Additional evidence of the link between cancer and inflammation: Scientists from MIT have uncovered one of the causes for colon cancer. Apparently, a compound released during an inflammatory process causes cells to become cancerous. This discovery may help both in prevention and treatment of inflammation-related cancers.
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling molecule in mammals. The compound has both beneficial and harmful influences on these organisms. Nitric oxide is suspected to be produced by the immune system in response to bacterial infections. Scientists from MIT's Division of Comparative Medicine and Department of Biological Engineering, led by James Fox, director of the Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM), have recently discovered that nitric oxide, produced by inflammatory cells in the course of a bacterial infection, can cause colon cells to become cancerous. These findings suggest that chemically blocking the chemical may help treat or prevent colon cancer.
It has been known for a long time that there is a link between the gastrointestinal infections caused by H. pylori is linked to colon cancer in humans. H. hepaticus, a similar bacterium has a similar effect in mice. The inflammatory response to such an infection results, among other things, in the production of nitric oxide. In a study using the mice model for the bacterial infection, the scientists have found that NO produced by different cells had different kinds of influences on its surroundings.
"Nitric oxide delivered by inflammatory cells, in particular, is important in causing changes in intestinal epithelial cells, setting the stage for cancer development," said Susan Erdman, principal research scientist in the Division of Comparative Medicine.
The researchers infected mice with H. hepaticus and discovered that blocking an enzyme necessary for the production of NO reduced the percentage of mice that developed colon cancer. Further work must be done to fully understand the effects of nitric oxide on colon cells and develop potential clinical therapies. Researchers will focus on the treatment of ongoing colon cancer as well as the prevention of its initial development, perhaps by treatment of the initial inflammation process. Stopping nitric oxide production all over the body may be a dangerous as NO takes part in other bodily functions, so the treatment will have to be localized.
"Therapies will need to be targeted to inhibit the damaging effects of nitric oxide while preserving as many of the protective elements of Nitric Oxide as possible," said Erdman.
TFOT has recently covered several stories on the connection between cancer and inflammation including a DNA mechanism that makes certain people more likely to develop colon cancer as a result of an infection, and a mechanism by which the normal gut bacteria, E. faecalis, causes colon cancer. An additional story covered by TFOT examined the link discovered by a research team from MIT between inflammation and cancer, which improved the understanding of cancer caused by ulcerative colitis.
For more information on the recent nitric oxide research, please visit the MIT press release site.


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Chinese Aircraft Carrier Builder Jailed for Corruption
Published: Monday, 08 July 2019 16:35
Written by Zdravko Ljubas
Former head of one of China's largest shipbuilding companies, a man who led the project to build the country's first aircraft carriers, ended up behind bars for taking bribes that had caused "extremely heavy losses" to state interests, Xinhua reported last week.
Chinese aircraft carrier by CSIC (Photo: FB/ Modern Chinese Warplanes)An Intermediate People's Court in Shanghai, sentenced on Thursday Sun Bo, former general manager of the state-owned China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), to 12 years in prison for taking bribes and for abuse of power.
The report said Sun used his position "to help individuals set up businesses to benefit from CSIC's commercial activities."
Besides being jailed, Sun Bo will have to pay 800,000 yuan (US$116,000) in fines, while the court also ordered the confiscation of some 8.4 million yuan ($1.22 million) he and his wife collected through bribes and gifts, according to South China Morning Post (SCMP).
However, he was given a lighter sentence because he "confessed his crimes and volunteered information about crimes that the prosecutors have not yet discovered, truly repented, and returned the bribes and gifts that he had accepted."
The papers also quoted a non-named military source as saying Sun Bo could have been given a life sentence, even death penalty, as he had access to numerous confidential documents and state secrets on warships.
CSIC, according to SCMP report, "plays a lead role in the development and construction of naval vessels – including nuclear and conventional submarines and aircraft carriers."
The company also worked on China's deep-sea research submersible Jiaolong, which, allegedly, can reach greater depths than any other vessel like it in the world.
Sun Bo was detained in January 2018, half a year after Chinese authorities said that they have started investigating general manager of CSIC and the deputy secretary of its Communist Party committee.
Following the accusations, Sun Bo was expelled from the Communist Party, by a decision of the party's anti-graft watchdog - the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).
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Anna Ridler (b. 1985, UK) is an artist and researcher. She has exhibited at institutions such as the V&A Museum, Ars Electronica, HeK Basel, Impakt and the Barbican Centre and has degrees from the Royal College of Art, Oxford University and University of Arts London. She was a 2018 EMAP fellow and was listed by Artnet as one of nine "pioneering artists" exploring AI's creative potential. She is interested in working with collections of information, particularly self-generated data sets, to create new and unusual narratives in a variety of mediums, and what happens when things cannot fit into discrete categories. She is currently interested in the intersection of machine learning and nature and what we can learn from history.
Repeating and mistranslating: the associations of GANs in an art context in the proceedings for 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017), Long Beach, CA, USA.


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package webster.links;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;

// TODO url encoding
// TODO validation (e.g. slashes)
public class Link implements ExpandableLink {

    private final String scheme;
    private final String host;
    private final Optional<Integer> port;
    private final Optional<String> context;
    private final String pattern;

    public Link(String scheme, String host, Optional<Integer> port, Optional<String> context, String pattern) {
        this.scheme = scheme;
        this.host = host;
        this.port = port;
        this.context = context;
        this.pattern = pattern;
    }

    @Override
    public String scheme() {
        return scheme;
    }

    @Override
    public String host() {
        return host;
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<Integer> port() {
        return port;
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<String> context() {
        return context;
    }

    @Override
    public String pattern() {
        return pattern;
    }

    @Override
    public String routingPattern() {
        return relativeUrl();
    }

    @Override
    public String absoluteUrl() {
        String hostWithPort = port.isPresent() ? host + ":" + port.get() : host;
        return scheme + "://" + hostWithPort + relativeUrl();
    }

    @Override
    public String relativeUrl() {
        return context.isPresent()
                ? "/" + context.get() + pattern
                : pattern;
    }

    @Override
    public ExpandedLink expandAll(Map<String, ? extends Object> pathParams) {
        return new ExpandedLink(this, (Map<String, Object>) pathParams, new HashMap<>());
    }

    @Override
    public ExpandedLink withQueryParamsList(Map<String, List<? extends Object>> queryParams) {
        return new ExpandedLink(this, new HashMap<>(), queryParams);
    }

    public static class Builder {
        private String scheme = "http";
        private String host = "localhost";
        private Optional<Integer> port = Optional.empty();
        private Optional<String> context = Optional.empty();
        private String pattern = "/*";

        public Builder withScheme(String scheme) {
            this.scheme = scheme;
            return this;
        }

        public Builder withHost(String host) {
            this.host = host;
            return this;
        }

        public Builder withPort(Integer port) {
            this.port = Optional.ofNullable(port);
            return this;
        }

        public Builder withContext(String context) {
            this.context = Optional.ofNullable(context);
            return this;
        }

        public Builder withPattern(String pattern) {
            this.pattern = pattern;
            return this;
        }

        public Builder withPath(String path) {
            this.pattern = path;
            return this;
        }

        public Link build() {
            return new Link(scheme, host, port, context, pattern);
        }
    }
}

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System of Public Instruction and Primary School Law of Michigan: With ...
Por Michigan. Department of Public Instruction
Sec. 7. The said trustees are authorized to receive subscriptions for shares to the capital stock of said corporation, and such shares shall be assignable and transferable agreeably to such by-laws as the said trustees shall from time to time establish, and shall in law be consid. ered personal property.
Sec. 8. The said trustees are hereby empowered and authorized to establish in the township of Adrian, in the county of Lenawee, an institution for the instruction of young persons in the various branches of literature, science and the arts, and shall faithfully apply the funds by them from time to time received, under the provisions of this act, in providing suitable buildings, employing professors and teachers, procuring books, maps, philosophical and other apparatus necessary to insure a successful prosecution of study in said institution.
dec. 9. In the collection of debts against said corporation, if corporate property cannot be found sufficient to satisfy any execution issued against it, the trustees shall be liable as partners in trade, for any debt created by them whilst trustees in behalf of said corporation; and if such debts cannot be collected from the corporate property of said institution, or the property of the trustees as aforesaid, then each stockholder shall be individually linble therefor.
Sec. 10. The said trustees shall, at least ten days previous to each annual election of trustees as aforesaid, cause a list of the names of all the trustees and stockholders of said corporation, together with a statement of the amount of stock owned by each, duly authenticated by affidavit, to be filed in the office of the county clerk of the county of Lenawee; and the said list and statement shall be prima facie evidence that the individuals therein named are the trustees and stockholders of said corporation, and that the statement of the stock is the aniount owned by each individual respectively.
Sec. 11. That said seminary shall be subject to the annual visitation of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the trustees of said seminary shall annually, on or before the twen. tieth day of October, in each year, make to said Superintendent a full report of the literary and pecuniary condition of said seminary.
Seo. 12. This act shall be under the control of any future Legislature, to alter, amend or repeal, as the public good may require.
Approved January 30, 1846.
[ No. 70. ]
AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Adrian
Seminary, approved January thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the first section of the act entitled an act to incorporate the Adrian Seminary, approved January thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, be amended by striking out the names of Alfred W. Budlong, William Wolcott, Francis J. King and Harry Wood, and inserting the names of Abel Whitney, Daniel K. Underwood, John A. Rice and Langford G. Berry; and by striking out the words "Adrian Seminary," and inserting "Adrian Atademy."
8vo. 2. The first meeting of said corporation shall be held at such time and place as may be designated, in accordance with the provisions of the third section of chapter fifty-five of the cerised statutes of eighteen hundred and forty-six.
8no. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 16, 1847.
[ No. 13. ] AN ACT to incorporate the Clinton Institute. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That from and after the passage of this act, Ebenezer Hall, Thomas M. Perry, Henry M. Dodge, Aaron G. Parke, Joseph Cole, Chester Spalding, Harlehigh Cartter, Pliny Power and Morton Shearer, of the county of Macomb, and their successors be and they are hereby constituted, ordained and declared a body corporate and politic under the name and style of "The Clinton Institute;" that by that name they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered, defending and being defended in all courts of record whatever, and in all manner of suits, actions, complaints, matters and causes whatever; and that they and their successors may have a common seal, and change and alter the same at their pleasure; and that they and their successors by the name of "The Clinton Institute," shall be in law capable of acquiring and holding by purchase, gift, or otherwise, and of selling, conveying or leasing any estate, real, personal or mixed, for the use of said corporation, not exceeding ten thousand dollars; and that they and their successors shall have full power to make and enter into contracts, to make such rules and by-laws as they may deem necessary for the good gov. ernment and prosperity of said institution: Provided, Such by-laws are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or of this state.
Sec. 2. Said corporation shall have power to establish at or near the village of Mount Clemens, in the county of Macomb, an institution for the instruction and education of young per
Sec. 3. There shall be nine trustees of the said corporation, who shall be stockholders thereof, and who shall manage and control all the affairs of the same, and the above named persons shall be the first trustees, and shall hold their offices until the first Monday in July, ono thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and until others are elected in their places; and they or their successors shall have power to fill all vacancies in their own body, which may happen by death, resignation, or otherwise, to appoint a president, secretary and treasurer of their own body, and to prescribe such studies and regulations in said institution, as to them shall seem best.
SBC. 4. There shall be a meeting of the stockholders of said corporation on the first Monday in July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, and on the first Monday in July in every succeeding year, at some couvenient place in the village of Mount Clemens, to be designated by the by-laws of said corporation; and a mnjority of the stockholders who shall meet in person or by proxy, shall elect nine of the stockholders to be trustees of said corporation for the year then next ensuing, and until others are elected in their places; ench share of stock entitling the stockholder to one vote, either personally or by proxy.
Sec. 5. The capital stock of said company shall be ten thousand dollars, in shares of ten dollars each, and the trustees are hereby authorized to receive subscriptions thereto, at such times and places as they or a majority of them shall designate; said shares to be assignable and transferable agreenbly to such by-laws as the trustees may from time to time establish, and shall in law be considered personal property.
Sec. 6. The trustees of said corporation shall be jointly and severally liable for all debts of the said corporation: Provided, That no execution shall issue against the individual property of said trustees until the property of the corporation shall first have been exhausted: And provided further, That any trustee resigning shall not thereby be released from any liability accrued during the period which he was in office, until a responsible successor shall be appointed and enter upon the discharge of his duties.
Sec. 7. The board of trustees shall cause to be transmitted to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, annually, on or before the tenth day of November, a full statement of the condition of the institute.
Sec. 8. This act may be amended or reperled at any time by a vote of two-thirds of any foture Legislature.
Approved February 12, 1846.
[ No. 128. ]
AN ACT to incorporate the Owasso Literary Institute. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatires of the State of Michigar, That Elias Coinstock, Alfred L. Williams, Benjamin 0. Williams, Amos Gould, Charles L. Goodhue, Anson B. Chipman and John B. Barnes, of the county of Shiawassee, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby constituted and declared a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, under the name and style of the " Owasso Literary Institute;" and by that name they and their successors in office shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended in all courts whatever.
SEC. 2. That the persons named in the preceding section, and their successors in office, may have a common seal, and change the same at their pleasure, and by the name of the Owasso Literary Institute, shall be capable in law of acquiring and holding by purchase, gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, and of selling, conveying or leasing any estate, real, personal or mixed, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and no other; and they and their successors in office, shall have full power to make and enter into contracts, to make such rules and bylaws as may be necessary for the good government and success of said institute: Provided, Such by-laws are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or of this State.
Sec. 3. The capital stock of the said corporation shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of ten dollars each.
Sec. 4. Said corporation shall have power to establish and continue in the township of Owasso, an institution of lengning for the instruction of persons in the various branches of literature, and the arts and sciences.
Sec. 5. There shall be seven trustees of the said corporation, who shall be members thereof, and who shall manage all the affairs thereof; and the first trustees shall be Elias Comstock, Alfred L. Williams, Benjamin O. Williams, Amos Gould, Charles L. Goodhue, Anson B. Chipman and John B. Barnes, who shall hold their offices, and have and exercise the powers and franchises hereby granted, until the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and fortyseven, and until others are elected in their places.
Sec. 6. There shall be, on the first Monday of January, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, and on the first Monday of January in every succeeding year, a general meeting of the stock. holders of said corporation, at some convenient place in the village of Owasso, to be designated by the by-laws of said corporation; and a majority of the stockholders who shall meet in person or by proxy, shall elect by ballot seven of the stockholders to be trustees of said corporation for the year then next ensuing.
Sec. 7. The trustees of said corporation shall have power to choose of their own number, a president, treasurer, and a secretary, who shall immediately enter upon the duties of their offices, and hold the same from the time of their election until the first Monday of January of the ensuing year, and until others are chosen in their stead; and in case any of the trustees
shall die, resign, refuse or neglect to act, then, and in any such case, the remaining trustees may,
within thirty days thereafter, elect by ballot other stockholders of the said corporation in their stead, who shall hold their offices in the same manner as those first elected.
SEC. 8. Each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of which he shall be the holder; and the said trustees shall receive subscriptions for shares in said corporation, until the capital stock may be subscribed. The said shares shall be assignable and transferable according to such rules as the board of trustees shall from time to time make and estab, lish, and shall be considered personal property.
SEC. 9. In case it should at any time happen that an election of trustees should not be made on any day when, pursuant to this act it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not for that cause be dissolved; but it shall and may be lawful on any other day to hold an. election for trustees in such manner as shall be provided by the by-laws and ordinances of said corporation.
Sec. 10. The said trustees shall faithfully apply all funds in inoney or otherwise, by them collected or acquired, according to their best judgment, in the erection of suitable buildings, in the support of necessary officers and teachers, and in procuring a suitable library and other articles necessary to insure the success of said institution.
Sec. 11. All process against said corporation shall be by summons, and the service of the same shall be by leaving an attested copy with the president of said board of trustees, or in his absence, at his last place of abode, at least six days previous to the return day thereof.
Sec. 12. The Legislature may alter, amend or repeal this act.
Sec. 13. The trustees of said institution shall be jointly and severnlly liable for all de bts against the corporation: Provided, That no execution shall issue against the individual property of said trustees until the property of the corporation shall first have been exhausted.
Sec. 14. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved May 11, 1816.
[ No. 82.] AN ACT to incorporate the Vermontville Academical Association.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Scrate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That from and after the passage of this act, W. W. Benedict, Oren Dickinson, S. 8. Church, W. S. Fairfield, David Barber, W.J. Squier, M. S. Norton, D. H. Robinson, Levi Merrill, of the county of Eaton, and their successors be and they are hereby constituted, ordained and declared a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of " The Vermontville Academical Association;" that by that name they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered, defending and being defended, in all courts of record whatever, and in all manner of suits, actions, complaints, matters and causes whatever;. and that they and their successors may have a common seal, and change and alter the same at their pleasure; and that they and their successors, by the name of the "Vermontville Academical Association," shall be in law capable of acquiring and holding by purchase, gift, or other-wise, and of selling, conveying or leasing any estate, real, personal or mixed, for the use of said corporation, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and that they and their successors shall have full power to make and enter into contracts, to make such rules and by-laws as they may deem necessary for the good government and prosperity of said institution: Provided, such by-laws are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States or of this, State.
SEC. 2. Said corporation shall have power to establish at or near the village of Vermontville, in the county of Eaton, an institution for the instruction and education of young persons.
SEC. 3. There shall be nine trustees of said corporation, who shall be stockholders thereof, and who shall manage and control all the affairs of the same ; and the above named persons shall be the first trustees, and shall hold their offices until the first Monday of July, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and until others are elected in their places; and they or their successors shall have power to fill all vacancies in their own body, which may happen by death, resiguation or otherwise, to appoint a president, secretary and treasurer of their own body, and to prescribe such studies and regulations in said institution as to them shall seem best.
Sec. 4. There shall be a meeting of the stockholders of said corporation on the first Monday of July, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and on the first Monday in July in every succeed. ing year, at some convenient place in the village of Vermontville, to be designated by the bylaws of said corporation; and a majority of the stockholders, who shall meet in person or by proxy, shall select nine of the stockholders to be trustees of said corporation for the year then next ensuing, and until others are elected in their places, ench share of stock entitling the stockholder to one vote, either personally or by proxy.
Sec. 5. The capital stock of said company shall be ten thousand dollars, in shares of ten dollars ench. And the trustees are hereby authorized to receive subscriptions thereto at such times and places as they or a majority of them shall designate; said shares to be assignable and transferable, agrecably to such by-laws as the trustees may, from time to time establish, and shall, in law, be considered personal property.
Sec. 6. The trustees of said corporation shall be jointly and severally liable for all debts of the said corporation: Providrd, That no execution shall issue against the individual property of said trustees until the property of the corporation shall first have been exhausted: And provided further, That any trustee resigning shall not thereby be released from any liability accrued during the period while he was in office, until a responsible successor shall be appointed and enter upon the discharge of his duties.
Sec. 7. The board of trustees shall cause to be transmitted to the Superintendent of Public Instruction annually, on or before the tenth day of November, a full statement of the condition of the institute.
Sec. 8. This act may be amended or repealed at any time by a vote of two-thirds of any future Legislature.
Approved April 28, 1846.
AN ACT to incorporate the White Pigeon Academy. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That Levi Baxter, Edwin Kellogg, Elias 8. Swan, John Redfern, Charles Kellogg and George W. Beisel, of the county of St. Joseph, and their successors in office, be and they are hereby constituted and declared a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name, under the name and style of the "White Pigeon Academy," and by that name they and their successors in oftfice shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended in all courts whatever.
Seo. 2. The persons named in the preceding section, and their successors in office, may have a common seal, and change the same at their pleasure, and by the name of the White Pigeon Academy, shall be capable in law of acquiring and holding by purchase, gift, grant, devise,


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OPINION - The gritty London remake of 'alfresco' is just so grim: drinking on benches in cold muddy parks
Robbie Smith
(Natasha Pszenicki)
We all know language evolves, but has any phrase had such a fall from grace as alfresco? Before, it conjured up visions of long, leisurely meals in warm Italian piazzas. Now we've been subjected to the gritty remake: alfresco meaning a meet-up where you tramp around a London park with a friend while trying to stave off hypothermia. If only London had somewhere warm, capacious and rule-free where we could all party in peace.
Without such a cosy hideaway, we had to make do with alfresco fun in the form of walks around chilly parks at the turn of the year. I recall drinking fitfully with an old friend on a bench one Saturday in February. We sat there for hours, not feeling the cold creep under our thermals. When Phoebe Waller-Bridge walked past and I — a social diarist — didn't even turn my head after her, alarm bells started going. We got up to move and suddenly I felt like a Meccano man, joints rigid and limbs stiff. It took hours to get warm again.
We were just two of many. Hampstead Heath was turned into a PG version of the Somme, with more dryrobes and fewer Maxim machine guns. I dread to think about all the other London parks which suffered the same fate. I joined one of many on the Heath shuffling around in huge hordes like a zombie, churning the paths into mud, trying to eke a good time out of winter's few daylight hours. We only called it alfresco to give us something to smile about.
And now alfresco looks to be back on the menu. It wasn't supposed to be like this. For one, alfresco in Britain should strictly refer to the single week where the weather is good enough to eat outdoors (although that is changing — which is the only praise you'll hear me giving climate change). More importantly, this gallows-humour alfresco was supposed to be old hat, like caring about the daily infection stats or looking at graphs drawn by Covid nerds.
But this is the era of coronavirus, the viral boomerang, and these things always find a way to come back at you. While our hapless Cabinet dithers, Omicron enforces a remorseless logic of its own. Many of us are looking at the figures and cutting back on our plans, or agreeing only to meet outside.
So like it or not, this winter has an alfresco twist. If that sounds a bit Hotel California, maybe there's something in that. After all, in Italian the words "al fresco" are not really associated with pleasant outdoor dining — instead they're slang for "in prison". But look on the bright side: if this virus can feel imprisoning, at least we know we'll soon be out. Then we can go about restoring alfresco to its proper meaning.
In other news...
Earlier this month I went along to Boisdale's boozy bash: the Cigar Smoker of the Year Awards, which was very much not alfresco. There, in Canary Wharf (believe it or not), I discovered a whole new world. As the nominees were read out, hollering and whooping erupted from the tables at the name of their favoured candidate for cigar sommelier of the year, or robusta of the year.
I was briefly keenly aware of the cigar industry, which must have its own internal rivalries, secret loves, hates, jealousies and gossip. There must be countless such private worlds, barely known to most of us. It felt timely because it's at this time of year where we each retreat (or try), not to the private world of cigars, but to worlds of our own. And, we hope, we emerge blinking, sated and stuffed, on the other side. Merry Christmas.
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Threats against judges skyrocketed during the Trump period, and experts are now fearing for the worst
President Donald Trump watches as Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas administers the Constitutional Oath to Amy Coney Barrett on the South Lawn of the White House White House in Washington on October 26, 2020.
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At least three packages with white powder have arrived at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC.
Federal judges concerned in issues associated to the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago have additionally confronted threats.
The variety of logged threats to judges and different officers practically doubled early in the Trump period.
On the marketing campaign path in 2016, Donald Trump took an uncommon tack as he defended his namesake "university" against fraud allegations.
Rather than deferring to his attorneys, or reserving his public rhetoric for the former Trump University college students behind the class-action lawsuit, Trump impugned the character of the federal decide presiding over the case.
"I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater. He's a hater," Trump stated of Judge Gonzalo Curiel, a 2012 appointee to the federal trial court docket in San Diego. A month later, as Trump referred to as for constructing a wall on the US-Mexico border, the future president famous the Indiana-born decide's Mexican heritage to query whether or not he may rule impartially in the Trump University case.
The remarks set the tone for what authorized experts noticed as Trump's politicization of the federal judiciary. Trump would go on to win the election, and his four-year White House time period would coincide with a remarkable rise in threats to federal judges and different officers below the safety of the US Marshals Service, in line with authorities knowledge reviewed by Insider.
Between fiscal years 2016 and 2018, the complete of reported threats practically doubled, from 2,357 to 4,542, in line with a US Marshals Service report. The complete has remained above 4,000 yearly since, in line with the annual report for the fiscal year 2021 — the newest 12 months for which knowledge are out there.
In a press release to Insider, a spokesperson for Trump blamed the development on the information media and liberals.
"The trend is due, nearly entirely, to a divisive media who defines every decision made by a Republican-appointed judge in partisan terms, while failing to do so for decisions made by Democrat-appointed judges," the spokesperson, Taylor Budowich, stated in an e mail. "It is also due to the radical left activists who threaten the lives of judges to try to influence the court, like after the draft Roe v Wade decision was leaked. The media and the left have a disgusting and reckless disregard for the safety of America's judge [sic]."
In an interview, former Judge John Jones attributed the rise in threats to a "road-rage society," through which public figures are not confining their criticism to factors of disagreement however going additional to impugn the character of their perceived opponents.
"It's completely irresponsible. It's like public figure malpractice, because we're dealing with a really volatile public at this point," Jones, a George W. Bush appointee, informed Insider. "I'm sickened by the fact that we can't moderate some of this rhetoric. It's literally become so toxic now that I think we're going to get somebody hurt or killed by it."
Jones, now the president of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, wrote an op-ed in August — title: "I'm afraid a judge is going to be killed" — after a federal Justice of the Peace decide got here below risk for signing off on a search warrant permitting the FBI to look Trump's Mar-a-Lago property and non-public membership in South Florida.
Following the FBI raid, Magistrate Judge Bruce E. Reinhardt confronted an onslaught of antisemitic assaults and on-line threats, together with some focusing on the synagogue the place he serves on the board.
"He and judges like him signed up for a job that entails risk, but they didn't sign up to be killed," Jones wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
A month later, a Texas lady was arrested on prices she left threatening messages on the voicemail of Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee presiding over the former president's authorized challenges to the FBI's seizure of hundreds of information from Mar-a-Lago, Trump's resort residence in Palm Beach, Florida. In these voicemails, the lady threatened to have Cannon assassinated in entrance of her household for "helping" the former president, according to court filings.
That case got here simply months after the arrest, in June, of a person who arrived outdoors the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh with a gun, knife, and zip-ties. In court docket papers charging the man with making an attempt to kill Kavanaugh, prosecutors stated the man informed police that he was upset with a leaded draft opinion exhibiting that the Supreme Court was poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that established a constitutional proper to an abortion.
Weeks earlier than the man's arrest, Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered around-the-clock safety for Supreme Court justices in response to the leaked draft opinion. But, as the threats to the federal judges in South Florida confirmed, the development is extending down by way of the decrease courts.
As not too long ago as final week, a grand jury indicted a Pennsylvania man on charges he despatched a letter to Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the House January 6 committee, containing what gave the impression to be a white powder. A message in the letter alluded to anthrax and included threats to kill Thompson, his household, President Joe Biden, and Judge Robert D. Mariani, of the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
This 12 months, no less than three packages containing suspicious white powder have arrived at the federal courthouse in Washington, DC, in line with individuals conversant in the incidents and native officers. Hazmat crews responded every time and decided the packages — paying homage to anthrax-laced threats despatched after the 9/11 assaults — didn't include a hazardous substance.
The newest of such packages arrived in August and entered the chambers of Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly — a uncommon breach that unnerved judges and courthouse workers, in line with individuals conversant in the incident. The substance in the bundle turned out to be child powder, a spokesperson for the Washington, DC, Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department informed Insider.
A month earlier, shortly after 11:15 p.m. on July 21, police responded to the dwelling of Judge Emmet Sullivan, who was set to preside the subsequent day over a plea listening to in a high-profile prosecution stemming from the January 6 assault on the Capitol. In a hoax name, generally known as a "swatting," an unknown caller pretended to be Sullivan and claimed to police that somebody had arrived at the decide's dwelling with a weapon, in line with individuals conversant in the incident and a police report.
Officers arrived to seek out Sullivan "safe and secure," in line with the police report. Bloomberg first reported on the "swatting" incident.
Kollar-Kotelly, a 25-year veteran of the federal trial court docket in Washington, DC, declined to remark, as did Sullivan.
The US Marshals Service stated it doesn't touch upon particular incidents. But in a press release to Insider, a spokesperson acknowledged "that high-profile cases often generate increased attention, including threats." It declined to present a broader evaluation for the improve in threats to judges and different Marshals Service protectees.
"The security of our federal judiciary is the cornerstone of our nation's democracy, and the Marshals take that responsibility very seriously," the spokesperson stated. "Federal judges make hard decisions based on the rule of law in large part because the Marshals ensure they can make these decisions without fear, intimidation, or retaliation."
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Q: Fastest way to simplify numerator and denominator Say, I have two sequences. One of them can be a numerator, the second one is a denominator. Both sequences may contain the same variables. What is the fastest algorithm to get rid of duplicated variables in numerator and denominator?
Example: initial sequences.
A * B * C * D * O * V
---------------------
B * O * N * A * C

Expected result: A, B, C, O should have gone.
D * V
-----
N

The only idea that I currently have is to create two arrays and using two loops to find and remove matching elements. Maybe there is a better solution?

A: You should look at std::set_interaction, it can be used to determine common numbers from two sorted collections.
e.g.
 std::vector< int > inter;
 std::set_intersection (numerator.begin ( ), numerator.end ( ),
                        denominator.begin ( ), denominator.end ( ),
                        std::back_inserter (inter));

Now to remove the common numbers in numerator:
 if (inter.size() != 0)
 {
   std::vector<int> leftn;
   std::set_difference (numerator.begin ( ), numerator.end ( ),
   inter.begin ( ), inter.end ( ), std::inserter (leftn, leftn.begin ( )));
   ...
 then do the same for denominator

However I think you should first make sure your denominators and numerators are split up into prime numbers before attempting the above to get best result
e.g.
  2 * 4               4
  -----  would yield ---   which obviously could be simplified more
  2 * 2               2

  2 * 2 * 2           2
  ---------   -->    ---
    2 *  2            1

but maybe you already did that.
EDIT: sorted collections

A: Here is my solution sorting numerator and denominator and then comparing equal ranges:
std::vector<std::string> num = {"A", "B", "C", "D", "O", "V"};
std::vector<std::string> den = {"B", "O", "N", "A", "C"};

// sort to compare equal_ranges
std::sort(std::begin(num), std::end(num));
std::sort(std::begin(den), std::end(den));

decltype(std::equal_range(std::begin(num), std::end(num), "")) num_er{std::begin(num), std::begin(num)};
decltype(std::equal_range(std::begin(den), std::end(den), "")) den_er{std::begin(den), std::begin(den)};

while(num_er.second != std::end(num) && den_er.second != std::end(den))
{
    // next value to check (numerator or denominator?)
    auto v = num_er.second;
    if(*den_er.second < *v)
        v = den_er.second;

    // find the equal ranges
    num_er = std::equal_range(num_er.second, std::end(num), *v);
    den_er = std::equal_range(den_er.second, std::end(den), *v);

    // count the number of this value for num and den
    auto num_size = std::distance(num_er.first, num_er.second);
    auto den_size = std::distance(den_er.first, den_er.second);

    // erase from either num or den (or both)

    if(num_size >= den_size)
        num_er.second = num.erase(num_er.second - den_size, num_er.second);

    if(den_size >= num_size)
        den_er.second = den.erase(den_er.second - num_size, den_er.second);
}

for(auto const& s: num)
    std::cout << s << ' ';
std::cout << '\n';
std::cout << "-------------------" << '\n';
for(auto const& s: den)
    std::cout << s << ' ';
std::cout << '\n';

Output:
D V
-------------------
N

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A charter school is an independently run public school that is granted greater flexibility in its operations in return for greater performance accountability. The "charter" establishing each school is a performance contract detailing the school's mission, program, students served, performance goals and accountability metrics. As public schools, charters are free and open to all families. Charter schools are schools of choice. Students and parents have to make a proactive decision to attend a charter school. If the school does not meet their needs, they can leave and find another school that does.
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No. MOSAICS Public School, like all charter schools, are free, public schools.
How do I enroll my student into a charter school?
A parent or guardian must submit an application for enrollment for their students to enroll. Applications submitted one week before the the date of the lottery to be entered into the lottery. These applications have the best chance of securing a seat. Applications for the next academic year's lottery are posted in January.
How does the lottery work?
As a charter school, we have 60 seats available to students at each grade level. Available seats are randomly lottered for each grade level annually. The lottery provides preference in the following order: 1) Founders and staff children (no more than 10 % of enrollment); 2) Siblings of enrolled children; 3) Children who live in the attendance area; 4) Children who live outside the attendance area. Once the lottery is held, families whose children were drawn for a spot will be notified about their child being enrolled. If one sibling in a family is picked in the lottery, the rest of the siblings will also be lottered into the school if a seat is available for the other grade level. If a child did not secure a seat in the annual lottery, they will be put on a waiting list in the order they were drawn. If an opening becomes available, the students on the wait list are called and offered the position.
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Students who have Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) have access to Occupational Therapy (OT), Speech Language Pathology (SLP), and special education services. We have a full time special education teacher and a full time aide to support students with special needs.
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Technology is used in the classroom to enhance the educational experience, not replace the teacher. Our students use technology to research, to collaborate, and to create. We have 1:1 devices at MOSAICS.
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MOSIACS Public School is a part of the National School Lunch Program. Families who qualify for free and reduced-priced meals can use the program at MOSAICS for both breakfast and lunch.
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MOSAICS is proud to offer full-day, every day kindergarten.
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MOSAICS Public School focuses on STEAM education through inquiry projects. We also focus on building community stewards--students who purposefully use their time, talents, and resources to improve the community around them.
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Our school provides busing inside the attendance zone; however, with such a large busing area, we use group pick-up and drop-off bus stops. We try to locate these stops within 2.5 miles of our families' homes. While we try to make the busing routes as convenient as possible for families, your family may have to travel to a drop-off and pick-up point to access the bus.
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At the Angelus, Pope Francis recalls the Jesuit priest, the two Orthodox bishops and all those who have been kidnapped, calling on all present to join him in the recitation of a Hail Mary. Joined by the presence of two young people, he opens registration for WYD in Krakow and registers himself as teh first pilgrim online with a tablet. Commenting on today's Gospel: "Who among us does not have his" five loaves and two fish "? If we are willing to put them in the hands of the Lord, they will be a bit more love in the world to go around".
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - A "pressing appeal" for the release of Fr. Paolo Dall'Oglio, kidnapped in Syria two years ago, was launched by Pope Francis after the noon prayer today, in front of tens of thousands of pilgrims.
The Pope described Fr. Dall'Oglio, a Jesuit, as an "estimated religious". He had lived in Syria for many years, where he re-founded the monastic community of Mar Musa. Engaged in Christian-Muslim dialogue, he was often critical of the Assad regime and supportive of the Syrian Arab spring. Because of this he was expelled from Syria in 2012. On returning to an area under the control of the rebels, he was kidnapped July 29, 2013, it is believed by groups linked to al-Nusra Front and al Qaeda.
War and lawlessness mean that kidnapping - for ideological or economic reasons - is very common in Syria. Other victims include two Orthodox bishops: Metropolitan Boulos Yazigi (Orthodox Church of Antioch) and Metropolitan Mar Gregorios Youhanna Ibrahim (Syrian Orthodox Church) abducted in April 2013. In addition to these ten priests.
After the appeal for FR. Dall'Oglio, Francis also recalled them: "I can not forget - he said - the orthodox bishops kidnapped in Syria and all other persons who were seized in conflict zones. I hope for a renewed commitment of the competent local and international authorities, so that these brothers will soon be restored to freedom. With affection and participation in their suffering, we want to remember them in prayer. " And here he intoned a Hail Mary, followed by all present.
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Earlier, the pontiff had commented the Gospel of today's Mass, the multiplication of the loaves and fishes according to the Gospel of John (Jn. 6: 1-15). The Pope recalled that before "a great crowd", "Philip, one of the Twelve, makes a quick calculation: organizing a collection, a maximum of two hundred coins could be collected to buy bread, but that would not be enough to feed five thousand people."
"The disciples - he added - think in "market-place" terms, but Jesus replaces the logic of the market place with that of giving. And then Andrew, another of the Apostles, Simon Peter's brother, presents a man who gives all that he has five loaves and two fish; but not enough - says Andrew - for such a big crowd (cf. v. 9). But Jesus was waiting just for that. "
And after explaining that "the bread of God is Jesus himself," the Pope draws some conclusions: "Taking Communion with Him, we receive His life in us and we become children of the heavenly Father and brothers and sisters among us. Participating in the Eucharist means entering into the logic of Jesus, the logic of gratuitousness, sharing. And even though we are poor, we can all give something. "
"Jesus satisfies not only material hunger, but the most profound of hungers, the hunger for meaning in life, the hunger for God. In the face of suffering, loneliness, poverty and difficulties of so many people, what can we do? Complaining does not solve anything, but we can offer what little we have. We certainly have a few hours of time, some talent, some expertise ... Who among us does not have his or her "five loaves and two fish"? If we are willing to put them in the hands of the Lord, we will bring a little more love into the world a bit 'more love, peace, justice and joy. God is able to multiply our small gestures of solidarity and make us partakers of his Hift. "
"Our prayer - he concluded - is to support this shared commitment so that no-one is ever lacking ever the Bread of heaven that gives eternal life and the basic needs for a dignified life, and affirm the logic of sharing and love. May the Virgin Mary accompanies us with her maternal intercession. "
A pilgrimage to Krakow for WYD
After the Marian prayer, Francis publically became the first pilgrimage to officaly register for the World Youth Day (WYD) to be held next year in Poland in Krakow. For his registration - which opened today on the official website - the Pope was joined by a young boy and girl, who joined him at the window to help him register online with a Tablet (see Photo).
Francis explained that WYD 2016 "celebrated during the Year of Mercy, .... will, in a sense, be a jubilee of youth, called to reflect on the theme "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy" (Mt 5,7). I invite the youth of the world to live this pilgrimage by going to Krakow, or by participating in this moment of grace in their own communities. "
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This message appears when ? With what character ?
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and try to save ..
even if the game is actually closed.
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4. Mortgage Scams. The Bank of America NA received financial incentives from a federal program to assist homeowners get mortgage-loan modifications. However, it prevented the home owners from receiving these modification programs that could have saved them millions of dollars in losses.
5. Illegal Fees. In a massive fraud against American taxpayers and veterans, JP Morgan Chase and San Franciscos Wells Fargo Bank of America and appeared on the list of 13 banks and mortgage lenders that charged military veterans illegal fees to refinance their home loans. In order to conceal the illegal fees, the banks and mortgage companies inflated the legal charges.
6. Manipulating Interest Rates. Morgan Stanley was exposed for its part in hiking interest rates. Unsealed documents revealed that the global bank cabal colluded and schemed for many years to manipulate the interest rates.
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Azerbaijan's oil supply for 2017 will decline by 0.06 million barrels per day (b/d) year-on-year, OPEC said in its October Monthly Oil Market Report.
Oil production in Azerbaijan is expected to average 0.79 million b/d in 2017, according to the cartel's forecasts.
The country's oil supply is expected to decline by 0.05 million b/d y-o-y to average 0.74 million b/d in 2018.
Output from Azerbaijan averaged 797,000 b/d in the last eight months of 2017, 40,000 b/d lower than last October, said the cartel.
In December 2016 in Vienna, 11 non-OPEC countries, including Azerbaijan, agreed to curtail oil output jointly by 558,000 barrels per day. The agreement was signed for the first half of 2017.
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Global Research | 5 October 2014
Say No to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
By Colin Todhunter
In Britain, the mainstream media is in overdrive, trying to sell the latest war to the population. Prime Minister David Cameron and his sidekicks Theresa May and Philip Hammond are attempting to convince everyone that bombing Iraq and Syria is all about making Britain safe. To frighten the living daylights out of everyone, they talk of murderous jihadists and terrorists and how 'British values' are under threat.
Apart from protecting oil fields, the current wave of militarism is ultimately about attacking the Assad government in Syria and the longer term goal of removing any barriers to Western-Israeli hegemony in the region. That includes eradicating Russian and Iranian influence and power.
If Cameron really does want to tackle fundamentalism and the assault on the values of 'fairness' and 'decency', those much touted 'British values' he alludes to, he should forget about waging imperialist wars and look closer to home. He should question the interests he serves to protect. Those interests are plundering economies, destroying ordinary people's livelihoods and undermining their quality of life.
These interests do not need military hardware to institute their plunder. They do it by various means, not least via the courts and trade and investment agreements.
At the start of 2014, through international trade and investment agreements speculative investors were claiming more than 1.7 billion Euros in compensation from Greece, Spain and Cyprus in private international tribunals for the impact of measures implemented to deal with economic crises [1].
Corporations and lawyers were scavenging profits from Europe's crisis countries. There was a growing wave of corporate lawsuits against Europe's struggling economies whereby, if successful, taxpayers would have to pay out millions of euros. Speculative investors were using investment agreements to raid the cash-strapped public treasuries in Europe's crisis countries.
In most cases, investors were not long-term investors but rather invested as the economic crisis emerged and were therefore fully aware of the risks. They were using the investment agreements to extract further wealth from crisis countries when their risky investment didn't pay off.
In Greece, Poštová Bank from Slovakia bought Greek debt after the bond value had already been downgraded and was then offered a generous debt restructuring package; yet it sought to extract an even better deal by suing Greece, using the bilateral investment treaty between Slovakia and Greece.
In Cyprus, a Greek-listed private equity-style investor, Marfin Investment Group, was seeking €823 million in compensation for its lost investments after Cyprus had to nationalise the Laiki Bank as part of an EU debt restructuring agreement.
In Spain, 22 companies (mainly private equity funds) had by March 2014 sued at international tribunals for cuts in subsidies for renewable energy.
Speculative investors use international law firms that actively encourage investor-state lawsuits and reap substantial financial rewards in the process. For example, it was estimated that UK-based Herbert Smith Freehills, hired to represent Spain in at least two cases, could earn up to 1.6 million euros for the cases.
'Investor rights' constitutes little more than a tool for the further plundering of austerity-driven economies by powerful corporations. Big business is able to bypass democracy and bully sovereign states into instituting policies that trample over ordinary citizens' rights in the name of even higher profits.
The global investment regime thrives on economic crises. Speculators making risky investments are protected, but ordinary people have no such protection and through harsh austerity policies are being stripped of basic social rights.
By March 2014, corporate investors had claimed in arbitration disputes more than 700 million euros from Spain, more than one billion euros from Cyprus and undisclosed amounts from Greece. This bill, plus the exorbitant lawyers' fees for processing the cases, was to be paid for out of the public purse at a time when austerity measures have led to severe cuts in social spending and increasing deprivation for vulnerable communities.
In 2013, while Spain spent millions on defending itself in lawsuits, it cut health expenditure by 22 per cent and education spending by 18 per cent.
Some of the lawsuits have arisen due to debt and banking restructuring measures that were required as part of EU rescue packages. Moreover, the EU continues to actively promote the use of investor-state arbitration mechanisms worldwide, most prominently in the current negotiations for the controversial EU-US trade agreement (TTIP).
Across the world it is a similar story. Earlier this year, it was reported that through bilateral investment treaties US tobacco giant Philip Morris was suing Uruguay and Australia over anti-smoking laws. The company was arguing that warning labels on cigarette packs and plain packaging prevent it from effectively displaying its trademark, causing a substantial loss of market share [2].
Swedish energy giant Vattenfall, which launched an investor-state lawsuit against Germany, was seeking €3.7 billion in compensation for lost profits related to two of its nuclear power plants. The case followed the German government's decision to phase out nuclear energy after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
When Argentina froze utility rates (energy, water, etc.) and devalued its currency in response to its 2001-2002 financial crisis, it was hit by over 40 lawsuits from companies like CMS Energy (US) and Suez and Vivendi (France). By the end of 2008, awards against the country had totalled US$1.15 billion.
On the basis of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the US, Canada and Mexico, US company Lone Pine Resources Inc. was demanding US$250 million in compensation from Canada. The 'crime' was that Quebec had put a moratorium on 'fracking', addressing concerns about the environmental risks of this new technology to extract oil and gas from rocks.
At the end of 2012, Dutch insurer Achmea (formerly Eureko) was awarded €22 million in compensation from Slovakia.
In 2006, the Slovak government had reversed the health privatisation policies of the previous administration and required health insurers to operate on a not-for-profit basis.
It is also interesting to note that Chevron initiated arbitration to avoid paying US$18 billion to clean up oil-drilling-related contamination in the Amazonian rainforest, as ordered by Ecuadorian courts.
Big companies have used these lawsuits to destroy any competition or threats to their profits by challenging green energy and medicine policies, anti-smoking legislation, bans on harmful chemicals, environmental restrictions on mining, health insurance policies, measures to improve the economic situation of minorities and many more. Even the threat of litigation could force governments to shelve progressive legislation.
As the 7th round of negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) get underway in Washington, corporate lobby heavyweights all advocate the inclusion of investor-state arbitration in the proposed agreement. They desire a global 'gold standard', a model for investment protection for other agreements around the world that could see for instance end up with Europe being flooded with genetically modified food. Regulations would be decided on in secret between officials and representatives of big corporations and dismantled in the name of removing barriers to 'free' trade.
The ability of powerful corporations to acquire carte blanche to rein in democracy and curb policies devised for the public ultimately stems from a type of fundamentalism: the ideology of neoliberalism and 'free' trade. This ideology is not based on the 'science' of economics and 'free' markets, as its proponents would like to have us believe. It uses dogma wrapped in the jargon of economics in an attempt to legitimize the plundering of economies and the 'austerity' that ultimately results.
The real threats to 'freedom', 'democracy', 'decency' and 'fairness' do not lie in Syria or Iraq. The destruction of national sovereignty, democracy, freedom, decency, quality of life and livelihoods is being carried out by corporate vultures under the guise of the secular theology of neoliberalism, not least in practice via free trade and investor rights agreements.
[1] http://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/profiting_from_crisis.pdf
[2] http://corporateeurope.org/international-trade/2014/04/still-not-loving-isds-10-reasons-oppose-investors-super-rights-eu-trade
keywords: corporate interests , Europe, investment | BITs, investor-state disputes | ISDS
source: Global Research
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