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BTW, the author of this piece wrote a nice review of our DLO DVD 
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KEVIN DAVIS
Tactical Survival Contributor
Officer.com


If someone could give you a gift that would improve your chances of survival in a violent confrontation, would you take it? If the tradeoff was that, in order to make use of this gift, you would have to understand it and use it properly, would you take the time to do so?

The gift that you've already been given and have in your possession is the fight or flight reflex, more accurately called the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) reaction.

You see, already hardwired into man is a survival system that prepares us to overcome life-threatening situations. The tradeoff is that you need to understand the mental, physical and psychological changes that take place when the SNS is activated.

Take for instance, the experiences of Major Bob Johnson, related to authors Mike Durant and Steve Hartov in the new book The Night Stalkers, as he piloted a Blackhawk helicopter during the invasion of Grenada:

He had never imagined anything like this. Not here, not today. And the phenomenon that overtook his body and his mind wasn't something he could ever have prepared for. It was total sensory overload, and combined with a flood of adrenaline surging through his blood, his fine motor skills went all to hell...this was no schoolboy hero fantasy. This was the O.K. Corral, times ten.

Survival Mechanisms

Man's survival mechanisms have evolved over time to increase our chance of winning a life and death struggle. Without these amazing structures and changes, we would have never made it out of the Stone Age, but rather would have become fossilized saber tooth tiger dung.

Without getting into a scientific explanation of what goes on in the brain to initiate an SNS response, let's just say that various "triggers" can make this happen. In terms of threats against you, the closer, more spontaneous, more unexpected and faster developing the threat, the more chance you may kick into an SNS response. The result is that you may not be able to think the same, move the same, hear as well, or see as wide a visual field, and more. As your body prepares itself for battle, stress hormones will be released into your system to fuel your body.

Training and the SNS

How can we incorporate an understanding of the SNS into our training so that it improves our survival? First of all, we must try to understand how stress affects us, what changes may take place in the body. We can anticipate that those changes will take place on the street when we attempt to use those skills.

Next as recommended by noted survival authority Bruce Siddle, we must understand that our ability to complete fine and complex motor skills is affected by stress. We should therefore train in skills that we will be able to complete and that will be enhanced to some degree by stress. The bulk of our survival strategy should be based around gross motor skills or those skills that incorporate large muscle masses and will be strengthened by SNS.

We should then work at honing those skills through training. Repetition is the mother of all skills and develops competence. Competence breeds confidence, and the more confident in your skills you are, the less you will be affected by stress.

Finally we should engage in dynamic training scenarios. Can training cause an SNS response? PPCT Management Systems Inc. engaged in a study utilizing a Prism shooting trailer. After participants had gone through their scenarios, blood was drawn and tested for the presence of stress chemicals. According to preliminary findings,

Readings from the heart rate monitors indicated fluctuations in all study participants. Participants began with an average baseline heart rate of 82.46 BPM and then attained an average peak rate of 133.94 BPM, with some peaking as high as 175BPM. The average heart rate increase was 65% during the event and then decreased an average of 67.65% afterward. Preliminary blood test results also indicate corresponding changes in the stress hormones cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine, again confirming that survival stress was induced and with consistent reliability. The increase in cortisol levels averaged 18.15% across the board, with peak levels increasing as much as 206.41%. Epinephrine levels climbed an average of 131.83% and norepinephrine an average of 66.26%.
--(Bruce Siddle, Kevin Siddle; PPCT; 2006)

What does all this mean? That dynamic training causes the same type of changes in the body as actual combat (though to a lesser degree), and by engaging in this type of training after you've laid a foundation of proper skill, you will enhance your survival.

On the Street

Listen to researchers from the FBI as noted in the excellent new book, Violent Encounters (U.S. Dept. of Justice; 2006).

It is extremely difficult to control one's biological, psychological, and emotional reactions to life and death circumstances. But it is even more difficult to do so without adequate, realistic, and prior training--along with proper mental and physical preparation. Training often determines which persons survive and which ones suffer injury or death. Training that is realistic, repetitive, understandable, and believable potentially reduces the nonadaptive effects of evolution. In preparing for a highly-charged emotional event, effective and realistic training can reduce its intensity (levels of arousal), allowing higher cognitive functioning to prevail.

Take the gift you've been given, understand its strengths and limitations. Train diligently and realistically in skills that work on the street and engage in dynamic scenario based training to "pressure test" those skills and introduce yourself to the SNS response. This mix combined with a stout warrior's heart and spirit will enable you to win. And in the end after an incident, when you're brushing the dust off your uniform, you can say, "That was just like training!"




Web Links:

Advanced Tactical Concepts
Sharpening the Warrior's Edge, by Bruce Siddle (at Amazon.com)
On Combat, by LTC Dave Grossman (U.S. Army, Retired) (at Amazon.com)
The Night Stalkers, by Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov (at Amazon.com)

Kevin Davis is a full-time officer assigned to the training bureau where he specializes in use of force, firearms and tactical training. With over 23 years in law enforcement, his previous experience includes patrol, corrections, narcotics and he is a former team leader and lead instructor for his agency's SWAT team, with over 500 callouts in tactical operations.

I post the URL of this interesting blog to open this thread:

http://www.pipersystem.com/blog/

Woof All:

Europe has many interesting systems in its history.  There is a movement of some people looking to explore them and see what can be resurrected from the many treatises in existence from hundreds of years ago. 

This thread is for such things.

TAC,
CD
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I've only quickly skimmed this site, but it seems to have several URLs of interest.

http://www.drizzle.com/~celyn/jherek/archive.html

Woof All:

Due to the conversations with Nat Geo and with Spike, we need to consider a different location for the June '07 Gathering.

It should be somewhere in the LA area.  Outdoors is an option-- maybe a clearing in the forest?

Lets brainstorm.

The Adventure continues,
Crafty Dog
Guiding Force of the Dog Brothers.

Woof All:

We have just finished editing our newest DBMA DVD. It is titled "The Snaggletooth Variations" (TSV).

TSV builds upon "Combining Stick & Footwork". CSF was the first DVD for Dog Brothers Martial Arts and was the first DVD after our "Real Contact Stickfighting" series. As a fighter and as a teacher, it is my experience that most people do not move their feet well in good integration with their hitting during a fight. It is also my experience that most peole feel incredibly caucasian when going through the training necessary to achieve skills that will actually appear in the adrenal state. This is why CSF took a "basic building blocks" kind of approach.

TSV on the other hand, although it starts with the "basic power combo", which is something I regard as extremely important, practical and accessible to people relatively early on their path in popping their opponents' bubbles and cracking them in the head, has the bulk of its material aimed at intermediate and advanced practitioners and fighters. The concepts, material, and training progression will take some time for most people to absorb.

It is intensely bilateral, both in its footwork and its stickwork. It is both single stick and double stick-- but in the double stick, due to the progression, either stick can and does act as single stick.

Bilateralism is the foundation for 360 degree skills. It works with the "attacking block" concept (and if you have already worked with our "Attacking Blocks" DVD, this will help).

As it progresses, TSV "breaks the mirror". The "mirror" is our term for patterns whereing the right always meets the right, the left always meets the left, etc. Breaking the mirror means that left meets right or vice versa. Breaking the mirrior means that merges are part of the repertoire, not just meets.

In TSV I am assisted by Guro Lonely Dog, who as is always is the case, does an outstanding job.

Because there is a strong taste of Lameco in the material, the extras footage includes an interesting portion a lesson of Punong Guro Edgar Sulite training Salty Dog in my backyard.

The Adventure continues,
Guro Crafty

PS: Now we have to design the box cover.

Hola Todos:

Lamento que tantos de los articulos que comparto aqui sean en ingles, pero asi son mis fuentes    

CD
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Franchising Jihad



By J. Peter Pham & Michael I. Krauss : 04 Dec 2006




In a forthcoming study for the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at Israel's Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, senior researcher Ely Karmon raises the alarming prospect of Hezbollah affiliated groups bringing the Lebanese terrorists' brand of violence to the Americas. While acknowledging that it is too soon to draw clear conclusions about the nature and objectives of these Hezbollah "franchisees," Karmon nonetheless notes that "successful campaigns of proselytism in the heart of poor indigene Indian tribes and populations by both Shi'a and Sunni preachers and activists" have contributed to the growing attraction of Islamist terrorist groups in Latin America. Karmon also observes that "there is a growing trend of solidarity between leftist, Marxist, anti-global and even rightist elements with the Islamists," citing inter alia the September 2004 "strategy conference" of anti-globalization groups hosted by Hezbollah in Beirut.


Evidence of this was already available in the Washington Post's front page coverage of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's September 22 mass rally, which mentioned that among those in attendance was a Lebanese expatriate who had flown in from Venezuela for the event and that "[a]t the mention of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, a critic of America, cheers went up."


As it happens, one month after the demonstration in Beirut, on October 23, Venezuelan police discovered two explosive devices near the U.S. Embassy in Caracas. According to a statement in El Universal from the acting police commissioner of the Baruta district, law enforcement officials arrested a man carrying a "backpack containing one hundred black powder bases, pliers, adhesive tape, glue, and electric conductors" who "admitted that the explosives had been set to detonate within fifteen minutes." The man arrested was José Miguel Rojas Espinoza, a 26-year-old student at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, a Chávez-founded institution whose website proclaims that it offers a free "practical and on the ground education" contributing to "a more just, united, and sustainable society, world peace, and a new progressive and pluralist civilization."


Two days after the failed bombing, a web posting by a group calling itself Venezuelan Hezbollah claimed -- "in the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful" -- responsibility for the attack. The bombing was meant to publicize Venezuelan Hezbollah's existence and its mission to "build an Islamic nation in Venezuela and all the countries of America," under the guidance of "the ideology of the revolutionary Islam of the Imam Khomeini." (Without a hint of irony, the communiqué, signed by "Latin American Hezbollah," disparaged those who would present the suspect as "a lunatic and a madman in order to hide the truth that he is an Islamic mujahid, a man who has undertaken jihad through the call of our group.")


This episode, barely noticed in our preoccupation with the midterm elections, is not the first of its kind in the Americas. On November 9, a court in Argentina issued an arrest warrant for former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight other former Iranian officials for their part in the 1994 bombing of the a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people and wounded hundreds. Prosecutors in the case formally accused Iran of ordering the terrorist attack and Hezbollah of carrying it out. Immediately after the judicial actions, Argentine Housing Minister Luis D'Elía, a self-professed follower of Chávez and a leftist demagogue on his own right (he is best known for organizing invasions of private property by piqueteros, unruly unemployed protesters), went to the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires and read out a statement denouncing the legal proceedings as "American-Israeli military aggression against the Islamic Republic." (An embarrassed President Néstor Kirchner was forced to fire the minister.)


As Rachel Ehrenfeld spotlighted in an excellent National Review Online column back in 2003, exploiting its entrée with the Lebanese diaspora, Hezbollah has had a longstanding and profitable presence in South America. In the largely ungoverned jungles of the tri-border region of where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay intersect, Hezbollah clerics have been active since the mid-1980s, seeking converts as well as recruiting new members and organizing cells among immigrant Muslim communities from the Middle East. In addition, Brazilian, Argentinean, and other Latin American intelligence sources report the existence of special Hezbollah-run weekend camps, where children and teenagers receive weapons and combat training, as well as indoctrination them in the anti-American and anti-Semitic ideologies of the Ayatollah Khomeini and his successors. Hezbollah is heavily involved in South America's thriving trade in illegal drugs, cultivating alliances with both drug cartels and narco-terrorist outfits with revolutionary aspirations like the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) and National Liberation Army (ELN) in Colombia. Brazilian security agencies estimate that hundreds of millions in profits are sent annually from Islamist organizations operating in the tri-border region to the Middle East, most of it going to Hezbollah in Lebanon.


Last summer, one week before a cross-border raid by Hezbollah precipitated open conflict between the terrorist group governing southern Lebanon and the State of Israel we warned in a contribution to TCS Daily that the Iranian-backed terrorists' build-up along that border was producing dangerous tensions. "Time is not on Israel's side here," we wrote. "Eventually, Israel may feel compelled to exercise its sovereign right to self-defense by preemptively attacking in a manner that not only eliminates the Fajr rockets, but also prevents Tehran from easily reestablishing them." We concluded by arguing: "For all our sakes, it's high time to bring Hezbollah back into the international limelight."


Then came the ceasefire mandated by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, at which point we noted in another TCS essay that "by setting his strategic objective so ridiculously low—at one point he declared that his group 'needs only to survive to win'—Hezbollah's Nasrallah had emerged from the ordeal that he imposed on Lebanon with bragging rights." We feared that Nasrallah would exercise these rights to the detriment not just of Israelis and Lebanese, but also of Americans and others who oppose his terrorist group and the revolutionary ideology of his Iranian mullah patrons. Even we, however, did not anticipate how quickly Hezbollah would be exploiting its strategic opportunity to significantly expand both the scope and magnitude of its nefarious activities—and right into our own backyard at that.


Five months ago, we warned of a dangerous nexus between Iranian revolutionary and geopolitical ambitions, Syrian irredentism, and Hezbollah terrorism north of Israel's borders. Now it appears that the combination of Chávez's anti-Americanism, Iran's well-financed expansion of the umma and Latin American radicalism is forming yet another front for Islamist fascism, this time in nominally Christian South America. Secretary of Defense-designate Robert Gates, a former CIA chief, would do well to insist that this new front for jihad become a priority for the administration's war on terror.


J. Peter Pham is director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs at James Madison University. Michael I. Krauss is professor of law at George Mason University School of Law. Both are adjunct fellows of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

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Me vs. The Bully
As a tortured nerd in high school, the author sought his tough-guy father's counsel. His dad's surprising advice changed his life forever.

Some fatherly advice: Kick his ass

When I was 15, I was terrorized by a 12th-grade headbanger. A big, mean S.O.B. who ran with the skinheads, snorted coke before school, and walked the halls with a menacing scowl on his face and a 4-inch switchblade tucked in his vest. I was a nerd. Or, perhaps more precisely, I was an achiever: honor-service-club president, straight-A student, essay-contest winner, track-team captain. I guess all that suburban propriety offended him (hell, it offended me at times), and somewhere along the line he decided that he hated me. He'd sabotage my locker, yell at me between classes, intimidate my friends. He once even slammed my lily-white cheerleader girlfriend's head into a desk. Everyone at the school was afraid of him. I was afraid of him. I had no idea what to do about it.

So, I told my dad. Now, Dad and I were nothing alike. It's fair to say that throughout my childhood, we had a strained relationship. He could be a great guy and all, but because of his ninth-grade education and bad temper, I wanted nothing more than not to be him. He'd been an outlaw in his youth, running drugs to Mexico, writing fraudulent checks, and spending 3 years in prison. These things haunted me. I mean, they were good stories to tell my buddies, whose suburban fathers were typical rat racers. But I felt marked, the child of a felon, destined for a life of mediocrity.

I would literally picture his face as I memorized chemistry formulas at 3 a.m. or rounded the final turn of some track workout, arms flailing, face drawn back in a deathly grimace, driving myself into the ground, running away from what seemed like the destiny he'd created for me.

My dad would've thought this was funny, had I come clean with him at the time. Not because he considered my work pointless, but because he always described prison in the '60s as just another bump on a long road. It was nothing like the modern conception, with murders in the wood shop and gang rapes in the shower. It seemed almost charming, like something out of Cool Hand Luke. A place filled with roughneck, blue-collar guys with missing teeth, who play poker, get in fistfights, and have trouble with the conjugation of basic verbs.

Everyone in prison thought my dad was crazy. Whenever someone came too close, he'd go berserk, yelling with that incredibly powerful voice of his, intimidating whoever approached him, convincing them that he was a cannon ready to go off. And maybe he was. In any case, it worked. They left him alone. And he got through it. "I did my time, and they did theirs," my dad would say.

Which is why he seemed like the right guy to talk to about the headbanger. I sat him down one morning and told him about the threats, the intimidations, the months spent with my stomach in knots. He listened intently and thought for a moment, furrowing his weathered brow as I did during geometry class. Then he looked up and said, simply, "Well, you're going to have to kick his ass."
This was a quandary. Kick his ass? The thought had never occurred to me. I would have been less surprised if he'd told me to quit school and join the circus. I was not a kicker of asses. The SAT, service clubs, track meets -- these things I could do. But kick ass? Absurd. I'd never even been in a real fight. But my dad was dead serious: "Just 'cause he's bigger don't mean sh--."

Half an hour later, I stood in the driveway in front of our house with my dad, receiving instruction, like a heavyweight boxer, on how to throw a punch ("Stay on your toes, keep your elbows in, and when you hit, hit hard"), how to scream really loud to intimidate the opponent, how to duck so I wouldn't get punched. He held a pillow while I hit it, and told me things like "There's no such thing as fighting dirty. Once you're in a fight, win." And "You can confuse him by spitting in his face first, then punching him while he wipes it off." And "Walk up to him with a stack of books and toss them in the air, and when he reaches out to catch them, break his nose with your fist." Like the good student I was, I brought a pad of paper and a pen, scribbling notes in the margin: "Kick knee, then punch neck, yell real loud. Break nose." I was advised to carry a roll of nickels to add more power to my punch. I was told to wear loose-fitting clothes and not eat too much for breakfast. He explained these things the way an astronomer might explain to his son the reasons for a solar eclipse -- calmly and with a commitment to getting the details right.

Primal scream

The next morning, I went to school, terrified as usual.

I was shaking as I walked down the hall, fingering the heavy roll of nickels in my right pocket.

The headbanger found me during the morning break, as he always did -- standing by my locker, trying to open it despite the heavy dents he'd made in it previously. He walked up to me and pushed me into the wall. "Hey, punk, am I going to kick your ass today?"

The question lingered in my mind for a moment. I'd spent the morning wondering the exact same thing. Then, slowly at first, I felt the thin, precarious strand of sanity that had stretched and stretched for months -- begging for moderation, for pacifism, for the easier route of, well, punking out -- finally reach some kind of limit, and snap.

I turned toward him, mustered every frenzied, screeching nerve in my body, looked him straight in the eye -- and punched him as hard as I could, dead in the face. I threw the punch with my weight balanced, my elbows tucked, and yelled, "Come on," real, real loud. Just as Dad had said to do.

And then a strange thing happened. I let loose with the most surreal stream of unending profanities that I had ever uttered in my life. I bounced uncontrollably. I screamed maniacally. My entire body, my entire field of vision, every thought, every muscle, every ounce of fear I'd ever felt for the preceding months became pure, bottomless, unadulterated rage.

"Let's go, let's go! I'll kick your ass. Come on!" The headbanger was wearing steel-tipped motorcycle boots and a ring with a nail driven through it. I bobbed and weaved and slammed my skinny fist in his face, 10, maybe 15 times, until blood streamed from his eye, from his nose, from his mouth. It was bizarre. I felt detached, almost calm at the center of it. As if I were watching myself on television.

I remember seeing the faces of my classmates, who stood with jaws dropped, wondering how I could possibly be the same kid who'd been discussing T.S. Eliot in honors English only yesterday. They looked terrified. Surely, I'd lost my mind.

The anger was familiar. I'd heard that voice many times before -- that confident, loud, intimidating voice that told you to stay very far away. I'd heard it directed at cars in traffic, at my neighbor when he tried to poison our dog, at anyone or anything that threatened our family. I'd even heard it directed at me a few times. It was my dad's voice. And here I was, having hated that voice for so many years, having resented the life that necessitated it, in the midst of the most terrifying situation of my life, and I was not afraid. The voice had immediately become my ally, just as it had been his.

And then, just like that, the fight was over, the bully left bleeding in the corner. I went home that afternoon and told my dad about the fight. How I'd screamed and wailed and jumped and beat the crap out of the headbanger. My dad took it all in with this enormous smile covering his leathery face. He was hanging on my every word, clarifying details, asking me, What then? What next? and Then what?

Never was my father prouder of me. Not because he wanted me to be a fighter, but because, unlike with report cards and essay contests, this was a success he'd contributed to. It was a sign -- perhaps the first of my entire life -- that there was a little bit of the old man in me after all.

Take care of the basics, the rest will follow

I spent the next few months as something of a local hero. High fives and back pats and comments in the hallways like "Damn, Einstein, you messed that dude up." Everyone had hated the headbanger.

And there was a certain poetic justice to his demise. At the end of the fight, he'd told a bunch of his cronies that he was planning to sic some big "skinhead" on me. Word of this got out, and a number of people took great exception to his, uh, social affiliations. He received death threats at his house and never came back to school again. Last I heard, he was working at Target.

The glory of my victory soon faded, but I noticed a subtle change in my standing -- surreptitious nods in the hall, a certain stoic deference from even the toughest kids in the school -- which seemed to ignore academic standing and future prospects and instead communicated, rather plainly, that I was a person who spoke their language. I was cool.

In the 15 years since that day, I've never once had to throw a punch again. I've backed down on a number of occasions, and have been ready to step outside on a few others. But cooler heads have always prevailed. I guess it's almost always the case that a difficult situation requires restraint, a soft word, diplomacy. But occasionally, it requires a left hook to the jaw. On that day, I learned that, if pressed, I could deliver that left hook. It's an important thing for a man to know.

I suppose that's something my dad always understood. It's funny: I've learned a lot from books in my life, things I resented my dad for not knowing. But as I've gotten older, I've realized that the most important things in life can't be memorized from a book. It wasn't that my dad didn't care about my grades; he was more concerned that I be a good person, with a square head on my shoulders. He was interested in basics.

Since that day with the bully, my relationship with my father has continued to mature and grow. Today, we're best friends. He's sick now, with a host of heart and liver problems that are partly the result of shooting heroin in his 20s. The doctors have said many times that he's going to die. But he just keeps fighting. Working out. Eating well. Trying to manage stress. Again, basics.

These days, Dad likes to say, "I could've been a contenda." What he doesn't realize is this: He was a contender. Is a contender. All that b.s. from his youth never mattered.

All that mattered was the attention, the advice, the jokes, the fact that he selflessly gave everything he had to help me solve whatever problem came up in my life.

Because it really is good advice, you know. Whether it's a bully, a tough career decision, a divorce, cancer: "Stay on your toes. Keep your elbows in. Don't be afraid. You may be smaller, but just gather your courage, and when you hit, hit hard."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG8ew95_7K0&eurl=

Interesante en muchos niveles.  ?Comentarios?

Woof All:

My friend Rico Chiapparelli of R1 Gym heads this up.  Here's the info we have so far:

TAC,
CD
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The PSL presents X-MISSION, Friday, November 17, 2006, 7PM (PST) Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 4117 Overland Ave., Culver City, Calif.
RANDY COUTURE vs RONALDO "JACARE" SOUZA

JAKE SHIELDS vs MARCELO GARCIA

VLADIMIR MATYUSHENKO vs VINICIUS MAGAHLAES

ALBERTO CRANE vs RANI YAHYRA

BILL COOPER vs KRON GRACIE

RAFAEL LOVATO JR vs ROBERT CAMARGO

JEFF GLOVER vs SHANE RICE

ANDY WANG vs ALLEN ZVBOROSKY

The National Anthem to be performed by Chris Shiflett (Foo Fighters guitarist)

Webcast PPV and free audiocast - Todd Baer and Josh "The Baby Faced Assasin" Barnett will provide the PBP and analysis

go to www.prosubleague.com for all of the details

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draco - it ranges from $30 to $200. Go to this page to look and/or buy seats: http://www.tix.com/Schedule.asp?OrganizationNumber=1022

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Buy the Webcast PPV at $9.99 if you can't come to the show.

Listen to it for free on internet audiocast if you can't come up with a ticket or $$ for the PPV.

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Woof All:

Ever since0 my days with Paul Vunak some 20 years ago, I have had high regard for Savate.  Indeed, Savate is one of the minor influences on DBMA.

I just saw a post on another forum that FitTV is going to be having a serious documentary on Nov. 22 which may also play on the History Channel. 

Does anyone have more specific information?

TIA,
CD

Woof All:

The seed has been planted for a Canadian DBMA site!

http://www.maelstromcore.com/dogbrothers/

The Adventure continues,
CD

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Killology
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Text by Gabe Suarez:
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January 27-28, 2007
Interface Of Gun/Knife/Empty Hands - Pt. 2

Joint Seminar Featuring
Marc "Crafty Dog" Denny and Gabe Suarez

$425.00

The first seminar changed everything. The DVD is changing the way people train for the close range problem. It has changed the way we move in force on force and changed the way we look at the close range knife attack problem.

After nearly a year of experimentationa nd refinement, we are ready to present more.

This seminar will revisit the Kali Fence and Dog catcher as well as look at new applications such as offensive (pre-emptive) actions, and its uses in gun versus gun and gun versus knife attacks at the medium ranges. We will have a strong force on force (gun material) component to examine the Kali applications with concealed firearms.
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Location:? South Bay, Los Angeles CA
Additional details to be announced.

Lo presente llego' de un amigo en Espana:


Hezbollah, el factor confuso
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/opinion/nota.asp?nota_id=826770  <http://www.lanacion.com.ar/opinion/nota.asp?nota_id=826770+>



WASHINGTON

Sorpresa: acaba de difundirse una fatwa contra Hezbollah firmada por Abdala Ben Jabr?n, importante sheik wahabi de Arabia Saudita. Asegura que viola la ley cor?nica quien apoya a esta organizaci?n, quien se pliega a ella o reza por ella. Sigue a un documento asombroso publicado el 12 de julio por otro sheik, el kuwait? Hamid al Al?, que condena las ambiciones imperiales de Ir?n instrumentadas por Hezbollah desde el L?bano. Estos pronunciamientos son apenas la parte visible del iceberg que anuda viejos y nuevos conflictos dentro de la familia ?rabe y musulmana, ocultos hasta ahora por el fragor de la obsesiva lucha contra la existencia de Israel.

Es necesario advertir que no todos los ?rabes quieren un Estado palestino y que m?s ?rabes a?n detestan a los palestinos, como lo prueba la inexpugnable valla egipcia que impide la fuga de palestinos hacia el Sina? o las prohibiciones que impiden a los palestinos, en casi todos los Estados ?rabes, comprar propiedades o gozar de los mismos derechos que poseen los dem?s habitantes. Basta recordar que fueron asesinados por las tropas jordanas, sirias y libanesas cinco o seis veces m?s palestinos que todos los que cayeron en sus enfrentamientos con Israel desde hace m?s de medio siglo.

Para entender a Hezbollah conviene tener en cuenta las cuatro corrientes de opini?n que prevalecieron en la zona sucesivamente, en tan s?lo un siglo. Tratar? de ser breve y claro.

Antes de la Primera Guerra Mundial, cinco pa?ses que ahora son Siria, el L?bano, Israel, Jordania y los territorios palestinos constitu?an una provincia pobre y marginal del imperio turco. El movimiento nacional jud?o, que hab?a comenzado a desafiar la opresi?n turca desde fines del siglo XIX para constituir un Hogar Nacional Jud?o en la antigua tierra de Israel, determin? que tras la Primera Guerra Mundial Gran Breta?a fuera encomendada por la Liga de las Naciones para ejercer su mandato sobre lo que entonces empezaba a llamarse Palestina. Este nombre resucitaba la denominaci?n romana impuesta por el emperador Adriano, en reemplazo del militante nombre de Judea.

El movimiento nacionalista ?rabe, que naci? en Siria a principios del siglo XX y fue teorizado por personalidades cristianas y pro occidentales, dijo que "Palestina" era un invento de los sionistas, para independizarla de Siria. En efecto, el nacionalismo ?rabe de entonces consideraba que toda esa regi?n constitu?a una gran Siria, opini?n que subsiste en ese pa?s. Por eso sus tentaciones para dominar el L?bano e Israel.

Esa primera corriente de opini?n fue sustituida por la que despleg? el presidente egipcio Gamal Abdel Nasser sobre el panarabismo, que adem?s de secular era autoritario y estatizante. Nasser fund? la Rep?blica Arabe Unida, que lig? por unos a?os a Egipto con Siria y que deb?a incorporar r?pidamente al resto de los pa?ses ?rabes. La insensata Guerra de los Seis D?as acab? con ese sue?o.

Empez? a crecer una tercera tendencia, que inclu?a a la OLP. Pretend?a un perfil nacional diferenciado para cada pa?s. A la OLP, sin embargo, no le bastaba con crear un Estado palestino en Cisjordania y Gaza, que durante 19 a?os estuvieron bajo la ocupaci?n egipcio-jordana sin que se hiciera nada para establecerlo, sino que pretend?a incluir en ese Estado todo Israel, y conquistar Jordania. Por eso, en 1971, Yasser Arafat, que hab?a formado en Jordania un Estado dentro del Estado, asalt? el gobierno y fue repelido un septiembre llamado desde entonces Septiembre Negro. Las tropas jordanas asesinaron a alrededor de 20.000 palestinos y luego otros cayeron ante las balas sirias cuando intentaron refugiarse en el Norte.

En el L?bano, la OLP form? otro Estado dentro del Estado, hasta que la guerra civil y la intervenci?n de Israel la expulsaron. En esa ?poca naci? Hezbollah como una enga?osa alternativa pac?fica, por su compromiso con la asistencia religiosa y social. No se limitaba a ella, sino a desplegar una acci?n terrorista sostenida por el Ir?n teocr?tico de Khomeini. Inaugur? los cr?menes suicidas mediante la matanza de las fuerzas de paz francesas y norteamericanas que hab?an llegado al L?bano para yugular la atroz guerra civil. Luego habr?a ejecutado los dos atentados de Buenos Aires (embajada de Israel y AMIA), con el posible apoyo de la embajada iran?. Este hecho inaugur? la elecci?n de objetivos civiles para generar infinito p?nico. Al mismo tiempo, inici? la interminable serie de ataques contra las poblaciones civiles de Israel. Esta es la cuarta y ?ltima corriente de opini?n, que oscurece a las otras tres.

La oscurece porque esta tendencia anhela la reconstrucci?n del gran califato medieval, que unir?a a cincuenta naciones musulmanas bajo una sola conducci?n teocr?tica. No importa la diferenciaci?n nacional, sino la imposici?n de la sharia (ley isl?mica) y una guerra perpetua contra los infieles de cualquier denominaci?n.

Es curioso que Hezbollah, una organizaci?n chiita, fan?tica y dependiente de Ir?n, cuente con el manifiesto apoyo de Siria, que es una cruel dictadura castrense secular basada en la minor?a alawita. Profundas contradicciones separan a ambos reg?menes. Sin embargo, los dos tienen en com?n su desprecio por los sunnitas y por Israel. Siria invadi? el L?bano en 1975 de la mano de la Falange cristiana que combat?a a la OLP, porque tambi?n detestaba a la OLP, que interfer?a con sus intereses en el L?bano, y deseaba un Estado independiente en Palestina, espacio que Siria segu?a considerando suyo, aunque no lo expresara en forma transparente.

Hezbollah pedalea con un pie en Ir?n y otro en Siria, merced a tres elementos comunes: odio a Israel, odio a los Estados Unidos y posici?n ambigua sobre la creaci?n de un Estado palestino en Gaza y Cisjordania (ambig?edad disimulada con las protestas por el sufrimiento palestino, al que no se apresura a ponerle fin, porque siempre los terroristas hacen algo para frustrar la soluci?n negociada).

Llama tambi?n la atenci?n que cuando no se quiere tener enfrentamientos con Israel, baste con no atacarlo. Siria, por ejemplo, no ha protagonizado ni un solo cruce de balas con Israel desde la guerra de Iom Kipur. En cambio, hostiliza en forma c?nica a ese pa?s por medio de Hezbollah, Hamas y la Jihad Isl?mica desde el Norte (L?bano) y desde el Sur (Gaza). Cuando se produjo la retirada israel? de la zona de seguridad que manten?a en el L?bano, en vez de que ese territorio fuera ocupado por el ej?rcito liban?s, como ordenaron las Naciones Unidas, lo hizo con celeridad extrema Hezbollah, gracias a la protecci?n que le brindaban las tropas sirias establecidas en el valle de la Bekaa.

S?lo ahora se puede advertir que los servicios de inteligencia israel?es fueron ineficaces para percibir la preparaci?n de la guerra en gran escala que efectuaba Hezbollah durante seis febriles a?os, con un acopio impresionante de armamento, construcci?n de bastiones, perforaci?n de t?neles enormes y un control absoluto de la zona, adem?s de instalar bases de lanzamiento misil?stico en barrios densamente poblados, incluso edificios de departamentos y hasta escuelas, que le sirven de atroz escudo.

Siria fue expulsada por la mayor?a de la poblaci?n libanesa tras el asesinato del premier Harari. Pero si algo deseaba la rencorosa Siria era que despu?s de su retiro estallara el caos. Lo acaba de producir su ahijado Hezbollah, precisamente.

Los ataques de Israel para bloquear sus fuentes de abastecimiento (aeropuertos, carreteras, estaciones de radar y edificios enteros controlados por esta organizaci?n) han provocado horribles da?os humanos y materiales a un bell?simo pa?s como el L?bano. Un pa?s d?bil que no pudo aplicar la orden de las Naciones Unidas, porque Hezbollah, gracias a la caudalosa intervenci?n sirio-iran?, se convirti? en una fuerza m?s poderosa que su ej?rcito nacional.

Se calcula que cerca del 80 por ciento de la poblaci?n libanesa, incluidos chiitas, perciben que los frutos de Hezbollah son un derrame de la tragedia, un sanguinario c?ncer que les naci? en los a?os 80 y que los llev? a esta guerra mediante su fabuloso acopio de armas y sus incesantes ataques a Israel. Sin embargo, los libaneses no pueden extirpar este c?ncer por s? solos.

Adem?s, crece una tensi?n religiosa trasnacional que ojal? no se transforme en conflagraci?n abierta: los chiitas y los sunnitas se asesinan en Irak y en otras regiones en las que compiten por el poder del mundo isl?mico.

Nunca tantos pa?ses ?rabes y musulmanes se mantuvieron tan inm?viles como en esta lamentable operaci?n de limpieza policial que realiza Israel dentro de un pa?s ?rabe. S?lo hay discursos: ninguna acci?n firme. Ellos parecen agradecer el maldito trabajo que no se atreven a realizar ellos mismos.

Hezbollah es un peligro para el L?bano y dem?s pa?ses ?rabes que no desean ser dominados por Ir?n ni hundirse en un totalitarismo fundamentalista. Pero Israel tampoco podr? barrer a Hezbollah por completo, aunque se empe?e durante otras semanas que aumentar?n el luto de ambas partes. S?lo conseguir? debilitarlo. Entonces es probable que el gobierno liban?s, con sus fuerzas armadas, apoyadas por tropas extranjeras, tal vez por la OTAN, se encargue de acabar la tarea: decomisar el armamento acumulado en t?neles o zonas civiles para que el L?bano pueda reconstruirse y volver a ser uno de los pa?ses m?s hermosos, pac?ficos, cultos y progresistas de Medio Oriente.

Por Marcos Aguinis

Para LA NACION

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Woof All:

Those of us around the FMA for a while may have heard of the story of Gen. Pershing putting down the Moro insurrection/indpendence movement in the southern Philippines in the early 1900s by burying Moros with pigs.  It is sometimes mentioned as a possible tactic in WW3.

Thanks to Jeff Finder for bringing this Snopes entry to my attention.

Woof,
Crafty Dog
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Claim:   General John J. Pershing effectively discouraged Muslim terrorists in the Philippines by killing them and burying their bodies with pigs.
Status:   Undetermined.

Example:   [Collected on the Internet, 2001]


HOW TO STOP ISLAMIC TERRORISTS . . . it worked once in our History . . .
Once in US history an episode of Islamic terrorism was very quickly stopped. It happened in the Philippines about 1911, when Gen. John J. Pershing was in command of the garrison. There had been numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, so "Black Jack" told his boys to catch the perps and teach them a lesson.

Forced to dig their own graves, the terrorists were all tied to posts, execution style. The US soldiers then brought in pigs and slaughtered them, rubbing their bullets in the blood and fat. Thus, the terrorists were terrorized; they saw that they would be contaminated with hogs' blood. This would mean that they could not enter Heaven, even if they died as terrorist martyrs.

All but one was shot, their bodies dumped into the grave, and the hog guts dumped atop the bodies. The lone survivor was allowed to escape back to the terrorist camp and tell his brethren what happened to the others. This brought a stop to terrorism in the Philippines for the next 50 years.

Pointing a gun into the face of Islamic terrorists won't make them flinch. They welcome the chance to die for Allah. Like Gen. Pershing, we must show them that they won't get to Muslim heaven (which they believe has an endless supply of virgins) but instead will die with the hated pigs of the devil.



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Subject: How to end the war quickly if you have absolutely no respect for pigs!

An Israeli friend recently informed me that the UK fought the Islamic terrorist attacks by burying the criminals with a pig. Apparently the Islamic belief is that if ones' body is buried with a pig (because they are considered unclean) their soul will go to hell. I did a little research into this subject matter and found it to be true. This got me thinking.

If we put a baby pig on every airline flight then all suicide terrorists would abort their missions as they would not want their souls to go to hell. Additionally, if we drop shipped, oh say, 100,000 pigs into Afghanistan I think our recon and assault efforts may be more successful. Apparently Muslims dislike the very sight of pigs A LOT!

They are also adamantly opposed to alcohol, thus we spike their water supply with a few thousand gallons of moonshine, get them drunk and turn the pigs loose. The war would be over in a weekend.

 


Origins:   The  
desire for simplistic solutions to complex problems has spawned several widely-circulated messages of late which seek to transform a fight against terrorism to the easily-manageable level of a horror film or a comic strip. Today's popular notion is the concept that a pig is to a Muslim as a crucifix is to a vampire ? simply arm yourself with a porker, and you can use it to render even the most fanatical terrorist helpless, sending him cowering in fear lest he come into contact with anything porcine.

Such notions reduce an extremely widespread and diverse religion ? and the people who follow it ? to a monolithic entity with a single set of beliefs and rules to which everyone adheres. Islam has a variety of sects and sub-sects just as Christianity has a multiplicity of denominations; assuming that all "Muslims" believe and behave identically is like assuming that all Catholics and Baptists believe and behave identically because both of the latter groups are "Christians." In one sense, messages such as the ones quoted above could be considered as silly as Muslims' proclaiming that a good way to throw the USA into disarray would be to "bomb" America with juicy steaks on Fridays, because "Americans are Christians," and "everyone knows Christians who eat meat on Fridays go to Hell." Never mind that not all Americans are Christians, that not all Christians are Catholics, that not all Catholics believe in exactly the same things, that not all Catholics are equally religious or faithful, and that even the "rules" of Catholicism have changed over time.

Also implicit in this type of reasoning is the notion that "terrorist," "Muslim terrorist," "fanatical Muslim" and "devout Muslim" are all synonymous. They aren't ? just as not all Muslims are terrorists,  not all terrorists are Muslims; one need not be devout to be fanatical, and not all religious fanatics are devout. Religion can be just as much about politics and power as it is about faith, and counter-religious behavior is often justified or sanctioned in the service of a "greater cause." The terrorists who hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 were reportedly seen partaking of alcohol and engaging the services of naked lap dancers, activities which should have been anathema to true Muslims. Perhaps they were Muslims in name only, maybe they weren't all that devout, or possibly they rationalized that Allah would overlook their transgressions with booze and women since they were about to die in the service of Islam. Whatever the case, concerns about the afterlife probably wouldn't have dissuaded the hijackers from their plans to crash Flight 11 into the World Trade Center had a few pigs turned up on board the plane. If Allah was a concern, well, the hijackers could choose to believe that Allah would understand and make allowances for true warriors of the faith ? after all, the Koran teaches against suicide in the first place.

Nevertheless, the idea of subduing militant Muslims by threatening to bury them with pigs has held currency for many years. Just a few weeks before the September 11 terrorist attacks on America, Deputy Israeli police minister Gideon Esra suggested in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot that Palestinian suicide bombers be buried in pig skin or blood. In the 1939 film The Real Glory, Gary Cooper portrays Dr. Bill Canavan, an American Army doctor in 1906 Manila who "tries to protect the native population from ruthless invaders" (i.e., "Muslim fanatics"). At one point in the film, the Dr. Canavan character drapes a captured Muslim in a pigskin and proclaims that henceforth that all slain Muslim rebels will be buried in pig skins, thereby discouraging their "savagery" by threatening to prevent their entry into paradise. And, of course, the above-cited anecdote about General Pershing's handling of terrorists in the Philippines has been circulating widely ever since September and has been making the rounds even at the top levels of government in the USA:


[Drogin, 2001]
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham (D-Fla.) cited as an example a dinner he attended last week with people who work on intelligence issues and have connections to the intelligence community. The dinner conversation ranged in part on how U.S. military commander "Black Jack" Pershing used Islam's prohibition on pork to help crush an insurgency on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao after the Spanish-American War at the turn of the last century.

In one instance, Graham explained in an interview, U.S. soldiers captured 12 Muslims. They killed six of them with "bullets dipped into the fat of pigs."

After that, Graham said, the U.S. soldiers wrapped the Muslim rebels in funeral shrouds made of pigskin and "buried them face down so they could not see Mecca. Then they poured the entrails of the pigs over them. The other six were forced to watch. And that was the end of the insurrection on Mindanao," Graham noted.

The history of the American administration of the Philippines between the Spanish cession of the islands at the conclusion of the Spanish-American war in 1898 and the attainment of full political independence in 1946 ? including American attempts to "pacify" various independence-minded groups through military means ? is too long and complicated to explicate here. Suffice it to say that General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing was part of the process as Governor of the troublesome Moro Province between 1909 and 1913. We haven't yet found any references to this alleged incident in Pershing biographies, however, nor does it match the way Pershing is generally recorded as having dealt with the Moros in 1911. When they refused to obey Pershing's order banning firearms by surrendering their weapons, his response was to draft a letter to the Moros expressing sorrow that his soldiers had to resort to killing to enforce the order:


I write you this letter because I am sorry to know that you and your people refuse to do what the government has ordered. You do not give up your arms. Soldiers were sent to Taglibi so that you could come into camp and turn in your guns. When the soldiers went to camp a Taglibi, your Moros fired into camp and tried to kill the soldiers. Then the soldiers had to shoot all Moros who fired upon them. When the soldiers marched through the country, the Moros again shot at them, so the soldiers had to kill several others. I am sorry the soldiers had to kill any Moros. All Moros are the same to me as my children and no father wants to kill his own children . . .
When negotiations stalled and matters came to a head, Pershing was still reluctant to be responsible for any more loss of life than was necessary:


[Vandiver, 1977]
[Pershing] went to his offices on [14 December 1911] only to hear a message from the Sulu district governor: hundreds of hostiles gathered on Jolo's Bud Dajo! The message had dread portent. Mount Dajo, awesomely high and capped with the creater of an extinct volcano, meant sacred things to Moros. It was the refuge against fate, the last bastion of the hopeless, the place where their ancestors stood off great waves of enemies. Once on the mountain, esconced in its big cotta, Moros would die gladly, as Leonard Wood had grimly learned. Retreat to Dajo meant a clear declaration of war.

Sobered and depressed, Jack wrote of an overriding worry: "I am sorry these Moros are such fools, but . . . I shall lose as few men and kill as few Moros as possible." Memories of Wood's massacre of men and families on Dajo rankled in the army and still bothered the chief of staff. Obviously another such slaughter in the winter of 1911 could adversely influence the 1912 elections in the States.

Pershing's strategy was to surround the Moros and wait them out while attempting to induce them to surrender, a strategy that worked effectively: the Bud Dajo campaign ended with only twelve Moro casualties. But in his report Pershing seemed keenly aware that the best approach was not to take any action that would encourage religious fanaticism:


There was never a moment during this investment of Bud Dajo when the Moros, including women, on top of the mountain, would not have fought to the death had they been given the opportunity. They had gone there to make a last stand on this, their sacred mountain, and they were determined to die fighting . . . It was only by the greatest effort that their solid determination to fight it out could be broken. The fact is that they were completely surprised at the prompt and decisive action of the troops in cutting off supplies and preventing escape, and they were chagrined and disappointed in that they were not encouraged to die the death of Mohammedan fanatics.
Other anecdotal accounts attribute Pershing's success to his merely threatening to do as described:


Col. John J Pershing threatened the mullahs with . . . "splattering of pigs-blood on your houses and families and any who attack us and are killed will be buried in pig-skins." Consequently the mullahs made Pershing an Honorary Chieftan with little if any more trouble in his area of command.
Yet another account, from the 1938 book Jungle Patrol, attributes the deed to someone other than Pershing:


It was Colonel Alexander Rodgers of the 6th Cavalry who accomplished by taking advantage of religious prejudice what the bayonets and Krags had been unable to accomplish. Rodgers inaugurated a system of burying all dead juramentados in a common grave with the carcasses of slaughtered pigs. The Mohammedan religion forbids contact with pork; and this relatively simple device resulted in the withdrawal of juramentados to sections not containing a Rodgers. Other officers took up the principle, adding new refinements to make it additionally unattractive to the Moros. In some sections the Moro juramentado was beheaded after death and the head sewn inside the carcass of a pig. And so the rite of running juramentado, at least semi-religious in character, ceased to be in Sulu. The last cases of this religious mania occurred in the early decades of the century. The juramentados were replaced by the amucks. .. who were simply homicidal maniacs with no religious significance attaching to their acts.
We haven't eliminated ruling out the possibility that Pershing at some point chose to deal with a group of "Mohammedan fanatics" in a manner similar to the one described above, but so far all we've turned up are several different accounts and nothing that documents Pershing's involvement.

Nonetheless, the "discouraging Muslim terrorists by burying them with pigs" concept is still invoked today, even if the evidence of its use (or success) remains nebulous:


[Philps, 2002]
JEWISH settlers have come up with a new way to deter Palestinian suicide bombers - wrapping their corpses in pigskin to deprive them of the fruits of paradise.

The settlers believe that contact with a pig, an unclean animal for Muslims and Jews, will rob the bomber of the reward of martyrdom, traditionally said to be 72 virgins.

Settlers at Gush Katif, in the Gaza Strip, were the first to claim to have defiled the body of a dead Palestinian with "pigskin and lard". Residents of Efrat, a Jewish settlement near Bethlehem, said they did the same to a Palestinian building worker who tried to blow up their supermarket on Friday, but was shot dead before most of the explosives detonated.

Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi of Efrat, defended the practice: "If burial in pigskin will deter suicide bombers, then it is incumbent on us to do this. We should do anything to save life."

There has been no photographic evidence of daubing with lard and no one has come forward as the supplier of the pork, leading some to suspect that the settlers are trying to scare off future suicide bombers, who are mainly impressionable young men.

But the rabbi said: "I truly believe it happened. The pigskin was supplied by someone with a good sense of initiative. The body was lying by the supermarket for three to four hours. There was plenty of time."

Pork is considered an abomination by observant Jews, but is produced at one kibbutz and enjoyed by secular Israelis.

Palestinian Muslims reacted with scorn to the idea, saying the soul went to paradise and was unaffected by any taint to the body.

"The keys to heaven are not in the hands of settlers," said Sheikh Hassan Youssef, for Hamas, whose military wing has sent dozens of suicide bombers into Israel.

Islamic reference books say the body of a martyr who dies for the faith is so pure that it does not need to be washed before burial, in contrast to the usual Muslim practice.

Last updated:   26 February 2002
 


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Sostiene que dispar? en defensa propia
Mata a cuatro que balearon a su hija
PRIMERA HORA > PANORAMA
mi?rcoles, 5 de julio de 2006

Alex David PRIMERA HORA

Testigos dijeron que el comerciante se lanz? con un arma sobre el veh?culo de donde vinieron los disparos y los mat?. (Para PRIMERA HORA / Edgar V?zquez Col?n)
Historias Relacionadas? Segunda en el a?o
? Sostiene que dispar? en defensa propia
GU?NICA.- Cientos de vacacionistas esperaban pasar una tranquila noche acampando junto al mar, sin imaginar que una tragedia aguardaba para una de las familias.
Cuatro j?venes resultaron asesinados tras presuntamente intentar hacer lo propio contra un comerciante yaucano y sus allegados.
El suceso ocurri? el lunes en las orillas de la playa La Jungla de Gu?nica, donde acampaba la familia del comerciante Ad?n Torres Qui?ones, de 41 a?os.
Seg?n la investigaci?n policial, a eso de las 10:00 de la noche arrib? hasta el intrincado sector tur?stico un veh?culo Mercury Cougar de 1981 ocupado por cuatro varones.
?stos dieron vuelta al autom?vil y al divisar a una hija de Torres Qui?ones, quien se encontraba afuera de las casetas de campa?a, comenzaron a disparar, por lo que la joven se lanz? al suelo para evitar ser herida.
Su padre, seg?n lo atestiguado, acababa de llegar tras haber salido a buscar hielo y al ver a la menor de 17 a?os sobre la arena, crey? que hab?a sido asesinada y, como estaba cerca del veh?culo, se lanz? sobre ?l con un arma en la mano.
El agente Noel Ortiz, investigador de la Unidad de Homicidios del Cuerpo de Investigaciones Criminales (CIC) de Ponce, narr? que el comerciante meti? parte de su cuerpo por una de las ventanas mientras disparaba sobre los sujetos.
?stos condujeron hasta chocar con una camioneta de sonido antes de detenerse poco m?s adelante.
En el interior del veh?culo murieron Ernesto Albarr?n Silva, de 19 a?os, quien recibi? seis impactos de bala; Cristian Flores Padilla, de 21, quien recibi? cinco balazos, y el conductor Armando Castro Pacheco, de 25 a?os, que recibi? siete impactos.
Con ellos viajaba ?ngel Castro Pacheco, de 20 a?os, quien recibi? cuatro disparos y falleci? poco despu?s en el CDT de Gu?nica.
En el veh?culo se ocuparon seis casquillos y un rev?lver modelo 732.
Torres Qui?ones negoci? poco despu?s su entrega a las autoridades a trav?s de su abogado y amigo Miguel Rodr?guez Cartagena.
Tras varias horas de interrogatorio, tanto al comerciante como a otros testigos, la fiscal Carolyn Arcelay tom? el caso para presentarlo ante el juez Edwin Flores Sell?s en el cuartel de Santa Isabel. Pero, posteriormente se decidi? citar el caso para ma?ana, a las 5:00 p.m., en la fiscal?a de Ponce.
Para el licenciado Rodr?guez Cartagena, la muerte de los j?venes fue un acto en defensa propia.
"Entendemos que es una defensa propia, pero la Polic?a est? haciendo su investigaci?n", dijo el abogado.
El agente Ortiz, sin embargo, entiende que para que se considerara este argumento el da?o causado deb?a ser proporcional al que pudo haber esperado el comerciante.
"No tenemos duda, hay una admisi?n de que fue la persona que ultim? estos cuatro j?venes. Lo que se est? evaluando es si hubo alguna motivaci?n para que cometiera este asesinato en contra de las cuatro personas", dijo Ortiz.
El comerciante tiene permiso para portar armas, seg?n trascendi?.
Una tragedia anunciada
Los hechos estuvieron precedidos de otros incidentes.
Seg?n la Polic?a, Torres Qui?ones hab?a sido agredido hace unas semanas por tres de los cuatro j?venes por haber defendido a su hija.
Por esta situaci?n se radic? una querella, como confirm? el comandante de zona de Gu?nica, inspector Antonio Ortiz.
De ah? que hubiese estado pautado un proceso judicial contra los alegados agresores en el Tribunal de Ponce.
El agente Ortiz confirm? que los cuatro j?venes muertos ten?an r?cord delictivo por posesi?n de sustancias controladas.
En cuanto al comerciante, Rodr?guez Cartagena defendi? su imagen al recalcar que es una figura querida en el barrio Barinas, donde reside.
"?l tiene un negocio de ebanister?a desde hace varios a?os? ha empleado mucha gente", dijo el abogado.
Aunque se mostraron reacios a dar detalles del suceso, algunos presentes, como Wilmarie Rodr?guez, empleada del comerciante; Miguel Caraballo, un polic?a invitado al pasad?a familiar, y Jenny Rodr?guez, amiga de la familia, indicaron que no hab?a vigilancia policial al momento de la confrontaci?n a tiros.
Se coment? que inclusive los polic?as tardaron cerca de 45 minutos en llegar a la escena, aunque el inspector Ortiz rechaz? el alegato y dijo que ten?a suficientes agentes.
"Hab?a personal del distrito, de 18 a 20 agentes? fue casi inmediata la respuesta porque se tir? un llamado de que hab?a un veh?culo sospechoso", dijo el oficial.
Mantuvo que ten?a un plan de vigilancia especial ante el fin de semana largo, aunque en la Comandancia de Ponce ayer nadie ten?a conocimiento del mismo ante la ausencia por vacaciones de parte del personal administrativo.
Este asesinato m?ltiple es el primero en su clase en la regi?n sur y eleva a cinco las muertes violentas este a?o en Gu?nica, pueblo que no report? una sola muerte de ese tipo en casi dos a?os.

Guau:

Como ya saben muchos de Uds, mi madre vive en el sur de Peru; por eso tengo interes en la situacion en Peru.

Como es frecuentemente el caso, muchos de mis fuentes de noticias estan en ingles.  Lamento el hecho que sean en ingles, pero busco la verdad donde sea.

La Aventura continua,
CD
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Alan's back - but different?
John Crabtree
June 5, 2006 03:55 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_crabtree/2006/06/alans_back.html
The election of Alan Garc?a as the next president of Peru bucks a trend in some other Andean countries towards more interventionist, less liberal economic policies. Whereas in neighbouring Bolivia and Ecuador, governments have recently opted to overturn contracts with key foreign investors, Garc?a promises to pursue policies that acknowledge the need for outside investment in developing his country's economy.
The victory of Garc?a over Ollanta Humala, the left-wing nationalist candidate in the June 4 second round of presidential elections, also represents a reverse for Venezuelan president Hugo Ch?vez, who had urged Peruvians to vote for Humala, not Garc?a. Garc?a was able to exploit Ch?vez's overly strident support for Humala as a flagrant case of interference in Peru's domestic affairs. Garc?a's hostility to Ch?vez has earned him friends in Washington.
During the campaign for the second round, Garc?a made clear his espousal of what he called "responsible" economic policies, clearly not those of Bolivia's President Evo Morales who on May 1 announced his intention to nationalise his country's largely foreign-owned hydrocarbons industry. Garc?a, by contrast, emphasized the need for policies to attract foreign investment, not repel it. He also made clear that he supported the Free Trade Agreement negotiated by outgoing President Alejandro Toledo. Both Ch?vez and Morales - as well as Humala - have bitterly criticised Toledo for agreeing to a trade deal that risks wrecking the Andean Community (CAN).
Garc?a's preference for liberal economics also contrasts strongly with his own policies when president for the first time (1985-90). On that occasion he espoused heterodox formulae that challenged directly the orthodoxy of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He also threatened to limit debt servicing to 10% of the value of annual exports.
However, the economic denouement of his first government - Peru ended up with hyperinflation and an unprecedented recession - has hung like an albatross around his neck ever since. Criticism was particularly bitter from the local business community, which castigated what it saw as his corrupt and inept government. The Fujimori government which followed in 1990 managed to stabilise the economy, accepting the policies of market liberalisation advocated by the international financial community.
In staging his political come-back, Garc?a had little option to express repentance for past mistakes. But his shift towards orthodox economics also is a consequence of the political situation he finds himself in. In order to win the second round, he needed the support of those who voted for the centre-right Unidad Nacional (UN) in the first round. In particular, he had to win overwhelmingly in Lima, UN's main stronghold, where he came a poor third in the first round.
When he becomes president again on July 28, Garc?a will have to appeal to different interests. He will need the support of the business community, but also to the support of poorer Peruvians, most of whom voted for Humala. His economic policies are therefore likely to include measures designed to make "trickle down" trickle further. More emphasis will be placed on the need to deal with chronic problems of health and education. Other key issues in the election campaign have been the need for employment and for policies to deal with crime in the country's urban areas.
Although the economic climate is benign - growth this year will probably exceed 6% - Garcia may well run into political difficulties. His party has only a minority (36 seats) in the 120-member legislature. The biggest party is Humala's Union por el Per? (UPP) with 45 seats. This may make for awkward coalition formation, possibly accepting unwelcome terms from UN.
Or it could mean doing a deal with those in Congress who support Fujimori. The price for their support is clear: lifting the extradition charges which Peru's former president, currently in Chile, has hanging over him. Since it was Fujimori who, in 1992, forced Garc?a into a 12-year period of exile, this may be seen as a price too high to pay.

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Marc,
Here's the basics on the knife project.  I just spoke with the combatives group, and it looks like at least five of them would jump all over the chance to own one of these right now for anything close to $300 or less.  My guess is there'd be a whole lot more than that, but out of a class of forty people, I got five to say yes on the spot.  Considering we work with roughly 500 troops a month in Combatives, and roughly another 500 in all the other areas, my guess is this would be a pretty strong seller.  Especially if I strap a couple of them on the legs of some our instructors...

At any rate, the basic introduction to the project and my proposal to the makers follows.  Let me know where you post it so I can follow along.  And thanks as always for the assist.  (By the way - if it works out, I'll buy you serial number 0001!)

Mike

Introduction:
My name is Michael Brewer.  I am currently serving as a US Army Reserve soldier, and in my civilian life, I am a combat tactics instructor for all branches of service.  Specifically, my job is to train Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Airmen deploying to the Middle East in support of the Global War on Terror.  My areas of specialty are weapons and small unit tactics, including all manner of US small arms, squad-based urban warfare, convoy live fire training, combatives (US Army Hand to Hand Fighting), and just about anything else that relates to the fighting end of being a US servicemember.  Over the past year, I've conducted hundreds of AAR's with troops both deploying and returning from theater.  I've probed to find any information I could find both as an instructor and as a soldier that might improve our troops' odds of winning each and every fight.  Obviously, a lot of this information is not appropriate to share publicly, but a lot of it can only be addressed by civilians who support our troops.  I'm writing this introduction about just such a topic.

Much has been made over the past several decades about edged weapons, both as fighting implements and as tools for soldiers in the field.  As most soldiers have told me time and again, the staggering majority of the designs currently available have missed big.  Knives tend to be "one-trick ponies" in the words of a recently retired Master Sergeant.  "They either cut or they stab, but never both.  If they're cutting knives, my Joes will bust the tips off 'em nine times out of ten.  If they're stabbing knives, they don't do us any good as cutting tools because a double edged dagger is no good at all for utility purposes.  Even the ones that find some kind of balance are too thin to deal with any kind of hard work, let alone the kind of rigors common to our guys in the field.  Folding knives snap right at the pivot, and the bayonets we're issued are so soft you can't even put a good edge on them, let alone keep it there."  

My father is an accomplished knifemaker who has crafted some amazing pieces for me over the years.  He's built several damascus blades that have withstood abuses unlike anything a knife is meant for.  One of them literally cut a  mobile home in half over the course of a work day.  Regrettably, he is in semi-retirement due to a shoulder injury and a lack of a forge.  That's why I am putting this information out to the public.  Working with these soldiers, I have compiled their suggestions into a design that most feel would not only suit their needs today, but would account for most of the foreseeable needs of the future.  I would like to find a knifemaker that is willing to build a prototype knife according to these suggestions.  This would be a custom knife, and would not be a government contract by any means.  However, it is a knife designed by and for servicemen and women, and would very likely be popular across the full spectrum.  What's more, because the knifemaker who accepts would be going to some degree of personal expense and effort on a project not of their own design - based on faith and the suggrestions of others, as it were - I would be willing to give the design rights to the knifemaker in exchange for a pair of prototypes.  I'd want to conduct some of the most severe tests ever conducted on a knife, document them, and present them to the chain of command that I work for in both civilian and military sectors.  I'd forward all requests to the knifemaker for orders and modifications.  In other words, you make the knife according to specs and provide me with a pair of prototypes, and I'll test it, evaluate it, write up a report, and pass it along to the market group that suggested it in the first place - and I'll hand you the rights to the design itself free and clear.

What do you get out of it?  At best, an inside track on what could be one of the more popular military knives today, and someone else handles a good chunk of your marketing for free.  At worst, you get a few orders from the soldiers that "created" the design and you recover your investment, and you still have the rights to the design free and clear.  What do I get out of it?  I get what I believe will be one of the most practical and functional fighting and utility knives available, and I get to give my soldiers the opportunity to carry into battle with them a tool that I would unhesitatingly bet my own life on.  I think it's definitely a good proposition all around.  

If anyone is interested in undertaking the project, please feel free to contact me directly at odysseyresearch@adelphia.net, or call 719.494.6501.  Thank you all for your consideration, and I look forward to speaking with you soon.

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and this on US Army stationary:



AFZC-PAO                                                                                                       2 May 2006




MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD



SUBJECT: Soldier Knife Project


 

Mr. Brewer,

 

 

1.  SPC Courtney E. Pace, PAO, 2BCT, 2ID

 

2. The PAO just received the research package you compiled regarding the ?Soldier Knife? design. Our office would be extremely interested in giving the project some publicity, especially since this is a civilian project based on military feedback.

 

3. The unit got back from Iraq in August of 2005, and several members of the unit have said that your knife design would definitely solve many of the issues they encountered with their currently issued gear.

 

4. The PAO would be interested in covering the project, including interviews with you and whatever knife maker agrees to take on the design and building of the knife.

 

5. We will also cover the ?torture testing? you and others will put the knife through using military related scenarios. This aspect will appeal to readers as it proves the usefulness and detailed thinking that went into the design.

 






COURTNEY E. PACE

SPC, USA

2BCT, 2ID PAO

http://www.mypage.bluewindow.ch/lonely72/

Guau a todos:

En www.dogbrothers.com se puede ver un "clip" de mi visita a una carcel Mexicana organizado por mi amigo Mauricio.  Ojala que les guste.

Crafty Dog

Guau a todos:

En DBMA (Dog Brothers Martial Arts) una categoria importante es lo de "Short Impact Weapons", lo cual aqui voy a traducir como ACI (Armas Cortas de Impacto), -- pero sin alguien puede sugerir otra manera de traducir SIW, pues adelante.

La categoria ACI es para defensa personal y se trata de una variedad tremenda de armas que pueden ser a proposito, por ejemplo un "kubotan" o un cuchillo todavia cerrado (an unopened folding knife) o improvisado, por ejemplo un desarmador.  

Cabe mencionar que hoy en dia desafortunadamente en muchas juridiciones las leyes prohiben andar con armas eficazes.  Un buen conocimiento del uso eficaz de las ACI nos permite cumplir con las leyes y a la vez tener algo para ayudarnos en momentos de peligro.

Cuando se hable de situciones tipicas del uso de los ACI, hay que tener en cuenta lo siguiente:

1)  Tipicamente, el exito de define como el mantenimiento de larga distancia, lo cual se puede llamar nuestra "burbuja".  Si el adversario/criminal nos acerca, lo picamos para que se vaya.  Hay que tener en cuenta tambien que muchos asaltos criminales se tratan de mas que un criminal.

2)  Por definicion de las ACI, no tenemos tanto alcance como otras armas de impacto.  Por lo cual, el objectivo del mantenimiento de distancia; pero necestimos aceptar la posibilidad de una lucha libre tambien.  En dicho caso, necesitamos mantener la libre expresion de nuestra ACI para resolver la situacion en nuestro favor.

3) Muchas veces, nuestro ACI no tendra tanto potencia en su golpe como una arma mas larga.

Por lo cual, se puede ver facilmente que la integracion del los golpes del ACI y de los movimientos de pie (footwork) toman un papel de tremendo importancia.  Igualmente importante son la habilidad de prevenir que el malo pueda agarrar a nosotros o a nuestro brazo que tiene la ACI y la habilidad de luchar efectivamente cuando la pelea vaya a lucha libre. (grappling range)

En DBMA tenemos materia disenado segun esta criteria.

La Aventura continua,
Guro Crafty

PD:  Agradezco qualquiera ayuda gramatica!

Guau a todos:

Cuando perdimos el contenido del foro has unos meses, perdimos un hilo muy interesante sobre Palo Venezolano.  Para comenzar este tema de nuevo he aqui:

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=47626

Guau,
Crafty Dog

For those of you who come directly to the forum, know that we have two new clips up at www.dogbrothers.com