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DANUBE AND DANUBE DELTA – THE CENTER OF EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CONFERENCE
On 23 June 2011 in the presence of Diplomatic Corp accredited to Romania and European officials it was unveiled the International Exhibition : DANUBE & DANUBE DELTA under the High Patronage of the European Council on International Relations .
Professor Dr. Anton Caragea – President of European Council on International Relations opening the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DANUBE AND DANUBE DELTA
It is the first edition of such an exhibition and as the organizers are stating it hopes to provide real support in erecting a platform to encourage and support fostering new initiatives and partnerships between local and regional authorities , private and state entities , environmental protection foundation in order to further develop the economic power of the Danube region .
The opening speech of the International Conference : DANUBE AND DANUBE DELTA : OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES was held by Professor Anton Caragea who offered his High Patronage to the event had presented the main objectives of the Conference: to mark 29 June 2011 as the official International Day of Danube , to emphasize the economic dimension of Danube as the second European rivers , crossing 10 countries , uniting 4 capitals and constructing a water way between North Sea and Black Sea and offering an avenue for more than 100 billions exchanges on goods and services .
Taking in consideration this economic dimension of Danube is absolutely vital for European Union and for Romania that is receiving 28, 9% percent of the length of the Danube, to transform this in economic opportunity and constructing international partnership not only with riverbanks' country but with Mediterranean area countries, stated in his opening speech professor dr. Anton Caragea .
The INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION DANUBE AND DANUBE DELTA (23-26 June 2011 ) opened under the High Patronage of European Council on International Relations.
Dr. Petru Lificiu, Vice-president of National Agency for Energy and President of Ecological Forum had presented in his speech the importance of economic development of Danube in the framework of environmental protection and also emphasize the importance of energy and transportation exploitation of Danube shores .
The main focus of the conference was offered by United Arab Emirates and State of Qatar ambassadors' assessment of the Danube Delta and Danube potential after participating in the diplomatic trip along the Danube.
Huge european presence at the opening ceremony.
H.E Yacoub Yousef Al Hosani – United Arab Emirates Ambassador to Romania focused his speech in assessment of the economical and environmental opportunities of Danube and Danube Delta and the practical dimension of his trip for observing area of interest for investors from United Arab Emirates . Also Ambassador Yacoub Yousef al Hosani expressed his appreciation towards the European Council on International Relations and President Anton Caragea for hosting this trip and for opening the magic gates of a UNESCO heritage site as valuable as Danube Delta and in such a short span of time to organize and an international conference on Danube and Danube Delta.
H.E Salem al Jaber- Ambassador of State of Qatar underlined his complete appreciation toward the observation and insightful analyses of Danube and Danube Delta offered by United Arab Emirates Ambassador stating also that now they are sharing a friendship cemented by waters of Danube , that according to legend make the perfect friendship .
Instead his speech will be directed toward concrete proposal such as including Danube Delta among the national flag carrier destination, including Mr. Petru Lificiu`s book as the travel guide for the area and offering support for state investment in tourism area in Danube region. He also expressed his gratitude for European Council on International Relations for offering this conference to European public.
At the end of the conference officials and ambassadors made the honor tour of the International Exhibition on Danube and Danube Delta admiring the marvelous objects presented in the exhibition and receiving a complementary book of Natural Patrimony of Romania by Mr. Petru Lificiu, book that was honored with Romania Book Award for 2011.
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SYRIA AND BASHAR AL ASSAD RECEIVED A NEW ALLY : POPE BENEDICT XVI
Ambassador Housam Al-Din Alaa presented credentials to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI as the Ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Vatican.
The Pope highlighted in a discourse on this occasion that "Syria is a place dear and meaningful to Christians, from the origins of the Church. Since the meeting of the Risen Christ on the road to Damascus, Paul became the Apostle of Nations, many great saints who have shaped the religious history of your country.
Many are also archaeological evidence of churches, monasteries, mosaics of the early centuries of the Christian era that connect us to the origins of the Church."
His Holiness added that "Syria has traditionally been an example of tolerance, coexistence and harmonious relations between Christians and Muslims, and today's ecumenical and interfaith relations are good" expressing his hope that friendship between all cultural and religious components of the Nation would continue and expand to the greater good of all, strengthening unity based on justice and solidarity.
The Pope underlined the need for advancing a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
On his part, Ambassador Alaa spoke of the meanings of Syria's tolerance, coexistence and harmonious life asserting that the meanings of National Unity has additional value in light of what the region faces of schemes to dismember it, spread confusion and extremism, and destabilize it.
The Ambassador also spoke of the outcomes of last year's Damascus-convened international conference about the Islamic-Christian Fraternity, which welcomed the call by the Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops for the achievement of just peace in the Middle East, implementation of UN Security Council resolutions, and for the taking of necessary legal measures as to end the Israeli occupation of the Arab Land, rejecting bids to change the demographic situation in the occupied Jerusalem.
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JISR AL- SHUGHOUR – THE CITY IS HAVING A NORMAL LIFE- DESPITE BBC LIES
Jisr al-Shughour, Idleb, (SANA) – In response to the inhabitants of Jisr al-Shughour region call for help, units of the Syrian army started pursuing the organized armed groups and arrested some of their members in the neighborhood villages, the Syrian TV reported on Friday.
Syrian TV Correspondent said that the organized armed groups set fire to crops and forests surrounding Jisr al-Shughour.
The organized armed groups terrified people in Jisr al-Shughour, burn public and private properties and attacked members of the army and security forces mutilating their bodies.
The Syrian TV broadcast a phone call between two members of the organized armed groups which committed terrorist acts in Jisr al-Shughour region, Idleb province.
One called Ahmad was heard in the phone call as instructing Asaad on the need to leave Jisr al-Shughour towards the Turkish borders and take pictures of them to claim as if they are running from the army and security forces to be posted on the internet later.
At the beginning Ahmad asked Asa'ad if the Syrian army has already entered the region, to which Asaad replied "No". Then Ahmed told Asaad that they have to leave if they want to win the public opinion with the aim to claim that there aren't any armed members in Jisr al-Shughour.
Ahmad stressed the need for filming those who leave the region as displaced citizens and publish the images, in addition to writing phrases in English and sending the images through the internet. Asa'ad assured Ahmad that everything is completely done.
Ahmad warned of performing individual or group prayer in front of the cameras so that no one will consider them as Salafists or terrorists, directing to pay attention while dictating eye witnesses as they appear on some TV satellite channels
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AFTER FAILING TO RAISE SYRIAN PEOPLE SUPPORT THE OPPOSITION IN SYRIA ASKS FOR BOMBING OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS
Posted on June 4, 2011 by europeanunionnews
Syrian people rejects the appeals of so called syrian opposition and manifest their trust in President Bashar Al Assad
With anti-Syrian terrorist attacks turning increasingly violent in recent days, the anti-syrian dissidents have been gathering for a conference in Antalya to discuss a representative body that will draw international support for terrorist activities and destruction of Syria. A discussion has already fueled up some of the anti-Syrian opposition over the meeting, which will select a "transitional council" to represent the anti-Syrian terrorists on the international scene.
Syrian terrorists groups will be meeting for three days in Antalya, from May 31 to June 2, in a conference organized by the Egypt-based terrorist organization – NOHR.
The meeting would be centered on establishing "a temporary terrorist council to manage the crisis and mobilize all the possible support to destroy Syria " the real invitation statement of the conference "Change in Syria" reads.
The conference would "assign terrorist experts in the Syria to prepare new terrorist attacks and kill Syrian people ," experts say`s.
The signatories of the declaration of the conference "want to obtain foreign military intervention in Syria in order to kill as much Syrians as possible ," the experts statement added.
Ahead of the meeting, objections to establishing a "terrorist transitional council" has emerged among Syrian terrorists . Setting up a terrorist transitional council at this stage "would mean a prison or death sentence" for anyone who participates from inside Syria, Walid al-Bunni, a veteran terrorist figure told Reuters last week.
The participants in previous Syrian terrorist meetings in Istanbul, organized by the Istanbul Terrorism Platform in April, including various Turkish terrorist supporter organizations such as the Association of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed Peoples, or Mazlum-Der, was mostly from Islamic-rooted groups such as Muslim Brotherhood.
The Antalya meeting was set to bring together terrorists from the anti-Syrian terrorists organization of a different profile: mostly exiled Syrians terrorists supported by Israel in different European countries and the U.S.
Representatives of Kurdish terrorist movements are also invited.
After the Antalya Conference in May-June 2011 it is clear that the so called opposition is just interested in destroying the country unity and independence .
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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BOY WHO BECOME A SYMBOL OF ANTI-SYRIAN UPRISING : HAMZA AL KHATEEB
UNITED STATES TERRORISTS KILLED HAMZA AL KHATEEB SAYS HIS FAMILY
A report by the Syrian Television broadcast on Tuesday unveiled the truth about the story of martyr Hamza al-Khateeb, closing the door in the face of the lies and false accounts of the satellite channels and websites which badly used al-Khateeb's pictures over days to serve their purposes.
Syrian people take to the streets to protest against Washington Post and New York Times lies about Hamza Al Khateeb murder
The report started with showing how in April 29th after Friday Prayer, people began to gather in some villages of Daraa countryside responding to inciting calls for Jihad, which were taken advantage of by armed groups to attack army, police and security forces and citizens, and set off toward the military housing compound in Said area where al-Khateeb was martyred.
"At that time, armed members showed up among the crowd and succeeded in misleading many young children into going with them to fire at the compound's guards whose chief was martyred," said the report.
It continued that al-Khateeb, who was found killed in the surrounding of the compound and still unidentified then, was transferred to hospital among the victims.
"At a late hour on Friday 29/4/2011, we were informed by the Coronary Department that body for unidentified boy was in the hospital," said Samer Abbas, the judge in charge of the case.
Abbas added that after all the medical and legal procedures were taken and once the body was identified as Hamza al-Khateeb's, it was handed over to the martyr's family through the National Hospital in Daraa on May 21, 2011.
"Since I am the one who undertook the investigation and the medical check up, I came to know that al-Khateeb died while he was inside the military compound's surrounding from several gunshots without any traces of torture on the body," said judge Abbas, pointing out that al-Khateeb's family can come and know all the details they want.
Coroner Akram al-Shaar who checked al-Khateeb's body pointed out that after the body reached the hospital on April 29th, a legal commission including the judge and the coroner came to identify the body whose owner's name was not known.
"A precise description of the body showed it belongs to a plump young man in his twenties," said al-Shaar, adding that the body had three deadly gunshots which were the reason behind the death as proven by the x-ray photography and the examination of the gunshot muzzle wounds on the body.
"There weren't any traces of violence, resistance or torture or any kinds of bruises, fractures, joint displacements or cuts," the coroner pointed out, indicating that there period between the check and the handover of the dead body to his family was required for the identification.
Al-Shaar affirmed that the photos of the body which appeared by some channels and news agencies were taken after an advanced stage of disintegration after death which can be detected by any coroner through different manifestations on the body.
Syrian Television expose the lies around the so called martyr boy.
He pointed out that the photos taken by the Coronary Department, however, were new as they were taken immediately upon the arrival of the body which was only few hours after death.
The TV report continued to tell the truth about the story as told by the participants in the attack on Saida military housing compound.
Abdel Aziz al-Khateeb, one of the participants, told in detail how "I used to go with my friends Hamza al-Khateeb, Abdel Majeed al-Khateeb and Mohammed Sweidan to perform Friday prayers at the Grand Mosque in al-Jizah led by sheikh Haroon al-Zoubi and Talal Shkeir who were calling for Jihad."
"We were holding meetings at al-Jizah Square to protect the participants in Friday gatherings in coordination with other sheikhs from other villages. There was a blacksmith who distributed sharp arms to us," al-Khateeb added.
"On Friday, April 29th, I joined Hamza al-Khateeb and Mohammad Sweidan and Abdel Majeed al-Khateeb to the gathering place where we met other people from al-Mseifra and Bosra. We headed to the military residences in Saida accompanied by armed men. As we reached there, some demonstrators opened fire toward the compound injuring one soldier. Later, there was a heavy fire exchange and we had to hide behind trees," al-Khateeb said.
He added that Hamza al-Khateeb was among the injured people. "He fell to the ground and I didn't know what happened to him. I fled with Abdel Majeed al-Khateeb and Mohammad Sweidan."
President Bashar al-Assad met the family of Hamza al-Khateeb on Tuesday afternoon and offered them condolences before discussing the death issue in detail.
Father of the martyr said President al-Assad was so "gentle and kind", adding that the President promised to fulfill the people's demands and make necessary reforms that serve the interests of the Syrian citizens.
Hamza's father noted that it was President al-Assad who invited Hamza's family to listen to them about their son's death.
For his part, the martyr's uncle said we received the body from Daraa National Hospital, stressing what has been showed is all proven and based on the coroner's report written at the Attorney General.
He added that President al-Assad during the meeting stressed forming a committee to investigate the incident to reach the truth.
Professor of media psychology at Damascus University, Majdi Fares, said the incident of al-Khateeb's death was used by some satellite channels and media in a biased way for misleading purposes through lies and fabrications.
In the same context, Interior Minister Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar issued a decision on forming an investigation committee chaired by Assistant Interior Minister to uncover the circumstances of the incident and reveal the results to the public opinion. The committee will start its mission today.
Concluding the report, the Syrian TV said the information which has been presented shows the fact that Hamza al-Khateeb has never been jailed or arrested recently.
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Q: SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1048 Column 'name' cannot be null in Laravel How to fix that issue? Please help.
Admin Controller File:
   This is My controller File.
   use Illuminate\Http\Request;
     use App\admins;
     class AdminController extends Controller{
        public function register(Request $request){
             $register  = new admins();
             $register->name = $request->input('name');
             $register->email = $request->input('email');
             $register->password = $request->input('password');
             $register->save();
             return redirect('/admin_register')->with('success', 'Register Sucessully!');
         }

        }

Routes File:
      Route::post('/admin_register',     'AdminController@register')->name('admin_register');
      Route::get('/admin_register',  'AdminController@register')->name('admin_register');

Model File
     namespace App;
     use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
       class admins extends Model{
        protected $fillable = [
           'name', 'email', 'password',
        ];
    }

admin_register.blade:
      <form method="post" action="shareholder" role="form"   id="vehicle_form" name="vehicle_form" data-parsley-validate novalidate>

        <input type="hidden" name="_token" value="{{csrf_token()}}">
         <input type="text" name="name" id="vehicle_no"  value="" placeholder="Enter Your Name" class="form-control">
         <input type="text" name="email" id="vehicle_no" value="" placeholder="Enter your Email" class="form-control">
         <input type="text" name="password" id="vehicle_no" value="" placeholder="Enter your Password" class="form-control">
        <input type="submit" value="REGISTER">
      </form>

A: If the name field is not mandatory, make the field nullable in the migration:
$table->string('name', 100)->nullable();

Also note that element ids should be unique in the document

A: Your GET is pointing on your register method.

*

*When you try to access /admin_register it will try to create a new user but the $request will be empty since you didn't POST anything.

*Assuming the request is not empty and pass the save() method, it will redirect you on the same method in a loop because of your redirect

Instead add a new method like :
public function redirectForm(){
    return view('admin_register');
}

and change your routes to:
Route::post('/admin_register', 'AdminController@register')->name('admin_register');
Route::get('/admin_register', 'AdminController@registerForm')->name('admin_register_form');

A: You have a typo in your view
 <form method="post" action="{{route('admin_register')}}" role="form"   id="vehicle_form" name="vehicle_form" data-parsley-validate novalidate>

    <input type="hidden" name="_token" value="{{csrf_token()}}">
     <input type="text" name="name" id="vehicle_no"  value="" placeholder="Enter Your Name" class="form-control">
     <input type="text" name="email" id="vehicle_no" value="" placeholder="Enter your Email" class="form-control">
     <input type="text" name="password" id="vehicle_no" value="" placeholder="Enter your Password" class="form-control">
    <input type="submit" value="REGISTER">
  </form>

In your code action='shareholder' which is wrong. set it to action='{{route('admin_register')}}'
Hope this helps

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General Reports
Other Government Reports
Report of Proliferation-Related Acquisition in 1997
Acquisition by Country:
Key Suppliers:
Western Countries
The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) submitted this report in response to a Congressionally directed action in Section 721 of the FY 1997 Intelligence Authorization Act. The act requires that:
"(a) Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, and every 6 months thereafter, the Director of Central Intelligence shall submit to Congress a report on
(1) the acquisition by foreign countries during the preceding 6 months of dual-use and other technology useful for the development or production of weapons of mass destruction (including nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, and biological weapons) and advanced conventional munitions; and
(2) trends in the acquisition of such technology by such countries."
At the request of the DCI, the DCI Nonproliferation Center (NPC) drafted this report and coordinated it throughout the Intelligence Community. As directed by Section 721, subsection (b) of the Act, it is unclassified. Accordingly, the report does not present the details of the Intelligence Community's assessments of weapons of mass destruction and advanced conventional munitions programs that are available in various classified reports and briefings for the Congress.
This report represents only a small part of the extensive interaction between the Intelligence Community and the Congress on nonproliferation issues. The Community's frequent testimonies and briefings on the Hill, its response to hundreds of questions for the record, and the provision of other classified products-including oral presentations and written documents-provide a much richer and deeper analysis of the available intelligence on programs and activities of proliferation concern.
The US Intelligence Community continues to devote significant resources to combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. These weapons pose a grave threat to US and global security. Although the proliferation of WMD is extremely difficult to assess and to contain, progress has been made in improving collection and analyses and in making both the acquisition and development of WMD more difficult and costly for such countries. Nevertheless, the Intelligence Community is continuing to look for new ways to ensure that it is addressing proliferation in all of its facets, with particular focus on the areas of combating chemical and biological weapons and the acquisition of such technologies by rogue states or terrorist organizations.
1997 Acquisition by Country
Following are summaries by country of acquisition activities (solicitations, negotiations, contracts, and deliveries) related to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and advanced conventional weapons (ACW) that occurred from 1 January through 31 December 1997. We chose to exclude countries that already have substantial ACW and WMD programs, such as China and Russia, as well as countries that demonstrated little acquisition activity of concern. The countries deemed of concern are listed in alphabetical order.
During 1997, Egypt continued to obtain ballistic missile components and associated equipment from North Korea. According to information obtained in 1997 from a North Korean Army defector, Egypt and North Korea are partners in joint missile development.
India has tried to alleviate problems caused by foreign export controls by relying primarily on indigenous resources for the development and production of its ballistic missiles. While striving to achieve independence from foreign suppliers, however, India's ballistic missile programs still benefited from the acquisition of foreign equipment and technology. India sought items for its ballistic missile program during the reporting period from a variety of sources.
India also continued to seek nuclear-related items in 1997, some of which could be used in nuclear weapons applications. The most sought-after goods were of Russian-, UK- and US-origin. India's nuclear weapons program has continued to advance since the country's first nuclear detonation in 1974. The acquisition of foreign equipment could benefit India in its efforts to develop and produce more sophisticated nuclear weapons.
Iran remains one of the most active countries seeking to acquire WMD technology and ACW. Iran's efforts during 1997 continued to focus on acquiring equipment, materials, and technology that would support an indigenous Iranian capability to produce various kinds of WMD. Numerous interdiction efforts by the US Government have thwarted key portions of Iran's attempts to purchase arms and WMD-related goods, but Iran's acquisition efforts have remained unrelenting.
During the reporting period, entities in Russia, China, and North Korea continued to supply missile-related goods and technology to Iran. Iran is using these goods and technologies to achieve its goal of becoming self-sufficient in the production of medium-range ballistic missiles. The foreign equipment obtained in 1997 will be essential for achieving that goal. Iran already is capable of producing short-range Scud missiles.
Iran obtained material related to chemical warfare (CW) primarily from Chinese firms during 1997. Iran already has manufactured and stockpiled chemical weapons, including blister, blood, and choking agents and the bombs and artillery shells for delivering them. However, Tehran is seeking foreign equipment and expertise to create a more advanced and self-sufficient CW infrastructure.
Tehran continued to purchase dual-use biotech equipment from around the world, ostensibly for civilian uses. Its biological warfare (BW) program began during the Iran-Iraq war, and Iran may have some limited capability for BW deployment. Outside assistance is both important and difficult to prevent, given the dual-use nature of the materials and equipment being sought and the many legitimate end uses for these items.
Iran was actively seeking modern battle tanks, surface-to-air missiles, aircraft, and other weapon systems and spare parts from the former Soviet Union (FSU), China, and Europe. Iran's armed forces employ weapons from a wide variety of sources, including old US weapons, FSU aircraft seized from Iraqi pilots fleeing the Gulf war, and Chinese antiship cruise missiles. As with its WMD programs, Tehran is seeking arms production technology to lessen its dependence on foreign sources.
Russian entities continued to market and support a variety of nuclear-related projects in Iran in 1997, ranging from the sale of laboratory equipment for nuclear research institutes to the construction of a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power reactor in Bushehr, Iran, that will be subject to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards. These projects, along with other nuclear-related purchases from abroad, helped to build Iran's nuclear technology infrastructure, which in turn would be useful in supporting nuclear weapons research and development.
Russia has committed to observe certain limits on its nuclear cooperation with Iran. For example, President Yel'tsin has stated publicly that Russia will not provide militarily useful nuclear technology to Iran.
During the reporting period, China continued to work on two previously contracted projects entailing supply to Iran's civil nuclear program at a small nuclear research reactor and a zirconium production facility. These are or will be under IAEA safeguards. China pledged in late 1997 not to engage in any new nuclear cooperation with Iran. This pledge appears to be holding, although the Iranians continue to seek assistance, which will require careful monitoring in the future. Importantly, China has ceased cooperation with Iran on the nuclear project of greatest concern, the supply of a uranium conversion facility.
Iran claims to desire the establishment of a complete nuclear fuel cycle for its civilian energy program. In that guise, it seeks to obtain whole facilities, such as the uranium conversion facility, that in fact could be used in any number of ways in support of efforts to produce fissile material needed for a nuclear weapon. The year 1997 was not particularly good for Iran's nuclear weapons acquisition efforts, thanks to outside efforts to curtail the flow of critical technologies and equipment. Still, Tehran is attempting to acquire fissile material and technology for weapons development and has set up an elaborate system of military and civilian organizations to support its effort.
Iraq has purchased numerous dual-use items for legitimate civilian projects that also could be diverted for WMD purposes, although in principle they are subject to UN scrutiny. Since the Gulf war, Baghdad has rebuilt key portions of its chemical production infrastructure for industrial and commercial use. Some of these facilities could be converted fairly quickly for production of CW agents.
Iraq's continued refusal to disclose fully the extent of its BW program is one indication that Baghdad intends to reconstitute its BW capability when possible. Iraq has purchased vaccines, growth media, and thousands of pesticide sprayers in 1997 that have both civilian and potential BW applications--purchases that could enhance a future effort by Iraq to move forward on its BW program.
Baghdad is developing two ballistic missiles that fall within the UN-allowed 150-km range restriction. The Al Samoud liquid-propellant missile--described as a scaled-down Scud--was flight-tested in 1997. Technicians for Iraq's pre-war Scud missiles are working on the Al Samoud program and, although under UNSCOM supervision, are developing technological improvements that could be applied to future longer-range missile programs. The Ababil-100 solid-propellant missile is also under development, although progress on this system lags behind the Al Samoud. Iraq could convert both of these programs into development of longer-range missile systems after economic sanctions are lifted and UN inspections cease.
Libya continued to obtain ballistic missile-related equipment, materials, and technology in 1997. Outside assistance is critical to keeping its fledgling ballistic missile development programs from becoming moribund. Nevertheless, the UN embargo has had a dramatic impact on restricting the flow of ballistic missile goods and technology reaching Libya.
Libya remains heavily dependent on foreign suppliers for precursor chemicals and other key CW-related equipment. UN sanctions continued to severely limit that support in 1997. Nevertheless, Tripoli has not given up its goal of establishing its own offensive CW capability and continues to pursue an independent production capability for the weapons.
Libya also sought to obtain spare parts for its military aircraft from sources in Russia and Eastern Europe. Once again, the UN embargo has greatly affected Tripoli, restricting its ability to keep Libya's Air Force operational.
During the reporting period, North Korea sought missile-related test equipment from sources worldwide. Since the early 1980s, North Korea has pursued an aggressive program to develop increasingly more capable ballistic missiles for both indigenous use and export. The more sophisticated these missiles have become, the more important test equipment has become in validating their design and verifying performance and reliability.
P'yongyang does not require significant outside assistance to produce weapons of mass destruction. It produced enough plutonium for at least one nuclear weapon prior to the 1994 Agreed Framework that froze nuclear weapons material production at the Yongbyon complex. North Korea produces and is capable of using a wide variety of CW agents and delivery means, and is capable of supporting a limited BW effort.
Pakistan sought a wide variety of dual-use nuclear-related equipment and materials in 1997 from sources throughout the world. Islamabad has a well-developed nuclear weapons program, including facilities for uranium conversion and enrichment. Acquisition of nuclear-related goods from foreign sources will be important for the development and production of more advanced nuclear weapons.
Chinese and North Korean entities continued to provide assistance to Pakistan's ballistic missile program in 1997. (The United States imposed sanctions against North Korean entities for their role in transferring ballistic missile-related technology to Pakistan.) Such assistance is critical for Islamabad's efforts to achieve independence from foreign sources and to produce long-range ballistic missiles.
Syria continued to seek CW-related equipment and precursors from various sources during the reporting period. Syria already has a stockpile of the nerve agent sarin and may be trying to develop more potent nerve agents.
Damascus is seeking independence from foreign sources for key elements of its CW program, including precursor chemicals and key production equipment. For now, Syria still requires acquisitions from external sources.
In 1997, Syria acquired Scud-related equipment and materials from various sources. Damascus also committed significant resources to establishing a solid-propellant rocket motor development and production capability. Foreign equipment and assistance have been and will continue to be essential for this effort. In addition, Russia began delivering the first of a large quantity of advanced conventional weapons to Syria. The vast majority of Syria's arsenal consists of weapons from the former Soviet Union. Russia intends to keep its predominant position as the key supplier of arms to Syria.
During 1997, China took a number of steps to strengthen its control over nuclear exports. This is in line with its May 1996 commitment not to assist unsafeguarded nuclear facilities.
China also pledged in late 1997 not to engage in any new nuclear cooperation with Iran and to complete work on two remaining nuclear projects--a small research reactor and a zirconium production facility--in a relatively short period of time. Beijing to date appears to be implementing these pledges and has ceased cooperation with Iran on the nuclear project of greatest concern, supply of a uranium conversion facility. The Intelligence Community will continue to monitor carefully Chinese nuclear cooperation with Iran.
In a May 1997 directive, China provided interim guidance for all governmental and non-governmental entities on nuclear-related dual-use goods. The control list associated with the May directive is substantively identical to the dual-use list used by the Nuclear Suppliers Group. In September 1997, China promulgated nationwide nuclear export controls.
During 1997, Chinese entities provided a variety of missile-related items and assistance to countries of proliferation concern. China also was an important supplier of ACW to Iran, but apparently has halted C-801/C-802 anti-ship cruise missile sales to Iran as promised in late 1997.
Iran continued to obtain CW-related production equipment and technology from Chinese firms. In May 1997, the United States imposed sanctions on seven Chinese entities for knowingly and materially contributing to Iran's CW program.
China has provided extensive support in the past to Pakistan's WMD programs. China's involvement with Pakistan will continue to be monitored closely.
Russian firms supplied a variety of ballistic missile-related goods and technical know-how to foreign countries during the reporting period. For example, Iran's success in gaining technology and materials from Russian companies, combined with recent indigenous advances, means that Iran could have a medium-range ballistic missile much sooner than otherwise expected.
During 1997, Russia was an important source of dual-use technology for civilian nuclear programs in Iran and India. By its very nature, this technology may be of use in the nuclear weapons programs of these countries.
Russia also was an important source of conventional weapons and spare parts for Middle Eastern countries like Iran and Syria, who are seeking to upgrade and replace their existing conventional weapons inventories.
Following intense engagement with the United States, Russian officials have taken some positive steps. Russia has committed to observe certain limits on its nuclear cooperation with Iran, such as not providing militarily useful nuclear technology. (Also, although just beyond the scope of this reporting period, in January 1998 the Russian Government issued a broad decree prohibiting Russian companies from exporting items known or believed to be used for developing WMD or their delivery systems, whether or not these items are on Russia's export control list.) These actions, if enforced, could be an important step in countering the proliferation of WMD and their delivery systems. Monitoring Russian proliferation behavior, therefore, will have to remain a very high priority for some time to come.
Throughout 1997, North Korea continued to export ballistic missile-related equipment and missile components and materials to countries of concern. Pyongyang attaches a high priority to the development and sale of ballistic missiles, equipment, and related technology. North Korea has little else to export to raise significant amounts of hard currency besides ballistic missiles and other weapons.
Western Nations
Among Western nations, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, and France were the favorite targets of acquisition for foreign WMD programs, especially for dual-use goods not controlled by multilateral export control regimes such as the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Australia Group, and the Missile Technology Control Regime. Western export controls were effective in thwarting many of those acquisition attempts that could be identified, but covert acquisition of dual-use goods by ostensibly civilian end users remains difficult to manage.
Despite our efforts, countries of concern continued to acquire WMD-related equipment, materials, and technology, as well as modern conventional weapons. The cooperation of supplier countries--especially China and Russia--remains key to future efforts to stem the flow of dual-use goods, technology, and modern weapons to countries of concern.
Countries determined to maintain WMD programs over the long term have been placing significant emphasis on securing their programs against interdiction and disruption. Many of them--with Iran being the most prominent example--are responding to Western nonproliferation efforts by relying more on ostensibly legitimate commercial firms as procurement fronts and by developing more sophisticated procurement networks. Furthermore, in response to broader, more effective export controls, these countries have been trying to reduce their dependence on imports by developing indigenous production capabilities. While these capabilities may not always be a good substitute for foreign imports--particularly for more advanced technologies--in many cases they may prove to be adequate.
North Korea recently acknowledged that it is an exporter of ballistic missiles. As states such as North Korea achieve self-sufficiency and become exporters of WMD-related goods and conventional weapons, our opportunities to prevent acquisition of such items by other countries of concern will be further complicated.
Posted: May 02, 2007 01:40 PM

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Up until Henning's death in 2001, Camp had always been confident in his Christian faith — he at one point considered going into ministry, and realized his passion for music when he started writing accompaniments for worship with his father Tom and for his own. After Henning's death, Camp tried to find strength in what she'd told him from her hospital bed.
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"She said, 'If one life is changed by what I go through, it's all worth it,'" he recalls of his late wife's hope that just one person would be inspired to accept faith into their life.
Camp, struggling with his pain and frustration in God, wrote it into the song, "I Still Believe," which is also the title of the new film starring Riverdale's KJ Apa, based on Camp's 2013 memoir.
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"There is hope at the end of hardship," Camp says. "Instead of turning my back and being an angry, bitter person at God, it made me stronger."
Camp slowly opened up about Henning during his concerts, one of which his now-wife, Adrienne, 38, a South African-born Christian singer-songwriter, attended.
She has said that she had gone through a challenging time and hearing Camp talk about Henning's story "changed my life."
Camp and Adrienne connected on tour two years after Henning's death. They married in 2003 and now have three children: Bella, 15, Arie, 13, and Egan, 8 — all three of whom are gifted musically, boasts their proud father.
KJ Apa and Britt Robertson in I Still Believe
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Camp, a very successful Christian musician, has sold nearly 5 million albums. His latest is The Story's Not Over.
"My heart is ready to explode. I'm so grateful," Camp says of life now. The whole family loves the movie, as well, which they saw together.
"I've got a reminder of what I went through and how there's so much hope and redemption at the end of it," says Camp. And he'll always hold a special place in his heart for Henning.
"I know she's in heaven and this is making her so happy," he says.
I Still Believe is now playing and will be available on VOD March 27.
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Bombardier Aerospace (Montreal) announced today that Horizon Air Industries, Inc. (Horizon Air) (Alaska Horizon) (Seattle/Tacoma) has signed a firm purchase agreement for one Bombardier DHC-8-402 (marketed as the Q400 NextGen) turboprop airliner. The airline retains its options on another seven Q400 NextGen aircraft as announced previously. Additionally, Bombardier and Horizon Air confirmed they have signed a five-year heavy maintenance agreement whereby Bombardier will perform heavy maintenance tasks for the airline's fleet of 52 Q400 aircraft at Bombardier's service centre in Tucson, Arizona.
Based on the list price of the Q400 NextGen aircraft, the aircraft agreement is valued at approximately $32.6 million US.
Established in 1981, Horizon Air was acquired in 1986 by Alaska Air Group, Inc., the parent company of Alaska Airlines. At its start, the airline operated two aircraft and served three destinations in Washington state. Today, Horizon flies 51 76-seat Q400 aircraft on behalf of Alaska Airlines and serves 43 cities in the western United States, Canada and Mexico.
Copyright Photo: Michael B. Ing/AirlinersGallery.com. Bombardier DHC-8-402 (Q400) N407QX (msn 4049) in the special University of Oregon Ducks livery prepares to land at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
This entry was posted in Horizon Air and tagged 4049, Alaska Airlines, Alaska Horizon, Bombardier, bombardier aerospace, Bombardier DHC-8, Bombardier DHC-8-400, Bombardier Q400, DHC-8, DHC-8-400, DHC-8-402, Horizon Air, Horizon Air Industries, Inc., LAX, Los Angeles, N407QX, Oregon Ducks, Q400, University of Oregon on July 15, 2014 by Bruce Drum.
Bombardier Aerospace announced today that Zhejiang Loong Airlines Co., Ltd. (Loongair) (Hangzhou) has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire 20 CS100 airliners. The operator, based in Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang province, China began domestic service in 2013.
Based on the list price for the CS100 aircraft, a firm order for 20 CS100 aircraft would be valued at approximately $1.28 billion US.
This entry was posted in Loongair and tagged Bombardier, bombardier aerospace, Bombardier CS100, CS100, Hangzhou, Letter of Intent, Loongair, Zhejiang Loong Airlines Co., Zhejiang province on July 14, 2014 by Bruce Drum.
Bombardier Aerospace announced today that Petra Airlines Ltd. (Amman, Jordan) has signed a Letter Of Intent (LOI) to acquire up to four CS100 and CS300 airliners. Should the LOI be converted to a firm purchase agreement, the transaction would include two firm-ordered CS100 aircraft and two options for CS300 aircraft.
Based on list prices, a firm order for two CS100 aircraft would be valued at approximately $136.5 million US, increasing to $298.4 million if the two options for CS300 aircraft are converted to firm orders.
Petra Airlines, based at Amman's Queen Alia International Airport, began as a charter carrier and became a scheduled airline in 2012. It serves destinations in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
This entry was posted in Petra Airlines and tagged Amman, Bombardier, bombardier aerospace, Bombardier CS100, Bombardier CS300, CS100, CS300, Jordan, Petra Airlines, Petra Airlines Ltd., Queen Alia International Airport on July 14, 2014 by Bruce Drum.
Bombardier Aerospace announced today that Air Baltic Corporation AS (airBaltic) (Riga) is the previously announced undisclosed customer that had converted three option aircraft to firm on the original order contract in February 2014. The original order for 10 firm airliners with options for 10 more was finalized on December 20, 2012.
Based on the list price of the CS300 airliner, the three firm aircraft order is valued at approximately $228 million US.
Airbaltic now has 13 Bombardier CS300s on order.
Established in 1995, airBaltic is the main carrier in the Baltic region and operates direct flights out of Riga, Latvia and serves 60 destinations spanning Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Commonwealth of Independent States and the Middle East with a fleet of 25 aircraft.
This entry was posted in airBaltic and tagged Air Baltic Corporation AS, airBaltic, Bombardier, bombardier aerospace, Bombardier CS300, bombardier cseries, CS300, Riga on July 14, 2014 by Bruce Drum.
Bombardier Aerospace (Montreal) announced today that Falcon Aviation Services LLC (Abu Dhabi) has signed a firm purchase agreement for two CS300 jetliners. The transaction is a conversion of the Letter of Intent (LOI) to acquire one CS300 aircraft and one option that was announced on February 26, 2014. When the LOI was announced, Falcon Aviation Services became the first customer for CSeries aircraft in the United Arab Emirates.
Based on the list price of the CS300 aircraft, the contract is valued at approximately $153.6 million US.
Falcon Aviation Services is based at Al Bateen Executive Airport and operates a fleet of corporate jets conducting VIP charter flights, as well as a fleet of helicopters serving the offshore oil and gas industry. The company also conducts search and rescue, aircraft management, maintenance, repair and overhaul, as well as consulting operations. The company recently ordered two Bombardier Q400 NextGen turboprop aircraft for its fleet.
As of today, Bombardier has booked orders and commitments for 471 CSeries aircraft, which include firm orders for 203 CSeries airliners.
This entry was posted in Falcon Aviation Services and tagged Al Bateen Executive Airport, Bombardier, bombardier aerospace, Bombardier CS300, CS300, CSeries, Falcon Aviation Services on July 14, 2014 by Bruce Drum.
Bombardier Aerospace (Montreal-Mirabel) has delivered the first of 30 enhanced CRJ900 NextGen aircraft to American Airlines Group Inc. (Dallas/Fort Worth). The aircraft will be operated by American Airlines Group wholly owned subsidiary PSA Airlines, Inc. (Dayton) under the American Eagle brand. The purchase agreement for the aircraft, which was announced in December 2013, also included options on an additional 40 CRJ900 NextGen aircraft.
The pictured Bombardier CRJ900 (CL-600-2D24) N547NN (msn 15317) was delivered on June 5.
PSA Airlines currently operates as an US Airways Express operator.
Previously the aircraft was unveiled to American Airlines employees and PSA Airlines employees at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and in Dayton, Ohio.
American Airlines is the first customer to take delivery of the enhanced CRJ900 NextGen regional jet, which provides up to 5.5 per cent fuel burn reduction over earlier-generation CRJ900 aircraft.
The delivery ceremony at Bombardier's Mirabel, Québec, facility was attended by senior executives and employees of American Airlines, PSA Airlines, Bombardier and major suppliers to the CRJ Series regional jet program.
As of March 31, 2014, Bombardier had recorded firm orders for 1,817 CRJ Series aircraft, including 343 CRJ900 and CRJ900 NextGen aircraft. Worldwide, CRJ Series aircraft are in service with more than 60 airlines and more than 30 customers operate corporate variants of the aircraft. The aircraft are operating in more than 50 countries on six continents, and on average, a CRJ aircraft takes off every 10 seconds somewhere in the world. CRJ Series aircraft have transported more than 1.4 billion passengers and have logged more than 39 million flight hours and over 32 million takeoffs and landings.
This entry was posted in American Airlines Group, American Eagle, American Eagle-PSA Airlines (2nd), PSA Airlines (2nd) and tagged 15317, American Airlines, American Airlines Group, American Airlines Group Inc., American Eagle, Bombardier, bombardier aerospace, Bombardier CL-600-2D24, Bombardier CRJ900, CL-600-2D24, CRJ900, N547NN, PSA Airlines, PSA Airlines (2nd) on June 7, 2014 by Bruce Drum.


Stockholm: American economists Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson won the 2007 Nobel for economics on Monday for laying the foundations of an economic theory that determines when markets are working effectively.
Hurwicz, Russian-born but an American citizen, is 90 years old and is the oldest-ever recipient of a Nobel Prize.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the three established "mechanism design theory", which looks at how well different institutions fare in allocating resources and whether government intervention is needed.
Hurwicz initiated the theory and it was further developed by Maskin of Princeton University and Myerson of the University of Chicago, the academy's citation said.
Hurwicz, born in Moscow in the year of the Russian revolution, is a professor emeritus of economics at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
The economists will share a prize of 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.57 million).
"Today, mechanism design theory plays a central role in many areas of economics and parts of political science," it said.
"Adam Smith's classical metaphor of the invisible hand refers to how the market, under ideal conditions, ensures an efficient allocation of scarce resources," the academy said.
"But in practice conditions are usually not ideal," it added. "For example, competition is not completely free, consumers are not perfectly informed and privately desirable production and consumption may generate social costs and benefits."
Eric Maskin was born in New York City in 1950 and received a doctorate in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1976. He is currently the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science, at the Institute for Advance Study, Princeton University.
Roger Myerson was born in Boston in 1951. Like Maskin, he finished a PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1976. He is currently the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago.
The economics prize is not part of the original crop of Nobel Prizes set out in Alfred Nobel's 1895 will.
It was established in 1968 and is officially called The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.


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The 'new abolitionists' and the problem of race
'New abolitionists' have failed to engage with the history and legacies of slavery and racism. They must learn more about the past if they are to clearly understand the present.
James Brewer Stewart
Contemporary activists in the United States frequently describe themselves as part of a 'new abolitionist movement,' which is said to represent a direct extension of the original struggle to end slavery. According to this popular formula, activists today are continuing the pioneering historical examples of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Sojourner Truth. Despite these historical allusions, this new abolitionist movement suffers from a profound ignorance when it comes to what the original abolitionists were actually up against, what they believed, what they accomplished, and where they fell short. As a result, these new abolitionists have failed to adequately recognise the overriding importance of plantation slavery in American history, its long-term consequences in the aftermath of its legal abolition, and its profound significance for African Americans living today. This is reflected in an obstinate form of racial blindness, which has in turn translated into a consistent disinterest in addressing the vicious racial and economic legacies of plantation slavery that African Americans and other non-white peoples continue to struggle against, both in the United States and more broadly.
When today's activists refer to the 'new global slavery', they frequently fail to recognise that African Americans live with agonising memories of plantation slavery and its enduring contemporary legacies. These have far-reaching ramifications in relation to fundamental themes such as poverty and inequality, incarceration and policing, and education and opportunity. Historians have documented beyond all question the central contribution of slavery to the economic and political development of the United States. Politically engaged African Americans have repeatedly made clear that their moral and historical claims to the problem of slavery are no less overriding are those of the Holocaust for Jews the world over. Given this history, what has been the 'new abolitionist' response? Check the websites of every major US Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) and in nearly every case all you will find is silence.
This silence extends to many different topics, including militarised policing, 'black lives matter', the prison industrial complex, the 'achievement gap', and structural racism. Though eager to remedy the long-term damage to survivors of all kinds of contemporary abuses, this concern does not extend to repairing the historical wrongs endured by African Americans. Could it be that a nation that once enslaved 4,000,000 African Americans is again practicing slavery when it contains the world's highest percentage of incarcerated people, overwhelmingly non-white, from whose all-but-unpaid labor privatised prisons wring enormous profits? Again, silence. In the face of this obstinate racial blindness it's hardly surprising that African American participation in the new abolitionist movement has been all but non-existent.
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There are further problems in addition to this widespread silence. Consider visual images. Today's 'new abolitionists' have regularly sought to dramatise their cause by repurposing visual materials left in archives by the largely white pre-Civil War antislavery movement. The results of these efforts have often been far from ideal. Historians have long cautioned against treating historical icons uncritically, because the historical outputs of white abolitionists' woodcuts, lithographs and sketches frequently ended up voyeuristically stereotyping, patronising, commodifying, and disempowering the very African Americans for whom their creators purported to advocate.
Anti-slavery icons routinely featured fettered slaves, hands clasped, kneeling in supplication; helpless naked slaves being whipped by sadistic masters; scantily clad slaves fearfully trembling atop the auction block; half-naked female slaves being pursued by lust-driven planters, and so forth. Blithely ignoring what the past might teach them, today's 'new abolitionist movement' broadcast images that, once again, feature chains, manacles, barred windows, sexually provocative poses and supplicating victims repeatedly constitute the dominant motifs. This is nothing less than trading in the "the pornography of pain," as one prominent historian puts it. What might Frederick Douglass make of our 'new abolitionist movement?' The question answers itself.
The pornography of pain, then and now. Above: a cartoon from 1792 by Isaac Cruikshank (Everett Historical / Shutterstock.com). Below: a contemporary photo illustration from djsangelsinthefield.com. Fair use.
Then there are those abolitionists who repeatedly tell us that they're all about 'ending slavery' and even abolishing it 'in our lifetime'. These types of pronouncements are not only unrealistic, since slavery has always been and will always be with us. They can also do profound violence to the past and its meaning for black Americans today, since they suggest that slavery can be easily and definitively expunged. As is well known, many black Southerners were re-enslaved in large numbers following emancipation in 1865 using racist vagrancy laws, debt peonage, and systems of convict leased labor. Further buttressed by the terrorism of lynching, this 'slavery by another name' resulted in the exploitation of tens of thousands across the South. It lasted until the end of World War II and anticipated the current US prison industrial complex. Little wonder that African Americans scoff at those who promise to 'end slavery in our lifetime'. This history of slavery—which continues to colour the day-to-day lives of African Americans—and the slavery opposed by the 'new abolitionists' too often exist in separate universes.
Bridging the Divide
We urgently need to close the current divide between 'new abolitionists' and the history of slavery and racism. To help work through what this might look like in practice, let's return to a topic mentioned above: the 'slavery by another name' system of convict labor and debt peonage supported by white racist terrorism that spread across the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. If we were we to transport today's enslavers and their government enablers back to the 1880s, they would instantly recognise their southern counterparts as kindred spirits. The systemic abuses that African Americans endured in decades that followed the legal abolition of slavery is precisely what vulnerable people the world over regularly endure today. As with southern debt peonage, enslavers the world over demand the repayment of impossible sums for supposed 'services rendered' from undocumented people, who they then subject to sexual exploitation and/or brutalising labor. The southern convict lease system likewise replicates itself wherever unscrupulous governments and private recruiters enslave 'guest workers' after luring them with promises of employment.
It is thus essential to remember that that historical debt peonage has paved the way for newer forms of enslavement throughout the world. The Central American nations, the British Caribbean Islands, Haiti, and the Philippines—all major exporters of vulnerable and exploited people today—also have a significant history grounded in 'old' slavery followed by decades of debt peonage. In China and India today, debt peonage holds millions of people in bondage, many of whom flee only to face similar exploitation elsewhere. Undocumented labor as a springboard to enslavement has hardly ended within the United States either. Exploitative fruit and vegetable growers, for example, have made southwest Florida the site of intense political organising by the Coalition of Imalokee Workers. Properly understood, African American history can help to illuminate the problem of slavery today. Properly understood, the problem of slavery today can help to further illuminate the legacies of enslavement against which African Americans struggle today
Many topics remain unaddressed regarding history's relationship to slavery within the United States today and today's abolitionists should insist that historians give them answers. How, for example, might the enslavement of violently displaced Native Americans before the twentieth century help to explain why today's Indian reservations stand as epicentres of vulnerability and abuse? How might the history of slavery in the American far west, embedded in early twentieth century 'guest worker' and 'coolie labour' programmes, help account for the exploitation and enslavement of undocumented immigrants today? How might late nineteenth century 'white slavery', involving immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe, illuminate current patterns of sexual exploitation of undocumented Asian, Mexican, and Central American women and children?
Most obvious of all, how might the history of slavery's re-emergence in the post-emancipation South illuminate the massive application of incarcerated labor, prisoners who are of overwhelmingly dark complexion? Convict leasing ended in 1945, but is that the end of the story? Could the current privatised and profit-driven prison industrial complex be the latest iteration of 'slavery by another name?' Near the beginning of this article I charged today's 'new abolitionist movement' with racial blindness because of its silence in the face of questions such as these and for other related reasons as well. As this article concludes, my hope is it will prompt them to offer historically informed responses.
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