In my posts for quite some time that to short roughly in the range of 18300-18600. Check this post at 18500 Article at 18500. So index traders may have got 100-150 points on Nifty.
The support levels mentioned were 18100/17800 in near term. Todays low at 17820 and subsequent recovery suggests the importance of the level. Last 3-4 bottoms have been in that range. So we can expect some pullback from these levels.
If we break 17800 would imply the markets enter a 50% retracement to 17200 levels also.
Similarly for Nifty had mentioned about 5550 being a stiff resistance.
For now the recent bottoms have been around 5350 which is still holding up.
A break below the same opens up to the 50% retracement to 5150-5170 levels.
For this time around we booked profits a bit early at 5450 as we took a 40 point upswing trade also.
Increase cash in the portfolio.
Wait for more clarity in coming 2 weeks. Be ready to re-enter at 17000-17500 if it comes or as when markets give turnaround signals.
One has to realize that at some point of time one can go wrong in the market and its only discipline which keeps us long enough in the markets. So as advised continue to avoid leverage totally at this levels.
We will have a re-look at 17200 or as and when we see a turnaround.
Have had a few bad picks in last couple of weeks but that have been down 5-10% but we as investors/traders have started finding a 10% hit difficult to digest suggests that people are going on leverage or not diversiffying.
For example Kaveri Seeds is down 10-14% suppose if its 10-15% of my 10 lakh portfolio that would mean a hit of 1-2% max on the portfolio which should be digestable if it is not then one needs to look into diversification and strategy.
Cipla looks weak and if closes below 300 can go all the way to 275/260.
Reliance Inds as had mentioned could see some weakness below 960 has cracked to 915 levels. In near term the stock could do 910/860 also. Investors only with long term can buy part quantity now wait for 860 if comes.
Sir need your comments on J&K Bank. Looks very interesting but need accumulation levels for it. Pls guide me.


An online public petition in Taiwan calling for the flying of the Chinese flag to be banned has received more than 7,000 signatures, easily passing the threshold needed for the petition to receive a response from government officials.
The petition, which was created last month, requests that a new law be enacted which would ban "hanging, exhibiting and displaying China's Five-star Red Flag in public." As justification for this ban, the petition's authors cite China's military threats towards Taiwan and its refusal to recognize the self-ruling island as an independent country.
Taiwan and China have always had hostile relations and China has never recognized and accepted that Taiwan is sovereign independent country. It has never given up on various ways to divide and split Taiwan. It has the sole goal of unification with Taiwan has had to bear the brunt of endless threats of military action, but there has been very little in the way of positive action. Over the past 10 years China activities in Taiwan have increased and its Five-star Red Flag has become a more and more common sight in various places in Taiwan. The emergence of the Five-star Red Flag throughout Taiwan has desensitized Taiwanese people to the threat, and thus has had the effect of helping China take a step forward toward unification. Therefore, it is proposed that a provision banning the hanging, exhibiting, and displaying China's Five-star Red Flag in public be added to the criminal law prohibiting the stoking of divisions and civil strife in the country.
The petition was one of three that passed the 5,000-signature in 60 days threshold on the public participation platform of Taiwan's National Development Council (NDC). The Mainland Affairs Council has been charged with an issuing a response to the flag-banning suggestion. Official responses are supposed to be made within two months.
Another petition that passed the threshold calls for Taiwan to share a time zone with South Korea and Japan, rather than China.
Whether its Katy Perry being draped in the ROC flag or pro-China campaigners covering downtown Taipei with a sea of red and yellow PRC flags, these colorful symbols of cloth never fail to create a stir in Taiwan. Most recently, a shop in Hsinchu County was forced to remove its stock of Nazi flag stickers following public outcry.


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How the White House failed Chen Guangcheng
We're talking about Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng who escaped from house arrest and made it to the US embassy only to be forced to leave this week. At CNN, Yang Su outlines what likely happened:
Has the Obama administration bungled his case? Did President Barack Obama use people who were capable of correctly interpreting the signals in China? Or was there a gap in translation?
We learned earlier this week that Chen was released from the U.S. Embassy with the Chinese government's assurance of his "safety" and a promise to facilitate his study of law in an unspecified place outside his home province of Shandong. It sounded like a win-win solution. But those who have intimate knowledge of China and its political system had reasons to worry.
In many ways, the deal was almost made to be broken, because it was based on three erroneous assumptions on the part of American officials.
The first false assumption is that the Chinese government's assurances are ironclad. To be sure, there has to be some trust among negotiators. But the Chinese government has meted out overly harsh treatment to dissidents in recent years. What confidence do we have that it will make an exception in Chen's case? The American trust that the Chinese government will honor its promises was misplaced, if not outright naïve.
Second, U.S. officials assumed the word "safety" means the same thing for both sides. The Chinese negotiators may have had a totally different arrangement in mind when they spoke of safety. For them, Chen was "safe" when he was confined in his home in Shandong, surrounded by armies of security guards.
That's probably what happened and should you ever doubt it, remember the way so much of the media is whoring for Barack and rushing to put the blame on Chen. This was a diplomatic failure. Barack kept his distance from the problem which signaled to the Chinese government that it wasn't a big issue. This rests on his shoulders. People can blame Hillary as well because she heads the State Dept. I'm not going to rush to rescue her. Most of us have repeatedly insisted she needs to step down before the stench of Obama is on here as well. It appears she didn't heed the warning and now has to pay for it.
I like Hillary. I supported her over Barack in the Democratic Party primary. But as I have always said, "It is what it is." She shouldn't gotten out while the getting was good.
One of the few reporters and outlets not trying so spin is Carol J. Douglas (Los Angeles Times):
After U.S. diplomats persuaded the 40-year-old activist on Wednesday to leave the protection of the U.S. Embassy, he was driven to a Beijing hospital to reunite with his family and get treatment for a foot injury suffered during his escape from house arrest two weeks earlier. And there he was left alone -- ostensibly because his U.S. escorts had to leave when visiting hours ended -- to ponder the sincerity of promises reportedly made by a regime that has so far reacted to his human rights activism with detention and beatings of his family members and supporters.
No wonder that in the dark of night Chen was overcome by doubts about the fate awaiting him once the U.S. delegation decamped from high-profile economic and security talks, which had been thrown into turmoil by the controversy over his six-day refuge at the U.S. Embassy.
Jerome Cohen, a New York University law professor who has advised Chen over the years, told journalists that the deal cut by U.S. officials with the Beijing authorities was supposed to have been publicly endorsed by President Obama. That was expected to put pressure on China to live up to assurances that Chen would be left in peace to study law at a university of his choosing, free of the mistreatment previously meted out in punishment for his exposure of forced abortions and other abuses under China's one-child policy.
The White House never got the chance -- or didn't use it -- to tout its successful resolution of a human rights standoff, as Chen, left alone to contemplate his worst fears, began telling friends and Western journalists he wanted out of China.
By the way, CNN's also been honest about the Chen crisis. They are two of the few who have. Barack didn't say a word. Not one damn word.
I want to quote myself from Wednesday night here:
Monday, Wally's "THIS JUST IN! CAN HE GET A DIALOGUE COACH?" and Cedric's "He's nothing without his Teleprompter" went up. In it, they noted that Barack couldn't say a word about Chinese dissident Chen Guangchen who managed to break free of house arrest last week.
Wally and Cedric were right. They were right on Monday. And Barack never said a damn word. Wednesday
Was he away from the press? Here's his Tuesday schedule:
The President receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
Closed Press
The President departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews
South Lawn
Open Press
The President departs Joint Base Andrews en route Nashua, New Hampshire
Travel Pool Coverage
The President arrives Nashua, New Hampshire
Manchester-Boston Regional Airport
The Vice President and Secretary Vilsack deliver remarks at Iowa State University
Local Event Time:
11:45AM CST
The President tours Nashua Community College
The President delivers remarks at Nashua Community College
The President departs Nashua, New Hampshire en route New York City
The President arrives New York City
The Vice President attends a campaign event with local supporters
3:00PM CST
The President delivers remarks at a campaign event
Print Pool
Why lookie-lookie, he had time for campaign events -- both the official ones in the evening and the pretend-it's-not-one at the community college.
Here's his Wednesday schedule:
The President arrives Joint Base Andrews
The President arrives the White House
The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
The President and the Vice President meet with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney
The President departs the White House en route Bethesda, Maryland
The President arrives Bethesda, Maryland
The President visits the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
The President departs Bethesda, Maryland en route the White House
The President arrives at the White House
The President delivers remarks at a conservation event
Open to pre-credentialed media
Candy ass Barack never made the time to do what he was supposed to: Speak out on behalf of Chen. He was too busy campaigning, he was too busy doing everything but his job. Fundraising is not his job.
Today the Chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, US House Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen released the following statement:
Don't Assume Chen Saga Over, Ros-Lehtinen Warns
(WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, commented today on reports that China will allow Chen Guangcheng, a human rights activist who recently escaped house arrest, to apply for permission to study in the United States. Statement by Ros-Lehtinen:
"While China has reportedly agreed to let Chen leave, U.S. officials must not assume that Beijing will actually allow this to happen. Only when Chen arrives on American soil and is granted political asylum will we know that this issue is resolved and his freedom and safety are assured.
"U.S. officials made a mistake by escorting Chen away from the safety of the U.S. embassy and into an uncertain fate. To avoid another harmful error, the State Department must press China to carry out its commitments. We cannot assume that this saga has been resolved."
Friday, May 4, 2012. Chaos and violence continue, Iraqis continue to be targeted in their own country, Nouri's suddenly declaring he's fine with the call for a national conference, Iraqiya says the Erbil Agreement must be implemented, Ibrahim al-Jaafari says the conference must take place next week, Tareq al-Hashemi hold a press conference and more.
Starting in the US with news of the latest faux left move. The Coalition to Protest at the DNC talked a good game and got some support. We didn't support it because they were so obviously fake. But they fooled a number of people. Today the organization posted a statement which begins: "It is with great enthusiasm that we announce that the Coalition to Protest at the DNC is changing its name to the Coalition to March on Wall Street South -- Building People's Power during the DNC. This decision was made unanimously by the steering committee of the coalition, made up of representatives from more than 60 organizations."
Michael Cooper (New York Times) reports on the name change and includes this:
"It shows a real lack of integrity, I think, to let Democrats off the hook," said Cindy Sheehan, the well-known antiwar protester whose son, Casey, was killed in Iraq, adding that the name change was making her rethink her plans to attend protests in Charolotte. "They are as much the party of war as the Republicans, the party of Wall Street."
Cooper also quotes "veteran antiwar activist" John Penley who wrote "What a sellout!" online. Penely also wrote:
Listen my OWS friends if you are going to support the Democratic Party and vote for Obama for president and encourage people not to protest at the DNC in Charlotte and only protest the Republicans in Tampa well lets leave as friends I still love ya but please defriend me so I can make room for those who have not joined team Obama or the GD Republicans.
What Penely fears is exactly what took place in 2008. Here's a few things that would-be sell outs on the left should consider in the future.
1) A Democrat who can't speak up for what's right during the campaign out of fear that he or she will lose the race is not one that normally ever speaks up after the race is won. Because there's always another race and when there's not -- say you've two-termed it out of the White House -- there's still so much corporate dollars to be made.
Right now in Arizona, there's a ridiculous woman running for public office. She's a War Hawk and a number of left voters (we were in the state on Monday and Tuesday) are kidding themselves that, because when Bully Boy Bush was in office, when she gets into office, she'll suddenly become Dennis Kucinich. She won't. She was in peace groups in 2003. If she wanted to be a part of that, she still would be. She left those to cheer on War Hawk Barack and that's where she's at now. She's not playing voters for fools and pretending to be something she's not but a number of voters are willingly playing the fool as they rush to convince themselves that she's really a secret peace vote.
2) If you can't hold someone's feet to the fire right now at this moment, chances are you never will. In 2007 and 2008, Tom Hayden, Laura Flanders and others made repeated claims that they would hold Barack's feet to the fire but not yet, you understand, he had to win the primary first. But, buster, once he did, step back because they were going to hold his feet to the fire.
It never happened. And as they look back, I would hope Tom and Laura both now realize that they were wrong to stay silent when Barack utilized homophobia in 2007 to solidify the primary vote in South Carolina. (If you missed this in real time, refer to Kevin Alexander Gray and Marshall Derks' "Obama's Big Gay and Black Problem.") If a candidate who wants your vote, who needs your vote, is someone you're not comfortable pressing on issues that matter today, that's someone's feet you'll never hold to the fire.
3) Refusing to make demands and hold accountable someone running for public office leads not to a stronger spine (for you or your candidate of choice) but to more craven actions. Doubt that? From 2008's "Editorial: Raw emotions (Ava and C.I.):"
Now maybe everyone's decided to take Katha Pollitt's stated oath which she revealed when she felt 'forced' to call out Tom Hayden's latest sexism last April: "I want to do my bit for Obama, so I vowed I would give up attacking Obama-supporting progressives for the duration of the presidential campaign." Guess what, Katha, we don't do our "bit for" feminism by staying silent. That was in April that she broke (and announced) her vow -- one she's gone back to. So, basically, at the start of the year, Pollitt's admitting, she decided to let sexist attacks from Barack's campaign and his supporters slide until after the election. Wow.
See how quickly doing her part went from not calling out a politician to not calling out his supporters? Here's reality: Free speech is meant to be used. It's not a snazzy little Chanel number that you hide in the closet while you wait for just the right occasion to sport it.
4) Though you're an adult, always grasp that there are people just coming of age and there are children watching. Remember that when you want to preach silence and not accountability. And grasp that a large part of the reason Barack is still not held accountable has to do with the behavior you moldeled for others.
Think of the above as guidelines. There will always be exceptions. As Betty noted last night, one of the loudest members of the Cult of St. Barack was able to break free. David Lindorff most recently has compiled a list of the crimes for which Barack should be impeached. Again, those who self-censor to 'help' candidates create the climate in which hypocrisy regins supreme. As Glenn Greenwald notes:
One last point: for the full eight years of the Bush administration, Bush, Cheney and scores of other political and media supporters of their militarism who had not served in the military were routinely derided by Democrats and progressives as "chickenhawks" (an accusation, which, with some caveats and modifications, I supported). What happened to that? Now we have a President whom Bergen hails as "one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades" despite having not served a day in the military, and hordes of non-military-serving Democrats who cheer him as he does so. Similarly, George Bush was mercilessly mocked for declaring himself a "war President," yet here is Bergen -- writing under the headline "Warrior in Chief" -- twice christening the non-serving Obama as our "Warrior President." Did the concept of chickenhawkism, like so many other ostensible political beliefs, cease to exist on January 20, 2009?
Early today, AFP's Prashant Rao Tweeted that Tareq al-Hashemi had announced a press conference in Turkey for later in the day. When he faced the reporters, AFP reports, he declared he had "no faith in the Iraqi justice system and fears for his life." Nouri has been calling for al-Hashemi to be tried on charges of terrorism. Nouri al-Maliki's political slate State of Law came in second to al-Hashemi's Iraqiya.
The political crisis was already in effect when December 2011 rolled around. Iraqiya announced a boycott of the council and the Parliament, that's in the December 16th snapshot and again in a December 17th entry. Tareq al-Hashemi is a member of Iraqiya but he's not in the news at that point. Later, we'll learn that Nouri -- just returned from DC where he met with Barack Obama -- has ordered tanks to surround the homes of high ranking members of Iraqiya. Saturday, December 17th, Liz Sly (Washington Post) reported, "In recent days, the homes of top Sunni politicians in the fortified Green Zone have been ringed by tanks and armored personnel carriers, and rumors are flying that arrest warrants will be issued for other Sunni leaders." December 18th is when al-Hashemi and Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq are pulled from a Baghdad flight to the KRG but then allowed to reboard the plane. December 19th is when the arrest warrant is issued for Tareq al-Hashemi by Nouri al-Maliki who claims the vice president is a 'terrorist.' . With the permission and blessing of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and KRG President Massoud Barzani, al-Hashemi remained in the KRG. At the start of April, he left the KRG on a diplomatic tour that took him to Qatar, then Saudi Arabia and finally Turkey where he remains currently.
The Journal of Turkish Weekly quotes him stating today, "I booked a ticket to retun to Irbil last Tuesday after completing my schedule in Turkey, but a colleague called in the last minute and asked me to delay my return for a few days and wait for a more suitable dialogue atmosphere in Iraq." This delay may have something to do with the current push for a national conference in Iraq. What is known is that his trial -- in absentia -- was supposed to start yesterday in Baghdad; however, it was delayed until next Thursday. al-Hashemi believes he can't receive a fair trial in Baghdad. He's right.
This was demonstrated February 16th though the press wanted to play dumb. From that day's snapshot, this is where we take the various details and demonstrate how the press could have reported it:
IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT PROVEN CORRECT
After many claims that he could not receive a fair trial, Tareq al-Hashemi's
assertions were backed up today by the Iraqi judiciary.
BAGHDAD -- Today a nine-member Iraqi judiciary panel released results of an investigation they conducted which found the Sunni Vice President of Iraq was guilty of terrorism. Monday, December 19th, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki swore out an arrest warrant for Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi who had arrived in the KRG the previous day. Mr. al-Hashemi refused to return to Baghdad insisting he would not receive a fair trial. Instead, he was the guest of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and KRG President Massoud Barzani.
During the weeks since the arrest warrant was issued, Mr. al-Hashemi has repeatedly attempted to get the trial moved to another venue stating that Prime Minister al-Maliki controlled the Baghdad judiciary. Mr. al-Maliki insisted that the vice president return and that he would get a fair trial.
Today's events demonstrate that Mr. al-Hashemi was correct and there is no chance of a fair trial in Iraq. This was made clear by the judiciary's announcement today.
A judiciary hears charges in a trial and determines guilt; however, what the Baghdad judiciary did today was to declare Tareq al-Hashemi guilt of the charges and to do so before a trial was held.
Not only do the events offer a frightening glimpse at the realities of the Iraqi legal system, they also back up the claims Mr. al-Hashemi has long made.
That is not how the Iraqi courts work, not according to the country's Constitution. Judges are impartial. Judges do not declare guilt outside of a courtroom and no one is guilty in Iraq until convicted in a courtroom. The fact that the judges felt no need to follow the Constitution, the fact that they held a press conference to announce the guilt of someone in a case they knew wouldn't appear on their docket until May goes to the fact that they are not impartial and that Tareq al-Hashemi would not have received a fair trial.
In addition, it appears that one of his bodyguards who 'confessed' was tortured to death. March 21st, al-Hashemi made that charge publicly. From the March 22nd snapshot:
Since December, those working for Tareq al-Hashemi have been rounded up by Nouri's forces. At the end of January, Amnesty International was calling for the Baghdad government "to reveal the whereabouts of two women arrested earlier this month, apparently for their connection to the country's vice-president. Rasha Nameer Jaafer al-Hussain and Bassima Saleem Kiryakos were arrested by security forces at their homes on 1 January. Both women work in the media team of Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi, who is wanted by the Iraqi authorities on terrorism-related charges." Yesterday, al-Hashemi noted that his bodyguard had died and stated that it appeared he had died as a result of torture.
Alsumaria notes Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi is calling for the international community to call out the death of his bodyguard, Amer Sarbut Zeidan al-Batawi, who died after being imprisoned for three months. al-Hashemi has stated the man was tortured to death. The photo Alsumaria runs of the man's legs (only the man's legs) appear to indicate he was tortured, welts and bruises and scars.
March 23rd, Human Rights Watch is calling for an investigation into the death:
(Beirut) – Iraqi authorities should order a criminal investigation into allegations that security forces tortured to death a bodyguard of Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, Human Rights Watch said today.
Iraqi authorities released Amir Sarbut Zaidan al-Batawi's body to his family on March 20, 2012, about three months after arresting him for terrorism. His family told Human Rights Watch that his body displayed signs of torture, including in several sensitive areas. Photographs taken by the family and seen by Human Rights Watch show what appear to be a burn mark and wounds on various parts of his body.
"The statements we heard and photos we saw indicate that Iraqi security officers may have tortured Amir Sarbut Zaidan al-Batawi to death while he was in their custody," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "It's essential for the Iraqi government to investigate his death and report publicly what they find."
The family said that al-Batawi's death certificate listed no cause of death. They said that before his arrest, the 33-year-old married father of three was in excellent health.
"I could barely recognize him," a close relative told Human Rights Watch on March 22. "There were horrible marks and signs of torture all over his body. He had lost about 17 kilos [37.5 pounds] from the day they arrested him."
Iraqi authorities have denied the torture allegations. On March 22, Lt. Gen. Hassan al-Baydhani, chief of staff of Baghdad's security command center and a judicial spokesman, said al-Batawi died of kidney failure and other conditions after refusing treatment. When asked by reporters about the photographic evidence that al-Batawi had been tortured, Baydhani replied, "It is easy for Photoshop to show anything," referring to a digital photo-editing software.
As the United States was pulling its last remaining troops from Iraq in December 2011, Iraqi authorities issued an arrest warrant for al-Hashemi on charges he was running death squads. Al-Hashemi has taken refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan and refused to return to Baghdad, saying he cannot receive a fair trial. Kurdistan Regional Government authorities have so far declined to hand him over.
An unknown number of other members of al- Hashemi's security and office staff have been arrested since late December and are also in custody, including two women. On March 22, al-Hashemi told Human Rights Watch, "I have made repeated requests to the government to find out who else in my staff has been arrested and where they are being held, but they have not responded."
Human Rights Watch called on the Iraqi government to release the names of all those detained and the charges against them, and to ensure that they have access to lawyers and medical care.
Nouri's shown no concern about any of that.
Marina Ottaway and Danial Kaysi's [PDF format warning] "The State Of Iraq" (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) notes the events since mid-December:
Within days of the official ceremonies marking the end of the U.S. mission in Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki moved to indict Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi on terrorism charges and sought to remove Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq from his position, triggering a major political crisis that fully revealed Iraq as an unstable, undemocractic country governed by raw competition for power and barely affected by institutional arrangements. Large-scale violence immediately flared up again, with a series of terrorist attacks against mostly Shi'i targets reminiscent of the worst days of 2006.
But there is more to the crisis than an escalation of violence. The tenuous political agreement among parties and factions reached at the end of 2010 has collapsed. The government of national unity has stopped functioning, and provinces that want to become regions with autonomous power comparable to Kurdistan's are putting increasing pressure on the central government. Unless a new political agreement is reached soon, Iraq may plunge into civil war or split apart.
That potential may -- the fear of it -- may be prompting some efforts at action. Though, as usual, Jalal Talabani tries to wall paper over it. Today he tells Jane Arraf (Christian Science Monitor), "We Iraqis had experiences many times on the brink of civil war -- we retreated from that and we came back to dialogue and national unity." Al Rafidayn reports that National Alliance leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari stated today that it's important to hold the national conference within a week and for all political blocs to participate. Yesterday, Ipek Yezdani (Hurriyet) reported that Kurdistan Democratic Party spokesperson Cafer Ibrahim states that if things can't be worked out with Nouri, Ibrahim al-Jaafari becomes the choice for the new nominee. Dar Addustour notes that Nouri is now echoing the cry for all political blocs to participate. Al Mada notes that Nouri released that statement after meeting with Ammar al-Hakim, leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq. Alsumaria explains that the statement also included accusations by Nouri that unnamed others were attempting to break up the National Alliance.
The National Alliance is a Shi'ite grouping which includes Nouri's State of Law, Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc, ISCI and others. Iraqiya, the political slate that came in first in the March 2010 elections, is a mixed sect political slate led by Shi'ite Ayad Allawi. Other prominent members include Sunnis Osama al-Nujaifi, Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi and Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq. Alsumaria reports Iraqiya announced today that they will not attend the national conference unless it is agreed that the Erbil Agreement will be implemented. Saturday, Allawi, KRG President Massoud Barzani, Osama al-Nujaifi, Moqtada al-Sadr and others met in Erbil and one of the things they all agreed to was that the Erbil Agreement would be re-instated.
Iraqiya states that if Nouri is serious about resolving the political crisis, he will implement the Erbil Agreement. Their spokesperson Haider Mulla further notes that they are used to Nouri's promises but they are frustrated by his inability to follow words with actions.
Meanwhile Ammar al-Hakim has released a statement. Al Mada notes that he states that Iraq needs a strategic vision that all can agree to, that they need to commit to implementing agreementts , that there needs to be successful soltions that serve the citizens; and that there needs to be transparency.
How serious is Nouri? He's given 'support' before. For example, at the end of February 2011, he gave lip service to the protests and the Iraqi people being important and, give him 100 days, and he'd clean up corruption and meet the protesters demands. He was given 100 days and did nothing. He's now been given over 400 days and still done nothing. Ali Issa (Jadaliyya -- links is text and audio) interviews Hashmey Muhsin al-Saadawi who is the Electrical Workers Union in Iraq and "the first woman vice-president of the General Federation of Iraqi Workers in Basra." (IVAW's Executive Director Jose Vasquez noted the interview.) Excerpt:
AI: What is your opinion of the Arab uprising-style movement in Iraq that started 25 February 2011, and has been called by some " the forgotten uprising ?" Did unions participate in the mobilizations? Since recently they have been smaller in number do you think they will come back? Finally, do you have any explanation for the lack of media coverage, even in the Arabic-language media?
HMS: Iraq has seen successive waves of sit-ins, demonstrations, and protest activities. They have been the result of the continued hardships in daily life and lack of services for people, as well as the deterioration of security since April 2003 that I described. On top of all that, are the efforts to limit civil liberties and silence people, while cementing the hated ethno-sectarian-quota system; we consider all this an open and direct violation of the constitution. Many sectors of society have participated in these protests: youth, women, civil society groups, unions, and the newer pro-democracy formations.
The right of citizens to demonstrate, express opinions and take positions is a constitutional right, and the government and its apparatuses should provide the necessary amount of security to whoever is exercising it. It should also listen closely to people's legal demands and seek to satisfy them. As well as pay attention to their calls for reform of the political process, and correct its course on the path to building a civil, democratic state, based on the text of the constitution that citizens voted for in October 2005.
It should be obvious that our Iraq is not isolated from what is happening, in the countries of the region, though it might differ in its internal dynamics and specifics. The storms of change around us have also energized our people to break the wall of silence and take the streets. The role of the youth in this movement has been especially key, with them taking advantage of new social media technology.
But the way the Iraqi government and its apparatuses have treated the protest movements is a serious violation of the constitutional right to freedom of expression and peaceful protest, and an attempt to stifle the citizens' practicing of that right. That is when the people understood that the first and last concern of influential ruling political blocs is to look after their own interests, struggle with each other over power, and divide the pie among themselves, without any regard for ordinary people living under cruel conditions in a country whose yearly budget exceeds 100 billion dollars.
The protest actions of 25 February 2011 were a great success, as were the actions preceding and following, in expressing the clear and just demands of the people, despite being exposed to attempts to distort the depth of the movement and its goals. Then there has been the intrusion of the Prime Minister's cabinet, with all its influence, to try to stop it, the attempts of the government as a whole to abort it, and all the surveillance and incarceration that followed.
Whether to expect the return of the protests depends on the reasons that lead to them breaking out. To this day, none of the protesters' demands have been met, so if the government continues on its present path, disregarding people's rights, it is very likely the protests will return.
As for media coverage, there had been coverage from several TV stations, but the government put pressure on them, and shut down some of their offices. In addition, a good number of journalists were beaten by infiltrators at the protests—thugs--while others were arrested and detained. And of course there have been assassinations of journalists – those brave, honorable people– including the writer and poet, Hadi al-Mahdi.
Hadi al-Mahdi is among the targeted in Iraq. The journalist was assassinated in his home September 7, 2011. He was shot in the head in his home. No sign of a break in. And the killer has still not been found. Earlier this week, The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory released the report covering the last twelve months and they've found an increase in violence and restrictions and attempted restrictions on journalists. They note an American journalist was arrested and held for five days without any legal justification while Iraqi journalists were detained in various ways and also attacked and kidnapped by armed groups. At least 3 journalists were killed in the 12 months and at least 31 were beaten -- usually by military and security forces who were sometimes in civilian clothes. 65 journalists were arrested.
As bad as that is, journalists aren't the only ones targeted. In February, Iraqi youth began to be targeted for being or being thought to be gay or Emo. Alana Marchant (UCA Journalism News) provides this summary:
Iraq's Moral Police have targeted the 'phenomenon', releasing a statement on the interior ministry's website declaring their intent to 'eliminate' the trend. This has resulted in over 100 young people being stoned to death, simply for their appearance and the music they listen to. In Iraq, he 'emo phenomenon' is being linked to devil worshipping, homosexuality, even being a vampire. In a country that is overwhelmingly Muslim, wearing 'strange, tight clothes with skulls on' and having nose and tongue piercings is being viewed as a danger to society, and signs of 'satanism'.
After being granted approval by the Ministry of Education, Iraq's Moral Police entered schools in Baghdad and pinpointed students with 'emo' appearances, according to the interior ministry's statement.
'A group armed men dressed in civilian clothing led dozens of teenagers to secluded areas…stoned them to death, and then disposed their bodies on garbage dumpsters…' is what activists told the Cairo-based al-Akhbar website. These armed men are said to be 'one of the most extremist religious groups' in Iraq.
Tris Reid-Smith (Gay Star News) reports:
LGBT campaign group AllOut and the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) have made an emergency appeal for cash to save the lives of gay Iraqis.
The organizations say they want to help 30 Iraqis 'marked for death' because they are 'perceived to be gay'.
But they say IRAP needs $65,000 (€49,000) to charter transport vans and open up safe houses.
Lastly, this week Snorre Lindquist published an interview (at CounterCurrents) with Dr. Mohammad Bashir al-Faidhi of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq. The interview took place a few months ago. Excerpt.
QUESTION: In Stockholm, according to my memorandas, you answered on a question from me: "I promise you, if the USA left Iraq, the Iranians and their militias in the police and the army will directly do the same!" Now, when the United States of America nearly has left Iraq, and Iran's influens in Iraq augments day after day, will your promise hold?
ANSWER: I still hold to my promise, but I said "If the United States of America left Iraq", and in truth it has not left. Should the collapse that happened to America in Vietnam happen to America in Iraq, all its allies and agents would have collapsed with it, and at their forefront, Iran.
But the situation in Iraq differs for USA. When the troops sensed the dangers of its situation, words from Bush was leaked, expressing the size of their fears:
"we promoted claims of victory in order to capture the spirit of fears of defeat in the hearts of our soldiers, and when Bush realized that the end in Iraq may be the same as that in Vietnam, he proceeded to withdraw from Iraq in a novel manner, a quiet, slow and unannounced withdrawal."
The withdrawal of most of its troops has taken nearly two years.
In order to avoid the bitterness of defeat to split the American psyche, America came up with the so called Strategic Framework Agreement with its client authority, that enables it to maintain a concentrated and capabel presence.
According to confirmed information available to us, there are now 6 American bases with air and missile forces; armed security companies made up of nearly 50,000 personnel, and a giant embassy and consulates with no less than 13,000 officials and security. In addition there is the government's police and security services that are still subject to the will and orders of the Occupier through the latter's domination of Iraqi senior officers and officials who receive orders directly from the Americans.
To all this comes the presence of the allied Iranian influence and queues of its agents, spies and traitors, gangs and militias.
The New York Times mentioned that the special extended period for the presence of the American Army in Iraq will be prolonged onwards into the unknown, pointing to the existence of a secret agreement between the government of PM Nourie Maliki and American officials for the presence of American Forces beyond the specified time limit.
By the way, in spite of America's concern to convince world public opinion of its withdrawal, as well as its strict observance of secrecy concerning its soldier`s and security companie`s activities, some accidents and incidents took place that exposed their activities and embarrassed the Americans.
For example, the forced emergency landing of an American army helicopter near the Tigris River in Baghdad on 26.1.2012, and the positioning of several checkpoints by the Americans on 18. 1. 2012, carrying out questioning of ordinary citizens in the Shomali District, south of Babil Province, as well as the Drones (the unmanned spying aircraft) that roam Iraqi airspace all the time. All this has been written about by the American press such as The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and New York Times, after the supposed withdrawal. They also reported about American military aircraft that inspected and secured Iraq's air space during the Arab Summit Meeting in Baghdad on 29.4.2012.
The coming days will reveal even more in this respect, because of observer`s preliminary estimations concerning the size of remaining American troops. They will point to the fact that there is no less than a quarter of their original size before the announcement for their withdrawal.
So who so ever states that the American Occupation has gone is very much mistaken, and the Association of Muslim Scholars in the person of its Secretary General had warned the Iraqi People in an open letter, after Obama's announcement of the withdrawal, that the Americans are untruthful and that they have not completely withdrawn and that they continue to occupy Iraq.
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As CES gets into full swing in Las Vegas, one of the researchers responsible for part of last week's security bombshell weighs in on the possible consequences
By Larry Greenemeier on January 9, 2018
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Hundreds of gadget makers and software companies at this week's annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas are staking the success of their newest products on the latest and greatest processors from Intel, AMD, ARM and others. But those bets are looking shaky, even by Sin City's standards, after last week's bombshell that many of those processors are plagued by serious security vulnerabilities known as Meltdown and Spectre.
Processors lend a degree of intelligence to just about any electronic device—including the thousands of automobiles, home appliances and gaming systems displayed at the exhibition. It is now clear that the insatiable need for faster processors has had a dark side, as chipmakers cut corners on security, exposing potentially billions of personal computers, mobile devices and other electronics to a new crop of digital attacks for years to come.
Every computer relies on a piece of software known as a kernel to, among other things, manage the interactions between end-user applications—spreadsheets, Web browsers, etcetera—and the underlying central processing unit and memory. The kernel starts and stops the other programs, enforces security settings and restricts access to a device's memory and data resources. Not surprisingly, the kernel's speed determines how fast the computer performs as a whole. Chipmakers protect the kernel by isolating it from other programs running on the computer, unless those programs are given specific permission—or "privilege"—to access the kernel.
Meltdown dissolves that isolation, potentially letting an attacker's malicious software breach the kernel and steal whatever information it finds there—including personal data and passwords. Spectre impairs the kernel's ability to stop a malicious program from stealing data from other software that uses the processor. Researchers working independently at Google Project Zero, security vendor Cyberus Technology and Graz University of Technology in Austria coordinated their announcement of Meltdown last week. Spectre's existence surfaced around the same time, courtesy of investigations carried out separately by multiple educational institutions, cybersecurity research firms and noted cryptographer Paul Kocher (pdf).
Kocher, best known for his work helping revise a set of cryptographic protocols used to secure computer networks, spoke with Scientific American about how shortcuts for increasing processor speeds led to both vulnerabilities, why it took decades to find these bugs and how to protect computers from attack.
[An edited transcript of the conversation follows.]
How did chipmakers compromise computer security to create faster processors?
The underlying issue is that processor clock speeds have largely maxed out. If you want to make a processor faster, you have to get more work done per clock cycle. The other thing that isn't changing much is the speed of memory. Optimizations, then, become the key to speed increases when designing a computer processor. For example, if your processor comes to a spot where it's waiting for information from memory, you don't want to have the processor sit idle until the data come back from memory. Instead, the processor can speculate on the information it will receive and begin working ahead rather than waiting. When the processor guesses right, it gets to keep this extra work; the processor's speculative execution gives a significant performance boost. Under normal circumstances the percentage of work that is lost because the processor makes the wrong guess and has to backtrack is in the single digits. This optimization has been part of the standard playbook of how to make a fast processor for many years.
What vulnerabilities did speculative execution create?
Meltdown and Spectre both involve this shortcut, but they work in different ways and have very different implications. Meltdown leverages an issue where ordinary unprivileged code can read memory with kernel permissions. This lets an attacker who can run software on the computer read the entire contents of the physical memory—which, for example, is a big problem in cloud servers where multiple clients share the same server.
Spectre, in contrast, doesn't involve any privilege escalation issues. Instead it takes advantage of permissions that the code being attacked already has, but tricks the user's system to do something speculatively that the program would never have done legitimately, and doing so leaks memory contents.
What prompted your research that ultimately uncovered Spectre?
The timing was that I had sold my company (Cryptography Research) and had time to get my hands dirty doing research. What originally got me working on this was the question: Where have we made trade-offs between performance and security, and added complexity, in ways where security was not the top priority? I was completely unaware of Google Project Zero's work on this until after I reported the issue and fully implemented the exploits in my [research] paper. The timing is a coincidence, although it's actually more surprising these vulnerabilities weren't found a long time ago.
The fact that Meltdown was discovered by several groups of researchers working independently makes more sense—partly because there was a post online by [security researcher] Anders Fogh, in which he had investigated the issue but did not find the problem. He then published a description of his work, which got other people thinking about the problem. There was also work on a patch set named KAISER (short for kernel address isolation to have side-channels efficiently removed) to address attacks against KASLR (kernel address space layout randomization—a security technique to make exploits harder by placing various objects at random, rather than fixed, addresses). That turns out to the fix for Meltdown, so it also drew attention to the issue.
Why didn't Intel or the other chipmakers discover the problem first?
That's a fair question. The mess they're dealing with right now is vastly more painful than what they would have gone through if they had found and fixed the problem immediately. They would have been in a much better position than external researchers to find these vulnerabilities, since they know in intimate detail how all of the technology works—whereas I was poking around without any inside knowledge. For Spectre in particular, it's also worth asking why it wasn't found by ARM or more generally computer scientists who were teaching speculative execution in microprocessor academic courses. One answer might be that people tend to look at the things they know to look at, and Spectre involves a problem that cuts across different disciplines, where people working on one aspect of a technology don't know as much about other aspects.
Still, if a few security people had looked closely at speculative execution and considered different ways it could go wrong, I think a significant number of them would have realized that it was a dangerous idea. I suspect that a lot more unpleasant things are lurking under the covers that we're not seeing because questions about the security implications are not being asked.
What does this mean for the future of chip design?
I think there's a bit of a fog of war right now makes it hard to come up with a clear answer. There are different, very high-level things that chipmakers can do. One of them is to leave it to software developers to deal with complex countermeasures, but I think this will largely fail since developers are not equipped to do this. Another is to build chips that combine cores with different security properties, and have separate execution units that are faster versus safer execution units on the same die. If you're playing a game on your mobile device, the big processor core is running. If your phone receives a data packet while it's asleep, the smaller core handles that.
Most of the really critical security applications don't need a lot of performance. If you're doing a wire transfer, for example, it doesn't take a lot of [computing] power to get the user's confirmation to do the cryptography and to transmit the result. If you're playing a video game, you really don't need that kind of security but it does need the best performance. Still, it's too early to say what things will look in 10 or even five years from now.
How do the patches for these vulnerabilities slow a processor's performance?
The fix for Meltdown changes the way kernel memory is mapped. The way things worked before, the switch between normal user code and the kernel was a very lightweight transition. With the patches, more work has to be done on these transitions. The impact on performance will depend on the type of workload. If almost all of a program's [number crunching] is done in user mode, with very few switches to kernel mode, you won't see any significant impact. In contrast, if you have a piece of code that spends a lot of its time quickly switching back and forth between user and kernel modes—such as reading very small bits of information from files stored on a very fast disk—there ends up adding a lot of overhead.
How does the Spectre fix work?
Spectre can only be mitigated—not fixed—at this time, because the flaw impacts a lot of different software including operating systems, drivers, Web servers and databases. Some of this software—such as drivers—is rarely updated. A lot of the software is also very complex, so developing fixes is a Herculean issue. For some CPUs there are also some microcode patches that help mitigate one of the aspects of Spectre, but there is a staggering amount of work required to get all this to work correctly. Even worse, Spectre involves things that are very hard to detect in the processor, making testing of countermeasures really, really difficult. Some chips will just have to be replaced because they can't be updated. As a result, this is an issue that's going to be with us for a long time.
How can computer users protect themselves?
On the Meltdown side, there are a number of fixes that can be implemented at the operating-system level—for example in MacOS, Windows, Linux and iOS operating system updates. If you look at the trajectory of Meltdown, there are certainly attackers who can and will attack unpatched computers, so it's urgent to get that patch applied. Once the patch is installed, so far as we know, Meltdown ceases to be a security threat.
With Spectre, on the other hand, there are partial mitigations. Some chips can't be updated, others could be updated but the company that made the product with the chip won't bother to pass the updates along. Often the updates won't address all of the problems. Still, it's important to keep the risk in perspective. There are plenty of other security threats that we live with every day. Spectre isn't necessarily more dangerous than other vulnerabilities already causing security pros enormous headaches. With Spectre, you're tricking the processor into making wrong predictions at a particular spot in the software running on the victim's computer. The attackers need to have awareness of the software code that the victim is using, and set up the right conditions for the attack to work. As a result, there isn't a single attack program that will work across many computers.
What is the most important takeaway message from the discoveries of Meltdown and Spectre?
The bigger picture relates to how we're approaching security, and our inability to make systems secure even in the places where security is most needed. These bugs are a symptom of that problem. When you optimize for objectives—such as speed—that interfere with security, you can reasonably expect that you're going to end up with problems. Spectre is a very clean example of a security/performance trade-off, where speed optimizations led directly to security problems. The fact that these security vulnerabilities affect all of the major microprocessor manufacturers really indicates that there has been a failure of thought and attention, rather than specific error that an individual or even a single company has made.
Larry Greenemeier
Larry Greenemeier is the associate editor of technology for Scientific American, covering a variety of tech-related topics, including biotech, computers, military tech, nanotech and robots.
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I was unable to leave any of my worldly goods strewn across the Heartland, like breadcrumbs pointing the way home. But not for lack of effort.
I have previously mentioned leaving my Nexus in Guthrie, Oklahoma –- charging merrily away on the desk in my hotel room — with its Candy Crush and many beloved book titles on it –- Donald E. Westlake in abundance, John D. McDonald, Vince Flynn, Lee Child – plus Power Line, Iowahawk, The Weekly Standard, Steynonline and Ace of Spades. I realized my error an hour down the road and considered returning but was loath to lose two hours in the effort. I called the hotel; they retrieved the Nexus from my room and held it in their safe for my return. Problem solved. It was undoubtedly a subconscious attempt to break the heroin-like grip that Candy Crush had on me. Sounds better than carelessness or stupidity.
Steeled in a new resolve to look after my belongings, I was baffled by the next mislaid object which happened to be my eyeglasses. Oh well, I reasoned, since I now had nothing to read anyway, to quote Madame Secretary, "What difference does it make at this point?" Besides, I had two backup pairs with me, only slightly more out-of-date than the lost pair. I tend to have annual medical exams of all kinds roughly every 8-10 years except for colonoscopies which I schedule without fail every 50. At least at eye exams they don't weigh you.
My distance vision is 20/10. If I hang the menu 21 feet away like a target, I can read it just fine. Alternatively, I could ask the server for his opinion and then I could be the one to say "Excellent choice!" with enthusiasm. Not to brag, but, I'm batting 1.000 in making "excellent" choices in restaurants.
Apparently the glasses fell out of my always-attractive fanny pack (it's black and goes with anything…) when I inadvertently left a pocket unzipped. This occurred in the Ft. Worth Renaissance Hotel. They were not in the Lost and Found. But the next day, they just appeared on a table in a common area on the 8th floor! By that time I had picked up my travel companion for the last leg from Texas back to Arizona and she noticed the glasses and said, "Are these yours?" Woo-hoo! Two for two!
A Protestant minister acquaintance of mine had a devoutly religious mother whose zeal made him look like an atheist. Which judging by the number of SJW ministers I've known, he probably was. Anyhow, his mother believed fervently in all the saints and prayed to them regularly. She never traveled without St. Christopher, loyal even after his humiliating demotion. I learned that St. Anthony is the patron saint of lost objects and his mother would routinely look heavenward and yell, "Tony, Tony, look around! Something's lost and must be found!" Evidently, she was on a first-name, and even nickname basis with several of your top saints: Tony, Joey, Terri, Aggie, Francie, Petey, etc.
Well, Tony is a very ecumenical fellow, because he was on the look-out for a nice Jewish lady for 4500 miles.
Tony barely broke a sweat with the next incident. At the Smokestack Restaurant in Thurber, TX (pop. 5), my brain was bloated with THE best biscuits and gravy I had ever tasted. That, and possibly global warming, cooling, whatever, caused me to leave my cellphone on the table for only the second time in 10 years. But the waiter caught up with me before I had even finished paying at the cash register. Good gravy!! (Literally.) I was beginning to fear I could not travel any more without constant supervision. When I was a kid, I had all my mittens on strings. I need some kind of tether with everything attached and a taser to zap me gently when an item is off the string.
There was one final disturbing example wherein I THOUGHT I had left a favorite hoodie from my C2 Tactical Range in a restaurant just 200 miles from home – soooo close! – but it turned out I had put it in the trunk after all, so I choose not to count that one. In fact, I'm sorry I mentioned it, painting me as it does not just as distracted but slightly demented as well. Now don't you feel good about yourself? You're welcome.
If you guessed that when my BFF left Arizona after four more fun days of gabbing and shooting, she left HER cellphone in my car on the way to the airport, you would be correct. And she is eleven days younger than I am, though 8 minutes older than her twin. At the time of this writing we were on Day Three of a popular "overnight" carrier attempting to reunite her with it in a comedy of errors and incompetence, for once not mine. Saint Anthony, who was stressed out and fed up with us, was on a well-deserved vacation in Vegas. Luckily, nobody ever loses anything there. But watch out for the exercise equipment in Nevada. It'll put your eye out.


Nov. 30, 2013 1:00 p.m.
There was good news and bad news coming out of the latest community meeting on chemical contamination in Cook Street Village.
The good news was test results showed no further spread of the chemical perchloroethylene, or perc – a stain-removing substance believed by scientists to have originated from the site of a former dry cleaning operation at 325 Cook St.
The bad news is that four homeowners, three on Mackenzie Street and one on Oxford Street, and the owner of the commercial building at 325 Cook St. must now work with the Ministry of Environment on a remediation plan to clean up contaminated land on their properties.
"The good news is there is no immediate risk to the residents," said Jan Abbott, a scientist with Franz Environmental and project manager for the Cook Street project.
The goal of the latest round of testing, which included taking samples from underneath Mackenzie, Oxford, Chester, Linden and Chapman streets in September, was to determine how far into the neighbourhood the perc travelled.
Residents heard the extent of that delineation from Franz officials at an information meeting Nov. 25.
"The next steps are to have discussions with each owner and the ministry as to how they want to proceed (toward) obtaining a certificate of compliance," Abbott said, adding that includes a remediation plan for their properties.
Monitoring continues on the affected properties, she said, with a final investigative and risk assessment report likely completed by January or February.


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Getting Published: Withering Black Left Political Voices
By Hakim Hasan
When Ishmael Reed, professor emeritus at the University of California Berkeley, went shopping his book Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers to the American publishing establishment, he came away with one nagging question: Are Black writers with a strong left of center political bent an endangered species in post-racial America?
Reed is the author of at least 40 books. His prodigious body of work includes novels, plays, and essay collections. He has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975 and MacArthur Genius Award in 1998.
Yet, despite Reed's prominence as a writer and intellectual, he says that no mainstream publisher in the United States would publish Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media, a scathing critique of the American media's portrayal of President Obama.
His ordeal represents a case study in understanding the troubles that even established Black writers like Reed have to confront.
Reed who says that he lives in a remodeled house in the ghetto of Oakland during an interview refers to a passage in his book about this experience:
"When my novel "Flight To Canada was published in 1976, I could not have imagined that I would live to see a time when points of view of African-Americans in the media and elsewhere would be so marginalized that I would be in the position of the nineteenth-century fugitive slave orator."
Eventually, Baraka Books, based in Canada, published his book.
Does this mean that there is no home in the contemporary mainstream trade publishing landscape for Black writers with a strong political bent?
"It is hard for everyone to get published these days," says Barbara Lowenstein, Reed's literary agent and one of the top agents in the business. "Sales figures and marketing are also major factors."
Others in the industry agree that these are huge obstacles, but also point to generational, cultural and political gaps.
"In this climate, traditional book sales continue to decline. Mainstream publishers in order to survive are even more interested in books that sell larger numbers," says Paul Coates, founder and publisher of Black Classic Press, who believes that radical writers like Reed will continue to have a difficult time. "Anytime you start talking truth, white readers run from you and black readers run too."
Carleen Brice, author of Orange Mint and Honey, whose book was made into the very successful film Sins of the Mother that aired on the Lifetime Movie Network says, "It is really hard out here for Black writers. The publishing industry has been hit hard by the economy." Her blog, "White Readers Meet Black Writers," was started to address the segregation of books by Black authors in bookstores.
But for others the difficulty Reed says he faced in seeking a publisher goes even deeper.
"We are seeing the end of an era in mainstream publishing where editors who at best understood civil rights movement existed are no longer at the table," a veteran literary agent who agreed to be interviewed but not identified by name told newsone.com "Now there is an entire crop of younger editors making decisions who have very little depth of understanding of the Black political and cultural experience.
The agent added: "I would doubt that there are three people in those positions who can make an informed decision about Ishmael Reed's importance as a writer."
Haki Madhubuti, the writer, poet, and Ida B. Wells Barnett University Professor at DePaul University, founded Third World Press during the Black Power movement in the 1960s in response to the difficulties Black writers faced, except a select few, getting their books published by mainstream publishers.
"Ishmael Reed is a world-class writer," Madhubuti says. "He did not approach me about his book. Had he done so, I would have put his book on the fast track to be published."
Black left of center writers are not immune to the vagaries of the marketplace, he says, admitting that publishers his size can't compete with the mainstream publishing establishment when it comes to paying writers advances. In order to financially survive, they have to search for the best deal in terms of an advance as part of a myriad of revenue streams.
Several publishing industry insiders maintain that Reed's situation is a complex interplay of books sales, the market for serious black non-fiction, and the sheer number of books published about President Barack Obama—as opposed to simply a complex interplay of race and politics in mainstream publishing.
According to booksinprint.com, there were approximately 109 adult and 23 juvenile Obama-related titles published in 2010.
But for Reed and other critics of the publishing industry's racial politics, race is still significantly in play.
He cites the cases of Kathryn Stockett, the white author of The New York Times bestseller, The Help, a novel about a Black nanny, and Margeret Seltzer, the white author of Love and Consequences, a fabricated memoir about a white girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles, as prima facie cases of white authors getting a pass to write about black life while serious Black authors struggle to get book contracts.
And despite the fact that Terry McMillian's novel Getting To Happy, Isabel Wilkerson's "The Warmth of Other Suns," and even rapper Jay-Z's memoir Decoded all recently reached "The New York Times" bestseller list, the struggles facing Black writers like Reed persist.
"There is a conscious effort not to publish these voices," says the veteran agent—who, like others we interviewed, was hesitant to go on the record about this troubling trend. "The other part of the equation is if a white journalist from The Nation or the Washington Post wrote a book on the same topic, I bet you they could get published. I would bet on that."
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This weeklong observance was established in 1922 to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire that occurred in 1871.
Fire Prevention Week (October 4 – 10) is a time for businesses to assess their properties to determine how vulnerable they may be to fire coming from both outside and inside. According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), this weeklong observance was established to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire that occurred in 1871. That fire killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures, and burned more than 2,000 acres. The fire began on October 8, and continued into October 9, 1871. Since 1922, Fire Prevention Week has been observed on the Sunday through Saturday period in which October 9 falls.
The Tampa, FL-based Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) offers information on what businesses can do to evaluate the vulnerability of their facilities.
"Along with making sure that traditional items like smoke alarms and fire extinguishers are working properly, it is important that property owners and managers also consider fire risks that are unique to where they live and work," explains Julie Rochman, president and CEO, IBHS.
Today in California and Arizona, firefighters continue to battle wildfires, and as always, face challenges with regard to protecting the structures in harm's way. "We want to make sure that citizens of California, Arizona, and the other 36 states with wildland fire exposure know that there is valuable, free information available to them that will help keep their property safe," Rochman says.
To that end, IBHS offers regionally specific wildfire protection guides to help business owners (and homeowners) better prepare and take control when it comes to protecting their property against wildfires.
Facility managers can download regionally appropriate copies of wildfire protection guides from IBHS.
"For example, residents and business owners in wildfire prone areas should keep landscaping and yard structures (e.g., play sets, trellises, and wood piles) at least 30 feet from their buildings. Maintaining clean gutters and removing dead foliage from areas close to buildings also are easy but important wildfire protection steps," says Rochman.
Facility managers can download the free, regionally appropriate copies of the IBHS Wildfire Property Protection Retrofit Guides here. Regions are Central U.S.; Florida; Great Lakes; Mid-Atlantic/Northeast; Pacific Northwest; Rocky Mountain; Southeast; Southern California; and Southwest.
Another fire safety issue IBHS highlights is the prevention of electrical fires.
Facility managers can access information on commercial electrical safety on the IBHS Web site to learn more about how to reduce the risk of electrical fires by recognizing the warning signs, following operational requirements, and using the right materials.
IBHS is an independent, non-profit, scientific, and educational organization supported by the property insurance industry. The organization works to reduce the social and economic effects of natural disasters and other risks to residential and commercial property by conducting research and advocating improved construction, maintenance and preparation practices.


(ONTARIO, Calif – April 5, 2019) – Prime Healthcare hospitals have been named among the nation's "100 Top Hospitals" by IBM Watson HealthTM in an annual study identifying top-performing hospitals in the United States. Two of the five have been further honored with an "Everest Award," which recognizes hospitals that have earned the 100 Top Hospitals designation and ranked among the top 100 hospitals in the nation for rate-of-improvement during a five-year period.
East Liverpool City Hospital in East Liverpool, OH, a second-time honoree and recipient of the Everest Award for the second year in a row.
Garden City Hospital in Garden City, MI, a second-time honoree and recipient of the Everest Award.
Garden Grove Hospital Medical Center in Garden Grove, CA, a fifth-time honoree.
Montclair Hospital Medical Center in Montclair, CA, a fourth-time honoree.
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The Statistics Canada Mental Health Passport—encouraging habits that foster well-being and better mental health!
This year, the World Health Organization's theme for World Health Day on April 7, 2017, was Depression: Let's Talk, a topic Statistics Canada has long supported in breaking the silence and stigmatization around mental illness. In anticipation of this important milestone, the agency's Mental Health Working Group and the Workplace Wellness Committee launched the second edition of their award-winning Mental Health Passport with a fresh new look, and an updated list of readily-available resources.
The first edition of this passport was conceived, written and produced by the Mental Health Working Group to raise awareness of mental health issues and to provide practical tools to help employees develop, maintain or improve on their healthy and positive lifestyles. It was originally launched in February 2012.
In recognition of its success, the group was awarded the Michelle C. Comeau Human Resources Award for 2012. The passport has since been shared across the federal government.
The newest edition presents articles on more than 20 topics that health care professionals have found influence people's health and happiness. It also offers information and tools to help employees identify and reflect on areas such as sleep, exercise, work-life balance, and more. While the passport is currently available for pick-up at Statistics Canada's self-serve Wellness Corner, it has also been re-formatted and shared with various other federal departments.
Statistics Canada recognizes that mental health is a vital resource for healthy living, and will continue to promote and foster best practices for its employees who are the very core of excellence at the agency.


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The `airflow-pr` tool interactively guides committers through the process of merging GitHub PRs into Airflow and closing associated JIRA issues.

It is very important that PRs reference a JIRA issue. The preferred way to do that is for the PR title to begin with [AIRFLOW-XX]. However, the PR tool can recognize and parse many other JIRA issue formats in the title and will offer to correct them if possible.

__Please note:__ this tool will restore your current branch when it finishes, but you will lose any uncommitted changes. Make sure you commit any changes you wish to keep before proceeding.

### Execution
Simply execute the `airflow-pr` tool:
```
$ ./airflow-pr
Usage: airflow-pr [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  This tool should be used by Airflow committers to test PRs, merge them
  into the master branch, and close related JIRA issues.

  Before you begin, make sure you have created the 'apache' and 'github' git
  remotes. You can use the "setup_git_remotes" command to do this
  automatically. If you do not want to use these remote names, you can tell
  the PR tool by setting the appropriate environment variables. For more
  information, run:

      airflow-pr merge --help

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  close_jira         Close a JIRA issue (without merging a PR)
  merge              Merge a GitHub PR into Airflow master
  setup_git_remotes  Set up default git remotes
  work_local         Clone a GitHub PR locally for testing (no push)
```

#### Commands

Execute `airflow-pr merge` to be interactively guided through the process of merging a PR, pushing changes to master, and closing JIRA issues.

Execute `airflow-pr work_local` to only merge the PR locally. The tool will pause once the merge is complete, allowing the user to explore the PR, and then will delete the merge and restore the original development environment.

Execute `airflow-pr close_jira` to close a JIRA issue without needing to merge a PR. You will be prompted for an issue number and close comment.

Execute `airflow-pr setup_git_remotes` to configure the default (expected) git remotes. See below for details.

### Configuration

#### Python Libraries
The merge tool requires the `click` and `jira` libraries to be installed. If the libraries are not found, the user will be prompted to install them:
```bash
pip install click jira
```

#### git Remotes
tl;dr run `airflow-pr setup_git_remotes` before using the tool for the first time.

Before using the merge tool, users need to make sure their git remotes are configured. By default, the tool assumes a setup like the one below, where the github repo remote is named `github` and the Apache repo remote is named `apache`. If users have other remote names, they can be supplied by setting environment variables `GITHUB_REMOTE_NAME` and `APACHE_REMOTE_NAME`, respectively.

Users can configure this automatically by running `airflow-pr setup_git_remotes`.

```bash
$ git remote -v
apache	https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-airflow.git (fetch)
apache	https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-airflow.git (push)
github	https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow.git (fetch)
github	https://github.com/apache/incubator-airflow.git (push)
origin	https://github.com/<USER>/airflow (fetch)
origin	https://github.com/<USER>/airflow (push)
```

#### JIRA
Users should set environment variables `JIRA_USERNAME` and `JIRA_PASSWORD` corresponding to their ASF JIRA login. This will allow the tool to automatically close issues. If they are not set, the user will be prompted every time.

#### GitHub OAuth Token
Unauthenticated users can only make 60 requests/hour to the Github API. If you get an error about exceeding the rate, you will need to set a `GITHUB_OAUTH_KEY` environment variable that contains a token value. Users can generate tokens from their GitHub profile.

## Airflow release signing tool
The release signing tool can be used to create the SHA512/MD5 and ASC files that required for Apache releases.

### Execution
To create a release tar ball execute following command from Airflow's root.

`python setup.py compile_assets sdist --formats=gztar`

*Note: `compile_assets` command build the frontend assets (JS and CSS) files for the
Web UI using webpack and npm. Please make sure you have `npm` installed on your local machine globally.
Details on how to install `npm` can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md file.*

After that navigate to relative directory i.e., `cd dist` and sign the release files.

`../dev/sign.sh <the_created_tar_ball.tar.gz`

Signing files will be created in the same directory.

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Agnes Weinrich was an early and important American female modernist who organized and directed the New York Society of Women Painters in the 1920s, the first painter's association in America for women. In addition, she played an integral role in the development of early modernist ideas in the small artistic community of Provincetown, Massachusetts.
While living in Paris, Weinrich studied closely with Gleizes, a pioneer in the field of Cubism, and with Charles Hawthorne and Blanche Lazelle in Provincetown.


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Q: AngularJS ng-repeat is not responding <!DOCTYPE html>

<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title> angular js </title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/bootstrap.min.css">

           Artist
           Title
           Genra
           Ratings

             {{ songs.Artist }}
             {{ songs.Title }}
             {{ songs.Genre }}
             {{ songs.Ratings }}

good day, i just want to ask for a solution or maybe someone can figure out what is wrong with my Codes. here is the problem, i want to display a list of songs in a table, as you can see  i put the list in a variable called "song".  and  used angular controller to make it happen And im pretty sure that my controller "personCtrl" is connected to the View html since i run some test  and everything works fine. but then when i  use ng-repeat method for displaying the list in the table nothing is happening in my View table, the problem starts there. thank you hoping for a reply :)

A:

             {{ song.Artist }}
             {{ song.Title }}
             {{ song.Genre }}
             {{ song.Ratings }}

song / songs :)

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George Palaganas added a new photo to the album: Business Business 5.
QUESTION: " Express ________________ "
It's the same wrong development direction why the database of Electrical Engineer professionals has RUN-TIME errors everytime all records are automated. But we love to start with the patch on the "DEPED bug" firstly.
#LicenseRenewal #Year2013 #AssistantElectricalEngineer #PRC Is there a way for us to grab and take a hold of the EE Board so we can renew licenses without reverting to REE outmoded status. Remember that the proper grade levelling(POWER grade) of the profession is what we had in mind why REE was abolished in favor of AEE, AssociateEE and PEE grade levels.
Facebook users would be wise not to visit a list of 25 websites made to look like the real thing but are really after their login information.
All November 2011 Comments and Postings On Facebook are at facebook.com/groups/1545525… Get connected with Facebook, Today!
"Congratulations Joanne! It's been a long way since you have debuted with Kung Alam Mo Lang. Other songs that I love from you are your versions of Lumuluha(officially went to Isabel Granada) and Di Ko Kaya(officially went to Geneva Cruz). You are indeed the Philippines' Florence Nightingale and more power to your Album "Between Seasons". I hope it will be Platinum Awardee in no time at all! Mabuhay!"
Erwin Buenviaje just answered a question about George!
Pamela thanks you for your order! Please order some more crops!
Pamela is so happy you ordered their crops before they spoiled! Order more crops so Pamela knows what to farm!
Pamela is waiting on their Kennebec Potato order from you! Go harvest your crops and complete their order. It'll only take two minutes.
Pamela just ordered crops from your farm. Come back and harvest to fulfill their order. Don't keep them waiting!
Pamela steered a bus full of wealthy tourists your way!
Town Kingship shoppers flocked to Clarkton City by the bus load and bought everything in sight! Your businesses are booming!
George Palaganas added 3 new photos to the album: TSU Net Reunion 2010.
George Palaganas added 3 new photos to the album: Mother of Good Counsel Seminary San Fernando Pampanga 1986 - 1987.
Jessica Holden has an impalpable spirit. Her different esquire brought her a tremendous inklings on the refined. To her, "if she can queer it, she can swirl it." Her two miles shown the same styrofoam lifestyle over the years. She is like Nancy Brebeuf all the while. However,while she is into that, Nancy is the "if she can rip it, she can rib it" type.
"In Bellany. He's eating the same stuff.", Jessica answered.
Hi there again. I understand that you used to work on a casino before bacause you have mentioned that to me on one of our conversations in the seminary back then and you are also from Don Bosco ,right? And before I forget, say hello for me to your wife and kids. I need their names again... Father Garu(Edgar Panlilio) had an operation before we went together at Holy Family Academy in Angeles City, him being the spiritual director of the school with Sr. Josephine Nepumoceno, OSB (I think she is connected now with Carmelite Sisters of Mary?)as the school principal, and me as an instructor from our company[m/set] tied-up with their school as the instructor together with Ms. Marissa Dugenia. He(Father Garu) is now plegmatic ,but still the same cheerful reverable comrade just like in the seminary where he is batch treasurer( remember those coins on our rooms before and he is already a nurse(nursing graduate at that time right?) because of that operation. If you can contact Globen, please send me his numbers too. I have been to Canada and Hong Kong myself and I need you to read this entry I have submitted to the Philippine Star so you can have a glimpse further of what have happened to me after all these 23 years(if you got time to read it).
George Palaganas added a new photo to the album: Former Students of George Palaganas.
From George Palaganas: On the photo, I was the one holding books. I was just passing by the corridors(2nd floor) when they(students) pulled me in for this photoshoot.
From Maxima Gunday: August 9 at 7:19pm sir george,good day,am your student in ST.THERESA'S ACADEM...Y Bauan,Bata...ngas way 1994-1995.how are u sir?still teaching profession is your career?i remember you when one of our classmate posting a pictures when we are in hs life you are there in our class picture.you are our computer teacher.god bless sir. .
From George Palaganas: August 10 at 4:20am Hi How are you doing! Is Maxima Gunday your real name? What section? Do you know Fatima Bengco or Kennedy? What is your student number? Regards? .
From Maxima Gunday: August 10 at 4:25am no sir maxima villanueva we are night students v-st.matthew our section. .
From George Palaganas: August 10 at 4:37am so ... mrs. gunday ka na? night students ko... then sawa kayo sa mga jokes... LOL! .
See you Sunday before twilight(afternoon).
Like the transcripts of our chat on this e-mail letter, there was a message on chat that contains your cellphone number, when I gave you a call from Farmer's Plaza because the door of the house at Aurorora corner Benitez was closed and I just went out for hot water in the adjacent MZ Burger shop and I can not get in, if you will not open the knobless door from the inside…. the missing cellphone number was my only copy of the number…. Now it's gone??? Anyway, I'll ask for your number again next time we will be together.
What happned to the other e-mail addies you have secured the last time we had an internet session together? Can't you not access them now? I understand there are some "creeps getting into the system level" like instead of 2009 , all of your sent files to me have 2010 replacing 2009.?? But then, that's the sign of free services! LOL! But just the same, even with that sign, I still don't loose faith in the system. Anyway, it's a very "important toy".
Advance merry christmas and a happy new year too.
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