fall camp, many of them have something in common. In a number of locations around the country, there are players who are creating quite a bit of buzz despite having little, or no, past production on the field.

Its a player, or players, who the fan base remembers during the recruiting process. Its a player with a ton of potential that fans hope will pan out, and who has been the talk of August.

At Kentucky, that player so far this fall has been tight end Jordan Dingle. Despite having played in only four games in his career, Dingle appears to have a real shot at being the starting tight end when the Cats open the season on Sept. 3 against Miami (Ohio).

Dingle, a Bowling Green native, was a four-star recruit coming out of high school, is creating a lot of discussion with his play this fall.

Hes a guy who can do it all, said UK tight ends coach Vince Marrow. Hes a smart kid. Hes just a very knowledgeable kid and hes very talented. I think people are starting to see what everybody else was seeing.

Marrow has seen the potential in Dingle since he was recruiting him out of high school.

Jordan was a talented player coming out of high school in Bowling Green, Marrow said. We could have played him last year. The games he played in, the four, he actually played pretty good.

What has Marrow seen from Dingle this fall?

Hes made some big plays, Marrow said. Hes a kid that works hard. He was a very highly-recruited kid as a tight end.

Marrow likes the versatility that Dingle provides to the UK attack.

How I want to describe Jordan is, hes a Swiss Army knife, Marrow said. He can do it all. But hes also a guy who is very physical. People talk about his catches but he blocked very physical in the scrimmage. Thats the part that gets me, that hes an all-around guy. To play for me, youve got to be an all-around guy.

When asked about Dingle, UK offensive coordinator Rich Scangarello, who coached Pro Bowl tight end George Kittle with the San Francisco 49ers last season, would not identify Dingle by name. But he did approve of the job that his tight ends room is doing.

Competition brings out the best, especially when youve got the character that they have, Scangarello said. Theyre grinding, theyre improving, Ive seen them get better, theyre smart and this offense is built for guys like that.

Scangarello thinks the group has progressed nicely in fall camp.

Theyve got a good mix of skill and physicality and smarts, Scangarello said. I think that they are going to be a big part of our successes here. Im excited for where theyre at.

The tight end is sure to have a big role in the UK offense this fall. And Dingle appears to have put himself in position for playing time with his performance this fall.

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Thru Hike to kick off on October 14 JTB – Jordan Times

AMMAN The Thru Hike 2022 will take place between October 14 and November 24 on the Jordan Trail, a 675km hiking route that spans Jordan from Um Qais in the north, to Aqaba in the south, the Jordan Tourism Board (JTB) Director General Abdul Razzaq Arabiat announced on Monday.

During a press conference, Secretary General of the Ministry of Tourism Imad Hijazin said that the event is an essential tool to promote tourism in the Kingdom, inviting hiking fans to enjoy Jordans historical and heritage sites and landscape, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

He said that local community members are currently being trained to receive the trails participants, stressing the ability of adventure tourism to empower local societies.

Arabiat said that this years edition is expected to bring positive feedback and have a beneficial effect on local communities.

He stressed the JTBs commitment to promoting the event, and attracting adventure-lovers from North America and Europe through social media influencers, media campaigns and billboards on bridges in several cities.

Aysar Bataineh, Chairman of the Jordan Trail Association, said that the annual event aims to promote tourism to Jordan, secure income to develop and maintain the Jordan Trail, serve the local community in rural areas across the trail, and provide an enjoyable experience to visitors through the diverse terrain and dozens of archeological sites.

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Michael Jordan and Shaquille ONeals $35 million teammate believes MJ’s 6-0 wouldnt have happened if… – The Sportsrush

Former Michael Jordan teammate believes the 1996 Playoffs would have panned out different if he was available for Shaq and Penny.

Horace Grant, the $35 million worth Bulls legend, much like Robert Horry and Steve Kerr is one of the luckiest players to ever play the game of basketball.

No doubt 6ft 10 power forward must have done all the hard work to be selected as the no.10 pick of the 1987 Draft that also gave us David Robinson, Scottie Pippen, Reggie Miller (11th pick) and a few more legends of the game.

But to land with Pippen in the Chicago Bulls team that had already drafted a juggernaut 3 years back was just pure bliss for the Clemson forward. The 1994 All-Star went on to be an important piece for Michael Jordan and Co. in their 3-peat from 1991 to 1993.

After Jordans premature retirement in 93 and not getting a good contract, Grant left the Bulls as a free agent to join the Orlando Magic, who had drafted a 7-foot-1 phenomenal athlete just a year ago, who clearly had the potential to do things which had never been done before.

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With Shaquille ONeal at five, Horace at four, and rookie Anfernee Hardaway at the guard position, Magic formed a team solid enough in the East without Jordan for the upcoming seasons.

And Grant remembers it as clear as a day when he and his group went on to defeat the Bulls in the 1995 Playoffs even when MJ had made a comeback but was still in Baseball Shape. He averaged 13.7p/10.4r/1.9a/1.0s/1.1b per game in those Playoffs but upped it with 18.0 points and 11.0 rebounds in 6 games against his former team.

The 4x NBA champ talked about it with The Ringers Bill Simmons back in the day and remembered how it could have panned out in the 1996 Playoffs if he didnt get injured in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals when they faced the Bulls again.

Clearly, Grant believes he and the Magic had the chance to beat the Bulls but as Simmons said they would have lost anyway because MJ and Co were on a mission that season setting an NBA record 72-10 season.

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Getting swept by that team shouldnt be a cause for any shame as they would also go on to 3-peat once more after that title win. That could have changed if Shaq and Penny didnt have a fallout that season. Who knows how many titles they would have won? Horace thinks, definitely more than two.

Grant got himself another title when he found himself lucky enough once again to be traded to the 2000 NBA champs, the Los Angeles Lakers, join ONeal for the second time and finally win a title with him.

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Only one receiver in America might be better than Jordan Addison – Trojans Wire

Jordan Addison won the Biletnikoff Award last year as the nations best wide receiver, but lets keep in mind that had USCs Drake London not gotten injured, the Trojan star would have won the award. Therefore, one can quite reasonably say that Addison was the No. 2 receiver in the nation last year.

That status being the second-best receiver in the nation has not changed in the eyes of one USA TODAY analyst.

Patrick Conn, who has helped Trojans Wire with occasional articles such as this one on Caleb Williams, and who does a ton of national college football research for all the College Wire sites, has released his list of the top 10 receivers in the Football Bowl Subdivision for 2022.

Jordan Addison is second on the list.

Whos first? Its the man who collected an astounding 347 receiving yards in one game last season.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba of Ohio State was a one-man wrecking crew against a depleted, undermanned Utah secondary in the 2022 Rose Bowl. Smith-Njigba took full advantage not only of the attrition on the Utes roster, but of the fact that two Ohio State NFL prospects, Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson, skipped the Rose Bowl to prepare for the combine and the draft. Its hard to deny Smith-Njigbas place at No. 1, but Jordan Addison will certainly make a run at the top spot.

Heres Patrick Conn on Addison:

Addison walked away with the Biletnikoff Award given to the top WR in college football. This year he will be in a new offense and with a new quarterback. Addison should thrive once again in the Lincoln Riley offense.

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Elon Musk reveals hidden meaning behind the swooping ‘X’ in SpaceX – TweakTown

Branding matters for businesses, and in particular, to SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who revealed over the weekend that he "agonized" over his choices for both his businesses.

In response to a tweet asking, 'where have all the serifs gone?' Musk said it was maybe 'times for new roman', which was followed up by an individual commenting on Tesla's font, describing it as "pretty sweet". Musk replied to the comment and said that he "somewhat agonized" over the fonts for both Tesla and SpaceX, saying that he "loves fonts tbh". Musk said that there are some similarities between Tesla and SpaceX fonts, in particular, the decision to implement negative space.

Another of Musk's followers replied to the thread and complimented the 'X' in SpaceX, with sparked a reply from Musk, who wrote that the swoop of the X is "meant to represent the rocket's arc to orbit". BusinessInsider reports that the Tesla logo is meant to resemble a cross-section of an electric motor. In other Elon Musk news, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO has warned that there is a bigger threat to humanity than global warming.

"Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming", wrote Musk. The Tesla CEO also acknowledged that global warming is an issue, but not as big as declining birthrates. In other news, NASA is about to launch a rocket on a journey around the Moon, in its first step to getting humans back on the lunar surface.

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Musk Tries a New Way Out of Twitter – Bloomberg

A month ago, Elon Musks fight with Twitter Inc. was a merger dispute. Musk signed a merger agreement with Twitter in April, in which he agreed to buy Twitter for about $44 billion. Then the stock market went down, and Musk decided that he didnt want to pay $44 billion for Twitter anymore. And so, like lots of other regretful acquirers before him, he tried to find an excuse to get out of the deal. There is a standard set of ways to do this. The merger agreement is 73 pages long, full of representations and covenants and conditions. You read through the merger agreement, you find some places where you think Twitter has not lived up to its obligations or met its conditions, you send Twitter a letter saying that and terminating the deal, Twitter sues you, and you meet up in Delaware Chancery Court to argue over what the merger agreement requires.

This is in fact what Musk did. Frankly I did not think that he did a very good job of it. His main excuse is that the merger agreement contained a representation that no more than 5% of Twitters monetizable daily active users are spam or bot accounts, but in fact vastly more than 5% are bots, so he can get out of the deal. No part of this excuse is true in any way: The merger agreement doesnotcontain that representation, there is no evidence that itswrong, and even if it existed and was wrong it would not be a reason to get out of the deal unless it caused a material adverse effect on Twitters business, which seems unlikely. Nonetheless, this is how you play the game.Musk is trying to prove that the merger agreement doesnot require him to buy Twitter; Twitter is trying to prove that it does. Like most observers, I think that it clearly does, so this is an uphill fight for Musk, but you never know.

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Government Oppression in George Orwells 1984 – SchoolWorkHelper

The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is an American classic which explores the human mind when it comes to power, corruption, control, and the ultimate utopian society. Orwell indirectly proposes that power given to the government will ultimately become corrupt and they will attempt to force all to conform to their one set standard.

He also sets forth the idea that the corrupted government will attempt to destroy any and all mental and physical opposition to their beliefs, thus eliminating any opportunity for achieving an utopian society.

The novel shows how the government attempts to control the minds and bodies of its citizens, such as Winston Smith who does not subscribe to their beliefs, through a variety of methods. The first obvious example arises with the large posters with the caption Big Brother is Watching You (page 5).

These are the first pieces of evidence that the government is watching over its people. Shortly afterward we learn of the Thought Police, who snoop in on conversations, always watching your every move, controlling the minds and thoughts of the people. (page 6).

To the corrupted government, physical control is not good enough, however. The only way to completely eliminate physical opposition is to first eliminate any mental opposition.

The government is trying to control our minds, as it says thought crime does not entail death; thoughtcrime is death. (page 27). Later in the novel, the government tries even more drastic methods of control.

Big Brothers predictions in the Times are changed. The government is lying about production figures (pages 35-37). Even later in the novel, Symes name was left out on the Chess Committee list. He then essentially vanishes as though he had never truly existed (page 122).

Though the methods and activities of the government seem rather extreme in Orwells novel, they may not be entirely too false. Nineteen Eighty-Four is to the disorders of the twentieth century what Leviathan was to those of the seventeenth. (Crick, 1980).

In the novel, Winston Smith talks about the people not being human. He says that the only thing that can keep you human is to not allow the government to get inside you. (page 137). Corruption is not the only issue that Orwell presents, both directly and indirectly. He warns that absolute power in the hands of any government can lead to the deprival of basic freedoms and liberties for the people.

Though he uses the Soviet Union as the basis of the novels example, he sets the story in England to show that any absolute power, whether in a Communist state or a Democratic one, can result in an autocratic and overbearing rule.

When the government lies become truths, and nobody will oppose them, anything can simply become a fact. Through the control of the mind and body the government attempts, any hopes of achieving an utopian society are dashed. The peoples minds are essentially not theirs anymore.

The government tells them how to think. Conformity and this unilateral thinking throughout the entire population can have disastrous results. Orwell also tells us it has become a world of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons. Warriors fighting, triumphing, persecuting 3 million people all with the same face. (page 64).

George Orwell was born in India and brought up with the British upper class beliefs of superiority over the lower castes and in general class pride. A theme very prevalent in his novels, Nineteen Eighty-Four certainly no exception, is this separation in the classes.

The masses are disregarded by the Party. This is a theme which is fundamental to the novel, but not demonstrated as fully as the devastation of language and the elimination of the past. (Kazin, 1984). Kazin also states in his essay that:

Orwell thought the problem of domination by class or caste or race or political machine more atrocious than ever. It demands solution. Because he was from the upper middle class and knew from his own prejudices just how unreal the lower classes can be to upper-class radicals, a central theme in all his work is the separateness and loneliness of the upper-class observer, like his beloved Swift among the oppressed Irish. (Kazin, 1984).

This feeling of superiority somewhat provokes and leads to the aforementioned corruption of absolute power. As the saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It is not even so much that the rulers want to become corrupt, but they cannot grasp the idea of an absolute rule.

They, as Kazin stated, cannot comprehend the differentiation within the system, and thus become corrupt.

This ultimately prevents achieving an utopian society where the upper class people want to oppress and the lower class want to rebel.

Orwell had strong anti-totalitarianism points of view and greatly satires Socialism, even though he still insisted he was a Socialist in its pure form, in this novel, and in Animal Farm. Many consider that Nineteen Eighty-Four is actually an extension of Animal Farm. In Animal Farm, Orwell

left out one element which occurs in all his other works of fiction, the individual rebel caught up in the machinery of the caste system. Not until Nineteen Eighty-Four did he elaborate on the rebels role in an Animal Farm carried to its monstrously logical conclusion. (Woodcock, 1966).

The two books primary connection is through the use of the totalitarian society and the rebel, and as stated some believe Nineteen Eighty-Four to simply be an extension of Animal Farm. Nineteen Eighty-Four, however, brings everything to an even more extreme but even scarier is the fact that is more realistic, such as in a Nazi Germany environment.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is considered to have great pessimistic undertones, Orwells prophecy if you will. It is also not known whether it was intended as a last words, though it was his final work, as he collapsed and was bed-ridden for two years before he died.

He did marry several months before his death saying it gave him a new reason to live. Orwells creation of Winston Smith shows a character who is:

in the struggle against the system, occasionally against himself, but rarely against other people. One thinks of Orwells having thrown his characters into a circular machine and then noting their struggle against the machine, their attempts to escape it or compromise themselves with it. (Karl, 1972).

Orwell writes more about the struggle as a piece of advice than anything else. This novel was widely considered prophetic, a warning of what could be to come if we did not take care.

Orwells method was to introduce the questions, not propose solutions. Most likely he did not have the solution, but it was his solution to help bring about the awareness of the existing problem.

The corrupt government is trying to control the minds of their subjects, which in turn translates to control of their body. Orwell warns that absolute power in the hands of any government can deprive people of all basic freedoms.

There are similar references in another of Orwells novels, Animal Farm, supporting the ideas of corruption and an unattainable utopian society which were presented here in Nineteen Eighty-Four. With this novel, Orwell also introduced the genre of the dystopic novel into the world of literature.

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In war on disinformation, a dubious crusader joins the fight the government – New Jersey Monitor

In the early days of the pandemic, when conspiracy theorists were ranting about things like the government injecting trackable microchips into people via vaccine, New Jersey launched a disinformation portal to counter the craziness.

In the two years since, theportal run by the states Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness has put out warnings on everything fromdeepfake technologyto the war inUkraineto, most recently,monkeypox. Just a handful of other states, including Colorado, California, and Connecticut, have launched state-run websites intended to dispel disinformation on elections, COVID-19, and other issues.

But is government one of the mostdistrustedentities around the best resource for debunking disinformation?

One expert says no. Britt Paris, assistant professor of library and information science at Rutgers University, said such state-run disinformation portals are unusual for a reason.

In many cases, people are right to mistrust state governments, given their history of oppression through policy, corruption, and cover-ups for corporate malfeasance, Paris said. You need only think about state-sanctioned police brutality and the release of toxins into predominantly minoritized and disenfranchised communities, both here in New Jersey and across the country.

She added: Because of this history, state-based initiatives are seen as questionable, regardless of where one falls on the ideological spectrum, and are easy targets for sowing distrust around their goals, even if they offer reputable information.

That happened last spring, when a federal disinformation-busting initiative by the Department of Homeland Security fell victim to public mistrust and ended just a month after it started.

In New Jersey, Thomas Hauck acknowledged the hurdle the government faces in gaining the publics trust. Hauck, a retired FBI agent and U.S. Marine, last month took over New Jerseys Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness intelligence and operations division, where the disinformation portal is based.

But New Jerseys portal is just one piece of the puzzle in the battle for truth, Hauck said. Providing accurate information will help build public trust, he added.

The reality is theres no one platform or agency that has the manpower or the means to track and dispel the amount of disinformation being circulated, Hauck said. We are making an effort to get reliable information into the hands of citizens.

Eventually the public will see that the information thats been coming out of his office is accurate, he added.

The portal, which offers users achecklistto determine if something is disinformation, has logged nearly 300,000 visitors since it launched in March 2020, Hauck said.

With so much misinformation, Hauck said his office weighs several factors when picking what to post on the portal.

They highlight trends that have the potential to incite panic and create distrust between the government and the people, as well as disinformation trends that have the potential to increase polarization, influence government actions or law enforcement responses, and exhaust resources and bring about undue harm.

Monkeypox disinformation the offices most recent alert falls under several of those categories, especially because it could derail efforts to stop its spread, he added.

The portal warns readers about viral videos and homophobic claims on social media that contain misinformation and contribute to the stigma around monkeypox. Such disinformation could discourage infected people from getting treatment, hampering efforts to curb the outbreak, statements on the portal say.

Paris agreed public health misinformation is important for states to address.But political and economic concerns undergird a lot of the distrust in governments, including public health matters, Paris said.

For example, information and health care systems have become so corporatized that the public has become suspicious of their messaging, she said.

And, she added, most topics are injected with ideological conflict these days, even and especially when it makes no sense.

Thats why the state might be better served by enlisting locally situated, trusted sources of information like community-based media and podcasts, churches, universities, and social organizations in disinformation missions, Paris said.

States also could reinvest in public libraries, public schools, and public media instead of top-down disinformation portals, she added.

There is no one-size-fits-all, magic-bullet approach, she said. But paying attention to who people trust is key.

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Your policies were made only for our oppression: A nomads letter to free and just India – Scroll.in

Dear India,

We, members of the 191 Denotified Tribal communities, got independence only on August 31, 1952 five years after your Independence. From 1871, we had been categorised as being members of criminal tribes by the colonial government, stigmatised as being hereditary criminals. Though this was repealed 70 years ago, repressive customs die hard. We still have to give periodic hajiri (attendance) to the village landlord and local police station. On being found absent, we face punishment and exploitation.

Since Independence, many of us have been living in reformatory settlements created by the government. But we are nature lovers. Our occupations hunting and animal rearing are dependent on the forest but we were forced to settle in open prisons with many restrictions. Dear country, your policies are not made for our upliftment. They were made only for our oppression and pushed us into marginalisation.

Oh my dear India, over the decades, we craftsmen, pastoralists, snake-charmers, hunters, entertainers have been prohibited from practicing our traditional skills. We left our homes only to work as garbage collectors in your cities and labourers in your fields. But we have no use for your agricultural policies, for policies that allow our women to be sexually exploited by landlords and our men to be treated as petty wage labourers.

Oh my dear country, are your educational policies inclusive? We members of the Denotified Tribes have our own languages and cultures. Yet, 75 years after your independence, our linguistic and cultural values and resources are not included in school textbooks. We face exclusion when you enforce upper caste languages that you define as state languages.

Despite your strong affirmative action policies, still we face discrimination. Teachers do not allow us to sit on the front benches: you make arrangements for us to sit separately from upper-caste children. Oh my dear country, are you really liberal, democratic and progressive?

Oh my dear country, the bricks of your legislative assemblies, courts, government buildings and monuments have been made by our hands. The wood for your chairs and tables comes from our jungles. The Constitution was designed by our own Babasaheb Ambedkar. We want our voices to be echoed and amplified by our own leaders.

We will organise ourselves and fight for representation and we will win. Because Babasaheb Ambedkar gave us hope and showed us the path to winning our rights.

Yours lovingly,

Amol Shingade

Amol Shingade, an alumnus of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, is a fellow at Teach for India.

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Boston Liberation Center celebrates a year of organizing… – Liberation

Over 100 people gathered at the Boston Liberation Center on Aug. 21 to celebrate the organizing centers first anniversary. The Boston Liberation Center is a working class community center located at 194 Blue Hill Avenue in the heart of Roxbury, a historically Black neighborhood and one of the oldest neighborhoods in Boston.

The anniversary event drew attendees from throughout the Greater Boston area and from out of state for a day of cultural performances, political programming, local food, and to build relationships with their neighbors. The Boston branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation anchors the BLC, and organized the celebration.

Since its grand opening in August 2021, the working class community center has been home to regular political and educational events, community discussions, a library, film screenings, tenant and labor organizing, and shares the space with other local organizations such as Jericho Movement Boston and the Black Mens Collective.

Labor organizers say, When we fight, we learn!

Inside the center, local organizers reflected on the successes and challenges of struggles the Boston Liberation Center and its volunteers have been involved with.

Recent Malden High School graduate Armani Dure first connected with the BLC during the Malden communitys fight against the mass firing of 105 teachers in June. Dure organized a student walkout and picketed a school board meeting with peers, teachers, and community members, supported by volunteers from the BLC.

Speaking about his experience organizing his classmates, Dure said, Everyday people can be moved to action through conversation and a little bit of pushing.

Other community speakers included Northeastern University dining hall workers and airport workers represented by Unite Here Local 26, and members of the MIT Graduate Student Union.

Commemorating Black August

Black August is honored every year to commemorate the fallen freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement, to call for the release of political prisoners in the United States, to condemn the oppressive conditions of U.S. prisons and to emphasize the continued importance of the Black Liberation struggle.

In commemoration, artists and organizers Joseph Jabir Pope and Al performed a song that was Popes anthem during his 37 years of wrongful imprisonment at Norfolk Correctional Facility. Pope is founder and president of a group of formerly incarcerated people called Ex-Offenders Unite. He spoke about his experience in prison and the importance of continuing the fight against the U.S. carceral system:

It falls on us to shine a constant light on what theyre doing in prisons. If we dont, theyll continue to get away with it.

A place to gather for art and culture

Many of the days activities happened not only inside the center but in the vacant city lot next door. BLC volunteers have been taking care of the lot since 2019, and earlier this summer collected over 200 letters of support from the local community. They submitted the letters with a bid for ownership of the lot to the city.

Attendees were invited to help paint a community mural, dubbing the lot The Harriet Tubman Freedom Park. The park is named in honor of the struggle for the Harriet Tubman House in the South End, which was demolished in 2020 to make way for luxury condos.

In the Park, Afro-Latino multidisciplinary artist, actor, and scholar, Jorge Arce, gave a history of African instruments from across the diaspora before inviting audience members to make music with him.

The Boston Dabke Troupe taught some basic steps and brought the crowd together for a community dance. The troupe performs the traditional Palestinian dance the Dabke at protests and events around the city.

Women report back from Cuba and Venezuela

The anniversary celebration closed out with a panel of women organizers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the BLC reporting back from their recent trips to Cuba and Venezuela.

All three panelists denounced the mass media and U.S. governments lies about these socialist countries and gave on-the-ground insight into the numerous successes of both, especially in regards to womens liberation. In both countries, women are active and respected leaders in the continued fight for socialism, taking up jobs as doctors, community representatives, government advisors and other roles that have long been male-dominated in the United States.

PSL organizer Rachel Domond recently visited Venezuela as part of the Alexandra Kollontai International Feminist Brigade. As a woman in the United States, seeing Venezuelan women taking their lives into their own hands and building their own society is such a critical lesson to bring back.

Happy first birthday and many more to the Boston Liberation Center!

After a successful anniversary celebration, organizers with the Boston Liberation Center remarked that the work was only beginning.

Down the street, Tenants at 225 Blue Hill Ave continue to fight for better living conditions with support from BLC volunteers. Union workers with Local 26 and the Malden Teachers Association are entering struggles for new contracts. BLC volunteers will continue to keep the Harriet Tubman Freedom Park clean and usable for the Roxbury community while they wait to hear news on their bid from the city.

As the event came to a close, PSL organizer Kim Barzola reminded the crowd of their collective power and duty to continue the work.

Each generation needs to find their own way to make these struggles their own, she said. Not just demanding an end to the capitalist system that undergirds all this oppression, but actively fighting to build a real socialist alternative here in the belly of the beast. The people united will never be defeated!

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American rebellion: the lockdown protests that paved the way for the Capitol riots – The Guardian US

It started in Michigan. On 15 April 2020, thousands of vehicles convoyed to Lansing and clogged the streets surrounding the state capitol for a protest that had been advertised as Operation Gridlock. Drivers leaned on their horns, men with guns got out and walked. Signs warned of revolt. Someone waved an upside-down American flag. Already nine months before 6 January, seven months before the election, six weeks before a national uprising for police accountability and racial justice there were a lot of them, and they were angry.

Gretchen Whitmer, Michigans Democratic governor, had recently extended a stay-at-home order and imposed additional restrictions on commerce and recreation, obliging a long list of businesses to close. Around 30,000 Michiganders had tested positive for Covid-19 the third-highest rate in the country, after New York and California and almost 2,000 had died. Most of the cases, however, were concentrated in Detroit, and the predominantly rural residents at Operation Gridlock resented the blanket lockdown.

On 30 April, with Whitmer holding firm as deaths continued to rise, they returned to Lansing. This time, more were armed and fewer stayed in their cars. Michigan is an open-carry state, and no law prohibited licensed owners from bringing loaded weapons inside the capitol. Men with assault rifles filled the rotunda and approached the barred doors of the legislature, squaring off against police. Others accessed the gallery that overlooked the senate. Dayna Polehanki, a Democrat from southern Michigan, tweeted a picture of a heavyset man with a mohawk and a long gun in a scabbard on his back. Directly above me, men with rifles yelling at us, she wrote.

The next day, a security guard in Flint [a town about 50 miles north-east of Lansing] turned away an unmasked customer from a Family Dollar. The customer returned with her husband, who shot the guard in the head. Later that week, a clerk in a Dollar Tree outside Detroit asked a man to don a mask. The man replied, Ill use this, grabbed the clerks sleeve, and wiped his nose with it.

By then, the movement that had begun with Operation Gridlock had spread to more than 30 states. In Kentucky, the governor was hanged in effigy outside the capitol; in North Carolina, a protester hauled a rocket launcher through downtown Raleigh; in California, a journalist covering an anti-lockdown demonstration was held at knifepoint; ahead of a rally in Salt Lake City, a man wrote on Facebook: Bring your guns, the civil war starts Saturday The time is now.

I was living in Paris in 2020, where, since late March, we had been permitted to go outside for a maximum of one hour per day, and to stray no farther than a kilometre from our homes. Most businesses were closed (except those essential to the life of the nation, such as bakeries and wine and cigarette shops). Few complained. Id been a foreign correspondent for nearly a decade and during that time had not spent more than a few consecutive months in the US. The images of men in desert camo, flak jackets and ammo vests, carrying military-style carbines through American cities, portrayed a country I no longer recognised. One viral photograph struck me as particularly exotic. It showed a man with a shaved head and a blond beard, mid-scream, his gaping mouth inches away from two officers gazing stonily past him, in the capitol in Lansing. What accounted for such exquisite rage? And why was it so widely shared?

In early May, I took an almost-empty flight to New York, then a slightly fuller one to Michigan. My first stop was Owosso, a small town on the banks of the Shiawassee River, in the bucolic middle of the state. I arrived at Karl Mankes barbershop a little before 9am. The neon Open sign was dark; a crowd loitered in the parking lot. Spring had not yet made it to Owosso, and people sat in their trucks with the heaters running. Some, dressed in fatigues and packing sidearms, belonged to the Michigan Home Guard, a civilian militia.

A week before, Manke, who was 77, had reopened his business in defiance of Governor Whitmers prohibition on personal care services. That Friday, Michigans attorney general, Dana Nessel, had declared the barbershop an imminent danger to public health and dispatched state troopers to serve Manke with a cease-and-desist order. Over the weekend, Home Guardsmen had warned that they would not allow Manke to be arrested. Now it was Monday, and the folks in the parking lot had come to see whether Manke would show up.

Hes a national hero, Michelle Gregoire, a 29-year-old school bus driver, mother of three, and Home Guard member, told me. She was 5ft 4in but hard to miss. Wearing a light fleece jacket emblazoned with Donald Trumps name, she waved a Gadsden flag at the passing traffic. Car after car honked in support. Michelle had driven 90 miles, from her house in Battle Creek, to stand with her comrades. Shed been at Lansings capitol on 30 April, and did not regret what happened there. When I mentioned that officials were considering banning guns inside the statehouse, she laughed: If they go through with that, theyre not gonna like the next rally.

Manke appeared at 9.30am, to cheers and applause. He had a white goatee and wore a blue satin smock, black-rimmed glasses, and a rubber bracelet with the words When in Doubt, Pray. He climbed the steps to the front door stiffly, his posture hunched. When the Open sign flickered on, people crowded inside. Manke had been cutting hair in town for half a century and at his current location since the 1980s. The phone was rotary, the clock analogue. An out-of-service gumball machine stood beside a row of chairs. Black-and-white photographs of Owosso occupied cluttered shelves alongside old radios and bric-a-brac. Also on display were flashy paperback copies of the 10 novels that Manke had written. Unintended Consequences featured an anti-abortion activist who stands on his convictions; Gone to Pot offered readers a daring view into the underbelly of the 60s and 70s.

As Manke fastened a cape around the first customers neck, a man in foul-weather gear picked out a book and deposited a wad of bills in a wicker basket on the counter. My father was a barber, he told Manke. He believed in everything you believe in. Freedom. Were the last holdout in the world. Manke nodded. We did this in 1776, and were doing it again now.

Like the redbrick buildings and decorative parapets of Owossos historic downtown, there was something out of time about Manke. During several days that I would spend at the barbershop, Id hear him offer countless customers and journalists subtle variations of the same stump speech. Hed lived under 14 presidents, survived the polio epidemic, and never witnessed such government oppression. Governor Whitmer was not his mother. Hed close his business when they dragged him out in handcuffs, or when he died, or when Jesus came whichever happens first. Youre getting a scoop, he assured me when I introduced myself. American rebellion.

Customers continued to arrive, and the phone did not stop ringing. Some people had travelled hundreds of miles. They left cards, bumper stickers, leaflets, brochures. A local TV crew squeezed into the shop, struggling to social-distance in the crush of waiting men, recording Manke with a boom mic as he sculpted yet another high-and-tight. Around noon, [rightwing political commentator and radio host] Glenn Beck called, live on air. Its hardly my country any more, in so many different ways, Manke told him. You remind me of my father, Beck responded, with a wistful sigh.

Manke seemed to remind everybody of something or someone that no longer existed. Hence the people with guns outside, ready to do violence on those who threatened what he represented. You could not have engineered a more quintessential paragon of that mythical era when America was great. One day at the barbershop, I was approached by a man clad from head to toe in hunting gear, missing several teeth. He hadnt realised I was press. Manke had first come to the attention of the attorney general, the man informed me, because of a reporter from Detroit. He held out his arms to indicate the womans girth. A big Black bitch.

In the 1950s, when Manke was in high school, Owosso was a sundown town: African Americans were not welcome. Like much of rural Michigan, it remained almost exclusively white. Detroit, an hour and a half to the south, was 80% Black. Because politics broke down along similar lines less-populated counties voted Republican; urban centres, Democrat partisan rancour in the state could often look like racial animus. While conservatives tended to ridicule any such interpretation as liberal cant, the pandemic had created two new discrepancies that were hard to ignore. The first was that Covid-19 disproportionately affected Black communities, in Michigan as well as nationwide. The second was that the people mobilising against containment measures were overwhelmingly white.

On 30 April, the state representative Sarah Anthony had watched from her office across the street as anti-lockdown protesters filled the capitol lawn. Anthony had been born and raised in Lansing. In 2012, at the age of 29, shed become the youngest Black woman in America to serve as a county commissioner. Six years later, a landslide victory made her the first Black woman to represent Lansing in the state legislature. As Anthony walked from her office to the capitol, she had to navigate a heavily armed white mob. She noticed a Confederate flag.

A man waved a fishing rod with a naked Barbie doll brown-haired, like Governor Whitmer dangling from a mini noose. Men screamed insults. A sign declared: tyrants get the rope. Anthony was in Lansings House of Representatives when the mob entered the building. It just felt like, if they had come through that door, I wouldve been the first to go down, she recalled. We were in the rotunda, where she had insisted on giving me a tour. Her eyes brightened above her mask as she pointed out the starspeckled oculus in the apex of the dome 160ft above us. Its designed to inspire, Anthony explained. Her reverence for the building had made 30 April that much more unsettling. A sanctum had been violated its meaning changed.

The structure was an equally potent symbol for the people whose cries shed heard on the other side of the door, however. On the eve of the rally, Michelle Gregoire, the school bus driver and Home Guard member, had visited the capitol. Wearing a neon safety vest scrawled with Covid-1984, she and two friends filming on their phones had climbed a marble staircase to the gallery in the House of Representatives. A sergeant at arms informed them that the legislature was not in session, the chamber closed. This is our house, responded one of them, striding past him and sitting on a bench. The chief sergeant at arms, David Dickson, arrived and grabbed the woman by her arm, attempting to remove her.

You are not allowed to touch me! the woman howled. Dickson turned his attention to Michelle. When she also resisted, he dragged her into the hallway, through a pair of swinging doors. Stay out, he told her. That night, the women posted their footage on Facebook, with the caption: We are living in NAZI Germany!!! Many of the protesters at the capitol the next day had watched the clips, including the man with the shaved head and blond beard in the viral photograph. He was not accosting the two officers in the image, it turns out he was shouting at Dickson, who stood behind them, outside the pictures frame. You gonna throw me around like you did that girl? the man was shouting. Other protesters called Dickson and his colleagues traitors and filthy rats.

I left several messages for Dickson at his office, but he never called me back. Eventually, I returned to the capitol and found him standing guard outside the legislature. His hair was starting to grey, and beneath his blazer his collared shirt strained a little at the midriff. In 1974, Dickson had become the first Black deputy in Eaton County. Hed gone on to serve for 25 years as an officer in Lansing. After some polite conversation, I asked whether he thought that any of the visceral acrimony directed at him on 30 April might have been connected to his skin colour and to that of the white women hed ejected the day before. Dickson frowned. I dont play the race card, he said. Given his deprecating tone, I wondered if hed been dodging my calls out of concern that I would raise this question. It was a question you could not really help raising in Michigan. To what extent was the exquisite rage behind the anti-lockdown fervour white rage? Dickson had no interest in discussing it. Of his encounter with Michelle, he told me: I didnt sleep for weeks. You dont feel good about those kinds of things.

For others, the answer to the question was self-evident. After 30 April, Sarah Anthony acquired a bulletproof vest. Though she was an optimist by nature, her outlook had dimmed. People are angry about being unemployed, about having to close their businesses I get that, she said. But there are elements, extremists, who are using this as an opportunity to ignite hate. Hate toward our governor, hate toward government, and also hate toward Black and brown people. These conditions are creating a perfect storm.

The 30 April protest had been organised by a few men on Facebook calling themselves the American Patriot Council. Two and a half weeks later, they held a second demonstration, in Grand Rapids, at a plaza known as Rosa Parks Circle. This time, there were no Confederate flags.

On the periphery, dozens of armed white men in tactical apparel surveilled the plaza. A few held flags with the Roman numeral III a reference to the dubious contention that only 3% of colonists fought the British, and a generic emblem signifying readiness to do the same against the US government. (Americans who displayed the symbol and embraced the mentality that it represented often identified as Three Percenters.) Some were Home Guard. Others belonged to the Michigan Liberty Militia, including the heavyset man with the mohawk whose picture Dayna Polehanki had tweeted from the senate floor. He wore a sleeveless shirt and a black vest laden with ammunition. A laminated badge read Security. His habit of pressing a small gadget embedded in his ear with his index and middle fingers felt like an imitation of something he had seen onscreen. He appeared to be having an excellent time.

A general atmosphere of cheerful make-believe was accentuated by the presence and intense engagement of actual children. One of them, materialising suddenly, interrupted my conversation with a Home Guardsman: Excuse me, what kinds of guns are those?

We looked down to find a 10-year-old boy with a businesslike expression.

This is an AK-47, the Home Guardsman told him.

With a flashlight or a suppressor?

Thats a suppressor. This is a flashlight with a green dot.

What pistol is that?

That is a Glock. A 9mm.

The boy seemed underwhelmed.

Ive heard a lot of people say that, he said.

Before you ever pick up a gun, you have to have your 100 hours of safety classes, right? admonished the Home Guardsman, bristling a little.

I already have them.

The keynote speaker was Dar Leaf, a sheriff from nearby Barry County who had refused to enforce Governor Whitmers executive orders. Diminutive, plump and bespectacled, with a startling falsetto and an unruly mop of bright yellow hair, Leaf cut an unlikely figure in his uniform, the baggy brown trousers of which bunched around his ankles. Nevertheless, he promptly captivated his audience by inviting it to imagine an alternate version of the past one in which Alabama officers, upholding the constitution, had not arrested Rosa Parks. To facilitate the thought experiment, Leaf channelled a hypothetical deputy boarding the bus on which Parks in the real world was detained. Hey, Ms Parks, said the sheriff, playing the part. Im gonna make sure nobody bothers you, and you can sit wherever you want. The crowd cheered. Thank you! a white man cried out.

In Alabama, during the 60s, sheriffs and deputies were often more ruthless than their municipal counterparts toward Black citizens. The sheriff Jim Clark led a horseback assault against peaceful marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma, and habitually terrorised African Americans with a cattle prod that he wore on his belt. Dar Leaf, though, saw himself as heir to a different legacy. According to him, the weaponisation of law enforcement to suppress Black activism arose from the same infidelity to American principles of individual freedom that in our time defined the political left. I got news for you, Leaf said. Rosa Parks was a rebel.

And then, for those minds not yet wrapped around what he was telling them: Owosso has their little version of Rosa Parks, dont they? Karl Manke! The equivalence was all the more incredible given that Leaf belonged to the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, or CSPOA. The notion of the constitutional sheriff had been first promulgated by William Potter Gale, a Christian Identity minister from California. Christian Identity theology held that Europeans were the true descendants of the lost tribes of Israel; that Jews were the diabolic progeny of Eve and the serpent; and that all non-whites were subhuman mud people. In the 70s, Gale developed a movement of rural resistance to federal authority that expanded the model of white vigilantism in the south to a national scale, adding to the fear of Black integration the spectre of governmental infiltration by communists and Jews. He called his organisation Posse Comitatus, which is Latin for power of the county, and it recognised elected sheriffs as the only legal law enforcement in America. Posse Comitatus groups across the country were instructed to convene Christian common-law grand juries, indict public officials who violated the constitution, and hang them by the neck.

Gales guidance on what offences merited such punishment was straightforward: any enforcement of federal tax regulations or of the Civil Rights Act. The CSPOA argued that county sheriffs retained supreme authority within their jurisdictions to interpret the law, and that their primary responsibility was to defend their constituents from state and federal overreach. In Grand Rapids, Sheriff Dar Leaf told the anti-lockdowners, Were looking at common-law grand juries. Id like to see some indictments come out of that. At the end of his speech, he called the Michigan Liberty Militia on to the stage. This is our last home defence right here, he said. Glancing at the heavyset man with the mohawk, Leaf added: These guys have better equipment than I do. Im lucky they got my back.

Later, while reviewing my videos from Rosa Parks Circle, I noticed a woman with a toothbrush moustache painted on her upper lip. Looking closer, I saw that she also wore a wig. It was brunette and wavy, intended to resemble Governor Whitmers hair. The woman wasnt doing Hitler, in other words: she was doing Whitmer doing Hitler. She would probably have said that she was doing Whitler. While comparing pandemic measures to the atrocities of the Third Reich might have constituted its own kind of antisemitism, it also suggested how desperate many anti-lockdowners understood the situation to be. Nazis were a frequent topic of conversation in the barbershop which, for Karl Mankes supporters, represented a bulwark against the kind of creeping authoritarianism that had gradually engulfed Germany in the 1930s.

Manke himself had a lot to say on the subject. His great-grandfather had immigrated from Germany, and Manke had grown up attending a Lutheran church with services in German. He often cited the victims of the Holocaust as a cautionary tale. They would trade their liberty for security, he told a customer one afternoon. Because the Nazis said to them: Get in these cattle cars, and were gonna take you to a nice, safe place. Just get in. I would rather die than have the government tell me what to do, the man in the chair responded. In mid-May, when Attorney General Nessel suspended his business licence, Manke exclaimed: Its tyrannical! Im not getting in the cattle car!

But the longer I stayed in Michigan, the clearer it became that many anti-lockdowners sincerely placed mask mandates and concentration camps on the same continuum. This has nothing to do with the virus, a 68-year-old retiree told me outside the barbershop. They want to take power away from the people, and they want to control us. Were never gonna get our freedoms back from this if we dont stop it now. Given the stakes, violence was inevitable. Were a trigger pull away, he said. Youre gonna see it. Were getting to the point where people have had enough. We had to raise our voices to hear each other over a Christian family loudly singing hymns. But I had the sense that the retiree would have been yelling anyway. You got storm troopers coming in here! he shouted, referencing the officers whod served Manke with a cease-and-desist order. They werent cops, they were storm troopers! They deserve to wear the Nazi emblem on their sleeves.

When I went back inside, the phone was ringing. An anonymous caller wanted Manke to know that the national guard was on its way. We need more people, a customer in a pressed shirt announced. Id met him earlier. A self-described citizen scientist, hed given me a flier explaining that masks prevented the body from detoxifying and therefore did more harm than good. If we get more people, we can stand them off, he told Manke. I would hope its a rumour, Manke said. Whatever it is, we could use more people. Well, if they come with a tank

Like Tiananmen Square! the citizen scientist agreed. He lapsed into pensive silence, as if calculating how many people it would take to stand off a tank. Finally, a solution occurred to him: The sheriff can stop them. The sheriff has the power to stop the National Guard, the federal government, everybody.

Someone looked up the number. Reaching a voice mail, the citizen scientist left a message: Attention, sheriff. We need you over here at the barbershop. Please come here immediately to attend to a situation. We need your help here to defend our constitutional rights. Please hurry up.

After a while, it became apparent that neither the sheriff nor the national guard was coming. I went back outside. The family had stopped singing and was now reciting scripture. Psalm 2: Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? The patriarch was joined by his son, daughter, and one-year-old grandson. If theres children, they wont shoot tear gas, he said. Thats my hope, anyway if were here, they back off. Who backs off? I asked. The Nazis.

This is an edited extract from The Storm Is Here by Luke Mogelson, published by Quercus on 13 September (14.99). To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply

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There are 100 times more migrants crossing the Channel than in 2018 so why wont government accept its a… – The Sun

WHEN is a crisis not a crisis? When it involves migrants illegally crossing the English Channel, apparently.

It is now four years since our then Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, declared the boatloads of illegal migrants crossing the channel to be a major incident.

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That year in 2018 from January to November at least 250 migrants were found crossing the Channel illegally. In the December, the situation was so serious that Javid cut short his holidays to do the usual political trick of looking at the water and getting photographed doing so. Which doesnt always solve the problem.

Well, fast forward to today and 250 people is now not even an average days crossing.

In 2022 so far, that figure is already a lot higher.

How much higher? Twice as high? Ten times? No, the figures for 2022 already are at least 100 times higher than that major incident figure from 2018.

As The Sun reported last week, the figures for 2022 to date are over 25,000.

In a single day last week, a record 1,300 people crossed the Channel illegally.

And I would say that is a crisis, wouldnt you? When the figures are 100 times that of a major incident? Yet there seems to be no sense in Westminster of this, and even less of a desire to do anything about it.

In part this is because of the lies about what is actually going on.

Various campaigning groups and left-wing politicians like to pretend that the people arriving are all fleeing the most miserable circumstances.

Their lives may well be worse than those of many people who are living in the UK legally. But they are not fleeing a war zone. They are fleeing France. It may be France is not the most hospitable country for migrants, but nor is it a hellhole.

By the international conventions that are in place, the migrants should have absolutely no business crossing the Channel. They are meant to claim asylum in the first safe country they reach in Europe, where their claim is then meant to be processed.

In reality, none of this happens. The European migrant system is so broken that people who come into Europe illegally are not processed and are then allowed to go anywhere in the continent including heading to northern France and trying to get a boat across to Britain.

The Europeans tolerate this because they are experts at pushing problems away. The Greeks push the problems on to the rest of Europe. So do the Italians.

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And while their streets are testament to the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have settled in these countries illegally, for these countries the more people keep moving north the better.

Yet it is a lie to pretend that Britain is the only safe haven for these people. In order to get here the migrants must have gone through at least two perfectly safe countries.

Another lie that the Left tells about this crisis is that all of the arrivals are asylum seekers. In fact, as I have found on my own travels across the migrant camps on the continent, the vast majority of people are in fact economic migrants.

When the open-borders people even nod to this they tend to then say that economic deprivation is just as terrible as war. If that is the case then we better get ready. Because it means almost everyone in Africa, the Middle East and the Far East should have the right to illegally enter the UK.

But worst is the way in which the whole line between legal and illegal migration is made a mockery.

Those who tolerate the Channel crossings end up presenting the difference between these two things as being of little account. OK, some people come to the country legally, but others come by paying smuggling gangs and arriving by boat. Why should we be so obsessed about the difference?

Because the difference is the law. What is happening on the Kent coastline is law-breaking on an unbelievable scale.

Would we tolerate the line being broken on the law when it comes to other crimes? Burglary, rape, arson or murder for instance? Would we agree that there are times when it is justified and times when it is not? Of course not. Because that is why we have laws. To make it clear that there are some things that our country will not tolerate.

When it comes to borders, however, it seems that mass law breaking is allowed. And not just allowed, but encouraged.

Our border force and others actually meet the migrants at sea to help them to Britain more safely. Our agencies at home put the migrants up at hotels and make sure they have everything they need.

Yet while nobody should be treated inhumanely, nor should people be rewarded for breaking the law. If you dont respect the law then why should the country show such respect to you?

Since the major incident of 2018 we have had pronouncements, tough talk and thwarted policies. But one fact cannot be ignored.

That under this government things have got so much worse. I do not doubt that a Labour government would encourage a worse situation still.

But the blame now is on this government. Remember Take Back Control? It is high time this government did.

I FEEL sorry for Prince Harry. He really turned his life around a few years ago.

After some wasted years in nightclubs, he got it together, joined the Army, served in Afghanistan and was admired by the public.

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He would have had a great life and been a great asset to the Royal Family and this country.

Now he is in exile in California, giving the odd interview, dissing his family and otherwise doing what exactly?

In a new interview, his wife Meghan has revealed that Harry spends most of his time doing DIY around the house, helping neighbours with their sprinkler systems and fixing pipes in the couples LA mansion.

Thats quite a fall-off from Prince to DIY man.

Nothing wrong with DIY, of course. We all have to do it sometimes.

Perhaps Harry is one of those husbands who just really loves a spot of DIY.

But I cant help thinking that a day will come when he is going to regret his move.

FORMER US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned America is now at increased risk of a 9/11-style attack since leaving Afghanistan last year.

The botched withdrawal handed the country back to the Taliban after 20 years.

Meanwhile, supporters of extreme cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been storming Iraqs parliament building.

Al-Sadr was an enemy of Britain and America after the 2003 war.Are there any lessons to learn from this?

Yes to be limited in our ambitions on the world stage. Strike hard and take out enemies where we can.

But whatever its dreams, America clearly does not want to govern these countries, stay in them, or run an empire.

If you dont want to do the long haul, better to have limited aims. Mission creep is real.

POP star Lizzo accepted an MTV VMA award the other night.

On stage, the Good As Hell singer seemed to want to make herself the centre not just of attention, but of American democracy.

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Thanking fans for their backing, she said that voting means everything. It means everything to making a change in this country.I assume she was aware fans were voting on the award of Music video for good, not for President of the United States. She went on to call on fans to vote to make changes to laws that are oppressing us.

Strange. Lizzo does not come across as oppressed.

In fact, she comes across as very entitled.

Such as with her strutting acceptance speech, which peaked with her screaming out, Bitch, Im winning.

On social media, Lizzo can often be seen getting out of chauffeur-driven cars and swanning around on private jets.

If that is oppression, then a lot of us would like a piece of it.

THE scenes from the end of the Reading Festival were an embarrassment.

Tents set on fire, rubbish everywhere, people fleeing the site in a bid to get to safety.

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Why do these big music festivals so often descend into orgies of violence and mass littering?

On the Reading Festivals website, the organisers boast they are committed to making sure the event has a good impact on the environment, not least to preserve the live music experience for generations to come.

Tell you what, try to preserve the live music experience for this generation first, and dont organise events that leave parkland looking like a wasteland.

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10 new albums that express anger at the world – Green Left

Do you think there's no good protest music these days? So did I, until I started looking for it. The truth is, it's always been out there, but it's sometimes a bit difficult to find. Every month, I search it out, listen to it all, then round up the best of it that relates to that month's political news. Here's the round-up for August 2022.

Years ago, as a new immigrant to Australia, I watched a movie about Aboriginal massacres. The film,The Tracker, was powerful. But it was the soundtrack by Archie Roach that really hit me. In 2009, while in Adelaide to start an outback tour of Aboriginal communities, I caught Roach performing with his wife, Ruby Hunter, at an Indigenous music festival. She died just weeks later, at 54. This album of their live performances was released on August 1 this year, two days after Roach's death at 66. On it, he describes getting into an altercation with police because they wanted to fingerprint his 11-year-old son, who they'd arrested. The arrest depressed his son, so Roach wrote the song "Life Is Worth Living" for him. On August 15, an activist faced court for protesting against the jailing of Indigenous children as young as 10 at Darwin's Don Dale Youth Detention Centre. Many attempt suicide. LISTEN>>>

On August 19, Grammy-nominated blues singer Shemekia Copeland released her new album, which addresses the terror that non-white kids face. On "The Talk" she describes the discussion all African-American parents must have with their children to try to keep them safe. "I held my breath as you took your first steps," she sings. "I was proud as a mamma can get. Now it's been years you've grown tall, but I'm still worried you're gonna fall. Got to have The Talk." Such a talk could not save Black nurse Breonna Taylor, shot to death by police in her flat. On August 4, after years of protests, four officers were charged with her death. The new album Songs Of Slavery And Emancipationrecalls the roots of such oppression, as does the new album by chart-topping folk rocker Ben Harper. And on August 5, Welsh ragga-rockers Dub War's comeback album addressed the racist cop killing of George Floyd. LISTEN>>>

Floyd's death and the protests it sparked worldwide also inspired the new album by British political stadium rockers Muse, released on August 26. Discussing its song "Liberation", singer Matt Bellamy said: "[It's] leaning towards what I felt seeing the Black Lives Matter protests. I'm not gonna try to claim to have any understanding of what that culture's been through or anything, but 'intend to erase your place in history' was that feeling of anger... that emotion that you feel in the moment of revolution, where you just want to tear it down." The record, hailed as "the band's most politically on-point album to date", closes with the urgent anthem "We Are Fucking Fucked". "We're at death's door," Bellamy seethes. "Another world war. Wildfires and earthquakes I foresaw. A life in crisis, a deadly virus. Tsunamis of hate are gonna find us. We are fucking fucked." LISTEN>>>

Echoing that sentiment was a study published on August 16that said a nuclear war could wipe out 5 billion people. It came as Democratic US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi taunted nuclear-armed China by visiting Taiwan, sparking military drills by Beijing. US President Joe Biden distanced himself from Pelosi's grandstanding, as it made Biden's unhinged Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, look relatively sane. Meanwhile, Biden continued to taunt nuclear-armed Russia by funnelling arms to Ukraine as its Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant came under fire. Damning such recklessness is the new EP from Belarusian band Hnida, who have moved to Poland due to the repression in their country and the war in Ukraine. On the EP's closing track, "Nuclear Horizon", they sing: "The nuclear horizon will light up the road to nowhere." All proceeds from the record will be donated to help political prisoners in Belarus. LISTEN>>>

On August 5, Russian former political prisoners Pussy Riot released their long-awaited debut album, which rails against the patriarchy spreading war and oppression worldwide. "I love matriarchy," explained singer Nadya Tolokonnikova. "And I think now is the best time to bring it on. Our rights are being attacked, and that's just not cute." Noting how Russian President Vladimir Putin's jailing of the band only increased their popularity, she said: "I think it's a good lesson to every dictator who wants to silence activists and artists. If you put them in jail, often they will get out even stronger, and they will have a bigger platform, more influence. That's what happened with us. We ended up in jail, being a small movement. We had perhaps just a few dozens of members, and then got out of jail to hundreds and thousands of people identifying themselves as Pussy Riot." LISTEN>>>

On August 19, it was reported that the early release of Bali bomber Umar Patek was being discussed. The news sparked outrage in Australia, since the 2002 Islamist terror attack killed 88 Australians. The context is that the West has been raining terror on Muslims for centuries, from the Crusades to wars in Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Palestine and Afghanistan. But that does not excuse the Bali attack, as Balinese rockers Navicula pointed out in a new podcast series discussing their 25 years of music activism. The band say their song "Aku Bukan Mesin (I Am Not a Machine)", recorded in response to the Bali bombing, was "just the pure reaction as a human being, as a Balinese ... thinking about the people who have losing their heart, losing their entity as a human to do such a cruel, unimaginable action. It just destroys everything. The effect of the destruction is affecting everybody." LISTEN>>>

Meanwhile, Australian bosses continued to destroy Australians' lives as they used the excuse of inflation to cut wages, despite reporting record profits. Announcing a cash net profit after tax of $9.6 billion on August 10, Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn took a 35% pay rise, but opposed wage rises for his staff as "inflationary". On August 17, public servants rallying in Western Australia begged the government for fair pay, saying: "Were asking for the bare bloody minimum." Summing up the anger is the new album from Aussie punks The Chats, released two days later. On "Paid Late" they seethe: "Starin' at the ATM. It says insufficient funds. That's just not good enough. 'Cause right now I wanna get drunk." And on "The Price Of Smokes", they spit: "The price of smokes is going up again. I could already barely afford my rent. Those bastards in parliament ought to be hung by their necks." LISTEN>>>

On August 24, "those bastards in parliament", the supposedly climate-friendly new Labor government, released 10 new sites for oil and gas exploration. The same day, it was reported that "China's fragile economy" was "being hammered by the driest riverbeds since 1865" as droughts spread worldwide. A week earlier, Australian resources company Santos announced it was drilling for oil in Alaska, just days after it was reported Antarctica was losing ice even faster than first thought. That news came on August 11, the same day that it was reported that no rainwater that falls anywhere on Earth is now safe to drink. Answering back is the new album from Australian hardcore band In Hearts Wake, which soundtracks their new documentary about the climate crisis, their bid to make touring environmentally-friendly, and their recording of the "first carbon offset album" to hit the top five in Australia. LISTEN>>>

Also despairing at Australia's environmental vandalism are Indigenous surf rockers King Stingray, who released their debut album on August 5. The Arnhem Land band were nominated for the Environmental Music Prize for its lead single, "Hey Wanhaka". It carries an ancient songline about the celebration of nature and Yolngu way of life. We dont own Mother Earth, the Earth owns us," said singer Yirrnga Yunupingu, whose uncle led legendary Indigenous rock band Yothu Yindi. Guitarist Roy Kellaway, whose father was also in Yothu Yindi, said: Yolngu people are perhaps the original conservationists of Earth. Theyve been looking after country since the beginning. So theres a lot that Westerners and other people, I reckon, have to learn from Yolngu people Like what Yirrnga was saying: without the environment, we dont exist. I dont understand how humans have lost sight of that. LISTEN>>>

Want to get this column every month? Just email matwardmusic@gmail.com and I'll add you to my monthly email that includes a link to this column here atGreen Left.Yes, I want to read this column every month.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mat Ward has been writing forGreen Leftsince 2009. He also wrotethebookReal Talk: Aboriginal Rappers Talk About Their Music And Countryandmakespolitical music. This year,Mat Ward released his new album based on protest chants,Why I Protest. Stream ordownload it free for a limited time.

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Fighting spirit of the peasantry – Telangana Today

Published: Published Date - 11:52 PM, Mon - 29 August 22

Hyderabad: Telangana armed struggle is an important topic that candidates should focus on. This article is in continuation to the last article focusing on Telangana armed struggle, which is one of the important topics in preparation for the State government recruitment examinations.

Komaraiahs martyrdom sparked off the conflagration and thus marked the beginning of the Telangana Peasant Armed Struggle. Then Communists claimed that by the end of July 1946 militant actions against landlords, Deshmukhs, and village officials spread to some 300 to 400 villages in Nalgonda, Warangal, and Khammam districts. At the same time, the Communist Party of India launched a massive propaganda campaign by raising the demands of Telangana peasantry and exposed the oppression and brutalities.

Akunur was a historic village in Jangaon taluq, which exhibited the fighting spirit of the peasantry (rich and poor) to defy and fight against the food grain levy policy of the government. The atrocities on the people of Akunur exposed the oppressive policies of food grain levy of the Nizams government. Similarly, the peasants of Machireddypalli in Bidar taluk raised against the highhanded behaviour of the government servants. By 1946, the Communists perfectly organised themselves from the district committee to the village cells in Nalgonda district to carry on their programme with a large number of party workers and sympathisers.

The Communists had gained much influence in the Taluks of Suryapet, Bhongir, Jangaon, Huzurnagar and Nalgonda. Thirty-five villages in Suryapet, 23 in Bhongir, 22 in Jangaon, 20 in Huzurnagar and 14 in Nalgonda came to be dominated by the Communists. Jatoth Thanu of Padamati Thanda in Dharmapuram village of Janagam Taluq in the estates of Puskuru Maktadars was the fourth son of Hamu and Mangli. He was a courageous young man and escaped from the repression of local doras, Razakars and police several times. The family fought against the Visnuru deshmukh, Razakars and police several times to protect their lands.

The Hyderabad State Congress began to mobilise people in favour of the struggle for the freedom of the Nizams State. It began to pressurise the Nizam of Hyderabad to join the Indian dominion in the event of the British granting Independence to India. But Nizam announced his desire not to join either the Indian union or Pakistan, and declared his Independence on August 27, 1947. People of all sections were deeply disappointed by the decision of Nizam, while all political parties supported the merger of the State of Hyderabad to the Indian Union, the Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen was opposed to this move.

The Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen developed a cadre of volunteers who were called Razakars and these Razakars began to rouse the feelings of Muslims against Hindus. The growing militancy and power of the Majlis Ittehad ul-Muslimeen was evident in the activities of the Razakars, a paramilitary voluntary force organized by Kasim Razvi, the leader of the Ittehad. As the peasant movement spread in rural Telangana, the Nizam government sent batches of Razakars. Sometimes with or without the police or Army in order to deal with the revolutionaries and protect the frontiers as well as the distressed landlords and officials.

To be continued

Prof. Adapa SatyanarayanaRetired Professor

Department of History, Osmania University

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