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| Richard Kastelein - the designer, CMS architect and co-founder of Atlantic Free Press (with Chris Floyd) is the technical guru and art director of the site.
Kastelein's company, Expathos (www.expathos.com), specialises in Open Source Content Management Systems for bloggers, online social groups and communities. His choices for open source solutions are more commonly used in Europe, therefore unique in the US market, giving his work a unique stamp in the American digital landscape. He prefers staying away from cookie cutter, proprietary software solutions such as Moveable Type and blog hosting services such as Xanga, blogger.com and Live Journal. By using Open Source Content Management System software such as Joomla, Drupal and Postnuke, not very common in the blogging world, his work is unique. He also helps authors layout, design and publish their works using on-demand printing solutions such as Cafe Press and Lulu. Bucking the traditional publishing paradigm (writer-agent-publisher triage) by using new developments in technology and distribution, Kastelein's company works with expatriate and 'dissident' writers such as Chris Floyd, Will Charlesworth and others. Hailing from the Canadian Pacific Southwest - Richard grew up on the fringes of Vancouver, a liberal and progressive city often noted as one of the best places to live in the world by such publications as the Economist and the UN. Packing his bag at 19, he left the city in 1986 and has lived overseas most of his adult life, choosing the life of a sailing vagabond over immediate college. After sailing the Atlantic with a clan of Viking Norwegians, hailing boats in Thailand and Malaysia and sailing the Pacific, he published his first series of articles called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Seas" in 1991 in the UK in an array of international adventure travel magazines. He then went on to Art College in Victoria B.C. where he studied Photography and Journalism at the Western Academy of Photography to hone his writing and visual skills. Kastelein's first job out of college was reporting for a weekly newspaper in a small enclave of 3000 people, Fort Smith, in the Canadian Northwest Territories. After two years in Fort Smith, Kastelein went back to sea and ended up in St. Maarten in the Dutch Caribbean where he spent almost ten years, on and off, working as an editor and reporting for the local media as well as serving stints in the marine industry as a sailboat skipper and marketing director for two multinational marine chandleries. In 1994-95 Kastelein sailed from Crete, Greece to the Caribbean with his wife and two friends on a 38 foot Morgan sailboat. He has created two print publications from conceptualisation, design, content production, layout, distribution and solicitation of advertising in the Caribbean - What's ON St. Martin and The Limin' Times as well as provided hard news for St. Martin's Week as English Editor and Today St. Martin as an investigative reporter. Kastelein returned to Europe in 2002 to start life anew with additions to the family along with the desire to live in the First World once again. He now develops websites, manages a boatbuilding operation in Brazil and writes. |
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| Date | Article Title | Commet Title | Comment |
| 2006-09-14 10:06:29 | War, Crime, Propaganda, and Judeo-Fascism | [b]Cheers.[/b] [quote][i]Cheers[/i][/quote] [img]http://www.chris-floyd.com/images/book.gif[/img] ;D | |
| 2006-10-06 10:35:14 | This Is The Way Of Dictatorships. | Bush and his signing statements | Bush's frequent use of signing statements to flip off newly enacted laws is a huge part of his path to dictatorship and a slice of his "comprehensive strategy to strengthen and expand executive power" at the expense of the legislative branch. The Bush administration has continued to issue signing statements for new laws. Bush recently okayed the [url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060929-15.html]2007 military budget bill, but then issued a statement challenging 16 of its provisions.[/url] The original legislation bars the Pentagon from using any intelligence that was collected illegally, [b]including information[/b] about Americans that was gathered in violation of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable government surveillance. Yet in Bush's signing statement, he suggested that [b]he alone could decide whether the Pentagon could use such information.[/b] His signing statement instructed the military to view the law in light of ``the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief, including for the conduct of intelligence operations, and to supervise the unitary executive branch." Bush also challenged three sections that require the Pentagon to notify Congress before diverting funds to new purposes, including top-secret activities or programs. Congress had already decided against funding. [b]Bush said he was not bound to obey such statutes if he decided, as commander in chief, that withholding such information from Congress was necessary to protect security secrets.[/b] PDF here [url]http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33667.pdf[/url] |
| 2006-10-16 05:03:28 | From Liberating Spirituality to Oppressive Dogma: The Politics of Religion | Sperry? | Joseph, Paul Sperry was your Washington Bureau Chief at one time if I do recall. Until he wrote [url=http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=139&PAGE=1]Bush is a Liar[/url]... then I watched him rocket down the masthead at WND into oblivion. Note: that was his last editorial for WND. Now - it's a couple of years later and it's acceptable to bash Bush around a little, you've taken the liberty of tossing in a couple of progressive' liberals to give a faux appearance of being balanced. You are about as balanced as a unipedal kangaroo. The Senior Editor of this website, Chris Floyd, is also a columnist at [url=http://www.lewrockwell.com/floyd/floyd-arch.html] Lew Rockwell[/url] - which is hardly a bastion of commies now is it? |
| 2006-10-17 06:23:19 | From Liberating Spirituality to Oppressive Dogma: The Politics of Religion | Jon | I don't buy into the Catholic moral superiority you are trying to paint here for a number of reasons... but the main is, as a reporter in St. Maarten in the 90's, I worked closely with some reporters from the Hartford Courant to hunt down Laurence Brett, a serial [b]PEDOPHILE[/b] priest (some of the boys he raped were prepubescent) who was shipped out of the US and hidden in the Caribbean by the Catholic clergy. Well, we found him - living in a small village chock full of expatriate families with lots of kids around. He escaped and someone is still paying his bills somewhere. I would guess that to be...? [url=http://www.dallasnews.com/cgi-bin/bi/dallas/2002/priests.cgi]Cardinal Egan[/url]. The [url=http://villagevoice.com/news/0606,lombardi,72095,6.html]Village Voice outed Egan not long ago[/url] - providing some reason perhaps for his coverups. |
| 2006-10-19 15:44:29 | From Liberating Spirituality to Oppressive Dogma: The Politics of Religion | Jon - admin is not mel | Jon, I made the comment not Mel. And I still don't buy into the fact that you see 'lumping' Catholic Priest boy lovers into an article called the [b]Politics of Religion [/b]as being inappropriate somehow. Richard Kastelein. |
| 2006-11-02 16:37:56 | Threats to Hugo Chavez As Venezuela's December Presidential Election Approaches | Hey 'oldnews' | Scared to show your face? Or are you just here to propagate your drivel vis a vis National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Fuck you with your shallow view - and fuck you with your gleeful hand-clapping to Brazilianify the US. Have I been there? Hell ya'. I lived it. |
| 2006-12-08 17:11:22 | The Best Reasons Not to Impeach, And Why They're Wrong | Kos is a wanker. | Of course that little tool called Kos who nods with nothing more than testicular gravitas [url=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/7/133953/102]has performed political fellatio[/url] in order to gain some gears. It's more than rich to see his own community turn on his [url=http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/12/7/143822/596]ass thanks to Jerome... from Paris[/url] |
| 2006-12-20 14:36:54 | The Cost of Islamophobia | Maher Arar | Maher Arar is [url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061220/democrat_arar_061220/20061220?hub=TopStories]still banned from entering the US.[/url] [quote]U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Wilkins said last week that Arar remained on an American "no-fly" list -- which prevents Arar from travelling in the United States or even flying over U.S. airspace -- but neither Wilkins nor the U.S. State Department would outline the reasons for the ban.[/quote] |
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