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President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez talks revolution, imperialism, terrorism and what would happen if he got assassinated.<br><br>Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (pronounced [ˈuɰo rafaˈel ˈtʃaβ̞es ˈfɾias]) (born July 28, 1954) is the current President of Venezuela. As the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Chávez promotes a political doctrine of democratic socialism,[1] Latin American integration, and anti-imperialism. He is also a critic of neoliberalism, globalization and United States foreign policy.[2]
A career military officer, Chávez founded the left-wing Fifth Republic Movement after orchestrating a failed 1992 coup d'état against former President Carlos Andrés Pérez. Chávez was elected President in 1998 with a campaign centering on promises of aiding Venezuela's poor majority, and was reelected in 2000 and in 2006. Domestically, Chávez has maintained nation wide Bolivarian Missions, whose goals are to combat disease, illiteracy, malnutrition, poverty, and other social ills. Abroad, Chávez has acted against the Washington Consensus by supporting alternative models of economic development, and has advocated cooperation among the world's poor nations, especially those in Latin America.
Chávez's policies have evoked controversy in Venezuela and abroad, receiving anything from vehement criticism to enthusiastic support. Some people, especially in the government of the United States, view Chávez as a threat to democracy in Latin America.[3] Others sympathize with his ideology[4] or welcome his bilateral trade and reciprocal aid agreements.[5] In 2005 and 2006 he was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people.[6][7] Tags: Hugo Chavez Socialism Revolution Communism London Venezula Bolivariano Imperialism Added: 4th April 2008 Views: 47 Rating: |
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Student activists from the University of Wisconsin, Madison say why they're excited about the upcoming conference: "SOCIALISM 2007: Socialism for the 21st Century." being held at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare, June 14-17, 2007. See http://www.socialismconference.org for more details.
SOCIALISM 2007 will bring together socialists and activists who are involved in struggles across the country--from opposing the war to organizing against the death penalty--and share a vision of rebuilding the left.
Join John Pilger, Amy Goodman, Dahr Jamail, Dave Zirin, Anthony Arnove, Sharon Smith, Laura Flanders, Dr. John Carlos, Jeff St. Clair, IVAW's Kelly Dougherty, and a host of other speakers at Socialism 2007, and participate in the discussion over the future of radical and socialist politics in the 21st Century.
Last summer, some 1,500 people turned out for Socialism 2006 in New York City.
Student comments were videotaped on May 4, 2007 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Many thanks to Chris Dols and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field for their organizing (and for their comments), and to all the students who participated.
See coverage of last year's conference at
http://www.traprockpeace.org/socialis... with video on this channel - http://www.youtube.com/TraprockPeaceTV
video © 2007 Charles Jenks; all rights reserved. Websites may embed the video. Other uses require permission; contact charles@traprockpeace.org Tags: socialism peace justice students death penalty Amy Goodman Kelly Dougherty Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Chris Dols IVAW Added: 4th April 2008 Views: 46 Rating: |
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As an American, I became aware that Democratic Socialism is looked on in a completely different light here than it is in the rest of the world.
It is not well understood in the United States, and even the WORD socialism is a taboo to be involved with.
I made this video to try and show Americans what it was. And make them aware that it is NOT communism, and that Democratic Socialist and Social Democratic parties are very numerous in Europe. In fact, most American's would not know that the Labour Party of the UK, the current majority party, is actually a Social Democratic Party, part of the "Socialist International", the largest international political organization.<br><br>
Democratic socialism advocates socialism as a basis for the economy and democracy as a governing principle. This indicates that the means of production are owned by the entire population and that political power would be in the hands of the people democratically through a co-operative commonwealth or republic as a post-state form of self-government.
In its broadest sense, democratic socialism could refer to any attempts to bring about socialism through peaceful democratic means as opposed to violent insurrection. This can sometimes include social democracy.
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* 1 Basic concept
* 2 Common ideas
* 3 Definition
* 4 History
o 4.1 Forerunners and formative influences
o 4.2 Modern democratic socialism
o 4.3 Democratic socialism today
* 5 See also
* 6 Notes
* 7 References
* 8 External links
[edit] Basic concept
Socialism is based on the idea that the economy and means of production should be in the hands of ordinary working people,[1] or in older terminology the "working class". Democratic socialism involves the entire population controlling the economy through some type of democratic system.
Directly contrasting this is what some theorists call state capitalism in which a non-democratic state controls the means of production instead of the workers (as in, for example, the Soviet Union during and after Stalin's era). Some authors see democratic socialism as sharing many political ideas with social democracy, while others see them as radically opposed. Nevertheless, democratic socialists often share political parties with social democrats, such as the British Labour Party in the 1980s. Democratic socialism is the second-strongest current of socialism in terms of political success in free elections, immediately following social democracy.[citation needed]
[edit] Common ideas
Many types of socialism fit the above description, though many employ different methods for socializing the economy. Some common ideas are as follows:
* A democratically managed planned economy - sometimes alongside markets geared for consumption rather than profit.[citation needed]
* Nationalization: taking control of the means of production from the bourgeoisie and giving it to the state is a common idea amongst groups that call themselves democratic socialists. The more libertarian strain (eg. the Socialist Party USA and Socialist Resistance) advocates socialization/direct workers' ownership and control instead of state ownership.[citation needed]
* A state: most democratic socialists support parliamentary democracy, although libertarian socialists favor decentralized communes and other forms of non-statist social organization.[citation needed]
* Workplace democracy: the application of democracy to the workplace is naturally supported by those that call themselves democratic socialists.[citation needed]
[edit] Definition
Democratic socialism is difficult to define, and groups of scholars have radically different definitions for the term. Some equate it to other socioeconomic systems such as libertarian socialism, state socialism or social democracy. While others claim that it is fundamentally different from those ideologies.
Among those definitions of democratic socialism which sharply distinguish it from social democracy, Peter Hain, for example, classes democratic socialism, along with libertarian socialism, as a form of anti-authoritarian “socialism from below” (using the term popularised by Hal Draper), in contrast to Stalinism and social democracy, variants of authoritarian state socialism. For him, this democratic/authoritarian divide is more important than the revolutionary/reformist divide.[2] In this definition, it is the active participation of the population as a whole, and workers in particular, in the management of economy that characterises democratic socialism, while nationalisation and economic planning (whether controlled by an elected government or not) are characteristic of state socialism. A similar, but more complex, argument is made by Nicos Poulantzas.[3]
In contrast, in other definitions, democratic socialism simply refers to all forms of socialism that follow an electoral, reformist or evolutionary path to socialism, rather than a revolutionary one.[4]
However, for those who use the term in this way, the scope of the term socialism itself can be very vague, and include forms of socialism compatible with capitalism. For example, Robert M. Page, a Reader in Democratic Socialism and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, writes about "transformative democratic socialism" to refer to the politics of the Clement Atlee government (a strong welfare state, fiscal redistribution, some nationalisation) and "revisionist democratic socialism", as developed by Anthony Crosland and Harold Wilson:
”The most influential revisionist Labour thinker, Anthony Crosland..., contended that a more ‘benevolent’ form of capitalism had emerged since the [Second World War]... According to Crosland, it was now possible to achieve greater equality in society without the need for ‘fundamental’ economic transformation. For Crosland, a more meaningful form of equality could be achieved if the growth dividend derived from effective management of the economy was invested in 'pro-poor' public services rather than through fiscal redistribution.”[5]
Indeed, some proponents of market socialism see the latter as a form of democratic socialism.[6]
A variant of this second set of definitions is Joseph Schumpeter’s argument, set out in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1941) that liberal democracies were evolving from “liberal capitalism” into democratic socialism, with the growth of workers’ self-management, industrial democracy and regulatory instutions.[7]
Other definitions fall somewhere between the first and second set, seeing democratic socialism as a specific political tradition closely related to and overlapping with social democracy. For example, Bogdan Denitch, in Democratic Socialism defines it as proposing a radical reorganization of the socio-economic order through public ownership, workers’ control of the labour process and redistributive tax policies. [8] Robert G. Picard similarly describes a democratic socialist tradition of thought including Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kautsky, Evan Durbin and Michael Harrington[9]
Finally, the term democratic socialism can be used to refer to a version of the Soviet model that was reformed in a democratic way. For example, Mikhail Gorbachev described perestroika as building a “new, humane and democratic socialism”[10] Consequently, some former Communist parties have rebranded themselves as democratic socialist, as with the Party of Democratic Socialism in Germany. Tags: Democratic Socialism Socialist Democracy International The Internationale Added: 4th April 2008 Views: 61 Rating: |
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Another winner from Coronet Instructional Films! In this one, a group of teenagers on a high-school radio program discuss just what capitalism is, seizing onto the example of the butcher who supplies the weenies for their picnic. A bona fide capitalism love-in! Weenie references fly fast and furious here.
Capitalism is one of many "free-enterprise education" films released in the first few years of the Cold War. Unlike many films produced under corporate sponsorship, it avoids taking jabs at socialism, Russia or New Deal government programs. Nonetheless, it uses the common Coronet device of showing a group collectively engaged in coming to terms with an idea -- a process with predetermined conclusions. In this respect, I imagine that it's not so different from Soviet educational films. Tags: capitalism economics cold war propaganda anti-communism weenie roast 1950s coronet educational Added: 4th April 2008 Views: 57 Rating: |
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John Locke, most often referred to by his surname "Locke", is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Terry O'Quinn. Although he typically has a calm demeanor on the island, his flashbacks portray him as angrier and more emotional. He is the antithesis to Jack Shephard and to a certain extent Ben Linus. In 2007, O'Quinn won the Emmy award for acting in a supporting role.[1]<br><br>
Prior to the crash
Born May 30th, 1956 to Emily Annabeth Locke and Anthony Cooper, Locke was put into government care and found himself in a multitude of foster homes. In one of these homes, Locke experienced the death of his foster sister Jeannie, an event which left her mother distraught. Her grief would be overcome when a stray Golden Retriever came to live with the family, even sleeping in Jeannie's room.
As an adult, while working at a toy store, Locke is visited by a woman claiming to be his biological mother. Now curious about his origins, Locke hires a private investigator who tracks down the location of Locke's biological father, an elderly man named Anthony Cooper. Cooper warmly welcomes Locke into his life, and the two bond over hunting trips and activities. Cooper eventually makes it known that he is in need of a kidney transplant. Locke agrees to donate a kidney to him, but following the surgery, discovers that Cooper has abandoned him and refuses to see him.
Distraught over being conned by his own father, Locke attends an anger-management group where he meets Helen. Helen begins helping Locke overcome the issues with his father. The two begin dating and move in together. While Locke plans to propose to her, he is informed of his father's apparent death. At the funeral, Locke is approached by two men who question him about Cooper's location, believing that he faked his death. While inspecting the home of Nadia, Locke is visited by Cooper, who reveals that he conned the two men out of $700,000 in retirement money, which now sits in safe deposit box and which Cooper needs Locke to reclaim. Locke reluctantly agrees and without Helen's knowledge, delivers the money to Cooper, just as Helen appears and confronts the two. Disgusted with Locke's relapse and his willingness to lie, she abandons him just as he proposes marriage.
To escape his past, Locke joins a commune that secretly grows marijuana. One day, he picks up and welcomes a hitchhiker into the commune. Six weeks later however, Locke discovers that the hitchhiker is an undercover police officer. Under orders by the commune, Locke leads the officer into the nearby forest to kill him, but loses his nerve at the last minute and allows him to escape. Sinking further into a state of depression, Locke retreats into a life of solitude, until he is visited one day by a man asking for information about Adam Seward, who intends to marry the man's wealthy mother. Locke, initially unfamiliar with the name, realizes it is Cooper, and after dismissing the man meets Cooper and orders him to not marry the mother. Cooper surprises Locke by revealing that he has decided against the marriage after the mysterious death of her son, a death Cooper denies involvement in. Locke, unsure of Cooper's sincerity, prepares to call the mother when Cooper shoves him out of the window, sending him tumbling 80 feet to the sidewalk below. Locke survives the fall with a broken back, an injury that which put him in to a wheelchair.
Locke finds work at an industrial box company owned by Hurley and is constantly harassed by his boss Randy, who one day inquires about the pamphlet for the "Australian Aboriginal Walkabout" in Locke's possession. Later that night, Locke speaks with a phone sex worker he has nicknamed "Helen," whom he invites on the aboriginal walkabout, which she steadfastly refuses, throwing him into a rage. Despondent but determined, Locke flies to Australia alone, where his frustration reaches a boiling point when he is denied admission on the walkabout because of his paraplegic state, and is offered a ticket back home on Oceanic Flight 815. At the airport, Locke is the first to board the plane, being carried on by staff. He is seated behind Rose.<br><br>
After the crash
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After crashing on the island in the fuselage section, Locke miraculously regains the use of his legs. Locke's survival skills influence Walt to bond with him, much to Michael's resentment. It is on a hunt that Locke first encounters the "Monster". Later, Locke accompanies Jack, Kate and Charlie to the caves for examination, where he learns of Charlie's heroin addiction. Locke decides to help Charlie overcome his addiction, which pays off when he throws it into a fire. When Sayid attempts to locate Rousseau's signal, Locke knocks him out and destroys the transceiver, then places the blame on Sawyer. When Claire is abducted, Locke accompanies Jack, Kate and Boone, resulting in him and Boone discovering the hatch. From then on, Locke and Boone spend most of their time contemplating on how to open it. Locke helps Michael find Walt after he leaves the camp, due to Walt's desire to go hunting with Locke; he and Michael no longer appear to be at odds after his safe return.
One morning, following a dream he had the night before, Locke takes Boone into the jungle, where the two discover a beachcraft lodged atop a cliff. As Locke struggles to maintain the use of his legs, he watches as Boone climbs up into the plane. There is also a working radio, heroin filled mother marys, and african dead bodies on the plane. It is only after the beachcraft falls down that Locke is able to stand again, and carries a fatally injured Boone back to the caves. Instead of staying to help Jack, Locke sneaks away to the hatch, where he bangs furiously on the door; Locke's faith is restored when a bright light shines from the other side of the glass. Locke returns to the beach in time for Boone's funeral to apologize; he is soon forced to reveal the hatch to Sayid after Shannon holds him at gunpoint, holding him responsible for Boone's death. Locke takes Sayid and Jack to the hatch to discuss how to open it. When Rousseau arrives on the beach one morning, she takes Locke, Jack, Kate, Hurley and Arzt to the Black Rock. After collecting the dynamite, Locke has a close encounter with the "Monster"(black smoke) once more, managing to escape with Jack's help. Upon returning to the hatch, Locke blows open the door using the dynamite, ignoring Hurley's protests due to him(hurley)seeing the cursed numbers(4 8 15 16 23 42) on the hatch door.
[edit] Season 2
Upon blowing open the hatch, Locke and Kate descend into the hatch against Jack's wishes. Once inside, Locke convinces Desmond to lock Kate in the pantry, and finds himself at gunpoint when Jack enters the hatch after them. Locke and Jack are shown the orientation video for the hatch as Desmond prepares to flee, following the computer being damaged. When Sayid manages to fix it, Locke sets up a rota for people to enter the numbers into the computer, a task which he takes pride in. He soon welcomes the arrival of Mr. Eko, who gives him the missing film reel from the orientation video. After giving Michael some shooting lessons, he finds himself locked in the armory with Jack, released only when Sawyer arrives for medical treatment. The three of them chase after Michael in the jungle, only to encounter the Others; in return for Kate's safety, the three of them are forced to hand over their weapons. Later, Locke suspects Charlie of taking heroin again. When Charlie attempts to baptize baby Aaron, Locke beats him to the ground. It is following the attempted kidnap of Sun that Locke and Jack's decision to consult each other about the guns is broken. Locke gives Sawyer the guns to hide, unknowingly falling victim to one of Sawyer's cons.
Upon the arrival of "Henry Gale", Locke holds him in the empty armory, much to Jack's resentment. Because of their disagreement, Locke fails to enter the numbers in time, but manages to prevent a system failure. Later, Locke is caught in a lockdown, with only him and "Henry" present; after being injured, Locke relies on "Henry" to enter the numbers. However, as he disappears into the vent, Locke notices a strange map drawn on one of the blast doors when the lights go out. Following the hatch's restoration, Locke learns that "Henry" hasn't been truthful to him. Following these events, plus "Henry"'s taunts of not entering the numbers into the computer, Locke becomes frustrated and loses faith in the island - it is only after he speaks with Rose that his faith is briefly restored, and manages to sketch an accurate copy of the map he saw. After the death of Ana Lucia and the injury of Libby, Locke and Eko enter the jungle to search for the '?' on Locke's map. The two discover another hatch beneath the beachcraft, and enter it to discover the Pearl station. While Eko is convinced to continue entering the numbers, Locke abandons the Swan hatch.
Locke, furious that Eko is wasting his time on the computer, attempts to destroy it, only to be thrown out of the hatch. When Desmond returns to the island, Locke informs him of the Pearl's orientation video and how he believes the Swan's computer is just a mind game. The two sneak into the hatch and initiate a lockdown, trapping Eko outside of the computer room. As the two wait for the timer to reach zero, Locke prevents Desmond from entering the numbers by smashing the computer on the floor. However, when the electromagnetic force builds up following the timer running out, Locke realizes that he has been wrong all along; he is still in the hatch when Desmond turns the fail-safe key that causes the hatch to implode.
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Locke wakes in the jungle the next day, unable to speak. He builds a sweat lodge to induce a hallucination, while Charlie waits outside. After encountering Boone, he is told to clean up his own mess, and must save Eko. Locke and Charlie head in the jungle, passing the crater left behind after the implosion. Locke approaches a polar bear den, and proceeds inside to rescue Eko. Locke and Charlie carry him back to the beach, to which Locke reveals he will rescue Jack, Kate and Sawyer. The next day, he leads Desmond, Sayid, Nikki and Paulo back to the Pearl station, where they rewire the circuits in the monitors to view surveillance from another hatch with a man in an eye patch in it. Shortly after, Locke hears a commotion outside, and discover a dying Eko in the jungle. He decides to bury him on the spot rather than back on the beach. Upon placing his stick at the head of the grave, he notices a particular inscription, instructing him to go north. He allows Desmond to inform Charlie and Hurley of Eko's death.
When Kate and Sawyer return to the beach, Locke and Sayid follow her into the jungle in search of Rousseau. The four head north, until they discover the Flame station. Inside, Locke is drawn to the computer, where he continually plays a game of chess. Upon winning a game, he watches the station's orientation video, instructing him to enter different codes for different situations. As they are about to leave, with Mikhail as hostage, Locke enters the code that causes the station to self-destruct. They continue their hike the next day, eventually coming across a sonic barrier. Locke pushes Mikhail through the sonic barrier, which apparently killed him. Sayid discovers a pack of C4 in Locke's bag, which he had taken before destroying the Flame station. Locke is questioned about his motive for coming along, but dismisses the matter. The four arrive at the Others' barracks, where they watch Jack bonding with Tom. That night, Locke barges into Ben's home, and demands to be taken to the submarine, holding Alex at gunpoint. Once inside the submarine, Locke rigs it with the C4, and detonates it. Locke is taken away by Ben and Richard, who lead him to a room containing Anthony Cooper, tied up and gagged.
Locke is then offered the opportunity to join the Others as they leave the barracks, which he accepts. He says goodbye to Kate the next morning before leaving. As they set up camp in a large clearing, Locke is approached by Cindy, who tells him that everyone is excited about him being among them. That night, Ben tells Locke that he must kill Cooper before he can officially join them. Locke is unable to do it, and the Others abandon him the next morning, leaving behind a trail for him to follow should he kill his father. Before leaving, Richard hints to Locke about finding someone else to kill him. He returns to the beach and brings Sawyer to the Black Rock, where he locks him in a room with Cooper. After Sawyer kills him, Locke gives him Juliet's recorder and tells him she is a spy. He carries Cooper's body with him to the Others' new pitch. He then demands Ben take him to see Jacob, much to his resentment, and the shock of the others. Ben agrees, and takes him to an isolated cabin. Locke is cautioned not to use his flashlight, but Locke grows impatient and uses it, causing Jacob to erupt in anger, sending objects flying across the room. The next day, Ben takes Locke to a pit full of long-deceased DHARMA members. Ben tells Locke of the purge of the original DHARMA personnel in which all men, woman, and children were killed with nerve gas. Visibly distraught at the heinous act of which he has been told, Locke pulls his knife but is shot by Ben before he can act. He falls into the pit of long-deceased DHARMA members and is left to die. Locke contemplates suicide, but his faith is again restored upon seeing Walt. (It is later revealed that Locke's bullet wound was non-fatal, due to his missing kidney.) He makes his way to the radio tower and fatally wounds Naomi by throwing a knife into her back, and begs Jack not to contact her freighter, and threatens to shoot him if he doesn't put the radio down. Jack refuses, but Locke is unable to kill him. Locke tells Jack he wasn't meant to do this, then walks away, shaking his head, disappointed with Jack's decision.
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Locke finds a distraught Hurley in the jungle, who tells him about Charlie's warning. When all the survivors meet at the cockpit Locke is attacked by Jack, who knocks him to the floor and aims a gun at his head. Locke says that Jack won't shoot him, but before he can finish the sentence, Jack pulls the trigger - Locke explains that the gun wasn't loaded. Locke insists that he has only ever tried to act in everyone's best interests, and that they need to hide from the people coming to the island, saying, "If you don't want to die, you need to come with me." His plan is to head for the Barracks, and stay there until he thinks of something else. A few of the survivors, including Hurley, Claire, and Sawyer, as well as Ben, Rousseau, Alex, and Karl, join him, and they head off into the jungle. Locke tells everyone that they first must go to a cabin and that he received his instructions to kill Naomi from Walt. He later runs into Charlotte Staples Lewis, who parachuted onto the Island, and took her hostage. Ben later tries to shoot her, but she had a bulletproof vest on. Ben tells Locke he could provide answers if he doesn't kill him, and Locke asks him what the Monster is. Ben replies that he doesn't know, and as Locke is about to shoot him, he shouts out everything Charlotte has ever done, as well as the other members of the members of the freighter, and that they are here for him. He also says that he has a spy on the freighter. Locke is unable to find Jacob's Cabin where it originally was, so they proceed to go to the Barracks. Once there, they ambush Kate, Sayid, and Miles Straume, and Locke and Sayid trade Charlotte for Miles so that Sayid can gain access to the freighter so that they can both know more about the freighters objectives.
Over the next few days, Locke tries to get information out of Ben and Miles with little success (besides Ben taunting him constantly). Finally Ben agrees to show Locke who his spy is, who sent the freighter, and other answers if he would allow Ben his freedom. Ben shows Locke a tape of Charles Widmore and tells him that he is the man who sent the freighter and he wants to exploit the Island for everything it is worth (like the Island healing paralysis). Once he gets more information out of him (like Ben's spy), he allows Ben his freedom.
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* Locke discovered The Swan with Boone in "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"
* Locke first visited The Swan with Kate in "Man of Science, Man of Faith".
* Locke discovered The Pearl with Eko in "?". However it was later revealed that 815 survivors Nikki and Paulo found it first, but did not tell anyone else.
* Locke discovered The Flame with Kate and Sayid in "Enter 77".
* Locke has caused the destruction of two Stations; The Swan by destroying its computer and making the Station implode, and The Flame when he entered "77" into its computer which caused the Station to self destruct.
* Locke destroyed The Others' submarine with explosives taken from The Flame in "The Man from Tallahassee".
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James Ford, better known by the alias "Sawyer", is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Josh Holloway. Sawyer is portrayed as a conniving, overly sarcastic flirt who keeps stashes of washed ashore items. His flashbacks typically depict a more sensitive side to him.
Prior to the crash
Sawyer was born in Alabama in 1969 as James Ford. At a young age, James' parents were conned by a man under the alias of "Sawyer"; as a result, his father killed both his mother and himself. At the time of his parents' death, James and his family were living in Knoxville, TN according to the letter Sawyer carries. James claims to have dropped out of high school, but has a "high school transcript." James vows to avenge his parents' deaths by searching for the original Sawyer, but finds himself in financial difficulty; he adopts the profession and alias of the man responsible for his parents' death, and uses his looks and charm to seduce women and divide families. Thus, "becoming the man he was hunting." His favorite con would be to wake up next to his victim and pretend to be late for an important meeting; as he rushes to get ready, his briefcase will spill open, revealing large bundles of fake cash that the woman "wasn't supposed to see," and uses her interest as a means of getting her or her rich spouse to invest in a large, but fake, business deal. On one occasion, he carries out this con up until he sees that the targeted couple has a child, and bails on the deal in order to spare the child the same torment that he went through.
On another occasion, Sawyer carries out the same con on a divorced woman named Cassidy; however, she sees through his con the moment the briefcase falls open, mentioning that she didn't get a large settlement from the divorce. Instead, she asks him to teach her his profession. After learning a few basic tricks, Sawyer is soon asked by Cassidy to pull off a "long con," revealing that she actually received $600,000 from her ex-husband. While visiting the diner of Kate's mother, Sawyer is forced to resume his con on Cassidy, even when he considers stopping. Sawyer returns to Cassidy and tells her to run, giving her a bag full of money. He reveals that he knew about her settlement and that a car is waiting outside; he will be killed if he doesn't bring the money to the car. As Cassidy takes off with the bag of fake money, Sawyer enters the house with the real money and deposits it for his partner to collect.<br><br>
Cassidy presses charges against Sawyer for conning her, and he is sent to prison. Cassidy visits him and informs him that she has since given birth to a girl named Clementine. While in prison, Sawyer befriends a man named Munson, who was sentenced for a white-collar crime. He cons him into revealing where Munson hid the money that he stole; as a result, Sawyer's sentence is cut short, and the money he receives is deposited in an anonymous bank account for Clementine by his request. Later, as Sawyer is seducing another woman, his partner informs him of the whereabouts of the original Sawyer who conned his parents. Sawyer travels to Australia to confront the man, and shoots him. Before he dies, Sawyer realizes that his partner had conned him into killing someone who owed money to an important person. Sawyer also encounters and drinks with Christian Shephard at a bar. While still in Australia, Sawyer is arrested, at the same station visited by Boone, for assaulting Warren Truss during a bar fight. As a result, Sawyer is deported from Australia and banned from returning; he leaves on board Oceanic Flight 815, his seat number being 15D. Tags: lost drawing tv show photoshop Added: 4th April 2008 Views: 102 Rating: |
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In case you havent noticed, this elephant is painting. Yup, a picture of an elephant. No, no, animals are stupid and they dont know whats going on. Tags: vegan elephant amazing painting Added: 29th March 2008 Views: 101 Rating: |
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Naruto (NARUTO - ナルト -, Naruto? romanized as NARUTO in Japan) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto with an anime adaptation. The main character, Naruto Uzumaki, is a loud, hyperactive, unpredictable adolescent ninja who constantly searches for recognition and aspires to become a Hokage, the ninja in the village acknowledged as the leader and the strongest of all.
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