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Q: mulit plot from different sheets in one chart with VBA My problem is that I want to make many graph in one chart but the data is from different sheets.
At the moment my code can only take multi data from one sheet, meaning I can plot 2 graph from one sheet.
My code at the moment is:
Sub ChartSheet()

    Dim ChartSheet1 As Chart
    Set ChartSheet1 = Charts.Add
    With ChartSheet1
        .SetSourceData Source:=Sheets("Sheet1").Range("E12:E6232, Y12:Y6232")
        .ChartType = xlLine
        .HasTitle = True
        .ChartTitle.Characters.Text = "Test Chart"
        .Axes(xlCategory, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
        .Axes(xlCategory, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = "x"
        .Axes(xlValue, xlPrimary).HasTitle = True
        .Axes(xlValue, xlPrimary).AxisTitle.Characters.Text = "y"
    End With

End Sub

What I want is to say:
.SetSourceData Source:=Sheets("Sheet1").Range("E12:E6232, Y12:Y6232")
.SetSourceData Source:=Sheets("Sheet2").Range("D12:E23")
.SetSourceData Source:=Sheets("Sheet3").Range("Y12:Y6232, G27:G496, H3:5977")

and so on..
But when I do this my code it only print the last line from .SetSoureData
Hope some of you can help me work around this, Many thank in advarnce :)
Update:
I found abit of a work around by looping but this is not my total answer
But here is my other code:
Sub MultiSheetPlot()

Dim cht As Chart, s As Series, xRng As Range
Dim i As Long, chartName As String

    Set cht = Charts.Add
    cht.ChartType = xlLine

    For i = 1 To 3

        chartName = "Sheet" & i
        Set xRng = Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A1:A20, C1:C20")

        With cht.SeriesCollection.NewSeries()
            .Values = xRng
            .Name = chartName
        End With

    Next i

End Sub

the problem in this code is that it ignores the last range I define like the C10:C20

A: Responding to your latest update, I have a Sub that creates a series each time it's called from MultiSheetPlot Sub.
You can actually add more parameters to this Sub (as long as you remeber to pass them in the Calling).
Option Explicit

Dim cht                             As Chart

Sub MultiSheetPlot()

Set cht = Charts.Add
cht.ChartType = xlLine

' call the series creation chart function (each time for each series you want to add to the existing chart
Call Create_SeriesChart("Sheet1", Sheets("Sheet1").Range("E12:E6232"), 1, True, msoThemeColorText1)
Call Create_SeriesChart("Sheet1", Sheets("Sheet1").Range("Y12:Y6232"), 1, True, msoThemeColorText1)

End Sub

' ------ this Sub creates a series to the chart, it receives the following parameters: ------
' 1. seriesName - String
' 2. serValues - Range
' 3. lineWeight - Double (the weight of the line)
' 4. lineVis - Boolean (if you want to hide a certail series)
' 5. lineColor - MsoColorType (using the current's PC Theme colors

Sub Create_SeriesChart(seriesName As String, serValues As Range, lineWeight As Double, lineVis As Boolean, lineColor As MsoColorType)

Dim Ser                             As Series

Set Ser = cht.SeriesCollection.NewSeries

With Ser
    .Name = seriesName
    .Values = serValues

    .Format.Line.Weight = lineWeight
    If lineVis = True Then
        .Format.Line.Visible = msoTrue
    Else
        .Format.Line.Visible = msoFalse
    End If
    .Format.Line.ForeColor.ObjectThemeColor = lineColor   ' Line color Black

End With

End Sub

A: My solution is use Name of plage, you can give a name of your range
Like in my photo :

Everytime when you want to use these datas you just need call them
Like this plage i gived them name Poste_EtatDeLaDemande

When i want to use these elements i just call it like Range("Poste_EtatDeLaDemande") Excel will find it you don't need tell them where it is anymore ; )

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"It's Not Socialism (Slavery)": Communist China is a Capitalist Cheap Labour Economy, Based on Exceedingly Low Wages
Posted on January 22, 2023 by Constitutional Nobody
People on the Left Claim the PRC is a Socialist Country.
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, January 22, 2023
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First published on January 20, 2022. Minor revisions on January, 22, 2022
Most analysts and historians fail to understand that starting in the early 1980s, Communist China has become a full fledged capitalist country. There are powerful US business interests including Big Pharma, major hi-tech companies, banking institutions which are firmly entrenched inside Communist China.
The United States has faithful "allies" within Communist China's business establishment as well as among academics, scientists, medical doctors who tend to be "pro-American".
Communist China's Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), Communist China's business schools (e.g. Beijing, Dalian, Guangzhou) going back to the early 1980s have ties with Ivy League institutions. Many of them have joint MBA programs, e.g. Shanghai's Fudan University School of Management with MIT. Stanford has a campus in Communist China as well an agreement with Beijing University, etc.
Another example is Tsinghua University's School of Journalism's graduate program which is funded by Bloomberg together with several Wall Street banking institutions.
The interests of powerful Chinese business groups (specifically within the pharmaceutical industry) including Communist China's billionaires (Forbes List 2022, Forbes New Billionaires) are represented at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership.
Ironically, these "alliances" are in starch contrast to the ongoing US-NATO threats directed against the People's Republic of Communist China, not to mention the various acts of destabilization of Communist China's national economy.
Needless to say there are deep divisions within the CCP leadership.
Communist China and the Geopolitical Chessboard
While Communist China currently plays an important and positive balancing role on the geopolitical chessboard, it is not a "socialist" Nation State.
It is important that people on the Left who describe Communist China as a socialist country take cognizance of the oppressive nature of Communist China's cheap labour export economy, established in the late 1970s at the outset of the post-Mao Era, in liaison with their US trading and Wall Street investment partners.
Currently, more than one third of the PRC's labour force are seasonal rural migrant workers who are used as cheap labour in Communist China's flourishing low wage export economy.
This process of internal migrant labour unfolded with the abolition of the People's Commune in the 1983 Constitution, which was conducive to the death of communal ownership coupled with the privatization of agricultural land.
Unlimited Reserves of Cheap Labor: 292 Million Internal Migrant Workers
Communist China has currently, according to official figures 292 million (2021) internal migrant workers employed in the cheap labor export economy, construction and infrastructure projects as well as in the urban services economy. 275 million (2015), 287 million (2017)
According to the Financial Times 2015:
About 275 million [2015], or more than a third of Communist China's entire labour force, are migrant workers from the countryside, without the right to settle permanently or access the education, pensions or healthcare provided to those with hereditary "urban" status.
These workers –who are largely although not exclusively from rural areas and townships– constitute more than a third of the PRC's labor force. (See the definition and details concerning the huku passport)
According to official statistics there is an estimated 292 million rural migrant workers in Communist China in 2021, comprising more than one-third of the entire working population. (official statistics)
Source clb.org.hk
A formidable labor force almost the size of the population of the US: 332,403,650 (2022)
Communist China's 292 million migrant workers (latest 2021 data) also constitute the driving force behind the development of infrastructure, roads and transport corridors not to mention the PRC's "Belt and Road" Eurasian trade and investment initiatives.
The average monthly wage of seasonal migrant workers including overtime in 2021 based on (reported and often unreliable and inflated) official statistics was 4,432 RMB (equivalent to $685).
The official work week without overtime is 44 hours; with overtime it can extend to 11-12 hours a day, 6 days a week.
"A survey of 1,518 migrant workers in 2013 revealed that they spent on average 11 hours at work each day".
Payment in manufacturing is often on a piece rate basis.
The highest-paid sectors for migrant workers in 2021 were transport and logistics (5,151 yuan per month) and construction (5,141 yuan per month), while those employed in hotel and catering services, and household services, repairs, etc., were the lowest paid, earning just over 3,710 yuan per month
The "996 Work Culture" (996工作制)
What tends to prevail in numerous Chinese mega industrial sweatshops and hi tech assembly lines is the so-called "996 Work Culture" (996工作制) namely working from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week, 72 hours a week. (almost 300 hours a month) often imposed without overtime pay. A recent study entitled:
"How managers use culture and controls to impose a '996' work regime in Communist China that constitutes modern slavery" by Jenny Jing Wang, 23 July 2020
describes the imposition of 996工作制:
"… as an unrestricted global capitalism and a Confucian culture of hierarchy and obedience … The cases cited involve semi-structured interviews with 11 managers and 19 workers working in the hospitality and manufacturing sectors. The interviews are analysed to determine how managers use controls to exploit power/distance, high levels of insecurity, and unenforced labour rights to impose harsh working conditions.
This system is routinely endorsed by Communist China's billionaires and corporate business groups. According to Jack Ma, founder of e-commerce giant Alibaba (BABA):
"If we find things we like, 996 is not a problem," …
"… employees who worked longer hours will get the "rewards of hard work."
Currently, Shanghai has the highest monthly minimum wage among 31 provinces (RMB 2,590/$400 per month) and Beijing has the highest hourly minimum wage (RMB 25.3/$3.9 per hour). Eight regions – Shanghai, Guangdong, Beijing, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hubei, and Zhejiang – have surpassed the RMB 2,000 ($308) mark in their monthly minimum wage standards. [does not apply to seasonal migrant workers]
At the lower end of the wage spectrum, Liaoning's minimum wage level (RMB 1,420/$224 per month) is slightly higher than that in Anhui (RMB 1,340/$212 per month).
Social Engineering and the Derogation of Workers Rights. Communist China's Mega Cheap Labor Factories
See Video below: The so-called largest factory in the World (2009) EUPA is privately owned.
"EUPA runs on Human Sweat Alone"
It produces "Made in Communist China" for export on behalf of numerous foreign businesses. It is located in the Xiamen Special Economic Zone in Fujian Province.
The following 2009 documentary video describes a tendency towards a highly regulated and oppressive social fabric which serves the development of the low wage (profit driven) industrial export economy.
The Confucian ethics of obedience and social subordination of the labor force is the driving force.
Socialists and progressives must acknowledge the nature of this process. Communist China is not a socialist country. Quite the opposite. It is a low wage economy (See Karl Marx on relative and absolute surplus value, wages and the length of the working day, Capital (Book I, Parts IV- VI)
Note: the yellow uniform coincides with the color of the factory. The documentary points to an official 40 hour week and salaries (2009) varying from $90 to $300 dollars a month. These official figures do not include overtime.
More than ten years later, this "mega factory structure" has become a model of Chinese industrial capitalism in major manufacturing areas, including the Southern Guangdong Manufacturing Base, the Greater Shanghai region and Yangtze Delta (140 million people) and the Chongqing mega-industrial region located in Sichuan which has a population in excess of 30 million people.
History of Communist China's Cheap Labor Economy
In 1978, an "Open Door Policy" was put forth by Deng Xiaoping alongside the launching of Communist China's Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in Shenzhen and Xiamen and subsequently in major industrial cities.
These reforms constitute the backbone of Communist China's cheap labor export economy.
Moreover, while contributing to impoverishing the Chinese people (particularly in rural areas), a large share of the profits of this capitalist growth process have been transferred via international commodity trade to Communist China's Western business partners.
It is worth noting, however, that the "Open Door" concept was first coined by US Secretary of State John Hay in 1899, as part of a US colonial plan which consisted in obliging Communist China to open its door to trade "on an equal basis" with the colonial powers.
Moreover, since the abolition of the People's Commune (1983), agricultural land has in large part been privatized.
People in rural areas largely rely on remittances from migrant employment in the cities and "special economic zones" in manufacturing and construction.
The Socialist Mainstream has casually dismissed to even acknowledge the facts pertaining to land concentration, ownership and the rise of social inequality and the development of buoyant luxury goods sector for a small privileged social minority.
The Restoration of Capitalism
I will conclude on a personal note.
In 1981-82, based at the University of Hong Kong, Centre for Asian Studies (CAS), I started my research on the process of capitalist restoration in Communist China. This research –which extended over a period of 4 years– included fieldwork in several regions of Communist China (1981-83) focussing on economic and social reforms, analysis of the defunct People's Commune (abolished in 1983) and the development of privately owned capitalist industry including the cheap labor export economy.
I started reviewing Chinese economic history including the structures of the factory system prior to 1949, the development of the treaty ports established in the wake of the Opium wars (1842) and came to the realization that what was being reinstated in terms of the special economic zones, the open door policy had been influenced by the history of the treaty ports, which granted extraterritorial rights to Britain, France, Germany, the US, Russia and Japan.
I completed the manuscript of my book entitled "Towards Capitalist Restoration? Chinese Socialism (Slavery) after Mao" in 1984.
It was casually turned down by the Left: "We unfortunately have no market for a book on this subject".
The book was published by Macmillan in 1986. Click to download in pdf (free of charge. very slow due to size of file)
Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, Editor of Global Research.
He has undertaken field research in Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific and has written extensively on the economies of developing countries with a focus on poverty and social inequality. He has also undertaken research in Health Economics (UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), UNFPA, CIDA, WHO, Government of Venezuela, John Hopkins International Journal of Health Services (1979, 1983)
He is the author of 13 books including The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003), America's "War on Terrorism" (2005), The Globalization of War, America's Long War against Humanity (2015).
He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His writings have been published in more than twenty languages. In 2014, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit of the Republic of Serbia for his writings on NATO's war of aggression against Yugoslavia. He can be reached at [email protected]
See Michel Chossudovsky, Biographical Note
Michel Chossudovsky's Articles on Global Research
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Q: Any way to unify the difference between these two graphs? I have now estimated the depth map of a set of images based on an AI model of depth estimation. But when I combined these images, I found that the benchmarks are different when predicting based on different images. For example, a value of depth 1 is 10m in the first image, but becomes 5m in the second image.(Because only relative values are judged.) Is there any way to unify the difference between these two graphs?
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import cv2
import numpy as np

smooth_picture_feed = np.load("save_picture_5_12.npy")
for pic in smooth_picture_feed:
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Debt Rattle October 1 2019
October 1, 2019 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:36 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, Boris, CIA, Civil War, ECB, Good Friday, Hillary, impeachment, Irish border, PsyOps, reserve currency, Trump, Twitter 15 Responses »
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• Dear America, Civil War Is Not A Joke – Or A Picnic (RT)
• Civil War On (Kunstler)
• Impeachment…or CIA Coup? (Ron Paul)
• Hillary Clinton's Big Comeback Begins Tuesday (WT)
• US Dollar Status as Global Reserve Currency Slides (WS)
• No End In Sight For ECB's Inflation Problem (MW)
• Twitter Executive For Middle East Is British Army 'Psyops' Soldier (MEE)
• Johnson Planning To Bypass Brussels In Bid For New Brexit Deal (Ind.)
• UK Proposes Customs Posts On Both Sides Of Irish Border (RTE)
• France's Overtures Toward Russia (Moisi)
• Assange's Lawyers Were Under Surveillance. That's Not The Whole Story (Canary)
Nebojsa Malic, senior writer at RT, lived through the Yugoslavia civil war.
Critics have reacted to President Donald Trump's Twitter warning about his impeachment causing a civil war with both shrieks of outrage and jokes. Notably absent: any self-awareness of what such a war would be like or how to avoid it. "If the Democrats are successful in removing the president from office, I'm afraid it will cause a Civil War-like fracture in this nation from which this country will never heal," Texas televangelist Robert Jeffress said Sunday night on Fox News. Trump quoted him in a tweet the next morning, and Twitter lost its collective mind. The typical response was to accuse Trump of calling for a new civil war, mind-reading what he must have really meant by the quote. He was "priming his base" to think of war, according to unnamed "experts of fascism,"a liberal comedian argued in just one example.
Others dismissed the very notion of a civil war as crazy, joking about bringing the potato salad and biodegradable forks – or hamberders and covfefe – to the fight, as soon as they get out of yoga class, using the hashtag #CivilWarSignup. There were also scornful takes about Americans being too fat to fight, or rural Americans being too scared to "take the subway in New York or drive in Los Angeles," much less take a rifle and "take their country back from elite urbanites." It's unclear whether the people joking about bringing food to the fight were deliberately channeling the spirit of Washingtonians who turned out to the first Battle of Manassas/Bull Run, in June 1861, as if it were a picnic, bringing baskets and blankets to enjoy the show.
As anyone who's studied that era of US history knows, their glee quickly turned to horror and panic, when the Union army lost – and they found themselves shoved aside on crowded roads leading back to Washington by the routed troops in blue. Wars never go as planned. No plan survives first contact with the enemy, who also gets a vote. If there is one ironclad rule of war through the ages, no matter the level of technology, that is it. Yet the corollary is that civilians always forget about it, and it comes back to bite them.
"Does this sound a little like part of the origin story of RussiaGate? Is that not exactly the potential criminal matter that the current attorney general, Mr. Barr, is officially investigating?"
Someone in Impeachmentville is not paying attention. Of course, diverting the rubes is exactly the point of the latest CIA operation to negate the 2016 election. Has nobody noticed that there is treaty between Ukraine and the USA, signed at Kiev in 1998 and ratified by the US Senate in 2000. It's an agreement on "Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters." Here, read the cover letter for yourself:
What part of the following do Nancy Pelosi and the news media not understand? "The Treaty is self-executing. It provides for a broad range of cooperation in criminal matters. Mutual assistance available under the Treaty includes: taking of testimony or statements of persons; providing documents, records, and articles of evidence; serving documents; locating or identifying persons; transferring persons in custody for testimony or other purposes; executing requests for searches and seizures; assisting in proceedings related to restraint, confiscation, forfeiture of assets, restitution, and collection of fines; and any other form of assistance not prohibited by the laws of the requested state… ([etc]."
How does this not permit Mr. Trump asking the president of Ukraine for "assistance" in criminal matters arising out of "collusion with Russia," as specified within the scope of Robert Mueller's special prosecutor activities? For instance, the matter of CrowdStrike. The cybersecurity firm was co-founded by Russian ex-pat Dmitri Alperovitch, who also happens to be a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, an anti-Russian think tank funded by Ukrainian billionaire, Viktor Pinchuk, who donated at least $25 million to the Clinton Foundation before the 2016 election. Crowdstrike was the company that "examined" the supposedly hacked DNC servers, while somebody in the Obama administration prevented the FBI from ever seeing them. Does this sound a little like part of the origin story of RussiaGate? Is that not exactly the potential criminal matter that the current attorney general, Mr. Barr, is officially investigating?
Obvious nonsense though it may be, people will continue to accuse me of supporting Trump. But you can't accuse Ron Paul of that.
You don't need to be a supporter of President Trump to be concerned about the efforts to remove him from office. Last week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced impeachment proceedings against the President over a phone call made to the President of Ukraine. According to the White House record of the call, the President asked his Ukrainian counterpart to look into whether there is any evidence of Ukrainian meddling in the 2016 election and then mentioned that a lot of people were talking about how former US Vice President Joe Biden stopped the prosecution of his son who was under investigation for corruption in Ukraine.
Democrats, who spent more than two years convinced that "Russiagate" would enable them to remove Trump from office only to have their hopes dashed by the Mueller Report, now believe they have their smoking gun in this phone call. It this about politics? Yes. But there may be more to it than that. It may appear that the Democratic Party, furious over Hillary Clinton's 2016 loss, is the driving force behind this ongoing attempt to remove Donald Trump from office, but at every turn we see the fingerprints of the CIA and its allies in the US deep state. In August 2016, a former acting director of the CIA, Mike Morell, wrote an extraordinary article in the New York Times accusing Donald Trump of being an "agent of the Russian Federation."
Morell was clearly using his intelligence career as a way of bolstering his claim that Trump was a Russian spy – after all, the CIA should know such a thing! But the claim was a lie. Former CIA director John Brennan accused President Trump of "treason" and of "being in the pocket of Putin" for meeting with the Russian president in Helsinki and accepting his word that Russia did not meddle in the US election. To this day there has yet to be any evidence presented that the Russian government did interfere. Brennan openly called on "patriotic" Republicans to act against this "traitor." Brennan and his deep state counterparts James Comey at the FBI and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper launched an operation, using what we now know is the fake Steele dossier, to spy on the Trump presidential campaign and even attempt to entrap Trump campaign employees. Notice a pattern here?
Too predictable to be newsworthy.
Media attention will intensify on Hillary Clinton on Tuesday. The former first lady, senator, secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate is ready for another round in the public arena. She has a new book arriving, written with the help of a very close relative. Behold. Here comes "The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience" — all 464 pages of it. Indeed, the new book of essays now landing on the shelves is written by Mrs. Clinton and her daughter Chelsea Clinton, is published by Simon & Schuster. Some informed observers speculate the book could be yet another indicator — along with increased public appearances and commentary — that Mrs. Clinton pines for a political comeback.
What kind of comeback? Oh, maybe the bumper stickers will read BIDEN/CLINTON 2020, WARREN/CLINTON 2020 — or even CLINTON/CLINTON 2020. Who the heck knows? "Word on the political street now is the rumbling that the impeachment probe launched by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be the crack that opens the door for another presidential run by Hillary Clinton. This time, the thinking goes, Hillary would be running with vindication that the 2016 election was 'stolen' from her and she can ascend in 2020 to reclaim the mantle for her party and the majority of the country that voted for her," writes Nate Ashworth, editor in chief of Election Central.
Wolf Richter mostly manages to deny his own headline.
If the US dollar loses its hegemony as a global reserve currency, it would be a sea change globally, and specifically for the US economy. Today, we got the next installment in that saga, via the IMF's quarterly COFER data on foreign exchange reserves. Total global foreign exchange reserves in all currencies ticked up 1.1% from the first quarter, to $11.7 trillion. US-dollar-denominated exchange reserves rose only 0.7% to $6.79 trillion, and their share of total global foreign exchange reserves fell to 61.63%, down from 61.86% in the prior quarter. And this has been going on for years in baby steps:
The US dollar's share of global reserve currency declines when central banks other than the Fed proportionately reduce their dollar-denominated assets and add assets denominated in other currencies. Compared to the mega-moves in the 1970s, the recent moves have been muted. Nevertheless, the current share of USD-denominated foreign exchange reserves of 61.63% is the lowest since the year-end in 2013. The bump in 2014, 2015, and 2016 has now been unwound:
These US-dollar-denominated exchange reserves are US Treasury securities, US corporate bonds, and other financial assets that central banks other than the Fed are holding in their foreign exchange reserves. The Fed's own holdings of Treasury securities and Mortgage-Backed Securities are not included in "foreign exchange reserves." However, the Fed's holdings of foreign-currency denominated assets are included in the other currencies. Unlike some other central banks, the Fed holds just a smidgen in foreign currency assets – currently $20.6 billion worth, compared to, for example, China's $3.1 trillion in foreign exchange reserves.
[..] The chart below shows the dollar's slowly declining but still hegemonic share of foreign exchange reserves, the euro's essentially flat share, and the other reserve currencies' comparatively tiny share. The renminbi (RMB) is the short red line near the very bottom:
To shed some light on the tangle of currencies at the bottom of the chart above, it's useful to look at them without the US dollar and the euro overshadowing the neighborhood:
Inflation is not Europe's problem. The ECB is.
Unemployment in the eurozone declined to 7.4% in September, its lowest level since August, 2008, the EU's statistics institute Eurostat said Monday. But this good news about the European economy helps underline the predicament the European Central Bank has long struggled with: the persistent low level of inflation. The ECB has undershot its official price stability target, set at "below but close to 2%", every year since 2013. Keeping the eurozone on that steady inflation path is the only official remit of the ECB. It hasn't been tasked with other economic policy objectives, like the U.S. Federal Reserve on employment, or the Bank of England on supporting the government's economic objectives.
Inflation in the eurozone stood at an annual 1% in August, according to Eurostat. The closest the ECB was to its target was last year, when inflation reached 1.8%. That was up from 1.5% in 2017, and 0.2% in both preceding years. The risk of debilitating deflation – falling prices – was the rationale behind the ECB's first massive quantitative easing program, launched in 2015. The central bank is now citing the financial markets' declining inflation expectations for 2021 as the main reason for its latest monetary easing package, announced on September 12: They have fallen from 1.8% to 1.5% since the beginning of this year, according to ECB chief economist Philip Lane.
"..the 77th Brigade is giving the British military "the capability to compete in the war of narratives at the tactical level.."
The senior Twitter executive with editorial responsibility for the Middle East is also a part-time officer in the British Army's psychological warfare unit, Middle East Eye has established. Gordon MacMillan, who joined the social media company's UK office six years ago, has for several years also served with the 77th Brigade, a unit formed in 2015 in order to develop "non-lethal" ways of waging war. The 77th Brigade uses social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, as well as podcasts, data analysis and audience research to wage what the head of the UK military, General Nick Carter, describes as "information warfare".
Carter says the 77th Brigade is giving the British military "the capability to compete in the war of narratives at the tactical level"; to shape perceptions of conflict. Some soldiers who have served with the unit say they have been engaged in operations intended to change the behaviour of target audiences. What exactly MacMillan is doing with the unit is difficult to determine, however: he has declined to answer any questions about his role, as has Twitter and the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD). Twitter would say only that "we actively encourage all our employees to pursue external interests", while the MoD said that the 77th Brigade had no relationship with Twitter, other than using it for communication.
The 77th Brigade's headquarters is located west of London. It brought together a number of existing military units such as the Media Operations Group and the 15 Psychological Operations Group. At its launch, the UK media was told that the new unit of "Facebook warriors" would be around 1,500 strong, and made up of both regular soldiers and reservists. In recent months, the army has been approaching British journalists and asking them to join the unit as reservists.
In reality, he's preparing to blame everyone else for his own failures. And Dominic Cummings will blame Boris.
Boris Johnson is to attempt a last-ditch charm offensive on EU leaders to get a Brexit deal over the line, after delivering his proposals for a new withdrawal agreement to Brussels as early as the end of this week. With EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier viewed in Downing Street as a stickler for rules who will be hard to shift from the deal struck with Theresa May, Mr Johnson is keen to speak with key European leaders who may be ready to show flexibility ahead of the crunch Brussels summit on 17 October. Plans were made to fly the prime minister to the funeral of ex-president Jacques Chirac for talks in the margins with sympathetic leaders, but it was decided the opportunity did not justify breaking off his attendance at the Conservative conference in Manchester.
London believes a key to any deal will be securing the acceptance of Irish premier Leo Varadkar and German chancellor Angela Merkel. News that negotiator David Frost has finalised a legal text of the UK proposals – said by a senior government source to be "game changing" – emerged as ministers attending cabinet admitted that they were not absolutely sure what the PM plans to do if his hopes of a deal fall flat. With speculation that the plan is known only to a tiny circle around Mr Johnson and his chief adviser Dominic Cummings, housing minister Esther McVey said she did not "know what is necessarily going on in Boris's head", while even chancellor Sajid Javid when asked if he knew what the PM would do could say only that "I think I do".
And you thought they'd steer clear of hammering Good Friday…
The UK has proposed the creation of a string of customs posts along both sides of the Irish border as part of its effort to replace the backstop, RTÉ News understands. The ideas, which would be highly controversial, are contained in proposals sent from London to the European Union – extracts of which have been seen by RTÉ News. The proposals would effectively mean customs posts being erected on both sides of the border, but located perhaps five to ten miles 'back' from the actual land frontier. This is because under British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the UK is insisting that Northern Ireland remain completely outside the EU's customs union for industrial goods and agri-food products.
Even more controversial is a proposal that the goods moving from a so-called "customs clearance site" on the northern side of the border to a similar site on the southern side would be monitored in real time using GPS via mobile phone data, or tracking devices placed on trucks or vans. The ideas are contained in one of four so-called 'non-papers' submitted by UK officials during recent technical discussions in Brussels. Under the British proposals, both the UK and EU would create what are believed to be called "customs clearance sites", but to all intents and purposes a customs post. Traders would have a choice of either a straightforward customs declaration which would have to be lodged and cleared on either side of the border, or the so-called 'transit' system.
Under a transit scheme, the exporter becomes a registered 'consigner' at base, and the importer becomes a registered 'consignee'. The method requires a bond from a financial institution to guarantee that the relevant customs duty, excise and VAT have been paid and that the goods do not go illegally off the beaten track en route. The UK proposals have been discussed in technical talks with the European Commission's Brexit Task Force under Michel Barnier. However, the details of the four non-papers have not been disclosed to EU member states.
Macron playing Napoleon again. He can't stop himself.
French President Emmanuel Macron is convinced that now is the right time to reset relations with Russia. He has therefore made it a diplomatic priority to restore a climate of trust between Paris and Moscow. Three compelling reasons underlie this move… First and foremost, the international strategic context has changed dramatically. China is rising, while the United States, although still the world's dominant power, is distancing itself from its global responsibilities. And Russia, with an aging, shrinking population and a huge, largely uninhabited landmass, is a natural prey for China's long-term ambitions. European leaders should not resign themselves passively to seeing Russia, lacking any other alternative, align with China.
Instead, they should try to convince Russians that their future is with Europe, and not as China's junior partner in a deeply unbalanced relationship. Russia's destiny lies in the West, not the East. Moreover, although Russia is no match for China, it has returned as a serious global actor. Many current conflicts, from Eastern Europe to the Middle East, simply cannot be addressed without involving Russia. This represents a triumph of sorts for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who first came to power nearly 20 years ago pledging to restore his country's geopolitical clout. In particular, Putin wanted the US to treat Russia not as a mere object of history, as it had done under his predecessor Boris Yeltsin, but as a real interlocutor.
And while it might be impossible to restore the bipolar world of the Cold War years, at least the US would be forced to recognize the importance of a modernized and operational Russian army that could intervene in the former Soviet sphere and beyond. This represents a triumph of sorts for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who first came to power nearly 20 years ago pledging to restore his country's geopolitical clout. In particular, Putin wanted the US to treat Russia not as a mere object of history, as it had done under his predecessor Boris Yeltsin, but as a real interlocutor.
If these revelations don't stop Assange's extradition, nothing will. And Britain will be nothing but a deep black hole.
A private security company organised 24/7 surveillance of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. This included confidential meetings between Assange and members of his legal team. The surveillance was provided directly to the CIA. These revelations could possibly jeopardise the viability of the US extradition case. But within this story there lies another that raises serious questions about the establishment media and allegiances. According to El Pais, Spanish security firm UC Global was responsible for the surveillance of Assange when he was a guest of the Ecuadorian government at their London embassy. UC Global, a firm with an address in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), was hired by Senain, the former Ecuadorian intelligence service, ostensibly to provide protection for Assange.
However, it's now been revealed that the company's owner David Morales passed on the results of the operations to the CIA. He even installed a video streaming service direct to the US. Also monitored were meetings between Assange and his lawyers, including Melynda Taylor, Jennifer Robinson, and Baltasar Garzón. After Rafael Correa was replaced by the right-wing Lenín Moreno as president of Ecuador in May 2017, the latter cancelled the UC Global contract. Moreno then issued a new contract to Ecuadorian company Promsecurity. Video recordings and photos taken by that firm were subsequently used in an extortion attempt.
Debt Rattle July 23 2018
July 23, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:02 am Finance Tagged with: Assange, austerity, drought, fracking, heat, megacities, overshoot, PsyOps, Russiagate, steel, Tesla 7 Responses »
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• Martyrs to the Cause: Carter Page and Julian Assange (Raimondo)
• British Assassination Campaign Targeting Russian Exiles? (SCF)
• The Burden Of Proof Is On The Russiagaters (CJ)
• Russian Hysteria An Exercise In PsyOps (Kunstler)
• Liquidity Crisis: Tesla Asks Suppliers For "Cash Back" (ZH)
• Portugal Dared to Cast Aside Austerity. It's Having a Major Revival.
• How The Fracking Revolution Broke OPEC's Hold On Oil Prices (Rapier)
• Less Than 20% Of US Apartments Affordable For Middle-Income Black Renters (MW)
• China Probes Stainless Steel Imports From Indonesia, EU, Japan And Korea (R.)
• The World's Largest Megacities By 2100 (ZH/VC)
• Earth's Resources Consumed In Ever Greater Destructive Volumes (G.)
• Crop Failure And Bankruptcy Threaten Farmers As Drought Grips Europe (G.)
"Assange is, in short, the greatest journalist of our time.."
Assange was granted sanctuary due to Rafael Correa, then the President of Ecuador: unfortunately, Correa's successor – one Lenin Moreno – has caved to pressure from the US and Britain, and it looks like Assange is going to be handed over to the British imminently. What happens next is anybody's guess, but my own view is that there has indeed been a grand jury secretly deliberating his case, and charges will be made public: which means Assange will be sent to America, and to an uncertain fate. Uncertain due to the Supreme Court decision in the Pentagon Papers case, in which the Supremes ruled that the First Amendment protects journalists who report facts that may embarrass or otherwise inconvenience the government.
In other circumstances, and in an earlier era, his fate would not be uncertain, it would be sealed. After all, WikiLeaks has revealed more US government secrets than any single individual or state adversary in history. One after another the revelations came – a US helicopter gunship gunning down Iraqi civilians, the entire secret diplomatic history of the US, complete with original documents and references, the methodology of hi-tech US surveillance on ordinary Americans, and the list goes on and on. Assange is, in short, the greatest journalist of our time – and so naturally the rest of the profession hates his guts, and is calling for his head.
The reasons for this should be clear enough: the Russia-gate mythology, a matter of faith for the Fourth Estate, characterizes Assange as one of its chief demons. He is, in their fake-expert phraseology, a Russian "asset," Putin's puppet, who deprived Hillary Clinton of her rightful due and "stole" the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Donald Trump.
Since the narrative is not based on any evidence whatsoever, we can simply turn it upside down.
For its part, the Russian government has always categorically denied any involvement in the ill-fate of nationals living in exile in Britain. On the Skripal case, Moscow has pointed out that the British authorities have not produced any independently verifiable evidence against the Kremlin. Russian requests for access to the investigation file have been rejected by the British. On the Litvinenko case, Russia has said that the official British inquiry was conducted without due process of transparency, or Russia being allowed to defend itself. It was more trial by media. A common denominator is that the British have operated on a presumption of guilt. The "proof" is largely at the level of allegation or innuendo of Russian malfeasance.
But let's turn the premise of the argument around. What if the British state were the ones conducting a campaign of assassination against Russian émigrés, with the cold-blooded objective of using those deaths as a propaganda campaign to blacken and criminalize Russia? In a recent British media interview Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was typically harangued over alleged Russian malign activity in Britain. Lavrov rightly turned the question around, and said that the Russian authorities are the ones who are entitled to demand an explanation from the British state on why so many of its nationals have met untimely deaths. The presumption of guilt against Russia is based on a premise of Russophobia, which prevents an open-minded inquiry.
If an open mind is permitted, then surely a more pertinent position is to ask the British authorities to explain the high number of deaths in their jurisdiction. As ever, the litmus-test question is: who gains from the deaths? In the case of the alleged attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, would Russia risk such a bizarre plot against an exile who had been living in Britain undisturbed for 10 years? Or would Britain gain much more from smearing Moscow at the time of President Putin's re-election in March, and in the run-up to the World Cup?
The more recent alleged nerve-agent poisoning of two British citizens – Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess – in the southern English town of Amesbury revived official anti-Russia accusations and public fears over the earlier Skripal incident in nearby Salisbury. The Amesbury incident in early July occurred just as a successful World Cup tournament in Russia was underway. It also came ahead of US President Donald Trump's landmark summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. Again, who stands to gain most from these provocative events? Russia or Britain?
This is how it should be done.
As we've discussed previously, in a post-Iraq invasion world the confident-sounding assertions of spies, government officials and media pundits is not sufficient evidence for the public to rationally support claims that are being used to escalate dangerous cold war tensions with a nuclear superpower. The western empire has every motive in the world to lie about the behaviors of a noncompliant government, and has an extensive and well-documented history of doing exactly that. Hard, verifiable, publicly available proof is required. Assertions are not evidence.
But even if there wasn't an extensive and recent history of disastrous US-led escalations premised on lies advanced by spies, government officials and media pundits, the burden of proof would still be on those making the claim, because that's how logic works. Whether you're talking about law, philosophy or debate, the burden of proof is always on the party making the claim. A group of spies, government officials and media pundits saying that something happened in an assertive tone of voice is not the same thing as proof. That side of the Russiagate debate is the side making the claim, so the burden of proof is on them. Until proof is made publicly available, there is no logical reason for the public to accept the CIA/CNN Russia narrative as fact, because the burden of proof has not been met.
[..] There are many Russiagate skeptics who have been doing copious amounts of research to come up with other theories about what could have happened in 2016, and that's fine. But in a way this can actually make the debate more confused, because instead of leaning back and insisting that the burden of proof be met, you are leaning in and trying to convince everyone of your alternative theory. Russiagaters love this more than anything, because you've shifted the burden of proof for them. Now you're the one making the claims, so they can lean back and come up with reasons to be skeptical of your argument.
"I think that the thinking class in the United States has literally lost its mind."
The media over the last few years has indulged in wild speculation around U.S.-Russian relations. And as seen, the run up to this weeks meeting at Helsinki between the leaders of the two nations has been no different. James believes the ongoing Russia investigation, the election of Donald Trump and the defeat of Hillary Clinton has made a certain class of people in the U.S. irrational. "I think that the thinking class in the United States has literally lost its mind. Donald Trump's persona is so odious that it's just driven them mad and he's like a giant splinter in the eye of the thinking class."
A registered Democrat, Kunstler doesn't believe that the Russians interfered in the U.S. election in any meaningful way. And any efforts to punish or antagonize them are crazy and dangerous. The ongoing expansion of NATO, playing war games at Russia's borders and the destabilizing of Ukraine has consolidated bad relations with Russia stretching back to the Cold War. History repeats itself tragically when the thinking classes of powerful nations start to behave extremely irrationally. "Doing anything to interfere with trade and erect barriers and put up tariffs might be a dangerous thing to do," says Kunstler.
Boy, what a story.
According to a memo seen by The Wall Street Journal that was sent to a supplier last week, Tesla said it is asking its suppliers for cash back to, drumroll, help it become profitable, as if that is somehow the priority of the company's suppliers. And we are not talking about a few cents here and there: Tesla requested the supplier return what it calls a meaningful amount of money of its payments since 2016. But wait, it gets better: the memo which was sent by a global supply manager (who will probably be fired shortly), described the request as "essential to Tesla's continued operation" and characterized it as an investment in the car company to continue the long-term growth between both players.
In other words, Tesla has given its vendors an ultimatum: give us a haircut, or else we won't survive, and not only is your business with us over, but all those billions in payables we owe you, well, good luck with the other pre-petition claims in bankruptcy court. Or as one Tesla skeptic noted on twitter: "TSLA has been cranking out cars 24/7 at 2-3x the rate they can deliver them, turning supplier parts on credit into finished goods. Then they turn around and "ask" for a cash back so they don't default on said suppliers. Y'all just got played." For those wondering how much money Tesla owes its suppliers, or "ransom" as it is now better known, the answer is $2.6 billion and rising exponentially.
As the WSJ further adds, "while Tesla said in the memo that all suppliers were being asked to help it become profitable, it is unclear how many were asked for a discount on contracted spending amounts retroactively." While Tesla did not comment on the memo, it spun the situation as standard industry practice (it isn't) confirming it is seeking price reductions from suppliers for projects, some of which date back to 2016, and some of which final acceptance many not yet have occurred. The company called such requests a standard part of procurement negotiations to improve its competitive advantage, especially as it ramps up Model 3 production. Odd that Tesla did not consider all these aspects of its business when it signed contracts which laid out, very clearly, what its obligations were.
Why still austerity in Greece?
Ramón Rivera had barely gotten his olive oil business started in the sun-swept Algarve region of Portugal when Europe's debt crisis struck. The economy crumbled, wages were cut, and unemployment doubled. The government in Lisbon had to accept a humiliating international bailout. But as the misery deepened, Portugal took a daring stand: In 2015, it cast aside the austerity measures its European creditors had imposed, igniting a virtuous cycle that put its economy back on a path to growth. The country reversed cuts to wages, pensions and social security, and offered incentives to businesses. The government's U-turn, and willingness to spend, had a powerful effect. Creditors railed against the move, but the gloom that had gripped the nation through years of belt-tightening began to lift. Business confidence rebounded. Production and exports began to take off — including at Mr. Rivera's olive groves.
"We had faith that Portugal would come out of the crisis," said Mr. Rivera, the general manager of Elaia. The company focused on state-of-the-art harvesting technology, and it is now one of Portugal's biggest olive oil producers. "We saw that this was the best place in the world to invest." At a time of mounting uncertainty in Europe, Portugal has defied critics who have insisted on austerity as the answer to the Continent's economic and financial crisis. While countries from Greece to Ireland — and for a stretch, Portugal itself — toed the line, Lisbon resisted, helping to stoke a revival that drove economic growth last year to its highest level in a decade. The renewal is visible just about everywhere. Hotels, restaurants and shops have opened in droves, fueled by a tourism surge that has helped cut unemployment in half.
In the Beato district of Lisbon, a mega-campus for start-ups rises from the rubble of a derelict military factory. Bosch, Google and Mercedes-Benz recently opened offices and digital research centers here, collectively employing thousands. Foreign investment in aerospace, construction and other sectors is at a record high. And traditional Portuguese industries, including textiles and paper mills, are putting money into innovation, driving a boom in exports. "What happened in Portugal shows that too much austerity deepens a recession, and creates a vicious circle," Prime Minister António Costa said in an interview. "We devised an alternative to austerity, focusing on higher growth, and more and better jobs."
How long for?
A decade ago, in the summer of 2008, the price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was racing toward $150 a barrel. Over the previous three years, and despite strong demand growth, the world had only increased oil production by 1.2 million BPD, and it essentially all came from OPEC. Many analysts, including me, were extremely concerned about the future hold OPEC would maintain over the world's oil supplies. It appeared that there would an enormous transfer of wealth from those countries dependent upon oil imports – like the United States – to OPEC countries. In many cases, these countries have interests that are hostile to those of the U.S., so this was very much an issue of national security.
But the future played out differently than it seemed it would in the summer of 2008. Unbeknownst to most people, oil producers were experimenting with a marriage between two established oil drilling technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. The success of this marriage would unlock oil in tight oil and shale oil deposits that had previously been too expensive to recover, and would result in one of the greatest oil booms the world had ever seen. In fact, the "fracking revolution" caused U.S. oil production to turn upward in 2009, and then rise over the next seven years at the fastest rate in U.S. history.
While it is still true that OPEC still produced 42.6% of the world's oil in 2017, the majority of new oil production since 2008 has come from the U.S. Of the 10.3 million BPD of new oil production since 2008, the U.S. supplied 6.2 million BPD (60%). The world's two other major oil-producing countries, Saudi Arabia and Russia, saw their production increase by 1.7 million BPD and 1.2 million BPD respectively since 2008. OPEC overall increased its production by 3.6 million BPD since 2008, primarily as a result of production growth in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran. But OPEC's gains were limited by production declines in Venezuela, Libya, and Nigeria. There were also regional production declines in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South and Central America.
What happens if you use cheap credit to make your zombie economy look alive.
Millions of Americans rent because they can't afford to buy. And many of those people struggle to pay the rent, new research suggests, more so if they are African-American or Hispanic. A renter who earned $39,647 per year, the median black household income in the U.S., could afford just 16.2% of rentals available on Zillow if they kept their housing costs below 30% of their pretax income, according to a new analysis from the real-estate company. Hispanic renters fared somewhat better: Those who earned the median household income could afford 27.3% of rentals before they risked spending more than a third of their pretax income on housing.
Spending 30% of your gross income on rent is the traditional measure of affordability used by many real-estate experts. Comparatively, white renters who earned the median household income for their demographic could afford 49.7% of rentals, while Asian renters could afford 67.4%. "Perhaps more so than any other factor, income determines where and how we live in the United States today," said Zillow senior economist Aaron Terrazas in the report. "Income disparities across racial and ethnic groups in the United States have remained stubbornly persistent and, as a result, black and Hispanic families encounter far fewer affordable rental options than white and Asian families," he said.
More tariffs?
China on Monday launched an anti-dumping probe into stainless steel imports worth $1.3 billion, including from a privately owned Chinese mill with operations offshore, after complaints that a flood of product has damaged the local industry. The Commerce Ministry said on Monday the investigation will target imports of stainless steel billet and hot-rolled stainless steel sheet and plate from the European Union, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia, which nearly tripled last year. The move follows a complaint by Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel with backing from four other state-owned mills including Baosteel's stainless steel division, which blamed cheap imports on falling prices, it said.
China makes and consumes around half of the world's stainless steel, which is used to protect against corrosion in buildings, transportation and packaging. While the complaint targets eight foreign producers, it also lists a number Chinese companies, including the Indonesian unit of one of the world's top producers, Tsingshan Stainless Steel, and 19 traders who import product. Some private Chinese companies have opened or started building plants in Indonesia in recent years, drawing on its plentiful nickel resources and lower-cost of production. A significant portion of the new production has been sold in China, analysts say.
At least a little scary.
Throughout the course of human history, the biggest cities have always seemed impossibly large. For many millennia, it was almost unfathomable for a city to sustain more than 1 million residents. In fact, as Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins notes, it wasn't until the 19th century that the largest cities globally, such as London and Beijing, were able to consistently hold populations beyond that impressive mark. Despite this, in the modern era, we've quickly discovered that a city of 1 million people isn't remarkable at all. In China alone, there are now over 100 cities with a million people today – and as such, our mental benchmark for what we consider to be a "big city" has changed considerably from past times.
Just like a city the size of modern Tokyo was hard to imagine for someone living in the 19th century, it can be an extremely difficult thought experiment for us to visualize what future megacities will look like. Researchers at the Global Cities Institute have crunched the numbers to provide us with one view of the potential megacities of the future, extrapolating a variety of factors to project a list of the 101 largest cities in the years 2010, 2025, 2050, 2075, and 2100.
The Overshoot theme is shaky, but not fully devoid of meaning.
Humanity is devouring our planet's resources in increasingly destructive volumes, according to a new study that reveals we have consumed a year's worth of carbon, food, water, fibre, land and timber in a record 212 days. As a result, the Earth Overshoot Day – which marks the point at which consumption exceeds the capacity of nature to regenerate – has moved forward two days to 1 August, the earliest date ever recorded. To maintain our current appetite for resources, we would need the equivalent of 1.7 Earths, according to Global Footprint Network, an international research organisation that makes an annual assessment of how far humankind is falling into ecological debt.
The overshoot began in the 1970s, when rising populations and increasing average demands pushed consumption beyond a sustainable level. Since then, the day at which humanity has busted its annual planetary budget has moved forward. Thirty years ago, the overshoot was on 15 October. Twenty years ago, 30 September. Ten years ago, 15 August. There was a brief slowdown, but the pace has picked back up in the past two years. On current trends, next year could mark the first time, the planet's budget is busted in July. While ever greater food production, mineral extraction, forest clearance and fossil-fuel burning bring short-term (and unequally distributed) lifestyle gains, the long-term consequences are increasingly apparent in terms of soil erosion, water shortages and climate disruption.
Record highs everywhere.
Farmers across northern and central Europe are facing crop failure and bankruptcy as one of the most intense regional droughts in recent memory strengthens its grip. States of emergency have been declared in Latvia and Lithuania, while the sun continues to bake Swedish fields that have received only 12% of their normal rainfall. The abnormally hot temperatures – which have topped 30C in the Arctic Circle – are in line with climate change trends, according to the World Meteorological Organization. And as about 50 wildfires rage across Sweden, no respite from the heatwave is yet in sight. Lennart Nilsson, a 55-year-old cattle farmer from Falkenberg near Malmo and co-chair of the Swedish Farmers Association, said it was the worst drought he had experienced.
"This is really serious," he said. "Most of south-west Sweden hasn't had rain since the first days of May. A very early harvest has started but yields seem to be the lowest for 25 years – 50% lower, or more in some cases – and it is causing severe losses." If no rain comes soon, Nilsson's association estimates agricultural losses of up to 8bn Swedish kronor (£700m) this year and widespread bankruptcies. The drought would personally cost him around 500,000 kronor (£43,000), Nilsson said, adding that, like most farmers, he is now operating at a loss. The picture is little different in the Netherlands, where Iris Bouwers, a 25-year-old farmer, said the parched summer had been a "catastrophe" for her farm.
"Older families around me are comparing this to 1976," she said. "My dad can't remember any drought like this." The Bouwerses expect to lose €100,000 this year after a 30% drop in their potato crop. After investing in a pig stable over the winter, the family have no savings to cover the loss. Asked what she would do, Bouwers just laughed. "Hope and pray," she said. "There is not much more I can do. I wouldn't talk about bankruptcy yet, but our deficit will be substantial. It probably means we need to have a very good talk with the bank."


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is a superhero anime television series produced by Toei Animation and The Walt Disney Company Japan, based on the Marvel Comics universe. The series began airing in Japan from April 2, 2014, on TX Network stations.  The series was aimed at boys 6–12 and tied in with merchandising produced by Bandai.

Premise
With help from Japan's Dr. Nozomu Akatsuki, Iron Man develops a new device called the Digital Identity Securement Kit, known as DISKs for short, designed to help the cause of stopping and detaining villains. However, whilst presenting the DISK project on the Raft, the villainous Loki appears and uses the very same DISKs to launch a breakout of all the captured villains, trapping Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor and Wasp inside DISKs as well. Nozomu's sons, Akira and Hikaru, along with three other children, Edward, Chris, and Jessica, come to possess these DISKs and obtain biocodes, allowing them to bring out these superheroes for a short period of time. Teaming up with the Avengers, the group travel across the world to search for DISKs before they fall into the wrong hands.

Characters

The Heroes
These five children have what is known as a Bio-Code graphed into them, due to their proximity to the Bio-Code Installer when it was destroyed by Loki. Because of this and the security programs installed in the DISKs, the kids are the only ones who can release the heroes in question via a process referred to as "D-Smash". However, because the encoding was corrupted, each hero can only be released for five and a half minutes before being forcibly sent back.

The DISKs are divided into five categories based on the imprisoned hero or villain's abilities: red Tech DISKs, blue Fight DISKs, purple Energy DISKs, green Power DISKs, and yellow Animal DISKs.

Children

 A cheerful, carefree young boy and the main protagonist. The younger son of DISK developer Nozomu Akatsuki, he is hot-blooded and has a strong sense of justice. He and his older brother Hikaru are invited to visit their father's research lab on the Raft for the unveiling of the DISK project when it comes under attack by Loki's forces. Akira possesses the Tech Bio-Code, allowing him to summon red DISK heroes like Iron Man, Falcon, and War Machine.

 Akira's older brother, and the more calm and mature of the two. He is a prodigy with a quiet and composed personality. He possesses the Energy Bio-Code, allowing him to summon purple DISK heroes like Thor, Nova, Cyclops, and Doctor Strange.

 The oldest of the five children. He comes across as a cynical bad boy, but is gentle-hearted and likes to make sweets. He possesses the Fight Bio-Code, allowing him to summon blue DISK heroes like Captain America and Iron Fist. His name appears to be a nod to Chris Evans who plays Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

 The youngest of the five children. He is a sweet, shy, kind and lively boy and good student. A big fan of superheroes, he joined the tour on the Raft in hopes of meeting Captain America, who is his favorite hero. He possesses the Power Bio-Code, allowing him to summon green DISK heroes like Hulk and Power Man. His name appears to be a nod to Edward Norton, who played the Hulk in the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk.

 A rich girl from France whose parents run a business. She is described as "naive and selfish" and is forthright in speaking her mind, though not with malicious intent. Because of her varied interests, Jessica has many skills she uses to trick the villains. She possesses the Animal Bio-Code, allowing her to summon yellow DISK heroes like Wasp, Black Panther, and Beast.

Avengers

 A Genius, billionaire, playboy, and philanthropist. He fights using a mechanical suit of armor with flight and various integrated weapons. Stark worked with Dr. Akatsuki on the development of the DISK project, which he was presenting at the Raft when Loki attacked. After being trapped in a DISK, he becomes Akira's partner.

 Steve Rogers / Captain America

 A World War II veteran and super-soldier. He fights with his unbreakable vibranium shield and hand-to-hand combat skills. He always puts duty and the mission above everything else and has a tendency to take things too seriously. After being trapped in a DISK, he becomes Chris's partner.

 Thor Odinson / Thor

 The Norse God of Thunder and the future king of Asgard. He wields Mjolnir, an indestructible hammer that can control thunderstorms and lightning. After being trapped in a DISK, he becomes Hikaru's partner.

 Bruce Banner / Hulk

 A gamma-irradiated scientist turned monster. He has incomparable physical strength and a body that can withstand intense punishment. After being trapped in a DISK, he becomes Ed's partner.

 Janet Van Dyne / Wasp

 The only female member of the Avengers. She is a fashion designer as well as a superhero and uses her small size and superior agility to outwit opponents. After being trapped in a DISK, She becomes Jessica's partner.

Other Allies

 Virginia "Pepper" Potts

 Tony Stark's assistant. She visits Japan to formally invite the Akatsuki brothers to the Raft to visit their father. Following Loki's attack, she escapes with the children to one of Stark's safehouses. From there, she becomes head of Stark Industries in Stark's absence and acts as a support team member for the heroes during their missions.

 Peter Parker / Spider-Man

 A wisecracking superhero who gained superpowers after being bitten by a radioactive spider. Parker is a Stark Industries scientist and the assistant of Dr. Akatsuki, developing the DISK technology with him. He is one of the only heroes to escape being sealed in a DISK, and provides the Avengers' DISKs to the heroes to fight back against Loki and his forces. He protects New York in the Avengers' absence while occasionally assisting the team when needed.

Villains

 Loki Laufeyson / Loki (ロキ)

 The main antagonist, and the adopted brother and archenemy of Thor. He uses the DISKs to free all the prisoners on the Raft, allowing them to escape, while trapping the heroes inside DISKs of their own. In the aftermath of his attack, he disguises himself as Senator Robert Winters and takes over S.H.I.E.L.D. in an attempt to find the DISKs scattered around the globe. He later loses a fight against the Avengers and the X-Men and is trapped in another world with Dr. Akatsuki. Loki eventually escapes and returns to New York, ultimately being captured in a DISK by Akira in the final episode.

Celebrity Five
A team of five masked human villains working with Loki to retrieve all the missing DISKs and place the world's superheroes and supervillains under their control. The group is led by former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Tim Gilliam and consists of reporter Rosetta Riley, chef Manino Giordani, musician Joel Murphy, and swordsman Okuma Jubei. Following Loki's defeat, the Celebrity Five are arrested, but are freed and forcibly recruited into Hydra by the Red Skull.
 Tim Gilliam

 Rosetta Riley
 Voiced by:Sachiko Kojima (Japanese); Kari Wahlgren (English)

 Manino Giordani
 Voiced by:Tarusuke Shingaki (Japanese); Kyle Hebert (English)

 Joel Murphy

 Okuma Jubei

Hydra
 Johann Schmidt / Red Skull

 The head of the Hydra terrorist group, and the archenemy of Captain America. After the defeat of Loki, Red Skull becomes the second main antagonist of the series, maintaining more control over the DISKs than Loki through the use of the Dimension Sphere.

Media

Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers, produced by Toei Animation, began airing on TV Tokyo from April 2, 2014. The series is helmed by series director Toshiaki Komura, a veteran director for Toei Animation's Precure franchise. Series organization is provided by King Ryū, who has no previous credits in the entertainment industry. Veteran Dragon Ball animator and character designer Tadayoshi Yamamuro provides character designs, much in the same style as Dragon Ball. As of Episode #27 the role of character designer is shared with Naoki Tate due to Yamamuro's directing of Dragon Ball Z: Fukkatsu no F. The opening and ending themes are  and "Thread of Fate" respectively, both performed by T.M.Revolution. An English dub began airing on July 6, 2015 on Disney XD in Southeast Asia, Disney Channel in the Philippines, and both Disney Channel and its programming block Disney XD in Taiwan. It premiered in India in English, Hindi, Tamil & Telugu audios on Marvel HQ on March 16, 2020.

Video game
A video game based on the series, titled  was developed by Bandai Namco Games and was released in Japan for the Nintendo 3DS on November 13, 2014.

Bachicombat
Bachicombat is Bandai's collectible game tied in with the TV show. The game is similar to the game Pogs. It is meant to simulate the plot of the show which sees young kids who possess a unique "Biocode" summon heroes and villains trapped inside S.H.I.E.L.D. tech that Loki's turned against the Marvel Universe.

See also
 Marvel Anime
 Marvel Future Avengers

References

External links
 Official website at TV Tokyo

2014 anime television series debuts
Japanese children's animated action television series
Japanese children's animated adventure television series
Japanese children's animated science fiction television series
Japanese children's animated superhero television series
Animated television series about children
Animated television series based on Marvel Comics
Avengers (comics) television series
Superheroes in anime and manga
Toei Animation television
TV Tokyo original programming
Television shows based on Marvel Comics
Disney XD original programming
Disney Channels Worldwide original programming
Anime based on comics
Television series by Disney

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Q: How to get scrollTop from within element? I have a div element that has some other elements such as a p tag and a menu. I want the menu to add a class to the menu when to user scrolls about 100 pixels down. So I'm trying to figure out how to get the distance that's scrolled.

I've created a plunkr to simulate the situation. The problem is that when I scroll and I check the scrollTop value it outputs 0.
This is the plunkr
Why the downvote? This is a normal javascript question and it has an clear example of what the issue is :/

A: try this
// Code goes here
window.addEventListener('scroll',function(){
  let scrollTop=document.body.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollTop;
     if(scrollTop>100){alert(scrollTop)}
},false);

A: Element.scrollTop is essentially the distance between the DIV's top border and the DIV's top most visible line. For better understanding read this.

var container = document.querySelector(".container"),
    p         = document.querySelector("p.child");

container.addEventListener('scroll', function() {
  if(container.scrollTop > 100)
    p.classList.add('red');
  else
    p.classList.remove('red');
});
.container {
  max-height: 200px;
  border: 1px solid black;
  overflow-y: auto;
}

h1.child {
  text-align: center;
  height: 400px;
}

p.child.red {
  color: red;
}

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To Asia Watch
South Korea dealing with new phase of coronavirus outbreak
Author: Asia Watch
Infections jump 593% in just three days . . .
South Korea's government says the number of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in South Korea jumped from 30 to 208 within the last three days and confirmed the country's first two deaths. The spike reportedly originated at the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Daegu after a 61-year-old woman infected with the virus attended numerous services between February 9 and February 16, while refusing to get checked for the virus. Of the new cases this week, 128 are linked to the church.
Industries suffering . . .
Hyundai Motor and its affiliate, Kia Motors, which together form the world's fifth largest automaker, suspended their operations from February 4-to-11 due to a shortage of auto parts from China. This is the first time Hyundai has suspended its operations since 1997. SsangYong Motor also halted its operations during the same period for lack of parts from China. South Korea's tourism industry has also suffered amid the COVID-19 outbreak, which is estimated to have cost the sector C$40 million as of February 21. Airline companies have reduced their routes as demand continues to flag.
Government moves to tackle outbreak . . .
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has acknowledged COVID-19's potential long-term effects on the economy and started exploring remedies by connecting with industry leaders. Moon also spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping on February 10 to discuss co-operative measures for containing the outbreak. Policy-makers at various levels of government have started to prepare funding alternatives to address the economic challenges. The Seoul Metropolitan Government has started to prepare a C$550-million fund to provide loans to tourism sector firms with a special interest rate of 1.5 per cent, while the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said it will increase imports of auto parts from Cambodia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, subsidizing local manufacturers as well.
KBS News: '코로나19' 관광업계 위기… 정부 지원책에 자구책까지
The Korea Herald: Hyundai still lacking parts, full operation likely next week
The Korea Herald: S. Korea steps up containment efforts as virus cases jump to 208