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The National Smoking Day went well in England as festive multitudes disobeyed fraud-based antismoking laws. More information is coming in as we write. We will keep you posted as we resume regular publication next week. Of course, had Anti forces succeeded in quashing the British event, there would be press releases and coverage galore in the mainstream media. Instead, widespread disobedience was successful and vaunted attempts at a crackdown were not, thus Anti and her media minions have nothing to say. Kowtowing media must show that they are making their best effort to suppress any and all information favourable to...

The extraordinary story of a war hero's flight to freedom from the Nazis has been revealed by his daughters, after they retraced his steps and reclaimed the shoes he wore on the epic 200-mile trek. Sven Somme was pursued by 900 German soldiers with sniffer dogs across the mountains of occupied Norway before he reaching safety, having being arrested for spying for the Allies. Sixty years on his daughter Ellie Targett, a radio presenter in Herefordshire, and her sister Yule, who lives in Devon, set out on foot to retrace their father's daring escape, meeting some of the people who...

Even metaphorical wars can have flesh-and-blood casualties, and hospitals around the country are now tending to the victims of one of our fiercest. It is not so much that we are “losing” this particular war; simple notions of victory and defeat dropped away some time ago. Rather, locked in a spiral of costly and controversial escalations, we may have lost sight of who the enemy actually is.

Source: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Date: August 31, 2007 Disease Resistance May Be Genetic Science Daily — According to a study in Evolution, resistance to certain infectious diseases may be passed genetically from parent to child. The genetic resistance may be beneficial to families as those with the gene are both unlikely to suffer from disease and unlikely to carry the disease home. Paul Schliekelman, author of the study, says the research was inspired by personal experience after catching stomach flus from his daughter three times over a six-month period. Schliekelman used mathematical models to calculate the possible effect of “kin...

BESIEGED VILLAGERS KO QAEDA AP August 24, 2007 -- BAGHDAD - Suspected al Qaeda fighters stormed two villages near Baqouba yesterday, bombed the house of a local Sunni sheik and kidnapped a group of mostly women - but residents drove off the attackers to end the rampage. Seventeen villagers, including seven women, were killed in the assaults roughly 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. Ten al Qaeda gunmen also died.

JERUSALEM – U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice twice referred to Hamas as a "resistance movement" during a meeting with reporters from the New York Daily News earlier this month, but the newspaper did not report her remarks, WND has learned. Rice's interview is transcribed in full on the State Department website. Rice's statements mark the second documented time in recent months she called Hamas a "resistance movement" during unscripted chats with journalists. Hamas is responsible for scores of suicide bombings, shooting attacks and rocket firings. It's classified by the State Department as a terror organization. The group's official charter...

Ottawa, ON (AHN) - A medical journal has reported a case of a one-week-old infant who died from complications after being circumcised in an unidentified hospital in Ontario, Canada. In its April 2007 edition, Paediatrics and Child Health reported a case in which an infant, whose parents did not want him identified, was brought back to his family doctor by his parents 5 hours after he had been circumcised. At that time, his parents said he was "very irritable and had blue discoloration below the umbilicus when he cried." The baby's physicians sent the child home. The baby's parents took...

Most contracts for goods and services contain an "Act of God" provision. Such provisions typically allow contracting parties to dissolve a contract in case of an unexpected and unavoidable catastrophe: an earthquake, a tsunami, a lightning strike. This is perfectly logical. Man can act based on predictions about human behavior, but has no control over forces of nature. Conversely, human actions demand human responsibility. Only Divine action should be written off as inevitable tragedy. The Virginia Tech massacre was not an act of God -- it was undeniably an act of man. Yet many Americans have instinctively treated this massive...

Flu viruses may be developing drug resistance Updated Tue. Apr. 3 2007 5:22 PM ET Canadian Press TORONTO -- There is new and unwelcome evidence that flu viruses can evolve to develop resistance to the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza and that those less susceptible viruses can spread from person to person. Japanese researchers reported Tuesday that influenza B viruses recovered from several people who had not taken flu drugs were partially resistant to Tamiflu, Relenza or both, suggesting these less susceptible viruses were spreading at low levels in their communities. It had been hoped that viruses that developed resistance...

Levitation becomes possible using superconducting materials In 1987 Ronald Reagan declared that the US was about to enter an incredible new era of technology.Levitating high-speed trains, super-efficient energy generators and ultra-powerful supercomputers would become commonplace thanks to a new breed of materials known as high temperature superconductors (HTSC). "The breakthroughs in superconductivity bring us to the threshold of a new age," said Reagan. "It's our task to herald in that new age with a rush." But 20 years on, the new world does not seem to have arrived. So, what happened? Early promise Superconductivity was first discovered in 1911...

It’s been only a few hours since the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) made its voluntary-to-required debut in Michigan, and already a farmer is challenging its underpinnings. The Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) quickly responded by quarantining his farm. Here is what happened: Greg Niewendorp, owner of a 160-acre farm in East Jordan in the upper peninsula, made good on his pledge, stated in my “Farmers Say No to Animal Tags” BusinessWeek.com article in December, to resist all MDA orders related to NAIS.

SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia - Protesters demanding greater autonomy from the central government clashed with backers of President Evo Morales on Friday, and officials said more than 20 people were injured before a planned giant protest march. Santa Cruz state Gov. Rubén Costas, who has backed the protests, reported the injuries occurred as pro- and anti-government groups threw rocks at one another in San Julián, a town about 70 miles northwest of Santa Cruz. Meanwhile, thousands of protesters decked in the green-and-white colors of Santa Cruz state hit the streets of this eastern lowland city Friday to demand greater autonomy from...

Indian men are prone to insulin resistance Nathan Seppa Men from India are more likely than those in other large ethnic groups to have a condition that predisposes them to type 2, or adult-onset, diabetes, a U.S. study shows. The condition, called insulin resistance, arises when a person's cells fail to respond efficiently to insulin—requiring the body to make extra insulin to move glucose into cells where it's converted into energy. Insulin resistance is often linked with obesity. Researchers enlisted 482 men and women in Connecticut from five ethnic groups—East Asian, Indian Asian, white, black, and Hispanic. All were lean,...

U.S. immigrants pose TB threatFrom coast to coast, more cases found raising fears of new drug-resistant strain Posted: October 22, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – The worst forms of a drug-resistant killer tuberculosis bug, rapidly spreading throughout the world, have been gaining ground in the United States along with record legal and illegal immigration levels, alarming public-health officials over a disease once thought vanquished. Although the number of confirmed drug-resistant TB cases in the U.S. is relatively small – still measured in the dozens – health officials say visitors from other countries are bringing in the...

PARIS (EJP)--- An exhibition in Paris shows a collection of farewell letters written by a members of the French resistance during WWII to close relations before being executed. The museum exhibits a selection of 130 farewell letters, last words of those condemned to death during the Second World War. There were thousands – both famous and anonymous, shot to death or executed by capital punishment – of victims of the Nazi and Vichy regime between 1941 and 1944. While waiting of death, they address their last words to their family and loved ones. They speak for thousands of others who...

/begin my excerpt Anti-Kim Jong-il Poster at a Public Site [2006-09-12 ]  Locals at the scene saying, "There was similar one last year." "Yeah, it's still music to my ears." A video is smuggled out from N. Korea, which shows an anti-Kim Jong-il poster at a busy market place at Danchon, S. Hamkyong Province, N. Korea. Locals watching an anti-Kim Jong-il poster at a black market near the train station and talking to each other, at Danchon, S. Hamkyong Province <captured from Fuji TV broadcast> This was filmed by a N. Korean defector, who snuck into Danchon  in last May. Fuji TV...

Khatami condemns bin Laden, praises Hizbullah for 'resistance' against Israel Published: 09.11.06, 02:20 On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami condemned Osama bin Laden and suicide bombing but also defended groups such as Hizbullah for what he characterized as resistance against Israeli colonialism. In a 30-minute speech given under tight security at Harvard University, Khatami repeatedly praised the concept of democracy but said American politicians since World War II have been infatuated with "world domination." Khatami said he was one of the first world leaders to condemn "the barbarous acts"...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a message to Hezbollah head Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, described the militant group's clashes with Israel as a "victory" for Islam. "Your unprecedented holy war and steadfastness are beyond the limits of my description. It's a divine victory. It is a victory of Islam," Khamenei said in the message read by an announcer on Hezbollah's Al-Manar television. Hezbollah is heavily financed and backed by Iran's Shiite Muslim theocracy. "With God's help you were able to prove that military superiority is not (measured) in the number (of soldiers), planes, warships and tanks....

The situation of the resistance requires review...time is now harmful: form(ation) of the National Guard massive arrest(s) media campaign weakening influence... tightening financial outlets, confiscating ammunition and weapons. division among the resistance increase in supporting the occupation taking advantage of resistance mistakes ...these matters should be treated: use the media... infiltrate the National Guard to spy and use their modern weapons. recruit new elements... establish factories (for) weapons unify and adhere to piety division between America and other countries avoid mistakes that show (us) as the enemy... Despite the current bleak situation, the best suggestion is to embroil America in...

BERLIN, June 2 (Reuters) - Russia and China can opt out but will not block U.N. sanctions that may be imposed on Iran if it refuses to suspend its nuclear enrichment programme, a diplomat from the European Union told Reuters on Friday. Citing a deal agreed by Germany, France, Britain, the United States, China and Russia in Vienna on Thursday, the diplomat said that the six world powers had agreed on a "catalogue of sanctions" that could be used if Tehran remains defiant. "There is something like a catalogue of sanctions and we can pick and choose from them. The...

Iran insisted Friday that the West will not deprive it of nuclear technology and must drop conditions on negotiations, defying pressure to accept a package of incentives to stop its nuclear activities. Iranian officials did not respond directly to the offer agreed to Thursday by the permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany that calls on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment. Details have yet to be formally presented to Tehran. But Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, said Europe should "leave out excuse-seeking and illogical conditions and come back to negotiation and cooperation." "Iran is ready for any unconditional, just...

Witold Pilecki Born May 13, 1901, Olonets, Karelia, Russia. Died May 25, 1948, Warsaw, Poland. Witold Pilecki (May 13, 1901 – May 25, 1948); codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafinski, Druh, Witold) was a soldier of the Second Polish Republic, founder of the resistance movement Secret Polish Army (Tajna Armia Polska) and member of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa). During World War II he was the only known person to volunteer to be imprisoned at Auschwitz Concentration Camp. While there, he organized inmate resistance, and as early as 1940 informed the Western Allies of Nazi Germany's camp atrocities. He escaped from...

My dad (long time civil structural engineer) sent the following question this evening to me: Tomorrow morning, I need the drag of one square foot of plate in 6 mph water. Not edge effects, downstream turbulence, corner losses, etc. Just how much force will I have to provide to hold a square foot of plate still into a 6 mph current? No, not in channel. In open water. I can't find it ANYWHERE! Durn! Got a structure in a pickle in water, and I really need that drag force to figure piling forces. My Olde Books are EMPTY on the...

BERLIN -- Three former Iran players threatened to protest at the World Cup if their country's hardline president attends. They also urged host Germany to halt talks with the Tehran government over tournament security. The players, members of dissident group the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said Wednesday they would protest any attempt to "politicize" the World Cup with a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The German government has resisted calls to bar Ahmadinejad from the June 9-July 9 tournament for threatening Israel and denying the Holocaust happened. He has not indicated whether he plans to attend and Iranian...

Tehran, Iran, Apr. 24 – A young man was hanged in prison in the central city of Isfahan charged with killing a local police commander, a state-run daily reported. The police commander, identified as Akbar Bayati, was shot and killed during a gun battle with four men outside a police station in August 2004, the daily Hamshahri wrote on Sunday. The four men had first attacked a soldier outside the building, the report said. The group’s ringleader, identified only as Mehdi B., was sentenced by Judge Seyyed Jaafar Hashemi to hang in public. The sentence was carried out on April...

Darwinian evolution follows very few of the available mutational pathways to attain fitter proteins, researchers at Harvard University have found in a study of a gene whose mutant form increases bacterial resistance to a widely prescribed antibiotic by a factor of roughly 100,000. Their work indicates that of 120 harrowing, five-step mutational paths that theoretically could grant antibiotic resistance, only about 10 actually endow bacteria with a meaningful evolutionary advantage. The research is described this week in the journal Science. "Just as there are many alternate routes one might follow in driving from Boston to New York, one intrinsic property...

/begin my translation N. Korea: Armed Men Attack N. Korea's Tumen Border  It is revealed that, just before the Lunar New Year's Day, multiple (armed) attacks on border guard by unidentified men occurred along N. Korea's northern border area. Especially, indications are that some of attackers were carrying automatic weapons and their movements are well-coordinated, leading us to wonder about their background. Multiple Attacks: According to the sources on N. Korea, on the evening of Jan. 28, a border guard at Namyang Worker's District, Onsung County, N. Hamkyong Province, spotted a few men crossing Tumen River from Kai-san-tun area of China, and attempted to arrest...

Last update - 18:34 27/01/2006 Hamas deputy leader says resistance to 'occupation' will continue By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, and AP DAMASCUS - A prominent Hamas leader, whose group achieved an overwhelming victory in legislative Palestinian elections this week, pledged Friday to continue resistance against what he termed Israeli occupation and stressed that the group would not yet recognize the Jewish state. "As long as there is occupation and so long as our people's rights are usurped, our stand will remain as it is. We would resist the (Israeli) occupation to restore our rights," Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of...

Diabetes from a Plastic? Estrogen mimic provokes insulin resistance Ben Harder Exposure to small amounts of an ingredient in polycarbonate plastic may increase a person's risk of diabetes, according to a new study in mice. The synthetic chemical called bisphenol-A is used to make dental sealants, sturdy microwavable plastics, linings for metal food-and-beverage containers, baby bottles, and numerous other products. When consumed, the chemical can mimic the effects of estrogen. Previous tests had found that bisphenol-A can leach into food and water and that it's widely prevalent in human blood. The newfound contribution of the chemical to insulin resistance, a...

Survey of bacteria reveals an array of antibiotic-resistance. Bacteria that live in soil have been found to harbour an astonishing armoury of natural weapons to fight off antibiotics. The discovery could help researchers anticipate the next wave of drug-resistant 'superbugs'. Researchers have long known that soil-dwelling bacteria make natural antibiotics, and that they have inbuilt ways to survive their own and other bugs' toxins; in some cases, the genes that help them dodge antibiotics have transferred into infectious bugs that plague humans. Microbiologists have identified a few of the ways that soil microbes neutralize antibiotics. But Gerard Wright and his...

WASHINGTON — In a development health experts are calling alarming, two bird flu patients in Vietnam died after developing resistance to Tamiflu, the key drug that governments are stockpiling in case of a large-scale outbreak.

An extensive study of malaria-carrying mosquito or "vector" populations in different ecological zones of Cameroon has documented widespread and varied resistance to insecticides, part of an alarming trend across Africa that might ultimately jeopardize efforts to control malaria with treated bed nets and indoor spraying. The study, which will be presented at a special session on insecticide resistance at the Fourth Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Malaria Conference, is illustrative of a growing body of research in Africa that is finding increasing mosquito resistance to pyrethroid insecticides, which are used for insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs), and DDT, which has...

(PRWEB) October 28, 2005 -- Sword of the Turul, by Catherine Eva Schandl, is based on an incredible true story. Shocking facts are uncovered about war-torn Budapest, British intelligence, and SMERSH, and how they were all connected, exposing a 60-year-old deception. Author Catherine Eva Schandl, B.A. Honours, M.Ed., was born and raised in North America and is of Hungarian origin. Her father, Karoly William Schandl, a Hungarian lawyer, was a survivor of 11 years, 10 months in the Soviet prisons of Lubyanka, Lefortovo, and Vladimir. Prior to his official arrest by the NKVD/SMERSH on December 8, 1944, he was involved...

<p>Los Angeles police searched Tuesday for a man they said grabbed an officer and dragged him 225 feet alongside a car that was fleeing a routine traffic stop.</p> <p>Officer Matthew Bakotich, who has been with the Los Angeles Police Department for six years, suffered scrapes and bruises.</p>

VATICAN CITY (AP) - A German bishop whose homilies boldly condemned anti-Semitism and other policies of Hitler's Nazi regime was beatified Sunday in a ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica, moving him a step closer to possible sainthood. Clemens August von Galen, known as the Lion of Muenster for his courageous sermons while bishop of the Germany city, died in 1946, shortly after pope Pius XII promoted him to cardinal. Von Galen's homilies were secretly copied and circulated, according to German church officials. He also spoke out against the Nazi campaign to exterminate the mentally ill and handicapped. Pope John Paul...

China Shocked at Border Officer's Acquittal1 hour, 11 minutes ago China expressed shock at the acquittal of an American border officer accused of roughing up a Chinese tourist and said it will closely monitor her $10 million lawsuit against the U.S. government. Homeland Security officer Robert Rhodes was found not guilty on Thursday of violating the civil rights of Zhao Yan, 38, a businesswoman who was touring Niagara Falls near the Canadian border in July 2004. Rhodes told the court in upstate New York that Zhao took off running when he ordered her inside his inspection station to question her...

About 2,000 disgruntled farmers have clashed with hundreds of policemen in China's northern region of Inner Mongolia in a land dispute that injured dozens with one government official calling the situation "anarchy." The July 21 clash in Qianjin village, a part of Tongliao city about 450 miles northeast of Beijing, was one of a growing number of protests across China, most of which go unreported in the tightly controlled state media. [. . .] "Please trust the party and the government," Han pleaded. In an editorial, the Thursday edition of the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party, will...

Greece’s highest administrative court has rejected an appeal by Esphigmenou Monastery, upholding their eviction from the 1,000-year-old Esphigmenou Monastery. According to court sources, the Council of State ruled that it had no jurisdiction to decide whether the Esphigmenou monks were schismatic, as the Patriarchate has declared. The court decided that, under Greece’s constitution, the patriarchate has supreme spiritual authority over the semi-autonomous Mount Athos monastic community and is not subject to judicial scrutiny of such matters. The monks in Esphigmenou Monastery have been ordered out.

Friday, July 08, 2005 æÇáÇÚÑÇÈ ÃÔÏ ßÝÑÇ æäÝÇÞÇ Friends, Translation of the above words from the holy Koran, may come as a surprise to you : “And the A’arab are the worst in Kufr [ faithlessness ] and hypocrisy”. The A’arab are the nomadic Arabs. This is the judgment of the Koran of the Muslims itself concerning the Bedouin nomadic mentality. Let us use the name Al-Qaeda to symbolize this murderous frame of mind which is plaguing the world right now. It is the living embodiment of the worst of all that is evil in the Arab Bedouin genetic subconscious....

Our world is "normally" silent in the face of evil. At worst, many are directly complicit in the maimings and slaughters. At best, the murderers are ignored. In this unchanging world Israel must soon decide whether to face the evil of Palestinian terrorism as a pitiable victim or to use whatever reasonable force is needed to remain alive. The use of force is not inherently evil. Quite the contrary; in opposing terrorist mayhem, force is indispensable to all that is good. In the case of Israel, Palestinian terrorism is unique for its cowardice, its barbarism and its genocidal goal. Were...

An Islamic Scholar Responds Memo To: Website Fans, Browsers, Clients From: Jude Wanniski Re: Continuing our Discussion On May 6, I ran a raft of letters I received on my discussion of the nature of Islam as a religion and Mohammed as its Prophet. Most of the letters were critical of both, some savagely so, with a great many assertions about Mohammed’s life as an “evil” war lord who sanctioned assassinations and slaughtered Jews. I’ll turn today’s discussion over to a Muslim scholar, the director of graduate studies in the Department of Religion at Temple University in Philadelphia, Khalid Yahya...

Interviewer: You slaughtered him? 'Adnan Elias: Yes, sir. Habib 'Izzat Hamu got the knife. He slaughtered him, and when he was dead, he opened his shirt buttons and cut open his stomach. Interviewer: Who opened him up? 'Adnan Elias: Muhsin, sir. Interviewer: When a doctor performs an operation he wears a surgeon's mask over his nose and mouth. ... 'Adnan Elias: No sir, he didn't wear one. He cut open his stomach and took stuff out. Interviewer: What did he take out? 'Adnan Elias: I don't know, his guts. Interviewer: Weren't you nauseous? Didn't you vomit? 'Adnan Elias: You mean...

This is my recent online exchange with D.A. King, founder of The American Resistance Foundation, a national coalition of citizens actively opposed to illegal immigration. Mr. King spends lots of his own money as he travels and speaks and takes part in rallies and debates all comers. George Thomas Clark - Don't you think the Bush administration, and politicians in general, consider it in the interest of the United States to allow significant numbers of undocumented immigrants into the country every year? After all, if the very conservative and defense-minded Republican administration considered immigration a grievous threat to national security,...

“Korea’s Infection Rate of Super Bacteria reached an alarming level” MARCH 28, 2005 23:05 by TK Sohn ( sohn@donga.com) On November 26, 2004, about 250 students were infected with dysentery after eating their school lunch at Gyohyeon Elementary School in Chungju City, Chungbuk Province. Hospital administered a “third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic” on the students, but strangely enough, it didn’t work. The hospital immediately gave another antibiotic, ciprofloxacin, to the students and only managed to treat the dysentery. The National Public Health Research Institute tested the resistant genes of 267 AIDS patients who didn’t receive treatments and of the 45 AIDS patient...

Scott Galindez, argues in his essay, “Why We Must Withdraw from Iraq", that “As long as U.S. troops remain in Iraq, the perception of the resistance will be that the Government in Iraq is a puppet of the United States. Our presence in Iraq is destabilizing, and I would like to pose this question: how much worse could things get if the United States pulled out of Iraq?” Galindez proposes, “… a regional multinational solution, not one led by the United States or the UN … that will be the first step to a peace process with a majority...

Medieval Plague May Explain Resistance to HIV LONDON (Agence de Presse Medicale) - The persistent epidemics of hemorrhagic fever that struck Europe during the Middle Ages provided the selection pressures that have made 10 percent of Europeans resistant to HIV infection, according to a UK study. A mutation called delta-32 in the cellular receptor dubbed CCR5 protects against HIV infection, and is found more often in Europeans than other populations. Scientists have previously suggested that the genetic mutation became common because it protected people against the Black Death or smallpox epidemics, while those with normal CCR5 were wiped out. But...

WASHINGTON – Thursday's much-touted meeting between Gov. Schwarzenegger and California's congressional delegation to map strategy for getting more money from Washington did not get off to a good start. Partisan sniping occupied much of the day, as did complaints that Schwarzenegger upstaged the strategy meeting by later appearing with Common Cause officials to announce the group's support for his controversial redistricting plan. "In California and around the country we have a broken system where elected officials are choosing the voters they want to represent instead of the other way around," said Common Cause president Chellie Pingree in an afternoon appearance...

Liberal colleges and universities are canceling scheduled lecture appearances by outspoken University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill in the wake of his rerun comparison of victims of the 9-11-01 attacks on the World Trade Center to “Little Eichmans”—a reference to the notorious Nazi war criminal. Meanwhile, professors offering up even more incendiary rhetoric operate relatively unmolested on their home campuses. Dr. Hatem Bazian [pictured], who wondered aloud why we don’t have an intifada in the United States, would certainly merit this distinction. He teaches at the University of California at Berkeley. Earlier last year, he asked a San Francisco audience,...

(Sorry my bad English)… Today is a really sad day for the Italian justice. The judge Clementina Forleo today has acquitted three Muslims accused of international terrorism in order to have enlisted kamikaze to send in Iraq. The judge also annulled the custody to secure in jail in comparisons of others two inquires in the comparisons of which has transmitted the papers to the Court of Brescia, recognizing to this last competence to judge. The reason of this foolish act is that, for judge Forleo, they didn’t do Terrorism, they did “Resistance”. Can you believe? RESISTANCE! I find it shameful…...