Regarding the shoe idea. Don’t need to make lasts, just be aware of the shapes that make up the style of each sneaker. The front part, the part that rises to the tongue where the laces or Velcro pass. The side panels, sometimes they have several of them, sometimes just one. Then your definitive brand. Could even put some of your writing on them, parts from your poetry. Have a close look at the construction of these shoes. Perhaps sone of the inmates have or are allowed to wear branded footwear. (Not allowed in the U.K.)You got to get your designs to the sneaker design departments. Even try contacting, Kanye Wests team or Converse ideas marketing department or Jay z, find out where they go to church,. I can see an orange shoe designed by you on the streets, a message to the kids, a reminder on their feet. Shoes are so important to kids these days.
People think we live our lives in obedience to the main holy books, the Vedas, Bible (which is actually a library not a book) The Koran, Talmud. Between the paragraphs the sentences the verses. But we live between heartbeats. We make our decisions between heartbeats. We just got to listen to it. That’s where God is, where he speaks to us. There is a great debate going on in the medical community at the moment regarding ‘consciousness’, where and what it is. People thought it was in our heads, in the brain, but now people are starting to find evidence it actually resides in our hearts. Just as the first people said it was 3000 years ago. One of the screaming differences between the US and U.K. prison system seems to be poverty. In the U.K. you can get a pretty good legal representation for free. But in your country you get what you pay for. There seems to be a terrible recipe for a long sentence, it’s male, black, poor and single parent family. Although I have noticed a lot of ex army brats seem to be making a showing, I wonder why that is? Maybe a discipline rebellion thing? And a lot of ex service personnel who find themselves on the other side after they leave the armed services. Which is terrible considering these people put their lives on the line to protect the `USA, I LOVE the way you write and express yourself. It is so liberating and authentic!!! We English tend to get all caught up in syntax semantics and structure. When a newly formed structure, like the one you use is so brilliant, and is actually the dogs bollocks! Actually the correct term for expression that disobeys grammatical norms is ‘streams of consciousness’ form. It’s almost like unimprovised jazz music. I love the way it moves, and demands your attention as a reader of it . I hope 2020 exceeds your expectations Keep in keeping on Much love to you and those you love T
Hello Antoine part two. In 1996 in a Scottish town a caretaker of a kindergarten school went mad and shot and killed 17 children. After this happened the government immediately banned hand gun ownership. And restricted shotguns to farmers and clubs with strict licensing rules. If you are found with an unlicensed gun it’s a life sentence. In the UK life usually means eighteen years with a good lawyer. We haven’t as yet had anymore school shootings. People tend to use knives, even the terrorists find it difficult to get arms and explosives. Into the uk anyway. France they seem to be able to. I love TD Jakes, that man makes a lot of sense. The Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist whatever speak about a God. But, in my mind God is a notion that we as human beings are intellectually incapable of truly understanding. We just to have faith that there is an energy there that is loving and accepting. Religious zealots worry me. I have had some uncomfortable conversations with people, young men in particular that do not see anyone, or recognise anyone outside their faith as sharing the same humanity as them and it scares me. In the future we won’t fight over oil or land or property, we will go to war over culture and religion. Most people walking around’free’ will definitely at one time during their lives done something they could have been jailed for. I know I have. My dad did time, many of my uncles did too. I have a friend who did a big sentenced, armed robbery, he is out now and doing great. We are not the sum total of out mistakes, what I did, or what you did shouldn’t define you. Polish your legacy. Someone in jail told me that one. Polish your legacy. Gandhi did jail time, as did Nelson Mandela. I watched a USA prison tv show called 60 days in, they got general public people to fake being in trouble and set them into a country jail to try and find out how drugs were getting in. County jail turned out to be a very scared place. The whole jail was like a microcosm, it’s own internal world where the rules between the prisoners was set in stone. No snitching, there were pod bosses, or shot callers where it was all race, and gang separate. You got bullied for your food, your commissary your shoes even. And the prison guards seem to accept this because it cuts the violence down. It was a great show. Mohammed Ali’s daughter was one of the participants. One guy got beaten up by a prisoner who was clearly insane. Another guy turned himself into a boss, it was crazy weird.
Hello Antoine. I hope you and those whom you love are safe and happy. First Escape to the a Country, and tv show like it drive me crazy!,, I don’t know a single person who talks like that, or has funds like that. These are 1 percenters.These people with money to buy extra homes drive the prices up in areas, gentrifications and local people cannot live there. My home town is paying for that one. A house here used to cost about $60,000 now a one bedroom apartment costs $225,000 Houses start at three hundred thousand, in a period of about ten years. So we rent, will never own a home, and it is very likely my daughter never will either, unless she robs a bank successfully or wins the lottery. There are lots of show like that. Production companies make these programmes and show you, ‘look at what you can’t have’ My auntie who had the 21 kids, had three sets of twins. Her husband was a house painter and they lived on that. No rich people in my family unfortunately. My mum and dad only had two kids, which was viewed as weird by her family. You said something odd about your dream and a mint green house. My house has wood work on the outside, very rotted but it is indeed mint green, and inside it does look like an art boutique, as I have lots of statues, Buddhas and art work from my years of travelling. And my daughter is an art student,.and I live on the rounded corner of my road! There was a red phone box outside it was removed seven years ago! Your dream was correct. I think most people in most countries think in England it’s all tea drinking, playing darts and dominoes in a pub and no poverty. Well I am here to testify England is a poor place. Many of us exist on welfare, and there are food banks. My daughter was raised wearing thrift and charity shop clothing, as do my and my husband wear it. You do get some good come ups in the shops though, Levi jeans for a dollar, my husband found a Prada jacket that was two thousand dollars in a thrift store for five dollars and it was real. So that was an exciting day for him. When I die I will lie in a paupers grave, funerals start at about ten thousand, so even the poor are reminded they are poor when they pass! The America you left when you entered the prison system, will not be the same as the America you enter when you are released, and you must prepare yourself mentally, spiritually and physically for that. Society is different and people certainly are changed. The internet, phones social media, it’s another world where people interact and it can be toxic. Boys learn to be men from the men in their lives, or in the absent of these men, from the men around them. That’s why gangs are so enthralling. People in general want people to know who they are and in the lack of that acknowledgement they will exaggerate their personalities and testosterone. Toxic masculinity is a buzz word at the moment. Finding out who you are is a lifetimes journey. Part one. More coming
Mr Linley. Climate has changed. It's a done deal. It's 'did. We've had a soft maybe five Hundred years burning coal ripping up forests and jungle, exploding nuclear devices and managed to royally F up planet Earths thermostat.. That's where we are. In the UK we have orca now visiting our Warmer waters, Portuguese men of war jellyfish,lots and lots of new visitors to our changed eco system. Then of course the death of our native corals and sea life. Greta the great angry teenager who likes telling people off told us off, but we don't listen to kids do we? So we need to rethink how we use power and rethink where we live. If it is going to flood perhaps don't build there and try to fight nature. Replant forests but build in firebreaks,so that inferno can be controlled. The seas are warmers then perhaps learn to farm there. Plenty of foods can be grown in clean seawater. We are not going to recognise ourselves two hundred years from now said Einstein. T
Rhonda- I have much to address here however , it's been quite some time that you have posted therefore I wonder if you have grown silent and left your fightbehind the bars while you roam freely!? I have questions and I have a desire to further understand what you want to achieve with your experience. I would like confirmation from you that you still actively come to this place , if not here, where and if nowhere ,why not? I will then ask questions and perhaps share my thoughts with you and my experience of an abusive relationship!
The trolls were determined to foment discord. Often, they used opinionated tweets to feed both sides of a conflict. In addition, the IRA tweeters often chose elections and terrorist attacks as the occasions for their meddling. They used anti-Islam hashtags following terrorist attacks and pro-Brexit hashtags on the day of the British EU referendum as well as against French President Emmanuel Macron before his election. The most successful German tweet in our sample, with around 1,000 likes and retweets, provides a good example because it brings together two issues that tend to be quite controversial: cars and Muslims. The tweet went out on July 28, 2017, the same day an asylum-seeker in Hamburg's Barmbek neighborhood stabbed a customer in a supermarket. The tweet read: "#Diesel cars are #banned to protect the population. But the borders are kept open for Islamic threats. #Barmbek."
Is there anything that can be done to counter these attempts at influence? A degree of defeatism seems to be gaining traction in expert circles. The very existence of trolls is accepted by many as irreversible.
Even prosecutors and investigators seem helpless. U.S. prosecutors are seeking to prosecute 14 people from Russia, including Prigozhin, but the chances are essentially zero that they will ever succeed in getting hold of them. There's a similar situation in the Netherlands, where prosecutors are reportedly mulling whether to extend their investigation into the case of the MH17 passenger flight, which is believed to have been shot down by a Russian missile system in 2014, to include the IRA. Of the 298 casualties, 190 were Dutch citizens, and Russian trolls launched an extremely effective disinformation campaign aimed at muddling the origins of the strike that brought down the jet. It's unclear if there will ever be any charges.
Garvan Walshe, head of election analysis at the London Institute for Strategic Dialogue, says, "We can no longer view social media as a mirror of society." Twitter, for example, is by no means an authentic reflection of what the populace is thinking, he says. The opposite tends to be true.
And that can also be seen as evidence for the effectiveness of the propaganda distributed by the trolls. Social media platforms were once regarded as places of lively exchange, where everyone could participate in the major debates of the day. Do we now have to bury that hope?
Javier Perez Dolset, of all people, claims that his latest project is the development of software that can detect attempts to exert influence.
A presentation about SNAP for the alleged lord of the trolls? That, Western intelligence analysts believe, would further substantiate the suspicion. Perez Dolset has documentation of his Moscow trip, but nothing to verify Prigozhin's presence. He says his meetings had been organized by his local partners and that he often didn't know who he was going to meet with or the reason for the meeting. "That's why I don't have records of every meeting I took," he says. "But I know I met Prigozhin. He has a face you don't forget."
In response to a request for comment from ZEIT, Prigozhin's company responded as one might expect from a troll: Of course, he founded the Irish Republican Army (which shares the abbreviation IRA). And he lived for years on a Thai island together with Perez Dolset – and the ZEIT reporter also ought to seek psychiatric care.
From the U.S. to Europe? Today, the IRA has long since moved on. And although we may have little knowledge of the Russian trolls' software of choice, it is obvious that they continue to learn and evolve. The times when you could recognize trolls by the fact that they stopped tweeting during lunchtime in St. Petersburg have passed. And as a result of the U.S. investigations, the world now knows what it looks like when the IRA deploys all its fire power for months on end. Although it will never be possible to determine with certainty whether the IRA helped to sway the U.S. election, we do know with certainty that it promoted divisions within the country.
But what have the IRA accounts been doing in the time since then? To find out, ZEIT has examined the activities of as many IRA-controlled Twitter accounts as possible. In October 2018, Twitter released around 9 million Russian troll tweets from 3,841 accounts that Twitter believes were controlled by the IRA.
Our analysis shows that Germany and Europe are also targets. Of those messages, Twitter identified around 100,000 tweets that were in German. The largest number, just under 15,000, were published by the troll army in September 2017, the same month as Germany's last general election. Surely no coincidence. The most common topics are revealed by the hashtags used by the trolls: #Merkel (2,243 times), #Erdogan (1,185), #refugees ("#Flüchtlinge" in the German original; 1,182) and #stopTerror ("#stopptTerror"; 971). The hashtag #AfD, standing for Germany's right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party, is also among the Top 10 (627). Interestingly, the tweets from fall 2017 aren't exclusively directed against the government: The hashtag #merkelmuststay ("#Merkelmussbleiben) also was used 508 times. It's not possible to determine how many people read these tweets or were influenced by them. By German standards, though, these are relevant orders of magnitude.
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Regarding the shoe idea. Don’t need to make lasts, just be aware of the shapes that make up the style of each sneaker. The front part, the part that rises to the tongue where the laces or Velcro pass. The side panels, sometimes they have several of them, sometimes just one. Then your definitive brand. Could even put some of your writing on them, parts from your poetry. Have a close look at the construction of these shoes. Perhaps sone of the inmates have or are allowed to wear branded footwear. (Not allowed in the U.K.)You got to get your designs to the sneaker design departments. Even try contacting, Kanye Wests team or Converse ideas marketing department or Jay z, find out where they go to church,. I can see an orange shoe designed by you on the streets, a message to the kids, a reminder on their feet. Shoes are so important to kids these days.
People think we live our lives in obedience to the main holy books, the Vedas, Bible (which is actually a library not a book) The Koran, Talmud. Between the paragraphs the sentences the verses. But we live between heartbeats. We make our decisions between heartbeats. We just got to listen to it. That’s where God is, where he speaks to us. There is a great debate going on in the medical community at the moment regarding ‘consciousness’, where and what it is. People thought it was in our heads, in the brain, but now people are starting to find evidence it actually resides in our hearts. Just as the first people said it was 3000 years ago.
One of the screaming differences between the US and U.K. prison system seems to be poverty. In the U.K. you can get a pretty good legal representation for free. But in your country you get what you pay for. There seems to be a terrible recipe for a long sentence, it’s male, black, poor and single parent family. Although I have noticed a lot of ex army brats seem to be making a showing, I wonder why that is? Maybe a discipline rebellion thing? And a lot of ex service personnel who find themselves on the other side after they leave the armed services. Which is terrible considering these people put their lives on the line to protect the `USA,
I LOVE the way you write and express yourself. It is so liberating and authentic!!! We English tend to get all caught up in syntax semantics and structure. When a newly formed structure, like the one you use is so brilliant, and is actually the dogs bollocks! Actually the correct term for expression that disobeys grammatical norms is ‘streams of consciousness’ form. It’s almost like unimprovised jazz music. I love the way it moves, and demands your attention as a reader of it .
I hope 2020 exceeds your expectations
Keep in keeping on
Much love to you and those you love
T
In 1996 in a Scottish town a caretaker of a kindergarten school went mad and shot and killed 17 children. After this happened the government immediately banned hand gun ownership. And restricted shotguns to farmers and clubs with strict licensing rules. If you are found with an unlicensed gun it’s a life sentence. In the UK life usually means eighteen years with a good lawyer.
We haven’t as yet had anymore school shootings. People tend to use knives, even the terrorists find it difficult to get arms and explosives. Into the uk anyway. France they seem to be able to.
I love TD Jakes, that man makes a lot of sense. The Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist whatever speak about a God. But, in my mind God is a notion that we as human beings are intellectually incapable of truly understanding. We just to have faith that there is an energy there that is loving and accepting. Religious zealots worry me. I have had some uncomfortable conversations with people, young men in particular that do not see anyone, or recognise anyone outside their faith as sharing the same humanity as them and it scares me. In the future we won’t fight over oil or land or property, we will go to war over culture and religion.
Most people walking around’free’ will definitely at one time during their lives done something they could have been jailed for. I know I have. My dad did time, many of my uncles did too. I have a friend who did a big sentenced, armed robbery, he is out now and doing great. We are not the sum total of out mistakes, what I did, or what you did shouldn’t define you. Polish your legacy. Someone in jail told me that one. Polish your legacy. Gandhi did jail time, as did Nelson Mandela.
I watched a USA prison tv show called 60 days in, they got general public people to fake being in trouble and set them into a country jail to try and find out how drugs were getting in. County jail turned out to be a very scared place. The whole jail was like a microcosm, it’s own internal world where the rules between the prisoners was set in stone. No snitching, there were pod bosses, or shot callers where it was all race, and gang separate. You got bullied for your food, your commissary your shoes even. And the prison guards seem to accept this because it cuts the violence down. It was a great show. Mohammed Ali’s daughter was one of the participants. One guy got beaten up by a prisoner who was clearly insane. Another guy turned himself into a boss, it was crazy weird.
I hope you and those whom you love are safe and happy.
First Escape to the a Country, and tv show like it drive me crazy!,, I don’t know a single person who talks like that, or has funds like that. These are 1 percenters.These people with money to buy extra homes drive the prices up in areas, gentrifications and local people cannot live there. My home town is paying for that one. A house here used to cost about $60,000 now a one bedroom apartment costs $225,000 Houses start at three hundred thousand, in a period of about ten years. So we rent, will never own a home, and it is very likely my daughter never will either, unless she robs a bank successfully or wins the lottery. There are lots of show like that. Production companies make these programmes and show you, ‘look at what you can’t have’
My auntie who had the 21 kids, had three sets of twins. Her husband was a house painter and they lived on that. No rich people in my family unfortunately. My mum and dad only had two kids, which was viewed as weird by her family.
You said something odd about your dream and a mint green house. My house has wood work on the outside, very rotted but it is indeed mint green, and inside it does look like an art boutique, as I have lots of statues, Buddhas and art work from my years of travelling. And my daughter is an art student,.and I live on the rounded corner of my road! There was a red phone box outside it was removed seven years ago! Your dream was correct. I think most people in most countries think in England it’s all tea drinking, playing darts and dominoes in a pub and no poverty. Well I am here to testify England is a poor place. Many of us exist on welfare, and there are food banks. My daughter was raised wearing thrift and charity shop clothing, as do my and my husband wear it. You do get some good come ups in the shops though, Levi jeans for a dollar, my husband found a Prada jacket that was two thousand dollars in a thrift store for five dollars and it was real. So that was an exciting day for him.
When I die I will lie in a paupers grave, funerals start at about ten thousand, so even the poor are reminded they are poor when they pass!
The America you left when you entered the prison system, will not be the same as the America you enter when you are released, and you must prepare yourself mentally, spiritually and physically for that. Society is different and people certainly are changed. The internet, phones social media, it’s another world where people interact and it can be toxic.
Boys learn to be men from the men in their lives, or in the absent of these men, from the men around them. That’s why gangs are so enthralling. People in general want people to know who they are and in the lack of that acknowledgement they will exaggerate their personalities and testosterone. Toxic masculinity is a buzz word at the moment. Finding out who you are is a lifetimes journey.
Part one. More coming
That was a lovely gesture. Glove and love. People respond better to small gestures of thoughtfulness. God is working within you.
T
Climate has changed. It's a done deal. It's 'did. We've had a soft maybe five Hundred years burning coal ripping up forests and jungle, exploding nuclear devices and managed to royally F up planet Earths thermostat.. That's where we are. In the UK we have orca now visiting our Warmer waters, Portuguese men of war jellyfish,lots and lots of new visitors to our changed eco system. Then of course the death of our native corals and sea life.
Greta the great angry teenager who likes telling people off told us off, but we don't listen to kids do we?
So we need to rethink how we use power and rethink where we live. If it is going to flood perhaps don't build there and try to fight nature. Replant forests but build in firebreaks,so that inferno can be controlled.
The seas are warmers then perhaps learn to farm there. Plenty of foods can be grown in clean seawater. We are not going to recognise ourselves two hundred years from now said Einstein.
T
I have questions and I have a desire to further understand what you want to achieve with your experience.
I would like confirmation from you that you still actively come to this place , if not here, where and if nowhere ,why not? I will then ask questions and perhaps share my thoughts with you and my experience of an abusive relationship!
I got the two zines and will forward them, x ju
The most successful German tweet in our sample, with around 1,000 likes and retweets, provides a good example because it brings together two issues that tend to be quite controversial: cars and Muslims. The tweet went out on July 28, 2017, the same day an asylum-seeker in Hamburg's Barmbek neighborhood stabbed a customer in a supermarket. The tweet read: "#Diesel cars are #banned to protect the population. But the borders are kept open for Islamic threats. #Barmbek."
Is there anything that can be done to counter these attempts at influence? A degree of defeatism seems to be gaining traction in expert circles. The very existence of trolls is accepted by many as irreversible.
Even prosecutors and investigators seem helpless. U.S. prosecutors are seeking to prosecute 14 people from Russia, including Prigozhin, but the chances are essentially zero that they will ever succeed in getting hold of them.
There's a similar situation in the Netherlands, where prosecutors are reportedly mulling whether to extend their investigation into the case of the MH17 passenger flight, which is believed to have been shot down by a Russian missile system in 2014, to include the IRA. Of the 298 casualties, 190 were Dutch citizens, and Russian trolls launched an extremely effective disinformation campaign aimed at muddling the origins of the strike that brought down the jet. It's unclear if there will ever be any charges.
Garvan Walshe, head of election analysis at the London Institute for Strategic Dialogue, says, "We can no longer view social media as a mirror of society." Twitter, for example, is by no means an authentic reflection of what the populace is thinking, he says. The opposite tends to be true.
And that can also be seen as evidence for the effectiveness of the propaganda distributed by the trolls. Social media platforms were once regarded as places of lively exchange, where everyone could participate in the major debates of the day. Do we now have to bury that hope?
Javier Perez Dolset, of all people, claims that his latest project is the development of software that can detect attempts to exert influence.
In response to a request for comment from ZEIT, Prigozhin's company responded as one might expect from a troll: Of course, he founded the Irish Republican Army (which shares the abbreviation IRA). And he lived for years on a Thai island together with Perez Dolset – and the ZEIT reporter also ought to seek psychiatric care.
From the U.S. to Europe?
Today, the IRA has long since moved on. And although we may have little knowledge of the Russian trolls' software of choice, it is obvious that they continue to learn and evolve. The times when you could recognize trolls by the fact that they stopped tweeting during lunchtime in St. Petersburg have passed. And as a result of the U.S. investigations, the world now knows what it looks like when the IRA deploys all its fire power for months on end. Although it will never be possible to determine with certainty whether the IRA helped to sway the U.S. election, we do know with certainty that it promoted divisions within the country.
But what have the IRA accounts been doing in the time since then?
To find out, ZEIT has examined the activities of as many IRA-controlled Twitter accounts as possible. In October 2018, Twitter released around 9 million Russian troll tweets from 3,841 accounts that Twitter believes were controlled by the IRA.
Our analysis shows that Germany and Europe are also targets. Of those messages, Twitter identified around 100,000 tweets that were in German. The largest number, just under 15,000, were published by the troll army in September 2017, the same month as Germany's last general election. Surely no coincidence.
The most common topics are revealed by the hashtags used by the trolls: #Merkel (2,243 times), #Erdogan (1,185), #refugees ("#Flüchtlinge" in the German original; 1,182) and #stopTerror ("#stopptTerror"; 971). The hashtag #AfD, standing for Germany's right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party, is also among the Top 10 (627). Interestingly, the tweets from fall 2017 aren't exclusively directed against the government: The hashtag #merkelmuststay ("#Merkelmussbleiben) also was used 508 times.
It's not possible to determine how many people read these tweets or were influenced by them. By German standards, though, these are relevant orders of magnitude.