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Fed Up Retired Cop Takes On Occupy DC
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UKIP Nigel Farage WHERE IS THE VETO NOW MR CAMERON?
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Holder May Soon be Held in Contempt of Congress for Fast and Furious Coverup
By: Jeffrey Klein
Examiner.com
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is leading the year-long investigation into the fatally flawed ATF "Operation Fast and Furious," and has drawn a 'line in the sand' for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.
In a letter Issa sent to Holder, he reiterated claims the Department of Justice has "misrepresented facts and misled Congress," and believe that Holder's "actions lead us to conclude that the department is actively engaged in a cover-up," according to William La Jeunesse's FOXNews article yesterday.
The Issa continued … "If the department continues to obstruct the congressional inquiry by not providing documents and information, this committee will have no alternative but to move forward with proceedings to hold you in contempt of Congress."
The letter cautioned Hold that he had until February 9, 2012 to comply, or immediately face Contempt of Congress charges.
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), Issa's Senate counterpart in the inquiry, best described the "sticking point" between the committee and DOJ, by stating that the Congress has only received 6,000 of the 80,000 documents that Holder had long since supplied to his own Inspector General's office at the Department of Justice.
Grassley continued, by stating that "Documents turned over late Friday night indicate [Criminal Division chief Lanny Breuer] was still discussing plans with Mexican officials, to let guns cross the border on the same day the department denied to me in writing that ATF would ever let guns walk.
He [Holder] stood mute as this administration fought tooth and nail to keep any of this information from coming out for a year. It will take a lot more than a knee-jerk defense from their political allies in Congress to restore public trust in the leadership of the Justice Department. The American people want to see those who failed to act be held accountable."
Nothing coming from the Justice Department should be taken at face value, Grassley suggested, especially since Holder initially denied "gunwalking" had occurred–but has since admitted to the operation.
In an effort to blunt Issa's assault on Holder, the Democrat minority members of the committee released their own "investigative report" on Operation Fast and Furious, via the ranking [minority] member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), titled "Fatally Flawed: Five Years of Gunwalking in Arizona," as reported in Mike Levine's FOXNews article yesterday.
Unfortunately, as much of the report is a historical overview of "gunwalking operations" dating back to 2006, based on the direction from Cummings to his staff … "to focus on the facts we have discovered, rather than the heated and sometimes inaccurate rhetoric," it comes off as being another worn out "Bush did it" hack job.
As further indication, the report and members of Holder's senior staff use some very interesting wording, which actually sounds more like pro forma perjury defenses for them to reference in future committee hearings and court trials.
First, in an attempt to lay [all of] the blame for Fast and Furious at the feet of [federal ATF] officials in Arizona, the report states that lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have … "obtained no evidence" … implicating high-level political appointees [Holder and Co.] in Washington.
Then, Holder's current chief of staff, Gary Grindler, who met with investigators in December 2011, told them that, contrary to some allegations, said he is "extraordinarily confident" the ATF officials who briefed him–did not tell him firearms were being allowed to go to Mexico–"That is just an absurd concept."
Finally, in contradiction to the Democrat report stating no evidence having been obtained against top DOJ officials–Issa sent a letter to Holder back in October 2011, wherein he pointed out that Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein, and others, who approved wiretap applications that "contain rich detail of the reckless operations tactics being employed by your agents in Phoenix," could have done more to stop "Fast and Furious."
However, this Democrat report states that on January 10, 2011, Weinstein told congressional investigators … "I first heard of possible gunwalking in 'Fast and Furious' when the whistleblower allegations were made public in early 2011;" another potential commission of perjury.
Finally, DOJ Criminal Division Head Lanny Breuer, testified at a Senate hearing in November 2011, saying that he also first learned of the tactics "when the public disclosure was made" by ATF agents.
Nevertheless, on Feb. 2, 2011, while Breuer was meeting with Mexican officials, he "suggested allowing straw purchasers (to) cross into Mexico" so Mexican authorities can arrest and prosecute them, according to notes from the meeting released Friday night.
"Although [Criminal Division head Lanny] Breuer and his top deputies were informed of the operational details and tactics of 'Fast and Furious,' they did nothing to stop the program," Issa wrote.
Surprisingly, none of these known facts were included in the new Democrat report.
As for senior DOJ staff, who should have known, or realized, what was going on, they deserve the same treatment as Joe Paterno, who coached the championship Penn State football team for nearly 60 years, but didn't do enough to "out" a long time colleague, who was accused of perform sexual acts on a number of former students–immediate termination…even at age 84.
The one glaring difference in Paterno's case?
No one was murdered.
And, as for Holder, whose incompetence and mealy-mouthed deflections of blame are a scandal, should be delivered the same fate as Captain Francesco Schettino, who recklessly ran the 950 foot Costa Concordia cruise ship aground, while operating too close to Giglio Island, Italy–who is now under arrest, facing 17 counts of manslaughter.
The Captain is expected to go down with his ship–as was the case on board the Titanic.
Copyright (c) 2012 by Jeffrey Klein
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Rademaker: New Iran Report Urges U.S. to Prepare Military Response
In an exclusive interview with LIGNET.com, former Assistant Secretary of State Stephen Rademaker previews an important new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center on Iran, "Meeting the Challenge: Stopping the Clock" which calls for the United Staes to prepare more convincing military options to deal with the threat from the Iranian nuclear program. Rademaker, a member of rhe center's Iran Task Force, noted that Iran is making steady progress toward producing a nuclear weapon through its uranium enrichment program and that there is bipartisan agreement on the need to significantly increase sanctions against Iran, especially against the Iranian central bank.
Former U.S. Senators Call for Military Action on Iran
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The Mullahs' History of Assassination
By: John Thompson, Executive Director of the Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution and Propaganda-Canada
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Sara Akrami, Founder and President of the Human Rights Activists Association at York University-Canada
The deaths of the Iranian defence scientists have allowed the regime in Tehran to weep copious tears and sputter outrage about the inequity of assassination as a political tool. One might think the more natural reaction there might be envy. Assassination has been one of the outreach tools of the ayatollahs and their regime in Iran since the early days of the Revolution. When the Islamic Republic of Iran was established in 1979, it had two strategies to eliminate its opponents. At home, it killed its internal opponents – killing 7,900 of them in its first five years alone using techniques many totalitarian regimes have employed, such as, mass executions, tortures, disappearances, and "accidents". Abroad, it used its embassies and cultural offices to host killers and sent them out after prominent critics. Many of these critics living overseas were Iranian intellectuals and activists who had escaped from Iran after the establishment of the regime. In addition to employing terror against its own citizens and émigrés, the Iranian government has also claimed victims from other nationalities. The Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the world's most significant sponsors of terrorism. During its 33 years of existence, it has continually instigated violence elsewhere and pursued indirect war through the use of terrorism throughout the Middle East, Africa, and both North and South America.
Although the Islamic Republic of Iran officials claim that terrorism is strange to them, an immense weight of evidence shows that orchestrated terrorism outside Iran is a major factor in practice of the regime. The first victims of the Iranian government terrorism were Shahriar Shafigh, the Shah of Iran's nephew who was assassinated in 1979 in Paris and Ali Akbar Tabatabai, the former press attaché of the Iranian embassy in the United States under the Shah of Iran who was assassinated in 1980 in Washington. The assassination of Ali Akbar Tabatabai was committed by David Belfield or Dawud Salahuddin, an African-American who converted to Islam and after the assassination fled to Iran. In 2001, Dawud Salahuddin acted as the major character of the movie Kandahar, directed by one of the Iranian regime's filmmakers Mohsen Makhmalbaf. After the first assassinations, many other Iranian dissidents were killed in different parts of the world.
Among the dead are, Dr. Shahpour Bakhtiar (the last Prime Minister of the Shah of Iran), Dr. Abdol Rahman Ghassemlou (the Leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran), General Gholam Ali Oveisi (Tehran military governor), Fereydoun Farrokhzad (the famous Iranian showman, singer, and poet), and many other. One of the more notorious attacks by the agents of the Iranian government against its dissidents occurred in Mykonos restaurant in Berlin, Germany in 1992 that caused the murder of Sadegh Sharafkandi (the Secretary General of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran) and his representatives and translator, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan, and Nouri Dehkordi. In April 10, 1997, the Berlin court announced that this assassination was plotted by Ali Khamenei (Iran Supreme Leader), Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Iran former President), and Ali Fallahian (Iran former Minister of Intelligence). Two of the terrorists were Kazem Darabi, an Iranian who lived in Berlin and Abbas Rhayel, a Lebanese terrorist and a member of the Hezballah organization. Other Iranian and Lebanese terrorists were able to escape to Iran and Lebanon.
One of the most significant examples of the terrorist activities of the Iranian government against non-Iranians was the truck bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994. The Iranian government directed this terrorist activity through the terrorist group Hezballah. This was one of the deadliest bombings to have ever occurred in Argentina, killing 85 people and injuring 300. A major motive behind this atrocity seems to have been the suspension of a nuclear technology transfer agreement between Iran and Argentina. According to Argentine judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral, the terrorists who were involved in this act were six Iranians (including Ahmad Reza Asghari, the third Secretary of the Islamic Republic of Iran Embassy in Buenos Aires, who used to work for Iran's Revolutionary Guard before being posted to Argentina) and one Lebanese man. Evidence suggests that the terrorist attack was planned in 1993, when Ahmad Reza Asghari attended a meeting with the former President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and his deputies.
In addition, the Iranian government has attempted to assassinate other political figures and intellectuals. One of the significant examples was the former Supreme Leader of Iran, Khomeini's order (Fatwa) to kill Salman Rushdie, the writer of the Satanic Verses on February 14, 1989. Another example is the recent assassination plot of the Saudi Arabian ambassador in the United States. The United States officials have explicitly announced that the agents of the Iranian government especially, some of the commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (Qods Force, a component of the Corps which the United States describes as a terrorist organization) were behind this plot. The plan was to messily assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington. In the hope this would result in the death of enormous number of American citizens. Recently, the Iranian government attempted to assassinate the Israeli ambassador and some Jewish teachers in Baku, Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan has friendly relations with Israel and about 9000 Jewish people live there.
Iran, has promoted terrorist groups like the Taliban, Hezballah, al Sadr's militia goons in Iraq, Hamas, insurgents in Yemen, and has been substantially linked to al Qaeda. However, since doing their level best to further destabilize Afghanistan and Iraq since 2003, Iran has found that unknown parties have been passing high quality arms and training to unsettled elements among its many angry minorities. Between its application of harsh Sharia law, and its reactions to restless minorities and internal criticism, the internal human rights record of Iran is appalling. However, after 33 years, the regime is shaky. The aging revolutionaries have lost the loyalty of the people, failed in their hopes for reorganizing the region, and are finding that their governing coalition is growing corrupt, even more inefficient, and is fragmenting. Like many failing dictatorships, they hope to refocus attention on other projects and pursue the development of nuclear weapons and promoting ever more desperate adventures abroad, relying on increasingly unreliable allies like the Assad government in Syria.
Finally, for 33 years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has used terror to subdue its own citizens, intimidate the Iranians, and as a tool of statecraft against the people of many other nations. Now, they complain about the assassination of their nuclear scientists before they complete the ultimate terror weapon, and about attacks on the Revolutionary Guard Corps, the instrument of their own internal terror. Iran now portrays itself as a victim of terror and seeks sympathy from other nations. For a display of sheer cynicism, it is hard to beat the tears of the crocodile.
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Michael Coren: Why Honor Killings shouldn't be treated like domestic violence
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SUN TV's Michael Coren was just on FOX News with Megan Kelly, frankly discussing the topics of religious slaughter and honor killings within Islam. This segment is, in my opinion, unprecedented. Never before has this subject matter been discussed so boldly, so forthrightly, so fully, so accurately and so honestly on cable or broadcast news. I have been a frequent guest on Coren's show. He is on the front lines in the defense of freedom.
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[Sicily, Italy] Martino Morsello: 'Invisible enemy calls for Pitchfork Movement!'
Sicily Pitchfork Movement in Revolt – Western Media Blackout
On January 16th, middle class Sicilians began a popular uprising appropriately called the 'Pitchfork Movement'…'Movimento Dei Forconi'.
There are shades of the Occupy movement within it, but the core is not dissatisfied unemployed youth with no property or businesses to lose.
They are middle aged and older. They know that what they have left has been targeted by their own elites to bear the economic pain.
From North to South, the number of Italians dissatisfied with the reforms and tax hikes introduced by the government, led by Prime Minister Monti, keeps growing.
Hugo Chavez's Anti-Semitic Actions Have Allegedly Led Half of Venezuelan Jews to Flee
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Vid: Over 70 Killed in Violent Celebration Following Egyptian Soccer Match
Radio Host Loses It With Female GOP Candidate: 'Get Your Stupid A**' Out & I'm Scared Your 'Whiteness' Might Rub Off on Me
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And it's just a few examples. But prejudices aren't in the past. You may be surprised that the Ku Klux Klan still exists today spreading hatred towards colored people and Jews. Our society is still full of ill will, which makes people fight each other for no adequate reason. I sincerely believe that we can considerably decrease the number of prejudices, but casting them away completely is a very difficult task.There are still prejudices, but the situation is much better than it was in the 20th century and before it. Now the civilized societies accept all races, genders and religions and move in the direction of political correctness. Nevertheless, there are still individuals who stick to their rudimentary hatred agenda. They form groups and recruit new people teaching them to hate those who have different skin color or follow certain religious teachings that these groups don't like. Although we have freedom of speech, voice of these groups spreads hatred; therefore, they all should be banned on the governmental level. We should teach our children to accept all people no matter what god they believe in or what skin color they have. If we teach our children this belief and if we engrain this belief into our educational systems, prejudices will logically start to fade away until they disappear completely. It is completely incorrect to judge people by their appearance and beliefs as they should be judged by the actions they take. We should learn to see through the physical appearances and attributes right into the soul of the human beings and take them for who they are. They are just like you and me – wanderers, who came on this planet to solve the riddle of existence, obtain happiness, and help others to reach this noble goal. Who are you to judge other people? We should all start with ourselves and we should do this right now. We all want to be happy and to avoid suffering. This truth is universal. If we learn to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, prejudices, as well as hatred, ill will, animosity, negativity and all wars will definitely go away.


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There are a large variety of reasons that people rent portable toilets within the Fletcher, NC area. Probably the most obvious is any time a special event has too many guests for the venue to manage just the on-site toilets. Portable toilets in these scenarios permit visitors to use the restroom without the need to wait in long lines which detracts from the experience. Also, portable toilets can be highly convenient on work sites or during property renovations. Then there are campsites that do not feature their own bathrooms and so can greatly benefit from portable toilets being nearby.
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At a time of immense educational development and technological advancement it is a surprise that the issue of poor ethical leadership still exists . In addition, the issue of ethical leadership in hotel organizations is being brought about by lack of adequate appropriate ethical skills in management. How an organization ethically manages its staff members greatly determines the sales and out put. Though there are various technological approaches to the issue, the only permanent solution is continuous training of employees in various departments.
In conclusion, most researchers demonstrated in their studies that there is a positive relationship. This is between value-based initiative and transformational administration and hierarchical responsibility and occupation fulfillment. While Randere and Chaudhry expressed that there is a positive relationship in the middle of consultative and participative administration and worker responsibility and work fulfillment. Thus, as all around expressed that there is a negative relationship between free enterprise authority and hierarchical duty.


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Michael Ruhe (* 3. April 1980 in Rinteln) ist ein ehemaliger deutscher Ruderer, der 2002 Vizeweltmeister mit dem Achter war.

Sportliche Karriere

Michael Ruhe vom RV Weser Hameln war 1997 Juniorenweltmeister im Zweier mit Steuermann. Bei den Junioren-Weltmeisterschaften 1998 belegte er mit dem Achter den zweiten Platz. 1999 gewann er mit dem Achter die Silbermedaille bei den U23-Weltmeisterschaften, 2000 siegte Ruhe mit dem Achter. Von 2001 bis 2004 war Michael Ruhe Schlagmann des Deutschland-Achters. Bei den Weltmeisterschaften 2001 belegte das Boot mit Sebastian Schulte, Thorsten Engelmann, Johannes Doberschütz, Stephan Koltzk, Jörg Dießner, Enrico Schnabel, Ulf Siemes, Michael Ruhe und Steuermann Peter Thiede den dritten Platz hinter den Achtern aus Rumänien und Kroatien. Im Jahr darauf gewann der Deutschland-Achter in der gleichen Besetzung die Silbermedaille hinter den Kanadiern bei den Weltmeisterschaften in Sevilla. Im Ruder-Weltcup 2003 siegte der Deutschland-Achter bei den ersten beiden Regatten und wurde Zweiter in Luzern. Bei den Weltmeisterschaften erreichte das Boot nur mit Mühe das Finale und belegte dort den sechsten Platz. Bei den Olympischen Spielen 2004 belegte der Deutschland-Achter mit vier Sekunden Rückstand auf den Bronzerang den vierten Platz. Seine letzte internationale Finalplatzierung erreichte Michael Ruhe bei den Weltmeisterschaften 2007 als Fünfter im Zweier mit Steuermann.

Der Zweimetermann war 2001, 2003 und 2004 Deutscher Meister im Achter.

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Are acorns in Emery Barnes Park toxic for dogs? You won't find out by searching the Web.
Vancouver Park Board Commissioner Constance Barnes is calling for the uprooting and relocation of young oak trees in Yaletown's Emery Barnes Park. The reason? Dog owners in the neighbourhood are concerned their pets are getting sick from eating acorns and oak leaves. Supposedly, one area dog owner lost his two pooches because of toxicity complications after eating acorns.
Their evidence, according to Sandra Thomas in the Vancouver Courier: "According to information they (Yaletown dog owners) found on the Internet, acorns and oak leaves can be toxic to dogs, especially small breeds.… there are pages of Internet sites that claim they're also poisonous to dogs." Thomas notes in the article that the American SPCA has a different opinion. "Dogs, however, generally do not forage on acorns as livestock do—and even if they do ingest several acorns, it is usually an acute (single) exposure, not a chronic situation," the SPCA says at http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/ask-the-expert/ask-the-expert-poison-control/acorn.html.
Which site should you believe? The Internet is not a unified, authoritarian body of knowledge. It's a wild and wonderful anarchic mix of fact, innuendo, opinion and gossip. Anyone can create a webpage and post whatever rubbish, truth or opinion they wish. Anyone can contribute to an existing discussion. Medical and veterinary data is especially open to interpretation. Anyone can find something they agree with on the web, link to it and call it an authoritative source. The question is, should the Vancouver Park Board make a decision to spend public money and staff resources on tree removal based on a Google search? Of course not.
Just because you read it on the Internet, doesn't make it true.
Speaking of parks, Metro Vancouver has released a free iPhone/iPad app called iParks Explorer. I wish I could like it, but it's disappointing for three reasons.
First, it's supposed to encourage visitors to visit our regional parks, but is a tourist likely to know (or care) that Pacific Spirit is a regional park and is available on the app while Stanley Park is a City of Vancouver park and is not? If I were an iPod-equipped tourist, I would probably be looking for information on Stanley Park, Van Dusen Gardens, the Bloedel Floral Conservatory and the like with this app and feeling very frustrated because these attractions aren't listed, since they fall under the Vancouver Park Board jurisdiction. It would have been better if Metro could have coordinated with the Vancouver Park Board and other local municipalities to produce an app that features all area parks.
Second, the interface isn't intuitive. If you select "Parks" on the menu, you'll see a list of the regional parks, and a row of icons indicating hiking and biking trails, public transportation and so on. The user of the app expects (at least I did) that pressing one of these icons will bring up say, a map of hiking trails or information on how to get to the park by transit. But the icons are not interactive. Tap the map button as often as like, a map of the park is not going to pop up.
Third, there are spelling errors Each park has a "Facilities/Activities" page, but it's spelled "Facilites/Activites". If the spelling is sloppy, you have to wonder what else in the app might be inaccurate.
iParks Explorer does have useful features, such as park alerts, maps and events and it has the potential to be even better. Adding local municipal (and provincial) parks, making the icons interactive and carefully proofreading the app would make iParks Explorer a very useful app for tourists and locals alike.


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Q: asn1c keeps using long instead of INTEGER_t but I don't ask it for that Let I have an asn:
A ::= SEQUENCE {
    a INTEGER (0 .. 255),
    b INTEGER (0 .. 255),
    c INTEGER (0 .. 65535),
    d INTEGER (0 .. 65535),
    e [0] INTEGER (0 ..255) OPTIONAL,
    f[1] INTEGER (0 .. 63) OPTIONAL
}

I compile it WITHOUT fnative-types, but code looks like
typedef struct A{
long     a;
long     b;
long     c;
long     d;
long    *e/* OPTIONAL */;
long    *f/* OPTIONAL */;

/* Context for parsing across buffer boundaries */
asn_struct_ctx_t _asn_ctx;
} A_t;

Why so? It causes long DER byte sequence

A: To force structure creation by asn1c, use it with the -fwide-types option.

A: Depending on the ASN.1 compiler you're using you may be able to specify the C variable types used for structure fields.
In the Objective Systems toolset you can have an XML configuration file which is input to the compiler along with your ASN.1 schema. That allows you to tell the ASN.1 compiler what sort of integer should be used for a, b, c, etc.

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On my daily search in the blogosphere I like to find interesting post from other bloggers, today I spotted this post from TheJasmineBrand.com article about Lil Kim protege' Tiffany Foxx at her "Twisted" video shoot with friend Miley Cyrus.
Now, here is when my thoughts come in...what is going on with Lil Kim? Her appearance not like we haven't noticed is starting to change drastically. We love Kimmy Blanco but we're wondering if she is getting more plastic surgery or is it just the make-up. What do you think of Lil Kim look? Hot or Not?


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> ACUTE SERVICES REVIEW - NHS Greater Glasgow Welcomes Monitoring Groups Announcement
ACUTE SERVICES REVIEW - NHS Greater Glasgow Welcomes Monitoring Groups Announcement
NHS Greater Glasgow today welcomed the announcement of the establishment of two monitoring groups for the modernisation programme of Greater Glasgow's Acute Services.
Professor Sir John Arbuthnott, Chairman of Greater Glasgow NHS Board, said: "These monitoring groups provide a way of ensuring independent local scrutiny of the roll-out of Glasgow's Acute Services Plan.
"Public involvement in monitoring changes in service provision will be helpful to the Board. The monitoring groups will include representatives from the community, staff and senior clinicians under an independent chairmanship, they will report to the Board regularly.
"Between now and 2007 when the new ACAD hospitals open at Stobhill and the Victoria Infirmary, the groups will scrutinise all aspects of the modernisation programme as it progresses. This will include monitoring the finalisation of acute inpatient bed numbers, the development of paramedic services, transportation links and other key service areas."
Sir John revealed that NHS Greater Glasgow had now appointed financial and legal advisors to take the modernisation programme forward.
He added: "This programme of modernisation is about delivering quality services to meet the challenges of 21st century medicine and give the people of Greater Glasgow the very best in modern healthcare."
Anyone wishing to find out more about the Acute Services Modernisation Programme, can obtain information from our new website: www.nhsgg.org.uk
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Le district judiciaire constitue, au Québec, une subdivision du territoire de la province aux fins de l'administration du système de justice. Il existe un total de 36 districts judiciaires qui sont institués en vertu de la Loi sur la division territoriale. Chaque district dispose d'un chef-lieu où se trouve un palais de justice. Toutefois, certains districts judiciaires comptent plus d'un palais de justice, disposent de points de service ou disposent de points de service itinérants.

La scission du territoire québécois en districts judiciaires permet d'ailleurs de faciliter l'accès par les citoyens aux services judiciaires dans l'ensemble de la province. Il est à noter que certaines municipalités relèvent simultanément de plus d'un district judiciaire, toujours dans cette optique de faciliter l'accès aux services de justice.

Histoire
En 1760, le territoire colonial correspondant au Québec était subdivisé en trois districts, soit ceux de Québec, Montréal et Trois-Rivières. Ceux-ci deviennent des districts judiciaires en 1793. En 1841 et en 1857, plusieurs districts judiciaires sont formés.

Le dernier changement notable relatif aux districts judiciaires constitue le changement de nom du district judiciaire de Hull pour devenir celui de Gatineau en 2013, onze ans après la fusion des deux villes et l'adoption du nom de Gatineau pour former la nouvelle ville.

Compétence territoriale des tribunaux
Le Code de procédure civile prévoit les règles établissant le district judiciaire compétent lorsque l'on désire s'adresser au tribunal pour formuler une demande en justice, celles-ci se trouvent aux articles 40 à 48 du Code, dans la section sur la compétence territoriale des tribunaux.

La règle générale quant à la compétence territoriale des tribunaux se trouve à l'art. 41 du Code de procédure civile où il est disposé que le tribunal compétent est celui du district du défendeur. L'art. 42 du Code prévoit néanmoins que le demandeur peut choisir le district judiciaire où le contrat a été conclu, celui où une faute extracontractuelle a été commise ou où le préjudice en résultant a été subi, ou encore celui d'un immeuble lorsque le litige porte sur un immeuble. Les articles 43 à 48 du Code prévoient des situations particulières notamment en matière de contrat de travail ou de consommation, en matière de capacité, d'état et d'intégrité de la personne, en matière familiale, en matière de succession, concernant les demandes incidentes et concernant le transfert dans un autre district judiciaire. Dans ces cas, le district judiciaire compétent peut ne pas être le même que celui qui serait déterminé par la règle générale.

Tel qu'énoncé par l'art. 40 du Code, lorsque l'on veut faire appel d'une décision, il faut faire appel à la Cour d'appel de Montréal si la décision visée est rendue dans les districts judiciaires de Beauharnois, Bedford, Drummond, Gatineau, Iberville, Joliette, Labelle, Laval, Longueuil, Mégantic, Montréal, Pontiac, Richelieu, Saint-François, Saint-Hyacinthe ou Terrebonne. Si la décision visée est rendue dans un autre district judiciaire que ceux mentionnés, il faut faire appel à la Cour d'appel de Québec.

Liste des districts
Le tableau suivant présente les 36 districts judiciaires du Québec avec leur siège et points de service ainsi que les municipalités qu'ils desservent.

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No matter what career you're in, there are going to be days where you ask yourself 'should I quit?'. Everyone experiences times where they're down and their heart isn't in it. Motivation is lacking, your creativity is shot and you're in a state of creative depression. How do you break out of the funk? Sometimes, you naturally break out of it and get back to work. Other times, you're going to need a bit of help to rediscover your motivation. Our hope is that this post will help you find that passion and confidently step forward!
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Title: List of premiers of Alberta
Subject: Ed Stelmach, Alison Redford, Premier of Alberta, Politics of Alberta, Executive Council of Alberta
Collection: Lists of Canadian First Ministers, Lists of Political Office-Holders in Alberta, Premiers of Alberta
Rachel Notley is the current premier.
The list of premiers of Alberta consists of the 17 leaders of government of the Canadian province of Alberta since it was created in 1905. Three were Liberal, three were United Farmers of Alberta, three were Social Credit and seven were Progressive Conservative. The currently elected and serving premier is New Democratic.
Alberta uses a unicameral Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party that controls the most seats in the Legislative Assembly. The premier is Alberta's head of government, while the Queen of Canada in right of Alberta is its head of state and is represented by the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. The premier picks a cabinet, usually from the elected members of the Legislative Assembly, to form the Executive Council of Alberta, and presides over that body.
Members are elected to the legislature during general elections or by-elections. Barring special legislation occasioned by a war or an emergency (which has never happened in Alberta's history, although it has federally), general elections must be called by the lieutenant governor, at the Premier's advice, no later than five years after the previous election, but the premier may ask (and almost always has asked) for dissolution of the legislative assembly and a subsequent election earlier than that. Under Alberta's fixed-election legislation of 2011, a general election is to be held on a day (by custom, a Monday) between March 1 and May 31 in the 4th calendar year following the most recent general election, but the premier can bindingly advise the lieutenant governor to call an election earlier than the fixed date.
An election may also happen if the governing party loses the confidence of the legislature, by the defeat of a supply bill or tabling of a confidence motion, but in Alberta's history of massive majorities in the assembly, this has not happened yet in the province's history. (Although Aberhart's first term as Premier was almost cut short, when a large part of his caucus showed willingness to vote against his government's budget. But when he promised to bring in radical banking reform they were satisfied.)
A leader of a party is chosen by the party, following an internal constitution unique to each party that comprises a framework to elect or appoint a leader. The leader, if he or she does not already have a seat, must then win a seat in a by-election or general election to sit in the Assembly. If a leader of a party does not have a seat, he or she must sit in the legislature gallery. While sitting in the gallery a premier cannot exercise any legislative powers.
Prior to 1905, Alberta was part of the North-West Territories and as part of this jurisdiction was governed by the Legislative Council of the North-West Territories, composed of elected and appointed officials, led by Lieutenant-Governors of the North-West Territories until 1897, and the Premier of the North-West Territories from 1897 to 1905.
Since 1905, Alberta has had only five different parties in power, with only four changes of government.
Liberal Party 1905–1921 1.1
United Farmers 1921–1935 1.2
Social Credit 1935–1971 1.3
Progressive Conservative 1971–2015 1.4
NDP 2015–present 1.5
List of premiers 2
Graphical representation 2.1
Longest and shortest terms 2.2
Living former premiers 3
Liberal Party 1905–1921
The Liberal party got its start in power in Alberta when Prime Minister 1905 Alberta election. The north-central constituency boundaries radiated out from Edmonton and some say this was a case of gerrymandered electoral boundaries.[1] Rutherford emerged from the March 1909 election leading another formidable majority, that clearly reflected the broad popular support he and his government enjoyed. He would resign as premier 14 months later, in May 1910, after his government was implicated in the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal.[2]
Arthur Sifton replaced Rutherford as premier. Shortly before the 1913 election Sifton's Liberals jammed through a controversial bill greatly expanding the size of the legislative assembly. The bill was once again said to gerrymander boundaries in Liberals' favor, although the Liberals again received more votes than any other party in the 1913 election.[3][4] The press and opposition would term his reign as premier "Siftonism" implying that his reign was a disease on Alberta.[5] Sifton only lasted one term as premier as he left to pursue a career in federal politics.[6]
Charles Stewart replaced Sifton and held the Liberal government through the lackluster 1917 election which 11 MLAs serving in the armed forces were automatically re-elected. The elected opposition was the strongest so far in the province's 12-year history. The Conservatives, which formed the official opposition with 19 seats, slightly more than one-third of the seats in the Assembly, expressed hopes they had the upper hand on the waning Liberal government. Both would be surprised by the United Farmers who routed the Liberals and Conservatives in rural areas to form the government in the 1921 election.
United Farmers 1921–1935
Alberta's second dynasty was the John Brownlee was asked first but declined. UFA executive member Herbert Greenfield, the second choice, became the new premier, although he too had not run in the election so had to await success in a by-election to take his seat.[7] Greenfield resigned four years later because he was often absent due to illness and lost much of his energy due to the death of his wife shortly after the election.
John Brownlee, who had previously been offered the job, succeeded Greenfield. Brownlee's reign as government leader was troubled by the onset of the Great Depression. He resigned in scandal after he was accused of sexual acts with a minor in the Attorney General's office. This and another scandalous divorce by UFA MLA Oran McPherson, speaker of the Legislative Assembly, gave the United Farmers an image of moral decay.[8] In 1934 Richard Reid replaced Brownlee but served as premier for less than two years, leading the United Farmers government into total defeat at the hands of the new Social Credit party.
Social Credit 1935–1971
Albertans turned away from the United Farmers government and began to follow evangelical radio preacher William Aberhart, known as Bible Bill. The Social Credit party had been founded in 1932. Voters flocked to the radical monetary reforms proposed by Aberhart and British SC theorist Clifford Douglas, looking for an escape to the Great Depression. Social Credit was elected with a majority (54 percent of the vote) in the 1935 election completely wiping out the United Farmers representation (although the UFA did receive 11 percent of the vote). Aberhart had difficulty implementing the Social Credit theory and his popularity began to decline. His government almost fell during a 1936 caucus rebellion, in which his own MLAs forced him to promise to try to reform the banking system. But it rebounded and in the 1940 election it garnered more votes than any other party and also captured a large majority of the seats.[9] Aberhart died in 1943; he is the only premier to die in office in Alberta's history.
Ernest Manning succeeded Aberhart as premier. Under Manning, Social Credit moved away from the monetary theory of Douglas and towards traditional conservatism. Manning lead the party through seven-straight massive majorities, (although in 1955 his government received barely more seats than Aberhart had received in 1940, due to a strong but short-lived Liberal drive). After 24 years as premier, Manning resigned in 1967.
Harry Strom, a long time cabinet minister, replaced Manning and lead the party to defeat in the 1971 election at the hands of the Progressive Conservatives under Peter Lougheed. Strom and his government looked old and tired and out of touch compared to the new Progressive Conservatives.
Progressive Conservative 1971–2015
The current government of Alberta was first led by Peter Lougheed, defeating the 36-year reign of Social Credit in 1971.
Peter Lougheed served as premier, winning four elections, until 1985 when he retired from public office. Some of Lougheed's notable accomplishments were the limited Alberta Bill of Rights, and the Heritage Trust Fund.[10]
Don Getty, one of Lougheed's long-time cabinet ministers, returned to politics to win the leadership of the party. Getty's premiership was endorsed by a win in the 1986 general election that saw the NDP climb to 16 seats as the official opposition. Getty's reign became very unpopular as he led Alberta into large deficit spending, and marked an era of big government that, some said, the province could not afford. In the 1989 election he was defeated in his Edmonton-Whitemud riding, while his party still won a majority. He sat in the gallery as an unelected Premier until he won a seat in a by-election in Stettler.[11] His refusal to leave as premier helped Laurence Decore's Liberals skyrocket in popularity. Getty resigned and was replaced in a bitter leadership battle by Ralph Klein.[12]
Ralph Klein, the former mayor of Calgary, led the party into the 1993 election, promising a new era of debt reduction and fiscal accountability. He walked away with a slim majority. Ralph Klein's folksy appeal helped the Progressive Conservatives renew themselves. He led the party through two elections, gaining in popularity each time. The price of oil rebounded and the government, despite low rates of taxes on the wealthy and corporations, was showing a surplus of $3 billion every year. In early 2004, Klein announced that the Alberta debt had been paid in full.[13] He was rewarded by voters in the 2004 election, despite running a campaign with no new policies. His party lost a number of seats, and during the campaign he stated this would be his last election. In 2006 at a Progressive Conservative convention delegates forced him to pick a retirement date by giving him relatively low numbers in a leadership review.[14]
Ed Stelmach succeeded Klein as premier, following his win of the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative party in 2006. He won the 2008 provincial election, but, troubled by dissension within his party, resigned as the party celebrated its 40 years in power in 2011.
Alison Redford subsequently was elected party leader and became the first female Premier of Alberta. Despite strong opposition from the Wildrose Party that most polls and media predicted would end the PC's 41-year dynasty, Redford and the PC party won re-election in April 2012, making Redford Alberta's first elected female premier. Due to a steep decline in approval ratings and a spending controversy,[15] Alison Redford announced her resignation on March 19, 2014, as premier of Alberta, effective March 23.[16]
Alberta Deputy Premier Dave Hancock was selected as interim party leader by the Progressive Conservative caucus on March 20, 2014,[17] and became interim premier on March 23, 2014.
Jim Prentice was elected as the permanent leader of the PC Party on September 6, 2014 and succeeded Hancock as premier on September 15, 2014. He turned the government around on a number of crucial issues, cancelling the closure of the Michener Centre, for example. He was elected to a seat in an October 27, 2014 by-election. The Prentice Conservatives won the four by-elections held that day while the rival Wildrose Party did very poorly. Less than two months later, much of the Wildrose Party caucus crossed the floor to sit with the Conservatives.
On May 5, 2015, Jim Prentice and his party were crushed, losing 60 seats in the Legislature, while the NDP took a large majority of the seats. Prentice resigned as PC Party leader and resigned his seat in the constituency of Calgary-Foothills, leaving the PC Party with only 9 seats.
NDP 2015–present
Rachel Notley was appointed and sworn in as premier on May 24, 2015, following her party's having won a majority in the 2015 general election, with 54 out of 87 seats in the Legislature. On May 22, 2015, Notley suspended a caucus member, leaving her party with 53 out of 87 seats, still enough to form a strong majority.
List of premiers
(Birth–Death)
Term of office[18][19]
Electoral mandates (Assembly)
Premiers of the North-West Territories
Sir Frederick W. A. G. Haultain
MLA for Macleod 7 October 1897
Title created (3rd Assembly)
1898 election (4th Assembly)
Liberal-Conservative Party
Named leader in 1897
Led negotiations for provincial status for Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Premiers of Alberta
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
MLA for Strathcona 2 September 1905
Title created (no assembly)
1905 election (1st Assembly)
1909 election (2nd Assembly)
Liberal Party
Organization of administration for new province; incorporation of City of Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Strathcona and Wetaskiwin; establishment of court system; establishment of University of Alberta and of school system; creation of Alberta Government Telephones, extension of railway network in the province, labour laws, such as eight-hour-day legislation
Arthur Sifton
MLA for Vermilion 26 May 1910
Appointment (no assembly)
1913 election (3rd Assembly)
Instituting prohibition; establishment of agricultural colleges, extension of votes to women (white British/Canadian citizens).
Charles Stewart
MLA for Sedgewick 30 October 1917
Appointment (4th Assembly)
Attempted to establish fairer representation through Single Transferable (STV) balloting in the rural areas.
Herbert Greenfield
MLA for Peace River 13 August 1921
1921 election (5th Assembly)[N 1]
Creation of Alberta Wheat Pool; repeal of Prohibition and creation of government-owned liquor stores, creation of proportional representation in the cities through Single Transferable Balloting (the Hare system), attempted to impose taxation on land owned by speculators standing idle, and on mineral resources, both over-ruled by the courts.
John Edward Brownlee
MLA for Ponoka 23 November 1925
Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta; elimination of Alberta Provincial Police; creation of provincial income tax (April, 1932), legislation to control foreclosing on working (but un-profitable) farms
Richard Gavin Reid
MLA for Vermilion 10 July 1934
Government purchase of cattle from farmers who could no longer afford feed; cost-sharing agreement with federal government and railways to relocate farmers fleeing the Dust Belt.
William Aberhart
MLA for Okotoks-High River (until 1940)
MLA for Calgary (from 1940) 3 September 1935
Social Credit Party
Attempts to implement social credit economic theory; issuance of prosperity certificates; public works and debt relief programs to aid victims of the Depression; creation of Alberta Treasury Branches financial services institution, consolidated school districts into school divisions, imposed regulation on the oil and gas fields outside Calgary to prevent wastage of natural gas.
Ernest Manning
MLA for Edmonton (until 1959)
MLA for Strathcona East (from 1959) 31 May 1943
Appointment (9th Assembly)[N 2]
1944 election (10th Assembly)
Abandonment of social credit economic theory; exploitation of Leduc oil fields; expansion of educational, health and transportation facilities.
Harry Strom
MLA for Cypress 12 December 1968
Appointment (16th Assembly)
Alberta Service Corps; introduction of kindergarten; creation of Athabasca University and Grant MacEwan College.
Peter Lougheed
MLA for Calgary-West 10 September 1971
Progressive Conservative Association
Creation of Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund; Syncrude; 1981 Energy Pricing Agreement with Ottawa; provincial control of natural resources.
Don Getty
MLA for Edmonton-Whitemud (until 1989)
MLA for Stettler (from 1989) 1 November 1985
1986 election (21st Assembly)
1989 election (22nd Assembly)
Senate elections; failure to settle land settlement dispute with Lubicon Cree and Metis; creation of Family Day.
Ralph Klein
MLA for Calgary-Elbow 14 December 1992
Appointment (22nd Assembly)
1993 election (23rd Assembly)
Privatization of Alberta Government Telephones; opposition to Kyoto Protocol; elimination of public debt; introduction of a flat tax on personal income.
Ed Stelmach
MLA for Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville 14 December 2006
20% increase on royalties charged to oil companies; further development of Athabasca oil sands; removal of health care premiums.
Alison Redford
MLA for Calgary-Elbow 7 October 2011
Fixed election period; creation of Department of Human Services.
Dave Hancock
MLA for Edmonton-Whitemud 23 March 2014
Named leader in 2014 (interim)
Interim leader during leadership election.
MLA for Calgary-Foothills 15 September 2014
Proposed austerity measures to counter budget shortfall.
MLA for Edmonton-Strathcona 24 May 2015
Reintroduction of a progressive tax on personal income; banning of corporate and union donations to political parties.
^ The United Farmers of Alberta won the 1921 election without a party leader, but Greenfield was made Premier immediately after it.
^ Because Aberhart died unexpectedly, the Social Credit Caucus did not choose a leader for a full week. Manning was appointed Premier by Lieutenant-Governor John C. Bowen the same day.[19]
Longest and shortest terms
Ernest Manning is the longest serving Premier at 25 years and 7 months. Dave Hancock served the shortest term with just short of 6 months in office as Premier.
Living former premiers
As of May 2015, four former premiers are alive, the oldest being Don Getty (1985–1992, born 1933). The most recently serving former premier to die was Ralph Klein (1992–2006, 1942–2013), on March 29, 2013.
Don Getty 1985–1992 (1933-08-30) August 30, 1933
Ed Stelmach 2006–2011 (1951-05-11) May 11, 1951
Alison Redford 2011–2014 (1965-03-07) March 7, 1965
Dave Hancock 2014 (1955-08-10) August 10, 1955
Jim Prentice 2014–2015 (1956-07-20) July 20, 1956
Lists of office-holders
List of premiers of Alberta by time in office
Alberta portal
^ 1905 Election; Alberta Heritage accessed April 12, 2006
^ Rutherford Resigns over Great Waterways Railway Scandal accessed April 12, 2006
^ An Act to Amend an Act respecting the legislative Assembly of Alberta; Royal Assent March 25, 1913 accessed April 12, 2006
^ Southern Alberta given the raw deal on Governments Gerrymander; Calgary Herald March 21, 1913 accessed April 12, 2006
^ Siftonism will be killed in Alberta; Calgary Herald April 4, 1913 accessed April 12, 2006
^ Arthur Sifton Federal Parliamentary Experience accessed April 12, 2006
^ Henry Wise Wood biography accessed April 12, 2006
^ Brownlee scandal; Great Alberta Law Cases accessed April 12, 2006
^ The Premier vs. the Constitution accessed April 14, 2006
^ Peter Lougheed Bio Alberta Heritage accessed April 14, 2006
^ Don Getty Bio Alberta Legislature accessed April 14, 2006
^ Ralph Klein Bio mapleleaf web accessed April 14, 2006 Archived February 14, 2006 at the Wayback Machine
^ Klein declares debt retired; CTV News accessed April 14, 2006
^ Klein dealt a crushing blow in Leadership; Review CTV News accessed April 14, 2006
^ Alison Redford's approval rating plunges to 18 per cent: poll accessed March 19, 2014
^ Alison Redford resigns as premier of Alberta accessed March 19, 2014
^ Dave Hancock to be interim Alberta premier accessed March 20, 2014
^ Former Alberta Premiers accessed October 31, 2011
^ a b Exact periods of service accessed October 29, 2014
Premier of Alberta official site
Norman Kwong, Former Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Order of precedence in Alberta
as of 2013 Succeeded by
Gene Zwozdesky, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Sifton
Aberhart
Lougheed
Stelmach
Notley
Book:Premiers of Alberta
Category:Premiers of Alberta
Portal:Alberta
Politics of Alberta
Lois Mitchell
Former lieutenant governors
Former Premiers
List of Premiers by time in office
Current assembly
Former legislatures
Executive Council (Cabinet)
Speaker of the Assembly
Bob Wanner
Brian Jean
Former Opposition Leaders
New Democrats
Ric McIver
David Swann
Alberta Party
Alberta First
Naomi Rankin
Len Skowronski
29th general election (2015)
Current electoral divisions
Other Canadian politics:
Lists of Canadian first ministers
Cross-Canada
Province of Canada (historical)
Portal:Canadian politics
Articles containing potentially dated statements from May 2015
Lists of political office-holders in Alberta
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
Alberta, Alberta Liberal Party, Wildrose Party, Calgary, Peter Lougheed
Alberta Liberal Party
David Swann, Alberta New Democratic Party, Alberta, Liberal Party of Canada, Alberta general election, 2012
Alberta Liberal Party, Alberta general election, 2008, Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, Alberta New Democratic Party, Ralph Klein
Premier of Alberta
Politics of Canada, Alberta, Rachel Notley, Canada, Politics
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Corbyn's critics must go back to their social democratic roots
Steven Fielding
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It is a year since Jeremy Corbyn unexpectedly denied Theresa May a Commons majority. According to his supporters the 2017 general election vindicates Corbyn's leadership: had the campaign been longer, they argue, he would have ended up prime minister. Whatever its merits, Labour members have taken this interpretation to heart and given those closely identifying with Corbyn a majority on the party's national executive committee. As Labour prepares for its 'democracy review' this body has the power to entrench Corbynism for a generation.
All this has left shell shocked those unconvinced by Labour's new management. Immediately after the election, one they predicted would be disastrous for the party, most were struck dumb. But recently some have expressed concern over Corbyn's response to the Salisbury attack, anti-semitism and Brexit. Such random acts of criticism have however not diminished the Labour leader's support: in fact the more he is attacked the more Momentum's membership increases.
If they are ever to win back the party Corbyn's critics need him to fail to win power and the evidence is mounting that fail he will: most obviously the recent local elections suggest Labour has taken a backward step from 2017. But failure is only a precondition for their return. They need to build a bridge to members some of whom believe Corbyn's opponents have more in common with Conservatives than themselves.
How might they do this? As Aneurin Bevan once said: 'You don't need to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book'. To go forwards Corbyn's critics need to temporarily go backwards, that is revisit the past, rediscover their social democratic roots and reset a direction of travel taken by their predecessors after the 1970s.
This means revitalizing in loud and clear terms their commitment to the primacy of the pursuit of equality. This was something Anthony Crosland, Cabinet minister and theorist of post-war social democracy, called in 1956, 'the strongest ethical inspiration of virtually every socialist doctrine'. It is a defining purpose that Labour members share with each other and no other major political rival. Crosland established the essential social democratic case that greater equality – by which he didn't just mean equality of opportunity but something that also addressed income disparities – could be achieved within capitalism. Social democracy's relationship with capitalism was however conditional: equality not the maintenance of private ownership being their top priority. They were as a result capitalism's critical friends: when Clement Attlee introduced policies such as nationalisation they were initially opposed by business but ultimately benefitted the whole economy.
The economic turmoil of the 1970s led many social democrats to question the viability of Crosland's model. They believed in such circumstances the pursuit of equality should be suspended and the market given freer rein. In the process they ceased to be capitalism's critical friends and became its emissaries, something especially true of Crosland's contemporary, Roy Jenkins who formed the SDP in 1981.
But Crosland did not take this route. In 1973 he described a Britain of, 'glaring class inequalities, which an appallingly weak economy makes it hard to tackle … of pessimism, lack of clarity, a flight into chiliasm and a loss of practical radical will-power'. It is a description many today might recognise. Despite this Crosland made the case for the continued pursuit of equality: instead of retreating social democrats required 'a stronger will to change', a greater faith in their own beliefs, and needed to adopt 'a sharper delineation of fundamental objectives [and] a greater clarity about egalitarian priorities'. This meant more intervention, not less.
Crosland died in 1977 aged 58 and took his robust version of social democracy with him. Soon after, Thatcher's dominance encouraged Labour leaders to reluctantly embrace the attenuated social democracy that emerged in the 1970s. Under Neil Kinnock few even dared speak of equality, in favour of a more voter-friendly 'fairness'. For with capitalism unshackled, Thatcher's logic of No Alternative seemed unanswerable. Tony Blair's New Labour government tried to create a fairer society within this rampant capitalism. It has some notable achievements to its name but progress was modest, uneven and many were reversed by the austerity which followed the 2008 financial crisis.
In Opposition Ed Milband put equality closer to the heart of Labour policy and became capitalism's critical friend by adopting an approach designed to help the 'producers' who 'train, invest, invent, sell' and punish 'predators' just interested in 'taking what they can'. Many of Miliband's parliamentary colleagues were however unhappy with his robust social democracy. Indeed all but one of the candidates who sought to replace him as leader in 2015 queued up to describe his emphasis on equality as 'anti-business'. The exception was, of course, Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn's critics, then, must be more than that: they need to have a positive view of Labour's purpose which can appeal to Labour's members. By publicly defining themselves as social democrats – they should disavow being called 'moderates', for who wants to be that? – they have such a purpose immediately to hand. A loud and principled emphasis on equality will give them a bridge across which they can engage with Corbyn's supporters. Some have woken up to this imperative: Rachel Reeves and Stella Creasy have respectively proposed increasing wealth taxes and imposing a windfall tax on PFI companies. And equality is ground upon which Corbyn is surprisingly weak. In the 2017 election, the Liberal Democrats had the policies that would have most benefitted the poorest: Labour did not plan to reverse most Conservative cuts to working-age benefits. Labour's commitment to abolish university tuition fees will also not make Britain more equal as it distributes income from poorer taxpayers to the better-off.
Social democrats have made a positive contribution to Labour's past: without them at the helm the party would have achieved much less. Until they regain a louder voice in the party Labour will likely remain a vehicle for the expression of its members' ideals but one unable to form a government able to put them into practice. In many ways Corbyn is a product of social democrats' failure to live up to their own principles: it is now time for them to be true to their lost selves and proclaim as clearly and as frequently as possible their revitalised adherence to the pursuit of equality.
A shorter version of this piece was originally published in the Times Red Box and accompanies Steven's new paper for Policy Network, For the many not the few: Labour's social democrats and Corbynism.
Steven Fielding is professor of political history at the University of Nottingham. He has written extensively on the past and present of the Labour party as well as cultural representations of politics. He has also presented a number of documentaries on Radio 4 and in 2017 curated an exhibition at the People's History Museum to mark the twentieth anniversary of the 1997 election.
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  class Resource
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      def initialize(name, run_context = nil)
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        @provides = :icinga2_host
        @provider = Chef::Provider::Icinga2Instance
        @action = :create
        @allowed_actions = [:create, :delete, :nothing]
        @name = name
      end

      def cookbook(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :cookbook, arg,
          :kind_of => String,
          :default => 'icinga2'
        )
      end

      def display_name(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :display_name, arg,
          :kind_of => String,
          :default => nil
        )
      end

      def import(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :import, arg,
          :kind_of => String,
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        )
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      def address(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
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          :default => nil
        )
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      def address6(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :address6, arg,
          :kind_of => String,
          :default => nil
        )
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      def groups(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :groups, arg,
          :kind_of => Array,
          :default => nil
        )
      end

      def check_command(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :check_command, arg,
          :kind_of => String,
          :default => nil
        )
      end

      def max_check_attempts(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :max_check_attempts, arg,
          :kind_of => Integer,
          :default => nil
        )
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      def check_period(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :check_period, arg,
          :kind_of => String,
          :default => nil
        )
      end

      def notification_period(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :notification_period, arg,
          :kind_of => String,
          :default => nil
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      end

      def check_interval(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :check_interval, arg,
          :kind_of => [String, Integer],
          :default => nil
        )
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      def retry_interval(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :retry_interval, arg,
          :kind_of => [String, Integer],
          :default => nil
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      end

      def enable_notifications(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :enable_notifications, arg,
          :kind_of => [TrueClass, FalseClass],
          :default => nil
        )
      end

      def enable_active_checks(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :enable_active_checks, arg,
          :kind_of => [TrueClass, FalseClass],
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        )
      end

      def enable_passive_checks(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :enable_passive_checks, arg,
          :kind_of => [TrueClass, FalseClass],
          :default => nil
        )
      end

      def enable_event_handler(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :enable_event_handler, arg,
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      def enable_flapping(arg = nil)
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      def enable_perfdata(arg = nil)
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          :enable_perfdata, arg,
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      def event_command(arg = nil)
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          :event_command, arg,
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      def zone(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
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      def command_endpoint(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
          :command_endpoint, arg,
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      def notes(arg = nil)
        set_or_return(
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      def notes_url(arg = nil)
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