9Again the Lord spoke to me and said, "I have discovered a conspiracy against me among the people of Judah and Jerusalem. 10They have returned to the sins of their ancestors. They have refused to listen to me and are worshiping other gods. Israel and Judah have both broken the covenant I made with their ancestors. 11Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am going to bring calamity upon them, and they will not escape. Though they beg for mercy, I will not listen to their cries. 12Then the people of Judah and Jerusalem will pray to their idols and burn incense before them. But the idols will not save them when disaster strikes! 13Look now, people of Judah; you have as many gods as you have towns. You have as many altars of shame—altars for burning incense to your god Baal—as there are streets in Jerusalem.
14"Pray no more for these people, Jeremiah. Do not weep or pray for them, for I will not listen to them when they cry out to me in distress.


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Une 12e édition parisienne plébiscitée !
Cette douzième édition sur Paris -inaugurée par Didier Chinardet, Président de l'UNSFA Île-de-France- a rencontré le succès escompté.
Non moins de 6.303 visiteurs ont répondu présents ; soit +2 % en comparaison avec l'année dernière. Cette édition fut donc l'une des plus fréquentée de ces dernières années. Et d'après les premiers sondages réalisés, industriels et visiteurs sont particulièrement satisfaits de la qualité des produits présentés et des contacts réalisés durant l'événement.
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ARCHITECT@WORK Madrid will have its first edition!
ARCHITECT@WORK Madrid, the carefully curated two-day trade show aimed at architects, interior designers and specifiers, will have its first edition on the 9th and 10th of May at IFEMA, hall 12. Over 160 leading national and international architectural suppliers will showcase their latest innovations in surface solutions, lighting technology as well as interior and exterior fixtures and fittings. All exhibitors go through a rigorous selection process, with an external judging panel overseeing the product selection, to ensure that this is Spain's most highly respected trade shows of its kind.
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ARCHITECT@WORK Toronto is scheduled for May 17 & 18, 2017 in the Enercare Centre. The event will be open from 11 am until 7 pm on both days. Canada, thus, becomes our 14th country for ARCHITECT@WORK, creating a grand total of 22 editions!
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Seth MacFarlane, you genius! The man is a quadruple threat as producer/co-writer/director of Ted 2, as well as providing the voice of the title character. He scores well in each of those jobs and delivers a worthy sequel to 2012's Ted.
I am happy to report that Ted 2 is just as funny as the original. Ted's campaign for personhood is totally ridiculous, as is the whole concept of this teddy bear who came to life in the 80s and is now a foul-mouthed, pot-smoking smartass. As before, Ted looks and acts just as real as his best friend John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg), which helps make the film work.
The story begins with Ted's wedding to Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth). When they argue as young couples do, they decide to cement their relationship by becoming parents. So begins a search for a sperm donor, which ends with a hilarious visit to a fertility clinic.
After their effort to adopt is squelched, Ted's legal status is challenged. He and John retain rookie lawyer Samantha Jackson (Amanda Seyfried) to defend him in court. Ted and John are skeptical of her inexperience but take an instant liking when she whips out a bong and lights up to help calm her "migraines."
After a Boston jury deems Ted to be "property" and not a person, the trio drive to New York to meet civil rights attorney Patrick Meighan (Morgan Freeman). The journey becomes perilous when Ted drives. An overnight stop allows Samantha to serenade John as their flirty relationship begins to simmer.
When Meighan says no to representing Ted, our furry friend heads to the NYC Comic Con where he is kidnapped by nemesis from the earlier film, Donnie (Giovanni Ribisi), and rescued by John and Samantha. Which leads to the film's final resolution.
The laughs come quickly and frequently in Ted 2. And, as expected, the jokes are rude and crude, earning the film its R rating. Targets of MacFarlane's jests include Google searches, improv comics, the Law and Order theme song and joggers, among many others. (Not to mention a suddenly timely dig at the guy who wrote the Constitution.)
Ted 2 opens with a spectacular dance number which outdoes the opening bit on MacFarlane's Family Guy—mainly because this one uses real people. And Ted.
Even though Seth MacFarlane never appears on screen, it's easy to imagine him with his smirking grin, just about to burst out in laughter, which is the appropriate response to Ted 2.
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tagged as Amanda Seyfried, Comic Con, Family Guy, Giovanni Ribisi, Google, Jessica Barth, Morgan Freeman, Seth MacFarlane
A Million Ways To Die In The West is filled with moments of pure delight! Those moments are hilariously funny. Some moments are clever and inventive. Other moments are crude and cheap.
Unfortunately, AMWTDITW lacks cohesiveness as a movie. The plot is passable and provides a useful framework for Seth McFarlane to hang his moments on. But the script fails to get the rhythm necessary to keep the comedy moving at a good pace.
The problem is McFarlane. The man is mega-talented. He stars as sheep farmer Albert. He directs. And he is a co-writer of the film. But although he possesses arguably the best smirk in the business, he lacks the presence to prosper as a lead character on the big screen. (He may find ways to embellish that presence.)
As a director, he knows how to bring visual and verbal humor to a film while also telling a story. His 2012 film Ted works. A Million Ways delivers laughs and a story, but could have benefited from more judicious editing.
My favorite character in A Million Ways is Foy (Neil Patrick Harris), a dandy who runs a store that sells moustache-grooming supplies. He leads a wonderful musical number—written by Stephen Foster—about the importance of a man's having a moustache. Foy later has a digestive system crisis that features low humor that leads to big laughs.
Anna (Charlize Theron) is the wife of gunslinger Clinch (Liam Neeson). Before Clinch shows up in the town of Old Stump, Anna has a platonic thing going with Albert who is heartbroken after being dumped by Louise (Amanda Seyfried). Louise has moved on the moustache man, Foy, amping up Albert's dislike for the dandy.
The townsfolk also include Albert's best friend Edward (Giovanni Ribisi) whose girlfriend Ruth (Sarah Silverman) refuses to engage in premarital sex, even though she is, by profession, a hooker.
The film has a few cool surprises, including cameo appearances. (There's one bit that should NEVER have been included in a TV spot, but is. It's huge spoiler.)
The soundtrack is classic. Joel McNeely brings an Aaron Copeland influence to many of his compositions. And Alan Jackson sings the closing theme song that has a classic feel.
A Million Ways To Die In The West, like Blazing Saddles, is a film that is likely to be enjoyed for decades. See it in the theater now and on TBS and TNT (with a cleaned-up dialogue version) in years to come.
tagged as A Million Ways to Die in the West, Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron, Giovanni Ribisi, Liam Neeson, Sarah Silverman, Seth MacFarlane
Will you like "Ted?" Well, do you like "Family Guy?"
"Ted" is a rude, crude and hilarious movie with a heart. Mark Wahlberg is John, a 35-year-old underachiever who has a real, live teddy bear for a best friend. He also has a girlfriend, Lori, played by Mila Kunis, who wants him to ditch the bear and get on with his life.
When he was an 8-year-old, John got a teddy bear for Christmas. He made a wish that the bear could be real and…it happened! The bear became famous. Appeared on the Carson show! Now Ted has grown up with Wahlberg and is a sarcastic, pot-smoking has-been.
Kudos to all involved for making Ted appear so real. A combination of motion-capture and animation has rendered an on-screen Ted that is nearly flawless.
Ted is voiced by Seth MacFarlane, who also directed and co-wrote the movie. MacFarlane is the brains behind "Family Guy"—he's the voice of Peter and Stewie Griffin and Brian the dog—and two other animated TV shows.
"Family Guy" fans will enjoy cast members Alex Borstein, the voice of Lois Griffin, and Patrick Warburton, who voices Joe Swanson, in their minor roles in "Ted." (I wonder why Seth Green, who voices Chris Griffin, was not included.)
"Ted" has many cool cameos and a quick tribute to an early 80's film comedy classic. Speaking of voices, Patrick Stewart provides the film's opening and closing narration.
Trimming away some excess would've resulted in a tighter, better movie. Getting us to a happy ending made the film too long. But the funny lines and scenes are abundant, good taste is lacking and audiences will be howling at "Ted."
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tagged as Alex Borstein, Chris Griffin, Family Guy, Lois Griffin, Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Patrick Warburton, Peter Griffin, Seth MacFarlane, Ted


The A&E series Duck Dynasty has a large fanbase since it first appeared on television in 2012. Viewers were hooked on the Robertson clan, following their business selling a duck call in Lousiana. The TV show also gave fans a sense of the family members' personalities. However, there was a lot more that went on behind the scenes filming Duck Dynasty.
You may have read about Phil Robertson's controversial comments before, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The reality show Duck Dynasty aired on A&E from 2012 to 2017. The program focused on the Robertson family, who make a living in Louisiana from their business, Duck Commander. Brothers Phil and Si, along with Phil's sons Jase, Willie, and Jep, make products for duck hunters, especially the duck call known as the Duck Commander. The family is renowned for their long beards and Christian values. The series was massively popular with fans. Nearly 12 million viewers tuned in to the fourth season premiere, making it the most-watched nonfiction program in cable history.
Phil supported congressional candidate Vance McAllister in 2013 by endorsing him in a television commercial. The reality star is credited with helping McAllister, who never held a political office, win the election. Phil originally supported Ted Cruz for President, but after Cruz dropped out of the race Phil put his support behind Donald Trump. He isn't the only one of the Robertsons who backed Trump. His son Willie spoke at the Republican National Convention in support of Trump. Willie said: "If you're looking for a job or trying to grow a business like I am, Donald Trump will have your back.
Next: you won't believe this person was a fan of the show.


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A political system influenced greatly by a large, permanent military force
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Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values. Examples of modern militarist states include the United States, Russia and Turkey. It may also imply the glorification of the military and of the ideals of a professional military class and the "predominance of the armed forces in the administration or policy of the state".
Army, Standing - A permanently established army of paid or conscripted soldiers and other military personnel
Military Industrial Complex - The U.S. military "establishment": the armed forces and the companies and politicians that depend on them
Along Pennsylvania Avenue, by Murray Rothbard, Faith and Freedom , Oct 1956
Summarizes highlights of the 1956 presidential race, thanking Adlai Stevenson for calling for an end to the draft and nuclear weapons tests, and various proposals about repealing the income tax
The most heartening feature: Stevenson's resurrection of a lost issue in America—the draft. Those who object that Adlai will not really end the draft miss the point—for the first time since 1941 we do not simply accept the draft as an act of God. It rings once again as an issue. That alone takes a giant step forward. For this service, Stevenson deserves our thanks. ... Ending the H-bomb tests would not only slow down the cruel armament race; it would stop poisoning the atmosphere with deadly radiation, a poison that endangers the future of the human race itself. Why spread such destruction in peacetime?
Related Topic: Taxation
An American Empire! If You Want It instead of Freedom, Part 1, by Richard Ebeling, Future of Freedom , Apr 2003
Examines Garet Garrett's 1952 essay "The Rise of Empire" and contrasts it with Charles Krauthammer's "The Unipolar Moment Revisited" and the concept of "unilateralism" espoused by him
Civil society places the dignity and privacy of the individual at the center of social affairs. Commerce and trade are the peaceful and voluntary means and methods by which people interact for mutual improvement of their lives. The military mind, on the other hand, imposes hierarchy and control over all those under the direction of the commander in chief. The successful pursuit of the 'mission' always takes precedence over the individual and his life. And Empire, by necessity, places increasing importance on military prowess and presence at the expense of civilian life and its network of noncoercive, market relationships.
Related Topics: Garet Garrett, Imperialism, United States
The American Heritage of "Isolationism", by Gregory Bresiger, Future of Freedom , May 2006
Criticizes the use of the word "isolationist" by the media, "internationalists" and other foreign intervention promoters, looking at the heritage of noninterventionism as exemplified by Washington's Farewell Address
The United States then had a relatively small armed force, which many Americans nonetheless viewed as expensive and dangerous in peacetime. Americans had inherited a suspicion of militarism from their British friends who had supported them in the American Revolution. Those maverick Englishmen celebrated the Whig tradition, which had defeated the Stuart kings in two civil wars. The Stuarts lost, in part, because of their fondness for standing armies in peacetime.
Related Topics: John Adams, Foreign Entanglements, Free Trade, Limited Government, Thomas Jefferson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Vietnam War, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson
As We Go Marching / America's Emerging Fascist Economy / Toward a Planned Society , by Walter E. Grinder, Libertarian Review , Aug 1976
Review of the books As We Go Marching by John T. Flynn, America's Emerging Fascist Economy by Charlotte Twight and Toward a Planned Society by Otis L. Graham, Jr.
In Twight's book there is inexplicably not one mention of the Pentagon, of the WIB, of the OPA, of military expenditures and contracts, or of national security management. ... It is militarism that places increasing power in the hands of the government to better control the economy. It is militarism that can most easily be used as a cover to create and maintain government jobs. It is militarism that can, with most political acceptability, be used for purposes of Keynesian pump-priming. It is militarism that permits the State to become, in Twight's words, a full-fledged 'market surrogate.'
Related Topics: Fascism, John T. Flynn, Richard Nixon
Blueprint for Dictatorship, by Justin Raimondo, 30 Apr 2007
Describes how the Defense Authorization Act, the Military Commissions Act and changes to the Insurrection Act could be used to impose martial law in the United States
This use of the military to enforce domestic order is a new development in American history, one that augurs a turning point not only in terms of law, but also in our evolving political culture. Such a measure would once have provoked an outcry – on both sides of the aisle. When the measure passed, there was hardly a ripple of protest: the Senate approved it unanimously, and there were only thirty-something dissenting votes in the House. Added to the Military Commissions Act, this new brick in the wall of domestic repression creates the structure of a new imperial system on the ruins of the old constitutional order.
Related Topics: Attacks of 11 September 2001, George W. Bush, Democratic Party, Garet Garrett, Right to Petition the Government, Republican Party
Bush's Wartime Dictatorship, by Justin Raimondo, 21 Dec 2005
Examines Bush's claims regarding secret surveillance, the militarism and fascism underlying his regime and the lack of an effecive opposition
This doctrine of presidential supremacy is derived, in substance and style, from the unrestrained militarism of the regime. That we are now in a state of permanent war requires that our government undertake a perpetual war on what is left of our civil liberties. Given the nature of this conflict with a formless, stateless enemy, more a concept than a combatant, there is no longer any division between the "home front" and the struggle against the worldwide Islamist insurgency, between domestic and foreign policy. That the antiwar opposition ... will wind up being treated as "the enemy" should surprise no one.
Related Topics: George W. Bush, Democratic Party, Fascism
The Bush Torture Memos, by James Bovard, Future of Freedom , Nov 2006
Examines how the Bush Justice Department and the Pentagon twisted legal interpretations to absolve themselves of charges of torture in dealing with "enemy combatants" in the "war on terror"
Another memo that leaked out in June 2004 was the [Pentagon's] ... This ... report — drawing heavily on the Bybee memo — helped establish interrogation policies for U.S. military personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and elsewhere ... The Pentagon insisted that unless Congress specifies in a law that the president will be banned from committing specific crimes, he is presumed to be exempt from any limitation during wartime ... The Pentagon updated American military morality, explaining why the principles of the Nuremberg war crimes trials may not apply if soldiers claim that they were "following orders."
Related Topics: Attacks of 11 September 2001, Protection Against Cruel and Unusual Punishments
The Danger Is Intervention, Not "Isolation", by Sheldon Richman, 29 May 2014
Reflects on pronouncements by President Obama (at West Point) and Defense Secretary Hagel (at a Chicago foreign affairs forum) on Americans turning more "isolationist"
[Defense Secretary Chuck} Hagel said that withdrawing from the world would have a high cost. Has he checked lately on what military and political engagement is costing the taxpayers? The full cost of the military alone is over a trillion dollars a year. The U.S. government spends more on this than most of the rest of the world combined ... The butcher's bill and the money price cannot be tolerated. America's record of death, injury, and destruction has on net created enemies. The gross cultural and economic distortions from worshipful militarism have yet to be calculated.
Related Topics: Attacks of 11 September 2001, Middle East, Barack Obama
Democracy: The God That Failed, by Justin Raimondo, 12 Oct 2005
Discusses the actual results from the so-called Bush Doctrine involving "democratizing" the Middle East as well as several other countries which have a "democracy deficit"
Chalmers Johnson, the trenchant critic of American militarism, has characterized the U.S. as an "empire of bases," and what we are witnessing is the extension of this global system of linked launching pads for American military intervention from Kyrgyzstan to Ukraine to Iraq. This ... is our real foreign policy objective. Ukraine is preparing to enter NATO, so that Western troops and weaponry will soon be poised 15 minutes from Moscow. Iraq, too, is the future site of permanent U.S. military bases, and there are ample signs that we are already digging in for the long haul.
Related Topics: George W. Bush, Democracy, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine
Eisenhower Was Right, by Jacob Hornberger, 16 Feb 2004
Comments on the announcement of a 30,000 person increase in U.S. military, not authorized by Congress, but under "emergency" power by the Secretary of Defense and reflects on the wisdom of Eisenhower's 1961 warning about the military-industrial complex
The ... Army's chief of staff, Gen. Peter Schoomaker, told the House Armed Services Committee that he is going to increase the size of U.S. forces by 30,000. Did Congress authorize the increase? No. And when a few congressmen indicated to the general that they'd be pleased to have Congress authorize the increase, the general responded that Congress didn't need to trouble themselves with providing such authority — that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld had already authorized the temporary increase under his "emergency" power — and that the "emergency" would justify the increase for the next four years.
Related Topics: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Imperialism, Military Industrial Complex
Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn, by Paul Gottfried, The Freeman , Nov 1995
Review of Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn , edited by Gregory P. Pavlik and published by FEE
Flynn has been proven right in his view of the military in the modern welfare state, as a microcosm of social experimentation. Revenues raised for conscripted armies have been used throughout the century to support and render dependent on government much of the young male population; the military has also been a laboratory for creating a population subservient to public administration, which has made itself into a new voice of authority. Flynn rightly notes that military expansion in Imperial Germany was favored not by the Prussian aristocracy, but by the advocates of a powerful modernized German state, including socialists.
Related Topics: United States Constitution, John T. Flynn, World War I
Give Me Liberty [PDF], by Rose Wilder Lane, 1936
Originally published as an article titled "Credo" in the Saturday Evening Post ; describes her experiences in and history of Soviet Russia and Europe, contrasting them with the history of the United States, emphasizing the individualist themes
In America we do not have even universal military training, that basis of a social order which teaches every male citizen his subservience to The State and subtracts some years from every young man's life, and has thereby weakened the military power of every nation that has adopted it ... As Stalin said at Teheran, American capitalist production is winning this world war. The men unprepared and untrained for war have the economic and military energy that defeats in war the most socialized of all peoples, well trained for war by compulsory military service.
Related Topics: American Revolutionary War, United States Bill of Rights, Bureaucracy, California, Capitalism, Democratic Party, Economic Resources, Economics, Farming, France, Germany, Government, Hungary, Italy, Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky, Liberty, Individual Liberty, Nonviolent resistance, Personal Responsibility, Political Parties, Republican Party, Socialism, United States
The GOP, RIP, by Justin Raimondo, 8 Sep 2006
Ponders the status of the Republican Party prior to the 2006 mid-term elections and after nearly six years of the George W. Bush presidency
Their policies discredited ... the neocons retreated ... and regrouped to fight another day. The first stage ... would catapult them to the opposite side of the political spectrum – but without, of course, in any way altering their core principle: devotion to the cult of the war god. Militarism, not only as a foreign policy but as the organizing principle of the domestic order, is the central doctrine of the neoconservative creed, and they have never betrayed it no matter what their party registration. The neocons, in their takeover of what used to be the conservative movement, have Prussianized the GOP.
Related Topics: George W. Bush, Republican Party
In Afghanistan, They Died for No Good Cause, by Sheldon Richman, 5 Dec 2013
Critiques an exchange by NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on the rationale for keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan
Seriously? The most important part of the calculation as to whether the U.S. military will continue to occupy Afghanistan is what American military personnel have lost in the past 12 years? In the business world, that's called throwing good money after bad. In economics, it's known as sunk costs. The past is gone. Any action is future-oriented. The right question is, What would be the consequences of continued military occupation? Additional killing and dying will not bring back the dead or restore lost time, nor will it make the losses worthwhile.
Related Topics: Afghanistan, Middle East
Iraqi Sanctions and American Intentions: Blameless Carnage? Part 1, by James Bovard, Future of Freedom , Jan 2004
Examines the effects of the destruction of Iraqi infrastucture during the 1990-91 Gulf War, the subsequent UN sanctions and the "oil for food" program
A Washington Post analysis published on June 23, 1991, noted that Pentagon officials admitted that, rather than concentrating solely on military targets, the U.S. bombing campaign "sought to achieve some of their military objectives in the Persian Gulf War by disabling Iraqi society at large" and "deliberately did great harm to Iraq's ability to support itself as an industrial society." The bombing campaign targeted Iraq's electrical power system, thereby destroying the country's ability to operate its water-treatment plants ... The U.S. military understood the havoc the 1991 bombing unleashed.
Related Topics: George W. Bush, Iraq
The Iraq War Crash, by Justin Raimondo, 2 Mar 2007
Discusses a 9% drop in the Shanghai Stock Exchange on 27 Feb 2007, which also affected other markets, in the context of the Iraq War and potential conflict with Iran
Bush is demanding $716 billion for his "defense" budget, which, as one news report described it, is "greater than the annual gross domestic product of all but 14 countries." ... Which brings to mind Madeleine Albright's infamous scolding of Colin Powell, which had her saying: "What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?" Well, I hope Madame Albright is satisfied: these days, our formerly superb military is getting a lot of use, and there are growing indications that the Bush administration is preparing to use it against Iran.
Related Topics: American Enterprise Institute, China, Inflation, Iraq War, War
Is Capitalism Why We Fight?, by Gregory Bresiger, Mises Daily , 6 Apr 2006
Critical review of the theses presented in the 2005 documentary Why We Fight , also inquirying about topics omitted from the film
Also, ['Why We Fight'] deserves credit because it seriously tries to discuss what is arguably the most important issue of our time: the militarization of America, a nation that once had a strong, classical liberal, anti-militarist tradition. Still, the documentarians, in true American fashion, do not want to go deep into how this militarization of America came about, a militarization that showed itself even before the feature started when the spare audience at my movie house was treated to — you guessed it — an ad for why everyone should join the National Guard.
Related Topics: Capitalism, Compulsory Education, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Military Industrial Complex, Ron Paul, Vietnam War, War, Why We Fight
It Came From Washington: A Criminally Insane Government, by Paul Craig Roberts, 1 Jul 2012
Examines U.S. government adversarial actions towards Russia and China through NATO, in the Middle East and in the Pacific
For a country incapable of occupying Iraq after 8 years and incapable of occupying Afghanistan after 11 years, to simultaneously take on two nuclear powers is an act of insanity. The hubris in Washington, fed daily by the crazed neocons, despite extraordinary failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, has now targeted formidable powers–Russia and China. The world has never in its entire history witnessed such idiocy. The psychopaths, sociopaths, and morons who prevail in Washington are leading the world to destruction.
Related Topics: China, Georgia, Pacific Ocean, Ronald Reagan, Syria
Killing Iraqi Children, by Jacob Hornberger, 19 Jun 2006
Comments on a Detroit News editorial condoning the bombing, rather than the arrest and prosecution, of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and the "collateral" death of a five-year old girl
The military mindset is totally different from the police mindset. Assume that there is a suspected terrorist hiding among 10 innocent people. How would the military and the police deal with that situation? The military would not chance the suspected terrorist's escaping or his killing a soldier in a gun battle. As we have seen in the al-Zarqawi killing, the military would simply drop a bomb on the suspect, even knowing that the innocent people around him would also be killed. In the mind of the military, the "collateral damage" would be worth it, even if it included children.
Related Topics: Attacks of 11 September 2001, United States Bill of Rights, Children, Iraq War, War
Mission Creep: US Military Presence Worldwide, Mother Jones , 22 Aug 2008
An interactive map showing the buildup of U.S. forces around the globe since 1950, with details on 2007 levels
Mission Creep in Iraq, by Sheldon Richman, 21 Aug 2014
Examines how the initial Aug 2014 "humanitarian" intervention in Iraq, following the Sinjar massacre, keeps morphing into something bigger
There are several reasons not to intervene militarily in another country's conflict, even modestly. One is the potential for mission creep. We already could detect the signs of mission creep in Iraq ... The safe bet is that the mission in Iraq will continue to grow. Few people believe that airpower alone will defeat the justly abhorred Islamic State or that the Iraqi military can get the job done on the ground. So Obama could be tempted to up the ante in order to prevent any touted gains from being squandered. Mission creep is only one reason why intervention in foreign wars is never a good idea.
Related Topics: Iraq War, Barack Obama
The Myth of War Prosperity, Part 2, by Anthony Gregory, Future of Freedom , Jan 2007
Main part of the review of Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy (2006) by Robert Higgs
Running through the book from beginning to end is a deep analysis of the many facets of the U.S. warfare-state economy ... Higgs scrutinizes the tendency of Congressional "pork hawks" to funnel large sums of tax dollars to pet projects for electoral purposes, even when the Pentagon itself has not requested such lavish expenditures ... Higgs and Kilduff suggest that, while spending tends to go up and down with public support for militarism, we can probably suspect public opinion itself to be influenced considerably by politicians motivated, independent of popular interest, to promote militarism.
Related Topics: Cold War, Government, Military Industrial Complex, Unemployment, World War II
Non-Marxist Theories of Imperialism, by Alan Fairgate, Reason , Feb 1976
Examines writings of critics of imperialism that are not based on Marxist analysis
Another early critic of the permanent war economy was Arthur A. Ekirch in The Decline of American Liberalism ... and The Civilians and the Military ... In these books Ekirch traced the decline of classical liberalism and of the antimilitarist spirit in the United States, culminating in an unprecedented peacetime militarization of both government and economy. Considerably ahead of the New Left critics of the 1960's, Ekirch pinpointed the emergence and consolidation of a vast military-industrial complex which required a progressive abandonment of laissez-faire economic policies.
Related Topics: Latin America, Banking, John Bright, Richard Cobden, John T. Flynn, Foreign Entanglements, Garet Garrett, Imperialism, Leonard Liggio, George Orwell, Murray Rothbard, Jean-Baptiste Say, Joseph Schumpeter, Adam Smith, Joseph R. Stromberg, William Graham Sumner
North Korea's Nukes: Why Now?, by Justin Raimondo, 11 Oct 2006
Comments on the first North Korean nuclear test and the political prospects for the Korean peninsula, considering also China and the United States
The reason for this is, simply put, because Washington adamantly refuses to end its 50-year-plus military occupation of the South ... for internal political reasons, as well as the economic interests of base-building military contractors, the American occupation has continued as part of the U.S. "forward" stance in the Pacific and around the world. ... What brought us to this moment is our refusal to recognize that the costs of global hegemony are far greater than the alleged benefits, including the dubious "benefit" of maintaining expensive and militarily unnecessary bases on the far frontiers of Empire.
Related Topics: China, Communism, North Korea, South Korea
Obama and King, by Sheldon Richman, The Goal Is Freedom , 30 Aug 2013
Contrasts Martin Luther King Jr.'s April 1967 speech condemning the Vietnam War with Obama's actions (planning to bomb Syria) on the 50th anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech
This sort of radical analysis was rare among Vietnam War opponents, who preferred mostly to talk of policy blunders and miscalculations, rather than criminal opportunism ... "Our only hope today," he said, "lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism." King had been pressured not to denounce the war, but he ignored that advice. How could he preach nonviolence at home, he asked, while remaining silent about "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government"? How, indeed?
Related Topics: Corporatism, Vietnam, Vietnam War
Obama's Willful Foreign-Policy Blindness, by Sheldon Richman, 30 May 2013
Analyzes President Obama's 23 May 2013 speech at the National Defense University, later comments on Memorial Day and the reactions from Republicans
Despite Obama's acknowledgement of the dangers ... of perpetual U.S. warfare, one strains to find signs of change in the speech. He says "our response to terrorism can't depend on military or law enforcement alone," but he still envisions a large role for the military: He says the first order of business is to "finish the work of defeating al Qaeda and its associated forces." And, "Beyond the Afghan theater, we only target al Qaeda and its associated forces." But "its associated forces" is a conveniently vague justification for continued U.S. militarism. It goes beyond Congress's 2001 authorization for military force.
Related Topics: Barack Obama, Republican Party, Terrorism
On Conscription [PDF], by Daniel Webster, 9 Dec 1814
Condensed from speech before the U.S. House of Representatives, given in opposition to bill proposing conscription during the War of 1812, reprinted in Left and Right in 1965, during the Vietnam War
This bill ... is an attempt to exercise the power of forcing the free men of this country into the ranks of an army, for the general purposes of war, under color of a military service. ... The administration asserts the right to fill the ranks of the regular army by compulsion. ... A military force cannot be raised, in this manner, but by the means of a military force. If administration has found that it can not form an army without conscription, it will find, if it venture on these experiments, that it can not enforce conscription without an army.
Related Topics: United States Constitution, Government, War
Our Patience on Iraq Should Be Exhausted, by Sheldon Richman, 4 Apr 2007
Comments on George W. Bush's request that the 2007 Iraqi troop "surge" be given a chance and on congressional efforts to impose a 2008 withdrawal deadline
President Bush['s] war in Iraq ... must be viewed as one piece of an imperial program that has placed U.S. military bases in 130 countries, according to Chalmers Johnson ... The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan mean more permanent bases. Hundreds of thousands of American military personnel are stationed all around the globe. House Republicans denounced the withdrawal deadline by arguing that it would endanger the U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, and "around the world." About the only concern one hears expressed about this is that the military is stretched too thin to fight another war, perhaps against Iran.
Related Topics: Imperialism, Iraq War, Threats To Liberty
The Pentagon's Power to Arrest, Torture, and Execute Americans, by Jacob Hornberger, 28 Feb 2007
Discusses the power to "arrest, torture, and execute" anyone (Amrican citizen or not) claimed to be an "enemy combatant" by the U.S. president and the military, and the shenanigans in the José Padilla case
The president and the Pentagon now wield the omnipotent power to arrest, torture, and execute any American they label an "enemy combatant." ... this power ... has totally upended the relationship of the military and civilian in the United States ... Historically, the U.S. military has lacked the power to arrest, incarcerate, or inflict harm on American civilians ... Today, the Pentagon has the authority, on orders of its commander in chief, to send American soldiers into any neighborhood in the country and take into custody any American citizen and inflict harm on him simply by labeling him an "enemy combatant" ...
Related Topics: Attacks of 11 September 2001, United States Bill of Rights, Writ of Habeas Corpus, Protection Against Cruel and Unusual Punishments
"The Police Force Is Watching the People", by Sheldon Richman, The Goal Is Freedom , 22 Aug 2014
Argues that the facts are crucial when identifying "the agressor and victim in particular cases" such as occurred in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and separately, that the role of police forces must be re-examined
Moreover, whatever happened between Wilson and Brown, it cannot justify the military-style reaction of the police and other government personnel in the aftermath. Pointing weapons at and verbally abusing peaceful demonstrators is intolerable ... People rightly decry the obnoxious militarization of even small-town police departments, but the problem is deeper than that. Police forces abused people — particularly black people — long before the Pentagon started giving cities and towns war materiel. Remember those scenes of dogs and firehoses being turned on peaceful civil-rights marchers?
Related Topics: For a New Liberty, Karl Hess, Due Process of Law, Missouri, Non-aggression Principle, Murray Rothbard, Songs
Road to Empire, by Justin Raimondo, 28 Nov 2007
Discusses the "Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship Between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America" signed on 26 Nov 2007, after the U.S. Congress went into recess
Oh, they may solicit the complicity of the top Democratic leadership ... but essentially they'll do what they have always done in the hundred-plus countries where U.S. troops are currently stationed, and that is negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement, the essential element of which immunizes our soldiers from being prosecuted by local authorities for crimes against the natives. In this case ... the scope of the agreement is a bit more comprehensive ... as well as the "security" factor, i.e., the military details of the continuing occupation, including U.S. troop levels and the construction of permanent American bases.
Related Topics: Corporatism, Foreign Entanglements, Imperialism, Iraq
Searching for America's Next Enemy, by Doug Bandow, Mises Daily , 17 Jul 2006
Discusses attempts by some U.S. conservatives to find a new enemy nation and focuses on China as a "threat"
You may have thought that the end of the Cold War ... meant peace. Think again. Washington must occupy Afghanistan and Iraq, attack Iran, confront North Korea, and, most importantly, beat back the yellow horde ... Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently suggested that "Since no nation threatens China, one must wonder: Why this growing investment. Why these continuing large and expanding arms purchases?" In fact, that question would be better asked by Chinese officials to Secretary Rumsfeld. Who threatens whom? America's increase in military outlays over the last few years alone equals China's entire defense budget.
Related Topics: East Asia, China
The Servile State Revisited, by Joseph Sobran, The Wanderer , 5 Jun 2003
Ponders David Hume's observation as to the ease with which "the many are governed by the few" and positing that in modern society, "the habit of obedience" has been taken too far
To me one of the most dispiriting features of the war on Iraq was the ease with which the State was able to convince millions of productive Americans that this was somehow a war for their freedom. These people, mostly conservative, are simply unable to see the military establishment as a huge and integral part of the bureaucratic State, parasitic on the country's wealth. The military is the one part of 'big government' with which conservatives have no quarrel, though every objection to socialism applies to military organization — to the warfare state as well as the welfare state.
Related Topics: Democracy, Law, The State
So What If Freedom Isn't Free?, by Sheldon Richman, 31 May 2013
Examines the "Freedom isn't free" assertion from the viewpoint of free will, negative or positive rights, resource scarcity and common usage
The last time I heard it I had just condemned military conscription — the draft — as slavery. It's also brought out to rebut those who refuse to support any given war, the globe-girdling military American establishment, or the pervasive and distorting military-industrial complex ... In practice, invoking "freedom isn't free" is merely a way to avoid having to discuss how the government uses the military and commandeers resources for foreign adventures. We're supposed to believe that any commitment of troops to a battlefield constitutes protection of freedom and that's all there is to it.
Related Topics: Liberty, George H. Smith, The State, Vietnam War, War
The Threat of Militarism, by Karen Kwiatkowski, 9 Jul 2006
Presentation to Global Scholar seminar, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia; discusses "the nature of modern United States foreign policy" while reflecting on what Eisenhower, Smedley Butler and Mark Twain said and wrote
Greed and gluttony in big government contractors is understandable. But when the last remaining materially productive enterprise in America is the defense and security sector, and when it is only from those sectors that high-paying American jobs are created and sustained, then the greed and gluttony of Americans themselves is harnessed with that of politically connected weapons and war-support companies ... It's all good, you see, to spend this type of money. It means American jobs. All we need is a demand in the marketplace. And sometimes, Congress and a President can also help with some of that "creation of demand."
Related Topics: Attacks of 11 September 2001, Democracy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Founding Fathers, Iraq War, Learning, Military Industrial Complex
Trivial Dispute: Obama versus the Interventionists, by Sheldon Richman, The Goal Is Freedom , 30 May 2014
Examines Barack Obama's speech at the 2014 West Point graduation and points out the scant differences between him and those advocating military intervention, in arguments for continued U.S. meddling in other countries' affairs
Obama's straw man is the interventionist who sees military force as the only or the primary tool in the toolbox. Who actually fits that description? Even Sen. John McCain, who's overly fond of American military power, says the U.S. government should not send troops to Syria or go to war with Russia over Ukraine ... Leaving aside whether what [Obama] calls aggression in any given case really is aggression (what counts for politicians is not what is done, but who does it), the only way for the U.S. military to be drawn into a situation is if a president sends it in. It is not an act of nature.
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, Government, Barack Obama, Politics, Syria, Terrorism
The Troops Don't Defend Our Freedoms, by Jacob Hornberger, 21 Oct 2005
Examines whether foreign invasion, terrorists taking over the government and the federal government, through the President and its orders to a "loyal and obedient" standing army, are plausible threats to the freedom and well-being of Americans
No nation has the military capability of invading and conquering the United States. Not China, not Russia, ... not North Korea ... Not anyone. To invade the United States with sufficient forces to conquer and "pacify" the entire nation would take millions of foreign troops and tens of thousands of ships and planes to transport them across the Atlantic or Pacific ocean. No foreign nation has such resources or military capabilities and no nation will have them for the foreseeable future ... Imagine the level of military forces that would be needed to conquer and "pacify" a country as large and well-armed as the United States.
Related Topics: Standing Army, George W. Bush, Eastern Europe, Patrick Henry, Iraq, Threats To Liberty, James Madison, Military Industrial Complex, Terrorism
The "Value" of Public Schooling, by Jacob Hornberger, Future of Freedom , Nov 2006
Examines public schooling, first comparing it to military boot camp and the draft and then discussing indoctrination in "officially approved" ideas via approved textbooks
What is the first thing that the military does to new recruits? ... First comes boot camp, a seemingly nonsensical period of time in which soldiers are ordered to drop down for pushups at the whim of an officer. Soldiers learn to march together in unison, mastering such movements as right-face and left-face. They're taught to respond without hesitation with "Yes, sir" and "No, sir" to an officer barking questions a few inches away from their face. Why? ... none of [those things] comes in very handy once the actual fighting begins. ... to mold each person's mindset into one of strict conformity and obedience.
Related Topics: Cuba, Educational Freedom, Compulsory Education, Libertarianism, Politics
The War of 1812 Was the Health of the State, Part 2, by Sheldon Richman, The Goal Is Freedom , 6 Mar 2015
Discusses how James Madison's conduct of the War of 1812 led to changes in American attitudes, including mercantilism, militarism, imperialism and centralization
Madison proposed conscription ... and later a peacetime standing army to the Congress ... Attitudes toward the military also changed for reasons of national and economic security. When Monroe succeeded Madison as president, Weeks writes, a "guiding principle ... in [his] effort to expand American foreign trade concerned the construction and maintenance of a formidable military force. Republicans traditionally had mistrusted large military establishments as subversive of republican institutions. Yet once again, the War of 1812 led to a reevaluation of a basic tenet of the Republican faith."
Related Topics: Canada, United States Constitution, Free Trade, James Madison, Murray Rothbard, War
Washington's Farewell Address, by George Washington, 19 Sep 1796
Published in the American Daily Advertiser , Philadelphia; facsimile of Washington's final draft and transcript available at The Washington Papers, hosted by the University of Virginia
While then every part of our country ... must derive from Union an exemption from those broils and Wars between themselves, which so frequently afflict neighbouring countries, not tied together by the same government; which their own rivalships alone would be sufficient to produce, but which opposite foreign alliances, attachments & intriegues would stimulate & imbitter. Hence likewise they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown Military establishments, which under any form of Government are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty ...
Related Topic: Foreign Entanglements
We Were Warned about the Rise of Empire, by Sheldon Richman, The Goal Is Freedom , 13 Jun 2014
In light of calls for U.S. re-intervention in Iraq, revisits Garet Garrett's 1952 essay "The Rise of Empire" discussing Garrett's five traits that are "the true marks of Empire" and their applicability to the United States in 2014
One need only look around to see evidence of the "ascendancy of the military mind." Not even a looming fiscal crisis prompts a serious reconsideration of America's far-flung military presence or its putative "interests" everywhere. Reverence for the military intrudes on everyday life; one cannot watch a ballgame or even a televised cooking competition without being subjected to sappy expressions of gratitude for supposed "service to our country." Americans did not always have a worshipful disposition toward the military.
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, Garet Garrett, Imperialism, United States
'What Kind of Democracy Is This?', by Justin Raimondo, 23 May 2007
Examines questions about American democracy and militarism posed by professor Andrew J. Bacevich after the death of his son in combat in Iraq
The militarist aesthetic is a key advertising tool used to market this war, and it is very useful in deflecting any effort to defund it: after all, we have to "support the troops" and our Dear Leader, no matter what folly they're embarked on, and damn the consequences. "Shock and awe," the pretentious habit of giving each of our wars of conquest titles like Operation Iraqi Freedom, and those presidential photo-ops of George W. Bush decked out in uniform and mingling with the troops like a Roman emperor with his praetorians – all this glitz has, until now, served to mask the cruel reality of war ...
Related Topics: Democracy, Democratic Party, War
Why We Fight, by Justin Raimondo, 1 Feb 2006
Detailed review of the 2005 documentary Why We Fight
... we segue into shots of an air show where militarism and entertainment meet and merge. Then a few statistics: the U.S. spends more on the military than all other categories, and, furthermore, spends more than the combined total of the top 10 other military budgets in the world ... A key sub-theme ... is the business of militarism ... dramatized in a series of interviews, shots of military trade shows, and a visit to Raytheon ... The trick in the militarism business, we are told by a Defense Department analyst, is to over-promise the benefits and lowball the costs of any new defense system ...
Related Topics: Attacks of 11 September 2001, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Military Industrial Complex, Why We Fight, World War II
Would You "Support the Troops" in Bolivia?, by Jacob Hornberger, 27 Dec 2006
Discusses U.S. military contracts and the hypothetical case of a soldier objecting to being deployed for an invasion of Bolivia on orders from the President, contrasting it to the real scenario of the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Soldiers who join the military voluntarily sign a very unusual contract with the federal government. It is a contract that effectively obligates the soldier to go anywhere in the world on orders of the president and kill people as part of an invasion force against other countries. It doesn't matter whether the intended victims deserve to die or not. That issue is irrelevant as far as the soldier is concerned. His job is not to question why people he is ordered to kill should be killed; his job is simply to invade and carry out the killing, no questions asked.
Related Topics: Standing Army, Bolivia, Ethics, Iraq War, War
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I'm afraid the situation is dire, gentlemen, by Wiley Miller, Non Sequitur , 10 Aug 2015
What's So Bad About The Galactic Empire?, by Sean Malone, 4 May 2017
Analyzes the various Star Wars movies and attempts to answer the title question and conversely what is good about the Rebel Alliance
And there's one more terrible thing we know about the Empire from Star Wars: The Force Awakens . Reformed Storm Trooper Finn (FN-2187) explains to Rey that he was actually taken from his family as a child, conscripted into the Imperial Army, and trained to be a soldier. That's a form of slavery that many real-world governments have used throughout history. Sadly even the United States government still has the power to draft its citizens into war, though that hasn't happened for decades.
Related Topics: Democracy, Individual Liberty, Star Wars
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Thanks to its reduced size, if Google can truly persuade users to use the WebP format instead of JPEG, it is likely to result in a faster browsing speed.
"WebP's compression algorithms have been significantly improved while remaining completely compatible with the previous releases," Google product manager Richard Rabbat and programmer Pascal Massimino revealed in a blog post last week.
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package com.shadow.capture;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.jnetpcap.packet.JPacket;
import org.jnetpcap.packet.JPacketHandler;
import org.jnetpcap.protocol.network.Ip4;
import org.jnetpcap.protocol.tcpip.Http;
import org.jnetpcap.protocol.tcpip.Http.Request;

import com.shadow.geoIP.GeoIPv4;

import org.jnetpcap.protocol.tcpip.Tcp;

import com.shadow.mongo.MongoTester;

public class PacketInspector implements JPacketHandler<Object> {

    public MongoTester mongoLogger = new MongoTester();

    public void nextPacket(JPacket packet, Object string) {

        Logger maliciousMatchLogger = Logger.getLogger(PacketInspector.class);
        Tcp tcp = new Tcp();
        Ip4 ip4 = new Ip4();
        Http http = new Http();

        String sourceIP;
        String destinationIP;
        String url;
        String direction;
        String maliciousType;
        boolean urlType;
        String location;
        String countryCode;

        if (packet.hasHeader(ip4) && packet.hasHeader(tcp)) {
            byte[] sIP = new byte[4];
            byte[] dIP = new byte[4];
            sIP = packet.getHeader(ip4).source();
            dIP = packet.getHeader(ip4).destination();

            sourceIP = org.jnetpcap.packet.format.FormatUtils.ip(sIP);
            destinationIP = org.jnetpcap.packet.format.FormatUtils.ip(dIP);

            direction = getDirection(tcp.source());

            maliciousType = getMaliciousType(direction, sourceIP, destinationIP);

            /*
			 * If ip matches to and the list then resolve its Location and log
			 * to Db and also to the log file
			 *
             */
            if (maliciousType.length() != 4) {
                if (direction.equals("INCOMING")) {
                    location = GeoIPv4.getLocation(sourceIP);
                    countryCode = GeoIPv4.getCountryCode(sourceIP);
                } else {
                    location = GeoIPv4.getLocation(destinationIP);
                    countryCode = GeoIPv4.getCountryCode(sourceIP);

                }

                maliciousMatchLogger.info(sourceIP + ":" + tcp.source() + " \t" + destinationIP + ":"
                        + tcp.destination() + "\t" + direction + "\t" + maliciousType + "\t" + location);

                mongoLogger.logtoDb(sourceIP, destinationIP, tcp.source(), tcp.destination(), direction, maliciousType,
                        location, countryCode);

            }

            maliciousMatchLogger.info(sourceIP + ":" + tcp.source() + " \t" + destinationIP + ":" + tcp.destination()
                    + "\t" + direction + "\t" + maliciousType);

            /*
			 * Resolve the destination of the outgoing url request and log to DB
			 * and log file
			 *
             */
            if (packet.hasHeader(http) && !http.isResponse()) {
                url = "http://" + http.fieldValue(Request.Host) + http.fieldValue(Request.RequestUrl);

                urlType = Check.isUrlMalicious(url);

                location = GeoIPv4.getLocation(destinationIP);

                countryCode = GeoIPv4.getCountryCode(destinationIP);

                maliciousMatchLogger
                        .info(sourceIP + ":" + tcp.source() + " \t" + destinationIP + ":" + tcp.destination() + "\t"
                                + direction + "\t" + maliciousType + "\t" + location + "\t" + url + "\t" + urlType);

                /*
				 * Log to DB only if the ip is malicious or if the url is listed
				 *
                 */
                if (urlType == true) {
                    mongoLogger.logUrltoDb(sourceIP, destinationIP, tcp.source(), tcp.destination(), direction,
                            maliciousType, url, urlType, location, countryCode);
                }

            }

            TcpReassemblyProcessor.processHttpPacket(sourceIP, destinationIP, tcp, mongoLogger);

        }

    }

    /*
	 * Checking the ip address against all of the Hashsets
	 *
     */
    private String getMaliciousType(String direction, String sourceIP, String destinationIP) {
        if (direction.equals("INCOMING")) {
            return Check.isIPMalicious(sourceIP);

        } else {
            return Check.isIPMalicious(destinationIP);

        }
    }

    /*
	 * Determining the Direction of tcp packets
	 *
     */
    private String getDirection(int port) {
        if (port == 8080 | port == 443 | port == 80) {
            return "INCOMING";
        } else {
            return "OUTGOING";
        }
    }

}

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Fall sitting in Canada's Nunavut territory begins Thursday
Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 10:09 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 16:09
The fall sitting of the Nunavut Legislature starts Thursday, Oct. 17. The sitting will see talk of mental health and education. MLAs will review the government of Nunavut's proposed capital budget for the coming fiscal year. (Jane Sponagle/CBC)
MLAs and cabinet ministers of Nunavut, in Canada's eastern Arctic, are gathering in Iqaluit today for the start of the Legislative Assembly's fall sitting.
Spanning three weeks, until Nov. 7, this sitting marks a half-way point for the fifth assembly.
MLAs are tasked with reviewing the Nunavut government's capital estimates for the 2020-2021 fiscal year. This means lots of talk about community infrastructure. Finance minister George Hickes will introduce the bill for the proposed capital budget at the start of the sitting.
The Nunavut Housing Corporation is scheduled to appear first.
Overhaul of mental health act
For other new legislation, House Leader Elisapee Sheutiapik says cabinet plans to introduce a bill that would update Nunavut's Mental Health Act. Bill 36 will outline requirements for government-provided addictions treatment, the reporting of suicides and traumatic events, and the rights of a person accessing mental health services.
Minister Elisapee Sheutiapik is the house leader. (David Gunn/CBC)
"There are some [acts] that we have gone back to that truly have cultural appropriate wording," Sheutiapik says of Nunavut legislation. The amended Mental Health Act would better reflect the needs of Nunavummiut, she says. "Mental health has been a real issue of concern in our territory. The modernization of it will help guide us in the act."
Nunavut's Mental Health Act was inherited from the Northwest Territories. The N.W.T. government updated its own mental health act last year. To revise its act, the Nunavut government consulted with Inuit communities in 2015 and 2016. In 2017 the health department released a report that said communities want to see elder involvement, support for families, the minimization of trauma and Inuktut terminology included in the act.
What's in store for the education act
The standing committee will request an extension to keep reviewing Bill 25, an Act to Amend the Education Act and the Inuit Language Protection Act. The bill, which is at second reading, proposes a slow roll out of bilingual Inuktuk education in Grades 4 to 12 over the coming two decades.
John Main is the Nunavut MLA for Arviat North-Whale Cove and the chair of the regular members' caucus. (Sara Frizzell/CBC)
Nunavummiut [the residents of Nunavut] can expect to see public submissions on that bill tabled during the sitting. The standing committee is reviewing those submissions in camera. But in the last two weeks of November, it will hold televised public hearings for bill 25. Committee chair and Arviat North-Whale Cove MLA John Main says this type of hearing is not common.
"It was decided that a televised hearing for this bill would be appropriate. It will allow for a greater degree of public engagement or at least observation of our work on this bill," Main said. "It is a very important piece of legislation."
Departments will begin to table responses to 17 written questions from MLAs. And, responses are expected from the government to three special standing committee reviews of reports by the Qulliq Energy Corporation, the Information and Privacy Commissioner and the Representative for Children and Youth Office
"We're looking forward to the government's response, particularly on the child abuse recommendations," Main said. "Going forward we're looking for indications that changes are being made and that things are improving."
Members will also talk about making Nunavut Day, July 9, a statutory holiday. That's through Bill 29, an Act to Amend the Labour Standards Act and the Interpretation Act with Respect to Nunavut Day.
A swearing in ceremony for Nunavut's new member for Tununiq, David Qamaniq of Pond Inlet, is taking place this morning, Oct. 17. He replaces former Speaker Joe Enook, who died in March.
Related stories from around the North:
Canada: Canadian FedElxn 2019: 800 candidates, 40,000 tweets…. but only 7 mention Inuit? What gives?, Eye on the Arctic
Finland: Finnish Parliament debates Rinne govt's first budget proposal, Yle News
Norway: Political earthquake shakes up Northern Norway, The Independent Barents Observer
Russia: Career diplomat to represent Murmansk region in Russian senate, The Independent Barents Observer
Sweden: Sweden's FM calls for more EU involvement in Arctic as country hosts EU Arctic Forum, Radio Sweden
United States: Finnish and US Presidents agree on Arctic security policies, Eye on the Arctic
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Typically the words that come to mind when someone talks about prepaid phone service are cheap, lousy service, used for nefarious acts, or something similarly negative. There's also the socioeconomic stereotypes that get thrown around. With all the price wars going on in the mobile world, I decided to give prepaid a try. I learned a few things in the past six months.
The last time I used any sort of prepaid service was the long-retired T-Mobile To Go back in college. My other family members were not in areas of reasonable coverage for any carriers, so an unlocked GSM phone and 10¢/minute or 10¢/text were a boon for someone who wanted something to supplement long-distance calling cards and the phone in my dorm room.
Since then, almost all prepaid services have shifted to offering plans and services like their postpaid counterparts, but with some different benefits and drawbacks. Additionally, all of the "big four" carriers except Verizon have purchased smaller carriers to serve as their prepaid brand and compete in different markets or even lower price points. AT&T has Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile has metroPCS, and Sprint has both Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile. In the case of Sprint, Virgin Mobile is unique in that the company is shifting towards being iPhone-only. In addition, all carriers offer some sort of in-house prepaid service under their brand (AT&T used to be marketed as GoPhone, but is simply "AT&T Prepaid" now). Last, but not least, numerous other companies will buy service wholesale and resell it under their brand, so you are never directly doing business with the company that is running the network. Some of these include Tracfone, Total Wireless, H2O, Consumer Cellular, Simple Mobile, Straight Talk, and Ting. These are known as Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs). Some have debated if carrier-owned prepaid services count as MVNOs, but for the sake of this article, I'm treating them like they don't.
Most prepaid services only offer native coverage, which means that your phone won't do any sort of roaming and work only on whatever carrier's network you're using. Using AT&T as an example, there are some holes in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana that AT&T doesn't operate towers. If you're using a service like Straight Talk, your phone will not work in those areas, but someone on AT&T's traditional postpaid service will. Other than that, coverage and service should be identical, so if you have a good T-Mobile signal, you're going to have a good metroPCS or Simple Mobile signal on the same type of phone.
Finally, most prepaid services have lower-grade customer service. I can't really fault this, as this probably lowers operating costs quite a bit. Plus, customers either fall under the category of not needing it or not caring because it's based on price.
You may have heard of Project Fi, a service offered by Google. Charging only for what you actually use, it combines Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, and Wi-Fi coverage to offer a unique mix of coverage. Unfortunately, to take advantage of this, it requires a Google-branded Android phone (either the Nexus series or the Pixels). Throwing the SIM from this into an iPhone yields T-Mobile service only.
I started looking at switching to prepaid to save some money, as I don't use much data, minutes, or text messages every month. Through Walmart or T-Mobile, T-Mobile offered a $30/month plan that included 5GB of data, 100 minutes, and unlimited texts, which was a bit cheaper than me being part of an AT&T family plan (I could move the remaining lines to a smaller data bucket). However, visiting Walmart offered nothing, and T-Mobile eventually phased it out anyway.
Around that time, I started hearing about some of the changes that were taking place with Cricket Wireless's service and did a bit of investigating. It was tad cheaper than AT&T Prepaid, offered some great deals if you brought multiple lines with their Group Save feature (each additional line gets a $10 more discount than the one before it, up to 5 lines on an account), there were some referral deals, and the laundry list of taxes and fees were covered in the monthly plan cost. I decided to give it a try, and at worst I could rejoin our AT&T account.
Compared with AT&T, Cricket does have a few downsides. The first is that all customers are throttled to 8Mbps on LTE and 4Mbps on HSPA+ (aka "4G" on most iPhones). While this isn't bad, and fine for streaming video on a phone, a lot of people who are obsessed with running speed tests treat this as a negative. I have yet to find a situation where this isn't sufficient for anything I do on my phone. Additionally, Personal Hotspot is disabled on all plans, and available as a $10 option on the 8GB plan. Since I rarely use this and have a cellular-capable iPad, I didn't see it as an issue. Their service also only officially supports phones, so you won't be able to bring every cellular-capable device and add it to your account like you could with AT&T. Finally, buying a phone almost always means you'll pay for it outright, so an iPhone 7 is going to be $650 instead of convenient payments for x months. Since I was bringing my paid-full-price, unlocked iPhone SE, it was no big deal.
The process to change was very easy. I completed a referral, so that the person who mentioned it to me and I would each get $25 if I keptv service for two months. After that, I did everything online, and only needed my phone number, AT&T account number, and account PIN to bring my number over. If you're starting from scratch and bringing your number, you can skip those requirements. Once everything was verified, a SIM card was shipped to me and I just had to pop it in my phone, open the activation link in my order email, and my number was moved from the AT&T account to Cricket. Porting your number can take a few hours, but mine was ready to go almost instantaneously. I was now a Cricket customer.
In the weeks that followed, I was trying to find fault with the service, not to have something to complain about, but just to see if moving all of our lines over to save $60/month would have any noticeable downsides. Everywhere I usually went, my service seemed about the same (and I have a friend with the same phone on AT&T postpaid, so we sort of keep an eye on things bar-for-bar if we're together). Cricket didn't have Voice-over-LTE enabled at the time, so my phone would drop back to 4G for calls (it is enabled for iPhones now), and Wi-Fi calling is still a function that is offered on AT&T postpaid, but not Cricket. Other than those differences, my phone worked and acted exactly the same as it had for years.
On our AT&T account, there are three other family members—two don't use much data and live in an area that only gets good service with AT&T and Verizon, while the other uses lots of data and can go on any carrier. Due to the shared nature of AT&T's data plans, they tend to balance each other out, but it usually ends up a fight, especially in the days of overage charges. For the two who live in a rural area, having a phone that works is more important than every bell and whistle on a plan. The third is looking for the most bang for his buck in terms of data. I proposed we switch the remaining lines because it would save money overall and nobody would necessarily have a worse experience.
I moved the heavy data user over first—since we were under a time crunch and his phone had seen better days, he was interested in trying an inexpensive Android phone and bought one of the starter kits at Target for about $80. Porting his number took about two hours, just because nothing was done ahead of time in the process. From what it seems, if you order a SIM from Cricket or AT&T, the port goes a lot faster.
As Cricket's Group Save discount will allow you to apply it up to five lines, I picked up an extra 4GB line mostly for messing with extra devices and such and it added $0 to the cost ($40 – $40 discount). If we were to add any more lines, there'd be no more discounts applied, so people have often found that splitting large families across two accounts works better.
After six months for me, and four for the others, everything has worked as expected and we have found that some new benefits have been added, such as Voice-over-LTE for newer iPhones (unofficially) and some limited roaming. The tradeoffs weren't a big deal for us, as I'm the only one who typically replaces my iPhone before it's run into the ground, also provide support for everyone else, and everyone has plenty of data.
AT&T has moved to pushing bundles to save money for their postpaid customers. Since this account spans across a few people and we all have different other services, not to mention DirecTV Now doesn't play with bundling, we're still saving more setting up our communications piecemeal. We might have been able to save even more had we gone with one of the many other MVNOs, but full support for iPhones and ease of use were key. In our case, if AT&T does something new, Cricket usually gets it shortly after AT&T customers, but before someone on an MVNO like H2O or Consumer Cellular.
The idea of buying a phone at full price is scary to some, but with the money we're saving every year, you could budget a phone replacement in every year whether you actually use it or not. Furthermore, now that Apple sells unlocked, SIM-free iPhones that you can install your own SIM card, I won't be at a disadvantage if I wanted to get a new one when it launches.
Overall, I've been pretty happy with the change, and recommend that anyone who is looking to save some money to investigate going with a prepaid service. Although my experience with Cricket was positive, I recommend looking at a prepaid service that runs on a strong carrier in your area. You might find something that offers a better value or features that will work better than what the "big four" typically offer.
Update (11/16): Pricing has shifted a bit, as the fourth and fifth line only gets a $20 discount for groups, but the data amounts have been increased to 5GB. Additionally, Cricket appears to be discontinuing their rewards program .


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/* TEMPLATE GENERATED TESTCASE FILE
Filename: CWE124_Buffer_Underwrite__new_char_memcpy_62b.cpp
Label Definition File: CWE124_Buffer_Underwrite__new.label.xml
Template File: sources-sink-62b.tmpl.cpp
*/
/*
 * @description
 * CWE: 124 Buffer Underwrite
 * BadSource:  Set data pointer to before the allocated memory buffer
 * GoodSource: Set data pointer to the allocated memory buffer
 * Sinks: memcpy
 *    BadSink : Copy string to data using memcpy
 * Flow Variant: 62 Data flow: data flows using a C++ reference from one function to another in different source files
 *
 * */

#include "std_testcase.h"

#include <wchar.h>

namespace CWE124_Buffer_Underwrite__new_char_memcpy_62
{

#ifndef OMITBAD

void badSource(char * &data)
{
    {
        char * dataBuffer = new char[100];
        memset(dataBuffer, 'A', 100-1);
        dataBuffer[100-1] = '\0';
        /* FLAW: Set data pointer to before the allocated memory buffer */
        data = dataBuffer - 8;
    }
}

#endif /* OMITBAD */

#ifndef OMITGOOD

/* goodG2B() uses the GoodSource with the BadSink */
void goodG2BSource(char * &data)
{
    {
        char * dataBuffer = new char[100];
        memset(dataBuffer, 'A', 100-1);
        dataBuffer[100-1] = '\0';
        /* FIX: Set data pointer to the allocated memory buffer */
        data = dataBuffer;
    }
}

#endif /* OMITGOOD */

} /* close namespace */


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US CBP in Cincinnati Seizes 44 Pounds of Sildenafil Pills Worth $712,756
4th August 2021 3rd August 2021 Tony Kingham	drug smuggling
Last Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Cincinnati seized about 44 pounds, approximately 23,610 pills, of sildenafil citrate, the active ingredient in the prescription drug Viagra.
The pills were in blister packets indicating they had been manufactured in India, and all were headed to an apartment in Decatur, Georgia. The shipment had originated from an apartment residence in India. Had the shipment been legitimately imported, its Manufactured Suggested Retail Price would have been $712,756.
Prescription medications are restricted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and cannot be imported into the U.S. without proper documentation and labelling. CBP provides basic import information about admissibility requirements and the clearance process for e-commerce goods and encourages buyers to confirm that their purchases and the importation of those purchases comply with any state and federal import regulations.
"Protecting our citizens from inferior products with unknown ingredients is a priority for our officers and specialists," said LaFonda Sutton-Burke, Director, Field Operations-Chicago Field Office. "CBP is entrusted with enforcing hundreds of laws for other government agencies, and our inter-agency partnerships are critical to ensuring the safety of the American people."
FDA recommends that consumers talk to their health care professional about their condition and consider buying prescription medications from state-licensed pharmacies in the U.S.
"FDA is committed to working with our government agency partners to protect public health by securing the drug supply chain against counterfeit and unapproved medications that attempt to enter the United States from fraudulent sources," said Dan Solis, Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Enforcement and Import Operations in FDA's Office of Regulatory Affairs.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Gateway International Bridge intercepted a load of alleged cocaine, hidden within a 2013 Mercedes →
Law Enforcement Agencies Working with US Border Patrol Apprehend nearly 4 Dozen Individuals in Separate Incidents
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Men charged in two states over meth importations
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U.S. Border Patrol Agents working in the El Paso Sector continue to encounter increased numbers of migrants in the month of June and throughout the year
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Duckweed Urban Market will be part of Tampa's Westshore Marina District
TAMPA — Residents of Westshore Marina District won't have to go far to pick up a quart of milk or a wheel of brie. Duckweed Urban Market has signed a lease for a 3,000-square-foot boutique grocery in the new waterfront community near Gandy and Westshore boulevards.
A Fort Lauderdale-based company with stores in downtown Tampa and Channelside, Duckweed will sell staples as well as vegan items, liquor and artisanal beer. It plans to open early next year in the district's town center, which is also expected to include a coffee shop, wine bar, boat-up restaurant and other retailers.
Residents already have moved into apartments and townhomes in the 52-acre district where the master developer, BTI Partners, plans to start construction this year on its three-tower Marina Pointe condo project. The first tower has pre-sold a third of its 120 units at prices ranging from $700,000 to over $2 million.
"We have taken a blank canvas a few years ago and envisioned a thriving mixed-use waterfront community for Tampa/St. Pete residents to enjoy," Noah Breakstone, CEO of BTI partners said in a release.
https://www.tampabay.com/business/duckweed-urban-market-will-be-part-of-tampas-westshore-marina-district-20190514/
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Göran Lindsjöö
Göran Lindsjöö's interest in photography was awakened during his teens. In the early 1970s, at the age of 18, he started working professionally at the photography department of the Swedish Board of Civil Aviation. However, it wasn't until a decade later that he started photographing artists. Everything began when he accompanied his sister, who was a journalist, to a Meat Loaf concert. "Bring your camera!" he was told. The pictures turned out well and were sold to the teen magazine Okej. This was the start of a collaboration that would last throughout the 1980s.
On behalf of Okej, Göran Lindsjöö photographed every Swedish artist that was popular at the time and virtually all of the international superstars who visited Sweden during this golden era for the magazine: Tina Turner, Ozzy Osbourne, Kylie Minogue, Depeche Mode, Bon Jovi, A-Ha, Van Halen, Iron Maiden and Metallica are just a few in a long list of names. "The heavy metal bands were generally very easy to work with, the synth groups were generally quite difficult," says Göran. Many of the pictures were even published in foreign magazines, and his pictures of Alice Cooper and Robert Plant were used on record sleeves.
In the 1990s Göran Lindsjöö founded a production company, making commercials and music videos. Eventually he became a graphic designer, and today he mainly designs DVD covers
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Vandermeer's View: The cheese is tempting
Marc Vandermeer
Voice of the Houston Texans
There's been plenty of talk this week about not consuming a certain dairy product.
Bill O'Brien has been asked about the expression "don't take the cheese" and he's had to explain it a couple of times. The mousetrap metaphor implies that your own success can lull you into a state of carelessness that could cost you dearly.
The Texans have thrived this season in large part because they keep things in the moment. The day after the win over the Browns, O'Brien was asked about some things down the road and he said "we're just trying to have a good Monday."
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His approach is not novel but it is hard to stick to. We don't know what goes on in the minds of players, but fans and media can't help but think about the future beyond the next game. This is especially true in a season like this in which January appears to beckon.
But the Texans know they won't get to January unless they continue to dwell on the minute details, an ethic which kept them together at 0-3 and has helped them throughout the streak.
The latest threat to the winning trend is the all-time Texans nemesis, Indianapolis.
For the Colts, this is it. If they lose, they know it'll take a miracle to be playing in January. So there's desperation as a motivator. Although you'd think it was firmly in place last week before they dropped a perplexing 6-0 decision at Jacksonville.
Andrew Luck has seemingly thrown for a gazillion yards this season. This is the most often the Colts have passed since he became the QB in 2012. During their five-game winning streak, Indy was also able to run the ball well. And the defense has come around too.
The last meeting was the one that started the winning streak for Houston. The Texans were up 28-10 in the third quarter but the Colts roared back. The result was ultimately settled at the overtime buzzer.
Houston is different now. The running game is among the best in the league. They are plus eight in turnover differential. And at home, the Texans have been masterful in their last three games, beating teams by an average of 17 points per outing.
This is the latest 'toughest game in the streak.' Interestingly enough, the Texans have beaten Luck the last three times they have faced him. But that's not a great indicator of how things might go on Sunday. The Texans will have to keep the third best rushing attack in the NFL rolling. Deshaun Watson will have to keep playing, efficient, selectively-explosive football. And the third best scoring defense in the NFL will likely have to execute better overall than they did in week four.
No one is taking the cheese on this one. The Texans are well aware of the history of the matchup. The Colts have a 25-8 all-time record against Houston. O'Brien has been much better against Indy than his predecessors, going 4-5 heading into Sunday.
It's a huge division matchup. The Texans can't clinch with a win. But if they can get one it will make things extremely tough for anyone to derail their quest for a fifth AFC South title.
Bull's Eye: Best shots from Week 13
Check out the best Week 13 images from Texans team photographer Zach Tarrant. Presented by Houston Methodist.
An image of the Dec. 2, 2018 regular season home game against the Cleveland Browns. The Texans won 29-13.
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Next Steps | Vandermeer's View
Voice of the Houston Texans Marc Vandermeer's take on Nick Caserio's first days as a Texan.
It Ends, It Begins | Vandermeer's View
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Week 16 Shootout | Vandermeer's View
Voice of the Houston Texans Marc Vandermeer breaks down the Houston Texans Week 16 matchup with the Cincinnati Bengals.
Two Yards Away | Vandermeer's View
Voice of the Houston Texans Marc Vandermeer breaks down the Texans Week 15 game with the Indianapolis Colts.
Takeaways from Texans Loss | Vandermeer's View
Voice of the Houston Texans Marc Vandermeer shares his thoughts on the Texans Week 14 game against the Chicago Bears.
Heartbreaker | Vandermeer's View
Voice of the Texans, Marc Vandermeer, reacts to the Texans loss to the Colts.
The Rivals | Vandermeer's View
Voice of the Houston Texans Marc Vandermeer dives into the Houston Texans rivals, the Indianapolis Colts.
Texans Gobble Up Lions | Vandermeer's View
Voice of the Houston Texans Marc Vandermeer discusses the Houston Texans Thanksgiving Day victory over the Detroit Lions.
Home Sweet Home | Vandermeer's View
The Texans win was peppered with outstanding pass plays by Deshaun Watson and his crew.
Dog Pound Damage | Vandermeer's View
Marc Vandermeer shares his thoughts following the Texans loss to the Cleveland Browns.
Back on Track | Vandermeer's View
The Houston Texans got the job done in Jacksonville and learned plenty along the way.
Outdueled into the Bye | Vandermeer's View
Marc Vandermeer recaps the Texans loss to the Green Bay Packers.


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Tutorials for users that installed the [PARALLEL module](@ref module_parallel_installation).


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Q: Probability of disease transmission to future generations Assume disease D is transmitted through a father (male) to his children. Let us assume that every family in a society have $C\geq1$ children. Let the father of a family have the disease D. What is the probability that disease D is transmitted to at least one person in the $N$-th generation after him $(N\geq1)$? $N=1$ represents the children of the father, $N=2$ represents the grandchildren, etc.
One can calculate the probability for a given $N$ and $C$, but I was wondering if it possible to find a general closed-form solution.
P.S.: The problem is equivalent to the problem of passing the family-name. In a society where the family-name is passed from father to children, what is the probability of having the family-name of a father in the $N$-th generation after him.

A: I don't think it's possible.
I assume $C > 0$. I also suppose that repartition of male/female is balanced.
Let $q_N$ be the probability that the disease is not transferred to any person of the $N$-th generation. (This is the complementary of the probability you are looking for.)
Then:

*

*$q_1 = 0$

*$q_{N+1} = (0.5 + 0.5 \times q_N)^C$
This sequence converges (because it's bounded and monotonic) and the limit $q_{\infty}$ satisfies:
$$q_{\infty} = (0.5 + 0.5 \times q_{\infty})^C$$
I'm quite sure the solution of this equation has no closed-form in general.
That's not a complete answer of your question and I hope someone will be able to help you more on this.

A: What you're referring to is sometimes called a Branching Markov Chain, or simply Branching Process.
To solve we'll introduce some notation.
Let $X_n$ be the number of diseased people at time(generation) $n$.
$p_{d}$ be the probability of having $d$ offspring from a person with disease $D$. $u_n = Pr(X_n = 0)$. Our goal is to find $Pr(X_n > 0) = 1 - u_n$.
Using the law of total probability we can recursively find:
$u_n = \sum\limits_{d=0}^{C^n}p_d(u_{n-1})^d$.
Or more generally
$u_n = \sum\limits_{d=0}^\infty p_d(u_{n-1})^d$.
Allowing us to find the extinction probability at time $n$. From there we simply take it's complement to find the probability of $D$ existing at time $n$
Reference: An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling, Pinsky and Karlin
EDIT:
I've made an error and edited above. $p_d$ is the probability of having $d$ children who could inherit the disease. At $N = 1$ this is simply $C$, but at greater $N$ this some multiple of $C$ depending on previous generations.
$u_n$ is found recursively at each generation using the previous generations $u$ and the total law of probability.

A: As it has already been pointed out by @darthline and @b-maréchal, there is no closed-form solution to this problem and the answer should be found recursively.
For this specific example, one can find $q_N$ as the probability that the disease is not transferred to any person of the $N$-th generation. The probability of having the disease is then $p_N = 1-q_N$.
To find $q_N$ we have:

*

*$q_1 = 0$

*$q_2 = (\frac{1}{2})^C$

*$q_N = \sum_{i=0}^{C} {C \choose i} (\frac{1}{2})^C  (q_{N-1})^i, \quad N\geq3$
($i$ represents the number of males among the children of a father)

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